New-York tribune., 1901-12-14

rha yeoIopicsl factor is a more important one IN
the location of his instruments than mas oeen
generally known. And the nature OF MS auee'
enonhasizes fact which Mr.. Tesia long ago
recognized that the earth and not the All Is 'iie
cbief conductor of the vibrations employed IN
wireless telegraphy. However, inasmuch as IL Is
now feasible to send messages by the Maroon
system more than three hundred miles. 1t may
not be necessary that his Newfoundland station
shall be directly the coast.
Good news for quick travel upstairs on the
East Side! We now told that Santa Claus
will find the swift and convenient electric trains
running on the Second-ave. elevated road when
he begins his holiday trips. In that case the
dear old Saint will be joler than ever before
Electric cars overhead in Manhattan will be
Christmas present which this borough will well
come gladly.
Devery and Herlihy are still bluf1ing 1t boldly
and riding high horses. But both of them will
soon tumble in the Sirbonian bog, where Bissert
and Diamond are now wallowing.
American owners of horses. American trainers
and Jockeys have been coming home in troops
this month and most of them return with full
pockets and with the laurels of success upon
their heads Not many generations have passed
since Englshmen were proudly confident that
Uncle Sam was mere novice on the turf, a neg
ligible quantity. They know better now. Amer
leans in racing hold their own against all rivals
Ajax Nagle is still defying the lightning. But
the bolt will fall soon and Nagle will be
mummy.
The shortness of the time required for Miss
King to develop tuberculosis after having been
inoculated with germs from is trfe
suspicious perhaps, and the method of convey
ing the disease may not prove much regarding
the danger of eating meat and drinking milk
from an infected animal. All the same, the ex-
pertinent is interesting. single instance of
this kind is not sufficient to upset Koch's theory,
but 1t is not entirely devoid OF value.
Commissioner Lantry, who is at the head of
the Department of Correction, said after the
Tammany defeat last month that he would be
obliged in a few weeks to return to his old
trade as Il butcher and TO earn his living out
side Of public office He has been district
leader Of Wigwam forces for number of years
The disclosures of mismanagenent and favorit-
ism in the City Prison seem TO indicate that
Mr.. Lantry is better fitted for his former work
in a slaughter house than for the highest place
in an important municipal department.
The pursuit of foxes and anise seed bags on
Long Island is dull and tame in comparison with
the zest and excitement of the chase of Tam
many coyotes and jackals which will be in full
cry next month
Electric roads in Germany are under cloud
lust now The boom in them was pushed 100
swiftly and with a haste which gave too little
study to practical conditions and to questions
OF the possibility of prompt development Of
business But the electric lines in this country
seem in the main to be prosperous. Americans
have much more money per capita as rule 70
spend in local travel than the Teutonic peoples
have and they make more liberal use OF tne
facilities Afforded by the railroads than the mill
iors who live in the German Empire. In this
rich. prosperous and restless republic there is
no serious danger of any great financial disaster
from the excessive building of electric railroads
Trolley companies often invade both puohc anu
private rights in the United States most auoa-
ciousIv but few OF them go into bankruptcy