New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-01

| The scheme, 'emanating from high sources"
| to which our Washington correspondent yester-
| day gave publicity, proposing to change the
| name of the Philippine Islands to Mckinley
| Islands, has not been we'll considered. 1t is
| French habit, not American one, to change
some we'll known and established name. in the
| first gush of sentiment over some lost statesman
or hero whom they loved Even they generally
confne their changes to the names of streets and
public squares. Here is name. established in
the usage of Christendom for three hundred and
fifty years. which it is proposed to abandon.
which would confuse the settled geography Of a
considerable part of the earths surface No
such permanence belonged TO the nomenclature
of the Louisiana Purchase, when we acquired It;
but the name of the great statesman through
and by whom alone it was acquired not
then attached to it, or any part of It, and never
has been.
New-York citizens have shown marvellous pa
thence while the municipal government has been
a tigers lair, but when it has sunk to the depths
of dogs kennel under Tammany rule discon-
tent has passed into disgust, and disgust has
been followed by righteous wrath.
What ocean carnival every effort to
capture the most celebrated of all cups in the
| history of yachting always brings about! When
the marriage OF Venice with the Adriatic was
celebrated. and the Doge cast into the waves
the bridal ring, the pomp and glitter and
majesty OF the pageant wonderful But
those old Venetians. with their panoplied galleys
their cloths of gold and their radiant gems did
not have half good time the modern
Americans who picnic on the Atlantic when
Upton tries to lift the Cup.
Every day until the ballots counted in No
vember it should be pressed home to the con-
science OF every citizen that a vote for Tam
many will be a vote for blackma while a vote
against Tammany VIII be vote for a clean city
The approach of the bicentennial Of Yale sets
every one to thinking of the modest cradles Of
the foremost institutions of learning in America
Yale only two centuries old, In those two hum
dred years. how noble and spacious grove of
philosophy. of the humaner letters of we'll
rounded culture and OF liberal arts has arisen
from the original planting of mustard seed,
But oxford and Cambridge Paris and Ieyden
Berlin and Vienna. send cordial handclasps over
| sea- They are older. but they honor and re-
we're the splendid achievements of youthful Yale,
born recently as 17O1
Almost dead heat in the first new century
race for the Cup, 1t is hardly possible that
the yachts will be so close together to-day.
| The gddy haste shown by the Manhattan
company in Hs!uipping the elevated roads with
| electricity is overwhelming staid and deliberate
NEWCOMERS with establishment. At the pres
| ent rate of progress electric cars will be rum
ming about the time that the problems of per-
| petual motion and the squaring of the circle are
| solved.
The Tammany vote In the tenements is usual
| ly large Were the jewellers in the crowded
|
would realize that Tammany misrule is con-
! stanty doing them injury. Should the various
boards and commissions be filed with public
servants who would try in earnest to the
public, the dscomforts of the swarmng hives
| in the tenements would be lghtened. Itching
palms in office cause the grinding of the faces
of the poor The tenements should be over
| whelmingy against the Tammany freebooters
whose spoliations hurt most the earners of small
| wages.
Ii Hung Chang. having recovered his health
well his saffron jacket, his peacocA's
feather and the little red button his top so
! famed in song and story. says that the imperial
family will return to Picking by slow stages
arriving in the capital in March And yet a
part of the travelling is to be done by rail. 1t
| is possible that the Chinese officials who have
| charge of the arrangements for the homeward
| journey of the Emperor and the Empress Dow
ager were formerly employed upon the Brook
| Ign Rapid Transit lines
Devery waxed fat like Jeshurun, and kicked
But the day of his destruction cometh
Yankeeland is to send two millions of cheap
watches to Great Britain in a single year. Or at
| least, that is the latest story concerning our
exports. II the figures are not exaggerated it
will soon be impossible to discover in any Eng
| ish nursery ba who dos DoSseSS fine
chance to see the wheels go wound" The
! ancient sage remarked that of the making OF
| books there was no end. In these days is there
| any end of the making OF watches by ma
chinery?
The Tammany heads of departments have
submitted to the Board of Estimate and Appor-
| tionment immensely swollen and inordnate de-
mands for increased appropriations next year
| commissioners have been misusing the public
| funds with a prodigality and wastefulness
| which have brought aff1iction to the tax
pavers And now these devourers of the peo-
| ple's substance insist that they must have
| still bigger sums to handle than they have had
| this year.
A movement for clean shaven faces among the
| walters in the fashionable hotels and restau
| rants of Gotham appears to be gaining Roadway,
| and it may possibly have a sturdy hacking OF
| common sense Most people are ready to admit
a distinct preference Or smooth faces among