New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-16


The Tribune has made a remarkable success
of its new Tri-Weel1ly edition. and that enter
tanning breezy and wideawake paper is attract
ing the attention OF Republicans In all the
Northern States. The timely enterprise which
put this edition into the field a help to Nc
Kinleys campaign is evoking much substantial
support. and when Republican friend sends us
81 90 in a straightforward way for The Tri-
Weekly Tribune we fully appreciate the COM
pliment and make every effort to deliver the
paper TO him in just as good season as though
1t a morning daily (Which. in fact it
comes near being). But when his admiration
takes the form described by a reader in Ohio
we feel inclined to object and to say things
Our reader writes II wish to admonish you in
particular, and all metropolitan papers in gen
'eral that the propensity of the postal clerks
for reliable reading will ieOpardize your
interior circulation IL not taken in hand at
once We seem to have heard something of
this before. An Unsuitable appetite for The
New-YOrk Tribune is a most creditabe thing
but we would much prefer to have friends
among the postal clerks find some other way TO
crafty it than by intercepting copies which
have been paid for by an anxious and waiting
public on a rural delivery route in Ohio.
The police raids upon vicious resorts are too
much like the historic net which caught the
little fishes and let the big ones go.
The statement that London banks do not
know anything about their having to ship some
millions OF gold this country is reminiscent of
the case Of the widow who told her boy she
was going to marry Deacon Blank. Does he
know it. MAJ" young hopefurs query.
Tradition. however, assures us that the widow
did marry the deacon, and So reasoning from
analogy. we suppose the gold will surely come
Before Mr.. Bryan had got fairly started on
his speech in Madison Square Garden four years
ago the spectators began to depart, and when
he finished only about one-third of the multi
tude which greeted him was left. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Croker has given strict orders
that there shall be no repetition of that melan-
choly experience this evening. and believes that
he can depend on most Of those who get in to re-
main to the end. But If the orator doesn't cut
it considerably shorter than he did in 1896 the
manager is likely to find that he has overesti-
mated the staying powers of Tammany audi
ence in wide open town.
We may in some things, as Pomfret said
adore the hand that gives the blow But ad-
vice to the colored men of this country to vote
for the party that has disfranchsed them in
number of States is scarcely short of brazen.
The Hamburg-American Line is to build
steamer $50 feet long. the largest ever built but
is not to aim at the highest rate OF speed in it's
construction. 1t is to be a seventeen eigh-
teen knot boat, whereas the Deutschland of the
same line. is much swifter than that, being in
deed. the fastest ship of its class ever launched
The new vessel is built to carry 1000 pas
sengers and 10000 tons of freight. and when
1t Is launched thu commercial marine of the
Fatherland will have a flagship to lead all fleets
till bigger one is built, and that the press of
emulation and competition is likely soon to
provide