New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-12

in life not as mere paupers to be kept from
starving. To reverse or evade that Legislation
would be distinctly step backward when We
cannot believe the Legislature deliberately III
tends TO take, or the sentiment OF tue people
would tolerate.
Superintendent Walling replies to Mayor Ed
son that the reason gambling houses exist IN
certain parts Ct this city is because the police
cannot get evidence on which to shut them up
The police captains in whose precincts theso
iniouitous places exist back Mr.. Walling up IN
his statement The sufficient answer to all THIS
Is the fact that for two months last year there
was not gambling house open III New OK
City from the Battery to Harlem. That was
the time when Mr.. McKeon put private detec-
tiyes to work to see what they could do 10 sup
press this evil.
The new society of artsts-the Art CniUn-at
the head of which is Mr. Daniel Huntington.
embodies an excellent idea. 1t can hardly 1al
to bring the people Of this country to better
realization of the merits of American painters.
The managers of the Union intend TO hold
exhibitions in various cities, East and west 10
DISPLAY the works of members OF the society.
The first one will be in Buffalo In June. In
this way the artists can offer their pictures to
the public for admiration or sale without the
Intervention of middlemen, and without show
ing commercial spirit which is so disagreeable
to their taste. Whether or not the financial
results prove to be all the managers hope, the
Union will undoubtedly be the means of in
creasing the general art culture of the country
The embezzlement of 100000 which has
come to light in the Controllers office will
affect reflective taxpayers painfully. 1t has
been the general opinion that whatever the po-
litical methods of the City Government might
be- the business side of it carefully conduct
ed that the system of checks and supervision
was nearly perfect; and that the most tritling
dishonesty would be promptly discovered.
The Dock Department embellishments and the
shortage in the late MIR. Gsle's accounts were
in branches of the municipality which are
hardly resi- onsibe to anybody. If thieving
goes on there, our principal men in authority
cannot be considered in any way to blame. The
Controllers office. however of all places, has
been supposed to be managed and supervised to
perfection An emhezzlement, therefore,
running back to 1879. under Controllers whose
personal honesty no one has ever doubted, Is
a shock to the entire community.
Mayor Low makes strong argument IN
favor of the opening of Flatbush-ave. to the
Brooklyn terminus of the great bridge. bill
directing that this should be done by the city
of Brooklyn was sent to the Legislature yes
terday Mr.. Low estimates the cost at
So 900 900. His bill provides for an avenue
l4O feet wide no railroad is to be allowed ex-
cept upon fifty feet in the middle. and the city
is to be reimbursed by a royalty for each pas
senger carried by the railways, surface or ele-
waited, which may use the street. The scheme
appears to be an excellent one. That the open
ing of the bridge will make necessary some
more adequate means of reaching 1t than Will
be furnished by the two streets-Wa shlngton
and Sands-at whose junction 1t terminates In
Brooklyn, cannot be doubted. The extension
of Flatbush-ave. appears to he an easy and
natural way of providing what is desired.
Why should not the city be given authority to
do the work now7 THIS project, if carried
through, will go far toward solving the prob
lem of rapid transit which Brooklyn must meet
speedily if she is to secure from the bridge adj
vantages in any way commensurate with the
amount which has been spent in building it.