New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-07

The Manhattan Elevated Railroad pays s3Oo'OVo
q wear for legal services. II 1t would use d ht>e
Of that to make travel easier 1t might not hceu
so many lawyers
Mr. George Gould believes In high interest," ne
does not think capital would invest in an enter
prise guaranteeing more than per cent ~
must be small savings from old stockings ''ia'
,oke I'm all the and % per cent loans In the
market.
II IS gratifying to note the high standard OF
self-respect that exists among the students oi
Rutgers College The youths who patrohi@e '"c
vouno women of New Brunswick do not mean 10
have the social distinction which they coiiei
taken advantage Of by these young women u
creep into the graces of Princeton we are Bur
nrisaa that the New Bruins wick girls should have
dreamed Of increasing their WISHING Hsts WIN
on, consulting the local college boys who hon
ored them with their friendship. Did they hot
realize that the Rutgers youths had entered .heir
parIors and become masters there; that they
owed obedience to these dear boys for inviting
them 70 parties. and that they were in decency
hound 70 smile on no other collegians, and at
tho most to treat them with only cold civility?
For them to attend reception to the singers
from, another college who visit the town, as the
Rutgers paper says, sis dead insult TO Rutgers
mon" These New Brunswick maidens VIII C
greet their following after strange idols when they
find the manly Rutgers students staying away
from, their teas and making local society desert
waste!
This is a great time for gold. COLORADO mas
plenty. Connecticut thinks 1t has, Alaska is pros
Meeting for It, and now the German East Africa
Company is going tc start BOOM IL pegihs 10
look as If silver men would have to content them
selves with cloud Innings.
The eccentric person who has just died, leaving
a will directing the establishment OF a crank
university in Illinois. iiade an important omis-
sion in that instrument He should have named
the faculty and trustees Debs. Waite Altgeid,
Pennoyer, Tillman. Sovereign. what gaiaXy
he could have made. and how the world would
have rejoiced to see them gathered in one place!
Mr. Cleveland wants TO spend more money on
our diplomatic service, so that our Ambassadors
and Ministers may occupy quarters BETTING
the dignity Of the Nation they represent. That Is
quite right. 1t Is Just what The Tribune has long
been urging But where on earth is Holman! TO
think he should be out of Congress at such
time this!
Nov that a Justice Of the United States SUI
preme Court has taken to bicycling, II can no
longer be alleged that it is undignifed for
dignitary Of the highest order to bestride the
wheel That the popular mind has scarcely recon-
ciled itself to this notion is suggested by Wash
ington dispatch which states that knot OF
curious spectators usually gathers around Justice
White whenever he starts out for ride. There
are much more improbable things. however. than
that the President of the United States may be
riding a bicycle within year or two.
Tammany answer Mr.. Terry-ls 1t good
business to award contract for $4,000 when you
could get it for $1,000 less?
Mr. Phelan-Bosh' This whole investigation
Is nothing but bosh
Those were weghty words which Mr. Cleve-
land wrote in his message In favor Of CONNER
cial reciprocity with Germany We are in SYM
pathy with tiem and so were Mr.. Blaine and the
List Congressional" Reeds Congress. In fact,
the latter believed In them so thoroughly that 1t
enacted law providing for reciprocity with Ger
many, and Mr. Blaine, through the State De-
partment. negotiated a treaty to carry the law
into effect. Perhaps Mr.. Cleveland has forgotten
refused to sign. repealed that law and brought
about the present unfriendly commercial rela-
tons. Can it be possible that he was off fishing
when the Mckinley law was passed. and so never
heard Of It's reciprocity provisions?
Mr.. Foster l.. Backus District Attorney elect
of Kings CoInty, says that in his office there will
be mo waiting-Ioom for loafers" This Is right.
The administration of MI. Backus. the people OF
Brooklyn hope and expect will differ, not only In
this respect, but in numerous others. from that
Of the present incumbent who has run the Of
flee In the interest Of the Democratic Ring for the
last twelve years.
We congratulate our Mugwump friends on the
discovery OF another man who knows what the
Monroe Doctrine really means-and especially
upon the fact that that man Is the President OF
the United States
BANDS silver lecture In Savannah did not
cause a Kafflr boom In the tickets thereof nor
the cornering OF the same on the local ticket
exchange. only one being sold or called for. and
that transaction had the effect Of stopping the
performance. The speaker would not lecture to
an audience OF one and he proceeded TO shake
the dust OF South Carolina from his goloshes like
a Missouri pelican shaking the dew from It's out
spread wings. The interest I'm silver theories or
theorists down there would appear to be in
state of comparative larguor from which even
so striking a figure that of Bland could not
arouse It. Even Hin drew hundred and fifty
auditors In Minneapolis with no money fiat or
other In his thesis, as there was too clearly
In tia fat