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BES1MJE PIKE,
Advice of a Westmoreland Man
Regarding a Once Great
Thoroughfare
ACROSS THE WHOLE STATE.
Only a Comparatively Small Sum
Seeded' to Again Mate This
A TfiOLT MAGNIFICENT HIGHWAY.
Glimpses of Surpassingly Beautiful Scenes
v on the Mountains.
PLEASURE TKATEL IS FORMER TEARS
"Ad drew Carnegie conld immortalize
himself in a new way," remarked S. P. Mc
lntyre, of Jacktown, Westmoreland county,
as The Dispatch Country Road Expedi
tion passed through that place the other day.
"Indnce the generous iron manufacturer to
give $300,000 to repair and rebuild the old
turnpike between Pittsburg and Philadel
phia, and then let the State repay him by
calling that grand internal thoroughfare
'Carnegie avenue.' Three hundred thousand
dollars is a far less sum than he has donated
to the foundation of public libraries insti
tutions which only benefit the residents of
cities in which they are built.
"Here is an inexpensive opportunity for
Mr. Carnegie or some other philanthropist
to make a donation which will be a lasting
benefit to the farmers of the interior of Penn
sylvania. Ivor would the agricultural in
terests be all that would profit from the
restoration of the old pike. In connecting
the great cities of Pittsburg and Philadel
phia they would profit in many ways from a
permanent State highway across the moun
tains. Of Importance to Many.
"The old nike conld be well repaired at a
cost of $1,000 per mile," continued Mr. Mc
Intyre, "and it is just 300 miles long, or 51
miles' shorter route between Pittsburg and
Philadelphia than the Pennsylvania Bail
road. I have lived along this old pike all
my life, and beside that I have been mak
ing a study of this road-building question
for many years. The turnpike must be Kept
up. A large number of counties, towns and
Tillages deDend upon it as their main chan
nel of traffic and communication. Kow is
the time to repair it the entire length ot the
State. If permitted to fall into further de
cay it will take a good bit more than $1,000
per mile to fix it np. Although it was once
the best road in this State, and one of the
finest in the United States, no attention has
been paid to repairing it since I860. I mean
by that it has never had in all that time a
single dressing of stone, and where it has
gone into the hands of townships the spring
time repairs have been the same as on any
rdinary dirt road trivial at best
What It Would Coir for Rrpnlrs.
"A stoned pike, like this once was, could
be bnilt again for $4,000 per mile. But
eave it now, and ypu can do it for $1,000 a
mile, and then have a magnificent road, If
come rich philanthropist will not make it a
second Appian way, then the State Leg isla
ture should undertake the work by general
taxation."
For a whole week The Dispatch cx
plering party had been riding over these
old-time pike, and most of that week was
spent on this same turnpike of which Mr.
Mclntyre speaks. The real glorv and beauty
of the Allegheny Mountains must forever
remain a scaled book to those who go over
them only by rail. Nowhere else east of tho
Bocky Mountains can such scenery be
found as will be disclosed by an overland
trip through the interior of Cambria, Blair,
Bedford, Somerset and Westmoreland coun
ties. rpDn.ylrnnlnV TCntnrnl Ornndeur.
The stage coaches oner had greater claims
for scenic attraction than any of the rail
roads of to-day, but there was no railroad
photography in those days, and the very
limited travel on the ttAge coach 'pikes In
this era leaves tho public at large in igno
rance as to what a wonderful natural park
lies in the heart of Pennsylvania. It is
vast. It is grand.
Were there better roads there would be
more pleasure in driving across the luouut
uins. This Yellowstone domain at home lies
vltbin a dayVdrivc of Pittsburg, and yet It
is very little appreciated. Governor Beaver's
proposed improvement of public roads offers
a plan of making Pennsylvania's natural
park accessible to household carriages from
both Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
I'lensuro Travel Year Abo.
Years ago privato equipages' as well as
stage coaches traversed these roids in sum
mer outings. lion. Thomas M. Marshall
and many other Pittsburg families year
alter year drove from Pittsburg to Bod ford
Springs, and thought nothing of the journey.
This custom was kept up as late as a few
years ago, but every year the road grows
worse, irom neglect, crossing the moun
tains by carriages would again become pop
ular if it conld be done with comfort and
aalety. So there is a social side to Mr.
Mclntyre's suggestion that some philan
thropist, or the State, restore the old pike,
especially as this 1b an era of parks and
pleasure-seeking in the great cities.
Last week, in coming home from Stoyes
town, Somerset county, we recrossed Laurel
bill. In seven miles we did not pats a
farm or dwelling. All was forest, and the
old pike is .a lovely sylvan drive. Down
this side of the mountain the bank on one
side of the road is covered with rhododen
drons, high almost as the trees themselves.
Beautified by Flower.
The laurel hedge is four miles long and
20 feet high. Its blossoms are lust begin
ning to shane themselves, and this natural
wall of evergreen is a wondronsly pretty
thing. In the Ligonier valley there were
wide fields covered with bluets, buttercups
and early violets. Then we entered the
gorge of Loyalhanna creek thegreen canon
in which the stream cuts its way through
Chestnut Ridge.
Here again the pike becomes a beautiful
thoroughfare. The trees arch overhead, and
inthe two or three miles through the moun
tain gap thev lorm a canopy so thick that
sunlight seldom flashes across the Loyal
hanna's waters, which dash and foam right
beside the driveway. Water cresses, pretty
white star-shaped flowers, and a dozen
varieties ot wild flowers peeped out from
among the ferns. Uuire rnitluiartnilir
become soft seats from the moss cushions
growing upon them. It was with a sigh of
rcjjrci luat we presenuv slgbted Jjutroue,
uuu .en me uouuuuns oi i ennsylvania be
uiuu ui jor good.
Something of a Bond Still.
I do not mean to convey the imprAsion
that the old pike is a wreck. Far from it
A good idea of its present condition may
be had from Mr. Mclntyre's figures. He
says to build another pike like this one in
Pennsvlvania would cost $1,000 per mile,
and that it would only take $1,000 per mile
to place the present pike in perfect repair.
In other words, three-fourths of the substan
tial roadmaking on that highway is still in
tact The other fourth, which has suffered
from neglect, is on the surface, and could be
easily and permanently repaired-if the work
was conducted in a proper manner.
The Dispatch expedition covered close
upon 800 miles of dirt roads in Western
Pennsylvania, and about 200 miles of
macadamized, semi-macadamized, or stoned
roads, and I do not hesitate to say that,
with the exception of the old National Road
in Southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pitts
burg and Philadelphia "Turnpike, even as
it exists to-day, with no substantial repairs
for 20 years past, was the best the most ex
cellent highway we found. We traversed
that part of it from Bedford west
Maintained by Road Taxes.
East of Bedford, through Fulton county,
tolls are still collected from wayfarers, and
the proceeds are supposed to be expended in
repairs. This side of Bedford a short dis
tance, however, you pass the last tollgate
westward, and the balance or the pike has
from time to time been declared free to the
public by the courts, thus placing the entire
pike from Bedford to Pittsburg in the bands
of the various townships to be repaired and
kept by them just as they maintain other
roads, viz., by a road tax. And in nearly
everv instance I find that this tax is worked
out by the farmers living on the abutting
lands.
The road was first turnpiked 75 years ago.
Improvements had been made upon some
stretches of it even earlier than that, as for
instance the granting of a charter to the
company controlling the Lancaster and
Philadelphia end in the year 1795. The
pike, although a continuous through route,
was owned by different corporations. That
section extending from Pittsbnrg to Greens
burg was built by a company in which were
the Dennvs. the Ncgleys." the Larimers,
Irwins, McMasters, Judge Wilkins, Phillip
Winebiddle and John McFarland. The
pike from Greensburg to Stoyestown was con
trolled by another companyand still another
company operated the extension of it
through Bedford and Fulton connties to
Chambersburg.
Work That Wn Well Done.
The building of the road was a remark
able example of what effect persistence and
plenty of stone will have on a roadway.
None of the companies built a mile of com
pleted macadamized road at a time', yet in
the end they secured what was practically
a macadamized thoroughfare. The general
policy was to ignore dirt in repairing the
pike, and having originally graded and
properly drained the center of the road, to
simply throw in itone broken small, month
after month, and year alter year, until they
had gained solidness and permanency.
Wherever a rut or hole appeared, the same
policy was adhered to no dirt, but all
broken stonp. In the best days of the pike,
along about 1810, 1 am told, the covering of
the entire thoroughfare averaged from 15 to
18 inches of stone. This had been packed
down so tight by constant travel, and so
much care had been originally taken in
grading the foundation bed for it, with due
regard to draining of the water as it seeped
down through the stones from the surface,
that the roadway was as smooth and even as
a floor. It is' said that you could have
walked from Bedford to Stoystown after it
had rained two weeks without getting your
shoes muddr.
Filllnar Up tho Sinkhole.
In sinkholes, where there were under
ground springs to overcome, stones, big and
little, were simply filled in year after year
until a bottom was found. There are to-day
spots along the old pike with six or seven
feet of stones in them, and they are always
drv, as a resnlt
The repairing of the turnpikes was done
in a systematic and scientific manner. These
repairs were not confined alone to one season
of the year, as they are now all over Penn
sylvania. The old-time road makers, it is
said, would have laughed at the very idea of
having good pikes if the repairing was all
to be done in one month oat of twelve. In
fall they opened up all the "water-tables"
and culverts along the pike to clean them
out for the winter, something that is never
thought about these days. Then the repair
ing of bad spots in the road was kept up all
tne year around, during both the summer
and winter, as well as in spring. The
manager, superintendent, or sequestrator of
the pike, whatever was his title on the vari
ous divisions, kept a strict watch over the
part of the road under his supervision.
Wherever it needed repairs he would either
mark on the fence rails opposite, with chalk,
stone, or no wouia anve a state into tliu
gronnd at the bad spot to indicate to the
road-gang where repairs were necessary.
When Travel lirean to Drcrcnsr.
Laborers were kept at work all the year
breaking stones and filling them in. Of
course, in those days the uages lor such la
boring work as breaking stone were lower
than they would bo now. In 1852 tho first
cessation of this systematic repairing took
place between Bedford and Pittsburg.
Travel had begau to wane on the pike be
cause of the canal. By 18C0 all such repair
ing hnd stopped, because then the traffio of
the Stato was largely drifting to the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Although the last toll
gate between Pittsburg and Greensburg was
onl)' abolished ten years ago, there was lit
tle or no repairing by the persons taking
toll, and that is now the great burden of
complaint against tho toll-takers cast of
llcdlord.
Between Pittsburg and Bedford, where tho
townships support thu road by taxation, the
system of repairs is a travesty on the good
workmanship of our forefathers. It amounts
to practically nothing, the dirt of the gut
ters merely being heaped up in the middle
over the stone-work of half a century ago.
With such solid stone foundations, why
couldn't the townships have continued the
policy of dumping broken stone on the top?
In originally making this pike, lime
stone was generally used, lor the reason
that it was plentiful in Bedford, Somerset
and Westmoreland counties on this side of
the dividing crest of the Alleghcnies, and
on the other side there was also abundance
of it. Yet here and there you may still find
'stretches of road where the ordinary rock of
the mountain and field have been used. It
isnot sandstone, but of a sort of nonde
script character. It proved sufficiently
bard for road purposes, and was broken up
and ued to advantage. In my previous
letters, I have frequently quoted farmers in
various, parts of the State who believed that
even sandstone would answer for maca
damizingxif plenty of it was filled in upon
the road yaar alter year.
What baa been the result of this policy in
orlginallv constructing and maintaining the
Pittsburg anW Philadelphia pike? Well,
this winter nnd spring has been generally
admitted to pave been the worst on country
roads for 30years,owlng to the open weather.
Yet at no tibe this winter or spring has tbo
pike betweeln Bedford and Pittsburg been
cut up, or (even rendered inconvenient to
teamsters, dxcept at two places, viz.: in the
neighborhood oi Irwin station in Westmore
l?,'!!1. ?oa,n'y and between Turtle Creek and
Wilkinsbdirg in Allegheny county.
I Why ilie Itoml l.an.
Of boththese bad stretches of road I shall
write morfc fully in the article that is to fol
low this. J Bnt the balance of the pike, say
from Bedford to Irwin station, was in excel
lent condition all the spring. It was a
physical impossibility to cut it up, or even
make it very muddy, by the miserable
wejiher that the country experienced all
winter and spring. It was too solid. There
was too much stone in the road, and there
Was practically no dirt there to mnittm nts
mud, or to plow into ditches and ruts. And
this, too, is the way the pike is holding out,
wun no lumuiuuai repairing ior --u years.
It ii the most powerml argument for ma.
cadamlzed roads that I lound in all my
overland travels of six weeks. And the fact
that it was so good with so little repairing
proves that the first heavy cost in building
a road right, is offset in the end by the low
taxes that will inevitably be required
for keeping it in repair. Mr. Mclntyre
says $1,000 per mile will repair the road and
make it as good as new. Divide that $1,000
by 20 years (in which there have been no
repairs) and you may find how trifling
would have been the taxes to keep con
stantly in repair a stoned road.
Different From Dirt Eoads.
Since the old plan of repairing the turn
pikes was dropped, the rougher stones of the
under courses have been allowed to work to
the top, thus making the road in some
places rough to ride upon. Especially on
the mountain slopes the washing ont of the
roads by rains year after year has damaged
the pikes. This is the worst part of the
damage, and that could have been easily
prevented by the system of constant vigi
lance, customary in early days. But as a
whole the road is still solid, dry and smooth,
especially where it is level. Unlike dirt
roads, we found it best where it was most
traveled, and worse where the travel is
small.
Dirt roads can only be kept in good order
where the hauling is light But here was
a road that was actually in its best condi
tion when used most The reason is the
stones arc then kept more evenly distributed
and better broken up on top.
A Touching Reminiscence.
The mention of Thomas M. Marshall's
name brings to me a touch of pathos. Two
months ago in mapping out an itinerary for
The .Dispatch expedition I consulted
Mr. Marshall about the route from Bedford
to Pittsburg. He had driven over it every
summer for years with his family. At the
conclnsion of the conversation the great
criminal lawyer remarked:
"Ah, me! It's been three or four years
now since I have gone to Bedford Springs
overland. I only kept up the practice of
driving there because my wife enjoyed the
ride when she was living. For several years
after she died I continned to drive the 91
miles because of the sacred memories it re
vived. To me there are endearing associa
tions in every mile of that old Philadel
phia pike between Wilkinsbnrg and Bed
lord. "By the way," he added, "remember and
tell me if you find two maiden women at the
first toll gate on the western slope of Laurel
Hill Mountain, some miles beyond Ligonier.
They are aged and wrnkled. They have no
shadow of right by law to charge toll any
more, bnt every time I pass there I give
them $5 for toll'. My wife liked them, and
they loved her. I often wonder if they are
still living there."
No Tollgnto There Now.
Almost eagerly I watched for that toll
gate as we rattled down the monntain the
other day. But there is no longer any toll
gate there, and I could hear nothing of the
maiden ladies. But there is scarcelyaman,
woman or child along the pike from Brad
ford to Pittsburg who does not remember
"Glorious Old Tom," as the older people
still call him. Very many of them have
asked me about him and want to know why
his two barouches "never come out this way
anymore."
"Mrs. Marshall was a beautiful -woman,
a person of lovely disposition," said Mrs.
Jane Mclntyre, the landlady ot the well
known road house at Jacktown. "We all
knew and esteemed her."
And I heard that said more than once
along the old pike. L. E. Stofiel.
THAT PE0HIBITI0N CAMPAIGN.
The Brewer' Association Denis It Un
bind for tho Expense.
Philadelphia, May 2L Answers have
been tiled in the Common Pleas Court by
the State Brewers' Association to the suit
brought by Moore and Sinnott formoney ad
vanced in the late prohibition amendment
campaign. The first affidavit is by Charles
Class, one of the defendants. He says that
the organization was formed for mutual ben
efit. It is admitted that a committee was
appointed to carry on the campaign, but
that all money was raised by voluntary con
tributions. It is claimed that no agreement
was entered into.
The affidavit concludes by saying: "The
plaintiffs did not on June 22, 18S9, or at any
time advance to the association defendants,
or to any one on their account, or pay at
their request, the said sum of $10,800, as
stated by plaintiffs. The association defend
ants did not on July 11.1889, or at any time,
agree to pay the plaintiffs the said sum of
$10,800 in two weeks thereafter, or at any
time. The association defendants are not
indebted to tne plaintiffs in any sum what
ever." Mr. Class also presented another affidavit
setting forth substantially the same facts as
the first This last one is not filed in the
Moore and Sinnott case, but in the suit
brought by the Distillers and Liquor Deal
ers' Association against the Pennsylvania
Stato Brewers' Association for money alleged
to be due, growing out of tho campaign ex
penses. PABSENGEE KEN'S OUTING.
A Good Time Ilnil by Thoao Who Wont to
Cnmhorlnad Gap.
The Pittsburg contingent that attended tho
annual outing tendered to tho Louisville
Passenger Agents' Association by the Louis
ville und Nashville road, returned yester
day. Through the kindness of E. D.
Smith, district passenger agent of the B. &
O. road, the Pittsburgers traveled ovor the
latter line to Cincinnati. A special train of
Pullman cars containing about 200 passen
ger and newspaper men left Louisville early
last Saturday morning for Cumberland
Gap. Thev wero entertained at the Middles
borough Hotel.
This town is in the iron regions In tho
South. J. P. Witherow & Co. are building
extensive furnaces there. Tho excursionists
were provided with horses, and spent Sun
day in climbing the famous pinnacle at
Cumberland 'Gap, where Forts Edgar and
Lyon are located. The old ramparts are still
teen, and where "Long Tom," the big gun
that did Buch effective work dulng the-war,
was placed, a pretty little restaurant now
stands. From this pinnacle a com
manding view of, the country for
100 miles around is obtained, and
the Kentuckians claim that six States can
bo seen from its heights. The lines of three
ot them come together on the pinnacle, and
if a man had three legs he could stand, in
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee at the
same time
Much credit for the excursion is due to
Mr. Herman Holmes, Traveling Passenger
Agent of the L. & N. road in this territory.
ONE YEAK'S OPERATIONS.
Annual Meeting; of the Pittsburg-, Ft. Wayne
and Chicago Railroad Stockholders.
The bond and stockholders of the Pitts
burg, Ft Wayne and Chicago Eailroad held
their annual meeting yesterday and re
elected Messrs. John N. Hutchinson, Will
iam Hooper and L. Z. Lelter directors.
President L. H. Meyer presented his re
port, which shows that the income for the
year 1889 was $10,880,515 50, and Ihe ex.
pensesot operating and maintaining were
$8,978,851 60, leaving $3,901,6G1 as surplus,
out ot which the lessee compahy paid to the
Ft. Wayne company, as rental, $3,115,412,
leaving a net profit to the operating com
pany of $780,219. The votes cast represented
a sum total of $28,016,000.
Burglar In Wllklntbarg.
Early yesterday morning Mrs. E. L.
Hays, of Wood street, Wilkinsbnrg, was
aroused by burglars, who were attempting
to forco an entrance. She shot at the men,
and they ran, but it is thought that one was
hit, as blood was found on the porch.
Rely upon Piatt's Chlorides for all house
hold UMlnrtctlng purposes.
PITTSBURG, THURSDAJ, MAY 22, 1890.
CHICAG0STEEL MEN
Building Extensive Plants to Enter
Into More Active Competition
WITH GAS CITY MAKUFACTUREES
Their Advantage of Nearness to Iron
Mines and the Lake May
MIKE THEM F0EM1DABLB E1TALS
rSFZCUZ. TZLXQKJJC TO TUB DISTATCH.!
Chicago, May 21. South Chicago, where
the principal works of the old North Chi
cago Boiling Mill Company are located, is
all activity just now. A big new steel mill
is being built as rapidly as men and money
can build it New blast furnaces have been
put up and a vast steel shipyard is in pro
cess of construction. The Calumet river,
which winds through ihe town it is now
within Chicago's city limits is being deep
ened. Great aredges are at work cutting
new channels through the sand, and all this
because the Illinois Steel Company, the
successor of the North Chicago Company,
has determined to crowd the steel men of
Pittsbnrg and the East out of the Western
market.
They go about it very modestly, too. Call
at their offices and they tell you that they
were only making a few repairs, replacing
some of their old machinery with new and
adding a furnace or two to keep up with the
demands of the times, but the fact of the
matter is that with characteristic Western
shrewdness and energy, they have deter
mined to capture the Western markets in
every branch of steel manufacture and leave
Carnegie and other giants of the East to seek
pastures new.
GREATER COMPETITION1 PROMISED.
Up to this time steel rails are the only ar
ticles in which the programme has been to
any great extent carried out In that line,
as everybody knows, Chicago is a close com
petitor of Carnegie, tho race between
the two is olten very exciting, and
the "star spangled Scotchman" would
be deprived of some of his Western
trade, if it were not for the cheap carriageoJ
his goods by way of the rivers, as, for
instance, .when it was noted in a recent issue
of The Dispatch that one of Gray's Iron
Line boats left Pittsburg with a tow of steel
rails representing over $100,000 in value,
destined for points on Western rivers, to
which they can thus be taken as cheaply as
they could be shipped by rail from Chicago.
Within the next three of four years the com
petition will be ranch keener, nnless all
signs fail.
The Illinois Steel Company now own and
operate its own iron mines in the Northern
Peninsula, and the only thing for which it
is dependent on outsiders is the carriage of
its ores to its furnaces in Milwaukee and
Chicago. It proposes to be independents
this regard also, for. through an allied cor
poration styled the Chicago Ship Building
Company, it will build its own line of great
lake freight carriers of the modern style
which, because of their immense capacity,
their speed and cheapness of handling, have
made the sailing vessel almost a thing of
the past
HOPE TO EQUAL PITTSBUEO.
The Chicago blast furnaces will thus get
their ores more cheaply than those in Pitts
burg, and, by using the same policy with
reference to coal, a similar reduction will be
made in the cost of luel. By these and
other means, it is believed, the great ad
vantage which Pittsburg enjoys iu natural
gaB will be overcome, and the cost of produc
tion made at least as low in Chicago as it. is
in Pittsburg. The qnestion then will be
which can take its goods at the lowest cost
to the consumer, and there Chicago claims
to have the advantage, because of her
greater nearness to the West and the sharp
rivalry among the numerous railroad lines
which center there and compete for her
trade.
The new steel plate mill at South Chicago
can hardly be finished and in operation for
a year. The work at the shipyard is being
pushed very fast. Part of its buildings are
already under cover, and some of its ma
chinery which bears th marks of manu
facturers in Scotland, New England and
various parts of the Bast, including Pitts
burg, is already in position. One of its
slips is nearly completed, and the dredging
in the other two has lairly begun, but it can
hardly bo ready for wo'rk in less than a
year. So that, in tho matter of steel plate
at least, Pittsburg, which now makes vast
quantities of that article for use in lake
boats, will have a full year to preparo for
the advent of its Western rival.
SENDING EAST FOR IRON.
Structural iron is another article, in tho
manufaoturo of which tho Illinois Steel
Company is about to compete more actively
than heretofore with tho Edgar Thomson
and Its other Eastern rivals. Up to this
timo tho limit of its capacity in this lino has
been n straight 15-inch beam. The work
has been done at the mill located In tho
north side of Chicago. The machinery there
is nouo too robust, and n 15-Inch beam
crowds it to its utmost capacity, and is
liable to bring about a breakdown, but tho
sizes under that It makes very comfortably
and about as cheaply as tho structural steel
works of tho East Its great disadvantage
has been that it did not have the necessary
appliances for punching and fitting the
beams so as to make them ready for imme
diate use. To obviate this difficulty ma
chinery for punching and fitting has just
been introduced in the Northslde mill, and
hereafter, as to smaller and commoner sizes
and shapes, Chicago will be a somewhat
more active competitor of Pittsburg than
she has been heretofore.
But In the department of structural iron
she is still immeasurably behind such es
tablishments as tho Edgar Thomson, and it
is estimated that with the utmost that care
and skill could do, she could not catch up
in less than three years. For instance,
when onr "Tacoma Building" a 13-story
structure built of steel beams and terra cotta
was proposed a year and n half ago, no
Chicago establishment could touch the work.
The architect's plans were taken to the Car
negies; their draughtsmen figured out the
details; the orders were
SENT ON TO FITT8BUBQ
and the steel came back finished, and fitted
with suchnicety that it only remained to Bet
it in position. Few of the people who saw
that building spring up like a mushroom in
a night, understood that the reason wag that
it had all been built beforehand at Brad
dock, and came out only to be set in position
and bolted together. The same thing was
true, to a limited extent of ourold Chamber
of Commerce building, which has been
heightened by nine additional stories, built
of Pittsburg steel and terra cotta.
It is believed that the World's. Fair
buildings will call for a vast amount of this
material, but Up to this time there Is noth
ing to indicate that the Illinois Steel Com
pany will get its plant in readiness to enter
Into active competition with the East for it,
urther than for a few of the smaller sizes
and the commonest shapes.
Blose.
The champion and test known newsboy
in the United States! He has written letters
to General Alger, of Michigan, and other
noted men. He now writes one to
Mr. Norman Llcuty", lies Moines, Ia.t
Deae Sir Your Krause's headache cap
sules are just the thing. I suffered two day's
with a terrible headache, and took two of
the capsules you gave me, and was relieved
in an hour. It was the best Christmas pres
ent I received. Respectfully,
Mose Jacobs.
Only 25 cents a box. For sale by druggists.
ihsn
C0IHD NOT BE BUTTEBCUPFED.
Famllle From Erin nod tho Fatherland
Meet Anxlon Husband In Thl City.
A curious scene was witnessed in Tem
peranceville the other afternoon. On Dun
can street dwells Christian Eichenlaub,
while directly opposite his home is situated
the residence of Michael O'Brien. The first
mentioned individual is, it is hardly neces
sary to state, of Teutonic origin, and has
been in this country but four years. Mr.
O'Brien is a native of green Erin, where his
ancestors were kings in the good old days
when it waB easy to get a license. Ejrer
since both gentlemen landed in America
they have been grass-widowers, inasmuch as
their wives and children were left behind in
Europe until enough money could be
amassed to nav their nassace to these shores.
Eichenlaub and O'Brien worked in the
same mill, and became fast friends. By
dint ot mutual encouragement, they suc
ceeded in saving up enough money to rent
houses in Temperanceville and to bring
their families across the ocean.
It was arranged that Mrs. O'Brien, who
came in a White Star liner, should wait
two days in New York for Frau Eichen
laub, the latter lady having taken passage
on a Hamburg ship. Everything came off
nicely, and yesterday two express wagons
conveyed the two families to their new
homes in Temperanceville. The Elchen
laubs numbered three in all; a pair of
flaxen-haired, ruddy-cheeked children ac
companying their mother. With comely
Mrs. O'Brien came five swarthy, bine-eyed
little Goels, of the true Southern stock.
But both women had brought more than
children from the old countries. The
wagons were loaded high with lares
and penates; bedding, pictures, and
even chinaware being included in
these miscellaneous collections. At
opposite sides of tho narrow street the
loads were stopped; and for some moments
the thoroughfare was completely blocked.
The radiant fathers of these highly inter
esting families ran wildly about embracing
their offspring and tbe wives of their respec
tive bosoms. Then Mr. O'Urien had to be
introduced to Mrs. Eichenlaub, and Mr.
Eichenlaub to Mrs. O'Brien; so that tbe Tem
peranceville loungers had something to
stare at The fanny part of it was that the
two families had traveled together all the
way from New York without being able to
speak one word of each other's language.
Yet they appeared to be the best friends in
the world.
A NEW PE0PEBIY 02 STEAM.
Something Discovered That Mny Account
for Mysterious Boiler Explosion.
Bridgeport, Conn. May 21. Mr. F.
G. Fowler, of this city, addressed a society
of engineers Saturday evening respecting
his discovery of a property of steam which,
under some circumstances, will cause an in
stantaneous doubling of boiler pressure with
out tbe application of more heat His
claims were demonstrated by a small boiler,
in which the pressure was raised to 10
pounds, and after being removed from tbe
fire suddenlv thrown to 80 pounds. In an
other experiment the pressure was raised in
an instant from 80 pounds to 100. It was
claimed that this property accounted for
many so-called mysterious boiler explosions,
or those which withstood the inspector's
test, and then exploded at lower pressure.
It was shown how this property could be
readily removed from the boiler, aud the
same was demonstrated by successful ex
periments. HE WAS A WHOLE SENATE.
How Ono Man Constituted tho Upper
House In Alabama Territory.
St. Loals Globe-Democrat.
One of tbe most remarkable Legislatures
ever assembled was the first Territorial Leg
islature of Alabama, which convened at St.
Stephens, then the capital of the Territory,
on the 19th day of January, 1818. The
Territory was divided into seven counties.
There were 13 members of the Lower House
present, but the only Senator who put in an
appearance was James Titus.
Senator Titus would call himself to order,
introduce bills which failed to pass for want
of a quorum, concur in House bills and ad
journ over from day to day, a motion to
adjonrn always being carried without op
position. With the aid of the House, Sen
ator Titus managed to transact a large
amount of public business during the five
weeks' session of the Legislature, and,
doubtless believing the end justified the
means, Governor Bibb signed the bills.
Whan the two houses were in joint session,
Senator Titus always relerred to himself ns
"tho Senate."
VALUABLE COINS.
A Lnrgo Collection to bo Hold at I'nbllc Auc
tion Next Month.
Bprlngflold Itopubllcan.1
Lorlng G. Parmalcc, the numismatist of
Boston, and a former resident of Wllming
ton, Vt, has sold his valuablo and unique
collection of American coins to New York
persons, who arc to soil them at public auc
tion next month. Tbo collection comprises
about 3,000 piccos, many of which aro un
circulated, and Is thought tho most valuablo
singlo collection of United States coiuago in
tho world, and Is valued at $75,000.
Mr. Parmaleo has been about 20 years se
curing this collection, which Includes the
rare 1801 dollar, for which he paid $750,
though it has since nearly doubled in value,
and a specimen of every gold coin from 1795
down to tho present date, the best assort
ment known. Somo of the rare pieces of
colonial coinage in this cabinet are valued
H8 high as $1,000 each. An unsuccessful
effort was made to secure these coins lor the
Government, it being a more nearly com
plete colleciion even than the one in the
Philadelphia Mint.
LIGHTS IN THE PAHKS.
Tbo Glare of the Electric Mny Spoil ritts.
burs' Tree and Shrubbery.
Now that electrio lights and parks are a
prominent feature of Pittsburg improve
ments, it will be interesting to note the effeot
of continuous light on the foliage of the
parks and the shaded residence streets of the
city. It is held by botanists that a plant
must have its sleep as regularly as anything
in the animal kingdom. Trees in the Jardin
des Plantes, at Paris, and in another great
park at St. Petersburg, were observed to
pale in color and slowly wither under the
influence of electric illumination, continued
for seven or eight months.
The city lamps are so placed that certain
trees will be subjected every night to the full
glare of the electric lights. AVe all know
the character of vegetation that attends an
absence of sunlight, and an absence of day
light may produce equally striking phe
nomena. India silks odd lengths, containing
from 12 to 20 yards, at 60e a yard to close;
were 85c. Huous & Hacke.
TTSSU '
Knst Black Iloslory,
Guaranteed not to crocfc,12Jc, 19e, 25o, 30c,
35o and up; fine lisle 37kc, 15c, 50c; one lot
French lisle 18c, worth 75c. Examine these.
Bosenbattm & Co.
Protect Baby' Health
By purchasing one of those handsome car
riages offered so cheap at Haf rison's Toy
Store, 123 Federal st, Allegheny.
For Unndsome Dresa'Trlmmlng
And lowest prices consult our trimming
department Jos. Hoene&'Co.'s
o - Penn Avenue Store.
A BIG'SEASOS AHEAD.
Eoseate Prospects for the Summer
Excursions From This City.
WHAT THE PASSENGER MEN SAT.
The People Prosperous, and When They
Have Money They Travel.
LOW BATES 0FPEEED BI EAILE0AIS
It was rather cold yesterday, may be raw
to-day, but this sort of thing can't last for
ever, every snmmer has its reputation. to
sustain; indeed, there is a popular supersti
tion that the word summer is synonymous
with that of heat, and it is safe to assume
that 1890 will take care of its laurels. There
is a certain amount of heat tt be expended,
and the cold north winds can't hold their
sway many moons longer. A lusty giant
from the sunny south with heavy tread and
mailed hand is coming, and even thn onion
snow will slink into the Arctic regions when
he arrives.
It won't be long before John and Jim and
Bill will don their flannel shirts and camp
suits, and in sylvan glades, along mountain
streams, on the turbid lakes or by the gay
sea shore will defy the summer's sun. The
local railroads are prepared for the annual
rush of people, and the passenger agents
expect the excursion business this season
will simply be enormous from Pittsburg.
FEW STAT-AT HOMES.
Ask any railroad man and be will tell
vou that Pittsburg is one of the best tourist
cities in the country. In fact, statistics
show that in proportion to tbe population,
this city leads the country in fishing and
hunting clubs. A short time ago the pas
senger agents fixed the snmmer excursion
rates. For tourists it will be on an average
about a fare and a half for the round trip;
the club rate, owing to larger numbers go
ing, is from 15 to 20 per cent less, making a
round-trip rate of a fare and one-third.
These rates are good for the limited time to
any objective point in the United States.
This summer the excursion tickets will be
put on sale June 1, and will continue to be
sold up to October 31. The tonrist tickets
are good for this period of time. No one
has any idea how the various local ticket
offices are loaded down with coupons.
A GOOD SUMMER FOR TRAVEL.
"I have recently," said Division Passen
ger Agent E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore
and Ohio road, yesterday, "received over
200 forms. We can sell you a ticket
to any" excursion point in the conntry
at popular rates. Will this sum
mer be a great season for excursions?
Well, I should say it will be. You ask me
why; becanse everybody is working and
the people arc prosperous. When the time
comes for closing the mills for repairs dur
ing tbe hot period the workmen will want
to go away, The lakes, tbe seashore, the
springs of Virginia, the mountains of New
York and the Western resorts are open to
them. Last year the Baltimore and Ohio
road alone carried 32,000 people from Pitts
burg to Atlantic City. This seaside resort
is becoming more popular with Pittsburgers
every year. The local business to Ohio
Pyle, Wheeling and other points on our
line promises also to be very heavy.
"Tbe popular excursions are always well
patronized by the working classes. Ten or
15 days in the summer, at low rates, is as
much as they want, and they always avail
themselves of such opportunities.
A GROWING BUSINESS.
"It is surprising how the popular excur
sion business has grown. I have watched it
for 20 years, and since the Pullman and
chair cars have been put on I notice that
even the wealthiest people patronize them,
as well ai the poorer classes. We will run
our regular excursions to Atlantic City
this summer, as usual. The first excursion
from Pittsbnrg to Atlantic City will be on
July 3, and they will bo run every other
week for the balance of the season. The
local business will open with an excursion
to Ohio Tyle on Decoration Day. The
number of excursions and picnics to be held
seems to be larger than ever this
summer, and altogether the outlook
is flattering in the cxtrdme. I need not add
that Pittsburg Is one of the greatest excur
sion towns in the United States.and whether
the summer is hot or cold, it doesn't make
any difference. Everything here depends
on how steady work has been, and as the
mills have been running right along the
people have money, and this is why I know
the coming season will be a lively one for
the railroads. To a large extent tbe sum
mer excursion business gauges the prosperity
of a city."
ECMFSING THE RECORD.
Colonel Samuel Moody, DIstriot Passen
ger Agent of tho Pennsylvania Company,
said that from the present outlook the ex
cursion business will eclipse any year sirice
ho has been iu tho business. Tho inquiries
for rates and time are pouring in daily. Tho
Fort Wayne docs a big trade every year at
Hock J'olnt. ijast year l.'.WW people at
tended thu Amalgamated Associations pic
nic there, uud this year the lenders figure
that the attendance will bo 15.000. 'Che
Colonol recently met tho various commit
tees at Bock Point, and tho arrangements
were completed for tho plcnio this season.
Tho Pennsylvania Company will also
run an excursion to Cleveland
on May 29 and 30 for the dedication of the
Garfield monument. He expects four sec
tions will be necessary to carry the people.
The Colonel soys that most of the dates for
tbe Bock Point grounds have already been
taken, and he thinks the road will soon
have to look for another plcnio resort. The
rates on the Pennsylvania Company's dines
will bo about tbe same as last year.
POrULAR ATLANTIC CITY.
For tho Pennsylvania road Colonel
Thomas E. Watt, Division Passenger Agent,
said that his road would have enough to do
this summer carrying tbo people. The regu
lar excursions to Atlantic City will be run,
beginning July 10. There will be four in
all during tbe season. The Colonel is much
impressed with Idlewood as a picnic ground,
and the road has fixed the rate at 50 cents
for Sundav schools and $1 for other organi
zations. The distance is 100 miles from the
city. A few good dates are left scattered
turougn the summer, but Mr. Watt says in
a short time they will be taken. Many
people iu arranging for picnics secure tbe
grounds very often in the winter months.
The little Lake Erie always comes to tbe
front with a good showing. General Passen
ger 'Agent A. E. Clark, of the line, is satis
tied with tbe outlook for the summer. Mr.
Clark is one of those who hold that much
depends on the weather. If it is warm the
business will be good; it not it may be fair,
but more likely to be mediocre.
WHERE FISIIERS RESORT.
He reports that tho upper lake regions
will be as popular as ever this summer for
fishing clubs. Tbe Mackinac Islands, St.
Clair river and tbe St Lawrence district
will get a large number of Pittsburg's tour
ists this summer.
F. E. Bandall, the local agent of the De
troit and Cleveland Navigation Company,
has been at work since tbe ice melted on
Lake Erie. He is well known in Pittsbnrg
and can tell more about fishing clubs than
any other man on earth. He has already
booked a number of clubs who will camp at
various points in the lake regions. Some of
the Pittsburg clubs have purchased land
along the St Clair and on some of tne
smaller lakes, where they are erecting cot
tages. Tbe Lake Erie ltailroad's bailiwick
is in the direction of the lakes, and this
road is prepared to reap a harvest this sum
mer. Pullman cars have been put on the
Toad to run during the exourslon period.
The rates to the lakes in force last year will
be maintained this summer.
A GNAELED OCCUPATION.
Wanted Badly, a System of Taxation That
Will Do Justice and Reduce Inequalities
Tho Occupntion Tax.
The Western St3tes from a time far back
have offered large sums of money to any one
who will discover the cause of milk sickness,
or trembles, among cattle, but he who can
devise a nearly perfect system of taxation
one that will afford financial grease suffi
cient without stirring taxpayers' bile will
be more appreciated than he who discovers
the nature, cause and cure of the trembles.
The regulations for assessing the occupa
tion tax in this State form the most incongru
ous jumble imaginable, and though the
County Commissioners have struck upon
what seems to give the best results, yet it is
by no means uncommon to find a man
whose occupation is put at $100, while along
side is another who makes less but is assessea
at three or five times as much.
Previous to last year assessors, or at least
some, of them, attempted to follow thelaw
of 1832, which required them to ascertain as
nearly as possible the income of each occu
pation. Even honest effort usually ended
in miserable failure and a $10 a week clerk
was frequently assessed higher than
mechanics In milU, who made from
$30 to SCO a week. Judge Paxson
finally ruled tb.it the law of 1832 was prac
tically uninforceablo and that laborers,
clerks, professional men must be assessed
uniformly, i.e., a preacher who was paid
$3,000 a year could not be assessed any
higher on his occupation than those who
preached to backwoods congregations at
salaries ranging from 8200 to 51,200. A
laborer who could not earn more than 75
cents per day must pay as mnch occupation
tax as one who got $2 per day, and a lawyer
who could not make office rent must pay as
much as one whose professional income was
50,000 a year.
After a study of this decision two ot the
Commissioners, Messrs. Mercer and McWil
liams, decided to follow Justice Paxson,
while Mr. McKee opposed and was backed
bv an opinion from County Attorney Gever,
w'ho held to the law of 1832. Mr. McKee
was overruled, and occupations were re
duced in classification from 318 to 3.
Common laborers and infirm persons come
under the first class, and are assessed at $100
for occupation income; clerks and some pro
fessional men, preachers at least, who are
supposed to make less than $1,000, at $300,
and lawyers, contractors, merchants, edi
tors, etc., at $500.
Mr. Mercer states that while the assess
ment was thus reduced nearly $20,000,000,
it returns almost as much money as did tbe
old system, and there is scarce any fighting
with taxables it was a shindy of several
months each year previously and there has
been a vast saving in the amount of clerical
hire necessary to hear and rectiiy assessors'
errors.
The lot of a conscientious assessor is not a
happy one. He must get his information
largely from women, and they generally
look upon him as a disagreeable inquisitor,
and it is said that experience has shown
that the average woman has less conscience
than the average man. While'tbe cbange
has lightened labor in the Commissioners'
office, it has also reduced the average yearly
amount of profanity several thousand cnbic
feet The professions of law, medicine,
divinity, etc., seem to be regarded as lux
uries, and taxed accordingly.
EATAL FKEIGHT WRECKS.
Collisions on the .Lake Erie and Pennsyl
vania Rnllronds Two Enslneers In
stantly Killed Other Trala Men Seri
ously Injured Trains Generally De
layed. Trains on the Lake Erie and Pennsyl
vania Bailroads were delayed yesterday by
two fatal freight wrecks. A freight train
on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie broke be
low the Aliquippa siding yesterday morn
ing, and six cars were left on the track
while the rest of the train went on to the
siding. A construction train, with theen
gine reversed, ran into the cars. Engineer
Thomas Bogers, Conductor Miller Manz
and Fireman Daniel Kobertson jumped
when the collision occurred. Tbe engineer
fell with his head against a tie and his
brains were dashed out. The conductor
broke his leg, wan severely cut and bruised,
and it is feared that he is injured inter
nally. The fireman escaped with a lew cuts
and bruises. The dead and wounded were
taken to their homes at Beaver Falls. All
three men are married, and Bogers leaves a
wile and three children.
Two freights running fast on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, near Altoono, side-wiped
yesterday morning, a number of cars were
wrecked and considerable Ireigtit destroyed.
William iioyd, one of the engineers, was
almost instantly killed. He was 65 years
old and was ono oi tho most thorough and
trustworthy in tho employ of the Pennsyl
vania Ballroad Company. Mr. lloyd lived
at llarrlsbunj. Hrakeman Haki-r was in
jured, as was also Flagman McCIiner.
DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE.
A Coroner' Hasty Work Investigated
Mlchncl Hart' Poach.
On Tuesday last a special telegram from
Columbus, O., stated that George D. Dent,
whose correct name wos Michael Hart, and
who left Pittsburg 13 years ago, had com
mittcd suicide in that city recently. A
brother of tbe deceased,, James Hart, of this
city, went to Columbus to investigate the
case. Mr. Hart, in his efforts to get infor
mation concerning the sudden and mysteri
ous death of his brother, learned that no in
quest had been held. He called on the
Coroner, and that official stated that it was
not necessary, ns a bottle of morphine had
been found in the room he occupied.
Mr. Hart thought this a ra'ther strange
way of disposing of a matter so serious, and
continued his Investigations in order to
establish his brother's innocence of the crime
of suicide. Ou Saturday night deceased se
cured a room at a hotel where he made his
home when in Columbus. He was suffering
from an attack of painter's colic when he
retired. As he was a favorite in the house,
no attention was paid to his movements.
His room was visited at intervals from Sat
urday morning until Monday noon. It was
locked, but the chambermaid supposed it
was ull right and paid no attention to the
matter until Monday noon, when she de
cided to investigate. It was then that the
body was discovered. It seems that Mr.
Hart had taken the drug for the purpose of
easing pain,. not with suicidal intont Ho
had no troubles of any kind, was a favorite
in the community in which he moved, as
was attested by the fact that Irom 1,200 to
1,500 attended his funeral, which was con
ducted by the Masonic lodge of which he
was a member.
HO CLAIMS PRESENTED.
Mr. John A. LoRitn Ask to Ilave Her Hus
band' Estate Settled.
CniCAGO May 2L Mrs. John A Logan,
executrix of tbe estate of tbe dead Senator,
filed her final report of the estate with
Junge Koblsaat to-day. Mrs. Logan says
that since she was appointed executrix two
years ago, no claims have been presented
against the estate. The total personal eitate
is less than the amount of the widow's
award, and she has selected and applied the
same upon her award. She said that there
remains no reason why the estate shonld
not be settled, and she prays that the report
may stand for -the final account, and that
she be discharged 'from her administration
of the estate and the estate he declared
settled.
The report is concurred in by John A.
Logan, Jr., and Mary E. Tucker.
OIL AND EDUCATION.
Peculiar Suit Brought to Test the
Powers of School Directors.
WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO.
Drilling for Petroleum on Township School
Property.
LAWIEES" 0PIKI0XS ON THE SUBJECT
If the proposition of A. B. Young to pre
vent the drilling of a school lot for oil in
Bobinson township does nothing more, it
will have the effect of calling widespread at
tention to the school laws; and though it
may be, as some hint, that Mr. Young is
more solicitous to prevent the tapping of his
big gusher than to preserve intact the sanc
tity of the bulwark of American liberty, all
the same the discussion of the subject is
timely.
It is so simple, like the two-syllable
words that people misspell while they can
spell the hard ones, that even many lawyers
who have not had occasion to examine tbe
school law are at sea. They must be, for
they are diametrically opposite in their
views regarding school directors' functions
and powers. They were picked up yester
day just as casually encountered. As a
rule, they did not profess to speak ex cathedra.
SOBER SECOND THOUGHTS.
B.'CChristy at first said school directors
had no power to have the well put down,
but subsequently he seemed to think there
wouldn't be much wrong in leasing to an
outside party, provided the lessor's share of
the profit were to go to the benefit of the
school. It would not be a gambling trans
action, at least not so far as the directors
are concerned, as they do not put any money
into the venture.
C. E. Cornelius, at first blush, opined that
the directors would have no power to lease,
but on second thought said that if they
were to find a pot of gold in school property
and no owner turned up, the gold wonld be
long to the school, and so, he thought, would
a pool of petroleum. He didn't know but
that directors would be culpable it they re
fused to swell the revenue of the school dis
trict when they had opportunity.
THEIR POWERS LIMITED.
William Hunter said there was no au
thority to lease; that school directors had no
power except to manage the schools as
directed by law. They have no authority
whatever, except by necessary implication.
He added: "1'ou know, they wanted to
drill on the Reform School property, but
didn't."
N. W. Shafer could see no harm in the
proposition, if the money expected to be
realized were to be devoted to furthering
the interests of the school.
John D. Watson, who bos made a study
of the matter in his experience as a Belle
vue borough father, was very positive the
directors had no power to lease without con
sent of the entire body of taxpayers of the
district, and then he said he would not as a
leasee take the responsibility of putting
down the well. Said he: "Suppose the
salt water shonld rise and destroy tbe
school's supply of drinking water, some one
would suffer." Mr. Watson holds that
school directors are only executors of a
trnst, and can do nothing unless prescribed
bylaw. He argues that if allowed to have a
well drilled, they might also
GIVE A BALLOON-ASCENSION
show, or start a store, or do almost anything
else to make money for the school, and
said the matter did not admit of argument
He held that schools were maintained for
specified educational purposes alone, and
the manner in which they were to be sup
ported was provided by law and every step
in the directors' course plainly pointed out
He further held that directors had no right
to allow school houses to be nsed for lecture
or concert rooms, or for the holding of
borough council meetings, or for religious
meetings. Nor conld he find any
warrant for the use of school buildings
for the purpose of holding political
meetings whether of the Republican,
Democratic.I'rohibition. Greenback or Social
Democrat organizations. School directors
may purchase, sell, levy taxes and do many
other things necessary for the support of
schools, but they are all specified in tbe law
and directors are not given the power to
lease school property for tho purpose of rais
ing revenue.
IT IS NOT DISCRETIONARY.
Judgo Fettcrman did not think school
directors had any discretion in the matter,
but must follow the plain provisions of law,
and he tlidjnot believe theso would justify
the tensing of oil territory.
B. B. Parkinson held "similar views.
John S. Lauibie said ho thought ft very
doubtful whether tho school board could
Icuso school property for tho pnrpoio pro
pOKcd. II tho majority of tho opinions given hold,
there i scarco a school board In tho State
that has not been a law-breaker. In the
rural dlitrictf, sleight-of-hand sliowj, Pnnch
nnd Judy shows, magic lantern, and in tact
all kinds of shows are held in school
houses, as a matter of course, and nothing
ever thought of it, and wero It not for the
friendly shelter of school lioufs some of the
most brilliant coruscations and most fearlnl
fulmlnatlons of Broadax Smith and Ajax
Jones would never go slaihing and rumbling
"down the corridors of time" for tho bene
fit of our children and our children's chil
dren. The Court refused to grant the injunction
asked for,tso tbe boring for educational
grease can go on, but it is said that Mr,
Young Will take the case to the Bupreme
Conrt for adjustment
HOISTING A MOUSE.
Wonderful Performance of a Spider to Get a
Supply ot Meat.
A story showing tbe strength and intelli
gence of the spider has been revived. Fol
lowing is tbe original account clipped from
the Lebanon (Ky.) Standard of 1882:
A tolerably tall desk stands against tho
wall in P. C. Cleaver's livery stable. A
small spider had fastened to the bottom of
the desk a conical web reaching nearly to
the floor. About 11:30 o'clock Monday
forenoon it was observed that the spider had
ensnared a yonng mouse by passing fila
ments of her web around its tail. When
first seen the mouse had its fore feet on the
floor and could barely touch-the floor with
its hind feet The spider was full of bail
ees?, running up and down the line and oc
casionally biting the mouse's tail, making
it struggle desperately. Its efforts to escape
were all unavailing, as the slender fila
ments about its tail were too strong for it to
break. In a short it was seen that tho
spider was slowly hoisting its victim into
the air. By 2 o clock in the afternoon the
mouse could barely touch the uoor witn its
forefeet: by dark the point of its nose was
an inch above the floor. At 9 o'clock at
night tbe mouse was still alive, but made no
sign except when the spider descended and
bit its tail. At this time it was an inch
and a half from the floor. Yesterday morn
ing the monse was dead, and hung three
inches irom the floor.
Cabinet photos $1 per dozen, prompt de
livery. Crayons, etc., at low prices.
Lies' Gallery,
ttsu 10 and 12 Sixth sC
Exhibition of Bare pottery
And bric-a-brac at E. P. Roberts & Sons.
New art parlor opens Thursday, May 23. f "-
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