Life — September 26, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- “While there is Life there's Hope.” ‘VI. SEPTEMB: 26, 1895. 19 West Tuirty-First Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $s.00a yearin 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 bya stamped and directed envelope. HE conversion of Senator Mills, of Texas, to a belief in sound money on a gold basis is a cheering incident of the times. He is, and is entitled to be, a man of in- fluence in the Southwest, and it is possible that his example may become epidemic. If only a sufficient number of the members ‘of the next congress can be brought to their financial senses, the country may get the legislation that it needs, Uncle Sam may be permitted to retire from the banking business, and we may be happy yet. IFE’S hope that if Valkyrie was beaten in the races for the America’s Cup she might be beaten to her owner's satisfaction, was not destined to be realized. Defender won, and it seems to her friends that there can be no reasonable doubt that she is the better boat, so that there no miscarriage of justice. But the manner of her winning gave satisfac- tion tonone. Lord Dunraven had some cause to grumble. It is not denied that the excursion boats were troublesome, and that to their crowding was due the foul that made a mess of the second race. But ©] it is hard not to believe that his respected lordship disliked overmuch to be beaten, and that there was a measure of sulkiness in his refusal to go over the course on the day of the third race. If he could have won the cup his victory would have been popular; but the manner of his losing it, though excuses can be made for him, is not popular at all. New York is mortified that in spite of the best en- deavors of her yachtsmen, it was not possible wholly to protect her marine race-course from intrusion, or to cause inconclusive races to be resailed. She believes, that in spite of all impediments, it was possible to determine by races in her waters whether Valkyrie or Defender was the better To have the determination reached by a race, a jon and a walk-over has fairly turned her stomach. . . . boat. — UNDAY closing for the saloons, it appears, is to be Sunday closing for the clubs also. It will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to enforce the no-Sunday-liquor law in the clubs unless the members are willing. “All the same, LIFE hopes and expects to see the law enforced in every place in New York that is sub- ject to it. The effort to enforce that law, so long as it is a law, is of a piece with the effort to procure good govern- ment for the City of New York. The great majority of the members of New York clubs are far more inter- ested in good local government than they are in Sunday drinks. They should be ready to hold up the hands of the police commis- sioners even at some cost of personal indulgence or con- venience to themselves. HE embarrassment of the owners of tall buildings at the difficulty of getting water into their top stories, is one that the general public is disposed to en- dure with considerable resignation. . Let them have as much water as they are willing to pay for, and let them find means as best they can to put it up to altitudes convenient for their u: The natural water supply for excessively high altitudes is the clouds. There will be no interference with the owner of any tall building who cares to catch a cloud and tie it up to the roof of his structure for use as a reservoir, provided he does not let it slop over on to folks in the street below. T is a long time since New York has entertained a more instructive visitor than Dr. Forbes Winslow. He has talked freely and we have listened and read freely; our admiration for his talents and acquirements being no whit diminished by astonishment at some of the opinions at- tributed to him by the newspapers. It turns out that he declines to father the distressing assertions he was said to have made about the effect of bicycles on women. . - . UR Mr. Pillsbury appears to be a very competent ches player. He had no occasion, it seems, to complain of lack of elbow-room in the tournament at Hastings. comicbooks.com