New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-16

crnor.
What constitutes State? Well. Senators
who do not allow little matter Of inclcment
weather to prevent them from appearing at their
posts Of public duty help constitute State Hence
we tender admiring congratulations to MI
Arnold, Senator for the XXIIId District SO
determined was he to get back TO law-making from
his home, where he had gone to spend Sunday, that
after the train which he was passenger
gave out, he walked matter OF seven miles to
Schenectady and thence caught on to another
train that managed to plough through to the Cap
ital And the seven miles walk through,
or at least around drifts-so IL is rcported-be-
tween fifteen and twenty feet high. And Mr.
Arnold-who isn't as tall as that--didnt have his
snowshocs on either SO long as her sons continue
to get there all the same" the Republic is pretty
safe, thank you
To boolS-worm: We forget who it was that
wrote " there is no joy but calm But we hazard
the assertion that if he spent Monday in New
York he didn't enjoy himself frst-rate.
The citizen who wrote an impudent letter to
Recorder Smyth because some of his precious
time had been wasted in waiting to be put Oh jury
duty, is q specimen Of class OF men who mink
that a summons to serve on "A jury is an outrage
to be resented in any possible way. The Recorder
was mcrciful in exacting no other punishment
than abiect apology.
In view of Mayor IIewitt's failure to make
humorous responses /, the blizzard Jokes from Da-
kota The Word7 says that he never cracked
a Joke in his life This IS sadly unapprccative.
The Mayor is one of our best afterdinncr speakers
and considering the number OF dinners at which
he is expected TO he funny, cx-oflicO. his versa
tilty and freshness are worthy OF all praise. On
occasions the Mayors wit fairly orackes, rs. for
example. at the recent St Davids dinner when
he analysed the bill OF fare, printed in the welsh
language, which the Mayor pronounces with q
slight Greenwood Lake accent If he did take
the Dakota kilograms little seriously that was
doubtless because he saw his best revenge was to
pretend not to sec the point.
One of the worst results Of the late spell OF
weather will be the general destruction of the
habit of truihfuness The fish story will be
nothing alongside of the blizzard lie
Our neiglbor The World" points with pride
to the fact that some of the members OF IT'S stan
90 their daily rounds these DAYS on snowshoes
1t is 20 be regretted that the weather-prophet or
THE World didn't have his minds feet shod
with snowshocs when he proceeded to remark on
Monday morning. Spring gentle Spring is here.
Such precantion might have prevented the
prophet from sinking so phenomenally deep into
the drift Of inaccuracy.
Why shouldn't the city authorities approve
the bill requiring persons wishing to do blasting
i'm this city to get permit from the Commls Toner
of Public Works? Everybody knows that there
is entirely too much carelessncss in the way IN
which blasting operations are carried on Irue'
the courts recently held that the contractors arc
responsible for all damages resulting from blasting.
but shrcwd contractors will be able to evade tho
responsibility in some way. This work is ncces-
sary but 1t should be done under ample restric-
tions, so as to guard against injury to persons
and property.
What long step back toward the barbaric
past it does seem when Ncw-iork gets its Boston
mails by way OF the Sound steamers. Our boosted
civilization isn't quite all we thought it after
all
There could not have been more convincing
proof of the need of underground wires than the
storm afforded. Let the lesson not DC forgotten.
Before another winter and ne possibility OF
another blizzard, every wire should be buried.
The hardship OF the storm would have been i'm
mensely amelioratcd could telegraphic and tee-
pbonic communication have been maintained
uninterrupted.
Minneapolis friends Of Roscoe Conkling tele-
graphed him from that city while the blizzard
was raging to " come to the banana belt 1t
is not known whether not Mr. Conkling intends
to make break for the belt We are inclined to
think on mature reflection he will conclude not
TO 90 II has been well remarked by an acute
philosopher that "e'en the banana peel when
trod upon will turn" And when 1t does turn
wha, " belt- 1t does eiyc the unfortunate man
whom it overthrows Shakespeare well remarked
that it is better to endure the Billiards we have
.han to fly to bananas that we know not Of. We
may add that Minneapolis gets all her bananas
from Newly orlk-that's the sort of fine old banana
belt she Is.
In the mail Of President Bayles, Of the Health
Department, there ought shortly to be vigorous,
bold, trenchant, piece of word painting done with
n few mastery strokes and bearing the sigma
ture of Abram s. Hewitt, Mayor.
Henry Bergh is buried to-day, but his good
deeds live after him Why should he not have
monument in this city? There is more than one
memorial of that kind in public places which
is far less deserved and 10 would be refreshing TO
SEQ n statue to O man who had never held an
Office nor fought in war, and all whose services
70 mankind had been Of the most pacific charac-
ter.
Even the New-Yorll Alderman when pushed to
the wall will turn. Vice-President Bowling who
riprisints1 the district for which Tommy
Shells formerly sat in the Board, in commenting
on the diminished powers of the Aldermen mourn
fully remarks that the Legislature might well
mass one act more and wipe out the Board alto
gether Well, it is true that few would mourn
the loss But if the Aldermen have sunk to this
low estate, let them remember that it is their
own fault or their predecessors. If they wish TO
regain public confidence, they should set about
showing that they deserve it.