New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-09


lost sight of in the remaining days Of the session.
Pretty nearly every good-sized town in the
country has ,ocal Parkhurst and oca Triby.
The Japanese army, on its march in China,
stops on the way now and then to capture city
or storm a fort but 1t never takes its eye Off
Picking. The throne of the Chinese Emperor
mus, be a very uncomfortable chair nowadays.
II # wasn't a blizzard it was a pretty good
imitation Of one.
\ convenient, cheap and manageable motive
nower for small boats used on inland axes ana
rivers. and everywhere where such craft can pe
emploved Is one of the Urgent needs of the Tune.
The much-extolled naphtha launches are IN the
hands OF a monopoly and cost about hve times
nc much as they are worth, and ten times wnat
a boat for popular and general use ought 10 sen
for 'rhe electric launches at the WORLDS ar
mot nil requirements perfectly except that or
nr,co belnp much too expensive for popular use
s,ich q device to meet al the desired conditlonS
should he applicable to any existing crai'' dc
easily applied and inexpensive as well as per-
rectlv safe In all contingencies Whether the
Chicago man who says he has has reaily MI
upon this much-desired device remains To o'
seen. 1t consists Of a motor propelEng sore"
and ti.ler, all embraced in small compass WHICH
can be attached to any boat almost as easily as
a rowlock and is equal to a speed or from three
10 five miles an hour. The weight OF the MIXTURE
is thirty -fve pounds and the accompanying
battery from Is to 275 pounds. according 10
whether the primary or storage power Is USED
The cost Of this machine Is about 800; with bat
terios from 1925 to sl75; and the running cost 3
estimated at from ) to cents an hour. wnich IL
cbeap enough but the device Itself is not cheap
enough by any means. Good boats OF smal Size
ought to be turned out perfectly equipped with
n motor propelling apparatus and all the requi-
site outfit for less than 800. and larger and more
elaborate ones AT proportonate price. Wnen
they reach something like these figures they VIII
sell by the ten thousand and find their way upon
all our inland waters in number az the lying
wator-birds which .nhabt them.
II Is announced on the authority OF the state
Gas Inspector that the supply Of natural gas
in Indiana will be exhausted in four years rne
supp.y Of natural gas in the pres mt Congress VIII
be exhausted in less than four weeks
The spectacle Of Senator Hill sitting at dinner
as the guest Of the statesman whom he described
only little while ago the lean and hungry
Cassus' is that should have been photo
graphed for the edhcation Of posterity If Mr..
German failed to have hash-ght picture taken
Of I, he missed an opportunity which no man
with any sense OF the picturesque would ignore
Commissioner Waring il getting a good deal
of experience in the removal of snow. 1t Will
stand him in good stead when he comes to clean
ing the streets.
Attacks are being mPde upon Police Com
missioner Wellcs. Of Brooklyn for alleged failure
t. manage the police force properly during the
strike. The complaints might merit more at
tention il not for the fact tina; commls-
sioner Wslles's severest critics are among those
most respon sible for the greatest shortcomings
In the Police Department Mr.. Wees Is not
Superintendent Of Police. That Office Is held by
"A man nearly seventy years old. far beyond the
point In health and strength OF managing the
force in such crisis. When the commissioner
took Office ~ asked thai the law be amended
10 allow the retirement N the Superintendent,
HIS admirable character was admitted, but II
was conter.led tina. in case Of any trouble an
active aggressive man should be in command
The commissioners wish was opposed by those
who now most nercely denounce him when his
prediction has come trIe. II Is not Mr. Welless
function To- TAX, command OF the uniformed
force lie Il judicill and administrative oh-
GER not policeman II there were riot III
New-York would the four Police Commissioners
og Superih tendent Byrnes. be held accountable
f3r thu peace Of this city? Mr.. Welles fills eN-
actly the same place as the four Superintendent
Campbell f. the chief police officer He could
rot rule the police "a they should nave been
ruled his being in command was mistake
which the fsr sight ~ Mr. Weilcs would have
corrected had IL been allowed
one reason why Colonel Warng is improving
the condition OF the streets IL that h. mas no
time To waste with politicians
The citizen who imagines that because II the
abundant ice crop the price %, ice to small con-
sumers will be lower next summer IMAM IL was
last entertains himself with vain and frosty
delusion The monopoly which controls prices
viii be found doing business at the old STANG
and the people will have to pay the freight az
usual!
4 woman out IN Bloomfield stopped runn-
way horse the other day With "a much dexterity
as "A rervy man would have displayed. Plainly
womans sphere Is constantly enlargng.
Resides evange.IZation as means of SOFA.
amelioraton. General Booth, Of the salvation
Army thinks some relief for industrial cohges-
ton and stagnation in Britain may be found IN
emigration to the Colonies But the Colonies III
general already have more home labor than they
can employ. 1t IL only a year or two since
Australia went through season OF extreme
financial and commercial depression. from when
she has not yet recovered; and az to Canada IN
stead of Offering promising field FOR immigra-
ton. a good share OF her people become emil
grants as soon they are old enough To endure
a change Of climate ew-Engand has been
taken possession of almost entirely by descend
ing wave OF French Canadian habitants, and the
flow across the border along the whole territorial