Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-16
NEW YORK NOTES.
What 10 Talked About by the People OF
the Metropolis.


What 10 Talked About by the People OF
the Metropolis.
THE sIcTcLIsr AZ POWER on THE RoADs-MAxY
cARAvANsARIEs AND STILL MORE BUILDING
THE sHoRT-LIvED srRIKE-MILK ADuLrRR-
ALTON.
Special Correspondence Of TIE EvHxrxo SrAn.
The bicyclist il good deal more of . mis-
sionary than he gets credit for being, II he
does occasionally run down the wayfarer who
il walking one way and looking another or the
1roiicsome infant who sportively prances in
front OF him when 1t is Just too late to stop the
SWIFT Wheel Here in New York state, for in.
stance, he has had much to do with the for
nation OF the much needed State Roads I'm
provement Association, which will eventually
be OF immense benefit to the entire state.
Just around the city Of New York the
links in the chain Of suburban towns and
country residences are SO close that the roads
are of necessity attended to. The gentleman
amateur, with his wheel or his fast trotters, can
be depended upon to look after his own inter-
ests in the matter of smooth roads but through
out the state generally matters are not SO favor
able. young business man of Syracuse, Mr..
Charles Wood, made long tour Of inspection
through the state to see why his farmer debtors
were so backward about coming forward with
their payments. To a man they gave the same
excuse-the open winter had made the roads 80
BAD they could not get about. The matter
being thus pointedly brought home to Mr..
Woods business and bosom he stirred up the
League OF American Wheelmen, who we're
abetted by the Farmers Alliance, the state
horse breeders, the agricultural societies and
the New York Coaching Club. The State Roads
improvement Association il thus @ powerful
organization. thrice armed in having its quar-
rel Just and Is going to accomplish great
Things: Perhaps before long our roads will
rival the famous English highways though we
had not. like them, the all-conquering Romans
to teach us how to make them. and the bicyclist
can bowl from Paul Smiths to the Battery as
easily as his English brother can from John O.
Greats to Lands End.
NEW YoRK's ENDLESS HOTELS.
New York seems to be absolutely Unsuitable
in the matter of hotels-Broadway is lined with
them, they are plentiful ON 5th avenue and
scattered pretty thickly over the rest Of the
city. And yet there are always few new huge
caravansaries building, and when they are
finished there seem to be always people
enough to fill them. The Astor's great
hotel on 5th avenue will be notable
structure in the midst Of the best resi-
away from it will be the immense ten-story
editce of Holland House ON the corner of 18th
street, which is planned to be the finest hotel
building IN the country. Nearly two millions
Will be spent on this great structure. which
will be built Of brick, stone and steel
and be as freproof as human devices
can make it, besides having every beauty
and comfort OF interior furnishing,
arrangement and decoration that modern
luxurious taste can suggest. Here rich New
nd "a Wis otto kor H. -
ing taken off their hands and be housed and
fed in fashion that would make Lucullus
think he lived as meagerly as the thrifty tourist
who does Europe on so cents day.
sHoRT-LIvED STRIKE.
The strike on the New York Central reminds
one forcibly of the epitaph on the infants
tombstone
since so quickly was done for.
The strike was hardly we'll underway before
it was ended. And indeed at no time was it
very formidable, for the brains of the railroad
profession, the engineers and fremen did not
go into il, and new switchmen and officials Of
that grade are not far to seek. The failure of
the strike is largely due to the fact that there
was no real casus belli and consequently no
public sympathy with the strikers. The New
York Central has latterly developed into that
rare creature, corporation with soul Its
employees have had steady work and fair pay
and its managers, especially Cornelius Wander
bilt and President Depew, have spared
neither thought nor money to do all
that was possible to help and benefit
them. The managers have always been
accessible. Dspew himself say. that all any
employe who wants to speak with him has to
do is to open his door aud walk in. For men
who were treated with justice and generosity to
endeavor to cripple the road just at the busiest
season OF the year because some of their num-
Der who were Knights Of Labor had been dis
eh aA cd npIv dioo
ALRIGHT IN MILK.
Great is the ingenuity Of the adultsrator.
We all know how he exerts himself to embitter
everything we eat and drink, with the reflection
that it Is probably adulterated with some
broken out in new spot and is mingling his
Borgian draughts with our milk, which we have
usually taken for granted was enriched with
nothing stronger than water. Ice is, as we all
sSs utn ni year b among rich the sa
The weather, too, has basely played into the
ice mems hands. The milk man has therefore
economical on ice by minging with his milk
certain poisonous chemicals which prevent lis
souring. He has been detected, 1t is true, but
as 1t Is manifestly impossible to test every
quart Of milk used in New York We are eli
obliged to take the risk and survey our appar-
emily innocuous bottles Of milk with marked
suspicion.
THE GREAT OCEAN RACE.
Yachting, for the moment at least, has gone
out OF popular favor. but interest is keen In the
performances of those finest of all yachts, the
splendid steamships OF Atlantic commerce.
The victory Of the Teutonic over the City of
Paris record, though only by the slender
margin OF thirteen minutes Seconds "a
yet not counted), gave the town almost
Central ps sa;s' s%s.r by tn. c sss
OF Paris but that greyhound" though hold
ing yet the record for a single days run, must
now prove once more her title Of queen of the
ocean. That q ship which is able TO be con-
verted in q few days into an ''unarmored
cruiser" can steam 5000 miles in ordinary
sea conditions at an average speed Of
20. ITS knots, moderates our admiration for
vessels Of the Philadelphia and Baltimore type.
We are now fairly launched in the race for q
81 day record. The City Of Paris 10 held to be
at least six hours faster than the New York,
which has Just done the trip in days, "a
hours and minutes. II these calculations are
verified the Paris, at her best, can lower the
hour line to sixteen. But We are now getting
to q pace when hours means as much e
quarter-seconds on the trotting track.
HOW NEW YoRK REGARDS THE SENATE.
Tho mercantile public Of New York xealously
approves Senator Quay's flank movement
against the force bill, though some Of them
might prefer to have him use . different club
than the tariff. 1t may be relict of the fore
e-wah-doe-face cringing TO the south, but