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Fatal, Azobes, if ovember 13. Copy
right After a voyage of four days from
St. Michael in a little Portuguese trading
coaster, dnring which we had touched at the
port ot Augra, in the Island ot Terceira,
and Vellas, in the Island ol St. George, I
finally debarked at Horta, the capital city
of the Tsland of Fayal, and at once made
preparations to cross to the near Island of
Pico, whose famons mountain of the same
name I was desirous of ascending-.
The Azorean island of Terceira is so
named from its having been the third in the
order of discovery. It has about 180 square
miles and a population of nearly 60,000 souls.
There are few mountain heights or ocean
headlands of impressive pictnresqueness,
none furnishing scenic views of grandeur,
but within its 70 miles of coast line are
, many noble plateaus often reaching eleva
tions of 3,000 and 4,000 leet above the sea.
Terceira, however, enjoys a few distinctive
Superiorities, from the Azorean standpoint.
It has always been the most loyal to the
Portuguese crown. Kb less than three Portu
guese rulers have made this island their
temporary residence, and fine monuments in
token of the fact have been erected. The
capital and chief port, Angra, possesses the
aristocracy of the Azores. Titles are as com
mon as donkeys in Angra. Then, too, its
streets are more modern; its public build
ings handsomer; its whitewash and paints
.re whiter, bluer, pinker or yellower than
elsewhere in the Azores; and to crown all,
the city is the only one in the islands which
boasts an enclosure for the festa detouros, or
bull fieht
The Island of St. George is a complete con
trast in many respects to Terceira. Its area
is perhaps 90 square miles and it has a pop
ulation ot fully 19,000 souls. Topograph
ically considered, it is the most interesting
of the entire Azorean group, save perhaps
Pico, which only surpasses it in the extraor
dinary height of its single tremendous
mountain. Its coastline of some 20 or 30
wiles faces on the southwest of both Fayal
and Pjco, and is one of the most impressive
sea walls I ever beheld.
INCOMPARABLE PALISADES.
Anyone who has caught half-views through
.a shifting Quoddy fog of the northern sheer
headlands of the grim island of Grand
Mauan, off our northeasternmost Maine
coast, can form an excellent idea of this
mighty mass of headlands which -.for half
a day's sail confronts one from the Azo
rean Sea. They are mightier, vaster and
incomparably more grim and weird than
Manan's dark northern heights, for, .with
scarcely a break, here are almost precip
itous heights rising not 300 and 400 feet
above the waves, but from 800 to 1,500 feet.
"Vellas, the chief city, or rather hamlet, lies
like a beggar in the sun beneath these
Heights, with volcanoes behind, not so long
ago extinct but there remain evidences ot
their destructive belchings which once all
cm -mminu&iea me near nanuet oi ursu
lina., Tellas is antiquated, woebegone,
slothful. Its cathedral and hospital are the
only two structures at all noteworthy; the
people of the island are lazily engaged in
agriculture, fishing and wrecking; and the
peasants, who are most picturesque in dress
anil manners, are as primitive in all meth
ods of labor as were the Moors when in
Spain and Portugal, from whom the inhabi
tants are said to have sprung, and to whom
they bear strong facial resemblance.
The Island of Pico, with an area of 80
square miles and from 25,000 to 28,000 in
habitants, is in two particulars the most in
teresting of the Azores. Its single tremen
dous peak, from which the island derives its
..came, furnishes the highest elevation to be
'seen by mariners in Atlantic waters; and its
women are the most beautiful to be lound
upon all the Atlantic shores. Pico, the
mountain, is nearly 8,000 feet above the sea
level. It can be descried for a distance of
75 miles at sea. Its formation is volcanic,
and at the present time it is simply a slum
bering volcano; for from the crater at its
summit there constantly pour streams of air
of such intense heat that in the moonlight,
or in certain conditions of the atmosphere,
at dawn or twilight, a pale flame is 'easily
discerned from the opposite shore oi Fayaf.
.Pico, the island, is the southernmost of the
middle Azorean group comprising Graciosa,
St, George, Terceira, Fayal and Pico, and is
shaped like an Indian club, its handle to
the east, and its blunt head, with its sharp
lava-flint 8,000 feet high.jatjihe western end.
WHAT PICO IS LIKE.
1 It is only separated from Fayal by a nar
row channel which the Horta and Madelena
Pescadores and boatmen will row you across
in less than half an hour. In its half dozen
little cities and perhaps fwc-score hamlets,
you will see more beautiful women than yon
will encounter in a year's ordinary observa-
tion in Europe. Even the old married
women and grandams poises that lustrous
beauty which remains with fadeless eyes.
But the meninas and the senoritas, the girls
and misses, are physically winsome past all
telling. This Pico maid has the delicately
arched foot of the Spanish woman, and her
short skirts disclose limbs as graceful and
shapely. If her splendid figure has one fault
it lies in her lack ot height, bnt In nearly ev
ery instance the compensation is found in
perfect proportion. Her complexion is
-waxen and creamy with no carnation in her
cheeks. Her mouth is large, mobile and
tremulous. Her teeth are faultless, and the
enthusiast would insist that her lips were
maddening. Her hair, not black as with
most Southern types, is of that misty brown
color which one may sometimes see on the
sides of mountains opposite the sun. But
ler crowning glory is melting, languorous,
yet flashing, eyes. Her facial beauty is not
greatest in repose. Then, if unconscious
of observation, as with tne women of all
tropic countries where intelligence is lack
. jng,.her face has a trace of the splendid ani
mal'in it; and a noticeable touch of helpless
ness and pathos. Bnt bring her features
into active play with a man at the other
end. of the effort, with her large, dark,
dreamful, glowing eyes, firing and melting
behind long, dirk, half-hiding lashes, with
the endless supple and willowy movement
"of every portion of her splendid body !or
.her every mental and physical laculty plays
in -responsive harmony with her tongue or
her eyes and you have come close to some
thing which makes you long for an artist's
power. They say here that the women
among American and English tourists call
these winsome Pico maidens "perfectly
torrid creatures." Doubtless. The Pico girls
forgive this, for it somehow increases the
surreptitious admiration of the defamers'
husbands.
MOSTSrNGTJLAB AND STEIKISO.
From the distance of St. George or Terceira
the mountain, Pico, has the sppearance of a
slender black cone rising from the sea, its
farthest heights truncated here and tnere
br shining bands of white. From the
heiehts behind Horta, in Fayal, if an occa
sional cloud should intervene,its appearance
at incalculable height and size is wondrous
lr fascinating. Down at the water's edee in
Horta it seems that a precipice of immeasur
m. .ititnffe is looming above you. Thelon-
, cer von look, the more portentous this seem-,
'ing grows, for the mountain is seldom clear
cut azainst the sky, until one is actually
possessesed of sense or apprehensivenejs
lest that more than a milefei unseen reach
wfcnlned lava u auont to tnmDie.gcrois
the channel and beat the Island of Fayal, a
powdered mass, into the sea. Viewing it
from a boat while skirting the incomparably
picturesque shores at its base, one can
think of no better way to de
scribe it, especially when remembering
that every atom of shore and
mountain was belched forth from the earth
in volcanic fires, than in the old simile of a
vast cinder heap where the huger slaghas
continually rolled to the outer edges into
the sea, endlessly forming a broadening
base as the finer siftings continued adding
to the height of the perfect cone above.
Nothing could be more interesting than a
study of the seaward exposures of Pico's
base from an open boat. The northwestern
headlands are extraordinary and impressive.
For from 200 to 300 feet above the shore im
mense layers or strata of dark lava show
edges as clean and plain as a new-laid wall.
They are each evidence of a separate over
flow of lava from the volcano above. These
come squarely in places to the water's edge
like huge backwaters of masonry. Again
they are crumbled and broken or blended
as if by torrents of lava, and bevondsuch
phenomena as these, there are always ragged
lava crags jutting from the sea showing
where the molten masses have seethed and
cooled.
TTOBN JJ.-WAT BX OLD ATLANTIC.
Again, for long reaches, these precipitous
strata, where the coast has received the full
force of the Atlantic's poundings, have been
worn into arches, and have carved out pil
lars and fashioned buttresses, until for hun
dreds of feet in height, as though some
earthquake rent had divided them and cast
one portion beneath the waves, were the
most curious and fanciful representations of
ruins of vast once-hidden temples. Nor is
this more curious than the view from your
boat of the sides of Pico almost to the clouds
from this grandly picturesque base. It
seems to the eye as though the entire sur
tace of the mountain was covered with a net
work of tracery, in its own lava colors; as if
the suiface ot some black dunce's cap had
been finely wrought in delicate threads of
Guipure, lace. This strange, threading is
wnere ine once lamous jrico vmeyarus were.
There is not a single atom of substance de
serving the name of vegetable soil from base
to peak of Fico; bnt years ago, in these
myriads of little walled compartments rising
above each other like the seats at a theater,
the vines grew lush and green from the
black stones and scoria?, until no vineyards
in Tuscany -produced finer grapes or fur
nished prettier scenes, and 25,000 casks of
vine were annually sent to Fayal for ex
portation. But the blight came, the vines
were totally destroyed, and though now
their culture is again slightly reviving, for
a quarter of a .century the dry little lava
pockets have added to the dark, dreary
barrenness of the mountain sides.
The little town of Madelena at the island
landing is a quaint 'old nest of sloth and
somnolence. But these island folk are
handsome, beaming with good nature, and
the fact that the stranger comes to Pico.,
makes every soul with whom he comes in
Contact a radiant companion and friend.
So you arrange for your guides and supplies
for the mountain ascent for hut a trifle of
money. These guides will wear sandals
and have much trouble with their feet
Most strangers bring strong, heavy-soled
shoes. But I have learned something about
mountain-climbing all tourists should
know.
BIO BOOTS JDST THE THING.,
Always be provided with an honestly
made pair of boots. Have the tops reach
nearly to the knees. Wear them under, your
tramping trowsers. And always have the
heavy soles well spiked with iron nails.
You may not be able to cavort about like
stage shepherdesses. But you will be able
to hump along quietly and reach the place
you started for while your over-nice com
panions and picturesque guides, are limping
painfully oenina, or tarrying in tne clouds
beneath,' to remove sections of glaciers from
under their heels or knife-like cinders from
between their bleeding toes. That was the
condition of my guides before we had
climbed five hours, and we were compelled
to halt at midday at a no greater elevation
than 5,000 feet
Here we remained for three hours, with
out a single glimpse of scenery. A light,
misty cloud apparently enveloped the entire
mountain. But we pushed on, after much
entreaty with my guides when I had re
vealed my determination to reach the peak
and remain there for the nieht Every step
was now insecure; notdangerous, but upon
pumiced slag and gritty cinders, which
break from under the leet alarmingly. Fall
ing often from this sort of footing, or trip
ping oftener in the stunted heather, we finally
reached the very top. Nothing was to be
seeu but a streak of cinders to our right and
left, and, as the miststill enveloped us, what
appeared to be the level surface of some
measureless immensity at our feet The hot
air rose before us suffocatingly. The damp
mist swirled behind us drearily. "We had no
more than time to grope about and hunt a
pockety hollow against the outer warm rim
of the crater, dispose ourselves hastily" for
the night and crunch a little food from our
haversacks, when the dark fell upon us pal-
Sably like tbe flap of some majestic wing,
y guides dare not move, through their
superstitious fears. In five minutes I was
never so soundly asleep. So far as I know,
it was as comfortable a night there at the
very top of Pico's spire, as before Vicks
burg in '63, or in Chatahoochie'a death
flaming forests in '64.
A STBANGE, "WEIED STILLNESS.
"When I awoke, the stars, glowing with
those wondrous flashings and pulsations of
the stars in tropical skies, were looking
squarely into my eyes. For a little there
was stillness as profound as tbe eternal si
lences. This was broken by two tremen
dous snoring. My guides were safe from
Pico witches and warlocks now. But
lying thus, there came a strange sense
of isolation, loneliness, insecurity, dan
ger. This was intensified into posi
tive dread by a singular treuiulousness
of the very lava bed where I rested. You
will feel something like it at the top of tall
spires. I even wondered if I arose I might
not from the very fascination of it all whirl
and Blunge down there 8,000 feet into tbe
Fayal channel. A host of such fanciful
vagaries possessed me, until a dimming of
the stars, a fading and paling of their luster,
diverted my thoughts. Then they seemed,
one by one, to disappear. Their black back
ground changed to filmy gray; that to nearly
lavender; that to a Kile-green blue. Yes, it
was tbe glorious dawnl I was hardly upon
my feet before the vermilions were in the
east, while I could still see above the western
horizon the undimmed stars, so great was
the height whereon I stood. At my very
feet was the vast crater nearly 2,000 feet in
circumference, its walls in places from 200
to 300 feet high, while from the dark seams
of its perfectly level floor the steam and
smoke ot the slumbering volcano curled up
ward as peacefully as from winter country
side chimneys.
GBANDEST 07 CrCLOBAMAS.
One cannot count time when a sole think
ing possessor of such a height and scene;
but at last tbe hideous fascination of Pico's
crater wore away, and I turned upon the
grandest cyclorama my own eyes ever be
held. Sea and horizon were blended save
where the sun, like a majestic globe of fire,
flung to the zenith its glorious dyes and
mantled the sea to the island's xim with a
flood of tremulous Crimson. To the north
east and north rose Terceira, St George,
and far and faint in a setting of reddened
onyx, fair Graciosa in a serf-rim of glitter
ing pearls; while the tender green of Fayal's
softly outlined heights, seemingly so near
that one could answer the pipings of the
goat-herds upon her hills, was nowhere
broken save where Horta's pillared houses
gleamed in ghostly white through the west
ern discs, of her winsome, circling shores.
The exultation, the elation, the soul-feasting
glory, of snch a height and scene, Is
more than one who cannot fly can long en
dure. I awoke my guides. We scrambled
down the mountain side. In an hour we
breakfasted in an upland valley at a herder's
cabin, and at noon we were among 'the
fishers and bleachers of Madelena by the
sea, EdgabIi. Waxeman.
RICH GARDEN SPOTS
To be Opeded to Settlement on the
Great Sionx Reservation.
AN EXPLORER'S GRAPHIC 8TGRT.
Talleja of Grand Beauty and Surpassing
Fertility Found There.
UNIQUE AHD W0NDEKFUL BAD LANDS
The 11,000,000 acres of land soon to be
opened to settlement in western South Da
kota are attracting a great deal of attention
at the present time, and whatever can be
authoritatively stated in regard to their
adaptability to the purposes of homeseekers
cannot fail to be of interest It is not prob
able that much of a "rush" will occur to this
new public domain until spring, even
though the President should issne his proc
lamation declaring the land open this winter.
The report has gone out through all the
world that this new domain is remarkably
fertile and capable of being made highly
productive, for this reason it is anticipated
that thousands of families will settle upon
it in the succeeding year; that cities will
grow up as if by magic; and that num
erous fortunes will be made. Indeed, many
reasonable people prophesy that at least
100,000 settlers will take up their permanent
abode there during the next summer. What,
then, is this reservation, that so much has
been written about it and that it is attract
ing such general attention? Why have so
many seemingly authoritative reports gone
forth concerning its richness and value?
asks a correspondent of the St. Paul Globe.
The portion of the reserve which the Indians
have ceded by recent treaty to the United
States Government embraces all the lands
between the White and Cheyenne rivers of
Western South Dakota, including the
counties of Sterling, Stanley, Pratt, Presho,
Lyman, Nowlin, Jackson and Ziebach, and
all the lands embraced in the counties of
Scobey. Delano. Bhinehart Choteau, Mar-.
tin and Wagner, north of the Cheyenne
river, or lf,000 square miles.
BICH GEAZING BEGIONS.
The portion of this immense area be
tween the White and Cheyenne nvers is un
doubtedly the most suitable for agricultural
purposes, and it is estimated that two-thirds
of that territory is good arable land. For
the most part, it is ot that description known
as rolling prairie. It embraces the valleys
of the White, Cheyenne, Bad and Missouri
rivers beside many beautiful basins and
valleys of lesser size.
The White Biver Yalley, in the southern
part of this section, is by far the most fertile
and attractive. The White river is a stream
of considerable size, which rises in South
western South Dakota and winds its sinuous
length about 240 miles in an easterly direc
tion to empty into the Missouri. Nearly the
entire length its banks are fringed with
a thick growth of cottonwood and box
elder trees, which will furnish lumber and
fuel for the 'settler. The valley will per
haps average 20 miles in width, but in
some places is much narrower and in others
much wider. It resembles the famous Elk
horn Valley in Nebraska. , In its wild state
it is a thing of beauty,, with its expansive
area of fertile plains; its tall grass waving
as far as the eye can see; its groves, through
whose foliage the glint of the stream is
shining; its distant hills, on whose slopes
and in whose canyons there appear clus
ters of cedar trees. There, too, fat range
cattle browze upon the nutritious grasses,
even in winter, for there, as in the Black
Hills, these grasses cure upon the stem and
make the whole reserve one. of the best graz
ing regions in the world.
sous of the drawbacks.
But, however beautiful or fertile a coun
try may be there is always some drawback
which becomes apparent in a short time. So
it is with the White Biver Valley as with all
the reservation, in fact There is abund
ance of good water in places, but there are
many localities from which it is wholly
lacking. The streams are for the most part
affected by alkali, or by some foreign sub
stance which renders them almost useless
for domestic purposes. This is said to be
due to the fact that both oil and coal exist
in large quantities beneath the surface.
Whether that is true or not remains to be
developed, but one thing may be asserted as
a fact, that there are everywhere indications
of coal, and the croppings of that mineral
are very extensive in the bluffs along the
vauey.
Investigations show that the upper por
tion of the White Biver Valley, and, in
deed, the entire western part of the new do
main south of the Cheyenne river, are su
perior to tbe eastern half. This is because
the soil of the western part is a sandy loam
which holds moisture, while the rich e-nmbo
soil of the other portions is impervious to'
that most necessary element Throughout
the White Biver Valley, however, there are
certain to be many large and prosperous
communities established.
The Bad river, called by Indians the
Wakpa Shicka, takes its rise in the western
part of the reserve, and runs in an easterly
direction, midway between the Cheyenne
and White rivers, about 180 miles to the
Missouri. It is a narrow stream and its yal
ley is not more than eight or ten miles in
width at the gteatest The waters of this
stream are affected by alkali, and are not
suitable for consumption. The
BOTTOM .LANDS ABE BICH
and capable of being made highly produc
tive, like those of the White Biver Valley.
The vegetation is luxuriant, but the timber,
which makes the White Biver Valley most
desirable, is rather sparse. On both sides of
the valley the divides are high and broken.
There are many places where these divides
are singularly adapted to grazing, and it is
very probable. that; for this reason, both the
large and small stock grower, will locate in
the Bad Biver Valley, and allow their cat
tle to roam over the divides, which will
probably remain open for some years to
divides contain clusters of cedar trees, which
will be found very useful to the settler, and
they, with the drains and gulches, will fur
nish excellent protection to tbe herds which
will roam over the unoccupied lands in the
winter.
The Cheyenne Valley is a sort of a land of
wonder. It contains immense tracts of good
agricultural land, of the description of those
of the White Elver Valley. It also con
tains many thousand acres, which, for many
years, will be used exclusively for grazing.
The Cheyenne Is the largest of the streams
which traverse the reservation. There are
high bluffs and extensive plateaus along its
whole course, and its bottom lands are a
scene of wild beauty and the seat of great
fertility. '1'ne raggea Dluns are gumbo bills
and are very rich, but of so sticky a charac
ter as to be very hard to work. Its plateaux
are level and fertile and even now form the
ranges of great herds of cattle. On the
Black Hills side of the Cheyenne many
prosperous settlers have established fine
farms, where they raise n)t only ine cereals,
but blooded stock of various kinds. The
country is peculiarly adapted to horse cul
ture. THE "WONDEBFTJL FBATTBE
of the Cheyenne Valley is, however, the
mauvals terres or Bad Lands. Nothing like
them exists anywhere else in the world.
They are unlike the Bad Lands of North
Dakota, and are indescribably unique. It
is impossible to give any very good idea of
them bywords or pictures. To be appreci
ated they must be seen. They are at tbe
western extremity ot the ifcserve, just east
of the Black Hills. It is a .misnomer to
call tbem "iJad lianas " Decause "bad'
weald serer be Mggected by the appear-1
PITTSBURG, . SATURDAY,
ance. "Mazy Land" would be far better.
They are most deceitful and perplexing in
their effect upon the eye and mind. In ap
proaching them one seems' to see a great
white city rising from the plains, with tall
spires, with roofs and chimneys, with pin
nacles and minarets. It looks' in the dis
tance like a walled elty-'of, ancient times,
and we could almostistfect to see vast
crowds of people andjraldiersla arms, mov
ing through its gates. T,
So complete is the delusion which ,they
produce that during the past summer a
Swede, who had hut recently arrived in this
section, and knew little about it, while
searching for land, being far from any set
tlement observed the strange forms of the
Bad Lands in the distance, and supposing
them to be a great citv, made for them with
the intention of spending the night Beach
ing them he passed in through one of the
openings and was toon lost in the mazy
windings of the innumerable gulches, draws
and canyons which traverse this remarkable
region in every direction.
DANGEROUS DELUSIONS.
It is an easy matter to find one's way into
the Bad Lands, bnt it is far more difficult to
find the way out again. The poor Swede
soon discovered that he was like the lost cava
lier in the enchanted forest of fairy tale,
and wandered around in search of an outlet
without success. The mazy windings
teemed to become more labyrinthine and
perplexing as he went on. In vain did be
try to discover the place where he entered,
and ever and anon would come up against
the great white wall which towered perpen
dicularly above his head and extended
around this region. For several ttays he
was lost in the windings of the Bad Lai ds,
and during that time was without foo or
water. At last a cowboy found him-lyng
on tbe ground in one of the canyons i a
state of exhaustion. He was taken to ;be
nearest ranch and on regaining his strer ;th
told of his adventures. There were m ny
stories of this character told by the cowfc ys
who herd their cattle in the Bad Lands, nd
have become familiar with their windi igs
and passes.
It is a mistake to suppose that the Jad
Lands are a useless area. The canyons nd
some of the levels, which occur in plaies,
contain a. rich vegetable growth. For jhis
reason very extensive herds of cattle ban
and do find valuable grazing there. is
not at all probable ihat settlers will, at tast
for two or three generations, select linds
embraced within the Bad Lands, but stick
men will never fail to appreciate and.nake
that of the grazing advantages. Onjac
count of the remarkable character of this
amazing waste, and the never-failing inter
est which it has for the curiosity-seeker,
some South Dakota citizens have proposed
that the State secure a) grant of the pad
Lands from Congress, and set them apart
torever aa a oiate pars.
POINTS POE ?IONEEBS.
Many rumors of nineral wealth have
rained currency both i
south Dakota and
the neighboring States,
In that portion
which lies north of the Cheyenne river some
prospecting for gold
nd silver has been
done by Black Hills n iners and some ex
peditions are already
section for the serins.
proposed from that
It is not well, how-
ever, for anybody to be
a astray Dy reports
ot the existence ofgold.putside of the Black
Hills, in South Dakota! It may be found
in this northwestern pa.lt of the reserve and
indications can be aut toritatively said to
exist, but they are not s ch as to cause any
excitement Miners wl have prospected
on tbe Indian Territory
ilaim the existence
of gold there in payi
g quantities, and
assert that they on
producing by reason
' desisted from
of the inter-
ilicej bnt miners,
terence of the Indian
like fishermen, do not
care to admit
failure, and are i:
enious in ex
cuses. It can be.statcd a n. facthowever,
that coal exists inrthe noahweatern"parPoi
the reservation in large Quantities, as has
been proven by development work done
there. It is not of a superpr quality, as far
as known, being of the ligtte species, and
not suitable for coke. Thaindications, not
developed, in the country bltween the White
and Cheyenne rivers, an that immense
quantities of bituminous loal exist there
and in the spring many companies of coal
prospectors will go in searchof that mineral.
Taken all in all, the nevf acquisition of
the Government presents an ample field for
the prospector, the farmer, the stockman
and the speculator. Perhaps no section of
the United States presents so many oppor
tunities for men of small means, and for the
honest and intelligent worker.) Bat above
all tbe openincr of the tract between the
Cheyenne and White rivers is like opening
a gateway to a country which is not only a
magnificent empire in extent, bnt also in
richness and variety.
A TEAIT IN HUMAN NATUEE.
Braddock Citizens Finding Funic With tbe
Municipal Officers.
. It is refreshing to hear how candid some
people are when they are en rapport, dis
cussing the affairs of their neighbors and
themselves, and especially municipal affairs,
and think no outsider is listening. People,
generally in the suburbs, are very sensitive
to outside criticism, and though the ladies
can rip the absent up the spine at sewing
circles with neatness, savageness and dex
terity, and the men can do the same thing
in the groceries, criticising with refreshing
freedom the actions of their Councilmen and
others in authority, they have a holy horror
of seeing their criticisms in print
SomeBraddock citizens were yesterday
overheard venting their views respecting
the way things are conducted in that
borough, but they collapsed instantly when
thev found a reporter in their midst
The gist of the criticism was that Brad
dock borough Councils were too much un
der the domination of the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works Company, and the interest of
the citizens at large suffered in consequence.
One Councilman, whose name could not be
caught, was accused of an indisposition
to take his own medicine. The said he
had assented to an ordinance requiring peo
ple to put down boardwalks, but did not
construct his own. .lney also intimated
that while the Burgess was a nice man, he
hadn't backbone enough to force all to obey
the law equally, and thought as he was a
candidate for re-election ho had better re
form his lines speedily.
Said one: "They are all .good men,
bnt need strengthening, and as J. B.
Corry has been working up picnics
for the benefit of the churches I think
he might divert some of the proceeds for
the purchase of strengthening plasters to
put on the backs of the burgess and some
Councilmen."
How much further the discussion might
have gone is hard to conjecture, for just at
this juncture the reporter's presence was
discovered, and the committee went Into se
cret session.
A Widow of 16 Remarried.
Florida Timcs-Unloir. j
Jesse Breedlove was married at Clermont
a few days ago to Mrs. Lillie Ludingft6n by
'Squire L. H.J Todd. .The bride waa a
widow only IS years of age, she having
been married when only 12 years old. Her
husband died two. and a half years ago.
They will live at their new home, Mt Vesta.
New Well Broacfat In.
The Guffy Brothers yesterday brought in
a well on tbe Wetzel farm, not a great dis
tance from Arbuckle No. L Though it
hadn't shown so far for a great gusher, Mr.
Stewart seemed to think it wasn't by any
means to be sneezed at The Arbuckle No.
2 was not in yesterday afternoon.
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and the methods, used there in
training athletes are describes in
to-morrow's DISPATCH byProt
Goldio,ib
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DECEMBER
14 1889.
THE WATER SUPPLY
Warmly Discussed at a Public Meet
ing field in Berkeley's Hall.
OLAIMSrOF AN INSUFFICIENCY.
Different Persons Tell How it Has Greatly
Bothered Them.
THE COMPANY SAIS THERE 18 PLESTI
The question of an Insufficient water sup
ply on the Southside, which has been
smouldering away with only an occasional
outbreak, seems to be burstinginto a blaze,
and on its spurt promises to rival the bridge
question in the interests of Southsiders. The
first complaint made before a meeting was
at the TaxPayers' Protective Association
last Tuesday evening. After the speeches
on organization, etc., had been listened to,
the question box (a new wrinkle introduced)
was opened and out popped ther very inter
esting question, "Have we a sufficient water
supply?"
u F. C. Belnhauer, who led the crnsade
against the Monongahela Waler Company
two years ago, was prepared for the question
and, producing a big volume containing a
report of the investigation, he "showed up"
the water company in a way that must have
made their ears tingle.
WATEB AT THE FIBES.
The speaker called attention to the Oliver
fire, and quoted the remarks of Mr. Oliver,
that if there had been more water at-first the
fire could have been handled better and with
less loss. All the recent fires on the South
side were taken up one by one and the water
company handled with hard gloves. He
said there was -a cry going up all
over the Southside, and something
must be done, either by the extermination
of the company, or in tbe line of action by
Councils to compel the corporation now
supplying the Southside to live up to their
contract
Mr. Beiuhauer sat down, but had hardly
gained his seat before J. Yocum, a butcher
on Carson street, jumped up. He said he
had a slaughter house on Twenty-first'
street, and when he wanted to kill anything
forhis market, he had to stay up nights and
wait for the private consumption to lessen.
He said that he was charged 132 more on
his insurance because the water supply was
short This, he thought, shouldn't go on
long, and he didn't care how it was done.
'but would like to see it stopped.
TDBTHEB EXAMPLES GIVEN.
This speech ended the meeting, but not
the agitation for a better water supply,
which only needed someone to start the
ball rolling. Beinhart Klinzing, who hag a
meat market on Bradford Street, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, said that he
went np to his slaughter house last Wednes
day to kill five hogs, but had to give it up
because there wasn't water enough. In the
evening he went up again, but could get
only enough water to kill one hog.
Mr Doyle, of 908 Bingham street, said he
could not get sufficient water for house pur
poses and was greatly inconvenienced at
times. It his alwas been his custom to take
a bath Saturdays and recently he went up
to the bathroom for the purpose. He turned
the. spigots, and sat down and watched
the watef trickle for three-quarters
of an hour. J It was then only two inches
deep, jn thtf tub. and he had to go to bed
without hy bath.
frEST END COMPLAINT.
The troible in the West End is familiar
toreaderaof the papers. A late issue said
that when Mr. Stengle, Superintendent of
the Monongahela Water Company, was seen
in regard to the West End trouble, he ad
mitted that there was insufficient supply on
the Southside, especially at -fires, and that
the Ipucping machinery was not strong
enough.)
When Mr. Stengle was seen by a Dis
patch reporter, he first said he would not
talk and snapped his fingeTS. .Finally he
warmed up and said it was all
wrong; that it was all malice;
that the whole Southside was well supplied
with water, except about 25 families in the
West End. He was asked if the company
intended to do something for these families,
and he said they had no plans made to that
effect. The few families were iu a section
not buildintr up fast, The fire question had
not bothered him, he said, as nothing had
been proven at any time to show that the
water was short.
THE COMPANY'S END.
"Why don't the citizens over there cry
'No water?' " said Mr. Stengle, pointing
out of the window to the Soho district.
"They complain of short water, and why
isn't a howl sent up?"
He was asked why a corporation could
make such a good thing out of the water
business when the city, until the present
year, has failed to have surplus
in that line. In reply he asked
why private corporations could buy
castings for $3 when they cost cities $32.
He said that all other cities did have im
mense revenues from their waterworks.
Nothing would suit him better than A very
small percentage of the surplus from the
water of some of the large cities lice New
York.
At the next meeting of the Tax Payers'
Protective Association the question will be
again discussed and some lively develop
ments are promised.
A GRAND EAT HUNT.
Men, Boya nnd Does Have a Llrely Time
of It at tho Market Home.
About 9 o'clock Tuesday evening a num
ber ot men crept into Market Hall and
plugged up all the holes and barricaded all
lines of egress. In the office of the Market
Master was a crowd of men and boys, aqd
Messrs. A. Stucky, George Metz and T.
Taylor, with their dogs. When all was
ready the dogs were released and the hunt
began.
The 50 or more hunters "beat tbe brush,"
and the dogs were not slow to run down their
game. "Bats, Irish!" "Take 'em, Fannie!"
"Here he isl" and similar expressions, with
the scrambling of feet and yelping of the
dogs, made the old hall ring.
As fast as they were killed the little ro
dents were laid ont by the stove. At last
some one opened the stove and poked in it.
Ten big fellows, were foundto have taken
refuge there, and were soon laid to rest
Mr. Stucky's dog wis a blooded rat
terrier, and seemed to take things philo
sophically. He had his mouth too full of
rats to bark. At one time he caught two at
once, and in all, killed 11.
At 10 o'clock. 30 had been laid by the
stove, and the hunt was still going on.
Great sport was had, and the marketers will
doubtless be less troubled by the little pests
in the future. Anotber hunt is promised
soon.
He Has Skipped.
A man who gave his name as J. E. An
derson, and claiming to represent the Na
tional Furniture Company, of Pittsburg,
sold packages of needles In McKeesport,
giving each purchaser a numbered ticket,
which Be said would give a chance to draw
a suite of furniture, which would be given
away at theJTifth Avenue Hotel in McKees
port yesterday. It was discovered yesterday
that Anderson had disappeared, and that
the furniture, which he lettt the hotel, was
a toy set
BEWASEof counterfeits! Buy the genu
ine Dr. Bull's, -Cough Syrnp, the beat and
etwiSKt,?
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THE EIGHTH DAY.
PABTL
WAS nearly 2
o'clock A. M., but
Mr. Bidnlph still eat
lathe study of his
house in Park lane.
The gas was alight
and a pile of books
and papers lay on
the table before him,
but these he did not
regard as he lay back
in his chair with
folded arms, looking
. downward with a
Hlyfixed expression as
snougn ids eyes sou
features were strain
ing to hold some
conception which the mind was engaged in
dissecting. At length he muttered, half
aloud, as he sat np in his chair: "Let me
spell the thing out in so many words.
Within two months at the outside I shall be
declared a bankrupt and an embezzler, if I
cannot produce at least 5,000. How am I
to get this money, which I want -to
save myself from imprisonment and
my family from starvation? There Is only
oneway. It involves, no doubt, the sacri
fice of some 200 or 300 lives, if not more;
but it is the only way in which I can save
my own liberty and character and the lives
of my family. Why should not I adopt
this method? For fear of consequences
either in the present or the next world.wonld
tlQ,
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BEFORE A SLATTEBNLY-LOOKING GIBL.
be the answer. . I have ai little belief in a
future as I have in a past world. Neither
one or the other have any connection with
our present life If, indeed, they have any
existence at all. I may, therefore, dismiss
that consideration. Now, with regard to
the present world, what is to deter me: the
fear of remorse or the fear of being detected? '
I need not dread remorse any more tnan X
should if I were about to destroy a number ,
of rats. Either they or I must go. My
safety depends on their destruction, so that
I am not acting wantonly, but on exactly
the same principle as the monarch who
slaughters thousands to gain or maintain
his throne. And now, about the risk of de
tection. That is really the only thing to be
considered. I shall go to Mi II wall to-morrow
afternoon and see Denton. He can
supply me wfth what I want He is in my
power. I need not be afraid of his Inform
ing: besides, he has executed. I am certain,
a number of similar jobs. When I have
seen him I shall know how far the thing is
feasible, and what the risks are. In any
case it will only be a question of choosing
the lesser of two dangers. Others must die
or I must fly, and it Is not very easy to fly
nowadays, when they canjsend your portrait
about the world by telegraph. Yes, I must
see Denton, to-morrow, or rather this after
noon, and come to a conclusion one way or
other at once."
Saying which Mr. Bidnlph lit a candle,
put o'ut the gas and went to his bedroom.
Mr. Bidnlph was a merchant who lived
with his wife and family of five children in
Park lane. His eldest daughter, who had
married an American some three years pre
viously, was staying with her husband on a
visit with him at the time. Denton was a
chemist and machinist who had seen better
days. At the time I speak of he occupied a
house in West Fleet street, Millwall, where,
under cover of carrying on a stationer's
business, he prosecuted, as we shall see,
certain curious investigations of a chemical
nature.
Next morning, while the family were at
breakfast Mr. Ashtou (Mr. iJidulph'a son-in-law)
read a letter he received by that
post, inlorming him that a distant relative
bad just died and left him a considerable
amount of property, which would, however,
require some time and care to realize. The
letter also advised him to return as speedily
as possible to America, as it was important
he shonld attend to tbe administra
tion of the estate himself. The Asb-
tons would have left for New York at
once were it not for some engagements they
huA In Iiondon. As it was, they arranged to
take their passage by the Cunard steamer
that was to-leave Liverpool on the following
Friday week. I may as well mention here
that Mr. Ashton was 'in very moderate cir
cumstances until the death of his relative,
and, as the property he was left would take
some months to realize, Bidnlph knew that
it would be useless to apply to bim for the
funds he required.
At about 4:30 o'clock Mr. Bidalph took a
steamer from London Bridge for Millwall
Pier, where he arrived shortly afterSo'elock.
West Fleet street is a very long street, com
posed of about 800 one-storied bouses that
run all round tbe peninsula known as the
Isle of Dogs; and to one who has been ac
customed to tbe better parts of London
nothing can be more dreary and depressing
Be Lay Sack in flu Chair.
than is the impression left by this random
mixture of little lodging houses, pablic
house and shop "Everything abemt the
place seems diminutive, sordid and peverty
Stricken.
Tbe landing stage is sear the Winning
I of West Tlet street,' aa u DeaWi hBff
was near the end, Mr. Bidnlph had to walk
about a mile belore he reached it
A thick, drizzling rain came on before he
landed, and there being, of coarse, no omni
buses or tramways, not to speak of cabs, iu
tbe place, he was thoroughly wet and
splashed with mud when he reached the
dingy little house of which he was in
quest
There was nobody In the shop when he en
tered, and he had to rap twice on the counter
before a slatternly-looking girl answered his
.summons.
"Is Mr. Denton in?" he asked.
"Father, sir?" was the answer; "no, sir,
but I'll send and fetch him if you'll wait a
minute. Jenny," calling to somebody at the
top of the house, "run round and tell father
he's wanted. A gentleman's here."
In a few seconds a boy of about 10 came
into the shop, saying:
"Jenny can't go; she's minding the baby.
I'll get father, sir, in a minute. The gentle
man who was here on Monday?" he added
Interrogatively, looking askant at BIdulph.
"No," replied Mr. Bidnlph; "but I want
to see him your father, I mean at once.
Look sharp; here's twopence for you."
, 'Thank yon, sir; I'll be back in a min
ute," said the boy, as he disappeared into
the street In about two minutes he came
back, walking some few yards behind a
little, man whose shabby dress con
trasted strangely with his counte
nance and bearing. Casually the thing
might pass unnoticed, but to even a
slightly observant eye it seemed like a
masquerade. Denton, for it was he, was a
man who was slightly under the middle
size in stature, but there was a certain
degage dignity, if I may use such an expres
sion, in his gait and carriage that made him
seem a good inch taller than he really was.
On his oval face there was that far-off. ab
stracted and imperious expression which
marks the educated mind that is constantly
pondering on large subject. In the wealth
ier parts of London, Cheapside or Begent
street, for .example, such a countenance and
figure in Its threadbare, ill made garment,
A conical utett Cylindfir.
would have been noted by many people ai
one of theccentricities of Loudon. lathe
Isle of Dogs it, simply had the effect of
making people pay an involuntary and ux
ogrrA g
THET ENTEBED A BOOM
conscions homage to a superior spirit by
standing a little out of the way as it passed.
"Well, Denton, Fm glad to see vou,"
said Bidulpb, aa Denton entered the shoo.
"Yes, Mr. Bidnlph," replied the latter
unconcernedly. "You wonld like to have a
chat with me, I suppose? Better go up
stairs, if vou aon't mind. This way, if you
please. Mind the banisters. We'll be quiet
here." As he spoke they entered a room
that was large, apparently, if jndged by
what might be supposed to be the dimensions
of tbe other rooms in the house. Its only
furniture consisted of two deal tables and
three wooden chairs, a miscellaneous assort
ment of bottles and metal vessels, and
a kind of gas stove. Having motioned his
visitor to oae of the chairs, Deatoa sat down,
saying
"Well, Mr. Bidnlph, I caa be of some ser
vice to you, I hope?"
"Possibly," said Bidnlph 'with affected
carelessness, Yob are engaged in your fa
vorite researches, I pressae?" looking
round the room as he spoke.
"Yea," replied Denton, "I have been ex
perimenting lately in a sabjeet that k only
in itsiafsBcyasyet"
"And that?" asked Bidnlph.
"The science of explosives," was the an
swer.. "Oh, iBdeed," said BIdulj, who .had
tamed s little pale.
"Ye, indeed," rejlied Deaioa, without
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takin? his eves off his visitor, "and mads
one or two rather important discoveries ra
There fras a tone of sarcasm in his voice aa " "
"he spoke. "Sou remember what happened'
when the English and American fleet were
cruising off the coast of Pern In 18687 No? ,
Well, the Chilians were bombarding Valpa- .
ralso while the English and United States
fleets wero looking on, when Commodores
Welles, of the United State3 fleet, said to -'
Captain Martin, who commanded the En
glish fleet, 'Come, let us stop, this. 1 caa
sink the whole of their (meaning the Chil
ian) fleet in 30 seconds.' Captain Martin.
however, did not consenVand so nothing
was done. Th Time newspaper, in re- x
lerrinc to tbe matter, sooke of Commodore --.
fXfmVmm' anioTi aa ft. riia nt VnVS. .J
bunkum.' It was nothing of the sorf.Tiow;
ever. The American navy is possessed cfs j
cannon balls which are made of metal tofi
hard that it cannot be welded by it action.
St Pointed at Se Spoke.
on the plate,, cannot be raised in tempera
ture more than a few degrees "by any known
process, and which will, consequently, cut
through any obstacle. I have lately dis
covered now this metal, which is called 'an
nealed steel,' is prepared."
"The Admiralty would give you 50,000
for the discovery," said Bidnlph.
"The Admiralty would do nothing of the
kind," responded Denton with acerbity,
"They would mess me about for years, as
the War Office did poor Schneider, ir they
did not ignore me altogether. No, no, Mr.
Bidnlph, the British Government is a very
fine institution, no doubt, but it has never
been famed for its liberality inventors.
The original discoverer of this annealed
steel was a shoemaker, who gets 55,000 a
year from tbe United States Government :
for holding his tongue abont it Had ha
been an Englishman he would probably,
have had to patent the invention to protect
himself. It would thus have been mada
known to everybody, and would, in all
likelihood, be adopted by the nation a few
years after the patent expired. But this
has nothing to do with explosives, and I
have here the model of a shot that will sink
any ship in the Davy in five seconds, and
which is simpler, I think; in its action and
construction than tbe American shot"
He took from off a shelf a conical steel
cylinder, about 4 feet in length and 1 foot in
diameter at the base. The bottom screwed
on and off; it ms hollow inside, and at tha
apex there was a button which pressed inward
by means of a spring.
"Now observe," he continued. "Bound
the apex you see there is an India rubber
cushion, which prevents any rebound when J-
this shot is discharged against the side of a
vessel. When -the cylinder strikes the sido
of a ship, it simply falls down without re
bounding; bnt the button is driven In, a
bottle of acid is smashed inside the shot;
dynamite, with which it is stored, is ignited;.
in ibout three seconds the dynamite ex
plodes; the shot by this time is beneath
the level of the keel. What is the con
sequence? Why, that as enormous
volume Of water is driven from under tho'
ship, which falls into the gulf thus
created and is lost. Perhaps voa will
think that all this Is visionary. It is per
fectly practicable, however, and was sug
gested to me bythe way In which Lien tenant
Maury sank the Wacbusetu in the Savan
nah river at the close of the American war.
LHe fastened together with a rope two cylin
ders containing gun-cotton, and let them,
float down the river. The rope canght tho
hawser of the Wachusetts, which was lying;
at anchor. The cylinders, thus impeded in.
their course, approached each other, the
current of the river pressed forward their
spiral sprines and exploded the charges sim
ultaneously, with tbe result that the ship
with 640 men disappeared. When she was
raised som6 years afterward by the United
States Government, it was found tnat not a
scratch of paint had been taken off her bot
tom or sides'. The explosion, by displacing
many thousand tons of water, simply caused
a vacuum into which the ship fell, and fa
which she was buried. My process is tha
same in principle, bnt much more simple
and certain in its operation.
"And now, Mr. Bidnlph," he continued,
when they had spent some minutes in ana
lyzing and discussing this "cannon ball of
the future," as Denton declared It to be,
"you have come to see me on business, I
know, and I shall not waste your time any
further with matters that are of no named
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THAT TTA3 LARGE.
iate interest to you. Is there anything 1
can do for youv"
He spoke in a manner that was as uncon
cerned and business-like as if be expectedialj
reply of tbe most innocent nature. Bidnlph
was silent lor a moment then he turned a.
little paler as he said, in a forced, coa-j
strained voice: ia
"Yes; by packing about half a hundreds
weiebt of dynamite in a box and arranging!
it so that it will explode on the eighth dxyj
after it has left this house."
"Certainly." replied Denton, in a Jertj
fsctly indifferent, matter-of-fact tone1
"Nothing can be easier. But about thai
terms?"
'"Before we speak of terms let me kaovrV
your modus operandi. What guarantees
have I that your machinery will work ae-
curatelv, and without discovering itself by
any ticking or noise? There was a case ofJ
that kind recentlv." f 3
"I do not use "any machinery to explodes
''Not use any machinery?" exclaJssedl
BIdulph.
"No,"" wa the answer; "that was tbe oIA-1
fashioned, clumsy metbod. My apparatus
works much more silently and certalrily.1
Yon sea that row of bottles?" He pointedj
as ne spose about a dozen Dottles whiei
were suspenses uy corns iram the ceiUaf
neck downward. They were corked asvdj
filled with a yellowish-colored IitraiM
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