New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-15

| Tho Bridge Trustees have done an indefensibc
| thing in authorizing the placing Of advertising
cards in their cars. They hope to make $4,000 or
81 0. 900 a year by the operation They might Just
as well line the entire promenade on both SIDES
with bill-boards; and no doubt more than ono
enterprsing firm would pay good deal more than
81 O. 900 year for the exclusive privilege OF using
one or both of the for advertising purposes
The trustees ought to be in better business
Height Io 1.-THE Evening Post has got
'em again. Commissioner McClave is johnny
Mr. Platt is "Tom" and Commissioner frc'
Is Steve This is the intellectual process
commonly known thought!
T. is evident that Governor Hill hopes 10 DO
able to saddle the Lame for tho unwarrantapie
Exncrtive Mansion expenditures upon Mr.. Andrews,
the Superintendent Of Tublic Buildings
cannot tell a lie" David virtually exclalms' IL
WAS Andrews that did it, In an lhterVie"
with a reporter of Tho Albany Express" tho
Governor takes the groiL2 that the Executive
Mansion quite much as any otinr public build
ing NJ Albany, was included in the lump appro-
priation given to Superintendent Andrews, the
Implication being that the Legislature meant
this money to be used for this purpose among
others The Express riddles this subterfuge
as follows:
Ia
Legislature. upon which the additional appropriation
% S 600 cost wa poced Changes and Alterations
there was left Of tho original appropriation no' Ths
available for the reiurnshng OF the na am t.eusns
that the s37 900 then asked woa'd more han cover
house, no wrote and the doing of the Items Of work
herein specified, reluire an appropriation In all OF
which the appropriation granted and with this
official statement from the Governor inc Iessla'tto
Andrews appropriation should be applied to the man
sion.
Superintendent Andrews would do well to re-
consider his self-saoricing determination TO serve
as Mr.. Hills scapegoat.
DR.. McGlynn objects to a despot in Russia, but
he doesn't at all object to a dcspot in the Anti
Poverty Society, provided he can be the dcspot
After all there is a good deal Of human nature
In most men.
Jones may pay the freight, but it does not make
him a vcstibulc train to the Governorship.
THr TRIRuxE ALMANAC has run into its fourth
edition within an incredibly short time. It's first
editions were singularly free from errors, only
three being discovered from cover to cover, and
these three being unimportant as errors can be.
The fourth edition, which comes from the press
this morning and is now on sale. is, believe,
n
accurate review Of American politics during the
past year does not exist. Its statistics have been
compiled with the greatest care, and no politician
can get along without it.
Those having charge of the bill prohibiting
the sale Of liquors at State and county fairs
showed a lack Of wisdom in allowing it to be
called up at a Monday evening session OF the
Assembly Monday evenings session is proverbi-
ally characterized by a slim attendance Of the
members In this instance many of the friends
of the measure absent that it suffered de-
feat the Democrats, usual, being arrayed
against it. 1t is earnestly to be hoped that
this defeat is not final, and that some Of these
days when there is full Assembly it may be
taken up again and passed
Ex-Governor Hoady ID guilty Of great temerity
lie ought to know hitter than to presume to rush
rashly INTO print letter writer during the term
OF Mayor Hewitt, above all to engage in open and
direct comrctIton with the brilliant and indie
fatigablc letter writer at the City Hall.
A loud-mouthed liar from Philadelphia, named
Frank W. Hail. has been mismanaging dis
reputable walking match in this city. and. en-
ragged at the just criticisms made cyerywherc,
in the newspapers and throughout the community,
uttering series Of grotesquc falsehoods in which
he has attacked the honesty of nearly all tho
New-York reporters whom he has met heard
Of Philadelphia should talSo back this stupid
and malicious fasifer to her bosom without
delay. New-YOrk can spare him. If he continues
to infest this island much longer he is likely
70 feel the need of figuring in a real running
match.
ol,1
anxousy looking about for and appropriate
name Before it has succeeded in getting such
a name it is confronted with tho necessity of
hunting up two names.
In recognizing the general uncertainty as to tho |
meaning of Mr. Balne'S letter we do not wish to be
bc @pIty of that fault or he may not. Unfor unatey
his previous carecr does not cntitle him ~ prompt
favorable verdict.-New-York Times
This comes with poor grace from the Journal
which falsely charged MIR Blaine four years ago !
with suppressing four discriminating letters, sub
stituting four innocuous documents for them, and
then living about them with effrontery and reck
lessncss to the American people Those falsehoods ,
The Times has never rctracted; and it has !
the hardihood now to assume mild and slightly |
cynical air in considering the possibility OF Mr.
Blaine's being after all arrant knave and
hypocrite
=" II only old Samson were alive now what
glorious opportunity for his favorite exploit he
might find in the Albany Capitol So remarks
that accomplished Biblical student, The Syracuse
Courier" One of Samsons favorlte exploits
was wholesale killing with the jawbOne OF an
ass Ii he returned to flesh and desired to repeat |
that exploit the statesman who placed his party |
in a hole with that free-trade mcssage-coudn't |
he furnish the necessary jawbone2
PERSONAL.
Mr. Harrison Willard, tho well known ong-writer, |
has gone California and 1t said that no Intends
TO reside there permanently, at Napa
Cardinal Gibbons Is a great walker.