New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-09

of the men who will attend the gathering
yesterday assembled in Germania Hall In TINS
city and declared that they were through support
ing mild or parliamentary measures MI. FAR
nell, they thought, was good enough in his way
but it was a bad way. To preside over
convention composed of such men would
certainly be disagreeable work for the IRISH
leader. O'Donovan Rosa plainly is the man
TO guide the deliberations of these ex-
plosive Irishmen.
The horror with which Migrants are regarded
by people living in lonely places will be IN
tensified by the details of the murder OF Mrs.
Sunderlin, an aged woman who lived in West
Paterson, Putnam County, in this State. The
crime recalls the murder of Mrs. Hull by
Chastine Cox in this city in 1879. Indeed, 1t
was this similarity that furnished the clew
which, being followed up, has resulted in the
arrest of a negro against whom the evidence
seems strong. 1t is impossible for the residents
of such places as West Paterson to police their
towns very effectually but the habit of keep
ing a cross dog would be excusable in the case
of women or infrm persons who are compelled
to live alone in country places.
When professional retormers, elDoWlng their
way to the chief seats in National Con-
ference of Charities, are guilty OF atrocous
libels upon fellow-workers in the cause of
mans mercy to children, the truth must be
crammed down their throats. The Western
agent of the Childrens Aid Society gives in
another column the results of his investigations
In the Industrial School at Waukesha, where
these loud -mouthed calumniators asserted that
they had seen a score of the boys sent out from
the streets of New-YOrk left without super
vision to become thieves liars and vaga-
bonds" The records Of the institution have
been thoroughly examined, and out of 1922
boys who have been there, only two have been
sent West by the agents of New York societies
Even in these two instances the evidence con-
Meeting them with the Chldron's Aid Society ia
slight, and as the commitments were made as
long ago as 1862 and 1869, neither OF these
boys could have been included IN the imagi-
nary score' of thieves, liars and vagabOnds"
mustered by the professional reformers. The
Children's Aid Society, having so much good
work on hand, does not have leisure to protect
itself IN the courts against libels so utterly
reckless as these have been. In justice to its
generous patrons in the East, it is forced, how
ever to prove the falsity of the charges so
wantony made against its methods of work and
the character of the boys whom it befriends. 1t
has done this most efectually.
A Yale College athlete. in letter to THE
TRIBUNE, rushes CALAMITY to the defence of
his college, which some time ago declined to
follow Harvards example and refuse permits
sion to its students to engage in sports with
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that the undergraduate baseball players (who
are especially affected by the decison) do not
come in contact with the men whom they
strive against that when one nine is
at the bat the other is in the field. 1t is
not so much the professional players them
selves with whom contact is to be dreaded as
the crowds which follow them to watch the
games. These consist mainly of gamblers and
other disreputable persons. And there is
plenty of time for contact and mingling with
them before and after the contest Playing
with professional men also fosters the
habit of petty dickering over the
preliminary arrangements for sports, which,
from one point OF view, Is well enough for
the men who live by making money by bet
ting, but which is unworthy of students,
who ought to be moved only by generous
rivalry that scorns to put too much stress on
minor points and trusts somewhat to the honor
Of opponents. An example of this undue stress
upon points of detail is the recent squabble
between Yale and Harvard over the prelim-
inaries to their annual race. That was the
result of habits engendered by contact with
professional players. 1t is just the kind of
thing which ought to be stopped, and would
be stopped if contests with professionals were
forbidden.