New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-11

apt to be crowded at almost all hours. and badly
crowded indeed st the busiest times n the morn
ing and afternoon Standing room only will soon be
the rule, II this is allowed go on. and, 1t Is tho
trains especially in Thrave.. iammed, aises,
platforms and ali, that. stations. 1t is next
TO impossible for the passengers to get on or on
Consequently they carried past or left behind
This extremely shortsghted policy probably results
from the old familiar calculation that people must
ride matter how the service Is performed 30 tnc
horse-car managers used TO think. Perhaps they are
right, II they only for passengers VINO GOT III az
one terminus and ride all the way to the other but Is
It not clear that dividends and decency are alike on
the side Of making things endurabe for lhe WY
passengers
Among the curiostes of proofreading this deserves
an honored place. Philadelphia paper-say Inc
Clarion" In the hope that no journal OF thae name
ever existed-thus described ovation to General
Mcclellan in the golden prime Of his popularity
thronged audience by Mayor Henry, who receNeo MN
with deafening shouts"
Reference has several times been made In these
columns TO the advantages possessed oy pruper
system OF gas lamps for Illuminating the streets "
is satisfactory to note that the plan In use IN sason
ave. below Thirty third-st, to which attention was
called, and also in Thirty-eghthst. near Madison
ave- is now being tried in Forty ninth and FIFTEEN stS'
between sixth and Madison ayes. If you care 10
try you Will find out things that may surprise
YOU One is that you can see everything you want 10
see that IS everything except the light ITSELF actually
better by inverted argand gas light than you can
by the brilliant but dazzling, even binding electric
light round the corner in Fifth-ave. This although
the gas equals only about hundred
candles. while the electric light ranges from
twice to eight tines that power. Whyl Because
tho highly concentrated arc light is more powerful
than the human eye comfortably bear: on Iooh
ing away from It's direct rays one Is struch py q
n5mentary light blindness similar in cause and effect
10 snow blindness. Second point; the uHerten a..
sand on throws a shadow untl you e are
yritbin about twenty or thirty feet Of the old hsh
tail on the other corner giving nominal nsnt y,
prartically as was done few years ago In lloDorh
London by arranging With the electr1c-lgnt conlPa
TO illuminate one or more DocS on som and then
thoroughiare, where all may sec the result anu tG S
letting the gas companies do their lever pest on np
1--WE test of candle power cost and practical
effectiveness for streetlighting"
Some ono writes 10 one Of the papers to complain
that a certain school history is partisan because
II includes Buchanan among the Confederate leaders
along with Lee Johnston aAd so on wouldn't II DO
a good and economical plan las saving po'tage) Tor
some of these swift critics to count a hundred for
instance before dashing at the inkstandl ot course
Buchanan means not James, the President put rLdlA
lin the Admiral, who was not oniy a. ,h Wrri
leader but notable He conmanded tne Nett IT,
mac or Virginia, she had been renamed, IN tae
famous fight with the Monitor, and at Mop'ie oai'u
his flag on the Tennessee against farragu''
II YOU have ever been or should ever go into inc
dark short and narrow passage called Bllfterst IN
the city of London, where what We should call INC
uptown warehouses Of the great docks are, you may
form a vivid not Of what Charles LAND meant "heu'
after being presented the great spice merchant No
stammered out Yves, s-msit you ON the stars
For each floor and subdivision seems to hold SPICE
or It NAV be an essential OIL of its own. and SO
charged Is the air with the concentrated odor that you
know lust where your friend tie spicemerch mas
been by the scent of the Toll Of roses for nstancel
that cings to him still. Or yOu say, How Is cin-
namon today Assafoetlda looking betterf Any
thing doing in peppermint" Here, too are great
warerooms filled with more ivory, curios, porcelaih'
assorted monsrostles and miscellaneous rubbish than
vou ever supposed TO exist Especially ivory, for
the great Nation that keeps her stomach and her
pocket in London careful to keep If not prehensie
thumb, little finger at the very least IN every
tropical Pic and London Is the headquarters for IVORY
The other day they had their annual SALE ana "hac
a ouanty of these secondhand teeth do you suppose
thew sold? Why seventy-fve tons and this Is poor
wear for teeth too, being ffty-9x tons below tne
average of the last quarter century ana tnr9 ELL
TONS below the average Of the ast decade. Inc
eIenhant is getting scarce, and the walrus the sea
horse and the narwhal can't compare with MN Wheh
II comes 10 teeth
Now that the Judges have put sand in the sugar
trust and the very trusted trustees have put water
IN the cottonseed OIL. and from the masthead OF
every pratca trust those Notwithstanding rocks inc
Rowwows are reported in plain sight on ths weather
hand NAV II be allowable 10 preach short sermonf
Ever so short Thus when tho next ingenious
dodcs comes up and gets to be the fashion OF the ho
surely VII don't get IN ,or nsw laws 70 cure this
= growing evil" as you will call II once more, whaG
mn Then look and see where It Is. And come ana
tell
II any one labors under the Inflammation that the
roston NJ a committeeman for New Yorks great ex-
bibitlon will be position Of honor and fame' Win
little TO do, he should just hear some OF them tell
the experiences they have had already, when their
amendments are hardly month old For example
Charles A. Moore, of Manning, Maxwell q Moore
was chosen by reclamation 10 represent the ralrOad
and machinery supply interests Of he country, IL
delucing the appointing power enthusiastically Win
Inducements petitions and requests rom every part
NJ IL is akin to that process. Now, Mr.. Moore IS
rather an old hand at the exhibition business so, De-
fore he accepted his appointment, he arranged with
hts mariners to give three fourths Of BIS time to the
one he has in hand But he says he. lid not expect
bis experiences to begin so quickly aud come along
so fast.
awbv. hadn't been appointed forty eight hours"
he said the other day, in talking to fellow-com-
mitteeman when an artist and good one TOO,
came TO me and said he friend of Mayor Grant
and had painted his portrait as well as the por'ral
many other prominent It was so, for he had
the documents to show It. % course ne wanted 10
naint my picture and had 10 bluff him of the best
way could But that nothing to the applica-
tons had, and having every day, from people
who want TO art my private secretary. one fellow
came all the way from Iowa. so he said, and IL was
all | could do to convince him that hadn't arrived
at the private-secretary stage Of the game as yet
But there IS good thing notice, and that IS the
way the applications for space are coming in. Al
ready than half dozen Of our largest machinery
manufacturers have applied, and they want very
liberal accommodations. There Is no doubt in my
mind but what the machinery exhibit will be so much
the finest the world has that there VIII De
nothing TO compare II to-
f. l. Horsman. who represents the toy interests,
was the committeeman in question 70 whom these
remarks were directly addressed. He said his eX
pcrlcnce in the matter of applications from would be