The herald., 1896-03-03


that, all denials to the contrary, the mouth
of the Hudson is being rapidly filled up,
and that only a few years will elapse before
New York, like her sister cities, Philadel-
phia and Boston and Baltimore on the At
lantic and Portland, Ore, on the Pacific,
will be merely large cities on streams only
navigable for small craft. am heartily in
favor, said G. W. Fitzgerald of the National
line OF the new transatlantic route proposed
by Austin Corpin. This is from sheltered
deep-water bay near Block island on the
Atlantic side to Milford Haven, South
Wales, which is unexcelled as harbor, ac-
cessible at any stage of the tide, in any
weather, and rapidly becoming one of the
chief English naval stations. The Great
Western railway, with it's terminus at Pad
dington, in the heart of West London, and
with trains running every three minutes to
the chief postoffice in st. Martins Le
Grand, has fast express between
Milford Haven and London, the running
time of which is 1853 miles per hour over
the broad guage track originally devised
by the great Brunei. This service would
save much detention and delay at Queens
town, Kingston. where the American mails
are put aboard the fast steamers to con-
meet with the London and Northwestern at
Holyhead and the tedious dockage at Liver
pool. The through time for mails and
PASSENGERS would be on an average five
days. The practical closing of such great
port of entry as New York is of national
Importance. 1t is partly due to the
enormous silt arising from the detritus
brought dewn the Hudson, and partly from
cosmic causes which are slowly eroding
much of the Atlantic seaboard, and inten-
styling the shifting currents that extend in
the shoal water from Nantucket to Sandy
Hook. While self-seeking,. pettifogging
politicians have been squabbling over their
meat, their ears have been deaf to the
thunde-ous sea, beating upon a barrier to
their transatlantic commerce, that all the
wealth of all New York city cannot now
remove. The expenditure of a very mod
crate sum, so urgently asked from the
New York legislature by leading Demo-
Gratis, and supported by the better Repub-
lican element, have been unheeded, and as
consequence New York has lost forever
her proud position as the chief port of entry
in the United States. Los Angeles county
and, indeed, all Southern California, should
take this lesson to heart, and, irrespective
OF party. urge the speedy completion of
deep water harbor at San Pedro.
Fl. o. Wagley, the well-known musical
critic of the Boston Advertiser. said that if
he had a schloss in Bavaria he would not
turn on his tremoio stop in Methodist
tabernacle for two bits, even If he were
Schott. Mr.. Wagley is at the Nadeau.
Seuor FIR. Q. Morales, once a wealthy
Cuban planter, came in on the Santa Fe
last night. The venerable gentleman, who
is we'll known and highly respected by the
leading importing tobacco firm in New
York, who have been the consignees of the
estate for nearly a century, was rejoiced to
hear that the insurgents had been formally
recognized, but thought that the United
States, with the concurrence OF the powers,
should Immediately intervene by the dis
patch of warships to Havana and the land
ing of United States troops to stay the aw-
full atrocities now being perpetrated. He
thought that if this government would take
such a step without waiting for the neces-
sary diplomatic correspondence 10 trouble
would ensue. | am in position to say
positively that no remonstrance would be
made by the courts of Berlin or st. James,
while it would do much to strengthen the
influenced OF the United States in South
America.
'The musical rythm of The Dance of the
Sonnets, which recently appeared in the
Hartford Courant, is not from the pen of
Charles Dudley Warner, but from that of
an accomplished lady who has for some
years been chief proof-reader on the most
scholarly OF the New YORK dallieS. Anyone
who knows Warmers work, and the pecu-
liarity of taste which made him inflct
upon the thousands of readers of Harpers'
lueubrious jokes (:) from the EDITORS
Drawer, will realize at once how impossible
it is that he can be the author. Warmers
fame, such as it is, is due to his godfathers
and godmothers, who must have been
providentially directed to have the neologos
baptized with the sounding name upon
which his fame alone depends" said the
professor, very ddactically, and the
mild.mannered bandit said "Vult."
Jerry Mcclure. an old-time miner who
has large interests in Cripple Creek. is in
the city, slowly getting over a Sc
we're attack of Pneumonia, He
ing to the hasty construction of buildings,
damp bedding, and the most inclenent
winter known in Colorado for many years;
strangers were dying of pneumonia like
sheep with the rot, and doctors and under
takers were literally exhausted. Mr.. Nc
CURE had slight attack at first, nursed
himself and got better quickly. only to be
stricken down second time. Half dead,
with a temperature of 1882, he reached
Los Angeles, where, under the care of his
sister, he is rapidly convalescing. MIR. Nc
CURE is sadly grieved over the death OF j.
N. Gregory Of the firm of II. S. Crocker &
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