The morning news., 1891-11-18
New York,s Wafer Famine

Rainmaker Dyrenforth, who is at present
In Washington, has been asked to go to
New York and see what he can do toward
preventing water famine in that city. 1t
is estimated that there is water enough in
the various reservoirs from which the city's
water supply is chiefly drawn to last only
about a week. If there is not rain In the
region Of the Croton water shed very soon,
therefore. New York will be short of water.
The daily consumption of water is about
10000, 900 gallons. or this amount so, ,0O0,-
900 gallons comes from the Croton river
and 80 100000 gallons from the Croton
reservoirs. The river, of course, can be de-
pended upon, but it does not furnish half as
much water as is needed.
The fact that Rainmaker Dyrenforth has
been called upon to bring water from the
clouds by the methods which he tried dur
ing the last summer and fall in Texas
shows that there is some little confidence in
those methods.
Those who pretend to be well acquainted
with his Texas experiments, however, say
that he accomplished nothing in that state.
Although great many dispatches were
published in which it was asserted that the
experiments were in a marked degree sue
| cessful, as a matter of fact rain in any con-
siderable quantity, they say, was never OBJ
tanned at times when there was not good
reason for believing that it would have
rained had not Rainmaker Dyrenforth
fred his bombs and exploded his balloons
| 1t will be number of days before expert
ments are made in New York, il, in fact,
any at all are made. Rainmaker Dyren-
forth says that it win take him fully ten
days to get his rainmaking apparatus in
order. Within that time New York may
have no need Of his assistance. If, therefore,
he believes in his methods and wants TO
make reputation for himself he should get
his gas-laden balloons and dynamite bombs
into the croton region as quickly as possible.
Burglaries having lately been so frequent
in Jersey City that the police superintendent
recently issued orders to the police of that
locality to be extremely vigilaut. They
are. AT 2 o'clock Sunday morning last two
reporters in the discharge of their duty had
occasion to cross an open field above the
entrance TO the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad tunael. At that hour the
spot is an extremely lonesome one. While
the two men were walking quietly along
toward Palisade avenue they were startled
by the rapping of a policsman's club
on the sidewalk. From two differeat
points the alarm was answered
and men running rapidly in their direo-
tion convinced the scribes that they were in
the midst Of STORY" Suddenly police
man followed by two others dashed out of a
side street and made for the reporters. Both
of che officers were slmcst out of breath
And gaspea: WHIST ays you doing heros"
Explanations were soon made and the I've
men Joined in hearty laugh When the
bluecoats and reporters parted each of the
"cops" had cigar In his helmet to smoke
when ''of post" Though the reporters
didn't altogether relish the suggestion that
they SO closely resembled thieves that they
couldn't be distinguished from those
worthies in the dark they could not resist
the inclination TO write out the story for
the space" there was in it. But they really
ought to wear tags or alarm bells
sPonti6cal amnesty, so to speak seems to
only excite derision from DIR. McGlynp.
Commenting upon it the noted anti-povertv
apostle took occasion to jeer at the pope
and pronounce him "poor weak man."
Beyond that he intimates that the pontlff
thinks he knows it all" That assumption
the doctor questions. DIR. McGlynn should
retire to obscurity. The public is about
tired Of him.
Some of the more thoughtful republicans
say that "McKinleyism is throttling repub-
licanism." According to the views of Manu-
facturcr Frederic Taylor ''unless the party
reverses lis tariff policy and gets rid of its
bosses it is doomed to defeat in 1892" Very
likely it is. But a orawfish policy wouldn' t
| help it much now.