New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-11

| with Hawaii by contributing 10 bring ABOUT
| satisfactory solution Of this conflict.
In an interview published yesterday. President
| King Of the Park Board states that the report
| OF Mr. Vaux on the Harlem Driveway was
| adopted several days ago; that MI Naux was
| ,ben directed TO furnish plans for this work and
| that he IS row engaged in preparing them
This Information is SO gratifying that we hardly
fool I'm a mood 10 complain that It was not given
~ the public as soon as the board took action
This is the natural order Of things. The people
of the city take watchful interest In their
| marks. and they have right to know how they
are being administered. In re.ation 10 the COM
mittee composed Of Messrs Olmsted, st. eau
dens and others President King also says that
II never was the intention Of the board thar
they should act In any other way than as ad-
visers OF the board when the plans Of the land
scape architect came up for approval TINS, too
IS good news and the Commissioners VIII doubt
less at their next meeting set themselves right
on the record and modify the language Of the
original resolution. which has placed them In
position which they never intended 10 assume.
This will be a complete restoration Of the office Of
design 10 It's true functions. The people OF the
city are 70 be congratulated on this happy terni-
nation OF the struggle with a majority Of the old
Park Board carried on for month after month In
the press in the Legislature and in the courts.
The Park Board the official designer ~ the
board and It's engineer at last stand in their
proper relations to each other and - their work
The decision OF tho United States supreme
Court In the Bate patent case is indisputaby
sound in law. sound In equity and sonnd IN the
public interest It tends to loosen the iron shroud
with which pitlless monopoes try 10 crush the
life out Of the prosperity OF the common people
OF America.
Emperor Williams project for an International
congress to bring about some definite agreement
with regard 10 the rights Of private property in
time Of naval warfare is due 10 his conviction
| the; f. will be- utterly impo eible 70 provide Ger
many with navy Of the first rank without
crushing the country under a burden Of abso-
utelv intolerable taxation. Germany. however,
has n large merchant marine and the young
| monarch fears not without reason. that in the
event of "A war under the conditions at present
in force she would suffer enormous losses, and
| that her commerce would ba crippled In conse-
quence Of her inability to afford the proper pro-
lection 10 her merchant ships. The Emperor is
therefore DESTROYS OF securing international recOg-
milton II the same rights OF private property in
| naval warfare prevail In warfare on land. a
doctrine which Great Britain categorcally r.
fused To admit At the Congress OF lS56. Prince
Hohenlohe is now engaged In confidential OK
| change OF views with the various foreign Govern
ments on the subject. but it may be doubted
| whether England and France will be willing 10
| accede 10 a proposition viii IN dcprves them OF
| one Of their principal means OF exercising armed
| pressure. for the mere satisfaction Of insuring
the safety Of German commerce in time Of war.
| From tho appointment Of Professor Wilson to
/ the Postmaster-Gcneralship il may be inferred
that Mr. Cleveland thinks II IL theory and no,
| n condition that confronts the postal service.
Knep. the hydropa thic monk in Rome il
not only barefooted himself but ne is the cause
| Of the barefootedness OF others. inasmuch as he
cnjoins and enforces that practice on al his pa
| tents OF whatever degree. His presence now in
| the Holy CITY is doubtless related to the Pope's
condition. which is fra ana precarious. the pre-
| vous administration OF the water cure having
| done him little good. Kneip carries on the trad-
| ton Of Pre!ssntz. obscured somewhat I'm the re-
| cent practice Of hydropathy It's more vigorous
| features being softened down. Pressnitz. like
his successor. prescribed to his patients the bare
| foot cure but the record of these results is not
| authoritatlvely certified 1t is probable that
|
| Il would not reach. the Holy Fathers at this
time being ~ them.
| The Democratic patriot who points with
pride" TO the record Of the late Congress has not
| been heard OF since that body adjourned. All
signs indicate that he has taken to the woods.
It is somewhat the custom in these closing
| years OF the century to lament the decadence Of
| literary style and to assert that all that is left
OF that subtle and indelnable quality has been
monopozed by the late Robert Louis Stevenson
and Walter Pater. and bv handful OF present
survivors whom it would perhaps be invd!ous to
| name But those who make that complaint cam
not have read the current advertisements with
| sufficient attention. Are they not exemplars OF
style? What dIrectness and simplicity they ex-
| hlbt, What brevity. in which the calculated
cost per line, does not sordidly obtrude itself
| though II may lie in ambush therein What
lightness Of touch. as of the flying swallow upon
| the lake! The writer takes the reader into the
closest confidence at once. His tone is from
| grave to gay. always intimate and sympathetic
| and his chirrupings those Of bird on a
bough. accompanied with like confidence. that
/ the world not only awaits and welcomes. but
| also believes them. Students OF style should not
dsdan his unpretending leaflets. He Is really
| creating a new school OF literature which may
| some time come to high destinies. II the great
| tragedies could be evolved from the primitive
| goat song what may not be expected from the
spirited preudings OF these twangers OF the
| commercial Tyre? II is certain that they have
| made advertisements much easier 10 fead and
| assisted in promoting familiar and agreeable
] sentiments between the seller Of commodities