El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-27

that ne mas ever dragged politiCs IL w
his business in which he has been
very successful. Besides this great un-
dertsking other public works OF great
importance are already under way or
in conte mplation in and around New
York. The state, it is generally be-
Eeved, will soon spend $50 200, 600 in
widening the Erie canal; the oity has
just authorized the construction of
second East river bridge at cost OF
$50, 900 200, and 81 100000 reservoir
at Jerome Park is nearly completed.
Forithe improvement of the river-front
various schemes have been suggested.
A member of the legislature has in
troduced bill providing for the ex
penditure of $4,000, 600 on improved
docks, and the special commerce COM
mission. appointed to find out why New
Orleans, Galveston, and the Alta ntic
ports we're taking business away from
New York, will recommend the build
ing of an underground belt line along
the entire mater-front of Manhat tan
and Brooklyn and connecting by tun-
mel with New Jersey. to facilitate the
handling of inland and foreign COM
merce A rough estimate of the co st
OF this project is $3.50, 100000.
It is long time since DR.. Park :
hurst pr reached political sermon. He
announced year or two ago that he
bad done all he could do and tba t
Nineveh could go ahead and be u, des-
troyed as it seemed to enjoy the
prospect. On Sunday, however. the
reformer got the better of the minister
and Parkhurst burst forth in his man.
ner of five years ago, declaring that
s'there is no city within the bounds of
civilization that is as vile in its adj
ministration as our own. Christians
are Christians on Sunday only. They |
work like slaves six dsys out of the |
week for money, aud leave the city to |
be ruled by q race of thieves and vaga- |
bonds, and the consequence Is that |
more children are being started on the |
road to hell every week than all the |
churches, missions, and Sunday |
schools com bined can cave in q |
year."
Naturally DIR. Newell Dwight Hills |
was the first man to be asked for /
statement upon Ruskin's death, the |
minister's lecture upon Ruskiu being |
the formers fame rests; it has beer
delivered 200 times in this country. |
DR.. Hills is also a personal acquaint-
snce of the dead essayist. "By univer-
sal CONSENT" said DIR. Hills yesterday,
'the modern humanists' include Car |
lyle, En- ersOn, Lowell, George Elliot, |
the two Brownings, Matthew Arnold, |
Herbert Spencer and John f;uss in. |
"A Amopg this group Ruskin stands first,
easily supreme so far as his personal |
in fiuence and teachings are concerned. |
Ultimately Ruskin's fame rests on his |
work as social reformer. Incident |
ally he was student of the beautiful. !
Primarily, however, he was lover of |
his kind
Max O'Rell arrive DAT New York on |
the steamer Oceanic last week. He
comes for lecture tour of the country.
Taking to the crowd of newspaper |
men who received him, he said that he |
again, having been mobbed in France |
recently because he ventured to say
few mplimentary things of the Eng
lish.
John WsnAmaker, the merchant
prince" of Philadelphis, who is wor-
rying New York merchants by the
heated competition he carries on at A.
T. Stewards old stand, is trying to
purchase site for another immense
store on Fifth Avenue just below
Twenty Third ST., the shopping CEN
Ter.
Readers of this column may recall
the snecdote told few weeks ago in
regard to the election of Congressman
Rupert, the young brewer of this city.
This same Rupert, who has been in
just six weeks, has been NOM
n ated to succeed such an old-timer as
Amos J. Cummings as member of the
democratic committee.
is good man, OR he was be-
ore he entered congress.
The great series of revival meetings
n Brooklyn has struck q snag, DR.. .
3roughtOn, the southern evangelist ,
Who has been the life of the movement, ,
proving to be too radical for his CO.
workers.. DR.. Broughton preached
lain birthstone and fire sermons, and
ost support from the first.
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