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THE PITTSBUKG- DISPATCH. FRIDAY. JANUARY 31; 1890.
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THE P, US DEBT.
How it Has Puzzled lawyers
and Stockholders.
A BEPORTER'S SOLUTION.
It Owes Only $460,000 and Will
Square Up on July 31 Next.
HOW PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE
Talk about the reliability of history!
That of the last 50 years cannot be written
reliably, even by an unbiased historian
with all the necessary material at hand.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
only 44 years old, and it is safe to say that
not one person in 1,000 of the adnlt popula
tion ot the State can tell its correct history
nor come anywhere near it. Even lawyers,
unless they have had the company exten
sively lor a client, cannot tell it, and yet it
has been the most taiked-of institution in
the State.
As it seems that for many years to come
the people of this State are not likely to
own good wagon roads, some are inclined to
think that the Socialists, if they are ever to
accomplish anything, might begin by an at
tempt to secure the Pennsylvania Bailroad
and turn it over to the people at large;
issue the credit checks suggested by Ed
ward Bellamy and try the effect of their
system on Pennsylvania. If it proved
a success half their battle would
be won. They contend that the
people might run railways and
in fact, almost everything co-operatively
just as well as they do the postoffice system.
The purchase of the Pennsylvania Bailroad
is suggested as an experiment, more for the
purpose of testing the soundness of their
premises than anything else. Just now,
when seas of mud bound nearly all the
iarms in the Commonwealth, 'twould be a
great relief if a granger could occasionally,
by going across lots, reach the railway, cock
his heels up In a luxurious parlor car and whirl
away to the seashore, with no further expendi
ture of trouble than the presentation of his
credit check for the conductor to punch out a
number. Even that expenditure might be
avoided, as outsiders must use the road, and
they might be made to pay enough for such
service to make it self-sustaining.
TUB GEEAT BOAD'S CHAKTEK.
While these enthusiasts are not satisfied that
the road could be had on the terms they were
prepared to offer, they based their hopes on
section 23 of the charter of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, granted in ISIS, which provides:
That if the .Legislature of this State, shall, at
the expiration of 20 years from the completion
of said railroad, make provisions by law, for
the repayment to the said company, of the
amount expe ided by them in the construction
of said railroad, and in the construction of
permanent fixtures, and all other appurten
ances for the use of the same, together with
all moneys expended by said company for re
pairs, attendance and otherwise for the pur
pose of said railroad, with intei est on snch
sum at th rate of 8 per cent per annum, after
deducting the amount of tolls and other
revenue received by said company, for the use
of the same, then said railroad with its fixtures
and appurtenances shall vest in and become
the property of the people of this State, but if
the Legislature shall not at the expiration of the
said period of 20 j ears, claims the said railroad,
eta, as aforesaid, th.n the said company with
all its said rights and privileges shall continue
for another period of 20 years, subject to the
claim of the Legislature, as aforesaid, at the
expiration thereof, on the same terms and con
ditions as aforesaid, and so on. from 20 years to
20 years.
IDEAS OP 40 TIAES AGO.
It is safe to say not 1 In 1,000 people living In
this State know that there was such a provision
in the original charter. Some heavy stock
holders, when asked, acknowledged that they
did not know of it. What damped the ardor
of enthusiasts more than anything else was the
fear that among the 59 or 60 acts passed
relative to the road between the time
of its completion in 1SS2 to 1S74, the
year in which the new constitution was
adopted, some one might be found, releasing
the company from its obligations to surrender
under the terms of the charter of 1846, Any
one who reads that charter will understand
that the lawmakers of that day had not the
faintest conception of what the road and its
betterments wonld be worth 40 years later.
The language of the charter would indicate
that the enterprise was measured much on the
scale of the raging canal on whoe bosom then
floated all the commerce between the East and
the West. It Is even related that some of the
backwooas legislators supposed the road would
ascend grades, as the wagon roads do, and that
the wheels of the locomotives would be armed
with cogs to fit into depressions in the tracks.
Accordingly they thought speed would be low.
IN QUEST OF IKFOBMATIOlf.
Search was made for several days for infor
mation as to whether or not the State had legal
power to enforce section 23, but it was an up
hill job. Beitel's Titles to Corporations only
Increased the searcher's gloom, as references
to acts passed seemed interminable, and the
clause searched for might be but a couple of
lines in a seemingly simple act for some other
purpose, and so it proved.
John H. Hampton, Esq., was asked how the
matter stood, and he said he bad an impression
that the State had surrendered its original
right to take the road, but he could not say
certainly whether it had or not. He struck
the bull's eye. however, by statinc that he
thought it was in the legislation of 1857.
D. T. Watson, Esq., was of the same opinion
as Mr. Hampton, and he furnished a pointer
thich eventually showed that the worst fears
of socialism were n ell founded.
Under the charter of 1818. the State would
have had power to take possession in 1872. and
again iu 1892. To do so might give us a wel
come surcease from the turmoil of politics, for
who would descend into the mire of such a con
test when conscious that he was about to be
come a stockholder in the finest railway on the
globe? To undertake the acquisition wonld be
a tremendous job, in fact some people think it
doubtful whether the State would swallow the
road or the road swallow the State, and they
incline to think the latter would be the case.
Were it possible that the State could prove the
victor, taxes Mould be enormous for some
years, for, of course. It would defeat the object
of acquisition to water the stock, so that out
siders might get a controlling interest.
HO DANGEE FBOM THIS SOURCE.
A telegram from the Harnsbnrg correspond
ent of The Dispatch, January 27, says:
The act of March 7. 1861, will give you much
Information concerning tne Pennsylvania Bail
road Company's purchases of the public works.
On the day of its approval a contract was made
in accordance with its requirements. Prior to
that the company paid on account of the pur
chase in 1857, $179,933 75, and in 1S5S, $222,363 02.
It also paid in Interest in loans on account of
the purchase in 1S5S, $375,000; in 1859, $370,00,
audio I860. $365,000. It also reduced its original
indebtedness of $7,500,000 to S7.100.000 by pay
ments of 100.000 each in 1858, 1859, I860 and I SOL
Under the act of 1S61 it paid $130,000 on ac
count of commutation of tonnage tax, it having
already paid 1100.000 to cancel its indebtedness.
In lb62 it paid $360,000, and after that period it
regularly covered into the State treasury S4B0 -WO,
and it still owes 460,000. S230.00O of which is
payable January 31, and $230,000 July 31 next,
when the company will have met all its obliga
tions. TEEMS OF THE AGBEEMENT.
SThis is In the main in the line of the compro
mise of 1857, though, by the terms of that agree
ment, the company obligated itself to pay more
than the amount stated by the Harrisburg cor
respondent. That agreement,embodled in an act
approved May 16, provided that anyone, ex
cept the Pennsylvania Railway Company,
might bay the public works for $7,500,000. pro
vided no one bid more, but if the Pennsylvania
Hallway Company were the purchaser at the
minimum price. It was to pay $1,500,000 more,
making $9,000,000, and to give bonds bearing 5
per cent, payable semi-annually on Jan
uary 31 and Julv 31 of each year
until July 31, 1890, when the residue
was to be paid at the rate of $1,000,000 a year,
the purchase money to remain a lien on the
main line on the State works, and a mortgage
to be given on the main line. Provided that the
right of the Commonwealth to enter upon, re
fume and purchase the road of the Pennsyl-;
vanla Railroad Company as provided in their
charter, shall thereafter cease and determine.
MODIFIED BY THE TONNAGE ACT.
Section 1, of the act for the commutation of
tonnage duties, approved March 7, 1861, pro
vides that if the company "pay into the State
treasury, on acconnt of its indebtedness to the
Commonwealth, by reason of the purchase of
the main line of the public works, on the 81st
days of January and July, in every year, until
the 31st of July, 1S90, inclusive, such sum in ad
dition to the interest on its bonds owned by the
State, and in addition to its annual liability to
the State, on account of purchase money for
said line of improvements as will increase each
teml-annual payment on account of said debt
and interest to the sum of $230,000, and the ag
gregate of all such payments to the sum of
$13,570,000, and shall agree to pay on the said
31st of July, 1890, into the treasury the balance
then unpaid of the principal and interest of
said bonds, etc" the company shall be relieved
of the tonnage tax and "exonerated, released
and relieved from every lien and liability to the
State on account thereof."
It will probably be conceded without debate
that If the people want to run the Pennsylvania
Railroad they must put their surplus into the
purchase on terms dictated by the company, as
the right of condemnation is certainly blocked
very effectually.
HIS FIRST APPOINTMENTS.
Postmaster SIcKenn Announce! the Reten
tion of Missel Steele and Johnston
Formal Transfer of the Postoffice To
Nlclil The Line of Policy BInpped Out.
Postmaster McKean will assume charge ot
the office at midnight to-night. At the close of
business hours to-night there will be instituted
a process which in mercantile houses is denom
inated "taking account of stock." Every stamp,
letter sheet, postal card, payable money order,
and, in fact, everything transferable intomoney
will be taken into account. The two Govern
ment inspectors will perform this task, aided by
Su rintendent of Mails CoUins and Cashier
McOalley. The accounts and books will be
balanced to a cent, a statement in full will be
made with the retiring postmaster. Mr. John B.
Larkin, and Mr. McKean will be installed.
such weighty preparations for a settle
ment are neither usual nor necessary
in ordinary offices. The Pittsburg postoffice
is, however, a Sub-treasury of the United
States, and receives daily financial reports
from no less than 1,400 money order offices con
tained in f onr States and covering a territory
of over 3,000 square miles, and the Government
detailed two ot its most expert inspectors to
rush the transfer in order to make sure that
there wonld be no interruption of business be
tween to-day and to-morrow.
All the present officials and financial clerks
in the office have filed their bonds with Post
master McKean. and every detail has been at
tended to. Measurements wore taken yester
day for entire new furnishings and appoint
ments, and they will be in Colonel bwords'
office to-morrow. He has promised to send all
the material which the Treasury Department
provides early next week. The cabinet work
which is to iro in comes from local workshops.
and is nearly completed. Within a week the
interior of the office will be entirely trans
formed. Postmaster McKean sprung a surprise on
the commnnity last night in his announcement
of the appointees to the two best payinc offices
within his gift. Miss Mary E. Steele, Superin
tendent of the Money Order Division, and
Miss Nan M. Johnston, Superintendent of the
Registry Division, will retain those positions
under the new regime. Miss Johnston is the
sister of Hon R. H. Juhnston, District Attor
ney, and daughter of ex-Governor Johnston,
and her Democratic lineage is unquestioned.
Mr. McKean gave bis reasons for the contin
uance in office of these popular and efficient
ladies to a Dispatch reporter as follows: "I
am well aware that the numerons applicants
for the two positions which Mioses Steele and
Johnston will retain may feel inclined to ques
tion my action, but 1 am perfectly free-footed
in every regard so far as the administration of
this office is concerned, and I choose to take a
higher ground in this matter than mere spoilsman-hip.
Although both positions are beyond
the scope of the civil service, it was my judg
ment that the retention of both ladies was the
best kind of business policy. Perfectly familiar
with their duties, awarded high praise by the
Postoffice Department, and beyond all question
as to competency, I feel that in availing
myself of their services I am adhering
to the policy I have mapped out: that
of running this office in a business manner. 1
may promise that the public shall be given no
opportunity to question the business qualifica
tions of those who gradually displace the pres
'ent appointive officials. I Intend to study the
demands of the service and the best interests
of the public, and I shall take ample time to
determine the fitness of those who will serve
under me."
Miss Steele was appointed a clerk In the
monev order division on February L 1877, by
Postmaster George H. Anderson, bhe became
Superintendent of the Division two years sub
sequently, and has challenged the commenda
tion of every Postoffice Inspector who has
visited this office by her business-like methods.
She has three clerks workluc under her. and
is a brunette, very affable in manners and a re
markably bright business woman.
Miss Johnston was appointed by Postmaster
Anderson on April 1, 1877, and, like Miss Steele,
began as a clerk. She became Superintendent
of the Division in 1883, succeeding John Gripp,
Esq She has received hich praise from seve
ral Postmaster Generals for her able adminis
tration of her duties. Miss Johnston is a finely
educated woman, and belongs to one of the
oldest families in the State, and her appoint
ment will please the business world of Fitts
bnrg. Mr. McKean said yesterday that a post
office employe who made it a point to reach the
office at 6 o'clock every morning, as Miss John
ston does, may fairly be classed as an enthu
siast in her work.
James S. McKean, the lately-appointed poBt
master, who takes office to-night, yesterday
visited Chief Bigelow to get the use of one of
the Council Chambers for the civil service ex
amination, which takes place February 4.
There aro 130 applicants tor examination, as
against 160 when Postmaster Larkin first took
office, so the ambition for being letter carriers
does not seem to diminish very materially.
Mr. McKean said he was as much astonished
as gratified at the fact that so few people had
applied for positions so far. It relieved him of
the annoyance and pain of refusing favors
which he would be unable to grant. He secured
the use of the Council Chamber for the exam
ination. A $100,000 JOB.
A New Gad Line From Bntler County to be
Bnllt to Tarentnm for the Plate Glass
Company Manufacturers Are Not Afraid
of the Supply Fmlinu.
The various reports and theories circulated
so frequently of late, about the failure of the
natural gas supply, does not seem to frighten
the manufacturers to any great extent. The
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company has just closed
a contract for a new line which will convey the
fuel from the new field at Sarversville. Butler
county, to their works at Tarentnm. The line
will cost over $100,000, and will be completed by
March 10. It will be used to furnish an addi
tional supply to the Creighton plant. It is re
ported that quite a lively and interesting com
petition ensued between Eastern manufacturers
and a Pittsburg firm for the contract. R. W.
Carroll, manager of the American Tube and
Iron Company, succeeded in securing it, and
will furnish their Matheson patent joint pipe
for the line, which is to be a 12-inch main, nine
and a half miles long.
It is a noteworthy fact that the agitation
about natural gas giving out does not prevent
capitalists and manufacturing concerns from
risking their money to develop new fields and
put in new lines. Upward of $2,000,000 have
been invested in this manner witbiu the last
six months. The Manufacturers' Company
spent about $800,000 In putting down their main
to the Bellevernon field. The Equitable Com
pany, composed mainly of manufacturers up
the Allegheny river, laid a line to the Mnrrys
ville field, and have put in $1,000,090 for the de
velopment of that field. The Butler county
field is the latest, and it promises to be one of
the best fields of any yet developed.
There are two concerns working in that local
ity. Captain Ford has one well down, the
pressure of which is 400 pounds per minute.
Several ether wells have been drilled, and their
pressure is such as to render them almost be
yond control. Captain Ford has run a lino
from Sarver through Slate Lick, in Armstrong
county, to Ford City below Kittanning. He
expects to get his entire supply for the works
at Ford City from that field, and later he will
be able to supplv tho Tarentnm works also
from the same field. The Standard Plate
Glass Company of Butler is also interested in
the developeroent of the Butler county terri
tory, and is now getting gas from there for the
operation of the works at that place. The
Grapeville, Latrobe and ML Morris fields are
flourishing and show no sigUB of giving out.
Several other large gas lines are talked
about to be laid in Pittsburg and other manu
facturing points in this vicinity within the next
two or three months, but the persons con
cerned are not willing to make the details of
the plans known tor awhile. Instead of the
capitalists becoming alarmed over the possible
failure of gas as a fuel there seems to be an in
creased activity in the development of the ter
ritories, from which the product is secured,
with apparently equal, if not greater, success
than at any previous time.
All-Mght Cnra on Rebecca Street.
A notice has been posted in the cars of the
Rebecca street car line informing patrons of
the road that all-night cars will be placed on
the road, to run every hour, beginning on Feb
ruary 1.
Good Salt Trade.
The Pittsburg Salt Company reports the con
dition of that business brisk. Bales and prices
are good and the production la large. Ail the
salt miners axe fully employed.
ANDEEWS HITS BACK
Ho Says Secretary Windom Intends
to Push the flew Postoffice.
THE PLAN OF PENALTY CONTRACTS.
The Confidential Errand of Mr. Windrim's
Expert Inspector.
HOW JIAL0NE WILL HOREY THE W0KK
There are briars in Architect Malone's
path just at present. He has been sur
prised by the vigorous shaking np that the
Government building has lately received,
and his friends and himself are claiming
that the charges of inaction are being made
to veil personal matters, and that the recent
ruction is being used as a lever to force him
out of office. The views of Colonel James
P. Andrews, given a Dispatch represent
ative at some length yesterday, are of in
terest, as it is shown in just what manner
Secretary Windom and Supervising Archi
tect Windrim look upon the matter, and
what steps they intend to take.
Colonel Andrews said: "I called on Sec
retary Windom on private business. "When
it had been concluded he said, abruptly:
'How islhis Pittsburg Government build
ing matter?'
"I told Mr. "Windom that if the building
could be completed and turned over to the
Federal officials within a year it would cre
ate as big a sensation as a millenium. Mr.
"Windom then asked when I thought the
building conld be completed, and I told blm by
the first of October, in my opinion. He sent a
messenger for Mr. Windrim, who came up
stairs. He asked me the same question, and I
gave him the same answer as Mr. Windom re
ceived. "'Well,' said Mr. Windrim, that's what
every man we have sent to Plttsburc said. Col
onel Swords was very emphatic In his belief
that the building could be hustled to an early
completion, and said that the people he met in
Pittsburg were clever enough to have some
thing special done for them.'
"I asked Mr. Wiudnm what could be done to
hurry matters, and he replied that Mr. Pattison
would make an inspection of the building and
hurry back to Washington, and that after
hearing the report immediate action would be
taken. Mr. windrim spoke with much energy
on the subject, and said very distinctly that in
some way new life must be infused into the
matter. He said that he had had a note from
Mr. Wanamaker asking that every effort be
made to provide Mr. McKean with new quar
ters. Mr. Windom assured me when I left the
Treasury building that something radical
would be done right away.
NO AX TO GEIND.
"My interest in this matter is simply that of
a private citizen who happens to know that the
entire construction of such a building Is a small
matter, and the finishing of it a mere trifle. I
don't know Mr. Malone, but I cannot help be
lieving that his course has been dilatory. I
will inst give you an illustration. You place a
contractor in a position where he can clear
$10,000 on a contract in four months' time. He
would be a fool to consnme eight months.
With an architect the condition is just re
versed. The slow-going methods of the past
have escaped notice, but if Mr. McKean's
efforts and the influence of his friends can
cause a change in the metter, the community
will applaud, no matter whose personal feelings
are injured.
I told Mr. Windom that Pittsburgers were
exasperated with the slow progress and the
endless delays, and I am free to say that such
dawdlintras has been the rule on the whole job
is an outrage upon the community, and Mr,
Windom said that now that the matter had
been properly presented to him, he would make
a decided change. I am entirely disinterested,
for there is not the remotest consideration
which would tempt me to touch such a contract.
I have simply asserted that any one of a dozen
contractors in Pittsburg could take that build
ing in hand and finish it. I would like to see
the work classified, and let ont on penalty con
tracts, and Mr. Malone conld draw up specifi
cations and supervise the work under snch
conditions, just as well as any other contrac
tor." Colonel Andrews was asked to instance some
comparisons in the way of laying stone. He
said: We'll take the old Government building
for an instance. It was built by me; one of my
first contracts. Dy the way. I do not remember
the year, but we started work in the early
spring. The foundry of Boll man & Garrison
was torn down, and the excavations made be
fore a foot of stone was laid. The walls were
up and the roof on before cold weather, and
the cast iron beams and arches were all con
structed as the work went along. Any building
of the size of the new Government building
ought to be easily finished in IS months. The
stone in the St. Lonis bridge was laid at the
rate of 450 cubic yards a day. It is no use to
say that anything is impossible in the line of
building. I am convinced that there will be a
new deal on the Government bnildiug,and that
justifies the agitation in progress."
ME. PATTISON EATHEK MI7M.
Joseph N. Pattison, whose official position in
the Treasury Department at Washington is
that of Inspector of Repairs for Public Build
ings, arrived in the city yesterday, put up at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel, and spent the day
inspecting the new postoffice and talking with
Superintendent Malone.
Mr. Pattison is the confidential agent of Su
pervising Architect Windrim. His reports are
made personally to that gentleman. He is an
expert architect, being noted for many years
in Philadelphia. He is about GO years old, tall,
with sandy sidewhiskers. He looked over the
Fedral building very carefully, and spent about
two hours conversing with Mr. Malono in his
office. While Mr. Pattison was recognized by
Mr. Malone as an important official of the
Treasury Department, and was given every
facility to obtain information, be did not tell
Mr. Malone the object of his visit, nor did he
reveal the drift of his instructions.
Mr. Pattison was visited last evening by a re
porter. He was exceedingly reluctant to talk
at all about his visit. He said that, while be
came on public business, the nature of his
work was confidential and to be revealed to
Mr. Windrim alone. He said that his trip to
Pittsburg was not special. He is on a tour to
the West, being directed to visit public build
ings in other cities. He admitted that he had
instrnctions to make some special inquiries in
regard to the Pittsburg postoffice. Mr. Patti
son said that be thought the new building
ought to be finished within two years, perhaps
in a year and a half. He believed that the
first floor could be completed for occupation
by the postmaster within nine months.
ilr. Malone returned home yesterday morn
ing from Washington, where he had a long in
terview with Mr. Windrim. The latter said
that he wanted the work pushed. Mr.' Malone
said that better progress could be made only
by working the full force at night as well as by
day. He was asked to sendno the department
a written statement of the manner in which the
work can be hurried. Ho will recommend the
er.-ction of electric lights all over the struc
ture. The force will be increased to 270, three
times the number now employed. As soon as
his recommendations are approved by the de
partment the changes will be made.
Mr. Malone is paying little or no attention to
the petitions which are in circulation asking
for his removal. He does not believe that they
will have any weight with either the Secretary
of the Treasury or the Supervising Architect.
WAS IT AN ANARCHIST?
Attempt to Blow Up Father Flecklnger's
House In Cbartiers.
The house of Rev. Father Joseph Flecklnger,
pastor of the German Catholic Church, of
Chartiers borough, was partially wrecked be
tween 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning by
the explosion of a dynamite cartridge that had
been placed in the cellar under the front part
of the building and tired by a fnse ten feet
long. The house is on Lincoln avenue, near
the Panhandle Railway. Father Fleckinger
and the other members of the household were
awakened by the report and the settling of the
building and the explosion was of such force
that had the building been of brick Instead of
wood it wonld doubtless have fallen and
crushed all inside.
Suspicion points to a rough looking man who
called at the priest's residence the day
previously shortly after noon and asked for as
sistance. The people of the borough are not in a very
pleasant state of mind, as they cannot divine
the object of the miscreant or miscreants,
though it is supposed the animus must have
been against Father Fleckinger alone or some
one in bis service. Some charge it to anar
chists, who are said to exist more or less nu
merously in the vicinity of Mansfield.
A Change of Route.
Beginning to-day the Pleasant Valley electric
cars will come up Sixth avenue and make a re
turn start on Smithfield street Only a few of
the cars will run for the present to the postof
fice. The change in the switch was made last
night, and is intended to save time and avoid'
the Central Traction cars.
MUST PAY SEVEN CENTS.
The Traction Company Calls a Halt on Coun-
oilmen They Concede Everything bat
Transfer TlckeU Their Ordlnnnco
Passed the Committor.
The Allegheny street Railway Committee
spent last evening considering the ordinance
granting a right of way to the Pittsburg, Alle
gheny and Manchester Railway Company.
President Hunter offered an amendment to
the first section, substituting the word
"tracks" for "route." He desired that the or
dinance give a right of way over only the
streets upon which the company's tracks are
now laid. The amendment was adopted and
the section passed as amended.
Mr. Dalzell, President of the Traction com
pany, who was present said that they did not
object to paving between the rails and a foot
on the outside for a cable road, but if they
built an electric line they should have the
same privilege as the other electric roads.
They only paved a foot ontside the rails. Mr.
Muehlbrouner remarked that Allegheny has
been trying to get good streets and now was a
good chance to commence getting them.
Chairman McAfee said that In Pittsburg, if a
pipeline was laid, the company would bere-
S aired to repave with block stone. "Mr.
alzell knows that," he added.
"No, I don't" replied Mr. Dalzell.
"Well, 1 understand your company Is favored
over there," answered Mr. McAfee.
Mr. Lowe sucgested that the ordinance be
amended so that if an electric road is built
they would only be required to pave with block
a foot on each side of the rail.
Mr. Muehlbronner insisted that the company
be required to repave between the rails and for
a foot ontside. President Hunter said that
this wonld be a hardship. Also when the new
roads to the suburban districts would be bnllt
this would be demanded, and it would have the
effect of preventing the construction of such
roads.
Mr. Ober offered an amendment that if a
cable road is built the company repave all be
tween the rails and a foot on the outside; but
if an electric road, only a foot on each side of
the rails.
Arthur Hunter wanted to know, as Mr. Ober
is Interested in a new street railway, if he was
entitled to vote on this question. Chairman Mc
Afee replied that he was not interested in this
railway. The amendment was passed, and Mr.
Neeb offered another. The clause fixing a S
cent fare between Woods' Run and Pittsburg
read over the line "via the market house." As
the line did not go by way of the market house
he wanted it to read "via Western avenue and
Federal street" It was adopted.
Section 3 required that the company aban
don one ot the two tracks now on Rebecca and
Lacock streets, and the tracks on School and
Craig streets. A. M. Neeper, .Esq., attorney
for the company, said that the intention was to
abandon either the track on School street or
Craig street and not on both streets. The
clause was amended to read either School or
Craig street instead of both.
Mr. Dalzell said that the company would con
cede the paving matter already agreed upon.
They did not wish any opposition in Councils
which wonld send the ordinance back to the
committee, and though they considered it un
fair they wanted to go to work at once on the
road, having been waiting a year now.
This offer, which involved paving to the ex
tent of nearly $250,000, was at once acted upon
and the amendment to the paving clause
stricken out, thus obliging the company to
pave all between the rails and a foot outside
with block stone.
Section 1 was amended to provide that the
work of constrnctlon be done under such regu
lations as may be prescribed by the City Engi
neer and Committee on Street Railways. City
Engineer Ehler.i suggested that a provision be
made that the street car companies pay into
the City Treasury enough to cover the cost of
cleanlnc and repaying the streets over which
the railways run. The city now has about TO
miles of street railways and the cost of clean
ing and repairing the streets over which they
rnn is about $70,000 per year. Chairman Mc
Afee said the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Man
chester Company scrape up the dirt and leave
piles of mud lay sometimes as long as three
weeks.
Section 8 provides for transfer tickets to
be given at the corner of Ohio and Federal
streets, on the Troy Hill and Pittsburg, Alle
gheny and Manchester lines, so that the fare
from any point on the Troy ri 111 line to any
point on the Western avenue line would not
exceed 5 cents. Mr. Dalzell said they had
agreed to do so for 2 cents extra, but not for a
single fare. He said:
'Gentlemen, I think that I have made all
concessions that the company can make. I have
nothing more to say either way."
CHARTIEES' ANNUAL MEETING.
A Lively Discussion Over a Decrease In
the Stock Mr. Scaife Wanted to Know
What Became of It No Dividends De
clared A Fnvornble Ontlook.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Chartiers Valley Gas Company was held in
the company's office, in the Garrison building,
Wood street yesterday afternoon. There was
a very fair attendance, and considerable inter
est was manifested in the meeting. A hot dis
cussion was narrowly avoided when the renort
of the auditing committee was read. The re
port showed that the total number of shares of
stock was 1016 less than last year, and this de
crease bad cost the company over $83,000.
Mr. W. B. Scaife started the ball rolling by
asking a three-pointed question, as to how the
stock was disposed of; whether it bad been
secured as collateral or bought up. and If the
latter, where the directors got their authority
for reducing the stock without tbe consent of
the stockholders. Mr. C. O. Smith, of the com
mittee, attempted to answer the questions by
saying that he thought the stock had been
secured as collateral. Mr. Scaife was not satis
fied, and directed his queries to President
Chambers. Tbe latter gentleman admitted
that he conld not give a satisfactory explana
tion of the matter, as since the lease of the
plant to the Philadelphia company the latter
has the full management and control of the
Cbartiers Company.
Mr, Alexander Kirkpatrick said the stock
holders should have been given an explicit de
tailed statement of the flnances.so that it conld
have been understood, and all difficulty could
have been avoided. The matter was passed
over for the time being by instructing the au
diting committee consisting of James Camp
bell, U. O. Smith andC. F. Klopfer. to go over
the bonds of the company, and prepare a com
plete statement of tbe receipts and expenses
for the past year to present to the stockholders
at a special meeting to be called in the near
future. Secretary Tener said after the meet
ing adjourned that he regarded the company's
failure to pay dividends, as the canse for tbe
dissatisfaction among the stockholders; but he
thinks the company is getting into better shape
now. and will soon be able to declare a divi
dend. President Chambers submitted his report
Under the circumstances and conditions it was
regarded as quite satisfactory. The receipts
of the company are based on tbe percentage of
tbe Philadelphia Company's net earnings, and
amount to $533,000, as against about $100,000 for
tbe previous year, an increase of about
per cent A corresponding increase for tbe
coming year will enable tbe company to pav
Interest on their bonds, taxes and all probable
expenses for the year and a dividend of at least
10 per cent In considering what the proba
bilities are for revenue for the coming
year attention is called to the many independ
ent gas lines laid from the different fields, all
of which have bees laid for the purpose of sup-
lying the manufacturers with gas. The Phila
elphia Company has lost in old contracts dur
ing the last year.owmg to these manufacturers'
lines Deine laid, about $500,000 of old business
and have gained in new contracts about $600,
000. The only contingent that would reduce
the company's receipts for the coming year is
considered to be an insufficient supply of gag,
and this is not feared.
The financial statement for tho year ending
January 1, 1890, shows assets available, 83fts..
367 77; stock in hands or Treasurer, $991,600;
unavailable assets. $4,529,250 76; liabilities, capi
tal stock. Si, 000, 000; profit and loss, $532,028 82;
account payable, $5,191 71; bills payable, $225,
000; bills payable, due directors, $95,000; mort
gage, $975,000.
The following directors, being the old board,
were elected: James A. Chambers, James
Lauchlln, H. Sellers McKee, A C. Dravo,
William H. Singer, W.B. Schmertz, Duncan C.
Phillips, Oalvm Wells, John H. Dalzell, M. W.
Watson, James M. Bailey, D. C. Ripley and
Edward E. Denniston.
PITTSBURG LIGHTS OP LONDON.
An Order for 30,000 Lamps Received in
This City Yesterday.
A cable message from London, England, for
Westinghouse alternating current apparatus
for 30,000 incandescent lights was received at
the office of the company yesterdav. The
order came from the Metropolitan Electnc
Supply Company, Lira., of London. The
same organization has already several plants in
the English metropolis which are all fitted out
with machinery from Pittsburg.
The cable states that the shipment of the
machinery must be made immediately. The
entire outfit for this plant consisting of West
inghouse engines, dynamos, exciters and other
electrical appliances, will be got ready for ship
ment immediately.
AFTEE THE FIRE BUGS.
A Dozen Officers in Citizen's Clothes Tnrned
ilmo tbe Ent End Districts.
If the fire bugs who have been operating In
and about Oakland recently are disposed to
continue their work of firing new houses, they
will be brought up rather quickly. Inspector
Whitehouse and Caotain Mercer, of the Second
district, last night distributed about a dozen
officers in citizen's dress through the inspected
district
THE GLASS OUTPUT.
Secretary Delwarte's Report to the
Universal Federation.
FLINT BOTTLE SCALE ABOLISHED.
Pittsburg and Southern Coal Company
Finally Dissolved.
THE C0KEES' SCALE TO BE DISCUSSED
In this week's issue The Commoner and
Glass Worker publishes the annual report
of Secretary Albert Delwarte, of the Uni
versal Window.Glass Workers Association.
The report is voluminous, and contains
much important and interesting statistical
matter. It is1 addressed to William Slicker,
of Pittsburg, President of the Universal
Federation.
The report opens with a long account
of the strikes at Sunderland and Spon
Lane, England, in which the workmen
were successful.
For Prance, Italy and Spain there is no
change in the condition of affairs. In
Belgium the last quarter showed some im
provement ' The price of glass rose, and tbe
prices of 1874 are hoped to be reached. The
number ot melting furnaces in operation is
125, idle 66; numbers of pots 1,090, idle
487; flattening houses 292, idle 49. The
production of window glass has been 23,
702,170 square meters, which sold for
27,069,655 francs. From 1884 the production
of window glass has been as follows:
1 ISSi 21.609,390 sqnare metres, worth 32,339,450
francs; 1885, 32,448,000 square metres, worth
30,491,000 francs: 1886, 22,567,200 square metres,
worth 27,033,640 francs; 1887, 25,914.706 sqnare
metres, worth 80,280,223 francs; 1888, 23.7U2.170
square metres, worth 27,069,653 francs.
The statistics lor 1889 cannot now be given,
bnt from tbe above we find that the price of a
square metre has been in 1834, 10.41 francs:
lbSo, 10.30 francs; 1886, 10.11 francs; 1887, 10.10
francs, and 1888, 10.10 francs. A square metre
is equal to 1,550 gquareiinches, and a franc is
valued at 19 2-3 cents American money.
Tbe production and value of plate glass in
the same province are as follows:
1884, 271.000 square metres, worth 5.340.000
francs: J 885. 286.000 square metres, worth 4.338.-
000 francs: 1886, 271,000 square metres, worth
4.002,000 francs; 1887, 287,600 square metres,
worth 4,512,600 francs: 1888. 287.000 square
metres, worth 4,664,000 francs.
The price per sqnare metre therefore was:
1834, 19.70 francs; 1885, 17.21 francs: 1886, 14.71
francs: 1887, 1560 francs; 188S, 18.20 francs. The
year 1889 has been as lucrative to plate glass
manufacturer as 1SS4 and 1S85. but for tbe
window class manufacturer, the first two quar
ters of 1889 were disastrous and quite as sad as
1886. It was only during the last quarter of
the year that prices arose with firmness.
POTS IIT OPERATION.
There are now in operation in the Belgium
provinces 35 coal pot furnaces, 12 gas pot fur
naces. 21 tank furnaces, and 172 flattening
houses that represent 990 pots in operation.
The statistics for the United Scates which
Secretary Delwarte also gives in bis report says:
There are in the United SUtes 95 window glass
works, of which 61 are in the Western district
with 854 pots, of which 760 are in operation.
For the Eastern district, 20 works with 282 pots,
of which 243 are in operation. In the North
western district 158 pots, of which 14S are in
operation. This shows a total of 1,294 pots, of
which 1,153 are in operation and 133 idle. There
are also 3 tanks, 1 at Streator, III., and 2 at
Jeannette. Other tank furnaces will soon be in
operation at Bridgeton, N. J., and Fostona, O.
In Germany several tank furnaces are to be
built, but during the year past the prodnctlve
capacity was not increased. From all the in
formation we have it seems that the tank
furnaces, that were just rejected by all the
ancient manufacturers, are now established
unquestionably. If they do not give all the re
sults expected at the beginning, the obtained
results allow the hope that through the re
searches under way they will soon be superior
to the results obtained in the coal and gas pot
furnaces.
From the full statistical report of furnaces in
operation in December, 1889, we take the fol
lowing totals: The report for Belgium shows
there are in operation 35 coal pot furnaces and
12 gas poi furnaces with a total of 340 pots;
also 21 tank furnaces having 145 shifts
of men, 85 of which are on double.
There are 172 flattening houses in operation.
THE TEADE IN ENGLAND.
The report for England for December shows
that at Hartley fc Co.'s works at Sunderland,
three coal furnaces, 24 pots are in operation
and one tank with tour shifts of men. There
are 42 blowers, 37 gatherers and 5 apprentices,
18 flatteners and 2 apprentices, and 19 cutters
and 3 apprentices employed. There are 16 pots
idle at Hartley's works. At Spon Lane there
are 7 gas furnaces in operation with 76 pots in
ail, and there are 58 blowers at work, 69 gather
ers, 25 flatteners and 16 cutters. Eight pots are
idle there. At Filklnton Bros., St. Helens, 13
tanks working 76 shifts of men, one giving em
ployment to 220 blowers, 220 gatherers, 140 flat
teners and 82 cntters are in operation. There
are two tanks idle at SL Helens.
There is no change reported at other places.
At the Sunderland tank they have been trying
to work with five, six and seven blowers, but
it Is thought four blowers on a shift is all they
can use.
Along with these statistics tho report gives a
detailed account of many strikes In foreign
countries, also their outcome, and the method
bv which they were settled.
"Wbile tbe men were on strike at Mr. Hart
ley's factory at Sunderland, England, a num
ber of them emigrated to Jeannette, and in
trying to get men to work in his factory, he
told them they were not wanted to take strik
ers places, but to take the places of those who
had come to this country. Mr. Delwarte gives
many other suggestions in his report intended
to benefit the trade.
COKE BALES IESTEEDAT.
A. Conference Arranged for Next Week to
Consider a New Scale.
Several coke dealers of this city were seen
yesterday concerning the telegram from Scott
dale, which was published yesterday, statine
that coke sales were increasing and a strike
was imminent The dealers said that the de
mand for coke has been good for some time
past, and that the sales hare been equal to pro
duction right along. There has been very little
fluctuation in the market, and no
increase In sales has occurred of late.
Prices have not changed any since last No
vember, and are as good as can be expected.
Many dealers seem to think that the coke trade
could not be in much better shape than at the
present time, while others believe that it could
be still better. At any rate none are found
who are willing to say that the condition of the
business is not good.
The only change in the sales or demand is
that, while shipments toward the East have
fallen off, they have increased toward tbe
WesL Nothing definite is known as to what
will be done about the scale. It is understood
that a demand for a higher scale will be made
by tbe workmen, but what the outcome will be
is hard to say.
A conference meeting between the operators
and men is arranged for next week, but no day
has been selected. It will be held In Scottdale.
Mr. John F. Atcheson and Mr. T. J. Donahue
returned from the West yesterday. They had
been to Chicago, and they report trade as very
brisk in that section.
THE SOUTHERN GONE UP.
Coal Operators Will Now Sell Their Coal
for the Best Price Offered.
As stated In The Dispatch several days ago.
the Pittsburg and Southern Coal Company has
about passed out of existence as an organiza
tion. Yesterday the company made the last
distribution of the coal on hand, and each in
dividual firm will now sell their own coal to
suit themselves. There is no agreement in re
gard to prices, and each operator can sell as
low as he sees fir.
The company had 155 boats loaded with coal
on hand. There were about 8,720,000 bushels,
worth 327,800. Great trouble was experienced
dividing this coal among tho 13 firms in tbe
company, but at last an equal distribution was
made. The company will vacate their present
offices within a few days, and the old days of
competition on the river will again be wit
nessed. THEI WILL PROTEST.
A Meeting of the Coal Exchange to Oblcct
to Senator Harris' BUI.
"The rlvermen will protest," said Captain
W. W. O'Neil yesterday in speaking of the bil
Introduced in the Senate to amend tbe act
authorizing the construction of a bridge across
the Mississippi river at Memphis, by reducing
tbe required height from 75 to 65 feet. "We
had one fight about that bridge, and will have
another if that scheme is tried. When we re
ceive official notification of the bill we will call
a meeting of the Coal Exchange and take
action upon it."
TBE GLASS TEADE.
The Eastern Strike Settled No Slint-Down
Will Occnr in tbe Factories In tbe
Western District Price or Bottles In
creasing and Trnde Good.
The Western flint and green glass manu
facturers met yesterday morning at the Hotel
Anderson. They were In session about two
hours, and nothing of importance was done,
in accordance.with a resolution pased at their
meeting a few weeks ago they met to adopt
some measures to aid the Eastern manufactur
ers in their struggle with the men. it was
reported at that time that they would close
down the Western factories or extend finan
cial aid to the Eastern people. Since that time
the face of tblnes has changed materially, and
the struggle has practically ended in favor of
tho blowers. Several Eastern delegates were
expected to be present, but they received a
telegram notifying them of a settlement in
Baltimore tbe previous day, and in consequence
no Eastern men arrived, and they adjourned.
They have been holding regular meetings for
some time past wltn a view to improve tbe
price of bottles and some attention was given
this question yesterday. The association list
of prices has been withdrawn, and every manu
facturer now makes his own special prices.
This was done in order to allow them to take
advantage of the prices of bottles which have
been on the upward move for some weeks
back. There are at present a large number of
glass men in town representing firms from all
sections of the country.
They have samples displayed in the Bissell
Block, tbe Hotel Anderson and Hotel Schlosser.
At the latter place the greatest nnmber is con-
eregatea. a nonses Deing represented.
In speaking of trade, yesterday, Mr. L. B.
Martin.representing the Fostoria Glass Works,
said that although trade was fair, there was
nothing to boast of. Mr. J. E. Ellis, of the
Findlay Flint Glass Company, said: "Tbe con
dition of tbe glass trade is better just now than
it has been for years. Thero are more articles
now made from glass than ever before, and
there is more of it being sold. The reason for
this is that the price is very low, and it Is
within the reach of all. Glass is being sold in
smaller quantity because the facilities for
shipping are better, but people are buying
oftener. More and better glass is being pro
duced and there seems to be a demand for still
greater production."
C0STELLO IN T0WX.
The Knlffht of Labor Official Home to In
vestigate Some Small Hatters.
John Costello, member of tbe General Ex
ecutive Board of the Knights of Labor, arrived
home last night from Philadelphia, where he
has been attending the sessions of the board.
While in the city he will investigate several
minor matters connected with D. A. No. 3. He
says the K. of L. is slowly pushing its way up
hill and is still growing in "membership.
A session of the General Executive Board
will be held in this city in tbe summer. Tbe
board will be here about one week. Public
meetings will be held, at which General Master
Workman Powderly and other executives will
make addresses.
A LOCAL DECREASE.
Pennsylvania Pnmencer Earnings to East
Liberty Fall Off 820,000-Cable Roads
Catting In Louses Balanced by Big In
creates at Other Places.
Colonel Thomas E. Watt District Passenger
Agent of the Pennsylvania Bailroad, yesterday
completed his annual report of the passenger
bnslness done during 1889 between this city and
Harrisburg. It contains an interesting array
of figures in connection with tbe heavy increase
in tbe sale of tickets, and also shows to what
extent the cable cars have hurt the suburban
bnsiness of the company.
The report is a carefully tabulated statement
of the receipts of each station, including tbe
downtown office of tbe company at the corner
of Fifth avenue ana Smithfield street. It cov
ers every station on the Pittsburg and Altoona
divisions, but does not include Harrisburg.
There are 220 stations altogether. Among the
many pecnliar features shown is an Increase of
nearly $50,000 at Johnstown. The cause of this
is said to be due to the Conemaugb flood.
The total sales for the year amounted to 83,
454,603 1L Of this amount 81,106,258 08 was re
ceived for foreign business, or points on other
railroads, and J2.34S.345 03 was for local or bnsi
ness on their own line. In 1888 tbe local sales
were 82,141.534 80 and the .foreign 81,017,006 49.
This shows there was an increase of 889.251 59
In tbe foreign and 206.810 23 In the local busi
ness. The total increase in both was 8296,
06182. At the Union station the local and foreign
sales amounted to S1.519.6C2 63. In 1888 the re
ceipts were 31,464,071 13. This is an increase of
8100,613 59 over 1883. At theFilth avenue office
the sales for the year amounted to $483,620 39.
During the year previous they footed up $438,
538 65. This is an increase of 45,082 04.
At Johnstown the receipts were 53,616 75 for
foreign business and 897,113 71 for local. In
1888 the foreign sales footed up 41,710 12 or an
increase of 311.936 63 for 1889. Tbe local ales
amounted to 897,113 71 during 1889 and 860.391 16
for the previous year, or an increase of $36,
722 55. It will be seen that tbe greatest in
crease is on local business, and was for the last
six months of the year.
By comparing the report with that of the
previous year, a decrease of 820,534 is seen at
the East Liberty station. At Shadyslde there
was also a decrease of 83,693 22. These are the
only stations between Pittsburg and Harris
burg where there was a decrease. The cause
of it was undoubtedly due to the cable cars.
One of the lines began operations in Septem
ber, 1888, and for tbe last three months of that
year the railroad company's bnsiness decreased
25 per cent between East Liberty and tho
Union station.
At the other suburban stations there was a
heavy increase. At Braddockit amounted to
814,350 98: at Swissvale. 8923 31; Homewood,
421 58; Wilkinsburg, 6,872 32. A close calcu
lation will show that what the company lost by
the cable lines they more than made np by the
increased business at other stations.
As yet the company has taken no notice of
the reduction in fares on the cable lines. In
stead of the fare being 7 cents, as stated yes
terday, it ,is only 6 cents between the Union
station and East Liberty on monthly tickets.
The company would reduce the fare to meet
the reduction on the cable lines were it not for
the danger of having to reduce the rates all
over the line. If the rate per mile is reduced
at Pittsburg, the snbnrban residents of Phila
delphia .will also likely petition for a reduction.
Then, again, if the rate between Pittsburg and
East Liberty was changed, tho rates to points
as far east as Greensburg would also hare to
be changed. By putting trains on that will not
stop between the Onion station and East Lib
erty, It Is expected the company will be enabled
to hold tbe business. The time of the trains
would be seven or eight minutes.
A LOW H1LLAGE PKEDICTED.
Tho Rate Won't br 31a ch Higher Than
Previous Years An Attempt Made to
Figure It on Last Year's Receipts and
Expenses.
There are a good many figures made at hap
hazard on what the next millage will be. It
has been placed anywhere from an increase of
3 toa decrease of 1 mill npon tbe valuation of
$200,000,000. The increased expenditure seems,
however, to warrant a larger business lu the
Finance Committee than it did last year. The
demands of the various departments are in the
general idea so moderate that the estimates at
present in tho hands of the Finance Committee
will more than fill the bills on the required ex
penditures. Tbe Department of Fnblio Works asks for
915,620 of an appropriation, giving it to be un
derstood that the park appropriation of 125,
000 ii not to be considered as a factor in the
general appropriation.
The other requests were the Department of
Public Safety. 686.351 88; of Charities, 85,000;
Controller, 81,283.750; Assessor', 818.000; Educa
tion, 372,475: judgments, $60,000; outstanding
warrants, an item upon which tbe Controller
admits that he has not made up bis mind, but
has made a bet of the cigars, in spite of his
church affiliations, the outstanding warrants
are placed within a few dollars of 8165,000,
making a total of 84616,196 88.
Tbe estimated receipts are as follows: From
the Department of Public Works, 8602,500; De
partment of Public Safety, 21,318 93; licenses,
wnicb will beyond doubt be enlarged in scope
this year, 75,000; on the second, if tho last
amount ot the other receipts is estimated Just
at the same rate as for 1888. as follows: Busi
ness tax, 8187,000; Mayor's office, 35,000; ve
hicle licenses, $40,000; street railways, $5,000;
warrants made from State to schools, 51,801 75,
advertising delinquent taxes. 813,000; City
Attorney, 850,000; miscellaneous. Instead of be
ing as last year, $75,000, is this year only put at
$40,000, so that comparing tho expenditures
with tbe receipts in view of the increased pop
ulation and of tho increased expenses all tbe
way through, the millage will not be increased
to anv largo extent, and tbe taxpayers can rest
easy while the Finance Committee of Councils
makes its final efforts for the dying year in a
fiscal point of view.
In His Best Overcoat.
A sneak thief entered the office of Contractor
McAfee, on Fifth avenue, yesterday, and,
picking up the $60 overcoat belonging to the
bookkeeper, J. .E. McClellao, he took his de
parture along with the coat.
FIGHTS IN THE WAEDS
Regarded as a Yery Bad Factor in
the City Political Contest.
THE DETAILS 1H THE FIGHTS.
Bepnblican Headquarters Opened
Tisited by Candidates.
and
DEM0CEATIC CONTENTIONS NEXT WEEK
The Republican headquarters were opened
at 36 Smithfield street yesterday and Clar
ence Burleigh, Chairman of the Executive
Committee, and John Gripp, Secretary,
started in to work with a vim. The rooms
are on the ground floor and nicely furnished,
while tbe exterior of the building is taste
fully decorated with the necessary informa
tion as to the purpose to which the place is
devoted, and a banging sign gives the names
of the candidates, who dropped in yesterdav
forenoon to admire the roseate prospects and
the artistic manner in which their names
are presented to the public. A telephone
connection has been made, and candidates
and the pnblic in general, when tbey want
Republican news from the fountain head,
will call up 1825.
Yesterday afternoon Chairman Pat Foley,
of the Democratic City Committee,. visited
Chief Bigelow, of the Department of Pub
lic Works, and secured the use of Council
Chamber in which to hold the Democratic
City Convention on Wednesday night. In
commenting upon the fact that all three city
officials will be nominated in one conven
tion by the Democrats, while three conven
tions were held by the Republicans for
the same purpose, a county official
said yesterday that the three conven
tions was nothing better than an effort to bleed
the candidates. It forced them to expend
some 8200 each for sappers or dinners for
which there was absolutely no warrant, except
precedent, which was a bad one.
HOT WAED TIGHTS.
There was a general oninion expressed yes
terday that with so many hot personal fights in
the various wards, tbe Mayoralty candidate on
the Republican ticket wonld feel detrimental
effects. The contests in the First, Eleventh,
Twenty-first, Twentieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth
wards are absorbing tbe attention and
exertions of the workers to thenegiect probably
of the chief official's interests. The Twenty
ninth ward has a very animated fight on hand
for the Aldermanic nomination between J.
Martin Shaffer and C. F. Bemhauer. The
Councilmanic contest for Republican nomina
tion to tbe Common branch is between J.
Moschell, the present incumbent, and Dr.
Brewster, who is running on a Citizens' ticket
with C. F. Beinhauer. To-morrow night a Re
publican suggestion meeting will be held in the
Bedford Scboolhouse, Twenty-ninth ward, and
the primaries will be held a week from Satur
day. In the Thirteenth ward there will be no pri
maries held as it has always been regarded as a
settled fact that the man who gets nominated
on Satnrday gets licked on the following
Tuesday. The Republican contest for nomina
tion to Common Council is between K. N.
Wachter. W. C. McEldowney and E. F. Elliot,
and it is predicted that the winner and losers
will be equally surprised. For Select Council
tbe fisht is between T. Holmes Miller and Sam
A. Duncan, at present a member of Common
Council. The former claims his success will bo
only a question of majority, while tbe latter
says little, but keeps on saying constantly to
the voters of the Thirteenth he is
IU THE PIOHX TO WCf.
He looks confident, and says he did not go
into the fight to loose.
In the Twelfth ward the Republican Coun
cilmanic candidates, Messrs. Johnston and
Hagemeier, it is thought, will receive indorse
ment at the Democratic primaries, and John J.
Davis, for the school directorship, will have no
opposition.
In tbe Fourteenth ward there is a bitter fight
for Alderman between Andrew Dunn and
Fred Kaltenheosser. A close personal canvass
is being made by each, and some lively spar
rine is looked for when tbe primaries occur.
Patrick Foley said yesterday that there was
no foundation for the assumption that any
opposition, wonld be made to Judge Bailey at
the convention next Wednesday. When asked
whether any candidates wonld be sprung
against Major Denniston or Controller Mor
row, Mr. Foley replied that it was very im
probable, and that any person who would do
so would be an enemy of Jndge Bailey.
REDUCED PRICES
In American Guitars nnd mandolins.
The following is a list of tbe best Ameri
can makes of guitars and mandolins, all of
which are warranted true and not to split.
They are for sale only at H. Kleber&
Bro.'s music store:
The American antique oak ? 7 50
The Arion mahogany 9 50
The Conservatory rosewood, first
quality. 15 00
The Conservatory rosewood, second
quality 12 00
The "Washburn rosewood ?22to 150 00
The American Mandolin 12 00
The Washburn Mandolin f 22 to 75 00
Also, always on hand a fine assortment of
banjos, zithers, cornets, music boxes, auto
harps, violins, music cabinets, accordions,
flutes, clarionets, cases and strings for all
instruments, music wrappers and music
folios.
Everything in the musical line sold at
the lowest prices.
All the latest sheet music sold at half
price by H. Kleber & Bro., Mb. 506 Wood
street.
Rcbolnstlc
Rev. P. Mesny, Rector of Trinity Hall
Military Academy, will be at the Anderson
Hotel, Pittsburg, between the hours of 10 A.
M. and 4 r. si., on Friday, 31st inst, to meet
parents desirous of obtaining information
concerning the school, etc., for the ensuing
term.
Yotj will be well pleased if you make use
of the Iron City Brewing Co.'s ale and beer.
Competent judges pronounce them the lead
ing brews. All dealers keep them.
Lace ctjetains New spring stock will
be opened this week. Heavy curtains and
portiers at reduced prices to close.
jiwp Htjous Si Hacke.
Special Dre.s Goods and Silks Sales.
Half and former prices, to-day and Sat
urday. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s
Fenn Avenue Stores.
B. ifcB.
This Friday and Saturday sale will
astonish some people. Read display ad.
this paper and come early.
Booos & Buhl.
FANCr velvets 50c, reduced from $2.
Fancy ribbons 25c, reduced from 62 and 75c,
at Eosenbaum & Co.'e.
Brine the Little Ones To-Day.
Go to Anfrecht's Elite Gallery, 516 Mar
ket st, Pittsburg, for hnest photographs at
lowest prices.
EVIL AIR
From bad sewerage or undralned
swamps deranges the liver and un
dermines the system, creates blood
diseases and eruptions, preceded by
headache, biliousness and constipa
tion, which can most effectually be -cured
by the use of the genuine
Dr.O.M'cLane's celebrated
Liver Pills.
Price, 25c, Sold by an druggists, and pre
pared only by Fleming Brothers, Pitts
burg, Pa. Get the genuine; counterfeits
are made in St, Louis.
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KEW ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS.
A Railroad Now Voder Way Which Will
Benefit Fluabnrc William Semple. of
Allesbeny, Interested In It ANetvOntlel
for the Pltt.bnrg nnd Western.
A telegram was received in this city last
evening from Akron, stating that William
Semple, of Allegheny, was in that city, con
ferring with several gentlemen interested in
the proposed Plttsburc. Akron and Western
Railroad. It is understood that Mr, Semple
andW.B.McCracken,aKew York capitalist,
have agreed to furnish the money to build tho
new road. Engineers are already engaged and
work will be started as soon as arrangements
are completed.
Mr. Francis Semple. brotherjof William, was
called upon last evening in reference to tbs
above. He was inclined to be mysterious and
uncommunicative so far as the route or con
struction of the road, or how it would affect
Pittsburg; were concerned. He admitted tho
fact that bis brother was in Akron on business
of tbe kind, and that no other person in this
city was interested in it, although others be
side his brother and Mr. McCracken were in
volved. The railroad was to be built, and fur
ther than that he had nothing to say.
The road is already being constructed, and
will be finished Inside a year. A line runs from
Akron to Delnhos, a distance ot about ISO
miles, abont half ot which is narrow gauge. It
is intended to connect this branch with the
Pittsburg and Western road, and a line run
nine southwest wonld enable them to reach
St. Louis, thus giving to tbis city a new trunk
line to that point eventually.
MUST KILL BA1S 0UTKIGHT.
Agent Denn Alter a Man Who Was Havllg
Fan With One.
On Wednesday evening a barber named Hen
ning. whose shop is on Fifth avenne, neas
Chestnut street, caught a rat in a wire-box trap,
and set it down in the shop while he went to
get his canine executioner. While gone, a man
who is said to be a glass worker, took a sharp
steel wire and proceeded to have, what ho
called, fun with tbe rat. The rodent's tail was
caught in the trap so that it could not frisk
about and the torturer proceeded to enjoy him
self. He first punched its eyes out. one by oue,
and then began a study on refinement in
cruelty.
About this time a bystander interfered, and
proposed to whip the torturer if be did not kill
the rat at once and end its misery. The man
with the steel wire had no stomach for fight,
however, and the objector then put the casa
nto tbe hands of Acent Dein.
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PENN AVE. STORES.
Ptttsbubg, Friday, January 31, l9(t
DRESS GOODS TO-DAY.
1 case 50-Inch imported Serges, all
wool, fine quality, at 50c a yard, worth
75c, on counters to-day.
1 lot 4B-lnch all-wool French Cashmere
in all the new spring shades.
1 lot 60-Inch all-wool, fine quality
stripes. English styles, at 81 a yard,
worth 81 SO.
1 lot very stylish imported Dress
Goods, .new tbis week, 50 inches wide, at
81 35 a yard.
French, all-wool Crepon, double width.
extra fine quality, at 81 10 a yard In
evening shades. These goods have
never sold less than 81 25 a yard.
There are still several lots of desirable,
colorings and styles in our 50c Dress
Goods reduced from 81 and 81 25.
The throne of buyers at tho center
counter was so great that ail tbe people
could not find room to see those 60c
Brocade Velvets, so we move back to
the Velvet Department. See them
there to-day.
This great center bargain counter U
now filled with Dress Goods remnants.
You will like the goods and prices.
PLUSH COATS
JACKETS.
Long Coats reduced from 833 and KB
down to 25.
820 Long Coats reduced to 815.
Fine Seal Plush Jackets at 810, 812 and
$15, way below original prices.
PLUSH MANTLES reduced la tha
same way.
About 60 Long Garments, medium
and heavy weichts, at 85, 88 and 810.
Sone of these 810 ones are made of all
wool, fine quality, Broadcloth, lined
with satin and trimmed with good black
fur, and originally sold for SS0 and $35.
Tbey are 810 to-day. When you come to
these cloak rooms ask for these goods as
$5, 88 and $10. They must be sold at
once.
All heavy Winter Jackets, that were
840, 835 and 830, have been reduced to 815.
Our $5 Stockinet Jackets, all sizes, are
the best we have ever offered at that
price.
The bargains at the Silk counters are ...
going out rapidly.
Choice things in Wash Goods.- jj
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