New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-25

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reo,rd IN dirty streets 1t is the first time since
I have been in the department that we have not
| had some said he This is decidedly interesting
IT, suggests one of two thngs-ether that the con-
dition of the streets has materially improved re-
| Gently since the Inauguration of the new regime
or else that the people have grown weary OF SEND
| inc IN complaints To which cause do the street
cleaning officials attribute the unprecedented ap-
sencc of fault finding communications?
| What is 50 rare AS a day in June? The public
| has no quarrel with June, esteeming the month
! highly Still the fact remains that June never
| could boast Of day which was more dcllghtini
| than the one which August gave the metropolis
Yesterday
| Tho nroect OF Berlin International Exhibition
| has bcen definitely abandoned by the National
authorities, not, it appears, because German mani"
| facturers have little TO show, but because the en-
hibition was not exI ected to contribute materially
| to the promotion of German trade The North
German Gazette" indeed says frankly that if it is
desirable to find new markets, Chicago Is more ID
vorablv situated than Berlin, and it counts on the
| Columbian Exposition to do more for the German
positon in Central and South America. as we'll as
| in Central Asia. than Berlin exhibition could
| have done This is complimentary to Chicago, bnt
IL secms pity that short-sightcd considerations OF
financial policy should have deprived the empire
Of the chance to proclaim locally it's industrial adj
| vance.
| The electoral vote Of New-York, according 10
The Utica Observer" belongs, "by the prefcrcnc"
If tho neople.4 to Mr.. Cleveland. Oh, no. The
pcople will demonstrate at the balot-boN this year
what they demonstrated in 1885, that their pr,f
ercncc is for Harrison and Protection, and not for
| ClcvcIo nd and Free Trade.
The president of the Summit ~ j. six Minu
| featuring Company. in giving the reasons why III
company has established mills in that village, says
that he and his associates would never nave pu'
their money into the enterprise but for tie Mchh
Low Tariff bill and their faith in the reelection oil
President Harrison, which faith is based on our
confidence in the sound common sense of the Amer
lean pcopc" These the words Of practice
business man who is literally proving his faith py
his works. The conservative sense Of the people
AT large cannot but strongly favor the retention IN
Office Of President who has proved so safe and
trustworthy as Mr.. Harrison.
Nou NAV he sure that gloom at least foot thick
has settled down upon the Democracy of Iowa for
thcy must have heard by this time that Major
Mckinley has consented TO make some speeches in
that state.
7. is an old and familiar device TO which the
Aldermen have resorted in order to make ialse
showing Of low tax-rate. Tie rate this year
il TO he 49, against 30 last year. but the
decrease is the result of increase of some forty
millions in the assessed valuation Of real estate
This trick is regularly resorted 10 over in Brook
lyn where assessed valuations often hear no true
relation 10 actual values The rule seems 10 De
70 raise the assessments to the highest possioe
point without regard 10 right or equity ouch
action is discrcditable 10 all concerned in II, but
il is usually taken for granted that the TAX
paycrs will submit without protest. as, indeed they
commonly do. None the less is 1t dishonest ana
unfair To lower the tax rate while AT the
same time increasing taxes is perilously near 10
ohtaiYing money by false pretences.
"11c Troy Press praises Mr.. Clevelands letters,
asserting that they are uniformly Sood Ones,
we'll written. brief and TO the point Yes, and
then the crop is so large that no Democrat VINO
makes the proper application need be without one
OF these famous epistles.
Whatever be tue case elsewhere the peach crop
~ New-Jersey is not a failure, and on account Oh
the shortness Of the crop elsewhere, the growers
If that state are looking forward 10 larger proiits
than they pockccd last year. However, the lruio
has To pass through the hanuS ol oc'ciai """'
men. and when the profits OF each one OF these
are deducted there may not he great deal lei'
for the peach grower Hence fairly good crop
in an of year" is not certain to mean large re-
,urrs in money II IL certain, however, that the
consumer will bc compelled to pay dearly for TIE
,oothsomc peach this year. or else go without IT,
There is n strike pending in Baltimore Just at
nrcson, of moderate extent and little pressing
import except to those Immediately concerned.
IT, has been overshadowcd by the great labor
disturbances elsewhere; hut II has produced n
ma hctic little incident that is noteworthy, even
in this summer of strikes. The Mayor OF the
city has been addressed in letter by 200 OF the
strikers wives. who tell him that they and their
children are starving, and who appeal to him
NOT for charity nor even for chance to work. but
thot he may take some steps in regard to
| certain Mr. Rcichers, who, IL seems. Is gen
oral secretary" and has gone down TO Baltimore
from Ncw-York TO direct the strikers nc
tions Though they do not say ~,
those 200 women evidently hope that
the Mayor can deprive their husbands Of this
ccntlcman's services in keeping them and their
EMPLOYERS apart; and this request is all they
have to urge They have much TO learn in re-
card 10 the powers and duties Of Mayors; but
they have evidently made some valuable and in
structivo observations M first hand TO the
workings Of general secretaries ana walking dele
gates from abroad.
PERSONAL
| Dr. Daniel ". Shea. of Harvard. who was invited