New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-18

According to the report OF the Massachusetts,
Railroad Commissioners, 244 fatal accidents oc-
CURED on the railways Of that State last year,
and 63s persons were injured The accidents are
set down rs due to three principal causes-grade
crossings, trespassing and inadequate station ar
rangements Twenty-seven persons were killed at
grade crossings and 80 injured, while ia tres
passers were killed and SO injured The casual
ties at grade crossings are preventable by tho
abolition OF such crossings. Nothing can be
clearer than that; and the Commissioners, we are
glad 10 see, argue stoutly in favor OF protecting
these crossings while they remain, and abolishing
them rs soon as possible. As 10 treSpassng, there
are some sensible recommendations. The broad
principle (which has long prevailed in Engiand is
laid down that persons other than officials or en-
ployes should not lie allowed on railway tracks.
The present law "a the subject is considered In
adequate, especially as 10 means OF enforcing IL.
That ia persons should be killed on the tracks
who had no business there, in single year, is a
discouradng record, and while IL may be said
that IL was their own fault, that does not wholly
ettle the responsibility. II people can be kept
of the tracks in England, II ought 10 be possible
TO do IL IN Massachusetts,.
Il wasn't the tariff that beat Mr.. Cleveland, il
a The Rochester Union knows what IL is talking
about It wns the way in which he filed the
offices in this State that laid him out According
TO The Union he licked gumption In the distri-
button of spoils 10 his hungry brethren-gave pie
70 the wrong men, neglected 20 respect tho doctrine
of the survival of pap for the fttest The APP
pointees in question now have the door
hat ~ yr-Npfiy
informs is young hdy readers that perfumed note
| paper Is allowable but that the perfume must be
quite faint Yes, the fainter the bettersay about
as faint as the interest OF Democratic bosses in
| ballot-refom.
II is nm interesting circumstance that politi-
| clan like Governor HILL who has the reputation
| OF being very shrewd, should not be able to see
/ that ballot reform IL inevitable, and that by OPP
posing 10 outright, he hRs done in the past, or
by indirection, as with the Shaw-Linson bill, he
| Is only injuring himself But the shrewdness Of
| men OF the Hill type Is within very narrow
range after all II is useful in trades, deals, vote
buying, the raising of corruption funds, but Is
| usually at fault in the politics OF ideas. II is
likely that the Governor will go on In his present
course in spite Of the example Of his party in lnd-
ana. and In spite of warnings OF papers like The
World" until ballot reform has been accomplished
| IN spite Of him.
As II poor Captain Dawson had not been suffi-
GENTLY murdered already, the Western papers are
! all printing his portrait.
The Tribune prints as many letters from its
readers as it can find space for, and is always
willing 20 supply information on current questions
inf fha INF lty ha aYppptnl
answer inquiries which correspondents can dis
pose Of by themselves with the aid Of The
Tribune Almanac Many Of Its readers would
be able to obtain the information of which they
are often in need II they had q copy OF that cur
rent work OF reference at their desks or in their
libraries. Moral to inquistive correspondents
Buy the Almanac.
| There are queer regulations of all sorts in
| this queer world For example, there is the mean
est man In New-YorlS, though we don't intend to
say who IL is Then there is the man who has the
reddest hair in Calnyeras County, etc. But one
| Of the queerest regulations Is that OF kilgore,
who distinguished himself by objecting in the last
Congress to pretty much everything that was
worth doing. In this way he has earned In some
OF the Southern papers the proud title OF the
great obiector" He visited the other day the
little town Of Newman, Georgia, which had the
doubtful reputation of being his early home, and
reception was forthwith organized in honor Of
"a man who had in the first term Of his Con
gressonnl career stamped himself the equal II not
superior, to the oldest parlamentarians OF thai
august body" Well, well
| Two members of the State Senate said in
reference to bills which they presented on Thurs
4 day that they knew nothing Of their merits and
one admitted that ho had not even read thu
bill for which he nominhlly stood sponsor Thi
is dangerous and demoralizing practice i
indicates a hack of care and conscience on thu
part OF legislators that Is not agreeable. A good
nstured man hates to refuse any request bu
there Is no reason WHY member Of the Lens