New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-10

| they attend the centennial festivities. IL will
be easier for the railways to handle the inn
mense crowds under ten days limitation, and
| il wholesale and retail trade be active during
that period there will be increased freight
charges as ample compensation for the accom-
| modations offered all around.
The Tribune Is able to lay before its readers
to-day extracts showing the drift and substance
! Of Mr.. Froude's romance The Two Chiefs Of
Dunboy.' They will be found on the eighth
| page Mr. Froude's excursion into fiction Is an
interesting literary episode.
President Bayles, Of the Health Board, has
| arrived at the opinion that illuminating gas is
not necessarily injurious IL inhaled, being an
antiseptic" All the same IL is q decidedly dis
agreeable thing to take into tho lungs, and when
IL sccumulates in sewers, cellars and subways 1t
becomes highly dangerous Gas should be kept
In the pipes and mains intended to hold and
convey IL, and the gas companies make profits
| big enough 10 enable them TO do this without
| passing any dividends
| That sI4, 900, 900 Courthouse built By Tweed
| stands there in the City Hall Park as an awful
example and terrible warning TO the officials
| and contractors who a-e TO put up the new city
| building 81 the northeastern corner OF the PARK
| Il viii stri1e the average man, the average
| woman and the average child who want seats
Oh one Of the grand stands 20 see the centennial
| procession hs being rather hard that they should
| he compelled 20 pay q double price because the
| State Of Pennsylvania has not appropriated sui.
icient money to feed the 5000 troops whom It
means 10 send TO the parade. Hospitality Is a
grand virtue, but 10 can easily 10 abused. For
the State OF Pennsylvania 10 send 5000 troops
here with the expectation that their expenses while
here are 20 be paid seems to be rather cool
proceeding. The Pennsylvania Legislature might
better reconsider It's action, and take care Of its
soldier boys, as other States do.
Milan, late King Of Servia, has gone 10 the
| Holy Land for six weeks. There will probably
| be u marked lack OF harmony between his feel
ings aud bis surroundings.
Tho copifon between a horse-car and locomo-
tive as o Jersey City crossing yesterday was up
parently due 10 the careleSsness OF the gateman,
and his careessness consisted In beginning 10 raise
the gate, for tho purpose Of saving time, while a
| train was passing, and while In consequence an
approaching engine on further track WIS cut
| OF from view. II that Is o common practice
among crossing Ratelteepers, the public viii ex-
pect railroad officials TO break IL up instantly.
| A moro dangerous practice could scarcely be i'm
agined.
This country glories in q free press, but the
four romes who were sent to Jail yesterday for
robbing The Daily News" made bad mistake
il they supposed that free press included free
type.
When Mayor Cleveland. of Jersey City, told the
company assembled at Dclmonico's on Monday
evening that he had never seen game OF base
ball In his life he ran an awful risk Some persons
might call his act courageous, but IL seems TO us
10 have been RASH 1t WINS magnificent but it was
neither statesmanship nor oratory. Happily, the
| very audncty Of the performance saved the per-
former. Those present were bewildeFed and be-
numbed, and before they had sufficiently recovered
to kill the Mayor he had sat down, and the OPP
p0rtunity was lost
Edwsrd Murphy DEM, Of Troy, having been
worsted In his war In Watervliet, Albany County,
against d. Cady Herrick Dem.l has retreated In
good order The fact that when last seen he was
starting for California warrants the suspicion that
he has buried his Ratchet and gone West to grow
up with the country.
We are threatened with another series OF fool
hardy feats at Niagara Falls this summer. A
man up at LoclSport is big with an ambition to go
over tno rails, ana says JnhJ ne mas plAn lOcktu
up In his breast-a plan so mngnihed that he
would not disclose IL at present for the sum OF
81 900 spot cash-whereby he can make the trip
In safety. Men who tempt fate In this way de-
serve the end they usually come 70, but the gen.
era public welfare requires that such affairs should
be forbidden and the men who engage in them
held guilty OF criminal offence.
Having returned from the latest of his remark.
able series of vacations the District-Attornsy an
nounces that he has not abandoned the Doodle
cases, but will try them for what they worth
II Colonel Fellows Is In doubt, as he seems TO be
what they really are worth, IL may do no harm %
Inform him that they are worth an honest effort
on the part Of the District-Attorney TO procure
convictions.
Since the Aldermen seriously proposed that u
special counsel should be assigned to them, there
has not been q more diverting exhibition In the
Board than was 70 DO seen yesterday when
resolutions were introduced In favor Of the LOOP
scheme" OF the Manhattan Elevated Railroad