New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-03

tended to hold only twenty-five I"c. "'i'""5
is damp and loosely built and the water supply
is wrctchcd II also appears that the nurses are
shamefully overworkcd, being on duty from $50
n m until D. jn The Charlestown Almshouse
was pronounced TO be in "a most horribly over
crowded condition. Why is it that sOmn OF our
most civilized communities appear so Incapable
II dealing efectuay with the pressing problem
OF the care Of the poor whether sane or insane
Evidently there is large screw loose somewhere
II is going 10 be n campaign Of education. and
the Republican party will act as head master.
Chicago added little 10 its reputation through
the holding OF the Democratic convention there
and by supplying such an unsatisfactory place OF
meeting as by all accounts The so-called Wigwam
proved to be Now. in another respect. Chicago
appears to be badly handicapped, especially as the
FNnosition is 50 near 10 hand. The water supply
Of the city is In a bad way As everybody knows,
il is drawn from Lake Michigan into which the
sewers of Chicago have their outlet. The water
il taken from point several miles ont, nut INC
recent heavy rains have carried the sewage 80
near the intakes that the health Of the city Is
likely 20 be- seriously endangered Think what this
condition Of things would mean next year, when
an army of visitors is thronging Chicago's gates
be taken at once in order to assure supply of
pun water year from this time. The people of
Chicago may not object TO n little sewage in
Suspension in their drinking water, but they have
no right TO force the dose on strangers
ORGANIZATION and Education the motto which
some Republicans hcrcabout have adopted. Is
good motto for our party friends all over the
country.
The scheme for an examining board for secondary
schools that Harvard has announced, Is quite III
accordance with the theory under which that IN
stiiution is trying 10 solve the problem OF the
future American university The object sought
nv the proposed board is 10 assure the quairy OF
tho work Gone in the schools and academies. TO
secure uniformity and 70 keep them in genera
more closely in touch with the university itself
II is n logical complement of the effort 70 elevate
the standard by raising thc requirements Of adj
mission. and il will make certain that any pro-
,rc.s which may in future be made in American
education will be- shared by the schools for they
will be more closely bound mp with the college.
and IN a way will form part OF II. President
Eliot in his recent speech AZ the alumni dinner M
Cambridge. declared that any advance in the uni
ycrsties mus; be based on a corresponding advance
in the prcpar atory schools, in the same way as any
advance In the standard Of the professional schools
is founded on that Of the colleges. The unNer-
sty that he looked forward TO- ard the full fruiion
Of which he put only ten years oil, was one or
ooni2ed In three grades. the grades of secondary
education. OF college and scientific school educa~
ton. and OF professional education. Such n result
vould certainly be n step forward in the harmony
Of our educational system, and in the economy OF
time md Of effort on the part of all concerned.
The street cleaning Of that part Of the city south
of Sevcntccnth--t il being done under the OPP
Grafton Of the new law There ought speedily To
no outward and visible signs of the inward rencva
ton. OF course, the best of laws may he made
NJ no avail by n sluggish and ineffective admins
tration Of them Does Commissioner Brennan mean
70 improve the greatest opportunity OF his HE
or TO let it slip useless away?
The Jersey City haot-box suffers fairly had
their breath taken away by the prompt acton OF
Judge Lippncott on Tuesday. II appears that
plan had bcel cooked up by which some OF them
expected 10 go % the county Jail for few days
I'm order that the matter might be carried on
appeal 10 the United States Supreme Court on
the ground that the men had not had n fair trial.
| or course this would have been merely preteXt
for further delay. But they reckoncd without
their host-that il TO say, without Judge Lippin-
colt He promptly sent some of them to the
| Penitcntiary for nine months and Others T. the
State Prison for eighteen months, and before the
latter realized what had occurred their heads had
been cropped and they had put on prison garb.
They are reported TO have been greatly cast down
| on their arrival at Trenton Naturally. Jersey
City is 10 be congratulated on having one Just,
honest and fearless judge who has made himself
| a terror 70 lawbreakcrs of whatever degree
| Surrogate Ransom is entitled to credit for his
| prompt decision in the Ilotchkss will case. The
! Surrogate has shown exceptional energy in the
determination Of contested wills with the least
possible delay, and has succeeded in clearing OF
an immense amount of business In his court.
Among the judicial officers OF the city he is con-
spicuous for his diligence and for the clcarncss
and force Of his decisions
To-day THE Brooklyn Eagle" takes possession
| of the handsome building which it has reared
within u stones throw of the Brooklyn City Hall.
The structure is nine stories in height and hav-
ing been erected specially as a home for THE
Eagle is equipped in the best manner for the
production and publication of a metropolitan news
paper The change from the neighborhood Of