New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-29


imagine changes not less momentous during the
next hundred years. Let US hope that wheh our
descendants gather to celebrate the bi-centcnary
of Wsshngton's inauguration such melancholy
calamity as occurred yesterday on the Grand
Trunk Railway will have been put beyond inc
range of possibility.
Mayor Grants influence is extending with such
rapidity that il must almost make his head SWIM
Week before last he ordered the poles and wires
10 be removed from number OF our streets, ana
the work was done. On Monday came the news
from the City of Mexico that the municipal
government was about to do the same thing
there II this is not case of cause and effect, ~
is at least, q suggestive coincidence. We trust
that New-York will not let Mexico get the lead
in the praiseworthy undertaking Of freeing pup
lie streets from unsightly and needless oDstruc-
tons
II the officers Of the Navy are expected 10 r'ae
on horseback in the parade on Tuesday, there VIII
have to be a competitive drill to make seieclioh
Of those who can ride. 1t is not every oihcer
of the Navy that is familiar with the saddie-decK
OF a thoroughbred hunter or that knows the
port-bow of horse from the starboard quarter
and many one upon his first mount has lost
Fault-Hndcrs with the way in which fourth
class postmasters are appointed should study the
record carefully. TAX, one sample day last week
Out of Is appointments made, IS per cent were
to fiji vacancies caused by death or resignation.
On the whole, according 10 Assistant Postmaster
General GARRISON practically changes are only
made either when charges have been prelerrei
against the incumbents and sustained, or TO I'M
prove the location of offices, or where postmaster
has been in office for four years. These are
admittedly good reasons, and critics OIL .he
Administration should know what they are talk
ing about before ndulging in sweeping condemna-
ton.
One of the survivors Of the famous charge OF
the six hundred at Balallava is said to have
been found working in Cincinnati restaurant
for So so a week. This is not a good time for
him TO come TO the front. 1t is the -Four Hun
dred-not the Six Hundred-that are prominent
in the public eye and mind just at present.
At n fire on Long Island the other day, among
the articles reported to be consumed were a
black-walnut chair, with leather upholstering and
n china teapot, which were brought over IN the
Maynower" This is certainly melancholy hap
pcnng especially at this time, just when the Cen
tennial is upon US. Still we arc prepared 10 see
any number Of positive statements now and during
all the future regarding relics from that venerable
vessel, whose cargo must have maintained strlk-
ing disproportion to her rather limited tonnage.
New-Yorll has not had chance for many years
to prove that she knows how 10 make vast null
ttude of visitors comfortable, but ii is COMPARE
lively safe to predict that the country Will be
astonishel during the next three days at the re-
sources of the metropolis.
The White Cap craze seems 70 be on the wane,
whcrcat all sensible men must lrejoice. Its
ultimate extinction will be helped forward by
every such incident as that reported from the
vicinity Of Norfolk, Va, where a negro who was
playing what he called the White Cap joke
was. shot and killed by another colOred man
whose house lac had invaded. or course he got
no more than he deserved, and the man who did
the shooting was easily able to make out case
OF self-delencc In fact, it is hardly too much
TO say that the man who lawfully rds the world
of a White Cap idiot does a distinct service to
mankind.
brief shower has seldom sprinkled so many
people on the streets of this city as that which
suddenly fell yesterday afternoon Moreover,
with "a childlike confidence that the clouds had
been squeezed dry, most Of the sghtseers had left
their umbrellas indoors, but fortunately the rain
stopped before they had had time to get either
wet or angry.