New-York tribune., 1901-01-02

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sanguine inventor says he can build a tor
pedo boat which will run a mile minute. He
would not need to use explosive with such
craft. At that speed II could send a battleship
to the bottom by the mere shock of ramming.
To be sure, both would go down together but
that's a detail.
In his post election oratory Bryan does not
present the spectacle of one striding the blast.
heavens cherubim horsed upon the sightless
couriers of the air. blowing the horrid deeds of
the Republicans in every eye, that tears shall
drown the wind. He rather roars you gently as
any sucking dove, expatates on his principles,
says that he will stick to them, and does not
know whether he will ever again run for Office or
not. The only point in his speech of much sali-
ence or current applicability is that he promises
his hearers and the public in general a good
newspaper. and cordially invites them all to sub
scribe.
Commissioner Dalton is still juggling with
water supply estimates as the hanky-panky
man juggles with dinner plates and soup tureens.
The taxpayers look Dalton with distrust.
They have watched his sleight OF hand perform
ances with the Ramapo job. and they would
joice to see him confine his activities to the in
spection of pumps in the backyards of double
tenements.
The year Just ended has been prolific of turf
scandals In both hemispheres. Sloan. the most
celebrated jockey Of the generation. was branded
with the stigma OF the English Jockey Club.
Spencer. one OF the foremost of American riders.
was thrust out Of the saddle in disgrace. AS the
old century was passing several black sheep
were cast among the goats in California and
Louisiana. Racing everywhere has needed and
received heroic purging and unsparng surgery.
and the air and the grass sweeter and
cleaner. But professional gamblers must be kept
under on every racecourse the sport will be
eaten up by vermin.
In Rochester the barcarole Of poor dog Tray
takes on a winter note OF waiIing because a bad
name has been given him. the local epidemic OF
rabies prejudicing the character Of all the dogs
in the region irrespective OF their individual
sanitary condition Buffalo suffered in like
manner last year. but lived through il. preserv-
ing enough canine live stock to do business
with, and Rochester may have a like experience.
badly II is scared at present.
Young Mems Christian Association in a
Western town gaze Sunday afternoon recep-
tion in honor OF two successful Jockeys
Wasn't that a. step over the line of the becom-
ing and suitable? Skill in the saddle is not
sound test OF membership In q religious organ
ization. The racetrack and the Sunday school
have nothing in common.
Bishop Potter at a wage earners' dinner on
Monday evening said that if the published
statements TO the excessive hours and the
overwork required from Hebrew bakers were
true he hoped the strike of the journeymen
and apprentices would be successful. Shirt
makers on the East Side are said to have
been getting pay of only So a week with long
hours of labor. and hundreds of them have
gone strike. In some lines of work con-
ditions may not perhaps have been revolution
ized largely for the better since Tom Hood wrote
his well known lines
Scandalous rurnors current that the num-
ber of baseball leagues win be considerably in
creased this year. Disorder. foul talk, profanity
and bad conduct We're SO frequent on the dia-
mond fields in 1900 that the admirers of clean
ana reputable sport will be alarmed by any adj
ditions TO the existing organizations of pro-
fessonal players.
Although Porto Rico has many of the attri-
butes OF island paradise. Of its inhabi-
tants are not satisfied with it, and emigrat-
ing to Hawaii in search of insular felicities and
beatitudcs which they have not found in their
Caribbean home. 1t is quite likely to turn out
an usory quest, and the large detachment Just
embarked upon it. numbering four hundred,
mostly women and children. may ere long come
hltering back, having found the Pacific islands
less agreeable and advantageous abode than
the fertile and beautiful they were per-
suaded To abandon.
The prediction that the amazing inehiciency
of the Omaha police in the Cudahy case would
be followed speedily by alarming outbreaks Of
crime in many cities and towns appears to have
been justified. Stories Of attempted kidnapping,
extortion and blackma now painfully fire.
quent in the daily papers. Official incapacty in
Omaha has emboldened the worst of criminals
East and West.
The State OF Maine is beginning to realize
that it's easy divorce law is giving it a bad
reputation, and an attempt will be made to
enact a more stringent law at the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature. A commission ap-
pointed to draft such act has agreed on a
report. and If its suggestions are adopted quick
divorces for trivial reasons will be a thing Of
the past in Maine.
All the eulogists of the Tammany boss in the
past have united in praisng him for his fidelity
to those who have served him faithfully. When
have Gardiner and Devery been remiss in their
devotion? These two Jealous servitors are now
In sore plight. with Croker thousands Of miles