THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SATURDAY. APRIL 5, ,1890.
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You have but one chance of success left you
be what you act"
"You are a wise woman, little mother,"
said Jovan thoughtfully. "Perhaps you are
right; perhaps I will."
He took to his books again, play-books
now, he studied the dramas of old writers.
He would rob the dead first, he said, be. ore
he stole from the living; it was good prac
tice, he said.
Gotthold still came to the house, but not
so often as before there was restraint in
tht fellowship of the two friends. That
winter Jo van left his mother ana traveled
from town to town seeking employment He
was changing rapidly; he had put off his
wildness and uncouth manner, he was
growing courteous and polished, and observ
ant of other men as a woman is. He "was
learning success," he wrote to Hagar; then,
at length, he sent to her to join him; he had
obtained what he wanted and was rising
rapidly in his pro'ession.
"I have learned a good deal since we
parted, little mother; to drink and to steal
and to lie, to cheat one's Jriend and to be
tray the woman who has loved one. You
were right; one must be what one has to
seem." Hagar could not discover if he was
mocking her. She looked at him and said
nothing she saw his father in him.
One night, it was almost morning, com
ing home, he waked her from her sleep;
there was a grav light from the window
which fell on him. He was flushed, trium
phant. "Little mother, mv lortune is made or
lost I am to play the devil." He spoke
gayly, confidently.
"You will lail,"she said; "the devil will
belikeJovan."
"I will succeed. If the devil is like
Jovan, Jovan must be like the devil," he
said, jestingly.
On the first night of his performance he
again stood by her bed.
"Little mother, I have succeeded the
devil has done great things tor us." He
laughed and kissed her.
"It is ill to parody God's holjr word."
Hagar had never before rebuked him. He
smiled at her and lett her. After that suc
cess the managers would let him play no
other part
"Herr Johann is a great artist," people
told each other; they told Hagar so, and
also ther said it to Jovan, and he believed
them. 2Jo part of him now sat in the irout
rows and sneered as he clayed, no part of
bim mocked his efforts; he felt himself mas
ter of his part and of his audience; be felt
his loothold surer week bv week as he
journeyed from city to city, winning every
where new laurels. Who of his old friends
would have known him now? Self-possessed,
with a little quiet tcorn for the men
who envied, the women who courted him,
self-controlled kindly, courteous to his
chosen associates his moodiness, "his varia
bility, was gone.
When once again his old friend Gotthold
met him, he did not recognize him. Dr.
Gotthold, too, had prospered; he was rich,
sought atcer, a coward with principles and
a conscieure, a broken, melancholy man,
despite his fortunes. His wile was dead,
and all whom he loved he had lost but
one the baby girl of old davs, the child
whom Jovan had played with and petted,
alone remained to him.
It was through her the two old friends met.
Jovan had noticd her at a crowded recep
tion given in his honor at a foreign town
where he was f-s illing a temporary engage
ment A tall, slight girl, with gray eyes
and fair hair, she leaned listless and tired
against the doorway of an inner room. She
was for the moment silent and alone.
"She is like who?" His memory failed
him. He lost sight of her, and shifted his
position to regain it. Some one had ad
dressed her and she lifted her head to reply.
Her raised eyes met Jovan's gaze; her lace
changed suddenly; she broke offin what she
was saying.
"Ah, it is Lise," Jovan thought, and then
he wondered where the likeness lay, won
dered until he knew.
It was not difficult for him to guess.
"Women loved him now as they had loved
him before, blindly, trustfully, and now as
then, if a woman's heart was broken, no
guilt was his. But one difference there was
between bis past and his present; then, if he
had smiled at their folly, he had neverthe
less been touched by it, he had given them
what return he could, he was no miser in
kindness nor pity, and for what he gave,
they, as little foundling Lise, had been con
tent to live or to die. This new Lise loved
him; she asked nothing of him, she did not
even know what more might even be hers to
possess. "When he had spoken kindly,
gently, to her, half-jesting, half-serious, as
was His wont with women, the light had
come into her gray eyes, and the color
to her quiet face, and her whole life
seemed to her, as she looked back
over it, but a waiting for that hour.
"When he was gone from her side, a past had
sprung into existence, the luture seemed
filled with a memory, a memory out of which
she would create a new world, lor the days
of creation are never over in a woman's
heart, though the sons of God do not shout
with joy over them.
That night, as Jovan .played, Margaret
seemed to him to have grown like Gott
hold's daughter. How easily he could have
taught a Faust to win her, have taught her
to yield to a Faust, be thought.
Yet he was wrong, for in those days at
least Faust would have had to tell her that
he and her father were old Iriends, and
Faust would have had to have Jovan's voice,
and his eyes, like Jovan's, must have been
gray, with black-rimmed Irises.
"Yon are so cold a devil that you would
freeze hell," the girl who played Margaret.
said to him one evening. "If Mephistoph
elet had been as wicked as you, he would
have damned even Margaret."
Gotthold's daughter was there that night
She grew verT white as the play went on;
wheu Margaret yielded and fell, she shiv
ered and burst into tears, but she came
again a few nights after.
Jovan's stay in that city was over; the
last day came.
"We shall be four to-night, little mother,"
he said, "you and I, and Gotthold and bis
daughter. To-morrow we go; to-night we
part, he and L"
"It is well to have met and forgiven," the
old woman said; she was old now, but her
eyes were blue and bright as ever. He read
suspicion in them.
"Little mother," he said, "what people
look for they find. You are like the rest;
thev look for the actor in the man it is a
folly."
Jovan was angered, yet he laughed.
"She loves you," the old woman said.
"She loves" Jovan mimicked her caress
ingly "all women love she loves Jovan
or another."
"She is young, and she is good von,
Jovan, are cruel." But Hagar kissed him
all the same Jovan was her idol.
"You make me wicked," she said, "and
you will break her heart" Then she added
quickly, with a strange impulse of fear,
"Jovan, you are not yourself to-day."
In the mirror before him Jovan caught
sight of his own face he turned awar
quickly, then looked again; the mouth
there had a curve it would be uselul to re
member. That evening Jovan talked long with
Gotthold, while the girl listened to Hagar's
stories of bygone days and fortunes. She
was happy and content Hagar was his
mother, and be was near yet she was op
pressed with a vague presentiment of fear, of
tear for the days which were to come.
Jovan listened to Gottbold.and he watched
the girl.
"How unlike Lise, and how like," he
thought
Unlike the heavy silken folds of her white
to Lise's ragged brown dress; unlike the
smooth hair, coiled as a Greek statue's might
be, round her fair head, to Lise's long,
loose, wind-roughened waves of yellow
threads; unlike her slender white hands
with tneir wealth of jewels; like her mouth
with its parted lips, the grave eyes, melan
choly and patient, unei3Cting, pleading.
""Was she beautiful, or was her beauty
only the shadow of her love?" he wondered.
Gotthold, worn and eager, a conscience
tortured enthusiast, nerveless, deprecatory,
was speaking rapidly of chances, of ideas,
of discoveries, ot cases of li'e and death, of
possibilities of cure, of probabilities ot fail
ure then of one special instance, of a long,
hard struggle with the veiled antagonist
Death. I
"You despair?" Jovan asked, as Gotthold
paused in his story.
"Almost and vet, if only I could but
conquer this one case " He broke off.
Jovan turned; he whispered a few words in
Gotthold's ear. Gotthold started at the sug
gestion bis ears had caught.
"I had not thought not dreamed of it,"
he cried. "The risk!"
"Think of it now," Jovan answered
"think of the honor, should you succeed
of the fame."
"I dare not 'Thou shalt do no murder
I dare not risk it"
"Win?" Jovan spoke deliberately, colrL
ly, confidently. "It vou succeed, your
genins will be crowned."
"If not if I fail? I am unnerved; my
hand has lost its old certainty, its old skill
a slip, a miscalculation, a "
"Enough," interrupted Jovan. "If you
fail, you will only have borrowed a life in
the interest of science."
"But mv conscience?" murmured the
other nervelesly.
"To be a doctor is to be an experimenter,"
returned Jovan, and he lett Gotthold to
speak with his daughter.
""When you were little more than a baby,"
he said, leaning back beside her on the
couch where she sat, "your lather used to
teach me many wise things. "We used to
talk, as we have been talking to-night, of
the discoveries, of new experiments, which
would make us famous when we were old
men. I was a poor player then, often ragged,
olten hungry but I was rich: I had a heart
and 1 had a friend."
He paused. His eyes held hers. A thrill
of terror flashed over her face as he bent a
little closer to her; it faded, and he smiled.
Her face was an open book to him, and on
it he could read what she read on his noth
ing eUe was written there. She dropped
her eyes and covered her mouth with one
hand she said nothing; to him she'd never
speak with ease; to-night it was impossible.
"You were a child then. One night I
brought you a doll dressed all in tinsel. I
and Gotthold talked. I told him of a new
experiment, a new discovery that I believed,
in my ignorance, might make a man's for
tune to have found t He undeceived
me; he told me the discovery was already
made by another you played with your
tinsel doll. You are too old to play with
dolls now, but I have brought you the tinsel
for a farewell gift"
The girl's lace grew white, flushed, and
grew white again as Jovan talked on softlv,
with pauses here and there. As he finished
speaking he took a bracelet, a heavy ring of
gold, Irom the table near, and held out ins
hand for hers. Silently she let him take
her slim fingers in his hold, and slip the yel
low circle over them to its place upon her
arm. It was too large his fingers, strong
and stead v, pressed the metal till the joined
ends overlapped each other. He pressed it
too close, indeed it marked her wrist. As
he released her hand the girl .drew a short,
fast breath; Hagar, looking across from the
opposite side of the hearth, said involun
tarily: 'She is Lise."
But she was not Lise Jovan knew it.
Lise was a child, a child he had caressed,
and who had answered his caresses with a
child's touch. This was a woman. Lise
would have kissed his bands with her lips;
Ihis one, standing here tall and pale in her
white dress, standing at the gates of the
Paradise of ignorant innocence out of which
he had drawn her, did more. Her eyes,
raised for one moment, looked into bis, and
she silently laid he knew it her whole self
at his leet
The girl started, shivering as though
wakened suddenly to life she drew up her
slight ngure, and turned from him.
"Good-night good-by!" she said. "I
thank you."
Gotthold was ruined. He tried what he
called an experiment His patient was a
man of wealth and importance. Gotthold's
experiment tailed, and the world called it
murder. He was a disgraced man, and his
friends torsook him; with tarnished reputa
tion and decaying fortunes he fled from the
city whore the disaster had befallen him,
and sought shelter once more in his native
town.
"What news?" Hagar had asked, the
day when the record of Gotthold's disgrace
became public.
"Of a success," Jovan answered her.
' "I have robbed him ot that which he
stole from me," Jovan told himself again
and again.
That evening the critics said, "He is after
all overrated he plays like a devil with
remorse," and that was quite wrong.
His acting did not mend. His old moodi
ness returned upon him; the polish of big
manner wore off; sometimes he would be
boisterously moody, sometimes sullen and
taciturn; at his work he was strained and
unequal; people courted him less.
In tbe winter he accepted an engagement
at the city where little Lise lay in the poor's
cemetery, and whereGotthold lived forsaken
and alone. He played at the theater where
they had hissed him the night Lise had
died. Xow the people crowded to see him,
and to applaud him or his reputation.
It was a bitter season. Snow covered the
roofs and sprinkled the streets and pave
ments. Women went muffled and veiled,
men with fur drawn down over their brows.
The horses fretted at their bits, the walkers
hurried past as if they could escape the
wind by haste. Yet at the stage door one
woman, scantily clothed, with Tbare bands
stiffening in the freezing air, waited motion
lesslr patient for the play to end.
Jovan, slinping out quickly, did not notice
her, but something fell on tbe fur rug at his
feet, as with his fellow actor he took his seat
in his carriage.
"Who was that?" he said glancing back,
through the snow mist
"A beggar," the other replied.
In Jovan's hand lay a broken gold circle,
large enough to go round a woman's wrist
"What?" he said, hardly catching the
other's words.
"What was she?" repeated his compan
ion with a half laugh. "What Margaret
was!"
Beside the grave where Lite lay tbey
made another grave, as narrow but longer
it bore no name upon the stone.
Jovan played no more as the devil, he
threw np his engagement that very winter.
"He was a bad actor. He could play no
part out one. ms aay was soon over. So
people said, and the name of Jovan was for
gotten. In a dingy lodging house in a remote
quarter of a great city two old men live to
gether. One, it was rumored, was once a
lamous doctor, sunk into premature oblivion
by his own fault and misdoing; now his in
tellect is enfeebled, his mind dim and for
getfulit is well perhaps it should be of
his past The other, a younger man by
many years, plays old men's parts at a
shabby little playhouse near. He works to
support his companion; for himself, he
would not think it worth while.
KO BOGOS 'PHONES HERE.
The Bell Company Hain't Detectives nt
Work In Pitiftburg;.
The American Bell Telephone Company,
of Boston, has had detectives at work lor
some time locating bogus telephones, and a
few days ago informations were made
against a number of persons for infringing a
patent of the Bell Company.
When Superintendent Harry Metzgar, of
the local compapy, was asked if many
bogus telephones were used in Pittsbufg he
replied: "No. I think not We have no
detectives employed keeping track of peo
ple, but if we find a man using a private
line that infringes on our patents, we notify
him to discontinue, and that is sufficient
We never think of bringing suit; that isn't
necessary."
"Not long since we discovered an agent
selling telephoues here, and ne told him
unless he stopped'we would be compelled to
bring him to timfc. He desisted. The fact
is, a private line is not of much value in a
city. A mau wants to be connected with all
parts of the territory, and then it doesn't
pav. If a man is sued, he is mulcted for
damages and must pay the cost of prosecu
tion. The private lines are used more in
the country towns. It may be possible that
some are in use now in Pittsburg, but we are
bonnd to locate them before much time
elapses."
HOW TREES ARE SOLD
A Little Insight Into a ISusiness
That Employs 30,000 Men.
PITTSBURG IS A FAVORITE FIELD.
Busy Scenes at the Nursery During Packing-
and Delivery Time.
AN AGENT'S TEIP IN BDTLEE COUNT!
There is one class of men whose personal
characteristics and vocation have for some
time nearly escaped the paragrapher's sharp
pen, the caricacturist's stinging delineations
or the topical writer's critical and often ex
haustive treatment, It is only now and
then that allusion to them is made, usually
in a class paper. This seems strange, inas
much as they number from 25,000 to 30,000
in the United States, and may even be found
to constitute a still larger army by the next
census takers.
Some people would call them fruit tree
agents, but they scorn such a title, savoring
of the often looked-down-on book agent and
the myriads of others who follow in his
wake. They are "Trceraen" and endeavor
to make the title as distinctive of their bus
iness as the drummer. Their business is to
sell trees, flowers, shrubs, vines and in fact
anything which grows "above or upon the
earth." They follow in the wake
ot the stone mason and carpenter,
much as tbe drummer looks out lor new
stores to see that they are well supplied with
anything in their line. Their services are
as necessary to the man building a new
house as the decorator and furnisher. The
latter beautify the house, while the tree
man's office is to furnish trees, flowers and
shrubs for the lawn and garden and assist
the owner in planning for the best effects.
riTTSBUBO A FATOKITE FIELD.
Pittsburg is a favorite field for the tree
men, on account of the large number of new
bouses going up, the greater portion being
in the suburbs where the owners have space
ior lawns anu plenty 01 ground on which to
plant trees and shrubs. The plan of action
adopted by the treemen in selling, is as
varied as the characters of the men them
selves. One plan used by many is for the
treeman to stroll through the city and
wherever he sees a house being built upon
ground sufficient for the planting of trees,
he notes the location. Sometimes it is a
year or even two before he sells a bill of
trees to the owner.
If possible, the treeman sells immediately;
if not, he waits until the occupants are
nicely ensconced in their new homes. A
call is then made, generally when the old
gentleman is not at home. The mistress is
interested with glowing pictures and often
charmed by the agent's perfect knowl
edge of plants and flowers. The
agent is careful to find out her
little whims and agree with her "exactly."
Finally the one thing desired is gained an
invitation to call when the husband is at
home, and a promise that she will interest
him in tbe proposed purchases. Capital!
Who can withstand the pleadings of a beau
tilul woman, especially a young wife?
The agent then calls at the appointed
time with a plan ot the plot (previously
drawn), and endeavors to sell the husband.
The plan has a tree marked for every possi
ble place, and after the proprietor once de
cides to buy the bill is "run up" as much as
possible. The agent does not stop at orna
mental trees, but urges the man to try and
raise a Jew 'pear, peach, quince or apple
trees, or some garden fruits. There are few
house owners who have not met the tree
man; and that he is success'ul in selling is
evident to one who will notice the trees and
shrubs in almost every yard.
SELLING TO FAKJIERS.
While some of the agents attend to the
city trade others look after the farmer's
wants and, if he does not happen to want,
they sell him just the same, even if they
have to take it out in board. As a class
they are the most persistent salesmen on
record. If the farmer complains that the
trees formerly bought have died the former
agent "was a villain and .fit for the peni
tentiary." On inquiry you might find that
the agents were brothers. Unscrupulous
agents have been knrtwn to change the
names in the plate books to compare with
the farmer's fancies and show them to him
on a second visit; putting the names of the
farmer's favorite apple or peach under the
nicest picture of the fruit in the book.
A story is told of one of these agents
(more unscrupulous than wise) who dug up
a lot of gum trees from a swamp near his
home and took them to a New Jersey town
where they were sold to a farmer for pears.
Nearly two years after he again visited the
place and unconsciously called at the same
farmhouse. The farmer took him out to the
orchard and showed him the bogus pear
trees. The treeman laughed and gave a
general lecture on the depravity of the
lormer agent Cutting the top off a tree the
farmer asked if he was Tom Beazell. The
agent, taken unawares, said "yes."
SOLD THE WUOilG HAS.
"Well. Mr. Beazell," said the farmer, 1
am going to take the price of those trees out
of your hide." Suiting tlje action to the
word, he grabbed the young man by the col
lar and gave him a sound thrashing. The
treeman had no use for that particular spot
in Jersey atterward, but says that he got
even with the farmer bv shooting his churn
dog.
An old treeman was recently asked what
kind of men treemen are. His answer was:
"They embrace old men and young men,
married men and single men, honest men
and dishonest men, churchmen and skeptics,
successful men and failures. Some love
home dearly, but canvass from necessity, to
support their families. Some, canvass be
cause they care nothing for home, hate other
kinds of work, love excitement and wish to
see the world. Some, with more brains and
enterprise, strike out for themselves ns deal
ers and jobbers on a large scale and hire tbe
two classes mentioned as sub or under
agents, on salary or commission, and make
their money from the sales ot these subs."
PACKING THE TBEES.
A few facts in regard to packing and de
livering may be of interest. Tbe deliveries
are made etch year, one in the fall and one
in the spring. Packing for fall delivery com
mences in the North about October and lasts
until freezing weather. The spring delivery
packing commences about April 1 and lasts
until the middle of May.
The nurseries are scattered all over the
States. The largest are at Rochester, N. Y.,
which has eight or ten, one with over 1,000
acres. At Geneva, N. Y., are several large
nurseries, one with 1,000 and one with 12,
000 acres under cultivation. Others are at
Lockport, Freedonia, Danville, Palmyra,
Svracuse, all in New York; Painesville, O.,
Columbus, O.. West Chester, Pa., Bloom
ington, III., Richmond, "Va., Pittsburg, etc.
They will number 1,000 or more. The tree
man selects the nursery nearest the territory
he is selling in generally, or one suited to
tbe climate.
The packing season is a busy time for
both the nurseryman and the treeman, and
the scene to a stranger is both'-dovcl and in
teresting. The "trenchers" areseen digging
the packing ground full of trenches 20 inches
deep and 2 feet wide, where the'bills of trees
are to be trenched or "hcejeil in" prepara
tory to packing. The treeman buys a suf
ficient number of each variety to fill all his
orders, and each kind is placed in one of the
trenches. This is necessary to insure rapid
ity and keep the trees from dyiug during the
process of packing.
When the order is given the foreman of
the nursery goes to where the trees are grow
ing. The "diggers," with sharp spades,
then dig up the trees as the foreman calls off
the names of the varieties and numbers.
Then come the "tyers," tying the trees in
bunches of ten each and piling them on the
wide trucks, to be hauled to the trenches.
MAKING BEADY FOB DELIVERY.
When all the varieties to be packed are on
the ground then commences what is termed
"billing up." Usually one man, wjiowrites
labels, employs one or two boys as runners.
The boys take the labels and speed to the
trenches, where the varieties are which the
labels call for, and carry them to the "moss
ers" and "tyers," who place the different
kinds iu one bundle and tie a cord with the
number and name of the customer upon it.
The bundles are then dipped into what is
called a puddling trough, containing clay
and water. The bundles are then put in
boxes, generally from 10 to 12 feet long and
1J$ to 3 feet deep and wide. The trees are
packed in moss, straw, etc. If properly
packed trees can be shipped to distant points,
even to Australia.
When the aggregate of sales is finished,
packed and nailed up tight in boxes the
treeman labels the boxes, designating the
route chosen to reach consignees. The
agent calculates the time when they will
arrive and follows the trees later.
In country districts a farmer's house or a
hotel in the town is chosen as a rendezvous.
The farmers have been notified by the tree
man when and where to call for their trees.
In the city they are delivered in trucks. At
last the trees are all delivered, the money
collected and the treeman roes home to "see
the boys" and tell a new stock of stories.
THE TKEEMAN AT HOME.
A jollier lot of men than a crowd of
treemen home after a good delivery and with
their pockets full of cash is bard to find.
They try to rival each other in their yarns
and make things lively. Some of the in
dustrious commence canvassing immediately
after the spring delivery, but the majority
take a vacation. Tliey are generally home
again for two or three months alter October.
The word "town" used above has particular
significance as the homes of the treemen
are generally in small towns. Crawford
and Erie counties, Pennsylvania, send
out many treemen, and Ohio and
New York are centers for treemen as well as
nurseries. Dayton, O., one year sent out
225 treemen, and many other towns have
equaled, if not beaten, this record. The
male population of the small towns of the
northwestern and southwestern corners of
Crawford and Erie counties, this State, are
nearly, without an exception, treemen or ex
trecmen. If a farmer is asked how he got
his start he will answer "selling trees." It
is the same with the merchants and other
business men.
As the seasons come and go these agents
scatter to all parts of the continent, includ
ing the far-awav islands of tbe Atlantic and
Pacific. Not long since one died in the
Sandwich Islands. Others are at present in
Alaska, Newfoundland, the West Indies
and other distant points. There are at
present a number from this "home of tbe
treemen" in Pittsburg.
In the nursery sections a man's education
is not considered finished until he has
strapped on his plate book for one season
at least taken his bottles of "specimens"
(made to magnify the fruit inside),
and started out to tell the farmers of for
tunes to be made by planting fruit trees or
market fruits of all kinds, showing him
pictures of mammoth berries and new vari
eties of pears, peaches, quinces, apples, etc.,
that are "warranted curculo proof, free
from blast and will live iu the middle of a
rock."
FEOM TEKSONAL EXPERIENCE.
Well does the writer remember when he
took his first and last lesson in selling trees.
A book filled with highly colored pictures
of all kinds of fruits and trees was first ob
tained. The little preparatory lingo at
tached to each was mastered and a start was
made for Butler county n company with an
old treeman, who expected to make a good
agent out ol the new man.
After a change of cars at Wampum, and
a spin around the hills, the two came to the
little town of Zelienople. The first business
was to sell the hotel man an order. The old
agent took the initiative iu selling to the
farmers while the other looked on to see how
it was done. All tbe babies encountered
were the "cutest little things ever seen," the
farmers' horses and cows came in for a share
of praise, and later his name usually
went on the order-book. After the third day
the old agent took one direction, and the
writer another, and the first tussle com
menced. The roads in Butler county are the most
exasperating things imaginable. You see a
house over across the hills and then start
for it Soon one comes to the end of the
road and then has to go cross lots. And
such hills! It was one of these roads that
led to the first house in sight, which was
reached after half an hour's tramp. The
farmer was up in the field attending to farm
work. Two girls were hoeing corn. The
man said all treemen were scoundrels, liars,
thieves and everything bad. The writer
tried to impress upon him the fact that he
was one of tbe honest fellows, but it wouldn't
go down, and he left in disgust.
DINNEB AS PAST PAYMENT.
The next man didn't want any trees, but
at last the woman of the house was prevailed
on to buy a half dozen strawberry plants
and two rose bushes, and dinner was" eateu
as part payment. Thete is one pleasant
memory connected with that dinner, and
that is the bread. Butler county wives
know how to bake bread every time.
The alternoon and the next day passed
without success. In the evening an old
farmer was inveigled into baying a $10
order and supper and lodging was obtained.
After supper the old man sat on the
porch and drank cider and the
girls attended to the milking. The
barn was a palatial affair, the cows sleek,
the horses large and of the finest breeds.
The house was made ot squared logs, with
mud in the chinks. It was a typical Butler
county homestead in many respects.
The" morrow brought no better luck, and
at last a ride was obtained to town in a
farmer's wagon. The change in the pocket
book was found to be just enough to get
home on, and Butler county and the old
agent were left behind with a note saying
that the writer was sick. The word "home"
was not prefixed.
To this day the agent says that he made a
great mistake in not appropriating the
pocketbook, and mourns the fact, as he
thinks, that as a result the world lost ons
good tree agent. The memories of that trip
in and about the quaint old towns ot Har
mony and Zelienople, with their odd build
ings'and surroundings, will ever live,' and
with them the thought of how narrowly I
escaped being a tree man.
Clyde M. Allen.
"We'll be gay and happy," for Salva
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all pain.
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of France. Favori is an extra fine looker;
dapple gray; weight 1,800. Guaranteed a
breeder. Will be bold cheap. Arnheim
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avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
REAL ESTATE SAVINGS DANK, MM.,
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Capital, 5100,000. Surplus, $50,000.
Deposits of 1 and upward received and
interest allowed at 4 per cent its
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LADIES' waterproof rubber cloth wraps,
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New designs in dresses and pretty tea
gowns now arriving daily, at Parcels &
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Gents' fine kid gloves 75c, $1 00, $1 60 al
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LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are no longer any fears of a water
famine at Louisville.
Minneapolis coopers havo won their strike
for 35 cents an boar.
A tornado in Illinois on Thursday unroofed
houses and scared the people.
The motion for a receiver fortheChlcag
Gas Trust has been withdrawn. . r
Jay Gould is reported to be seriously ill in
Mexico from a nervous affection.
Emperor William has given a cup to be shot
for at the Federal rifle competition.
Troops have gone after Indians who have
been killing cattle in the Bad Lands.
Iowa Republicans have petitioned the Leg
islature to repeal tbe prohibitory laws.
Six thousand miners in the Gogebic and
Penokee iron ranges are organizing a union.
Sneak thieves stole $-5,200 worth of dia
monds from the store of A. J. Mitchell, Denver.
S. H. Cavitt, a cattle man, was murdered in
Juarez, Mex., by W. S. Bolton and J. W. Clay
ton.
AH tho universities in Russia have been
closed on account of tho recent agitation among
the students.
French troops will attack Whydah, the
coast town of Dahomey, where the Dabomians
get their arms.
The royal palace at Brussels is being pre
pared for the receptions to be tendered to
Henry M. Stanley.
Lord Boyle, who mysteriously disappeared
in Northwestern Canada, is thought to have
met Benwell's fate.
It is reported that President Corbin, of the
Reading Railroad, will resign in favor of Vice
President McLeod.
Negotiations will shortly open between En
gland and tbe Sultan for the withdrawal of the
English from Egypt
Graceau Chleborad, of Atwood. Kan., has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for 0 years
for poisoning his brother.
The mills of tbe suspended firm of Rhodes
& Brothers, f Aston, Pa., will shut down,
throwiog out 600 operatives.
The scheme for the Russiflcation of Fin
land is received with extreme disfavor in that
country, and trouble is certain to follow.
The Duchess of Marlborough, formerly tbe
Widow Hammcrsley, is in New York trying to
get an increase of income from her first hus
band's estate.
Fred. Krueger and Charles Boeck, small
boys, have been arrested in Chicago for open
ing snitches and shooting at passenger trains
"just for fun."
Clarence J. Toot, embezzling cashier of the
United States Express Company at Grand Rap
ids, has pleaaed guilty. Toot returned from
isouth America to give himself up.
Edmund Sturcis Crawford has been ar
rested at Santa Barbara for the theft of f 41,000,
in transit from tbe American Exchange Na
tional Bank in New York to the Adams Ex
press Company's office.
F. W. Chiwis, prominent citizen of Mount
Vernon, N. Y., was shot, perhaps fatally, when
returning nome Irom a dinner party. He mis
took the house next door for his own residence,
and was taken for a burglar.
The seizure of illicit stills in Rowan county,
Ky., has led to a feud between moonshiners and
anti-whisky men. Those already killed are
Eph Cooper. Bart Baumgartuer, Sim Cooper,
George Hogg, Hiram Roberts and Nelson
Egan.
Two hundred farms in New Jersey have
been sold at Sheriff's sale oh inn to the Su
preme Court's decision that township tax
titles aro invalid. Tbe occupants of tbe tarms
are heart broken at having the savings aud
labor of years taken from them.
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arms and breast, or moles and birthmarks, and
on men's cheeks above the beard line.destroycd
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OFFICIALPITTSBURO.
No, 34.it
DEDICATION OF FRESCO ALLEY.FROil
Ward street to Meyran street.
Know all men by thee presents, that I, the
undersigned owner of all the property occupied
by Fresco allev, 20 feet in width, between Ward
street and Meyran street, in the Fourteenth
ward, as located by an ordinance approved Jan
nary 20. 1890, do hereby dedicate the said alley
between the above mentioned streets to and
tor public use. and I do hereby waire any and
an Claims ior uawages or Denenis wnicu may
accrue to and by reason of the said Fresco al
ley as above mentioned being opened for public
use as aforesaid. W. DEWEES WOOD.
Seal.
City of Pittsburg, ss.
, Personally appeared before me, the sub
scriber. Geo. Sheppard. City Clerk. V. D.
Wood. who. being duly affirmed according to
, law. doth depose and say that tbe signatures at-
tacneo to me accompanying ueaicaiion ot
Fresco alley, ih the Fonrteeuth ward, are the
genuine signatures of the persons represented;
that they are tbe owners of all property on
that portion of said alley to be dedicated; that
the signers thereto ovt n all of tbe property abut
ting tbercon, and further deponent saith not
V. DEWEES WOOD.
Affirmed and subscribed before me this loth
dav of Februarv. l&X).
SEAL. , GEO. SHEPPARD. City Clerk.
Iu Councils, March 10, 1590, read, accepted
and approved.
H. P. FORD. President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD. Clerk of Select
Council- G. L. HOLL1DAY. President of
Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH,
Clerk of Common Council.
Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. 7, pago 359,
April 3, A. D. 189a
No. 313.
DEDICATION OF CALVIN STREET
from Fortr-second street to Forty-fourth
street.
Know all men by tbeso presents, that we, the
undersigned, are tbe owners of all the property
abutting on Calvin street, between Forty
second and Forty-fouith streets, as It appears
on plan approved br the Councils of the Bor
ough of Lawrenceville, March 22. 1S67.
And v e do hereby, for ourselves and our heirs
and assigns, dedicate to public use forever as a
nubile highway the property occupied by the
above-named Calvin street between tbe points
above mentioned; and we do hereby waive all
claims or benefits tbat may be due or accruing
to us by reason of the throwing opon to pnblic
use of said street: and we do hereby authorize
and empower the Department of Public Works
to enter upon said property and open it np to
public use as a public street or Highway.
In nitnass whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 31st day of December,
1889.
Wm. A. Suckling- seal, M. P. Culbertson
seal, James Jiles "eal. lonis Oedel seal),
Hugn .savage seal, J. K. Davison & Bro.
seal, Geo. Nickel seal. Margaret J. Steven
son (her x mark), attest. Samuel MrKinley
seal, N. B. Hogg seal, Agnes McMnnn
seal, Jame Marshall's estate by M. W. Wat
son, trustee seal, Isaac Nelson seal.
City of Pittsburg, ss.
Personally appeared before me the sub
scriber, Geo. Sheppard, City Clerk. Hugh Sav
age, who, being' duly sworn according to law.
doth depo e and say that tbe signatures at
tached to tbe accompanying dedication of
Calvin street, from Forty-second to Forty-fourth
street, are tbe genuine signatures of the per
sons represented: that they are tbe owners
of all property on tbat portion of said street
to be dedicated; that tbe signers thereto
own all of the property abutting thereon, and
further deponent saith not.
HUGH SAVAGE.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th
dav of March. 1890.
SealJ GEO. SHEPPARD. City Clerk.
In Councils, March 10, 1S90, read, accepted
and approved.
H. P. FORD, President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk of Select
Council. GEO. L. HULLIDAY. President of
Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH.
Clerk of Common Council.
Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. 7, page 357,
Anril 1. 189a
No. 344
DEDICATION OF KELLER STREET (OR
alley) between Forty-second street and
Forty-fourth street.
Know all men by these presents, that we. the
undersigned, are the owners of all the property
abutting on Keller street (or alley) between
Forty-second street and Forty-fourth street as
it appears on plan approved by tbe Councils of
tbe borough of Lawrenceville. March 22, 1867.
And wo do hereby for ourselves and our heirs
and assigns dedicate to public use forever as a
public hichwav the property occupied by the
above named Keller street (or alley), and we do
hereby waive all claims or benefits that may be
due or accruing to us by reason of tbe throwing
open to public use of said street or alley, and
we do hereby authorize and empower the De
partment of Public Works to enter upon said
property and oDen it up to public use.
In witnes whereof wo have hereunto set our
hand' and seals this 31st day of December, A.
D.1SS9.
George Sbeppard seal, Wm. A. Suckling
(seal, M. P. Culbertson seal, Hugh Savage
seal, J. K. Davison fc Bro. seal, Rachel A.
jeecn sell, Agnes McMuun seal, Calvin
Wells seal, Charley Rote eal, James
Marshall's esiate, M. W. Watson, trustee, seal,
Daniel Berg seal, IsaacNelson seal, Andrew
Whitfield seal.
City of Pittsburg, ss.
Personally appeared before mo. the sub
scriber, George Booth, Assistant City Clerk,
George Sheppard who being duly sworn ac
cording to law, doth depose and say that tbe
signatures attached to the accompanying
dedication' of Keller alley, from Forty-second
to Forty-fourth streets, are the genuine
signatures of tbe persons represented; that
they are the owners of all property on that
portion of said Keller alley to be dedicated:
that the signers thereto own all of tbe property
abutting thereon, and further deponent saith
not. GEO. SHEPPARD.
Sworn and snbscribed before me this 10th
day of March, 1890. GEO. BOOTH.
seai Assistant City Clerk.
In Councils. March 10, 1890. read, accepted
and approved.
H. P. FORD, President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. SHF.PPARD, Clerk or Select
Council. G. L. HOLLIDAY. President ot
Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH,
Clerk of Common Council.
Recorded in Ordinance Book, voL 7, page 35S,
April 3. 1890.
33S.J
ORDINANCE LOCATING BAY
AN
alley from Susquehanna street to Felicia
alley.
Section 1 Be it ordained and enacted by the
city of Pittsburg in Select and Common Coun
cils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and
enacted by the authority of tho same. That Bay
aucy irom ausqueuanna street to euoia alley
be and the same is hereby located as follows, to
wit: Tbe center line shall begin on tbe south
5-foot line of Susquehanna street at a distance
of 115.184 feet west from the west 5-foot run
ning lino of Homewood avenue, thence deflect
ing to tbe right 86 degrees 44 minutes and
in a northeasterly direction, parallel to and
at a perpendicular distance of 115 feet from
tbe west running lino of Homewood avenue
at a distance of 5-6.52 feet to an angle
at Formosa alley, thence deflecting to the
left 15 degrees 40 minutes for a distance of
91.84 feet to a point, thence deflecting to the
right 4 degrees 57 minutes parallel to and
at a perpendicular disjance of 135 feet west of
tbe west running line of Homewood avenue, a
distance of 621.U0 feet to tbe south 5-toot
line-of Felicia alley, intersecting tho said line
at an angle of 90 degrees and at a distance of
135 feet west from the west 5-foot running
line of Homewood avenue and the said Bay
alley shall be of a width of twenty (20) feet.
Section 2 That any ordinance or part ot or
dinance conflicting with the provisions of this
ordinance be and the same Is hereby repealed
so far as the same affects this ordinance.
Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils
this 10th day of M jrch. A. D. 1890.
H. P. FORD. President of Select Council.
Attest- GEO. SHEPPARD. Clerk of Select
Council. G. L. HOLLIDAY. President of
Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH,
Clerk of Common Council
Mayor's "fflco. March 13. 1890. Approved:
WM. McCALLIN. Mayor. Attest: W. H.
McCLEARY. Mayor's Clerk.
Recorded in Ordinance Book. vol. 7, page 352,
31st day of March. A. D. 1890.
3ia
AN ORDINANCE LOCATING MAHON
street, from 'Cbauncey street to Watt
street.
Section I Be it ordained and enacted by the
citv of Pittsburg, in Select and Common Coun
cils assembled, and It is hereby ordained and
enacted by the authority of tbe same. That
Mahon street, from Cbauncey street to Watt
street, be and tbe same is berebylocated as foil
lows, to wit: Tbe north 5-loot line shall begin
at tbe center line of Caauncey street at a dis
tance of 1S8.94 feet south of the south 5-foot
line of Wylie avenue: thence deflecting to tbe
left 90 degrees 03 minutes 10 seconds parallel to
and at a perpendicular distance of lt&94 feet
south of tbe south 5-foot running line of
Wylie avenue a distance of 476.7.2 feet to the
west 5-foot Hn9 of Junllla street; thence de
flecting to tbe right 14 seconds 30 minutes for
a distance of 476.00 feet to the we-t 5-foot line
or Watt street, intersecting the said line at an
ancle of 34 degrees 10 minutes and tho said
.Mahon street shall be of a width of forty (40)
feet.
Section S-That any ordinance or part ot
ordinance conflicting with the provisions of
this ordinance be and the same is hereby re
pealed so far as the same affects this ordi
nance. Ordained and enacted Into a law In Councils
this 10th dav of March. A. D. 1890 -onn"
H. P. FORD, President of Select CounciL
Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD. Clerk : o I Select
Council. GEO. L. HOLLIDAYL President ; of
Common Council. Attest: GEO. BOOTH Clerk
of Common CounciL .
Mayor's office. March 13, 1S90. AtinroTeri
WM. MCCALUN. Mayor. Attest: WTiL-Mo-'
CLEARY. Mayor's Clerk. at
Recorded-in Ordinance Book. toL'7 raza ass.
31st day of March, JL D. 189a ' P 9 "
OFFICIAL PITTSBURG.
No. 342.
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE
Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Com
pany tbe right to enter upon, occupy and uso
certain streets, lanes and highways, and toleass
the property and franchises of certain passen
ger and street railway companies, or either, and
to construct and operate, or either, by means of
electricity, or otherwise, passenger and street
railwajs, or either.
Section 1 Be it ordained and enacted by tho
city of Pittsburg in Select and Comuron Coun
cils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and
enacted by tho authority of the same, Tbat
tbe Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Com
pany shall have the right, and is hereby author
ized to cuter upon any and all streets, lanes,
alleys or hichways. or parts thereor within tho
said city of Pittsburg upon which any or all of
the following named passenger otstreet railway
companies, to wit: Pittsburg and Birming.
ham Passenger Railroad Company, tbe
Southside Passenger Railroad Com
pany and the Pittsburg and Orms
by Patenter Railroad Company now are or
may hereafter be constructed upon procuring
the consent of said passenger or street railway
companies respectively and make, coustruct,
maintain and operate thereon such motors,
cables, electrical or other appliances and neces
sary or convenient apparatus and mechanical
fixtures by means of an overbead electric sys
tem or otherwise, as said traction company
shall at anytime or times felect. and as will
provide for the traction of cars over tbe rail
ways of said companies, or anv of them, and.
if said traction company shall determine to nia
electricity as a motive power, to place erect,
maintain and use in. on and along such streets.
lanes, alleys or highn ays. or parts (hereof, on
or over which the railways of tbe said passen
ger or street railway companies or anj1 of them,
now aro or heren iter may be constructed sneb.
poles, posts, supports or other devices as said
traction company may from time to time select
for the support or maintenance ot any over
head or other system, and if said traction
company shall at any time determine to uso
cable or other kind of power orany other means
or system for the supply or application of
power. It shall have tbe light to construct,
maintain, operate or use in or under or alone
said streets, lanes, alleys and highways, or parts
thereof, such conduits or subways and such
cables or other devices as it may select for the
application or supply of power; and it shall at
any time or times have the right to change Its
kindnf power or system for the implication or
supply of power; and the said traction company
shall also have all the rights and privileges
herein given In. on. under, over or along snea
streets, lanes, alleys or highways a: it may tra
verse or occupy in order to connect with the
power house or houses of said company.
Section 2 The said Pittsburg and Birming
ham Traction- Company shall have the right,
and consent is hereby given to said company, to
lease the property, rights ana franchises of
any and all of the aforementioned passenger or
street railway companies which the said trac
tion company may desire to operate, and th
said Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Com
pany shall have tbe right and is hereby au
thorized to construct, maintain and operate, or
either, tbe railway of each and every of tho
said companies, from which it shall secure a
lease or enter into contract with for the supply
of motive powor.
Section 3 If the said Pittsburg and Birming
ham Traction Company shall hereafter at any
time contract with any other passenger or
street rail way company or companies or other
transportation company to furnish or supply
power for tbe traction or operation ot cars over
the railways of anyof tbesaid companies which
shall be constructed with tbe consent of Coun
cils of this city, the consent of tbe city is here
by given to such future contract or contracts,
and the said Pittsburg and Birmingham Trac
tion Company, in order to enablA it to econo
mically and conveniently carry out such con
tract or contracts as it may hereafter make, is
hereby given in, on, under, over and-aloogthe
streets, lanes, alleys or highways of this city
included within tbe routes of any and all of
such companies and the branches and exten
sions thereof, and which shall be constructed
as aforesaid, all the privileges and powers given
to it in tbe first section of tbis ordinance on tba
streets, lanes, alleys and highways therein re
ferred to.
Section 4 All tbe rights and privileges here
by given or granted are under and subject to
tbe terms and provisions of general ordi
nance, entitled "A general ordinance relating
to tbe entry upon, over or under, or the use or
occnpation of any street, lane or alley, or any
part thereof, for any purpose, by passenger or
street railway companies, or by companies op
erating passenger or street railways, and pro
viding reasonable regulations pertaining there
to for tbe public convenience and safety," ap
proved the 25th day of February, A. D. 1890.
and tbe rights and privileges by this ordinance,
given or granted shall cease and determins
only upon tbe expiration of the charters of tha
said passenger and street railway companies re
spectively. Sections The said Pittsburg and Birming
ham Traction Company, in consideration of ths
rights and privileges hereby granted, shall,
within 30 days alter the passage and approval
of this ordinance, by writing executea under
its corporate seaL dnlv attested by the proper
officers of said company, and to be filed in the
office of City Controller, bind itself that there
shall be expended in good faith, wben Its
tracks are relairlsnd within two years from
the date of the passage and approval of tbis
ordinance, not less than twelve thousand five
hundred dollars (S12.500) per mile in paving
with block stone, in manner as provided in the
aforesaid general ordinance, each and every
mile of single track of any of tbe street rail
way companies enumerated in section 1 of this
ordinance which shall be operated, or upon
which motive power shall besnpplied by the said
Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Company,
excepting, however, such portions of said
tracks as are now paved with block stone.
Section 6 Tbe Chief of the Department of
Public Works shall have the right to employ
and place snitable persons to supervise tbe
work of construction of said railroad author
ized ty this ordinance at tbe cost and expense
of said company and in no event shall tbe city
of Pittsburg be held liable for any damage to
person or property tbat may occur in any man
ner or under any circumstances during the
progress of the work thereon.
Section 7 That any ordinance or part of ordi
nanco conflicting with tbe provisions ot this
ordinance be and tbo same is hereby repealed
so far as the sam3 affects tbis ordinance.
Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils
this 21st day of March. A. D. 1890. "
H.P.FORD, President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk of Select
Council. W. A. MAGEE. President or Com
mon Council pro. tern. Attest: GEO. BOOTH,
Clerk of Common Council.
Mayor's office. March 24, 1890, Approved:
WM. McCALLIN. Mayor. Attest: W. H.
McCLEARY, Mayor's Clerk.
Recorded in Ordinance Book. voL 7, page
355. 3Jst day of March. A. D. 1890.
SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE
CEIVED at the office of City Controller
until Friday. April 11. 1890. at 2 p. m., for laying
water pipe on the following streets:
6,800 feet, more or less, 30-inch pipe on
Roup street from Center avenue to Ellsworth
avenue.
Ellsworth avenue from Roup street to Neville
street.
Neville street from Ellsworth avenue to Win
tbrop street.
10,000 feet, more or less, 24-inch pipe on
Winthrop street from Neville street to Dith-
ridge street.
Dithndee street from Winthrop street to
Forbes street.
Forbes street from Dithrldge street to a point
west of Brady street.
Contract to be completed by June 1, 1S90.
HAULING.
For hauling and delivering Z315 tons, mors
or less, 12-inch. 16-incIi. 24-inch and aO-lncb.
water pipe and special castings on the above
named streets.
GATE VALVES.
For furnishing and delivering tab. can
Pittsburg:
50. more or les, 4-inch gate valves.
10O. more orless. 6-inch gate valves.
6. more or less, 8-inch gate valves.
6. more or less, 12-inch gate valves.
4. more or less, 15-inch gate valves.
15, more or less, 16-inch gate valves.
10. more or less, 24-inch gate valves.
6. more or less, 30-Inch gate valves.
2, more or less. 38-inch gate valves.
FIRE HYDRANTS.
50, moro or less, slide-gate single fire hydrants.
25. more or less, slide-gate dinklofire hydrants.
55 tons pig lead, equal to Penna. refined.
or specifications, blanks on which bids must
be made, and all other Informatinp. apply at
tbe office of Superintendent of Water Supply
and Distribution. "
Each proposal must be accompanied by a
bond in double tbe amount of the estimated
cost, probated before tbe Mayor or City Clerk.
The Department or Awards reserve tbe right
to reject any or all bids.
E.M.B1GELOW.
Chief of Department of Pnblic Works
Pittsburg, April 1, 1S90. apl-ea.
Office op the citt Treasurer,
Municipal halt Sjutiifield Street-
VtOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ALL
JL owners, (whether residents or non-residents
ot the city ot Pittsburg) ot drays, carta,
wagons, carriages, buggies, etc., to pay their li
cense at this office forthwith.
All licenses not paid on or before tha -first
Monday in March. 1890. will be placed in the
hands ot police officers for collection, subject
to a collection fee of 50 cents.
And all persons neglec'lng to pay on or be
fore first Monday in May. 1890, will be subject
to a penalty double the amount o! the license
to be recovered before tbo proper legal author
ity of oaid city.
Tbe old metal plate ot last year must be re
turned at the time licenses are taken out. or2S
cents additional will be charged on the license.
Rates of license: Each one-horse vehicle,
S6 00; each two-horse vehicle, 110 00; each four
horse veBIcle, $1200; each four-horso hack,
Slo 00; omnibuses and timber wheels, drawn br
two horses. S10 00; one extra dollar will be
charged for each additional horse used in
above specified vehicles.
J. F. DENNISTON.
City Treasurer.
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Continutd on JZltvtnth Tag.