Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-09

Nds III the natule Oh q vote OF Commence IN
Tammany. As we have been taught to admire
the prodigal son and other perverts and rap
scallions who repent and lead an edifying life
it is only meet and proper that We give Tam
many due credit for having put its claws into
mittens, pulled q long face and resolved to
quit sack and live cleanly. Its notable con-
version, but IL we take men like Jerry McAuley
or Bill Allen to our bosoms by all means let US
meet Tammany half way Units resolution to be
honest and respectable.
Certain it is that for the time being Tammany
is furnishing the citizens with an excellent
article OF municipal government Very posi-
bly, 1t is only doing so to get good trade and
that when it feels secure of custom il will begin
to adulterate and defraud When that shall
happen We can safely depend on rival houses
to expose the fact. But just now these rival
houses are much in danger, The undertaker's
shop and unless q turn for the better comes in
Its affairs 1t will follow the defunct Irving hall
to the political cemetery.
AFTER POLITICS, THE EXPOSITION.
This having been such political week the
worlds fair project has languished. To be
candid this enterprise languished before the
election and independently of it, but the con-
test gives us a plausible excuse to cover what
all have to admit-an alarming diminution in
subscriptions and in popular interest. 1t is
not 80 much that the daily additions to the
fund are of themselves inconsiderable, for ex-
cept upon election day itself, they have not
fallen any day below $100, 900, which is a very
respectable sum OF money, but it is the ten
dency toward vanishing point that is discour-
from interests that should be heard from at a
time like this. Several Of the leading indus
tries of the city have not contributed a cent
and others have done so little that the effect
has been worse than if they abstaiped alto
gether. Now that the committee on site are
getting rather more definite in their plans it
may be that the finances will pick up. But it
Is always hard to warm over enthusiasm once
suffered to cool.
THE PRESBYTERIAN.
speaking OF elections it might be appropriate
to touch on the very interesting and important
session OF the New York presbytery on Monday
afternoon and evening. At this meeting the
doctrines of our spiritual election and predes-
tinatlon were debated with great earnestness
and yet with nineteenth-century catholicity
and courtesy that was very beautiful to witness
l could not but contrast the scene with those
we read about in Foxs Book of Martyrs or
even such modern and mild chronicles as LEAFS
History of the Inquisition. The doctors diff
fered seriously, and there was any quantity of
what once would have been called heresy VEN
tilated, and yetwe heard nothing of bonfres or
IL
Francesca Romolino, casually, as he journeyed
from Rome to Florence to try Savaronola. We
conduct theological controversies now in a very
different style. The only bonfire Monday
night was the temperature of the room from
which all shades OF orthodoxy suffered impair
TALLY.
To speak Of the proceedings at this meeting
with the seriousness they deserve it would hardly
be an exaggeration to say that they marked an
epoch in Presbyterianism in this country.
lkn NJ, w.
country, being composed of I76 ministers and
hcentiates and 33l elders. The three presby-
teries of the city of Philadelphia exceed this
total slightly, but no one of them compares
with 1t In size or importance. This largest
local body in the church and perhapZ its most
important local organization declared by what
was almost unanimous vote in favor of re-
vision OF the confession, and, moreover, while
a vote on a still more radical proposition was
deferred to special meeting it was evident
that the presbytery were not willing to stop at
revision unless that word was Interpreted SO
broadly as to include practically a new and Sim
plf1cd creed. The effect of this meeting, espe-
cialiy when taken in conjunction with a simila-
policy adopted by the New Brunswick presby-
terry, which includes the Princeton theological
school-the very citadel of orthodoxy-cannos
fail to determine tine action Of tho next general
assembly.
WHERE AN ARMY MIGHT FEED.
"The world knows nothing of its greatest
men," sings the poet In like manner it might
be said in more practical and bread-and-
butter vein that the world knows nothing of its
greatest restaurants. We hear a great deal of
Delmonico's, Dorlon's, the Hoffman and the
like, but these are insignificant in their Climen-
slons to several eating houses of which fame
makes no proclamation. was taken TODAY by
a friend to restaurant in a side street in New
YORK which makes no pretensions to elegance
does not advertise or appeal to the passer-by
by any spiendor or attractiveness of any sort
and yet it is said to feed more people daily
than any restaurant in the city, and, perhaps
than any In the world. In the busy hours it is
one OF the sights of New York and strange as
1t may seem its busiest hour is o clock in the
morning, as at that time it is thronged by the
early rising market men, Another of these
monstrous eating menageries is on l4th street.
1t is place which has developed out of one of
the little dairy lunches until now it occupies
one OF the largest buildings in the city and
does business on such scale that il passing
regiment suddenly got hungry before its doors
show window and marched in for lunch then
and there they would be swallowed up in the
mass OF customers and hardly noticed.
THE BARyE EXHIBITION
Mr.. Walters has been here for week or more
personally experimenting the unpack-
ing and arranging of the contributions
for the Barye exhibition. He is the presi-
dent of the Barge monument committee
who have in charge the exhibition which will
open next week. The collection will be shown
at the rooms Of the American art association.
but is not held for that associations benefit ex,
cept as it may have some compensations in the
way of rent, &c. The object is to raise a fund
for monument to Barge to be erected in Paris
by his American admirers. Most of the bronzes.
paintings and other objects of art. Including
the admirable collection from the Corcora5
art gallery, have already arrived. but owing to
the delay incidental to bringing large num-
Der of valuable objects from so many different
sources the opening has been delayed from the
18th to the 18th. Now that the contributors
are here artists and art lovers are beginning to
realize that we are about to see one Of the most
extraordinary collections ever made in this or
any other country.
There was a time not SO many wears ago
when New York and the whole country for that
matter would have been throbbing with ex-
element at what today arouses so little interest
that the newspapers scarcely think it worth
while to devote a paragraph to the subject
This is the appearance in our harbor of the
cable steamship Faraday with the end of a SUBJ
marine cable which will connect Europe with
New York city by way of Cause, Nova Scotia,
The shore end of the cable was landed at Coney
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