New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-15

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play that inspiring air, Competition Is the L'ie
Of Trade
The Park Commissioners have decided to 80 into
the railroad business on a small scale. The cx-
periment to be made in the transverse road whlch
is in reality part Of Eighty-flfth-st will be
viewed with interest because IL is the first venture
of the kind in which any branch OF the city govern
mcnt has engaged The need OF some way oil
getting across town between Fifty-ninth and One
hundred-and-tent SITS has long been apparent,
and the road which the Park Commission pro
poses to construct at q cost OF $4,000 Will be a
public convenience. The tracks when laid VIII
be leased to the highest bidder There appears
to be no valid reason for Directing to the city's
engaging in this enterprise, although precedent
may be established that will give trouble al some
future time II the project turns out we'll the
foundation may be laid for like undertaking In
much larger way.
Elbridge T. Gerry, president of the Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty TO Children, makes
special appeal the public for aid in carrying on
its excellent work Its record for fourteen years
is one of great and increasing good and the means
Of prosecuting it are now to be increased III may
not be generally known that the socicty's agents
that the doors of the office at No 100 East Twenty
third-st are never locked or barred. MIR. Gerry's
appeal deserves a prompt and generous response
There is Lever out In Chicago, which Is
doing its best to move the world but OF whose
existence the world continues obdurately uncon-
scious 1t is n little paper of that name
Prohibition paper, which is busy just now Dull
living General Harrison in the 1ercest manner
about his Cabinet, with such an expenditure
of zeal in fact that it is sad to reflect that
General Harrison will never, in all probability
know that such paper exists, unless he reaos
this paragraph The especial object OF Its efforts
at this time is to prevent the selection OF D. D
Clarllson, OF Iowa, for Cabinet place, on the
ground that he is alleged TO have tried TO BRIDE
St John-we mean John Pin 1854. ms
suggests several reflections First that as " Inc
Lever" says ne did this, it stands TO reason that
he didn't Second, that General Harrison Is not
making up his Cabinet to please the Prohibition
lists The man whom they conspicuously helped
into Office was Governor Hill, and they are
entitled to influence his appointments and his
only Third, that it is barren field OF inquiry
TO talk about whether anybody tried TO bride
St. John and failed. Why not try to find out
whether anybody tried and succeeded
"The London Saturday Review in a recent
number makes protracted and earnest appeal Tor
the restoration of cider to the proud position 1t
once occupied. 1t argues that if cider had been
given a fair show, long before this it would have
supplanted wine and beer in the affections of the
multitude and have become :" fine National
beverage 1t is evident that the Editor of The
Review has no present intention Of coming to
America and running for Office on Democratic
ticket If there is sort Of a man which more
than another Democratic managers will not con-
done it is the sort that dominates older for
national beverage.
Some people have thought fit to critfclse the
instructions given hy Mr. Chandler when Secretary
of the Navy and continued by Secretary Whitney,
TO list all merchant steam vessels that might be
available as an auxiliary Navy in case OF
emergency, upon the presumption that they could
not be put in condition to withstand the attack
of a regular war vessel There are a number OF
American merchant steamers quite capable OF being
so strengthened in their weak parts that, with
conparatvely small armament for defensive pur-
poses only they would be able to take care
of themselves There are other vessels which, in
the opinion of the Board Of Inspection, are capa-
bic OF being so strengthened and armed as TO be
used as fast cruisers. Some of these vessels would
also be utilized as conveys 10 our mail steamers, as
was done during the Civil War, to protect them
from the ocean privatcers. The surest way of
maintaining peace is to be prepared FOR war.
The Board Of Supervisors have ordered the pay
ment of 81 600 for the protection of the game of
Monroe County during the year. correspondent
Of " The Rochester Union" wants to know what
the game was and if it was worth the candle. Con-
sidering that the Rochester nine is not in the
League, $1,000 does seem a pretty steep sum.
However, it probably includes the bills OF the
umpire for arnica, plasters, splints and other
remedial agents. The idea that any man in
Rochester was so densely ignorant as not to know
what was the game Of Monroe County We
are afraid that the compulsory education act is not
enforced as strictly as it ought to be out in Monroe
Evidences are not wanting that our excellent
Mayor, who did not come in at all like a lamb
proposes to 60 out like lion. Hardly one Of
these closing days of his incumbency passes now
without some display of electrical vvacity, which
lights up the wastes of municipal dulncss for
all of us, at the same time that it makes things
warm for some individual against whom Mr..
Hewitt really imagines that he has hard feel
ing. only to discover later on, probably, that
be was never more mistaken in his life. Yes
terday. for example, he publicly denounced
wel-known journalist as "a lar" even as " an
uncOnscionabe liar From the Mayor these
ebullitions clear the air like lightning they are
picturesque and the Mayor feels better We shall
sorcly miss Mr.. Hewitt when he rctircs from the
City Hall. His letters have been such good
reading and he has furnished more interesting
matter to the newspapers than all his predeces-
sors The worst thing that can be said of him
is that he could not Ensemble, and that he was
candid to fault But even here he is without
rancor. We don't believe the Mayor called
a man liar in his life without being perfectly
willing the next day TO forgive him.
PERSONAL.
1t is reported that tho Hon. N W. Nutting,