The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-23
He GREAT METROPOLIS.
hat the Big City is Talking of
During the Early Dog
Days.
ts of Bright Gossip on Sub
iects Of Interest at this
Time.
oker's Real Condition-Neurasth and
Notwithstanding "reminiscences
Tho Census in Gotham.


Politics-Interesting "Reminiscences
Tho Census in Gotham.
pecial Correspondence of The independent
New YORK, June 19.-His trip to Europe
his treatment at the Wiesbaden baths
We lifted the shadow of death little
IN Richard Croker, but the Tammany
ef is still very sick man. It is of less
nsequence to his family what he shall say
the investigating committee in reply to
charges made by his brother-in-law,
Cam, than that the stricken leader
puld be left alone in peace and given
Rnce for his life. saw him for mo-
mt, three days after his arrival. To any
who knew him a year ago, and who had
rked his firm, springy step and the
hare-set shoulders and kindlinR eye un-
the ietty brows, there was a story of
lden decay in the dull orbs, the puffy
ke-though bronzed trifle by the sea air
he trembling hands and the hating,
most infrm gait. It will be surprise
many, who know all the facts of his con-
ion, if Croker ever takes part in another
mpaign.
leurasthenia, the disease from which he
fers, is declared by our leading medical
N to be peculiar to this country. Its VIC
BIS are men on whose shoulders lie great
tdens of responsibility and who are con-
ntly under the harrow of severe ner
Us strain, such as is inseparable from po-
cal management. Large, easy, lymphat-
nen succumb quite rs speedily as thin,
tvous individuals; there seems to be no
Termination. Stubborn John Kelly died
- SY1no Nm
led by the same insidious ailment; the
quent Oliver P. Morton, Of Indiana,
race Greeley, Johnny O'Brien, Dan
inning and Robert Garrett all displayed
marked degree the symptoms of the
ease that is the forerunner of
Falysis, unless checked by proper
atment and an absolute withdraw
from all excitement. Blaine had
ouch of it, too, at one time; but had the
ength of will to pull up in time to save
nself. Those who suffer accomplishing
and who try to shake it off by plunging
10 still deeper excitement, never round
their lives. Such is the verdict of
ence regarding this strange malady that
ects only political bosses and money
[gnates. OF course Croker may recover.
is still a comparatively young man
al in Tammany, who is similarly afflicted
who has also been compelled to pull
. of politics for time. But man of
logged nature would rather die than be
on the shelf just as he had reached the
ght of his ambition.
Iroker, like Purroy, is a man who has no
uples in politics. and who is intensely
lous of any blow at his influence in his
faction. It is this jealousy more than
pending investigation that has brought
d home, almost at the peril of his life.
Tammany leaders from Tweed's time
til now have all been men of this narrow
raj stripe, whose ruling passion has been
make their personal influence paramount.
is is the very essence of the lone man
ver" in New York politics-a condition
Il carries with it the elements of ultimate
eat.
census Superintendent Charles II. Muir
in his efforts to count the million and
ee-quarters of people in this big town,
been having lots of fun, and particu-
" with his women enumerators. The old
age that woman is her own bitterest foe
been comically illustrated score of
les in the experience of the census ladies.
her, and every one, without execution,
parrot and monkey time of it ii the
trict she was canvassinR.
the scheme of consolidating New York,
boklyn and the suburbs of both cities
0 one great metropolis should ever be
ried through, Gotham will then rank
1t to Paris among the great capitals of
world. There are in round num-
tan 1 tsisHa, soc sSS5s in in Broo Msn,
ssibly 100000 more on Long Island and
900 in the yet unannexed portion of
sstchester hey ond the city limits. This
uld bring the total population to some
ng near 100000. But the plan. which is
old one, though very attractive and not
hout It's advantages, will probably fail
the reason that has blocked it in the
1t. The rurals have no liking for the tax
of the great cities. 1t is, for them at
st. positive advantage to be contiguous
the big cities and yet not sharer of
ir benefits. The half hundred or more
purbs that have lived and fattened off
York, are contented to be let alone.
corporation means to them an increase of
alton proportionate with the increase in
ues. They are not at all dazzled by the
spect of being citizens Of the greatest
tropolis of the future.
Int Gotham must always have some
tty idea to toy with, and since it could
have the Worlds Fair, it has apparently
ided to take up the consolidation fad as
Dreaming, during the dog days, of sea-
she'd wards and precincts and mountain
boundaries, with a universal vista of
culative possibilities for the capitalist,
no end of fun, right in town, for the
denying stay. at-homes. But the ghost
auadrupled taxes will probably brighten
annexation for another decade at least.
it is probably fair prediction that the
York of 1900 will have 3.5OO, 900 souls, a
Pdred aldermen, dozen East and
Fth river bridges and chance for official
cd in kvuO hnp