Year: 1877

correct or incorrect can only be settled after
rapid transit has become an accomplished
fact The same plea was urged by property
owners against tho horse car lines, but
it is notorious that the street railroads have
increased the business of all the avenues
they occupy. If such visionary sufferers
are to interfere with the work we shall never
enjoy rapid transit in the city. Whatever
avenue may be selected as its route the
same grumblipg will be heard that now re-
sounds from a noisy clique in the interest
of the Sixth avenue horse car corporation.


The session of the Legislature is now
nearly two-thirds over, and this most i'm
portant subject has been so treated as to
excite the serious apprehensions Of those
who earnestly desire the progress and pros
perity of the city. Some bills have been
introduced -notoriously those of Senators
Bixby and Wagstaff-which are impudent
attempts to defeat rapid transit altogether,
and should have been framed by Senators
selected by the horse car companies and
not by the people of New York. 1t will be
better to leave the law of 1875 as it is than
to allow any such insidious and mischievous
measures to pass. Nevertheless, that law
needs amendment, and one bill, now before
the Legislature, introduced by Mr.. Selkreg.
is designed to render it more efficient


This bill enables roads now under un-
forfeited charters from other laws to
organize construct and operate under
the law of 1875, and seeks to pre-
vent the vexatious issne of injunc-
tions against rapid transit roads OBJ
tanned for the sole purpose of blocking the
work. 1t requires that the construction Of
a road shall not be stopped by an injunc-
ton until full trial or hearing has first
been had upon notice, or until the plain
tiff shall have filed bonds Of not less than
ten thousand dollars to pay all damages
caused by such delay, and it allows the
construction to 60 on between the issuing
of provisional injunction and the final de-
termination of the case, provided the de-
fendant files similar bond. If the Legis-
lature will pass this bill and reject all others
it will do good work, and if the New York
members are willing to betray their trust it
is to be hoped that the city may find truer
friends among the rural representatives.


Our Paris and London Cable Letters.
that protocol for which all the diplomatic
nurses are crying as for soothing syrup
warranted to tranquillize alike the raving
Russian and the turbulent Turk. Still there
is lurking doubt that when the precious
thing is fully concocted the Moslem baby
will throw it in the nurses teeth
and the Muscovite infant will re-
fuse to take q dose which the
sick child rejects. England therefore,
is much troubled about the prescription.
As an offset to the half million modified
Russian soldiers in the south of the Czar's
dominions we behold the English authori-
ties parading five thousand London
shopmen in soldiers clothes before General
Ignaticff. How he must have trembled as the
fierce fellows marched past Paris leads off
with a suggestive excitement, showing how
the old leaven Of unrest rises now and
then-to-day red radical, tomorrow
truculent Bonapartist. M. dc Cassagnac's
experience in the Chamber was no moro
encouraging to the Bonapartists than
the experience of the extreme republicans q
little while ago. The waves of uneasiness
rise less high each time, but every time
the evil spirits move them there is scene
in the Chamber or the Senate, and that
alone compensates the Partisan, who loves
his fun at no matter whose expense. A
bully in corner, without means of escape,
is always sight to rejoice gods and men, and
Paris is particularly human in that respect
London is full of anticipation and
divided opinion about the chances of
the light blue and dark blue in the
coming University boat race The
Thames International regatta, with it's fine
prizes surely ought to tempt crew from the
Atalantas and the Neptunes of New York. 1t
will also afford chance for Curtiss, of Chi
cago, to take his champion four to the
silver Thames. Miss Kate Field has proved
to London that Extremes Meet" with sue
cess, and the little fellow who made his
first appearance on any stage at the Gym
nase will, we hope, prove an equal
credit to his Partisan authors Joe Jeffer-
son is, we are glad to hear, about to


waken from his long Van Wrinkle sleep !;


for, though we oil love the vagabond


"Rip," we can we'll afford to write


"R. 1. p" over his grave. Cardinal Cullen,


who has had good dinner with the


Irish Lord Lieutenant, is not to be


allowed to digest it in peace, as Irish


nationalists do not believe that the


O'Mahoney funeral baked meats should


take the shape of a meal at the Viceregal


Lodge. With interesting theatrical, operatic