New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-15

will cut down their poles If they do not by
certain date, comply with the law is probably
the only sort of argument that would have
weight with them. That would move them
even mono rapidly than blizzard
| " The Rochester Union" apparently never Is so
happy as when engaged In stabbing Civil Service
reform under the 9Th rib The Civil Service
Reform Association Of this city recently passed
resolutions severely criticising the course pursued
by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Maynard
and Public Printer Benedict in relation to the
circular calling upon posmasters TO engage in
clectoneering in behalf of the Democratic party.
The resolutions offend " The Unon," and it is at
pains to have that fact appear. 1t snecrs at the
resolutions and at the association and not content
with doing that, this Democratic newspaper is
cruel and ungenerous enough to insinuate that
| President Cleveland ndOrseS the conduct Of May
nard and Benedict. " 1t would SEEM" remarks
The Union," that the President himself takes
no umbrage at what these Cv-Service refOrmers
! alegc to be disturbance of the spirit of his
order 1t Is Just little gratuitous on the part Of
other people to find FAULT" What n comment is
this upon the true inwardness Of tho Presidents
relation to reform, apprehendod by leading
journal of his own party
When the householder Is told nowadays that
lie can have ton Of coal for Sl2 provided he
will carry it home himself, lie longs for the leafy
month Of June
Tho striking engineers in the West profess o
great desire to arbitrate their case with the
| railroad, and many innocent people ask " Why
IN the world doesn't the railroad arbitratep Is
not arbitration always better?' Certainly. arbi-
tration is always better than fighting But the
difficulty In this case, as In so many Others, Is
that the trades unions want to resort to it, not in
the beginning TO prevent q fight, but In the end
to conceal the fact that they forced a fight and
got whipped in it. There two ways OF set
thing such a difficulty. One is, to arbitrtc it,
and the other is to fight It out. The engineers
chose the latter and having got beaten on that
are now grumbling because nobody is ready to
arbitrate with them. The railroad Is right in
| saying there Is nothing now TO arbitrate. They
| were not asked to arbirate but were forced, on
days notice, into a fight, by finding every engine
they had deserted; they took up the contest thus
thrust on them and won 1t they have filled the
places of the engineers who left their employment
and peacefully going with their work
| Why should they want to arbitrator The next
time a strike is threatened arbitration should be
proposed before the fight begins, not at the end
Of it.
Such extreme cold as experienced this week
in this vicinity was exceptional for March. The
average minimum for this month in Ncw-YorlS City
is about 7 degrees although there have been
years in which it did not 20 below 80 degrees.
Tuesday, before dawn, the Signal Service Their
mometer registered degrees above and lludnut's
below. The lowest March temperature
to be found in DR.. Diapers record, which runs
back nearly seventy years, is degrees, which
occurs only thrice In that period Here Is an
other feature Of our blizzard therefore, that Is
practically without parallel
The American must have his Joke Those dis
patches from Dakota Offering us aid rs blizzard
| sufferers. would not be possible in any other
| country in the world.
| The District Messenger boys fought noby along
| with the rest We all have our Jokes at the boys
expense as representatives of the leisure class, but
the truth is they do a Grat deal OF efficient
service, helping 10 make living easier and during
the blizzard many showed u fidelity that amount
| cd to heroism. At least two were reported
where boys were badly frozen in the effort to do
their duty, one OF them being boy who had
| been SO busy that he had gone without his din
ncr, and so. being exhausted, had yielded more
readily TO the cold This suggests q query-do
| the regulations Of the companies make sufficient
| allowance in the matter of clothing for cold
weather? The boy last named is said t. have
been insuficicntly clad, and In severe weather
most OF these jaclSeted boys have the appearance
OF being so. The companies ought to make @
good warm overcoat part of the winter uniform
ut the sacrifice OF u little aesthetic effect, If nee
essary. or to take other measures TO secure tho
comfort Of their messengers many of whom are
at an age when children are not in the habit Of
thinking for themselves in such matters.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson writes a long letter to
" The Boston Herald urging, in view of the dis
trcssing loss of life in the "Sprlngneld Union
fire, what ho claims Is the only pre-
ventivo OF such disaster. This Is TO
make the and lessees OF every
building liable for every loss OF life or in
jury TO persons which happens in the property
owned or occupied by them. The result would
probably he the formation OF q landlords liabil-
ity insurance company. which would lead to the
adoption OF the necessary precautions In every