New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-03
impart a black eye to the Hon. Grover Cleve


New-York Day be arranged? 1t would be
graceful thing for this city to show its good VIII
toward Chicago in that way. Doubtless there
are people who still harbor the thought that New
York is jealous of Chicago, and because the
Western city captured the Fair, as the saying is
There is. Of course, not the slightest foundation
for such an idea. Why should not New-forS
emphasize this fact by celebrating New-iork Day
at the Fair with genuine New-lorH spirit ami
enthusiasm
1t said OF public man some years ago
after he had committed a monumental error:
lie has blown oF the gas and gone to bed
Governor Altgcld might cut out this epitaph aud
paste it i'll his hat
Not a vast deal of importance is to be az.
tachcd 10 the appointment Of a new commission
by Judge Pratt to appraise the value OF the
property and franchise of tho Long Island Water
Supply Company, about which much has been
heard in Brooklyn Tor the last two or three
years The appointment is, in one sense, merely
a matter of form. since il is the necessary sequel
10 the Judges decision setting aside thc award
Of $40 900 made by the fist commission Inc
matter is now put in proper shape for an ap-
neal and notice of appeal has already been
y
decision the law WIS 20 framed that no appeal
on the part of the city was possible. his ODD
vou,y unfair provision mas since been done
away by the Ia4sagc of a law allowing the city
10 appeal. Public sentiment was strongly IN
favor Of the award and there not little
udi ruatlOn al JUDGE Pratts ruling III beliaH
of the company the interests Of the city clearly
dcmqnd that the higher courts have an oppor-
unity to pass upon this important matter III
the finding of the first commission il sustained the
rev commissioners Will. OF couisc. have nothing
at all to do
A sentimental South Carolina girl wrote to her
lover Drink to me only with thine eyes lie
was plain mattcr-of-fact chap, and he wrote
back that there was provision for his doing
20 under the new law. 1t is understood that the
engagement is OF.
\ new malady has mad" its appearance in
Europe. which is attributed by the leading m'di-
cal authorities Of the Old World to the wooden
blocks with which the streets OF London AMI OF
so many other great transatlantic cities are
paved The aimcnt takes the form OF qulnsy
and blood-posoning, in some cases attacking the
throat in Others the eyes and in some, aglin, the
entire system. 1t seems that the wooden pave
70 which they are subjected, gather a CONSIDER
oble quantity of manure and dirt in the inter
slices and that the practice Of constantly water
ing them has the effect Of producing "a solution
particularly favorable to the development OF
rcrm, When dry il is converted into dust
and is blown by tho wind into the eyes, noses
and mouths of the long-sufTering public. reach
ing the tonsils and the respiratory organs anu
producing symptoms otherwise uDaccountablc.
A dispatch from Niagara states that Eugene
Field. the Chicago poet, has been paying the Falls
Il visit Now, perhaps, somebody who under
stands the language Of cataracts by listening at
tentively will discover'how tile Falls liked Eugene
While in tho United States and in most OF the
countries Of Europe there are more lawyers thln
clients in Spain the reverse Is the cas-, This
altogether anomalous state OF affairs has been
brought about by a fullfcdged strike on the
part OF the entire Spanish bar as protest against
th. decision Of the Government to suppress, on
economic grounds, several of the criminal courts
in the provinces. The Government Is acting
SOLELY with a view 10 retrenchment and reform;
but lawyers az class never have been, either IN
Spain or in any other country, regarded as en-
thusiastIc reformcrs, the notion of retrcnchmcnt
in their MINDS D'lng nN'u up WITH NlSio'e vi
the taxation of their costs. In view of the in
creasng tendency both in this country and III
England to resort TO arbitration instead of APP
healing 70 the regular tribunals, the action of
the Spanish lawyers can scarcely he regarded as
polite. since it is never wise for any body Of
mon to call attention to the fact that their scr
vices can bc dispensed with. Indeed, 1t is on
the cards that the time may come when lawyers
instead of going on strike may experience all the
indignity of lockout.
Mayor Carter Harrison speaks Of a Chicago
newspaper which is capable of lying without
nroyocation or excuse As an author His Honor
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