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If IE NEW TIPPEPiARI.
A Yisit to the Irish Town That Sprung
Up Like a Mushroom
AS A JMUMENT TO HOME EULE.
lie Old AH Drearj and Deserted, the Hew
All Activity and Life.
ETICTIONS OS THE POXSOXBI ESTATE
ICORRESFOIfDZSCX Or TOB DISPATCH.!
Dobbyit's Hotel, Tippeeabt, May 20.
The evacuation of Old Tioptrary town
and the building of Kew Tipperary are by
far the most picturesque incidents of a land
irar which has not been picturesque ai a
vhole. It was a strange thing for those big
Tipperary men to plan and execute, and to
what an intense conviction lies behind it
the greatness ol the sacri fice bears witness.
They have some ot the blood of Cromwell's
Ironsides, these great tquare-shouldered
fellows. "When the Protector and his Saints
vent prospecting, they displayed a capacity
for selecting the richest and most beautiful
spots, which said something for their
mundane qualities.
They call this strip of lovely land "The
Golden Vein," because or its quality. It is
a great dairy farthing district, where the
red and white cattle are knee-deep in juicy
grass. In tins spring it grows all one sheet
of white and gold over its greenness. Here
settled down some of the flowers of toll's
troopers, and presently their sons and
daughters were not insensible to the sea
blue eyes and the night-dark bair of the
Gael. So the races intermarried, and hence
the quality of fierce determination the
"darkness," as we other Irish call it of
which the Tipperary man is capable side by
tide with all his gaiety.
GEEAT IS TIPPERAET.
"We name Tipperary "The Premier
County," and so well-won is its title that
. none dispute it. "Whenever there is any
thing dashinc to be done it is a Tipperarv
jnan will do it. "Magnificent Tipperary,"
cried an English General when his men
swept under the teeth of the enemy's guns.
It's little a Tipperarvman will thank you
lor suggesting the Cromwellian drop in him.
He is Catholic and Irish to-day to the core,
with a thoroughness beyond that of the pure
Celt, who, indeed, was driven long ago to
the mountains aud seashore of Connaught,
end is scarcely to be found except there.
Tipnerary town, belore its clearance, had
the reputation of being one of the most
prosperous inland towns In Ireland. It is
In the heart ot "The Golden Vein," with
the Deauliiul rugged line of the Galtee
Mountains stretching to south of it. Tip
perary men were rack-rented, like the rest of
Ireland, but here in "The Golden Vein" it
would not be easy to be poor, and they
throve despite high rents. Mr. Smith Barry
has waxed lat on his regular payments and
his good tenants.
THE POKSOKBY ESTATE.
Very different things were on thePonsonhy
estate at Xonghal, which has been the cause
of war in Tipperary, for those Tipperary
tnen have stripped themselves ot home and
gear, not lor their own sakes but
for thesake of their neighbors.
This is an epitome of the story. The Pon
eonby estate has long been somewhat of a
nightmare to those who are troubled about
the oppression of the poor in Ireland. The
tenants are miserably poor and beavilv
rack-rented. There had been long trouble
on the estate, when last March 12 months
there came a prospect of settlement between
landlord and tenant. This moment was the
one chosen by Mr. Smith Barry and his
landlord syndicate to step in. The plan ot
campaign bad to be fought somewhere, and
tbey selected the unhappv Ponsonbr estate
to fight it on. They are fighting it still, the
evictions going on every day, the tenants
living as they can, on the charity of the
cation, or how they will.
But Mr. Smith Barry's chickens came
lome to roost. His Tipperary tenants sent
a deputation of their number to him in
London, asking in a very respectful way
that he should withdraw from the syndicate.
He refused, and upon this iu last Jnne tber
held a meeting at Tipperary, at which it
was resolved not to pay him rent without a
reduction ol 25 per cent, 10 ot which was to
go to the Ponsonby tenants.
LEADERS OF THE TIGHT.
Then the fight began. Mr. William
O'Brien set the ball rollin?, and then being
snatched away by his usual lettre de cacbet,
was obliged to leave things in the hands of
trusty lieutenants. There is a young man,
Mr. O'Brien Dalton, ruddy laced and bine
eyed, a wealthy merchant of the town, of
whom we used to hear in the old Land
Xeague days, as being the leader of popu
lar thought in Tipperary. He is a per
son of great cunsineration here, though, un
like most Irishmen, he has never sought or
desired a wider reputation. He looks some
thing of a soldier in his gray clothes, with
his alert look and military carriage. His
coleader is Father Humphreys, a born en
thusiast, tall and spare in his well-worn
cassock, with a ace which might be flint to
the enemy, though under the sudden, bril
liant smite it lights into rare beauty for a
friend.
These are the men to put their hands to
the plow and not look backward. Father
Humphreys' people are evicted tenants from
Lord Cloncurry's Murroe estate; they have
lived those eight years back in a Land
League hut of wood and iron, and in this
poor shelter his father died. This priest has
a conviction which is a passion. There is
white heat under his coldness, and his face
looks the stern and deeply felt sense of re
sponsibility which we know under Savana
rola's heavy lids. He was a curate at Clon
okelty near Cashelin the old No Kent days,
end his parish was the one iu Ireland in
which there was no backsliding.
MOSTLY smith-baeky's PEOPEETT.
"When it was seen that the evictions would
be wholesale, the building of New Tip
perary was resolved upon. In a map of
Tipperary where Smith-Barry's property is
colored yellow, the map seems all
that color, but here and there
ore green patches showing the friend
ly land which belongs to Mr. Staf.
ford O'Brien, a kindly absentee landlord.
The sharpness of the line dividing the two
properties is a marked thing. The main
street has the shutters up on more than one
half the shops, and the remainder are await
ing Mr. Arnold Power, the sheriff, and his
merry men. Staring eviction placards are
upon the shutters setting forth how the
shopkeeper has moved to such a number in
"William O'Brien street. The word "Evic
tion" glares out in hnge letters on the
heads of these, and underneath may be a
quotation:
"For on the cause must go,"
or some such line. There is hardly any one
in the streets. The Eoval Irish Constabulary
are very much in evidence, their jieaked
helmets and gray coals, with the belt and
bayonet, matins: them look lice an integral
part of Kaiser "Wilhelm's forces. They are
the only sign that the town is in a state of
siege.
THE OLD AND 1TEW TOWNS.
Over yonder is Mr. Smith-Barry's boy
cotted town ball. It is all quiet and drowsy
and well in keeping with the watchman's
voice at night, transporting one to the
middle aces. "Past 1 o'clock," you will
hear him cry at dead of night, and think
the strange cry a horn coming nearer in your
dreams. At the other end oi the town the
strenuous life begins aeain. Here is
prodigious hunmerine and sawing at the
Mart and in the new houses where they are
getting things as ship-shape as may be for
Saturday s ceremony ana banquet.
The Mart, In which the shops of New Tip
perary will be under one roof, is a long
arcade glass-roofed and with 26 little shops
within it, where counters and nests of
drawers are being snugly fitted in. It was
curious a few days ago to aee the ivy yet
hanging in manes on the end wall, for last
summer this was a garden, full of roses aud
lilies and the songs of birds.
The two or three streets ol New Tipperary
radiate from the Mart. They are of well
built little houses, mostly ot wood, bright
and cheerful with wide fireplaces, and good
sanitary arrangements. Tbey are havintr
enormous markets, though the police stand
by ostentatiously taking the names of cus
tomers. Mr. Smith-Barry has an injunction
against the market fees "and tolls, the right
of which he claims under an old statute of
Charles IL But they will go on weighing
and selling here, and as one clerk of the
scale is arrested another will take his place,
so that the jails will need enlarging.
A VERITABLE MUSHEOOit TOWN.
All this place was green hillside five
months ago. "With what a will they have
worked at the creation of their mushroom
townl All horse labor was voluntary.
Nearly a score thousand horses have been
sent here since December. Some came 40
miles one contingent from Kilkenny
county and stayed two or three days. The
voluntary clearance of Tipperary has fired
people's hearts as nothing else has. It has
made the luud lor them 60,000 in a little
time. They are paying 600 a week wages
in the town over these building operations,
so the distress has been less acutely ielt
tnau mignt De loosed tor.
The leaders are superintending the work
all the time: Mr. Dalton. Mr. Lawrence
Hayes, Mr. John Cnllinane, ol Bansha,
fresh from his six weeks' imprisonment lor
escorting an evicted tenant home In triumph.
The leaders here have suffered most, :or thev
are the townsmen o substance. Yonder is
a block of bonses which Mr. Dalton built
and lor which be receives 51.000 a year; the
head rent to Smith-Barry was only $25.
They battered down his fine mills, "for all
that they were handed over so quietly. His
big house in the town is turned into a police
uurrrciL, uuu uc uu n"" n nve in a riouse
ol Mr. Hurley's ont in the Glen of Aberlow.
All the leading men are evicted and their
wealth turned to fairy gold. It is a great
sacrifice.
TEBT TEW BACKSLIDERS.
One is not surprised to learn that there
were backsliders who now are ill-content,
but they are few. When the farms and
shops were put up for sale, lour shop-keepers
ana iwo larmers Doogni in tneir interest.
They were boycotted by isolation, a suffi
ciently bitter punishment for the approval
lovinc Irish. We heard a st'-ry of Mr.
Dalton bearing a leg of mutton refused to a
boycotted person's messenger: he got it put
in a basket und carried it with his own
hands. Alter a very short period the back
sliders repented: they were of those who at
first had been most eager for the tray. They
wrote to Mr. Smith-Barry asking to be
again evicted, and thereupon were warmly
welcomed back.
As we drove by Mr. Dalton's house in the
glen we saw a sturdy youngster of-4 trotting
aftera haycart, and someone told us this
story of him. When the repentants came
to Mr. Dalton asking to have the boycott
removed, everyone was only too anxious to
blot out painlul memories. But one of
them, shy and unhappy, tried to make ac
quaintance with the little son of the house
to cover his confusion. "What is your
name, my 6ne fellow?" said he.
"I'm Kichard Dalton. and I didn't pay
my rent," said the youngster, having caucrht
up whai, was in the air, and quite uncon
scious ol the horror of his elders.
PRETTY HOME PICTURES.
At the other end of the town are more cot
tages, Land League huts of rood and iron,
all lull o. evicted tenants. Very bright and
pleasant they looked througb half-open
doors, and in one where we penetrated, there
were daffodils onhe Venetiau-red chimney
piece, and pictures of Mr. Parnell and Rob
ert Emmet on the wall. All was clean and
bright, and very friendly was the yonng
mistress, who showed us her baby in the
cradle with much pride.
The Sisters of Mercy at the convent told
us there was a great deal of suffering in the
town not so much perhaps from actual
want, as lrom discomfort and overcrowding.
All that men can do is being done by the
leaders. Mr. Dalton's office is, as he said,
"all over the town," and while you are
speaking to him there is a crowd gathering
to interview him. He needs all the spirit
and vitality he has to encourage and in
spirit people in this time of waitirg.
Katharine Tynan,
Contributor to Leading English Magazines.
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mend an article ot merit, and this is the case
with Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
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all that is claimed lor it in many instances
that have come under the writer's imme
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sterling remedy at all times at their homes,
as it may be necessary when least expected.
Messrs. Chamberlain & Co. present testi
monials as to the virtue of the life-saving
preparation, irnm nearly all tbe States in
the Union, and many instances are given
where death has been averted by its timely
use. Three diflerent epidemics are noted,
in which this standard, medicine has come
out victorious, and the residents of these
localities are proud to say, that this was the
most successiul of all the remedies ein
plojed. Too much care cannot be exer
cised to preserve the health of the children,
as well as the heads ol the house, and it is
always best to be prepared at all times.
Arm yourself, so as to be ready to success
fully combat disease when it appears.
For sale by E. G. Stuckv, 1701 and 2401
Penn ave.; E. G. Stucky & Co., cor. Wylie
ave. and Fulton St.; Markell Bros., cor.
Penn aud Faulkston aves.; Theo. E. Ihrig,
3510 Filth ave.; Carl Hartwig, 4016 Butler
st.; John C. Smith, cor. Penn ave. and
Main st; Jas. L. McConnel & Co., 455
Filth ave., Pittsburg; and in Alleghenv by
E. E. Heck, 72 and 194 Federal st.; Thos.
E. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves;
F. H. Eggers, 172 Ohio st, and F. H. Be
fits & Son, 199 Ohio St. and 11 Smithfield
street. -wen
Important to Buren.
All remnants of dress goods, wash eoods,
sateens, silks and ribbons to go at half price
on Monday, June 2.
Knable & SnUBTEB,
$30,000 worth of fine furniture is offered at
a reduction of 20 per cent bv the Michigan
Furniture Co., 437 Smithfield st. All must
be sold within 30 days.
Half Price! Half Pries!!
All remnants of dress goodk, ginghams,'
challies, silks, sateens and ribbons to go at
half price on Monday.
Kuable & Shusteb, 35 Fifth ave.
A Most Rrfreihlos; Drink.
And perfectly wholesome, is Wainwright'i
unequaled beer. Families supplied direct.
xeiepnone oozo.
wtsu
Underwear Ec factions.
37Jc ribbed vests to go at 23c; 17c ribbed
vests to go at 12c; gloria silk umbrellas,
(1 50; men's 50c ties to go at 29c.
Jnable & Shusteb, 35 Fifth are.
CABINET photos $1 per dozen, prompt de
livery. Crayons, etc, at low prices.
Lies' Gallebt,
TTSn 10 and 12 Sixth si
Facriflco Sole
To begin on Monday morning, June 2, at
Knable & Shuster's, 35 Fifth ave.
See the new styles of Paris Exposition
awnings at Mamaux & Son's, 539 Penn ave
nue, Pittsburg.
Monday Morning-.
Best qualities of India silks, $1 and $1 25
grades, 25 inches wide, to go at 59o a yd.
Enable & Shuster, 35 Fi.th are.
Iwfaxts' mull and silk hats aud caps at
all prices. Eosenbaum & Co's.
Great Cnt In Prices
Of coats, wraps and jackets; also, summer
dresses, Monday morning.
Khablb i Bhubtjsji, 83 Fifth ate.
OUE ARTISTS ABROAD.
Showing of Pittsburg Talent in the
Salons at Paris This Tear.
SKETCHES OP P0PDLAE PICTURES.
Home Scene From the BrHsh of
France, Kee Enrilda Loomij.
Mrs.
TAB GOSSIP OF ARTISTIC CIKCLES
rwniiTEK ron the dispatch. J
The favorable comment by critics abroad
of the work exhibited by Pittsburg artists
in the Salou this year is the source of much
satisfaction 'to their home friends. Ex
quisite pen and ink sketches of the Salon
pictures of Mrs. Eurilda Loomis France
and Mr. John L. France have been
forwarded to this city and give some idea of
the snbject and detail of the originals which
have an accepted place iu the Salon of the
old division.
This picture by Mrs. France, who will be j
remembered as Misr Eurilda Loomis, the
talented Pittsburg artist who has achieved
such marked success abroad, represents an
interior vi:w of a home in Flanders. It is
styled "En Flandre." The mother sits with
her arm thrown about the little maiden who
is busy stirrine away at her breakfast por
ridge. The grand moth'r is about to raise
tbe milk pitcher lrom the table upon which
tbe child leans, to add to the dish. Tbe
picture in size is 7x8 feet. The figures are
life size and all details are boldly
delineated. The broad, old-fashioned win
dows witn their thick muslin draping, the
quaint headgear ot the women, the simu
lated action oi the child's chubby hands and
the pose of the figures give to the whole a
satisfying effect.
This is the third picture which the
talented artist has exhibited in the Salon.
The tormer pictures were both exhibited iu
tnis city during the visit of their delineator
last year. It will be remembered that
Miss Loomis was a graduate ot the Pitts
burg School of Design, and a winner
of a number of medals irom that institution.
Alter graduation she spent a number of years
in Paris. While there she met Mr. France,
SKETCH OF MB.
himself widely known in this citv, and an
artist of considerable note. Last'vear was
spent by Miss Loomis with her parents at
Cratton, and in caring for a sister and
mother who were ill, both of whom later
died. Mr. France followed Miss Loomis to
this city, and before the year closed they
were married. They returned ,to Paris and
once more,devoted themselves to their art.
Tbe picture painted by Mr. France is
styled, "Arrival of the Herrine Boat."
The scene shows the coast of Holland, with
the villagers and fishermen gathered on the
shore to hail the arrival. The sea is ani
mated, and the boat is boldly outlined
against the sky. The movements of the
boat and tbe action of the waves have been
admirably conceived. The picture is 7x8
feet in size, full of vigor and artistic merit.
. Caba Eeese.
ART NEWS AND NOTES,
Miss Matjs Richards exhibits a crayon
portrait at Young's.
The pastel portraits of several children
shown at Young's is the work of Mr. Charles
Walz.
Mb. R. F. Mater has taken charge of tbe
residue of D. B. Walkley's collection of paint
ings, and will keep them on exhibition at his
gallery on Sixth avenue.
A number of the young ladles forming the
landscape class of the School of Design will
spend a portion of their time sketching from
nature during the present week.
Me. 1). B. Walklet took a trip to Ohio
some time ago with a view of securing rest,
and Incidentally a few sketches, but allowing
the latter idea undue prominence In his mind
when he found himself in tbe vicinity of some
eood subjects, be worked harder than when at
home and came back more tired than ever.
He bas now gone again for a sojourn of a
couple of days with tbe avowed purpose of
doing nothing but taking life easy.
Mr. H. H. Stbvenson, who has recently re
turned from New York, is still feeling jubilant
over the fact that his painting, "The Four
Leaved Clover,' was accepted and hung in the
National Academy. His business in tbe Kast
was mainly to secure casts and other reanisltea
forthefumlshment of his evening art school,"
me Mueuuauuo ! wuicu as so'iargeiy in.
creased tbat hi bas been compelled to secure
an additional room to accommodate it. He bas
secured a varied assortment ot casts and other
accessories nsefnl In tbe study of art, and In
tends tbat pnpils shall make good use ot them.
Although the Board of Trustees of the
Cooper Union Art schools has discontinued in
structions In tbe art of wood engraving on the
ground that its profitableness as a study has
been destroyed by tbe introduction of various
mechanical processes of pictorial representa
tion soluble for book and magazine illustra
tion, so tbat only engravers of exceptional
skill are able to make a living at It, there is no
necessity for those who would seriously follow
the art as a profession despairing of the
pecuniary reward. It is true there is no longer
any sjrMttemaad for an Jndlffertat quality ot
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A HOME SCENE S FLANDERS.
W-te"? sBdfil
wood engraving, as tho process work Is superior
to the poorer kinds, but tbe best results ac
complished by tbe skillful uso ol tbe graver
aro not equaled by any mechanical process yet
invented.
Mb. A. C. Woosteb Is steadily working his
way upward, and It he continues to make
such marked progress as bo has of late, he
bids fair to become a most sklllfni painter of
still-life subjects. For some time be bas ex
hibited picturos of this character, and each
one bas been in some important particulars
superior to those which preceded It. His latest
picture, shown this week at Morrison's, is the
best work be bas yet done. Tbe subject con
sists of an old chip basket that bad been filled
with apples aud nuts, overturned on a table.
On this picture, Mr. wooster has succeeded in
avoiding some of the errors noticeable in his
previous efforts, and tbe result is a much more
pleasing tone ot color, particularly In the back
ground, and a more complete unity of its
various parts. The large pile of almonds lying
partly in the basket, a very difficult feature 10
render properly, has been excellently well
managed, and has a good effect in its rather
sober coloring. Taking the picture as a whole
it Is ono that the artist should be very well sat
isfied witb.
Tnn Hacke gallery will open to-morrow
morning, the principal attraction beirg a col
lection of paintings by local artists that will be
very fairly representative of tbe art of this
city. Later on the main gallery will be taken
up with a collection of works by foreign ar
tists, while one of the smaller rooms will be
devoted to a permanent exhibition of tbe pro
ductions of home ta!ent.Tbere are already a few
imported pictures, notable among them a fine
cattle piece byBaird. This is the best work
bv that artist yet bronrht to tbe city; it is
strong In composition. Tho subject is a group
of cattle l.iing down upon a hillside,
tbe landscape' forming a subordinate feature.
The coloring is fine and harmonious, tbe draw
ing accurate, and the action of tbe animals
pleating and lite-like. There Is a tine, large
bronze bust of Othello by Uasion Leronx. that
occupies a central position In tbe gallery, aud
other similar objects of interest will be added
from time to time, as it Is tbe Intention to make
tbe gallery a favorite resort in which to spend
an hour.
Persons who come here to dispose of art
collections generally find this city so good a
market tbat tbey stay much longer than was at
first intended, and usually send for more pic
tures. This has been tbe case with Messrs.
Gross & Lane at the Gillespie gallery, who on
Friday last received an addition to their stock
ot paintincs, and now purpose remaining prob
ably all uf this week. Tbe new pictures are of
sufficient interest to repay tbe trouble of a
visit, as they include good works by V. Tojetti,
Jacquc, Spiridon, Se Francescbe, I'aredcs and
others. "A Bitter Seet," by Tojetti. is one of
the best things in tbe collection, and is a bit of
unusually clever paintine. The subject repre
sents a j uuncster ready for a feat upon a bun
which tbe little band grasps tichlly, but who, to
judge frum tbe expression of his countenance,
thinks that-all the sweetness has gone out of
FRANCE'S PICTURE.
his life when a wasp settles on the end of his
nose witb vindictive intent. There are two
clever little pictures bv Tschomaknh, and a
large number or water-color of military fig
ures, representee soldiers of the various
armies uf Europe in characteristic uniforms.
Mr. Gross has also received a fine pieco of
painted tapestry, which should be seen by tbe
young ladies In Pittsbure who are takinc les
sons in this line of work, as It would afford
them an insleht into the possibilities and lim
itations of tbe art.
Jons RrSKrv, the famous art critic, who is
now suffering from that species ot mental col
lapse which has unfortunately marked the de
cline or so many of tho most vigorous intellects
of modern times, was the first to call popular
attention to one of the greatest dlflicultles
which the painter of out-of-door effects must
find means to overcome. The difficulty of giv
lng to ordinary pigments the appearance of
glowing sunlight was strongly felt, though only
vacruely understood, by artists themselves, and
was not known to exist by tbe majority of even
educated people until ftuskin proved by means
of a sheet or pure white paper that tbe l'ght
est pigments we possess are much darker than
many of nature's colors, to say nothing of her
brightest tones and brilliant high lights. Take
a sheet of tbe whitest paper you can find, and,
standing at the window of your room, bold it
up until its edge is outlined against the sky;
?-ou win at once perceive now mucn ngnter tbe
atter Is than your white paper, and bow hope
less it is for the artist to expect to produce
such a tone: and then, as a fleecy
,un-llt dona drif.s slowly ' across
the azure, yon will understand how
much higher he would have still to go in order
to paint exactly what he sees. All art should
be understood as being somewhat of a com
promise, a suggesting of nature's truths, rather
than an absolute transcript of them, for the
artist can no more paint all that is before him
than tbe sculptor can reuder tbe effect of color
by tbe aid of his cold marble. The most emi
nent artists produce the fine effects seen in
their works by means of skillfully arranged
contrasts, and by maintaining a proper balance
between tbe extremes of light and shade which
are at their command. Wbiteis used for the
lightest shades and black for the darkest, and
the selection which these extremes actually
bear to tbe trutb of nature is maintained as
nearly as may be in all tbe intervening tones.
Tbe picture is thus true as regards relative
values, and when this end is attained as com
pletely as possible, the work Is a master stroke
ot genius.
Rocked on the Crest of tbe Wave,
Tbe landsman, tonrlst or commercial traveler,
speedily begins, and not oMy begins, but con
tinues, to feel tbe extreme of banian misery
during bis transit across tbe tempestuous
Atlantic But if. with wise prescience, be bas
provided himself with a supply of Hostetter's
Utomacb Bitters, bis panes art promptly miti
gated, and then cease ere tbe good shin agaia
drops her anchor. This Is worth knowing,
and thousands of our yachtsmen, summer voy
agers, tourists and business men do know it.
We Salt In Both Hiyle nnd Prior.
Wood mantels of latest designs.
Slate mantels, choice selections.
All the items in stove, range and natural
gas saving furnaces.
James O. Thompson,
80 Liberty TeTi,
IT'S A GREAT GAME.
A Pittsburg Boy Finds Football as
Exciting as Baseball.
OLD ENGLAND IS WILD OVER IT.
Principal Points of the Sport, Its Origin
and Development.
CK0WDS THE CONTESTS ATTBACT
rCORSESFOHDEKCK OT THE DlSrjLTCn.l
Birmingham, England, May 2L
Our American newspapers are very fond of .
dwelling on the subject of thegreat develop
ment of baseball in comparison with ail
other games, but they never mention the
wonderful hold football, as it is played to
day in England, has on the majority of
sport-loving Englishmen. The present game
of football, with its beautiful scientific
points, bears as much resemblance to the
game of tbe same name of CO years ago as
the present game of baseball bears to round
ers. The origin of the game dates back to
the time when it was the custom to throw a
leather ball into the market place at St.
Albans (one of the oldest towns in En
gland), and one class ot people tried to
carry it to one side of the street and another
class to another. Of course this was rather
a crude game, and as there were no rules and
no restrictions as to the number of players
on each side, the game generally ended in a
free fight.
Tbe public schools of England, such as
Rugby, Harrow, Eton and old Westminster;
then began to play tbe game, but each school
had its own set of rules, and tbe result was
that very few interchange matches, could be
played on account of each school wanting to
adhere to its own particular style of play.
the etjgbt union.
This led to the formation of the Bugby
Union, which has done so much for football.
Tbe game ot football as it was then played
at Eucbv was adopted by the union, with
some slight changes, and all schools desir
ing to enter into the association had to be
governed by these rules. The Association
game of football was then adopted by a t'ew
independent clubs as an improvement on
tbe Rugby game, aud, with various changes
as to the number of men on each side, etc.,
it is at present the most popular game in
England, not even excepting cricket.
When the Association game first started in
1877,300 people were considered quite a large
number of spectators, and the game was
played by purely amateurs, but at present
writing 8,000 to 10,000 people are only con
sidered a fair gJte, and as high as 25,000
turn out to see a final cup tie played off. One
of the primary rules of the game is that no
player is allowed to touch the ball with bis
hand except the goal keeper, so the name ot
football for the game is not a misnomer.
RULES OF THE GAME.
There are 11 men on each side; the first
five are called forwards and always follow
the ball closely. The next three are 'half
backs, the next two backs, and last of
all. but not least, the goal- keeper, who, no
difference where the ball is, must stand in
side the goal and endeavor with both bands
and feet to keep the ball lrom passing be
tween the two uprights, 24 leet apart, and
under the cross-bar which is eight leet from
the ground. The playgrounds are 115 yards
long and 87 yards wide.
When the ball goes out of the side lines,
a player of the opposite side from the man
who kicked it out, is permitted to throw it
in toward his opponents' goal as far as
be can. When the hall is kicked across
the opponents' goal line, they have a free
kick out from their goal. If one of tbe
players touches the ball with his hands, the
opposite side has a free kick from the place
where the ball was touched. Nothing
counts in tbe game except a goal, which
consists in kicking the ball between the
opponents' goal posts and beneath the cross
bar.
NOT AN AMATEUR OAM1I.
In the first five years of the existence of
Association football it was purely an ama
teur game, but owing to the enormous num
ber oi people who began to patronize the
game and the struggles of different clubs to
get good talent, it became necessary to recog
nize piolessional players, and notwithstand
ing the predictions of some wiseacres, the
real development aud success of the game
dates from that day. The Preston North
End was the first organization to be based
on the purely proiessional system, and their
unparalleled succession of victories in the
season of '83 and '84 soon made all the otner
prominent football clubs follow in their
wake.
The success of this club was attributed to
its importation of Scotch players, not one
native Englishman playing in the team that
season. As the popularity of the game
began to increase so the players' salaries
began to increase in a corresponding man
ner, so that lrom being paid ?5 a match,
those poor down-trodden individuals are
now paid $250 for signing to play with a
certain club, and from $20 tu $30 per match.
EEAbTUS WIMAJt'S MISTAKE.
Mr. Eraitus "Wiman must have never
seen an Association game of football played
in Englaud before be uttered those oft
quoted words ot bis: "There is more enjoy
ment and excitement in a well played game
of baseball than iu any other game on
earth."
Football is fully as popular in England,
especially in tbe Midland districts, as base
ball in tbe United States and as lor enjoy
ment and excitement why, I attended a
game in Birmingham the other day between
Aston Villa and a Scotch team and the
12,000 people went wild with excitement
and enthusiasm, although this is the fag end
of tbe season. The game is played irom
September 1 until May 1, eight months of
the year, and it Is sometimes Kept up until
Juno 1.
The following are the clubs wbich belong
PITTSBURG NATATORIUM !
Duquesne Way, Near Sixth Street Bridge,
Turkish, Russian and Needle, Electric and
Medicated Vapor Baths.
OPEN ON AND. AFTER MONDAY, JUNE 2.
SWIMMING POOL NOW OPEN.
The finest and most elegant establishment in the State.
The most experienced manipulators in the' country.
Strictly first class in every particular.
All objectionable persons rigidly excluded.
LADIES' BAY:
To the overtaxed brain, the weary 'body, or the un
healthy system, the most delightful 'luxury, the kindest
restorative, the most efficient remedy is the Turkish Bath,
such as you can get at this Natatorium in all its glory and
completeness.
SINGLE TICKETS, $1; SIX TICKETS FOR $5.
fa the Football Association and compete for
the Enelish Cup every year: Preston
North End, Blackburn Rovers, Wolver
hampton Wanderers, Hotts County, Derby
County, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers,
Sheffield Wednesbury, Burnley and Stoke.
All these clubs represent a prominent cen
ter in the Midlands. The English Cup was
won this year by the Blackburn Eovers,
who defeated the Sheffield Wednesbury in
the final came at Kennington Ovul, Lon
don, before 30,000 people.
THE FELLOW WHO IS BOSS,
The baseball umpire has a rival in the
sympathy of the public, as a much abused
individual, in the person of a football ref
eree. The latter's duties are much more
onerous and a slight mistake on his part
will call forth nearly every epithet iu the
vocabulary, and a serious mistake will
sometimes cause a general riot. .
The Association game ot football is more
exciting than the new Engby game, less
uaugerons ana luny as scientific It is
played in a few towns in the United States
among Englishmen and Scotchmen. It the
winter season in the States still continues
open, as they have been in the last few
years.it would pay amateur baseball clubs
to take up the game of football, as it would
probably draw a paying gate alter the peo
ple understood the game, and it would also
keep their men in condition for the ensuing
baseball season.
Take the game as a whole, it has all that
element of luck and skill with just suffi
cient of danger to make it fascinating. The
excitement never flags during the whole
hour and a half of play, and I hope some
day to see the Association game of football
firmly established as one ot the American
outdoor games. Wm. J. Babb.
Indlgeatlon.
A recent attack of indigestion or constipation
is easily cured If tbe right remedy Is applied,
but every medicine except Hamburg Figs Is so
disgusting to taste or smell that a person prefers
to let tbe disease take its course, if the above
laxative cannot be obtained, 25 cents. Dose
one fig. At all druggists. Mack Drug Co., N.
Y. TTSU
Head Tbli.
Surah silks, all colors, including blacks,
34c; 25-inch India silks, 59c. Sale begins
Monday, June, 2.
Enable & Shusteb, 35 Fifth ave.
Kbause's Headache Cafsttlss, un
like many remedies, are perfectly harmless;
they contain no injurious substance, and
will stop any kind ot a headache, will pre
vent headaches caused by over-indulgence
ot food or drink late at night. Price 25
cents; for sale by druggists. ihsu
Worth Seeing;.
750c dress goods, double width, reduced to
29c. Enable & Shustek, 35 Filth ave.
The Bnblca Are Saved.
Cholera infantum comes with tbe warm
weather. The sure cure of this dread dis
ease is found in McCulIougb's Specific 'of
Blackberrv, which is used as a tonic to pre
vent it. Found only at 523 Liberty street,
loot of Fifth ave.
Sacrifice oflodln Kllk.
19-inch goods, regular 45c quality, to go
at 29o a yd. Knable & Shusteb,
35 Filth ave.
Attractive In tbe Home.
A nice wood or slate mantel. Our line
embraces the newest designs, and we are
confident that the prices will snit you.
James C. Thompson,
640 Liberty avenue.
Ginghams Reduced.
15c ginghams, best goods, to go at llo a
yd; 20c sateen to go at llo. Sales begin
Monday morning.
Enable & Shusteb, 35 Fifth ave.
WDRLD'EHfflaEUM,
ALLEGHENY CITY,
GEORGE CONNOR Manager.
EDW, KEEN AN..... Bnslness Manager.
AVoek beginning June 2, tbe Female Hercules,
JOHANNA -VVOLFARTH, LEONIDAB,
THE PERSIAN HERMIT AND BIB BON.
Many other novel and interesting
Features in Curio Hall.
In Tbeatorium
WORLD'S OLD-TIUE MINSTRELS,
Consisting of tbe best comedians, vocalist!,
etc.. of tbe late Cleveland it Haverly's
Minstrels. Greatest sbow ever
given tor 10 cents.
Open from 1 to 10 P. M.
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TO TEACHERS AID OTHERS,
J. J. MCCORMICK, the only authorized
agent for H. Gaze & Son's European Tourist
Azents in Pittsburg, announces the following
European excursions, viz: June 23 at 5185, July
3 at S175, July 5 at J1U0 and SZW, July IS at S190,
including all expenses of ocean travel, railway
fare, hotels, carriage blre, etc
Scbool teachers and others wantine to travel
with good and reliable escort, should avail
themselves ot the above rates and apply at once
for accommodations.
Sailings now ready for lake steamers.
Get particulars at
639 SMITHFIELD ST.
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GUENTHER'B ORCHESTRA
Furnishes Mnsio tor Concerts, Weddings,
Receptions, Ac.
Lessons on Flute and Piano given by
PROF. GUENTHER. 69 Fifth ave., and Bls
sell block, room 532. ap20-su
RAND CONCERT
VJ" CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL,
Alleghenv. Pa.. TUESDAY, JUNE 3.
Mile. Clementine DeVer, soprano. George E.
Whitney, organist.
Tickets for sale at Kleber Bros. jeI-27
Tuesdays from 8 A.RT to 2 P.M.
Fridaysfrom8A.M.to6P.M.
BjtoM
HEW ADVEKTIEJIENTS.
BIJOU TH eater
x Under the Direction of 'B. M, Qullok & Co.
Last Week Of the Season,
COMMENCING MONDAY, JUNE 2.
MATINEES WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.
ENGAGEMENT OF THE EARNEST ACTOR,
MR. DUNCAN B. HARRISON,
In His Thrilling Realistic Military Comedy -Drama,
THE PAYMASTER!
IN WHICH THE WORLD'S CHAMPION,
JOHN L. SULLIVAN,
Appears in a Grand Three-Round Scientific
Exhibition of the Manly Art with
2sn&. joe LsriLsrcasr.
Mr. JOHN BAKNETT, Master of Ceremonies.
GRAND
OPERA
HOUSE.
MR. E. D. WILT. Lessee ana Manager.
One Wee, Commencing Monflay, Jnne 2.
Wednesday Matinees Saturday.
Farewell Engagement of the Original
and World-Famous
HANLONS
Presenting their Gorgeous Fairy
Spectacle, tbe
Peerlessl Unapproachable! Alone!
Introducing New Scenery. Costumes, Music,
Inventions and Specialties.
Fifteen Beautiful Tableaux, Twelve En
cbantlne Illusions.
Ten Gorgeous Transformations, Two Car
loads ot Scenery.
One Hundred People on tbe Stage.
See tbe Hanlons' latest marvel, the Great
Execution Scene.
See tbe Great Le Fre Bros. In the Great
Giraffe Specialty.
See tbe New Specialties by Mons. Louis Paz
xarelle and Little Tootsey.
See tbe Wonders of Fairyland, Greater and
Grander than ever presented.
A World of Novelties introduced this season.
Regular Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00.
Week June 9 Bartholomew's Equine Para
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IIsTTELLIGrElNCK:
. IS THE LIFE OE LIBERTY.
Ia speaking of intelligence we would kindly remind our friends and
patrons that after a pleasant and remunerative business experience in
this community extending over a period of a quarter of a century, living,
as we do, in a land of Liberty, in an age of light and knowledge, with
the smiles of heaven beaming upon us with uncommon refulgence, and
our efforts crowned with success, we feel called upon to give a few gra
tuitous hints to the public. The secret of the success of our business ia
the outcome of fair dealing, an honest, legitimate profit which is bound to
bring its reward. "The Hand-Writing is on the Wall." The people
are beginning to realize the importance of patronizing only legitimate
and trustworthy dealers. We sell no jSio Suits, simply because they are
not worth the space they occupy. We have one of these catch-penny
side-shows in stock with a view of demonstrating its inferiority; but
offer none for sale; to do so would be to insult the intelligence of the
purchasing public To deal in such trash is, in our opinion, a direct
stab at our skiUed American mechanics. A reliable article at that price
is simply out of the question; any man possessed with five grains of
common sense knows that our allegation is correct We handle no penitentiary-made
Furniture; "in short, we are not running a junk shop, but
a straightforward, reliable and legitimate Cash or Credit Furniture and
Carpet House, if our mothers and grandmothers will bear us out in this
assertion. The area of flooring in our wholesale and retail buildings
aggregate the wonderful space of five acres; yet we have no marble
fronts, no extravagant rents the cause of our underselling all compet
itors is" apparent. Cordially, etc, PICKERING.
OUR FURNITURE DEPARTMENT
Consists of the LATEST STALES, NEWEST DESIGNS, and posi
tively the LOWEST PRICES. We don't want to take up your time with
a lengthy description of these goods, but simply ask you to see and com
pare them with those others are offering at more money. Find below a
partial list of goods just received from our manufacturers:
Parlor Suites, hair cloth or crush plush; Silk Plush Suites, combination
colors; Rug Suites, Tapestry Suites, Cabinets in Cherry, Ebony, Antique
Oak and Sixteenth Century, Book Cases, Secretaries, Dining Chairs in
endless varieties, Arm Chairs, complete line of cane-seated Chairs,
Kitchen Tables, Marble Top Tables, Oak and Walnut Suites, bevel glass,
Sideboards Dinins Room Chairs, Oak and Walnut Extension Tables,
Ice Chests and Refrigerators, Kitchen Chairs, Oak and Walnut Ward
robes, Ladies Table Desks, Hat Racks.
Our line of Baby Carriages is the most complete in the city.
CARPBTSI
Ingrain, part wool, all wool and extra super.
Tapestry, Body Brussels, Moquette, Stair and Hall in all the differ
ent widths and designs. Oilcloth of every description.
Smyrna and Moquette Rugs in endless varieties. Art Squares and
Crumb Cloths, Stair Rods, Curtain Poles, Rag and Hemp Carpets etc
Remember, we do not claim that we can sell you a dollar's worth
for 50 cents, but we will give you full value for every purchase made at
our stores, either for
CASH OK CEBDIT.
The coming week we shall offer you special inducements in all
aur varied departments that will simply astonish you. We have in stock
a superb collection, and are prepared to give greater value than ever
heretofore. . ... . , , ,' . , '.
P S Our numerous patrons will be cheerfully supplied with an;in
vitation to our First Annual Mammoth Excursion.down the placid Ohio"
on June 17, an entire day's pleasure at the expense of
PICKERING,
CORNER TENTH ST. AND PENN AE.
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GRAND
OPERA
HOUSE.
WEEK JUNE 9.
First Appearance in Pittsburg.
Prof. Geo. Bartholomew
AND HIS
EQUINE PAEADOX
24 Educated Horses.
Do Everything but Talk.
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HARRIS'JHEATER.
Week Commencing Monday, June 2.
Every Afternoon and Evening.
jL WOULD OF FTJ2T.
The Eminent German Dialect Comedian,
Vocalist and Dancer,
OHAS. A LODER .
In the Latest Laughing Musical Absurdity,
HILARITY,
Presented by a Corps of Great Comedians, with
New and Beautiful Songs,
New and Artistio Dancing;
New and Catchy Music,
New and Funny SaylsjrA
Week June 9 Ethel Tucker In N. S. Wood'
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