New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-07

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American intellectual culture.
UILLT1M WHTTNEY AND THE WHISTLE
Mr.. William Collins Whitney! You may not
have heard Of It. but Mr.. Plati'S personal organ
~ Albany. The Evening Journal" has. as Aici-
hodcs remarked TO Tissaphcrnes In the middle
~ the Dccecan War got onto both Of lis.
When The Tribune remarked the other day that
Won had returned opportunely and welcomed
YOU with corliality because the Traction Com
panv Of which you are Il large siockh"lder ana
influential director needed the services or 4
Fool Killer" in order that the public might be
protected from the devastating effect ana mad
deninp Influence Of the double-harrcllei whist"
ON the Sixth-ave surface cars we did not dream
that Mr.. Platt's Albany newspaper would :"
soon piercc our disguise and penetrate our pur-
noea But II Immediately did Not only pierced
e. hut said scornfully that it was 10 disguise nj
all. that we had been so tactlcss as 10 throw
off all disguise" in bidding you wccome because
Won are "a power in Tammany Hall and The
.srrilune is cultivating the powers Of Tamnany
.1Iall SO rs 10 be- In position 10 reach for fl,
coed in defeating the Republican party" You
will be grevcd {, learn that the conspiracy has
follcn through for Mr. platrs newspaper ADDS
Tim, nov the infamy II The Tribune has been
cxnoscd. .the Republicans Of the State whom
eli has been seeking 10 bciray into the hands
.or Tammany Hall, will know how 10 regard 1t
Gin the future" There's no use. William. trying
70 conspirc when "rhc Evening Journal is
on guard. 1t is simply impossible 10 cludc The
vigilance Of that able and intelligent news.
papcr. We must withdraw oar welcome ana
call II all Off between us Never mind about The
printing contracts. We Will try and get along
without them. Notwithstanding The impression
which prevails NJ Albany that printing contracts
are essential 10 newspapers existence.
And now. william. 10 rccur t. The double
barrcllcd earspliiicr which The Tribune on be
half Of a suffering public has asked you 10 abol
ish Now that the conspiracy j. on, "" feel al
liberty 10 say 10 you frankly but firmly. That
there mus, bee No. rrifline In This matter. When
Won wired The Tribune tho other day that You
would turn your attention - the SiNthaN"
whistle as soon ~ you succeeded III hndnS
Mace 10 rest your Presidential boom we accept
ed the ASSURANCE in good faiih. though We con
fcss that The playful manner IN which You treat
, ,h. somewhat serious subject ~ Presidential
booms led us To- SUSPECT that you might NOT a'
curatcly measure the Importance 10 TINS com
munity Of the early suppression Of III" double
Llrrclcd whistle There's great deal IN II,
William Not alone In the whistle though
there's more agony. waillns rrmorS" disap
nolntmcni cxasporation. rage, riot, turbulcncr
unrcolit,l love- ficndish elcc, lugubrious lam
outation. dcmoniac cxutatior AMI Wild weird
| unc,rthlncss in il than eyer disturbed the
dreams Of Dante or made Milton mad hut IN
the general effect of II upon The political fortunes
| ~ everybody who with the power "f stopping
/, nermils II 10 20 on. During the last two or
| ,hrn. DAYS IL has been observed that conductors
| ON the Sixihavc. open cars hav" used Tor STOP
nina opdsstorting purposes the bell and whistle
| Iudiffcrcnily sometimes the bell and sometime,
| III. whistle William this Is 10 silver question.
1, cannot he siraldlcd in that way. II may do
for the Democratic party to muddlc mp mclalllSIn
so that the innocent voter can never really I'M
| d.rstond whether II Is mono or H. ana you may
think that similarly this community will get 50
confused with the alienation of the bell aud the
whistle that they will continue 10 ride on the
| SiNth.ayc open cars. hoping III" while for me
hell but fearing all the time The whistle. It's
. mistake William TIL, citizens will not stand
| "a
If. For presently some citizen. who uses the
six,h.ove cars because hc doesn't own four in
hand mr. understand Il bicycle. being lurcd by the
hell 10 the outside seat ON an open ear, Will Ice
driven mad by the unexpected ouiburst Of the
douhle.barr,llcd whistle close To his ear and fail
off the ear ravlng maniac Then there will be
a popular uprising, and everybody who has any
responsibility for the doublebarTccd whistle
,t..l and lti. nj. nf
business by detachment Of police To prevent a
| riot Than this nothing. unless II be the return
Of the Democratic party TO power in this town,
could be worse This you must see Yourself
We repeat. William. that ~ Fool Killer you
cannot afford to let the man who armed the
Sixthavc conductors with the doublcbarrclri
cxaspcrator get away. And, above all things,
Won must abolish the whistle II You hope ever to
be President Of the United States. The Tribune
does not ask, nor does the public require, that
| the conductors who have become proficient In
the Use Of the whistle should be dismissed from
the service of the company simply because they
have us.d the instruments with which they have
been armed To worry and distract passengers.
Some Of them have shown such lung power ana
such fondness for the instrument That they
should be organized In Il whstling corps 10 play
continuously In the offices of The company, AMI
especially loud ut directors meetings. And
Conductor No ~ should lead the band. lie
can saturate the dead emptiness Of II double
barrclcd whistle with more tcmpcstuousness,
more vehcmencc. more abstract trouble and con
crete distress, more dissonant dscords. more
caterwauling combinations. more things that
make the transient passenger wish he was dead
or had never been born, than all the street bands
and handorgans on the continent turned simul