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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
PERSONAL.

Et-5ecretmy Robson is fishing for brook trout
on Long Island
MI A. Bronson Alcott is steadily regaining health
and strength.
Shortly before his death Mignct said: IF it
were given me TO live my life over again, should
wish it to be just what 1t has been.
Nine Piccolomin at the age of fifty years, finds
herself without resources, and public subscriptions
are to be taken up In her behalf
The Carter family-to which all who bear that
name are supposed TO belong-will have a National
reunion with speeches poems, music, and plenty
to cat and 30 drink on June IL. at NOburn, Mass.
Emma Abbott says the acoustic properties of the
Mormon Temple are better than those of any other
building size ever sang in; 50 good indeed, that
once she stood at at one end of il and heard one
single pin dropped into a mans bat at the other
end. And it wasn't rolllng-pn, either.
General Edward Z. Noyes, Ex-Governor of Ohio
and ex-Nlinistcr to France, who is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel will sail for Europe to-day on the
City Of Berlin. He will visit, among other places
London, Paris and FranktOrt-On- Nam and IS
not 70 return until september. The trip Is made on
legal business.
Charles OConOr has been spending week in this
city. staying at the Grand Hotel But he says
he prefers to remain at his Nantucket home which
he seldom leaves except for short trips like the
age in his white hair and in his features he appears
e. be in good health, and no one can converse with
him. even casually, without being impressed by the
mental vgor and activity which continue to char
acterze all he says.
A Representative in Congress showing a
party Of friends, including IHt5bWJ Dispatch cor
respondent, who tells the story. through the Capt.
tol one day, when he suddenly stopped, pointed TO
a man who wa crossing the rotunda and inquired :
DO you know who that is? - They didn't. well
what doe, he look iile!" Seeing that the man in
question evidently wore his big brothers trousers
and had his hair cut by his mother of the party
Yentured to remark that he looked like thunder
Then the Representatives told them that il
Great Director Holman. and added: - Ou ought
to see his He IL the dude of ali dudes in this
city-fuil OF them. Whom shoes are worn long, his
project several inches further than any other
dudes. When low-crowncd hats the style his
looks ike n mere pe~pau turned upside down on
his head. When II Is good form to wear pantalOons
tight. you see his arteries beat. His life seems
to be ono long struggle to smoke cigarette and
suck cane al The same time
WASmNGTON, April 1.-THE President attended
services at ST. Johns Church this morning, and
spent the remainder of the day quietly at the
White House, receiving no VisItOTs....... The At
touey -GeneIdl has returned from Philadelphia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
MUSIC AND IHE DRIuA.
MIR, AEBEYs OPERATE SEASON.

MR.. ABBEYS OPERATE SEASON.
With tO-Gay's performance at the Metropolitan
Opera House The period for which Mr.. Abbey
undertook to give Italian opera to New-Yorll
comes to an end. 1t is no news that
financially his venture has been failure.
1t needed not a seventh son of seventh
son to foretell that New-YOrk could not support
two such expensive establishments as the Academy
of Music and the Metropolitan Opera House at the
same time. The wealthy world of fashion, which in
the nature fittings is the supporter of Italian opera
was divided i'll its allegiance. and divided, more
over, in a manner which made an Interchange of
courtesies almost impossible. This threw the sub
stantial maintenance of each house upon a limited
numbered people, the resultant loss was divided
between the two managers.
Naturally the largest share fell upon Mr. Abbey
whose establishment was the most costly, and who
pursued from the beginning a course which was
novel in operate management he insisted upon
shOuldering the burden himself instead of parcel
ling 1t out among his employees and artists
The result has been that he has lost all the
profits Of three other well-paying enter
prises besides calling upon the stockholders of the
Metropolitan for the full amount of their guar
antee The retrospect Is not one to encourage tho
supporters of Italian opera, but ever since tho
exotic was transplanted into more
northern CHIMES 1reln the luXurlan.
courts of Italy, it has called for
sacrifices and has received them. II
is therefore not novel spectacle now that the
directors of the new house are as eager as they
year ago to provide a series of entertain
mcnts for next season.
In looking back upon the season just ending it is
not discOuTagng to notice that the only opera be-
sides Faust' which has reached SIX perform
ances is "Lohsngrin"; that Don Giovanni"
and Carmen" stand next in the list.
and that the opera which attracted the most
numerous audiences were "L0hengrin" don
Giovanni" Faust" The HuguenOts" Robert
the Devil" The Prophet" "Mehst0fele" and
"Gi0conda' These are operas which command re-
spectful attention, by virtue of their dramatic as
well as musical excellence. The preference mani
tested for them over the light Italian operas can
only be looked upon evidence of healthy
progress in art Mr.. Abbey stimulated it at
great cost TO himself For doing he is entitled to
the thanks OF the public. The extraordinary at
teDtiOn which his benefit performance is exciting is
an earnest that his efforts have been appreciated.
The fall season at the Metropolitan Opera House
began on October % and ended at Christmas;
the spring season began March
10 and ends to-day. Within this
period we have had siXty-One performances nclud-
ing that OF this afternoon fOrty-iiye have been
night performances and sixteen matlnees The
following operas have been gwen the tltos being
IN the order of their production and the figures
showing the number of performances of each.
Last Mondays entertainment having been u mixed
one Is not included in the list
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12

are now, either here or In Europe. To-day ne
shows what sheer nonsense it is to speak OF the
burden of the Tariff as intOerable, when
America has prospered as no other nation on
the planet has prospered. He also ridicules the
well-worn platitude that "Protection makes
the rich richer and the poor poorer" and then
contemptuously brushes aside the deductions OF
the lightning calculators among the Free TRAD
ers as to the actual cost of the present farm.
Being an ingraned Free Trader himself he
will not admit that the Tariff is worth all that
it has cost, but he considers it rIeposterous to
clamor for changes so unscientic and senseleSs
as those proposed in the Morrison bill, and to
do this on the gratuitous assumption that FRO
lection il not worth what it now costs We
heartily commend the EdaX' letters to all
students of economic science and to honest
thinkers generally
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
THE " EDAXD LETTERS.

THE TRIBUNE does not ordinarily look to
Free Traders for its economic arguments. As
q sincere friend of American industries and q
hearty advocate of the Protective Tariff it
stands to-day where it stood in Mr.. Grecley's
time, and speaks with no uncertain sound A
very large proportion of its readers share its
convictions in regard TO this fundamental
question of National policy. BIT there are
probably few of its oldest and more of its
newest, readers who have not copied its con-
illusions on this subject. Some Of these are
constitutional directors, with strong predilcc-
ton for the opposite side Of an argument.
Many more are college graduates, who were
taught in the class the principles of polt-
zeal economy from the English point of view,
and acquired bias toward Free Trade. For
the benefit of this class of readers, who look
with suspicion upon PrOtcctioni,t logic We are
publishing from time 20 time q series of short
letters from the pen of a most accomplished
Free Trader-Onc who has not ONLY carefully
followed but taken prominent part in Tariff
discussion during the last twenty years.
He has been accustomed. rs he frankly con-
fessed in his first letter. to look at economic
questions from the consumers point of view,
and TO condemn legislation tending to make
what the fifty. millions of consumers in the
United States require dearer than it would have
been without the legislation. But from his own
point of view he Is compelled to oppose the
changes in the Tariff contemplated by Dem
ocratic House. His arguments deserve TO be
clearly studied and critically examined by
Free Traders.
"Edax," in taking the part of Z" the candid
r. - l..
favor in the Protectonist camp. His home
thrusts in exposing the hollowness of the stock
phrases of the FIee-Trade school will be keenly
enjoyed by all friends of American industry.
In previous numbers of this brilliant and incis-
i've series he has proved how groundless and
inane is the assumption that if the United
States produced no part of the worlds supply of
manufactures, prices would be as low US they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
CHARLES REdUE.

| The death of Thackeray left Dickens without
| a rival AS the leader of English fiction. When
| Dickens passed away in the maturity of his
powers, with one of his greatest novels half
finished and with plot partly worked out yet
so artfully concealed as to battle the ingenuity
of his oldest readers, the succession was de-
batable question. Perhaps no other candidate
for the vacant leadership would have received
so many suflrages at that time either in Eng
land or America as Charles Reade. He had
reached his highest level in VERY Hard Cash"
In earnestness of purpose, intensity of power,
animation of dialogue, vigOr of style, and the
varied resources of humor, pathOs literary
artifce and dramatic feeling, this novel had
been a marked advance upon all his previous
work. Neither "Gritfith Gaunt" nor Foul
PLAY had improved his position; but his adj
mirers were confident that another story rs
powerful as the chronicle of the SORROWS, pas
sons and fortunes of the DOdd family with
fewer mannerisms and vagarics of type and
more evenly balanced and less melOdramatic
form of narrative, would give him the pre-
emnence among living English nOvelists. The
most mOurniul reflection which the news OF his
sudden death inspires is this Renaissance OF
expectations unfulflled. Mr. Reade never
again touched the high level of Very Hard
Cash." nor even surpassed either White Lies"
or "The Closter and the Hearth" His later
works have been married by fe yer blemishes
and have been in closer accord with the literary
fashions of the day, but there has beena gradual
impairment of that vital power which used to
set the readers blood tngling in every vein.
1t is not difficult to understand why Mr..
Reade failed to contribute to English fiction
any work that could be ranked, for example, as
high as either adam Bede," RomOla " or
Middlcmarch" He was deficient in magma
ton and creative genius. His best ,plot-that of
White Lies was purchased outright with
a view to it, adaptability for an English play,
and ultimately revoked and enlarged for an
elaborate romance. His perseverance and in
dustry in reading newspapers and keeping COM
mopplace-bo betOkencd a consciousness of
his own limitations. Dickens studied faces in
London crowd and his imagination supplied
him with grotcsque characters, cOmical sayings
and strange adventures in keeping with the dis
tOrted features Mr.. Rcade did not have this
creative instinct. In nearly all his plots re-
course is had to the same cxpedients-nOtice
ably that of a protracted and mysterious disap-
pcaIance of the hero, whereby the heroine is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
TEN PAGES.
the NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRrIGN.-Tvo dynamiteuIs were arrested in
England yesterday. == Charles Reade the
novelist died. == Tribes between BeIber
and Shendy are in state OF lnsurTec-
ton. =-= A modification of the Mexican
Stamp act has been made. --- The Empress of
China has degraded prince and four members of
the Privy Council for their action in dealing with
TOnQuin affairs.
CoNGRFss.--'rhc Senate was not in session yester
day. -- The House considered the Pension bill,
which appropriates over SS6.000000. The
Senate bill Offering reward for the rescue of the
Greedy party was passed. The Kefer-BOyn-
ton resolution was adopted without advisor.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Three Republican Con-
gressonal District Conventions were held in Brook
lyn Yesterday; four of the delegates TO Chicago
chosen oppose Arthur and two favor him. --
Joseph Agate a wealthy retired merchant, Of Ion-
kers was found TO have committed suicide in
Earle's Hotel. - In the Roosevelt Committee ex-
Judge Russell denounced Anthony COmstock to
his face as liar --- Commissioner Thompson
and hs deputy denied the a legations of Contract
or Devlin. - Theatre speculatOrs were given
a hearing by committee of Aldermen. == Good
FRIDAY was observed in the Catholic and Episcopal
churches, aud most of the Exchanges were closed.
60 The New York League baseball nine won an
easy victory over the Yale nine
DoMEsTIC.-Ihe President sent 10 the House a
message on sea-coast defenses yesterday. = The
XXIVth Congressional this State District
slected Titus Sheard and Hobart Krum
delegates to the Chicago Convention -=
General Adam Badeau has resigned as
Consul General at Havana. &C. The estimated
decrease in the postal revenue for the present fiscal
wear is SO 246.2I6 - An old woman was found
murdered in a secluded Maryland farmhouse on
Thursday =-- The spring exhibition of the
Boston Art Club was opened yesterday. =
The bodies of six miners taken from the Pocahon-
tas mine identified. -= Further details of
the Fleetwood murder III Illinois were brought to
light. - The cOroner's inquest in the Niagara
Falls tragedy was begun. 60 By removing rail
on bridge. mscreant wrecked an Ohio express
train. - The vapor stove makers have formed
O National Association.
THE WEATHER-TRIBUSE local observations in
dcats clear weather and slight changes in tempeIa
ture followed by increasing cloudiness and chances
of rain late in the day. Temperature yesterday:
Highest $40 lowest, 40; average. 46l2s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
GENERAL TIELE on ARNY HTGIENE.

GENERAL TIELE on ARNY HTGIENE.
General Viele's lecture on Camp and Garrison
Sanitation, delivered before the Military Service
Institute certainly shows an astOnishingly bad
management of the arrangements for housing
our troops. 1t is true that the statistics of other
countries indicate equal ignorance and
stupidity and recklessneSs in similar matters,
but that does not make our own position any
better. One explanation, we presume, Is that
until very recently there has been no science OF
hygiene, and that in the construction OF
forts and barracks and military posts the per
sons in authority looked first to the fitness OF
the site, second to the completeness OF the de-
fence, and ! st, ~ perhaps not at ALL to the
health Of the troops who were to occupy the
place. And if there are at present 1877 military
posts in the United States, nearly all OF which
are unhealthy and inconvcnient places of resi-
dence, il is to be feared that reform will be a
work of considerable time. What is surprising
however, is the fact that the science OF
the Army should for so long period have
tolerated or ignored these serious evils, and
that apparently no consistent or earnest effort
should have been made to remedy them. Ac-
cording to General Yele, many fnot all OF the
forts are unfit for human habitatioas, the
military quarters being generally in the case
mates, which of course constitute "a cheerful
and hcalthful residences as the dark land
ward arches of the Brooklyn Bridge. Why
the troops should be lodged in the classmates
it is difficult to understand. LIN most modern
European forts there are roomy barracks,
which, of course can be abandOnedin the event
of war.
Here, however, officers and men alike are COM
PEELED to live in dark, damp, unyentiIated
vaults, and naturally much sickness results,
and the general indsp0stion TO ionthc Armyis
reinforced. We do not treat our Army with
distinguished consideration save when 1t IS dis
banded and its members. returned to citizen
ship, are supposed TO be hungry for pensions.
Then Congress becomes pr0digal, and the tax
payer is shown no mercy. But the modest
hardworking little force that does so much Diff
ficult frontier police duty obtains scant atten
ton, and must put up with all manner Of
abuses This question of camp and garrison
sanitation does not contain any political
material and 80 has Httle OF no chance Of being
taken MP and looked to. But it is obvious
that the evils exposed by General Niele
are serious and urgent that many valuable
lives have been sacrificed toignoTancc and care
lcssDess already and that steps ought to be
taken mt least to make a beginning OF reform in
the premises. The Army engineers might be
instructed to examine and report upon the
matter in conjunction with representatives Of
the medical corps, and thus the data for further
reform measures would be obtained
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
4 RIVAL SfIOEUtV

II is not generally known that Mr. Morrison ran
over from Washington to this city the other even
ing and paid visit to Barnum's Circus. The
door-keeper recognized him and observed, Excuse
me, but are not you William X. Morrison, Of ILL.,
nois ~
That is my name and address" was the reply
The door keeper made haste to call an usher and
bado him show this gentleman tho best seat in
the house." Mr.. Morrison took out his wallet to
pay for his ticket. but the door-keeper politely III
formed him that the establishment took great
pleasure in extending to him its Inequalities with
out charge.
THANK you very much" said Mr. Morrison rs he
put up his money, " but permit mo to inquire why
this cOmplim ent is paid meW
90" the door-keeper explained I'VE always
make it a rule to place the proprietors Of rival
shows upon our free list
"Proprietors of other shows exclaimed the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
THE LESSON or THE KEELY MOTOR

Once more the public exhibition of the keely motor
has been poned but nothing serious Is the mat
ter "Thc inventor caims thai the engine is all COM
plctc bat that tn. work of peIfcctng the gradual
ton has no. yet been finished This final gradual
ton of the vibrating power, it is claimed by Kelly
Is 4 very delicate operation" No d0ubt of it, In
fact the whole motor business is full Of delicate
operations and the stockholders fully appre-
ciate this. The behavior OF these people has
been really beautiful and no moro striking
proof could be furnished of the advance
of the higher civilization They have manifested
perfectly touching trustfulnoss a confidence
which fully deserves to be called Faith, since it is
the evidence of things NOT seen, and patience so
calm and steadfast that the mere contemplation Of
1t is elevating and ennobling.
Never was an inventor more fortunate in his
financial hackers. There lies the motor, il were,
in the dim Tecesscs of the UnknOwable, its pTin-
cIple yelled and uncomprehended, its mechanism
an inscrutable mystery, nothing certainly known
regarding it beyond tho fact that it has absorbed
large sums Of money. Though the inventor has
now been compelled to pos pone the demonstration
Of his success many times, and though he has not
succeeded in making anybody understand what he is
driving at and though merely human patience might
have been pardonod for succumbing under these
prolonged and repeated trials, the lofty and in
YlnclDle COnld6nce OF the STOCKHOLDERS remains I'M
shaken, and they smile at the soofngs of the I'M
regenerate public and remark that doubt in a
time, and tunes, aud half a time, or thereabouts,
more or less, the Keey motor will go.
1t will be interesting to observe if the descend
ants of the present stockholders inherit their truly
Christian virtues, though 1t is evident that when,
in the course of nature Kelly dies unless he hands
the secret and the method of securing its perpetual
conceament to his children, there must be crisis.
But for years longer it may be expected
that this spectacle of the mystic motor and its
stockholders will remain to rebuke the peSsimism
of the age and to convince Sceptcs that the SIM
pie faith of primitive world survives and -four
iShes among us. So precious a lesson must not
be lost The motor needs an Historian. One who
will approach the subject in a reVerential spirit;
who will describe the inventors divngs after the
unfathomable and soarings after the unattainable;
who will show how the stockholders triumpbed
over every doubt, despite Of disappointment,
and how finally they peacefully passed to their
rest without having seen the promised motor
but full to the last of unquenchable belief in its
reality, and ready as ever to do battle for tho
soundness of principle which they had never
understood in he least. Aud this record will stand
forth forever as green oasis in the dreary desert
of speculative sclnshness and greed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-12
A CAN adam VIEW.

One of the groundless assumptions which lie
M me foundation 81 much OF the reasoning
trade drtaofes Is that the imposition Customs duties
necessarily Increases the cost OF manufactured goods "A
Is taken for granted that II ali protective duties vera
done aWay-6nd oil duties are protective far as they
go ana nome manufactures were abolished the result
would be that would got this sort OF goods mora
chealy Than we do now. The idea Is that ali these ru-
l0sts are tax upon the bulk OF the people m the interest
OF hanl OF manufacturers Some free Traders
hesitate even To use more energetic
hey go 50 Tar as To denOnce the eVyng All OF
this KIND as the robbery OF the consumer the interest
OF lhe producer Tho conclusion course. l. that
tactuieIs ana manufacturing industries are positive
evil ana that the country would be better o. the people
nehs aDe 10 get all kinds OF manufactured goods nero
cheapy' II they did not exist Whether they are pre-
pared to Affirm this not. this Is the conclusion 20 which
lhef reasoning leads correspondent ot TIlE NEW
YORK TRIBUNE. who signs himself EdaN" deals with
this sophsm IL applies % the United states, and hs
argument Is no less applicable 10 this country than " Il
to that. lilo points out that Ii is assumed in all this
that the prices elsewhere OF all
would he they II the United states pro-
duced part Of the worlds SIMPLY. But he shows by
the logic OF fact that this Is an entirely haseeSs assimp
ton. 80 far from the fostering OF manutacturtn
industries this continent having the eject OF operatn
~ the disadvantage Of consumers, there be little