Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-18


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correspOndence Of TIE EVENING STAR.
INV YORK, January l..
New York has settled back comfortably &c
the conviction that the worlds fair will be held
within Us borders and that Chauncey NJ. De.
pew VIII be the director general The strength
OF Chicago is thought TO have evaporated and
our only rival now is supposed to be Washing
ton And if 1t is TO come here there is really
only one New Yorker who Is qualified 10 III the
requirements for a general manager, 20 wit.
the omnipresent ana ever-acceptable Depew.
But how can the busy president Of the New
York Central add another great burden TO those
he already carries? To which inquiry the only
reply is that Our Chauncey's" capacities for
management seem TO be unlimited As the
maxim says of the grave yard. he takes every
thing that comes along. II. indeed. nc is chosen
for the place and takes it he will undoubtedly
make a brilliant administration.
GREAT ESGINEERING PROJECTS.
Preliminary TO the expected fair a number
OF the most important engineering works are
rapidly going forward. After a years mac
ton rapid transit schemes are again actively
discussed both here aud at Albany. There
mas been vicious effort made 20 connect
1roVer Clevelands name discreditably with
one OF these projects. but AZ has not succeeded
IN hurting hlm. l may say in passing thai
tAe eA-fresident may expect this style of war
iare from now on. His enemies evidently think
that they ind vulnerable point in his counec-
tloh win large corporation interests and they
VIII DO their best 90 injure him through this
line Oh attack. Another great engineering
scheme contemplates a second bridge over the
East river, with the New York terminus at the
foot OF Grand street Work is rapidly pro-
crossing IN the North River tunnel. and that
undertaking will probably be finished bv 80.
1t has also been proposed to throw a suspen-
sion bridge across the North river from the
river front OF the fair site to the high land
opposite on the Jersey shore This sounds
like Wild scheme, and yet II was proposed
nearly half a century ago by Peter Cooper,
ana careful estimates were made at that time
that demonstrated Its mechanical feasibility.
In fact. as one of the leading engineers OF tho
city tells me. a suspension bridge actually did
exist at this point for some years in the
shape OF single telegraph wire which hung
between two towers on either side of the
stream. As my informant added, II involves
merely an application of the rule of three 20 con-
struct similar bridge strong enough to carry
any traffic. But the estimated cost Of such a
structure Is in the neighborhood of $50, OOO. OOO
ana there Is no prospect OF traffic that would
meet the liked charges of such an enterprise.
THE STATES HIGH-PRIcED PAUPERs.
In this age which-falsely. as il seems TO me
has the name of being hard-fisted and elfish
one may find some interesting statistics in the
annual report published yesterday Of the state
board OF charities. The expenditures during
the year for charitable, correctional and
reformatory work in this state amounts 20
Sl5.UOO,VOO. in round numbers. Then We must
take INTO consideration the fact that the an
praised value of the property held in the state
Tor these purposes Is SOS, OOO, 900 low interest
on which, considered as an investment would
equal an annual expense of $4,000, coo. making
llaN .e..Fal
number OF inmates of the various institutions of
the state on October WAS 67.sl Thus each
pauper or criminal costs the public. on an
average, about s265 year; not a lavish sum-
perhaps. but still an amount on which many
hard-worklng people able 10 live very
decently. la some respects the OUTLAY for the
dependent and defective classes is absurdly
extravagant- Thus ii is seen that each insane
person costs the public $3.50 year; not so much
for the current expenses as on account of the
cost OF splendid structures, which are in the
language OF the board, adapted more for local
ornament and lmpresslveuess than for the pur-
pose claimed" We have scolded and laughed
at Uncle Sam time out of mind for an Indian
policy which costs the government more per
indian than If We boarded out our aborigines
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, but our management
OF the Insane appears TO be quite absurd
JOHNNY JUMPS INSIDE THE ERE AsTwoRKs
Johnny OBrien is like pusley-he is a
nuisance and he is extremely hard to eradicate
For over year the party managers have been
trying every means TO get rid OF him. and they
BATTERED themselves that they had pulled him
out by the roots and raked him into a pile and
burnt him up. and spread the ashes over the
next lot; and 10 and behold, he sprouts forth
IN the meadow as vigorous and prolific as ever
At a meeting OF the republican organization in
the eighth district the dcpo.ed leader who so
lately petrihed President Harrison by tele-
graphing to him that, like Warner Miller, he
was now lying outside the breastworks Jumped
brlskly up, sprang quickly over the ramparts
and distributed cards of invitation from within
signed at home. To drop these rather tangled
metaphors, U Brien has completely captured
the local machine and is again In full and regu-
lar standing IN the party.
WHAT REMAINS OF THE STEWART FORTUNE
One OF the sensations Of the week has been
the news OF the collapse of historic fortune
for TO this end has the Stewart litigation come.
To be sure, the lawyers have left about eleven
or twelve millions. which might be held TO con-
stltute great fortune even IN these eight and
nine Inquire times. But 1t If a sad shrlnkaPe OF
The original estimates. IL is supposed that
Judge Hilton and the herd of heirs will divide
such OF the spoil as the lawyers have left about
equally the share of each being in the neigh
borhood of S6,OOo.00O. The settlement of the
case leaves the settlement of the mystery as
far off as ever. Public curiosity has never been
satisfied as to the marvellous ascendancy which
Judge Hilton gained over both Mr.. and Mrs.
Stewart. The reasons assigned for this infiu-
ence cover the whole gamut from the noblest
TO the meanest explanation. Then, too there
remains the somber mystery of Stewards real
sepulcher. But in this matter there is a gem
eral disposition to believe that the remains now
lie in peace and safety in the tomb at the cathe-
dral
ART MONUMENTS OLD AND NEW.
The doctors have been sliding up and down
the obelsk and studying its cracks for some
time, and the upshot Of their Investigations il
that the recent stories OF its disintegration are
not well founded. At the same time the mono
18th does keep on cracking and peeling in a
quiet forty-century way and will not be worth
much a thousand years from now unless il 10
put under cover.
In more recent art yesterday we bade good
by for a time to the Angelus, which is now ON
its way to Chicago to burst upon those cultured
circles of which Mr.. Eugene Field has given the
world such graphic accounts. We have also
hidden a longer farewell to that splendid line
of paintings which represented the Walters
gallery and to the very interesting bronze
groups from the Corcoran art gallery. The
exhibition was very brilliant success in an
artistic sense. but il did not make much money
for the Barge fund. The total receipts il il
thought, did not exceed $50. 0O0 out of which
large expenses had TO be met. Presently the
Angelus Is TO be brought back to New York and
mads the center of new gallery which the
association is to build on AID street Mean.
while the vacated chambers are in the hands OF
I'll NH,