New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-22

If the owners Of street railroad lines do not care
enough for the comfort and health Of the public 20
take of the open cars and substitute closed ones
in such weather a5 this, especially on the early
morning and LATE evening trips, they should be
compelled by law to do so. A better induccment
to influenza and pneumonia scarcely be mag
ICED than a ride Of mile or two after sunset in
open horse-car The two lines IN this city that
most employ open ears are now alternating them
with closed onos but in Brooklyn it Is ride in an
open car or walk for almost no otheTs are run. On
Sunday evening. when the travel was heavy and
the ar very chilly, only about in twenty at
Fulton Ferry was a closed one. ThsIs something
more than a nuisance 1t is menace to the public
health.
We feel confident that all our citizens will agree
that the best use Mr.. Barnum can make Of the
remains Of the late lamcntcd Jumbo is TO present
them 30 the American Museum in Central Park.
Treasured there tLoy would afford the grcateot
pleasure and satisfaction to the greatest number,
and thus Jumbo being dead wouid continue to
" draw as he did while he was yet with us in the
flesh Nowhere in America was he received with
consideration more marked or an enthusiasm more
intense than IN this metropolis and certainly no
other city can do bcttrr amplcr by
his posthumous fame. Mr. Barnum has taken fire.
quent occasion to express his grateful appreciation
of the generous manner In which Newly orkers
have responded to his countless efforts to minister
10 Their entertainment, and therefore 1t Is reason
able TO expect that he will not turn a deaf ear TO
this petition Please Mr.. Barnum, let the imposing
form of his olcphantinc mlghtiness be consigned
for honorable display to the American Museum.
Oh, dear OH dear This is just too perfectly aw-
full! Here is The EreHing Fost itself calling it
Swivel Service Reform.
Among the FIRST fruits Of the Postmaster Generals
warfare with American shipping interests IS the
loss Of the contract with tho Ncw-Z 'aand Govern
ment 20 carry tho New-Z,aland mails from San
Francisco. The cables tell MS that the owners of
tho English steamships Z'alandia and Australia,
now running between san Francisco ald Ncw-Lcal-
and and Australia have secured the mail contract
NJ $3.50, 900 year. For the past ten years New
Zealand and New South Waes have been support
ing an American line. with a mail contract be-
tween those two colonies and san Francisco. with
out any helping hand from this country.
IL has directly promoted American COM
inefce and increased tho facilities
Tor communication and Just at tho time when tho
Now -Zcalandcrs Jxpsctel that this Government
purposed to bear portion of the burden OF expense
of ocean mail transportation, tho Postmastor-uen-
eral tossed wet blanket upon their hopes by re-
turning ths 800 900 appropriated by Congress for
foreign mail carrying into the Treasury. Then Tho
NcW-Zeaand Parliament organized an opposition
against subsidies TO American lines. and has de-
cided that the coony's money should be used IN
promoting the prosperity Of English commerce. The
narrow policy adopted by the Postmastor-Cieneral
has diverted the subsidy granted by Ncw-Zealand
from an American to a British line, and 1t Will
divert the ocean commerce in that direction also.
Spain Is indeed unfortunate. Last year her
utheastem corner was devastated by Hoods. Tho
unsanitary conditions thus produced invited pes
thence and this year tho cholera has ragged worst
IN that very REGION Now, just rs the epidemic has
begup 10 wane the floods return with added hor-
rors TO the already Over-suiicring country and ty-
phoid and ma arIal fevers and dysontery will assail
those whom cholera has spared.