Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-26

Bostiing Metropolis.
TWO RKNARKAnIE rxEfbrrIoxs or rur tarxxS
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Special corresrondencs Of The Eveuins st.r
NV YoNK. March q lspa
hCRrNa THE WEEK WE HAVE HAD
~ two remarkable exhibitions Of the latent
power Of public opinion. both going 70 .hos
how strong the people are in this country. even
In communities where boss rule i. supposed IN
be supreme. The FIRST 10 the extraordinary up-
rising in defense Of the rights and privileges
OF the people in Central Park. Az wross last
week the race track bill slipped through the
Legislature by arts Of political legerdemain. @
that before the people knew it they were con.
fronted by . fsit accomph. But oven this aid
not deter them from making such dsmonstr.-
tion, or in shorter Saxon phrase. such a kiok.
that the bosses have virtually thrown mn ,hs
sponge. The whole incident has been very en-
couragins, inasmuch as It appears that Under
meath the seeming indifference with which
New York allows itself 10 DO despoilsd by The
pothouse politicians there is q latent strength
which in . crisis can assert itself and obtain IA.
rights.
Undoubtedly now the race track pro,ec, N
scotched ifnot killed. and fancy the club viii be
applied on the vriggling snake tin it is dead
beyond galvsnism. The essential victory wss
won when il was officially announced that the
act was permissive and not mandatory, a. ali
in suthority had claimed it was at nrst thus
leaving upon the park commissioners the full
responsibility Of any action. There IL 90 be q
tremendous indignation meeting tomorrow
night and already the astonishing number Of
az ..a.a -.
have been sent in, with scarcely any canvass
ing, by citizens who protest against the track
And the chief power OF the whole movement ID
Its entire spontaneity, which gives threefoId
emphasis 10 every protest OF course IL 10 al
ways easy to get signatures TO anything. but
when they come pouring IN in whole mail bags
full on an extemporised committee, accom-
panied by vehement letters and shower Of
checks. the people mean mischief and the
bosses hnd IL convenient 10 change their
minds
THE CASE OF JUDGE MAYNARD.
The other significant incident Was the prae-
tically unanimous condemnation OF Judge May
nard by the entire bar OF this city. The Bar
Associations committee. who had the matter
In charge, made a unanimous report severely
censuring the judge. There was soms
effort by q few Tammany lawyers 70
break the force of this report, but the
meeting, which was attended by nearly 500
lawyers, adopted with only . few Dissenting
voices this scathing reproof. The general
feeling Is that this action makes IL impossible
Tor Judge Maynard 20 stay on the bench,
though see that already his friends are trying
70 persuade people that 10 IL a partisan move.
Ihr is absurd, however in view of the fses
that the bar committee was made up about
equally OF democrats and republicans. There
has been no such emphatic censure Of Q Judge
IN TINS state since the most desperate days Of
the Tweed ring
AND NOW rHR LION oRowLs
The barnacles have Just begun to grow on the
keeis Of the men-o'-war when, 10 and behold,
it now appears that we shall have to scrub them
on again and hold ourselves in readiness for .
scrimmage with England Such would be the
| logic OF recent events, but for the fact that no
one pretends to consider that there will be
| anything like serious turn given TO the pres-
emf oipiomatic deadlock over the seal fisheries
WHAT Ais TIE YOUNG EMPEROR
Agentieman who has just returned from Q
trip through Germany tells me that the busi-
ness and solid elements Of German life are ex-
ceedingly anxious over the condition OF the
emperor and sppreheBd critical times in the
near future. Everything 10 vague, but for
that very reason the nervousness is the greater
The feeling is that the emperor Is Of q re-
actionary turn Of mind even If he is sane ana
there is more than a suspicion that he 10 in Q
morbid state mentally. His recent utterances
In which he has put himself athwart the desires
| OF liberal Germany for . constitutional govern
ment have made him an object OF dread noS
merely to the more advanced radicals, but 10
the great body OF reasonable people. Germany
| Is today perhaps the nation Of the hiGhest
average intelligence in Europe, and il is in no
MOOD TO accept government 50 medieval IN
| its Ideas as the young emperor would carry on
HUMBLE HEROES OF REAL LIFE
The world would have q hard time 10 res
along without its unknown heroes and hero
ines The typhus scare here has really been
quite serious thing. as il WAS impossible TO be
certain that no injected person was at large.
| Not only the stricken immigrants succumbed
10 the fever, but the reporter who took the
| disc ase IN visiting the infected house aud the
policeman who had charge Of it have both
| died There are still forty-six in the
hospital, most OF them, however, convalescent,
but We have heard little of the attendants who
in great peril took care of these sufferers. Miss
hate Holden, the matron of the ward, has been
undauntedly faithful through the whole sieRs
and deserves to be remembered. The health
board has recognized her services by raising
her salary from $50 to S75 month.
o. n. POTTER SPARES Those TREEa
New York has never been accused OF having
too much sentiment One by one her relics Of
an eventfui past have vanished and the trace,
Of the much-talked-of knickerbocker ancestors
have disappeared The old manor houses
which lined the lower Hudson have fallen FROM
| their high estate, first as a.ruie degeuerstins
into beer gardens, where solid German butch
ers and grocers smoked and drank beer. rs-
placing the stately Stuyvesants, Van TwilIsrs
and the somewhat profsne though NO lee
| stately Van Dams When they became too ysluk
able for pleasure gardens the builder seized
upon them and replaced them by brovn-stons
houses or towering flats, aud the only oommeut
was usually exultant remark on the march of
improvements. Gradually in its noi H.
ward progress the city has crept fur
Their and further up the river riu il
has reached Hamilton Grange. Broad
| avenues Of fine residences are cut
| through the grounds where Alexander Hamii-
ton used to walk, and this week at the real e.
tate exchange was put up at auction the lsss
| plot OF the ground, containing the famous thir-
teen trees, still standing IN n solemn group
where Hamilton planted them with his own
hands a. q memorial OF the thirteen Original
states. Even business-like New York hated 10
see them cut down to be replaced by bricks
aud mortar. The ground il bought by Orlando
b. Potter, who says the trees shall 10 re-
spected.
NucH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
OF ell silly performances OF ''enterprisine
journalism" the climax was the fitting out of a
feet Of tugs to waylay the incoming Msjestae
and get the first news about the Drsyton- Bor-
rowe scandal. The utter absence OF any nevy
of the slightest thrill made the elabors,s
preparations of the newspapers the more ridic-