New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-28

BEFORE Friday Yale's victories on the Ihanes
! babe fair to become as monotonous as those winch
| the Gloriana has been winning OF late. though
the interest in the great college race mad SHOWN
no signs of diminishing. Next years Struggle
| however. will attract greater attention because
| Harvard was the winner In 1891. Inc rowing
| NJ New-Iondon this year has been uncotnihohiy
fine and fast. and, singularly enough. tie crews
which were not the favorites have been eXtraor-
dinarily successful IN leaving the i"'ofie'
behind
Colonel L. F. Livingston. the president OF the
| Georgia Farmers Alliance, made some statements
the other day in a speech at Holly Springs MISS
that are highly important II true lie declared
according to "The Atlanta Constitution, that
the Alliance had plan TO offer which would efiec-
tually settle the race question In the South 10
the satisfaction Of all parties concerned; that the
white people Of the South would have TO accept
it or have social equality while negroes would
have to accept it or confess that their camor for
equal rights was falsc. The North would have
to accept it or acknowledge they were IN the
wrong during all these years This ID tnc
most upheaving announcement that hss 'yeo
emanated from the Coloneps branch Of the Al
lance 1t is dscouraeing to learn that he re-
fused to say what the plan was. II it has
name may yet go down TO future ages as that
Of savior OF his country.
The other day it was judicially decided that q
sunstroke is not an accident Now q Chicago
Judge makes the same ruling with regard to
asphyxiation by escaping gas, where absence OF
intent is not clearly proved. AS it is obviously
impossible for victims to testify in their own
behalf. this can never be certainly done, which
conveys a pregnant lesson to the holders of acct
dent insurance policies.
The success of the whalebaclS steamer Colby III
running from Lake Michigan to Montreal through
the St. Lawrence rapids, has an important bear
ing on the future of lake shipbuilding. The YES
sci was built at Superior, Mich, for the Atlantic
trade. She was too large to enter the lachine
Canal, and to have sent her through in sections
would have entailed great expense. In some parts
of the rapids she moved at the rate of twenty-five
miles an hour, and in Lost Channel she dropped
three or four feet while turning a curve AT
Montreal she reloads her cargo of grain for Liver
pool The Colby is the second or third lake
built steamer to reach the Atlantic and now that
the rapids are no longer an insuperable obstacle
she is sure to have many successors.
Mayor Washburne, of Chicago. has enunciated
the remarkable theory that a city ordinance
requiring the closing of saloons at midnight is
fulfilled even if the saloon-keeper continues serv-
ing drinks all night TO people in the saloon when
the doors close This will start grateful thrill
in the breast of every confirmed old topper in
Illinois.
Every consequence has cause Mayor Chaplin |
Of Brooklyn year ago sold 81 100000 tax GER |
tifcates of the city at 10000. On Thursday |
q loan for the same amount Of the same certi- |
icateS found takers for only about 100000 at
from 10011 TO 10016. Cause? The Mayor |
says "stringency of the money market But
why may it not be regarded as in the light of
a lack Of confidence in city officials who have
within the year been found entertaining so mon
strous proposition as the purchase of water
at several times the value Of the plant
and look indiferently on at fragrant attempts
TO introduce the dangerous system of electrical
propulsion in the streets of an OvercrOwded city?
There is apparently money enough for investment
further away from New-York. But certainly the
confidence of investors in the administration of
affairs has not been increased Of late.
We guess that's what's the matter.
It would be interesting to see an explicit;
sion as to the duties actually performed by each
of their employees in the engineering divisions
So far as the public can see, at least three
fourths of this force are without any occupation
that justifes their retention
The investigations caused by the mysterious
suicides of the last few days have proven that
a remarkably large number Of people have left
their homes and disappeared from the knowledge
Of their friends. There seems also 10 be strong
similarity of personal appearance among the run
aways, for each particular body is identified by
the friends of several persons whose whereabouts
have been unknown. Each case has some more
or less tragical history connected with it, and if
the story of each person who has mySteriousy
disc ppeared from home were told there would be
for writers of romantic fiction for many
years to come.
The Royal Academy, says our London CORE
has once more shown how much
stronger personal influences are than art in
1uences in the election Of academcians. 1t has
chosen Mr.. Frank Dicksee over all rivals incud-
ng at least two of real distinction as painters
Mr. DiclSsee's distinction is to be member of
she Order of Good Fellows. His pictures are so
many expressions of natural amiabty of char
lcter lie is a painter of the pleasing, loyal to
cadcmcal conventonalities, with a shrewd znowl-
,dge of the prevailing philistnsm in art. OF
such is the kingdom of Burlington House.
New-Orleans doesn't seem to be such lively
business centre after ALL The agents Of Texas
abroad have just caused the issuing of circular
ettcr to wholesale merchants, opprising them that
he trade of Texas west of FL Paso is all in the
lands of St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City
imagine similar at this end of the country, .
The Mail and Express" is to be credited with
moving a good thing when the Editor sees it.
II imitation of The Tribune's method of skimming
he cream from its daily issues and offering il to
he public in pamphlets, issued in q monthly series
has established QuartpPlV Number n |