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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
HOLLANDS NEW TAX CABINET.

There is something in the Dutch blood that
tends to extreme deIiberation of thought,
word and deed; and to this must be at
tributed the delay which has taken place III
tbe formation of a new Administration. The
Mackay Cabinet resigned early in July, and it
is only now that the Queen Regent has COM
pleted the selection of her new council OF ad-
yisers The statesman who has been intruSted
with the portfolio of Prime Minister reioices in
the somewhat abbreviated name of Tax, which
is rather appropriate, in view G the hard KNOCKS
which his administration is certain to receive.
lie is a man of great energy and strength Of
G. aracter, has already held Cabinet office, and
may be trusted to enforce the new education
laws with moderation, as well as to restrain any
undue tendency toward militarSm. HIS col
league. the Minister of Foreign Affairs NJ. van
Tienhoyen. has been for several years BWgo-
master or Mayor of Amsterdam, and is par
ticular fayorte of the Queen Regent, who only
4 short time ago appointed his brother to the
post of court physician.
NJ. Pierson, the Minister of Finance, en-
lows, like his two colleagues just mentioned, uni
versal respect and consideration, and has held
for considerable period the presidency of the
National Bank of the Netherlands. The De-
partment of the Waterstaat or Waterways
has been confded to the care of NJ. LEY
Until low he has taken no part in political
life and has only been known as the most dis
tnguished and successful engineer in the King
dom. The Baron Won Dedcm, who has been
appointed Minister of the Colonies, spent con-
siderable portion of his life as leader of the bar
at Batavia, and is therefore thoroughly ac-
ouainrcd with the requirements of Dutch India.
Colonel Seylfardt, the new head of the Depart
ment of War, who viii be intrusted with the
duty of recognizing the system of military
service in accordance with the principles of the
new law, is likewise fayorably known as a
clever and conscientious officer.
Each Minister, indeed, appears to have been
chosen with regard to the eminence which ne
enjoys in his particular profession; and the con-
sequence is that the new Cabinet has inspired
respect and goodwill among friends and foes
alike. It's composition is regarded with popular
confidence and satisfaction and it is admitted
., all sides that the Queen Regent has acquitted
herself in a singularly brilliant manner in her
FIRST attempt at the construction of an Admin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ., 1891.
TWELVE PAGES.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreisn.-Secrstary Of State Chapleou, at the
investigation of the Canadian corruption, spirited
away witnesses and documents, and Is thought
70 be in worse position than Sir Hector
Langevin - The commission on St. Georges
Bay closed It's session, having demonstrated The
biah,handed actions OF the French. - Great
damage is looked for from the landslide on the
Dravs, in the Tyrol. - Violent storms did
damage 10 crops in Great Britain and Ireland
-. Eight men lost their lives by the caTsizine
of the British grain steamer Dunmurry, in o
hurricane 23O miles from Halifax.
Domestic-The International Congress of Geolo-
cists adjourned 10 meet in Switzerland in 1894
80 County fairs were held at Armenia, \. y,
and elsewhere in this State; the Interstate FalI
opened at EImira. == Seven masked men stopped
a Denver and Rio Grande train and robbed the
EXPRESS car OF $500. 49, The Social Science
Association, at Saratoga, listened to papers and
addresses on Education. == Delegates To Repub-
ncan nominating conventions were elected in sew
eral districts in this State. z- The Knights
Templar OF New.York State met in annual con-
elaye in Saratoga 80 Governor Brown, Of Ken
tucky WAS inaugurated.
CITY and Subulban..-Poceman John J. Shcr-
man was killed by Noah Richards, a drunken
negro, whom he was trying to arrest 80 The
Coroner's inquest in the case of the victims OF
The Park Place disaster was begun. - A fist
fight was narrowly averted just before the open
ing Of the liquor Dealers State Convention. =-
Winners ct Sheepshesd Bay: La Tosca, Gee Jag
Jay. Chesapeake, Yorkvile Belle, Strathmeath
John Cavanash. - Stocks somewhat less active
opening lower selling apparently for foreign
account, but closing with sharp rally by which
early losses were virtually recovered.
The WeatheT.-Forecast for to-day: Fair and
slightly warmer. Temperature yesterday: High
est, Is degrees; lowest. 63; average, 6s.
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have beer gaining 10,2O9 people, or LII per
cent. New-England has gained 89O,2lo' OF
a. 4G per cent, an increase that, compares with
tho total population of her Canadian neighbors.
From the st. Lawrence Provinces a similar story
comes. the more crushing in its effect upon Tory
nolicies because there they have had full swing.
II the National Policy has done anything Tor
any mart of the Dominion that part lies along
the JJpper st. Lawrence. But the 3,2S5,049
paonle who inhabited Ontario and Quebec in
1881 have become in ten years only 3,6O1,575'
This is an increase of only 1926, or 9.OS
nor cent In the same time New-York and
PENNSYLVANIA. lying south OF Lake Erie, Lake
Ontario and the river, have added 1,S9O,1O5
TO their population, an increase Of 2O.36 per
cent.
Even in the West, where substantial gains
have been made by the Canadians, they are not
Gains that compare with those of Washington
and North Dakota. There is no soil in America
that can grow the wheat that is grown in Man
itoha hut people could not live in Eden IL they
were compelled to trade across 1000 miles oil
rocky wilderness when their natural market
Law invitingly right at their very doors. The
result of the attempt to force this kind OF trad
ing is seen wildly in comparison OF the census
roturns from British Columbia and Manitoba
with those from Washington and North Dakota
While every effort has been made to develop
the Canadian Provinces, bounties being placed
on immigration and land given away, Manitoba
has grown from 81, 260 in 1881 to 154,44Z IN
1891. an actual increase of 92,1S2, and per-
oentage of 148.01, while North Dakota mas
grown from 5000 in 1880 to 1S2,719 IN
1890. an actual increase Of 1850, and q
percentage Of 395.O5. 1t is not doubted that
10000 of the present inhabitants OF North
Dakota came from deserted Canadian villages
like Emerson and GIetna. In British COLUMBIA
as fair country as nature could DEVISE with
rich mines, grand forests, farms OF rare fertility
and marine industries all its own, the growth
of population is positively insignificant when
compared with that of Washington. While the
Province has grown from 40, 459 people to
%. 767, an actual increase OF 43,3OS, and
percentage Of S7.56, the State has grown from
1915 to 349,390, an actual increase OF ia
PA. and a percentage of 365.13. We should
think the moral of these facts would come home
TO the Canadian people with force enough to
drive Sir Johns absurd policy to the ground.
In twenty years they have added less than
100000 to their population, but more than
$50, 600, 900 to their ordinary expenditure and
more than $3.50 900, 900 to their permanent
debt. Expenditure per capita has grown from
S4 so TO 81, and the debt from ST. to 500.
In the same time our per capita debt has fallen
from $50 to S12 81, and 100000 of the finest
native Canadian stock have come over the line
every year to help produce that showing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
THE CANADIAN CENSUS.


Patriotic Canadians are profoundly Inundated
by the results of their recent census inquiry
The population of their country is found to be
still unGer 100000, whereas, according to
the ordinary law of increase and in view OF
the 100000 immigrants recently come into
the Dominion, it should have been fully 1,OOO,-
600. In 1871, just after consolidation had
been effected, Canada was found to contain
3. 6S6.596 people. They increased in the next
ten wears to 4.324, $40, or at the rate OF 1871
per cent. The decade beginning with 1881
brought with it the adoption of Sir John Mac
Gonald's so-called National Policy which was
an attempt to apply the industrial system OF
the United States to country where every con-
dition was different Canada is not land Of
many climates, but only one. Her people are
not held together by common interests and
natural geographical connections, but they are
separated The Maritime Provinces, joined to
New England by every natural tie, are held
away from the st. Lawrence Provinces by long
street hes of desert Ontario and Quebec, Dor
dering closely on New-York and Pennsylvania,
are far removed from habitable Dominion soil
either to the east or the west. Two thousand
miles of rock and sand intervene between them
and the wheat growing country around Lake
Manitoba This country, in its turn, simply an
extension of the black soil of Dakota is cut of
from British Columbia, which is naturally an
extension of Washington State, by another
desert waste and two lines Of desolate noun
tans. Sir John Macdonald undertook to defy
geography to cut the natural arteries of trade,
TO make commerce thrive in deserts and to
carry it over mountains. He seemed to have
70 conception of the fact that Protection is a
| policy not an inyariable principle, and that its
usefulness depends on variety Of physical and
social conditions. To all this he was blind, and
the result is s;artingly illustrated in the fig
uIeS OF this humiating census.
While the United States have added l., 46G,
467 to their population, an increase OF PASS
| per cent, Canada has added only 49S, 534, an
increase of 1852 per cent, wletched falling
off from the percentage of increase shown in
the returns ten years ago. Practically, the
whole of such actual gain as Is made occurs
in Manitoba and British Columbia, whittier at
an expense Of SO, 900, 900 the Canadian Gov
eminent has been struggling TO direct immigra-
tion. The population Of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Prince Edwards Island, COM
posing the Maritime Provinces, amounts to only
ssO9O5, an increase in ten years OF but
1O,209, or LII per cent These Provinces are
simply the northern part of our New England.
They possess a fruitful soil, rich mines and
splendid fishery industries. Nova Scotia in
particular, is noble land, the superior Of any
North Atlantic American State in natural re-
sources. And yet while the Maritime Provinces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
ROLAND REED IN THE CLUB FRIEND

Sidney Rosenfeld was one of the authors OF Tho
SENATOR which a year ago maintained a considerable
degree of public popularity for long time. JusS
what part OF that popularity wns due TO Mr. Roseied
can never be accurately demonstrated, but since mo
SENATOR was first acted he has written two other plays
which were sudden and dire failures. lie has no"
written yet another aud in 1t he has inflated mo
Senator" u such an extent that those who liked the
one will not improbably like the other The new one
is called The Club Friend and 1t was acted for the
first time in this city on Monday night ut the siar
Theatre by Roland Reed and his company Mr. Ro'en-
field has a faculty of writing at times sort OF cleVef
dialogue not showing fine humoc or sparkling W.T. Out
having a certain readiness Of repartee mat raises
laugh and Is attractive TO those VINO are oohUil'
IN look AZ the surfaces OF things. There IS enough
OF this in "The CLUB Friend TO guard II AGAINST ue
fate that some Of its predecessors have suHeieu ana u
rcontion already accorded 10 it promises that ii Will
not be frendless.
Roland Reed is an actor whose presence suggests
cor,coIitv and who csn easily keep scene from
Aorcfpy-wlule he is on the stage stuyvesagt Flber
whom he represents In this play, Is not man u DC
chosen for constant companion lie interiors; fon'
stanlv in other peoples business, with the best OF IN
ientions no doubt he talks hppany at all times ana
on all subjects, and he pronounces the hrst leter Oh
wilkins "double-yer." The last is little thing, but
il indicates volumes. MIR. Reed Is general iavonte
however, and his language and his acts the authors
fault and not his own. All the in this play arc
dsagrecable creatures, each in his way, but Will
iom Davdge makes commendabe efforts 10 be humo-
ously So and william Friend tries TO be amusing an
IDIOT as he can. Among the women Of the company
only one does anything to distinguish herself from the
great mass Of actresses. This Is Miss Percy HaswelL
who shows in the first act something Of the spirit OF
ceeds 10 taking an interest In her share Of the play and
makes il pretty, cheerful and interesting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02

81 Paurs al Vesey-st Is 10 likely that il there
had been the important street along the trench
that the Broadway upholders claim the
builders of St. Paul's would have faced it to-
ward Cburch-st. and the Washington Market?
The work of archaeoogists on the ground points
almost wholly in favor Of the mythical character
Of the street. About all that excavation has ever
discovered along the side Of the trench are very
few square blocks Of stone. which may or may
not have been paving blocks and whip, which
evidently belonged to an eary-day cabman This,
some have tried TO show, proves that cabs were
once used in the neghbOrhood. Unfortunately
for this view, the claimants nat and coat were
found with the whip, and it seems much more
probable that tho unhappy man committed sui
eide by leaping into the trench soon after heavy
rain, leaving each Of these personal effects on the
bank as cew for the police. This narrows the
reasons for the popular view of Broadway down
to two, namely, oral tradition and scattering
references TO some street by that name in early
newspaper flies. The newspaper references would
seem to show that some street nanlt i Broadway
may possibly have existed in the city at some
time, but it is no proof that IL Wis anywhere
near the trench. Indeed, il seems hig 1iy probable
that the early Broadway of the ne wspapers, II
it were q street at all, was what is now called
BrOad-st., the shortening in its name being Only
natural AS for oral tradition, the world long
ago ceased to give any weight whatever to it in
any case. What, for instance could be more az
surd than the popular tradition that street-cars
once ran along the Broadway trench? Yet there
are people who actually believe this, notwith-
standing that there no street-cars anywhere
near it now, and no proof that there ever were
any 1t.
The Broadway myth is certainly one of the most
curious instances of popular error in this country.
and close and systematic investigation of how 1t
arose should richly repay scholars and antiquaIians
For great ditch like the Broadway, which may
have been intended by its builders for a canal
patterned after those Of Venice TO impress several
hundred thousand people with the notion that
busy and popular street once existed there is
surely an odd and interesting thing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
PERSONAL.

Assistant Postmaster-General Whitfield Is sick in
bed from overworlI.
John B. Coughs beautiful rural home, HILLSIDE"
near Worcester which he spent 5000 900 and a vast
amount of taste and labor has now been sold by his
executor for much less than the sum here mentioned
His heirs Mrs Coughs nieces, tho Misses WhlcOmb
will give possession in November. They retain most
Of the furniture and the library
Miss Frances e. Willard has cancelled number Of
encocements for mis- autumn In New England Penn
syvania and Iowa, owing to her mothers i'll health
Tho Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks will preach at the
opening service In 4plleton Chapel at Harvard this
fall It will probably be his last service in his official
capacity one OF the preachers TO the university.
Colonel William F. Swtzer, the Missouri statstician
who held office under Cleyeands Administration, is
about to marry Washington lady. The Colonel Is
seventy -Seven years OF age
DR.. Lyman Abbott and his two sons were in ST.
Paul, Mimi, last week
Colonel A. LoudOn Snowden, American Minister 10
Greece has returned 10 Philadelphia from Bar Harbor
He SAYS his visit TO Mr. Blaine not political, but
social The two men came from the same part Of
nnylvania, and their families have long been friends
of each other.
Detroit loses notable woman by the death Of
" Aunt Emily Ward, few days ago. She the
daughter OF Baptist clergyman and born near
syracuse; but she only child when the family
removed TO Detroit. While yet only ten years old
she was dubbed aunt Emily" on account Of the fOS
tering spirit she showed toward the helpless While
her brother Eber Brock Ward the millionaire vessel
owner Of Detroit was accommodating a fortune, she
was hunting up and caring for waits and orphans and
starting them In life. Some Of these now promi
nent In affairs and men of wealth. Don VI. Dickinson
one OF her pr0teses
Walter Besant, in u letter 10 The Philadelphia
Times says that the Victorian Exhibition next winter
will contain portraits of four hundred great men who
have added lustre TO Her Majesys reign and then he
asks how many of them have been honored with titles.
Charles Darwin, Faraday Huxley, Tyndal, stephen
SON Herschell Lyell, Murcmson aud Wheatstone, he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
Amnsrmenis.

pfJoU THEATRfl-9 and :1S-Nicoe.
BROADWAY THEATRE-s-Wans.
CASINOS :15-fndiso.
COLUMBUS THEATRES 15-Creait Lorraine
EDEN MUsEE-wsx Tableaus
81, DORADO (NewJerseyl-s ;So-Ring Solomon
GARDEN THEATRF-s so->Don Juan.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, and s-The millionaire
ROSTER & B1AL's-2 and s-Vaudeville.
IYCRuN TBEArRE-e :lo-rhe Dancing Girl
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AMPHITHEArRE-sl III
--coneert.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRES ;So-Jano
MANHATTAN BEACH-Contert
NIALo'S-2 and s-The Khedive.
PALMER's THEATRE-s 15-The Tar ana the Tartar
PARK THEATRES :16-Dorothy's Dilemma
PRocToRNs II;EATRE-e snd eMr Wilhinsons WIDOWS
STAR THEATREt-e-The Grub Friend.
14TH STREET TIIEATEE-2 and S;l5-The stu AiarUl'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02

do actually pay much more for them than farm
ers in this country for the same article.
Il is too much to expect that this body OF
information. conclusive as it is, will be hon
estly accepted by Democratic journals. So long
as the old falsehood may possibly deceive any
body it will be repeated But the farmers OF
This country, through their rapidly multiply
inc organizations, have the means OF knowing
beyond possibility of doubt that they are get
ting farm machinery and implements at lower
nrices than the farmers of any other country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
REFORM IN BATHING COSTUMES.
From The Buffalo Commercial

ErOm BuUuIU
. Rarely will an immodest costume (worn by the fair
sex on the beach, be seen and the semi nude eAh.
Aitlons as far the women concerned exlst
IN the Imagination Of purient reporters. But the
costumes worn by the great majority Of the men arc
iadecent and most repulSive 1t is not an uncommon
thing 90 men wearing little than cloutsarms
bare, armpts exposed breasts open, legs bSre
below the hps-talhng 10 women ION the oeach,
and disporting with as much ease well9No
gentleman is expected 90 feel and show In drawing
room. II bathngdress reform IS the order OF we
day. IL find broad field for its work on the maS
culine SIDE Of the bathing house.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02

General Dyrenforths rain-makng experiments
in aim and method have much to commend them
TO public interest and approval; but they have
not yet been carried far enough to render posi-
BILE definite Judgment regarding their success
Conflicting advices have been received from Texas
regarding the amount of rain which had fallen
in that State in the last year so there are
some circumstances which suggest the possibility
that the rain would have come there when and
where it did, without his bombardment of the
skies and it will require further observation to
enable any one to say, now that Midland County
has at last been visited with showers, whether
or not there was an immediate cessation of these
watery favors Immediately upon his departure
Certain it is that up to date he has not yet con-
WINGED any appreciable number of experts in
meteorOlOgy. 1t is chiefly those who are un-
initiated those who have not carefully scrutinized
the testimony, and those who, from personal en-
thusiasm or pecuniary interest, were predisposed
to believe in his success, who are satisfied that
he has made out case. This thing IS really so
important that it ought to be thoroughly tested
Let the work be carried on afrcsh, at other
points, and let us have all the facts fuzzy reported
and without sensational eXaggeration. Then If
General Dyrenforth confounds the sceptics, so
much the greater will be his reward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
THE FARMERS WILL NOT COMPLAIN.

From The ST. Louis Globe DemOerat
The farmers are now getting Mckinley prices for
their products and there Is why they should
fail to pay of their mortgages IN honest and credit
able way.
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other country than Great Britain. And then he ssks
what distinctions tho Qneon has accorded 10 Carlyh
,n r,rda fsarge piIot pIsicirn,nr Iro,a aF
and Lecky.
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AN AREA OF INTELLECTUAL HIGH PRESSURE
From The Baltimore American.
Washington has been so crowded with learned me-,
OF late that the American eagle has begun sIss 80.
In transcendental philosophy and the Go1uess
q Liberty is pusslng her brains over new worK Va
differental calculus.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02

The Louisiana school census shows that the
children in the State are increasing faster than
the accommodation provided for them. Two
hundred and ffty-foUr thousand were uncared for
in 1889. This year there are 2S5,226, and it is
estimated that more than 100000 will be shut
out from the schools anG left to grow up in
ignorance within the next three years If the
local statesmen will stop threatening Republicans
and will devise new of increasing the school
revenues, the rising generation will yet bless
them for the change.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
HE PULLED IT IN AFTER HIN.

From The Washington Post.
There ia pleasant thing % BIO said OF the presens
political outlook. There Is visible opening iof
John Il. St. John.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-02
LATE CALIFORNIA TIpINGS.

From The Boston Herald
IL seems that there Is snow on the moon. but there
are no flies on the Lick telescope.