The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-03-31

There Is n motor vehicle which, Oh
September II, 1896, made five mile
run ut the Narragansctt Park races
in Providence. II. l., In eleven minutes
and twenty seven seconds. The aver
age time per mile was two minutes
seventeen seconds, and il covered the
distance at the rate of little more
than twenty-siN miles an hour. estab
fishing n record fer motor vehicles
The hansoms and surveys In use are
fitted with two one and one half horse
power motors, both attached 10 the
front axle, one to each wheel. and
driven independently. The coupe is
furnished with two two-horse power
motors After fifteen minutes prac
tiCc. say the manufacturers. II man
who has never seen one before ean
operate one They are fitted with pneu
matte tires. The cost of the vehicles
will not be much more than the price
of II horse and an old style carriage
and the charging Of the batteries will
DO inexpensive.
The Greater New York Commission
having completed the business for
which II 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 ut the final meeting were Gen
Tracy, ehalrman; Gen. Stewart H.
Woodford, Mayors Strong, Wurster
and Gleason, and ex Mayor Thomas +.
Gilroy. William G. Dewitt. Silas b.
butcher and George NJ. Plnney, Jr
Some time was spent in making the
final audit Of the bills for printing
stcnography, and typewrlting and
clerk hire, which aggregated $21 1888.
%, This is well within the approprla.
ton Of $4,000 allowed by the Lcglsla.
turc 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
~ INIT iilf1 UNCUT lidNf IN ODJttl 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 II
Is there that many of the social prob
lens must be solved because II Is I'm
those regions that the skcin of life Is
tangled. The men who are to be the
religious teachers Of the next genera
ton cannot know too much Of life
they cannot see too deeply Into its sor-
rows or into It's hardshlps, for It Is
only when they realize the nature of
the task before them that they can 20
about 1t 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 fathcrless are oppressed
There is debate on the possibility OF
the immaculate conception, while chill
drcn are homeless and hungry. There
is assertion Of the crcdibility and au-
thentlcity 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