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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
MUNICIPAL .REFoRM IMPERATIVE.

HUNICIPAL .HLIOhH IM1 Iva ~ -
The result OF last years municipal electiohs
does not as yet seem to promise any improve
ment in the city government In no dnectioh
can there be detected any effort TO reuuce
EXPENSES. Unless this is done, however, inc
city will in time find itself with an empty
treasury. The restriction Jn the rate OF taAa-
ton which the new constitutional Amendment
imposes will bring about that state of affairs
unless there is a check placed on expenditures.
Taxation for city purposes is hereafter
limited to two per cent of the assessed valuation
of real and personal property. The rate this year
for CITY purposes exclusive of State taxation VIII
he less than two per cent. But the margin Tor
increase TO bring the levy up to the constltu-
tional limitation Is not large and in the future
the EXPENSES of the Dock Department and OF
certain improvements for which bonds have
been issued heretofore will have to be included
in the levy. That will swell it so as to exceed
the constitutional limitation, particularly ii the
courts should uphold the Corporation Coun'eI
in his opinion that the Sinking Fund bonds are
included in the debt.
If the Sinking Fund is deducted, there Is a
margin of about $40, 900, 900 for an increase ot
the debt. The new aqueduct and reservoirs
will alone make up that amount. While the
Constitution allows bonds to be issued for
watcrsupply in excess Of thr limitAtion,yct when
issued they are made part oi the debt and oper-
ate against any other improvement. ms en-
tire S2OOOO,O)O will be added to the debt
within two or three years. For the erection OF
schoolhouscs 100000 H. now demanded to
accommodate children unable to gain admit
taace under existing facilities. The Armory
Board asks for -. 900. 900 to erect buildings to
take the place of rented armDres. The Park
Department has improvements in progress for
which it wants 81 100000 for the present year.
For sewers, street openings and paycmentS
heretofore paid for by the issue OF bonds
-. 900. 900 was asked for this year. For inn
provcmcnts on the water front to which the
city is committed and which will produce an
immediate return, $l2, 10000 is needed.
Those improvements, nearly all of which are
imperative, will add 500, 100000 to the debt
not to mention such other demands as that for a
new public building and for the new parks 1t
is clear that even If the Sinking Fund bonds are
cancelled the city will not have plain sailing in
tbe matter OF issuing bonds while the burden
of taxation Is sure to be INCREASINGLY oncious.
Every dollar added to the debt increases the
interest charges which come out of the tax levy.
II is. Therefore. more than ever necessary To re-
ducc the cost of administering the Government,
and this must be done by securing better men
TO ill the municipal Offices and to represent the
city ut Albany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.


FoREIGN.-Fifty persons killed by earthquake
shocks in India. - Arabs defeated in the Sou
dan - Correspondence between England and
Russia made public. - Prince Charles Antoine
of Hohenzollem is dead. - Anti-Jewish riots in
Austria.
DoMEsTC.-Reported suicide of eX-First Auditor
of the Treasury Reynolds III st. Louis. 60 Sena-
ator Coggeshall denied the statements of
DIR. Gum in regard to seeking a
br be. - Arguments were continued before
Governor Hill on the bills low before HIM. ---
A well-known physician shot and killed his
brother-in-law in Cincinnati 60 Annual ex-
aminations began at West Point.
Cry AND SUBURBAN.-The paying-teller of the
Bank of the Manhattan Company defauter for
100000 80 Ne light on the Hands murder.
- Conservation of the Garden City Cathedral.
- The Masonic Grand Lodge in session. -
Winner at Jerome Park-Optima colt, Miss
Woodford, Rataplan, Rupert, Free Gold and
Jim McCsowan. - The New-York and Brooklyn
baseball mines beaten. - Regatta Of the Allan
tic Yacht Club. - Police officials startled by
clause in the new pension law. 60 Gold value of
the lega-tender silver dollar 4121a grainsl, $40
cents. - Stocks dull at higher range of values,
but closed weak
THE WEATHER.-TRBUNE local observations ln-
dictate fair or clear weather and almost stationary
temperature Temperature yesterday: Highest,
ESQ; lowest, $40; average, 63s4o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
S1rrRnAY SHOPPING.

The women of New-Io rl can do much to pro-
mote the comfort and pleasure of clerks in retail
stores. Let them agree never to 20 shopping
after - o'clock ON Saturday and the carly clos
ing movement Will be made the rule of the
town. The reply made by employers to their
clerks when asked to grant hall-holiday once
n week is not unreasonable. They profess
willingness to comply with the request as soon
as their customers can contriyc to compress their
weeks purchasing within the compass OF five
and a half days. So long rs Saturday afternoon
remains the favOrite nine for shopping with Il
large class of women, merchants Will have an
excellent excuse for keeping open the retail dry
goods and other stores. Let the stores be
empty one Saturday afternoon after another, and
the cary-closing movement will be rapidly cX-
tended. Let shopping cease at II o'clock on
that day, and the stores will speedily be-
closed. In this way, il the women of the ci'y
are consdcr;itc, the clerks who stand behind
tine counter aud wait upon them with uniform
patience and courtesy will get the greatly
desired half holiday.
Clcrgymcn cannot do n kinder thing for a
large and deserving class in the community
| than to bring this subject before their congre-
cations. The retail clerks have no time for
recreation and mental improvement except on
Sunday; and a day that is converted into a
secular holiday soon loses its religious charac-
ter. In the interest of religion the early closing
movement is to be heartily commended. Ii re-
lieycs the secular week from the pressure of
! business. II makes of one afternoon genuine
| haG-holday and tends 10 restore TO the first day
of the week its religious influence. If public
opinion can be properly influenced through the
pulpit an admirable reform can be instituted.
viii not the clergy OF the city exert their indu-
ence in behalf Of an Oycrworlcd and deserving
| class
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
THE IALK or THE DAY.

The LIRE. of Dry wash Arizona, ought to change the
smelling OF its II perpetates many stories like the
following Billy Mascot. OF the lower divide, has an
old gundcr that beats the Dutch. Every Thursday
morning he the gander out To the front gate aud
picking up The Lyre which he finds lying there, carries
it inlo the house. Then he houks loudly I'LL some one
appears and takes it from him. This same gender also
goes 10 the village two miles distant errands, and can
carry home light articles hung around his neck better
than boy He was sent to jim BludsOes for paper OF
needles the other day, with dollar bill under his wing
To tease him jim gave him no chnge; but Mr.. Gander
knew it wasn't straight game, and chased Jim around
the store TIL he gve the change. Then lie hoaked
pecan Of victory and went home"
Colonel Colman. the Commissioner OF Agriculture.
4. puzLcd to know what 10 DO with that @3S Which nc
fnd standing the credit or his bureau when he took
charge lie has hot decided whether 10 invest II IN a
new brand of pumpkin seeds or use IL In making a
further examination OF the digestive organs Of the potato
bug Philadelphia Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03

Tho case of Gustavus Kcntz, the burglar
recently arrested, IS interesting because it illus
tratcs some Of the serious difficulties the
police everywhere have to contend with. Kent
represents the most dangerous type of Grim.
inals and the hardest to punish. A mechanic
of great skill and inventive ability, IL was his
boast that there was 10 safe in the country
which nc could not open, and he did much
toward proving that this was no idle brag
Temperate, cool, not addicted to the gross
pleasures often sought by thieves, he laid his
plans with the utmost crcumspection. and
carried them out with as much GOODNESS as if
they had been perfectly lawful business enter
priscs. The ordinary detective traps would not
catch such a rogue. lie was far too cunning to
fall into them, and it was only after months Of
shadowing that Kentz was arrested, and even
then it was doubted at first whether he could
be held This class Of criminal is very hard TO
deal with. The man who devote3 himself to
robbery armed with all the skill and knowledge
n mastery of mechanics can give, is truly for
midlbe. For HIM there is no mood of dyna-
mite. He can make his way into tho strongest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
OLD ISLANDERS EXHUMED.

II is the opinion Of The Herald that Mr..
Cleveland has accomplished a great deal in
three months. Thereupon that paper endeavors
to show what he has accomplished, and in doing
so finds it necessary, as usual, to SANDER Mr..
Roach to repeat the grotesque and outrageous
falsehoods of Commi ssioner Sparks, and to ex-
hume from the graveyard where lie buried the
lies of the last campaign some of the most
sweeping falsehoods employed by the Demo-
Gratis, which have been most completely refuted
within the last three months in the Washington
dispatches of The Herald itself.
Thus The Herald states that the entire fraud
roll has been dismissed" Then that roll must
have been insignificant, for the records given in
Washington correspondence show that the num-
Der of persons dismissed, either for ineiliciency
or because they were deemed superfuous. has
been entirely Insignificant. The assertion that
several hundred officials have been dismissed in
the Internal Revenue Department "because
they were not needed il simply an absurd
falsehood. Nothing has been more manifest
during the discussio of the past three months
than the fact that the new Democratic officials
OF Washington have found the public service
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
GETTING BEYOND THE LARvAL STATE

From Tte ChtcdQ0 ITtUuht.
The Mr. York Erenng Post Qnugwunpl observes that
tho American people applaud the hrmness y Win
which the President has resisted the pressure OF ths
Ills hunters" BY coincidence this observation WA
rteJ the very day when the President capltulated.
thont terms to the Iowa sp0llshuners, ana day of
~ tter me let Attorney General Garland bully hmlhla
"nting Montgomery the enemy OF the public schools
as Attorney of the Interior Department, where he wiu
have control over them. lie Post HAS passed oeyond As
nrgwump state OF existence aud has developed into
Urocrato sleet which does more whiteyasnlns io As
Administration than any paper IN New-Iork CITY,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
FoREcAsrING TIE FUTURE.

From The IalO Courier the Presidents nome nsinssios
who ia not known TO be in accord wiIn ' po
Administration. The President has to hsnss h
enenss in his own party III his stats o. Work.
has to fear no rivals The next Governor OF
II be is Democrat win not BIO candidate Tor tno 10
deney or the Presidential nomination. AS rcssrasd
latter either MIR Randalps anticipation will DO usono
by the ronomiuaton OF President Cleveland OF nsuo-
who is not citizen New York will become n vote
candidate In any event the next Presldenns 4
or New ork will not DO In 1885, aud the e'sA
1883 cannot DO shaped this year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
c1EyELANp,s IDEA OF PoLLrIcAL GRATrrUDE

lyashfngt1n Letter 10 The Cfnetnn1u Eng tTcf. a
The President is not disposed To change ais pom! "a
10 appointments in Louisiana because Of senator hu,'
criticism OF his Administration To-day ne aplon IA
Albert O. Gibson TO he United states Marshal f3r ~
Western District OF louisiana Mr.. Gibson reia..s
OF Senator Randall Gibson, and is opposed TO Tue ina
Of Louisiana Democrats OF which senator Eusts - ss
leader IL because OF the efforts OF senator
and Major Burke, OF NewOrl0ans that The Loa's'. sr
delegation ut the Chicas COnYentsn voted sOIi"y "a
Mr. Cleyelands nOmis alton. This however seems a
have had weight with tho President, who mas ts
yet ~ give Federal appointment 10 any oi HIS ~
In the State whs aided him ut Chicago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
THE AMATEUR GARDENER.

With Joyous expectation filed
lie gOeth to his home al night,
Explores the patch so lately uiled,
Aud hopes To find the shoots IN sight
Some tiny sprouts begin to show
The precious promise oi his seeds;
lie tends them Tor month or so,
To lind at last they re worthless wcrds.
Boston Courier.
Tho Rev sam Jones, who is now the religious sensa-
tim of the SOUTH doesn't approve OF male clutch
Ing tho arm OF ladies' " Young T0man," lie said the
other day In Nashville. beg OF you make young men
kcep their hands oil yOu When young man walks
with you aud your You may be vrtuous, but
what is hoi" And local paper adds that when the
preacher closed his few pointed sentiments on this
offensive habit his oarnestness had walked up the vast
audience and the gospel tent fairly ratified with ap
plaIse.
ono hundred doses for a dollar" is the way patent
medicine heads It's ad." Man takes dollars worth.
ono hundred dollars for dose Thus all things
como around In this Old world. after all When
wheat Is cheap flour Is high. and when you can buy
"A Whole stall fed for four cents ap9und boefseak
keeps ght up to nineteen cents with close hVor Oh
Two holes through the roof OF your nothing 1t
up for IL by charging you my cents I9r telling the
you ouy tried TO order three quarts OF zee cream from
tho concetoner's on its al nsnt Al least Is Is
and whatever Is, Is right -lk D. burdette'
ON An average. 10000 stamps found loose every
venr IN the letter boxes of Great Britain The English
post office officials had better import some good Amer
muclage.
Captain Lncus sntllf. who Is superintendent at
ProctOr Mcguire IL Co. ., sent to The Palladium Office
yesterday double blossom taken from crab apple tree
which grew the farm OF Charles H. Johnson South
ngOn The 90 was IN full bloom with single bios SONS
three weeks ago. but double blossoms appeared
Friday last. They have the appearance OF tea
New Haven Palladium.
young Georgia clergyman Ia raising funds for the
church In novel way. lie requests every child In the
Sunday school to bring him egg every Sunday, for
which he pays them trihng sum. lie then sol Ia the
eggs at fair profit Tho schome Is good one but Nc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
NEITHER DEMOCRAT NOR SAFE ADVISER

Tie DOslUN IttUI. --l.h
IIoy did IL happen that Mr. ayard was popular WIN
MANY gool Democrats before the Last Natloh-
ZION Have We not had happy escape h0h ha'siIs
INN as President When IN n dl,truSts inc psVpn,
stands aloJf from them, advises only WIN ehViusn s
ana naughty persons like himself, appolDts 70 ou
men cf tlis class and ignores all the tried old heads l
have carried great popular principle through an o .
OF dsuuou, discredt and blood, That man - nvs
Democrat, and he isa dangerous Mhlster ioF " &C.,
Ii. PrinS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03

The result of the election of officers and man
ayers of the Cotton Exchange was victory for
those members who favor uniform plan of grad
ing cotton so that bale of the stuff shall always
be of the same grade so long as it remains in
New-York The advocates of the amendments TO
be proposed to the bylaws urge the necessity of
protection from the many changes of the class
ification committee, and assert that under 4
new rule spinners would be more willing to
buy contracts for future delivery in this market
than to trust to the Southern markets. Another
claim advanced is that there would be a saving
on the actual charges for handling cotton of
more than one-half what they are under the
present system.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
A NICE DISTINCTION.


Said the Judge to the pugistic starr
DO you the crime confess
For which you're brought here to the bar.
The crime Of drunkenness ~
The chlprlt boldly answered "No,
With confidence state 1t,
I,neyer was drunk In my life although
I've been intoxicated" -[Boston Courier
John Roach probably appreciates the full significance
OF the old saw He laughs best who laughs last TIA
great shpbuders of The Herald Times and World ought
to lind holes. crawl In and pull the holes In after them
Chattanooga Times.
" Bath bags" coming into use In Paris They con.
sst OF bag containing half pound Of bran some meal
and little powdered soap. On wetng and pressing the
bag athers Produced and at the same time soft pad
for rubbing purposes.
On the same day last week which The Erening Poo
retractedts bes about John Roachs shipbuildng there
appeared its editorial page long communication
under the caption, "No Man Can Serve Two Masters"
The Posts head-liner evidently knew what had been
going
piano playing contest recently took place between
twelve ladies OF Dover n III. Four fire companies and
detachment OF police fastened to the scene but upon
being informed OF the nature OF the tumult they with
drew with prOfuse apologies. Huntington Free Press.
The county papers stating that Wine, Women
and Wall Street are the ruinaon OF many In this
city,
AHA" chuckled the Postma ster General upon hear
ing Philadephias postmaster lost limb Ia the
for the Union. This Is proof that lie Is offensive
partisan He fought the Democratic party. lie wlD
nave to go"-t NOrrstOwn Herald.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03

Persons interested in the progress of athletic
sports about NewYork will regret the pro-
posed removal of the Staten Island Cricket
Club from their present quarters. 1t is doubt
full if more beautiful grounds than those they
now use are occupied by any athletic club in
the world. If possible some plan should be
devised to keep them. At least one large
owner in the Staten Island Rapid Transit G IN
pany is warm friend of all athletic games
and it ought not to be hard to come to terms
with this corporation through him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
A CAPABLE TRIO.

From The Cincinnati ComnerciGt,GdzeoN =, tina
Villas il coming 10 the front AS the Donhcer y, ,sa.
Cleveland Administration. Manning Is Its boss mA"f-
lator, and Bayard its champion Dlunderer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03

Persons tearing torn for the season, and sum-
ner traCellerS, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to them, postpaid, for 70 cents per month,
the address being changed as often as desired.
THE DAILY TRIBUNE WiH be sent tOdny address
in Europe tor 81 35 per month, Whtch includes
the ocean DOSiQge.
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by fires can be estimated from the last quarterly
report of the Fire Department. Accidental hres
,,ot perhaps be well avoided but OF the . II fires
which tool, place the city in the first quarter of
the present year. only SIX per cent were purely acct
dental over 81 per cent OF the fires resulted from
careessncss and ii per cent from defect ia the CON
struction OF buildings The total loss from these
fires was - ,ojs 100, while the insurance was $40,
llI,OIl. In tins wide difference between loss ana
insurance can often be detected the reason for lack
Of proper precautions against irc.
In March of every year, after the high tides
of spnng have como, II great number OF fishing
banks loave the western coast of France bound for
the banks of Newfoundland to fish for cod. Women
and children the families OF those on board stand
weeping on the quays aud watch the barks sailing
westward, whilo priests in the chapel5 say special
prayers for the welfare of the fishermen. Exper-
ence has shown that there is ample reason for the
tears that arc sncd aud he prayers that are said,
for many OF the barks never return. Last year the
Thomas a. Dana, n Boston ship, sunk OF these
yeasc + that was homcward bound and sent eighty
five souls 10 eternity. Now the City Of Rome has
siyen n fresh illustration of the great dangers of
these lo.gy banks and the need of EXTREMIST eau
ton on the part of those in charge of many lives
There were no passengers on the City Of Rome VINO
would not have preferred spending week longer
on the voyage rather than that this catastrophe
should have occurred from forcing the colossal
steamship swiftly through the fog. The statements
Of the officers of the City of Rome that their vessel
mad been running f)r several hours at hall speed
seems inconsistent with the fact that tho steamer
put 1Os miles behind her on that day, though on
yciopcd in the log and surrounded by icebergs.
In, st,,.l tI,t I.4,t
arc closing business for the summer, that of New
Hampshire begins work. 1t meets this week. and
Will be immediately plunged into warm contest
over the choice OF a successor 10 Senator Blair No
candidate seems to have much of lead, and the
mombcrsare likely TO a repetition of the contest
which led to the choice of Senator Pike.
The Scrutn de Liste having been sanctioned by
the French Senate becomes the electoral law under
which the next Chamber Of Deputies will be
chosen. The districts ACCOMPLISHMENTS are de-
pri vcd of individual representation, and tho depart
ments will elect their Deputies in a general list or
ticket Tho system increases the power of the
political managers and on this account was not
adopted by the Chambers while N. Gambetta was
alive, his rivals not being willing to place thom-
selves ut his mercy. Tho chief effect of the change
Of electoral method will DO To reduce the strength
of the roactionary groups and to mako the Rcpnb-
lican party tho only political organization efec-
tiyely represented in the Chambers This will be a
most beneficial result. The L cups now IN Opposi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03

life will greatly exceed fifty, the NUMBER az
present reported. 1t is to be hoped that the
effect of the earthquake has not extended iar
enough west to disturb the new boundary Inc
between the Russian possessions and Afghan
istan, and bring about fresh international
complications.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-03
fear the youngsters Twill bring In nest eggs and ths
bring 1t into dtsrepute

fear the Twill bring In nest eggs and ths
bring 1t into disrepute.
It isn't always safe TO trfe with the feelnpa ~ A.
paternal head OF the household. Jimmy rufboy ~
been reading up current topics quite freely and -
able to Join In the tea table chit chat with pleasure "a
himself II not with profit to his parents.
Dear me don't know what shall do II cbol.r-
comes here this year." said bis mother, borrowiss
trouble after the usual feminine fashion.
Inocuate for II after the method Of NJ Ferran ma
suggested Jimmy.
Goodness hear the boy" said Mr.. Tufboy With prtd.
q His head lie q regular knowledge box"
Betcherlife," rejoned Jimmy. I'm not goln' "a,
have my wife tell me don't know anything but D.
ball. ma does you, dad"
Jimmy WAS ordered away from the table and but for
sly doughnut tossed him by his mother, wodId Lava
gone 10 bed supperless. -lHartford Post
The fruit dealers of Arkansas observed last Thursday
as Strawberry Day." giving the fruit gathered on tina,
day to the inmates of various eeemosynary Institutions
Chlldrenpicked the berries, the owLers gave them me
chants paid for the crates and the railroads handled then
free.