davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
THE JNU1N BILL,

The passage of the bill giving ~ American
| register to two of the lnman steamers involves
| a partial and carefully guarded compromise of
| time-hOnored principle but not the abandon
ment of shpbuilding interests. 1t will bring
under the National flag two Of the finest steam
| ers afoat which have been built in foreign
shipyards. As the privilege of American regis
try has been confined practically since the
establishment Of the Government to ships built
in this country, the bill marks a change of pol
icy under restrictions which provide compen-
sating advantages While THE TRIBUNE has
been disposed at all times to guard jealousy
the principle of American registry in the in
tercst of the shipbulding industry of the coun-
try, it is willing to accept Senator Fryes judg
ment in this instance. lie has been the abest
and most consistent champion of American
shipping interests. After comforting with ship
builders, shipping leagues and the Navy De-
partmcnt nc has been convinced of the wisdom
and patriotism of this measure. He has car
ried the Senate with him, only ten votes being
cast in opposition to the bill. His own concu-
sions satisfy us that the new departure under
the circumstances is wise and conservative, and
we hope that the President will promptly sign
the bill.
This measure may be justified first on the
ground that it does not tend to take away work
from the American shipyards, but on the con-
tary, to supply them with new orders. The
Inman line is owned almost exclusively in the
United States. Its managers have been con-
WINGED that it is now possible to build American
steamers equal if not superior to the City of
Paris and to operate them in the transatlantic
service in competition with European steam
ers. If the two finest ships of their fleet are
admitted to American register they are pre-
pared to order at once as many more, probably
of the Cramps, and subsequently 10 enlarge
their feet in this country by establishing a line
Of three vessels between New-York and Ant
werp. So long as the two ships now in service
were refused American register it was imprac-
tcable for the managers 10 contract for ships
in the United States. The present bill will not
therefore injure American shipbuilding inter
ests. 1t will furnish our shpbudcrs with adj
ditonal work, and enable them to demonstrate
the capacity of their yards to rival the greatest
shipbuilding establishments in Europe.
A second ground for justifying the signing
of this measure by the President is the strength
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
THE TAMMANY HEALTH BOARD.

The manner in which Tammany Hall debases
and dcgrades every department of which il
obtains control is illustrated by the glarine
mismanagementA of the Health Department.
This has been exposed in most forcible man
ner by DR.. Edward G. Janeway, who for many
years was connected with the Board Of Health
with the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital
and with the faculty of Bellevue Hospital Med
ical College. DR.. Janeway has become thor
oughly disguised with the manner in which
| the powers of the Health Department have been
perverted for partisan use, and has resigned all
three places. When Mayor Grant appointed
Charles c. Wilson president of the Board of
| Health he knew that Mr.. Wilson had no special
fitness, qualification capacity for the place.
| Since Mr.. Wilson has tax en- that position, the
| Department has sunk lower and lower in pub
lie estimation, because the determination to
make it in every part serviceable wheel in the
Tammany machine has been apparent every
day. Tammany insists on such absolute DOM
ination in every branch of the municipal SER
vice that it will not permit any of its agents
or tools whom it puts in Office to work heartily
for the benefit and welfare of the community.
but demands that all the patronage, all the
anu pONtIo VI CNCiy uCPdi'u Nh'
and bureau and division shall be used to
strengthen Tammany. 1t is dcplorabc that so
corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS an organization should
be permitted to fasten itself upon all the de-
partments, and TO misuse them to fill the pock-
cts Of its vote gettcrs.
Such denuncations of this system and of its
results as DR.. Janeway has done public SER
vice by expressing ought 70 arouse public scnt-
ment but New Workers as rule are singu-
larly apathetc and lcthargic about their own
interests. 1t takes tremendous explosion to
wake them up. They allow constituencies poll
ticians of the lowest sort TO plumber them. 10
make the city government the marvel Of the
world in its extravaganza, corruption and in
efficiency, and yet they neither protest earnest
ly nor make any practical effort to relieve them
selves of this disgraoeful condition of affairs.
| Dr. Janeways statement that the Health De-
partment has been misuscd for partisan pur-
poses ought to be convincing TO every clear
sighted and reasonable man in this CITY. Every
intelligent citizen of NcwYork knows that
Tammany is an evil, a mischief and a curse 10
the community. Ii can be ovcrthrown, if the
respectable people of the town will act in con-
cert against the rogucs. We shall never have
decent city government until Tammany is
cast down and ground into powder. How much
longer will New Workers tolerate such abuses
under Tammany mismanagement, as are EVIL
dent in the Health Department and all the
other divisions of the municipal service? Are
the conscience and selfrcspect Of New-York-
crs always to be under the Tammany heel, or
shall there be an effective uprising for tbs
public welfare?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
A UNIQUE TROPHY

From time mmcmoral mankind has been given
10 making collections. Coins, autographs, clocks
dcatl-masks, waiking-stcks minerals, birds,
spoons, fans pictures, porcclains, and what not all
have their dcvotccs Mark Twain tells of IL
fcllow-crcaturc who had given himself to the
accumulation of large assortment of echoes,
native and foreign. Your typical New-Enslandcr
goes in for Mayiower furniture, just his brother
on tho Pacific shore yearns TO possess something
that once belonged to "a Forty-nner. Barnum
uscd 10 tell Of friend Of his who came into the
American Museum day and asked him in
earnest tones if his collection Of weapons hap
pened 10 contain the famous club with (which
Powlaan would have killed Captain John Smith
but for the intcrpositon of the brave Pocahontas
went upstairs, said Barnum, in relating the
incident and, for n joke, picked out n club
which looked ferocous enough. hastily labelled
ID and returning gave IL TO my friend with the
assurance that it was the treasure he was inquir-
ing for. He looked ut it for few moments, and
then returned it to me with the remark i felt
sure Barnum, you'd have II. I've asked for It
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
LATE SPRING FLOODS.

A winter which was unusually protractcd and
tedious while not remarkable for extreme tenn
peraturcs or violent storms has been followed
by an unusually late and backward spring.
During the last ten days heavy rains have fallen
in tho Mississippi and Missouri valleys and
great floods have been reported from the North
west, from Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, Ar
kansas and Louisiana. In Wyoming there has
been sleighing during the second week of May
an anomaly that has upset the prcccdcnts of
the Oldest settlers Throughout the great
Western corn belt the weather has been I'M
favorable for early ploughing and planting will
have to be deferred until an unusually late
period In Missouri and Nebraska farm work
has been almost wholly suspended by the in
cessant rain, and much damage has been caused
to crops planted during April. In the lower
Mississippi the water is higher than it has been
for many years, and there are grave appre-
tensions of the breaking of many lcvees and
heavy destruction OF property, especially in
Arkansas and Louisiana.
The weather record during the last fortnight
in the great river valleys of the West has been
remarkable on many ACCOUNTS The extent of
territory where heavy rains have been reported
has been very wide. Everywhere the storms
have occurred later in the spring than is usual
and disastrous floods have been caused by con-
tnuous downpour Of rain. In nearly all sec
tons these rains seem to have followed month
Of inclcment weather with mcagre showers and
long intervals of premature drouth. The rains
when they have finally come have been un,lsu-
ally heavy, and the rivers have been swollen
with an uncomfortable volume of water. Ii is
not practicable yet for agricultural experts at
Washington to estimate the damage which has
been caused to cereals by this excessive rain
fall. What is probable is reduction of the
acreage under tillage in consequence of tho
interruption Of early ploughing and farm labor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11

ening of the auxiliary navy. The City OF Paris
and the City of New-York in consequence OF
their American registry will be transferred
from the English to the American naval reserve.
When the two additional ships to be built in
American yards are provided there will be four
of the fastest steamers afloat available in an
emergency for naval operations. If the prof
ect for the Antwerp line referred to by Senator
FRYE be carried out there will be seven steam
ers in readiness for service in war as cruisers,
commerce -dostroyers or transports that can
outsail all pursuers. AS a measure for strength
ening the naval resources of the Nation, the
Inman bill is to be defended as not only patri-
otto but economical.
1t may be said that the passage of the 1nman
bill establishes precedent, and that similar
favors cannot be refused if the Atlas, the Que
bee or other lines now largely owned in New
York ask for American register on the same
terms To this the reply can be made that the
precedent is a safe one, since it does not de-
prive American shipyards of work, nol i'm
peril in any way the control of the coaStvise
trade and lake navigation in American bot
toms 1t will bring powerful transatlantic
line under the National flag, stimulate Ameri-
can shipbuilding interests, create an auxiliary
navy of the first class and not injure any in
dustry in the country 1t is very different
measure from the Fithian Free-Ship bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
THE DANGER ABOTT SILVER


| 1t is well that the people of the East, and
of substantial business in all parts of the coun-
| try, should not misapprehcnd the nature or the
strength of the silver fanaticism with which
they have to deal A correspondent who has
been travelling extensively through the West
crn States writes word of warning. lie be-
| lieves that at the National conventions "the
Eastern delegates will be surprised at the de-
tcrmncd front of the silver horde" and that
" the East can't sleep on their oars this time, for
| they have a much bigger job than they have
any idea Of" He holds that the chief element
| in all this agitation is " the boomers in town
and city lots, as well as those that arc in debt,
| and they are not confined entirely to the West
| ern States. They are a wdeawake. hustling
| set of men, that don't fear tho devil" This
| well that the people who mean to stand for
| sound money should understand at the outset
| what sort Of opposition they have to meet.
The men who have riskcd much and as yet
have not pulled out, the men who have taken
large obligations upon themselves which as
yet they cannot meet, do not constitute ma
| jorty by any means in any part of the coun-
try. Nevertheless they are active. noisy and
hustling people, as this correspondent says, and
have got beyond fear either of the devil or
of financial consequences. All they want is to
get out of their speculations with profit If
soft money, or bad money, or any kind of in
lation will hoist prices long enough to enable
them to sell the property they hold for more
than the debts they owe they will let the coun-
try take care of itself aftcrward. Though these
men are numerically few, though they have
comparatively little influence among substantial
business men in established commercial
! centres, yet they are noisy and persistent they
risk much for they realize that they have some
thing to gain and nothing to lose, they impress
cheap politicians and unthinking journals with
II sense of their Importance as representatives
of public opinion, and above all they are in the
humor to fight against any party or any can
didate who may oppose their ideas.
1t is not to the purpose here to consider
whether the one party or the other has the
disadvantage of the support and nominal at
tachment OF tho greater number of these
" boomers" There arc enough of them in either
party. But in the Democratic ranks they find
an enormous body Of voters who arc naturally
disposed to sympathize with them. because
these voters have for thirty years been hostile
to the financial policy by which the rebellion
was suppressed and the credit of the United
States maintained. They were ready for in
fation at any time and to any extont. They
were ready to pay the bonds with deprecated
paper and they were hungry to coin silver
without limit. At no time during or since the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
AmnsemrnIs.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-2-s .30-Buresque
AMBERG THEATRE 15-Dor Hattcnfaenger Won
Haueln.
BIJOU THEATRES '5-A Jolly Surprise.
BROADWAY THEATRES :l5-Wang.
CASINOS l5--Chid Of Fortune.
CHtCKERING HALLS 30-Illus rated Lecture
COLUMBUS THEATRE-2-sl5-Thc Little Tycoon
DALY'S THEATRES 1.-THE Rose, That Lawyers rec
Double Lesson.
EDEN MUSEF-Wax Figures
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRES :50-Poly MIG
dies.
GARDEN THEATRES :30-Husband and WIFE ana
Drftod Apart.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-2-S :15-Stru9ge OF LIE.
HARLEM OPERA HOUSES ia Night at the circus
uERRNANN'S THEATRES :l5-Mr. Wilkinsons WIG
Cws.
HoYTs MADISON SQUARE THEATRES 3o-A Trip
TO Chinatown.
ROSTER A. BIAES-2-S-Vaudevile.
LYCEUM THEATRES 15-The Grey Mare ana ihc
Orcanst.
MUSIC HALLS .l5-From Chaos to Man.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN-Annusl Exhibition
pALMEE;S THEATEE-s-Juper.
pROCTORS THEATRES :l5-Across the Po'o'ac'
SOCIETY GROCNDS-Horse Show.
STANDARD THEATRES :i5-Friend.
STAR THE iTRE-s 1.-THE American Minlster
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
PERSONAL.

President Harrison will have wire from Minncap-
oils TO the White House during the National Conven
ton, ao IL Is thought that he will know the result
inside Of two minutes from the time the nomination
Is made. similar convenences will be offered to other
nominees.
The IIindoo prince soon to visit England. the Gak-
war OF Baroda is of the most progressive rulers
In Indostan. lie does not want costly buildings
merely for show, but spends his preferably
schools. railroads and drainage. His personal chnr-
acer IS good and he Is phanthropc in his instincts.
There has been talk Of elccting Professor A. 5.
Hardy, alrcady OF Dartmouth president Of that col
lege: but he will not be able to accept the Office hav-
Ing decided to leave Hanover and take profess
sorslip at West Point.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas h. Caller, vce-chnncellor of
the University OF the South who refused the bishoprc
OF Georgia II few months ago, Will preach tho bac-
calaurcate sermon Trinity College, Hartford, June
10. l.- Oh, 80. ..f-,. a.
Tho Rev. Robert Christie, OF st. Paul. who enjoys
O $4,000 salary from the largest Presbyterian church
In that city, and is highly popular has been announced
as Of the faculty Of the Western Theological Sem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11

1t is not the bar of New-iork City alone that
feels outraged at the elevation to the Court OF
Appeals of disgraced and discredted person
like Isaac H. Maynard. This was made evil
dent at the meeting of the local Bar Associa-
ton last evening, when communication was
received from large number of Buffalo law
yers who warmly approve the association
course in investigating and condemnng May
nard. The communication bore the signatures
of 112 members of the Buffalo bar. Its sig
nifcance and importance will be keenly ap-
precated, not only by the body to which it was
addressed, but by all rightthinkng citizens.
The lawyers of other cities in the State might
well follow the example set by those of Buffalo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11

mary. in Aegheny, Penn. This, hoxver. is slightly
premature; for he had not at last ACCENTS positively
accepted the chair to which he has bacn called that
OF theology. The seminary offers smaller salary
than he Is now receiving.
Richard Yates the Republican nominee for Congress.
large from Illinois this year. Is the Of the
old war Governor Of that State, who died In 1865.
An attempt is being made by the silver men In Wash.
ingtOn to defeat Mr. COoidgc's confirmation because
when a member Of the Pan American Conference two
years ago. he opposed scheme for putting all Amer
lea on silver currency basis.
When Father Hall recalled from Boston to Ene-
land by the Cowley Fathers 1t said that the mis-
sion church 10 which he labored might as we'll close
Its DOORS Nevertheless 1t has go)dszed congregations
Sunday after Sunday.
Ex-Chief Justice William Lindsay, 1t Is said, was
raised to the highest judicial Office in the Blue Grass
State without having had real law case. While
yet novice he was elected Sheriff, and then State
Senator. Then almost before he knew it he was q
Supreme Court Judge, and finally Chief Justice. Then
he declined reelection, saying I want to begin to
practice; that's what started out to do and want
to see how 1t goes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11

THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign.-The Vatican's note to Archbishop Ire
land, commencing his educational policy, was made
public. - Emin Pacha is reported to be totally
blind - The two men charged with the muir
der Of DR.. Vulcovitch, in Constantinople, have
been found guilty. and condemned to death. -
The Sultan Is seriously ILL.,
Congress.-Both branches in session. - The
Senate: The bill enlarging Yellowstone National
Park was passed. - The House The Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill considered.
Domestic.-Forty said to have been
killed by mine explosion in the State of Wash
ington - The floods in the West continue tc
do great damage. The Government crOI
report for May makes the condition Of winter
wheat "a; the indicated decrease in the cotton
acreage is Is per cent. -: The sessions of th'
Methodist Episcopal General Conference were con
tinued at Omaha - Angry Italian laborer
near Asbury Park. made prisoners Of their EN-
ployers - The Fish and Game Commission
organized In Albany.
City and Suburban.-A bogus insurance firm
was exposed. Columbia College paid it
frst instalment on its new site. - The charges
against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
road were sustained. - Preparations for big
strike of granite workers. - Henry Randolph
a literary man. accidentally poisoned himself with
strychnine. - The body Of the child murdered
in Brooklyn on Friday last was found -
Stocks little less active, and partly on that
account irregular. Final variations were fire.
aucntly declines, but they were merely indica-
tions of the underlying strength of the market.
The Weather.-FOrecast for to-day: Sbowery
conditions; slightly warmer. Temperature yes
terday: Highest. 60 degrees; lowest. so; aver
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11

War could the credit of the Nation have been
sustained if the power ~ shape its financial
policy had rested with the party which this
body of voters practically control 1t is against
the overpowering influence within the Demo-
cratic party of these voters and the noisy ana
active men who lead them that the Repup-
lican party has to contend this year. 1t there
fore ought TO have the hearty and unhesitatng
support of substantial business men OF every
shade of political opinion throughout the coui-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-11
THE PATTI FESTIVAL"

Tho frt concert OF what Is officially called the
.Adena Patti Musical and operate Festival occurred
at the Madison Square Garden last night The pup
lie is accustomed TO somewhat reckless Use oil the
word festival. In music il has come TO have an ex.
cecdngly vague, If not suspicious, Significance Next
saturday there Is 70 be Handel festival. consisting
chiefly OF Tgah music, In one Of the churches OF tho
city. A banjo festival or a mandolin festival wouG
scarcely str ripple OF surprise In tho present IN
stance Pitt festival means miscellaneous coneet
OF the kint tnat has frequently been heard In New
York gveI In Il big place at reduced prices Its one
original feature Is the participation Of chorus, I'M
posing In aspect Of numbers and admirable III pspect
OF quality OF tone, which last night die eSceheh'
work, but Aid little of 1t that tho question woud
not down al evening as TO what so many singers hio
come together for. There were three choral huuioeN
on the programme and though from 900 10 oVo singers
participated in them, the disposition of The audience
was 10 trea the choral feature 40 OF little importance
compared With the singing Of Mile. Fabbr, MIR.
Novara a9d Mr.. DIPPED, and ss OF no
Importance at all compared with Madame Patti.
The admired singer was greeted by demonstration
Of enthusiasm which would have been vastly Imposing
had il BEEN bounded by the usual theatrical waIls'
but which lost much oi It's spirit In the vast reaches
of the great Garden. She sang tho ballad ana lever
waltz from Faust with orchestral accompaniment,
and s.ftorwaEi. to still the applause, "home' sweet
Home" Tlen she sang sentimental song ny
Mascheron entitled For All Eternity to phnolorte
accompaniment with violin obblgato. ana Mter thas
Comm Through the Rye Finally she sang "Ihe
Last Rose Of summer" There was numerous "
ohcstra on hEnd, but It had little to do With the
prma DONNA and the extent Of the chcirs partcipa-
ton has realty been Indicated Had its efforts been
Owen In a mole dignfed cause IL YQud be a pleasure
To speak ut gater length OF the fness OF tone aug
the precision which characterized tile singing OF the
choir under the direction vi Mr. W. Il: Chapman: az
il was, II seemed ptful waste VI good matesi~
to have them ,noccupied fye-sixths OF the evening"