New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-13


the Mayor of Gloversville, he will decline by
reclamation.
The foundation stone of what seems destined
TO be one of the noblest institutions III This
country of magnificent charitable enterprises is 10
be laid next month in Lynchburg, Va This Is
the Southern Negro Orphan Asylum and In
dustrial School, designed for the benefit OF the
colored race in any and all the States OF the
Union. The Board of Trustees was organized TWO
years ago under the presidency Of Bishop White,
OF Virginia, with Bishop Randolph, the Rev. DIR.
McKim, Ex-Governor Fitzhugh Lee and other
prominent men as trustees. Colonel Thomas F.
Bars farm of 141 acres, near Lynchburg, has
been purchased, an endowment fund has been
started and the erection of the Central Hall is to
be begun at once. The object is one which
should command the sympathics and financial
support of all desiring to promote the welfare of
the colored race The Northern as well as the
Southern States have swarms Of negro orphans
in wretched novels under lamentable conditions
of neglect and heplessness. The founders of this
asylum aim to provide FIR this large and increas-
ing class of unfortunates home where they can
be sheltered and cared for. and workshops where
they can be fitted for industrial occupations and
rescued from lives of vice. idleness ignorance and
Hampton, Va, is doing great work in the same
field, but there is urgent need for the multiplied
ton of similar institutions. The Rev. Dr. A.
Jaeger and the Rev. George E. Benedict, the gen.
cral manager and the superintendent, have been
most successful in interesting public men in this
new enterprise. The work is as comprehensive
and practical as it Is humane. and deserves the
largest measure of support from all friends OF
the colored race
A new broom sweeps clean, tits said. But
Street Cleaning Commissioner Beattie seems to
have dcep-seated and unconquerable aversion
to any and all brooms, new old, good bad or
Indifferent. The Indifferent broom, perhaps, comes
nearer his ideal than any other.
The ill-considered advice has lately been given
to the Atlantic steamship companies that it would
now be wisdom on their part to return to the
usual steamer routes, ice or no ice, on the suppo-
siton that, as the ice belt extends far to the
southwark nothing is to be gained Ivy adopting
southerly course. The photographic Office takes
different and more sensible view. The danger
GUS ice region is described by the officials of this
bureau as covering an area twice as large as New
York and Pennsylvania but on the pilot chart for
June are plotted routes for transatlantic steamships
as ice prevails That there is ice to an indefinite
distance TO the south, and that 1t is impossible 10
escape it. is declared to be /" vital mistake" The
evidence goes 70 show that there is little ice south
Of the AID parallel, and none at all south of 40
degrees 80 minutes. The conclusion is plain that
an extreme southern route is the only safe one
at present. as it probably will be for some time to
come. The risks of any other are too great TO be
taken. Safety is vastly to be preferred to speed
Dr. Crosby is in favor of utterly sauelchinr.
the saloon forever SO far as this city is con-
cerned. Much power TO his elbow
Those South Dakota Democrats at their recent
State Convention adopted a resolution opposing
all sumptuary legislation" or course reg
ulation Democratic convention invariably does