New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-23

,.. ,ro,,, ,ra shouId like to know who does.
s'Would inevitably lead to monarchy ms
IS so plain that the wayfaring man cannot IN"
~ understand the portentous words. Truly the
future looks dark!
Some men evidently do not object to ne'ns
made the tail OF a kite. Lieutenant wise Is o"e
Of them.
It takes an agile citizen to Keep up 10 "a'e VII
the Greater New-York charter one minute
the Mayors term Is two years. the next i'u'
wears and then again 1t is two years JIM
moro Its Kaleidoscope features are among i'S
chief charms a. a spectacle but do not aod u
the reasons for adopting 1t In haste
r.. ..,c,ss,,on that Jones's Wood, on the
East River, at Sixty fourth-st.. be acquired os
tho city and turned into park Is not new nut
II ia thoroughly good. Senator Pavey mas IN
troduced q bill on the subject. which we hope
IN see enacted. Mayor Strong and the CIT!
Park Commissioners are all IN laVo' y,
proposed park. and there Is no douo' '""' w
people Of the city generally VIII take TIC ~
view. Few Of breathing places are "e
the waterfront. No mistake VIII ne "'"
the present opportunity to secure s"ch d pa"
is improved.
And pener will go out into the night ieaV'ns
his place to be filed not by "socKiess' ''' ~
a silk -stockinged' statesman
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As to the Nicaragua Canal. the country cal"
not play the part Of a dog in the manager -
must either build the canal itself or let so'ne
other nation do It, Great Britain stands ready
and eager to do It. II the United States does not
So the sole question is. Shall the canal be under
Ir;fi oh
he hard to answer
With the strongest belief in arbitration. ana
the friendliest feeling for the general principe
of the pending treaty, 1t may just as wen DE
said that all talk about tanning 1t through
,,hout discussion or delay is injudicous and
| ,nsensate and is calculated to do the measure
more harm than can any Of the objections mus
far raised against It, Hasty treaty making IS 10
he deprecated as much as hasty legislation.
dark lantern treaty Is Objectionable as
dark lantern tariff bill. Let the measure nave
| the full mature. deliberate consideration so
| momentous an instrument deserves. II II be
worthy measure. 1t Will not suffer thereby. In
INV Gaze the real friends Of rational arbtra-
tion can await the result with equanimity and
| confidence. a'.
| The anti-spitting war Is a righteous one. d.
rooted against one Of the nastest. most needless
and most mischievous habits OF mankind
There will be hearty approval Of the plan FOR
| extending the Riverside Drive northward to the
Yonkers line spanning the depression north Of
Claremont by means OF graceful viaduct Inc
drive is magnificent so far az it goes: with COM
naratively small expenditure of money its at
| tractiveness could be multiplied many fold.
| II has taken years for the Erie Railroad Com
many and the Jersey City authorities to come to
an agreement as to the elevation OF the COM
panys tracks but the terms have at last been
settled and it Is understood that the work will
soon he taken in hand. The advantages to both
the railroad and the city will he great Not
| only are the tracks 10 be lifted several feet
| above the street level but the Bergen Tunnel Is
to be abandoned so far passenger business is
concerned. passenger trains being carried through
the hill back of Jersey City by an open cut. The
estimated cost OF the improvement Is S1,oOO.OOO.
The company viii get its reward in the more
| rapid running Of trains freedom from accidents
from operating on the surface and greater facility
| in handling all its business.
New-York has long needed a new Custom
House, and the right place for 1t is where the
present one stands in Wall-st.
The miscreant who poisoned large number of
dogs some Of them of great value. in a Hudson
| River town deserves the severest punishment.
Malicious mischief could hardly take on more
| obnoxious form There is no DOUBT that dogs
| are often a nuisance, and sometimes a danger to
| pedestrians and wheemen. but that affords
good excuse for the wholesale slaughter of them
| in any neighborhood
Jesse Pomeroy has been so long in the prison
from which he has just made n daring and
desperate effort to escape that the particulars
of his singular case have almost faded out of
public memory. He has been shut up for twen-
| ty-two years being only fifteen when the prison
door closed upon him, his sentence being for
| life From his earliest years he possessed
| with a demon of cruelty and ferocty. the spe
cific acts leading to his Imprisonment being the
| mutilation and torture Of children smaller than
himself In this long interval occasional efforts
have been made to procure his pardon. but they
have failed they well deserved to do, and as
his own endeavor has just failed. He was and
IL a natural and congenita monster. and any
| effort to restore him to society," whatever its
benevolent and sentimental disguses, was an
attempted crime against society 1t could not
be expected to succeed unless the official guardi-
ans OF the latter had taken leave Of their
senses. Now that his attempt to escape has
been discovered and thwarted. a safer cell will
no doubt be found for him. and he will be more
carefully watched In future
Travellers by the elevated roads In this city
have something look forward to. Work has
been started on the plant which is to supply