New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-01
Weyler Is having hard time In Cuba when
even the gas engines repudate him.


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This May Day marks the beginning of an i'm
provement Of Importance to the residents OF the
towns recently Incorporated In the city Of Brook
lyn for from this time forth they are to have
the benefits of free postal delivery. The local
postofilces long favorite neightorhood resorts
and exchanges for news and gossip. have been
wiped out, and hereafter the gray-coated letter.
carrier will be his rounds in all this
large section of our sister city. The Postoffice
Department has been long in making up its
mind to extend the service. and after once de-
Gliding to do so reversed It's action. Another re-
versal then followed. with the results that will
be seen in practice to-day and on all weekdays
in the future.
The three Brooklyn Assemblymen who lied
themselves into the Legislature by saying they
would oppose consolidation. and then favoring
1t. should demand that their rewards be such
as they can enjoy away from home. They are
not likely to find their constituents pleasant
nelghbors during the summer.
What the new Commander Of the Salvation
Army In this country needs is a liberal access
of common-sense. On his recent tour in the
West his conduct was such as to ALLEVIATE many
of the former adherents of the Army What he
has been doing in this city will excite the dis
gust Of all decent people. and lead Mr. Booth
fuckers friends to wish that he might speedily
take himself out of the country man who
would select Steve" Brodie as his escort on a
stunning tour cannot be safely trusted out Of
doors without a competent guardian.
The Rev. DR.. Gregg Of Brooklyn, declares that
he has been misquoted as to his views on bicycle
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he has not time for this form Of exercise but
he keeps three bicycles in the basen ent OF his
house for the use OF the younger members Of
his family. and he affirms that he paid the full
price for each Of them. Nor Is he opposed to the
use Of the wheel on Sunday, save that he thinks
1t ought not TO be ridden between 1890 a. m
and IL m. the hour when church services are in
progress He does not object to people riding
bicycles to church. but he does protest against
their riding away from church. II people want
to come to his church a-wheel. he IL willing and
Is ready to have room set apart In the church
for the storage OF their wheels while they are en-
gagged In worship. On the whole. DR.. Gregg Is
eminently sound on the bicycle question. He
could scarcely be more so IL he were an adept
himself. and We trust that he will soon enjoy the
delights OF spin through Prospect Park and
down the famous Coney Island Path And we
may whisper in his ear that. according to uni
versal experience. the busiest man or woman
who becomes the owner of bicycle somehow
always finds time to ride it.
With the changing and the banging. the crush
ing and the smashing, and all the terrors of the
trolley and the cable In the counties of New-York
and Kings. our unhappy citizens find existence
anything but placid and serene. Crossing our
derous engines Of mutiation and death Is so ex-
citing and perilous an experience that nervous
and timid people pause. shuddering. upon the
brink before they venture to risk life and limb In
these portentous journeys. The people who live
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