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K jfy le CJU JS ttntna unit, Nor do (As roJ.i qf lAal Inm
LK.V W?b f (As Morning Edition.
KT THE FIE8T REFORM.
Kc Electoral reform must precede all other at.
HB tempts to purify politics and to elevate the
Kf piano of government.
El' With corrupt elections, registering the
K decree of a machine or sealing tho bargain of
Bb- boss, thero can bo no hope of elthorTionost
H$? politics or good government.
Ef ' , The Tribune truly Bays of tho proposed
H , snoasuro to provide for the printing
HL and distribution of ballots by tho
Hr BUte, and for the limitation of the
K use of money in elections, that "it
HP - will do more to purify campaign mothods
H$ and prevent bribery than any other agonoy
K existing or prospoctivo."
E; Let patriotio men of all parties unito in
HK. Hearing tho onactmont of such a law.
Kk THE 8UBPLTJB MUST 00.
E ' Secretary Faibciiild, it is hardly necessary
K '' to say, will givo no heed to tho cowardly
Bl counsel of falso advisers to modorato or
Ki abandon his earnest recommendation that the
K; urplus be Btopped by a reduction of taxes.
KV1' It is stated that tho Seorotary will urge
EL' upon Congress tho necessity of " immediato
Hfc action "for tho rollofof the Treasury and tho
HfeV people.
Hy Bond purchases at a high premium woro
Kr Justifiable only as a last expedient to prevent
k a financial panto. Tho- only other alternative
Hrf totospendthosurplusdn reckless approprla
K'tims Hk la urging immediato tax reduction, Secre
6f tary FArncirn,D will bo in harmony with tho
K-, Democratic platform in his own State,
HRw . ftnd wtb tno sentiment of the peoplo every.
HL where.
BSSSSSWU
HP BTAHFOBD'a BRIEP EB8AT.
Hff Benator Btanfobd has been invited to con.
HpV tribute an article to the " Books That Hava
BpX Helped Me" series.
K.' If the Senator is perfectly frank, his essay,
H$ brief but comprehensive, will read cubstan-
Hr: U&Uy as follows t
Hf' "Check-books."
Hf TEE FBBHOH KALEIDOSOOPE,
B& The resignation of President Obxvt as a
Kj result of tho OATrutEL-Wilson scandal seoms
B to bo a foregone conclusion, and Parisian
Hfc? politicians ore busy speculating as to his
Kfi' probable Buocossor.
Ktf The Qovernment-of France changes liko a
Hg, kaleidoscope. No one, and a Frenchman, tho
Ki least of all, can foretell the outcome of the
Hh present crisis. Only the cloud of war that
HhV hovers over the Ebine is likely to provent
partisan dissensions that might lead to the
E' overthrow of tho Bepublio.
Hfj' How grand in its adamantine foundations
B nd its magnificent structural stability seems
HEigBj-ih American Bepublio in comparison.
V m "WHAT TBUBTB ABE FOE.
3Q Judge TuuiT, of Chicago, was greatly
gsjpastonifined to learn from evidence given be
Ei 'ore him that the Chicago Gas Trust under.
B' took to raise $10,000,000 from bonds upon a
K- plant worth $7,000,000, and to divide the pro.
fc. cee'ds among tho stockholders.
Ef There is nothing strange about this. 'What
E ' dobs Judgo Tuxxx suppose Trusts are for ?
Ef' They double up tho volume of the stock of
Vi combining corporations, divide the inflated
RlJ seourities among tho members of tho ring,
K$ B&3 then by arbitrarily fixing tho price of the
ertlolo they control make the publio pay
HBE dividends on the fictitious total.
Ep U the people do not throttle tho Trusts
Mp they may rely upon it that tho Trusts will
H& rob them.
mfik BHBBMAN'S BHIBBOLETE.
k Frigid John's idea of the Bepublican battle.
Hg y for 1888 is: "War taxes and war mem.
HL Dries forever!"
R Ha would hang on to a 47 per cent, tariff
Kk & ons band and flaunt the bloody shirt in
Rr, tho other.
K; Well, the Bepublicanc have been steadily
ft . whipped on these issues for the past six years.
Kb' If they really hanker after another and final
He' bounoing on the same line the Democracy
RJ ('. Will bs only too happy to accommodate them.
Hfv THE ABBEST OF HOST.
HL Freedom of speoch is one thing, and a
Hk reckless and rabid incitement to murder and
Kv;' riot is quite another thing.
Hr' The American people cherish tho former
Hfr' ' , one of their most precious heritages and
HR safeguards, but the fundamental law of self.
H protection necessitates the power to suppress
sUH abalAtier
K. nA wrwt atUeeowatd, Joauat Most,
sMsisstfsket1t1af!jgi c.
hat persisUntly crossed the line that sep.
aratM liberty from license, and he is to be
squelohed ytry properly and under jmple
provision of the law. That he realices that
he has grossly abusod the right of free
speech is shown by his attempt to deny the
report of his murderous mouthlngs.
As Chicago has learned at torrlblo uost,
tho hissing brood of anarchical serpents is
best crushed when young.
A OALL FOB FAIR FLAY.
Tho Boyol Clydo Yacht Club very proporly
alleges that tho conditions of tho rovUcd
docd of gift for tho America Cup aro "unjust
and unsportsmanlike."
Tek World pointed out this fact when tho
new deed was adopted, and it cxprossed tho
almost unanimous sentiment of the sports,
men of Amorico.
As victors we can afford to bo genorous.
We cannot afford to bo moan. Wo want no
bedgo of partiality about that cup.
Off with thoso "unjust and unsportsman
like" conditions. Tho speed of our sloops,
and not stringent " regulations," is tho best
defense of the trophy.
BUYIHO THE BEHATE.
Tho Bepublican money in this State largoly
went, under the diroction of Boss Platt, to
tho purchase of Bepublican Senators in Bern,
ocratio districts.
Three districts that gavo a handsomo plu.
rality for Coox, tho Democratic candidate for
Secretary of Stato, elected tho henchmen of
Platt to tho Senato over unexceptionable
Democratic candidates.
The Bepublican Stato tickot was loft to
toko caro of itself, whilo Putt lookod after
himsolf and his Quarantine ring by electing
Senators who would kcop hold-ovor officials
in placo years after their terms havo expired.
No wonder a party that submits to such'
leadership-is moribund in this Stato.
OVER ONE HUNDRED HILL10NB.
Tho report of tho Troasuror of tho TJnitod
States, just mado publio, shows that tho sur
plus revonuo colloctcd from the taxpayers for
tho fiscal year ending Juno SO was $103,171,097.
This extortion of unnecessary and unjust
taxes has now boon going on for sovon years.
" Theroforo tho Domooraoy of Now York
domand," said tho Stato platform, "that
Federal taxation bo straightway reduoedby
a sum not loss than $100,000,000 yearly."
BOOHESTEB'B TELEPHONE FIOHT.
Tho citizens of Bochestor havo sot a good
'oxainple to tho country in their plucky and
persistent fight against tho extortion of tho
Boll Tolophone monopoly. For the first
time that grasping corporation is likely to bo
forood to terms.
Tho telophono monopolists aro dospotlo
beyond all procodont in a flold to which
thoir exoluslve titlo is by no means clearly
demonstrated. Tho voluminous records of
tho Patent Ofuoo contain few patents as ex.
traordinary in tho breadth of application as
their own. Aside from tho charges of fraud
in its proouromont, it is undoubtedly true
that only tho powor of aggrogatod capital,
employing an army of tho most astuto law
yers, has served to maintain its claims.
Under these circumstances it would bo.
como tho Bell people to at loast deal liberally
With tho publio. Oroed is vory apt to over
reach itself.
The President praises tho "rugged and
unyielding integrity" of ex-Commissioner
Bpahxb, and promises that his polioy to
" savo and protect the publio lands for Bot
tlers" will continue to be " steadfastly pur
sued." Tho namo of Mr. Spabxs's successor
will bo awaited with muoh interest.
Tho lecturing of John O. Gaulish and
HjontT Wjlttxbson as to what constitutes
mon "true Democrats," by a weathercook
journal that never points in tho somo direc
tion for two months togother, must be classed
with the humors of the day.
Tho Tribune moralizes upon " Prize Fight
ing Among the Puritans." The Puritans
havo faults enough to answer for without
saddling upon them the fistio enoounters of
Cabnkt, MoAuuppb and Sullivan.
It will occur to common peoplo not aoous
tomed to tho rarefiod etiquette of the courts
that tho intrusion of tho Czar and his rotinue
on the sorrow-stricken Emperor at Berlin is
a piece of regal impertinence.
During the intervals of his lurid ravings
Johann Most has an occasional glimmer of
common sense. He told Inspector Bxbnes
that " it looks as if tho community wants to
get rid of mo."
Senator FnTx, with his eye at tho Maino
keyhole, an soe onlyono candidate for his
party in 1888 : " Mr. Blaujx," His horizon
is sure to be enlarged before the Convention
moots.
Axtoont Coustocx ought to take warning
from Judgo Amdbews'b ruling that " reckloss
"blasting within the city limits " cannot be
indulgod in with impunity.
What is this about " Blaine's chanoes in
New York ?" Blaine hasn't any ohanoes
in Now York. Tou Platt and the Democrats
have disposed of them.
Senator Suejiuan says " there is too muoh
timidity among the New York Bepublioona."
Frigidity is what ails them sinoe the cold day
on Nov. 8th.
All who havo heretofore regarded Tipfoo
Tro as a model of probity will be pained to
learn that he has "gonebaokon" Stimlxt.
The latest theatrical rumpus ends in " Cost
AdMft," not in " Buddygore."
Is the ambulance train in readiness for to
morrow's gome of football f
As there was no bed at hand, Most sneaked
behind the door this time.
ALL WIDE OPEN ON SUNDAY.
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ETON PHILADELPHIA LEADS NEW TORE
IN LIBERAL THOUGHT.
Her Working People Have Free Arreee to
the Acadrmr of Fine Arte, tbe l'mnejl.
vmbIb Mueoum nnd the Pompellan Views
on Hundnr What II. C. Whipple and
llalton Dorr May Abont Bonder Openlnf.
u-i ..n lrb' t' UNDAY would scom
EESjil I lv'"3v "" " W08' con"
I Kf?" Kn'a' borne in Phila.
k$5; USTTi? io'l'b'a. Bustling Now
&l trPJZ Yorkers aro opt to bo-
Ri IPlV llovo Umt ,n tho city
M Wfti W ) I ) ot 'onn Hunduy is ob
TpTri J A 1 scrvd or 0Tfin nvs
ft J SS ( i ,n t,xo vreok lf li vaa
I I Xl 1 n'flo'nB to boo Bos
I I af V Y on oponing her Mu
rgS L I I J Boum of Art on Sundny
TOI I, jl J it was certainly etnrt
f 1(1 II i ,, D U Hng to learn that Phil
WUrJO m U ndclphla did tho Bamo.
JSaSr I n To boo if rumor woro
Sji itjfe corroct about tho point
teaS7!" r 0 Wobld roportor ran
over there to find out how hoy managed
things. It is truo. Puritan Boston, chilled by
tho east winds which blow the Mayflower to
Massachusetts Bay, and Quaker Philadelphia,
steepod in tho Bedato calm which William
Penn has loft to his progony, ojion thoir Mu
seums of Art on Sunday, and Now York, tho
cosmopolitan, doos not I
The World has shown how tho Sunday
oponing works in BoBton. Tho samo buc
coss accompanies it in Philadelphia.
Thore are three nrt Institutions .Phila
delphia, tho Pennsylvania Acndomy of tho
Fine Arts, tho Ponsylvania Museum and
Sohool of Industrial Art ond the Pompoilan
Views. Thoy all open on Sunday.
Tho Academy of tho Fine Arts onChorry and
Broad streets, in tho shadow of tho imposing
pilo of tho public buildings, was built in tho
Centennial year. Architecturally it has
sharod tho fato of somo others of the edifices
which havo boon dedicated to art in America
and is somewhat suggoBtivo of a too ornato
froight station. But sinco this present build
ing was erected it has been opon to tho publio
on Sundays. An admission feo Mas charged,
howovor. From April 11, 1880, it has boon
froo.
Thoro was no opposition to tho Sunday
opening. Tho Academy is a corporation and
tho Board of Directors aro gontlomou of
moans who aro devoted to tho intercuts of
art.
That tho Sunday oponing; has not had any
detrimental effect on donations to tho
Academy is woll shown by tho gonorous gifts
which ft has received since it opened on
Sundays. Tho most important of these is that
of Mr. Josoph E. Templo. a wealthy Phila
dclnhlau and one of tho Board of Directors.
Mr. Templo gavo 981,000, with provisions
for its incroaso in three years to a fund of
SJCO.OOO. Half of tho interest on this sum
was given unconditionally for the purchase
of works ot American art for tho musoum.
Tho intercut on tho other half was condi
tional on tho musoum opening tno days frco,
ono of which froo days should be Sunday.
Last year efforts woro mado to secure an
ondowmont fund for tho Academy. Tho re
sult was a subscription of S 112,600, obtained
between Fob. 8, 188C, and Jan. 10, 1887. Mr.
Templo also contributed 880,000 to tills fund.
Tho oity gives nothing to tho Academy excopt
exemption from taxation.
Evidently Philadelphia is not opposed to
lotting her cltizons enjoy art on Sunday.
Tho Sunday attendance uveragos from
twolvo hundrod to flf toon hundred. On special
occasions, such as loan exhibitions, it runs up
to three or four thousand. On Monday, the
ono other froo day, tho attoudanco does not
overage 100.
Mr. II. 0. Whipplo, Curator of tho sohools
couuoctod with tho Academy and tho Li
brarian, looks after tho Sunday oponing. " In
tbe beginning," that gentleman said to The
Would reportor, " a forco of twolvo police
men was detailed for tho building on Sun.
days. Thoy woro found so unnecessary that
now thoro is not ono. Thoro is a call near at
hand which would summon ono if occasion
required. But during my tonu of office, for
tho whole time of tho froo Sunday oponing,
I havo had to call in a policeman only onco.
" Tho people aro of the pooror classes on
that day. Not many 'carriage-folk' como
on Hunuars. No harm has been done to any
thing, ana tho visitors show an intelligent
interost and enjoyment of tho works in tho
Academy,
" Tho oxpenso of oponing the Musoum on
Sundays is about $7. Something is obtained
from tho salo of catalogues, whioh are 10
cents apioco.
" Tho work ongages four attendants, ono to
chock the canes and umbrellas, whioh peoplo
are not allowed to tako into tho gallery ; ono
to stay in the gallery to koep ordor, ono to
sell catalogues, and finally myself, soo
that no Improper porson outers. Children
undor fifteen years of age aro not admitted."
Sinco tho Sunday oponing tho Noill be
quest of $10,000 has also beon loft to tho
Academy.
Tho ono dissenting vote from tho gcnoral
harmonious acquiescence of tho publio in
tho propriety and benefit of tho Sunday
opening caiuo from Mr. Qoorgo Whitney,
wno declined to contribute any of his pic
tures to a loan collection because of the Sun.
day opening.
Thoro is no stronger argument than a fact.
When tho old philosopher wished to prove
that motion was possible, he got up and
wulked. Philadolphia and Boston havo
shown that tho Sunday oponing of tho Mu
seum is a bonoflt which roaches a class of tho
community whoso pleasures aro few and
whoso refining influences aro not great, and
it has also shown that this class not only
avails iUolf of tho privilege, but that no
harm or disorder has followed from it. Nor
has this proceeding been detrimental to tho
interests of tho institution. This has been
dono by an Academy of Art which was en
tirely dependent cu private resources for its
support, not being subsidized at all by Stato
or olty.
Tho samo dcsirablo results have followed
from tho opening of Memorial Hall in Fair,
mount Park on Sundays. This institution is
very analogous to tho Now York Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Tho Pennsylvania Museum
and School of Industrial Art is a tenant of
Memorial Hall. Tho Park Commission can
displace it at a year's notice, and the Museum
corporation can retire at a uotico of tho samo
lenjhh.
The Museum has occupied tho building
from six months after the Centennial to tho
E resent time. It has been opon on Sundays,
ut sinco 1880 tho Sunday opening has bocu
frco.
Philadelphia expends $350,000 on Fair,
mount Park annually. Ten thousand dollars
are appropriated to tho maintenance and re
pairs of Memorial Hall. Out of this appro,
priatlou tho salaries of tho assistants are paid
in great part.
Alio iurcu cuipioyeu consists ot sixteen
men a custodian, an assistant custodian, a
foreman, an engineer, two night watchmon,
two closet keepers and one carpenter, and tho
rest are assistants, who clean the building
daily from 7.30 to 9.30 a. u., tho hour of
opening, and on Mondays until noon. They
are also on duty when the placo is open.
Tho Board of Trustees consisted of thirty
two, and two or three of them resigned when
the Sunday opening was declared. Ono of
those resigning trustees was in favor of olos
ing the Park itself on Sunday. Whether ho
wanted vegetation to halt on that day or not
is not known.
The only expenses involved aro tho assist
ants' wages and the coal consumed. Those
aro in groat part dofrayod from the appropri
ation for the Memorial Hall. The expense of
exhibitions, of getting and returning the
objects contributed, the printing of cata
logues and tbe current expenses outside of
assistants' wages and coal are met by the
Pennsylvania Museum.
Mr. Dalton Dorr, tho Secretary and Curator
of the institution, said with regard to the
Sunday attendance:
"The Bundoy visitors ore 60 per cent,
of tho whole attendance. This year,
up to tho first of this month of Novembor,
tboro havo boon 222,057 visitors, and 110,813
camo on Sunday. It is a Joy to me, and
must bo to any ono who takes an interest
in art, to sco tho peoplo who como horo on
Sundays. They are well behaved, thoughtful,
interested. You will soo fathers bringing
their children by tho hand and explaining
things to them Wo havo no trouble at all
with tho Sunday crowds and no injury has
boon dono to tho building or tho objects of
art. I havo never hud to ejoct anybody on
Sunday.
" On tho Sunday during tho late celebration,
between tho hours of 1 and 4 o'clock in tho
afternoon. 11,000 peoplo visited tho place.
That was ibo highest uumbor on any Sunday.
" October and November are the mouths
which show the largest number of visitors.
During tho winter tills part of tho park be
ing bo fiat and open is pretty bleak, and not
many caro to strugglo out through tho snow
and wind.
"Tho year following tho Ccntonnial Ex.
position was tho greatest visiting year until
1881, when tho frco Sunday opening was in
augurutod. Tho number of visitors increases
every year, and as I said, 50 per cent, como
on Sunday."
This is tho attendance for thopast docado :
Yar, Att.ntlant, Year, Alt,nilane.
1877 147,113 18S 169,883
1878 1S,73S1S63 1C8.931
18TB 10.76(1181 183,160
18S0 8,101BSS 18S.82
1381 185,030 1S&0 Si6,S4
" This year, as I think I told you," con-'
tlnued Mr. Dorr, " up to the first of this
month shows 252,057, which is 25,000 moro
than any year so far. Tbe Sunday oponing
has been an unqualified success. "
Looking at Memorial Hall, with its noble
proportions and beautiful arcados and
pavilions, the two massivo bronzo groups in
front, and tho fountain erected as a testimo
nial to John Welch, whose generous in
terest in art the city can nevor forget, send,
ing its crystal shower into tho air, tho Phila.
delphian may congratulate himself that no
narrowness has Btiut off this wholcsomo
beauty from tho citizen on the day of rest.
Tho Pompcilan Views are in a building at
tho Qrcon street entrance to the Park. This
exhibit was prosoutcd by Mr. Welch. It is
also thrown opon to tho publio on Sunday.
Independence Hall is not opened on Sun.
day. Experienco has shown on legal holidays
tbut a rougher element is attracted to tbis
building than that which is drawn to tho Art
Museums.
TnE Would roportor rctnrnod to Now York
with a moro oxalted idea of Philadelphia
than he had beforo vntortalnod. When will
New York no longer merit tho pitying smilo
with which hor two neighboring cities look
at the closed doors of tho Metropolitan Mu
seum on Sundays ?
WORLDLINCS.
Dr. Kost, the State Geologist of Florida, nu
found tne remains of a number of mastodons and
of an extinct speclci of h jena near Cotton Plant,
l'la.
An oil well, which at times spools forth refined
as well as crnde oil, is astonishing tho people of
Homenet, Pa. Some ot the sceptics think that It
has been "laltcd. "
The family of John K. Scott, ot Roaring Creek,
W. Va. , consisting of himself, his wlfo and eight
sons, weigh collectively 488 pounds, an avcrago
ot nearly Ut pounds each.
Judge Woodward, of Wllxesbarro, Pa,, has made
Mrs. Caroline Haunch a citizen of the United
Blates. She Is the llrst woman In the county to
apply for naturalization papers.
Nearly all the cedar wood used In making lead
pencils In this country and abroad comes from
Codar Keys, Fla., whero tho mills give employ
ment to hundreds of operatives.
A resident of Plymouth, 111. , has proteoted his
grapevines from tblevei by running wlrca through
the arbors and connecting them with several pow
erful electrlo batteries stored In bis woodahed.
A well has been discovered In Mobile, Ala.,
which spouts forth parkllngwator heavily charged
with carbonic add gas. When the water Is sweet,
ened with syrup It la said to mako a delectable bev
erage not unlike soda water.
While her husband was out hunting the other
day Mrs. sumpter, who lives near Harney, Ore.,
saw a fine antelopo near the houto. Picking up a
line she killed tho animal In Its tracks and soon
had It dreaaed and In the larder.
Frank lllcki, a negro living near MoKlnney,
Tex., Is 117 yeari old, and his descendants, of
whom there are ilx generations, number nearly
1,000. Proof of hti great age la shown by a bill of
sale dating back to the early Blave days.
Capt. W. 1). Fitch, of Williamsburg, a C, has
a pocket-knife which was found In the gizzard of a
tnrkey that was killed on his farm. The knife has
a handlo of horn whioh has been softened almost
Into pulp by the aotlon of the fowl's gastrlo
juice.
The remains of John Oakly were disinterred and
rcbnrled near Albuqueque, N. 11., recently, and It
was discovered that hli faco and head were cor
ered with a thick growth of hair, although when
he was burled ten years ago he was both bald and
beardless.
Fewer than 4,000 stars are vlilblo to the naked
eye, but when the heavens aro viewed through a
telescope tho number seen becomes countless.
HctBChel estimated whon he surveyed the Milky
Way that fully wa.ooo stars appeared before him In
less than one hour.
Mrs. Elliaboth Uendrlckson, of Marlon, III.,
was one hundred and one years old last week. A
year ago she celebrated her centennial, and her
descendants came In crowds to honor her. She la
an inveterate smoker, having used the weed slnoo
she wis twenty years of age.
Thero is considerable gossip In Rochester, Pa. ,
over the fact that Gilbert and Freeman Lloyd and
their wtvca have become converts to the Mormon
faith. They are prominent members of the Ilaptlat
Church, are well liked In society and the ladles
are said to be very pretty and, accomplished.
The number of colored soldiers In tho war of the
rebellion was far greater than Is generally sup
posed. According to CoL George W. Williams,
whose " History of the Negro Troops In tbe War of
the Rebellion" has jnst been published, the num
ber of negro enlistments In the army of the Union
was ITS, oou.
A New Orleans man has reached the conclusion
that tbe fabled El Dorado of the early oxplorers of
America Is a lake which occupies the extinct orater
of a volcano near Dogota, In the United States of
Colombia, lie proposes to ralie a company to
drain tho lake and recover the Immense mass of
gold and gems lying at Its bottom.
A G. A. R. man says that In war times, when the
usual remedies for cnllls and fever were lacking, It
was a common practice to give the patient a pill
made of tho web ot the blaok spider, or occasion
ally a live spider even, the dose being worked
down with a dranght ot whlikcy. The remedy is
said to have always been efficacious.
The sea serpent has appeared again, this time
in Lake Kothkonong, Michigan, where A. L Sher
man, of Fort Atkinson, saw It. It appeared to
him to be nearly forty feet long and swam with Its
bead railed two feet above the surface of the lake.
With Its tall it lashed the water Into foam and
frightened Mr. Sherman exceedingly.
Tbe Latest Notion.
(iVeni-ue.
Visitor Yonr new home la very pretty; but you
will have trouble to do anything with the garden,
It's io small.
country Uost Yes, It Is small: but, then, I
shall put In lolding-beda.
TOLD AT FIVE 0'CL0CKTEA.
MB, HEaDDEK AND HISS POST MABBIED
AFTER A MONTH'S DELAY.
A Fair to Do Held at Ornnare on Dee. O.
Tbe tattle of'the Diet Kitchen to Uave
Tbelr Annual Fair Next Monday nnd
Tuesday at 300 Fifth Avenne Move
ment of WelMtnown Society People.
SHE plensantest Boclal
event of yesterday was
tho marriago of Mr.
Alfred L. Hcadden
and Miss Qenavievo O.
Post, which took placo
at tho country scat of
tho bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry
C. Post. Tho cardH
were sent out and
a largo number of
friends invited to at
tend tho wedding fes
tivities on the evening
ot Oct. 19, but on tho
very day set for tho
" woddlng the bride was
taken seriously ill. So all felt yosterdoy at
tho wedding that thoro was moro than the
usual occasion for rojoicing.
A fair which promises to be a great sue
cess will bo held by the ladies of Orange, at
tho Briok Church, on tho afternoon and
ovening of Dec. 3. Lauder's Band will play.
Mrs. William Do F. Manico, of 4 West
Fortieth street, will givo a reception from 4
until 7 o'clock on tho afternoon of Dec. 2.
Mrs. Courtlandt D. Moss, of 124 East
Thirty-ninth street, will givo a reception on
tho afternoon of Deo. 3.
Mrs. Edward Mitchell, of 45 West Fifty
fifth street, will give a reception on Doc. 6,
from 4 until 7 o'clock.
The D. K. E. Club will hold a reception at
tho Metropolitan Opera-Houso during tho
first week in December.
Mrs. Boes, of 10 East Forty-slxth stroot.
will give a largo wedding reception noxt
Wednesday.
Mrs. Honry Villard, Mrs. Bussoll Sago,
Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Mrs. W. H. Wick,
ham, Mrs. A. H. Gibbons and Mrs. Robert
Hoo arc tho managers of tho Now York Diet
Kitchen, which will hold its annual fair next
Monday and Tuesday at the Fifth Avonuo
Art Gallories. 3CC and 8G8 Fifth avonue.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Elliott, nco Finck, on
thoir return from thoir wedding joumoy
after Jan. 11, will receive their friends on
Wednesdays at their new homo in Fourteenth
street.
A masquorado ball will be given on Wednes
day evening, Doc. 14, at Adolphi Hall, Fifty
sovonth street, near Broadway, by tho Gal
laudot Club in aid of tho Qallaudot Memorial
Fund.
Messrs. Amory Carhart, J. Hookor Ham
ersley and Mr. Banyor Clarkson are the lead
ing mon in the management of tho Knicker
bocker Bowling Club, .which will Boon re
sumo its meetings.
Tho Bov. and Mrs. S. Halsteod Watkins, ne'e
Smith, will receivo their friends on thoir ro.
turn from their wedding joumoy on Deo. 11,
at 81 West Thirty-third street. .
Tho engagement is announced of Mr. L. G.
Timpson, of this olty, and Miss May Waring,
of Plainflold. N. J.
An entertainment will be given this after
noon at 3 o'clock under tho auspices of tho
Church of tho Bedoomer, in aid of tho Frosh
Air Fund, at tho Lyceum Theatre. Juvo
nile amateurs will perform " Dorothy's
Dreamland."
Mr. William F. Falkonberghas loft tho city
for a year's stay in San Diego, Cat.
Mr. Kitz will leave on Saturday for Europe.
The marriago of Mr. H. Martin, of Staten
Island, and Miss Elizabeth Williams will
tako placo in December.
Peoplo who own antique pottery aro look
ing over thoir stock einae Mr. William T.
Walters, of Baltimore, arrived in the oity to
see if they aro able to furnish him with an
other peach-blow vaso.
Mrs. John N. Outwater, mother of John N.
Outwater,IaBt ovening celobratedthe seventy
fifth anniversary of hor birth by a dinnor at
her homo, 813 WoBt Fourteenth street, at
which hor eons and daughters woro present.
A roception followed and many of Mrs. Out
water's friends assembled to offer her con
gratulations on tho hoalth and good spirits
with which sho ontors upon the fourth quarter
of a century.
PAULINE HALL'S DIVORCE SUIT.
She Un Degnn One nnd Iler Ilnsband 1
I.tkelr to Follow Iler Example.
Miss Paulino Hall, tho successful comlo
opera singer, has poured a tale of marital dif.
Acuities into tho sympathetio ears of lawyers
Howo and Hummel. Sho has begun an ac
tion for separation against her husband,
Edmund B. White.
Miss Hall wants to bo separated from hor
liego lord on the ground that he has aban
doned hor and contributes nothing to hor
support. The lady, whoso maiden namo was
Sohmidgall, first mot Mr. Whlto, in 1878, in
San Francisco. Thoy becamo vory friendly,
and three years later wore married in St,
Louis.
Mr. White was in England at the time the
separation proceedings were ripening. Ho
at once returnod to America and has beon
living at tho Brunswick for the lost fortnight.
Ho has intrusted his case to Lawyer Wilmoro
An way.
From Mr. Anwoy it was learned that he had
filod a notice of appearance, but that no com
plaint had yet boon served on him. Until
such a writ Is sorvod Mr. Anway does not
caro to stato in what way he will meet it, but
there is little drubt that a counter suit will
bo brought.
Home a nest at the Hotel.
Ex-Assemblyman Gen. George II. Sharpe, of
Kingston, la a Gilsey guest.
With other State legislators at the Morton House
Is Senator Coggeshali, of Utlca.
Wardcu Charles F. Durston, of Auburn Prison,
Is a gaest at the Murray Dill Hotel.
United States Senator Paddock, of Nebraska,
registered at tho Buckingham last evening.
Wine. Etclka Gerstcr ba changed her place ot
residence from the Buckingham to the victoria
Hotel.
II. C. Wicker, General Traffic Manager of the
Chicago A Northwestern Railroad, Is at the Sat
tboldL At the Windsor are ex-State Senator T. M.
Fonicroy.of Auburn, N.Y., and Conjal-General L.
G. Dljes, of llremen, Germany.
Biron and Uaroness Roden aro at the Clarendon.
The Uarnn Is the Russian Consul-aeneral and now
Acting Rutslan Minister at Washington.
State Superintendent of Publio Works James
Shanahan and State Engineer Blnathan Sweet reg
istered at the New York Hotel last evening.
W. F. White, General Trafflo Manager, and
Joieph Leeds, General Freight Agent, of the Atohl
son, Toneka and Same Fe Railroad, are at thi
Grand Hotel.
Fred Dunlap, of the Detroit Baseball Club and
the king of tne aocond base. Is registered at the
Grand Central Hotel, with P. J. Conway, the
pitcher, and Ed llanlon, the third baseman.
Baron von Zedtwltz. Charge d' Affaires of tbe
German legation at Washington, Is at the Albe
marle. Atthe same hotel arelrvlngA. ("Nervy")
Evans,tho Boston plunger, and his partner, C. F.
Jewltt,
Leon Van Loo, who is in New York to secure
palntmgs for the Cincinnati centennial exhibition,
Is staying at tbe Albemarle, as are also Oliver W.
Mink, of Boston, Comptroller of the Unlou Pa
cino Railroad, and J. D. Peet, a New Orleans
banker.
At the Fifth Avenue are Hugh Grahame, editor
and proprietor of the Montreal Star; Judge Will
iam M. Ramsey, of Cincinnati; Judge William T.
Morris, of Penn Yan; Uulted States Labor Com
mlaaloncr Carroll D. Wright, of Washington, and
Sir George M. Pullman, of Chicago.
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Inspection of tbe Seventh.
The Seventh Regiment will parade for the annual
Inspection and master at Its armory on Tuesday
evening next In fatigue uniform.
DR. BEER'S BTBANQE CONDUCT.
He Be lose Medical Assistance to a Man
Dylne In Great AsTony.
Vol. Gerino, twenty.one years old, took a
dose of poison early this morning, and died
after on hour of intense agony. During
his dying moments he struggled alone,
and in his sufferings he toro his bedclothes
and shirt into fragments. He was an inmato
of Mrs. Guthrie's largo boarding.houso, 14
First avenue, and had roomed with August
Ochsnor for ten days, tho tlmo of his tenancy
of tho apartment.
Last nigH Ochsner went to a singing so.
ciety rehearsal In Schultz's saloon, in FirBt
street, near Socond avenue. Ho returned
homo at 3 a. M. Ho discovered Gorino lying
crosswise on tho bed and in great agony.
"Send for a doctor at onco; thero is no
tinio to be lost," said Gerino.
Ochsner returnod to Schultz's saloon and
on his recommendation Dr. Sorr, of 42 Sec
ond avenue, was summoned. When Dr. Serr
reached the room of tho dying man ho looked
at him and then coolly nnd rather indiffer
ently asked: "What about my pay? Who
is to sottlo with me?"
As neither of tho mon hod any money Dr.
Serr left tho placo, leaving Gerino to uio in
untold ngony without administering to his
relief. Mrs. Guthrie then hastened to the
Fifth street polico station, from which an
ambulanco call was sounded. Before tho
ambulance arrived at tho house death, mora
morciful than Dr. Serr, had ended Gerino's
sufferings.
Dr. Sorr was soon this morning by a Wobld
reportor. Ho was asked if ho know that tho
man was dying when ho called at tho house
" Certainly I did," was tho cool response,
"but why should I tako tho responsibility
of such a caso ? If the namo of a friend had
not boen used I would not have made tho
call."
" Do you think it is tho province of a meroi
ful doctor to refuse medical attendance to a
dying man ?" was asked.
" Why should I interfere ?" was the totally
indifferent response. "If a. man wants to
kill himself what can I do about it? lam
Bure I don't caro. "
Tho Guthrio boarding-houso is an immense
affair, and between ono hundred and fifty and
two hundred people lodgo nnd cat thoro.
There havo boen several suicidos within its
walls. Gerino was a stranger, was unom
ployed and had been a recipient of charity
from tho Pitts Street Boman Catholic Church
mombers. His antecedents are not known
to his landlady or Mb follow boarders, all of
whom expressed regret that so young and in.
telligent a man should dio from poison and
be cruelly rofusod aid from a doctor who had
beon called.
IRYINa IIALLJN A BAD WAT.
Leader Soon to Decide Whether to Continue
tho Party' Ilxlstence.
It is said that tho days ot Irving Hall as
a political organization aro numberod. Irving
Hall has sufforod two successive defoats, its
delegates havo been refused admission to tho
Domocratio State Convention and tho leaders
have no patronage and no prospoct of getting
any. The annual rent of Irving Hall is
91,800 and tho lease says that tho organiza
tion is entitlod to meet there once a month
in General Committee, and twico a month
for six months in the year in Executivo Com
mittoe and to tho privilege of holding a mass
mooting a weok previous to an election.
Thero are no funds in the treasury and only
a few of tho mombors havo good bank
accounts.
If the Irving Hall organization should die
a natural death tho Seymour Club, its social
organization, will keep up an existence at
the corner of Fourteenth stroot and Union
Square. Still, there are mombers of Irving
Hall who are not discouraged and who wish
to oontinuo thoir Democracy under their old
banner.
A meeting of the leaders will soon bo held
to dooido whether Irving Hall is to be repre.
sented in tho great battle of 1888. Aqueduct
Commissioner Edward L. Bldgway, Olty
Court Judgo Ehrlich, ox-Sonator Charles G.
Cornell, ox-Assemblyman Peter F. Murray
and Henry Stoinert, who bolted from Irving
Hall just beforo the recent election, will
probably join Tammany Hall.
LEAPED TO IIIB DEATH.
Thomas Sheridan End III Life While In the
llavlns" of Delirium.
Thomas Sheridan, a laborer, twenty.seven
years of ago, mado a crazy leap to death at 3
o'clock this morning, whilo Buffering from
dolirium tromens. He had boen drinking
heavily of lato, and all of yesterday ho suf
fered from an attaok of tho horrors. He saw
snakes and bluo devils, and imaginod that he
was being pursued by theso venomous crea
tures. Ho was put to bed at night, when he
fell off into a stupor produced by anodynes.
At 3 o'clock the aniesthetics ceased their
soothing quality and Sheridan tossed rest,
lessly on his bed and in a fit of paroxysm
jumped to tho floor of his house, 787 East
Eleventh stroot, gazed wildly at the jeering
objects that his disordered brain conjured,
and rushed to tho window. Ho toro up the
sash and before assistance could reach nim,
ho sprang from the fourth-story window and
went flying head first through tho air. In a
few seconds he struck the pavoment with a
dull sound, quivered in overy muscle of his
body and then lay quiet. A hospital alarm
was sounded, but when the ambulanco ar
rived, tho surgeon pronounced tho man to
be dead. His skull was crushed in, the
bonos of his body were broken and shattered
and he had intornal injuries any one of which
was mortal.
Clnb Candidate Not Assessable.
A great deal of talk has been caused by the fact
that the SOO candidates for admission to the Union
League Club wero asked to subscrlbo to the cam
palgn fund ot tho club. This was the first tlmo
such a thing was ever done. The circular asking
for contributions waa Issued by Alfred R. Whitney,
Chairman of the Committee of Flftr, on his own
responsibility, and when the Executive Committee
beard of It they made him send tbe money back.
About fifteen of the candidates sent a total of tJOO,
m
Adventure of a Burglar.
William Smith, colored, entered Jeremiah S.
Thompson's house, at 15 Bank street, last evening,
Intending to fill a big flour-bag with Mr. Thomp
son's property, but, meeting that gentleman, con
eluded to steal his gold watch instead. Having
done so, be drew a ponknlle and said; "You
make a noise and I'll cut yon." Mr. Thompson
made a noise, Mr. Smith did not ont him, a police
man arrived and the colored burglar was held for
trial at the Jefferson Market Court this morning.
Perilous to Assault a Policeman.
Jeremiah Morlarty, ot 83 Baxter street and John
Klernan, of 143 Leonard street, were charged at
Eaiex Market Court to-day with having last
evening Bneaked up behind Policeman Salm, ol
the Elizabeth street squad, thrown him down and
beaten him. Both were seemingly much the worse
for assaulting the policeman. Morlarty's bead
was all bandaged up, and his clothes bloody. The
pollcemsn did not buow any signs of having met
with rough treatment. Both were held for trial,
Fled Arrest to Meet Death.
It has been learned that Jacob Wagner, who was
fatally Injured on tbe Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad a few days ago, Is tbe man who
fled from Jersey City to evado arrest for an attempt
to aasanlt a young German girl named Elizabeth
Greta at Marlon. Tbe warrant for his arrest will
never be served, as tbe loss of both legs under the
train will result In death.
Nice Point of Excise Law,
Alexander Ludwlg, the bartender at the "Silver
Grill " In Slsth avenue, who waa arrested Inst
evening, was discharged In the Jefferson Market
Court this morning on the ground that the license
did not expire beiore midnight. A waiter at Tom
Gould's old place in Tblrty.flrst street, charged
with selling beer and whiskey to Policeman Late,
sld that ta staff was only welss beer and older.
He was bold,
MUCH TOBSETHAKRED TAPE. I
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LOSS AND INCONVENIENCE CAUSED BI A A
RECENT POST-OFFICE ORDER.
A Circular Which la Declared to Malta Sesrata
Iatlon Never Intended by Concrew
Publishers and Merchant Deeply Inter,
rated Absurdities of the Official Can.
tructlon of the Law.
Thero have been plenty of absurd orders
issued by tho Post Offico Department since
its establishment, but for quintessence of
assininity, tho readers of The Wobld are'
confidently referred to ono which recently
emanated from that source
Congress is constantly tinkering with tho
postal laws, but sometimes gentlemen who
havo to do with tho management of tho de
partment set themselves up to declare what
Congress meant when it said so and so In
what appeared to bo bo many plain words,
and sometimes they mako a mess of it.
Tho laws themselves may bo simple and
plain enough, but tho construction placed
upon them by the officials is sometimes most
wonderful and wholly unwarranted by tho
text, and oven impossiblo to be read between
tho lines.
Tho circular roforred to is a good example '
of unwarrantable definition of tho statute
law.
Though tho law Bays nothing to this effect,
tho wiso mon who composed this circular
say that no newspaper or other peri
odical will bo carried through tho
mails as second-class matter if it shall
contain tbe address of tho addressee
and tho timo whon his subscription expires.
Should a porson subscribe for both a Sunday
and a weakly edition of tho samo periodical,
or a weekly and semi-weekly edition, it would
not be permissible to havo tho words
"Sunday," "Weekly" or "Semi" printed
with tho address, else the subscriber would
be requirod to pay letter postage.
This order appears to affect moro particu
larly tho newspapers, though its evil effect
lias been folt by other publishers and many
merchants.
It is a hard blow to newspaper publishers,
particularly by reason of tho fact that scarcely
any of tho larger newspapors keep subscrip
tion books, the only rocord of subscriptions
being tho inscription left br tho
"Dick" mailers on tho copies of
tho papors sent to subscribers. This inven
tion has dono much to lessen the cost of pub
lishing papors by tho saving mado In tho
large force nocessary to keep subscription
books. Now the effect of tho circulars of
the Post-Ofnco Department nullify the gain
and require a return to clumsior mothods and
higher prices.
Absurd and irrational as this construction
of the statute is regardod, ovon more so seems
that which is applied to third class matter,
and it appears to bo of as little benefit to tho
General Government, though equally detri
mental to the interests of thoso who havo to
depend upon tho moils.
In this class of mall matter aro embraced
books and circulars, among other enumer
ated articles. The now order denios to the
person sending third-class mattor the
right to writo or print upon it any
thing except his name or address, a re
turn request nnd the name end addross
of the person for whom tho article or pack
ago is intended. Should tho sender unfor
tunately request o return to " Kev. John
JonoB," letter postage would be charged be.
causo ho had transgressed tho spirit of the
law in mentioning his occupation in tho title
" Bev."
Hundreds of tons of labels, circulars and
envelopes havo boen rendered useless, and
thousands of dollars wasted becauso of their
thoughtless or too thoughtful oiroular.
One large wholosalo grocery firm
alone sont 70,000 circulars inclosed
in Government-stamped envelopes to the
Post-Ofiico the othor day and was informed
that letter postage would have to bo paid be
foro thoy could bo forwarded, becauso of the
requost on tho envelopes that in case they
wero not call9d for thoy bo returned
to " So and So, grocors." This is
but ono caso of hundreds whoro tho order
has worked great damage.
So explicit is tho order that if a circular
envolopo has printed upon it any picture or
design, lettor postage is demanded, Tho
utter folly of tho whole order is shown
by the fact that it allows the circular to be
taken from tho obnoxious addressed envel.
opo ondinade apackngo of circulars by tho
slipping of a rubber band over both circular .
and envolopo. when both may go through tho
mails as third-class mattor.
They of tho Post-Ofnco who havo to handlo
the mail aro as much disgusted with the order
as the patrons of tho mail. Nearly every
publisher sends mattor under all tho classln.
cationB and has different circulars for each
on whioh is printed a designation of the
class of mail matter to which the
package belongs. This has served
to inform not only the sender but the Post.
Office employees, who know immediately,
from tho label, to whioh olass the matter
belonged and whether it was to be weighed
in bulk or separately. Such inscriptions and
directions ore tabooed by tho order and tho
work of tho employee increased, hardly to his
delight.
If tho Post-Offlco Department hod desired
to roiso hob with publishers and cause any
amount of unnecessary trouble without a
consequent bonoflt to tne Government, peo
plo say it could not have suooeeded mora
effectually than it did in the promulgation of
this oiroular.
Those Tacant Lot.
To Ms KdUar ctfTkt World:
The expense of holding vacant lots, as set forth
In Tux Would this morning, shows that under the
present system ot taxation It takes a rich man to
hold them. Under Mr. George's system It would
be harder to, hold property unimproved than prop
erty Improved. Now, In what way does the hold
ing ot vacant lots on land In general benefit the
poor or working class ? I should very much like to
see that explained.
Under tho heading of "Worldlngs" wo see thai
a certain John 11. Levy, of Omaha, who neither
Improves nor sells his real estate, has managed to
accumulate a million, due entirely to the 'un
earned Increment." It seems that those persons
holding tho vacant lots spoken of are waiting for
thn samo thing that brought such good results to
John II. Levy. It appears to me aa though Mr.
George's idea of the single tax has not boen ex
plained away as yet. Yours respectfully,
J0UN LOOXWOOD,
Nov. IS, 1S3T. 1 Columbia street. Brooklyn,
One of Dr. McUlynn'a Friend Itomeleas.
The Catholic Ueraia whioh earned for Itself the
displeasure of Archbishop Corrigan by Its advocacy
of the cause ot Dr. McGlynu Is now out In the cold.
First came the threat of excommunication, then
Its suspension, and yesterday its evlotlon from the
office ut TS Park Row. Not one of the anu-pover-tyiu-s
was aronnd to offer condolences and the last
straw on Its burden of trouble pressed the OqlAoMo
Herald forever to the ground. The CafAoIfo Sx
amtner, of Brooklyn, which waa the only olheJ
Catholic paper to support Dr. McQlynn, has also
given up the ghost.
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Athletic Interest at Yale.
The meeting of the Yalo Alumni .Association at
Delmomco's this evening promises to be of more '
than ordinary interest to the members, aa the rep- ,
reientatlves ot the various athletic departments
the university will be present, including John
Rogers, Jr., '87; A. A. Stagg, '88; J. a Dauo, f,
and Harry iieecher, '88, to tell tbe Alumni what th.6
outlook for Yalo In the field of athletics promises.
An entettalnment of tnuslo will also berurnUted
by a double quartet and the warbler from the
University Glee Club. Ohauncey M. Depew will
preside.
Why They Walked Over the Brldxe.
One of the switching engines Jumped the track
at the Brooklyn end ot the bridge shortly after
o'clock this morning, and the cars were stopped for
halt an hour. The delay caused great Inconven
ience to people on their way to work In this cltr.
One consequence was that a lew moment after the
accident tne promenade was blaok with peojl was)
preferred to walk rather than wait,