New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-19

The transsiberian railroad Is completed to
Omsk. a distance OF ZOO miles. and work upon
the remainder is being pushed forward with the
utmost energy. Its completion being Of urgent
importance to the plans Of Russia in the East
which are swelling and ambitious beyond her
avowals but which she will not be allowed to
carry out to the extent that she contemplates
She would like to be dominant In China. as Eng
land has been and Is in India. With a military
road along its. northern frontier and an open
port in the Eastern waters. she could, II unop-
posed. lay the whole country at her feet in n
summers campaign. and set Russian Satraps
over 1t from end 10 end. Britain has in the
Peninsula from the Himaayas to Cape Comorin
But she will not have n free hand there by any
| means. nor will any European alliance be al
lowed to have things its own way. The United
States has commercial and other interests there
Of some magnitude and constantly expanding
and 1t will look after them with diligent atten-
ton. Its relation with the Eastern peoples has
been friendly and reciprocal from the beginning.
while the attitude Of the European countries to-
ward them has been overbearing and bullying
and full Of the spirit Of grasping and greed, never
more active than now. though modified and re-
pressed by existing conditions. 1t is safe to say
that though America will build no railroad to
the Chinese frontier It's interests in that country
will equal that Of Russia and be quite as care
fully and Systematically looked after.
| Senator Coggeshals friends are making a de-
termined fight but it will avail him nothing.
! The Senator is a back number.
Anybody going through the streets OF this city
cannot fail to observe the number Of mere chill
dren who are permitted 10 drive horses through
crowded thoroughfares. To place boys in charge
OF teams and heavy wagons always has Its dan
gers, but thus to turn them loose In New-York
City Is to invite disaster. 1t is not only wrong
/ TO the child. but a greater wrong to the COM
munity which is more likely than himself to suf-
fer from his weakness. carelessness or lack of
Judgment. With the introduction Of cable and
trolley cars. and the increased use OF the bicycle
traffic on city streets is made more complicated
and the safe handling Of teams more a matter of
skill. Indifferent men. who go about in heavy
wagons careless Of whom they may encounter pro-
vded his vehicle is lighter than theirs. are dan
gerous enough to life and limb. without having
the peril increased by allowing boys who have no
sense OF their responsibility or OF the proper
management Of horses to race through the streets
! without restriction.
| The list OF accidents by drowning Is always
long in this vicinity during the summer. but this
season 1t is unusually large and It is dotted with
many pathetic and distressing cases.
Professor Garner. who few years ago went to
Interior Africa for the purpose Of classifying the
slmlan vocabularies. has made no great progregs
In that work. but has returned to his field Of OBJ
servation on the baboon. and may In time be able
to tell US what the orang-outangs there find to
say to each other. The chances. however are
the other way. The only dialects which man
seems able to master are those belonging to man
the discoursnRs OF all the rest of thu an,ro, L, -