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PITTSBURG, SATUKDAY, ATj"GTJST 31, 1889.
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TI LAST SAD RITES
performed Oyer the Body of
William Thaw.
AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL,
But Harked With Plainness, in Keep-
insj With the Man.
SOME FINE EDLOGIES DELIVERED
To an Aidience of Friends From Far
and tfear.
THE POOE MOURN THEIR BENEFACTOR
v The last rites were yesterday performed
and the last words spoken oyer the mortal
remains of William Thaw, and his body was
consigned to the earth in the cool and quiet
shades of Allegheny Cemetery.
The body lay in state in the Third Pres
byterian Church from 10 A. M. till lr. H,
The casket was covered with sneh heavy
and voluminous draping of black cloth
that the silver handle: were scarcely dis
cernible. The coffin was placed upon a light
platform, draped with black, and the top of
the coffin was about on a level with the mid
dle or an ordinary man's body. The altar
rail was also draped with black cloth, which
hung to the floor. At either end ot the al
tar stood a fern-leafed palm. Leaves of the
fern palm were fixed in the form of a spray
on the front of the pulpit, immediately
above the coffin, and other leaves, crossed
upon the lower part of the coffin, were con
fined by a ribbon of cream silk. . The silver
plate upon the coffin lid contained these
words:
: wnxiAit Thaw, :
: Sled in Paris, France, ;
: August the-17th, 1889. :
: Aged 70 years and 10 months. J
Upon the upper part of the co'ffin lay a
large sheaf of rye, upon which rested a
. sickle composed of purple and yellow life.
everlastings and white roses. This was re
moved when the cover over the face was
lifted off, and was placed back of the coffin.
The remains were accompanied to the
church by the eight pallbearers and two
young men from the Pennsylvania Bailroad
offices, who stood by the bier as a guard of
honor. A great crowd of people surrounded
the church long before 10 o'clock. Captain
Can Silvius, LieutenantMcRoberts and four
patrolmen stood at the gates and kept the
people in order, seeing that they did not
crowd in too rapidly.
CROWDS VIEW THE BODT.
Estimates of the number of men and
women who viewed the body during three
hours vary from 6,000 to 10,000. The latter
estimate would allow one a second and is
perhaps too high. The throng was an im-
mense one. Bich and poor alike pressed
into tB church and shed tears at the sight
- of .thctalm, dead face. The mourning mul
titude ws a magnificent tribute to the life
and character of the deceased. The people
went in at the east door, passed along the
east aisle by the altar, and emerged by the
west door. In the line were many well
Known men of this city and prominent rail
way officials irom other cities. They took
their places with the day laborer and with
the women who wore faded shawls about
their shoulders and carried little children
in their arms.
At 1 o'clock the line was stopped, the
church doors were closed and the cover was
replaced over the face. For one hour the
church was quiet and cool. The windows
were open and the summer breeze blew
through the holy precincts. The church
ushers allotted the several parts of the audi
torium reserved for the various attendants.
The front portion of the central block of
seats was set apart for the members of the
family and relatives. The front portion ot
the western block was allotted to railway
i officials. On the eastern side spaces were
reserved for the trustees and faculties of the
"Western University and the Homeopathic
Hospital.
At about 2 o'clock Mrs. Thaw and her
large family arrived in carriages and were
admitted by the side entrance on Cherry
alley. By this entrance also were admitted
the special visitors and the members of the
- church choir. The following railroad gen
eral officers were present:
president, oeorge B. Roberts: First Vice
Pre dent, Frank Thompson; Second Vice
President, J. N.Du Barry. Directors: H. H.
Houston, N. Parker Shortledge and Amos K.
little; General Solicitor. JohnBcott; General
Superintendent or Transportation. 8. M
t6!05 and General Superintendent of
Motite Power. By, ot the Pennsylvania tfail
road Company: W. H. Barnes, Receiver or the
Allegheny Valley Hoad; F. It Mean, or the
Inman Steamship Line; Stephen Little, Gen
eral Auditor of the Pullman Palacs Car Com
pany; D.& Gray, General Agent or the Penn
sylvania Company; F. H. Kingsbury, General
Eastern Superintendent Union Freight Llne:K,
A. Dawson. General Western Superintendent
Union Line; W. W. Chandler1. Agent Union
Line at Chicago: W. E. Lawrence, Western
Manager Inman Steamship Line; William Bor
ner. Division Freight Agent Pennsylvania
Company at Chicago; H. W. Brown, General
Agent Union Line at Cincinnati; D. T. Mc
Cabe. Assistant General Freight Agent Pan
handle Company; W. O. HugbartTPresldent
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad; J. H.
Hugbart, Assistant to the President of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad; E. E.
Be?b.j.A,teDt ot the Union Line at Columbus:
A. T. Wilds, Agent ot the Union Line at New
York, and 8. H. Church, Superintendent or
Transportation or the Panhandle Company.
XOTED MEN IN THE AUDIENCE.
The front doors were opened at 2:15
o'clock, and within ten minutes the church
was crowded so densely that it was im
possible for others to get inside ot the doors.
Among those who rat in the audience were:
John W. Cfcalfant, William Spang, Dr. Passa
rant, Joseph Horne, Hon. John Dalzell. James
B. Scott. George W. Hnbley.T. B. Hwearlneen.
K. H. p. Jtlccall, Charles Arbuthnot, ex-Sheriff
Gray; Jacob Reymcr, FranlcMcCntcheon, John
N. Neeb, Captain A Wlshart and many other
men prominent in business and official lives.
Many of the ministers of the two cities
were present. In the great body of the au
dience many poorlv dressed men and women
were to be seen. The front portion was oc
cupied by many gray heads. The regular
church ushers seated the audience in an ex
cellent manner.
At 230 o'clock the choir sang an anthem,
"Nearer, My God to Thee." Bev. Dr.
George T. Purves offered prayer and Bev.
; Dr. E. P. Cowan read the xv. chapter of
I. Corinthians and the last chapter of tbe
Bevelation of BL John. Mrs. Jean Wallace-
' "Webster sang, "I Know That My Bedeemer
Liveth."
Bev. Dr. Purves then spoke briefly, say-
' ing in sobstanee:
It is my part to utter the sentiments of this
. community. Mr. Tbaw has been for many
years Identified with this city. He has seen it
pwirom a village to a metropolis, and baa
been personally interested in its changes. He
has been known by all classes, knowing all
elastss, tbe friend of all, whose face was a
familiar object in our streets. It is but scant
'justice that we should lay our tribute of affec-
rSten aad love upon his coffin. We testify our
, jratHsde to Ged for what, through this servant
t Sis, He bar done for us. In bimthscom-
aWTilf,y has seen aa illastricas example of one
uiuwu ettixMM in me wiw spotless in-
tegnty. I do not moan to say that his success
wasdnetohis integrity. There were qualities
of mind that made him what be was. He pos
sessed a high sense or honor, a scrupulous
fidelity to truth. His word was as good as his
bond.
At these words some person in the gallery
rapped lightly on the floor with a cane, as if
in applause. The speaker continued:
It is a valuable lesson from his life that suc
cess and Integrity are compatible: that one may
live wisely in tnls world and wisely for the
world to come. He united with great wealth a
wonderful generosity. It seems pool Justice
that, in this presence, mention should be made
or bis wide heart and his ever open band. He
has been Known as a philanthropist. Behind
bis lore ot man was his deep love of God. His
generosity proceeded from a sense of bis re
sponsibility. He felt that he was a steward or
God. His charity was personal. He sought to
know those to whom he gave charity. He saw
everywhere opportunity for good, in religion,
science, morals and education, for the church
and for the world, at home and abroad, for
those who were known and for the many who
were unknown.
His was a character truly loveable. Through
out this land there are thousands who are
thanking God for his character and influence.
It is worth while to live IT we can live thus. It
is not worth while to live merely for this world's
gains and applause, but by our lives to win the
lore of our fellow men makes lite worth
living.
Prof. Matthew Biddle, of the "Western
Theological Seminary, said that it was his
privilege to speak of" the personal, private
character of Mr. Thaw. He said:
About 0 years ago a number of little boys
were taken out of the infant class of the old
Third church, and put into tbe class or which
Mr. Thaw, then a young business man, bad nst
become the teacher. I was one of those little
bo a. His place in my lire and in tbe lives of
many others, not because ot what be did but
because or wbat be -was, can never be filled.
There is money enough in tbe pockets or tbe
Christian men or Pittsburg to do many times
what be did, but to many ot us there never can
be another friend such as he was.
HE WAS A GREAT MAN.
Do not think that he awas a man who made
his wealth easily, and gave it way to avoid per
plexity. Intellectually William Thaw was one
of the greatest men I ever knew, and I think I
bare met some ot the great men of this world.
His was a great mind. If he bad died penni
less, bis death would have taken away my
greatest intellectual stimulus. Had he turned
his attention to other things, he would still
have been recognized as great. His lire is a
testimony to tbe fact that it Is not necessary
that a man who accumulates wealth should for
get to; cultivate himself. With his keen in
tellectual perception, bis excellent judgment,
his rare facility and felicity in speech, he
might have achieved great success in the scien
tific world, and even greater In the literary
world. When free from cares it was a great
pivilege to bear bim talk. His letters are
worthy of preservation as literary productions.
His taste for scientific, historical and theologi
cal themes new was obliterated by cares of
business. Once he said to me: They talk
of men being owned by tbeir millions, but
mine have never owned me.' At times he was
as sentimental as a school girl. His heart re
mained to the last as tender and true as in
childhood.
The first pastor of this church, in his old
days, said, "No man's life can be a failure U be
baa had tbe privilege, as a pastor, or training
tbe character or William Thaw."
The first pastor to whom Prof. Biddle re
ferred was his own father.
Bev. Dr. Cowan delivered the last dis
course. He said:
We have suffered a common loss, and are
made to bear, each with the other, a common
burden. The life of this good man has touched
and influenced each of our lives, and in touch
ing our lives nas arawn us towara mm ana
bound ns to him, so that when we see him fall
away we find our hearts bleeding and torn, be
cause these ties are sundered and these cords
snapped. All tbe places whers be has been
seen these many years, home, the office and the
church, shall see him no more. We feel surely
that something has gone out of our lives, and
that neither tbe family nor the church nor tbe
community will ever be just tbe same. To
dwell on his virtues is only to magnify our own
loss.
1 think I can say that, outside of ht nearest
relatives, tbere could be no more sincere
mourner than the one who is speaking. He
loved the church over which God has placed
me as pastor. I found him to be almost an in
comparable power for good. He was always in
bis place, if his health permitted and he was In
the city. lie was always .more than ready to
bear his share, I sometimes thought more than
his shaie, ot the burdens. ,Ho was always all
that any pastor could wish a man to be.
Let us not lose sight of the, valuable mem
ories of bis Hie. Let not our tears blind us to
the Infinite mercy or God. We shonl. thank
God for tbe very Hfo of this man. The world
has been made brighter by bis smile. Misery
and sorrow have been lessened by his minis
trations and benefactions. No human being
knows to wbat extent only God knows: but we
do know that tbere is
LESS SOKKOW IN THIS WORLD
for his having lived. The world has been made
better by his example. The'only thing that we
can feel sorry for is that his life is over. We,
should thank Uod that there was such a life.
He has reared for himself a monument more
endurlnc than brass. We should also be thank
ful that he was permitted to live the allotted
age of man.
His going to a foreign land was not the result
of illness. It was tbe carrying oat of a long
desire. Tbe illness rather retarded his going.
After be had gone he wrote back several times
that he bad not felt so well for years. The last
four weeks of his earthly life ere filled with
interest, were free from pain and were one
continued source of joy and pleasure.
If I were speculating on immortality, without
the light of inspiration, I would say that if any
man ever reached up and grasped immortality
because it were possible, William Tbaw reached
It. With the word or God to guide us, we know
that he has gone to his heavenly home.
In one or his last letters home he said that he
bad, on Sunday, attended the American Epis
copal Church in Paris, and it being the day or
communion, he said, "I remained for the com.
munlon, and experienced great profit to my
soul." May this last message from our friend
be to us a source of great good.
IN THE AXIiEQHENT CEMETERY.
Bev. Dr. Cowan uttered a few words of
prayer, the choir sang "Bock of Ages" and
Bev. Dr. Purves pronounced the benedic
tion. The audience was dismissed, while the
members ot the family and tbe pallbearers
remained in tbeir pews. After tbe house
was emptied the coffin was borne to the
hearse, and it took its wav, followed by
about a dozen carriages, to Allegheny Ceme
terv. There prayer was offered bv Bev. Dr.
Purves, and the coffir was lowered into the
grave. .
Yesterday afternoon Joseph B. Hunter
received the following letter from Francis
Murphy:
Wabash, Ikd., August 29.
Mt Dear Brother hunter I have Just
learned tnat our dear friend William Tnaw
has fallen asleep in the loving mercy of our
Heavenly Father. He was tbe friend of tbe
poor and needy. Indeed, we can truly say be
was tbe friend of the friendless. He never
turned any away; all be inqnired about was
tbeir need. If they were naked be clothed
them, ir they were hungry be fed them.
Even in prison he visited them. We shall
miss him. When we desired to bold a series nf
gospel temperance meetings he was Interested
to make them successful. Most generously
did he contribute to onr cause.
May God blcss.the memory of his generous,
loving kindness to us, and bay tbe Father ot
Mercies and the God of all comfort abide with
his dear wife and children in this unspeakable
Borrow.
uou us Willi you.
Tfours in heart,
Francis Mdbpht.
AN OLD BDKGLAR.
Thomas Watson Appllra to the Charily De
partment for a Fas.
Among the applicants for,cbarity at the
Department of Charities yesterday was a
one legged man named Thomas Watson,
who according to bis own account is one of
the most notorious burglars in this country.
in lo78, curing tbe soldiers encampment
at Columbns, O., Watson and two
others were arrested for attempting
to rob a bajk. Watson's companions
managed to escape, and during the break
for liberty Watson was shot in the leg and
injnred so that the leg had to be amputated
at the knee. A lew weeks ago Watson was
released from the Ohio penitentiary, and
landing In this city, was sent to jail tor
drunxenness. He was released yesterday
and applied to the Department of Public
Charities for transportation to his home in
Philadelphia. He was given a pass as far
as Altoona, and lelt-fjr that point yester
day afternoon.
A PRETTY 0AISGIRL
and how tht
tnikft K1
teir au.rua.ive. wnut m-amlna her fair Aim.
plmon for ntxt winter1! ballroom; Clara
jicuc-t icucr
i tomorroufi Djstatch.
LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
Large Investments and Immense Dis
bursements Are Shottn.
THE WAGES OP COAL MINERS.
Workers in Anthracite Make Sore Than
the Bituminous.
FIGURES WHICH MaI BE EELIED UPON
tSnCXA&TXLXGBAMTO TUX DISPATCH.
Habrisbhbo, Pa., August 30. In the
forthcoming annual report of the Secretary
of Internal Affairs on industrial statistics,
which are in charge of Prof. Bolles, chief
of the Bureau of Statistics, will be a full
history of building and loan associations,
furnished by Michael J. Brown and Joseph
J. Paist, of Philadelphia, who are thor
oughly conversant with their operations.
They say:
Out of perhaps quite 1,000 building and
loan associations in the State of Pennsyl
vania, there have been collected, mostly by
personal visits to the homes of the secre
taries and meeting rooms of these associa
tions, the yearly financial statements of 337
associations. While tbe names of the com
panies are known, and the city or county in
which their business is transacted is ascer
tainable, yet a letter addressed to the Secre
tary or the association withont giving tbe
number of the residence of tbe Secretary or
the strict location of the meeting room, es
pecially in large cities, is likely to find its
way back marked "unfound," as was the
actual result in hundreds of cases. In other
States the same difficulty has been ex
perienced. But these reports are gradually
coming to hand, and by another year it is
quite likely that a complete statement of the
financial conditions of these associations can
be presented. The reports of the 337 as
sociations whose statements have been care
fully analyzed show:
Total number of shares 159,082
Total number or shares pledged for
loans 128.213
Total cash receipts for one year.. ..$11,739,041 M
Total cash expenditures for one
year 11,089,821 62
Cash on band at end of fiscal year.. 619,219 92
Paid to shareholders for matured
stock and withdrawals 3,458,967 13
Current exnenses. one vezr ii&ssr M
Total assets 28.Sia.871 17
Total gains , 6,910,653 60
ENORMOUS DISBURSEMENTS.
According to the yearly estimate for dis
bursements for 1,000 societies in Pennsyl
vania, namely, $32,907,482, it will be seen
that these building associations disburse
every 12 years in Pennsylvania alone $384,
889,784. The estimate of $10,263,997 41 for
withdrawals and matured shares in one
year, or $123,167,768 93 for 12 years, is
faulty for the reason that manv associations
do not show matured shares in tbeir cash
accounts. That is when, say, $20,000 worth
of stock has matured that has been pledged
for loans, this stock cancels $20,000 worth
of mortgages without appearing on tbe cash
account as $20,000 paid lorloans, and $20,000
paid out for matured stock.
Estimate for 1,000 socletlesln the State:
Assets 8i,121,270 CO
Receipts, one year S4.830.yS3 50
Disbursements, one year. 32,907,4X2 55
Cash on hand 1,926.438 93
Withdrawals and matured shares.. 10,263,997 41
Expenses 343.990 00
Gains. 17,628,050 00
Shares 1.S62.S00
Members , 218,000
Borrowers ,.,. 68,000
Borrowed shares 374,000
To appreciate the enormity of the work
accomplished bv these building associations
it must be remembered that the present
assets, say 584,000,000, are the accumula
tions Irom the savings of the past 12 years
only That is. all the shares that am
started 12 years ago have been withdrawn or
matured, or in plainer terms, the life of a
society, or a series, is less than 12 years. The
present capital, estimated at $84,000,000,
will all be returned to the subscribers 12
years from now. Although the canital 12
.years hence may be greater than at present,
it win represent new members admitted be
tween now and then, tbe old gradually
dropping out. During the past 24 years it
is very probable that the building societies
of the United States have turned over to
members in cash, for withdrawals, matured
shares and cancelled mortgages, at least
$600,000,000.
AVERAGE EAESINGS OF MIKEBS.
The chief of the Bureau of Statistics has
taken great pains to secure the average
earnings of coal miners in 1888. A blank
was prepared, asking the operator ot each
colliery for the monthly earnings of the ten
most skillful and industrious miners for the
year 1888, employed in his colliery, and also
the nnmber of days they worked, and the
same facts were sought in respect to the
least skillful. Bach operator was also
asked to state the number of days that his
comery was m operation auring me year.
The earnings of those who were sick, or
who for other reasons worked irregu
larly, were not collected, as they
obviously have no bearing on the
question. The question is, what can a
miner earn if well, and desirous of work
ing whenever he can get emplovment? If
he is sick, or declines to work "when em
plovment is offered to him. his earnings can
form no standard for measuring the earn
ings of those who are well and desirous of
working whenever the have tbe oppor
tunity. Nevertheless, in many cases, when
trying to ascertain the annual and daily
earnings of workingmen, the method has
been pursued on other occasions to ascer
tain the whole number employed, regularly
and irregularly, and nlso the aggregate
amount paid to them, and then to divide the
one product by the other. The result is re
garded, as the average annual earn
ing per man. And then to ascertain
their average daily earnings the aggregate
amount paid is divided by the aggregate
number of days worked. This easy
method fs as faulty in giving a true answer
to the question as i such an easy method" of
doing a really difficult thing is likely to be.
It isasily seen that if the regular and
irregular workmen, tbe most skillful and tbe
least skillful, are all classed together, the
average daily and annual earnings will be
much too low to represent fairly the earn
ings of the most skillful and industrious
workmen, and too high to represent fairly
the earnings of the least skillful and irregu
lar workman. By using such a method,
therefore, a wrong conception is given of
the earnings of all classes.
The following tables include very care
fully prepared returns from 71 bituminous
collieries and 45 anthracite ones. The rea
son for not giving tbe returns from a larger
number of anthracite collieries is the oper
ators are fewer in number, and it was not
thought need'ul for those operating a large
number or collieries to give returns of all
of them, as the same remuneration was paid
in all cases lor similar work. The returns
from both sections are quite enoueh. it is
believed, to serve fairly the purpose of the
investigation.
ASTRKACIXZ MINEES AHEAD.
The aggregate earnings of the 710 bitu
minous coal miners, in 71 collieries, who
are classed as the most skillful, represent
ing those who earned the largest amounts
in such collieries, were 394,077 81. or
146557 per man. The aggregate earnings
oi the 450 anthracite miners in 45 collieries,
who are classed as tbe most skillful, repre
senting those who earned the largest
amounts in such collieries, were $330,327 80,
or (734 06 per man. The average dailv
earnings oi the former class were $1 96, and
the average dan. eaeh ''miner worked was
230.7S. Tbe average dally, earnings of the
rxsr
antbtaeite eeai mmn were 2.96 per Mas, j
and the average number of days each
miner worked was 246.17.
1 An explanation perhaps ought to be made
concerning the variations in the earnings of
the more skilled miners. The rates paid are
essentially the same, all (things considered,
as every operator knows1 that he cannot long
play the game successfully of trying to get
the'better of his competitors by fixing wages
at a lower limit, nor is there much, if any,
disposition to do this. The ancient plan of
getting; an advantage over competitors by
obtaining it from the workingman in the
way of reducing his wages, is not less wise
than severe, and is growing in disfavor
everywhere. The difference in eacmngs,
therefore, is due to varying skill, strength
and application, and also to differences in
the coal, location, etc These are very con
siderable, as all know who are acquainted
'with mines, and vary more or less in the
same mine.
Following are the statistics of the coke
and bituminous coal production by tons,
and tbe number of men employed:
Coke Production in 1SS3.
Tons.
Tons.
Center......... 0,655
Clarion 9.029
Armstrong,.... 4.320
Butler. 3,740
Elk 2,605
Somerset 2,000
Washington.... 1,910
Favette 3.248.251
Westmoreland.2,128.725
uamona. ni,vn
Blair. 121,268
Clearfield 108,632
Huntingdon... 76,292
Allegheny. 73,909
Tioga 36.817
Bedford 31,201
Indiana 21,000
Total 6.608,726
p'duct'n
bituminous coat of tons.
Westmoreland 7,222.245
Clearfield 5,625.366
Fayette 5,246.683
Allegheny - 4,885.053.
Jefferson 2.275,616
Washington 1.634.649
MEJT
S'P'ED
12.092
8.077
8.375
10,318
8.762
4.178
3,291
2,410
1,168
uu
1,122
693
534
615
675
" 69
531
899
880
218
257
S
1B4
16
19
Cambria ...... 1,594.133
Tioga 1.U75.296
Clarion
553,099
947,848
430.093
439,121
35U77
275,700
253,214
237,800
224.781
191,196
163,821
159,223
106,921
45.800
32,000
10,443
6.004
1,024
Elk
Mercer
Center.
Somerset...
Huntingdon,
Blair
Bedford
Armstrong..
Butler
Bradford....
Indiana
Lawrence...
Beaver
Clinton
McKean
Greene......
Cameron....
7
Total 33,643.266 61,050
THE 'EUWEES .AND I0URDS. !
Descendants of a Family of Allegheny
Coonty Pioneers Hold a Kennlonf
Well Known People Present A Per
manent Organization Formed. i
The annual reunion of the Euwer and
Yourd families and tbeir descendants was
held op. Thursday at the residence of ex
Protbonotary Jacob H. "Walters, in Spring
dale. The beautiful grounds surrounding
the house were fitted up with flags, swings,
benches, etc., while the reunion banquet
was served under a pretty pavilion. About
200 person participated in the festivities.
These were the children of the original
Euwer or Yourd ancestors who came to
Western Pennsylvania with tfe Scotch-Irish
settlers. Besides them thafe were present
the grandchildren, great grandchildren and
members of the connection1 by marriage. In
ages the party varied from the snowy hair
of 71 years to the laughing eyes of child
hood or the cooing of infancy. The day was
pleasantly passed in' games amoner the
young folks, social intercourse among the
graver people and therecalling of "ye olden
times" by the aged. ' Mr. and Mrs. Walters
could not have Deen excelled in their royal
entertainment. .Its repetition by them an
nually for three or four years past is a
matter of gratitude that every child as well
as a'dultielU. A vote of thanks was ten
dered to Mr. and MrsT.Walters at a meeting
of tbe guests held late In the atternoon.
At this meeting the younger element set
on foot a movement to perpetuate the reun
ions and histories of these families. 'A per
manent organization .was effected by the
election of the following officers: President,
B. S. P. McCall, of Tarentum; Vice Presi
dent, Jacob H. Walter, of Springdale: Sec
retary, Miss Nannie McLaine, Logan's
Ferry: Treasurer, L. E. Stofiel, Pittsburg;
Historian, Mart Kennedy, Tarentum; Ex
ecutive Committee, Richard A. Kennedy,
Esq., of the Allegheny County
Bar; Mrs. Wm. H. Ellis, Springdale; Bev.
J. C. Kistler, Buena Vista; John McLaine,
Logan's Ferry; Mrs. Lilian Stofiel, Pitts
burg. In choosing the officers and commit
tee it was the design to as nearly as possible
select persons who live in the immediate
neighborhood, so that they can be as
sembled easily when about to arrange for
holding the annual reunions. The mem
bers of the connection who attend the re
unions live all over Allegheny, Westmore
land and Butler counties.
ONE GLUTTON KILLED.
He Ate Eighty-Four Fried Egas and Blade
' His Wife a Widow.
tSFICIAL TILXGKAM TO THE DISrATCH.l
Columbia, 8. C, August SO. Gus
Withcrspoon, colored, a resident of York"
ville, this State, whose capacity for dis
posing of eggs was well known in. his neigh
borhood, on Wednesday wagered a dollar
that he could eat seven dozen eggs at one
sitting. He stationed himself in a comfort
able position at 10 o'clock A. M., and four
hours later he arose and was the heavier by
84 fried eggs, which he had swallowed
during that time. He was very well satis
fied with his meal, but it was his last. The
following evening Mrs. Witherspoon was a
widow. The unfortunate negro died in
great agony, and the Coroner's jury found
he had come to his death 'by eating too
many eggs.
END OF TEE INSTITUTE,
Tbe Teachers Wind Up by Blalaal Compli
ments AH Aronnd.
The County Teachers' Institute closed
yesterday, with lectures by Dr. Z. X.
Soyder and Prof. .Wiasbip. Superintend
ent Hamilton made a short congratulatory
speech.
A series of resolutions were passed thank
ing the instructors, indorsing Superintend
ent Hamilton and calling on teachers to
post themselves in their profession.
The Permanent Certificate Committee
will meet on the second, third and fourth
Saturday of April in Superintendent Ham
ilton's office to examine applicants.
Over 7,600 People Comina to the Exposi
tion. Mr. W. L. Callin, ot Wheeling, W. Va.,
has just compiled a list ot over 7,000 names
of the leading heads of families residing in
over 350 small towns within 45 miles of
Pittsburg; these names are all lurnisbed on
gummed paper and perforated ready to Stick
on envelopes. Businesa men who contem
plate sending out circulars this fall should
consult him, ,
A Delicious Drink,
And one1 that will prove wholesome and
invigorating as well, is the famous "Pilsner"
beer. This brand is made solely by Fran
enbeim & Vllsark, and is on draft at all
first-class bars. Orders by mail or telephone
receive prompt attention. Telephone 1186.
The Expssltloa Opening.
The" Exposition will open next week and
your friends and relations from all over the
country will be in to see you. Don't bother
with the baking atsuch a time; get Marvin's
bread, crackers and cakes and be happy.
iTssur
FEATHERS AND FURS. M7
Ground of the United Staff art Atoll wKA i
ferrov?7meA3x.
an inter etHnff orKcfc. ty JC C.-flJMwt. 3V
ONE OPPOSING TOTE.
The Pennsy's Bequest for a Track to
the Exposition Granted
BY BOTH BRANCHES OP COUHCILS.
A Number of Privileges Extended to Three
Street Railways.
FREE BIDES FIXED FOB POLICEMEN
The Pennsylvania Bailroad Company
will commence within 24 hours the laving
of a track from their present freight line
along Liberty street to Third street, and
thence to Duquesne way, Councils having
yesterday granted the necessary privilege.
It was an easy struggle, but one determined
opponent showing up in the person of Coun
cilman Monroe,
After considerable thumping for a quorum
Select Council convened, and in the absence
oi President H. P. Ford, by unanimous
vote Collector of Internal Bevenue S. D.
Warmcastle was chosen to preside. The
call for the meeting was read,and Mr. A. J.
Keating offered the resolution for reading
by Clerk Sheppard. It gave the Pennsyl
vania Company the unconditional privilege
of constructing a single track switch from
Liberty street to the Exposition buildings.
By unanimous consent the rules were sus
pended and the resolution was offered for
action. Councilman Monroe responded to
the call for remarks. He Bald he would like
a very clear idea as to what rights of property-holders
would be infringed upon by the
construction of the switch. He said he was
in the dark, and wanted to have the parties
"managing" the resolution throw some
light upon tbe subject, and that there was
considerable Pennsylvania trackage around
tbe city menacing people's safety. He also
called for an expression oi the feeling of the
Exposition managers.
Mr. A. F. Keating arose, and stated that
tbe resolution was offered at the instance of
the Exposition Society, and that it was
asked for as a direct aid to the society in
promoting its receipts from surrounding
townspeople. He said that Third, street was
quite wide and that a single track not inter
fering with the exits or entrances to the
buildings was highly desirable and objec
tionable to no one.
Continuing, Mr. Keating said: "I am
only sorry that every railroad entering the
city cannot obtain a similar access. To
reach the Exposition buildings the Balti
more and Ohio Bailroad would have to
traverse the whole length of Water street
through a busy district. I do hope to see
the day when the Pennsylvania and Balti
more and Ohio Railroads will come to their
senses and complete the Junction Bailroad,
thus allowing access to the Exposition build
ings by all the railroads."
Mr. Monroe persisted that the matter
should be in inch shape that the track could
be removed by the proper authorities. Mr.
Keating said that the present action would
doubtless be confirmed by the passage of an
ordinance later on. Mr. Monroe clung to
his idea, and drafted it into an amendment
to the original resolution. While this was
being done Councilman Cavanaugb, of the
First ward, said the residents of his ward
had no objections toj the construction 'of the
switch.
A DECI3ITE DEFEAT.
councilman Aionroe s amendment was
put to the vote, and tbe result being in
doubt, a division was called for. Its defeat
was decisive. The original resolution was
then placed on its final passage and a
chorus of "ayes" was diversified by a
sonorous "nay" from Councilman Monroe.
Clerk Sheppard carried the resolution over
to Commdn Council chamber and read its
title. After Clerk Booth had attnned his
voice by reading a bushel of minor ordi
nances, the resolution was taken up and
passed with a dissentient voice, that of
Conncilman George Schaefer, of the Fif
teenth ward. The expected opposition to
the resolution "did not materialize at any
stage of the proceedings.
Tbe names of tbe Councilmen who signed
the call were Messrs. Benz, Williams,
Treusch, Anderson, Paul, Collins, Wilson,
Haslett, Brophy, Doyle, Keating and T. A.
Gillespie.
In Common Councils a number of ordi
nances for paving, grading, and opening
streets were passed.
The ordinance setting aside the ground
around the Hiland reservoir as a park was
read. Mr. Bigham moved to postpone ac
tion until it was shown wbere the money to
pay for fixing the ground was to come from.
His motion prevailed.
Tbe supplementary ordinance granting
the Pittsburg, Oakland and East Liberty
Bailroad the right to construct the Atwood,
Bates, Ward, Frazier, Boquet streets loop
was read. A novel provision in the ordi
nance is that policemen when on duty shall
be carried free of charge.' Mr. Waggoner
wanted to speak on the ordinance, but
failed to secure the attention of the chair.
As a result when the roll was called he
voted no. Mr. Maguire voted no, and the
vote stood 22 ayes to 2 noes. This was not a
legal majority, 24 votes being required, and
the ordinance went over.
STREET BAIL-WAYS PAVOBED.
Other business was then taken up iu Se
lect Councils and a great many new ordi
nances were prestnted, their titles read and
referred to the proper committees and de
partments. Among them was the ordinance
granting the Union Line Street Bailway
Company the right to use certain streets of
the city for a single or double track rail
way, with the privilege of using cables,
electricity or other motive power, the route
to begin at tbe intersection of Carson street
and Brownsville avenue, to run to Wash
ington avenue. Another was 'to grant to
the Pittsburg and Birmingham Trac
tion Company the right to lay a
double track ) railway from the union
depot to the Eastern city line end of
the Southside,.over the route of the present
i-msonrg ana xsirmiDgnam .rassenger Hall
way, wjth tbe privilege of using cables, elec
tricity or other motive power, and providing
that work on the new road must be begun
within six months.
Also an ordinance granting the Hiland
Park Street Bailway Company the right to
lay a single or double track from a begin
ning at the corner ol Frankstown avenue
and Broad street, with the privilege of using
cables, electricity or other motive power,
work to be commenced within one year and
finished within two years.
Mr, Keating moved to amend the Pitts
burg, Oakland and EdSt Liberty Bailway
Company ordinance to provide lor tbe pro
tection of other roads that might cross it.
His amendment also applied to the carrying
of policeman free, arid stopping to leave
tnem on ana on.
Mr. Anderson wanted the firemen
eluded, but the privilege was denied.
in-
Get Ready far tfeboot.
Now is the time to buy school supplies.
They can be bad at L Bteunlnger & Co.'i
S35 Smltbfield st, Pittsburg, Pa., at the
lowest prices, wholesale and retail.
fflS JiraYNIBSW
ealW on Ui apprentice of a United Siatee
jfeoiMAte mna welcome tnem aero the
goals''.7. To-morrow" t Dmpatcr ti oil,
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NOW FIB8T
A Tale of
Author of "Under Drake's Flag,"
ALL MQBTS
C HAPTEB XIL Lx the Amatolas.
The Corporal had already spread the news
among the men of Bonald's intended enter
prise, and they gave him a hearty cheer as
he rode off. Mr. Nolan had advised him to
keep the native who was going-to fetch his
horse back.
"You won't want to walk into King Wlll-
iamstown in that guise," he said; "therefore
you had best put your uniform into the va
lise, and tell the man to meet you at any
point you like I should say the nearer to
the bush the better; lor if you succeed in
getting the young lady out of these rascals'
clutches you may be pursued, and, if your
horse is handy, you may succeed in getting
her away, when you would otherwise be
soon overtaken.
Bonald thankfully accepted the offer, for
he saw that it might indeed be of vital im
portance to him to have his horse ready at
hand.
With a last wave of his hand he rode off,
the chief and his six companions trotting
alongside.
The sun had set an hour when they
reached the spot at which the chiei had
directed his two followers to meet him.
They had not yet arrived.
"Do you think that they will be sure to
find the place?" Bonald asked the chief.
"A Firgo never loses his way," the
chief replied. "Find his way in the dark,
all the same as day."
In spite of the chiefs assurance, Bonald
was fidgetty and anxious. He wrapped a
blanket round him, and walked restlessly
up and down. It was nearly an hour be
fore the chief, who, with his companions
had thrown himself down and lighted a
pipe, which passed from hand to hand, said
suddenly:
"One man cornel"
Bonald listened intently, but could hear
nothing. v A moment later a dark figure
came up.
Kreta at once questioned him, and a long
conversation toot place between them.
"What is he saying, Chief? What is he
saying?" Bonald broke in impatiently sev
eral times; but it was not until tbo man had
finished that the chief translated.
"White girl alive, incos, the other two
women alive, but not live long, torture them
bad. Going to take the girl to Macomo."
"Thank God for that." Bonald exclaimed,
fervently, for he had all day been tormented
with the fear that Mary Armstrong might
have met with her fate directly she was car
ried away.
"When are they going to take her?"
"A lot of them gooff to-nigbt; go straight
to Amatolas; take her with them."
"How many, Kreta; will there be any
chance of attacking them on the way?"
The chief asked a question of his messen
ger-
"Heaps of them," he said to Bonald, for
the natives are incapable of counting be
yond very low figures. "Too many; no
chance to attack them; must follow behind.
They show us the way."
"But how do we know whereabouts they
will come out of the wood, Kreta? It's
miles long; while we are watching at one
place, they maybe off in another."
That's so, incos; no use to watch the
wood. We must go on to the Great Fish
river. Only two places wbere thev can ford
it. Double Driit and Cornetjies Drift, one
hour's walk apart Put half one place,
half the otherjlhen when they pass, lollow
after and send messengers to fetch up oth
ers." 'That will do very well, Chief; that's a
capital idea of yours. You are sure that
there's no other way ther can go?"
"Heaps of ways," the chief said, "but
those shortest ways sure to go short ways,
so as to pass over eround auicklv."
"What are they going back for?"
"No bullock in busb, incos, eaten up all
the things round, want to go home to kraals;
besides near that many white soldiers come
over sea to go to Amatolas to fight."
"How far is it to these fords?"
"Three hours' march. We just start
now. Kaffirs set out soon. Get on horse
again."
Bonald was not sorry to do so, for he felt
that in the darx he should run a conslder
ble risk of laming himself against stones or
stumps, and in any ease he would scratch
himself verv severely with the thorns.
"Tell me. chief." he said, when they
had started, "how did your messenger learn
this, and what has become ot your other
man?"
"Not know about other man,"-the chief
said, "perhaps they caught him and killed
him; perhaps he is hiding among them and
dare not venture out This man tell he go
into forest and creep and crawl for a lobg
time, then at last he saw some Kaffirs come
along and so he followed them: so at last
they came to the place in the bush where
was a heap of their fellows. They were all
gathered round something, and he heard
women crying, very lond. Presently some
of the mea went away, and he could see
what it was two white women tied to trees.
Tbe Kaffirs had stripped them and cut
their flesh in many places. They die very
soon, perhaps to-night or to-morrow morn
ing. Then he crawl up and lay in the
bushes, very close, add listen to talk. He
heard that to-nigbt heap party go away to
Amatolas and take white woman as present
for Macomo; and other Kaffirs come and lie
down all about, and he did not dare move
out till the light go away. Then he crawl
through the bushes a good piece; then he
got up and ran to bring the news.
"He has done very well," Bonald said;
"tell him he shall be well rewarded. Now
I think he might as well go to tbtcamp and
tell the officer there' from me that two of the
white womeu have been killed; but that
tbe other has been taken away, as I hoped
she would be, aad that I am going after
her.'.'
' "Message bo Me," the chief said, after a ,
mosseat's thought; ."better take hka with
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us, may be useful by and by; may want to
send message."
"Perhaps it would be as well," Bonald
agreed; "and the message is of no real im
portance.", After three hours' fast traveling the
natives going at a run, iu suite of tbe dark
ness of the night, and Bonald leaving the
reins loose, and trusting to his horse to feel
his way they came to tbe river; after mak
ing a narrow examination of the bank, the
chief pronounced the ford to be a quarter of
a mile lower down, and in a few minutes
they came upon the spot where a road
crossed the river.
"I think this is the way they are most
likely to take," the chiel said, when they
had crossed the stream. "Country more
broken this way, and iurtber from towns,
not so much chance of meeting soldiers.
You and I and four men will stay here;
three men go on to other ford, then if they
cross there, send one man to tell us; the
other two follow them, and see which way
they go."
"Do you know the Amatolas at all,
Chiel?" '
"Not know him, incos; never been there;
travel all about these parts in last war, but
never go up to Amatolas."
"Then, of course, you do not know at all
where Macomo's kraal is?"
"Not know him at all. We follow men,
sure enough we get there."
The three men had not started above five- -minutes,
when tbe chief said in a" low tone:
"They are coming," and gave an order to
one of his men, who at once set off at the
top of his speed to overtake the others and
bring them back.
It waa nearly ten minutes before Bonald
could hear the slightest souud, then he be
came conscious of a low murmuring of
voices in the air, and a minute or two later
there was a splashing of water at the ford,
five yards irom the spot where they had
lain down underabash. One of the natives
had, at Kreta's orders, taken the horse
away, the chief telling him to go half a mile
off, as were it to paw the ground suddenly,
or make any noise, the attention of Kaffirs,
if within hearing, would be instnntlv drawn
n.
Dark as the night was. the figures of
those crossing the water could be dimly
made out, and Bonald judged that there
must be fully 300 of them. After the first
few had passed thev came along in such a
close body that he was unable to make out
whether there was a female among them.
The numbers of the Kaffirs sufficed to show
him that there was no chance whatever of
effecting a rescue of Mary Armstrong while
surrounded by so large a body.
As soon as all had crossed, two of the
Fingoes followed close upon their traces,
five minntes afterward another started, and
scarcely had he gone when the three men
who had been sent to the other ford returned
with the messenger who had recalled them.
Thev left nt short intervals after each other,
and then Bonald mounted his horse, which
had now been fetched up, and followed
with Kreta.
"There is no fear of us missing them,
Chief?"
"No fearof that, incos; that star overthere
shines over the Amatolas, they go straight
for it; besides, the two men behind them can
hear them talking. If they turn off, one
come back to tell us."
But they did not turn off, but kept on for
hours in a straight, undeviating line, trav
eling at a fast walk. Bonald Merwn kept
wondering how Mary Armstrong was bear
ing up. She was a strong, active girl, ac
customed to plenty of exercise, and at ordi
nary times could doubtless have walked a
long distance; (jut the events of the day, the
sudden attack upon the wagons, her capture
by the Kaffirs, her uncertainty as to the fate
of her father, the harrowing tortures of her
companions, which she had probably been
compelled to witness, and the hopelessness
ot her own, fate, might well have broken her
down. He was sure that the Kaffirs would
compel her to walk as long as she could
drag her limbs along, but as she was des
tined as a present to their chief, they might,
when she could go no further, carry'her.
He groaned at his helplessness to aid her,
and had he not had a perfect faith in the
cunning of his companions, and in their
ability to follow her up wherever she was
taken, he would have been inclined to take
tbe mad step of charging right in among
the Jxamrs, upon tne one cnance ot snatch
ing her up and carrying her off from among
them.
Bonald Mervyn, of the Cape Rifles, was
a very different man from Captain Mervyn,
of the Borderers. The terrible event that
had caused him to throw up his commission
and leaye the country had in other respects
been of great advantage. He had for years
been haunted by the fear of madness, and
whenever he felt low and out of spirits this
fear of insanity almost overpowered him.
The trial had enred him of this; he had
convinced himself that had he inherited the
slightest taint of the curse of the Carnes,
he would have gone mad while he was
awaiting his trial; that he had kept his
head perfect under such circumstances
seemed to him an absolute proof that he was
as sane as other men,and henceforth ha
banished the fear that so long haunted him.
It was In truth that fear which had held
him back so long from entering into a
formal engagement with his cousin
Margaret He looked upon it as an abso
lutely settled thing that they would be
married some -day, bur had almost un
consciously shrunk from making that day a
definite one; and although for the moment
he had burst into a fit of wild anger at
being as he considered thrown aside, he bad
since acknowledged to himselt that Mar
garet's decision had been a wise one, and
that it was better that they two should not
have wed.
He had always been blessed with good
spirits, except at the times when the lit of
depression seized 'him; but since he had
been at the Cape, and been on active duty,
these fits of depression had entirely passed
away, and his unvarying good temper under
au circumstances naa oitea been tne sub
ject of remark among his comrades. As he
rode along that sight he acknowledged, 'tk
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