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Three College Football Teams Train-
in? for the Championship.
fA POPULAR SPORT IN AMERICA.
IJHow the Game Has Been Modified in the
Last Few Tears.
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OOTBALL is
fast becominc
one of the most
popular of
A in e r i c a o
snorts. I say
"American"
because, al
tho ugh the
game is of En
glish origin, it
has been so im
proved and
changed since it was taken op by our col
leges that to-day it bears but little likeness
to the original rough-and-tumble sport of
onr cousins across the water. As played at
present by the Intercollegiate league of this
country, it is primarily a game of science.
A man to'be a jjood football player must
nowadays be gifted with brains as well as
muscle and endurance. Mere brute strength
has had to give way to skill. A combina
tion of both, together with a cool head and
much activity, makes the ideal player.
All of these Qualifications are so rarely
fouud in one individnal that the list of the
really great football men is necessarily a
very short one. They might almost be
counted on the fingers of one hand. But if
there are so few really perfect players, there
are mauv who are very" nearly periect, and
their ranks are being recruited year by year,
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as young America is awakening to a fuller
knowledge of this most glorious of all field
sports.
As the great public becomes better ac
quainted with the game and its rules it
naturally increases in popularity. Indeed,
there are some enthusiastic football lovers
who contend that the day is not far distant
when the game will have an equal place in
the people's affections with the national
pastime of baseball itself. Perhaps this is
going a little too far, bnt certain it is that a
good game of football .will Attract every bit
SS fc;g-2L.ctDwd-i ven now as a baseball match.
So far the patrons ot the football matches
are mostly confined to college men and their
friends. One sees a better class of persons
at the football games than at baseball'
matches. Bnt once let the great public
learn that a good game of football is the
most exciting of all sports to the spectator
as well as to the player, and the patronage
will gladden the hearts of the recipients of
the gate money.
A. COLLEGE GAME.
"With the exception of one eleven all the
great lootball teams are to be found in the
colleges. It is distinctively a college tfaine
so far. Even the teams outside of the col
leges are almost if not entirely made up of
the alumni of the'great institutions of learn
ing. They learned to play the game at
college, and they have been at it ever since.
The big athletic clubs all have football
elevens, but they cannot compare with the
college men. This is continually being
demonstrated in the matches between the
athletic club men and the others. The
scores nearly always show that the athletes
have failed to make a single point in the
game. u
This is nearly wholly due to the superior
opportunities for team practice enjoyed by
the collegians. For months they practice
together, day after day, until they learn all
sorts of tricks and schemes which require
concerted action and which are tremendous
ly effective on the field. The same men
play vear after year, and until a week or so
ago the best players of the alumni were
pressed into service to strengthen the col
lege teams. This practice savored too much
of professionalism to suit the better class of
college men. and, on November 4 of this
year, the Intercollegiate Association, which
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represents all of the principal football play
ing colleges, passed a resolution tbat there
after no one should be eligible to play in
any championship games of the association
who is not a bona-fide student of the college
in whose team he plays.
Another rule, adopted by the Intercol
legiate Association at the meeting on No
vember 4, is that no professional athlete
shall tate part in any contest of the asso
ciation, nor shall any player of any uniyer
sity or college accept money for his play
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letic committee or college faculty.
The immediate effect of this was to rule
out one of the foremost football players of
the country "Wagenhurst, the great "Prince
ton rusher! It also frustrated the plan of
the Yale eleven to press into service for the
championship season three of the finest
player who ever fought for a goal
Beecher, Bull and Terry, now of the Cres
cent Club, of Brooklyn, which holds the
amateur championship outside of the col
leges. As for Harvard, her athletes have
always discouraged the employment of out
side men in college sports, and the rule had
no effect upon the formation of her eleven
to contest for the intercollegiate champion
ship of 1869.
TUB BUGBY GAME.
The Eugby game was introduced in
American colleges in 1876. Harvard was
the first of the colleges to take It up. At
tbat time 15 men composed a team, and
brute strength and endurance were the sole
requisites of the good player. Slugging was
not only allowed, bnt encouraged, and the
man who could do the most disabling of the
opposing team was looked upon as a fine
player.
In the early rears Tale and Princeton led
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the other colleges at the game. They had
hard slugging elevens and they rushed the
balls tbrouch the lines of their weaker or
more gentle opponents without mercy.
Harvard had never played so roughly, and
in consequence were lelt far behind by the
other two great football universities. It
was because of Harvard's attempt to forge
to the front again that the exceeding rough
ness of the sport was forever done away
with. The Cambridge University trained a
team of giants to meet Yale and Princeton
at their own game. They were all sluggers,
and when in 1883 they went to New Haven
to play the Yale eleven they were under in
structions to vanquish their opponents if
they had to disable every man who came
against them. They were to "slug" without
mercy.
Then it was that the Harvard faculty
woke to the impropriety of permitting their
students to deliberately go into a free fight.
They demanded that a player should be dis
qualified upon his first offense without any
warning. There was much grumbling over
this action of the faculty, and the game that
vear was played without warnings. The
immediate result was to almost entirely do
away with the objectionable "slugging."
This was such a marked improvement tftat
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in 1884 it was formally adopted as a part of
the laws of football. Since then everv trace
of slugging has been gradually eliminated
from the big college games.
More colleges are it king np the game
every year. Columbia College has this sea
son put an eleven in the field to contest for
the intercollegiate championship. The team
being a new one and rather light in the rush
line, of course can stand no chance against
uch trained players as Harvard, Yale and
Princeton have in the field; but the Colom
bia eleven is playing at every opportunity
and mnst constantly improve with practice,
so that by next year they may be able to
make a stubborn fight for the much-longed-for
championship.
CHAMPIONSHIP PBOBABILITIES.
It is hard to make any predictions as to
where victory will perch this year. All of
the three great football colleges have heavy,
well-trained and skillful elevens. Ther all
have an immense deal of the nerve, pluck
and coolness under exciting circumstances
which is best expressed by the peculiar
word "sand."
It will not be until afterthe great matches
Detween Yale and Princeton and Harvard
have been played that the relative merits of
the elevens will be decided. Experts agree
that the Princeton eleven has the greatest
number of fine individual players, and is
not lacking in all, that goes to make good
team work. There would seem to be, there
fore, no very good reason whv the Prince
ton men should not win the championship
this year. That they will outplay Harvard
no unbiased judge 'doubts for an instant,
but when one talks of Yale being' worsted
by the Princetons these same good judges
shakes their heads in a dubious way, and
say that "the precedents are against it."
Pour football experts out of five believe
that Yale is bound to win because she has
not lost a championship game for several
years I Tbis being the feeling, it is not
strange that the outcome of the champion
ship series should be watched with such ab
sorbing interest.
One novel innovation in the training of a
football team has been practiced at Prince
ton this year. On rainy days, when the
eleven cannot go out for practice, it has
been the custom of the captain to gather his
men together, and, arranging a number of
checkers on a board in the manner of op
posing teams, iorm ail sorts oi combinations
and quiz the different players as to what
action they would take 'Undersuch condi
tions. Their answers are open to discus
sion, and in this way many curious problems
of the football field" are worked out, only to
be tried in actual practice at the first good
opportunity.
A. CODE OF SIGNALS. '
New and improved systems of signaling
are also devised and practiced. So periect,
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in fact, has the signal system become that
whenever the captain of a team savs any
thing on the field, such as: "Now, Charlie,
play np!" or "Look out there, Harry!" tou
may take it for granted that he is giving
some pre-arranged signal for an important
move to one of his players, whom he appar
ently is not at the moment thinking of at all.
It is by the use of such tricks as these, and
by the well-planned maneuvers of the team
as a whole, that the great matches are won.
Muscle and weight and activity and "sand"
are still highly important factors, but
science is becoming more and more necessary
for work every day. The practice of "inter
fering," or, in other words, defending the
man who holds the ball by keeping those of
the other side away from him, is fast devel
oping into a science in itself.
"Whereas formerly if a man made a great
run with the ball he was entitled to nearly
if not quite tbe whole credit, nowadays such
brilliant plays are only possible because
every man in the eleven is working together
to protect the runner and to disconcert the
enemy. The ignorant spectators applaud
the runner still and look upon him as a very
wonderful fellow indeed, but the finer judges
have their eyes on the others who are
smoothing his way lor him and keeping off
tbe opponents tacKiers. xnat is where the
science and the trained team work always
tell. . -
It is hard to say who is the greatest foot
ball player in this country, as there are so
mauy who have-iecome famous in tbe vari
ous positions for which their physical or
mental qualifications 'best adapt them, but
it will not be making invidious distinctions
to mention particularly Oil, of Yale;
Cowan, of Princeton, and Harding, of Har
vard. YALE'S CAPTAIN.
Gill, who is captain of the Yale eleven,
is perhaps the most perfect all-round player.
He is a power in the rush line, is a superb
and wonderfully sure tackier, and his in
terfering is dreaded by all who come in con
tact with him. He comes nearer to being
an ideal player than any man in the coun
try. He is a fine general and a strict dis
ciplinarian a very necessary thing Jor the
leader of a football eleven. The captain of
n tpflm mnt h thi? snlft mnsfprnf ho fil1
and his commands mnst never be questioned
for an instant. He mnst be a man of ready
resources, and a strategist of no mean order.
Above all, he must be a man of even temper
and always "keep his head" under the most
exciting circumstances. Such a man is
Gill, the Yale eleven's captain, and if the
blue waves in victory this year it will be in
great part owing to him and his systematic
training of his men.
Cowan, of Princeton, is also a wonderful
player, and his place could not be easily
filled. He plays in the rush line, is 'a
magnificent tackier, and is second to
no one in hie interfering tactics. When he
is taking part in the defense of the man with
the ball it is pretty sure to be advanced con
siderably toward the enemy's goal. He is
cool, has a big supply of "sand" and knows
how to use his strength and activity to the
best advantage. Channing, of the Prince- I
ct
tons, is also a splendid player, and his work
as a half-back has been much admired. He
is known among college men as the coming
halt-back of the country. Avery interest
ing member of the Princeton eleven this
year is Edgar Allen Poe, the nephew of the
author ot "The Baven." He plays quarter
back for the team and is also captain. He
is the youngest captain of an eleven in the
Intercollegiate Association, but fills his
place admirably.
Harding, the end rush of the Harvard
eleven, is a giant in size, and, it is said, one
of the roughest players of the year. He is
greatly to be dreaded by any man who comes
into violent contact with htm. In the old
Eugby slugging games Harding would have
been in his element. As long as he keeps
his temper he is a formidable opponent; but
his adversaries are always glad to see him
on the Harvard eleven, because they think
he may sooner or later be rnled off "and so
cripple his team. As for the others of Har
vard's eleven, they are, as a rule, "dark
horses" to most people. Nobody will know
what they are good tor until the big matches
are played. n. A. Jennings.
ART NEWS AND NOTES.
A cbayon portrait of James Morrison, Sher
iff of Allegheny county, 100 years ago may bo
seen at Gillespie's.
AN etching by H. M. Rosenberg, after Miss
Jennie Brownscombe's painting entitled "Pre
paring the Bridal Veil,' Is Bhown in the Gilles
pie gallery.
A small painting, in oil color, the work of
Miss Jessie Moore, Is shown at Young's. The
style of the work is rather suggestive of its
being a copy, as it is much better iu conception
than execution.
AT Boyd's a fine picture of a well-known
resident of this city is exhibited, executed by
Mr. E. Farieon, a young and very talented
artist from. Ke w York and nephew of the au
thor, B. L. Farjeon, at present on a visit to this
city.
The picture known as 'Morning," by Carot,
was sold recently in New York for $700. At the
same time a work by -Diaz went for $725, and
one by Rico for J120. When works by theso
artists have been shown in Pittsbnrg thev have
been valued all the way from J1,0U0 to $10,0001
Can it be that the locality has something to do
with the price, or are New York buyers satis
fied with poorer works than those in this city
demand?
The description of art pottery known as Irish
billeck ware has become extremely popular re
cently, and is being extensively manufactured
in the United States. Tho American product
is fully equal to tbe foreign in quality, and the
designs and decorations are of a very similar
character. A distinguishing featuro of this
ware has been that the motives for decoration
havo so largely consisted of forms of life, both
animate and inanimate, from tbe bottom of the
sea. The plain ware is of a delicate, almost
creamy, white, slightly translucent, and In some
respects resembles the finer grades of china.
A perfect little gem of a painting, the work
of a Fittsbarg artist, may be seen at Mayer's.
It was executed T)y Mr. D. B. Walkley, and
will compare favorably with any of the foreign
works of the same class which have recently
been exhibited intbis city. This painting is at
once one of tho most vigorously handled and
most highly finished works that Mr. Walk
ley has yet produced. This picture is
named "The Mower," a title which
clearly indicates the character1 of the
work. In the immediate foreground is
seen tbe figure of a man busily engaged in
sharpening a scythe. This figure is unconven
tional as regards posture, and still more so
in the matter of costume, which fact is proba
bly attributable to the work having been exe
cuted directly from nature. In placs of the
customarv irarb of varying shades of brown.
this figure is depicted as wearing clothing of a
cool blue-gray tone of color, stained and
weather-beaten, a color that it is extremely
difficult to make harmonize with the various
tones of a landscape ; but tbis is a task which
Mr. Walkley has very successfully accom
plished. The landscape portion or the work
has been very effectively handled. It shows a
stretch of level meadow of a clear green color,
leading the eye into the distance, where its
tone is pleasantly contrasted with the darker
color ot a belt of trees. The sky in this picture
is a feature that deserves special notice on ac
count of its peculiar luminous quality and very
pleasing color. Near tbe horizon there appears
a bank of dark-toned clouds, uith a bright
streak showing beneath it, and the sky above
flooded with light. -Altogether it may be said
of this painting that it is not only one of -the
best of Mr. Wjlkley's works, but it is also one
of the best paintings which has been shown here
this season.
EVEitY production made by tbe hand of man
bears evidence of the mastery of mind over
matter, but in the graphic arts tbis fact may
observed moro readily than elsewhere. The
great disparity between tbe end attained and
the means employed, tbe immense gap filled by
tbe human mind, which brings form and color
out of chaos, and produces a thing of beauty
with the aid of the meanest materials, is here
more clearly apparent than in other work the
resnlt of human thought and endeavor. One
cannot contemplate the materials of art with
out becoming impressed with their comparative
worthlessness and insignificance. It wonld be
difficult to imagine anything less suggestive of
poetry or artistic expression than a sheet of
white paper and a stick of charcoal, and yet in
the hands of clever artist very wonderful
effects are produced with these simple mater
ials. Tbe very natural feeling common to un
cultivated minds tbat anything so expensive as
pictures mnst be made ot very rare materials
was stnnk.nzly illustrated by the ques
tion asKcu oy me countrymau wno. upon
being "told "that :a certain picture worth $2U0
was made Vith charcoal, inquired what they
made cheap pictures with. It is the same
throughout all tho graphic arts; but few of the
materials have any great value in themselves, a
noted exception is tbecolor known as agenuine
ultramarine which, being made rom tbe lapis
laznli is a somewhat expensive pigment, and
consequently one that is very seldom used. It
is worthy of note also tbat the artistic value of
the material bears but little relation to its
commercial worth, and some artists wonld
more readily dispense with this high-toned
prodnct than some of the colors made from the
most common earth", such as ochres and
umbers. But whatever may be the natnre of
the materials used in painting, they are re
duced to the same conditions, viz: tbat of a
fine powder, and applied in mixture with some
suitable medium such as oil and varnish for oil
color painting, and water, honey and several
varieties of gum for water-colors. However,
tho wonder is not that art works can bo pro
duced with commonplace materials, but that it
is possible to create such effects by any means
and with any material whatsoever, for in
view of the end sought to be at
tained, .all means alike seem feeble. Just
think lor a moment what a task it is that the
painter sets himself to "perform, to represent
upon the single fiat surface of bis paper or can
vas tbe combined effect of all the myriad dif
ferent surfaces and textures of nature as each
presents itself to his eye at a given moment of
time. Imagine for an instant the difficulty of
representing upon canvas the appearance of so
many different objects, not as we know them
to exist, but under many and varied conditions,
governed always by atmospheric effect and by
the laws under which we exercise our powers
of vision. In the power to which gives to one
portion of a single flat surface the appearance
of a tree or a flower close at hand, and causes
another portion of it to resemble a moun
tain many miles awav. there is something
as nearly akin to a new creation as it is possible
for man to produce. We are so accustomed to
seeing the wonderful effects which may be pro
duced with colors that we scarcely realize how
truly remarkable some of tnemare, and yet it
is certainly true that if some of us had never
sees these works, we could never believe that
such results were possible. Take the single in
stance of a representation of a pool of clear
Water, which affords a vie w of the ground be
neath it. Here the eye secures the impression
of two distinct surfaces that of the water
itself, and of the ground which it covers and
this impression is received by the eye resting
upon a third surface of a character totally
different from either of them. All things con
sidered, progress in art has been very great,
and the only cause for wonder lies in the fact
that such great results have been accomplished.
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Federal, Allegheny,
THE CITY-OF HOMES.
Philadelphia Residences Compared
With Those of Pittsburg.
HOUSES BUILT BY THE HUNDRED.
Neat and
Cosj Dwellings
Working Men.
Erected for
A BUSTLING AND WIDE-AWAKE C1TI
CwnrrntK foe the dispatch. I
In the matter of building dwelling houses
Philadelphia excels anything in this coun
try, excepting perhaps Kansas City. Houses
are built by the hundreds and sold as rapid
ly almost as they are finished, many long be
fore they are finished. The lot is generally
from 16 to 20 feet wide by 60 to 100 feet deep.
They are mostly built in long rows; some
times whole blocks. One man, William
Singerly, proprietor of the Record, started
to bnild 850 houses in one section of the city
several years ago, and he has probably ex
ceeded that nnmber. He bought a large
section, several squares of open ground
northwest of Broad and Norris streets. He
graded and paved all of the street and side
walks; had water and gas pipes laid, and
trees planted; had Diamond street opened
through Odd Fellows' Cemetery after a long
and hard fight; put up a planing and join
ing mill and made his own brick. These
houses were sold for from 53,000 to J7.000,
according to size and location.
The houses built in Philadelphia are very
different from those- in Pittsburg in many
respects. The parlor is longer, having two
bedrooms over it. The laundry is bacKof
the kitchen, with a hydrant at the door of
the laundry. The whole house is generally
heated from the cellar furnace through a
register in each room. In the cheaper
houses no room except the parlor has a man
tel, the rest having a shelf over the register.
Over the dining room and kitchen extends
the sitting room, which is the family room,
always light and airy. The front rooms
have a large, double walnut wardrobe built
into the wall haying often mirrors in the
doors, and a marble washstand in the center,
where a Pittsburg fireplace would be. It
sets the room off wonderfully. Some
have a mirror over this washstand, and none
in the wardrobe doors.
These conditions will be found in almost
every house in the many new operations.
Some divide the parlor by portieres or
sliding doors. The better class have a
large clothes press and linen closet on tbe
third floor. A great many have only one
large window in the parlor with a box of
vines or flowers under it. In West Phila
delphia many ot the houses have porches,
which makes them tar more popular, both
for renting and selling as it does
away with the very disagreeable habit
of sitting on the front door step
in the hot summer months
As there is not much back Ipt there is not
the usual amount of weeds and dead grass,
old vines and poles seen in most city lots.
Close fences of flooring boards usually sur
round each lot and the fences are always
painted when tbe house is. There is an al
ley between the rows of back lots of from
three to five feet, which has an outlet at
each end, and is always paved with brick.
NOT NEEDED IN PITTSBUBO.
Most houses have a coal bin in the cellar
at the front window. The cotl wagons are
all supplied with shut iron "shoot',"
through which the coal is run from the
wagon across tbe pavement into the bin in
the cellar without any dirt, excepting a
trifle of dust, which bIo"ws away. There is
no trouble in Philadelphia with great piles
of coal on the sidewalks unless it has to be
carried upstairs, which is done in baskets.
That is quite a trade in itself, and many a
poor fellow puts in a good winter with his
basket, shovel and broom by carrying coal
up several flights of stairs.
The city lets contracts by the year to take
away the ashes and garbage. Once 8 week
all of the dwelling part of the city (each
section has a particular day) turns out of
its cellars onto the sidewalks all sorts of de
luvian and anti-deluvian vessels filled with
the week's accumulation of ashes, old bot
tles and cellar "truck generally. While
twice a week tbe slop and garbage man
comes to the back gates and removes the
offal. Thus a large amount of cleanliness is
maintained. Pavements must be scrubbed
before 8 o'clock in the 'morning and after 7
in the evening. The sweeping of the pave
ments every morning includes the gutters,
ana sometimes to tbe middle of the streets
of course, tbis refers to the greater part of
the city. There are in every community
those who are natural born slovens, who are
a disgrace to themselves and an eye-sore to
their neighbors. They cannot be intimi
dated, shamed or suppressed.
Another custom is that as almost every
street has a horse car line on it, running
in one direction, all of the vehicles follow
the car, going their way, and woe to the
"hayseed" who drives against the stream.
Billingsgate is a mild language compared
with the one he learns that day, compiled
from the slang of every nation under the
sun. When he pulls out to one side, as the
tide goes past him, he becomes dazed at the
constant run of sarcasm he gets from each
driver. When a coal wagon backs np to a
curb and gets the shoots adjusted the driver
won't move even for a horse car until his
load is off, bat he can always hold his own
in the chaffing he gets.
The hucksters commence their discordant
cries quite early in the morning as they run
from door to door, crying their vegetables,
and ringing the door bells. They, too, are
proof against the salutes they get from the
girl who has just washed ofi her steps, when
she sees that her work has to be done oyer
again, as they have ruined the white steps
with their dirty feet. These huekstpra-anri
their cousins, the clothes-ringer men, the
old clothes, old hats and boots men, book
peddlers, male and female, coal and kindling
peddlers, insurance men, both life and fire,
sewing machine and lightning rod men,
make life in a Philadelphia house a weary
burden, by the constant ringing of the door
bell, and the persistent endeavors to excite
sympathy on the outside, and corresponding
efforts to suppress emotions of a different
kindmn the inside of the front door. The
welkin rings all day long with the many
cries of the perambulating tradesmen. In
these long rows of houses, built alike, many
strive to outdo their neighbors in the matter
of vines, flowers and singing birds, especially
in the back premises, which really makes
the backs of the houses, looking out over
the neighboring lots, by far the pleasantest
part The sitting room, being always over
the dining room, kitchen, and sometimes
wash house, is rendered very pleasant, es
pecially in tne summer, Dy these arbored
outlooks.
EAST TEANSPOETATION.
The many street car lines, running north
on one street and south on the next, make
locomotion not very difficult, and the fare of
S cents on the main line, with 2 or 3 cents
extra for a transfer into a bisecting line,
makes transportation cheap and enables the
great mass of work people to live away from
tbe bnsy part of thecity at a small daily cost.
The Pennsylvania, the Beading (two de
pots), the Korth Pennsylvania, the Schuyl
kill Valley, the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroads, together with the Jersey railroads
connected with the city by a dozen ferries,
afford a vast outlet from the city, which is
being more availed of every year, for it has
only been of recent years that Philadel
pbians could be induced to live far from the
city, as her streets are always moderately
clean and the surroundings of city life very
pleasant. ' '
The general appearance of cleanliness in
Philadelphia is often tbe subject of ridicule
by many who live in very dirty cities them
selves, and who affect to know what thev are
talking about. The long rows of red Dries:
houses with white window shutters and
white marble steps, with green trees, clean
red brick pavements and swept cobblestones
in front of them, are an unpleasant sight to
many who live in unpainted houses at home.
With all her cleanliness, the residents are
constantly complaining about the dirty
streets if two or three weeks shonld happen
to go around withont their streets being
swept. Why, there is one avenue in Pitts
burg Fourth avenue her Wall street,
which the brokers say has not been cleaned
for four years. On it is her Oil Exchange,
new postoffice, many banks, insurance and
brokers' offices, ai well as most of her real
estate offices, which draw a multitude of
people every day; and yet there is probably
no dirtier street in the Union.
Pittsburg apparently has no contract let
to keep the streets clean or to hanl away
either ashes or garbage. Each citizen pays
for that himself, in addition to his multi
tude of other taxes. The tax rate in Phila
delphia is less, if anything, than that of
Pittsburg, and yet she keeps her streets
clean, keeps her sanitation in good condi
tion, her ashes and slops removed, and has
money left to build a large Court House
and keep the park going beside. The peo
ple of Philadelphia growl continually at
everything that is done or not don in the
matter of administration of the city's busi
ness. Once in a while thev assert their pre
rogative and elect the opposition ticket;
but one term generally satisfies them that
the ways of parties are various, but they all
lead to the same place the pockets of the
people.
AN TOWABBANTED SNEEE.
It has been the habit of many persons,
many newspaper people especially, to sneer
at Philadelphia's sleepiness her old logy
ism and general deadness and inactivity.
Did such critics ever go over the district be
tween the rivers.from Callowhill to Market,
or between Fifth street and the Delaware
from Spruce to Frankiord? A vast district
which is a perfect hive of industry miles in
extent, where almost every trade is fonnd, a
district which is great in mechanics in nov
elties, in leather, dye stuffs, saws, files, etc.
Great in woolen underclothes, stockings,
yarns and especially of carpets (she im
ported 21,000,000 pounds of woolen goods
and wool last year),oiIcloths and machinery
of all kinds. Great in her shipyards which
are now building several new men-of-war
for our depleted navy. Great in her Bead
ing coal docks of wonderful extent, where
coal is shipped all over the world. Great
in her miles of dockage where ships from
every land under the sun are daily unload-ingqueer-looking
stuffs of great value and
taking back cargoes in return to their far
away homes. Away down in the lower city
are the best sugar refineries which imported
last year over 5,000,000 gallons of molasses
and 550,000,000 pounds of raw sugar alone
from the West Indies.
There Claus Spreckels, of Honolulu and
San Francisco fame, is bnilding a vast
sugar refinery, with which he promises to
wine out the great Sugar Trust, which has
imposed a high price for sugar upon every
person in this land during the last year.
Along tbe Schuylkill is another great
center of manufacturing industry, while at
Broad and Callowhill is the great Baldwin
locomotive Works, which now turns out
daily five finished large-sized locomotives,
which are shipped to every corner of the
globe where locomotives are used. Adjoin
ing it and near it are very large bolt and
otner forging works of great capacity.
Philadelphia is also great in her chemical
works, whose products have a world-wide
fame, while her medicines are household
words.
To escape taxation, many of her heaviest
manufactories are located, as they are doing
in Pittsburg, up or down the rivers or in
the suburb", and .maintain offices only in
the city. Tbe importations passing through
the Custom House in 1883 reached the large
sum of over $45,000,000. And yet people
who are given to comparisons, but indiffer
ent as to facts, call this a sleepy city,with
grass growing in the streets.
BrriiBALO.
ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL EVEKETT PIANO.
Club Certificate No. 138, Held in Plttibnrff,
Is the Fortunate Nnmber Tula Week.
The piano selected is one of those ele
gantly carved rosewood cases. The front
panels over tbe keyboard designed and
artistically carved in groups of wild roses,
by "Meyran," of Boston. The trusses sup
porting the keyboard are fluted columns
with Corinthian crowns, and the ends of
piano handsomely paneled in pearl mold
ing, altogether making one of the loveliest
pianos ever brought to Pittsburg. The tone
has a wonderful depth and richness, com
bined with that sustained singing quality
so much admired by cultivated musicians.
These pianos are certainly as near perfec
tion as any we have ever seen, and the
Everett Club plan gives an opportunity to
every lover of music to possess a fine piano.
The Manager, Alex. Boss, 137 Federal st.,
Allegheny, says they hav,e room for a few
more good members.
BEST MNOLEUMS AT 75 CENTS.
This la 23 Centa Cheaper Than the Sams
Grade Is Sold Anywhere.
Some dealers may offer you linoleum at
the same price, but there are three grades of
it, and the above is the best English make.
3,000 yards linoleum and corticine of first
quality English and American make to go
at 75c a yard.
Positively the best covering for office and
kitchen floors ever produced. f
They are all this tail's styles, but of pat
terns which will not be duplicated for spring.
Edward Gboetzinqeb,
627 and 629 Penn ave.
EVERYBODY BUYS.
Only a Few Left.
Sec. hand Soct. organ $ 20
Sec. hand 5 oct. organ 25
New 5 oct organ 44
New 6 oct. organ 55
New "1 oct, upright piano 175
Sec. hand 7 oct. square piano 100
Sec. hand 7Joct, square piano 125
We defy dealers in either city ,to under
sell us. Examine instruments and be con
vinced. Store open every night till 9 o'clock.
Echols, McMiteeat & Co.
(Telephone Building), 123 Sandusky st,
Allegheny.
THINGS FOR THANKSGIVING.
What Shall It be for Dlnnerf
Turkey and cranberries, celery, mince pie
and plum pudding are indispensable. For
these there mnst be brandy, also claret,
port and sherry, then a pony with the
cigars for the gentlemen. This is what Mrs.
Harrison has ordered from the Half Cen
tury House, and Pittsburgers have just as
much right to have good things as Mrs. H.,
if shells the President's wife.
The place to get these is at the popnla
corner, 623 Liberty street, foot of Filth aye
nue. '
JAPANESE WARE BAZAAR.
Grand Holiday Display.
This department will close January 1,
1890, making it an exclusive holiday dis
play. Call and see onr wonderful selection.
Wm. Haslaoe & Son,
18 Diamond (Market square).
Peabson does not advertise like some
others,. that he will give a large crayon for
nothing, or give a lot of photographs free of
charge, but he will make for 58 a life-size
crayon portrait framed, and 12 cabinet pho
tos that cannot be equaled in the two cities
for three times the money. 96 Fifth avenue
and 43 Federal street, Allegheny.
See the Fine Watch Display
At Hauch's jewelry store. No. 295 Fifth
avenue. If you want anything in this line
it will-pay you to call and see goods. Small
payment accepted and goods laid away
until holidays. vtfbu.
Fob undoubted excellence Wainwright's
beer leads all competitors. Telephone 6525.
Yob Can't Enjoy Thanksgiving Turkey
Without Canary oysters.
F. Ss Vs. Pilsner beer is the pleasantest
stimulant in the world.
Fob rosettes and badges, call onf F. G.
Beineman, 61 Sixth street, city.
If Ton want lovelvAolidav roods, bnv at
145 Federal st, cor. N.feiasaond, Iiowest
Lprice.
AMAETTR'SMEMOEIAL
Preparing for the Dedication of the
Monument in Memory of
PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD.
Tho. Magnificent Tomb in Which Guiteau'a
Victim Sleeps.
ERECTED BI A, GRATEFUL COUNTRY
rSFXCIAZi TZX.XQSA1T TO THX DISPATCB.I
LEVELAND, O., No
vember 23. One of the
great national eventsof
i'jnext .year will be the
dedication of the mag
nificent monument erect-
ed in Lake View Ceme-
'tery. in this city, in
memory of President
James A. Garfield. The
programme of ceremo
nies is now being ar
ranged, and enough is
already known to warrant the conclnsion
that every detail will be carefully planned
and that the services as a whole will be im
posing and elaborate. .
Memorial Day, 1890, has been selected
from the catalogue of American holidays
for the dedication ceremonies. The monu
ment was to have been dedicated On Sep
tember 19th of tbis year, that being the
eighth anniversary of President Garfield's
death. A postponement was mads neces
sary by an event that happened in Italy six
months ago. Tbe marble statue of Garfield,
which is to stand directly in the center of
The Martyr-President.
the great pile of marble and sandstone, had
been almost completed, when the sculptors
discovered a black streak that no chisel
conld efface. Although realizing that the
labor of months was being sacrificed, the
almost finished statue was cast, aside and a
new block of marble selected. Tbis proved
to be faultless, and the statue has reached
New York, where it is receiving the finish
ing artistic touches. The statue represents
Garfield just risen from his chair in Con
gress and about to address the House of
Representatives. It is of Italian marble,
and is pronounced a marvelloasly correct
representation of. the second martyred Pres
ident. It stands on a marble paved dias
and, with us base, is abont 12 feet in height.
The memorial temple or shrine surround
ing the statue occupies the entire space in
closed by tbe great walls of the tower.
Arranged in circular form about the statue
are eight great qouble columns of deep col
ored granite. These support a dome 22 feet
in diameter that forms a beautiful canopy
60 ieet above the statue. A second ambu
latory outside pf these columns allows the
visitors to survey the interior from every
point of observation.
A. SOLEMN CEREMONT.
The masonic bodies of Cleveland will pro
bably have charge ot the dedication .servi
ces proper and Knights Templars from
every State and Territory in the Union will
come. In a larger sense, however, the event
will be one in no manner confined to organ
ization or creed. The nation's military
will come in force and the veterans of the
war will march in numbers almost as great
27te Garfield Memorial.
as at the' funeral eight years ago. Civio or
ganizations of every kind will participate.
Ex-Presidents Cleveland .and Hayes, the
Governor of every State and all tbe Sena
tors and members of Congress will be in
vited. The dedicatory address will be delivered
by ex-Governor J. D. Cox, and it is not im
probable that tbe names of President Har
rison, Secretary ot State James G. Blaine
and Hon. Cbanncey 51. Depew may be in
cluded upon the programme of speakers.
A brief poem will be read by some writer of
national repntaiion. One of the features
will nrobablv be an annronriate hvmn writ
ten for the event and sung by 30,000 school
children.
Memorial Day is s day of flowers and they
will be scattered abont in boundless pro
fusion on this occasion. The roadways
leading from tbe cemetery gates to the mon
ument will be lined and almost paved with
them; while the mound upon which the
monument rests will be a great mountain of
roses. Every child in Northern Ohio will
be asked to bring flowers and they will be
fashioned into monuments of themselves.
The manner in which the interest in the
dead President and in the monnment soon
to be dedicated to his memory is maintained
is indicated in the remarkably large num
ber of people -visiting the cemetery from
day to day. Something like 700,000 people
have visited Lake View during the past
year. Many of them have looked the mon
ument through and through. Not a small
number have driven to Orange and looked
upon the birthplace of the 20th American
President. Others have visited Mentor and
looked about the farm on which the Presi
dent spent so many hours of contentment.
Since Garfield's remains were first placed In
the vault at Lake View it is estimated that
5,000,000 people have visited the cemetery.
The design for the monument was selected
from over fifty contributions from the best
artists of Ameri6a and Europe. Mr. Henry
Van Brunt, of Boston, and Mr. Calvin
Vanr, of New Tork, were selected' as ex
perts to decide between the many creditable
designs. Although the entire fifty were ex
amined in detail of each artist by himself,
their report was the same. The contract
was let in October, 1885, and the monnment
is now completed with the exception of the
statue soon to be placed in position.
THE MONTTMENT ts DBTATX.
It was first planned that the tower of the
A Monument should be 2 tot U MgktJ
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When, however, it was feuiid that this
would require so great an outlay that little
money wonld be remaining for the elaborate
interior decorations contemplated, the plans
were modified and the tower was made 165
feet high instead. The saving thus effected
permitted the mosaic decoration, the superb
marble work and the illuminated windows.
A description of the memorial is as fol
lows.' The monument Is fashioned like a circular
tower. It is 50 feet in diameter and Is elevated
on broad, high terracesireached by a- hundred
pr more wide steps, somewhat resembling those
in the bise of the statue of Liberty in New
York harbor. AtthAhau nf thn tnwAr nro-
' Ht a ereat square porch, handsomely decor-
Into five panels containing bas-reliefs repre-
Bcuung uie career oi uarneiu. upon tnese
Sanels are 112 life sized figures, each possess
ig a distinct individuality.
The first panel on the north side of the
portico shows an ordinary country school In
early days. The figure of the young teacher Is
a good portrait of Garfield as a youth of 20
years.
The second panel represents General Garfield
when as Chief of Staff of General Kosecrans, at
the battle of Chlckamauga, he rode through an
avalanche of bullets to General Thomas with
dispatches.
The third panel shows Garfield as an orator.
He is addressing the people at an outdoor mass
meeting, rousing them, by his eloquence.
On the fourth panel he is represented as
taking the oath of office. Around him are
gronped ex-President Hayes, Vice President
Arthur, James G. Blaine, General W. T. Sher
man, General John A. Logan, Chief Justice
Walte, Carl Schurz. William M. Evartt and
others.
The fifth panel is a good representation oi
the bier of tbe assassinated President.
The ten great windows and the fonr panels,
near the door, aro embelished with female
figures,each bearing distinctive emblems repre
senting the 13 original States.
Tbe vestibule within the porch Is vaulted In
stone with a pavement of marble mosaic.
Above the space reserved for the statue. Is a
frelze of tbe same beautiful material.
Columbia and her daughter States are repre
sented as weeping over the bier of the dead
President. On other panels are figures repre
senting law. Justice, Concord. War, Litera
ture ana Labor. The dome is also inlaid with
venetial mosaic, over 240,000 pieces of marble
being required to prodnce tbe effect desired.
At the base is shown a band ot wreaths con
joined, corresponding In number with the
States and Territories. The background is
formed by the red and white stripes of the
American flag, the stars f drming a band higher
up. Over one of tbe entrance doors are seated
massive figures representing War and Peace.
Underneath is the inscription:
Erected ty a grateful country In fmemory of
Jame Abrm Garfield, twentieth President of the
United States of America. Scholar, soldier, stales
man, patriot. Born 19th November, 1S31. Died
September 19, 1881.
HOW THE M02TEY WAS BAISED.
The cost of these great monuments
and
the manner in which the mosey was raised
are always subjects of interest. Probably
200,000 people in the United States can feel
that they have had something to do in
making the monument a success. The
150,000 which the monument cost was made
up in a large measure of pennies, nickels,
dimes and inarters. A few rich men gave
sums like 500 and $1,000, but the bulk of
tbe fnnd came from family or personal sub
scriptions; collections among children and
in neighborhoods, and donations by secret
societies and charitable organizations. The
total amount thus far subscribed came from
the following sources:
Alabama t 37 03
Maine 1,610 00
Arkansas ...... 123 20
Maryland.
11193
California 820 30
Colorado 758 70
Connecticut ... I09S 23
Delaware 85 00
Florida SO OS
Georgia ........ 139 00
Illinois 8.330 53
Indiana 1,396 91
Iowa 2,K!S 33
Massachusetts.
Michigan
Minnesota .....
Mississippi ...
480 83
624 72
273 23
123 00
1,431 00
369 91
22 CO
W2 00
Mlssoor
Nebraska
N. Hampshire.
New Jerser....
833 87
Aansas 1,473 61
New York 14,109 24
North Carolina 4 00
Ohio tO,C94 03
Montana. .. ... 1,922 00
New Mexico... 213 00
Utah 23 00
Washlmton... 42S 03
Kentucky,
190 79
riouisiana......
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Khode Island..
Sonth Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia .......
West Virginia.
Wisconsin ....
Arizona........
Dakota
Idaho
Indian
49 40
959 371
1.789
S2 34
33 UO
13 93
579 20
Wyoming 27l 43
D. of Columbia 9 W
England 3 00
France. 1,149 IS
Australia ...... 12 00
Canada... ...... 3 00
Belgium 40 CO
68 TO
40 00
,2 67
1,915 77
39 86
S3 00
12 00
13 00
Total 4134,733 73.1
The contributions were loaned out subject
to call at 4 per cent to banks in Cleveland,
and the amount thereby increased from all
sources to abodt $150,000.
When the dedication services take place
the great metal casket containing tbe re
mains of the late President will be carried
from the monument, where it now reposes
just inside the door of the monument A
mammoth marble slab will be lifted and the
casket will be lowered to the crypt under
neath. The casket containing the remains
of the President's mother will be placed
within the monument at the same. time. It
was her often expressed wish tbat in death
she should be placed near the son she loved
with so much fervor and tenderness.
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Mr. Wiggara It will, will it? I'm bet
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A Long-Necked Clam.
Lewlston Journal.
A Saco man says he has sees a clam that
conld stretch ont its neck 12 inches. And
this in prohibitory Mainel
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