Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-23

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vay against all other District business for sew
eraI District days will occupy the time
Of the Houss On Monday If the day 10 ac-
credited 70 the District. On the last Dis
triet day the Pennsylvania road sue
ceeded In getting q reconsideration Of the vote
by which the Atkinson bill was recon mitted
with instructions to the District committee to
report for the removal Of the station. The
action Of the House in recalling the bill does
not assure its passage in its present objection
able form Many who favor the removal
Of grads-crossings and other perils
moval Of the station from the mall
The thing involved in the removal Of the grade
crossings Is not the convenience Of the travel
ing public, who might feel that they have an
interest in keeping the depot In the heart OF
the city, but is the question of safety to the
people In the city, strangers or residents
question Of life or death. Few members whose
friendship for the Pennsylvania railroad docs
not render them blind TO the rights OF all the
people besides and deaf to their petitions, will
refuse TO consider the propositions pending for
the removal Of the grade-crossings. Amend
nasnts having this object IN view, which will
iufict no hardships upon the road and no
fsred, and there is no reason to suppose that
the railroad corporation has got such hold on
members Of the House as to make its selfish de-
sires paramount to the unanimous popular de-
mand that some ameliorative amendments be
adopted The members who will favor passing
the bill without some such amendment will
probably be in q very small minority
those members only who feel
il their duty or obligation to consider the in
tere.ts Of the Pennsy vsnia railroad first above
all things else. The one demand in which all
rssidents of the District unite is that in some
way, the city be relieved from grade-crossngs
and that the railroad be not allowed to block
ade the streets at their will. manning and Kill
ing citizens who have the pledge Of the Con-
stitution to protect them in life and liberty.
The railroad people are working actively and
the air 10 full Of rumors of the log-rollin8
trades. deals and bargains they are trying to
effect with different sections, parties and inter-
ests TO secure the passage of the bill without
amendment; but it is not beloved that the Just
and self-respecting members Of the House will
allow party or selfish personal considerations
10 induce them to join the railroad IN sacri- |
fcing the interests of a helpless community.
The House committee on railways and canals |
do not make any too soon the report on bill
to provide for the safety of persons and prop |
erty on railroads. The two horrible accidents |
one at Reading, the other in Colorado, from |
cars going wildly down a mountain are merely |
forcible reminders Of common evil necessarily |
resulting from the covetousness Of railway cor |
pora.ions or the carelessness Of some of their |
employees, usually the former. The House bill |
referred to provides what will remedy the class
OF accidents alluded to, at the same time that it
Carries out the purpose in hand. namely, the |
protection Of employees and railroad property. |
Safety couplers on freight cars and power /
brakes on locomotives are to be prepared and |
put in use by January 1, 1888, after which !
wild trains will be outlawed.
With the ceremonial and dignity due such
man from such q republic the United States to-
day honors the remains of John Ericsson AZ
they pass from his adopted country ON the |
briny way toward his native land New York !
harbOr Is alive with representatives of the /
navy, the army, the civil departments and the |
citizenhood Of the nation-nine vessels of the /
naval service from four sauadrons assembled /
to pay final American honors to the inventor
and constructor Of the FIRST monitor-a de-
tschment of marines lodges Of Odd Fellows,
members Of the Grand Army of the Republic
escorting the remains on board. Swedes and
Norwegians unite with the people of the English
race IN doing exceptional honors to the great
inventor whose timely production saved the /
Union navy from humiliation at the hands of
that iron terror, the Merrimac. The hosting
OF the Swedish eolors is fitting tribute to the
land Of his nativity, and the selection, Of the
noble ship Baltimore to bear his remains to
Stockholm is additional honor paid to itself by
the republic which is not always ungrateful to
the sons. adopted as well as native, who have
served it faithfully and we'll
Great as was Ercsson's invention of the |
Monitor, his screw propeller was more signal
pubic service. The list of his useful inyen-
tions Is too long for statement In this place.
Ericsson Was busy with these great projects
after bis eightieth year.
The autumn trade movement ID beginning
fairly veil The cotton and rice cropa a,a AZ