New-York tribune., 1900-11-14
NEyvyoRK DAIIY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1900

in the annals of the turf. a mighty champion
among champions The amount of money whicn
Mr.. DAILY spent upon horses and on his breeding
farm would have staggered any man whose
wealth was not measured by millions. He gave
so much OF his time and toll to the Anaconda
mine and To his manifold Montana interests that
he was often absent when his best horses we're
winning honors and renown, although no man
enjoyed more keenly the excitement of watching
hotly contested races. He was warm advocate
of honorable sport and detested trickery ana
cheating on the racetracks His death weaKehs
the American turf
The cheerfulness with which Southern Demo-
smile through their tears over the defeat Oh
Mr. Bryan must be trying to the Neoraskah-
They cannot he mourners even for decorous
political funeral
II is now proposed to build railroad between
Damascus and Mecca. the chief use or wnich
will be TO carry Mahometan pilgrims 10 ana
from the Arabian city which is so much reVered
among the devout believers in the Koran
Earlier in the century IL was death for any
foreigner il he were caught within the bounda-
ries of the Holy City. The story of the dangers
TO which Captain Burton was exposed when IN
disguise he entered the temple consecrated TO
the memory of Mahomet and gazed upon the
Kaaba has yet lost its picturesque and
absorbing interest II is thought propabte tnat
American locomotive engines will be used on
the projected line as they used many
other railroads outside Of the United. States.
Could anything more incongruous and startling
he imagined than the thought that the shrek
of the whistle of engine constructed on the
banks OF the Delaware may in a few years
starrle the echoes of Mecca and Medina? Was
ever vision of the Prophet himself more anaz-
ing and suggestive.
The Police Commissioners slowly making
Up their minds that the Civil Service law goes.
II is hard. but they must come TO IT,
Wall Street rumors that Metropolitan ana
Brooklyn Rapid Transit are 10 be tied to-
gether in the closest Of fraterna bonds have
subsidized. and they undoubtedly premature
Nevertheless. IN the fulness Of time it is proba-
ile that the whole vast network Of local lines
from the outer edge Of Queens on the east from
the furthest verge Of Richmond. throughout the
entire territory of Brooklyn. and from the Bat
terry to the upper borders Of The Bronx Will
come under one supreme direction and control
Such IS the probable tendency and drift OF
things and before 1910 it may be that under
ground trains overhead and surface tracks and
all the corporations interested in urban traffic
may be working harmonously together on terms
much more intimate and mora firmly adjusted
than those Of mere amity and goodwill
The wisdom Of having Devery indicted is 70 be
judged in the light u the day when the Grand
Jury acted. What might ne have done If
the Grand Jury md the Governor had not scared
him into doing his duty. instead Of creating dis
order. : he threatened
The Tax Department announces that the total
valuation OF the real estate in the hve boroughs
which make up This metropolis IS $3,lGS,551,In
for 1890 advance over the valuation for
1899 of $236, 1885, Within the borders OF
New-Yorli. the census shows, there are now
living more than three millions and a half Of
men. women and children For each human be
ing in the FIVE boroughs then. the real estate
valuation is less than 81 o01. but it is an un-
doubted fact that # all the buildings and lands
were assessed for taxable purposes at their full
market worth the total valuation would he far
above S+,tHnHO'Do. and il would probably he
above $5.O0OO Ooo. 1t is not customary how
ever and it may not be advisable TO tax real
estate the full measure of its market figures,
and il IS reasonably certain that with a
valuation OF less than $1,000 on buildings and
land for each nha bitant this city must be ranked
among the richest in history. both in the
aggregate and in proportion TO the number Of
its people.