New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
AS | WAS SAYING

oh day OF rest and gladness most beautiful. most
bright,-and don't deserve III Think what hui
mainly has accomplished all in a single week. II is
wonderful
For instance. the reformation ~ tho New York
New Haven & Hartford Joy line, which promises to
become safer than ever before In It's history. The
week opened with a plea for steel cars. But then
came tho triumphs Of Count Ieppellns dlrlSlbles'
suggesting the right idea.
Meanwhile thanks to Harry. We have learned
where n send our unhappy Governor. once no
crosses tho border tho Canadians will fall on his
neck and weep down his back. Indeed II is believed
that they will cover him with pink roses In recog-
milton Of the title bestowed upon him By his ad-
mirer. Mr. Norman Hapgood. How the air viii ring
with cheers, ''Hurrah for British justice! Hurrah
for the Or. Cook Of Politics
But we must not be too proud. brethren. Glorious
though tho week has been. it 10 marred by sad,
sad inelegance In convention assembled. the Hotel
Keepers Association OF tho Northwest has risen up
against finger bowls
Too noisy. they say, and there is something In II,
DOUBTLESS Any one who has heard the Northwest
erners guzzling out Of their finger bowls will apprc-
ciatc and tho mufilers adopted by many OF their
hotels have not been a success.
But this determination 10 abolish finger bowls out
right seems to us radical measure. akin to the New
Notionaism of Colonel Roosevelt Is II not a form
Of recall? For our part. believe in paatves. 30
advise the Northwesterners tolerate finger bowls
little longer and see II the hubbub cannot be re-
duced somewhat by the OF straws.
Deep down among the cookies Of its heart THE
Saturday Evening Post does not truly love Wall
Street and guesscs IL is time the old lane retired
from politics
Financial New York became afflicted with mon
srously inflated ego. Being commissioned to take
the tickets at the door. IL imagined itself the whole
show 1t is the counrys broker. and II came TO be
lieve that the countrys chief duty lay IN shaping
business for the brokers convenience and profit In
stead of listening atentvey for instructions. 1t tried
to dictatc-honce. latterly. the ever active boot"
And hence the conclusion that there will never
again be an Administration at Washington that will
suit the financial district"
Which is a sweet and sunny thought, but several
| inches from the bus-eye. and If Father Benjamin
! Franklin can lend the loan Of his bunderbuss 70,
half a second we will show you some Workmanship
| Watch the Professor
| Glad tdings from overseas 1t says In The Dill,
! Mile that "a Home Office committees report yes
! terday recommended that writer's cramp should bc
scheduled az industrial disease emitting an EN-
ploye to compensation under tho workman's com
|
Hooroarl Already we can feel 1t coming on
| II has remained for L. Z. A. to drop hint tina
will sanctfy 'The Lure" THE Fight" and, II w
care to go that length Mrs. Warren's Profession"
DO not "prune." Leave the plots as they are. Pre-
serve the lines But add music. With a full orches
ira and a cast including Calve, Sembrich, Tetrazzin
and Mary Garden with the usual salvo of tenors ant
bosses our "whito slave plays will become not onl.
sinless but means OF culture though 1t goes with
out saying that culture will also demand chorus t
caper In pink tights
And speaking of music and culture, we have re
ceived a call from the artist who presides at tn
nano in McNulty's saloon. He has leanngs towar'
literature il seems Opening the manuscript he ~
kindly left with us as evidence of his genius, "
encounter clear proofs, right in the very first sen
tence It Is something In the confessional line, thi
| composition, and begins
There are pianlsts and piansts In this articl
1 reference Ii had to the latter only. IL Ia IL.