New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-19


IN: struggling psngs Of conscious Truth to aid"
Teheap the shrine Of Luxury ami Pride.
With incense kindled az the MUSES. flame.
Park Commissioner T. Kennedy. OF Brooklyn, who
is one Of wellknown arm OF insurance brokers, says
that THE TRBUyEs articles showing how the insurance
rate war has resulted In adding 80 per cent to the
monthly Of this city, have been the sub
ject OF much comment downtown But them, he said
what can We dol Every reputable insurance man adj
mits that THE TRBUSEs that the cutthroat
rates have placed premium fires Is entirely true
We don't believe that there anv honest reason fol
half Of the 377 fires that occurred in New York last
month. We know that tariff is a constant menace
10 the city, but the trouble s that there exists no SUCH
public sentiment as will enable TO lower the moral
risk The TRIBUNE Ia the only daily paper that has
taken position the subject that insurance men
can look TO for help and It will need TO educate the
public before hope for general sustaining senti-
ment The old Tariff Association while II lasted was
enecfye and without increasing rates generally IL did
world OF good Fer instance woOd-workers' shops had
come to be regarded the meanest kind OF risk The
varnisn sly waste and other nfiammaole things the
shops operated to make them bad risks The Tariff
citation took them In hand II rated them low, but IL n-
posed heavy penalty for every defect, such as bad
fues lack OF proper machinery for carrying ot waste
and shavings holes IN the floors. ETC. The result was
that In three the premises OF wood workers under
went great mpro In order To get the low rates
and escape the fines their proprieors put them In per-
feet condition. This Is also true OF many other lines OF
insurance"
The president OF club in Buffalo recently called at
the Grand Central Depot ask Mr. Depew to attend
dinner OF his club and make speech The Buffalo man.
whom will call Mr.. Noales, left his wife at his hotel
and when he returned hour later his face was beam
ing With pleasure. Kate" lie said. Mr. Depew Is GER
tanly fascinating man. never was better treatei or
more agreeably entertained in all nv life He received
me with the utmost cordially, chated delightfully."- man
TO Kan. you know just II was railroad president
myself il club a second Union League
He invited me around there tonight sens you these
tickets the Academy Of Design talkei to me about
Buffalo, where he knows lots OF friends and inst
made me perfectly at home tel YOU ne Is spenulu
mao, and Democrat or whatnot I'll vote Tor Nun II he
F 5rps l'f Mrs. os. %ep ne 4s Mr.
consented TO come 10 the dinner and speak Un-wen
all right He's a mighty fine nan" THIS story which
Neakes himself told me, certainly shows an element Of
a President OF United that It's possession
almost amount. 70 proof OF pre.eminsnt Illness For
beth empty and happy Is, indeed. fortunate.
II It be true perhaps envtous critics OF
De Lancey Nico used TO that he went into the DIS
trctAttorney's Office only to make reputation oy
which build up O big practice when he left public
office then be conceded that he has accomplished
his object Clients swarmed in him since tire
first OF Jan ary large part OF MS work has come from
other attorneys wlo have retained nun a, trial counsel
This Ia regarded very choice WORK. Much criminal
business has offered him. but ne sends It where
His client In the Benson case WAS the uoVernmene vi
Mexico.
Among the successful young men OF the day must be
counted william De L walbridge, who has Just been
elected president OF the American Coal Company. Mr.
wabrags who has thus placed at the head OF Que
OF the Oldest and prominent OF the bitumnous coal
mining companies, Is barely thrty-hye years Old de
office OF the company as errand boy and mas
made his way the top by dint or energy anu haru
work. Several years he was appointed treasurer
| aiafa ant T.
Floyd. began fail In health year or Two since large
share Of the responsibility toll upon NJ MslDrate'
whose election Is unanimously commended oy us ousl
ness associates The mines Of the company are situated
Georges Creek CunDerlani coal region hu c'e
large extent OF territory MI Wa1riage Is s0I "a
the Rev. DR.. H. b. WLbrligA OF Broonyn, anu "a .
nephew Of late ChiefJustce Chase as well az OF tue
late Governor Washington Hunt, VI tlis STATE
Fx-Judge Henry D. Tompkins, Of Atlanta, y
strikugly like Governor Foraker, OF Ohio, In appear
ance, and has often been mistaken for
him in New-York. Tho exJudge was Con-
ederatc soldier. He lived at Savannah where he sAf
on the bench of the superior Court for time AFTER
the war but finally removed to Atlanta lie Is
counsel for number OF leading railroads In the
south and vice president OF OF the roads, which
Is operated In connection with the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia system Chatting
about the changing sentiment ia polltieS IN
the south, Judge Tomp1ns said Il have made
ND my mind that II Mr. Cleve and Is rcnomlnaled
upon a Platform such AZ lie Indicated In his
message, shall not for him. How shall vote
will be determined BY the other platform and
| nominee but for Mr. Cleveland VIII not
vote am only speaking for ny self but kno"
hat my sentiment Is shared Dy large nan Der OF mo
most influential OF my no'shoors VINO nave 1or sa
voted anything b.t the D~mpcrauc TICKET. II the
Republican party can hlns away me oioo'g 'n NV
there Will br question abo Il the DIVISION on Ne"
lines I'm the South. on this tariff question. tennessee
Virginia. West Virginia and Nor h Carolina aie al AL
possibly Republican, especially IL DousosS IdLo W
take of the tobacco tax and keeps on threatening
coal and iron"
The announcement that Smith NJ. Weed IS going 70
Europe In June to spend six months or year IS
something for politicians TO ponder over. II there Is
any WHY wire puler IN tn State, who Is IN any way
the equal Of Daniel Manning it IS Mr. Weed He
has been in the Inner councils of his party In the
National contests since 1916 when he one of Mr.
Tnd4rs most active agents He Is wealthy, thorough
machine politician and has wider ac-
/ qualutance with the politics OF the STATE INA. =
Governor mn He Is az iron Manufacturer and a
protective tariff man which NAV Or may not acconnt
for his going abroad Just at THIS tmei Out cc''@n'
carries a suggestion with 1t.
with the breaks in the Cleveland column attempted
in Pennsylvania New-York, New-Jesey ana Ooh-
nectlcut by the anti-Admlnstratlon people 1t was
confidently expected that Inc could be del'a'cu' 10
cause 1t requires a twotnrds vote for the nomination
in the Democratic National Cony eniion. The present
situation In Newlork Is a curious one In the state
Committee II Is drawn battle between Cleveland ana
lIll. but there are signs Without nhno' ma '' 10
state OF things has awakened The Acrhl7i aAign W
the Immediate necessity OF pairing It's fences Ihere
are any number of Democratic patriots sitting on me
Sance nxiousy aitn for Nh Clevelan nd TO offer them
ra:ronage TO ger q, WI and are evidently expeSang
that he will proceed TO pose Of some OF me o,ss
now held By Republicans the effort TO secure re-
nomination
SOME GOOD SENSE.
From BdbyhOOf
Tbere * mary a father of family who while doing