New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-07

bOOO temperance WOIk.
The failure OF the Presidents message to CON
tain solemn and severe paragraph aimed at the
ghoulish glee of the news aHers Of common
country renders the document q good deal less
characteristic" than it would otherwise be.
yes, let Mr.. Morrison have the Craftsmanship
Of the Committee Grievances, by unanimous
consent.
Within the past five years THE TRrBUNE
Building has become the principal newsT aper
centre in the United States While there
gathered under THE TRIBUNE roof large
munity Of noted lawyers. two mercantile agen les
and three celebrated firms OF architects there
have gradually become colonized here the repre-
scntatives OF more than 1000 American news
papers, chiefly Western. AMI including am NJ
others every paper OF the region west OF Utah
! There also established in the building the
New-York agents Of thirty two leading paper mills,
large printing ink manufacturer. great sub
scriI ton agency, and large number of newspaper
correspondents. of whom send from this
buidinG every night the telegraphc news of the
metropolis to their papers in various cities Of the
West. There also several firms OF stenoera
piers and three book publishers. The Morning
Journal is edited. printed and published here. ANY
news PAPER proprietor, in a town Of from 10000 TO
| $4,000 inhabitants. can buy his printing presses
Tnrer an ink. and handsomely printed outside
| il he wants one. and can employ his stenoerlphers
and correspondents. and even his editots in II
| TRIBUNE Building; his type and the rest OF his
| outfit can be purchased in its immediate vicinity
and when he begins business. if his paper is a
| good one he is tolerably certain To be Hooded
| by his subscribers with another product Of The
| TRIBUNp Building, namely. the United States
postal notes which all manufactured in the
| building by prominent bank note company
| More than 100 Ieope are actually employed
| under THE TRIBUNE roof: AMI its elevators
carry, by count. more than 5000 PEOPLE day.
Promise is q good horse, but the President is
| running him to death
| Sunset Cox should reflect Even II he doesn't
care for himself he should have some consideration
for his friends. lie will place in en-
harrassns position If he contn to stand IN the
attitude Of salary grabber. Our love for Sunset
is something phenomenal, but we can't support a
man for Speaker who takes public money that he
| does not earn.
| The Peoples message to the President: Cut
Garland adrift!
| The Attorney General confesses that he is
ious to retire from public life ami that he IS IN
| need of rest, but he thinks il would be breach
OF trust for him to desert The President before the
expiration of his term lie probably means a
breach of Pan Electric trust.
The message still leaves 1t an open question as
TO whether the President is q horizontalist or an
| incidentalist.
Well winter is here in earnest and the problem
Of transferring Bridge assensers to the Brooklyn
| Elevated Railroad without lons tramp through
snow and sush and down stairs and up stains
is apparently nearer solution than ever.
Judging from present appearances the policy OF
| the authorities of this metropolis concennE the
sidewalks hercabouts will soon be sub ect of
general interest Is the ordinance providing for
tine reno al OF snow and Ice from the sidewalks
to be treated seriously much nn)cuols
desuetudcp The sidewalks Of Buffalo have al
| ready got into the newspa ers. correspondent
Of Tho Commercial Advertiser OF that city pro.
tests against the local oriin4 which provides
that "a snow ice and dirt shall be removed
from the sidewalks before o'clock in the fore
noon Of each day. with penalty of IS for each
omission. Fancy such an ordnInce rgidly en-
forced in this city Why. enough money would
flow into the ucaury in the course OF sin lie
inclement winter to pay for the new aqueduct |
The Buffalo critic argues that no harm come |
TO the public from leavin, snow or Ice on the |
sidewalks, provided a generous opdIessing Of |
sand is added. lie objects to overcoming slip |
perincss with ashes. ASHES" he writes should |
not be allowed, because when wet it forms nasty
taste which sticks 10 the feet"
The Presidents message is on dead level with |
his vetoes of ension bills in intellectual vigor and
literary finish
Commenting upon TIE TRIBUNE's assertion |
that keeplns Republicans in Office docs not make
but what does it make thcm?T We will tell
"Ihe Times 1t makes the Republican office
holders in question many refutations of the |
wicked and reposterous Democratic n,ent on |
that the paIty which the Go, ernmenC from |
1860 until March. 1885, bred "rascas for the |
public service, and that the prosper " OF the |
country was conditional upon turning these |
"rascas' out
Those portions OF the Presidents message re-
latng To foreign affairs evidently written |
with the adventtious aid Of soothing syrup
Tho Lenor IN. c. Topic Democratic |
newspaper asserts that ~Mr. Ccvelan viii never |
be able to carry The Democratic vote Of either
virg MIA or North Carolina We submit to "'hc
Topic that IL ought not to strike man when he's
down-with the rheumatism
There h no reference in the message 10 our
International difficulty about tho kind of water
they have In Mexico.
The business Of bringing accident cases |
against the city continues TO flourish. nowithstan
NJ the vigilance OF the Corporation Counsel
Recent court reports make mention OF q number
Of such cases In 1873 there 81 Of these
cases pending. The number had increased TO 1917
in 1880 and to a43 in 1888 OF tho Ga cases