New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-26

10 will have done the race an everlasting bene-
faction
Just az the contentious Of Greece. Turkey and
the Powers are definitely ended the football
season in this country begins Is there never to
be such n thing as universal peace?
.
Persons who are not wholly familiar with the
ways Of the Republican organization leaders
should not be deceived by their attempt 10 make
II appear that the National Administration has
been enlisted IN their fight against Mr.. Lows
candidacy. Thus far the evidence to that effect
which they have anxiousy sought has been en-
tirely lacking. and there is reason 10 antcl-
pate that the deficiency which ds,urbs them will
be supplied from any more authentic source than
their own invention.
The presence 81 two yellow fever cases in the
harbor has not caused ripple Of anxiety in
this city or nelghborhood. Doubtless New-York
owe, much To It's climate. but II also deserves
credit for the maintenance Of conditions which
AFFORD security and peace OF mind
-
With the report from Skaguay. Alaska that
eighteen god-hunters have just lost their lives
through n landslide I'm the Chilkoot Pass the
winters tale OF horrors on the route TO the Klon-
dixie has been definitely and omnously begun.
Having held a caucus and decided to take up
General Tracy. vice Olcott dropped. the Hon.
Lemuel Ely Qugg naturally sent the General
dispatch OF Information and entreaty. But why
did he drag In an allusion TO the Republican City
Convention? what has the convention TO do with
It? This must have been an inadvertence on the
part % Quigg but beyond causing him some
a
The great problem OF finding the ideal method
Of duellIng has AT last been satisfactorily solved
in 81. Louis. The objection 20 duels has always
been that they result in physical damage 10
only zone OF the participants. still, like
the modern French encounter leave both scath-
less. Two young In ST. Louis having
learned the great truth that Il is not possible
for two things to be in exactly the same place
at the same time decided 10 try elimination
The place which both wished 10 occupy was a
young lady's heart and whether this great prin-
ciple ot physics is always true OF that organ
or not II seems 10 have been true In this case
Bicycles were chosen the weapons The dis
lance was $50 yards The two ardent SWANS
scorched against each other. 1t was over in a
moment. The friends tied the two riders up
with tire tape and, improyising repairs to their
skulls with umbrella plugs and cement, took
them TO a hospital for permanent repairs. The
wheels were gathered up with scoop shovels and
carted off. The duel brilliantly conceived
and effectively executed. We doubt not the two
young men have set fashion.
The closing baseball season has been a popu-
lar success and would have been highly credit
able to the professional opponents of the Ma
tional game II 1t had not been marred by an ex-
cessve display OF blackguardism on the part OF
many players. Managers can stop that sort OF
thing II they will and II they won't do IL voun-
tarily they ought TO be made to another year
The annual report OF the Federal Supervising
Inspector General OF Steam Vessels. Just issued
in Washington. shows that OF go 600 600 passen-
gers carried during the last year on American
steamships but forty-six lost their lives through
accident. In travel by water under modern con-
dltons peril OF life has therefore been practi-
caly eliminated the risk falling almost entirely
on those who brave in other tnan steamboats,
the dangers OF inland or deep navigation.
Astonishing the result may SEEM water travel
soon promises to outstrip in Its guarantees OF
security any and all modes OF transportation by
land.
A State bank at Davenport. Neb.. closed on
doors that It could not secure borrowers for the
excessive surplus lying idle in its vaults. Yet
the Boy Orator OF the Platte and his lieutenants
are attempting to conduct campaign this fall
in Nebraska on the pretence that until the free
coinage OF silver is secured there can never be
enough money within reach to carry on the
ordinary operations OF farming and business
within the State.
The Philadelphia architects who entered the
competition recently arranged by the State
CAPITOL Commission. and then had their draw
ings for the new building at Harrisburg returned
TO them without reasonable explanation. have
shown a proper spirit in declining to compete
again and declaring that no architect who re-
submits plans will be considered thereafter in
good standing in the local profession. The two
architects clubs In Philadelphia have just
passed resolutions expressing their Indignation