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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1889. . ; , ,
ip SECOHD PART.
iLL COLD CASH.
.Millionaires Safe With Pock
etsfol of $10,000 BUls.
THEIE DECOY MESSENGEBS
William Waldorf Astor, the Author,
Quite Approachable.
A WEALTH THAT IS UKEKVIABLE.
A Missionary Who Made a Bunko Steerer
$ Exceedingly Weary.
WOHEX'S CHAKCE IN GOTHaH BUSINESS
ICOEEESFOKDZKCE OF TBS DISFATCn.1
New Toek, October 25. Two men
walked rapidly down Wall street yesterday
afternoon and entered one of the prominent
banking institutions. They were sturdy,
heavy-set men. One carried a small, black
satchel. Both kept their eyes roaming
from side to side. I followed them into the
bank. The man with the satchel sat down,
dropping the bag carelessly on the floor.
The other went into the Receiving teller's
inclosure, reached down in his breast pocket
and extracted a package of bills. These
were hastily counted, and the two strangers
left. The teller jammed the bills into an
envelope, sealed it and pitched it into a
safe,, afterward closing the door in a per
fuuetory manner. The entire transaction
occupied less than 12 minutes. Then the
teller turned toward your correspondent and
said:
"How much do you think was in that
package?"
"Why, about 5500."
'Tea, and a little more. It contains one
million four hundred and forty-odd thou
sands." Ton don't mean it!"
"Yes," he said, showing his memoranda.
Ton see it is nearly all in 510,000 bills.
There is no great danger in carrying notes
of that denomination, because, except here
in New York, they are so seldom used that
suspicion wonld at once be directed toward
anyone who attempted to negotiate them."
One thing still puzzled me.
"What did the messenger have in his
satchel?"
"Nothing but a half brick. The satchel
is carried as a blind to throw any possible
thief off the track."
THE MIXXION'AIBE jojthoe.
Mr. William Waldorf Astor, whose new
novel is about to be published, is a tall,
broad shouldered, muscular man, with blue
eyes, blonde hair and a heavy mustache.
There is something about his way of speak
ing and smiling that simply charms the
stranger. Unlike his near relatives, Mr.
Willie Astor can be approached by re
porters when he really has something to say.
A white-haired newspaper man, who has
been connected with New York papers for
33 years, recently said:
"I never shrink from interviewing Mr.
Willie Astor, because he .knows something.
He's traveled."
Mr. Astor is a picture of health; but Mrs.
Astor is by no means a strong woman. One
rainy day last January she stood by a win
dow in her boudoir, looking out at the driv
ing sleet and the slush-filled streets. She
was suffering one of her terrible attacks of
neuralgia. Suddenly she sank into a chair,
exclaimine:
"If God would let me, I wonld to-day
change places with that man!"
The person referred to was a negro coach-,
man who drove by. His wool was gray,
but he sat erect on'the box, defying the ele
ments. It has been truly said that the
greatest luxury the rich can afford is to be
welL
BUNKO AND THE M1SSIONAET,
For a couple of weeks the city has been
filled with clergymen of the Episcopal
Church, and those interested in the Ameri
can Board of Foreign Missions. In scores
of churches regular pastors have given place
these past few Sabbaths to returned mission
aries "from Greenlands icy mountains, from
India' coral strands," and from Dan to
Bersheba and back. One of the mission
aries recently had a queer experience. The
gentleman is very old, he wears clothing of
a style in vogue many years since, and happy
was the bunko steerer whose glittering eyes
lighted on him at the Twenty-eighth street
Elevated station. The bunko man rushed
up to him, grasned his hand, expressed de
light at again meeting the lifetime friend of
his father, and linking arms walked down
Sixth avenue with the reverend gentleman.
"Let's see," said the latter, beaming
mildly through his spectacles, "where was
it your father and I went to school? Was it
up in Wooastock, Vermont, or at Nashua?"
"In the old academy at Woodstock," said
the sharper. "ManVsthe time he told me
of it, and the pleasant recollections he had
ot vou."
They reached Twenty-6eventh street, when
the missionary stopped. He quietly bnt
firmly disengaged his arm and then re
marked: "My friend, you're young at the business.
I was born in Turkey and have lived there
all my life. This is my first visit to
America."
Before he had finished, the bunko man
started up Twenty-seventh street. The min
ister boarded a car.
WOMEN AND THEIE TTOEK.
If a woman can do good work in any
branch of business she can always find a
position in New York. The male stenog
rapher is getting shoved aside by his sisters
and cousins and young aunts. Some
bright women who are expert stenograph
ers ana typewriters employ ten or a dozen
others, and make a great deal money
out ot tnese agencies, uooa steno
graphers and typewriters are paid
all the way from 512 to 575 a week, and
one or two are said to receive even more.
But the average pay is 516 to $20 for a
young woman who is an expert and under
stands the construction and punctuation of
the English language. This is truly an
era of "good times" for women. Nearly
all the newspapers employ them as report
ers, editors, reviewers and "critics.
.A good cook commands (20 per month
besides her board and room and even then
she is a prize sought after.
Women teachers are better paid than they
ever were oefore, while responsible and pay
ing positions in the great retail houses are
filled up by members of the weaker sex.
There are 3,000 women physicians in the
country, each of whose incomes range all
the way from nothing to 520.000.
The commissionaire is another being who
makes money. If she has friends living in
the country, if she knows the valne of va
rious articles, if she is prompt, obliging.and
of the strictest integrity, she can be sure of
a good income by purchasing (on commis
sion) .goods of every description needed by
those who are unable to visit the city.
Another club for women is to be started in
West Ninth street. Among the ladies in
terested in the venture is Mrs. Pierpont
Morgan, so it is sure to have a good be
ginnlng.tThejinte&tion is to make it in many
respects like a man's dab. It is to have a
restaurant and bedrooms for the benefit of
; country mesbew; in fact, its chief patronage,
UPeta 'to eee kss me uner, xm
r A3.'
dues are to be 510 a year, and a membership
ot 500 is expected.
OTBEB SIDE 07 THE STOBY.
And yet! last Sunday the door of the
Fifth street police station opened, and a
pretty voung woman with tears in her eyes
fell on her knees before the desk.
"Please don't drive me out," she sobbed.
"I'm penniless and starving."
She was plainly, but neatly, dressed, and
in her arms was a wee baby. Sergeant
Welsing, a big-hearted man, leaped from his
seat and helped the pair to a chair. The
woman cave her name as Anna Menssen,
aged 26 years, and said her baby was 4
weeks old.
"I have been walking the streets all night
and this forenoon with my child," she said.
"I haven't tasted a mouthful of food since
Friday evening. I thonght I should have
to lie down in the street and die, but a
woman who passed me sitting on a step told
me to come here."
She came from Bremen to this country a
year ago, following the man who had asked
her to marry him. Not finding him, she
obtained employment as a domestic Soon
after she met a' young man named Louis
Menssen, with whom she fell in love and to
whom she became engaged. It was tho old,
old story. He disappeared.
She had beea an inmate of an infirmary
on Second avenue uritil the previous Tues
day, since which time she has been seeking
employment, 'but without success, finally
the last cent was gone and starvation stared
her in the face.
Sergeant Welsing notified the German So
ciety and the latter will take steps toward
having the mother and her child sent to her
home in Germany, it being claimed that she
still comes within the jurisdiction of the
Castle Garden authorities.
NO K0TI0N OP SHOOTIKG.
Tlie Arbuckle & Co. Well Still Booming and
Lnnd Owner at Fever Beat Farmers
Forgetting How to Farm.
The petroleum excitement in Stowe, Bob
inson and Moon townships is unabated.
About all the available territory around the
Arbuckle and Jamison well has been se
cured by Guffey & Co., Yandcrgrift and
Buchanan, and some people are kicking
themselves because they didn't catch on
sooner, and lease territory before the news
of the Arbuckle strike spread. Fortunes
might have been made re-leasing. The Ar
buckle and JamiBon well is still keeping
up her regular flow. An attempt was
made to agitate her on Thursday, bnt the
agitators gave it up after they were almost
drowned in grease. Some genius started a
story that the owners were intending to have
her shot that day, and a good many
people believed " the story, stupid as
it was. It would require tremendous
pressure to get a torpedo to the place where
it should go if she were to be shot, as her
throes are too vigorous, and they come too
often to allow the attempt It isn't likely
that anyone of brains would want to shoot a
well flowing as she is. They wouldn't risk
spoiling it. The flow varies from 20 to 40
barrels an hour, and the gas pressure shows
ao signs of diminution.
It was reported yesterday morning that
another strike had been . made on a farm
south of the Arbuckle, near the Fritch farm,
but th story did not materialize. The well
on the Diepp farm, on Montour run below
Swing's Mills, is still keeping up her aver
age. Further up the rnn two rigs are going
up, one on the Schmid and the other on the
Knopf farm. A well like the Diepp, in the
700-foot sand, which here is but a little over
1,400 feet down, is a good thing, as it costs
but little, comparatively, to drill it.
ftO'''"l'"a.iTi tlmtspction hasihffnjt.a,
low ebb for-scme years past, many farmers
having plared mortgages on farms left them
unincumbered by their parents, and it is
probable that if the oil fever keeps up a
year or two the present owners will entirely
forget how to farm.
Late last evening Mr. Jamison stated that
the well was making from 25 to 30 barrels
per hour.
TEGETABLES AS MEDICISE.
Various Garden Product Considered as Aids
to Digestion.
Are you a vegetarian, and do you want to
know what influence your favorite diet has
on tbe different parts of the machinery of
your body? If so, read what the Scientific
American says: "Spinach has a direct effect
upon the kidneys. The common dandelion,
used as greens, is excellent for' the same
troubles. .Asparagus purges the blood.
Celery acts admirably upon the nervous
system, and is helpful for rnnematism and
neuralgia. Tomatoes act upon the liver.
Beats and turnips are excellent appetizers.
Lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in their
effects upon the system.
Onions, garlic, leeks, plives and shallots,
all of which are similar,tpossess medicinal
virtues of a marked character, stimulating
the circulatory system and the consequent
increase of the saliva and the gastric juice,
promoting digestion. Bed onions are an ex
cellent diuretic.andthewhiteones are recom
mended to be eaten raw as a remedy for in
somnia. They are tonia and nutritious.
A soup made from onions is regarded by the
French as an excellent restorative in debil
ity of digestion.
NO SHORTAGE OP GAS.
A Misconception of Some Contractors Ex
plained by a Philadelphia Official.
Philadelphia Gas stock reached 31i on
'Change yesterday, the lowest figure attained
since it was listed, mainly upon a misappre
hension. An official of the Philadelphia
states in this connection that Park Bros. &
Co., who have been supplying Shoenberger
&Co. with natural gas,on September lmade
a sub-contract with the Philadelphia Com
pany to supply Shoenberger & Co. with gas
for 60 days, and that that contract would
expire and had not been renewed.
The Philadelphia Company has an 8-foot
strip of land running to Murraysville, and
is at present substituting one large main
for several small ones, which necessitates
the shutting off of the gas supply at inter
vals. There seems to be but small founda
tion for the alarming rumors extant about
the failure of natural gas.
TO EXPAND TEEIE BUSINESS.
The Piitsbnrg Standard OH Company De
sires and Will Apply for m New Charter.
The Standard Oil Company, not the great
Standard Oil Company of America, bnt the
local company, will apply to Governor
Beaver for an amendment to its original
charter, to the effect that the purposes for
which tbe corporation was established is the
manufacturing, illuminating and lubricat
ing oils, and all other products of petro
leum and packages for holding the same.
The original charter only gave it a right
to drill wells and produce oil; the amend
ment extends tbe right to putting it up in
packages and selling it
10 FEKD OFF DIPHTHERIA.
Lots or Onions and Drags to be Used by
School Children.
As a preventative of diphtheria the Fast
Liverpool Board of Health in a pronuncia
ment says that every child should wear sus
pended from the neck a little sack contain
ing equal proportions of gum camphor, gum
assafcetida and carbonate of ammonia, and
in addition should eat plentifully of onions.
The local Board of Health officials commend
the idea.
Beeciiah's Pills cure bilious and nervous ills
Pea&S' Soap secures a beautiful complexion
BiSatjn's Vegetable, Blood and Rheu
matic Bitters. purely vegetable and a sure
'cure for rheumatism. Sold by all druggists
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THE E00MS ASSIGNED.
Flans Showing the Assignment in the
Government Building
SENT TO WASHINGTON BY MAL0NE.
Everything Arranged for the Postofflce on
the First Floor.
WILL THE BOOMS EYEE BE OCCUPIED?
The rooms in the new Postoffice and Cus
tom House have all been assigned, and plans
showing the assignment were prepared yes
terday by Superintendent Malone, and sent
to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Department
The entire first floor will be occupied by
the postoffice. Tne-pnblio offices will fill the
square space in the center of the building,
and will be covered by a glass ceiling, ad
mitting abundant light to the clerks engaged
in the work of distributing and collecting
the mail. The letter drops will be just a few
feet to the right of the main entrance from
Smithfield street, and the lock boxes will
face the hall on the Third avenue side. The
general delivery windows, one for ladies and
the other for gentlemen, will tie at
the left of the entrance. The
ball will surround the postoffice
inclosure on the north, west and south sides.
On the outside of the halls are the offices to
be occupied by the general officials. The
large room in the sontbwest corner of the
building, the one now occupied by Superin
tendent Malone, will be devoted to the reg
istered letter department The Superin
tendent of Mails will be in the sontheast
corner, and jnst west of him will be the
rooms of the inquiry division. The Post
master will have a large, well furnished
room at the northeast corner of the build
ing, looking out on Fourth avenue and
Cherry alley. The assistant postmaster
and cashier will occupy comfortable rooms
next to the postmaster, on the Fourth ave
nue front The large room at the corner of
Smithfield street and Fonrth avenue will be
devoted to the money order department
P1ENTT OP ELEVATORS.
Four elevators, near the several corners
of the building, will connect the first with
the fifth floor. There will be stairways all
the way up ou the west, north and south
fronts. That part of the first floor facing
Cherry alley will be open to the reception
and discharge of mail bags from the train
wagons.
The second floor will contain the offices of
the Custom House, Internal Revenue Col
lector and Pension Agency. The treneral
office of the Collector ot Customs will be in
the southwest corner. Passing along the
south ball there are commodious rooms de
voted to theinspectors of customs and to the
storage of pension documents, and in the
sontheast corner the large room will be for
the payment of pensions to soldiers. Next
to that, on the Cherry alley side, is the
office where widows and children will be
paid. Then comes a mailing room for the
pension agency and a room lor the lady
clerks. The northeast corner will be al
lotted to the sale of wholesale liquor deal
ers' stamps and the receipt of rectifiers' tax.
The Collector of Internal Bevenue will have
his general business office ou the Fourth
avenue side, with a private office opening
from the general office. The public office
for the sale of tobacco, beer and special
8tsopS-tfMhe4nternal revenue will- ccupy
the room in the northwest comer- Two rooms
on the Smithfield street front are assigned to
the customs and marine clerks and the
deputies of the Collector of InternaLBev
enue. COUBTS OS THE THXBD FLOOR.
Of course, above the first floor the central
area is vacant, being simply an immense
light shaft, around which run the halls.
The offices lie outside of the halls as in the
county Court House. The United States
Courts occupy the third floor, the two large
courtrooms, for Circnit and District, front
ing one on Fonrth avenue and the other on
Third avenue. Connecting with them are
private rooms for the judges. The south
west corner of the floor will be for the Clerk
of the Circuit Court and Commissioner. The
Clerk of the District Court and the Com
missioner will occupy the northwest corner,
the law library the northeast corner and the
United States Marshal the southeast corner.
On the Cherry alley side two large rooms
will be allotted to the United States District
Attorney.
Then comesthe fourth floor.. United States
Engineer J. W. Arras will have the south
west corner. Off the south hall will be the
grand jury rooms and petit jury rooms, with
a room for witnesses before tthe grand jury.
There will be petit jury and model rooms
in the middle of the north Bide. The special
examiner of the Treasury Department will
have the southeast corner, and just north of
that will be the special agent of the Treas
ury, B. D. Layton.
A BOOM TOE THE SUBQEOXS.
Next, north, on the east front, is the room
of the Pittsburg Board of Examining Sur
geons, now composed of J. E. "Wilson, J.
A. Phillips and George Gladden. The
Secret Service will be given two rooms at
the northeast corner. The northwest corner
and one room on the west front are for the
Signal Service, while the other west front
room is to be given up to the surgeon of the
Marine Hospital.
Few of the rooms on the fifth floor have
been assigned. Most of them will not be
finished off at once. They are transected by
girders and connecting rods. Three rooms
on the Cherry alley front will be finished off
for qniet and' secluded sleeping rooms for
the employes of the Bailway Mail Service.
The boiler and hall inspectors will have a
room in the southwest corner of the build
ing. "Word has been received by Superintend
ent Malone that another cargo of Maine
granite was safely unloaded at Baltimore
last Monday. It is expected to arrive here
by the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad to
morrow or Monday. This is probably the
last cargo which will be received this fall.
The work of raising and laying stones on
the fifth floor was begun yesterday morning,
under the supervision of Mr. W. F. John
son. TBE CAE TROUBLE SETTLED.
Coal Operators Will be Famished With
Fitubarg nnd "Westerns.
A conference between General Manager
McDonald, of the Pittsburg and "Western
Bailroad, and a number of Baltimore and
Ohio coal operators was held yeiterday.
The trouble about loading Pittsburg and
"Western cars on the Baltimore and Ohio
was settled. An agreement was made to
the effect that tbe Pittsburg and "Western
will furnish their bars, which must only be
loaded for points on their own line.
LOCAL CASE8 TO BE HEARD.
Next Monday the Supreme Court "Will
Adjudicate Allegheny Appeals.
"Next Monday the Supreme Court will be
gin to hear arguments on cases appealed to
that court from the Allegheny count courts.
In all there are 161 cases, 143 new cases,
and 8 remaining from last year's list Quite
a nnmber of the city of Pittsburg cases will
be heard, among them the Hartupee case,
paving of Craig street; the incorporation
ofWilkinsburgand the suit of Profhono
tary Bradley against the city of Pittsburg.
MBS. ADMIRAL DAIILGKEU:
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PACTS GLEANED IN ENGLAND.
Dr. Donehoo Makes Hla Beport oa the Col
lege for the Blind Caring for the Sight
less In Saxony.
The second annual report of the directors
of the "Western Pennsylvania Institution for
the Blind was issued yesterday. Dr. E. B.
Donehoo gives a lengthy report of his visit
to the Boyal Normal College for the Blind
in England. In his report Mr. Donehoo
states these facts were gleaned in England:
Ont of 389 persons trained iu tho blind schools
ot Great Britain, only 165 were trying to earn
their living In occupations taught them in
public institutions. Out of 1,257 blind men
taught trades In institutions, only 734 continued
to pursue their trade, many of these earning
tbe scantiest living. The excellent system pur
sued in the Norwood Schopl, whereby every
pupil sent forth is located, it at all worthy of
assistance, and then watched over and cared
for by his friends within the college, has re
sulted in rendering them far more prosperous
than any similar nnmber of pupils from any
other school for tbe blind In the world. A care
ful record Is kept of every pupil sent forth;
in every possible case a situation Is secured be
fore tbe pupil is dismissed and a constant com
munication is maintained between tbe one
thus provided for and tbe school to which be
or she is indebted for their training. Last year
tbe reports from the graduates of this college
show that the earnings of '100 in tbe pursuits
for which tbey bad been fitted amounted to the
sum of 60,000. And this occurred at a time
when a commission appointed by Parliament
to inquire into the condition of the blind in
Great Britain had just discovered that out of
6,843 blind persons with whom -they had estab
lished correspondence, 4,605 reported that tbey
were unable to maintain themselves without
charitable assistance. "Only 959 state that they
can support themselves, while 8,282 say that
they can earn nothing at all for themselves.
The kingdom of Saxony is the only country
in tbe world where anything in tbe form of an
oversight is exercised over tbe blind, alter tbey
have passed out of tbe schools where tbey bad
been educated. There, a system known as tbe
"Fursorge system." is in successful operation,
by means of which those whose official duty it
is to attend to the matter, are kept In contact
with the dally life of all the blind who require
their care. The blind are statedly visited in
their homes, assisted in all thei struggles, and
In the sale of the goods which they manufac
ture. A guardian with whom they are famil
iarly acquainted, and In wnom they have confi
dence, in designated to advise with them, exer
cise a friendly supervision over them, and pro
tect them from unjust imposition on tha part
of any who might seek to take advantage of
their infirmity.
STUDIED THE STAES PEOPITABLT.
Practical Lessons In Astronomy on tbe Fier
at Spirit Lake.
It was at Spirit Lake at the very limit of
the pier, says a descriptive writer in the
Omaha Republican. They were all alone.
There was no moon, bnt the stars were big
and bright and so full of self-conceit that
they looked at themselves in the water and
winked.
Far out a boat slid noiselessly along. In a
nearer boat a fair tenor voice carelessly half
hummed, half sang a common love song.
From the hotel came now and then the
twang of the strings of the orchestra of man
dolins. On such a night as this did Dido
stand upon the wild sea bank and wave her
love to come again to Carthage. On such a
night as this did Jessica but a truce to the
bard!
It was the sort of a night on which a man
could make love to his own wife and those
two, Edouard and Alicia, had not yet be
spoken their tender vows.
"Do you know anything about the
stars?" inquired Edouard, iu a voice like
the murmur of the wind in summer trees.
"A little," answered Alicia tenderly. "1
know some of the great constellations the
Great Bear the"
"Yes," interrupted Edouard, "I know all
about tbe bier bear and I. can find the North
rStarbutrigliluvw here is a group. Do yon
snow tne name ot tnat" ana Jdouara
threw his arm across Alicia's shoulder and
pointed to a cluster of shining worlds in the
East
Alicia leaned toward him. "I don't know
what that is," she breathed as one who did
not care.
"And there is another constellation just
over our heads!" Edouard passed his arm
around her neck, and placing - his hand
under ber chin, so tilted it that it would be
easy for her to see.
And then to Alicia's eyes the heavens be
came one grand carnival of constellations.
Shooting stars chased each other athwart
the firmament, comets played riotous
games among the planets, and finally there
came a solt and radiant blur which hid them
all.
Edouard had kissed Alicia.
THE BARITI OF CHRISTIAS CHAE1TI
Illnairated by a Touching Scene Oatslde a
Fashionable Church.
New York Sun.
Bather a touching illustration of the
moctery of human charity occurred a few
afternoons since during the convention at
the Broadway Tabernacle, it was a cold and
blustering day, and the Solons of the
church, as well as the directors of the mis
sionary societies, who disburse large sums
of money in varions quarters of the earth,
had been in council all the afternoon. As
they hied out in the street they were a
snug and healthy looking lot of men.
Crouching along by the railing which sur
rounds the church, where .the crowds of cler
gymen were almost obliged to brush against
her to pass by, was a woman of perhaps 30
years nursing an infant at ber breast
She had scarcely enough clothes on for de
cency's sake, and her face was pinched with
hunger and privation. The child looked
sickly. The wind blew her scant drapery
around her, and her shawl was wound
around the child to keep it warm. The
clergymen passed her by to a man; not one
stopped to say a word nor to bestow a penny
upon the unfortunate woman, and long after
the church was locked she continued to sit
there, until the police Bent her on.
SCHENLEI PROPERTY FOR BALE.
The Oakland Plot to be marketed Because
Sirs. Scbenley Objects to Taxation.
It is now definitely stated that tbe part of
the Schenley estate lying between the Belle-field-
School and the Bellefieid Church, on
the left of Fifth avenue, going out, is to be
put on the market for sale within a month.
Messrs. Carnahan and Torrens have gone
to Europe to consult with Mrs. Schenley,
not only in regard to the sale of this piece
of property, but also to endeavor to make
the entire Schenley property in this city
purchasable. A gentleman familiar with
the matter said yesterday that the Oakland
plot has already been laid out in lots, and
that it is sure to be placed on the market.
Mrs. Schenley's reason for selling is that
she is displeased at the manner in which her
assessment was increased not long ago.
TOUNG BUT A HUSTLER.
The Extent of the Thomson-Houston
Elee-
trie Company Given In Detail.
A gentleman, who Is said to be thoroughly
acquainted with the business the Thomson
Houston Electric Company has done, said
yesterday: "The Thomson-Houston Com
pany has 170 central stations, 90 direct cur
rent plants, with a total of 110,000 incan
descent lamps. The Pittsburg Company
has 251 central stations, and a total of 420,
000 lamps, and it is the youngest corpora
tion in the electrical business."
See James H. Aiken & Co.'s neckwear
display, 100 Filth ave.
The pleasarrtest and most wholesome
drink is F. & V.'s Pilsner beer.
CAPITAL kM LAB0B, S2$? rTt
tradei uniorl to both, form the theme ofanar
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RIVALRY FOR PLACE.
Too Many Want to Serve on the Pan
American Eeception Committee.
DISAPPOINTED ONES FEEL SORE.
The Ruling Question Now is, Shall the
ladies be Admitted?
0PINI0KS DIFFER AS TO rEOPBIETI
There is considerable dissatisfaction and
grumbling by prominent citizens all over
the city on account of not being placed upon
the Beception Committee to receive the Pan
American delegates. The distinguished
representatives will arrive in the city on the
evening of Wednesday, November G On
Thursday and Friday evenings a full dress
reception will be tendered them at the Mo
nongahela House, and there is considerable
kicking being done for places on the com
mittee. A meeting of tbe reception committee
will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in
the Chamber of Commerce. A call has been
sent out by President "W. E. Schmertz, who
has appointed between 50 and 60 representa
tive Pittsburgers to places on the committee.
The committee will be composed of tbe
Mayors of the two cities, all the county
Judges and the prominent iron and steel
manufacturers. It was first intended to
have every industry represented, but it was
found that this would make the committee
too large, and the idea was abandoned.
DIDN'T X.1WJ5 TO BE IiEFT.
"When the list of names was announced
there was considerable agitation among
those who had not been put on. In speaking
of the matter yesterday afternoon, President
Schmertz said:
"It was impossible to" get every person
who wanted a place a position on the com
mittee, and many names were stricken off. I
have been bothered to death by well-known
people who wanted a place of honor, bnt I
could not accommodate them. There is con
siderable dissatisfaction in consequence
among those who were left off. They could
not be put on for the simple reason that
there are too many of 'them. I have re
stricted tbe committer to the' Mayors,
County Judees, members of the Chamber of
Commerce and iron manufacturers. We do
not wish to make the reception too general,
as it would lose much of its flavor.
A KICK ABOUT THE LADIES.
"The meeting to-morrow afternoon is for
the sole purpose of discussing the advisa
bility of having our wives and daughters
present at the reception. I think it is a
good idea, but others do not hold the same
view, and want to exclude the ladies. I
think the proper thing will be a full dress
reception in order to show that we ean re
ceive the visitors in the best possible style."
The Committee on Mechanical Exhibits
held another meeting yesterday in Machin
ery Hall, at the Exposition, and allotted the
space to tbe exhibitors. The Westinghouse
interests have secured half of one side of the
building to show their products. A letter
was read from the Philadelphia Company to
the effect that the natural gas display in the
Allegheny river would surpass anything
ever seen in this country.
Prof. J. A. Brashear, the noted astrono
mer, has also applied for space. He will
exhibit all bis astronomical instruments and
have his workshop in operation. The Pitts
burer Beduction Company will also make an
interesting display OfXthftlhigh-classnataU.
aluminum.
NAVIGABLE FOR SHINGLES.
For n Real Rest From the Cares of Life
Take a Boat Ride to Chanters.
The letting the water out of the dam has
played the deuce with the Pittsburg and
Chartiers Packet Company. Yenus poked
her nose into the mouth of Chartiers creek
the night the wickets went down and she is
there yet The last rise in the Chartiers left
a bar just outside where the Yenus was
anchored and she is imprisoned and will be
until the dam is raised or there is a rise in
the river. Meantime her consort the
Venice, picks her way in a sort of a depre
catory apologetic manner among the holes
left by the sand dredgers.
The company's whar'boatat Chartiers has
its back up. It is lying across a bar and it
looks as though there would be abdominal
trouble when the water rises again. If yon
are not in a hurry a trip by water to
Chartiers is a restful experience nowadays.
HIS WAIKESBDRG RECORD.
Mr. Raymond Seems to Have Been a Real
Bad Man.
Inspector McAleese yesterday received a
letter from Bnrgess Dickie, of Waynesbnrg,
stating that John Raymond, in jail here for
the burglary at the American House, came
to Waynesbnrg during the county fair, a few
weeks ago, and opened a combination fake
female walkine match and gambling outfit.
He robbed the guests at one hotel, and
then changed to another, where numerous
petty thefts occurred. The walking females
were arrested and sent ont of town, and Ray
mond was finally drummed out of the place
also. The authorities did not arrest him be
cause they had no evidence against him, but
the identification of the Hodge checks and
some olherrticIes found on Kennedy, the
matter is cleared up, and they have abun
dant evidence to convict him.
. SMITH TAKES EXCEPTIONS.
He Says the Relief Association Benefits
Brakemen.
R, F. Smith, manager of the Cleveland
and Pittsburg road at Cleveland, and one of
the officers of the Pennsylvania Company
Belief Association, takes exceptions to the
remarks of Grand Master Wilkinson of the
Brotherhood of Brakemen, at the latter's
convention in Minneapolis.
The remarks were to the effect that the
Belief Association was of no benefit to the
brakemen, which Mr. Smith denies. He says
tbe membership of the association will reach
8,000 by January 1.
Carlisle is Not Worried.
The case of Alderman Carlisle- for over
charging will be argued shortly. The jury
found a verdict in the case of $50 for the
plaintiffs, subject to a decision of the Court
determining whether the hearings were
criminal or civil. He was not "found
guilty," as reported. The case against him
was a civil one.
Appetite is generally restored to deli
cate children by the use ot Dr. D. Jayne's
Tonic "Vermifuge; and not only an appetite,
but strength and vigor as well. Sold by all
druggists.
Don't Lose
The advantage given by Anfrecht's Elite
Gallery club tickets offered until November
1. Only a few days lett 616 Market street
Bitter Wine of Iron ,
A nerve tissue food and enricher of the
blood; pint bottle 60c, at Fleming's Drug
Store, 112 Market street TTSSu
Men's gloves, hosiery and nnderwear at
James H. Aiken & Co.'s, 100 Fifth ave.
F. &,Y.'3lron City beer is unrivaled.
Connoisseurs pronounce it so.
LOVERS OF THE WEED 'sfel
Eastern countries are described in (o-morrvuti
Dispatch bii JrrankJj Carpenter,
NOW FIBST
A Tale of -
Author of "Under Drake's Flag,"
ALL SIGHTS
CHaPTEE XX Cleaeed A Last.
Reginald Carne was laid down on the
table in the gardener's cottage. The,doctor
could now examine blm, and whispered to
the cl ergy m an that both bis I egs were broken,
and that he had no donbt whatever he had
received terrible internalinjnries. "I don't
think he will live till morning."
Presently there was a knock at the door.
"Can I come in?" Mr. Yolkes asked, when
the doctor opened it "I have known the
poor fellow from the time that he was a
child. Is he sensible?"
"He is sensible in a way," the doctor said.
"That is, I believe he knows perfectly well
what we are saying, but he has several times
laughed that strange cunning langh that is
almost peculiar to the insane."
"Well, at any rate, I will speak to him,"
said Mr. Yolkes.
"Do yon know me, Reginald?" he went
on in a clear voice as he came up to the side
of the table. Reginald Carne nodded and
again a low, mocking laugh came from his
lips. "You thought you were very clever,
Yolkes, mighty clever, but I tricked you."
"Yon tricked me, did you?" the. magis
trate said, cheerfully. "How did you trick
me?"
"You thougbt, and they all thought, the
dull-headed fools, that Ronald Mervyn
killed Margaret Ho! ho! I cheated yon
all nicely."
A glance of surprise passed between his
listeners. Mr. Yolkes signed to the others
not to speak, and then went on:
"So be did, Beginald, so be did though
we couldn't prove it; you did not trick us
there."
"I did," Beginald Came said angrily. "I
killed her myself."
An exclamation of horror broke from the
three listeners. Mr. Yolkes was tjhe first to
recover uimseu.
I TELL YOTJ IT'S ALL OTEE, TOTJ
''Nonsense, Beginald, yon are dreaming.
"I am not'' he said vehemently, "I had
thought it all out over and over again. I
was always thinking of it I wanted to put
an end to this Curse. It's been going on
too long, and it troubled me. X had made
up my mind to kill her long before, bnt X
might not nave done it then it X had not
.heard. my cousin Ronald threatening her.
and another man heard it, too. This was a
grand opportunity, you see. It was as
much as I could do to sit quietly at dinner
with that naval fellow, and to know that it
was all right If was glorious, for it would
be killing two birds with one stone. X
wanted to get rid of Bonald as much as I
did of her, so that the Cnrse might come to
an end, nnd now it was all so easy. I had
only to drop the glove he had left behind
him on the grass close below her window,
and alter that quarrel he would be suspected
and hung. Nothing could have worked
better for me; and then, too. I thought it
wonld puzzle them to give them another
scent to work on. There was another man
had a grudge against Margaret; that was
Forrester, the poacher. I had picked np
bis Knue in tne wood just wneronenad
killed my keeper, and nfterward X heard
him telling his sweetheart who was Mar
garet's maid, that he would kill'Margaret
for persuading her to give him up; so I
dropped the knife by the side of the bed,
and I thought that one or other of them
would be sure to be banged; but somehow
that didn't come right. X believe tbe girl
hid the knife, only I didn't dare. question
her about it Bnt that didn't matter; the
fellow would be hanged one way or the other
for killing my keeper. But tbe other was
the glorious thing, and X chuckled over it
It was hard to look calm and grave when X
was giving evidence against Ronald, and
when all the fools were thinking that he
did it, when it was me all tbe time. Didn't
I do it cleverly, Volkes? I hid her
things where the gardener was sure to
find them the first time he dug up the bed.
They let Bonald off, but he will not come
back again, and I don't suppose will ever
marry; so there is an end of the Cnrse as
far as he's concerned. Then I waited a bit,
but the devil was always at my elbow, tell
ing me to finish the good work, and last
night X did it I put tne candle to the cur
tains in all tbe rooms downstairs, and stood
and watched them ,blaze np until it got too
hot to stay any longer. It was a grand
sight, and I could hear the Spanish woman
laughing and shouting. She has had her
way with us for a long time, but now it's all
over; the Curse of the Carnes is plaved out
There, didn't I cheat you nicely, Yolkes,
you and all the others? You never sus-
pected me, not one of you. I used to keep
grave all day, but at night when! was In
my room alone I laughed lor hours to think
of all the dogs on the wrong scent"
His three listeners looked at each other
silently.
"It was a crand thing to put an end to
the Curse," EeginaldCarne rambled on. "It,
was no pain to ner; auu n sue naa uvea tne
troubles would have come upon her chiK
dren."
"You know that you are hurt beyond
chance of recovery, Carne," the magistrate
said, gravely. "It is a tenibletorythat
you have told us. I think that you ought
to put it downon paper, so that other' people
may know bow it was done; because, you
see, at present an innocent man is sus
pected." x ' f
"What do I care? That is nothing to me
one way or the other. lam glad I have suc
ceeded in frightening Bonald Mervyn away,
and I hone that he will sever come back
'again. Yon don't suppose I am going to
Mr. Yolkes saw that he had made a mis
take. "Yes, I quite understand you don't
want him backi" he said soothingly. I'l.
thought,, perhaps, that you would like peo-j
pie to know how you had sacrificed your-'
self to put an end to tbe Curse,.and tew
cleverly you had managed to deeive every
nne. Peenle would'nevenbelieve- us If we
were to feltftbek. tfhey wtodi 17 (-
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that you did not know what you were talk
ing about, or that it was empty boast on
your part."
They may think what they like," h
said, sullenly, "itis nothing to me what they
think."
There was a change in tbe tone of his voice
that canted the doctor to put bis hand oa
his wrist again.
Viet me give you a few drops more of
brandy, Carne."
"No, Twill not," the dying man sal . fl
suppose.you want to keepme alive to get
some more out of me, btit you won't; Ity
won't speak again." ?:
- The others held a whispered conversation
in the corner.
"He is going fast," the doctor said. "It
is a marvel that his voice is as strong as it
is. He certainly won't live till morning.
It is likely he maydie within an hour."
"I will ask him another question or two,"
Mr. Yolkes said. "II we could but get
something to corroborate his story it would
be invaluable."
But Beginald Carne spoke no more.
He heard what was said to him, for he
laughed the same malicious laugh that had
thrilled the crowd as he stood on the para
pet, bnt it was low and feeble now. In
hopes that he might yet change his mind,
Mr. Yolkes and the clergyman remained
with Dr. Arrowsmith for another hour. At
the end of that time Beginald Carne
startled them by speaking again, clearly
and distinctly:
"I tell you it's all over, you witch; yoa
have done ui harm enough, but I have
beaten you. It was you against me, and 'I
have won. There-is nothing more forydu
to do here and you can go to your place.
Game's Hold is down and the Curse Is
broken."
As he ceased speaking the doctor moved
quietly up to the side of the stretcher, pat
his finger on the wrist and stood there tern
minute, then he bent down and listened. -.
"He is gone," he said, "the poor fellow.is
WITCHJ t HAVE ABATES TOB.
dead." The three gentlemen went outside
the cottage; some of the people were stand
ing near waiting for the newsof'Keclaald
Carne's state. "Mr. Carne has just died,"
the doctor said, .as he went up to them.
"Will one of you find Mrs. Wileea and tell'
her to bring another woman with her and
see to him. In the morning X will make ar-.
rangementsto have hint taken down to the
village." "What do you think we had better do 1
about this, X)n Arrowsaith?" Mr. Yolkes
asked as he rejoined them. "Do you be- -
lieve this story?"
"Unquestionably I do," the doctor n-'
plied. "Ibelleve every word of it"' '
"But the man was mad, doctor;"
"Yes, he was mad and has beea so fa" a
long time in my opinion, bnt that makes no
difference whatever in my confidence that
he was speaking truly: Confessions of (hJ
kidd from & madman are generally true;
their cunning; is prodigious, and as losg as
they Wish to conceal a fact it is next to im
possible to get it from them, bat when, as in
tbe present case, tbey are proud of their
cleverness and of tbe success with whleh.
they have fooled other people, they will tell '
everything. You see their ideas of right "
ana wrong are entirely upset; tne real
lunatic is unconscious ot having eosEsitted
a crime, and is inclined eves to glenr
in it." ,;
"I wish -we could, have got his to sign," .
the magistrate said. .
"X am sure he could sot have
held the pen," Dr. Arrowsaith re
plied. "I will certify to that efleet,
and as we three all heard the eeafesstea,
I think that U you draw it ont and we stes it
as witnesses, it will have just as good aa exeat
as if lie bad written it himself."
"There was one part, doctor, that surprised
me even more than tbe rest tsat waa tea part
relatingto tbe man .Forrester. I don't beSeve
a soul suspected turn ot being in any way ee
nected with the crime. At least we beard
nothing of a knife being found, nor, of coarse,
thequarrel between Forrester aad tbe eld.
Ruth Powlett, was it not!"
"No, that Is all new to us," tha doetor ssii
"I think tbe best way would be to see ber ta
the morning, Sbe may sot like to oenfew that ,.
she concealed tbe knife, if the did to. Ot
course, if she does, It will be in iBTsJaaUe oea
firmation of this story, and will taoweeseta
sively that bis confession was not a mere data
slon of a madman's brain."
"Yes, indeed." tbe doctor agreed, "that
would clench the matter altoeetber, aad 1
should notfte surprised If, you And teat what
be has said is true. The art was la my baa a
short time before Miss Carne'r dsath. Thtr -saIdtbatsnehadnadafall,Btto
my salad ft '
seemed more like a seTere mental shook. Taea
after Miss Carne's death saewu vary ii! agate, .
and th ere waa something about ber tfeat sasateel
me a good deal. For Instance, she Instated up
on remaining in court until Uie verdiet mi
given, and that at 'a time when she was bo JK
sbecouldscarcelrttaad. She wae so oDstiaMa
over the matter that it completely pasalod ae
but if wbat Carne said was tree, and she ad
the knowledge of sometaint? that would hava
gone very far to prore Ronald Mervyn' teaa
cence, tbe matter is explained. Tbe onlj (UsS
culty before us is to get her to speak, because, at
course, she cannot do so, without laylag hatasM
open to A' charge I don't nvsan a oriadasi
charge, but a moral one of having Mis
pressed evidence In a manner that coDceread a
man's life. I think that tbe, best utea will be far
us to meet at tour bouse; Mr. votkes, at a
o'clock to-morrow. I win go lato tbe vBteM
before that, and win brloeBata Powlett up 1st
mv eie. an dtf vou Will allow dm. I wiB do tfce
talking to her, I have bad herairoodiiesJl
my hands for the last ;Mr,adI think feat ska
has confidence in me, aad wUl perhaps answer
me more freely than she woaM je-u usawsv
trate." , f
"Very likely she would, doetat'. Lei tfeo ar
rangement stand as yoa propose."
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drove up in bfe gig tolke: sail!. Retk aatse te
the door.
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bonnet aad shawl, and let bm drive yea a sMtc
distance, i nave setaetBiac parswatar saat x
want to talk to jo abefet I waat to drive yea
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