New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-16


a punitive way.
The bids for removing snow the coming win
ter have just been submitted They are higher
than those Of year ago It was a mighty big
bill which the taxpayers Of New-YorK were COM
PEELED to pay for the clearing Of the snow from
the avenues and the streets last season But
the snowfalls uncommonly frequent and
bulky Our people have ample reason in many
ways to hope that this may he an unusually
mild winter. IF II Is not the drafts on tho city
treasury will he copious indeed
II just verdict which was brought in
this week awarding damages to the man who
arrested and assaulted the grounds of
the Brooklyn Jockey Club some years ago be-
cause he was suspected OF conveying intorrnatio
to the results OF the races TO persons outside
the gates. Stephen A. Walker former United
States District Attorney OF this district said at
the time that the president of the club richly de-
served indictment for the high handed and fle-
gal measures which he took in his efforts TO
prevent the Western Union Telegraph Company
from obtaining the news at the course and send
Ing 1t out TO It's customers Many other lawyers
of long experience and high reputation agreed
with Mr.. Walker. Several persons were arrest
ed and assaulted at the track without legal JUS
tIhcation. All OF them should get heavy dam
ages in the courts.
Since election bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to dsfranchise the negroes
Is this Georgia's population of consent Of the
governed? What does Mr. Bryan think
about It?
On November 20 the Controller will sell more
than $5.OO0.O0O of municipal bonds for various
nd no will brJD
suits of especial value to our people. The compe-
tition for these securities will be brisk and ex-
ceent prices sure be obtained Nearly
So 900 900 of these bonds be disposed OF in
order to buy the land necessary for a public
park downtown, and an uptown park on the East
River front between One hundred and eleventh
and One-hundred- and fourteenth SITS. The parks
which have been opened in recent years in the
tenement districts have been OF inestimable
benefit to hundreds Of thousands OF poor people
whose homes are in the crowded and uncomely
districts of Manhattan. The proposed
parks will afford spacious recreation and relief
where opportunities for wholesome enjoyment in
the open air sorely needed.
The voters of California recently had OPP
portunity to condemn poolselling at the polls.
and they took advantage of it, the voters of
New-Jersey did in the early nnetes When
ever a question of this sort comes fairly and
squarely for decision before the people of
State they decide against racetrack gambling
and swindling, they ought to do,
The important industry of cloak manufacture
ing in this city seems he undergoing a change
Severa! firms with large capital which have
been making cloaks by the scores Of thousands
and have been carrying their work in big
buildings have decided to go out of business
because they cannot obtain profits in COMPETE
ton with swarms of small rivals. who violate
the sweatshop laws and employ the poorest
most ignorant and wretched occupants of the
cheapest quarters in the cheapest tenements
Unless immigration laws are enforced more
carefully the condition of East Side toers
who narrowly avoid starvation by laborng ex-
cessve hours upon miserable pay will steadily
become worse. Governor Roosevelt sympathizes
with the i'll fed armies of workers in wretched
tenements who eking out miserable exist
ence under doeful conditions. 1t is to be hoped
that Governor Odell will do all that the Gov
ernor of this State properly do for the bet
terment of the surroundings of these ragged
and forlorn masses. The laws are not enforced
as they should be-
II the stamp tax should be removed From,
checks bonds telegraph messages etc, how
and bill boards? There is good reason WHY
these latter forms of profitable business should
go untaXed.
American machinery holds it's own against the
rivalry OF any country. American inventors
have equalled or surpassed the achievements
of the greatest artificers of all ages. Neither
the British nor the German Empire can cope
with the genius OF this Republic in originality
and ingenuity of mechanical devices for
curing the largest results at moderate outlay
The big broad feet of millions of Englishmen
are now covered with shoes made by machines
devised by American inventors. This Nation
not only feeds less prosperous countries with
grain meat fruit and other things but it sup
fort hair initial In all