tsawsapaa sps THE, PITTSBURG; DISPATCH. SATURDAY. JUNE. 21. 1S90. I i IT 11 A Discharged Postoffice Employe Anxious lo Ascertain Whether a Civil Service Examination IS WORTH GOING THROUGH TWICE. He Befased to Slide Oat of the Pittsburg Office When He Was Told He Bad Better Do So, and WANTS TO ESOff WHY HE WAS FIRED, Postmaster IIcKean Insists That the Kleizr Wu Incompetent. Frank G. Schlotter, of the carriers' distri bution department of the postoffice, does not propose to quit the service without the most complete investigation he can get as lo the why and wherefore of his dismissal. He says he proposes to know what civil service means. Air. Schlotter lives in Coraopolis, and says he oas always performed his duty faith fully and well, and that he knows just what he is talking about. He says he was asked for his resignation, to take effect June 15, and, as he could not cet a hearing here, he memorialized the Civil Service Commission. The statement, made June 2, is in brief: The appointment was made five years ago in August, not through political influence, but strictly in conformity with the civil service laws of the United States. After receiving notice from Mr. McKean, the pe titioner says he courteously asked for a reason for the request for a resignation, and Mr. McKean gave none, but said it would be better for petitioner to resign than be discharged, as he could then come back into the service without a re-examination; that up to that date Mr. McKean had not given the slightest intimation that petitioner had broken the law or failed to do his duty. He adds that in justice to himself, family and friends he should be made acquainted with the reasons for his discharge, and if there are none he wishes to avail himself of his legal rights. WAS EXAMINED TWICE. Continuing, Mr. Schlotter tells the com mission that he won his position fairly at the carriers' case by competitive examina tion a little over three years ago. In con clusion he states that if he cannot get a hearing he will proceed to cet reparation in another manner, and attaches a testimonial lroni his neighbors, leading citizens in the town of Coraopolis, all of whom, except one, are Hepublicnns, which was presented to Postmaster McKean. They set forth in effect the following statement: That, regardless -of political affiliations, though in fact all Republicans of the borough of Coraopolis, they testify their high appreciation of Mr. Schlotter as a good citizen; that he had never taken a pernicious part in politics; was incapable of doinc anything to merit summary dismissal from his position, which he had fairlv earned by his own merits, in strict accord ance with and by examination under the law, and they end by requesting Mr. Mc Kean to reconsider and recall his request lor Mr. Schlotter's resignation, etc. The petition was signed bv Thomas Mc Padden, Jr., H. W. Burns, Hev. W. S. P. Cochran, A. Z. Byers, W. H. Gny, John "Watson, Georze M. Ferrce, Charles B. Graev, J. W. Watson, Jr., J. F. Ferree.W. K. ifesbitt, A. M. Stevenson, Alvin Cornelius. John G. Seibert, B. C. Trotter, John M. McCabe, "W. K. McUabe, "W. p. McCabe, A. McCabe, Rev. J. Dillon, Cap tain R. B. Kendall, J. 3L "Watt, "W. S. INeely and W. G. McAdams. 2IORE I2TFORMATIOS WASTED. On the 6th iust. "W. K. Schlotter, a brother of the ex-postoffice employe, again addressed the Special Agent of the Civil Service Commission, requesting him to ascertain why so many old employes were being discharged or forced to resign; men who have for a number of years been con sidered the most trustworthy and capable under the eves of one of the most critical and thorough business men in the commun ity as postmaster." Mr. Schlotter next submits the appended note trom Postmaster McKean: Pittsburg, Pa Postoffice. June 14, ISM. j Mr. F. G. Schlotter. Coraopolis, Pa.: Sin One month aeo I requested your resig nation as a clerk in this office, and not having heard from you regardinc the same, you are hereby notified that ynnr services will be dis- pensea wun alter June la. Respectfully, Jasies S. McKean. Postmaster. The first note was quite brief, reading simply: I'ranz G. Schlotter. Pittsburg, I"a.: Sir Tour resignation will be accepted, to take efiect June 15, 1S9U. Respectfullv. James a McKeaij. Mr. McKean's final communication was as follows: PrrTSBuitG, Pa Postoffice, r June 18, 18JQ. J F. G. Schlotter, Coraopolis, Pa.: Sir I wrote you under date of June 14, say-"-fnghat jonr services had been dispensed with from June. 15 and desirinc; your resignation, and I herewith repeat the request. Respectfully. James S. McKean, Postmaster. PECULIARITY OF THE HAILS. Belative to this correspondence, Mr. Schlotter says and exhibits envelopes in corroboration that the communication of June 14 was dated June 14, postmarked June 4, 4:30 P. M., '90, and stamped with a receiving ktamp at Coraopolis "June 18, 9 A. M . 1890, ree'd," and he attaches con siderable importance to the apparent dis crepancy of dates, but does not say that there might not have been a defect in the stamp used in this city, making the date of mailing 4 instead of 14, but he insists that there could be no good reason why tour days should be necessary for a letter to reach Coraopolis, only 11 miles distant. As Mr. Schlotter persisted in reporting for duty, and was not assigned, he finally, on Thursday, the 19ih instant, proceeded to swear to a statement to forward to the Presi dent of the Civil Service Commission, in which he says he is still at the command of , the Postoffice Department, and excepts to another man being placed on the payroll in his stead. He indorsed the envelope sent to him on June 14, as, he says, "Mr. McKean claims," and asks that it be re turned to Mr. McKean, as he had asked for it in order that he might investigate and ascertain why the communication made such slow time in getting to Coraopolis. The statement is a column in length, but the facts set forth are in brief as follows: MB. SCHLOTTER'S STATEMEKT. I continued to do my work as faithfully and as well as I knew how up to the 15th of June. I have not resigned to this date (the 19th). On the If th the carriers' order book giving the time carrier distributors should work, com mencing Monday, the 16th, did not contain my name. I reported on June 16, at about my usual time, and as my name was not on the timo sheet, reported to Superintendent Young as toon as be came, meanwhile making myself useful at my regular wort. I told Young I bad come to go to work, stated the case, and he told me he knew nothing about it. bat that the postmaster bad ordered him to make the chance. He told me to report the next mora ine between 7 and 8 o'clock, when Sir. McKean would be back. The next morninc I reported, and as Mr. Young was busy, -went to work and as the cases were occupied most of the time, I worked mostly between two cases. "While thus engaged Mr. Yonng came back and said, as near as 1 can recollect: "Mr. Schlot ter, you are not doing risht by coming back here. You are not an employe of this office." I replied tbatl had not received any notice of dumksal, and that Mr. McKean told me if I did not resign by the 15th he would give rea sons, which I have not received. Mr. Young said, that Mr. Swift bad said I had re THINKS si signed, and II was not on the rolltfany longer. He said I had better co and see 8wift. 1 re plied that if my resignation was on file I was not aware of the fact. There' were, I think, seven witnesses to this conversation. I then went to Mr. Swift and stated mv case. Mr. Swift said I was not on the payroll and not an employe, ana that I knew 1 was not wanted there. I answered as I had to Mr. Young, and Mr. Swift referred me to Colonel Hudson, and I stated the case to him. He said: "You and the postmaster will have to settle that." As the postmaster did not come when Mr. Yonnc told me be was expected, the latter told me I had better "slide out;" that I could see bim (the postmaster) the next day, and if I was right I would not lose any time, and I did as be advised. DISMISSED FROM TUB SERVICE. The next morninc, .after long wailing, Mr. Schlotter says, he found the postmaster and was told bv 'him that he had no busi ness in the office; that he was dismissed from the service. Schlotter said he did not know it; had received no notice. Mr. Mc Kean then asked him if he had not received a letter from mm on the 14tb, sent to Cora opolis. and said something about its being tampered with if it had not been received. Here Mr. Schlotter says: I was working on Saturday, the 14th of June, and did not leave Pittsburc until about 3 o'clock, and I do not see why Mr. McKean should send this letter to Coraopolis. Coraop olis is onlj about 11 miles Irom Pittsburg, and It swk stranpe that ltwonld take until 9 A.H.. on the ISth instant until it would be received at the Coraopolis postoffice. which time is shown by the receiving stamp on the entelope. Mr. Schlotter.continning.says Mr. Young told him on the 17th that he had nothing against him, and would rather work with old men than new ones. Schlotter says he has also been told by another man that Young told him he did not Know anytning about the notice asking for their resigna tions until the evening of the 15th of May, and that they had been made out in the morning. Schlotter further savs that the first time he called on Mr. McKean to get the reasons for the discbarge, he reported what he had heard, and said: "So you leave all that to your Superintendents of departments, do you?" and he answered affirmatively. "On the morning of the 18th he said he wonld not give me reasons, but finally, after further conversation, he said: 'I'll give you the reason you are not competent.' "When asked to put that in writing, he said: 'I won't " In conclusion, Schlotter says: WAXTS AX INVESTIGATION. I believe he cannot substantiate the charge by competent people who understand the busi ness of the office, and who know my ability and standing in it, and, as I have already appealed to you for an investigation, I hereby renew that request for a fair and open investigation, in which I can brine others from the office to the stand, and have them tell wbat they know, commendable or otherwise, of me. a Mr. McKean was asked what the other side had to say, and he replied that he did not care to discuss it very much, but he said Mr. Schlotter was incompetent, and had been reported so to him a month before action was taken, but he wanted to give him time to accommodate himself to the change entailed. Further, Mr. McKean said Mr. Schlotter's complaint had been investigated by Mr. Doyle; that he (McKean) had got ten Schlotter's letters back from the depart ment. Finally, Mr. McKean said that while the people who petitioned lor Schlotter's re tention were all right, they knew nothing of the business of the postoffice, or of the merits of the situation. DIED OH THE DIAMOND. A Columbus Man Drops Dead While Playing Ball. At 7 o'clock last evening Charles J. Young, 20 years old, met with a sudden death. The yonng man was playing a game of baseball with a number of companions on old Cycle Park, opposite Exposition Park. Young had just finished makings run when he was suddenly seized with an attack that resembled fits. The yonng man fell to the ground and his companions sent instantly for a physician, but before his ar rival Young had expired, his death being the result of heart failure. The deceased boarded at No. 31 Fourth street, and came trom Columbus, O.. a short time ago. He was employed with a firm of architects, whose headquarters are in the Lewis block. Last evening, after taking supper at their boarding house, No. 31 Fourth street, Pittsburg, J. M. Pollock, a friend, invited Young to go the park to play ball. Young hesitated, and had he refused his sad death might not have occurred. His parents live on South Canal street, Colum bus, and were notified of their son's demise. The body was removed to Herman & Ebert's undertaking rooms, where an inquest will be held to-day. HE WOULD ELECT THE BEST. Colonel Stewart Intimates That Some Con greasmen are Too Backward. Colonel Andrew Stewart, the Congres sional nominee in Old Fayette, was still at the Dnqnesne yesterday. He will have 14 votes inthe convention, but he says so far it is anybody's fight He hopes to be able to get there, and is as hopeful as the other candidates. The Colonel has rood ideas on the selection and duties of a Congressman. Said he yesterday: "The man who goes to Congress shouldn't forget that Presidents and Cabinet officers are made of the same clay as himself, and though he should treat them with the re spect due their positions, he shouldn't be afraid of them or fearful about criticizing them, if he thinks they are wrong. That is the trouble with some Congressmen. They are entirely too modest, and appear to their constituents as if they lacked backbone. Another thing I believe in, finding outthe best man in a district and the keepi ng bim there as long as he will stay. A Congress man who has made a reputation like Colonel Bayne ought to have no trouble in being re turned." GEEAT OCEAN TRAVEL Captain ITlcCorcnlck Snjn Tbl Is the Big Best Season of Them All. "This is the greatest sumniei for ocean travel I ever saw," said Captain J. J. Mc Cormick yesterday, and the captain has, been in the business for more than 20 years. "There are some reasons, of course, for the exodus," he added. "A number of people are attracted to the other side by the Pas sion play at Bavaria. It is surprising how many clergymen, bishops and priests that are going over to see the religious drama. The Medical Convention at Berlin is taking many doctors, and even some laymen are going, but the great bulk of the people are crossing the ocean for the trip. Yes, my boy, this season beats them all, and it is impossible to get a berth in any of the vessels unless it is engaged some lime ahead." ABBESTED TWICE Hi AH HOUR. Peter Strasberg Is Firit Charged With Drnnkennens nnd Then With Tbrff. Peter Strasberg, a Russian, was arrested yesterday morning for drunkenness. He put up a 55 forfeit and was released. A lew minutes later James Welscli, a saloon keeper at No. 1722 Peun avenue, complained that this man had robbed his money drawer of f25. An officer was sent after Strasberg, and in less thau an hour he was back in his old cell. He will have a hearing this morning. GETTIHG BEADY TO CAMP. Fishing CInbi AVI 1 1 Begin to Move About JnlT L F. E. Kan d all, of the Detroit and Cleve land Navigation Company, has been doing some lively buttling among the local fishing clubs. He stated "yesterday that the boys would begin to move abont July L An advance guard of 300 men from the Southside will , start next week Tor the St Clair region, to get things into shape for the army of clnbs that will follow. Dr. B. M. Hasha. Eye, ear, nose and throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720 Peun street, Pittsburg. Pa, s&sn CITY PLAGUE 'SPOTS. Hank Growths of Humanity Await ing Death's Garnering Sickle. HEALTH OFFICIALS POWERLESS. Places Reported Where 30 and 40 Persons Sleep in One Room. BOARDERS ARE WEYER TURNED AWA1 Superintendent Thomas W. Baker, of the Bureau of Health, yesterday received a report from the Pesthouse to the effect that Antonio Laurino, the Italian taken there Thursday, had a pronounced case of small pox. He is now thickly covered with pus tules, but the disease is progressing favora bly. Mr. Baker said everything possible had been done to prevent the spread o! the disease. The occupants of both houses in which Laurino had lodged during his short resideno here, had been vaccinated and the buildings thoroughly fumigated, and he thought there would be no more cases. Mr. Baker said there was considerable trouble with some classes of foreigners in the case of infectious disease. There was a case of smallpox last year in Armstrong's row, Liberty street, and all the friends of the patient insisted npon visiting him. The Bureau of Health was forced to station an officer at the door of the house, night and day, to prevent people going in and out POWERLESS TO ACT. The superintendent's attention was called to the manner in which Italians and Hun garians live in this "city, hundreds some times sleeping in one house, and he was asked if such places would not be hotbeds of disease, in case of an epidemic Mr. Baker replied: "There is no donbt but that those places are bad for the health of the city, and some action should be taken to prevent over crowding, but I do not see how it can be done, unless by the police authorities. I have been looking up the matter, but can find no law empowering us to move. Of course, in the event of an epidemic, our power is almost unlimited; but there is no epidemic now, and I hope there will not be." Police Superintendent O'Mara and In spector McAleese were asked if they could take any action in cleaning out these possi ble plague-spots. Snperintendent O'Mara said : "It is the duty of the Health Bureau to look after these places. They surely have some law under which they can proceed. X think they might proceed against them as nuisances which threaten the pnblic health. If the health officials take any action they will receive the hearty support of the po lice." SLEEPING IK A STABLE. Inspector McAleese said he knew of a number of places in the city that should be weeded out "There are courts and alleys in this city," he said, "where the fetid odor of packed and dirty humanity would over come any citizen of ordinary cleanliness. These people, that is, Italians and Hungar ians especially, save every cent they can to return home with, and live here in squalor and filth. When the Junction road was being built 40 Italians slept in one small stable, paying $1 apiece a month rent In the heart of the city there are dozens of places just as badly crowded, and if disease ever breaks out in one of them the mortality will be fearful, and the worst of it is, many people who are scrupulously clean will suf fer and die also." The police officials gave a few of these spots, as follows: PACKED LIKE SARDINES. The Battery, on Webster avenue, sup posed to contain 400 to 500 residents. Three alleys off High street, and two off Tunnel street. These are literally packed, as many as 30 or 40 persons sleeping in one room. An alley on Grant street, near Second avenue. On Sunday, when the denizens of this place are awake and on their feet, there is actually not enougn room lor tnem in the court, and they overflow on to Grant street like yeast escaping from a jug. It keeps an officer busy all day cleaning the sidewalk. Splane's Court, off Filth avenue, affords shelter to a countless multitude. Several houses on Spring alley could fur nish instruction to an expert packer of sar dines. The Musgrove Building, on Liberty street, is said by the police to be a hive of human beings. The Eagle's Nest, on Twentieth street, is inhabited by persona of every nationality and color, crowded in thickly and pro miscuously. Seven hundred Hungarians sleep and eat in a row of three small houses near Fifty second street These men work in a mill." ON THE SOUTHSIDE. The way that the Poles are crowded in some houses on the Southside has long been talked of among police officials and citizens who have had occasion to visit the habita tions of this class of citizens. The Hunga rians, Slavs and Poles are all the same in regard to crowding, with the exception that the Hungarians more olten bring their wives with them, while the Poles all bunk to gether. Some time ago Captain Stewart and De tective Williams had occasion to make an arrest of a Slav on the Welsh road. The bouse only had two small rooms. Iu the upper room 11 men slept, and in the lower room 22. On entering, the stench that arose was suflocating. The men were sleeping on a bed of straw covered with old cofiee sacks, and most of their clothes on. Their shoes were all piled in the middle of the room, and it is a mystery to know how each distinguished his own in the morning. THIETY IN A BOOM. In Polishtown, at the head of Twenty sixth street, as high as 30 have been known to live in one small house. The Poles are now collecting around the new Polish church on Fifteenth street, for several squares, and in nearly every case a family having a small house has lrom eight to ten boarders. Another Polish stronghold is in Chambers' court, ofl of Eighth street A glance into one of the sub-cellar ways is enough to sicken a sensitive man. in some cases the occupants of the bouse cook, eat aud. sleep iu the same room, and the cooking utensils and provisions are stored on chairs, the floor or any other convenient place. ALLEGHENY W GOOD SHAPE. The Health OQlciata Don't Walt far Disease to Break Out. . For some time past fears were entertained by Alleghenians that parts of the city were in a terrible state of wretchedness and squalor. It was hinted that certain locali ties were in urgent need of sanitary inspec tion. Beports were circulated that several nooses were overcrowded with people living in misery and filth. An investigation was instituted, and in formation elicited from reliable sources stating that there was no cause for alarm. Health Officer Bradley said: "There is not a taint of foulness in the city. Thorough inspection has been made of every locality and not a single case discovered that is open to condemnation." Mr. Bradley's assistants stated that no complaint had reached them, and every ward was found to be in healthy sanitary order. Richard Ackley said: "The wards occu pied chiefly by Hungarians are all right, and other localities said to be In a poor sani tary condition are clean and healthy. We never wait till disease manifests its presence belore ordering inspection of a neighbor hood, but aim to keep a locality free from even a suspicion of squalor." Silk, lisle and balbriggan underwear. Jakes H. Aiken & Co., 100 Fifth ave. PEDDLERS MUST PAY. Proceedings Agatnnt Inoiollment Agents. Batcher, Baker. Milkmen and Other Chief Brown Will Make a Teat Cae To-Day Many License Taken Out. The peddlers' license ordinance is to be rigidly enforced. Many have already taken the hint, and in the past two days 70 licenses have been taken out This adds to the'eity's revenues, as the fee runs all the way from f 10 to ?50. Yesterday J. Lomask, of Lomask & Bros., cigar manufacturers, was "arrested in the West End for peddlfng without a license. He gave bail for a bearing to-day. Michael Youryea, a scissors grinder, was arrested on Sniithfield street for peddling umbrellas. Chief Brown will proceed against the in stallment agents. A test case will be made and taken to court to decide the question of their liability to taxation. Inspector McKelvey, of the Southside district, has instructed his officers to arrest butchers, bakers and milkmen who are without peddlers' licenses. Inspector McKelvey, in speaking of the matter, said that he was unable to see any legal discrimination between a man who sells and peddles meat, milk or bread and one who sells or peddles potatoes on the street. The men engaged in these pursuits, he claims, are included in the list of those who are required to have a license, and will be arrested on view in the same manner as those who have gone before in the present crusaae against unlicensed peddlers. "According to the law," said the Inspector, "the only persons exempt from carrying a license are gardeners, farmers and dairy men, who sell or peddle their own products, and these are the only ones whom the police will not look after. There may be some difficulty in distinguishing between those who only deliver merchandise per order and those who do not, but we will be able to evade anything serious. The law is clear and certain, aud although it is true that bntchers, bakers and milkmen are not re garded as peddlers, it is none the less true that they are, and will have to take out a license." AS GOOD ASNEW YORK. Mr. Oliver Bar That If the Census Figures on the Metropolis Are Given Out, TJo Will Relieve the Anxiety of Allegheny Conncy Citizen. Census Supervisor Oliver has received no instruction from Superintendent Porter in regard to giving out information, but he says if the Supervisors in other cities are allowed to make public the figures in their possession, he will certainly ssk that he be given the same privilege. To do this, how ever, Mr. Oliver will have to count all the returns sent in, as there was no provision made for enumerators to furnish the totals of their districts. Abont 80 per cent of the enumerators in the two cities have made their returns, and Mr. Oliver desires that the others will hurry up with theirs. A lew country districts have also come in. Mr. Oliver finds that the returns made this week are generally in better shape than those sent in last week. He attributes the improved work to the fact that the enumer ators who made the later returns gave more time and attention to their duties. Another censes enumerator has had trouble with Hungarians. George R. Stone, of McKeesport, yesterday made in formation against a number of Huns who refused to answer his questions. United States Commissioner Gamble made out the warrants, and a police officer will accom pany the enumerator to the dwellings of the Huns, and if they are still stubborn, will arrest them and put them in the county jail. HOW TO KEEP TEOUT. An Old Fisherman !-ny to Wrap Them In Brown Paper. Old Izaak Walton hasn't a more devoted follower in these regions than L. M. Wooden, Traveling Passenger Agent of the Lake Frie road. He never misses an op portunity to mingle pleasure with business, and only yesterday he returned from the wilds of Clearfield county with a string of 63 trout. He went there to capture passen gers, and he caught both people and fish. Mr. Worden states that between Clearfield and Pennfield alone Lick- run is an un broken forest of 20 miles. The scenery is the wildest and most picturesque, and the mountain streams make the hills resound with the gurgle of the limpid water. His party had no trouble to hook plenty of tront anv kill snakes for diversion. Mr. 'Worden has a novel plan for preserv ing the fish that he claims will discount ice. He wrapped the speckled trout in a large piece of common brown paper which he first dipped in water, and around the, whole he placed several newspapers. When he ar rived here yesterday the fish were as firesh as when pulled from the water. The eyes were bright and the gills as red as when the frisky littleanimals first wriggle at the end of the line. The paper keeps oat the air and preserves the fish. DOMESTIC TE0UBLE3 Cause Citizen of Chnrtlcr Township to Attempt Pulclde by Shooting-. Henry Steinhauser, of Chartiers town ship, just beyond the city line at the West End, shot himself in the temple and abdo men about 9 o'clock last night at his home. He was brought to the city on a Pittsburg and Lake Erie train and taken to the Homeopathic Hospital, where his condi tion was resarded as extremely critical. He had not recovered consciousness at mid night The only cause that could be learned for Steinbause's act was from some of those in, whose care he was brought to the city. They said that the attempt on his life, which in all probability will result as he intended,'! was caused by some domestic difficulty, but of what nature no one conld speak. He is about 46 years of age .and married. THE WAY IS CLEAR. Allegheny School Children' Jubilee Sure to ben Saccens. Beports at last night's meeting of the Allegheny Children's Jubilee Committee in the School Board room showed that suc cess was assured. Circulars soliciting sub scriptions were directed to be sent out The Committee of the Board of School Controllers will arrange to have all the schools in line, and Secretary Scandrett will forward to the different schools a programme containing all the details of the parade. Leaders of brass bands were invited to communicate with City Organist Wales in regard to being open for engagements and terms, etc., for that date. ROBBED A P00E WIDOW. Mr. Georae Davidson and Her Four Chil dren frirnnded In l'lltsburc. Mrs. George Davidson, a widow, with four little children, are sleeping to-nigbtin the hospital department of the Central station. She lives at Dubois, and is on her way back from a visit to an elder son, who is a miner at Blossburg. Mrs. Davidson reached the Lake Erie de pot yesterday aiternoon and laid her satchel, containing her purse, on a seat While her attention was attracted for a moment, some saeakthief walked away with her satchel, leaving her penniless. The party will be sent home to-day. Ha a Baby to Give Avrny. Miss Porter, Actuary of the Children's Aid Society, Dispensary building, Sixth avenue, has in her charge a bright and at tractive little girl of 14 months of age, for whom the society isjooking for a home in a family of refinement The child is unusu ally attractive, and there will probably be numerous applications lor her. LAWS FOR PAUfERS. Work "Which Has Been Performed by the State Poor Commission. STAETLIfiG DISCOVERIES MADE. Some Indigent People Pn Oat to Board to the Lowest Bidders. THE NORTHWEST IET TO BE VISITED A meeting of the State Poor Law Com mission was called to be held in this city next Monday, but it has been postponed until September. Some of the members of the commission desire to attend the Repub lican State Convention next week, and others find that business will claim their at tention at present It was intended to hold only a short session here, and then to visit Armstrong, Butler, Mercer, Lawrence, Venango, Crawford and Erie counties to look into the operations of the poor laws there. This tour of the western counties will now be made in September. This commission and the work it is doing have not attracted much attention from the citizens of the Commonwealth. Its mission is one of much importance, not to taxpayers only, but to all the people. It was appointed by Governor Beaver, under an act of May, 1889, to prepare a general poor law which shall operate in all the counties of the Com monwealth alike or nearly alike. The members of the commission are: Hon. Lewis Pngh, President, of Scran tou; Hon. D. Watson Rowe, of Franklin county; John Kevin Hill, of Northumberland; William Lawson, of Philadelphia; William N. Appei, of Lancaster; William Edward Marsh, of Erie county, and Robert D. Mc Gonnigle, ol Allegheny. Elliott Bodgers, the young attorney of this city, is secretary of the commission. President Pugh was for two terms a member of the General Assem bly and afterward was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the Common wealth. He is a heavy manufacturer in Scranton and has for some years been a member of the Scranton Poor Board. THE OTHER MEMBERS. Judge Rowe was formerly on the bench in Franklin county and is an experienced law yer. Mr. Hill is a lawyer in Sunbury, and has made the study of poor law a specialty. On that subject he is perhaps the best posted man in the State. Mr. Lawson is an ex-commissioner of Philadelphia county and has practically dealt with paupers. Mr. Appel for some years has been the at torney for the Lancaster Poor Board. Mr. Marsh, an attorney, was formerly Mayor of Corry. Mr. McGonnigle is a specialist in the study of poor laws. He was secretary of the Allegheny Poor Board lrom 1870 to 1881, organized the State Association of Poor Directors, and since its organization has been secretary of the association. The commission is thus admirably composed to deal with the matter intrusted to it. The commission will report to Governor Beaver iu November or December of this year, and the Governor will transmit the report to the General Assembly in January 1891. The commission has studied the poor laws of those States which have recent general enactments,and has taken testimony iu several eastern counties where the laws are old and incongruous, and where their oper ations produce the greatest hardships and inequalities of justice. Pennsylvania had a provincial poor law enacted in 1771, designed particularly for Philadelphia, but applicable to other conn ties. It was practically a copy of the la win England. In 1836 an act was prepared by a State commission and was passed by the Legislature. It was intended to be a general law, but was narrow in its scope, and con tains many clauses which are so opposed to ideas of this day that they have become dead letters, i SOME OF THE ODDITIES. One clause, for instance, provides that if a stranger comes to live with any house holder, the latter must report 'his ar rival to the overseers or supervisors of the poor within a certain time, or rqn the risk of being compelled to support the newcomer should he become sick or indigent. This is still the law, but is obsolete. The law does not compel the same system of treatment of paupers in every county, and the result has been great diversity of methods. Eight counties in the Commonwealth have each one single district or local poor Louse; two counties have each two local poorhouses, Montour and Northumberland; two have three each. Allegheny and Colum bia; two, Philadelphia and Susquehanna, have four each, and one, Lackawanna, has five poorhouses. Thirty-five counties have each one poorhouse for the entire county, and the remaining 17 counties have no poor houses at all. It is in these 17 coun ties where the commission finds the most troublesome, antiquated and un just, methods of dealing with .the poor and sick. In each of these 17 counties each township or borough is a law unto itself in poor matters. There is a board of three township overseers of the poor, who levy the poor tax, deal with the paupers as they see fit, and account for their expendi tures only to a township auditor, who is sometimes in collusion with them in their Ecculiar operations. There being no poor ouse the paupers are boarded out to the lowest bidder. In Union, Monroe and Snyder counties the commission carefully investigated the treatment of the poor, and discovered some peculiar things. In Union county it ap peared, from the testimony taken, that the chief business of the overseers is to prevent a new man, unless he be clearly wealthy, from gaining a residence in a township. It a poor man moves into a township, even though he be able bodied and industrious, the overseers will notify him to depart, will warn landlords not to rent to him on pain of being made responsible for the man, and will tell the assessor not to tax tho man. HOW TO BECOME A RESIDENT. Payment of taxes for two years will give a man a residence. The overseers will do every possible thing to drive the newcomer out of their township. They do not care where he goes, save that be must depart out of their borders. If he move into an adjoin ing township there also he will be harassed in tho same manner. In some of these town ships able-bodied but lazy men wbo will not work are supported in idleness. Some of the overseers, who were disposed to cling to the system, admitted that it would be better for such fellows if there were a county poorhouse. They could be sent there and compelled to work. Still, the overseers said, "it would cost more to have a poorhouse." Beiore the commission went to Monroe county its members heard that paupers were auctioned there. They could hardly believe it, but their investigations satisfied them that the system might be not incorrectly spoken of as an auction. A terrible state of affairs was discoveied. When a person becomes a pauper the overseers immediately look about to find what family will board that pauper at the lowest rate. They generally have many offers, and the lowest bidder, without regard to his character, gets the pauper and totes him away. The taxpayers ot the township all are anxious to have that unfortunate pauper boarded at the cheapest possible rate. Sometimes the overseers, take the job themselves, especially if the' pauper be a child. WHAT BOARD COSTS. The boarding paid for adnlts is from $1 SO to ?2 SO a week, and for children usually $1 a week. One of the bad features of the sys tem that the people who take the pauper to board) are often the meanest and poorest in the township, little better than paupers themselves. The unfortunate gets the worst kind of food and the scantiest clothing, but he must be kept out of the grave as long as possible, In order that he may bring revenue to the family. If the pauper be able to work, so much the better. His earnings, however, are not his own, and must be turned oyer as a part of his board monev. The children of paupers receive no schooling or care, and grow np like wild beasts. Overseers related these things to the commission without seeming to think that there was anything wrong in the sys tem. In Union and Monroe counties cases were found where men able to earn their living were driven from one township to another because the overseers feared they might at some time become chargeable on the town ship. In Monroe a man named Bnskirk, who had never asked relief, was expelled from Hamilton township into Pocono town ship. He was an industrious man and re fused toremain in'Pocono.' He went back to Hamilton, and the two townships are now litigating over him. In such ways money is spent in lawsuits which would keep a pauper well for several years. The over seers are themselves costly, for they are paid from $1 to 52 a day in various townships. A STRANGE STORT. A strange tale was revealed in Union county. There the commission found a tribe ot lawless, icnorant and idle people, settled in the mountains of Hartley town ship, who had been driven over lrom Snyder county. The people of Hartley township do not want them, but do not know how to rid themselves of them. Iu Snyder county these vagabonds gave great trouble. The murder of a mun named Kinzer was believed to have been com mitted by them, and they were chargeable with various robberies throughout the neighborhood. The people of Snyder county banded together and burned the houses of these mountain scalawags, and warned them to cross the summit into Union. Most of them did so, but one woman, with several children, lived for nearly a rear nnder a pile of slabs, in the utmost filth. At last her slabs were burned, and she was driven across.the line. Chambers, a blind man, moved from Lan caster to Juniata county. He had $200 in cash and went to raising poultry. He Lad a wife and grown son able to work. Within five months after entering Juniata he had saved $180 more. Nevertheless he was warned to leave there or to furnish bail that he would not become chargeable on the township. He demurred nnd has been for several months contesting the matter. The commission is satisfied that the over seer system should be entirely abolished, and that each connty should be compelled to maintain an almshouse. The most ex perienced men in the several counties visited agreed in this opinion. ONE TVAT TO SAVE MONEY. The commission believes that there should be something in the law placing certain paupers, of uncertain home, in the charge of the State, and giving the State Board of Charities power to transport alien paupers out of the Commonwealth and back to the foreign shore from which they came. New York has such a law, which has been care fully studied by the commissioners, and they have found that it has operated to save the State a great deal of money. The members of the commission have di vided the work among themselves, each man being directed to study and prepare the faw on a certain branch of the general sub ject After the September tour it will not require much time to put the results into definite form. During the summer each member will pursue his special inquiries. The law must be broaa, and so worded that in some of the most populous counties spe cial institutions can be maintained, as they are now. The commissioners feel that they will have some difficulty to frame a long, general law, which will be constitutional at all points. WISHABT STILL IN THE EHfO. He Charge Two Person Wllh Keeping DUordrrly t'lacea on Wylle Avcnne. Alice Reppoli, an Italian woman, who lives near the eastern extremity of Wylie avenne, and M. N. Dougherty, of the same neighborhood, were lodged in jail last night on information entered by Captain Washart charging them with keeping disorderly houses. The informations were entered before Atderman Bell. Mrs. Reppoli is a young married woman and has two children. On their account Agent Dean secured her release from the jail until the hearing On Monday. No Jane Alerting. President Holland, of the Academy of Science and Art, has issued, a circular stating that no call for a June meeting wonld be made. There is no business to be transacted. The academy has secured the Thaw mansion at a low rate. Montooth Headquarters. ) Cor. Fifth Ave. and Wood St. j The Committee on Transportation for the trip to convention at Harrisbnrg would an nounce that excursion tickets will be ready for distribution at headquarters at 10 o'clock on Monday morning, the 22d inst All persons having left their names will please be prompt in securing their tickets, as the number engaged have nearly all been taken. Train leaves 8 A. M. Tuesday morn ing. Tickets good for three days. Geo. L. Holmday, H. P. Ford, Alex JE,. McCandleS3, Committee on Transportation. Sbndyilda Academy. The commencement exercises of Shady side Academy will be held in the chapel of Shadyside Church Tuesday evening, June 24. at 8 o'clock. The examination of candidates for admis sion as pupils to fall term will be held at the academy bnilding Wednesday morning, June 25, at 9 o'clock. For further informa tion apply to Prof. W. B. Crabbe, Princi pal, Shadyside. ins Communicated. Attention! Democratic Voter. Go to the polls Saturday afternoon, June 21, (5 to 7 o'clock) and vote for the delegate in favor of Daniel McWilliams for County Commissioner. Silk mitts for evening wear, in cream white, white, pink, bine, red and black; all prices. Jos. Horne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Little Benalle for Little Darling. 1,600 children's magnificent white lawn and gingham dresses have just arrived and will be placed on sale in Haulmanns' cloak department this morning. June Redaction Sale. 100 doz. men's natural thread half hose 25c reduced from 35c Open until 9 P. M. Saturday. A. G. Campbell & Sons, 27 Filth ave. B. Si B. 60 cents. Boys' waists, made ot Garnier's percales, choice patterns. Our price, 50c; cheap at 75e. Booos & Buhl. James H. Aiken & Co. carry the largest and finest line of men's neckwear. 100 Fifth ave. Ladies' Blazers In cream and fancy checks and stripes. Prices cut to close quickly. Huous & Hacke. TTSSU Excursion lo Ohio Pyle To-morrow (Sunday). Rate $1 60 the round trip. Train leaves B. & O. depot at 8 a. M. Fine 8-button suede mosquetaire gloves $1 25 and 51 50; also 12-button evening shades 52 50, at BosENBAUM & Co.'s. The best regulator of thedicestiveorgans, best appetizer known, is Angostura Bitters. Communicated. What's the matter with Dan McWill iams? He's all right, and will be one of the Democratic nominees for Connty Com missioner, Here, Girl. ThU'll Caleb Yoo. 900 beautiful satine blouses.all the go and style, and will wash well, will be sold by Kaufmanns to-day at 74c A ROMANTIC SUICIDE. The Sad Fate of a Young German Girl Who Fled From Fatherland WITH THE LOVER OF HEE CHOICE. After Several Separations She Becomes Utterly Despondent AND TAKES A BIG DOSE OP PAEIS GREES About noon yesterday Emma Schmotzer, a German girl, died at the Southside Hos pital, in horrible agony, as the result of taking a very large dose of paris green. At the hospital she was very reticent in regard to the cause for her taking the poison, and endeavored to cover up every clew to her identity. These facts, with several other curious things in connection with her death, led to an investigation last night, which resulted in disclosing some interesting facts of a romantic nature. For some little time the girl has been stay ing with Mrs.Cosky, a German friend living at No. 26 on the Welsh road. The latter lady could assign no cause for the death, and would not talk much regarding the matter. However, alter some search a lady named Mrs. Kinzer, who lives nearby, was found, who knew the girl well, and to whom she bad told the story of her life. Miss Schmotzer came to this country abont two months ago on a strange quest Her father is an attache of the German Gov ernment, and it is said, stands high in social circles. His daughter was quite a belle, but cared naught for the suitors of her father's choice, and clandestinely met a young mechanic. At last they resolved to elope to America. After landing in Philadelphia, they be came separated and followed each other to Camden, N. J. They finally reached Pitts burg, where the girl and her lover expected to be married, but for some cause matters did not" go right, and the voung man went to Cleveland and left the girl behind. She has worked for some time to ob tain money to follow her lover. At last she had everything ready to go to Cleveland, and last Thursday night had her trunk packed ready lo start She left the house of Mrs. Cosky early in the evening, to cet her ticket, as she said. The family heard her come in after they had retired, and did not imagine that anything was wrong until they heard screams at about 5 o'clock yesterday morning and found her writhing in agony. Whether she had received a letter from the younc; man which fed her to the rash act or was suddenly seized with a fit of melancholy as a result of her futile efforts tomeet her lover, is a mystery,and probably will ever be, as she lest no explanation. Attention! Look! "We are offering now the best bargains in pianos and organs that were ever offered in the city. Our special run of bright new upright pianos at $100 has met with such favor and rapid sales that we have brought from the manulactory and opened np a large lot of them in different styles of cases. AH these pianos are warranted to be made of hard wood, ivory keys, etc., and to give satisfaction. Our stock of pianos is com plete in every detail, consisting of squares, grands, uprights, at all prices aud in all kindsof foreign and domestic natural woods. We also have a very large stock of second hand pianos and organs that we are closing out regardless of price. When we say this we mean it, and will sell you an organ froai $10 to $15 and upward and a piano at $25 to $50 upward, and everyone ot these instru ments is good for many years' use; in addi tion to the above, don't forget that we are the only place iii the city where you can ouy the matchless Decker Bros., the superb Knabe artist piano and the sweet-toned popular Fischer pianos, the world-renowned Estey and the artistic Story & Clark organs a constellation of stars in their line that cannot be found outside of Hamilton's music store. Any'and all of these sold at the most accommodating prices and easy payments. Call in and see" us, at 91 aud 93 Filth avenne, Hamilton builcing. Ask to See tho Ten Wire Tapestry Carpet at 73c and the five frame Brussels at $1 at the People's Store. They are new, fresh goods bought cheap at the end of the season. We could not get such goods earlier in the season to sell tor any such prices. Come quick if you want them. Campbell & Dice. Crepe de chene and net parasol $17 ones at ?1-; ?lo ones at 510. Jos. Horne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. EXTRA VALUES. Ginghams at reduced prices. Thousands of vards on onr shelves and counters at 10c, 12Kc l7c and 23c These are all in extra grades and choicest patterns and colorines. We have made each line interesting by including many pieces that were held at higher ngnres. Special value in embroideries. We have Just bought a large lino of fine embroideries which, we offer' at Inlly S3 per cent under former values. 27-Inch H. S. Ftouncinjrs at 50c 45-Inch H. H. Plouncincs at 50c, 65c and up. Black drapery nets in all silk choice designs, 4$-inches wide, at 60c, 75c, 85c Beautiful floral designs and stripes in black silk draperies ai Jl to S3. Ladles' fast black hosiery at 25c These are In every respect a bargain. Ono cose Indian Pongees at 12c This is a licht weight wash material 23 inches wide. In rich printings. They sell rapidly. Two cases 36-Inch cballi at 12c In much handsomer effects than any of oar previous offerings. A few umbrella bargains. 20-inch twills, with silver mountings, Jl. 2tMnch gloria, with silver mountings, SI 25. 25-inch gloria, with very fine handles, Jl 50 and 175. 26-inch silk umbrellas on twisted oak bandies, silver mounted. $2 75. Extra fine covers on antique oak handles, mounted in silver. M 50. For gentlemen. IB-inch fast black serce um brella', silver mourned, natural sticks, Jl 37. zs-men gloria, saver mountings, tz. Extra good values in lace, cheek and stripe muslins. 12c and 15c up to 25c Apronettes, lull widths, 12Jc to SOc Some excellent bafgalns in ladies' and gents' haudkerchiefs: Ladies' printed borders. 5c; 60c a dozen. Ladies' printed borders, 3 for 25c Ladies' H. S., extra value, all linen, 12c; $1 35 a dozen. Ladles' extra sheer linen cambric handker chiefs, with new designs in corners, 25c; 3 a Gents' 2-inch H. a, all linen, very good. 25c; $2 75 a dozen. Gents' extra fine grade handkerchiefs, 3c to 50c Ladies' embroidered handkerchiefs, 30c to il each. Ruchings. in 'new and novel designs, at 25c: also in boxes, 6 yards, for 18c and 25c Ladies' and gents Windsor ties. In surah silk, crepes, lace effects, etc, at 25c to 50c. Black Crepe de Chine at SI to f 1 37 a ' yard. This is a very soft and cool fabric lor ladies' dresses. Black French all-wool chain, 3S-Inch, at 50c BIBER & EASTON, 505 and 507 MARKET STREET. je21-TTSSU CIGAHS-I. A.B. 4COS. CU1JAN HAND Jf ADE. The best ciirar for the money. SI 50 per hnndred. JOHN A. RENSHAW & CO. Fancy Grocers, cor, Liberty and Ninth sts. mhS-WS KEW ADVERTISEMeNTR. PrTTSBTBO. Batnrday, June 2L 159X JDS. HDRNE 4 CD.'B PENN AVE. STORES. Gentlemen: Our French Balbriggan Underwear Is th best wearing underwear In the world. Prices, 50c, 75c, Jl and 1 25 per garment for shirts and drawers. English Balbriggan, good fitting, serviceable, cool, 50c per garment. Men's Lisle Thread Underwear at Jl per gar ment. A fine quality of lisla thread starts at JITSXor smallest, rising slightly with the size. They are our own importations and these are bed-rock prices : A Gauze Undershirt for 25c, ' And the best one for the money yon evsf wore. Jean Drawers. Linen Drawers. Nainsook Drawers and Shirts. A pnre Silk Undershirt at the lowest price at . which a reliable shirt can be bought. Complete lines of finer to finest in pure Silk Shirts and Drawers in the light to very light gauze weights. Ganze Wool Underwear as soft as silk. Natural Underwear in weights suitable for the warmest weather, $1 50 and Slper garment and upward. Including the celebrated goods ot Allen Solly & Co. There's nothing in Underwear yon cannot get here. Any size: fits for the lean and lone, the short and stout: the lean ana short, the lone and stout. Another lot of those Colored Balbriggan Half Hose at 25c Of these Bargain Sox a dozen dozens a day Is no remarkable sale The best quarter dollar's worth you can buy. Absolutely Fast Black Half Hose at 25c, 35c, 40c 45c, 50c 75c and SI a pair. Finest French Balbriggan Sox, lightest . weights, 25c, 35c, EOc, 75c and np to finest. Lisle Thread Half Hose, fast colors and fast blacks, SOc to Jl 25. Mens Negligee Shirts : Oxford at J2 50. Madras at S3 25 to J2 60. Cheviot at Jl 35 to S2 50. Flannel at Jl 50 to Jo. Pure Silk at Jl to JS 50. New Black Silk at J6. Matting Oxford at J2. Onr own importations of Men's Tennis Suits, exclusive patterns, plain white and fancy, fi, $12 and J14 60. Tennis Caps, Belts, . Sashes. Blazers. Light Summer Coats, J3 50 upward. Men's Bathing Suits. A new lot of Fisk, Clark & Plage's Washable "4-in-4S's" ready for to-day, and every piece new. Our English All-Silk Windsor Ties (at 60c) are never imitated In cheap goods. Summer Neckwear of every possible descrlp" tion. Our $i ShirTT White, unlaundried, has the latest imnrovements, is made the best, fits the best, and is all any man desires in a white shirt. We make Shirts to order. Boys1 Furnishings : Go back over the list. The boys have a share In everything, and a complete assortment for them, too. The Star Waist, best Boy's Waist In the world. JD5. HDRNE I ED. 609-621 PENN AVENUE. lea MDQUETTE WEEK! SPECIAL OFFER FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. Daring the Week beginning June 16, we wi offer 6,000 YARDS BEST QUALITY SMITH'S t HARTFORD MOQUETTES AT $1 ioPER YARD. Goods that have always sold at Jl 50 per yard. BORDERS TO MATCH. These were bought new this spring, but ws must have room for a later purchase now com. lng. EDWARD GRDETZINBER. 627 and 629 Penn Avenne. jel5-TTSSO pIGARS J. A. R. 4 COJS AMIGAS. Clear Havana J7 00 per hundred. JOHN A. REN SHAW A CO, Fancy Grocers, cor. Liberty and Ninth sts. xnnMra,
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