fV fits AjiECEssmr. The Dispatch Explorers Com pelled to Rob the Fences of Many Farmers TO GET OVER SOFT PLACES. An Astonishing Mathematical Calcu lation Hade BI A MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION. Armstrong and Jefferson Counties Cotered With Hud, Still THOUGH LIMESTONE IS ABUNDANT rbou ocb special comkissi0kxb.3 The Pittsbcko Dispatch Cotjxtby Road Expedition. Kittannino, May 6. Only one thing has disturbed our con science on this expedition. A few fence rails have been borrowed and not returned. The Butler county farmer who saw us ap propriate rails from his lence and who passed on, depending upon our honesty to replace it, may find the rail lying on the left hand side of the road, just beyond the speckled school house, in Slippery Rock township, Xawrence county. Another rail which a month ago grew and blossomed upon a fence in Hanover town ship, Washington county, now rides the waves of Chesapeake bay in Virginia. At least we threw it overboard as Tub Dis patch wagon forded the Sinnemahouing creek in Northern Pennsylvania, and we taw it float off toward the west branch of the Susquehanna river. Ralls Were Indispensable. It was necessary, for the sake of safety, to keep a fence-rail fastened to the bed ol the wagon. We never left a rail in the same county we got it Honesty is the best policy, and until Sat urday our dreams told us that it would have been more dignified had we stopped and paid each farmer for his rail as we borrowed it, or, at least, to have given him the address where he might reach it by mail or tele graph in the next county. Our conscience did bother us. It interfered with real en joyment. It prevented the photographer from looking a farmer square in the eye, even through ihe focusing glass of his cam era. All three of us have shared the dis grace. Each one of us will find from four to twelve oak fence rails apiece scored against us in the recording angel's book. Br Way of Apology. This is a joint apology to the farmers of Western Pennsylvania. "We couldn't help it. The roads were bad, and we had to get out of the mud. "But a fence rail or two won't be missed," suddenly said a member of our party on Saturday as he crawled over the front seat in the wagon. He had been quiet lor two hours. I thought he had been writing a letter home, but I saw the paper he had been scribbling upon was covered with figures. "Look here," he continued. "I think we may rest easy now. Oh, you know what I mean! If I am not mistaken, it was you who stole the last fence rail. But, all the same, there is no need of you telling the farmers where they may find their missing timber. See here, I can prove to you it can be easily spared. A Mathematical Calculation. "Up to this moment The Dispatch wagon has covered 536 miles of country roads in 'Western Pennsylvania. A rail fence is built on either side of a road; so multiply 530 by 2, and you have 1,072 miles of rail fences which we have seen. You know how monotonous this sort of scenery has been. Write a letter on that, and say nothing about our unrest of conscience. Now, the law used to call for a fence seven rails higbt but those we have seen will average six rails high. In every rod, therefore, there aro 12 rails, making 3, 840 rails in every mile of fence. "Leaving out 72 miles of what we have counties lead to Punx'y. Every one just now is in a horrible condition. Benefits the Landlord. The Hotel Pan tall does an enormous busi ness. Every drummer who drives to Punx'y is so thoroughly exhausted by his drive that it requires a week's rest at the Pantall to get ready to drive out of the town. That is the reason The DisrATCH has such a larce circulation at the Pantall. The proprietor, ex-Sheriff J. S. Barr, will bear out these statement. The rain is giving us dally repetitions of our Washington and Greene county mud struggles, so it was utterly impossible to make the trip from Punx'y to Kittanning without a night's stop-over at Smicksburg. It was a tussle next day to reach Kittanning at all. The mud was' deep, the clay was thick and the sink holes numerous. The horses were worn out when we reached Kit tanning. This letter is sent back to Kit tanning from Elderton, where we spent Sun day, and I am prepared to say that there is nothing redeeming in the condition of the roads in Armstrong county cast of Kltan ning, either. A Limestone- Realon. There is plenty of limestone in Armstrong countv. The veins are from 5 to 35 feet thick," and in many places the outcroppings are on the surface, making it easy to get at. Here and there all through Armstrong county ordinary sandstone has been used on the roads, makinir no improvement what ever, simply because no science was used in I with many farmers in Armstrong county since The Dispatch expedition started. The majority of them have told him that they favor the State Commission's plan, be lieving that ample limestone can be had cheap enough to macadamize all principal roads in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Reynolds says the Armstrong county farm ers are mostly of the wealthier class, espe cially on the west side of Allegheny'river. i)iy neii iciier wm toucn on me agricult ure question in the counties of Clarion, Jef ferson, Armstrong and Indiana. In the meantime the wagon will continue its inves tigations of roads in Indiana, Cambria and Bedford counties. L. E. Stomel. SEW THOROUGHFARES FOB THE CITY. Committee on Server Recommends the Opening of a Number of Street. The Committee on Surveys met yesterday afternoon. Chairman Carnahan being con fined to his home by illness, his place was filled by Mr. O'Donnell. The following ordinances were affirma tively recommended to Councils: Locating Hays street from Bntler to Sheridan streets; Euth street from Bailey to Washington avenues; Shakespeare street from Putnam street to Denniston aventfe; Calliope street from Eose to Eeed streets; relocating the north side line of Forbes street from Morris street 285 feet eastwardly; Establishing the grade of Eural street from Highland to THE COMING CENSUS. Superintendent Forter Throws Light On the Great Job in Jane. ELECTRICITY IS HOW AN AGENT. Wonderful Counting and Sorting Machines Ready for Duty. THE ODD FACTS BOUGHT BI UNCLE SAM '' ii' S' jU ' If it were possible for the Superintendent of the Census to ascend in a balloon on the morning of June 2 at a point somewhere in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, where the center of population was located in 1880, to a height that would enable him. with ex tended vision, to snrvey this vast domain of j ours, fie could watch with interest the army of 40,000 enumerators, equipped with port folios' of schedules, march forth on the im portant errand to count the population of the United States. "Surely, you have a big job," I hear my reader remark, says Superintendent of the Census Porter, ' in the New York World. Yes, it is a big job to take the census of a country with 65,000,000 of population, especially if it be taken on, the scale re quired by the Congress of the United States. It takes lots of organization and a good deal ot money. It must be done rapidly and everything has to be in readiness so that at the tap of the drum on the morning set for counting the people every one is ready to do his share of the work. GETTHTO OVEIt A SINKHOLE. im 1m Which Jioml t seen tor board and wire tences, I have taken the even 1,000 miles and multiplied it by 3,840, and I swear to you we have looted upon 3,840,000 separate and distinct fence rails since your exploring wagon leit Arch ibald's livery stable in Pittsburg. I hope now you will feel eaiv about our forced loan of 30 or 40 rails. Who will mus them? Anvway, what are they worth! Why they cost $50 per 1,000 rails, or $192, OOOforali that we have seen. I'll settle with your conscience for you at 5 cents apiece. A Bit of Calculation. "Now, tell me, these rails in 17 counties of Western Pennsylvania being 12 feet long each and the 3,840.000 of them, therefore having an aggregate length of 40.080,000 leet, how far would they stretch around the world if laid in a straight line by Chief Bigelow ?" Bucephalus demanded a. tlililinfnp of reins at this point, and we ail had to take a hand lest be should lay us out in a straight line, toes downward. We took dinner yesterday at "Punx'v." This name does not appear on the map" of Pennsylvania, but there is a "Punx'y" (with a boom back of it) all tlio same. Punxsutawney, as it is sometimes called by strangers and mapmakers, i one of the most progressive towns between the Juniata and the Ohio. Railroad centers nro always prosperous towns. Punx'y is a center not of railroads, but of bad, scrubby and treacherous countrr roads. All ir.nri. tmm Jefferson, Clearfield, Armstrong and Indiana I working the stone. The sandstone being soft and porous, has resulted largely as in other counties either being powdered into sand by heavy hauling or making the road way rough and uneven. Such a thing as using limestone and using it in a scientific manner has apparently never been thought of by supervisors. Parmer Fleming, in Cowanshannock township, says he doesn't think limestone is necessary for all roads. He believes sand stone will do, but admits that it is not rightly used now. He thinks it should ba steadily filled in, year after year, until the roads are from one to two feet deep with it. One or two layers of the sandstone, he admits is useless because it will soon mix with the earth in every way but the proper way. A Poor roller. Farmer Joseph HcCaughey, of the same township, says one of the great evils is in electing road supervisors who have po fitness for the position and who know little about the first principles of road building. In Armstrong county the custom, he says, is usually to elect one of the heaviest taxpay ers supervisor. This is for the reason that the supervisor, receiving no more than a road worker, practically pays bis own Balary through the road taxes on bis property. In this case cost, and not fitness, is the argu ment used in selecting a supervisor. The result is seen in poorly-made roads. Joseph Graff, one of the wealthy farmers of Armstrong county, is strongly in favor of reform in every particular of road building. He has for years paid his road taxes in money rather than work them out. Even in that way, he says, road repairing is a failure, because under the present system young boys and old men are sent out to work on the roads who know nothing whatever about good workmanship. Mr. Graff wants to see the principal roads macadamized with lime stone, and says tne large majority of farmers would be easilv satisfied on the score of ex pense if the State Commission recommends an equitable financial plan. Payinc the Road Taxes. If the movement now set on foot by the Governor fails, then he thinks capable en gineers or contractors should be employed as supervisors, and that every farmer should be compelled to pay his taxes instead of working them out. Mr. Graff lives in Manor township. Ex-County Commissioner Thomas Mont gomery farms a beautiful tract of land in Manor township a short distance east of Kittanning IHe said to me: "Manor is one of the smallest townships in this county, being only six miles long and two miles broad. Yet within these narrow limits there are 42 miles of roads. If you were to macadamize these roads with limestone the work would cost more than all the farms in Manor township are worth. To even do anything more on these roads than level up the dirt would be financially impracticable. It reminds me very much of applications to build some roads in this county iu and around certain farms. The farms were worth 55.000, and the roads could not have been built for less than ?G.U0U. 1 advised in favor of the county buying the farms, thus saying the taxpayers 51,000. A Modest Request. "A farmer down here asked the county to build a bridge over a creek on the road through his property. The bridge would have cost $3,000. His farm was worth ?1,000. It would have been cheaper to buy the farm. ''Of course these were only township roads. But, aside from cost, the scheme contemplated by the State Commis sion of macadamizing the princi pal roads at an annual expenditure of from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, is open to objections. It would create an army of officeholders, because engineers and con tractors would have to be employed. That sort of political patronage always breeds ex travagance. And may I ask what would nut from $1,000,000 to S2.000.000 into the State Treasury every year if not the taxes. and who wonld have to pay much of those taxesif not the farmer? "With salaries of superintendents, civil engineers and con tractors to be paid, I'm atraid only about 50 per cent of appropriation would actually reach the road. A War te Reform. "I am heartily in favor of permanently improving the Highways. I would say raise the township road taxes some, compel their pavment in money, employ able-bodied laborers instead ot young boys and aged persons, place thescin charge of some per son with some degree of engineering knowl edge instead of the supervisors as we now elect them. You would find tbis would re sult in good dirt roads. I mean by this tnat where necessary stone would be used in a systematic way, the road would be well graaeu with a view to draining, and there would be that general evidence about them of intelligent construction." I asked Aeent W. Reynolds, of the A. V. R. at Kittanning, about the cost of limestone in Armstrong county. He said that the Kittanning Iron Works get it from McEvary & Co. at probably 65 cents a ton at the quarry and 30 ceoV. freight rates. This is quarried in Armstrong county by "drifting" the hills. This is a lower cost than I found at the Clarion county quarries, where "drifting" has not been tried. In Favor ol Dlncndnm. Mr. Beynolds says that he has conversed Neglev avenues; Merrimac street from Grandview te Virginia avenues; Kearsarge street from Grandview avenue to Grace street; Virginia avenue from Wyoming to La Belle streets; Addison street from Cen ter avenue to Eeed street; Calliope street from Rose to Eeed streets. Ordinances vacating Castleman, Marbury and Pitcairn streets were laid over until plans are submitted. SUCCESSFUL LADY BARBER, She Conduct a Et. Louis Shop and Dai nn Immense Ran of Trade St Louis BepubllcJ A pretty, dark-haired, brown-eyed yonng woman of about 25 years of age has dawned on the town as St. Louis' first female barber. She has come like a dream in the night, stealing away the sleep of the dndes and troubling the slumber of the bald-headed praybeards. Her name is Mrs. Emma Pen- right, and she has a "shaving parlor" not a barber shop at 1822 Olive street, and is enjoying a reign of prosperity unparalleled In tonsorial history In St. Eouis. Crowds tnrong round ner window every night and look upon her with unfeigned interest as though she were a being from realms un known. But she is a matter-of-fact little bodv, and furthermore has the knack of getting around a man's chin that is pleasant to the sense of feeling. Sife says she learned the barber's trada four years ago in Kansas City in her Ju!ba V shaving parlor. Those who have i?m, ,v'r bpwds amputated beneath her skilful hand cannot help hut feel the woman ly dignity that is the characteristic of this barber or rightly, barberess. She is of the opinion that women in the barber's chair are twice as querulous as men, and she would much rather shave and barber a man man, attempt to Dang a lady's hair. CBEATTHTJ NEW OFFICES. Ordinances Providing lor n Fire Director nnd a Court Officer Recommended. The Committee on Public Safety met yesterday and affirmatively recommended to Councils ordinances providing for a Fire Director at $3,000 a year, a Court Officer at $1,500 a, year, and for the purchase of a piece of ground adjoining No. 1 engine house on Fourth avenue for not more than S500. Chairman Lambie, in answer to questions, said he had received a communication from Chief Brown setting forth the necessity of a Court Officer to prepare police cases for trial, and the great saving it would effect. Mr. Treusch thought $1,200 a, year would secure a good man, and made- an amend ment to that effect, which was defeated by a vote of 9 to 10. The ordinance was tlien aoted upon affirmatively, as were the others presented. Chairman Lambie announced the sub committees of the Public Sifety Committee for the present year as follows; Sub-Committee on Health Messrs. Donley, Trpusch. Matthews, Brewster, Gallagher, Russell and Brown, Chairman. Police Messrs. Eobrkaste, Groetzinger, Eowry, Lambie, Frauenheim, Larkiu and Braun, Chairman. Fire Messrs. Taggart, Brophy, Wilson, Metcalf, Hagmaier, Voight and Doyle, Chairman. TEE DEATH BATE FOE APRIL Morttfnry Report for the Fust JHantli, and Wunt It Shorn. The mortuary report for the month of April shows that the total number ot deaths during the mouth was 437, equal to a death rate of 21.8 per 1,000 inhabitants annually. There were 100 deaths of infants under 1 year, and 85 of children between the ages of 1 and fi vears, making 42 per cent of the total. Of the decedents 132 were of foreign and 305 of native birth; of the latter 22 were colored. There were 63 deaths Iron) and 159 cases of infections dis eases reported, about the same as the previ ous month. They were located as follows: Old city, 20 cases nnd 7 deaths; East End, 86 cases and 20 deaths; Southside, 47 cases and 22 deaths; hospitals, 8 death; 4 cases of typhoid fever were reported in hospital from outside the city. The diseases were as follows: Diphtheria, CO. 18 deaths; scarlet fever, 30, 3 deaths; ty phoid fever, 69, 17 deaths; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 7, 6 deaths. In addition to the above there were 15 deaths from measles, 37 from consumption, 42 from diseases of the nervous system, 23 circulatory, 139 respira tory, 39 digestive, and 44 from accidents. IA Veteran Becomes Insane. Abednego Davis, a veteran who was sent to the Erie Soldiers and Sailors' Home from Pittsburg, six years ago, has become insane and will be returned to the poor au thorities here for care. OEOWS WITH THE COUNTHY. It should be remembered that the census office is not a permanent bureau of the Gov ernment, but an impromptu -branch ot the Interior Department, organized under the direction of an officer called the Superin tendent of Census for the express purpose of doing this work. The Superintendent of the Eleventh Census began his work on the morning of April 17, 1839, having been ap pointed by the President of the United States in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress, approved March 1, 1889, for taking the eleventh and subsequent cen suses. On that day the Census Office con sisted of a superintendent, a clerk, one mes senger boy, two desks, a ream of white paper and a box or two of official envelopes, and sundry other stationery. To-day the Census Office employs 800 clerks, 500 special agents and 175 super visors. Next June the census force will consist of 40,000 enumerators, 1,000 clerks and probably 1,000 special agents. Then it will gradually decline until the last report has been printed, when the superintendent and the small force then around him will fold their tents and silently pass away and become merely an 'infinitesimal part of the great population which they have enumer ated. COUNT CITIES IK FIFTEEN DATS. The law requires that the population shall be all counted in 15 days in cities and in 30 days in countrv districts. Few who have never been inside of a census office have any idea ot the labor necessary even to make a rough count, to say nothing of the classification of the population into all the different groups required by the census law. The eleventh census will be counted by tho aid of electricity. At first this seems rather a startling statement, but ir any of my readers would only come to the Census Office and tee the electrical counting and sorting machines now at Vork on some of tne speoial data tne thing would be made clear to them at once. Now you will see that the enumerators have furnished the Censna Office with quite a complete aesenpuon oi every person liv ing in the United States, but these records are not in a convenient form for counting or tabulating. We, therefore, first prepare a card for each person, on which we record the different facts regarding that person with a machine something like a typewriter, only that instead of printing letters or figures these machines pnnch round holes. These cards will be about tne size of postal cards, and if stacked in one pile would make a column over 10 miles high, and will weigh fully 180 tons. AH INGENIOUS COUNTER. The Census Office will have to know how many boys there are 10 years old, how many ii years, now many m years, and so on, and the same for the girls. Again, it must know how many could read, how many could write, how many were born in New York, bow many in Pennsylvania, and many other things. To obtain this information from these punched record cards we use the elec trical tabulating maobmes. Yon see it would be impossible to make a machine which could read writing or printing, but our little typewriters punch holes instead, and such holes can easily be read by a machine. This is flone as follows: The cards are laid one by one in a machine something like a printing press, only, in stead of type, 'little needles or points are brought against the cards, so that where there is a hole in the card tho little pointer gues through and touches a drop of quicksilver below, which closes an electric circuit, or telegraphs to a little counter or register. These counters look very much like clocks, but instead of the works of a clock we have an electro-magnet so arranged that, when an electric circuit is closed through it, it moves the hand ahead one point. As the curds are rapidly passed through the machine they first telegraph to one counter and then another, according, for example, as mey represent Doys or girls; some other counters will at the same time count how many could read and how many could not, and so on; so you will sec that this machine really does a number of things at the same time. When all the cards for a given district have thus been passed through the machine the results on the dials are written down and sent to the priuter as part of the census reports. In the actual counting and sorting, after the punching had been done, one of these electrical machines will count in five hours as many cards as could be counted by the old methods In 55 hours, or equal to the work of one person for eight days, counting seven hours as a day's work. Surely this is a great saving of time and of expense, while at the same time enabling the Consus Office to tabulate many interesting fuots which the great cost of tabulating by hand has prevented heretofore. at this moment engaged on this branch of the census work alone. THE MAIN OBJECT. In this short article it would be impossi ble to give even a cursory idea of the in numerable methods employed by the Census Office experts or "sharps," as they are now called, in gathering the varied facts for their numerous reports. The main thing, after such inquiries are taken out of the bands of the enumerator, is to prepare cor rect lists of -ill the establishments in cases oft manufacturing, of all mines in that of mining, of altthe fishing Tillages and fish ing ports, in snch inquiries relating to fish and fisheries. Even the poor Indian must be investi gated. What boy is not interested in the Indian, though, I fear, as a rule, boys are not so much interested in the social condi tion of the Indian as they are in the stories of his adventures and conflicts with the white man. The Censifs Office will not go into these facts, though no doubt the large body of special agents, whoso duty it will be to visit all the reservations and sections of country where the Indians still roam, wonld be able to tell some interesting and startling stories when they return. The present census will probably cost in the neighborhood of $10,000,000, and when it is completed it will mark another decade in the material progress of the country. Be lore another census year rolls around the readers of this article will be men and women, interested in the political andsocial welfare of the Republic, and, perhaps, more appreciative of the results which a censns furnishes than they are this year. HABVELOUS WATER A Lake In the State of Washington Which Cures Diseases. Medical Lake, Wash., May C Twenty-five years ago a Frenchman crossed the continent with a large flock of sheep. He lost ereat numbers while moving through the arid region, and when he arrived in Washington the sheep that still lived were covered with varions skin diseases. One evening, as he was preparing for an encamp ment, he got a glimpse through the woods of a beautiful lake, and he hastened for ward to its shores. The sheep rushed into the water and began to drink copiously. Ha was still more astonished when he tasted the water and found it bitter and disagreeable, as well as dissimilar to anything he had ever tasted. Fearing the sheep would be pois oned, he drove them out of the water, but in spite of his efforts tbey returned again. The sheep were in such a condition from disease that he had small hope of their re covery, so he ended by allowing them to drink what he believed to be the poisonous waters as plentifully as they would. Next day he could not drive the sheep away from the vicinity of the late, and in a few days more he was utterly astonished to find that his sheep were restored to a wonderfully healthy condition. Thereupon the French man thought he had roamed far enough, and he fixed himself a homestead beside the shores of the lake, whieh is now called Med ical Lake. These waters contain salts of sodium, potasium, lithium, iron,carbon, magnesium, calcium, aluminum, silicon, sulphur and borium. They are either in combination with one another or linked by oxygen. The solutionof these various salts in the waters of Medical Lake produce results which a dozen years ago would have been deemed miraculous. The waters cleanse and feel like water with a solution of soap. They taste disagreeable and nauseous. The lake is but a dozen miles or so from Spokane Falls. There is a fine country surrounding it, and it enjoys that glorious summer climate with which the States west of the Rocky Mountains are blest The winters are shorter and far less severe than you en dure in New England. COUNTING THEPKOFIT Annual Meetings of 'a Number of Corporations Held Yesterday. A COUPLE OF GAS COMPANIES Show What Money is to be Made inDealinj Oat the Natural Fuel. t THE 0PP1CEE3 ELECTED ALL AROUND Any number of annual meetings were held in the city yesterday, covering a vari ety of interests. Eailroads, gas and elec tricity were well represented, and a car trust, which is closely akin to a railroad, was even in the list. The reporters wondered what broke loose, and the boys especially who were assigned to cover them all had their hands full. There may be something agreeable aEout the weather at this time of the year that makes it pleasant for stock holders to come together, look into each other's faces around a table, and count their profits for the last 365 days. Certainly a more delightful day could not have been selected than yesterday for such a purpose, and the numerons meetings showed that the wiry and watchfnl stockholders were on the alert. There was no jangling or squabbling at any of the gatherings, and with a good round sum ahead of the game with all of them ex cept one railroad, how could anything else but harmony prevail? A gaze at the list that follows will prevent one's saying that there are no companies making money in Pittsburg. The city is full ot them, and many manage to meet on the same day. PIAKKHIB MAHY mFHOVEMENTS. Changes la the Termlnnl Facilities of the Pennsylvania Railroad. N.EW Yokk, May 5. The Pennsylvania Railroad is making a great many changes in its terminal facilities. Its tracks are to be elevated from the Point o( Bocks to the ferry at Jersey City. The work is well under way. It Is said by the officials that the work of elevating the tracks will not inter fere with the regular traffic. When com pleted, the trains will cross the streets 13 feet above grade, and it is proposed to build a new station two stories in height, the lower floor to be used for offices for the var ious departments, with possibly a large restaurant. The second floor will be the station proper. Plans are now under consideration for building four double-decked ferry boats, the lower part to be given up entirely to teams and the upper floors to beone grand saloon. This will enable passengers to walk from the cars direct to ihe boat with out running the risk of being Knocked over by the teams as at present, and as the com pany has sec,ured permission from the Al dermen to erect bridges over West street, passengers by the Pennsylvania Railroad will have little trouble in going to or from their trains. A new ferrv is also to be established from First street, Jersey City, to the New West Washington Market. A new freight depot is now being built in Jersey City, to take the place of the one now in use, which will have to go to make room for tbe elevation of the tracks and the approach to the new station. The railroad has also secured land at West Thirty-seventh and Thirtv-eighth streets, on tne jNortn river, where it intends to make a-fine track delivery station. THREE OF THEM HT OHE. Brunches of the Baltimore and Ohio, and What They Old. The annual meetings of the stockholders of the Somerset and Cambria, Salisbury Railroad and the Berlin branch, three feed ers of the Baltimore and Ohio road, were held at the depot yesterday. For the Salis bury branch the' following named officers were elected: President, J. V. Patton; di rectors, J. B. Jackson, Johns McCleave. W. T. Manning, C. S. Wight, Charles Don nelly, J. M. Schoonmaker, Thomas M. Bayne,' Allegheny; Francis Burns, Balti more; Secretary and Treasurer, J. B. Wash ington. Tbe only change made in the di rectorship was the selection of Colonel Bayne instead of J. B. Caven, who was transferred to the Valley road. The Salisbury bianch has always paid well, and this year is no exception. The gross earnmes were $48,885 08; operating expenses, $25,551 37; net earnings, $23, 333 71; expended in construction, $0,510 04. For the Somerset and Cambria the fol lowing named officers were chosen: President, J. B. Washington; directors, W. H. Koontz, Somerset; J. V. Patton, W. T. Manning, C. S. Wight, Robert Garrett, Baltimore; Mord Lewis, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Secretary, A. W, Black; Treasurer, W. H. Ijams, Baltimore. Mr. Lewis was elected to succeed Welty McCullough. deceased. Last year the Somerset and Cambria, owing to tho Johns town flood, came ont behind, but this year the results are better. The gross earnings were $142,324 56; operating expenses, $135, C14 79; net earnings, $0,709 77. jor tne iieriin branch these officers were elected: President, J- -B. Washington; directors. Robert Garrett, W. H. Koantz, Somerset; S. A. Philson, Berlin; S. Philson, J. V. Patton, W. T. Manning; Secretary, A. W. Black; Treasurer, W. H, Ijams. Superin tendent Patton and W. T. Manning took the places of Welty McCuIlongh and Com modore G. B. White, of Washington, de ceasod, This is the one branch that never makes a good showing. The gross earnings were $8,119 98; expenses, $14,634 79, lewing a deficit of $6,514 81. Secretary Black stated that the stockhold ers talked of changing the fiscal year to June 30, to agree with the time when tbe inter-State commerce and State reports must be made. The change will soon be made on the entire Baltimore and Ohio system. EARNINGS 40 PER CENT NET. Colonel A. S. M. Morgan, Charles K. En pert, Alexander M. Black, James S. Mc Cord and J. D. Callery. Secretary A. G. Hatry was not inclined to give up much. He said nothing was done outside of the election of officers. No new cars will be built. The company owns a number which it rents to shippers. SWEAR OFF 0E PAT UP EARNINGS IN NATURAL FUEL, SHE WA-R'p.TET' A KING. Charged With Stealing a Watch. Emma Gibbons, of the Yellow Eow, is charged with stealing a watch from Henry Woolsey. Alderman McMasters will hear the evWence to-day. ODD PACTS SOUGHT. The next in importance to the connt of the people come the vital statistics and the statistics of special classes, for after we know the number of our population, its characteristics, distribution and parentage, the question of its health and physical con dition naturally comes up for consideration. All facts relating to marriages, births and deaths are obtained by the enumerator, by calling upon something like 80,000 physi cians to aid in tbe work, and by copying tbe reports of the registers of births, deaths and marriages in Slates where these facts are gathered by local officials. How many ot the readers of the youths' department would be ablo to answer the question, if put to them off-hand, "How many minor civil divisions in the United States, such as cities, towns, townships, counties, school districts, etc., have the power to raise taxes and incur debt?" Do not answer all at once. "A good many thousand," I hear some one say. There aro no less than 150,000 such minor divisions of the country. Surely, it is important to know the total amount of money raised by taxation for local purposes and tbe total amount of debt which has been incurred bv all these taxing and debt-creating powers. In order to do this the Census Office must deal separately and individually with the local officers and functionaries of these I myriad local divisions. Over 150 clerks are A Boston Songstress Found In Dom Fernundo of -pnln a Faithful Husband. Brooklyn Citizen. Max Maretzek tells the story of the stage careerof Eliza Henzler, who become the wife of the King of Portugal. She was the daughter of a poor Boston tailor, who at tracted the attention of an opera manager by her fine voice and well-shaped figure and large brown ejes. When she became noted as nn opera slneer Dom Fernando, tho consort ot Qncen Maria della Gloria of Portugal, took her under his protection. Soon after the death of his Queen he created our Boston girl Countess of Edia, and after paying due respect to tbo Queen's memory married the Countess, otherwise Eliza Henzler. Her husband beine originally a Prince of the house of Coburg, the Boston tailor's daughter became sister-in-law to Queen Victoria, aunt of the Prince of Wales and the present King of the Belgians, and mother-in-law of the reigning King of Portugal. When Queen Isabella of Spain was sent into exile Bismarck tried to put a Hoheu zollorn on tho Spanish throne. Louis Na poleon opposed it, with an eye to a Bona parte lor tne position, .at tne samo time a strong coalition oi the grandees of Spain favored placing Dom Fernando of Portugal on their country s throne, with all the chances in his favor. But while the grandees were content to have Dom Fer nando their wives declared that they would never appear at court should the ple beian Bostonese be permitted to do the royal honors. A compromise was proposed In secret caucus viz., to obtain from Pius IX. a divorce but Dom Fernando, rather than renounce Eliza Henzler, pnt away the Spanish crown. Thus the indirect conse quences of heroic attachment were the Franco-Prussian war, the downfall of Na poleon III., the loss of Alsace and Lorraine to France and tbe still uncertain future of Spain. Whbit the mucous surfaces of the bronchia are sore and inflamed, Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant will afford prompt re lief. For breaking up a cold, or subduing a cough, you will find in it a certain remedy. Anneal Deport of the Pllisbarc and Western Rnllroad Company. Stockholders of the Pittsburg and West ern road met yesterday. The annual report of the company shows that for the 13 months ending March 31, 1890, the gross earnings of its railroad and leased lines were $3,188,- GGO 80; net earnings, $842,833 01, or about 40. per cent of the gross earnings. The increase In gross earnings over the 12 months pre vious was $71,282 33 and the increase in net earnings $37,293 74. The reduction in the ore rate in Slay, 1889, was the cause of a verv heavy loss in the company's revenue. The report further states that the narrow gauge system was in such a bad condition on account of the light rails, and tbe traffic had increased so much that it was decided to relay the track with 40-pound rails and 40 miles have already been finished. Five new locomotives and 300 new cars were also ordered for the system. During the last year 32 miles in siding, double tracks and yards have been laid. The grades have been reduced creatlv, and the comunnv now has plenty of terminal facilities. With no outlay ot money and the privilege to buy in the future the road has leased the Ellwood Short Line, a double track road, which will make a saving in distance of about three miles and a hoavy reduction in grade at Rock Point During the year 16 locomotives and 300 cars were purchased and contracts were made for 20 new freight engines and 1,600 new 30 ton gondola cars. They are now being de livered. After the adoption, of tbe report the follow ing Board of Directors was chosen: Henry W. Oliver, President; John W. Cbalfant, M. K. Moorhead, J. D. Callery, William H. Singer, of Pittsburg; A. J. Thomas, S. Spencer, Solon Humphreys and Charles H. Coster, of New York. Annnal Sleeting of tbe Wheeling Natnral Gns Company. The annual meeting of the Wheeling Natural Gas Company was held at Wheel ing yesterday. Secretary W. H. Wiehl furnished the following report. Officers elected Directors, William Flinn, James M. Guffey, R. C. Elliot. T. H. Given. C. L. Magee, A. F. Keating, John N. Neeb, Henry Fisher, Edwin Bindley, Jeremiah Miller. Joseph W. Craig; the last two taking the places of John H. Hobbs, of Wheeling, and L. Halsey Williams, of Pittsburg. The surplus up to March 31 amounted to $36,086 02. Since then one month's earn ings have accrued, making the total amount $43,286 29. The plant consists of 139 4-7 miles orpipe, 17 producing gas wells and one oil wel. Within the next CO days two oil wells will be commenced, one in Wash ington county and one in Jefferson county, Ohio, near Cadiz. Mr. Diehl said that members of the companv wera so confident of the latter fiefd that many of them have expressed a desire to take an interest, but the company is capable of handling them alone. The compan'y has enough gas for its present consumers, but could use more if they had it, and it is the intention to bore for wells during the year. The running ex penses for 1889, ending March 31, were $50, 638 79; for 1890, $41,405 28. Th e gross earn ings for this year were $171,565 17; less the expenses, leave net earnings amounting to $130,159 89. The total assets or the com pany are $1,233,087 11. The company holds leases on 15,801 acres of oil and gas terri tory. The stockholders, by a unanimous vote, recommended that the company begin paying quarterly dividends July next at a I rate of 6 per cent DIVIDENDS OF HALF A MILLION Paid bv the Philadelphia Gns Company Dar ing the Year. The annual meeting of tbe stockholders of the Philadelphia Gas Company was held yesterday. The report showed that the whole debt, over and above the assets, was $251,356, having been reduced during the year from $1,054,676. The gross debt was further diminished by the sale of the West inghouse building for cost. Bonds of the ' company amounting to $1,750,000, of which $492,000 have been sold, are still in exist ence. The sum of undistributed earnings invested in the plant is $1,928,368. The total assests are $10,979,601 46; capital stock, $7,600,000; the funded debt Is $492, 000; dividends paid amount to $525,000. The statement ot expenses and earnings shows the total operating expenses to have been $1,373,238.34, and the total expenses $1,530,429.00. The gross earnings were $3,162,15015, the net earnings, 21.7G per cent of the capital, were $1,631,724 09, less dividend paid, $525,000. Balance surplus, $1,106,721 09. The company has 37,348 acres in fee and on leases. The pipe lines opera ted by the company are 2,713,076 feet or (uj.zj miles in length. The company has 195.8 miles of telephone lines and 201 pro ducing wells. The meeting was largely attended and general satisfaction was expressed by the stockholders. The election resulted in the election of President, George Westinchouse, Jr.; Directors, A. M. Byers, Robert Pit cairn, Calvin Wells, H. Sellers McKee, James A Chambers, Charles Paine, John Caldwell and J. E. McGinley. Firms Mast Make Sworn Eetnrns ol the Business They Do. A PLAIN STATEMENT OF THE LAW. Tha Board of Assessors Issue a Circular to Objectors. JDDQJS SLAGLE'8 0PISI0H IN BRIE? T.ATITES WITH THEIR RIFLES. Latest Development of tbo Athletic Craze Willi New York Belles. Clara Belle's New York Letter. The private shooting gallery for the fam ily is naturally a. sequence of the interest taken by many rich women in the use of shotgun and rifle. About the first one known in this city was fitted up by a belle of our own and Washincton society, who appropriated a generous portion of her pin money for that purpose. A hall iu the paternal mansion remote from the street and the living rooms is made an attractive re treat to lovers of sport. On the walls are hung engravings of the goddess Diana In her many representations as patroness of the chase, and alternating with these are trophies of the beantifal owner's skill In the hunt, tbe most notable being a bearskin with claws tipped with gold. In the interim between the winter festiv ities and the summer hegira to beach and mountain frequents, parties of sporting doves are gathered in this gallery. It is considered an especial mark of favor by the young lady's male friends to be invited to these parties, an Impression she is careful not to lessen by too frequent hospitality. Once inside this gallery the doves are trans formed into Dianas of the most correct form. Attired In tunics loosely confined by a girdle or cestus. aud sort of skirt, neat stockings and feet in buskins, there tbey are, a dazzling company Diana and her nymphs especially when the fancy t3kes them to sling bow and arrows at the back, well out of tlte way, and crown their fore heads with a silver crescent. It is impos sible to record the scores made on these occasions, although tbey, as well as the work of a certain invisible marksman with bow aud arrow, are worthy of mention. EATING NEXT THE SKY. The Board of Assessors is engaged in as sessing those concerns for the bnsiness tax that have failed to make a report of the business done by them during the past year. Every firm having an office in this city have been furnished with blanks to fill in, show ing the amount of their bnsiness, but many have paid no attention, and the assessors will use their judgment in fixing the figure, of which these concerns will be notified, and which they will be allowed ten davs to cor rect by makins a sworn statement as to the amonnt of their business. Chief Assessor Case finds much difficulty with firms who were exempted last year be cause they swore that they did no business within the city. This year they pay no at tention to the notices because of their previ ous exemption, but Mr. Case savs they will have to make a sworn statement'again this year because there is always & possibility that a firm may make a change in its methods of conducting bnsiness and may become assessable. THE LAW LAID BOWK. Some firms claim immunity under Jndge Slagle's decision in the case of the Hartm.in Steel Company against the city, and a cir cular has been prepared and Issued as fol lows, the names of the contestants, of course, being changed to snit the case: - ' PlTTSBuno. May 5,1800. Oehtlemes' Wo have yoor communlca tloa relative to the returns or business done in this city by tbo Pittsburg Plate Glass Com pany and the Union Switch and Signal Com pany respectively. In answer we beg leave to state that the blank: forms for business Teturns are by order delivered to every visible place of business, and this includes every room and office where in, as indicated by a sign, bnsiness is asked and done. All parties thus notified are required by law to make returns to us within 10 days of tbo uusiuesa uono uy mein ior, mo preceding 13 months, which is to be the basis ot onr assess ment ror the year commencing April. It re turn Is not made within the spudded time it Is our duty to ase:s upon our best judgment and Information, and then to notify the party and allow 10 days daring which to file an appeal. A NOTE OP DEFIANCE. In tbe case you represent no return has yet boen made. We therefore notify you that It will be necessary for some official connected with these corporations, who has knowledge of. their bnsiness, after examination of the de cision of the court In the Hartraan Steel Com pany case (a copy of the opinion and tbe decree wo have at hand), to mako return nnder oatb. If tho parties do not arree with the result of onr action they have their remedy. Vory respectfully. Hoard op Assessobs. In the decision mentioned. Judge Slagle holds that firms having offices in the city are liable for taxation on the amount of contracts made therein for goods to be delivered in the city, regardless of where thev are manufact ured or where the headquarters of the firm mav be located. The board is hurrying np the work, as the annual report has to be completed by June 1. JEWEL OF THE COBRA. Long K0 STATEMENT MADE The Weitlngnoaae Electric Co. to Mako a Transfer to the Mnnuf.icturlnn Co. The annual meeting of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company was held yesterday morning in the Westiug houiie building at 9 o'clock and the Westing house Electric Company an hour later at the same place. In neither case did the management make a statement of tbe con dition of tbe concerns and will not, so it was stated, until a meeting is held at a date not yet fixed to formally transfer the property of the electric company to the manufacturing company. Ihe only change In the manage ment was the substitution of Mr. John Caldwell's name for that of Mr. C. H. Jackson on the board of the Electric Com pany. The election for the Electric Company board resulted: George Westinghouse, Jr., Henry L. Byllesby, Robert Pitcairn, J. E. McGinley, Calvin Wells, Charles S. Pease, John Caldwell. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company: President, George Westinghouse, Jr.; Directors, Henry M. Byllesby, Eobert Pitcairn, C. H. Jackson, G. W. Hebard, J. V McGinley, Calvin Wells, H. E. Garden. A. M. Byers. Sleeting; of tho Car Trust Compnny, The annual meeting of the Pittsburg Car Trust Company was held yesterday. The officers elected were: President, A. M. Byers; directors, Alexander Nimick, If.estnara.nts Way Vv on the Tenth Floor Are Popular In New Ifork. NevYorkBttn.J When the idea of top-story restanrants was first put into practice in New York, people laughed at it, and the managers of tho first one had to give a big dinner every day for CO cents to coax folks np to their place. People have got used to living hieh since then, and the sky-high restaurants are verv popular. The original one, In a big Duuaing on xiroau street, is suit pro 0301 v the largest and most successful of the sort in the city. It is a verr swell place now, and you can spend as much money in as little time there as at Delmouico's. According to one i ell-known man, not the least of the attractions of tbe sky-high restaurant is their comparative inaccessibil ity to the fellows who loaf about the eating and drinking places down below. Up in the tenth story he meets only persons who like himself, have come for a half hour's rest and a little lunch. Explanation of a Wonder Thnt Ilai Fnzzled tbo Namrnllii. Harper's MaRizIne.I The natives of the jungle say some cobras carry precious atones about with them, and at night coil in the grass to watch them glitter. Prof. Hensoldt, the Indian traveler, says: "One night a native called me to see this wonder. Close to the water's edge stood an immense tamarind tree, and within SO yards of it the coolie halted, and mysteri ously pointed to the root of the tree. A foot from the trunk I observed in the crass a greenish light, apparently proceeding from a single point. After a time I conld see the cobra coiled near the foot of the tree, slowly swaying its head to and fro in front of the shining object. "Unfortunately I had no gun and my guide, who seemed to feel that he was re sponsible for my safety, entreated me so earnestly to let the snake alone that I acceded. Moreover he promised to bring me this stone within three days. The coolie kept his word, for the second morning after ward be brought the stone. He had climbed the tamarind tree before dark, and after the snake had taken up his position he bad emptied a bag of ashes npon the stone. The frightened reptile, after chasing about for awblle trying to find its treasure, had gone off. The coolie remained in his safe position until daylight, when he descended the tree, dng tbe stone out of the ashes and hero it was in my hand. "The cobra stone was a semi-transparent, water-worn pebble of yellowish color about the size of a large pea, which in the dark, when previously warmed, emitted a green ish, phosphorescent light I found it to ba cblorophane, a rare variety of fluor-spar. "The mystery is not difficult to explain. Cobras feed on Insects, and seem to have an especial liking for fireflies. Only tbe male fireflies fly about, and a close observer will notice that a constant swarm of the male inecu will fly near the females, which sit on the ground and emit an intermittent glowing light. The cobra uses his phos phorescent stone as a decoy for the fireflies. Competition would lead to tbe snake's seiz ing and carrying off the treasure, and habit has become hereditary." HUNTING TOE HEADS. ADOHIS DrXETS SKILL. Bcsldei llehnvlne Well on iho Boards II 0 Is n Clever Mob at Trick. Ulilcazo Tlmo.l Adonis DIxey is a master of legerdemain. Tbe other evening he was entertaining a few friends in a resort of the Bohemians. when he secured a half-dozen lemons and the Icepick from the bar and asked his friends to step the length of the room and pitch the lemons at him success ively. The comedian easily succeeded in impaling every lemon upon tbo ice pick. One of tbe party finally suggested that the actor try the feat with an egg. With some misgivings Adonis consented, and, to the surprise of everybody, includ ing himself, he succeeded in driving the pick through tbe center of the egg withont otherwise breaking the shell. "I wouldn't try that again withont an ar mor on' said Dixey, as he mopped the per spiration from his brow. Natives of Borneo Prize Pkalfs as the In dians Prize Scalp. Brooklyn Citizen. The Very Eov. Thomas Jackson, prefect apostolic of Eebaun and Northern Borneo. is just back from Borneo. He says: "The natives of Borneo are divided into innumer able tribes, averaging 30 to 40 families each. They wear little or no clothing, the general garb being a breech cloth tied about their loins. Away back In the interior is a tribe that the natives call orang-outangs, who live like monkeys, subsisting on roots and fruit. It was among these people Darwin hoped to find his missing link, and had a party of explorers among them for many months, "The natives are without exception head hunters. This practice is similar to the scalp-taking of the American Indians, and their lonjr, low houses are decorated with skulls of men tbey have slain. I seldom went into a house that did not contain from 40 to CO skulls strung about. Not long be fore I left the island a large party returned Iroui an expedition against neighboring tribe, and brought with them nearly 600 heads. It is almost impossible te stop the practice. It is for the young brave who has the greatest number of heads that the savage maiden has tha sweetest smile, and he who has none or few U considered worthless." MorRz.T Mnnnger SUct Officers. The Board of Managers of the Pennsyl van ia Reform School at Morganza, held iU annual meeting yesterday, and elected the following officers: President, Thomas Wightman; Vice President, James Allison, D. D.; Secretary, John N.Neeb; Treasurer, A. V. Keating; Superintendent J. A. Quay; Matron of Female Department, Mrs. E. H. Bescom; Steward. Alex. Me Morran: Physician, J. W. Alexander, M. D.; Solicitor, Hon. George W. Miller. m 1 lr.-A
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