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THE PITTSBTJBG- DISPATCH, SCJNDAY, APEIL 6, 1890.
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EASTEK WEEK SHOWS
That Were Famished Free to the
Public at Considerable Cost.
BEAUTIFUL WINDOW DISPLAYS,
And the Way in Which They Are Trimmed
by an Army of Experts.
A VOCATION THAT'S ALMOST AN AET
'His sisters and bis cousins and his
auuts," and he, himself, have united in
pazing at and admiring the many beautiful
faster windows that have graced the stores
of the principal business thoroughfares of
the Twin Cities during the past two weets.
And the exclamations of admiration have
been as varied, both in language and em
phasis as the speakers have been in appear
ance and education. The beauties of the
windows have been tree to all, the rich and
the poor, and all have availed themselves of
the privilese of Razing upon the most elab
orate display in the windows ever witnessed
in either city.
Millineryand drygoods dealers have had
a decided advantage over other mercbants,
but all have made a creditable showinc;.
Jewelers" windows have fairly dazzled Jhe
beholder with their wealth of sparkling
perns and their rare vases and ornaments,
and even the grocery men have come to the
Iront with the sign "It is time to clean
house." and made a most novel but unro-
mantic showing of dusters, soaps, mopsticks,
scrubbing brushes and sapolio.
.&. UNIQUE DISPLAY.
The druggists have not been behind, and
one in Allegheny has by a unique arrange
ment of a real live hen with a family of
young ducks and a small tank of water in
his window, managed to have a crowd in
front of his store from early morn till late
at night Of course the little ducks desired
a bailie and a swim, and the poor distracted
stepmother hen, in her irantic endeavors to
prevnt such a dire calamity, made life a
burden for herself and her family, but was
intensely amusing to the spectator.
Such a window denotes originality, but
does not require the art of the pro essional
trimmer, as the more pretentious and artistic
windows. Apropos of the professional win
dow trimmer: He is a genius in his way.
He is much like the poet or the archaeolo
gist born, not made. Beside having an
excellent eye for coloring and the blending
ot colors, and naturally the attractive drap
ing of goods, he must be an artist with the
saw and hammer. He must be able to make
his own foundations upon which to display
his pretty goods; have the knack of trans
forming a plain, unpretentious drygoods box
into whatever his artistic sense may suggest,
and trimming it in such a way that the re
sult will be a paragon of beauty whose ple
beian origin will never be imagined by even
the most cynical and inquisitive person.
OTHEE QUALIFICATIONS.
With paint and brush he must be compe
tent to manufacture show cards that will
dazzle the eyes of the observer as much by
their beauty as by the exceedingly small
gureb (in value, not in size) with which
he adorns them.
'With the multitude of requirements nec
essary it is not surprising that there are but
few, comparatively speaking, in the profes
sion and that they command good salaries.
They are not in as great demand in the East
ern cities as formerly. Xew York, as a city.
does not do the window trimming that it
has in past years, for all the leading stores
have their trade well established, but the
"West spends lots of money in making store
windows attractive.
Pittsburg numbers some "experts in the
business and spares no expense in making
handsome windows. The sanctum sanc
torum of the professional window trimmer,
or his "den," as he is pleased to call it, is a
very interesting place to visit. The re
porter found Mr. Pinckney Epstin, who is
with Gusky, in his den on the second floor
of the btore yesterday, surrounded with vel
vets, plushes, satins and silks of every color
and in great variety. Huge rolls of expen
sive material lined the shelves of the apart
ment, and boxes marked "screws," "fancy
tacks," "ribbons" and "cards" were also
visible, beside pamts of all colors, as the
young man was engaged in manufacturing
some very taking window card3 for an East
ern firm.
SATISFIED -WITH PITTSBUEO.
In reply to inquiries Mr. Epstin said he
had been in the business 14 years, and had
devoted his whole time to it; that he really
knew nothing else, but of that statement
there is mnch doubi. He learned the art
the part that is learned by practice in Xew
York City, with one of the leading firms
there. He came to Pittsburg about three
years ago, and receives $50 a week salary
from Gusky, beside the compensation he re
ceives from Eastern firms, many of whom he
supplies with fancy cards.
The young man has issued a very complete
little manual called "How to Dress Win
dows and "Write Show Cards," which, he
says, 'Will assist one immensely in the work,
if they have a natural aptitude for it, to
commence with.
There is no school for learning the art.
The student must act as an assistant to
some expert until he finds be has mistaken
his calling or is proficient enough to at
tempt individual work.
Mr. Frank Henolds is the voung man
who keeps the windows of Boggs & Bnhl
in the attractive state for which they are
noted. He said, in conversation with a re
porter, that he had only been engaged in
the business five years. He began the work
in Philadelphia, and from there went to
Chicago, but was dissatisfied with the world
in general until he was able to call
the Gas City his home. He has
enjoyed that pleasure for three years,
and has every indication of contentment and
plenty. He is an enthusiast on the com
bining and blendine of colors, and says that
in church or at the theater he involuntarily
notes all pretty effects gained by the com
bining of colors in the ladies' costumes, and
utilizes his knowledge afterward in his
Window trimming.
A FASCIKATION ET IT.
Mr. Benolds says that there is a peculiar
fascination in the work, after one becomes
interested in it, and trimmers are continually
on the alert tor new and unique features
with which to make their work attractive;
also, that there is an unlimited scope
for individuality in the work, but with all
that there are some unpleasant features
connected with it. The continual reaching
to heights above is one; the elimblng around
on stepladders and dry goods boxes is
another, and being cooped up on a hot
summer day is sometimes quite trying.
Kaulmanns' windows, witn their ever
changing beauties, are kept in order by a
Pittsburg gentleman, Mr. John Werner,
who commenced 15 years aeo holding the
hammer and tacks for Mr. Kaufmanu, who
did his own window trimming at that time.
With Hugus & Hacke is to be found a
verv pleasant gentleman, by name A. G.
Middletoo, who from the Quaker City ar
rived about two years ago, and has fonnd
dressing Pittsburg windows for Pittsburg
people such a pleasant and remunerative
pastime that be intends sojourning here for
the rest of his life.
Fleishman & Co. have an artist in their
store, and he has done some very effective
work during the past week.
SOME OTHEE WINDOWS.
The People's Store, and windows have
been essentially jnst what the name of the
store signifies, and thoroughly appnpiated
during the last few days.
Joseph Home & Co., have only during
the past year employed a professional
window trimmer. Before thev eneatred Mr.
James Crogan, a New York gentleman, to
make their windows the xnoaels of
beauty that they are, the head of
each department kept his individual
window in order. Mr. Crogan is an
adept in making tbe most of space and
goods, as the large crowds that are con
ttantlj in front of the Penn avenue store
prove. He learned the business, what little
he had to acquire, in New York, but native
ability in that line makes his work a pleas
ure instead of a task.
Numerous other stores and windows de
serve mention for their Easter display, bnt
newspaper space is never boundless.
ME. GREGG'S SDCCtSSFDL CAREER.
Allecbeny County Deprrred of a Valuable
Citizen br His Dentil.
Edward Gregg, of the firm of Logan,
Gregg & Co., who died 3t his home. Irwin
avenue, Allegheny, late Friday night, was
one of the foremost citizens of Allegheny
county. He was a self-made man, so far as
the control of circumstances which sur
rounded him justifies the use of the term.
He was born in Pennsylvania, and gradu
ated at the old "Washington and Jefferson
College.
Hewas always a leader in charitable en
terprises, being one of the most active
workers in securing the funds for the erec
tion of the Homeopathic Hospital, and he
was among the firt to contribute for the aid
of Johnstown's afflicted. He was a success
ful business man and an honored citizen.
He was 74 years of age, and leaves a wife
and a number of grown children.
The Dispatch unintentionally stated
yesterday morning that the deceased was
Mr. Logan, the senior partner in the firm.
The mistake was made in receiving the
news by telephone.
BE HAS A BETTER JOB.
Auditor Kcndrtck, of Ibe Lake Erie Eoad,
Resigned Yesterday.
H. H. Kendrick, the Auditor of the Lake
Erie road, yesterday handed in his resigna
tion, to take effect April SO, to accept a
similar but better position with the Louis
ville, New Albany and Chicago line. Mr.
Kendrick is not leaving from any dissatis
faction, but because he has a chance to im
prove his condition. At the time of the
wholesale discbarge on the Lake Erie a year
or so ago. Mr. Kendrick was brought here
by President Newell. The latter is now in
Europe, but is expected to return shortly.
Superintendent Holbrook has two stand
ing offers from other roads for his services,
and he will leave also as soon as his resigna
tion is accepted. The successors of these
two officials have not been named, but the
general supposition is that they will be
Lake Shore people.
THOSE CHARTIERS SPEAK-EASIES.
Colonel Al Voung Comes Oct of the Furnace
Without Uracil of Fire.
Alderman Cassidr yesterday began the in
vestigation of the cases of the men accused
by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bailway
Company of selling liquor without license
at Charticrs station. With the exception of
Al Young the parties were not ready to go
into a hearing, and all the cases except his
were adjourned for a week.
Mr. Young's case was short and sweet.
Perkins had made the mistake of supposing
that Yonng was running a saloon on a boat,
but Young speedily showed that he had not
had any connection with the boat since last
March a year ago, and the magistrate dis
charged the case at once.
QUITE A DISAGREEABLE BATH.
A Horse Almost Smothered in Mad In the
Korthslde Oil Country.
President James Hunter, of Allegheny
Common Council, started out the other day
to see th? oil field up Jack's run. Hii
horse swamped and came near smothering
in the mud. He was pried out by some oil
drillers and gotten back to the city as much
dead as alive, and from the different colored
kinds of mud found on him it is supposed
that all the later tertiary deposits have been
churned up by oil teams in that section.
The horse has since been suffering from
muscular rheumatism. Mr. Hunter did not
see the oil country, and says he doesn't want
to Bee it now.
New Patents.
O. D. Levis, patent attorney, established
in the patent practice exclusively 20 years,
office No. 131 Fifth avenue, next Leader
building, Pittsburg, Pa., has furnished us
the following new patents, just issued:
John H. Taylor, Bloomfield, Pa., stove
range; Martin V. Smith, Pittsburg, Pa.,
steam boiler furnace; John G. Zellar, Bich
mond, O., elevator gate; Myra E. Whitney,
Bradford, Pa., "tov;" W. G. Taylor, Hul
ton, Pa., "spike machine;" B. O. Belles, Al
legheny, Pa., gas burning and heating ap
paratus; Horace Carrier, Ironton, O., culti
vator; C. Swan, Corry, Pa., "target trap;"
John A. McCombs, Bradford. Pa., "disin
fectant cover for anv closet." Gideon Bixler,
Wooster, O., game board; William B. Ster
rittjPittsbnrg, apparatus lor forming molds;
W. G. Taylor, Oakmont, Pa., coupler; John
C. Conroy, Pittsburg, interlocking appa
ratus for operating signals. TJ. S. and for
eign patents procured. Trade-marks, de
sign patents and all patent business trans
acted. Office open until 9 o'clock every
evening.
Last of the Series of tbe Special Excursions
to Wnsuington, D. C,
Will be run by the Pennsylvania Bailroad
on Thursday, April 24. At this time tbe
city will have attired itsell with its spring
garb, and tbe National Capital will be seen
in its most attractive season. The rate will
be as on previous occasions, which is 9 for
the round trip, from Pittsburg, and pro
portionate low rates east thereof. Tickets
good ten days, with privilege of stop off in
Baltimore, in either direction. Special
train of day coaches and Pullman parlor
cars will leave Union station at 8 A. ai. on
above date. Tickets also valid on night
trains at 7:15 and 8:10 P. sl. Sleeping cars
on night trains.
See the Lochinvar awnings; they are ex
ceedingly beautiful and novel, at Mamaux
& Son's, 537 and 539 Penn ave., Pittsburg,
Pa.
Your Celling is Cracked and Broken.
It may be in your parlor, your library,
your kitchen, diningroom or bedroom.
We have just what you want to put on over
the old broken plaster, and it will stay. Em
bossed metal ceiling plates. Expressly for
residence ceilings.
Neat, beautiful artistic and in almost end
less variety of design.
If you are building, and don't intend to
put all your money on the outside, send for
onr illustrated catalogue and see what we
have got for the interior.
A. NOETHEOP & CO.,
Twenty-third and Mary streets, S. S., Pitts
burg, Pa.
Mukaso awnings, at Mamaux & Son's,
539 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Now that voa have moved, you will find
you are in need of some piece or pieces of
furniture to complete your housebold. If
this is the case it will be to your advantage
to call and examine onr immense stock,
which consists of chamber and parlor suits
of the latest designs, and, in fact, any piece
of furniture needed to complete a neat
household. Our terms being cash you are
the gainer.
Michigan Furniture Co.,
437 Smithfield st.
Mubano awnings, at Mamaux & Son's,
039 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Extra Vnlne. In Ladies' Cambric Gotrns.
Buffled and French embroiderv trimmed
at 98c, 51, SI 25. SI 35, up to $20. Extra
size, fine quality, $1 58. Extra size in mus
lin at SI 25, Si 40, SI 05, SI 75. See this
wonderful line.
A.'G. Campbell & Sons, 27 Fifth ave.
Bifculirul Cloth Capes
At extraordinary low prices just onened at
Bosenbaum & Co.'s.
See the new styles of Paris Exposition
awnings, at Mamaux & Son's, No. 539 Penn
ave, fiusDurg, x-a.
HOLDERS TO FIGHT.
They Will Combine Their Forces
Against Four Non-Union Shops.
THE OLIVER STRIKE IS SETTLED.
Mr.
Carnegie's Letter Received by the
Central Trades Conncil.
a. C. JPRICK HAS K0 FEAR OF A STRIKE
The machinery molders met last night in
K. of L. Hall and decided to use the sur
plus money in the benefit fund in fighting
the four non-union shops. The meeting
comprised the members of the Iron Mold
ers' Union No. 4Q of North America, the
International Brotherhood and L. A. 1030,
K.of L.
The report of the Strike Committee was
submitted by Treasurer Thomas Wisdom.
It showed that the committee had paid 5
per weefc to single and $7 per week to mar
ried men from October 7 to the last week in
March. About $2,000 was paid the men,
but all the men who were on the payroll
are now at work. Several hundred dollars
were left in the fund, and the committee
recommended that the money be used in
fighting the firms who still refuse to sign
the scale in settlement of the strike.
The men struck for an advance of 10 per
cent. There were 42 shops involved and as
fast as the men secured the advance they
agreed to pay it to the men who had not
secured it, until all were paid the increase.
Thirty-eight firms signed the scale inside
of three weeks, but four firms still refuse to
attach their signatures. They are Wharton
McKnight. the Scaile Fou'ndry and Ma
chine Company, the Steel Casting Com
pany and the Fischer Foundry and Ma
chine Company. The principal fight is
being made on Mr. McKnight. He claims
to be paying the 10 per cent advance but re
fuses to sign the card.
Tbe workmen claim that as a matter of
principle they must compel these firms
to sign, in order to save them trouble in the
future. The surplus money now in the
fond will be used, and, if necessary, an
assessment will be levied to carried on the
fight to a finish. The union men will be
taken out of the shops, and an effort will be
made to induce the non-union men to stop
work. If the fight cannot be won in any
other way, it is likely there will be another
strike, as the men are fully determined to
win.
CEXTRAL TRADES COUNCIL
Several Letters Received on the Proposed
Library Site.
The meeting of the Central Trades Coun
cil last night was well attended. Joseph L.
Evans presided. The new delegates ad
mitted were: Fred Grueble, Bakers' Union
No. 27; John H. Goss, Green Bottle Blow
ers' Assembly K. of L. No. 6111; S. L.
Mawhinney, Bricklayers' Union No. 2; B.
Neubaussen, Brewers' Union No. 22; Will
iam Maxwell, Cork Workers' Assembly K.
of L. No. 9853.
H. F. Dempiey was elected a member of
the Executive Board, vice A. M. Davis.
A communication published in The Dis
patch was received from Andrew Carnegie
in reply to the letter sent from the Trades
Council, thanking them for writing to him,
and expressing his opinion that the library
sh -u'i be either on the reservoir site or the
one in the East End.
The letter from James B. Scctt pertaining
to the library sif was also read. A letter
from the Erie Trades Council was received
and read in referenc to tbe formation of a
State's Trades Council or Federation. It
was referred to the Executive Board.
A letter was received from the United
Labor League, of Philadelphia, asking that
the Philadelphia Press and its advertisers,
against whom a boycott has been declared,
be let severely alone.
Samuel P. Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor, also wrote
to the council asking that all the unions
take an activj part in making the meeting
here April 15.
THEI RATHER LIKE IT.
Other Operators Will Abolish the Stores
for a Cat in Mlnlns Hates.
The circular to labor leaders, issued by
some of the coal operators, as published in
The Dispatch of yesterday, excited con
siderable comment A Dumber of the othr
operators who are running company stores,
stated that if they could get 10 cents per
ton of a reduction in the price of mining, or
even 6 cents, they would be willing to
abolish the stores. Some of the operators
look on the letter as a scheme to reduce the
price of mining, and if that rcsul: can be
guaranteed thev will indorse it.
The New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
Company has no company stores. Last year
their men allowed tnem a cut of 3 cents in
mining; that is they worked for them for 70
cents, while other operators paid 73 cents.
The difference, though slight, gave this com
pany somewhat of a handle, so their com
petitors claim at least.
Said an operator yesterday: "The com
pany store is not such-a crying evil after all.
Onr prices are never higher than other deal
ers, and our men are perfectly satisfied.
Some of the most intelligent admit that the
stores are a good thing. Bad debts are un
known, and the honest miner is not asked to
make up the deficiencies of his dishonest
brother, who so often beats the storekeeper."
THE EIGHT HOUR QUESTION.
Mayor Gonrlcy Will Preside Over the Meet
lug In Pittsburg.
The meeting to be addressed by President
Gompers, of the Federation of Labor, will
be held Tuesday, April 15, at Imperial.
Mayor-elect H. T. Gourley, who will then
be the chief magistrate of the city, will pre
side. While President Gompers will talk on the
eight hour movement, it is stated that the
meeting is not intended as a boom to have
the system adopted in Pittsburg on May 1.
President Gompers will talk on the subject
of eight hours for a day's work as a moral
necessity. The business men, and'particu
larly the contractors and builders, have been
invited to attend the meeting.
INSPECTING THE FACTORIES.
A General Disposition on the Part of Em
plovers to Obey the Lnw.
Mrs. Nannie Y. Leslie, Deputy Factory
Inspector for Western Pennsylvania, who
has been in the city for a week was seen by
a Dispatch reporter yesterday. In regard
to the inspection of city factories and mer
cantile establishments where women and
children are employed, Mrs. Leslie said that
she found great improvements since the new
law went into effect.
In some few places she met with consider
able opposition, and one or two firms abso
lutely refused to recognize the law at all,
but Mrs. Leslie thinks that in time the em
ployers can be taught the necessity of ob
serving the law.
BLACKSMITHS ON STRIKE.
Westlnghonse Men Go Oat Because of a Re
duction In Wages.
All the blacksmiths in the Westinghouse
shops'ut Swissvale are out on strike. There
are 22 men and boys in the strike. The men
were making from S3 to $6 a day. They
were paid by the piece, and the price ranged
from 8 cents to 50 cents per piece. The
strike was caused by the company making a
reduction in tbe price of tbe various pieces
of from a quarter of a cent to 4 cents.
The reduction would lower tbe men's
wages from 15 to 50 cents per day. The
strikers fay they will stay out, and there are
but few Bten to take their places.
THE PRICE TOO LOW.
Another Advance in Pig Iron Anticipated
Shortly.
Bessemer pie iron has come down to 518,
a price that is conceded by buyers to be too
low, and it is expected to advance very
soon. It was up to 523 50 per ton, a price
that was too high. When the price was on
the rise, so much pig was bought that a
scarcity was created, and the manufacturers
were stimulated to over-production, and in
unloading their old stocks, the dealers have
knocked the bottom out of the market, but
present prices can't stand much longer.
0 FEARS OF A STRIKE.
What Mr. Frlck Thinks or tbe CIose-Down
nt ConnellsTille.
Mr. H. C. Frick does not place much
credence in the reports that a strike may re
sult from the close-down of 2,000 ovens in
the Connellsville region. He said yester
day: "Furnace owners, by reason of closing
down furnaces, or for other reasons, have
reduced the demand for coke, and it is use
less for operators to produce coke to be piled
up for the reason that the longer coke stands
the more it loses."
THE STRIKE DECLARED OFF.
Oliver's Mill Will Resume Work as Usual
To-Morron- Morning.
The strike at Oliver's was settled yester
day morning and the mill will resume oper
ations to-morrow. Mr. Oliver and Mr.
Weihe held a conference and the terms
agreed upon was that the men should with
draw their demands for the discbarge of
Beed and the reinstatement of Engel.
Everything else was satisfactorily settled
and the men will go to work as usual.
THE RECORD BROKEN AGAIN.
Nearly One Hundred llionsnnd Rails Mnde
In March at Homestead.
The run during the month of March at
the Edgar Thomson rail mills was a remark
able one. The output exceeded 30,000 and
90,000 rails were made.
The Allegheny Bessemer Company has
closed an order for 10,000 tons standard rails,
to be delivered in September to the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road.
Another Firm Signs.
Booth & Flinn signed the Brickmakers'
scale yesterday. But five firms remain who
have not attachedjtheir signatures, and it is
not thought there will be any trouble over
the scale.
An Arm r of Idle Men.
T. B. Maguire, preceptor of D. A. 49,
K. of L of New York, is authority for the
statement that there are 100,000 idle work
men in the metropolis at present.
THEIR STOCK INCREASED.
The P., A. & M. Stockholders Hold an Im
portant Meeting.
The stockholders of the Pittsburg, Alle
gheny & Manchester Street Bailway Com
pany held a meeting in the directory room
in the Fidelity Title and Trust Company's
building yesterday. They voted to increase
the capital stock to $3,000,000. Eight shares
of the new stock will he given for one of the
old, as stated in yesterday'? Dispatch.
Chief Engineer George Price read his re
port. He recommended the adoption of the
Thomson-Houston electric system, and
there was no opposition, but the matter was
left undecided. The power house, it is un
derstood, will be on the site of the short line
car stables on Beaver avenue, but this ques
tion was also not finally decided.
The bridge question was not touched at
the meeting. One of the heavy stockholders,
however, said satisfactory arrangements
were about completed with the Suspension
Bridge Compauy.
A Vnlnnblo Compendium.
Messrs. Whitney & Stephenson have just
issued another edition of their "blue book."
It might be sufficient to say that as a com
pendium of financial information it is equal
to anything they formerly did in this line,
but this would not tell all, as the pub
lication keeps pace with the busi
ness growth of the city, and without it or
something similar a business man can scarce
keep house.
THOMPSON'S
New York Grocery.
More Boom More Bargain.
15 lbs. granulated sugar
16 lbs. clear white sugar
Choice sugar corn, per can
Solid packed tomatoes, per can
Choice peas, per can
Choice string beans, per can
Choice strawberries, per can
Choice apples, per can
?1 00
1 00
oc
8c
6c
6c
6c
6c
Choice table peaches, per can 12, 15c
r me table peaches in heavy syrup... 18c
3 cans finest apricots .'. 50c
1 can greengage plums 15c
Choice French peas, per can 10c
Ex tra fine French peas, per can 15e
6 lbs. sun dried peaches 25c
California peaches, per lb 10c
4 lbs. evaporated apricots 25c
5 lbs. California raisin's 25c
5 lbs. Carolina rice 25c
7 lbs. rolled oats 25c
8 lbs. large lump starch 25c
12 boxes bag blue 25c
15 lbs. pearl hominy 25c
7 quarts green peas 25c
4 quarts navy beans 25c
1 sack choice amber flour 1 15
1 sack genuine amber flour. 1 25
1 sack White Swan (best family) .... 1 30
1 sack fancy patent St. Louis 1 60
lgallqn pure maple syrup(warranted) 1 00
Sugar-cured hams, per lb. (large).... 10c
1 eallon good Orleans molasses 38e
61bs.20-cent tea 1 00
5 lbs. 25-cent tea .' 1 00
3 lbs 40-cent tea 1 00
4 bottles home-made ketchup 25c
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities. To those living out of the city will
prepay freight on all orders of $10 and up
ward. Send tor catalogue.
M. B. Thompson,
301 Market St., corner Third ave.,
Wholesale and BetaiL
Michigan speaks for itself for designs
and durability of its goods; it will pay you
to call and examine our large stock of
parlor and chamber suits which we are sell
ing at incomparable low prices. Michigan
Fubnituee Co., 437 Smithfield st.
Special Attention Cnlled to Onr Line of La
dles' Muslin and Cambric Drawers,
25c, 30c, 35c, 40c, 50c, 65c, 75c, up to S3 50,
the greatest values ever shown anywhere.
A. G. Campbell & Sons, 27 Fifth ave.
See the new styles ot Paris Exposition
awnings, at Mamaux & Son's, No. 539 Penn
ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
SPbinted India silks, a superior assort
ment of new designs and colors; reliable
qualities only; prices SI, Si 25 and SI 50 a
yard. Huous & Hacks,
ttssu
Hate your photograph made by Dabbs
and you can be quite sure of having the
best possible.
Mubano awnings, at Mamaux & Son's,
539 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
The photographic work done by Hen
dricks & Co., 68 Federal st., Allegheny, is
greatly admired. Prompt delivery of work.
Good cabinets, SI a dozen.
Stylish Sulilogn.
The most fashionable goods at moderate
prices at Pitcairn's, 434 Wood st.
See the' new.styles of Paris Exposition
awnings, at Mamaux & Son's, No. 539 Penn
iiva . "Pittahnro Pa. r
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CAN'T BE PREVENTED.
No Way to Send Assisted Emigrants
Back Homo to England
THE CITI LOSES A TEST CASE.
Eailroad Company Sued for $20,000
Damages by a Washout.
GLEANINGS FROM ALL THE COURTS
Judge Slagle yesterday handed down an
opinion in the case of the appeal of the Cen
tral poor district of Luzerne county from an
order made by Aldermen Tatem and Mc
Kelrey, ot Allegheny, for the removal of
Bridget Barrett, a pauper, to Wilkesbarre.
The woman is 23 years of age, and came
from Belmullett, County Mayo, Ireland, in
1883 with her mother and younger sister.
They came as -"assisted emigrants," the tes
timony showing that their passage had been
paid to Pittsburg by some one connected
with the English Government. They came
to Pittsburg, bnt in 1887 Mrs. Barrett went
to Wilkesbarre to nurse a sick daughter,
living with her until 1889.
Bridget, who was weak-minded, re
mained here, living with the Sisters of
Mercy and afterward at the Home of the
Good Shepherd in Alleghenv, and then at
the Pittsburg Poor Farm. Chief Elliot, of
the Department of Charities, maintained
that the girl should be kept where her
mother had acquired a legal settlement, as
the girl had acquired none, and the order
for her removal to Wilkesbaire was made.
The poor authorities there appealed from
the order.
Judge Slagle, in his opinion, said that
neither mother nor daughter had acquired a
legal settlement anywhere, Mrs. Barrett
being kept by her daughter, in Luzerne
county. Therefore the girl would be sup
ported by Pittsburg, where she first became
a charge. Continuing, he said: "It is to
be regretted that there is no power to return
these paupers to the authorities who thought
it cheaper to ship them to an inland city of
this country than to perform the duty they
owed to their suffering poor, and were mean
enough to avoid their duty by imposing it
on others who have no legal redress. But
we are without such power, and Pittsburg
must suffer the wrong thus unjustly in
flicted." In conclusion, the order of removal is
vacated, and the costs placed on the city of
Pittsburg.
THE DIT0RCE MILL'S GRIND.
A Lot
of Grist Turned In and Some of It
Turned Ont.
F. C. Pitcairn, commissioner in the di
vorce case of George B. Michel against
Anna B. Michel, filed his report yesterday.
The couple were married in 1881 and lived
in Beaver Falls, and shortly after began to
disagree. The wife refused to wash the
dishes, and he ate off unwashed ones. She
took their infant to a v tailor shop
where he worked and left it in
his care, refusing to mind it at
home. When he demanded that she care
for it, she tied it to a pump on the street
and left it there. In the fall of 1883 she
left him, accusing him of intimacy with a
Mrs. Hui'nagle. In her testimony the wife
alleged that her husband was in the habit
of kissing girls in his employ, even in her
presence, and on one occasion he held both
herself and a Miss Annie Geisler on his
knee at the same time. The wile did not
object to his actions while done in a spirit
of fun, but when he was in earnest and ran
after the girls and hugged them, then she
entered a protest.
A divorce was granted yesterday in the
case of Ellen Highlands against Alexander
Highlands on the ground of desertion. A
suit for divorce was entered yesterday by
Elizabeth Lncas against Scott B. Lncas.
The plaintiff says they were married on Feb
ruary 4, 1880, and that he has since imposed
certain indignities upon her, compelling her
to do manual labor. Suit was also entered
by Sarah Jane Lintz against George W.
Lintz for divorce. H. T. Watson was ap
pointed commissioner in the case of Ida J.
Mullen against Joseph Mullen, and D. F.
Beardon in the case of Caroline Whitehead
against Bichard Whitehead.
HER AFFECTIONS WORTH $5,000.
The
Price Miss Ayres Places on
Her
Blasted Heart and Hopes.
Miss Sarah Ann Ayres yesterday entered
snit against John W. Smith for 5,000 dam
ages for breach of promise ot marriage.
Miss Ayres alleges that fo five years she
and Smith kept company, he visiting her
weekly as her accepted suitor, and for three
years they have been engaged to be married.
Several days, she stated, had been mutually
agreed for their marriage, but when the day
would arrive he would postpone it, for some
plausible reason or other. Once it was put
off to November 28, 1889, and from then till
February 1, 1890. Before the last day set,
however, he ws guilty of breach of prom
ise, marrying Bebecca Doyle on January
18, with whom he is now living.
The breaking of his promise of marriage,
she alleges, was not her fault. She always
conducted herself in a becoming and lady
like manner toward him and all others.
She considers herself injured and damaged
to tne extent oi $o,uuu. as amun is not a
property holder the Court made an order re
quiring him to give $1,500 bail. Miss
Ayres is represented by Attorneys Bobb and
Fitzsimmond.
WANT HEAYI DAMiGES.
A Railroad Asked to Pay 820,000 for the
Cost of a Washout.
John Hamilton and Caroline M. Imbrie
each entered suit yesterday against the
Pennsylvania Company, operating thePitts
burs, Fort Wayne and Chicago Bailroad,
for S20.000 damages. The plaintiffs are own
ers of land on Neville Island. They allege
that the railroad company built a stone em
bankment along the north side of the Ohio
river, above and below Emsworth. This they
filled in with stone and earth to give them
room for additional tracks. They encroached
on the river in so doing, and deflected the
current, causing it to strike against Neville
Island with great force.
The sloping shores with trees and shrub
bery along the plaintiffs' land, was swept
away, also a roadway constructed at consid
erable cost, and their lands were badly
damaged.
THINKS HE WAS CAUGHT.
A Mnn Who Was Led to Bellevo He Had
Been Pinched.
Calvin W. Franklin yesterday entered
suit against J. B. Oswald to recover 5375.
He states that Oswald sold him a half inter
est in a job printing office at No. 296 Fifth
avenue, for $450, alleging that the office was
worth ?1,200. Franklin afterward discov
ered that the place was not worth S200, and
Oswald sold him the other half interest for
$75.
He now sups to recover the amount he paid
for the first half in excess of its actual value,
Oswald, he asserts, having misled and de
ceived him, and he being then ignorant of
the business.
Tuey Declare They Weren't There.
District Attorney Johnston yesterday
moved for new trial in the case of John
King and George Smith, who was convicted
of larceny and are now awaiting sentence.
They were convicted of robbing an old man
named Allen at Mansfield, on December 14.
They claim they did not get to Mansfield
until after the time of the robbery, and the
Bev. E. B. Donehoo presented evidence and
asked for rehearing for the men. Judge
Ewing allowed the motion, but made no
oraer.
ANXIETI FOR THE BALLOTS.
Contestant Stajton Wants the Allegheny
Ballots Brought Into Court.
W. J. Brennen, Esq., as .counsel for I. B.
Stayton, Mayor-elect Wyman's contestant,
of Allegheny, filed a petition and made a
motion before Judge Ewing yesterday, ask
ing that the ballot boxes in the recent elec
tion be taken into the custody of the Court.
At present they are in the Allegheny lock
up, and, it is alleged, are under no special
protection or care of anybody. F. S. Ben
net, counsel for Mr. Wyman, opposed the
motion, saying that the new Mayor would
take his seat on Monday, and if the motion
was granted and the boxes taken away it
would create an unflattering insinuation.
Judge Ewing interposed that no doubt
Mr. Wyman would be glad to be relieved
of their custody, but Mr. Bennet did not
look at it that way. The motion was
granted, however, and a rule was issued on
Mr. Wyman to show cause why the decree
should not be granted. It is returnable
next Saturday.
Wants His Boy Again.
Franz Dovolowsky yesterday filed a peti
tion for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain
his 9-year-old son John, whom, he alleges,
is illegally and unjustly detained by Agent
S. F. O'Brien, of the Humane Society.
Next Saturday was fixed for a hearing.
Mondny's Trial LUt.
Common Pleas No. 1 Argument list.
Common Pleas No. 2 Schoeb vs Ritter;
Sampson vs Pittsburg and Western Railroad
Company; Pauer vs Oliver & Roberts Wire
Company; Heilman vs Weinman; McGilvrdy
vs Manchester Savings Bank; JlcGowan vs
McQowan et al.
Notes From the Coarts.
Nzal Laird yesterday entered suit aealnst
the Citizens' Traction Company for 10,000 dam
ages for the death of his minor son, who was
run over and killed near Nineteenth street on
March 11
A decree was granted yesterday on the
pleas of the Trustees of the Reformed Presby
terian congregation of Wilkinsburg, who asked
permission to abandon their old burial ground
and sell lL
The argument In the suit of Keller A Will
lams against Stolzenbacb, for tbe infringement
of a patent for a sand and gravel separator
was concluded yesterday before Judge Ache
son In tho United States Court.
In the suit of Karl Kline against Sheriff Me
Canaless and Joseph Hufnagle for damages for
tbe seiznre and sale of four horses belonging to
Kline for the debt of another man, a verdict
was given yesterday for 600 for the plaintiff.
Fob a disordered liver try Beecham's Pills.
Peaks' Soap the purest and best ever made
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Our large stock is full of at
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show everything that is sanctioned
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popular. Wish you would compare
our goods and prices with those of
other dealers. The result would be
a revelation to you. Don't fail to
inspect our new designs in Side
boards and Dining Room Chairs.
It is sheer nonsense for any house
to pretend to compete with us on
these goods, and you'll agree with
us, too, after you have been here
and convinced yourself.
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At the truly very low price of
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est to the very finest. We also
keep a complete stock of all kinds
f BEDDING.
Our showing of Pillows, Bolsters,
Shams, etc., and the prices we
name cannot be matched at any
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Mil
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BABY
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We have always led the trade in Baby Carriages, but
this season we will simply outdistance all followers. Having
the agency for the best makes in this country, exhibiting a
most charming and varied assortment, and this is the most
vital point naming prices that are from one-quarter to one
third lower than others, we confidently expect and justly
so to sell more Baby Carriages this spring than ever before.
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New and exclusive patterns in Body
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over ioo different patterns. These
Carpets, which are getting more
popular every year, are giving
splendid satisfaction.
Full line of foreign and domestic
Rugs. Special attention is called
to our new Moquette Rugs. They
are beauties in every sense of the
word.
DRAPEEIES.
In Curtains our assortment is the
most complete in both cities. Be
sure and take a look at our fine
Brussels Lace patterns in Notting
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Portieres of every description
Window Shades of all kinds.
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