Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-24

ter Inc aHolrS OF greater new
York under the vicious BIZ
partisan police commission and
the limitation of the mayors power to
removal. This Judgment will stand
the test of future experience and will
heighten immeasureably Mr.. Strong's
fame a, an administrator, although
there is little prospect that it will af-
feet the Legislature, which must now
reconsider the question anew in the
light of his objections. Mr.. Plntt Is
again in New York and will probably
issue the order to ''jam" the charter
through.
LArER-The order was damned"
through and passed over the mayors
veto.
General Horace Porter gave Colonel
John Hay a farewell luncheon at the
Lawyers club in New York city the
other day. A distinguished and mixed
company met, and the military and
political names are more numerous on
the list than the literary. Mr., Glider
who published "The Breadwinners,'
in his magazine, was there SO was
Mayor Strong, Warner Miller and
Generals Wager Swayne, Anson G. Nc
Cook, Daniel Buttcrtield and Gren-
vile NJ. Dodge. There were no toasts
except the health of Colonel Hay. The
ambassadors to France and Great
Britain will be neighbors still, for
Paris and London are very convenient
to each other.
New Workers of the city yearn most
earnestly to be divided politically from
New Workers of the state when lcgisla-
ton like tho amendments to the Rlincs
law is being "j"mmed through the
legislature. The amendment that gives
m ost offensc to the city is one that
taxes clubs which dispense liquor to
members $500, and places them prac-
tcally on the same legal plane as the
saloon. There are threuts TINT this
legislation will lose the Republican
party many votes in the municipal
election, but it has been approved by
II party caucus, aud go through it will.
The railroads are making strong
showing in behalf of bill to suppress
the business of the ticket scalper
These purveyors OF cut-rate tickets, it
is contended, and to large degree
proved, deal chiefly in tickets which
have been stolen from railway Offices
or tickets which have been forged.
They arc the market for stolen goods
of this description. The bill i'll ques.
tion prohibits the selling Of tickets ex-
cept 10y the authorized agents of the
railway companies.
Two more eighteen story hotels, to
cost So, 600, 600, are to be erected at
once in New York city, and the nrch-
trcts say they are to be the finest
structures of this class in the city.
That is saying n good deal. 1t seems
to be the opinion of shrowd real estate
people in New York that the transient
populate OF New York has already
been vastly increased by her magniti-
cent hotels, and that the limit of the
business has not been reached even
yet.
Some Of the papers have printed a
cut of a man who was convicted the
other day of throwing broken glass in
front Of bicycles. Everyone who
loves wheel will be Interested TO
know that his features, us ought to be
expected, are Of the most depravcd
criminal type. He evidently began
his downward career by committing
several murders at an early age. He
has now reached the limit of human
depravity.
New York is happy over the pros.
pcct that the free lunch is to be re-
stored in the liquor saloons. The law
is to be amended for this purpose, and
the spread of cold meats, crackers,
cheese, olives, Goldfish, stews and other
refreshment will soon be provided to
60 with drink. This will enable the
snoons to dispense with the R,inrs
law sandwich, which wns undoubtedly
the worst item of 'grub' that Was
ever invented.
Speaking of the Legitimate services
rendered to New York ly boss Tweed
Mayor Strong at this late day is re-
ported ns saying: "Wtat if he did
take 800, 900 or 50 20, 600 year, he was
worth it and if he were alive today
would vote to give him an ANIMAL peu-
sion for the benefits he rendered to
u.s." Who knows but that Tweed may
have monument yet in Greater New
York.
1t is vehemently denied that the
restoration Of the free lunch counters
in the New York liquor s,louns is n
sop to saloon interests. 1t has been
done on the demand of tn, cheese.
sandwich and sausage industry The
latter business appears to have been
getting stagnant without the stimulus
of the free blow.
How is New York to measure the
social status of her inhabitants now
that the Pntriarchs are no more? 1t
was by reference to the list of the Pa.
trinrchs TINT the late Ward McAllistrr
counted up his famous Four Hundred.
Is the New York social census to be
forever abandoned?
KNICKERBOCKER.
So much discredit has been thrown
upon the goose bone and other popular
means of obtaining reliable meteor =
logical forecasts that one can hardy
tell which way the wind is going II
blow. In view of this uncertainty it
might he we'll to rely on the signal ser
vice or the folk lore of our fathers.
Two hundred years ago it was firmly
believed that If the weather in Jan
uary was warm n windy March ana
May might be expected. with raw ana
chilly days. This is also expressed in
he old couplct:
March in 1nuiyrC-