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by the Pree Publiching Compeny, 8 & @ PARK ROW, New Tort. , MARCH 2, 1896. THE WORLD'S February 565996. ‘The Greetest Dally Ctroule- then Bver Attained by The the eve of final adjourn- deave behind ft the most ever made by any of the things it has it like a vast field wosting Power was in tts hands to (Becomplish reforms of the utmost im- to the people, reforms whose ar-reaching beneficence would have the fame of the men who started on through generations yet to It.had ‘received the people's mandate fo reform ‘the tariff, to wipe out, if it Prould, the whole system of protection. Fate put in its way the chance te Girttarveet™ Feform the currency of the country and Place the public finances upon a per- @anent and solid basis. Great questions involving the rights @f the people as against aggregated ‘wealth were thrust upon it. thave curbed the insolence of corporate Enterests and wiped out of existence the Bifamous Trusts that oppress the people. International questions involvin fwhole future policy of the nation, fwhether for extension and aggrandize- gent or for fixed limits and neutrality, fhave been forced upon it all through its ~mession. ‘The swollen and extravagant expendi- tures of previous Congresses gave it «n @pportunity for an exhibition of wisdom ‘and economy in the administration of public affairs. Out of all these and manifold other | @pportunities for true statesmanship, pp, Sybat has it done? {Go tariff reform tt has contributed but ® guide-post, warning, rather than di- Peoting. It leaves jeredited, and the National finances ut- ~ Qetly demoralized. Never before have @avors for corporations been so lav- » Sebly distributed; never before have @o fattened upon legislation. complications have increased the international policy of the Gov- Was never more uncertain. jo expenditures have been augmented than @iminished, the Treasury is and the public debt increased. Pertape, Congress alone ts not Dieu for this ettuation, but % would be (Bm emocustvely friendly critio that would that Congress had done anything Prevent tt. What damage to the coun- % could net do itself it has al- others, whom ft might have con- the currency di AB INVESTIGATION NEEDED. ‘A malt-house at Tenth avenue and third street fell yesterday morning being torn down. men were buried in the ruins. Were killed outright and seven some of whom may add to the More than a st. A report was spread about the neigh- that the supports of the bulld- been condemned once or twice Building Department. to be true, the persons engaged down the building will be ire and to punishment. events, it is evident that proper Hom was not exercised in the work. “@emolition had reached the fourth end it is alleged that early in the cracked and symptoms of bulging. The con- Should certainly be held to « and a searching ald be made. In all @ great deal too and indifference on contractors, who urge on the work without regard to to which the men are ex- Fesponatbility, abo work there is ‘work was om @ cheap and unsafe scale. | A It seems to be a repetition of the Bud- Gensick work, and if 0, there should be @ repetition of the Buddensiek pun- tshment. Meontime, it is an excellent opportunity for ise areation of vacancies in the Building Department. REL ACCIDENTS. Two raiiron) accidents that really were accidents took place yesterday. The Royal Blue line fast Cincinnati ex- press, on the Jersey Central line—a very popular train—-was wrecked at Bayonne, at the Forty-ffth street crossing. The cause of the accident was @ collision between two sections of @ coal train, which threw @ car immediately across the passenger track, Into this the express, going at the rate of nearly sixty miles an hour, crashed. The loco- motive was overturned; the dome of the holler blew out with a terrific explesion. ‘The assistant fireman and engineer were killed; the baggage-master, fireman and one of the wrecking crew were badly in- jured. Bingularly enough, only one passenger was seriously hurt, although all were badly shaken up and suffered a severe fright. his ts undoubtedly due to th superior construction of the cars used on these fast rains. ‘The other accident occurred on the Manhattan Elevated Railroad, the Sixth avenue line, at Franklin street, at 6.90 o'clock in the afternoon, about the busi- est hour of the 4 t was the most serious accident that has thus far hap- pened on the Elevated roads. No lives were lost, although quite a number of persons were badly cut and otherwise injured. By the premature turning of @ switch the rear trucks of a southbound train were thrown to a siding. Then th gine of a aorthbound empty train struck the car in the middie, crashed through ite aide and tore away the double i Both of these accidents seem to have been unavoidable, so far as the system of running the trains was concerned. It ts diMcult to see how any foresight or precaution could have prevented the Jersey Central accident, and the one on the elevated was due to an outright blunder of the switch-tender, an ele- ment of danger which can never be entirely eliminated from the running of trains. OUR BRONZE LIVING PICTURES. A private view was given yesterday of some bronze living pictures with which a theatrical manager Intends to bait the novelty-appetited public. Male figures were used, and the bronze effect was achieved by rubbing some brassy com- position on the cuticle of the posers, We wonder that it never occurred to this enterprising manager to secure men with ready-made brass exteriors for his living pictures. We have several of them here in New York with aerugin- ous fronts, who would not need any artificial brassing on their hides. There's Boss Platt, for instance, and Police Commissioner "Jimmy" Martin, who Is so pleased with himself that he polishes his refulgent surface with pull- olio every day. And then we have Dick Croker, just back from Florida, brassier than ever, and Ollte Tollle, of the ever- enduring polish, and Col. Tom Ochil- tree, and any pantata you choose to think of, and ever so many more of them, Mr. W. D. Howells, of local literary Iucubrance, read a paper at the Bt. David's Boctety banquet last night that drew @ bat, which survived the paper Mr, Howells read and had to be killed with a cane. A plece of literature that will attract a bat must have significant merit, There was a painter once who painted grapes that looked eo natural the birds came and pecked at them. Gov. Morton signs the West Tray Police hill to meet an exigency, but puts in plain words his objections to the anti-Home-Rule features of the meas- ure, and at the same time gives the Platt faction at Albany clear notice of his disapproval of similar features of the Lexow New York Police bill. It ts unfortunate that more legislators can- not be found to read a lesson in courage from the Governor's book. It ts discovered that the Free Paes bill was passed in the Assembly with the help of at least one vote credited to a man who was not present when the vote was taxen, That member's prompt ob- Jection to being so recorded is evidence that the pass-grabbers were mistaken in taking {t for granted that every law- maker would let his greediness turn him into a Constitution-breaker. “Public business must be attended to. ‘This is not u new remark. It only came out in a new piace. It was heard in a New York Police Board meeting y day, Naturally, {t came from the new man in the Board. There are places for three new men of the same mind, “I never saw our streets in such bad | condition as they are just now," says Croker on his return to town. Mr. Croker talks much and recklessly on| almost any question except that still pending and mightily interesting one us to where he got it. ‘The pen may be mightier than the sword, but it is not mightier than the snow and slush, Comptroller Fitch ex- pressed the idea very happily when he said that the streets of New York can- not be cleaned with the point of a gold pen. ‘The Senate at Washington may hold @ Bunday session. It is next to useless, howeve: will bring better deeds ‘The man who stole 444 pairs of trousers must have intended to set up as a rival to Berry Wall in the multiple- raiment line. ‘The Ridiculous Boss is to have another conference, it {s said. But this time it is not spoken of as a council of war. Jobn I, Davenport should use the olf iron cage he had in the old Post-Office Building when he goes calling. Without Police Court reform, New York City reform will be grotesquely incomplete. built, them. George, He Pays the Freight. place to Mr. Hill. It ts suspected, how- ever, that the General {s not really so he would appear. Let there be no escape for men guilty of Buddensiekism. Many « Congressman’s last Saturday Walle of new buildings do not fall What a funny little man ‘The Legislature has lost another week. — FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY. 1886,—Disaster has been more con- Splcuous than polttics In and about New York to Falling walle of an old weat-side mait- bouse Killed three men this morning. Falling nement-house killed two more thie afternoon. The malt-house was be- Ing torn down and It would appear that precau- tons were not taken for the protection of the workmen. The tenement-louse was stil in the process of building, and there 1s something for the builders to @: walla of & new yer to be rid of Buddenstexiom? ve Building Inspectors for? ‘A fatal crash on the Jersey Central Railroad another of those elevated raiirosd wreoks which always, through some miraculous interposition of Providence, stop at the ‘‘almost™ Mine, thie side of a horror, These are two desldes there te burden my diary's page, The way these acct Gonte sometimes pile themselves up in & single ay makes me almom a beilever in sone strange Udal wave of catastrophe. To-day's must have been too, for besides our local accidents there is news of « railway horror in Mexico, with hundred people in the list of killed and injure a fast travelling Mr. Platt continues te be reported indisposed Appears to languish, The news from Albeny, that Leow made @ burried effort— o> hurried that it was out of erder—to drag the police bille before the Senate, ie not withemt ite Aignificance. Nis not to be suspected thet this sudden haste to get the ‘‘hung-up” bills out of committees came without a hint. give thie hint but the Bom, and why should the Bom give it If not becnuse he sees that he must and local polit! Comptrotier Fitch gave out a maucy letter to It wae not called for, The Comptroller will de well to be a economical ink and opinions about another official's business aa he is with the city’e money, fA GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIMB, Ool., Waring to-day. with his pen, ‘Thia young gentleman ts the Hon. Ph. Wm. At least he writes hia name that way. He ia the Assemblyman from the Twenty-seventh jow York City Diwtriot, which te way uptown. & reform ticket of the most pers and bas been on nents of the Platt machine in Albany, He ts thoroughly {9 accor’ with Mayor Strong's kind One or two very ‘‘good thingy’ in the way of Joba have been credited to his influence aud he te said to be after mme jexisiator he has been chiedy for his activity in supporting the measures that Nave reached the Legislature from the reform organizations from this town, ne depented attempts of the P the Leginiature He was born twenty-eight ymare ai Me was educated for an artist to hope that the better day | (here ai) his lite and follows that calling when be is uot making EMPIRE STATH BITS, Poughkeepsie 18 barking for a dog pound Rochester texan Lent with an oyster famine Laroy is recovering from an epitemio of measles Mille has a wi the children ind the faintly for eight, service for four generations, , 8 resident of Moradtieriti Dimeelt with a. reser tat bas Deen In wrPAEAE ‘Courter stranded im @ atorm at South s on a allvor tag. Tt keeps ight years and has done He —— > —__ ‘There are traces of Buddensiekism ‘WORLDLINGS, too, in the structure that Boss Platt St Louts has an ambulance trofiey serviea, ‘The amount of go! ‘ah Guiana was 138, By a new line of steamers tourists can ge frem| = Thought to himself the w Constantinople te Alexandria in fty hours. ‘Within the past four yeare France bes recerded 96,000 gulcides, while in Italy the number has Who can guess the Fitch-Waring preteen lat reer te Bi) oy, would I missing words? There are only five of ‘These are Warner Miller's days of complaisance, Both sides are coaxing him. killed bad another close call yesterday, (ae been only 8,000, tend of pete, and at one time kept a great epider 1m 0 paper box, carefully feoding | omnes, init vowns lady ogainet her will, and op ‘and tending the creature for many moaths ‘The Woman's Foreign Miesionary Gociety of the Methetiat Kpiscopa! Church das inued over 6,000- 000 pages of missionary iMerstere during 16%. ‘The “L" road record ef no passengers Gen. Sickles expresses that fe, Cleveland did not offer Cabinet ‘'HE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING DAILY SINT FROM M'DOUGALL, | MADELEINE; OR, THE MAGIO KISS. | Evening Mise Camille D'Arville, whe never loses diamonds, who has not been heard of at the altar, whose “mash” letters have not been woven into an autoblog- raphy, {@ naturally a little afraid of New York. Fo: she is @ comic opera artist who is also ntlewoman, and— well, New York prefers the other kind. A comic opera artist to be popular in New York has to serve a long appren- tloeship, and she must possess & Mae chiavellian agent. Miss Camille D'Ar- ville, who Is now at the Bijou, Is merely an admirable artist, with a pure, sym- pathetic, well-cultivated singing votce, considerable dramatic ability of the Ma- rie Tempest order, and not a few per- sonal charms. If she can only succeed in impressing these facts upon New Yorkers, without losing diamonds, they will realize that there is no better comic opera star before the American publio than Miss D'Arville. Her voice is far superior and infinitely more edu. cated than that of Lillian Russell, al- though she is not as beautiful. best of ‘em. She is shapely, and—if you recollect it—Lillian is not, and she admits it York a@ creditable little comic opera, called “Madeleine; or, The Magic Kis: by Btanisiaus Stange and Julian Ed- in at a hundred and grows twenty-five. A prophetic person behini me last night remarked as the last kise which is @ delightful fact to chronicle. Mr, Stange may feel pleased with the XIV., and dealing with a gentleman who loves a princess, who loves some- body else, who disguises himself, is of thing, If Mr, Stang continue. letne’ teema with melody. Some time ago Mr. Edwards allowed his hair to grow, in the musical world, when you're heavy, commendable. Tune is looked upon as @ crime by those who profess to know. ladeleine” Mr, Edawrda is criminal, ones, good enough to be hummed and whistled, They are of the Sullivan or- quartet, a topic could be more satisfying than the curious song dealing with six husbands of as many nationalities that Miss Dressler times. Aubrey Boucicault ‘ surpris- he makes frenzied attacks upon humor, and possibly means well. time changing her clothes. Fewer costumes and more songs would be preferable. ALAN DALE, gt Ty ttt BY OTHER FDITORS. A Surprising Fact. Many Americans will be surprised to leare that there has been a Congressional Temperanct Boctety for sixty-th Kansas City Btar, No Whipping-Poat! In opposing & Whipping-Post law the Humane Sovtety, of thie city, Is true to tts and It avlf, Rochester Democrat. Republican View of Plattiom. ‘There has been no more outrageous exhibition of attempted bomslam than that given very recent- ly by Mr. Thomas ©. Platt, who, for some unintal- ligtvle reaaon, ‘magines that he {s Governor of New York, Mayor of New York and an exceeding- ly large part of the Legislature of New York.— Newark Advertiser (Rep.). Alarm in Allentown. iment that 12 be- Ing fostered In several parte of the Btate in fa- vor of increasing the sulartes of female teachers It this sort of thing goss on we may yet come to pay our teachers almost am liberally as we do our cash boys aud raph messengere—allen- town Lead UF YOU LOVE 4 GooD Laven. Heres Where You Get It Siz Tt But one thing yet they lack, eh; Yhen women try te get our votes Will they chew our plug tobacco? Philadelphia Inquirer, Bigamy. Tommy—Pa, what ts bigamy? et) Mr, Mrigg—it haw reference to @ maa having too many wives, It has nothing to da how: with @ man’s wife belug too masy for him,— Tit-Bite cinge. to eee a strawberry Rear a re8; Td ke 10 see @ freck! "En sun-burn op my nose V4 like to be in ewimmia,’ ‘En a lollin’ on the beach, With my toe stuck tn the Rot sand, ‘Eu my tooth stuck In @ peach. Doubt. Allce—te she pretty men Ned--I hat he's simply exqu Altce—Yes; Tom's engaged te her.—Somerville Journal, myself, but Tom says Vain Wishe: re a bird, 4 one And each ding Very Magistrate (severely)—You are charged with MARCH 9, 1898) Werte’s Gattery of Living| BOOKS WORTH READING PRESIDENT KRUGER. This ia @ picture of the Chief Magis- of the South African Republio— | i sterie ion of the Boers. He is chiefly | motor of iss, Th F sah to Gite ‘un, |Temarkeble as being the least heard of | osna-bo a Sea blr Sinaia, ha TE a Chief Magistrates, —_s THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. the ni Miss D’Arville can wear tights with the | of all the earth’ Misa D'Arville has brought to New| Gensip Mere, a Hint There and Trae Tales of City Lite. New York women whe are fond of bicycling, whe cannot quite ge the bloomer sty! wards, It Is a sort of fantastic fairy | dre, which 1s affected only by extreme tale woven around a legend that has for} thusiasta, have bit upon a compromise which, it ite theme the rejuvenation of a Baron) te said, will do away with the Inoonreniences by the simply and pleasing ald of the| ot the ordinary skirt and kiss, Each time he is Kissed he gets| cure all the advantages and comforts of the twenty-five years younger. He starts | trousers devic down to| christened the the mame time se- his [x a garment which has been ‘duplex akirt* by Ite Inventor, 4.| Mra. Frank Sittig, of Brookiyn, whose name is well known in drese-reform circles, was given, “If she kisses him again, he | of MA See female soe ane ie plocees it Ie won't be nuthin’.”” There ts very little | af, “witout exelting any hilarity among unsym- comedy business in “Madeleine,” aNd sethetic observers, It has already arouseg a tre. that will perhaps prove to be a Weak | mendous amount of discussion, and private in- point in this city. What there 1s of it] epections of the affatr In practical operation have fe very bad, Still, If there 1s no comedy | confirmed the views of business, there is also no horseplay, | women whe bave tried it It ie. combination I met a new insurance agent the other day work he has done. The fanciful legend | whe bad just been initiated by the insurance fs better than the perpetual French | Jokers of the town, th of Louis | @ prominent insurance company with instru ee ee ck a a tone to request @ risk on No, &6 Broadway. could not understand why they declined, He had been to six offices, having been sent from one about to give up in dis- He was sent to the to another, taken prisoner, and who finally Wins| gust when he conceived the id the lady. We may get rid of that S0Ft| ug 4 good thing to look at 85 Broadway and as- certain why the companies refused the risk. Julian Edwards has composed some @X-| found the reason without asking @ question. No. ceedingly pretty music, In fact “ Made-| 95 Broadway is Trinity Church yard, Court of thowrand an under the title of and Lawyers.* Some of the stories are good and some new, some are adaptations and some original; but, most entertaining volumes for the general reader which has appe ‘Mimin & Compan; ia the inseription on and composed a dreadful thing called] iMghly artistic stone horse trough at the curb “King Rene's Daughter.” It was as|ot City Hall Park facing the Post-ome heavy as an uncooked muffin, and Mr.| entire contente yesterday were a dozen cigar Edwards was very proud of it, beca butts, several discarded toothpicks, a few relin- ished and obsolete ‘‘quids,"’ a handful of pea- you're deep, and when you're deep you're | Rut abells and @ pint or two of miscellany which may be described as just general dirt, Of the Jot the toothpicks looked most solubl patient friend Indeed it would be thet would seek to qual? from the tempti bow! for there are tunes galore—very pretty | tre wate, were curaed ee een cr ‘T was one of several passengers in a sleeping Boston the other night were greatly amused at the actions of an ‘It was apparently her first ex- J song that would be| perience in a sleeper, and she was very nervous, better if it were not so topical, and a] Soon after retiring she poked her head out trom very Impressive finale. Miss D'Arville’s| between the curtains of her berth and said plain- talents are very advantageously dis-| tively to s pamenger seated near b; played, and she has ut least one capital | Please tell assistant in Miss Marie Dressler, who is| is 1 want to ha the life of the performance. Nothing| ut ! der, and are full of the Sullivan tricks] ear guring @ fying trip but the school is an excellent one. There] w; 1a one very pretty ballad, a humorous] elderly spinster. 19 Im which direction the car is mov- my head towards the engine, @ become completely turned around, and to save my neck I can't tell which way we are going. She got the desired information, and} deiphia 4 drow her head in ith profuse thanks. sings, And she can improve her per- ze formance by being little lens noiny, at| gies “eur Dagtias coualee are tone of weaning | a! which has found its ingly laced an the arin do Gian) Hal vue Vecestter aul eee eenenene | ee ea cannot sing, but he can act. George C.| ing, but be careful hew you take their word for Boniface, jr., is not at all funny, although | that. The fret time you taste the wine It seems very mild end barmiess. Misses Maud| your acquaintance with the beverage too your safest course is to ot Pres If you Indiscreetly push of hie ‘Table Talk’ on all sorte of subjects, and Hilda Hollins are very comely girls, | however with pretty voices, Miss D’Arvile wastes | bed end let sweet slumber THE GLBANER. _ & DREAMER'S SONG. Ob, waste it mot 1 To come uo more; ‘The ond ts ever nighing. So while life lasts let's laugh and sing, ‘And mock the wrinkles age may bring; Oh, Ife te ike an April day— ‘Then a cloud bedims the way, Pleasures ere they fy; Do not be too late~ Fairest flowers soonest die— ‘Tie the way of fate. The bright to-da) And think not of to-morrow. Let's find our music in her sig! ‘8 sunny skies brightness borrow, fo like am April day, Ae. |. MIINTYRE, Port Richmond, & I. “BVENING WORLD" GUIDE-BOOK, New York {s a musical elty, Tt wants good Gulde-Book hax treated of several clubs and societies which assiat In meeting thi brings forward the Deutscher Liederkrans, and the fine bullding In Kast Fifty-eighth strect, between Park and Lexington avenues, in which the organization has kraas bes about 1,600 membera It was or- sanised tn 167, and bas prospered demand. To-day it inatruotion for ils singing members, and has|>Y | alec every tactlity for club entertainment of @| Fesched this country, It the ublic highway, mistook her for my long-lost brother. eene,—Now York Weekly, the exploiting of the Prisoner—She was in bicycle costume, wad 1| posers Besides o there are female cheruses Magistrate (brishiy)—Discbarged! Call th’ nest] Tho ‘The advances made tn the application of elec- trie power to the purposes of na been as great, If not greater, than in transpor- tation on land. But, while the progress of the in- dustry of equipping and operating electric boats 1s known to but few, that of operating railways Necessarily attracts i ‘Thomas ©. Martin, editor of the Mleotrical Mngi- meer, and Joseph Sacha, the nt electrician, have compiled « and Navigation," which will interest a wide cir- cle of readera, It 1s a record of the practical sue- cess that has been attained in the application of @lectric power to vessels, and the authors givi the tails of every successful electric craft built up to date necessary to illustrate the evolution of the new force. The work 1s divided Into two parts, the first treating of electric boats Propelled elther by storage batteries ot primary beginning with the Jacoby electric boat canal-boat propulsion and motor haulage, the lat- ter part being the special work of Mr. Bache One great value of the book 1s in the detail and wealth of the matistics, a large portion of the uta never before having been brought together. It le published by C. C. Shelley. “All men are born free and equal,’ Oharies Francis Adams remarked as he rove to reply to the toast of "America," at a gertain Lord May- or'a dinner; and, after looking around he added with some emphasis, ‘‘and then the fun beging,"* Mr. Harry Percy Robinson, in his novel, ‘Men Born Equal," seems to have taken the latter rather than the first part of Minister Adams's statement as the text for his novel, the back- ground of which 1s a story of the Brooklyn strike. There is a little too much politica im it, and @ little too much of the strike to make it easy reading. The realism of the present day should have romantic treatment, as the romance of the past requires reallatic treatment to make {t appeal very strongly to the modern reader. (Harper & Bros.) ee ‘The adventures of Baron Munchausen never came anywhere near the ‘Adventures of Jones” which hgve been written by Mr. Hayden Carruth after “beholding the bright alr of Truth in the quiet and still alr of delightful studies"? The best work of Ell Perkins, of Tom Ochiltree, and even the blinding radiance of George Alfred Town- send, fades away, and ts forgotten lot deters shes the small and handy pocket Every man who has a reputation for story-telling must have this book. (Harper & Bros.) eo 6 Joseph A, Willard, Clerk of the Superior wachusetts, has collected about @ jotes of the Massachusetts Bar, Halt Century with Judges @ not, some are old and some are t of the i ym all together, it 1p of ed from the press of Houghtoa, oe ‘Mr. James Russell Parsons, jr., has supplement 4 bis “Prussian Schools Through American Byee’* with @ companion volume called ‘French Schools Through American Eyes," which has been pre- pared as a report to the New York State Depart- ment of Public Instruction, It 1 will interest teachers and all persons taking spe- clal Interest In our public schools, (C. W. Bar deen, Syracuse.) & book which James Mason, the noted chess expert, has pre- pared @ manual for advanced players, called ‘The Art of Chess,’ {dentical with that method in his "Principles of Chess."* About 250 end games and combinations are filustrated and the play explained, The remaining portion et the book 1s devoted to new openings. (Horace Coz, London.) eee ‘The Journal of the Knights ef Laber of Phile- Issuing @ series of labor stories, be- Heving that one of the best ways of interest! the public In labor questions ts by means reallatic fiction, The latest tssue, ‘Mine * py Katharine Pearson Woods, 1s am ad- strike which was oy mutual concession. eee W. 0, Stoddard, one of the private secretaries t Lincoln, has complied @ little book which contain many new and good anecdotes, 1I- Justrating bis wit apd gentleness, (F, A. Btoken) A edition of “Grimm's Fairy Tales,"* 400 jarto pages, profusely illustrated, has be sued by the Camell Company, It is the most perfect English edition ever jasued. The novels of W. Helmburg have many read- ers, and the latest, translated for Bonner @ Son, {s called ‘For Another's Wrong." The title Indicates the nature of the story, Harper's Weekly prints under the title “‘Call- fornia's Great Grievance," In the current issue, ‘& paper by Julian Ralph upon the struggle of the freat Golden State against monopoly rule and corrupt politica, ‘Reform in San Francisco’ 1s the title of another important article which will be published March 9, and ‘Last Year's Gold In- crease’ will be considered in the issue of March 16. eee Chester Holcombe formerly Secretary of Lega- tion and Acting United States Minister at Pekin, has prepared descriptions of the ancient Chinese porcelains and curios owned by George A. Hearn, recent horrible massacres of children by thi Brooklyn trolley Juggernaut, I have been unable to repress my surprise at the apathy shown by the people of Brooklyn. I thought that some ; demonstration would be made; some mass-meet- ing, at least, called to express the indignation of the citizens; but mo, they are supine, they actually tolerate the horror. Men and women, doubtless many of them parents, may be seen patronizing the cars, This is like caressing @ of this city. These descriptions, in handy form, are added to the unique publications of the Sat eee Lauls M. Elshemus, of Buffalo, publishes @ Itm- ited edition of his short poems, under the title “Mooda of @ Soul. Here is Mr, Elshemus's ot ‘*The Post He takes sweet beauty from everything— Shows It to one— He the callous gran In dulcet undertone’ And this te the post's ‘Valedistery:"” “Fly away, my little book, ‘That boldeth safe im thee ‘My soul's plain charactery! And Qnd some friendly togk, Where thou wilt know there be Gweet love for possy. If there thou find approval slight, *Tie all we wish for our delight.” MUSICAL JOTTINGS, sing The @fteenth “popular? Sunday night concert will be given at the Metropolitan Opera-House to- morrow, With Yaaye, the violimiat, and Mme Lil- Han Blauvelt as the soloist, Yeaye will play Max Bruch's second concerto in D minor, and « polonaise in D major by Wienlawski. Mine, Biauveit will aing Verdi's ‘Sicilian Vespers’ and Beraberg’s waits, Nympha and Sylvain.”* ‘An irate gentleman writes as follows nent @ criticlam im @ weekly musical paper of Mr. Coombs's song recital at Mendelmohn Glee Club Hall: “Whoever wrote that article," mays the thoroughly ashamed of herself. Upon my honor, | never in my lite saw an article that showed more plainly work, I fail to see why this critic criticised so harshly ail the artiste and expecigily Mise Inex Grenelll, the young American singer.’ Be calm, good air, be calm, As the Freuchman would ay, ‘Tals tab” Lillian Ruasell appears to have ‘struck tle" in Chicago with ‘La Perichole,* in which poor litle Aimee met with so much success. They ¢ Litllaa tn Chicago, and they have shown their ly. Mise Russell has been ud tn the Baxt, but there's De Koven and Smith awalt- @ brand-new op ing her. And perhaps the clouds will roll by, Massie. en The new Musical Strand Magazine, published focal order, Ita concerte have been devoted to| ticulariy exhilarating. The music that it contains, ‘German com.|ePart frome ong by Bir Arthur Sullivan, ts male oingers | Teally dreadful, uch jingling rubies hes rarely energetic George Newnes, of London, has cheap, but pot pay Flannel. for an infant; it opens at the back, and the shoulder-straps button on to the front and so avoid the necessity of twisting the tiny arms into the armholes. It is made of unshrinkable fiannel, ecal- loped at the edge, and buttonholed with floseette. It is arranged in three box- plaits, which are stitched tightly from the neok to the waist. The shoulder- straps and neck are ecalloped and but- ton-holed. Leek to Your Hat. A hat is an interesting thing to ex- periment with, you can wear it so many different ways. The writer knows a woman who wears a small, round sailor hat of cream-colored felt. It is trimmed with cocks’ feathers, black ribbon and Jet, and when head she looks the worst coquette in Gotham. When she brings it well down upon her forehead she seems the de- murest person in the city. If it gets tipped to one side she looks gay. And ft is the same hat and she is the same woman all the time. Yet not quite the same, perhaps, for I suspect her of pur- posely adjusting it a bit now and then according to her company. e tips it back upon her Theatre BI A theatre blouse to fall back upon when cold or sore throat forbids an open throat, or for use when dining en famille, is always useful, Some delight- ful shot silks are now striped with a silk Hne which falls lke tinted hail across the material. A blouse of this silk, opal shot and flushed with a hall of geranium, is very smart, and the new embroidered net frontage makes a very becoming framework to the complexion. Some people are reviving the muslin embroidery souaves our grandmothers used to wear, and arranging them very deftly as baby bibs around the sec. ‘This is a very convenient shape flannel | They look charming in conjunettion with chubby throats, but they give meagre people a most sparse aspect. One Empress Walks--Other Swims. ‘The Empress of Austria's love of ing arouses general curiosity during her Present stay at Cape Martin. way from Algiers ehe stopped at seilles, where she requested that no eff cial notice should be taken of her ar rival, but that some quiet, steady work- ingman should be in waiting te Ghow Ber to maintain the character. ‘The Empress of Russia is swimming that she structed at the Winter Petersburg a large swimming white marble. She is very English sports and Colores tor The woman whe is colors to her Gaya, of brown-haired, gray-eyed do not rank, properly speaking, or brunette, and should traditions behind cordingly to their know a woman red and green when gives her life and soter. @ good day she wears that won't heighten @ comes too suddenly, Mrs. Vanderbil¢(s Nete Pages. Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt fancy of her own in gote paper. sort of cross between the old ence card and ordinary gheet. Tt small that it ie put in the square envelope unfolded, and of the paper, such as ie dedicated te intimate correspondence, the hand corner is decorated with i ! i / f | il Fy Hl ii int ze gg | He Every entrance vided with a closet of and width. This is invah the multifarious wraps, 0 umbrellas which are required in a ly, but which are not particdterty sightly, if left in evidence tn the Rall itself, and yet should be close at hand when needed. Floral Conserves. ‘Women can meke for themselves some dainty conserves of flowers that are es- pecially recommended aa giving a demty’ perfume to the breath and ligs. They are made from violets or very Mghiy- perfumed roses or carnation pinks, Take half @ pound of loaf sugar and motsten with rosewater; melt the sugar slowly till {t reaches the botling potnt; have your violet or rose or carnation petals ready, and stir them quickly tn the quid; then pous the whole into shallew dishes or pans. LETTERS [7a cohemn ts open to everghoty whe has © complaint te make, & grievance to ventilate, tr formation to give, @ subject of general interest to disouse or a public service to acknowledge, and whe can put the idea into less than 1W worle Long leters cannot be printed, | To the Editor: Bince I read in your esteemed paper of the tiger who daily makes his repast on thelr little ones, For my part I will not be an accomplice im this slaughter of innocents, Can it be true that In America human life ts lesa sacred than it te abroad? Alas, for the heartbrokea parents In the City of Churches and Homes! ‘WALKER. ‘Twill Always Be New York. Te the Editor: “New York is New York,” we all knew that, knew elther Strong or Platt; shall be New York se sey ‘When Strong and Platt have passed away. New York has stood some heavy storms, No doubt of late must need reforms; It had its Tweed and its Tammany Mall, Pantates and thelr ward men all. New York's alive and brave and stout, ‘Will live to turm all rascals out; Though Strong and Piatt be both to blame, New York will live om just the same, 1 east my vote for Strong last Fall; It I am eorry, that is all; It TN be spared to vote again, I woa't forget my present pain. I am corry my vote was cast For ene whose tongue can damn and blast, ‘And who {9 anxious, so they say, To violate the Sabbath day. Saloons, if opened on God's day, ‘WIIL cause the Christians weep and pray; A prayer for the Mayor, ‘Who may say dama when he doesn't care. REPUBLICAN, A Flat-House Nui To the Editor: Having read in your valuable paper about the “‘L’ road and ferry-boat hogs, I would ank some of your worthy readers to suggest a name for @ new species recently discovered. It ts the tenant who bas lived in the flat-house prior to yourself and wants you te be aware of the fact, by impressing It upon your mind at every opportunity; im fact, thinks there is nobody but himself entitled to the rights and privileges generally accorded to others occupying the sam house; who ignores you eatirely, but still roots bia nose into and knows your business, and tries to tmpose upon bis neighbors at every opportunity. A BTATEN ISLAND VICTIM. ‘The Tax Would Equal the Land's Vai To the Kéitor: Single taxers propose gradual increase of tax on land values, correspondingly eliminating other taxation, until practically all ground rent ahall be taken, leaving landlord only enough to pay him for collecting rent, dc, With this method in full operation vacant city lot worth $1,000 rental would pay nearly that amount in taxes, Anybody wanting to use land would Snd {te ownership profitable Speculators would be been put the market. The li fresen out. The 11,830 vacant lots mentioned te very i Ay inirlog, Thaw iat eaity [tou rectty be only io the fact that be thinks the waed, come for residence, others Given & good idea, + [tee bestnces (obtainable os remmves bic rates, and this land coming on Ghe market tm competition with that now in use would equesse ater out of the present values, lowering rent. it would be unjust to compel owners of land to Dulld; nobody proposes that. It would be per- festly jum to make {t unprofitable for them to hold land {ale which others needed and were willing to pay for. and Cigar-Makers' tery are of benefit to the working people, is trua, bul there are some trades of which machinery ts the worm enemy, For ingance, the ¢ ‘The man whe ten years age mate fortable living at this business, m for the support of his girl or taken hts place im the dhop is before there were any machines; & boy cannot earn enough to ‘This te the reason why we hear of eo cide cases in New York of honest cigurmakera, 52 a 5 ir 3 a o ttn { ' Breoklyn City Hall ‘To the Rattor: In pasing the Brooklyn City Mail on about 11.90 A. M., I happened te east my up te see what time it i i i fey reed Justion missing customed places. I inquired of « ing where they | i 1 of the bil! preventing and the bell kicked was grieved decause going to be slighted | f an increase in the tax on vacast land. eet @ngie tax haphesard, think before sepaking, and to think rightly they must who condema 1) How can I place @ boy in who is almost six feet bi profession, and for whieh he will not have to He 1 very tall, and when be applies per- ronally for @ position he te always too big, Will ome one give me advice? ANXIOUS MOTHER, Another Slave ef the Oue, I heartily sympathise with “A Patthful Wite” and hope that the @unday closing of billiard-reeme my husband 1s also o aleve to billards, and spends Sunday, bolidays and evenigs at the different rooms, while I am lof im solitude until the ‘wee sme’ hourw’ of the 4 LONRIOMS WiTa, may be enforced, To the Editor: How many years older shoulé » man be than the woman he marries? How old should @ man or woman be to mary? How \s » man or women to know & What ts 9 fashionable mame for o