The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-18

There is a motor vehicle which, on
september II, 1896, made a five mile
run at the Narragansett Park races,
in Providence, r. l., in eleven minutes
and twenty-seven seconds. The aver
age time per mile was two minutes
seventeen seconds, and it covered the
distance at the rate of a little more
than twenty-six miles an hour estab-
fishing record for motor vehicles
The hansoms and surreys in use are
fitted with two one and one-half horse
power motors, both attached to the
front axle, one to each wheel, and
driven independently. The coupe is
FURNISHED with two two-horse power
motors. After fifteen minutes prac-
tice, say the manufacturers, man
who has never seen one before can
operate one. They are fitted with pneu-
matte tires. The cost of the vehicles
will not be much more than the price
of horse and an old style carriage
and the charging of the batteries will
be inexpensive.
The Greater New York Commission.
(which 1t was created and
Sent the charter to Albany, met in the
private office of Mayor Strong and for
mally declared itself out of existence
by adjourning without date.
The members of the commission
present at the final meeting We're Gen.
Nracy, chairman; Gen. Stewart L.
Woodford, Mayors Strong, Wurster
and Gleason, and ex-Mayor Thomas f.
Gilroy, William G. Dewitt, Silas b.
butcher and George Nj. Pinney, Jr.
Some time was spent in making tie
final audit Of the bills for printing.
Stenography, and typewriting and
clerk hire, which aggregated $21, 1885,
94. This is well within the appropria-
tiOn of $4,000 allowed by the Legisla-
ture last year. The Commissioners
served without pay.
New methods in the instruction of
theological students seem to be in IA
vor at the Yale divinity school. The
professor Of sociology brought lot of
the students to New York last week to
observe social conditions in that city
so that they might haye an object les
son in life. The young men were
taken, not to the homes of the rich and
the powerful, but into the tenement
house regions, where men and women
live huddled together SO closely that
they cannot raise their eyes on the
earth, for fear Of stumbling and being
trampled under foot by the crowd. 1t
as there that many Of the social prob
lems must be solved because it Is in
those regions that the skein of life Is
tangled. The men who are to be the
religious teachers of the next genera
tiOn cannot know too much of life,
they cannot see too deeply into its sor-
rows or into its hardships, for 1t is
only when they realize the nature of
the task before them that they can go
about it with intelligence. There is
too much theoretical preaching and too
much elaboration of dogma and too
much apology for preaching at all and
too little attempt to apply the funda-
mental teachings OF Christianity to
everyday life. There is talk about
Jonah and the whale, while the widow
and the fatherless are oppressed.
There Is debate on the possibility of
tho immaculate conception, while chill
dren are homeless and hungry. There
is assertion of the credibility and au-
thenticity of the Scriptures, while dis
honesty in private and public life goes
unrebuked If the Yale instructors
can convince their students that Chris
tianity is a living force by bringing
them to New York they will succeed in
an undertaking which is worth while.
CYRUS THoRP.