IHTIITMlPiTPlfr
M CHICAGO CRAZE
Companies Being Constantly Formed
to Erect Mammoth
Office Buildings.
BEVENTEEK STORT STEUCTURES
f 'Are Jest Kow in Exceedingly High Faror
Among This Kew and GroTrinf
Class of Inventors.
HTTSBDEG'S BUILDINGS TOO COSTLT.
those Kow Golm Up on Wood Street Are Jlore Hasslre
Than Xecessary.
rOOBBESPOJfDElfCI OP TOT EIErATCH.1
Chicago, June 12. The office buildings
f Chicago, which form such a striking
feature in the city's make-up, are for the
most part built by etock companies, organ
ized for that special purpose, and are a very
favorite investment for the surplus wealth
of that large class of Chicagoans who are
satisfied with moderate returns but want
almost absolute safety. They are rapidly on
the increase. Half a dozen new ones hare
been thrown upon the market within the
past year, others are nearing completion,
still others are just being started, and many
more are in the "projected" stage.
The last three years may be said to have
revolutionized the method of building them,
and every new one pushes a story or two
nearer heaven than its predecessor. Thus
the Rookery built two years ago at Lasalle
and Adams street, with its 11 stories, stood
head and shoulders above the tall buildings
in its immediate neighborhood and looked
down with pitiful disdain on the Grand
Pacific Hotel adjoining. The Tacoma, on
Lasalle and Madison streets, a conple of
blocks furthernorth, built a year later, piled
on two stories more, and with its 19 floors
and a basement, seemed to realize the ut
most renting space that could be got ont of a
given piece of land. Then the new Board
of Trade building, abont 100 feet further
north, on Lasalle and 'Washington streets,
went theTacomaonebetter, and its 14 stories
are just in the hands of its tenants.
Meanwhile, the Auditorium, down on the
lake front, had run its tower up to the
heicht of 17 stories, filled with offices to the
very top, and a small eighteenth story was
fitted uo on the roof for the use of the
United States Signal Service. If a granite
structure can be built 17 stories high, surely
a steel-beam-and-terra-cotta building should
be no less reasoned, the capitalists controll
ing a choice piece ot ground facing the post
office ou Jackson street, and ground has
just been broken for a 17-story building at
that point
Gazing on these phenomenal structures,
the tallest building of Pittsburg and Phila
delphia seem tame and commonplace and
older buildings in which Chicago
took the greatest pride only fire
years ago, are already regarded as
old-fashioned and poor. "Where the ten
dency to climb skyward will find its ulti
mate limit, nobody seems able to tell. The
architects hare placed it at 16 stories, but
the adoption of lighter and stronger mate
rials, year by year, have spoiled their cal
culations, and some of them say it is more
than possible that the 28-story bnilding
projected by a St. Paul member of their
profession will yet exist in reality.
One effect of all this building has been
to increase enormously the number of
office rooms placed upon the mar
ket This year, for instance, the
supply has been increased by at least
2,000 offices, and it is a remarkable evidence
of Chicago's wonderful growth that as fast
a they are built the new office buildings are
eagerly absorbed.
THE BENTS THE SAME.
The rents do not come down. On the
contrary, they advance, and still the army
of tenants keeps on the increase. The older
buildings, which they have in tact deserted,
quickly fill up without any office rent sacri
fice of revenue; indeed, some of them, in the
face of the advent of their rivals, are
actually yielding greater returns than ever
before. There is a sort of combination or
trust among the capitalists controlling the
principal new buildings, and some ot
them hare established a standard rate of
t2 per square foot per annum, but nobody
accuses the trust of keeping up the rates. It
is the enormous and increasing demand with
which the supply hardly keeps pace.
About ten years ago some partners who
were about to build, employed a well-known
real estate man to make a calculation of the
cumber of new offices that would be re
quired, and figuring np from the number of
omce men shown by the city directory for a
few years previous, and comparing it with
the increase in population, he came to tne
conclusion that at least 640 additional rooms
would be needed every year if the popula
tion kept on increasing as it had been doing.
The increase of population has been vastly
greater and the number of "office men" has
kept on increasing even taster than the
population, so that the 1,000 or 1,200 new
offices which have come into the field during
the past three or four years have been barely
sufficient to satisfy them.
There is a constant increase in the number
of professional men, but it is small in com
parison with the increase in the number of
Eastern and foreign manufacturers and
manufacturers' agents who hare flocked to
Chicago and established branch offices here
in order to capture their share of the great
trade of the West. To such men rent is a
Email item and elegance and convenience a
Tery important one. Thus the projectors of
the most recent office buildings hare been
quick to observe and have made their
buildings reritablepalacesof trade, with walls
and staircases of the finest Italian marble,
floors of mosaic work, the like of which has
never before been seen in this country with
the finest hard-wood finish and all the con
veniences of swift, silent elevators, perfect
light, perfect ventilation, and a thousand
and one other things that the builder's art
could suggest.
THE PBOFIT IK IT.
As investments it is hard to tell just what
they yieldjbut the average seems to be about
8 per'cent per year on the capital actually
invested. The stock companies which
erect these buildings in very few instances
own the land on which they are built.
TJsusally they hold the land under lease for
a period ranging from 60 to 99 years, some-
times with a fixed and permanent rent lor
the whole period and sometimes with a re
valuation every fire or ten years. On the
, wording of the lease greatly depends the
success of 'the building enterprise, and
many of these companies which secured
"straight" leases, without revaluation, 10
or IS years ago, consider themselves in
the greatest luck imaginable.
The Chicago Opera House Company was
until very recently considered as the most''
Euccessful of all Chicago office bnild
ing enterprises. Pour men who
acted as promoters and put its
stock noon the market are said to hare di
vided 5100,000 among them, but they made
a Jease with reraluations every fire years,
and the trround rent has been increased so
much by the recent valuation that a large
ehare of the enormous profit that once went
to the stockholder now goes to the owners
of the land. The Owings building, a
. chimney-lite structure at Dearborn and
Adams street, rests upon a piece of ground
about 46x75 ieet, which costs $16,000 a year
ground rent. A two-story frame saloon oc
cupied that corner for years. Capitalists
coTeted it, but thought it was impossible to
pnt anything on that limited space that
would pay with such a lease.
Tinally Mr. F. P. Owings took it, pnt
$10,000 into a ionndation, built an odd-look-
- ing Jt-norr ouuaing witn two great gable I
rents, and an odd-looking spire sand-J
wiched in between, at an actual cost of per
haps 5200,000. and making it headquarters
for a eertain class of iron and coal men, has
sneceeded in filling up a rent roll of, it is
claimed, $64,000 a year. This is one of the
few buildings of its class not owned by a
stock company..
THE PBESE1TT TENDENCY.
The tendency just now seems to be to
build no more buildings of the solid and
massire character ot the Auditorium
and the two bank buildings which
are nearing completion at vyooa
street and Sixth aTenne, Pittsburg.
They we regarded as unnecessarily
heavy and expensive. It costs too much to
build a suitable foundation for them ana
the material costs too much. An eqn.al'T
elegant and equally durable, and for lignt
business purposes, a better bnilding in every
respect is obtained by using structural iron,
terra cotta and brick.
Of that style of building the Tacoma in
this city is typical. It rests upon steel col
umns, which rest upon a foundation of rail
road iron and cement and its steel beams
and columns are so thoroughly braced and
so arranged that the interior of the building
would stand without its walls. It is not de
pendent upon its walls for support. Conse
quently the walls are not thick and massive,
with deep cavern-like recesses lor windows
like the Auditorium or the Pittsburg Court
House, but they are comparatively light and
the greatest possible space is leit tor large
plate glass windows, through which the
bright sunlight reaches every square foot of
interior surface, carrying health and cheer
to its hundreds of occupants. All the latest
new buildings are projected to a greater or
less extent on the same model, the only ex
ceptions being those which are designed in
part for ocenpations requiring the use of
machinery. The Tacoma may be said to be
in one sense a Pittsburg building; the
structural in it was made at Braddock
A CLASS OP PEOMOTEES.
In this city the construction of office
buildings has given emplovment to a small,
but somewhat important class of men who
act as "promoters" and whose business is to
interest the capitalist and get him to invest
his money and generally to carry the build
ing scheme into effect. They select a site
and lease it, obtain a contractor and arrange
terms with him, select the architect and pass
judgment on his plans and frequently, after
the building has been constructed, they re
tain charge of it as renting agents.
Their services are usually paid for by
about 5 per cent of the capital actually in
vested, though in many instances they so
manipulate stock as to make it considerably
greater, and in not a few instances they hare
been paid considerably less.
HALF PRICE.
We Acquaint Ton With the Fact That to
Dispose of All Summer Weight Clothing;
We Have Cut the Price la Hall".
"We haTe two weeks in which to dispose
of our summer stock of clothing, including
men's custom made suits, boys' suits and
fine pantaloons. When it gets to the end of
each season we hold these half-price sales,
which enables us to clear our counters and
start with fresh, bright goods. To-day is
the day of our first grand clearance sale,
and we make the unqualified assertion that
we'll sell the finest tailor-made clothing at
lower prices than any other house in this
city. Suits made from foreign fabrics, the
finest in our stock, which always sell for $28
and $30, are now marked $14 and $16.
P. C. C. C, corner Grant and Diamond
streets, opposite the Conrt House.
Music Bath Charms to Soothe the Savage
Breast.
Not insinuating that yon are a savage (be
came lovers of music are onr most refined
people), come in and see S. Hamilton, 91-93
Ifiith avenue, where there is the finest line
of musical instruments in the city. All
new, all good. Every guitar player should
have a Hamilton guitar, becanse they are
perfect, because they are low-priced and be
canse S. Hamilton's guarantee will hold
good for any delects. Onr mnsie boxes are
all new, and prices very low; strings fresh.
Harmonicas in great quantities; violins
from the finest artists to the cheap ones at
$1. Everything- in the musical line new,
good and low-priced. S. Hamilton,
91-93 Fifth avenue.
i i P. i i
BARGAINS IN PIANOS AND ORGANS
At Henrlck's Ttmple of Slntlc
A lot of new and second-hand pianos and
organs will be sold for one-half their actual
value. Wheelock upright piano, $260;
Stnyresant upright, $235; Marshall &
Wendell upright, $175; Steinway square,
$200; "Wheelock square,, $165; Narvesau
square, $100; Loud square, $50; Kirubal or
gan, $75; Keystone organ, $70. Easy pay
ments arranged if desired. Store open Sat
urday evening until 9 o'clock. Eemember
the place.
Heneick's Temple of Music,
79 Fifth avenue.
THE PEOPLE'S STORE.
Grrnt Barsalna.
Ladies' French flannel blazers opened to
day. Price $2 50, worth $3 75.
Campbell & Dick.
Atvxing stripes in a variety of colorings
and styles, by the piece or by the yard, at
lowest prices. Jos. Hokne & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
B.&B.
Even if you come to buy a wash goods
dress we think you will change your mind
when you see these elegant new striped
Tussor wash silks at ball price, viz: 50 cents
a yard 1,200 yards at -8:30 this morning.
Boggs & Buhl.
Ladles' Silk Blonse Wnlsta n t S4.
A new line, very choice, excellent quality
better than usual for the price.
Jos. Horne & Co.'s
Penn Arenue Stores.
Iionvre.
"Wanted Ladies to know where they can
have their sewing and dressmaking done at
once without disappointments. Children's
clothes a specialty. 24 Sixth Stbeet
Directly opposite Bijou Theater.
No branch store.
Buffet Drawing Bonn Car Tia the P. & I
E.R.R.
Commencing June 9, a through buffet
drawing room car will be pnt in the train
leaving Pittsburg via the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Bailroad at 8 A. M., central time
arriving at Buffalo at 4:50 p. si. ttssu '
Special values in black surah silks,
from 50e to $2 per yard; also plain black
India from $1 to $2.
ttssu Hugus & Hacks.
More Figured Battlste Wrapper Now.
Pull lines of styles and sizes, $3 and $4.
Jos. Hokne & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
Flannel, madras and cheviot dress
shirts.
James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Fifth aTe.
Excursion to Wbeellnir
To-morrow (Sunday) via the B. &. O. B. B.
Bate $1 60 the round trip. Train leares at
OiOU A. ill.
82 50 QaalltT-Mllan Bats Tor 81 To-Dny
In millinery department,, black and best
colors only $1 each.
Jos. Hokne & Co.'s
Penn Arenue Stores.
Leghobn hats in all colors. Trimmed
hats. and bonnets largest variety, lowest
prices. Kosenbaum & Co.
Fanct silk dress shirts at James H.
Aiken & Co. 100 Fifth are.
S3 20 Quality Milan Hats for 81 To-Day
In milinery department, black and best
colors only fl eaeb.
Jos. Hoene & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores,
THE
W0ETHY OF CENSURE.
One Civil Service Commissioner Re
proved by the Congressional
COMMITTEE OP INVESTIGATION.
Lvman wM Gnilty of Great Begilgence, at
the Terj Least.
THE OTHER MEMBERS ARE ALL RIGHT
"Washington, June 13. The House
Committee on Beform in the Civil Service,
which during the present session of Con
gress conducted an investigation into the
charges against the Civil Service Commis
sion, held a meeting to-day and finally
agreed upon the report which will be pre
sented to the Honse. It is said that It has
been signed by all the members of the com
mittee except two Mcssrs.'S tone and Alder
son. Chairman Lehlbach, of the committee,
will present it in the House at the first op
portunity. In concluding its report the
committee says:
"With regard to the conduct of the Ciril
Serrice Commissioners in the matters sub
mitted to your committee, we find, first,
that Commissioners Bosserelt and Thomp
son hate discharged their duties with entire
fidelity and integrity: second, that
the official conduct
of Commissioner Lyman has been character
ized by laxitv of discipline in the adminis
tration of the affairs of the commission, and
is therefore censurable. Your committee
will proceed at once to investigate the work
ings of the system, and present a subsequent
report when said investigation shall have
been completed, together with a report ot
their conclusion. We submit the following
resolution:
"Besolved, That a copy of the report and
testimony taken before the Select Committee
on Beform in the Civil Serrice in the
investigation of charges preferred against
the United States Ciril Serrice Commission
be forwarded to the President"
In the body of the report the committee
says, respecting the charges against the per
sonal actions of the present and former Com
missioners, that it examined 24 witnesses.
On the first charge, affecting the conduct,
retention and promotion of Alexander C.
Campbell, the brother-in-law of Commis
sioner Lyman, the committee concludes that
it was clear that Campbell
copied the questions
which were furnished to Flynn, who gave
instruction to persons desiring to take
examinations that the questions were not
obsolete, and thnt an investigation properly
conducted would hare disclosed the fact If
the administration of the ciril service was
not to fall into disrepute, Mr. Campbell
should have been 'dismissed. His retention
indicated gross laxity in discipline as show
ins; that the administration of the commis
sion was not such at that time as to receive
or merit public confidence. His promotion
would not seem to have been defensible.
It is submitted that if the commission
had discharged its duty with proper vigor
and regard for the public it would haTe be
come manifest that Campbell's retention was
not defensible, and it would seem to follow
that if his retention was not proper his pro
motion was not warranted. The committee
cannot accept as satisfactory the answers of
Mesirs. Oberly, Lyman and Doyle that they
believed that the questions Campbell copied
were obsolete.
A bepbehensible omission.
The facts conrince the committee that the
omisson to ascertain the truth was as repre
hensible as to bare disregarded it after it
had been ascertained, and it is little less
culpable, and whether they failed through
indifference or partiality to learn the facts,
or knowing them, failed to take &uch action
as the public serrice obviously demanded,
is not a matter of great consequence. The
neglect of the duty in either case is con
demned. The committee does not share the view
that Commissioners Roosevelt and Thomp
son are deserving of censure for not having
taken action in the Campbell case. On the
contrary, there is nothing in their conduct
to challenge criticism. When their atten
tion was called to the matter by newspaper
reports there was a concurrence of statement
to tbem that the matter had been fully in
vestigated and Sir. Campbell punished", and
they did not take any further action in the
matter, and in that we think they were
thoroughly j ustified.
Belatire to the promotion of E. B. Bailey
to the position of stenographer, and to the
appointment of Thomas Mitchell, of Con
necticut, to a position in the Pension office,
the committee find that the action of the
commission in both these cases was not con
trary to the law and rules of the commission,
and'in no way are they censurable.
THE MILWAUKEE CASE.
Bespecting the course of the commission
in the case of Shidy; the employe in the Mil
waukee postoffice who was discharged by
the postmaster for exposing frauds, the com
mittee says that it was apparent to the com
mission that Shidy was being punished for
disclosing the truth, and they felt it their
duty to aid him by their influence in secur
ing" employment, and thereupon recom
mended him for appointment in the census
office, and he was appointed.
The conduct of the commissioners in this
case is not exceptional, nor does it tend to
the demoralization of the service. The com
mittee is unable to find anything to criticise
in that behalf. The commissioners did
nothing in their official capacity to give or
secure Shidy employment But as indi
viduals, in view of his efforts so aid them,
they recommended his employment to Mr.
Porter, who gave him a clerkship. It is
proper-to say that the inrestigation ot the
alleged irregularities in the Milwaukee
postoffice conducted by Doyle and Webster
disclosed an utter disregard of the ciril
service law in this office. The failure to
submit the result of that inrestigation to
the President, indicates either a disinclina
tion to discharge an obvious duty, or a (ear
that such a report would subject the com
missioner to censure. If the former, it
argues unfitness for the position; if the lat
ter it shows the administration of the com
mission to have been unworthy of public
confidence.
On the reorganization of the commission
by the appointment of Messrs. Boosevelt
and Thompson, the inrestigation into the
abuses and irregularities in the Milwaukee
postoffice was had at once and was thorough.
It is learned that Mr. Campbell, who is re
ferred to in the first part of the report of the
committee, has submitted his resignation as
a clerk to the Ciril Serrice Commission, to
take effect in two weeks.
FIFTy-THEEE SATS OF FASTING.
Mrs. Wnchter Only Brenka It br Taking a
Spoonful of Ice Cream.
Axlentown, PA., June IS. Mrs. Adam
Wucbter, of Whitehall, Lehigh county, to-day
passed ber fifty-third day of abstinence from
food, either In solid or liquid form, and with
out water, stimulants or medicine, exceDt a tea
spoonful of ice cream, which she ate last Mon
day. Her husband continnes at his wife's bed
side day and night, and looks as if he was badly
in need bT rest He bas been attending her for
over three months, and says he will remain
with her until she .breathes her last It is
necessary that he should be with ber day and
night to prevent her from doing herself Injury
during her violent spells, especially to ber left
arm. which is constantly striking the side of
the bed.
W hen asked abont the length of his resting
spells, Mr. Wnchter said: "Once In a, while I
get time for a short nap at night"
A Gala Day With the Tcraers.
jSrtClHTSXIQBiM TO TH DISFATOB.I
CANTON, June IS. The Turnfestof the .dif
ferent turner societies of northeastern Ohio,
which onens here Saturday and continnes
three days, promises to be a grand affair. The
city bas been profusely decorated and business
among the Germans will be practically sus
pended. Visitors have already beenn to ar
rive, and tin expected that 2, 000 will be here by I
99&h?
PITTSBURG" DISPATCH,
HAD A LITTLE SCHEME.
An Elderlr Man's Plan to Secure Panda
From Liquor Dealers A Temporary
Home for Inebriates That He Proposed
to Establish.
Messrs. Bonistalli & Bisi, the wholesale
liqnor dealers in the Diamond, had a curi
ous experience yesterday morning. Mr.
Ernest Bisi happened to be in the store
when a dapper gentleman entered and in
troduced himself by a jaw-breaking German
name which Mr. Bisi cannot now recall.
The visitor was elderlr, wore gray whiskers,
of the English waiter pattern, and light
gray clothes to match. He informed Mr.
Bisi that he had a little plan to unfold, and
being accorded permission, proceeded to un
fold it
The idea was that the Bonistalli firm
should subscribe f 50 or thereabouts toward
the erection of a temporary home for
fashionable inebriates, and the endowment
of a force of prirate detectires for the bene
fit of these gentry. The house was to con
tain some scores of bedrooms for tne recep
tion of gentlemen who became too in
toxicated to go home without falling into
the clutches of the police. One of the de
tectlre corps was to be attached to each of
the ultra-fashionable hotels, bars, saloons
and speak-casies. When they were told
that a person of note had looked upon the
wine too frequently, they were gently but
firmly to coax him into a cab and convey
him to the "Inebriates Home," where a bed
awaited him, with plenty of soda water on
the following morning.
Mr. Bisi's visitor told his hearer that the
plan wonld benefit wholesalers, and, indeed,
that all liquor dealers onght to join it He
also said that several well known in the
business had already entrusted him with
money for the carrying out of the plan.
Sereral big business men, who occasionally
had gotten intoxicated in the past and ex
pected to do so in the fntnre, were alleged
to be in the concern.
After listening to all of the ristor's
scheme Mr. Bisi requested time in which to
consult his partner, Mr. Bonistalli. The
man seemed disappointed, but went away,
promising to return about noon to-day and
warning Mr. Bisi to tell no one of his plan.
Mr. Bisi, howerer, thinks that a little pub
licity will not injure the plan.
THE FIFTH BECITAL.
An Interesting; Programme for Carnegie
Hall This Afternooa.
The fifth free organ recital at Carnegie
Hall this afternoon will present many in
teresting features, the city organist of Alle
gheny having the assistance of the well
known soprano, Mrs. L. C. Yochnm. The
general idea oi popular music has proven so
attractive to the public that the Councilmen
of Allegheny feel much encouraged oTer the
bright prospects of permanent usefulness of
the mrsic hall.
The programme for this afternoon is as fol
lows: 1. Montooth Quickstep Wales
, Gavotte "Ermlnle" Jakobowskl
l Stephanie Gavotte Michaelis
8. Overture, "Bandit's Pranks" Suppe
4. Song. 'Tell Me Thy Heart".. .Bir H. Bishop
5. Concert Valse Lvsberg
6. Overture, "Caliph of Bagdad" Boldleu
7. Bong, "Disappointment" Merkel
8. Wine, Wife and Bong Waltzes.. ..J. Strauss
o J On Song's Bright Pinions Mendelssohn
I Deuxieme Nocturne Leybach
10. Song, Tell Me, Beautiful Maiden"
Cb. Gounod
11. Potpourri "Pinafore" Sullivan
( ) Wagner
12. Wedding Marches Soderman
( ) Mendelssohn
KO M0EE CTJBBSTONE STANDS.
The Allegheny Market Honse Committee
Taboos Them.
G. J. Schandlemeyer and Frederick
Stemmier reported at the'Allegheny Market
Committee meeting, last night, that the
curbstone stands on Federal and Ohio
streets to East and South Diamond must be
removed, and those resting against the
market honse be used by farmers and home
producers. The matter of appointing another consta
ble for the market house, and the decora
tion of the bnilding on the semi-centennial,
will be considered at the next meeting.
C0L0HEL STONE WILL HOT ORATE.
He Bequests to be Relieved nt the Semi
centennial Celebration.
Last nightthe Allegheny Semi-Centennial
Committee met W. P. Bennett and Joseph
F. Keely were added to the Committee on
Invitations. J. W. Collins was added to
the Committee on History and Literary
Work.
Colonel W. A. Stone sent a letter re
questing that he be relieved as orator of the
dar. The request was complied with. The
different sub-committees reported progress
in their work.
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.
Incident of a Day in Tito Cities Condensed
for Beady Keadinc.
Chief Biqelow is opposed to the prirate
switch tax. Ho says the city is benefited by
merchants rnnntng cars into their buildings to
unload, and thus preventing a blockade ot tho
streets with wagons.
Disobderly conduct was the charge on
which Peter Malonia and Frank Christia were
run in yesterday. It is alleged that they as
saulted Mis. Mary Campbell at ber Clay alley
bouse.
Supebihtendent Ahdrews, of the Ba
teau of Highways and Sewers, is notifying per
sons having private sewers to connect tbem
with public sewers within 20 days.
Thomas Callzn, who is charged with
stealing a snit ot clothes from James Reilly's
boarding house on Second avenue, near Boss
street, was arrested last night
A man named Bluenthall, of Thlrty-elghth
street, was yesterday taken to Altoona, in the
custody if John Lungbolf, on a charge brought
in behalf of the latter's sister.
Robert Smith, aged 16 years, of Allegheny,
was sent to Morganza yesterday by Mayor
Wyman for incorrigibility, preferred by his
father, Robert Smith, Br.
Adolph Royfs, Ellis Royes, John Mason
and James Marstman were arrested in Alle
gheny last night for fighting on federal street
The Highland Park concert this evening has
been postponed so as not to interfere with the
West Penn Hospital benefit
Peter Lounge was arrested last night
charged with keeping a disorderly honse at 78
Washington street
Postmaster McKean has appointed eight
sub-letter carriers to take the place of regulars
uu vai;auuo.
Cobneb loafing was charged against John
Chilton, who was arrested last night
There are
many white soaps,
each r r
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory."
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable ' " K
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon havino- It.'
'Tis sold everywhere.
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. SATURDAY, JUNE 14,
HAPPY WITH HIS BEE0K
Mr. McCn.ker Explains Why His Wife's
Guardian Objected to the Match.
Jame McCusker, the conductor on the
Citizens' Traction line, who eloped with
Miss Mollie Smith, of Lawrenceville, re
turned yesterday. He was married at War
ren, O., yesterday morning by a priest, and
secured a license at the same town. Mr.
McCusker was seen last night, and denied
that he was refused a license at Yonngstown
on account of the age of Miss Smith, for the
reason that no application for a marriage
license was made. He denied also the pub
lished statement that Miss .Smith had run
away from her guardian, Philip J. Jacobus,
of Thirty-eighth and Butler streets, four
times.
The objection of the girl's guardian to the
match, he said, was due to religious scruples,
she being a Protestant and he a Catholic.
The conple received congratulations yester
day from many friends in Lawrenceville.
A BTAET FOE THE TTBKABY.
A Contract Awarded for the Famishing of
Stnodard Periodicals.
The Allegheny Public "Library Commit
tee met last night xne contract jor mo
furnishing of certain periodicals to the Li
brary was awarded to J. B. Weldin & Co.
for 5478 15, they being the lowest bidders.
The other bids were Evans Brothers, 1530;
K. S. Davis & Co., J524 50; John Rodgers,
$516 50; Frank Bacon, 8500; W. F. Schade,
5490; Mr. Parke, $483 95.
Neevous debility, poor memory, diffi
dence, local weakness, enred by Dr. Miles'
Nervine. Samples free at Jos. Fleming &
Son's, Market st
Anderson's Finest Qnnllty Gingham Salts at
810.
A special lot reduced from $12, $15 and
816.
Big reduction sale of ladies' colored sum
mer weight jackets.
At 85, reduced from $10 and $15.
At (10, reduced from 820, $25 and 835.
Jos. Hoene & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
At Half Price to Close,
We will offer our well known select stock
ot Paris robes. Ladies should not miss this
opportunity to purchase an elegant dress.
ttssu Huous & Hacks.
Ladles' flannel Blazers, 82 50.
A complete new line, first floor suit de
partment Jos. Hobnb & Co.'s
Penn Arenue Stores.
Black silk dress shirts at James H,
Aiken & Co.'s, 100 Fifth ave.
Fans! Fans! Fans!
Largest variety. Eosenbaum & Co.
Marriage Licenses Granted Yeiterday.
Kama. Rcildenee.
( Qeorge Mlklas McKeesport
I Annie Posztorn yak McKeesport
(Michael Czopka. Homestead
(Mary Kosfiel, Braddock
J Charles Anderson 1'Ittsbnre
(Mary W. Kvaus Beaver Falls
( William Sarrlck Pittsburg
Mary Plinn Pittsburg
( David Slobobsky Pittsburg
( Mollie Fisher Pittsburg
I Charles Atkinson Pittsburg
t Mary baucr Pittsburg
(Luke Lynch McKeesport
(Annie Kelly McKeesport
( Patrick Doley Pittsburg
I Mary Paul.... Pittsburg
(John Kretchmer Elizabeth
i Augusta Henholt Greenock
(Mlcnael Kocur Braddock
I Annie Fedorcak Braddock
(John Berdle Braddock
( Annie Berdie Braddock
(B. A. Sampson Allegheny
Minnie Suiit Allegheny
(James Williams Pittsburg
Mary E. Green Pittsburg
DIED.
BARTH On Thursday momlne: June 12.
1890. at 12:15 o'clock, William, twin son of
Mrs. Mary and the late Qeorge Bartb, aged 25
years 4 months and 8 days.
Funeral will take place from the residence of
his mother. Mo. 1131 Penn avenue, onSATUB
dat afteenoon at 2 o'clock. Friends of the
family are respectfully invited to attend. 2
CAMPBELL On Friday, Inne 13, 1890, at
2:40 A. !., ot diphtheria, Gektkuee, only
daughter of A. U. and L A Campbell, aged 2
years 11 months.
Funeral services on Saturday, June 14, at 4
p. M. Interment private at a later hour.
FLEMING On Friday, June 18, 1890, FAN
NIE Fay. only daughter of Qeorge T. and Liz
zie McAleese Fleming, aged 1 year and 9
months.
The dear little baby is dead;
At last her suffering's o'er.
The little voice still; we have sorrow instead,
And a little white crape on the door.
Funeral services Sunday, 15th instant, at 2
r. it., at the residence of ber parents, No. 8
Perry street, city. Friends invited. 2
HAMPTON At TItusville, Pa., Friday, Juno
13. 1890, at 2 P. H., CORNELIA, daughter of
Wade and Caroline Hampton.
Funeral from Union depot on arrival of 720
a. M. train, A V. K. R., on Monday, June 18,
1S90. 2
KIRK Thursday afternoon, June 12, 1880,
at 2.30 o'clock, Miohael Kirk, at bis resi
dence on Webster avenue, near Mercer street
Funeral services at St Bridget's Church,
SATURDAY MORNING, at 9 o'clock. Friends
ot the family are respectfully invited to attend.
Member of branch 58 E. B. A.
MARLAND On Friday, Juno IS, at 11:45 A.
jr., Mabel Haoan, daughter of George
and Mary A. Marland, age 3 months and 21
days.
Funeral from residence of parents, 71 Clark
street Saturday, June 14. at 2 p. Jt
ROBERTS On Friday evening, June 13. at
7:30 o'clock, at the residence of her son-in-law,
William H. Gill. 82 Marion street, Pittsburg,
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Roberts, in the 86th
year of ber age.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
SANDERSON On Thursday afternoon,
June 12, 1890. JOHN B. SANDERSON.
Funeral lervices at his late residence. No. 23
Esplanade street Allegheny City, on SATUR
DAY, at 3 P. M. Interment private. '
SLOCTJM On Friday, June 13, 1890, Mrs.
Jane C, wife of Henry blocum, after a long,
lingering illness.
Funeral at her late residence. No. 61 Wash
ington avenne. Thirty-first ward, at 2 P. x.,
Sunday, June 15. Friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend. 2
STOUTE At the residence of her brother-in-law,
Thomas C. Orr, Evaline street Twenti
eth ward, on Friaav. June 13. 1890. at 2.30 p. M..
Mary, wife of William B. Stoute, in the 47th
year ot her age.
Funeral service at her late home, 127 Pitts
burg street, Connellsvllle, Pa., on Sunday, 15th
inst, at 2 P. M. Friends of the family are re
spectfully Invited to attend.
SHANNON On Thursday, June 12.ROBKBT,
infant son of Robert F. and Emma Shannon,
aged 9 weeks.
Funeral services at family residence, Edge
worth station, P., F. W. 4 C. R. W., on SATUR
DAY MOBNING at 11 o'clock.
VOLZ On Thursday, June 12. at 2:15, Val
enttne Volz, a brother-in-law ot Alderman
Hartman, aged 35 years and 11 months.
Funeral to take place from bis residence, 39
Pins street, Twenty-seventh ward, Pittsburg,
on Sunday, June 15. at 4 o'clock p. M. Friends
of the family are respectfully invited to at
tend. 2
WAITERS On Monday, June 9, 1890, in
Oakdale. Willie, son of William and Anna
Watters, aged 2 years and 5 months.
JAMES ARCHIBALD 4 BRO.,
LTVEUY AND SALE 8TABLE8,
93 and 98 Second avenne. between Wood and
Smitbfield streets.
Carriages for funerals, $3. Carnages for
operas,parties.etc,at the lowest rates. All new
carriages. Telephone communication,
my6-S0 tts
-pEPRESENTED IN PITTSBURG IN 1SU
ASSBTS . J9J071,e9635.
Insurance Co. of North America,
losses adjusted and paid by WILLIAM L
JONES. 84 Fourth avenue. la20-s2-D
WESTERN INSURANCE CO.
OF PITTSBURG.
Assets ,...J448,50187
. NO. 411 WOOD STREET.
ALEXANDER N1M1CK, President
juim a. jAuiiHUH. vice President
ia-26-rra WM. PHJSBJBERT. Secretary.
T:5?wFjir9F,'s
' 1890. "
HEW ADTKRTISEMETra.
0. McCLINTOCE
SUMMER LUXURIES!
SUMMER NECESSITIES!
Airy fabrics for the windows,
China Mattings forthe floors,
Rustic and Ra1$an Chairs for
the porches, Lawn Settees for
the tennis court and lawnre
now in full tide of supply with
Notting
ham Mad
ras, India
Stripes and
other light
Curtains,
as well as
S c o t-ch
Lace, Em
broide red
Swiss, Em
broidered G a u z e,
Coin- Spot
Muslins and other dainty win
,dow fabrics by the yard, cost
now but a trifle. An extensive
variety with the perfect light
of our new curtain room to
choose in.
SLIP COVERS
Cut and made by skilled
hands. Of course we guaran
tee the fit. A large variety of
materials to choose from.
Tinted Cloth Window
Shades, complete and ready
to hang, at 40 cents each, in
cluding STJAnTCUfiDU'C SELF-ACTING
D
inHmonuQiioj
iMfiassfct.KsWHisi3Si
Window Hollands, all colors,
including the latest "natural
linen" color, with fringes to
match.
Breezy,
easy, Tilt
ing Chairs,
Rustic
Roc k e r s,
Rattan
Sofas,
Lounges
and Porch
Chairs for
mitigating
90 - degree
days and enjoying moon-lit
nights, are now a summer
necessity.
Our assortment is now full
est larger than for years
past, and at greatly reduced
prices.
STRAW MATTINGS
Are to-day reduced 20 to 25
per ient to close out our entire
stock. Housekeepers and keep
ers of summer resorts, will
take notice of our big cut in
prices of this coolest, cleanest,
cheapest covering for floors.
O.McCIintock&Co.
33 FIFTH AVE.
jeW-TTS
GOING! GOING!
ALMOST GONE!
Our stock of Linen Napkins,
Table Cloths, Towels, Crash, etc
And no wonder I Since it has be
come known that we are dropping
this department, and selling the
goods below cost, not a day passes
but sees a deeper gap in our stock.
We are selling these goods 25 per
cent cheaper than any house in the
two cities.
Fleishman & Co.,
PITTSBURG, PA.
Millinery No charge for trim
ming.
MANUFACTURERS AND AIERCHANTa
IN8. CO, 417 Wood St. Fittsburp, Pa
taL. 1350,000 00
Assets, January L 189a 370,344 70
Directors Charles W. Batchelor, President.
John W. Chaifant. Vice President; A. E. W.
Painter, Robert Lea, M. W. Watson, Jobn Wil
son, Josepb Walton, Wrol G. Park, A. M. By
ers, lames J. DonneJ, George E. Painter, Jobn
Thompson. Wtn. T. A'lair, Secretary; James
Little, Assistant Secretary; Anpun Ammon,
General Aeent , ia22-32-MWS
TPm I H P AD tie. XULI.
I L L I LI gum. Xlegant sets, rine
JPnn st., makes or 'repairs ssts irbllo jon
Uo'taBuaiUTS. ejiimi .
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HEW ADVERTISEMENTS
B.&B
IJSTBR'S UNION
WASH SILKS
30c.
Plain colors and Jacquard figures;
the greatest bargain of the season,
because they are so desirable for
traveling or for summer street
dresses.
New all-wool French Challies;
latest Paris Printings; just received.
New Black Challies, with white fig
ures, in finest all-wool French
goods.
46-inch Paris Printed Cashmeres,
1 25 and 1 50 quality at 75c;
handsome styles that were bought
at a sacrifice; see these extra wide
and beautiful goods at Challi De
partment at 75c.
Double width 38-inch Paris Print
ed Cashmeres at 50c.
New 4-4 American Chillies 10c
and i2jc. American Challies, 4c,
5c, 6c and 8c.
The bargains in choice Zephyr
Ginghams at 15c, 20c, 25c, and the
hundreds of pieces Anderson's
celebrated and choicest styles at
40c, 45 c, and high novelties in side
bordures up to 60c
Specially choice American Dress
Ginghams, 6'c, 8c, 10c and i2c
4-4 French Satines, Freres Koech
lin, 15c and 25c; choicest collec
tion; finest good3 imported this
season.
NOTE! If our present unusually
large and important offering of
Challies, Ginghams, French Satines
and Imported Wash Goods are
choicer styles than generally shown
we know you will give us the
preference; our prices we are cer
tain are right; we are willing to
submit to your decision as to
the styles, and in this cultured and
aesthetic age we find the styles
regulate the value and desirability
of drygoods.
Bargains in every department to
day and to-morrow.
Store open until 10 p. M. Satur
day evening.,
Boggs&Buhl,
Allegheny.
Jell
HORNE & WARD.
41 FIFTH AVE.
ANOTHER GREAT UMBRELLA
BARGAIN.
We open to-day 100 best
quality Windsor Silk Umbrel
las, with silver handles, which
have been selling1, and consid
ered good value, at $5 to $8,
which will be closed out with
out reserve, making your
choice from the lot at $4
apiece. This is, without a
doubt the best Umbrella bar
gain offered in a long while.
OUR GREAT BARGAIN
PARASOL SALE
Is attracting a great deal of
attention. Those who come
in and want a Parasol do not
go away without buying. If
you want a bargain come in.
THE GORDON SASH.
We open this week a large
line of this very popular Sash
in a large variety of styles in
plain colors, plaids and stripes
for Misses and Ladies as well
as for Gentlemen.
Sterling, Oxydized and Plated
Silver Novelties.
Be sure and stop at our cen
ter counter and see the exten
sive display we are making in
the latest novelties in Ladies'
Chatelaines, Belt Buckles,
Slides, Card Cases, Manicure
Fixings, Hair Brushes, Cloth
Brushes, Salt and Pepper
Boxes, Thimble Cases, Shoe
Horns, Button Hooks, Pin
Cushions, Toilet Bottles,Soap
Boxes, Shaving- Mugs and
Brushes, Tea Strainers and
Tea Balls, Garter Buckles,
with many other novelties in
this line.
iel3-D
JAS. LfNEIL &-BKO,
BOILEBSI PLATE AND BHEET-mOH
WORK.
PATENT SHEET IRON ANNKAUNQ
P.OXES.
With an increased capacity and hydranUs
machinery we are prepared to fnralsh all work
in onr Una cheaper and better than try the old
methods. Repairing and gneral machine
work. Twentj.BlaUrsitt(l Allegheny Val.
jRftilXOMt. M-iMnm .
HEW ADVERTISEMJUfTK.
DANZIGEE'S.
Still keeping up our big success
in Millinery; everything
worth having and worth see
ing in Hats and Bonnets
you'll find right here. "Al
ways the Cheapest, and no
charge for trimming.
LADIES' WAISTS,
In Percale, Lawn,Flannel,Satezk,
Surah. Just the thing for these
warm days, made in the latest style
and sold at lowest possible prices.
Our Norfolk Waist, tucked bosom,
plaited back, with belt and
waist, has "CAUGHT ON" to
the popular fancy; price 98c up to
$3. We are the only house in either
city that shows this waist
Wrappers and Tea Gowns, m
The largest, finest, cheapest and
most complete line of these gar
ments in the United States. See
them, compare our prices with
others, and we feel assured of your
trade; 99c to 15.
LADIES' BLAZERS.
We are the acknowledged head
quarters for Blazers. What we can
not show you are only such ones as
you do not want Every desirable
style, color and pattern is found in
our mammoth stock.
$1 49 TO $12.
(Cloak Department Second Floor.)
DANZIGEE'S,
Sixth St. and Penn Ave,,
Pittsburg, Pa.
eU
'They Are NobbyA
We read our success in pro
viding Spring Clothing in
your comments. It'll be easy
work turning our goods into
cash.
The cleverest part of the
clothing business is to get the
goods you like. You're the
judges.
When the cloth manufact
urers catch the right spirit in
getting up the designs our
work is easy. When they
don't, it isn't.
We've had enough encour
agement already to know that
they've been successful this
season.
We go into spring trade
vith the vim that the knowl
edge warrants.
Not one or a dozen. On
every side, in every pattern,
beauty, stripes, plaids, mix
tures, checks. It means a big-,
quotient of pleasure for you
as well as business for us. You
may rely on it, the Wanama
ker making is up to their
worth.
You don't want to waste
your money ! Try Wanama
ker's prices, then.
--
Wanamaker
& Brown,
Cor. Sixth St. and Penn Aye.
Nearly 1,000 styles of
goods to tailor-up for you.
jeim
GRATEFUL. COMFORTING.
EPPS'S COCOA.
BREAKFAST.
"By athorongh knowledge of the natural law
which Korern the operations of dljftstlon and
nutrition, and by a careful application of the
tine properties of well-f elected Cocoa, Mr. Epps
has prorlded our breakfast table with a deli
cately flarored beTeraeo which may Bare ns
many beayy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious
use of such article or diet that a constitution
mar tie RraduaUy built up until strong enough
to resist eyery tendency to disease. Hundred
of subtle maladies are floating around us ready
to attack whererer there I a weak point We
may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping our
selre well fortified with pure blood and a prop,
erly nourished frame." Civil Service QazttU.
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold
only in half-pound tins, oy Grocers, labeled
thus: JAMES EPPS 4 CO., Homoeopathic
Chemists, London, England. fe22-32-TU3
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and TTJM0B8 osred. So
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