F
To Be Furnished by the City
the Coming Summer.
GIGANTIC IMPKOVEMENTS
In
Paving, Grading and Sewering,
That Will Cost
MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS
For the coming year the operations of the
Department of Public Works in the city of
Pittsburg will be upon a most gigantic
scale. "With the preparations of Schenley
Park to be dotted with brightly dressed
babies, enjoying the fresh air, and nurse
girls gazing upon the G-foot-3 park police
men, the useful is regarded as more im
portant than the ornamental, and material
improvements are contemplated which have
never been equaled in the history of Pitts
burg. The prospective improvements, as mapped
out yesterday from estimates of Superin
tendent ""iV. H. Browne, of the Bureau of
Engineering, by Mr. Bigelow, include a
very large extent of territory and give an
earnest of very largely increased work for
the laboring men, which they will no doubt
hail with delight. It will be noticed that
the improvements projected are scattered
very widely, although the East End seems
to hold its own to a large extent, and the
Southside is very slightly recognized.
COST OP THE IMPKOVEMENTS.
These estimates, given below in detail,
include only the street improvements now
authorized bv ordinances. The amount to
be expended, in round numbers, is 1,248,
384, distributed as follows: Repaving, $239,
800; trading, paving and curbing, $856,950;
sewer work, $151,634.
These estimates Superintendent Browne
said were made so as to allow for difficulties
which might be met in the shape of weather,
local obstructions in the construction of
sewers, etc For example, the curbing is
estimated at $1 per foot, while in all proba
bility the contracts would be let at a figure
15 per cent below that, and crossings were
estimated on the same basis. Asphalt and
block stone pavements were placed at $4 per
square yard, and would probably be 15 to 25
per cent lower on the contract. Irregular
block is placed at $3 per square yard, and
tire brick at $3 25, while grading is classed
at 25 to CO cents per yard. Following are
the detailsof the work in the various classes:
FIGUBES ON EEPAVINO.
Ellsworth avenue. 8
Edmond street,
Firth avenue.
Jorth Highland arenne
Taylor street
Penn avenue
Seventeenth street
Jladdock's alley
Wabash avenue
Frankstoun avenue....................
Stanton avenue
Fourth avenue.
Tunnel street
51.000
10.600
25.000
20,000
0,900
25,000
6.200
2,600
12,000
20,000
4.40O
6.000
7,500
Total i 239,500
GBADING. PAVLNO AND CUKEING.
Fifty-second street S 12,514
bapphlre alley S.2S0
Omega street 6.8S9
Basin alley. 2,952
.Lawn street. 1.C05
Home street. 5,116
Tiogastreet 22,550
Fox street 1.S02
Jlahogany alley. 7,393
llilwood street. 11,600
Corday alley. 1.791
Jumonvllle street 2.S30
Jladison street. 39,013
Linden street. 88.978
Howe street 22.710
PeiTy street 6,020
Broad Etreet 8.953
Banm street 5.300
Lotus alley 4,631
Hberidan street '. 50,674
Bherldan street S.210
Stanwix street 10.581
Thirty-sixth street 10,470
Amberson avenue 54.181
Alten avenue 80,o9
Wharton street 8 XS5
Walterstreer 19mi
liniot street...
"VVoolslayer alley.
Rural avenue....
Kailroad street..
Reed street
Bertha street....
21,772
8.037
20,395
9,503
2.391
11.044
3(ss
oton street,
Roup street K7.:l
Coucland street 10.712
Colwell street 21.047
Enterprise street 5.71C
Virginia avenue 3,950
Alder street 12.900
De Soto street 5.090
?.?i?kstovrn avenue 72,443
Mifflin street 15,255
Barton street 84.289
Clark alley. h31
Fifty-fourth street 9-J03
Cabinet alley 2.a"o
Calvin street 5.0G7
Kirkpatrick Etreet 6910
Vine street, 6.729
Edwards alley 8,'lrtJ
Minerva street- 3.23S
Holmes street 93fil
Kent alley 3856
wellingford street. 23,749
Clements alley.
7.224
3.302
2,170
1.444
1.74S
&aoi
2,700
5.100
5,300
.ji lire aiiey.............
Dresden alley.
Happer alley-
Eden alley.
Twenty-second street.
Renfrew street. ,
Rowan street
Park avenue- ,
oiai,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,! Soo,y;x)
PROSPECTIVE SEWERS.
Ann and Marion streets $
Atlantic avenue
Broad street
Braddock avenue.
Carey alley
College street
Carson etreet
Cabot alley.
Emily street
y itty-second street
Frankstown avenue, from Lincoln to
Eventt
Frankstown avenue, from Fifth to
Homewood -
Fortieth and Butler streets
Frankstown avenue, from weBt of
Broad to Eventt
Homewood avenue
Harvard street
Linden street...........................
Xiincoln avenue...............
Mulberry alley
McCully street
Rebecca street
Snowden alley
Susquehanna street
Summerlea street
Twenty-sixth street
Twenty-eighth street and private prop
erty Wright's alley. South Twenty-Bixth
to Barry Hall street
Turret street
Spring alley.
Morgan street
Webster avenue and Kirkpatrick
street
Henry street
Boquet street
Liberty avenue
Keystone and McCandless streets ....
Atlantic and Penn avenue .
Park avenue and private property....
8.244
6,941
1.292
4,535
862
2.248
3.117
74S
2,012
7,230
2,092
9.215
2,927
i.322
6,270
639
4.330
6.C90
460
4.3S0
4.803
1,070
95S
1,814
4,245
17,830
839
1,605
1.206
1,550
1,221
920
1.485
7,710
1,634
3,084
5,300
Wright's alley. South Twenty-fifth to
South Twenty-sixth streets 1,035
Wharton street L172
Tustin street 1,856
Oral: and Forbes streets 3 2S0
Harcum's alley 1,229
Evaline street 2,025
Berlin alley L814
Madison street ' " " ... 6.876
Kirkpatrick street ..".I... 6,94"
Total i.j 151,634
MAGNITUDE OP THE WORK.
By calculating the rates at which the esti
mates were made by Mr Browne, Superin
tendent of the Bureau of Engineering, some
idea can be gained of the magnitude of the
operations contemplated by the Department
of Public Works. Several other projects
are on hand, but not lully prepared, such as
the immense sewer at Four Mile run, which
will cost about $300,000.
Chief Bigelow's pet idea, the Schenley
Park, is not lost light of in the multiplicity
WOK
oe ray i
of plans for city improvements, and the
gray-coated police will before long canter
through the shady lanes of Pittsburg's sum
mer retreat It is understood that no an
tagonism will exist between the gray of
Chief Bigelow and the blue of Chief Brown,
as the former will be separated from the
latter by the palings of civilization which
will surround the park.
"I have two more applicants," said Chief
Bigelow, yesterday, "for the positions of
park policemen. One claims to be 6 feet 4
inches in height, and the other 6 feet 3
inches, so you see it is possible to keep up
the standard. There is another point I
wish to enforce, and that is a grade of in
telligence and politeness which will enable
the men to answer questions promptly ana
with profit to the public.
IMPROVEMENTS ALEEADT MADE.
"The work done so far on Scbenlev!Park
has certainly improved it, but it is not yet
what you might call a show place. The
weather has been so unpropitious that work
progresses very slowly. Still, a week or
two of fine weather will make it worth see
ing. I have no doubt that there will be a
large number out there to-morrow, and if
the day is fine it will repay them.
"I have a plan prepared for about half the
ground and will probably finish it within a
week or so, when it will be ready for inspec
tion. The work, of course, will be long and
tedious, but Nature has been so bountiful in
that locality that no landscape gardener is
needed. The only attractions required are
those which can be artificially supplied.."
A LITTLE TOO EARLT.
It was generally hinted in City Hall ves
terdav ihat some enterprising artist had
asked Mr. Bigelow to give the complete
plans of the park, with the intention of mak
ing an illustrated guide to the different at
tractions, but had received little encourage
ment Mr. Bigelow said that no proposition
of this kind had been made to him and had
it been fio information of that kind conld
be given until the plans were all settled
and definitely determined. The only point
of attraction in connection with the park
project at present, outside of the springs,
ravines, woods and green turf, is that to
men 6 feet 3 inches or over, to get a job as
park policemen, and the impression among
the City Hall people is that Chief Bigelow
made that limitation in order to get rid of
the consideration of mediocre applications,
which had already come in by the score.
One thing which the Chief has to contend
with is the suggestions which pour in by
the hundred to have the glens, springs, ra
vines and other features of the park named
for themselves or some of their friends. The
suggestions as to naming the roads are as
various as they are amusing. "Gourley
"Vale" is one of the names mentioned;
"Brown's Grotto" is another, while "Pan
ther Hollow" is universally approved.
"Mulligan's Spring" is brought into prom
inence in a badly-spelled letter, which
came in the same mail. with a proposition to
erect a beer stand, probably in opposition to
the spring proposal. Communications of
this kind invariably find their way into
Chief Bigelow's waste-basket, and the
nomenclature of the park leatures is still an
open question.
The greatest boon, as far as the interests
of the people are concerned, conferred by
the proposed improvements is the chance to
get work. There will be probably from
2,500 to 3,000 men employed on the various
contracts for a year, which means bread and
bntter for women and children and an era of
prosperity for Pittsburg workingmen, as
lull work always implies.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A I0UNG MAN.
Albert Wentzel Fall on the Street and Ex
pires in a Few Moments.
As the usual Saturday night crowds were
surging along Carson street, young Albert
"Wentzel dropped senseless on the pavement
under the feet of a party of jovial roysterers.
He had been running toward his home, at
ISIS Carson street, and was just opposite the
house when he uttered a piteous cry, and
clasping wildly at the air, fell to the
ground.
Several persons rushed to his assistance
and raised him up. He was gasping feebly,
and could only indicate the his residence
before he swooned away. He was taken
across the street with utmost care,
but had scarcely been conveyed to his
own door, when life was found to be extinct.
Drs. Barchfield and Arnholt, who were sum
moned at once, stated that the terribly
sudden death was due to the rupture of an
artery.
Albert Wentzel was about 17 years of
age. He was a son of Mr. G- P. 'Wentzel, a
well-known Southsider, formerly a member
of the Fischer & Thomas Foundry and Ma
chine Company. Albert had been sent on
an errand to Keinzing's china store, and had
hardly gone ten feet trom the store when his
terribly sudden end occurred. It would be
impossible to adequately describe the excite
mentthissad affair created. Women shrieked
and rushed down the street; men crushed
forward in the direction of the body, making
it extremely difficult to raise it.
The Wentzel house was surrounded by a
crowd while the doctors made their exam
ination, some hopes being still entertained
that the young man was alive. The con
firmation of his death was received with
sorrow by the crowd, which slowly dis
persed. 1HE MAYOR'S MEN.
Ofllcial Announcement of the Appointees
From the Mayor-Elect.
The official announcement of the eight
appointments in the hands of Mayor-elect
Gourley were made yesterday, as they have
been already announced in The Dispatch,
with the exception of the Mayor's Messen
ger, in which a change was made at the last
moment. They are at present as follows:
Police Magistrates, John Gripp, First dis
trict; B. F. McKcnna, Second district; T.
B. Hyndman, Third district; C. E. Succop,
Fourth district; A. H. Leslie, Fifth dis
trict. The Mayor's clerk will be W. H. Mc
Clcary, until he steps into the field as an
assured candidate for Sheriff; Assistant
Clerk, "Robert Oatermeir, and the Messenger
will be G. W. Gale, at present a colored
tonsorial artist on Grant street, who is very
highly indorsed by leading Democrats of
the Second ward.
WHAT IT IS TO BE POOR.
A Colored Wnlter Who Hadn't Enough
Money to Bury m Dead Wife.
The wife of Benjamin Weston, a colored
man, died some time ago of consumption at
the Poor Farm. Weston is a waiter, but has
been out of work ior six months.
He hadn't any money to bury his wife, and
the body was left lying in a rough box
at his parents" home on Roberts street. The
attention of the neighbors was called to the
Ead case, and the police inspector called in.
A child of the unfortunate woman is
dying of pneumonia from lack of proper
care.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING.
Some Who Travel, Some Who Do Kol, and
Others Who Talk.
W. C. Lyne, ex-President of the Pitts
burg Life Underwriters' Association, and the
General Manager of the National Lit i Insur
ance Company, was recently offered the Presi
dency of an Ohio collece, which he declined.
Sir. Lyne was formerly a popular educator,
and sinco he has qnlt pedaeogy has been offered
the principalship of one of the State normal
schools, and the chair of Latin and Greek in a
local college.
Judge Harry White, of Indiana county,
was In the city yesterday. Ho said he would
announce his list of licenses this week. The
Jndze has a. lurking suspicion that his con
stituents are not as thirsty as some of the peo
ple In other counties.
J. M. Chessbrougb, assistant general
passenger agent of the Vandalia line, passed
through the city yesterday bound for the East.
Dr. J. J. Fronheiser, General Superin
tendent of the Cambria Iron Works, was in the
rity yesterday.
Db. B. M. HAifrTA. Eye, ear, nose and
throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720 Penn
street, Pittsburg, Pa. s&su
IN- A- GREAT HURRY.
Successful Liquor Dealers Anxious to
Prepare for Business.
PLACING ORDERS FOR FIXTURES.
One Suicide Already Laid to an Applicant's
Fear of Refusal.
A SORRY OUTLOOK FOR BPBAK-EASIES
In spite of the temptations to celebrate
their success in wine and wassail, many of
the newly-licensed liquor dealers have
already begun to purchase fixtures for their
saloons. Over 20 visited the warerooms of
the Brunswick-Balke Company, on F ifth
avenue yesterday and left orders. Mr.
Balke seemed rather put out about the
short time he was allowed for the execution
of these orders. "They don't appear to care
for nice fixtures," he said; "all they want is
to get into business as quickly as possible.
They appear surprised that I can't fit them
out with one wave of my magic wand. If
they gave me a little time I could mako
their saloons worth looking at.
"I nbtice that the saloons in the outlying
villages and small towns are getting to be
far more spick-and-span than those situated
in the city. Most of customers this year
will, I fancy, prefer to deal on the instal
ment plan. The heavy sum paid by them
for their license has apparently quite
swamped their capital. To fit any thing like
a decent saloon at least $1,200 would be re
quired. When I get an order for furnish
ments it includes everything but the glass
ware and chandeliers. From counters to
spigots every fixture is supplied.
"By the way, the fashion in counters this
year promises to be long and narrow. All
the orders I have as yet received call for
long counters, of small width. I notice that
a good many restaurant fixtures are being
bought. That is owing to the Judges'
hints, I presume."
THEREBY HANGS A TALE.
In Mr. Balke's rooms the former fixtures
of a morning cotemporary have been de
posited. Yesterday a liquor man saw the
fixtures, and took a violent fancy to them,
not only as useful articles, but also as valu
able historical relics. It is highly probable
that he will purchase the furniture, the his
tory of which ought to be a good advertise
ment. Other furniture dealers were seen, but al
though many had been visited by one or
two newly licensed liquor men, none had
had so many customers as the firm men
tioned. In the glass houses, such as
Schmidt's on Penn avenue, and Wallace &
McAfee's, on Wood street, a good deal of
business was done. A highly elevated
liquor man, who attempted to carry home
some of his purchases at the latter store,
lurched against his buggy and broke the
whole load. The loss, however, entirely
failed to damp his joy, and he drove home
ward in a bower of broken glass, waving the
fragment of a shattered chandelier.
The bonds of some applicants whose
licenses were granted have not yet been ap
proved, but this is not material, as they were
examined as the applications were heard.
Jacob Keller, 642 Smithfield street, gets his
license on the condition of his starting a
restaurant He was somewhat nervous yes
terday, as he said he wanted to know so that
he could order Strasburjj beer, but was com
forted with the information given him in the
Clerk of Courts office.
HAD TO ASSURE THEMSELVES.
The majority of successful applicants
were also nervous and called to satisfy
themselves that there were no slips between
cup and lip.
Disappointed applicants take the situa
tion according to their makeup, constitu
tionally. Some say they didn't get a fair
show, and talk luridly, while others dis
guise their feelings. Successful applicants
will give carpenters, grainers, glaziers, dec
orators, etc., plenty of work fixing up new
places between now and May 1.
There will not be much shortage in the
estimate of the Finance Committee's re
ceipts from the license fund. It is based on
315 licenses, and it is said the committee
must have understood that Judge Ewing
considered about 300 licenses the correct
thing.
The Court filed an opinion in the case of
John A, McKelvey, of the Twentith ward,
which contains a tip to remonstrants. It is
stated that McKelvey 's petition was duly
filed and the application advertised, and
there was no remonstrance nor any sug
gestion of anything objectionable in the
location of the building or the character of
the applicant, and the Court, having no
doubt of the propriety of its course, decided
on the evening of the hearing to grant the
application. Some days after a remon
strance was filed and letters were sent
objecting on the ground that the saloon is
proposed to be located in a building in part
used for the meeting of secret societies, and
that a congregation is temporarily worship
ing in the building. The Court states that
it is not necessary to say what effect these
representations might have had if made in
time, and the parties are informed that their
information was made too late and the deci
sion to grant must stand.
SOME SAO FEATUEES.
There are many who can't fully sympa
thize with some old world people over their
disappointments in failing to get license.
Having been raised under different auspices
they cannot put themselves in the places of
those who regard liquor selling as regular
as the support of foreign missions. A case
is on record of a Hessian who cut his throat
because he couldn't make his kraut smell.
Mrs. Henry Hammersley, of the Fifteenth
ward, who drew a blank, went into convul
sions yesterday morning, when she heard
she was refused, and during several hours
four men's services were required to control
her. Her nerves, however, have been sub
jected to a severe strain. During the year
she has buried her husband and five of her
children, and a sixth will be buried this
afternoon. The latter it as an 8-year-old
boy, and died of pneumonia. She has but
two children left, both girls, and one ot them
is sick with a fever. Her case is peculiarly
sad. in auamon to her domestic griel, sue
was a victim of the Bander gang.
A Bohemian named Wenkel Kcckar.who
had applied for license to sell liquor in lie
serve township, and who, not finding his
name in the list of "granted," and either
not considering or not knowing that his
turn had not come, hung himself in the
house of Mrs. Knorr, No. 12 Summit street,
Troy Hill, Allegheny. There seems to be
no doubt that disappointment caused him
to suicide, for he was an applicant last vear
and was refused, and was heard to remark
that he would kill himself if refused next
time.
ATBAID OP THEIH FATHER.
He was about 60 years of age and of late
has been very dissipated. He had been
peddling beer in Bohemian town for a
brewery.but had lost his situation on account
of intemperance. He had married daughters
but it is said that his conduct made them
afraid of him and they would not allow him
to live with them. He was known by the
Sublie as "Jim." Nickar's landlady heard
im drive the nail on which he hung him
self, but she paid no attention to it. This
was about 9 o'clock, and two hours later
she had occasion to open the door of his
room and found him hanging there. His
friends think that he supposed he lived in
Allegheny City, not knowing the boundary
between it and "Reserve township, and as he
did not see his name in the Allegheny list,
thought he had been refused.
B, A. Balpb, Esq., yesterday filed a re
monstrance against the grantingof a bottlers'
license to Edward Hess and James C. Clark,
at No. 7608 Penn avenue. About 100
Wilkinsburg people set forth that there is
no number on the house and that it is with
in a few feet of the borough line and that
the design of the applicants is to furnish
Wilkinsburg, a prohibition district, with
MIGHT HAVE BEEN MOEE.
Inspector McAleese said yesterday that
he thought there'should have been 200 more
licenses granted, as the needs of the city
would require such an addition. He said
that 500 licensed saloons would give but a
poor excuse for the existince of a speak
easy. In regard to the location of the li
censed houses he said that it would be im
possible to prevent the speak-easy nuisance
in localities where the Court had deprived
the people of the chances to assuage its
thirst. There should have been at least COO
licenses granted in Pittsburg.
The Inspector's opinion was that in such
places as the Thirteenth ward, for example,
it would be impossible to prevent the exist
ence of speak-easies. He thought a terri
tory like that should have at least three
saloons, if not more.
Assistant Superintendent O'Mara said:
"You saw in my annual report that I rec
ommended 300 licenses, which if properly
distributed would fill all the requirements
of the city. As to whether the licenses were
properly distributed or not I cannot say, as
I have not a map of the city with a red
mark at every saloon location, but I don't
think any more saloons are needed than are
at present authorized to do business. The
speak-easy business derives its whole profits
from the Sunday work which the Depart
ment has always strenuously fought, as can
be seen by the records.
"From an electric standpoint what opin
ion have you of the license awards?" was
asked of Superintendent Morris Mead,
of the Bureau of Electricity. He replied :
"I should like to have had a branch bat
tery under the bench which would control
the pens of the judges to the effect of plac
ing a signature at the foot of every appli
cation. The electric method of granting
licenses would be a grand success I think, as
everybody would get a license who could
pay ior it, and I would also have, if pos
sible, a method of making the license
holders confirm to the law under penalty of
deprivation of their license, if not of some
more severe punishment,"
This was the same idea previously ad
vanced by Assistant Superintendent
O'Mara, who thought the saloons Bhould be
under control of the police authorities.
THE SPEAK-EAST MUST GO.
Chief Brown yesterday said that, as the
number of saloons had been increased so
largely, the watch upon the speak-easies by
the police bureau would he intensified.
There were enough licenses granted to cover
the city, and he would at once give orders to
cover in the unlicensed houses as quickly as
possible and keep the matter worked thor
oughly up. This, in view of the fact that
the constables have been said to be rather
derelict in their reports in some places,
means that the speak-easy must go.
A STATE PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
Tho
Pennsylvania Organization Created
Here Last Night.
The American Patriotic League of
Pennsylvania, was organi zed in Pittsburg
last night. Delegates were present from all
of the local leagues but two in the State,
one of Philadelphia and one of McKeesport.
A permanent organization was effected and
officers were elected. A committee was ap
pointed to draft a constitution, with in
structions to report to a special meeting to
be called in two weeks.
The principles of the parent league were
indorsed unanimously. They are: First
Bestriction of immigration; second Exten
sion of the time required for naturalization;
third An educational qualification for
every voter; fourth One general non-sectarian
American free school system; fifth
Public funds and public property not to be
used for sectarian purposes; sixth Ameri
can lauds for American settlers.
The league is a secret organization. Any
American citizen is eligible to membership.
The purpose is to secure the consummation
of the objects through legislation. Those
present at last night's meeting refused to
say much about the proceedings, but the
prospects are for a large and influential
league in Pennsylvania.
THE CITY'S SINKING FOND.
Controller Morrow Complimented for
HI
Watch Over the Money.
The Auditing Committee oi Councils got
through yesterday afternoon with the work
of inspecting the sinking fund bends. They
found everything correct and the city largely
indebted to Controller Morrow for his care
ful watch of the fund in question.
As it stands now the total amount of
bond investments in the hands x( the city is
$1,816,175 25. The claim against the late
borough of Temperanceville authorized by
act of Councils in 1878 by a loan is $30,408 43,
making a total in tho sinking fund of
1,876,583 68.
Upon this Controller Morrow said there
was, on a rough average, 3J per cent in
come to the city, and he considered the in
vestment fully as good as Bant of England
stock, with a large saving in postage. The
report of the Auditing Committee will cor
roborate the opinion of the Controller.
NO ARBOR DAY IN PITTSBURG.
Tho Holiday to bo Observed Hero by Being
Quietly Ignored.
Superintendent Luckey, of the Pittsburg
schools, has received from the State Super
intendent of Instruction circular letters in
regard to the celebration ot Arbor Day in
May. Mr. Luckey said yesterday: "Arbor
Day will not be celebrated in this city. We
have no grounds about our schoofhouses
for the planting of either trees or flowers.
During the first three years of the observ
ance of the day in this State all the trees
were planted which we have room for.
"Last year there was no observance of the
day and there will not be one now. The day
is chiefly valuable in the country districts.
There will not be any programme in the
schools, and the day will not be noticed in
Pittsburg in any way."
Americas Clab Election.
The Amerlcus Club met last evening.
The committees on charter and banquet re
ported progress. Messrs. J. Howard Speer,
William M. Kee3, T. B. Barnes, C. Traut
man, William Lyons, Jr., J. H. Laird,
William L. Lapsley and C. A. McFeely
were elected as the Membership Committee.
W. H. Eeed was elected Captain, L. B.
Davidson First Lieutenant and Horace F.
Lowry Second Lieutenant.
For the NewibojV Home.
The "Drummer Boy of Shiloh" will be
played in the Bijou Theater next Friday
afternoon for the benefit of the Newsboys'
Home. Manager Gulick has given the
house for nothing, and the company will
play on the same liberal terms. The
"Drummer Boy" is worth seeing.
Will be Baricd To-Dar.
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret A. Du
Shane, who died at her home, 1704 Sidney
street, Southside, will take place from the
Carson Street M. E. Church this afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Unity Council, D. of L., of
which the deceased was a member, will meet
at their hall at 1 o'clock and proceed to the
house in a body at 1:30.
Struck HU Wlfo With a Poker.
Edward Kearney was sent to jail by Al
derman Leslie last night to await a hearing
on Thursday. He is charged with assault
and battery by his wife, Lizzie Kearney,
who lives on Forty-fifth street, Mrs. Kear
ney states that her husband came home late,
and after an altercation struck her over the
face with a heated poker.
Lucky Candidate for License.
John Phillips answered the following
questions satisfactorily and was granted
license. Do you love music? I do. What
instruments do you prefer? All. Where do
you buy your musical goods? AtGallinger's,
corner Twelfth and Penn streets. Why?
Because theay are the best. Any other rea
son? Yes, because his prices are the lowest
in the city. Judge, do not forget me.
K. Gallinqee,
xhsu 1200 Penn are,
JJg gXOOD BY THEM.
The Local Postal Clerks Will Com
mend Mr. McKean's Efforts.
PENDING POSTAL LAWS EXPLAINED
Tho Eight-Hours Consecutive Law
Shelved for Another lear.
to he
A YACATI0N WITH PAT IS ASSUfiED.
The quarterly meeting of the Pittsburg
Postal Clerks' Association will take place
to-day, it being the only day upon which
the hard-worked Government clerks can
leave their duties. The meeting will con
sider and take action upon a speck of
trouble in the local office resultant upon the
meeting of first-class postmasters in Wash
ington City last Wednesday.
It is a remarkable fact that the Postoffice
Department cannot inaugurate new move
ments without the knowledge of the postal
clerks. Knowing that the meeting would
take place, the Executive Committee of the
local office waited upon Postmaster McKean
and requested him to advocate certain
measures of vital importance to the em
ployes. Mr. McKean went to Washington
and took an important part in the meeting,
which was held in Postmaster General
Wanamater's privato offices, and since his
return has refused to make any statement as
to what transpired at the meeting, holding
that it was part of the secret machinery of
the department.
Meanwhile some of the carriers have
learned from Eastern sources of informa
tion that the conference sat down on the
"eight hours consecutive" movement, and
there have been excited discussions of the
matter, culminating in the charge that Post
master McKean had "gone back on the
boys."
A STATEMENT SECURED.
Mr. McKean was requested last evening
to make a statement in regard to the matter,
but refused to say anything. The reporter
was referred to President Cowan, of the
Postal Clerks' Association, who made the
following statement:
"Mr. McKean has been misrepresented in
this matter, and the association at its meet
ing to-morrow will pass resolutions of
thanks to him for what he was instrumental
in securing as our representative. There were
several measures under consideration at the
conference with the Postmaster General.
The clerks are, of course, deeply in
terested in the 'eight-hour con
secutive' movement. There were
also the '15-day vacation with pay,' the 'in
crease salaries,' and the 'classification' bills
discussed. Mr. McKean strenuously ad
vocated the '15-day vacation with pay' bill,
and is responsible for its adoption. His
resolution to ask for an appropriation of
$400,000 to provide for the vaca
tion with pay was adopted, and
will be transmitted to the Senate
Committee on Postofflces, of which Senator
Quay is Chairman. We feel certain of an
affirmative recommendation. The bills in
favor of 'increased salaries' and 'classifica
tion' are very important to postal employes,
but as they are bills which must originate
in the House, and run the gauntlet with the
general run of legislation, the employes
loresee that it will be uphill work.
STAND A GOOD SHOW.
"Past experience has shown us that e fen
when we do secure ameliorative legislation
from Congress the insufficient appropria
tions render it nugatory. That has been
the case with the modified classification bill
passed at the last session of Congress there
has not been enough money to carry out its
provisions!. We have, however, strong as
surances that the 'increased salaries' and
'classification' bills stand a good show all
around."
"What is the status of the 'eight-hours
consecutive' bill, about which there seems
to be some local misunderstanding?"
"I am coming to that," said Mr. Cowan.
"Pittsburg is more closely conforming to
Sunset Cox's eight-hour bill than any city
in the country. Of course we want the
eight hours of labor to be consecutive. At
present employes have to put in eight hours
in the manner uost advantageous to the
service, and are often expending 10, 11 or 12
hours in working o. When we have eight
consecutive hours it will be a great advant
age to us, and I think it will come. But
under present conditions it was discovered
by Mr. McKean that eight-hours consecu
tive meant a 24 per cent cut in salaries
in the Pittsburg office, all the way
round. More men would be employed, of
course, but those already at work would be
cut one-fourth of their present salaries. Mr.
McKean opposed this, and advised waiting
another year, when the revenues of the de
partment would offer more chances of suc
cess. I cordially indorse his action, and
we shall pass resolutions of that purport at
our meeting to-morrow."
WHY HE WAS FIRED.
Poitmaiiter MeKenn'i Reaaons for Dli
charsinc Distributor Catihall.
Postmaster McKean was asked yesterday
to make a statement in regard to the charge
that he had violated the civil service rules
in discharging Distributor Cutshall, a
Democrat and an old soldier. Mr. McKean
intimated that he preferred to allow Mr.
Cutshall to engineer the controversy over
the matter in his own way. He 'finally
said, however,
"Mr. Cutshall was removed for cause, on
the recommendation of the chief of his de
partment, an official who has been Cut
shall's superior lor over four years. So far
as I am concerned I care nothing for Mr.
Cutshall's politics or religion. The removal
was decided upon because of his lack of
ability."
WANTED TO DIE TOGETHER.
An Old Couple Prefer Poverty to Separation
nt the Poor Farm.
William McKain and his wife, the de
mented old couple arrested and locked up
in the Twenty-eighth ward station house, in
order that they might De Detter cared tor,
were yesterday committed ten days to jail,
for the purpose of testing their sanity.
At the hearing the old woman prayed that
they might not be sent to the Poor Farm,
and thus separated.
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Rcadlnir.
Mns. Catherine Burns was arrested yes
terday and held for a hearing to-morrow on a
charge of selling liquor on Sunday at hor house
on Thirteenth street. The information was
made before Alderman U'Sonnell by Edward
Brearton.
Aggie Mohan was committed to Jail last
night by Alderman McMasters on a charge of
larceny. She is alleged to have stolen a pair of
gold bracelets from Sadie Thompson. In de
fault of bail she was held for a bearing on
Thursday.
Hugh McLatn, the Southside conductor
who was sued before Alderman Succop by
Humphrey Campbell, on charges of assault
and larceny of a satchel, last evening waived
his claim for a hearing and entered bail for
court.
Sis' carloads of emigrants of various European
nationalities passed through the city this morn
ing westbound, destined for various points in
several Western States.
WoEDwas received in this city yesterday
that tho towboat Enterprise, going down the
river with a tow, had broken a shaft this side
of Cincinnati.
Bisnot WniTEAEAD will preside at St. Ste
phen's Episcopal Church In McKeesport to
day, when '20 young people will be confirmed.
The Allegheny Valley road proposes to add
a steam merry-go-round and a calliope to the
attractions ofjtuo Uulton picnlo ground.
Delegates representee IS Baptist churches
in this district lmet yesterday, and organized
the Oakland Baptist Church.
VEEY WAE1I TUSSLE.
Contesting Candidates for the Appointive
and Elective Positions on the Northilde
Inporlanco Derived From the Result of
the Decennial Census.
Allegheny is all astir with political ex
citement. Mayor-elect Wyman will be
sworn into office at noon to-morrow. The
City Councils will reorganize to-morrow
evening. Upon these two affairs great
things, great in the view of those who are
seeking office, depend. The chief import
ance attached to the elections or appoint
ments to office at this time Is derived from
the approaching elevation of Allegheny to a
city of the second class, where there will be
departments and bureaus, and certain people
will be chiefs and superintendents.
Mr. Wyman will appoint only two po
lice officers, subject to the approval of
Councils. There is but one appointment of
any importince to be made by him which
is not yet pretty well decided. This is the
appointment of Police Captain. The pres
ent Captain, Kichard Wilson, appears to
be tolerably certain ot the appointment, al
though he has an opponent who is a very
active solicitor.
The Councils will select a City Attorney,
a City Physician and several other minor
officials. The two offices named arc.for con
tingent reasons, considered important. For
City Attorney, George Elphinstone is the
leading candidate. David M. Alston is ac
tively in the field.
Drs. S. S. Woodburn, Thomas L. Haz
zard and E. C. Huselton are candidates for
City Physician. Dr. Woodburn is the in
cumbent. Dr. Hazzard is physician for
the PoorBoard for the Eastern district of the
citv. He is a brother of the celebrated
Coionel C. W. Hazzard, of Monongahela
City. Dr. Huselton is not a very active
candidate, having been suggested by some
of his friends.
The contest in Councils which excites the
greatest amount of discussion and wire pull
ing is that for Chief of the Fire Department.
The incumbent, Chief Jones, was the
favorite around City Hall last night, and
among the betting men odds were offered in
his favor. He has two active antagonists,
Messrs. John K. Lemon and John Seiferth.
Superintendent Armstrong, of the water
works, is opposed by Henry Brehm. For
street commissioner there are William
Meese, John Anderson and W. H. Barndol
lar. For road commissioner there are Hen
ry Suaman, Christ Gass and James Neillie.
For clerk of markets there are David Hast
ings and Louis Kreiling; for meat and milk
inspector, John Lippert and C. Steinhauser,
and for wharfmaster, D. Lighthill, H. Ditt
mar, P. Maul and Wm. Cavitt. The only
candidates having no opposition are Treas
urer McFerran, Controller Brown and Su
perintendent of Gas Lighting David Hun
ter. H. D. CAMPBELL DEAD.
A Weil-Known Railroad Man tho Victim of
Typhoid Fever.
H. D. Campbell, Secretary and Treasurer
of the Pittsburg and Western road, died
yesterday from an attack of typhoid fever
and some cardiac complications. Mr,
Campbell lived at 21 Monterey street, Alle
gheny. He was well known in business
circles, and his death will be a surprise to
his friends and associates. He had been ill
for the past five weeks.
Mr. Campbell was born in Butler county
and is now 39 years old. His father who
died three years ago was a prominent man.
Bev. W. A. Campbell, of Sewickley, and
J. T. Campbell, a merchant of Franklin,
are his brothers.
Mr. Campbell was a good business man,
and was connected with the P. & W. road
for some years. Though not a very wealthy
man, bs- bad accumulated a comfortable
competence. He leaves a wife and two
beautiful little girls to mourn his loss.
)WANTS TO GO TO DIXM05T.
MIn BIffgi Called on to Replace a Former
Inmate There.
Mis3 Higgs, editress of the Southtide En
terprise, has received a letter indirectly
from her late manager, Grable, who says he
is crazy, and repents in sackcloth and ashes
and will strive to replace his shortages.
Miss Higgs tramped all over Allegheny in
search of Grable yesterday, but not finding
him came to the conclusion that he had left
this section.
The editress says Grable was once an in
mate of Dixmont, and she believes him to be
really crazy.
His Game Didn't Work.
A young man named John Anderson was
arrested by Officers Bertges and Lintner, of
Allegheny, last night ior attempting to
work a flim-flam game in a store on Ohio
street. He had not accomplished his trick,
when the officers were called in, and caught
him in the store. He was locked up for a
hearing.
E. Q. HAYS Se CO. '8
Eastor Barsalns.
Steinway piano $225
Decker piano 190
Sohmer piano 185
Chickering piano 175
Hardman piano......... ...... 180
Haines piano 125
These are almost new and in good condi
tion. These prices include stool and cover.
E. G. Hats & Co., Ho. 75 Fifth ave.
Bay Your Pianos nnd Orcans at IT. Klebcr
it Bros., 506 Wood Street, Pittsburg-.
Kleber's is the oldest and most reliable
musio house in the city, and most people
would rather trust to Mr. Kleber's choice
and representation than to that of any other
music dealer. At Kleber's the buyer is ab
solutely safe against sharp tricks they are
the most honorable house in the trade. They
sell the great Steinway piano, the wonder
ful Conover piano, and the charming Opera
piano all warranted for eight years; also,
the inimitable Burdett organs and the new
church vocalion organs.
Old pianos and organs taken in exchange.
Fancy Prices.
The public generally are tired of paying
fancy prices for photographs. They now
patronize Hendricks & Co., No. C8 Federal
st., Allegheny, the lyst and cheapest photo
graph gallery in the cities. Good cabinets,
if 1 a dozen.
See the Lochinvar awnings; they are ex
ceedingly beautiful and novel, at Mamaux
& Son's, 537 and 539 Penn ave., Pittsburg,
Pa.
Otjb stock of oak, walnut and cherry suits
cannot he surpassed in the city. Before
purchasing elsewhere call and examine our
stock. MicniOAN Fuenitdbe Co., 437
Smithfield st.
Special Barcnln In Cnmbrlc Chemises nt 75c,
Also at ?1 00, ?1 10, 1 15, $ 1 25.
A. G. Campbeli. & Sons, 27 Fifth ave.
Tuxedo awnings at Mamaux & Son's,
539 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Dress Goods at 50c a yard; splendid
wearing materials; entire new designs and
colorings. Hugos & Hacks.
TTSSU
DABBS, the celebrated photographer,
makes photographs of people as their friends
see them.
Tuxedo awnings at Mamaux & Son's,
539 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Nothing contributes more toward asound
digestion than, the use of Angostura Bitters.
Fubnitube, Furniture, Furniture We
have a complete line of household furniture
which we are Belling at incomparable low
prices. Michigan Fubnixtjee Co., 437
Smithfield st.
Tuxedo awnings at Mamaux & Son's,
539 Penn aye., Pittsburg, Pa. '
SOT EYEN.A RIPPLE
Hade by the Suit Brought Against
the Brewers' Association.
LOCAL BREWEBS FAR TOO BUST
To Mother Ahont Debts They Say They
Never Contracted.
EASTERN MEN BLAMED FOR ALL OP ir
The suit threatened by Moore & S innott,
of Philadelphia, against the Pennsylvania
Brewers' Association, for $22,800, as pub
lished yesterday in The Dispatch, failed
to excite a ripple among the brewers of this
city. In the first place, the brewers of
Pittsburg are just now too busy with an im
portant local matter to bother very much
about State or general affairs. The license
court for Allegheny county will meet to
morrow morning, after a vacation of three
days, to take up the cases of the applicants
for wholesale license. The first 14 wards of
Pittsburg are to be heard to-morrow, and
although these wards include scarcely any
of the breweries in this city, the proprietors
of those establishm ents are busy with their
lawyers preparing for the hearings of Tues
day and Wednesday.
THE NATTIRAIi infebence.
Inquiry yesterday among brewers in this
city reveals the fact that the members of the
various firms are unacquainted with the
basis for the suit by Moore & Sinnott. The
natural inference is that the dealings with
Moore & Sinnott were conducted by officials
of the various liquor and brewing associa
tions in Philadelphia, without the knowl
edge or sanction of the members of the asso
ciations throughout the Commonwealth.
The sum sued for, $22,800, is alleged to be
60 per cent of an amount loaned to the Anti
Prohibition Campaign Committee in June,
1889, by Moore & Sinnott, to pay up the
balance of campaign expenses. This loan,
it is alleged, was secured by Secretary
Crowell, ot the State Association.
At the headquarters of the Brewers Asso
ciation of Allegheny County, in the Phila
delphia Company's building, yesterday,
there was to be found only a young man
who is employed as clerk. He said that he
had not beard a word about the matter, and
was sure that no Allegheny county mem
bers had been served with process.
can't tjndeestand it.
Herman Straub said: "I do not under
stand what this suit can mean. I am sure it
cannot affect us. The brewers in this county
paid their campaign assessments, which
were levied by the County Committee, and
that ended it."
William Eberhardt, of the Eberhardt &
Ober Brewing Company, said: "The only
thing I have heard about the suit is what I
saw in The Dispatch this morning. I do
not know anything about it, and I am sure
there has been no service on any person in
this city. I do not see how we can be held.
In fact, I am sure we cannot. We stood
our share of the assessed campaign expenses
and cannot be held for any piivate loan or
pretended loan which may have been made
in Philadelphia."
Damas Lntz, the senior member of the
firm of D. Lutz & Son, said last evening:
"I don't know anything about the suit. I
have not been served with any notice of
suit, and am not bothered about it We are
not bound by any loan made in the Eastern
part of the State. We paid our share, and
we are done."
Getting Bendy for Chicago.
The American Mechanics interested in
the Chicago excursion in June met last
night, and beard the report of the Transpor
tation Committee. A rate of $9 has been
secured for the round trip. It is thought
that about 1,000 or 1,500 people will go.
Facts About Cataract Blindness.
It is an opacity of the crystalline lens,
located just behind the pupil.
It may come at any age.
It is most common between 65 and 75.
It often comes without any known cause.
There is no known preventive.
Operative measures extraction in the
aged and solution in youth are the only
known means of cure.
It is the most important and critical op
eration in eye surgery, and yet the least
painful.
Those most skilled and delicate of touch
by experience in operating obtain the most
perfect results.
It is possible in many cases to restore. with
the aid of glasses, the natural standard of
vision for natural eyes, especially for read
ing. Mr. John C. Campbell, general agent for
Davis Sewing Machine Company, Cleve
land, O., aged 40; Mr. David Biery, father-in-law
of Mr. William Scott, " Bebecca
street, East End, aged 78, and Mrs. Mar
garet Wilson, Burgettstown. Pa., aged 82,
are cases demonstrating this assertion. Dr.
Sadler, 804 Penn avenue, is authority for
these statements.
HEADQUARTERS
CARPETS.
CARPETS.
CARPETS.
MATTINGS
MATTINGS
CURTAINS
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
LABGEST EXCLUSIVE OABPET
AND CURTAIN HOUSE
WEST OF NEW
YORK CITT.
Finest selection ever shown in all the
latest colorings and designs, at lowest
prices.
Royal Wiltons, Axmlnsters, Gobelins,
Moquettes. Body Brussels, Velvets, Ta
pestry Brussels, Ingrains, Three-Plys,
Cottage and Rag Carpets.
Mattings Our line is the most exten
tensive and varied ever shown in this
market. Prices from 10 cents per yard
upward.
Lace Curtains, Chenille and Velour
Curtains, our own direct Importation,
froji 75 cents por pair up.
EDWARD
ERDETZINEER
627 and 629
PENN AVENUE.
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DYNAMOS IN OPERATION.
Tbe Postal Telegraph' New System Works
Like a Charm 4,500 Jars Replaced,
and to be Sent to the Country A flinch
Cheaper Tlnn.
Last evening the Postal Telegraph put
into operation its new dynamo system in
Pittsburg. The apparatus worked very
nicely, and Superintendent Campbell ,aa
pleased with the change and the result.
There are 12 dynamos altogether, and two
seven horse-power engines to drive them, one
of the engines being reserved in case of ac
cidents. The dynamos will replace 4,500 jars, and
besides will have ten time3 the strength,
and will cost about half as much per year to
maintain as the jars. To keep up each jar
requires the expenditure of SI 10 yearlv, or
$5,000 for the4,C00, but the dvnamos will be
a great saving. They are'of the F. W.
Jones patent, and made by the Westing
house people. In replacing the old system
the company had to put in new switch
boards, and to make all the connections in
tbe office required 3,000 miles of wire. A
new wire even had to be laid to each opera
tor's desk. It cost about 3,000 to put in
the new system.
Superintendent Campbell said that the
jars would be removed and sent out to coun
try offices where it wouldn't pay to locate a
dynamo. Pittsburg is a sort half-way sta
tion of the Postal Telegraph, and for this
reason is one of their most important points.
Mr. Campbell stated that as many as 5,000
messages are re-sent in Pittsburg in a day.
Not RIncli of a Fire.
An alarm of fire was sent in about 1
o'clock yesterday afterhoon for a blaze in
the bolt factory of Oliver Bros. & Phillips
on South Eleventh street. An overheated
furnace had set fire to some woodwork built
against it. The damage done was trifling.
Renchedja Payrtreak.
The oil well of the Gaiiey Brothers, on
the Kay farm, a mile and a half northeast
of the Ivory well, reached the pay streak
yesterday and will probably be drilled in
to-day. If it proves to be good, it will
open up some valuable territory.
MARSHELL,
THE CASH GROCER,
WILL SAYE YOU MOHEY.
Coma and sea us. You will scarcely know ns.
Owing to the incrpase of business, we bava
again been compelled to enlarge, and now we
have
FOUR LARGE STORES,
Nos. 79, 81, 83 and 95 Ohio St,
Running back 100 feet on Sandusky street. Vi'a
have been very busy during the past week.
Moving and trying to keep up with our trade
at the same time has kept onr hands fall, and
if any orders have not been filled as promptly
as we would have wished, this is the reason.
By next week we hope to have things in or
der, and we then expect to show you the most
conveniently arranged grocery Btore you have
ever been in.
With one exception, we now have
The Largest Retail Grocery Trade
in the United States.
We realize this 13 a large claim to make. We
have made diligent inquiries, and we can hear
of but one who does more business than we do.
We feel safe in saying there never has been any
retail business of any kind in either city which
has grown 90 marvelously fast as ours has. Oar
wonderful success .has excited the envy of the
narrow-minded, but we thrive on persecution.
In fact, we would be absolutely lonesome if no
one opposed us, and. like the porcupine, those
who ruffle our qnills feel it worse In tho end
than we do. Don't forget
CUMSHAW TEA
AND
Marshell's Comfort Flour.
In order to introduce our flour we will give
away
2 100 Worth of Cumshaw Tea.
Every sack of flour contains a package of tea.
Send for onr large weekly price list and order
by mail. Orders amounting to 510, without
counting sngar, packed and shipped free of
charge to any point within ZOO miles.
On all orders of 500 and upward, sent direct
to our stores, we will allow a discount of 5 per
cent, except on sugar and meat. Here 13 your
chance to get up a club and save money.
MARSHELL,
79, 81. 83 AND 93 OHIO ST,
Cor. Sandusky, Allegheny.
APRIL BALE
LACE CURTAINS.
LACE CURTAINS.
LACE CURTAINS.-
Our Curtain Department has recently been
remodeled, and embraces a very wide range of
material in low, medium and One grades.
Upholstery Goods, Portieres, Curtain Poles,
Bash Bods, Curtain Loops, Cotton and Silk
Fringes, Drops, Flush Balls, etc., with great
NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAESS
At SI. 81 25. 81 50, $2.82 50 per pair. A special
bargain at J3 per pair, 3f yards lone and 73
inches wide.
REAL IRISH POCTTLACE CURTAINS
At $5 60, 83, 88 50, 89, 810, 811 0, 812, $12 50. SH 10,
818, 818 per pair. See our Window Display.
COTTON DRAPERIES,
12Kc. 15c per yard.
MADRAS DRAPERIES.
38 to 51 inches wide, at 25c, 60c, 75o per yard.
64-INCH JTJTE MATERIALS,
45c, 60c. 60c, 75c per yard.
SILK DRAPERY.
60-inch Ht fl 25 n.r varrf In riAlfratA aharimi
Ecru and gold, ecru and pink, ecru and blua
I
Swiss and Scrim Curtain MaterialJ t or Sis!
curtains and Fancy Work.
Chenilla rnr.M 4-4 (L4. fU. 10-4. 1!U.
Raw Bilk Covers. 4-4. 64, S-i, 10-4, 12-A
Juta Covers, 4-4, 64, &A, KM, 124.
In order to make this department very popu
lar, we have marked all goods at reasonable
figures.
Take tbe elevator. Table Damasks, Towels,
Sheetings, etc., on tbe same floor.
BIBER & EASTON,
505 and 507 MARKET STREET.
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