New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-11


seen an almost constant decline in spite Of oil their
efforts The ship Highlander, tits mentioned, ar
rived at San Francisco, October %, 1884, and then
refused an offer of f3 freight to Great Britain Inc
ship has never been able to get as much from that
day to this and after lying idle all this time cannot
now get more than Ell 12s. Cd. At that rate char
tiers TO British ports were written during the iast
week of October for American chips and IT was
hoped that the rate had at last touched bottom.
Doubtless one cause of the general depression In the
carrying trade is the fact that an extraordinary
number of steam vessels have been turned out from
British yards within the past f,w years-so many
that this branch Of business has so been overdone
and the discharge Of many skilleO workmen IN the
yards Is mentioned In recent journals
Among the suggestions designed to provide new
basis for bank circulation Is that cannot be TOO
firmly resisted. 1t is proposed that the banks shall
make to the Government real estate as security
for their notes and draw the rentals as they now DO
the interest on their bonds This is not new idea
Real-estate banks of many sorts were tired In the
old days Of wildcat money, and perhaps no other
basis for circulation proved more insecure. Inc OPP
portunity for fraud in tho valuation of such prop
erty or In the titles given, would be almost unInit-
cd tho solvency Of tho bank would then como to
real-estao speculation from ono street, quarter
or ono town TO another; the property held would
DO of tho sort upon which it is most difficult to re-
alizo promptly in any time Of stress; and the
chances for fraud in the settlement Of banks ac-
counts in case of liquidation would be almost un-
limited. 1t would be better to abolish National
banks altogether than to make them as unsafe as
the most insecure of the old State banks. In fact 1t
is probable that notes based upon realestate secur-
ty, necessarily of unknown and unknOwablc value,
would not go far nor remain out long. Experience
under the National system has taught people to de-
mand q different kind of money.
1t is to be hoped that good results will come from
the offer Of annual prizes which the National Acad-
envy Of Design will soon make, through tho generoS-
ity of Mr.. Julius Hallgarten and Mr.. Thomas Is.
Clarke The competition for tho three llallgarten
prizes will be limited to artists of thiryye years
and under, aud the exhibitors themselves will vote
the awards. The same feature with regard to the
method Of award will be seen In the Clarke prze for
the best figure composition. Academclans VIII not
be allowed to compete, and an agreement OF one
third of tho exhibitors will be necessary to an
award In addition to this there is to be an exhibit
ton of Mr. Clarl1es pictures for the purpose OF es-
tabishing permanent prize fund. Those efforts are
all signs of general disposition to encourage young
path ~ easy as possible.
That Wonderful Politico-Lnen Shirt Collar not
having been returned to the Assembly there Will be
80 much the less excuse for a long session in 1884.
1t was a Collar addicted to consecutive flights of
picturesque oratOry, and so consuming was It's Scorn
of such mere legislative conyentOnalitcs as paria
mentary rules that it was requested by the Speaker
TO ccase from being standing Collar and to come
l. .t,,;,, - ~, ts,,oo o,,f pp
hundred. Although the starch has been temporarily
eliminated from the Collar il is not to be supposed
that it has permanently wIlted.
" SO sinks tho day-,tar in the ocean-bcd,
Aud yot anon repairs his dropping head,
And tricks his beams and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky
The TRIBUNE published at the time a refutation
of the story that the Rev Mr. Brand, of Oberlin,
Ohio had stolon Mr.. BccchcTs rhetoric with which
to denounco liQuor-sclling druggist and later
facts show that there the slightest ground
for charging him with plagiarism. We have seen
tho published report of the sermon, III which the
quotation was carefully introduced and indicated
as SUCH II Mr. Brand is to be the target of libel
suit by the druggist he might fire ono of, in his
hurry, at tho person who started this unfounded
story.
President Robinson. of Brown University, has
been giving his views upon co-education in talk
before the Woman Suffrage Society of Rhode ISL
and. These were interesting, not only as coming
from college president of marked ability, but be-
cause he acCords such high rank to the colleges,
now in existence which are exclusively devoted to
women. He said that if he had half dozen daugh-
ters instead of trying to get them into scCond-Iate
college no should put them into frst-class school
for womon lie declared that Vassar would com
mare fnyOrably with Observation-Disclosures of tho col
lcCcs in the country and that the advantages to be
gained at Smiths College were good rs those to
behad anywhere. Ho thought wOmens colleges
should be manned and ruled by women. He denied
that men were tho best instructors. He know of no
school where the girls, by quiclinoss and insight
did not 20 ahead of the boys. He did not believe
that women were weaker than men in Intelligence
and at the Vassar commencement he heard as clear
intellectual and simple rhetoric he heard ut any
commandments. Still he did not consider cO-edu-
cation desirable, oven if practicable. The social
contact that is the chief part of education women
could not obtain in college for men. Either the
sexes keep apart, or, IL they associate the young
women are not likely " to be greatly benefited by
the lectures" All of which does not dispose of the
of claims co-education but is of interest as coming
from Dr. Robinson.
The proposition has been repeatedly urged that
the next reform in postage would DO to extend the
single ratio limit TO an ounce, instead of half All
ounce where it is now. 1t wns argued that this
would be great convenience to large class of cor
RESPONDENTS who could then send any letter weigh
ing less than an ounce for two cents. Tho Post
master Generals investigation at the Ncw-l0rk and
PHILADELPHIA post offices shows that the question is
of little practical importance. II Is found that
ninoty-four and half per cent of the letters weigh
loss than hnIP an ounce This shows what most