New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-22
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and we are not at all certain that tne auNnno"so
is ON the side of the American metropolis III
Franco MAGISTRATE Vigneaux was dismissed from
office because he played the amateur detective ana
tried TO entrap people into confessions OF gun"
Tn New-Yorl< City Chamberlain WINS was COLI
timed in the most lucrative office IN the Guy
government and bcslobbered with adulaVioh ny
the canting hypocrtes of the Mugwump press ior
descending to dirty detective work 10 winch ho
gentleman would stoop.
Mayor Hewitt thinks that no harm will he done
II sand is used in winter by the street car COM
pauies on steep and difficult grades. But is there
TO be any guarantee that when the companies ecC
permission to use sand they will not use salt aso'
IL is the mixture Of salt and snow that is par1lcu-
arly Objectionable.
"The St. Paul Pioneer Press is out in favor OF
the consolidation of St. Paul and Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Tribune" on the other hand IS
dead agninst II. In the meanwhile the two cities
are gradually growing nearer to each other every
year It will be interesting TO see what they Will
do when they meet VIII they telescope each
other. or will they withdraw and grow somewhere
else We could believe that they would peace
fully consolidate when they come to the meeting
point were it not for the impossibility OF imagn-
ing either one of them dropping its distinctive
name II is true they might retain both Names
connecting them by a hyphen after the Tune
honored Western manner. But the question w'uiu
then arise which name should be used first; ana
on that question we fear much rich Northwestern
blood would be shed. So that " ST. Paul-Sllnne-
apolis and Mnneapolis-St. Paul. are bfth
ruled out. There remains the possibility OF de-
vising combination name such as ST Mime
paulp or " Minnesaint," or Polispaul' or Paulo-
polls" but even this would probably not be salts
factory to all Verify the problem is hard one
to solve
Gentlemen who are rejoicing just now over
what they are pleased to call the overthrow OF
Samuel j. Randall would do well to moderate
their transports During the last quarter OF q
century Mr. Randall has been reported NUMBER
Of times as OverthrOwn. laid out cold done up
knocked silly politically killed. But the puphc
has noticed that he has got there all the same
The bill providing for fourth day OF r'gls'r'-
ton in Brooklyn deserves favorable consideration
at the hands Of the Legislature. The mistake
which gave the extra day Iast iaii
showed that thousands of voters w"u'd nav
been dsfranchised but for the blunder OF the
BOARD of Elections. Nor is there any reason why
the registration officers should not sit through
ont the day Registration is necessary condition
to voting, but the conditions should be made as
easy as poss Bile.
Drscoll. the murderer is not witness whose
testimony would weigh heavily with an ordinary
iurv. However when he says that Fatty
Walsh is morally and mentally unfit 10 hold the
wardenship of the Tombs, it must be admitted that
he hits the nail pretty squarey on the head
The chairman of a subcommittee on Commerce
Of the House Of Representatives has, IN the
variance Of the day, bitten of more than he can
chew" He offered resolution that the headihg
tril,o no investigated to see whether the company
had violated the Interstate Commerce act. Now
no has found out that the Reading Railroad is
wholly in Pennsylvania, and he is cudgelng his
brains to find out how the Interstate law can pe
made TO fit 1t is a conundrum that ne Will
probably have to give up.
When a Democrat rises at Albany to ask that
his bill "only little local BILL be ADVANCED, ~
is time for the House to wake up 1t JUST taxes
a little local bill' to wipe out the surplus
"c,andma Garfield. is dead 1t is question
whether any woman, so simple and unassumihs'
and whose life was so eventful ever saw her
name become so much household word. She was
one Of the women whose courage, unselfishneSs ana
ready wit in meeting the most formidable emer-
gencies filed our pioneer annals with stories Oh
beroism of the kind that seldom gets itself sung
by the poets but is none the less effective IN the
worlds work for all that Her husbands oeath
left her with four young children the youngest OF
them the future President, being only baby, on
frontier farm not wholly cleared, and not even
fenced The brave, tiny woman tolled not only
al woman's work but mems work, too to keep her
little flock together and save the FARM when was
their only foothold. On the day that James,
as she always called him in her simple way was
inauourated President OF the United States, ana
turned, upon taking the oath, to give her his
first KISS. it is safe to say that, in the JOY ana
pride Of that moment. she felt repaid for all the
privations and hardshipS OF those years wheh she
was straining every nerve to clothe, feed ana
odpcate her children. Stories like this represent
everything that is best and most hopeful In Amerl-
can life.