New-York tribune., 1896-05-31

pose the malady on otner peopie' i"o "'''
thing they can do Is to abandon their deiusion
without waiting to have it scourSed out OF '"eii
rs the Gloucester imbeciles did
Now that tho nolicc have started 10 abolish the
Eour,eenth-st curve nuisance let there be no let
ting up till the cars go around 1t at safe rate Oh
speed.
LITTLE inheritance is TO be attached to the rumor
that the surface railroad companies on tho other
side of the river will apply to the courts for VIII
compelling the elevated railways TO remove inc
s,ructures they have erected over the plaza az
,olning the Brooklyn Bridge station IL - re-
grettable that SO much Of the open space mas peeh
covered by these structures but now that the sur
face OF the plaza has at last been cleared OF oo-
structing piles Of building material ana retuse IL
"a Main that the greater part Of 1t is to be re-
served for the of the people as an approach 10
the Bridge 1t 10 too late to remove the elevated
structures but what Is lett Of the plaza is to re-
main unobstructed under the praiseworthy de-
clslon OF Justice Clement.
There Is reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland
thinks Wild horses are about as numerous in
in Democratic Congress
When Peffers Senatorial term expires there Is
no reaeon why he should not be appointed
laureate of Kansas He has written poetry
since the down was on his innocent jowls. where
now tho hair flows down in cataracts. and he Is
still at II. working nights and days and Sun
days turning out product without known
narallel in any literature or visible prospect OF
the same II has the churning warble OF stern
wheel Mississippi steamboat. and can be read
both ways without any loss of meaning or
melody 1t coils its tendrs round all sorts OF
subjects and wraps them out OF sight, like a
Kansas squash vine running over rail fence.
In the matter Of length his verse like his whisk-
ers. exceeds all competition. and II called to the
official hardship OF his State he will give 1t a
more than Homeric measure The idea Is COM
mended to that Commonwealth. as something
must be done with him. and so far as he has
been tested he is good for nothing else.
It Is a bad time for the Boys. Even Commits
sloner Lyman has surrendered 10 the Constitu-
ton and they threaten to 90 out OF politics en-
tirely
For the cable road people to plead that with
their mechanical equipment 1t is necessary to run
cars at full speed around curves Is merely adding
insult TO injury. 1t is perfectly possible. and they
know IT, for them to get other equipment, which
will allow running at a safe rate. But they denb-
erately prefer to endanger human life rather
than to spend a few dollars on reconstruction or
the road.
Since the time Of Rurk in the ninth century
about half the Russian rulers have died Dy as
sassination and there Is In these modern days
no diminution but rather an increase OF their
peril The young sovereign who has just been
crowned will have to take his chance Of like
fate with the rest OF his line and conduct his
rule in constant atmosphere OF danger ana
perhaps of terror like that which never ceased to
possess his predecessor after the murder OF HIS
father his own accession to the throne The
portraits given of him present countenance OF
winning and innocent aspect. giving the indica-
ton that he will try to be a benehcent and kindly
ruler But that endeavor did not save his grand
father and may not him. Whatever his future.
he has been the central figure in Of the finest
pageants ever seen in the world, outshining the
triumphs of the Caesars and making even the
pomp of Charlemagne and Napoleon seem rather
like a side show. The good wishes Of all nations
20 with the young man to his trial, but destiny
has provided for him of the most psrilous
and uncomfortable situations within its gift.
By-the-way, where Is "the william f. Russell,
who was Governor Of Massachusetts from 1890 to
1902"
The city needs public baths beyond question.
and other conveniences such as 1t Is proposed to
supply but II has no room In Its parks for them.
There has been long controversy over the ques-
ton Of putting Q new municipal building In the