Life — November 1, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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*~LIFE: While there is Life there’s Hope.” XXIV. NOVEMBER 1, 1894. 1g West Tuurty-First Street, Ne VOL. No. 618. v York, Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. T is growing more and more evident that the Democracy of the State of New York must sign some new players. There seems to be no Democrat now living in New York for whom all the other Democrats. are willing to vote. If there had been such a person Senator Hill would have run him for Governor, What the situa- tion will be after election will be better known in the course of another but it looks now as if the party might have to go outside the State and hire some competent men to come and live in New York and be candidates. A very useful man to engage, for one, would be Gov- ernor Russell, of Massachusetts. Another, perhaps, would be Amb: Mr. Bayard has publicly declared, within a short time, that he has never presumed to understand New York State politics, That in itself would go far to qualify him for usefulness to his fellow Democrats in this State. There are plenty of Democrats in the State that do understand State politics, and some of them are very good men; but as candidates they are of no use to their fellows here. They know too much, In order to be truly serviceable they would have to forget more than any competent man could forget. The New York Democrats need badly to hitch their wagon to a star, but apparently it must be a star from some other planetary system. The local situation in New York Cit imple enough before, has possibly gained something in pellucidity by the withdrawal of Mr. Straus. Mr. Straus did wisely. It is not every man who realizes that he is licked in time to avoid disfigurement. Mr. Straus will have far more fun over Mr. Grant's election returns than he could possibly have derived from his own, A which wa ER all, the Nihilists are having their way in a measure with the Czar. He is dying, and the doctors say it is worry that has killed him. There seems to be a dearth of half-pence and a surplus of kicks about the job of being an autocrat nowadays. In his life the poor Czar has had very little fun, and in his death he is getting neither ease nor comfort. No wise person it would seem would want to be a Czar. One would rather be a Prince of Wales. HE American architect is willing to hire him- self out to build fifteen-story buildings for the American capitalist, but he does not pretend that he likes his work i after he has finished it. At the meeting of his Institute’in New York the other *s day the most hopeful thing he found to say about the tall building was that it did not promise to be very durable, and that after a reasonable time its iron frame would probably rust out and it would have to come down, This opinion, advanced by Mr. Architect Post, was only n, and no excessively tall building has stood long cnough yet to test the validity of it. But if it isn’t sound it ought to be, and LiFe hopes it is. The sky-scraping build- ing is an impertinence, and should be checked by statute. No city street can be beautiful that is marred by it. No city street can be healthy that is overshadowed by it. . * * Te disputes preliminary to the playing of the university foot- = ball have been conducted <N this year with customary me) 3) vigor, especially the dis- i) We ) pute between Yale and MAY ~—=siPrinceton. There are Uy) good points about these preliminary disputes as compared with the game itself. Nobody gets hurt in the disputes, whereas in the games there are sometimes casualties. Moreover, the dis- putes always last a long time, and are earnest and well contested, whereas the games are brief at best and sometimes one-sided. The dis- putes, too, are easier and cheaper to attend than the games. The news- papers always have reports about them which one may read to repletion at small expense and only moderate inconvenience. There seems, therefore, to be much to favor the conclusion that to havea lively preliminary dispute and no game is an ideal condition. If the Yale- Princeton difference should come to that issue this year the people will have had a rare intellectual treat, and the tradi- tional superiority of mind over matter will have been demonstrated anew, comicbooks.com