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PITTSBURG, TUESDAY. APRIL 29. 1890 TWELVE PAGES.
THREE CENTS
FIRST PART.
ASTHANGE
BEQUEST
" : Half the Fortune of the Founder
C of Rouseville Left to
.? Warren County,"
TO IMPROVE" THE ROADS.
Much of the Sum Literally Squan
dered Through the Negli
gence of Officials.
INDIFFERENCE TOO GENERAL,
Otherwise Forest and Warren Highways
Might Be Hade Tastlj Better
Than They Are.
IHE EXAMPLE OF A TI0XESTA CITIZEN.
Whose Ideas Were Practically Carried Oat and Re
called In Giting the Town Ex
cellent Streets.
EOME GLDirSKS OF A WOSDEETUL VIADUCT
The Dispatch commissioner finds that
the roads of "Warren county might be
greatly improved. Some years ago the
county received a bequest of 580,000, half of
which was to be expended on the roads.
Much of this money has been wasted.
Tionesta has good streets, thanks to the
practical ideas of its commissioners.
tFBOM OUB SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.!
The Pittsbubq DisrATcn f
Cocktkt Boas Expedition.
Warren, April 28.
We were driving across a very high and
celebrated bridge. The floor was smooth and
the wagon wheels jnst fitted between the
two rails, so that the horses were able to
trot along At an unusually rapid gait. "We
had never been on such a lofty bridge before.
The tree tops were far beneath us. Boulders
along the creek bottom looked like pebbles.
IWe could see the water dashing over rocks,
but could not hear it. At such a tremend
ous height the air almost seemed lighter.
jF The structure appeared to be swaying.
V "Drive slower," I suggested. "The horses'
( trot is making this thing swing. I'm get
ting light-headed myself."
A Frightful Mishap.
Our pilot reined in the team, but horror
of horrors I Before our very eyes half of
the bridge gave way, and with a thundering
crash went down in the ravine. It was im
possible to put on the wagon brake quick
enough, and with their very next step for
ward, both Beaver and Bucephalus walked
into space and disap
It was only a dream. Nobody comes to
Warren without going a few miles farther
north to see the great ELmzua "Viaduct the
highest railroad bridge in the world. It is
one of the marvels of engineering.
A Wonderful Viaduct.
It will impress you with awe. You will
dream about it alone. But if your clothes
should be getting heavy from driving stead
ily through the rain for two or three days,
and if your digestion should be getting worse
The Late Captain Henry R. House.
and worse from the heavy foods fed to you
in three different dining rooms each day, you
will be pretty sure to dream of trying to
drive your team across that great Kinzua
Viaduct. At least that is the trick my last
fit of indigestion played on me.
It was an hour alter breakfast when they
at last got me wide enough awake to be con
vinced that Bucephalus and Beaver were at
that moment standing already hitched up at
the front door of the Johnson House, in
Garland, awaiting my delayed presence.
Traveling In tbo Rain.
Since my last letter about country roads,
we have been covering territory in the three
counties of Erie, Warren and Forest. It
has rained steadily. Our canvass roof and
curtains let none of the rain come through
upon us. We are absolutely water-proof as
far as that is concerned, but up here in the
pineries of Pennsylvania the growth of ever
greens is so dense; the forests and thickets so
deep, and the valleys so wild, that there is a
penetrating dampness everywhere that goes
right through a fellow simply from breath
ing the air. We visited the towns of Corry,
Warren, Tidioute, the Cornplanter Indian
reservation, and then largely for the pur
pose of drying out we put up all day Sun
day at Tionesta.
The roads in Erie county are usually
pretty good. Along the lake shore the soil
is a gravelly sand, through which the water
soaks, and never stands long enough to form
much mud.
How They Fix the Ronds,
In the lower part of the county there is
more or less clay in the roads, but more at
tention being given to road building in
Erie than other counties, these clay roads
never become impassable. Townships all
. own from two to four road-mating ma-
chines each. These are paid for out of a
money tax and are under the control of the
'road authorities. Each township is divided
:iDto "heats" from two to four miles long,
'according to the amount of the tax levied
- and the amount of work to be put in on the
IroadL A road commissioner has charge of
Itbe taxes in each township.
ir A pathmsster oversees the working oat of
these taxes by the farmers. The commis
sioners loan the road machines to the path
masters, and the pathmasters in turn to the
farmers as they need them.
Wide Highways nnd Honest Work.
Honest pathmasters and honest farmers
are faithful in the discharge of their duty
and Erie county certainly in this respect
sets a shining example to otherdistricts.
The law requires all roads in Erie county
to be 50 feet wl de. Pathmasters are always
instructed in their duplicates to remove all
obstructions, fences or otherwise, within the
SO feet and that at the owner's expense. In
this 50 feet width there is really only one
wagon track built, but these machines usu
ally slope that so well that the entire 50
feet is accessible for passing teams or where
teamsters wish to avoid a bad spot.
Erie county farmers cannot possibly con
ceive how communities in places where the
roads are only 33 feet wide can get along.
I told one of them that in Allegheny, Wash
ington and Butler counties oil and gas pipe
lines have been constructed along the road
ways outside the fences. He replied that
such an obstruction would not be tolerated
by pathmasters in Erie county. In his
opinion these pipe lines would prevent re
pairs to the roads and render it too narrow
for teams to pass one another.
Taxpayers Don't Complain.
And in Erie county, where there is system
atic road repairings, I do not hear the com
plaint about heavy taxes which I have so
often heard in counties where the roads
having been allowed to grow bad the taxes
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THE GREAT JKINZUA VIADUCT.
paid annually actually sink out of sight in
the mud. In Erie the experience has been
that roads kept continually in good order
are not so costly in the end, and that taxes
ore kept down to the minimum. The total
tax in Erie county is only eight and one
fourth mills. Of that amount two mills
are road tax that may be worked out, and
three-fourths of a mill money road tax,
for machinery, bridges, etc.
For this reason the Erie county farmers
evince an advanced spirit, and a generous
feeling exists among them, toward the pro
posed improvement of all country roads in
Pennsylvania by the State Legislature.
In Furor of Macadnm.
The few farmers who were interviewed in
the northern part of the county favored
macadam, the State to bear the brunt of the
expense by taking entire charge of the main
roads, which would relieve the farmers of
the responsibility and give' them a chance
to pay more attention to the township roads.
There is absolutely no limestone in Erie
county, and the farmers interviewed admit
that the distribution of that material all
over the State will be the most costly
feature of the proposed improvement.
Warren county once had a chance to
make good roads. In fact, she still has the
opportunity. Captain Henry B. Bouse,
whose celebrated oil wells in the excitement
of 1861 built up the town of Bouseville, was
burnt to death, it will be remembered, at
one of these very wells. Fourteen other
persons perished at the same time.
His Fortune Left to the County.
Bouse was an eccentric man. All his
riches had come to him suddenly with the
discovery of petroleum. After his death it
was found that his will left his entire for
tune of 580,000 to Warren county. Half of
this sum went to founding and maintaining
a home for the poor. The other 540,000 was
to be permanently invested for the benefit of
repairs for the country roads of that county.
Bouse was a man with advanced ideas. lie
had always been public spirited, and had
helped in many ways to aid in the progress.
When be made his will, railroading in the
Allegheny Valley was in its infancy, and he
felt that the pnblic highways must be de
veloped to the highest degree to bring pros
perity to the interior.
Ever since then the interest of this
540,000 has been divided annually among
the 18 townships of the county.
The Hi quest 1'arily Waited.
Some townships need more than others,
and others less, and the County Commission
ers decide how much each township shall
have, and whatever else is needed is raised
by the usual method of township taxation.
Of course the Bouse appropriation thus cut
up does not amount to a great deal, but it
has in every case lessened the road taxes.
Then, if the citizens had the interest of the
county at heart in the matter of good roads,
they should have kept taxes up so that the
extra money would have been of some value.
'But the Bonse bequest is wanted every
year," said Mr. C. H. Meecham, clerk to
the County Commissioners at Warren. "Of
couse the interest on Mr. Bouse's money is
not half sufficient to keep up the roads, and
the only effect is to make the people careless,
thev knowing that a certain amount may be
depended on every year. It never gave
farmers or lumbermen any ambition to have
good roads.
Responsibility Shirked.
On tho other hand some of the responsi
bility being lifted off them the roads in
many sections are actually worse than they
would have been, perhaps, had there been
no road repairing fund. Captain Bouse's
540,000 might have been devoted to some
better purpose."
And certainly the roads of Warren county
are nothing to brag about. In the lumber
regions we found them in horrible condition.
Lumber until very recently ranked as the
first industry of Warren county. Oil is
now first. Agriculture has always been
third. Consequently the farmers have had
less to say about roads than in most other
counties. There is a little limestone in
Warren connty, with plenty of sandstone
and rock boulders, but no attempt has ever
been mads to macadamize, and road ma
chines are only used in a few townships.
House's Memory Revered.
The people generally in the rural districts
don't seem to be verjr much interested in
the improvement of highways by the State.
However; Warren county people revere the
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memory of Captain Henry E. Bouse as
probably the first country road bene
lactor in Pennsylvania. He is buried in
his native town, Westfield, N. Y., where a
handsome monument marks his last resting
place.
In Forest county they had bad roads all
winter. The topography of this county is
against good roads to a great extent, the
hill roads, especially along the river, have
an irregular rock bottom, so of the stones
our wagon passed over resembling volcanic
disturbances by their shape and size. In
some other places we found the roads cut
right throngh walls of slate rock with Dame
Nature's macadam under foot.
Not Enthusiastic for Improvement.
The lumber and oil interest of Forest do
not appear enthusiastic over the roads com
mission's ideas. The farmers would wel
come macadamized roads in the interior,
providing the expense did not lall entirely
on agricultural land. Lumber dominates
the industrial interests ot Forest county,
and for that reason the roads are more sadly
neglected thau they would be if farms
were plentiful.
O. C. Brownell, proprietor of the Central
House at Tionesta, is Street Commissioner
of that town. He showed me the main street,
which he macadamized last year with blue
flagstone. On top this stone, of course, has
been broken into little bits. It was the only
highway in Forest county that remained
solid during the open winter. There is
heavy teaming through the town, which
would have crushed sandstone to powder,
but this Forest county stone seems to bear
all the weight you can pile upon it. Mr.
Brownell says that he considers this blue
flagstone equal, if not superior, to limestone
for road purposes. It is really a spurious
limestone. There is plenty of it in the hills
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of both Forest and Warren counties.
Proposed Road Legislation.
Mr. Brownell believes that if a general
road law is adopted, it might be so framed
that a locality favored with such available
stone should be allowed to use it instead of
limestone. Still, he admits that close super
vision would be necessary lest some coun
ties fill up the roads with sandstone or slate,
both.of which are worse on roads than clay.
Mr. Brownell is a firm believer in macad
amized roads, declaring it is the only real
way of making a road permanent
His advanced ideas have proved a bless
ing to the town ol Tionesta. Its streets were,
nothing but mud until he took hold of them.
Now the main street is a beautiful road, and
the stone filling is only 10 inches deep. He
has proposed to theTown Council to macad
amize the highways from bridge to bridge.
Hie Sums of Hloney Wnstcd.
"I have lived here 18 years," said J. Min-
singer, an ex-pathmaster, to me, "and in that
time we have buried thousands of dollars on
roads within this borough. There was noth
ing to show for the money until this stone
was put in."
Tour explorers are now pushing south to
Clarion county. My next letter will tell of
some amusing adventures we had among the
Cor-nlanters of the upper Allegheny Valley.
Th icceeding letter will describe the lime
stone resources of Clarion county, which are
said to be vast L. E. Stofiel.
GUILTY OF HEEL.
O'Donovnn Rosso. Gets Called Down for Call.
Ing Cnssidy a British Spy.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
New Yoek, April 28. "Guilty of libel"
was the verdict given in Oyer and Terminer
to-day against O'Donovan Eossa, who called
P. S. Cassidy a "British spy." Hendrick
son, the publisher of Bossa's paper was ac
quitted. John J. Maroney, who was ar
rested here as a "suspect" in the Cronin
case and discharged because there was no
evidence against him, was one of the wit
nesses whose names were called to-day and
who failed to respond. Others were Austin
Ford and Patrick O'Herlihy.
Mr, Howe finished his address to the jury
before the noon adjournment, and Assistant
District Attorney Dawson had his two
hours inning after the recess. Judge An
drews' charge was an hour long. The jury
went out at 5 o'clock, and at 7 o'clock came
into the court for instructions and then re
tired again. The session had been one of
loud discussion up to that time, but before
8 P. M. the differences had been settled.
Judge Andrews had gone out to dinner and
didn't return until 820 p. m., wheu the
verdict was announced. It was guilty tor
O Donovan Bossa, with a recommendation
to extreme mercy, and not guilty for Hen
drickson. Bossa was allowed to go upon his own
bond until Wednesday, when he will be
sentenced. It is expected that Bossa will
get off with a fine. Criminal libel is a mis
demeanor and punishable by one year's im
prisonment or 5500 fine.
FBENCH TREATY BIGHTS.
Delegate Gathering nt Ilallfax to Dii
cuss the Question.
Halipax, N. S., April 28. Delegates
from Newfoundland to Great Britain
and Canada arrived by the Caspian this
morning. It is the intention of the dele
gates to hold a public meeting here. They
say their mission is not confined to the
modus vivendi recently entered into rela
tive to the taking and preserving of lob
sters, but embraces the whole question of
French treaty rights on the coast of New
foundland. In the present agitation there is also con
tained the assertion of the constitutional
right of the colony to modify or alter the
territorial and maritime rights, and in this
the delegates hope to secure the co-operation
of other colonies. The trade between the
Canadian provinces and Newfoundland is
increasing, and the position recently as
sumed by the French will have an important
bearing on it
Prominent Business Man Missing.
Chicago, April 23. Charles Bandolph,
long a well-known resident of Chicago and
very prominent in business circles, disap
peared from his home, at South Evanston,
Wednesday afternoon, and has not been
heard of since. Mr. Bandolph has been in
'poor health, for some time.
THE GAGE OF BATTLE
Cast Into the Arena by President
Gompers on Behalf of Labor.
EIGHT-HOUR CAMPAIGN OUTLINED.
Carpenters Will Lead the Tan, tut Must
he Well Supported.
STRIKES THREATEN EKIN WITH FAMINE.
From all Parts of the World Come the Sounds of Labor
Agitation.
The eight-hour movement has spread over
the civilized world. President Gompers has
issued a manifesto to the toilers of America,
telling them how the campaign should be
conducted. The Chicago carpenters are
already anticipating a victory. Even the
English police have caught the strike fever,
and demand an increase of salary.
ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.
New Yoke, April 28. The Executive
Council of the American Federation of
Labor met this afternoon and discussed the
condition and prospects of the eight-hour
movement Samuel Gompers presided and
there were also present First Vice President
William Martin, Second Vice President P.
J. McGuire, Treasurer Henry Enrich, and
Secretary Chris Evans. The discussion was
secret and lastedseveral hours. This appeal
was issued: s
To the Tollers of America, Greeting:
The manifestations of determination on
your part to hold the banner of the eight-bour
movement aloft, and to carry it along until
victory shall have been achieved, gives hope,
encouragement and rejoicing to the lovers of
progress in our country, and to rind a hearty
and responsive chord in the hopes and aspira
tions of the down-trodden toilers of Europe.
Already we see emperors, kings, autocrats and
all the other enemies to the cause of labor and
progress, palsied and paralyzed with fear of
tho growing power and noble purposes of the
toiling masses.
A FURIOUS CONTEST PROVOKED.
The combined power of position and' wealth
seems not only about to be concentrated to an
tagonize the introduction of the simple, bene
ficial and essential improvement consequent
upon a reduction in the hours of labor, but
seeks to provoke you into a curious contest
The encouragement our movement has im
planted among our fellow working people
and tho corresponding antagonism manifested
on the part of our enemies should convince
us more than aught else that the policv we
have thus far pursued is the one which should
he followed without any deviation whatever.
The advice and suggestions thus far given and
made for the conduct of our movement having
received your approval, I make bo bold as to
submit others, which, to my mind, will lead us
to a greater degree of success than could other
wise De obtained.
The Executive Council of the American
Confederation of Labor has selected tho
United Brotherhood of Carpenters to make
the demand for the enforcement ot the eight
hour work day.
TVISEJWOEDS OF COUNSEL.
I ask you to retrain from any sympathetic
strikes. Bather remain at your work and aid
the carpenters and joiners to win in the con
test To the carpenters and joiners my advice
is to demand and Insist upon the
enforcement of the eight-hour work day. It is
not a matter of theory; it is a fact that the
question of wages and conditions will regulate
tnemselves to your benefit as soon as the eight
hour work day has been in operation. For that
reason, if you cannot secure the eight-hour
work day with other conditions, then allow
thnm to ramain oDen for further adinstment.
In the demonstration t be held May 1 turn out
in vast numbers, and by your presence mani
fest your unalterable determination to have
the eight-hour work day enforced, though by
one trade at a time, yet for all as the ultimate
result
Allow no one to provoke you to a breach of
the peace. Maintain order. Refrain from all
violence. Engage in no riot Let the watch
word be the enforcement of the eight-hour
work day. Firm, peaceful and positive, with
stont hearts and clear beads, let us concen
trate all efforts for victory upon the carpenters
and joiners. Men of labor, steady along the
line to the achievement of the eight-hour
work day. Fraternally,
Samuel Gompers.
FAMINE FOLLOWS STSIKES.
Business In the South nnd West of Ireland
In a Terrible Condition.
BY DCNLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.J
Dublin, April 28. Widespread disaster
threatens the South and West of Ireland
consequent upon the strike of the railway
employes. A famine of flour and coal is
imminent in the town of Fermov, and the
Grand canal having also stopped its traffic,
there is general obstruction and many fail
ures are certain unless the strike ceases.
Guinness, the great brewer, has covered the
roads with wagons in the endeavor to supply
the towns with his porter. Boys are acting
as signal men and ticket collectors.
Mr. Calhoun, the manager of the Great
Southern Bailway of Irelnd, told Michael
Davitt that the directors were willing to'
meet delegates from the men. with the ex
ception of the signal men, who they were
determined to prosecute for quitting their
posts at the signal boxes, and thereby en
dangering the lives of the passengers. The
men, through their Secretary, replied that
they would stand by their comrades. Davitt
severely centuredthe directors for their
coursebut also said that the signal men
had no right to leave their duty.
To-day several directors and seven clerks
from Dnblin conveyed 456 passengers and
the American mails. They took off their
roats and helped to transfer the mails to the
Umbria. The merchants of Cork have given
their employes notice that they will be un
able to continue business while the strike
lasts.
MEIERS MAKE A JUSTAEE.
Having Struck Owing; to a. Misunderstand
Inc. They Return to Work.
ISPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Scottdale, April 28. The strike of
over 500 men at Morrel & Wheeler's has
been settled, and the strikers returned to
work to-day. The miners had erred, as
there was no miner discharged. The matter
was adjusted at a conference between Super
intendent Taylor and Master Workman
Cerfoot.
The strike in the Smithton district is
reported as on yet to-day, but a conference
of miners and operators will likely be held
and all minor differences be settled. The
Port Eoyal plant, which employs 500 men,'
is already in full operation, as the owners
were the first to effect a compromise with
their employes.
Kerloot said to-day that there were num
erous local troubles over the region, but
that they could be handled without revert
ing to strike. He said that despite the
present depression in the coke trade, the K.
of L. was rapidly extending over territory,
and increasing in membership.
BTEEESPOBrS LAB0B PABADE.
Carpenters Will Celebrate tho Fourth Anni
versary of Their Union.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.1
McKeespoet, April 28. The labor
parade to be held here Thursday evening
will be escorted by the local Union of Car
penters and Joiners, followed by all branches
ol trade. It promises to be the largest dem
onstration of the labor interests the carpen
ters have ever held. The occasion will be
the fourth anniversary of the organization
of the local carpenters' union.
A GAME OF FREEZE-OUT.
CHICAGO CARPENTERS AND BOSSES
TESTING THEIR STRENGTH.
If xtfae New Employers' Union Can Find
Work for 4,000 Men the Strikers' De
mands Will be Grnnted A. Speedy Set
tlement Looked For.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
CniCAGO, April 28. The most import
ant conference since the carpenters' strike be
gan was held this morning by the Arbitra
tion Committee of the carpenters and a sim
ilar committee appointed, by the new or
ganization of bosses. Although both sides
are reticent, it is safe to say that if the new
association can show their ability to em
ploy over 4,000 men the strike will be set
tled. It may be several days before the
strike is formally declared off, as there will be
several minor matters to adjust if the bosses
and men agree on the general propositions.
The meeting this morning was held with
closed doors. The bosses made certain
propositions which the strikers will submit
to the council.
The new boss carpenters and builders'
association issued a call inviting all con
tractors outside of the organization to join
it at once. The only hope of a speedy set
tlement of the strike, it is claimed, is that
the new association shall develop sufficient
strength to take the place of the old Master
Carpenters' Association. TJp to noon half
a dozen men had signed the roster and in
creased the employing capacity of fte or
ganization about 100 men. As soon as it is
evident that no more recruits can be ob
tained, the arbitration committees will
meet and make strenuous efforts to settle
the differences.
Non-union men in numbers larger than
even the strikers care to admit, are pouring
into Chicago, and it is believed the master
carpenters, anticipating the fruitless con
ferences of Saturday, had agents in other
cities securing all the non-union carpenters
they could find. The strikers are vigilant,
however, and this morning captured a num
ber of non-union men and induced them to
refuse to go to work. A boss carpenter
named Smythe attempted to put some non
union men at work ou a building on North
avenue, but the strikers drove the men
away. Chief Marsh says that non-union
men will be protected in their work if it
takes the entire police force.
A teamster in the employ of one of the
largest contractors in Chicago was'hauling
some carpenters' tools this morning when
his team was stopped by a gang of strikers.
The horses were cut from the wagon and the
teamsterjdragged to the ground and given a
severe beating. The strikers then cut the
harness to pieces and wrecked the wagon.
There is renewed talk of a strike at the
stockyards next Thursday. The men ask
for an increase of 2 (rents an hour in pay,
and demand that eight hours shall consti
tute a day's work.
PACKERS' UNION GROWING.
The Packing House Laborers' Union,
which was started about 18 months ago, is
increasingits strength every day. President
FranK O'Neill said this morning that while
he deprecated the idea of a strike as much
as anyone, he did not see how it could be
avoided. Congressman Lawler has inter
ested himself in the movement and has
written to the packers himself. Mr. Armour
was asked what he thought of the situation,
and replied that he did not anticipate any
trouble.
L0HD0K E0BBIES GET THE FEVER.
They Demand nn Advance in Wages and
Threaten to Strike.
BY DUXLAF'S CABLE COMPANY.
London, April 28. Tire clty'police are
circulating for signatures a petition to the
Commissioner of Police asking ail advance
in their pay to 5 shillings per day, free from
all deduction for provident fund, death of
members of the force and other taxes to
which tbey are now subjected. The present
pay of the policemen is 31 shillings per
week, and this is liable to dednctions for
various causes.
The present agitation throughout the
country concerning the strikes and the gen
eral feeling of insecurity causes the pub
lic to look upon this newtronble with much
anxiety. The policemen are holding pri
vate meetings and appear determined to
carry their point. They say they hope to
do so peacefully, but suggest the possibil
ity of doing it in some other manner if
necessarv.
TAKING THEM AH DT.
BIcBLeesport Wage-Workers Orgnnizing
Into the Federation of Labor.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH, t
McKeespoet, April 28. All the mem
bers of the trades represented in this city,
such as plasterers, painters, carpenters, hod
carriers, masons, etc., outside ot the Tube
Works, have been organized and are
branches of the Federation of Labor. A
movement is on foot to extend the same
into the main industries of the city.
With this end in view a meeting will be
held at the Palace Bink on Sunday next, at
which time the employes of the National
Tube Works Company are expected to be
present, and after proper deliberations and
arrangements, will follow with an organiza
tion of their respective branches of the
Federation.
WILL STAND BT EACH OTHER.
Little Washington Contractors Will Not
Recognize the Trades Unions
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
Washington, Pa., April 28. Resolu
tions have been passed by the contractors
and builders of this place to the effect that
they will stand by each other in the event
of a strike by any of the unions; that they
will agree to pay by the hour such wages as
they may individually arrange with their
men; that they will employ non-union men,
and will not recognize union men in letting
their sub contracts. If any union institutes
a strike it will be( ignored by the contractor.
The resolutions are at direct variance with
the demands of the union.
Anarchists Advocate Violence.
Paeis, April 28. A meeting of Anar
chists was held at Lyons yesterday, at which
speeches were made favoring violence by the
workingmen ou the occasion of the labor
demonstration on May 1. Eleven of the
participants of the meeting who were the
most active in favoring incendiary action
were arrested.
Cnrrers Want a Nine-Hour Day.
Geand Bapids, April 28. At a meet
ing of carvers yesterday it was decided to
go out on strike May 1, unless the demand
for nine hours is granted. The manufac
turers are firm and will not grant the de
mand. A general strike may follow if out
side carvers are brought in.
Rnllroad Miner. Will Strike.
rSPECtAI. TELEGRAM TO TUX DISPATCn.l
Beaddock, April 28. A strike at all the
mines along the railroad lines is likely to
occur next Thursday wheu the operators re
fuse to grant the demands of the miners for
an advance in the price of mining from 70 to
75 cents per ton.
Pig Iron Rntes Reducrd.
Beelin, April 28. The Ehenish West
phalian Association has reduced the rates
for pig iron from 10 to 17 marks; the rates
for boiler plates from 20 to 35 marks, and
rates for rod iron 20 marks, ..
AN OKGAN IS WANTED
Postmaster Clarkson Says it is Needed
by the Kepublican Party.
HE WILL EDIT A MODEL WEEKLY.
Hott Race Track Owners' Generosity Nearly
. Killed a Bridse BUI.
EFFECTS OF TOO MUCH LOBBYING.
A Congressman Who Tbinls George Washington and
obert Lee Both Kebeli
Postmaster Clarkson thinks there are no
simon pure Bepublican newspapers which
formulate the loftier principles of the party
faithfully. He will probably start a weekly
exponent of Republicanism. An over
zealous Board of Bace Track Directors give
Congressmen a chance to display their in
corruptibility. Congressman Hooker, of
Mississippi, compares George Washington
to Bobert E. Lee.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.l
PROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.!
Washington, April 28. It may turn
out that the passage in Mr. Clarkson's
Americas Club banqniet speech in regard
to the decline of Bepublican newspapers
may be more significant than was thought
by any of his audience at the time or by
any but a very lew who read the striking
utterances of the Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral over their Sunday breakfasts. A gen
tleman who is not given to imaginative
stories, and whose opinions have much
weight with the public, tells the corre
spondent of The Dispatch that the word3
of Mr. Clarkson were a hint in the first
place that papers professing to be Bepubli
can must look a little less to their money
bags and more to the party interests, or risk
the establishment of true blue Bepublican
rivals; and in the second place a forewarn
ing of the publication in this city of a Be
publican journal which shall be the recog
nized official exponent of the party through
its greatest and best leaders.
journalistic decay.
With the growth and rivalry of journals
in so-called "provincial cities," the newspa
pers of New Yorr whose utterances have
Deep so influential in past years, have lost
their prestige as molders of opinion, and are
merely local business institutions, like the
newspapers of other cities. As the capital
must become more and more the city of the
whole nation, the political metropolis with
out a rival, it is thought high time that a
Bepublican newspaper should be started
here to be made the national organ of the
party. The pnrpose is, as at present being
discussed, to start a weekly paper, whose
editor shall be a Bepublican of national re
pute and influence, and whose editorial con
tributors shall be the most substantial and
influential men of the party. Its mission
will be not only to put forth in the most at
tractive and convincing manner the vital
principles of the Bepublican party, but to
loreshadow important movements of the
party, feel the party pulse and concentrate
and harmonize the party leadership.
NO LEADING REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPEB.
As matters are now, the gentleman asserts,
there is not a single newspaper in the coun
try to which the people may turn for Be
publican news and logic that is free from
selfish considerations, or that is prompted
by any deference to the wishes or opinions
of the recognized leaders of the party. They
are subject wholly to the whims, personal
interests, friendships and enmities of their
editors, who cannot rise much higher than
the question of pecuniary profits. Jnst who
are to be interested The Dispatch's in
formant will not say, but a hint was given
that a number of wealthy leaders of
the party would furnish the capital,
and that Colonel Clarkson himself
had been discussed as the most
proper editor of the new national venture.
The important feature of the project is that
every utterance shall corneas though by
authority of the recognized leadership of
the party above and outside all cliques and
factions, the articles broad, serious and dig
nified, the whole paper a rallying point for
the party' conscience and enthusiasm, a
chief thinker, as it were, to lead the thought
and reason ot the party in one direction, in
stead of allowing its force to be dissipated
by papers aud leaders who are narrow and
factional. Lightneb.
CONGRESSIONAL THEORIES
The Mississippi Floods Have Started a Flood
of Oratory in Congress The Gov
ernor of Louisiana Say Tbey
Need Ten Days' Ration.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Washington, April 28. In view of the
recent disastrous floods the statesmen at the
Capitol are discovering that it will be good
politics to have a good deal to say about
Mississippi river improvement, as it is a
subject on which effective changes can be
running pathetic, poetie and scientific.
What a Congressman doesn't know about
the laws which govern the action of .rivers
would fill a library, but the prospects are
that a great deal of time will be wasted on
the subject. The brief discussion iu the
Senate to-day showed the great Senators on
all sides of the question, some advocating
jetties, some levees, and others hinting at
other systems, while others showed that all
systems experimented with have been utter
failures.
It is almost certain that one result of the
Mississippi floods will be such a congress
ional flood of conflicting and nnadjustable
theories as to prevent altogether an appro
priation for continuing the so-called im
provements until a thorough investigation
can be had with the additional light thrown
on the subject by the late floods, and some
conclusion reached which shall promise
more certain results than the work of the
past
Secretary Proctor has received several
replies to his telegrams asking for informa
tion in regard to the extent of suffering in
the overflowed districts Of the South. The
Governor of Louisiana said that ten days'
rations for 25,000 people should be sent to
New Orleans for distribution throughout the
State. The Governor of Missisisppi said
there are probably 20,000 persons in that
State needing assistance, and the Governor
of Arkansas said that 500 people in Phillips
county and a considerable number in Desha
county are in great need of relief.
Lieutenant James Wilson, Fourth Artil
lery, at Jackson Barracks, Miss., has been
directed to report to Captain Weston, Act
ing Depot Quartermaster at New Orleans,
for temporary dnty in connection with the
relief of the flood sufferers, and Major Gen
eral Howard, at New York, has been di
rected to detail such other assistance as may
be required. Captain Weston has been in
structed to use his own discretion in regard
to the issue of green shoulders and corn
meal instead of bacon and flour, and to do
at once what he can for the relief of all who
need it He has been given ample powers
in the matter of transportation and the em
ployment of assistants.
THE BIDS REOPENED
And a Chnnce to Construct Government
Tugs" Is Now Open.
riFECTAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Washington, April 28. An 'advertise
ment for three tugs for the navy will be I
issued in a few days. Some time ago-
Secretary Tracy rejected bids from Boston,
.rmiaaeipnia ana Baltimore nrms ioriugs.
oince men me department nas prepareu
plans and specifications of its own and the
invitation is now issued with the hope that
the competition will be larger.
Secretary Tracy's action in rejecting the
former bids on the eve of an acceptance
displeased the firms concerned and they
have endeavored to have the action changed,
but without success.
EXCESSIVE ZEAL.
ThoDnngerof Superfluous Lobbying Illus
trated A Bridge Bill Nearly Defeated
Through Distributions of Tickets
to the Raee Track Beyond.
ISPECTAL TELEGRAM TO THE DI8PATC3.1
Washington, April 28. Lobbying is
very often overdone in Washington. Many
a meritorious measure has been defeated
through the anxiety of its friends displayed
in attempts to bring ontside influence to
bear on the Congressmen. This was exem
plified in the House this afternoon, when a
bill came up for consideration in Committee
of the Whole, providing for the construction
of a new bridge across the eastern branch of
the Potomac river. The bill, which is a
very meritorious one, and which would have
passed of its own weight, was almost de
feated through the excessive zeal of its
friends. The bridge crosses the river at
the Bennings road, which leads to the- new
race track of the Washington Jockey Club.
When the running races were held a few
weeks ago, the proprietors of the club sent
a complimentary badge to everv member of
Congress, no doubt hoping that by this
means tbey would induce the members to
cross the old Bennings bridge, and see for
themselves what great need there is of a new
one.
In the midst of the debate on the bill,
when its friends were explaining that the
oM bridge was built in 1803; that it was the
main channel by which the Maryland
farmers reach the Washington market, and
while reading the testimony of the District
Commissioners and engineer officers to
prove that the bridge was unsafe and be
yond repair, a member arose and pointedly
inquired whether this bridge was on the
road that leads to the race track.
Then the opposition to the bill began to
develop Itself. Some members of Congress
are very anxious to show the public that
they cannot be reached by outside influ
ences, and bo they desire to rebuke the men
who Bent them the race tickets. Half a
dozen of them immediately became inter
ested in the subject, and drew from their
pockets the complimentary badges which
had been sent them for the running races,
to take place next week.
Mr. Outbwaite, of Ohio, and other mem
bers flourished these badges in the air, and
on the strength of them worked up an oppo
sition to the bill that bade fair at one stage of
the proceedings to defeat it It squeezed
through, however, by a bare majority,
simply because it had strength enough to
travel on its own merits. The race track
feature of the' uiscussion, however, was al
most fatal, and it is probable that hereafter
the jockey club managers will not be so
generous with their complimentary tickets.
Some statesmen object to being laid liable
to the charge of being unduly influenced.
THE TWO REBELS.
So George Washington and Robr. E. Lee
Are Called by Congressman Hooker.
Washington, April 28. In trie House
to-day the conference report on the Fre
mont, N. C, public hnilding bill was
agreed to. The limit of cost is $60,000.
The President's veto message on the bill
to allow Ogden, Utah, to increase ite in
debtedness waj laid before the House and
referred.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was passed without di
vision. The House then went into commit
tee of the whole on the District of Columbia,
the pending bill being that for the estab
lishment of the Bock Creek park.
Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, favored the
immediate establishment of the park. In
the course of his remarks he alluded to Ar
lington Cemetery, in an obscure corner of
which were buried the remains of the boys
who wore the gray. On the headboard of
each grave was carved the word "Bebel."
He didn't object to this. "Bebel" was not
a word of reproach. It only showed that
they were the men who had been led by the
second great rebel of America, Bobert E.
Lee George Washington having been the
first
After discussion the bill was laid aside
with a favorable recommendation.
The committee having risen, the Bock
Creek Park bill was defeated yeas, 78;
nays, 88. Mr. Hemphill, of South Caro
lina, voted in the negative in order to move
a reconsideration, and the House adjourned.
NO ACTION TAKEN.
Joint Convention of Illine Owners and Work
men in Chicago.
Chicago, April 28. A joint convention
of the Northern Illinois mine owners and
mine workmen assembled in the Coal Ex
change here to-day. Nineteen operators
and 34 workmen's delegates were present,
including John B. Bae, President ot the
United Mine Workers of America, State
Master Workman Scafe and State Secre
tary Howells. After a general discussion,
mainly as to competition with Indiana and
Ohio, President Bae moved that a commit
tee of three owners and three workmen be
chosen to consider the permanent organiza
tion of the convention and to adopt a mode
of procedure..
This brought out a long debate, develop
ing that the Northern operasors wonld not
pledge themselves to any wage scale unless
the Southern Illinois operators were present
at the convention. Finally a motion wa3
adopted instructing the Secretary to tele
graph to all the operators in the State not
present in the convention an invitation to
be here Wednesday morning, to which time
the convention adjourned.
JEALOUSY CAUSED IT.
Two Attempted Murders and One Sncceisful
Suicide the Results.
ISPECTAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Nyack, April 28. G. F. Smith has since
last October been the gardener on the place
ot W. B. Williams, South Nyack, and his
wife has been employed about the house.
For a few days a slaternamea Henrv Chap
pell has been at work there, taking his
meals in the house.
Early this afternoon Mrs. Smith called
Chappell to dinner, and while he was seated
at the table Smith came in drunk. Some
wofds eusued between him and his wife, in
dicating jealousy on his part Then he left
the room. He returned with a revolver,
and pointing it at his wife's head fired. He
missed her, and then fired a shot into Chap
pell's thigh. Smith went to another room,
where he locked himself in, and in a few
minutes a shot was heard. Smith was found
dead on his back in a pool of blood and a
revolver by his side.
SHOT mk SWEETHEABT.
A Jealous Lover Fats a Bullet Through the
Head oi His Girl.
IRFZCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Chableston, W. Va., April 28. This
evening John Hankins went to the bouse of
Emma Woodyard, his sweetheard, knocked
at the door and called her out, then pnt his
arms around her, and at the same titneputa
bullet through her head. Jealousy was the
cause of the act.
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The America,;. Insurance Company is
VvSt Affected.
ALL POLICIES WILL BE PAID WHEU DDE
Unsuccessful Buildirc Operations Hare Ruined lie
President
Senator John J. MacFarlane, President
of the Amerscan Life Insurance Company,
says he is a ruined man. His accounts are
correct, however, and he asserts that the
company is perfectly able to meet all its
obligations. Mr. MacFarlane's insolvency
is attributed to unsuccessful building
operations,
(SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Philadelphia, April 23. Senator
John J. MacFarlane, President of the
American Life Insurance Company,returned
to his office early this morning. Other
officers of the company were quickly
on hand, and as the morning
business hours advanced bankers and
merchants who had dealings with the
President or were simply on a footing of
personal acquaintance, called to receive
from Senator MacFarlane's own lips his ex
planation of the widely circulated rumors
reflecting upon his financial standing which
were published here a few days ago.
At 10 o'clock, the hour when the day's
operations in the financial world are gen
erally begun, Fourth and Walnut streets,
where stands the big new stone building of
the American Life Insurance Company,
seemed to be the principal scene of business
activity. It was a trying ordeal for Presi
dent MacFarlane, who appeared to be far
from well, and admitted that he was suffer
ing severely, but he answered the many
questiens put to him frankly and without
an appearauce of irritation.
A defalcation denied.
Begarding the rumors of a defalcation.
President MacFarlane stated emphatically
that the affairs of the company were without
a flaw, and that the statements which had
been made to the contrary were without the
slightest foundation so fas as be knew. He
explained his recent absence from the
city by saying that he had
started for Texas for the benefit of
his health and with the idea of combining
business with recreation. While at St
Louis, en route, he received intelligence of
business matters which induced him to
abandon bis trip and to return home at
once. He did not hear the rumors of a de
falcation until his arrival here.
"The American Life Insurance Com
pany," he said, "i3 perfectly solvent and
will be able to meet any demands that may
be made upon it. As far as I An personally
concerned I am a ruined man. I shall be
unable to meet my obligations, and if I am
pressed I will, of course, have to go to the
wall."
President VTacFarlane's statements were in
terrupted frequently by telephone calls from
banks and individuals requesting the pay
ment of loans.
MUST 'WAIT POB THKIB MONET.
To these demands Mr. MacFarlane had
but one answer. That was that he had just
returned to the city and would be unable to
meet obligations at to short a notice. Those
who mide the request for their money
pleaded that they were short of funds, but
they did not assume a peremptory tone, and
none of them interposed any serious objec
tions of waiting until to-morrow.
"It will, of course," continued Mr. Mac
Farlane, "be impossible for me to secure
funds sufficient to meet these demands if
they ore pressed. I only wantto say that the
loans were made on my own stock and do
not involve the company."
Mr. MacFarlane said that he owned
nearly all the stock of the company. There
are 10,000 shares, of which the par value is
50 a share, making the total capital $500,
Q0O. Of this Mr. MacFarlane's personal
property is about 8,660 shares, or
5433.000. The last sale of the
stock in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
was about two weeks ago, when a number
ol shares brought $65, or 30 per cent above
par, making a basis for a nominal market
value ot the amount of stock held by Mr.
MacFarlane of over 5500,626. This is the
stock that Mr. MacFarlane said he had hy
pothecated forhis loans, which, he stated,
he had found it necessary to make for out
side interests.
WOULD DEPRESS THE STOCK.
The only contingency in which he could
see any possible reflection upon the com
pany was in a forced sale of bis collaterals
to make good the loans, which would neces
sarily result in a material reduction of the
market value of American Life Insurance
Company stock. Mr. MacFarlane 'has been
largely engaged in building operations
which were not successful.
A nnmber of the directors of the company
held a private meeting in the office during
the morning. Those who were present were
Charles G. Bobeson, George W. Hall and
Walter E. Bex. They are members of the
Finance Committee. They called upon
Secretary George C. tVilson, Jr., to make a
statement of the financial condition of the
company. He reported that there was no
embezzlement or default of any kind. As a
resnlt of the meeting Secretary Wilson was
directed to issue the following notice:
The Secretary of the American Life Insur
ance Company U authorized to say that im
mediately upon his return the President called
the Finance Committee of his board together,
and acquainted them ot the public rumor.
Tbey answered emphatically that they have
examined and are thoroughly familiar with
his accounts so far as they concern the company.
ana mat mere is no grounu wnasever lor uo
charge of embezzlement or defalcation.
PLENTY OP CASH.
The American Life does only a small
nusiness in life insurance, that department
being conducted in a branch office in the
building. It has a number of depositors
and does a considerable trust business, the
trust funds depositors being credited
on the books of the company
with upward of 100,000. These
obligations Mr. MacFarlane said the com
pany would pay on demand, as well as all
death risks upon the presentation of the
usual proofs. About 3,000 policies are now
outstanding. He claimed that the larger
loans of the company had been paid off at
the beginning of the present year.
Mr. MacFarlane laid considerable stress
upon the large amount of cash which he
said the company had on hand and could
appropriate to the paying off of such de
positors as would choose to withdraw
their funds. This amonnt at the
beginning of the present vear was
given as $167,870 93, almost all
of which was deposited in the Bank of
America, an institution so closely related
with the American Life that the same men
figure as officers of both companies. In
the report of the company for 1889
to Insurance Commissioner Foster, it
stated that the company has loaned
over $700,000 on collateral securities. The
report shows that the great bulk of these
loans were made on stocks and bonds which
are notlisted on the Philadelphia Exchange,
and whose value is a matter of speculation.
Neville Gets'n Fat Job.
Madrid, April 28. The Duke of Seville
has been appointed to a high government
position in Havana.
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