New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-18
over. The name of New-York ought TO De
changed TO that of the Contractors Paradise.
They run the town
FOR THE EQUATOR.

Fully convinced that the course of certain SCI
| entsts viii, if persisted ill., unsette tie founa"
| tons of the equator and cause that fundanehlai
| line to Wiggle around the globe in serpenlHie
| fashion. number of prominent geograpHsts
have organized themselves for its protection
INTO the Equator Club All the officers or tle
| organization are profound students OF geogfaphy
and kindred sciences and are especially famlllar
with the equator, most OF them having actuihy
CROSSED the line" with or without splicing the
main brace and they see grave perlls III the
aliases which some photographers are putting
forth. Thus, they have found several maps OIL
the Arctic Zone from which the equator is en-
tireIy omitted and even Il large scale chart OF
Wayback Cross Roads in which not Il segment
of II appears They feel very earnestly tlat' II
such Il policy is persisted in, one OF these DAYS
we shall wake up to find the equator altogether
abolished, and they very plausiby rear thit'
thus deprived OF its ''cinch," the globe may
bulge too much in spots, if not actually burst.
1t is recalled too, upon what is said 10 De
indubitabIe clerical authority, that Jeffrey once
smoke disrespectfully of the equator. They DO
not recall precisely who Jeffrey was or is, but
that fact makes the circumstance all the
more omnous. For if Il man so obscure that
they do not know him may with fmpumty
speak disrespectfully of the equator what may
not some we'll known and therefore more pre-
suming high muckamuck, or even some great
gives them cold chills. 1t is high time such
club was formed and high time il got to work.
The declaration of principles made pubic
shows that the club intends TO go fully, thor
oughly and impartiallY into the work OF ylndi-
eating and protecting the equator II II mas IL
has already been seriously tempered with, IL
will remove ii temporarily, readjust it and put
il in place again; for which purpose several
blacksmiths expert in resetting wagon wheel
tires have been retained by the club
The evils of which the club complains are not
shadowy. They are very real. The maps as
published TN various aliases show, as we have
said, a distinct monkeying with the equator.
The question now is whether we are going TO
revert TO the type OF globe contemplated by the
inventors of the equator or are to permit the
earth 10 be crowned at each end with trlgld
zone into which the equator is not allowed 10
penetrate. The sinister effects OF the latter
course II Is believed, might be felt for cen
turtles. The club very properly processes to be
entirely impartial and unbiased in the matter.
It merely insists that monstrous wrong mas
unqueStionably been done TO the equator the
perpetrator of which is a wretch whom tWere
gross fiattery TO name a coward" The CLUB
will make no hasty assertions and will take no
hasty action. 1t will merely say that it has un-
earthed the crime of the ages. and If it catches
the man who did it, it will snatch him bald
headed before lie can say Jack ROBINSON
We are requested to add that there is no con-
nection whatever between the Equator Club
and an organization recently formed for the pro-
lection of the Constitution.