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“OWVhile there uo Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXX, OCT. 28, 1897. No. 775. 1g West Tuirty-First St., New York, Published every Thursday. $5.00 year in advance, Postage to foreign countries in the 1 Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single copies, 10 ce! Rejected contributions will be destroyed un- less accompanied bya stamped and directed envelope The illustrations in LIFE are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced without special arrangement with the publishers. Fair Play, William! Gg T scems to . Lire that the solicitude the Ad- ministra- tion for the wel- fare of Greater New York Pon Vis very in- sufficiently If shown by KK the letter of Ss Secretary Bliss, calling upon Republicans to sup- port General Tracy. Ifthe Cabinet is to take a hand in our local election, certainly the shackles should be struck from the assistant Cabinet also, It is whispered about, and is gen- erally believed, that Assistant Old- Salt Roosevelt has had to have hoops riveted on his person to keep him from bursting out for Low, and that nothing but maritime engagements and a sense of the impropricty of the intervention of Federal officials in local politics have kept him out of the municipal fight. What is sauce for Bliss ought to be sauce also for Roosevelt. There is comfort, how- ever, in observing that outside inter- vention is not popular in New York, and seems to hurt the cause it has sought to benefit. There are voters still alive who remember how the New York State machine nominated Judge Folger for Governor, and how the Administration of that day tried to help him, and with what result, owe i i *LIFE: Black. Too! D Black has come to the res- cue, too! Black! Goodness gracious! And he talks about its being ‘reason for any Republican to vote for Low. Go home, Black! Stay at home, Black! Lire has too much respect for your office to call you any names, but any true friend will assure you that you do not ap- pear to advantage when you come to New York. To suggest that home- rule is treasonable in New York is the wildest affectation. Go to, Black! On with the Fight, HE partial ballots which divers enterprising newspapers have taken in the attempt to learn which way the Mayor's race is going, though far from conclusive, indicate that the chances are best for Judge Van Wyck, but that the backers of Low may win, and would be pretty sure to win if they and the Tracy men could unite. That indication co- incides with general opinion, and is in accord with the impression of the gentlemen who bet; nevertheless, there is not at this writing any visible bridge over which the Low voters may be transferred in a body to Tracy, or the Tracy men to Low. Now, the split in the local Democ- racy, which is going to transfer a lot of Tammany voters to Henry George, is a splendid thing, and very credit- able to the George men, who thereby demonstrate the strength of their convictions. Not so the division of Republicans between Low and Tracy, which merely shows obstinacy, and the moral obliquity of Mr. Platt. Lire trusts that the machine Repub- licans will realize their grievous errors in time, and show works meet for repentance at the polls. We Take the Chances. BOUT this time, as the almanacs say, put your ear to the ground and you may hear an elevator drop. There has been a mild epidemic of falling elevators. If it were likely to make tall buildings less popular it would not be an unmixed evil, but it won't. Nothing but a good, hard, thorough earthquake will bring the tall buildings down where they be- long. We will continue to take our chances in elevators just as we do in railway trains, conceding that some- one is sure to be hurt some time, but trusting that it may be someone else. Charles Anderson Dana. R. DANA'S death has made many people sad, and very many thoughtful. As editor of the Sun, he had been for nearly thirty years a power in literature and a fea- ture of American life, and, though he lived to be an old man, his remark- able vigor was maintained so nearly to the end, that he is missed more like a man cut down in his prime than as an elder whose term had run out. Full, himself, of enthusiastic interest in life, he did his full share to make life interesting to his con- temporaries. Existence will be per- ceptibly duller without him, He will be missed, not only in New York, but in every newspaper office in the coun- try, and long missed, too, for the present conditions of journalism are greatly changed from those in which he was bred, and do not promise to develop any more editors like him. We would have liked to keep Mr. Dana, Much that was rare and valu- able and admirable has passed away with him out of our reach. Whothat is left knows what he knew, or can remember what he remembered, or can say what he could have said? Still, while the day lasted he wrought. Few men have worked out what was in them so thoroughly as he did. It seemed all to come, the bitter with the sweet, the fierce with the gentle. Peace to his memory!