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New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

WASHINGTON, April 20 lSpeciaD.-What with
the many attractions at the capital at present. the viss
Of the 9TH Regiment, the Pan.Electric investigation.
Powderly testifyng before tue Labor Committee and
Congress itself, the annual meeting OF the National
Academy OF Sciences only sparingy attended Pro.
fessor Marsh of Yale College, presided and Professor
Asaph Hall, OF Washington. acted as secretary Among
ne members OF the Academy present were Professor
Cleveland Abbe Professor Spencer Baird DR.. John :.
Billings Professor John II. Coffin, Professor Edward ID.
Cope, Captain Clarence f. Dutton, Grove X. Gil.
bert, Theodore n. Gill, Arnold Hague General
NJ c. Meigs, Professor Edward s. Morse. Professor
Simon Newcomb, Major John W. Powell, and others
The papers read to-day unusually dry, the only
OF popular interest being Cowless Electrical Fur
mace" by T. Sterry Hunt lie described tue furnace in
which, at a compa paravey small expense and In little
space q high degree OF heat could be produced and
metals reduced small cost which hitherto have
tailed outlay in their reduction. Professor New
ton OF Yale read paper The Comet OF Biea," In
winch he tried demonstrate that the unusually heavy
shower OF meteors In November last the de-
sruction of the Blea comet. The comet he said had
the last In 1899. at which time it ap-
peared double while 1872, when IL first seen
only single. As OF the results or his invests
CATION he said each of the falling meeors probably
surrounded by twenty cubic miles OF the
age paper THE COckroach In the Past ami In the
Present" which on the programme for to-day,
not read owing to the ateness OF the hour at which tho
Academy adjourned.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
TILE MONTRE4L ELOOD.

Montreal has been singu larlY punished of late
We say punished because the small -pox epidem C
and the flood both owed their mscheyOus charac-
ter tc human carelessness and laundering and
therefore cannot be regarded in the light of I'M
avOidable misfortunes. When a:community refuses
to take precautions against the sprcad of q conta-
gous disease, it must expect an epidemic. When
city is founded upon low land near rivers which
are frozen every winter. and which IN spring are
liable to become choked with ice floods must be
counted upon. Not that the people who found ed
Montreal were peculiarly careless this particu-
lar. All over the world cities to be found
which have from time to time suffered similarly
and for precisely similar failure to calculate con-
tingencies at the outset There is story which
illustrates this question. Somewhere in the Far
West a surveyor had been employed to lay out a
town site There was an Insignificant looking
creek in the neighborhood, and the surveyor did
not give it a thought. He pitched his camp on its
banks. however, and when the days work was over
and supper eaten he lay his back smoking
under some tal trees.
Happening to glance up among their branches
he presently something which fixed his atten-
ton. lie rose, and made careful examination
What he had seen hanging in the branches of the
trees was driftwood and he ended by discovering
that no longer ago than tho preceding winter the
whole site Of the projected town had been twenty
feet under watsr. In that case the danger was
fortunately ascertaned IN time hut more fire.
quenty the town has been established before the
truth is known, and then business and general
property interests induce the inhabitants to spend
much money in raising the street lie, els or building
levees. or both. rather than abandon the place
There are towns in the United States which have
fined themselves millions of dollars in this way ;
have spent four or five times much partial
defences rs would have suijced to move the whole
community ont of danger No doubt this Is what
Montreal will do to protect herself. The raising Of
the street levels will probably cost much Or more
than the removal of the business quarter to higher
ground, and will not Afford q guarantee against
floods Association, however. and commercial
facilities, viii carly the day agaiust remove and
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER.

WHO HE IS AND HOW HE LOOKS-HIS ARRIVAL IN
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 20.-Chang Yen Woon, the new
minister appointed to represent the Chinese Govern
ment in this country arrived in Chicago this morning
on his way to Washington The embassy consisting of
tie Minister and his suite of thirty persons all
men, came in the Chicago Burlington and
Quincy road. There large crowd at the depot
to see the Chinese nobemen Before the party disom
barked the baggage taken out of the by the
porters There enormous quantity OF it and
when the last piece had been handed out large bag
gage trucks had been filed. The luggage did not
sist of Saratoga trunks The trunks which contained
the wardrobe of the Minister and his suite were small
boxes made of willow and much resembling baskets.
There were inumerable boxes which looked like tea
chest and band-boxes of strange shapes. Dne truck
load consisted of the wooden shoes, umbrellas and
bottles containing liquid refreshments, and there were
several cases of champagne which was not made in
China Minister Woon. who is short. tbick-set man,
about fifty years old. with thin req mustache, sat at
a window of his car writing while the baggage was
being taken out. Then he put away his Chinese
writing materials and stepped out of the car followed
by his suite.
Chang Yen woon is a man of commanding appear
ance lie is a mandarin of the second degree-red-
buttonl For six years he collector of Customs
tor the San lung Province the part OF which is Foo
Che Foo and the Capitol Lau Chow. Subsequent to
that he was Chief Minister of tho province. gain he
was appointed Collector of Customs at Wee u on the
Yang Isie River, and next supreme Judge of the
province of Wa Hen Thence be called to Pekin
and assigned place in the foreign office, Tsung Lii
Youku. From this post he was appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary t. the
United States. Peru and Spain lie is accompanied by
Leang shung his interpreter who speaks English
with fuency having spont eight years In this country
at Amherst. Mass. Referring to the Minister'S 70
cepton at San Francisco Leang Shung said that Col
leotor agar either dsoboyed the orders he received
from Washington or took it upon himself to ignore the
Ambassador as the representative OF China The Min
lister Id Mr. iagar that he much surprised at his
reception that he had the relations
between the two countries and not TO weaken them.
WAsnINGroN, April 20. Acting Secretary Fair
child has received report from Collector Hagar At
San Fracnsco in regard to the reception OF the new
Chinese Minister at that port The collector says that
the embassy was landed without Identification any
evidence of its official character, after dete ention al
the wharf Of about half hour No dsrespeot OF dis
courtesy either intended shown them and the
Minister at the time made complaint but thanked
the Surveyor for his attention and extended an INVITA-
ton to call upon him ut his LoteL
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
4 QUESTION OF Law AND ORDER

Il QUESTION or Law AND OhDE"'
It can no longer be claimed, on behalf of the
organization of car-drivers in this city, that
they uniformly respect the laws and do not re-
SOFT to violence Nor can it be claimed that the
organization restrans the strikers from law
breaking The fact is to be sincerely regretted
by all who hope for good results from the or
ganzation of labor. But it is a demonstrated
fact and must be recognized. In the mob with
which the police had to deal the most active
and violent law-breakers were known strikers
and members of the organization. Ihe pre-
tence that these men were simply seeking their
rights BY peaceful and lawful means is at an
end On the contrary, they were in fact making
war on society and on all free labor they were
defying the law and trying to rob unOrganized
laborers of their rights.
The greatest danger of the working people in
this country just now comes from the widely
prevalent notion that a crime committed in be-
half of the cause of labor Is excusable and
should not be punished. That idea has to be
cot rid of at any cost The shareholders re-
bellon was a crime against the Nation on be-
half of property owners, and it cost long
struggle to establish the supremacy of law
Perhaps the struggle would not have succeeded
had not the rebellion been also crime against
freedom of labor. But body of workers who
want to dictate to other labor have no more
right to break the laws than the Shareholders
had. Slavery to a master and slavery to an
organization will both be resented by free
labor, and will have to be stopped by the free
institutions of this country. There ought to be
no labOrer in this land who wants to be de-
nrived himself or to deDrire anV other nan, OF
the right to work where lie pleases, when
he pleases, and for whom and on what
terms he pleases. If there are any such work
ers, the sort of tyranny which they desire,
whether for themselves or others, is hostile to
American freedom and American laws. 1t can
not be established or maintained, except by
lawless violence which the authorities must
suppress and punish.
The idea that q crime committed in support
of a strike is less guilty or less dsgraceful than
other crimes must also be got out OF the way.
At the bottom, every such crime is for the dis
tinct purpose of preventing other men from
earning living. 1t is therefore crime against
fe labor as well as a crime against society.
More; it is the most cruel and base of all crimes
TO deprive n man of his lawful opportunity to
earn bread for wife and children. III men want
to stop work themselves, that is their right, and
the law will protect them i'll it. But they be-
come criminals of the worst sort when they try
to rob any other man of his freedom to labor.
He who steals or murders for private greed or
revenge is more deserving OF lenient treatment
or of sympathy than he who tries by crime to
rob neghbor of the right to support his dear
ones.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
LEADERS VINO SHOULD BE TURNED OUT

LEADERS VINO SHOULD BE TUNED OCI
The drivers and conductors could not do a
wiser thing than to turn ont OF the places which
they have misused the members of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Empire Protective AssO
citation. These men are responsible for mon
strous wrong to the community and to the
Knights of Labor themselves. They stopped
almost every car line in tue city on Monday
without any warrant of right and justice, and
thereby arodsed hostile sentiment against the
organization which is certain to weaken and
damage it most seriously. They deprived
5000 men of days wages, causing them a
total loss in money of more than 81 900, and
loss in public sympathy and good will of inn
mensely greater importance and value. These
men are evidently unsafe leaders. They do
not,understand the limits of legal resistance to
the companies. Their course has done more to
embitter the relations between employees and
employers, and to interfere with the success of
Just demands on the palt of wage-earners, than
ANYTHING which has occurred in this city for
years.
There is evidence enough that many of the
rank and file are dissatisfied and dsgusted with
the reckless and indefensible course of their
committee. If the knights of Labor will strip
these ag;tators Of their powers and dlsavow their
acts, they will win back public favor and the
street-car companies will not venture to refuse
anything reasonable that they may ask.
ODonnell, the chairman of the Executive Com
mittee has shown himself to be especially
dangerous as leader and his words and acts
have been especially obnoxious to the friends
of law and order 1t is likely that the Grand
Jury will have something to say to him.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
UA7TERSONS URITH At CLEVELAND

UA7TERSONS WRATH At CLEVELAND
The Editor of The LOusrHle Comier-JoWndl
is wearing blood in his eye. Blood is not unac-
customed to CLEAN in that particular portion of
the Colones anatomy, but it is evident that this
is the bloodlest blood that has ever lent fcrociy
to Kentucky optics. Watterson went about
with n terribly sanguinary eye the time he was
filing the quota that was going down to
Washington on double quick to seat Illden.
But the eye which he turns toward the White
House to-day is still more appallingly CORY.
And why7 Because the President has reap
pointed Mrs. Thompson-with a p--POstmastcr
of Louisville.
To show the volume and the badness Of the
blood in question it is only necessary to state
that The Courier journal of Saturday last
devotes a leader column long, the editorial
that follows the leader and fifteen editorial par
agraphs to giving expression to the indig
nation, disgust anger, melancholy and gloom
which the appointment has inspired iu the
breasts of Louisville Democrats. Mr.. Cleve-
land is given distinctly and emphatically to
understand that he has done rs badly by the
Louisville Post Office as it was possible for n
Democratic Executive to do. The appoint
ment of Mrs. Thompson is characterized as
"most extraordinary and utterly indefensible y;
as "an outrage which cannot easily be forgot
ten y; as demoralizing alike to party organi-
zatiun and to the efficiency of the public ser.
vice ." as &" a blow directed against Civil Service
Reform" as "a triumph of personal politics of
tho most obnoxious kind; as the success of
:" most offensive partisan, most inefficient
officer"; as a practical denial to Louisville of
" right to postal service equal to that of
Northern cities : as a practical refusal to
Democracy of a right to recognition; as hav-
ing been made directly in the face of the pro-
tests of The Courier -Jouradl the newspaper
which has labored persistently and effectively
to support his (Cleveland's) Administration y;
as rewarding the mouthpiecc of Clcveland's
most bitter opponents"
And so on through two columns. 1t is clear
that Colonel Watterson never came so near
before to concluding that republican institu-
tions are a deusion and a snare, that civiza-
ton is failure, that the Caucasian (from
Bu1alo) is played out, and that the future of
the blue-g grass appetite for federal place looks
dark. The latest advices from Louisville are
to the effect that Mrs. Thompson is still in pos
session of the office.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
nEwYoRK DAILY TRIBUNE; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 81, 1885

have been in no sense sectional. But New I 0rh
has not clamored for tho money. 1t has ex-
pended $50, 900, 900 in building and maintain
ing canal which ia free TO the entire country,
and that canal is moIc of benefit to-day to the
Western farmer in lowering freight charges on
his grain than it is to the farmer in New DIX
State But Mr.. Henderson, of Illinois, insists
that the people of New-York should help to
build the Hennepin Canal in that State, and
help to dig out all the little streams in the
country. We fail to sec the justice in such
bill.
Is it ilibcral to object to such an expendi.
ture Many streams figure in this bill whicl
have no commerce. The Caloosahatchic, To-
instance, gets an appropriation though the err
gineers report declares that " the principal adj
ayantage expected from this improvement,
awould arise from the partial drainage ant
reclamation of adjoining marshes" Dill
made upon such principles ought to fail
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
YOUNG woMEy GRADUATES IN MEDICINE

1OUNG NOMEN bhiDLiIES ~ nEDfCIHE.
Thirteen young women received the degree
Of Doctor OF Medicine last evening In Association Hail.
1t was the twenty-th annual commencement of the
New-York Medical College and Hospital for Women.
The hall filled. On the platform the faculty,
while In front OF them ranged pretty baskets hed
with flowers for presentation 10 the young graduates
The report OF the college 10 have been read by Dr.
Clemence s. LoZer. the dean but Illness prevented her
from performing this duty, which devolyed Mrs.
Mary A. Brinkland. Dr. Alice B. Campbell correspond
ing secretary of the Board OF Trustees then read q
statement o the affairs Of the institution and called tho
thirteen graduates the platform TO take the Hippo
cratic oath. Lifting each her right hand and
peatng the words OF the oath slowly after Dr. Campbell
they be faithful In the practice OF their profes
sion. administer deadly dru2s, and dvulge no
ceved long scroll tied with pretty pink ribbon which
TO certify to the world that she learned In the
science OF healing and stephen Cutter president OF tho
Board Of Trustees, pronounced them all Doctors OF
Medicine The distribution OF prizes called forth lively
interest among the. -hedged doctors and their
the best original report; Louise Lannin received tho
prize in pathological anatomy handsome medical works
on the eye were awarded to Ellen r. Van NOstrand.
Louise Zicgelmcier, Jane G. Goss and Alice VI. Eaton
for excellence in ophthalmolOgy Mrs j. G Leary
ceived the prize in ply sOlogy and Henrietta l. knud.
seu received q handsome work surgery for excellence
in department The valedictory the part of the
class delivered by Ellen p Van Nostrand and Pro-
j. NJ Lozer said goodbye to the class the part
OF the faculty. The following are the names OF the
graduates:
Miss Kate C. Gotham, Miss Harriette I. Knudsen.
Miss Lizzie COrwin Miss Louise Lannin
Miss Alice NJ Mrs Abby III. Nac1vor.
Mrs. Jane e. Goss, Miss Ida h. Norris
Miss Mary f.. Gage, Miss Sarah &. Spottiswooic
Mss Ada I. Hobby Miss Ellen p. Van NOstrind
Miss Louise Ziegelmeer.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
REFORM ~ REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

REFORM ~ REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
1t is unfortunate that the Land Transfer
Commissioners were unable to agree upon
plan of recording and indexing real-estate in
struments in this city. The present system-ii
the methods now in use can properly be called
q system-has been followed much longer than
the interests of the taxpayers OF the metropolis
ought to have permitted its continuance. 1t Is
admitted by all to be involved, tedious, pro-
ductive of delays in rca-estate transfer, and ex-
pensive. But an irrecOncilable difference OF
opinion has arisen between the Commissioners
as to the remedy. The highest legal authorities
arc cited upon both sides. The point that will be
appreciated, however, by the real-estate owner
who may not be able to decide when the
learned conv eyancers disagree, is that either the
@lot system" or the block system of index
ing records will be great Improvement upon
the existing state of affairs and will afford re-
lief, more or less complete for the present diff
cuties. To quote the language OF the Bar AS.
sociation Committee: g Both of these systems
"are improvements on the present deplOrable
"conditon of land registration in this city,"
Legislation upon this subject should not be
too hasty or il-consdered. But after careful
examination of the subject, it is the plain duty
OF the Legislature to take prompt action. The
passage by the Senate yesterday of the bills
recommended by the majority of the Land
Transfer Commission, therefore, must be COM
mended even by those who believe that the
"block system ould operate better than the
4lot system" embodied in these bills The
adoption of either set Of bills will have the
effect to rid this community of what has long
been dlsgraceful burden upon the transfer of
real property. This is a reform that has
awaited its consummatiOn long enough.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
REPORT OF THEART STUDENTS LEAGUE.

REPORT OF THE A RT STUDENTS LEAGUE
The annual meeting of the Art Students
League OF New-York held in the OF the
cety No 80 West Fourteenth-st last evening The Of
fcers during the coming year President.
c. r. Lamb; vce-presidents. Miss W. ID. Hswey and II.
b. Smell members OF the Board OF Control. Miss T. H..
Throop, II. L. Twining and f. S. Lamb These officers
appoint the six other members OF the board who Will
have the direction OF the school for the coming The
annual reports OF the officers showed that the classes
had opened october and had been IN session daily
from a. to p. m. since that date. They now num-
Der seventeen. and consist OF i've e two painting two
artistic anatomy and perspective Their Instructors are:
(aftcrnoon life class; William sartain (evening life
casses); William NJ Chase tpaintlng class; J. Alden
Weir tpainting and head casses) J. Carroll BecAwuh
and T. T. Scott antique classes Thomas Eakins (auat-
omy and perspective lecturcs), and i. H. Blashheld
Composition class. The number OF students who have
worked school during the has been 47o ian
increase sc the previous year. and the receipts
have been than $4,000 ian increase ofS3oO ovei
the previous
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
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New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
PL4IN LING UAGE FROM GROVER c.

have undertaken 70 make money except by law an
ksr have always l9., al aSnoa ~ Re-
rm Administration.
Which wish to remark,
And my language is plain.
That for ways that arc dark.
And for tricks that are vain.
The Arkansas traveller 's-peculiar.
Which same would rise to explain.
Public-trust was his place.
And we all will agree,
In reviewing the case
What It's meaning must be;
But his tone it was pure and reform-llke.
As frequent told Hubert o. T.
Which We had small gan
And friend G. took a hand.
1t was blufing, the same
He did not understand
"Ah, always lose money at poker"
He sighed with % smile that was bland.
But the cards they were stocked
In way that grieve,
And George Curtis was shocked
At Hubert's of sleeve,
wnicn was stuffed Heddeu aud uiggins.
And the same with intent to deceive.
But the hands that we're played
BY that party named IL,
Was quite frghtful to see;
Till at last he bold called the Bell people,
And swore it was Goode and not he
Then wiped q moist eye
And my Hubert, ah me,
He rose with sigh
And he said. Can this be
We are ruined by Garland cheap morals"
And he went for that party named G..
In the scene that ensued
All the land took Q hand
And the Cabinet was strewed
Like leaves the strand,
With the cards that this Garland was hiding
In the game he did not understand
In his sleeves, long and deep,
They discovered, alasl
Much stock, dead-head cheap
Twas Reforms pretty pass
And they found on his cheeks which were brazer
What is frequently brazen that's brass.
Which is why remark,
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The Arkansas traveers-pecuiar,
Which same am free to maintain.
New-York tribune., 1886-04-21
the usual heavy penalty for sticking to bad ioca-
ton will have to be paid.

The UNPLEASANT truths which Mr.. ingalls, told in
the Senate about the sham Civil Ser7ice Reform OF
this Administration has led its newspaper friends
TO make some interruptions efforts Mt rcprsais one
OF these il the wide circulation of story that NJ
ingalls, carly applied to Secretary Manning Tor inc
oppointment OF q brothcr-in-law as special
agent of the Treasury IN Boston, and that
the failure TO get the place led to the attack on the
President Mr. Ingalls, has publicly denounced thiS
story as m absolute falsehood but it still Keeps on
its travels in Democratic newspapers. Mr. lngai's
saws that he has never asked for any appointment
or favor from this Administration. Probably the
alleged interview with Mr. ingalls, on the SUBJECT
Of omen executive sessions, which has been seht
over the country, was not inspired from the same
motive. though Mr.. ingalls, has also stated that 10
he imaginary. Such method OF warfare IS olS-
creditablc to say the least.