New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-20

The late spring has delayed the work of
iockeys and trainers. and for some weeks now
extra attention will have to be given to many
of the horses in the great stables about New
York to make them fit for the contests of the
coming season. A few owners however, nave
already put their racers in good condition, ana
this is especially true in regard to the stables OF
MIR. G. L. Lorillard. The work that his trainers
have accomplished under difficulties is
described in our sporting article this morning,
and will interest all lovers OF the turf.
The bills which are supposed to contain the
water-meter jobs are given IN full In our
Albany letter. Every reader of TIE TRIBUNE.
therefore, may study them for himself and de-
eide whether or not the phrase to regulate the
flow OF water and to prevent the waste thereof
could be construed to cover a water meter. 1t
is encouraging to know that the measures are
to be submitted to Mayor Grace for his opinion.
If report can be believed, it is not likely that
he will approve the wording of any clause III
them that would please the department of Pub
lie Works.
Householders on the west side of the city
will probably have a respite now from the
operations of sneak thieves who have been
bothering them much Of late The police
Yesterday captured negro who has evidently
been engaged i'm this business for some time.
There ought to be no trouble in convictlng the
fellow, for the police gave him mnch rope
before they made the arrest. Now let the
detectives rid the surface railroad cars of
the pickpOckets who infest them, and minor
articles of personal property belonging to
uptown residents will be comparatively safe.
Although Mr.. Bayard apparently lacks nerve
to tell the recently appointed Minister to Hayti
what the charges against him are, Mr. Williams
ia finding them out gradually, owing TO the
courtesy extended by the State Department to
the correspondents of Democratic journals. He
meets them squarely, and offers a frank
explanation which President Arthur and Mr.
Frelinghuysen probably considered satisfactory
or Mr. Williams would never have been
nominated for his present Office. If Mr.. Bayard
let these charges leak out as feelers just to
see how Mr.. Williams would take them, he will
hardly be pleased with the result of the
experiment.
There seems to be much reason in the COM
plants of well-nformed citizens in regard to
the delay in making the Harlem River and
Spuyten Duyvl Creek improvement. lis
completion would doubtless add greatly to the
prosperity of this city, for 1t would save many
miles of navigation for river vessels and those
which approach by way of the Sound, as well as
reduce greatly the traffic ON the North and East
Rivers which in parts now are badly crowded.
II is impossible therefore, not to agree with
much that Andrew H. Green has to say else
where in this paper on the subject. The work
should be pushed as rapidly as is consistent
with economy and painstaking, and no one
should be allowed to make a job ont OF it either.
The President has been worried good deal
by the Central American difficulties, the
Oklahoma boomers" the disabilities OF Lawton
and jackson, the Sweet case, the Higgins
episode, the fractional disturbances in
California. Louisiana and dozen other States,
and by score of other matters; but they
pale into insignfcance in comparison with the
calamity which now threatens TO overtake the
Administration in the second month OF its
existence-that is, the resignation Of General
William Andrew jackson Sparks, who says ne