New-York tribune., 1900-12-31

been more active at the Coffee Exchange than
in any wear since 1891 and prices reached the
highest point in seven years at US cents on July
20 During December estimates OF the Brazil
crop were largely increased. and the price 1eii
to 6N from which there was slight recovery to
cents on the last day, owing to stronger con-
tinental markets and higher exchange at RIO
1t is now reported that Sheriff Grell may be
called upon to align his forces to suppress
gambling and vice. If the Sheriff takes up the
task he will find Harlem a promising heia Tor
his crusade A big new broom that will sweep
clean is sorely needed in that part of Man
haitian.
The tunnel under the Hudson has been flooded
for years and has remained in stagnant con-
dition Now and then bubbles of rumor hoae
to the surface that syndcates OF capitalists IN
tend to pump out the big bore and finish It.
Meanwhile the railroads are steadily improv-
ing their terminal facilities on the New-Jersey
shore, and spending money by millions in such
ways as to indicate that they do not expect
the tunnel TO be completed in this generation at
the earliest 1t is likely that tunnels to Brook
lyn will be in use long before trains are running
beneath the North River.
Confederate bills seem to be still current in
quiet villages where the gold bricks can De
sold with a big margin of profit. Three men
living within less than a hundred miles of wall
st. accepted Confederate treasury note for
500 without qualm or question few days ago.
Possibly they had not heard that the Civil War
was over, and probably they voted for Andrew
jackson at the last election.
Not long ago the directors of the New-York
Central gave authority to President Galloway
to order hundred new locomotive engines
from time TO time, when he believed they would
be needed That action meant an expenditure
OF 81 1,25O,OOO first and last. The big Reading
system is alotting contracts for many new
locomotives and for thousands of new cars. In
several lines of industrial activity and enter
prise this fortunate and forehanded Nation
challenges comparison with the world. and es-
pecially in engines and cars. In Pennsylvania
the biggest, busiest and most prosperous loco
motive works in existence pushed to their
utmost limit of production. Boastfulness is
always in bad taste. but 1t may be remarked
quietly that American ingenuity and energy
we'll on top in these days.
The members Of the Valley Forge National
Park Association feel justified in making ap-
peal to the country for the preservation of the
historic ground because of the indifference
the part of the State of Pennsylvania. The
State owns about one-hfth of the ground cover
ing the inner line Of intrenchments and the
crest of Mount Joy, but for five years no ap-
preparation has been made by the Legislature
for it's maintenance and the ground is overrun
with brush and briar.
The contests for the Americas Cup call out the
liveliest interest and excitement in two hem
ispheres, and the gatherings of spectators to
see them have been memorable features of the
sports of the last half century. If it were poss-
bile to persuade the German Emperor and the
Prince of Wales to cross the water to see the
defeat of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II next
year by the chosen representative of American
yachting. their welcome would be of the hearth
est sort, But to consider the matter in a calm,
practical way. it may be safely asserted that the
Pope is as likely to leave the Vatican for a
transatlantic voyage, and the Czar OF all the
Russias to come over the ocean. the Kaiser
is to visit America And it is not in the least
probable that the heir to the British throne will
be locker when the Upton issue is again
decided. Any suggestions of that kind are so
visionary as to be almost ridiculous.
There's plan on foot to open a new race
course in st. Louis. 1t will be a mistake to in
crease the already excessive clump of tracks in
the West. limited number of high class turf
organizations with care1ully governed meetings
may provide sport worthy of public favor.
Many of the tracks now ir existence in the West
and South should 0e closed, because they are
carried chiefly to promote gambling and to
sustain poolrooms No good for adding
to the list of such places can be suggested.
Strange stories are often waited to the effete
East from the bounding and ebulient West
One of the freshest OF these is the tale of a
man in Michigan who was shot in an affray
four years ago and who still carries the pistol
bullet in his heart. This sober and veracious
narrative asseverates that the R0ntgen rays
have been applied in the of this remarka-
BILE person. and the bullet has been seen plain
vital organ" The notorious ruffian bill"
Poole shot in the heart in this city before
the Civil War. He lived twenty four hours
after receiving the fatal wound. His last words
were, II die true American and his funeral
of the most singular demonstrations
ever seen in Manhattan. Surgeons were amazed
when the autopsy showed that the pistol ball
was embedded within the muscular tissue of
Pooe's heart and yet Poole did not expire for
full day after the fight in which he was per-
forated. Surgeons will be still more amazed
however, when they dissect the brain of the
visionary who put in circulation the myth that
any one can live four years with a pistol ball
in "the vital organ" which can be plainly
seen rising and falling with each pulsation."
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