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FRIDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 20, 1878
Circulation LARGER than any other
Paper in the Juniata Valley.
We find the following truthful and
sensible article on National Banks in the
Ohio State Journal, and publish it for
the benefit of those 'slunk beads" who arc
idling away their time on the street
corners and on the door-steps of their
neighbors, torturing people by their dis
sertations on the finances of the country,
a subject they are about as competent to
elucidate as a hog is to preach the gospel.
Huntingdon is cursed with a number of
these over-wise individuals, and for their
information we copy the article. Read it:
Every National Bank note lost, destroy
ed by fire or otherwise, is so much gained
by the Government.
The bank note of a broken National
Bank is just as good as the note of a
solvent one.
The National Banks pay to the General
Government and the States seventeen
millions per annum in taxes.
The three hundred and twenty-five mil
lions of National Bank notes are taxable
and yield to the States a revenue of eight
millions.
If you destroy the National Banks and
substitute non-tamable greenbacks for Na
tional Bank notes, you lose twenty-five
millions of revenue in the effort to save
eighteen millions of interest. More than
this, you exempt the:money of the country
from taxation, and put the burden on real
estate and dutiable goods. More than this,
by abolishing the banks you compel them
to call in nine hundred millions of loans
to enable them to settle with the Govern
ment, their depositors and the stockholders.
This would create such a panic as the
country has never seen.
If we had never adopted the National
Banking system, it would perhaps be wise
to talk about allowing the Government to
supply a greenback currency and prohibit
banks of circulation. But we have the
banks; they are interwoven with the entire
business of the country ; farmers, mer
chants, manufacturers, men in all condi
tions of life are indebted to them. Can
these men pay up within three, six, nine
or twelve months ? If they fail to do so,
will not thousands and tens of thousands
of others be carried down with them ?
The report of the Comptroller of the
Currency shows that the average profit of
these banks for the last year on the money
invested, does not exceed five per cent.
The large majority of the stockholders
of these banks are men who would not
engage in private banking ; they are men
who have not the inclination to engage in
any pursuit which would tie them down
or require their personal attention. It
compelled to withdraw from the National
banks, their capital would go into bonds
and out of the channels of business.
In addition to the other advantages
which the Government derives from these
banks, it has from them a permanent de
posit :of twenty-five millions, which, at
even four per cent. per annum, is worth to
it one million a year. The account stands
thus :
The General Government and States
to the National Banking system— Dr.
Taxes to General Government $ 7,076,087
Taxes to State Governments 9,701,732
Taxes on 325 millions of National
Bank notes, estimated 5,000,000
25 millions deposit at four per cent 1,000,000
Interest on bonds held by banks, esti
mated
It may be said that the tax on National
Bank notes should not be credited to the
National Banking system, but if they were
abolished and non-taxable greenbacks sub
stituted, the eight millions would be lost to
the revenue.
The following very sensible article we
copy from the New York Tribune, and
commend it to the careful consideration
of our readers :
"One-third of a day's labor bought a bond
"of the United States for $1 ; therefore it is
"just that one-third of a day's labor should
"pay a bond of the United States for $l.
"Money has been made scarce, and it buys
"more labor than it did when the bonds were
"issued. But it is unjust to make the labor
"ing people pay 300 day's labor for a bond
"which cost the bolder only the equivalent of
"100 day's labor."
Of all the arguments of the Greenb.zek
men, not one is more specious than this.
But let us see how much of reason there
is in it.
It is obviously based upon the presump
tion that a day's labor, of a given kind, is
really worth as much at one time as at
another. It does, indeed, require the same
exertion of the same muscles and skill, but
is that all ? The worth of a thing is deter
mined not only by the effort which is
required to get it, but by the demand for
it. A bit of ordinary stone from the top
of the Rocky Mountains would cost many
days' labor to obtain, but nobody would
give anything for it; therefore it is worth
nothing. The labor spent in making an
old fashioned spinning-wheel might be as
great to day as it was a century ago, but
now nobody wants the article, and labor
spent in making it would be worthless. So
of every other product of labor • the de
mand for it determines the value of the
labor expended in gettinc , or making it.
Iron costs as much labor, let us say, as it
did in 1872, but there is very much less
demand for it; therefore the labor expnii
ed in making iron is worthless. Labor
necessarily would fluctuate in value quite
as widely and frequently as the prices of
the articles which that labor would pro
duce, but for the expenditure of capital to
sustain labor during a period of depression
in prices, and this expenditure is prompted
by the hope of ultimate profit upon the
articles made. Hence, there is no reason
whatever for the claim that the labor
which was worth a bond of the United
States years ago should be worth that bond
to-day ; the labor may now be in less de
mand, as in fact it is, and therefore deprc
ciated in value.
Remedies.
But this argument also goes upon the
presumption that the credit of the Govern
ment is always the same, that its promise
to pay was worth as much when it was
doubtful whether the Government could
maintain its existence as it is worth now
when all foes have been vanquished.
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"itional Banks.
Labor and Credit.
Everybody knows that this is not so.
There was a time when capitalists of
Europe, and very many of this country,
would let their money lie idle rather than
lend it to the United States on any terms.
llad that last deadly charge at Gettysburg
ended in a Confederate victory, who knows
what United States bonds would have be
come worth ? Those who took the risk,
mid lent to the Union, did so because they
were offered a high price for the loan, and
it wag then worth a high price, for the
future was doubtful. If paid in gold, they
will get exactly the payment which led
them to take the risk. If paid less, they
will be swindled. When a man who is
about to take risks asks money from a
neighbor for that purpose, and, because all
will be lost if he fails, offers half the profit
if he succeeds, what is he but a scoundrel
if, after success, he refuses to pay the
promised profit? But the scoundrelism is
still greater when patriotism as well as sober
judgment has urged the loan. Those who
brought forward their little savings to aid
the Nation, and staked their all upon its
success, deserve not such treatment as
would be held scandalous and dishonorable,
if between two neighbors in a purely busi
ness venture.
The holder of bonds who has purchased
since the war is not less entitled to his
profit Ile took the risk which we now
see was not small, that ignorance and dis
honesty would combine to rob him. He
paid higher prices than were paid during
the war, because the risk was thought to
be less. But he paid what all the world
then considered a fair price for the bonds
of a nation, ruled by universal suffrage.
He took the risk of Democratic victories,
and of the creation and final success of a
party of repudiation. It would be dishon
est to rob him of all the money loaned, it
would be not less dishonest to rob him of
any part of that which his risk was then
deemed worth.
The laborer who receives less money for
a day's work than he did when bonds were
issued or sold ought to remember that he
can buy in full proportion more with his
money. Prices have declined, on the
whole, even a littic below the specie
standard. All know that the wages of
labor, on the other hand, have not yet
fallen to the level of 1860. A day's work
according to the average rate of wages,
will buy more of food, shelter and clothing
now than it would buy in times of the
greatest inflation. The only respect in
which the laborer has to pay any part of
the cost of the war, and of the enormous
loans made during the war, at great risk,
is that his taxes to whisky, tobacco and
some imported articles have been raised.
If he sees fit, he can reduce those taxes to
a very small figure indeed. But whether
he sees fit or not, he has no right to rob
those who lent to the Union of their just
profits for the risk they took, nor to make
others pay his share of the inconvenience .
resulting from that temporary depreciation
of certain kinds of skilled labor which now
appears all over the civilized world.
Don't be Diverted from the True Issue
of the Contest.
In the time left for the contest in Penn
sylvania tthe great object on the part of the
Republican press of the State is not to be
diverted, by any discussion, from the real
issues of the campaign. It is not a ques
tion of money, not of currency, not really
of financial difference, because all men who
understand the facts arc aware that we now
have the best currency in the world, a pa
per dollar that circulates over as wide a
territory as the paper money of any gov
ernment in the world, and that there is
more than enough of this money in circu
lation for all the uses of the trade, because
there are now over $370,000,000 of this
money on deposite in the various banks of
the country, idle and awaiting investment
in business as soon as the condition of the
country will warrant the venture of this
capital in the industries This being a
manifest fact, reduces this issue down to
the old common ground of struggle for the
integrity of the National Government as
against the theories of that politics which
denies the Federal authority in its reach
and influence on the States. This is the
issue after all, in the politics in which the
Democratic party participates, and it is
the only subject upon which the party can
be united. All other questions the party
is at odds and ends. It bas no cardinal
doctrines on the subject of the finances,
except that it will repudiate a debt when
ever it can do so, and it has done so in the
past when it bad the power and the action
served its local purposes. But aside from
this, we repeat, that the real object of the
Democratic party in seeking for power in
the States is to pave the way for the con•
trol of the National Government, when it
will proceed to end the results achieved
by the war which crushed the slavehold
ers' rebellion. Tilden, Hendricks, Voor
hees, Jeff. Davis, Bayard, Stephens, Lamar,
Hampton, Butler, and all the leaders of
the Democratic party North and South,
are resolved to make this reversal of the
results named the object of their lives, as
well as the prime end and object of the
Democratic party. If it is not done the
Democratic party cannot hope to revive
itself as a political force, because it de
rives all its vital elements from conditions
in politics and State organizations which
the war for the Union wiped out. To
cover this object we have the false issues
which are now being made on the subject
of finance and currency—issues which are
as wide as the mark of thc, true intent
and purposes of the Democratic party as
Satan's quoting, of Scripture is proof that
he is a saint. The temper and condition
of the Democratic party of the South run
diametrically in the line of policy to which
we refer. Every movement of the party
there is with a view to restore its normal
elements and reinvigorate the sources
whence it derives its vital energy, State
rights, negro slavery, humiliation of the
national authority, and the added determ
ination of forcing the National Govern
ment to reimburse the States which made
sacrifices in favor of them, for all the losses
they sustained while upholding doctrines
which they firmly believed involved the
safety of the objects which held the Fed
eral Union together. Tho Democratic
party in the South lives, moves and acts
to accomplish this. It is its study by day
and its dream by night, and in its achieve
ment it is seconded by the Democratic
party in the North, which is as bitterly
antagonistic to the events which overthrew
negro slavery as it is to the party which
accomplished that great result.
Concealed with this ulterior object in
the interest of the South, which consti
tutes the real cohesive force of the Demo
cratic party, is the other object of its life.
running in the same line of servility to
that section, free trade. No careful ob
server of the political events has failed to
note the persistency with which the con
trolling influence in the Demacratic party
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$ 7,777,819
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1878
has clung to the doctrine of free trade in
the last Congress. Ferdando Wood fought
the battle of free trade from the organiza
tion of the House to the day of its ad
journre•nt, backed by nine tenths of his
party in caucm, and only defeated in the
House because the people in districts
which demanded protection of its material
interests rose up en masse and drove their
faithless servants into support of their
wishes. But the free-trade element of the
Democratic rarty is its controlling force,
and whenev , r it has power that predomi
nates in arranging its policy. Let the
Democracy secure power in another Con
gress and the effect will be in favor of free
trade; the free trade which unsettles home
industry, plunges labor into idleness, de
preciates invested capital, and impoverishes
mechanical production at home, and re
duces the mechanics of the land to a con
dition of serfdom.
These are really the isiucs of the con
test in which we are now engaged. The
Democratic party expects to ignore them,
while with fatal indifference too many Re
publicans do not give them the weight
they deserve. They are what the Democ
racy labor to achieve. The whole South
is animated with the hope of securing the
first results named. To it the end in view
is political, social and sectional life. The
enslavement of the negro and the estab
lishment of the rights which render the
States sovereign, are the only objects which
the people of the South hold to, and just
so sure as the Democratic party secures
State and national power, it will insure the
success of their purports.
Rev. Doyle's "Manly Letter."
EDITOR JOURNAL—Dear Sir :—I see
in the Monitorof the sth inst.,an article head
ed "A manly letter from Rev. Doyle." It is
evident from the spirit of this letter that his
master has told him that he would have to
fix up this little "hell" matter between him
and the Democratic party, or it would ruin
him. Rev. Doyle finds it a difficult matter
to dispose of the language be used on the
occasion referred to. He acknowledges him
self that he did not fully understand what
he meant by the words, "no, not Nazereth,
but that other place beyond." Now we do
think that the JOURNAL is clear of forcing
its interpretation of this language, as al
most any person would understand it in
the same way. The Monitor understood
it in this way, from the fact that in pub
lishing an extract of Mr. Doyle's speech
they left out the words "no good thing
comes out of—no, not Nazereth, but that
other place beyond." We believe that the
speaker intended it to have this meaning
from the fact that we do find some good
in almost every place outside of "hell."
Even the Greenback party has some goad
properties. If nothing else, if a minister of
the gospel discovers that The has mistaken
his calling, and wishes to change his base
of operations, they will take him in and
make a politician of him.
To show true Democrats that Mr. Doyle
is forced to make this explanation now,
this language of his was published in the
JOURNAL sometime before the Democrats
endorsed the Greenback ticket. Now
if the JOURNAL had misconstrued and
taken advantage of his language as Mr.
Doyle would have us believe, why did
he not offer this apology, and make
this correction then ? We answer, that
his knowledge of the Greenback party
was so limited at that time that he suppo
sed that it would be able to send him to
Harrisburg independent of the Democratic
party. And now, when he discovers that
it is exceedingly doubtful whether he can
be elected with all the Democrats he can
get, he is willing to take back this severe
remark and offer any apology so that he
may secure their votes. We certainly think
this a little too thin for intelligent Demo
crats to take.
Mr. Doyle also charges the writer with
misrepresenting and falsifying a speech
he made in Yenter's Hall during Court
week. Ido most emphatically deny this
charge, and say that there is not a point I
made in my strictures, that his speech would
not justify me in making. The only thing
I regreted was that time and space would
not allow me to show up more of his mis
representations of our government. The
assertions made by him on that occasion
were bad enough without adding anything
to them. The intelligent reader will see
that he admits almost everything I charged
him with in his letter in the Monitor.
Mr. Doyle closes this "manly letter"
with a challenge to any candidate on the
Republican ticket to publicly discuss the
political issues of the present campaign.
Oh ! is it not a pity that a minister of the
gospel, who solemnly pledges himself, by
his ordination vows, that he will spend
the balance of his life in •earnestly con
tending for the faith once delivered unto
the saints," should thus be led estray.
Yet so it is. In an evil hour he yielded
to the tempter, and now he says by his ac•
tions that he would rather contend for the
faith of the Greenback party, and in place
of praying for the success of the church,
he closes his letter with a prayer that the
Greenback party may succeed.
We would say here that we do not wish
to misrepresent Mr. Doyle, or injure him
before the people, but while this is true,
we cannot allow him to misrepresent our
government by inflammatory speeches, thus
giving encouragement to communists, and
other enemies of our government, without
at least gibing him a passing notice. We
should be careful in sending men to re
present us in Harrisburg, to select men of
stability, men of fixed principles. We all
have our peculiar dispositions, and we
really cannot help this. Mr. Doyle is evi
dently a very changeable man, and while
he cannot help this, and is in no way to
blame, the people should look to this in
selecting him to represent them at Harris
burg.
It is said that Mr. Doyle was educated
for a Catholic priest. He changes his
plan and becomes a United Brethren
preacher. Next we hear of him reading
law, and studying dentistry. Politically,
we first find him a Republican ; a little
further on a Greenbacker, and inside of
four weeks he is a Democrat. In proof
of this. fact we find his "manly letter" that
we have referred to published in the only
reputed Dem'ocratic paper in the county,
and with all these changes we would not
be at all surprised if Brother Boring makes
a Spiritualist out of him before this cam
paign i 3 over.
If we were to vote for Mr. Doyle to
carry out certain principles for us at Har
risburg, we would want to send him down
on the Day Express lest be might change
his principles before he would get there.
SPECTATOR.
S. R. MASON, esq., the National can
didate for Governor, rides on a Pennsyl
vania Railroad pass. "Down with corpor
ations 1" Ile is the grandest demagogue
of the age.
*manfic*tibtnt.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Some years ago, while making a brief
sojourn in the city of Baltimore, I set out
one evening with a friend for a stroll
through the city. We had visited several
places of interest, and were on our return
to our hotel, when, in passing through a
dark and narrow street, a female, closely
muffled in a coarse shawl—which, thrown
over her head, was drawn around her face,
so as to conceal all but her eyes—hurriedly
crossed over from the opposite side of the
way, and accosted us in the accents of de
spair. . .
"Gentlemen, for the love of God, give
me money ! My mother is dying of hunger,
and I have not wherewith to purchase a
morsel of food !"
We were both struck with the tone of
her voice, for though agitated by a feeling
of desperation, it had a peculiar sweetness,
and her language was that of one both ed
ucated and refined.
"Do not think me inquisitive," said my
friend, in a kindly tone, as he drew forth
his purse, "if I ask what misfortune has
brought you to this? for it is clearly evi
dent that you are no common applicant for
charity."
"Oh ! no, sir—no !" she said, shrinking
back into herself, as it were : "I never
asked for charity befure; and though I
have not tasted food for two long days, I
would sooner perish than ask for it for my-
self now; but I could not see her die, my
only friend—oh, God ! I could not see her
die !"
"Here l" said my companion, placing a
sum in her band which I immediately
doubled.
She clutched the money like a miser,
and for a moment or two was completely
overpowered by her emotions. Then, with
choking effort, she gasped forth :
"Thanks, gentlemen ! may God in heaven
bless you !"
She turned away, and took two or three
hasty steps, and then stopping suddenly,
she looked around, and added—
"You asked me what misfortune brought
me to this ! I shall seem ungrateful if I
refuse to tell."
"Never mind," said my friend ; "the re
cital wi'l give you pain, and therefore con
sider the question unasked."
"Your noble generosity overpowers me,
sir !" she rejoined, in a tremulous voice,
"and my pride shall give way. If you
have a few minutes to spare, come with
me and you shall know all."
"Nay," said I, "do not let us intrude
upon your sorrows, unless you think we
can be of further assistance. You are
welcome to the little we have given, which
should be doubled if we bad more to spare,
but we have no right to claim your secret
in return."
She buried her face in her shawl, and
burst into tears.
"Alas !" she sobbed, if all mankind
were thus generous. how many a miserable
being might be made happy ! Come with
me and hear my story ! I know I can trust
you, and I shall rest easier to know that I
have convinced you I am no imposter."
We assured her that we did not for a
moment doubt of her being the victim of
some terrible misfortune; but as we might
be of further service to her, we would see
her safely home, and she might then relate
her story or not, as she should think proper.
"Follow me," she said, and set off at a
quick walk down the street, we keeping a
respectful distance behind, and I for one
feeling an unusual curiosity to know some
thing more of her.
At the next corner of the street was an
oil lamp which threw out a dim light ; and
standing near it, in a listless attitude, we
observed a man in the garb of a sailor, and
evidently just from sea. As our unknown
guide drew near him, I noticed that she
seemed much agitated; and on coming up
to him, to our surprise, and apparently his,
she stopped, and looked eagerly into his
face for a moment, and then, with a wild
cry, she suddenly threw out her arms,
clasped him around the neck, and appeared
to swoon upon his breast.
'.See !" said my friend, making an abrupt
halt ; "we are duped—this is some trick
—that girl is an imposter !"
"Impossible !" returned I, unwilling to
believe that such grief and misery as she
represented could be a base counterfeit.—
"Ha ! see I"
As I spoke, the sailor, as if in deep sur
prise, partly unwound the arms of the un
known from his neck, raised her head, and
looked, first curiously, and then wildly,
into her face, which we could see, even
from where we stood, was pale and beauti
ful. The next moment he uttered a wild
cry of surprise ; and quickly throwing his
arms around her now lifeless form hc ex
claimed
"My God ! my God ! Mary ! my God !"
It seemed to be all that he could utter,
as he fairly tottered with his fair burden,
and for a few moments we stood dumb with
amazement.
"What's this ? what's the meaning of
this ?." he now demanded, looking fiercely
at us.
"Well, if that is acting, it is the best I
ever saw," muttered my companion, as we
hastened forward and gave a hurried ac•
count of all we knew of the matter.
"Great God ! is it possible ?" said the
man, looking alternately at us and the fair
creature in his arms, and clasping his fore
head as if to collect his scattered senses.
"Mary !" he continued at short intervals ;
"my wife ! my dear wife ! oh, my God !
and my mother too! starving !"
Ile continued to repeat these expres
sions like one overpowered by some terrible
shock, and who knew not what he was
saying; while we stood looking on, too
much astonished to think of offering him
any assistance.
At length, with a sort of gurgling gasp,
the poor creature opened her eyes; and
looking wildly and fondly into the manly
face of him who supported her, she mur
mured :
"Charles ! Charles ! is it you ? in life—
in death—or in a dream ?"
I pass over the wild, frantic, passionate
exclamations on both sides, as each began
to realize the truth—the one that he had
round a loving wife in the depths of misery
—the other that she had regained a fond
husband at a moment of all others when
she most needed his aid, counsel, love and
support.
"Come," whispered my friend, touching
my arm; "let us withdraw ; their meeting
should be sacred from the intrusion of
strangers."
Though deeply curious to know some
thing of their history, I silently acquiesced
in his proposal ; and quietly departing, re
turned to our hotel, musing upon the un
certainties, vicissitudes and romance of life.
Two days after, as I was sitting on the
piazza of the hotel, I saw the sailor passing
along the street, and curiosity prompted
me to address him. The moment he saw
me he came bounding up, grasped my
hand, end burst into tears.
"God bless you !" he exclaimed in a
choking voice; "God bless you and your
friend ! and so says Mary. I've been
hunting you all over the city, but feared
I'd never see you again. Here, let me
pay you back your money; and will you
be so kind, sir,
as to accept these two rings
fbr yourself and friend ?"
I took the money—for I saw if I did
not he would feel very much hurt ; but
fearing his circumstances might not justify
him in making a present of so much value,
I attempted to decline the rings. It was
of no use—be would take no denial—and
so I reluctantly accepted them, thanking
him in behalf of my friend, who was ab
sent. I then drew from him his story,
which I will give in a few words.
He and hie wifewere both natives of a
small village on the Chesapeake, and find
often played together as children. His
own father was then in good circumstances,
but subsequently lost his property, and
died soon after, leaving himself and mother
to struggle along as best they might.
Among those believed to be friends in
prosperity, but who forsook them in ad
versity, was the father of his present wife ;
but though the change of fortune separated
the youth and maiden, it only increased
an attachment which bad begun in child
hood.
For years, however, they did not meet;
and during that time the narrator became
a sailor, and acquired sufficient means to
purchase a cottage for his mother, leaving
a small balance on mortgage, which his
next voyage was to clear off. While at
home he and his Mary again met; and
discovering a mutual passion, and knowing
her parents would not consent to the union,
but were most anxious to ally her to a
wealthy suitor, they took advantage of the
opportunity, and were privately married.
Charles Delaine, for such was his name,
then took leave of his wife, and shipped
for a whaling voyage, intending it should
be his last cruise. 'While absent, his wife's
parents, discovering the secret of her mar
riage, disowned and drove her forth, and
she took refuge with his mother.
Together the widowed mother and wife
struggled along, both anxiously looking
for the return of the only friend; but he
came not at the time expected, the mort
gage was foreclosed, the property sold, and,
almost penniless, they repaired to Baltimore
hoping to be able to maintain themselves
by the needle.
I need not prolong the story—it is an
old tale. Sickness and misfortune followed
them; they failed to procure sufficient
work for their necessities, and on the night
when the wife appealed to us, they were
in a starving condition. Charles had just
returned from his cruise; and at the very
moment when his Mary so unexpectedly
met him, he was thinking of home, which
he expected to reach next day. He had
been prudent ; the voyage had been fore
than usually profitable, and his share, he
said, would enable him to start in business.
"Come what will," he concluded, "I'll
never leave my dear mother and Mary
again while we live. They're happy now,
thank God ! and it shall be the aim of my
life to keep them so."
He urged me to come and see him and
his now happy family, and bring my
friend; and then invoking upon us the
blessing of heaven, he wrung my hand and
turned quickly away to conceal the emo
tions he cared not to display.
"Ah ! such is life, in this world of sel
fish and unselfish humanity," mused I, as
I watched his retreating footsteps, till a
turn in the street concealed him from my
view. We never met again.
OUR NEIGHBORS.
Altoona Tribune of Friday.]
FEARFUL COLLISION.
Nine Men Jammed into a Wreck at
Ninth Street Crossing.
7 lc() Persons Probably Fatally injured.—
Yard Supervisor Mc Cully's Feet Mashed
and Amputated, and Assistant conductor
Johnson Terribly Bruised and Gut—
Several Others Badly Hurt— Some Hai--
rJw Escapes—Full Particulars of the
Accident.
The driver of C. C. Stanberger's grocery
wagon about 3:30 o'clock yesterday after
noon rushed into the store at the corner of
Seventeenth street and Eighth avenue and
communicated with a blanched face and
trembling lips the startling intelligence
that five men had just been killed by the
oars at the railroad crossing at Ninth street.
The news was soon distributed throughout
the neighborhood, and a crowd of people
ran in the direction of the accident, where
already many people had assembled, the
blood curdling facts having previously pen.
etrated to many sections of the town.—
While, the information was exaggerated as
to fatal results the number of wounded
people was understated. Nine persons had
been hurt in various degrees , and the re
ports and rumors were of a sufficiently ter
rifying and shocking nature to create the
wildest excitement throughout the city.—
Men were struck speechless with astonish
ment, women wrung their hands in agony,
and children wept tears of fear ; for who
could tell whose brothers, husbands or
fathers lay mangled and bleeding on the
track ?
_ _
When a Teibune reporter arrived at the
scene of the accident, a few yards below
Ninth street, the unfortunate victims had
been removed, and the remains of two cars,
one of which was not recognizable as the
costly and valuable "trackometer," was all
that was left to give evidence of a frightful
collision. A heavy box car loaded with
coal was bearing its immense weight upon
the wreck of the trackometer, which had
been shot under the freight car with fear
ful velocity and split and broken into hun
dreds of pieces. A lot of railroad iron
with which it was ballasted was being
taken from the ruins, and large 'quantities
of broken iron and wood of all kinds used
in the construction of the cars were scat
tered about in dire contusion. Workmen
were removing the debris as rapidly as
possible, while knots of psople stood about
discussing the matter and the probable re
sults to the men who were so unlucky as
to be caught in the disaster.
There were there persons who could
have been witnesses of the calamity who,
with no desire to see fellow beings crushed
and mangled under the wheels of clashing
railway cars, closed their eyes when the
final crash came, and only saw what they
could not avoid—the inevitable finale of
two trains going in opposite directions
upon—practically at the time—one track.
The noise was terrific, and when fearful
eyes were opened broken and bruised
bodies met their gaze.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
About 3 o'clock P. at., a party of em
ployes of the railroad company started
fr(.na Mr. McCormick's office, at the upper
end of the yard, for the purpose of pro
ceeding to the office of James 11. Cramer,
train despatcher, at the extreme lower end
of the yard. They were aboard of engine
No. 910, which was pushing the "trackom
eter" car, the uses and general appear.
ance of which is so generally known to our
people that a description is not necessary.
Suffice it to say, for the benefit of the un
familiar, that to a casual observer the
trackometer would, at a short distance,
have the appearance of a small pleasure
car. Upon the car wero Joseph H. Sands,
the yard master; C. P. McCully, yard su
pervisor ; Special Conductor, James Boyd,
of Pittsburgh, and Griffith Garrard, a pas
senger brakeman. The engine crew con
sisted of George M. Jackson, engineer ;
Taylor Grant, conductor; Joseph Johnson,
assistant conductor ; S. W. Arble, fireman,
and D. W. Baumgardner, brakeman. The
car proceeded on its way, and the rate of
speed at which it passed down the yard is
put by some as low as twenty miles an
hour, and by others as high as thirty five.
The majority of the reports, however,
which are of course conflicting, agree in
the statement that the rate of speed was
an unusually rapid one. Orders had been
given to run fast, and the engineer com
plied, as it was generally understood that
there was a clear track. The car was
noticed flying down the rails, and some
speculation was indulged in as to the pro
bable consequence of a possible accident.
All went well until a curve near Ninth
street was reached, when suddenly there
was noticed a car ahead, which appeared
to be occupying the same track as the one
upon which the party was riding. It took
but a moment to satisfy the engineer of
the danger, and the engine was immedi
ately reversed, but the condition of the
track and the impetus the iron horse had
received operated against a stoppage. The
feelings of the occupants can be better
imagined than described. Each one
thought only of escape, and, with bated
breath, each watched the opportunity.—
Some succeeded in jumping, while others
were hurled with tremendous force, as
they themselves and the spectators thought
to instant death, among the ruins of the
wreck. The last box car of a freight train
was almost out of the way when the little
trackometer, propelled by the powerful
motor in its rear, was dashed into and
under the car, raising it from its wheels
and crushing the diminutive concern al
most level with the earth. Then there
was a hurrying to and fro and the search
for the injured, many of whom were ob
served as they were
THROWN INTO THE DEATH MILL,
began. With the exception of Messrs.
Sands, McCully and Johnson, the men
succeded in jumping from the engine and
from the trackometer before the collision
occurred. Mr. McCully was taken from
the ruins with both feet mashed terribly;
Mr. Johnson was very seriously hurt on
the head and internally, while Mr. Sands
escaped with a broken arm and a couple of
slight cuts, although considerably shocked.
James Boyd, the special conductor, was
unable to get out of the car in time to
avoid the crash, and, throwing up his feet
to escape being caught by them, was thrown
by the concussion clean through the cab
and landed on top of the engine's boiler,
behind the steam guage. . .
Griffith Garrard, a passenger brakeman,
remained on the trackometer as long as he
thought safe in the hope that the engine
would be checked, and when within about
twenty feet of the freight car jumped and
fell on a parallel track.
Geo. N. Jackson, the engineer, jumped
and alighted on some person whom he
took to be Garrard, which broke his fall
and probably saved his life.
Taylor Grant, conductor, jumped when
about three car-lengths from the freight
car, and was thrown a considerable dis
tance. lie
got off with some ugly cuts on
his hands, and was walking on the street an
hour or two afterwards.
S. W. Arble, the fireman, jumped, and
fell on his head and shoulders. His in
juries, though severe, are not dangerous,
and he w,,s taken to his home on Sixteenth
street. Mr. Arble has had several narrow
escapes on the railroad, and to-day rejoices
in a sound leg which be owes to his per
sistent refusal to permit amputation when
cut up in an accident less than a year ago.
D. W. Baumgardner, the brakeman,
sprang from the engine when within a few
feet of the subsequent wreck, sustaining
half a dozen severe cuts on his head and
face and a three-inch eat to the bone be
low the right knee-joint. He was sup
ported as far as Ninth street, when his
strength failed him, and ha was carried to
his home at Ninth street and Eleventh
avenue.
THE INJURED AT THEIR HOMES.
Joseph B. Johnson resides at No. 2113
Seventh avenue. The unfortunate man
remained iu the vicinity of the disaster for
some time, when a stretcher was procured
and he Was placed in a wagon and con
veyed to his home between 4 and 5 o'clock.
A. Tribune reporter visited the residence
last night. Dr. Findley, of Twelfth street
and Eighth avenue, who attended him,
told the family that he believed Mr.
Johnson's right lung was torn in some
manner; two of his ribs were broken, be
sides other internal injuries, and he is
very dangerously out about the head Mr.
Johnson is the support of a wife and six
children his condition last night was
critical, and he was suffering intense
agony. It had been reported early in the
eveninc , that he was dead. People in the
neighborhood say that the wagon in which
he was taken home was roughly driven,
and that the injured man begged piteously
to be taken out and oarried. Mrs. John
son is a slight woman, but she exhibited a
great deal of firmness under the trying
circumstances, and poured out her hus
band's with a very steady hand.
As but one person had volunteered to
watch with him during the night Mayor
Hard said he would procure additional as
sistance.
Messrs. Sands, McCully, Boyd and Gar
rard were carried to the Logan House,
where they were attended by Drs. Win. R.
Findley, Christy, Walker, Rowe, Allen
and Rowe, and others. Dr. Fay was at
Bell's Mills, and as Mr. McCully es
pecially requested that he attend to his in
juries, Mr. John Reilly, superintendent of
transportation, sent an engine after him.
Mr. McCully lay in room 126, a pleas
ant third story apartment of the Logan
House. He reclined upon a stretcher, and
when a reporter entered Dr. Walker was
at the head of the couch administering
ether to the wounded young man. The
amputation of both ihet about half-way to
the knee had already been very successfully
pertormed by Dr. Fay, assisted by Dr.
Christy, and the arteries and veins were
being closed. Mr. McCully is not injured
internally, but his hands are slightly brai
sed, upon which he fell as he jumped. The
wheels run over his feet, and -he was car
ried under the wreck. He moaned con
siderably at times even when under the
influence of the drug, and turned once or
twice. The physicians say that few men
stand an amputation so well as he. During
the evening, after the effects of the ether
had passed off, he chatted pleasantly with
friends who called, but a little later, while
reaction was taking place, the visitors were
limited, as Mr. McCully was not feeling
quite so well. However, it is the opinion
of the doctors that unless tetanus or some
nnlooked-for change supervenes the patient
will undoubtedly recover. Word of the
sad occurrence was sent to Mr. McCully's
family at Ardmore, Pa.
James Boyd occupied room 96. Mr.
Boyd has some ugly and deep cuts about
the face and head, one near his right ten►-
ple being especially noticeable. His face
and nose are swollen. Beyond this and a
generally 'stove up" condition, he said he ,
felt very well. In dragging himself out
of the debris of the cab of the engine,
which was badly wrecked, he tore his pan
taloons and vest. His escape, in his con
dition, was miraculous. There are no in
ternal injuries in his case. Mr. Boyd's
wife was telegraphed for and is probably
with him at this hour.
Griffith Garrard, whose residence is at
Pittsburgh, sat upon a chair in the Logan
House in room 94. As a reporter entered
Mr. Gerrard treated him with a pleasant
"How do you do," and turning aroandez
posed a face literally covered with tato
of white court-plaster. When he gsli on
the track after jumping his face strack a
rail, and he received a deep gash on the
nose between the eyes and several severe
cuts on the forehead. He was also out
and bruised in the left side and upon his
hands. His injuries, while severe, are not
serious.
Mr. Sands was in bed in room 100. His
broken arm had been set. His bruises did
not amount to much, but he felt somewhat
shaken up. Mr. Sands was resting easily
and was receiving every attention.
A visit to the residence of Mr. Baum
gardner, who lives with his mother on the
corner of Ninth street and Eleventh ave.
nue, revealed the fact that he was suffer
' ing very little pain. It was thought by
many that Mr. Baumgardner had been
more seriously hurt than was at first sup
posed, but Dr. Hall, who was oalledlin, has
no fears for him. His mother stj she
heard the noise of the oolf •
ed to run to the railroad crossing, SOWS
one having told her that David was killed.
Another parson informed her that he was
not hurt, but she met the men who were
taking him home. Mrs. Baumgardner said
the young man complained great deal of
pain in his head, and could not relate any
thing in regard to the calamity. At last
accounts Mr. Baumgardner was dciing very
well, and the doctor was of the opinion
that he would be all right in a few days.
THE ENGINEER'S STORY OP THE COLLISION.
Mr. George M. Jackson, the engineer,
who lives on Sixth avenue, etween Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets, and who only es
caped being under the wreck by about five
feet, saved his life by unwittingly jumping
upon Garret!, He suffererd ,some braises
and cuts in the knees and a three-eernered
gash was made in the thumb of his left
hand. Mr. Jackson displayed preienee of
mind on this occasion that is worthy of
special mention. His story is perhaps the
most lucid explanation of the aticadeist.that
can be gathered from the mass of °Naha
ing reports. He said that he had receiv
ed verbal orders to run the tracrioineter
rapidly through the yard—the ides evi
dently being to test the rails. Going down
he said he noticed some cars in motion,
and presumed they were on NO. I south
siding, as it was under stood the way would
be clear. A closer view strengthened his
opinion that the cars were on the same
track with his engine. He immediately
reversed the engine, opened the throttle
and gave it steam, and applied the alrbrake.
The track was wet and slipperyand in such
a conditi)n that the wheels slid, and all
the power of the engine was fruitless - to
check the impetus it bad gained. The
car that was struck was the last of a train
of thirty freights that were in inositweed
crossing from the south trick to the north
side. The train, he says, was loadid - with
coal. The engine was detached' ?tont. it at
the time, and was the intention toswing
across to another track fur the purpose of
"dropping" the loaded ears to a vidintrat
the lower end of the yard. When Mr.
Jackson saw the imminent danger be pull
ed the whistle rope. On his first attempt
to reverse the engine the reverse lever
slipped, and he reversed a g ain , and it was
at this time that he open ed the' throttle
and gave the engine steam. Had it: not,
been fur the slippery condition of the ?ails
the engine would doubtless not have run
into the car, and of course, as soon as a
body not easily moved was struck the en
gine recovered equilibrium, as it were, and
shot back with almost as strong momentum
as with which it ran into eke freightcar.
It was at this point that Mr. Jackson's
presence of mind was exhibited. Recover
ing himself, he perceived the engine mov
ing away from the wreck. He rammember
eithe open throttle and the consequent
head of steam, and he molds a dash fer-the
engine, climbed upon her, and walked over
the footboard to the cab. He was unable
to observe the throttle through the mass
of debris, but succeeded in scraping sway
enough of the broken material to enable
him to and the throttle, which he closed,
and the engine came to a halt. Otherwise
there is no telling the result, with the
machine tearing up the yard with the
velocity at which it started. Jackson then
got down from the engine and fell exhaust
ed in his father's arms, when he was con
veyed to his home in a carriage. A physi
clan dressed his wounds, and he felt able
to take supper with the family, but soon
after, not feeling quite so well, he lay down.
No fears are entwined for him, as he is not
injured internally.
THE VERY LATEST FROM TUOSE 81R10US•
LY HURT.
A Tribune reporter again visited Mr.
Johnson's residence about 1 o'clock this
morning and found that he had been rest
ing easy since 9 o'clock and Was then
sleeping. He complained somewhat of his
legs and a pain in his right breast. Mrs.
Johnson said she feared the worst, as he
had been in bad health most of the sum
mer and bad lost much time.
About 2:30 o'clock this morning reports
reached this office that Mr. Johnson bad:
died after the Tribune reporter saw his
at 1 o'clock, and the news bad been tele
graphed to relatives. Inquiry at th. et*.
graph offices showed that no diepekieii
had been sent.
Reports from Messrs. MoCußy, Sandi,
Garrard and Boyd up to 1 o'clock this
morning were that each felt well in proper•
tiOU to their different conditions.
NO. 37.