New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-08


About year ago The TRIBUNE took occasion TO
comment on tho extraordinary height to which
apartment houses were carried, and suggested that
the law should place limit tho dimensions.
Our suggestion has borne fruit. A bill introduced
IN the Assembly 1T Albany, and recently printed,
limit the height of such structures to eighty feet.
The measure il imperfect, however. 1t permits no
dwelling house or building intended 20 be used
for more than family 20 exceed eighty feet IN
height. aud in streets under sixty feet Il width
the limit is seventy feet 1t does not apply TO man
ufactores stores, and in localities such as Fifth
ave. where private dwellings giving way to
stores great Injustice may be done By the cree
ton of monster buildings close 10 compact private
houses.
Monday witnessed still lower prices in grain, both
here and at Chicago, the lowest known for may
years Later there came sharp reaction, caused
by the covering of speculative sales One failure
was reported at Chcago-a merchant who had been
speculatng outside of his regular business. There
was little confidence shown in the pemanence of
any recovery in prices and the facts recently pre-
sented by TIE TRIBUNE, in regard to the supply
and demand. having been copied in Chicago, were
considerably discussed by dealers. The opinion is
growing. both at the West and here, that producers
IN this country will have 10 count upon lower
range Of prices future for any surplus that is TO
he marketed abroad II we insist on indulgng spec
ulators IN the manufacture of artificial prices we
shall have to restrict production materially
The albany Times lately gave its readers to under
stand that concurrently with signing tho bill re-
stricting the power Of the Board of Aldermen Of
this city, Governor Cleveland committed suicide.
And still The Times intimatcs that if the Governor
il nominated for the Presidency il will support
hirnl What support u candidate that it believes
TO be dead7 o Democracy, Democracy, what III
consstencies are committed III thy namel
Commissioner Fink is responsible for a great deal
OF bad blood that is going to be stirred up by one
of his inuOcent-lookng statements Of fact Moved
by an evil spirit must assume, he caused TO be
published a statement of the number of passengers
by the different railways between New-York. Boston
and Philadelphia and Chicago ST. Louis and Gin
cnnati Ii appeared that SO per cent of this
through traffic WAS from or to Chicago, only 1S.4
per cent from or to Cincinnati and only loo per
cent from OF TO St Louis. The guardians OF public
interest in the latter city can new demand Mr..
Fink's perenptOry dismissal IA a bad man.
The bin now before Il e state Senate to permit
manufacturers of iuHber TO deposit sawduat and
refuse IN the channels Of the rivers of the State is
a had measure. II slipped through the Assembly
without an appreciation OF the III effects of such
law The people of Fort Edward have entered u
protest against the passage of snch sn Get. sur
vey measurement aud map as made for the State
Board of Health of the sawdust deposit in tho
river channel within the corporate limits OF that