New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-23

| NAV all enjoy at least short vacation IN the
| country sometime during the coming summer and
| be the better for 1t.
There is doubt in Massachusetts as 10 whether
| April 30 is a legal holiday or not. The Legs-
| ature it seems, has taken no action supplement-
arv TO that of Congress declaring the Centennial
Day "a National holiday throughout the United
States and the opinion appears to prevail that
the decree OF Congress is Insufficient especially
as the President has not by proclamation pro
nounced the 30th holiday. 1t IS unfortunate
that any confusion has arisen. Little business
will be done on that day anywhere in the United
States and banking institutions and the like ought
TO have the right to keep their doors closed. 1t
is not too late IN Massachusetts, to remedy tho
matter, as the Legislature is in session; and
formal proclamation, if that is necessary, could
easily be made by President Harrison.
People who sat in rooms without fires yesterday
were not nearly so sure they were all Easter
Sunday that warm weather had arrived
Albany has not usually been regarded as a
summer resort Bat, with the aid of linen busters
| and plenty Of settler water, the Legislature can
| manage to be comfortable, if Governor Hi and
his fellow-consprators won't get out OF the way of
| the High License and Ballot Reform bills Then
| there are the Rapid Transit and Fassett Prison
bills, which ought TO be passed 1t will be better
| for the Legislature TO sit good while and do
something than TO sit less time and accomplish
nothing.
| Chopping sentence in two and citing half OF
it against public man does not seem particularly
ingenious way Of making out case. The
Evening POST quotes PoStmaster-General Wanna
maker as saying of the house OF Wanamalcr 81
Brown: &" ! hold little stock in it," and stops
! there But the PostmaSter-Gcneral added, which
they have not paid me for yet, but that is all the
connection | have with it," His brothers say;
The whole amount of the purchase money is
not fully paid and he receives simply interest on
the deferred payments In other words, the
Pustmaser-G General has SOLD out his interest, but
ms former partners still owe him some money for
| it. Every business man knows that this does
not constitute an active connection" with a
business So, also, the fact that the particular
| circular in question was dated in April does not
alter the fact that the form was prepared and
sent out even before the election: Even those
who assail the circular do not dare to aege that
Wanamal1er had any knowledge Of it. Was there
ever such pother about nothngH
The man who can smile and smile and see the
| truckmcn drop the piano down the stone steps
now commands the profound respect Of every other
man in the street. Such a man could sing hymn
and put up q stovepipe:
In looking for contrasts between Washington's
time and the present let not forgot that in his
! day the Office sought the Man, while in ours,
usually, the Man places himself in the hands OF
his friends secretly hires brass band TO serenade
him. slips a call in a local paper signed many
A.. 10 f,prt p1 opI
sacrifice himself for the countrys good and other
wise works night and day till he either runs the
Door, distracted Office to earth on election night
or gets beaten by the other Man. Things will
| change in a hundred years
Pennsylvania will celebrate Arbor Day next
Friday. Whether or not Sam Randall is to embrace
the opportunity TO plant the shoot known as his
boom for 1892 is not yet known.
| The Legislature has agreed 10 adjourn over from
next Friday until after the Centennial ceebra-
tidn II is to be hoped that with this long recess
| in view the members will attend closely to i'm
! portant business between and Friday. AT
least one of the three great pending measurcS-thc
Excise bill the Ballot Reform BILL and the Prison
| bill-ought TO be sent to the Governor before
| recess Is taken
| Unusual interest was aroused on Sunday by the
! publication of the first three letters from Tho
! TribuneS staff correspondent in the great North
| western Territories which are presently to form
| four new States. Widespread that interest
was and is, throughout oil the vast constituency
| Of The Sunday Tribune 10 will to-day be carried
still further by the reprinting Of the letters IN
| The Semi Weekly Tribune. 1t is our intention
TO publish the entire series IN these two editions
! The Sunday Tribune will place the letters IN the
! hands of people I'm cities and towns, and wherever
| a daily paper can be promptly delivered, as well
as Of thousands Of distant mail-SubScribers, while
tho Semi-Weekly will carry them TO the remotcsb
hamlcts. Thus these two editions will bear to
| all classes of people, in oil parts of the Coun-
| try, current encyclopedia of description, anec-
doto. and solid and invaluable facts about the
most wonderful section Of all this wonderful
Ropubhc No American citizen who wishes TO
| keep pace with the age in knowledge of his own
! country can afford 20 miss of these letters,
each one of which, whether for information or for
| entertainment, is worth more than years sub
! scription for the paper which will contain them
! all.
| multitude of persons to whom the delicate
and exquisite humor Of Philip Fl. Welch was
daily refr, shment will be reoiced TO know that the
/ fund now accommodating in his memory Tor the
| benefit Of his widow and children has attained
generous proportions Many who will read these
| lines have already contributed, and many more
v,e hone win be glad to express in practical form
their sympathy with those who have been lett
desolate, and their appreciation of the HE which
lately went ont after long suffering, borne with
| unfailing courage and serenity.