New-York tribune., 1900-07-22

1t is funny to hear the benefciaries Of the
Goebel law talk about revolutionary govern
ment
The utter breakdown Of the Tammany ad-
minstration as a civilized city government was
never better illustrated than in the failure to
provide n proper summer medical corps for
Brooklyn as we'll as for Manhattan though
with less dense population the rate of child
mortality in that borough is greater than here.
That is an interesting suit which a woman in
Trenton has brought against railroad
pany for indemnity for damage done to her
property by the soft coal smoke from its loco
motives There can be no question that soft
coal smoke. besides being an unmitigated nui-
sance to passengers in the cars, is highly annoy
ing to people living along the line of the road
and injurious TO and destructive of their prop
erty. The only question is 20 the method OF
obtaining relief. 1t seems if railroad COM
panies might find it to their profit some of
them do, to burn only hard coal. and thus avoid
all the plaques of smoke. gas and cinders. But
if not, it will be we'll to have it judicaly de-
termined whether they are to be muIcted for
the damage they do or the public is to suffer
the loss.
Mr.. Tower our Ambassador to Russia justly
says that one and all of the Powers regard the
United States free from selfish motives in it's
Eastern policies, 1t is reserved for demagogues
and fanatics at home to malign the Nation.
Wonder of wonders! 1t is confessed that the
prospects are for an unprecedentedly big peach
crop! However. it is discreetly added that the
crop is likely to be so big that it will reduce the
price of peaches so much that they will not be
worth marketing, and therefore because of
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a scarcity of it. Quod erat demonstrandum
A suit is to be brought by citizens of Jersey
City to stop pollution of the Passaic River with
sewage, or to collect indemnity for the injury
thus done. There may be some criticism of their
action on the ground that the State Sewerage
Commission is now energetically at work for the
abatement of the nuisance. Nevertheless il
would be we'll to have it judicialy established
i'll New-Jersey, and indeed in the whole Union,
as it has been in Connecticut, that no person
nor corporation nor municipality has any right
to pollute a running stream of water, and that
any party doing is liable for full damages
The funds of the County Committee appear
not to have been misappropriated The only
trouble that the accounts were quigg0d
Mr.. Croker's Freedman would better look
him. 1t has a game or two lately. He
ought to discipline every member OF it that
contributed to so disgraceful a result, and i'm
press upon the minds of all that they are in the
field 10 play ball. but to act ike ruffians.
mad dog in Mount Vernon is reported to
have bitten rope into two II he hadn't been
mad he would probably have picked II into
oakum.
The Brooklyn water reservoirs are now only
about half full the daily supply is 100000 gall
Ions less than is required. and the people have
been forbidden to water for many purposes
for which its use is essential TO health and COM
fort. At the same time tens OF millions OF gal
Ions OF pure. cold water are daily being turned
out upon the Long Island sands and meadows
instead of into the reservoirs, In a determined
effort 10 produce artificial water famine and
thus TO force the public into approval and ac-
ceptance of the Ramapo contract. II Is TO be
hoped that every citizen who suffers from lack
OF water will bear In mind that his suffering is