Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23
GOSSIP FROM THE METROPOLIS.


sesily opened and closed and IL quite oapecious.
GOSSIP FROM THE METROPOLIS.
Happsnings and Incidents That Have o.
CURED In New York.
ezAvxar OF ITALIAN wonkMxN wHo ARR KNOWN
ONLY n BRASS rAo-HEREsY 4 scHIsM-rEE
CASE or pR BRIeos-THR REVISION uSsATrs-
rAcroRr-JuDoE HrLroS's LATEST our-xoTEs.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
NKv York, May Il, 1891.
NNHE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE
u New York Central by which . score Of
people lost their lives through the explosion Of
blasting powder IL . fresh illustration Of the
cruel conditions Of life under which many Of
the Italians live in this country. Il viii be re-
membered that some time ago an express
train on the Erie railroad ran into . group Of
iaoorers and crushed many Of them before
tnsy could jump aside. Then, Is now, the
identity Of several of the poor wretches could
not Be established and they were simply
buried out Of sight and vanished. The condi-
uons under which these gangs Of workmen
LABOR are very little better than those Of slav-
cry or OF machinery. The men are known
SIMPLY BY number on . brass plate fastened
around their necks and are merely so many
cogs IN great wheel. In the present case
even the catalogue Of names to which the num-
pers refer has been lost through the curious
TACT that the man who had the list, though not
accompanying the train, happened TO be pass
ing by just at the time of the explosion and
was blown to atoms. The obvious reflection
comes 10 mind that il is q very great stretch OF
national hospitality to include in our So
ciety men who do not even bear name. but
90 rom place TO place, as their strength is
hired, ss simply one number in a list. II can
NOT De said that this is very much Of an i'm
provement over the Chinese labor which We
nave shut out ss dangerous to the state.
HEREsY AND scHrsM.
The faculty and directors Of the Union Tbeo-
logical Seminary are standing mp bravely for
DR.. Briggs and their courage has also the power
full help Of discretion. The categorical state
mehs OF DR.. Briggs views which they have
made up this week will do much to modify the
feeling In the church. IL was a very timely STEP
In view OF the meeting Of the general assembly
This Presentation shows that, as commonly
happens, less difference exists than popular
feeling would seem to warrant Unfortunately.
or perhaps fortunately for the peace of the
church, DR.. Briggs himself is feeling quite too
III TO conduct controversy at Detroit and will
health.
But the personal contest is oyershadowed for
the moment by the publication Of the COM
mlttees report on the revision Of the standards.
Ibis was given entire in the Tribune which
got q religious beat on its contemporaries
that caused them to gnash their teeth. 1t is
not often that a statement of religious doctrine
becomes bone OF contention in daily Jour
nalism, but this has been the case in the pres
ent instance. The committees report is ac-
knowledged to be compromise, and as such il
rails to meet with the cordial appreciation of
those who have made the issue in the church
af FOR n. e.
mat the report is an attempt to rig out a
damnation coat with gospel tail" Probably
tnls u as well as any compromise could do, but
iahs, a. number Of other attempts have failed,
TO explain to ordinary comprehension the diff
euites In Denomination and free will. 1t will
De remembered by those who used to scan
paradise Lost in their school days that Milton
includes among the occupations of the damned
q study OF this same problem. According to
MIN the lost spirits sat together and reasoned
OF Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge abso-
Lutte, and found no rest in wandering mazes
lost" The revision committee seemed 70 have
mad much the same task, and have come to
about az satisfactory conclusion, and il Is
0oubtful II the general assembly has better
luck In case II tackles the job itself.
JUDGE HrLroN's LATEST GIFT.
Quickly following the last hasco in the shane
OF an attempt by hungry heirs 10 get some of
the Stewart estate, Judge Hilton has emphasized
Stewards efforts at building up q great cathe-
dral with some Of his gains BY slappine down
another half million dollars for the mainte-
nance OF the cathedral village at Garden Civ.
L. Seven thousand dollars of the income az
TINS fund goes to strengthen what is already
one OF the finest musical foundations in the
country, and with this additional sum we may
expect that the choral services at Garden CITY
viii be made one Of the points of interest in the
travellers circuit. 1t is a curious disposition
to make Of a traders fortune, this building a
great cathedral in a remote suburb of Brook
lyn and endowing 1t on par with the richest
religious orders Of the world. 1t reminds one
Of the stately palace Of Kubla Khan, which Was
built nowhere in particular. Possibly there
will be developed one Of those superb religions
palaces or country seats such as are to be found
In some OF the hooks Of Europe, though gener-
ally IL has taken l 900 or 1000 wears to deyelon
a really splendid cathedral, especially with The
indispensable ruin that is always part of the
idee- Even Stewards millions cannot buv
ready-made ruins or force ivy to grow any
faster than nature intended. Still, the ADEQUATE
foundation OF cathedral church and settle
ment, however hid under bushel, must have
. great influence. The diocese of Long Island
Ii OF itself unique charge.
PRIMITIVE STATE OF THE ISLAND,
The island stretches away in the longest kind
Of miles to the east, tapering of toward Mon
tauk Point in the most primeval kind of a
wilderness. The winter storms blow down the
trees giving the surface of the country a prai-
RE aspect and this impression is strengthened
By the absence Of anything like eastern life.
The island is waiting, like Brunhilde or the
maiden In Tennyson's poem, to be wakened.
perhaps next year, perhaps . hundred years
hence, by the kiss of Austin Corbin and his
long-promised steamship company. Mean
while all IL in a trance, especially when one
comes to the tumping-of place of the railroad
ut Bridghampton and penetrates on foot or in
. country wagon eastward to the point Some
idea Of the primitive condition Of thines can
be surmised II say that the entire eastern end
Of the island il one vast grazing area, on which
800 cattle find food about as they are disposed
to roam. Some of these cattle are Of the short
horned and aggressive sort, which induce the
traveller, after cursory investigation, to take
q wide circuit and regain the road we'll beyond
them. Passing down that way recently, was
much impressed by the unspoiled charms of
the island, but evidently IL is becoming fatally
fashionable. The artists who have given East
hampton and Amagansett such Q reputation
have begun 70 draw down the man who builds
the el00. 900 cottage and the lady who changes
her gowns three times day. I understand
that the natives enjoy the intruders, but the
wind mills have struck for higher wages; there
should be . society for the prevention of
cruelty to these worthy objects, which are un-
mercifully parodied by Q host Of amateur
skstchsrs Of both sexes.
METROPOLITAN NOTES.
We do everything at wholesale nowadays
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