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THEMERCURrSTJULE
frightful Degrees of Heat in Which
Pittsburg Men and Women Are
Toiling Day by Day.
HIGHER THAN IN PAECHED ADEN.
An Ordinary Thermometer Bursts While
Hanging at the Side of a Work
man in a Boiling Mill.
HILLIKEE5 AT WOEK IN 110 DEGREES.
Bunts Btlun That llnst Fact a Temperature That
Can Hardly he Eitimated.
rwEirrxx Ton thx BisrATCH.3
N an article published in The
Dispatch recently the statement
was made that at Aden and in
several other parts of the -world,
notably Australia, the tempera
ture in the shade often sends the
mercury up to 130 and 135.
This veil-established fact is al
most startling when it is consid.
ered that SO people fall dead in a
day at Chicago when the mercury
registers even less than 100. But
a still more startling fact is that right here
In Pittsburg human beings are toiling day
by day in temperatures as great as that of the
barren rock at the mouth of the Bed Sea.
"With a view" Tto ascertaining beyond a
donbt how much actual heat is experienced
every day by the working classes who are
known to endure more than the actual ter
restrial temperature, the writer made a
number of practical tests In Tarious work
shops throughout the city during the past
week. That the test might be as thorough
as possible, a first-class thermometer was
secured and a number of institutions in
77i Brawny JPuddler.
which no heating furnaces of exceptional
size are used, were selected to demonstrate
that even in common--place- workrooms the
temperature often rites to such a point that
to live through it in the opinion of some,
becomes a test of endurance.
JUST MODERATE SWEATERS.
On Monday when the thermometer of the
weather bureau registered only several de
grees above the 90 mark a visit was paid to
half a dozen establishments in the central
portion of the city, among them a paper box
factory, a warehouse, a printing house and a
packing room, and tbe lowest point the mer
cury touched was 96. In a majority of
cases the 100 mark was passed to the extent
of several degrees. In a stereotyping es
tablishment 110 was reached without any
trouble, and workmen connected witn the
place said the thermometer usually main
tained itself in the neighborhood of that
point in weather of the kind the whole day
long. In fact, they had known it on many
occasion to do even better that.
In a book-bindery, adjoining a machinery
room in a badly ventilated building, tbe
mercury sailed gaily up to 113, in which it
failed to agree with a companion in the
same room, which went two degrees better.
Information gathered from various sources
proved that such temperatures were by no
means uncommon. In a well known mil
linerv house was quite a small room in
which were gathered more than a score of
joung ladies plying their trade. Scattered
about was aoy quantity of fine artificial
flowers, ribbons, etc, and as these articles
are easily soiled the windows were kept
closed to' prevent ingress of any dust or dirt
A Stent Jfurnaee Cast.
that might cause loss. This room had no
adjacent fnrnaces to heighten the tempera
ture, but the poor workwomen, from whom
the air of the outer world was shutout,
.breathed and perspired in an atmosphere
that sent the murcury np to 110 degrees.
IS- A ROLLING MILL.
This is a test of human endurance cer
tainly as severe as that to which tbe
bronzed inhabitants of Aden submit them
selves; bnt Pittsburg has worse temper
atures. "Visiting the Southside the first ex
perience was in a rolling mill. Just previ
ous to entering the thermometer was lound
to register 94. In the vicinity of the
different rolling departments where men by
the score were toiling anything from 115 to
125 was the result. The test was made with
the thermometer atno time facing the metal,
as the workmen have to do, but in such a
place and in such a manner as would indi
cate tbe General condition of the atmn.nfcp-
in which the workers exist. Experiments
aade at other mills proved that this was a
fair average in tbese departments. In sev
eral places, where the conditions were differ
ent, a higher temperature was noted, but
the figures given above indicate a very fair
average.
On the same day a paddling department
was visited. The experiments there were
surprising. The thermometer used had a
limit of 130. A point between two fur
naces was selected where a number of men
Vers "boiling a heat," as it is called. The
itemperatuxe was something terrible to one
standing Idle, but there were men about in
all directions turning over balls of white
hot metal in the furnace, weighing nearly,
if not more, than 500 pounds.
BURSTING A THERMOMETER.
The thermometer was hung alongside one
of the men who had been toiling for .some
time and toiled during the whole course of
the test and was still at it when the writer
left. Ha laughed when the little instru
ment was placed in position, and remarked:
"Well, this is the first time I've seen that
tried, bnt I don't think your thermometer
will stand it."
For the first three or four minutes the
mercury increased only a couple of degrees
above 110 which was the point to which it
had fallen after experiments in the rolling
department Then it began to bound up
ward with ever increasing velocity. In five
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minutes it had reached 118; in six 121 was
reached; in seven 124: in eight 129, and a
few seconds after 130. Here it bad to stop
as it had reached the end of its (ether. Sat
isfied that an instrument of higher register
must be secured to conduct an experiment
in such a place, the writer was about to re
move it when
Bang!
Away went the top of the tnbe and the
balance fell in fragments to the ground.
The workmen who bad crowded around
burst into guffaws of laughter at the result
of the experiment.
BLAST FURNACE HEAT.
Another and higher grade thermometer
was then taken out to Shoenberger, Speer &
Co.'s bl.ist iurnace. One of the gentlemen
connected with the establishment showed
the writer every courtesy, and by his atten
tion and furtherence of the efforts to secure
a perfect test made the visit, beyond the dis
comfort occasioned by the superabundance
of caloric let loose for a time, a very pleas
ant one. Generally speaking there is not
much heat about a blast furnace during
most of the time, with the exception of a few
places, and Shoenberger, Speer & Co.'s is
no exception to the rule, in fact, some of the
workmen present at the time, who bad fol
lowed the same vocation at quite a number
of other plaees, stated that the furnace in
question was the coolest they had ever been
employed in. Besides, the efforts of this
firm in the way of securing artesian well
water and oatmeal to temper it aud many
other improvements added materially to the
comfort of the men.
Bnt if this is a comparatively oool place,
what must some of the warm ones be? True
the men only work hard for about 20 or 30
minutes every four hours, but they catch it
then. This ocenrs when a cast is made from
tbe furnace. The molten metal runs down
a large channel of sand, from which it.is de
flected into smaller ones at the side, which
connect with hundreds of molds ranged in
rows.
SEAS THE 110 MARK.
As all this has to be turned into its proper
place by workmen with poles and bars, one
can have a faint impression of what the heat
Mftlng Out Crucibles.
amounts to during that period. Banging
the thermometer alongside one of these
workmen lor 16 minutes it developed a tem
perature of 138, and there is hardly a
doubt that if it had proper time and was
placed at other positions a much higher
degree would have been reached.
The next day Oliver Bros. & Phillips'
mill was visited. On that occasion the tem
perature on account of the rain had fallen
20. The thermometer placed alongside of
a puddler near the river side gave a temper
ature of 120. Allowing for the fall in the
outer temperature, and the fact that tbe last
heat had been drawn from the furnace, this
would indicate that the instrument would
show at least 23 or 30 more under differ
ent conditions.
Several steel manufactories were then
visited, among them the Hainsworth Besse
mer Steel Works on Twenty-fifth street,
Mr. Floyd, the manager, assisted materially
in the tests, in fact conducted them himself.
Ten minutes sufficed to run the mercury up
to 120, which, Mr. Floyd said, was quite
low, as the average temperature was about
135. He had worked day in and day out
during a period of 12 hours, with short inter
missions of rest, in that temperature. He
also said that men were doing the same
work right along, and did not experience
any great amount of difficulty as long as
they took proper care of themselves.
NO TELLING HOW HOT.
At the Pittsburg Steel Casting Company's
establishment crucible steel is manufac
tured. This quality of metal is mainly
used in the making of fine tools, etc. If
any one wants to really know bow much a
human being can endure let him visit a
place of this kind. The crucibles with the
material for making the steel weighing in
all probably 80 pounds, are lowered into a
furnace from the top aud when it is heated
to a white liquid point are lilted out by a
workman who stands directlr above the
seething furnace as shown in the cut accom
paning this article.
There is no ordinary way of calculating
the amount of heat that this man expe
riences during this process. After tbe fur
naces had been covered five minutes sufficed
to send tbe mercury in a 160 thermometer
to the utmost limit or its confines. The su
perintendent of the establishment said that
any instrument or method limited to any
figure below 500 would not be of the slight
est use to make a test at that point. Tbe
men who do tbis work usually, work in re
lays of fonr each. One set lifts six cruci
bles out of the furnace one after another,
when tbey take a rest while the other fonr
men go through the same process. The men
who carry the cruciules to the casting molds
also have a hot job, but not to be compared
to the others.
UT TUB GLASS HOUSES.
Glass -workers bare a hot time o! It at
Hi fk -1
their work also. As none of these are in
operation at the present time no positive
test could be made but on tbe evidence of
intelligent workmen they. must work dur
ing the warmer months in a temperature
averaging at leaBt 120 degrees. As they
work steadily lor six hours "a turn"
without a rest the endurance of the men is
something remarkable. In the window
glass bouse tbe beat is considerably greater
and the work is very heavy and laborious.
The setting of the pots in which the glass
is melted is, without doubt, the warmest
part of the whole business. When one of
these cracks it is taken out and another put
in its place in the furnace. The fires are
kept going to prevent chilling and the heat
that must be endured by the men while the
remains of a pot weighing, perhaps, a
couple of tons, are removed and another of
the same kind is put in its place, must be
terrific All of this is done within a few
feet of the blazing hot furnace from which
the side has been removed.
CLOTHES BURST INTO FLAME.
Sometimes the breaking of the pots lets
out some of the glass on tbe platform or
bench on which they rest in the furnace.
Before the fresh one can be put in all of
them must be removed, generally with an
iron bar in the hands of the workmen. What
is the temperature at that time? It is no
uncommon thing for the clothes of the work
men to burst into a blaze while doing this
work.
here are a number of other trades In
which the heat experienced by the workmen
is very great. Japanners usually toil jn very
warm rooms. Tne ovens with which the
ware they finish is baked have an opening
in the rooms and all air is excluded to pre
vent dust from settling on the surface of the
smooth varnish and marring its finish. The
writer can speak from experience in tbis
case, having worked for ten hours a day for
nine weeks in a japanning 'room in whioh
the temperature never registered less than
from 123 to 135 degrees. It.is admitted
right here that at the end of the period
mentioned the writer fled. And there are
many other situations that would throw
Aden's remarkable temperature away out of
sight
NICE MID-SUMMER JOB.
Carrying almost cherry red bars of iron
across cinder banks in the broiling sun of
last week and lifting them to the top piles
of iton bars in the same condition is not a
very refreshing occupation. Although
opinions vary as to the amount of heat that
human beings can endure, there is no ques
tion that they can exist in almost any state
so long as they can maintain their blood in
a cool state. "This the workmen can accom
plish by the use. of cool liquids in great
quantities, which are immediately sweated
ont and keeps the body away below the
temperature of the surrounding atmosphere.
Icewater is considered a poor article for the
purpose, but with good wellwater, and
plenty of it and oatmeal worked in it, a
man can endure a tremendous heat
In this connection it might be well to
state that In the (opinion ot many veteran
workmen, among them Mr. Miles Hum
phries, boss at Oliver Bros. & Phillips'
mill, who has been working in a mill for
over 40 years, this is the warmest season
ever experienced here. The general and
deadly heat has had a most depressing and
exhausting effect on the workmen, and
many have been overcome of late.
W. G. Kaufsiann.
ESQUIMAUX BUPEE3TITI05.
Borne of the Strange Ceremonies and Beliefs
ot the Skin-Clad People.
Mew Tor World,
Esquimaux are believers in ghosts. They
also believe in the transmigration of the
souls, that spirits return in animals, winds,
rocks, ice and water, that they are evil,
angry, or good, as the elements may be fav
orable or unfavorable, and that they can be
nppeasedJjy hoodoo rites if the performer is
sufficiently versed in occult soiences. Child
less women, it is claimed, cannot return to
tbe surface of the earth alter death.
To change the wind, for instance, they
chant, drum and howl against it, build fires,
shoot against it, and, as a last resort, fire
the graves of the dead. Tribes put hoodoos
bn each other by ceremonial dances and
bowling. The hoodoo of total destruction
upon neighbors is the building of a fire
within sight of those coming under their
displeasure. Tribal relations are severed by
making a fire outside and burning all orna
ments or disguises used In ceremonial
dances, such as raven skins, eagle tails,
deer horns and masks. Tribes that are Hoo
dooed answer by a return hoodoo, but with
families and individuals it is different
Outlawed by their tribe or relations, they
become discouraged, hopeless and gloomy,
and literally "go off and die."
Eclipses of the moon create the greatest
consternation and almost paralyze the peo
ple with fear. Arctic earthquakes having
been coincident with eclipses of the moon.
they say that an eclipse is the shadow of the
earth being piled up and shaken. All the
unutkoots in a village will howl and drum
till it is passed, claiming that they have
driven the thing away. Among the
Nooatoks all hands rally around a pair of
buckhorns, form a circle and march around
to the music of drums and wild chants till
the eclipse Is of
END OF A CLIFF T0W1T.
A Clond Bant Carried Awar tbe Only
Slalrwar That lied Up to 1 1,
Harper's Weekly.
About a mile from Acoma is La Mesa En
cantada (the Enchanted Hill), with perpen
dicular wall rising 400 feet high from the
plain. There is a weird tradition ot this
lofty cliff related by Mr. James W. Steele,
who states that on this mesa was anciently
the home of the people of Acoma. One
day in harvest-time the whole population of
tbe town men, women, and children with
tbe exception of three ailing women, were
in the valley below, working togetner, ac
cording to tbeir custom on such occasions.
A cloud burst, as the sudden rain floods of
the country are called, occurred up the
valley, and a great wave swept down.under
mining the sand upon which rested the nar
row staircase of notched rock by which alone
the top of the mesa could be reached. When
the people returned they found that where
tbe stairs had been the whole side of the
mesa had fallen in a heap in the valley be
low, leaving the summit absolutely inac
cessible. The three women could be seen
above wandering around the edges
waving their arms and shouting, bnt no
help could reach them. The skeletons of
these women lie somewhere on tbe summit,
where still are the walls of the old city; but
nobody has ascended the Mesa Encatada
since the day of the disastrous flood.
WHISKY HTSPHtED HUH
Anldloiracraar of (be Author of "Cricket
on the Hearth."
Mew Tork World.
James O. Stewart, the late Western song
writer nd author of "Jennie, the Flower of
Kildare," "Cricket on the Hearth," and
other popular songs, was a notable example
of the influence of an idiosyncrasy upon his
work. It was Stewart's idea that he could
not compose a song that was to become pop
ular unless he was under the influence of
liqnor. It was undoubtedly the result of
harboring this idea that killed him. Strange
as it may seem, however, his most successful
songs were composed when he was in his
cups.
Tbe two songs mentioned above were writ
ten when Stewart was in such a condition
that he could scarcely hold a pencil in bis
hand. Yet all the world knows how success
ful they became. So obstinate was this fa
mous writer in the holding of his peculiar
belief that no argument could persuade him
ot its fallacy. Of course there could only be
one endmg'to a career guided by such an
eminently impracticable portent, and Stew
art's family realized this only too keenly
when denth overtook; Mm,
PITTSBURG-, SUNDAY,
NO STRIKING- BACK.
England Hasn't Any Notion of Adopt
ing Tariff Retaliation.
THE SWORD CUTS BOTH WATS.
Bona Fids Homo finle for Ireland Is Sure
to Come Yery Soon.
A PARLIAMENT OP ITS OWN CERTAIN
rcoBBisroxDEjrcz or thx dispatch.!
London-, Angnst 2. That there are false
notions existing among American citizens
regarding English opinions on the McKin
ley tariff bill there is no donbt The most
careful inquires among British members of
Parliament and other reliable authorities,
have convinced me of this fact, and it may
be well for American politicians and states
men to understand this thoroughly. We
all have been led to believe in tbe United
States that the English people threatened
all manner of things as a retaliation for the
high tariff imposed by Americans on the
goods of the former when imported by Amer
icans. At least two leading threats have
been referred to by numerous alleged au
thorities. One was that the British Par
liament would pass measures imposing im
port duties on American goods, and the
other was that English manufacturers
would absolutely decline to recognize the
World's Fair, which is to be held in Chi
cago in 1893.
These are certainly questions of tbe
utmost gravity to Americans. In many
instances I was struck by the indifference
displayed regarding the matter and I found
that the majority of those to whom I talked
cared nothing at nil about how many tariff
bills the American Government makes law.
I had particularly a long conversation with
Thomas Burt on the matter. Mr. Burt I
may point out is a thorough representative
man and has been a member of the House
for 1G years. He is in all respects qualified
to speak in behalf of the masses on the
question. In response to my inquiries Mr.
Burt said:
FEAR TREE TRADE MORE.
"There certainly cannot be a more mis
leading notion than the one that leads
Americans to believe or to think that the
English Government will do anything in
tbe way of retaliation because of the Ameri
can tariff laws. Whatever other European
powers may do, I am certain that England
will do nothing in the matter. Americans
have a perfect right to pass all the tariff
bills they want If they believe they will
benefit Americans; but we, In England, are
certain that protective duties here will do
harm instead of good. Of course, American
import duties on English goods is bad for
the English, bnt matters would be made
worse if our Government were to resolve to
impose import duties on American goods.
By doing so we might do a little injury to
Americans, but we would certainly be doing
a greater injury to ourselves, because we
would raise prices while we couldn't pro
duce more articles at home than we are
doing now.
"I have talked the matter over with
prominent members of the Cobden Club and
Mr. T. B. Potter, the President of the club,
is of the opinion that the greatest harm to
England will come when America adopts a
tree trade policy. Many great authorities
hold this opinion, and a very well-informed
and thoughtlul Englishman now in America
writes to the effect that certainly America
could soon shuPEnglahd out of the world's
market were the lormer to become a free
trade nation. To me this opinion is a pretty
Bound one. It is, therefore, clear to me that
the English people will never abandon free
trade. The truth is the English masses, as
I may term them, take little or no notiee of
what Amerioa does in the matter,"
"How many protective members are there
in the House ot Commons?"
SHEFFIELD IS ENURED.
"Very, very few. I dare say that I only
know ot one who has absolutely declared
himself on the question, and that is Colonel
Howard Vincent, the member fora Sheffield
division. Mr. H. Chapliu was a strong pro
tectionist, but he has changed, and so have
others. Colonel Vincent may have good
cause to be a protectionist, as lie represents
a section of Sheffield, and undoubtedly the
Amerioan tariff has done and is doing con
siderable harm to the manufactures ot that
city. But that is only one city. The Shef
field manufacturers from time to time riso
up and declare themselves against the
American tariff, and I dare say many
threats are made.
A few years ago a movement called the
Fair Trade movement was commenced in
our country. Its polioy was to retaliate,
that is when America imposed an import
duty on any of our goods we were to put an
import duty- on some of the produce we got
from America. That movement, however,
has collapsed. It made a little flicker for
awhile and I dare say led many Americans
to believe that the English people were in
clined to desist free trade principles. We
have few fair traders before the conntrv
now simply because England cannot afford
to impede the importation of any useful
things into her ports."
"Keports have been circulated to the ef
fect that the English manufacturers because
oftbeMcKinlev tariff bill, will not patro
nize tbe World's Fair at Chicago. Is there
any truth in those reports?"
WILL PATRONIZE THE FAIR.
"I don't believe there is; in fact I'm sure
there is not. English manufacturers are
business men and they certainly will do all
they can to place their goods before the
world. If they think exhibiting their goods
at Chicago will do their business any good
why they will do it regardless of either Mc
Kinley's bill or anybody else's bill."
The above opinions expressed by Mr.
Burt were substantially the opinions of all
the members of Parliament to whom I
talked. I failed to see Colonel Vincent
He, of course, is an out and out protection
ist, and has a notice on the order paper of
the Honse on the question. But he is in
such a hopeless minority that it is imma
terial what his demands or opinions may be.
There are, however, in London one or two
trades that are clamoring for retaliatory
measures of any kind. The watchmakers
are one of the trades and they are certainly
great sufferers because of American compe
tition, I had a talk with a member of tnii
trade last evening. His name is Joseph
Jackson and he has been in the business
more than 30 years. He said: "Our trade
has been absolutely ruined by Americans,
A few years ago we could earn excellent
wages by making watch cases, bnt now we
can scarcely find employment' at any price.
The Americans are shutting us out entirely,
so much so that I have been out of work as
long as two years at a stretcb. Still our
Government will not trytostop the importa
tion of American watches or watch cases.
We want them stopped, of course, because
the Americans can send their goods here and
beat us on onr own grounds.
It is certain that American products are
gradually superseding ; those of England.
Even Mr. Hvndman, who met Mr. Brad
laugh in publio debate tbe other day, stated
in his speech that America was rnnning
England down in the world's markets.
But, as I have above stated, the Britisher
does not believe that he is in anything like
a position to declare commercial war.
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
Boring my visits to the Honse of Com
mons I have'also collected tbe opinions of
members on another question that is of very
great interest to a very large number of
American citizens. I refer to the Irish
question. I did not particularly question
Irish members on the Batter because we
AU.G-UST '10, 1890.
already know what their opinions and hopes
are. Last evening I was in the company of
several members for two or three hours in
one of the smoke rooms of the House. For
my benefit tbe probabilities of home rule for
Ireland were freely discussed, and I think I
cannot do better than to quote the words of
Charles Fenwick on tbe question. He is an
English member. Hi opinions were shared
by others and are in accordance with those
of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Morley-and other
prominent Liberals. Mr. Fenwick said :
"It seems to be a certainty that this Par
liament will be dissolved in the autnmn of
next year. It may collapse before then, bnt
It cannot last longer than the time I have
named. A general election will then take
place and then we are sure to have home
rnle for Ireland, as Gladstone's party will
have a majority. There has never been a
Government that have gone to pieces so sud
denly as the present Government have.
They opened last year's session just as
strong as thsy were in 1886 and to-day they
are floundering in difficulties. They know
they are doomed and are doing tbeir best to
fix their friends all right as soon as possible.
I am confident that Ireland will obtain home
rule shortly, and on the general lines laid
down by Mr. Gladstone. The feeling of the
English people generally has undergone a
great change recently on this matter, and It
is certain that the vast majority of voters are
inclined to support candidates who will give
Ireland justice. The late Barrow election
settles that beyond a donbt and it also shows
that a man must either be a Liberal or a
Tory. The people are getting tired of the
"Liberal-Unionists."
"What is the general optnion among En
glish members regarding the form of home
rule that will be adopted?"
WILL HATE A PARLIAMENT.
"Well, the general, and I may say popu
lar opinion, is to the effect that a parliament
will be granted to Ireland to rule its domes
tic affairs and Irish members will also be re
tained at Westminster to deal with imperial
matters. In other words, the, Irish people
will have two sets of members, one set to
deal with matters only pertaining to Ireland
and the other set to meet as usual at West
minster and deal with matters relating to
the entire British dominions. Of cotirse, the
best Irish statesmen will be kept in Ireland
to govern their own country and
tbe lesser lights will be sent to Westminster.
The latter condition is essential to the
Liberal party, as the majority of Irish mem
bers are Radicals and Liberals.
"In short, it is the general opinion of the
Liberal party that the home rule system
will be similar to the State and Federal
system of government in America. Of
cours'e this will cause a rigid line to be
drawn as to what will constitute Irish mat
ters only and what will constitute imperial
questions. But one thing is well under
stood, and that is that Ireland will not be
allowed the control of any military forces
whatever or warships. These then are the
general lines on which the Liberal party are
agreed, and they mean bona fide homo
rule."
"If anything should cause the retirement
of Mr. Gladstone from public life before the
general election, would the chances of home
rule be jeopardized?"
Gladstone's influence.
"I think they would because there is
nobody capable of filling his place. He is
the great power that influences the nation
and solidifies the Liberal forces behind him.
Were he to disappear the House of Com
mons would not be like the same body. As
old as he is he is head and shoulders above
any member of the Honse. He raises all
important exertions to a standard of dis
cussion far above petty partisanship, and
this keeps everybody in line. Of course
John Morley is a great man, but he is not
Gladstone. However, if the worst should
come, and I pray heaven that the Grand
Old Man may long be spared, I still think a
home rnle measure will be passed. Certainly,
the task will not be so easy with Gladstone
absent, .but the feeling of- the people is in
favor of home rule, and it must be granted."
Regarding Mr. Gladstone I may say that
I hud the extreme pleasure of hearing him
make one of his famous speeches in the
House of Commons. He spoke on the ces
sion of Heligoland, and Judging from the
vigor and eloquence he displayed, it seems
certain that he will remain in harness until
he crowns the remarkable labors ot a re
markable life by granting home rule to Ire
land. Undoubtedly he is one of the most
ranarkable statesmen that have ever lived,
and it is well known that his only ambition
now in life is to grant home rule to Ireland.
IRISHMEN BELT ON GLADSTONE.
Conversations which I have had with
Irish members show conclusively that they
are entirely relying on Mr. Gladstone for
the salvation of'their conntrv. It is also
worthy of note that since Mr. Gladstone has
declared himself so emphatically on the
qnestion, Mr. Parnell has not been so promi
nent. This is a theme of much comment
among members.
Of Fate Mr. Parnell has not only been
comparatively quiet, but his now famous
speech on the Irish estimates show, that he
is much more conservative than he was.
This is taken to mean that he desires to do
nothing that will in any way hamper the
"Grand Old Man." There is a strong love
between them and If life permits, they will
obtain home rule for Ireland sooner than
many people think.
John D. Pringli.
PBETTS" FACES AUD TTATT,
Some New Idem In the Line of Cosmetics
and Dyolng mixtures.
To keep yourselves out of mischief this
summer and benefit your complexions yon
may try these recipes from abroad, writes
Shirley Dare to The Dispatch: 1. Pour
boiling milk over fresh garden violets and
let it stand till cold. Apply to keep the
skin soft and free from wrinkles. Very
French and pretty, isn't it? 2. Fine oat
meal is cooked one hour to a porridge,
strained thorough a coarse sieve of mosquito
net and mixed with as much bay rum to
soften and whiten the stun. Apply at night
and let it dry on. Ten drops of glycerine
improves this. d. Mix is grains sulphate
magnesia, 20 grains sulphate of soda, 2
drachms distilled orange peel in 2 ounces
distilled water. Take a teaspoonful before
breakfast for a week to clear the skin. It
you like the effect rest one week and take
again.
"To dye the copper red shade of Mrs.
Brown Potter's or Mme. Paftl's hairl" tjtke
one quart boiled water and dissolve one
eveh teaspoonful of crystallized carbonate of
soda in it, with one to two ounces safflower,
infused over night not saffron, mind, but
saffiower, carthamus or bastard saffron.
Wash the hair clean with a spoonful of am
monia in warm water. When dry wet thor
oughly with a coarse comb dipped in the
strained infusion; when dry use as a mordant
the jnice of a lemon or vinegar, with twice
as much water.
A QUEEN OF THE KITCHEK.
The Experlenco of a Philadelphia Lady
With n Now Servant Girt.
Philadelphia Times.
"Bridget," asked my wife, some days
after her advent, "do you know how to stone
cherries?"
The cook reluctantly confessed herself a
"metagnostic," which, according to the new
coinage of tbe Brooklyn Ethical Association,
signifies one who has encountered something
bevond her knowledge.
"'It is very simple, said my wife. "Press
the cherry so, and out comes the stone." My
wife thoughtlessly pnt the cherry into her
mouth and left the kitchen. When Bridget's
work was, inspected a dish of stones was all
that remained of the luscious fruit, our treas
ure having faithfully followed the example
set her, and industriously eaten all the
cherries.
"How shmall the eggs are," she remarked
on that same morning. "Couldn't yez tell
the farmer that sint them to Jet tbe bins set
on them a little longer to make them
bigger?!
COLOKADO'S CAPITAL
The Driving City of Denver and Its
Supply of Capitalists.
A STEADY BOOM IN BUILDING.
Its Eepntatlon for Tgly Women Exchanged
for One for Beauties.
WILD WESTERN JOKES STILL LITE
feoBMsroKBEjtca or thi dispatch, i
Denver, August 7.
EBHAPS the first
query that comes
to an Easterner, on
his grasping all
that Denver seems,
is "what supports
it?" Perhaps also
the question has
never been satis
factorily answered.
Tbe great amount
of capital brought
here by wealthy in
valids, the vast
stretch of territory
West,, dependent
on this city lor
supplies, must
largely account
for it For years
Colorado has been
the dumping place
of Eastern money, not from the capitalist
merely, but the thousands of prospect holes
perforating the hills, show that the poor
man has also contributed his share to this
city's support Then, too, the fact mnst not
be overlooked that the mining output of the
State has constantly been increasing and is
yet only partially developed. Hence the
poor and the rich, along with the invalid,
will continne to come.
The average Denver citizen has a large
belief in himself and city and "goes in."
Bat Some Fins Residences.
The recent census estimate is 125,000, but
every improvement is made on a basis of a
population of 300,000. There are said to be
3,500 new houses going up now, and every
where you are crowded into midstreet by
lumber piles and the creak of tackle bloek
and puff of- boist engine is abroad in the
land. This midstreet promenading is es
pecially disagreeable in wet weather. A
blight rainfall converts this soil now, with
its much travel, into a slush, which tbe
writer saw actually flow last April, and the
pedestrian is at the mercy of every splash
ing vehicle. However, Denver is prepar
ing to asphalt two of her principal streets,
and to furnish jobs, perhaps, to more men
than those who labor with pick and shovel.
PLENTY OF PRETTY HOMES.
This rapidity of improvement has spoiled
much of Denver's beauty, as usually esti
mated. The business portions have en
croached upon the residence regions and dug
up the old shade trees, and the newer resi
dences are so new that their trees are quite
impressive at present. Up town and down
town it is a city of bare brick and mortar.
Time will soon remedy tbis, however. No
city, to my knowledge, has so large a per
centage of beautiful and uniquely-designed
homes. Real estate in Denver is still a
good investment, bnt the wildcat chances
are all gone. It takes large margins now to
operate. Within the reasonable limits of
the city's prospective growth values will
continne to Increase. Money is 7 and 8 per
cent, wages fair, rents moderate, and public
health good. There is a very noticeable
change in the prices of necessities in the
last ten years, and in most things Eastern
prices prevail.
The water supply of the city is excellent,
especially in the Capital Hill region, which
is supplied from the Cherry creek reservoir.
Artesian water is also available. A fine
system of sewers pervades the city, and the
old cistern and cesspool are things of the
past A decade ago the writer can well re-
Magnifletnt Hustness Blocks.
member how those with low wells in the late
dry winter would wait patiently for the
spring turning on ot the ditch water, when
they kneTT by percolation tbeir supply
would be increased. Tbe artesian system
was a short-lived hope of outwitting the
water companies. The first wells flowed
copiously, but soon so many were sunk as to
make pumping necessary, "it is a beautiful,
pure water, patronized mostly by the wash
women and the fastidious.
EVERYTHING'S A BLOCK.
To a stranger Denver citizens have a con
fusing peculiarity of calling every little
business building a block. "Sorrv we are
jnst out," is the polite merchant's reply.
"'You will find it at Smith's in the Jones
block;" and masking your ignorance you
step out and ask the first officer where Jones'
block is, and find yon had often passed it
without due appreciation. Every fellow
who has money enough to build a store
erects it as his mausoleu. Bnt Denver has
some magnificent blocks.
This is not characteristically a religious
city, bnt it has its quota of beantifnl ehuren
buildings, Ten years ago they were all
' ' r ajIp8-IIsW0s.J b w
down town. The growth of values made
them all rich, or feel so, and now but a
single chnrch worships at the old stand, and
it has just recently sold its lots. Back on
cheaper lots, but more fashionable quarters,
more magnificent edifices stand, and more
fastidious audiences congregate. Tbis is
natural, but is it altogether right? Belig
ion is a thing that does not necessarily pro
gress with onr wealth and cultnre, and
while taste tends one way Christian zeal
might well go the other. Is it enough from
our high place on the hill to send messen
gers to, and bnild missions down on, tbe
river and railroad regions? Tne churches
are taken away from the only places where
churches are needed. "Could ye not watch
with me one hour? Thisfmaa eatetb. with
publicans and sinners."
The Trinity M. E. Church is perhaps the
finest in the city. It is built inside much
like an opera house boxes and all and is
said to hare the largest organ In the United
States.
HAS PRETTY WOMEN NOW.
A noticeable change from the early days
is the great increrse in the beauty of
Denver's women. Back in the early '70's
it looked like ugliness had come with and
was growing up with the country, but to
day these streets are thronged with an array
of feminine beauty that might turn the head
of Pittsburg's most fastidious young fellows.
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THi Suitaer'i Hammer is Heard.
In fact I am sorry for the old fellow who
could be indifferent to it This scribe has
wished for a swivel neck on more than one
occasion. Dress, jewelry, and equipage
with the latest fad or fashion are so con
spicuous as to border on to the "flashy."
With a little caution if not the possessor
of an irritable heart or deficient lung area,
one may get along pretty well here, despite
the light air, but there is one thing that can
only be avoided by the most strenuous
watchfulness. It is the stock joke. Its
hoary headedness does not always betray it.
It wears wigs. It may come at you (nil in
the narrator's personalexperlence, of course)
under the bead of the deception of distances
how a fellow was going to swim an irri
gating ditch for a river; or under that of a
hear story about tbe narrator's friend, who
considerately allowed the beast to chase
him into camp so that it would be near
when killed. (Narrator always kills it). It
may be that the troubadour knew a fellow
who salted a prospect hold with rich ore
sold it out at $10,000; the purchaser dug
out the spurions ore went deeper struck it
rich sold out for S100.000 "Hal hal hal
didn't that first fellow feel cheap, though."
I think these people are as bashful as the
average, but they tell these ancient Western
lulabies to Eastern tenderfeet much as we
tell children fairy tales, but tbey are awful
on at fellow, especially when he has been
here before. They are as bad as the
"climatic change" make you equally as
sleepy, and like it, are likely to strike yon
anywhere. Jasies Newton Baskett.
m LONDON SOCIETY.
Elizabeth Dlslnnd Describes nn Amusing Ex
perience nt a Catbrrlng.
They never present people to one another
here in London, and consequently a stranger
has a very uphill time of it, writes Elizabeth
Blsland In Harper's Bazar. One does not,
for example, like to go up to a strange man
and take bis breath away with, one's light
and genial American persiflage, and if one
speaks to a strange woman, she clasps her
diamonds and screams for the police. The
result is that a lost dog is a comfortable and
gregarious person beside a stranger in a
grand London "squash party." It used to
be explained that it was supposed all persons
you met at your host's house were your
equals, if not your superiors, and that there
fore one was at liberty to speak without tbe
formality of being presented. But this I
found by experiment was n theory the prac
tice of which was honored in the breach.
At the Brasseys a strange man spoke to me.
It was,' on the whole, rather an innocent re
mark. He said: Come a little this way
and you'll see better." And I came. Then
he said: "Awful crush I" And after
thinking over tbis a minute X saw
I could not safely deny it, and
I said it was, rather. And then we con
fided certain opinions we held about the
weather to one another, and he got in some
very telling remarks about London being
very crowded just now; and I retorted, with
real Amerioan vivacity, that one was
dragged to death with the effort to do every
thing, and go to half a dozen places in one
night which I'd not been doing, but knew
it was the proper thing to say. Some one
vacated a chair near by at this moment, and
he quoted the beginning of the Persian
proverb about it being better to be sitting
than standing, and the rest of it; and when
I bad sat down, he leaned over
tbe chair and told most amusing
little anecdotes about the people about
us, all of whom he seemed to know.
He was really a very nice man. Unfor
tunately I was telling him my experience
with the frivolous set in London. And he
found something funny in that, for he threw
back his head and haw-hawed rather lond,
and suddenly I felt that Lady B was fix
ing me with her glittering eye, and that I
had done those things I ought not to have
done. Happily some one spoke to him at
the moment, and while his attention was
distracted, I rose and fled.
"Pray," said Lady P , in her severest
tones, "who is this person? Is he an inti
mate friend of yours?"
"Oh no!" said I, discreetly, "not very In
timate. "How intimate, may I ask? Intimate
enough for you to know his name?"
I never said another word, and was borne
home in disgrace.
QUEEN VICTOBIA'S MUSIC.
A Sabbath Obserrance Society U Dramming
Away at Her for Reform.
Hewcastle, Ens;., Caronlele.J
The Lord's Day Observance Society has
addressed a respectful letter to tbe Queen,
pleading with Her Majesty not to continue
the Sunday bands at Windsor on tbe fol
lowing grounds: "The unfitness of ordinary
and seenlar amnsements for the holy day of
weekly rest; the incentive which the bands
supply to Sunday work, traveling, shop
ping, and to thedrink traffic; the confusion
and unrest which accompany the assemb
ling of crowds of persons at any one point,
and the harm and injury done to quiet-loving
people and to the sick; and because tbe
arranging of attractive amusements on the
Lord's Day cannot bnt hinder the efforts of
Christian persons to instruct tbe young and
to win to holiness multitudes who are ignor
ant of the gospel, and who stand in sore
need of instruction in the truths of God's
Holy Word."
The society has also sent a protest to the
Chief Commissioner of Works against the
nse of his official authority to encourage the
Free Sunday party at Greenwich Park and
elsewhere in places managed by his department.
CLARA BELLE'S CHAT.
The Mrs. Astor to Give a Ball Wittf
ont Ward McAllister's Help.
CHABITY OF THE F0DE HDHDEED.
A Midnight Apparition istrids a Bieyela
Startles fiew Yorkers.
NEWP0ET GIRLS GETTING XATOEAIi
rcoBixsrosPExcx or thi dispatcih "
New York, August 9. August days)
make one feel like seeking ont a shallow
pool, under a tree somewhere, and standing
sbin-deep in it, 03 the cows do. We adult
women may go to the seashore, and use the
sur! as much as we hare a mind to, bnt
always with a hindrance of dress, what
ever tbe libelous describers of bathing may
say to the contrary. The envied creatures
are the little girls, who are permitted to
take off their stockings and wade. We
are sending thousands of poor chil
dren, by means of numerous "fresh
air funds," to the ocean side on excursions.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt alone provides
the money for some of these trips, and lets
her physician, pastor and other cognizant
persons select the beneficiaries.
"But there's one thing I want to insist
on," I know of her saying to a yonng doc
tor, who was to go along with 100 young
sters on an excursion to the Jersey Shore;
"you must let them all wade, unless they
are too ill for it to be safe. Start in the
eirls for they may be shy to begin too
timid to take off their hosiery."
When I saw tbe little girls racing, danc
ing and spattering in the water, with their
bare legs and tucked up skirts, I realized
the real thoughtfulnessof their benefactress,
and I wished that she might have a paint
ing of thee cooled and capering children as
a reward for her charity. It would mean
more than the best cows-in-water canvass
ever made by an artist
NOT ALTOGETHER FRIVOLOUS.
Do you imagine that tbe Astors and the
Yanderbilts and the other millionaires in
their clique are frivolous and nothing else?
Then you are very mnch mistaken. It is
true that they go in for show; that they
very carefully foster the absurd notion that
400 persons constitute a kiud of aristocracy
in New York; that they excite a greal deal
of ridiclule by their pretensions of exclusive
ness, the fact being that they are less so
than are some other social circles; but along
with all their harmless foolishness goes an
open-handed priuceiiness of generosity.
Every year or so an Astor or a Vanderbilt
builds a hospital or a chnrch, establishes a
library fund, endows a reformatory concern
or does something else for humanity at a
heavy cost We are apt to forget these
deeds, and to bar in mind only the more
frequent exhibitions of social gaiety.
A reader of this correspondence asks ma
why the New York papers chronicle the do
ings of "the Four Hundred" much after the
manner ot the London court circular, and
thus tacitly assent to the idea that the Mo
Allisterians are socially superior to other
refined and respectable New Yorkers. Well,
here in the simple explanation: The jour
nals would not hold a tithe ot the "society
news" of a population of two millions. By
restricting it to this one set of elaborate
idlers it is kept down to a feasible space In
print; it relates to persons who by the proc
ess are kept familiarly before the readers,
and it is easy to get, for these imitation aris
tocrats like the consplcuonsness which I.
accorded to them.
21'ALLISTER IN SANGER.
And McAllister? O, he is an amiabla
fellow, who volunteers to do the work for
which the once noted and comic Sexton
Brown used to be paid. Brown was an
enormously fat and pompons old fellow,who
officiated at Grace Church weddings and
funerals, and from that became a factotum
at receptions and balls. He kept lists of
people "in society," and it was not alto
gether a jocose theory, but occasionally an
actnal practice, that he provided eliVibla
young men to "do the swell grand" iti the
larger assemblages. He was a butt for ridi
cule by those who employed him, as well as
bv the public at large. Well, npon Brown's
death, McAllister took the job for love of!
it, and he does It to the satisfaction of Mrs.
William Astor, whose approval has been
qnlte sufficient to maintain him in author
ity. But here comes in a piece of news, which
I am enabled to give in advance of its other
divulgence. Mrs. W. W. Astor, having es
tablished herself by local postal sanction at
Newport as "the Mrs. Astor," will next
winter declare her independent leadership
in town. Her first and great act of self
assertion will be to give a Delmonico ball
without tbe help, real or Implied, of Ward
McAllister. And won't that make a talk?
THE NATURAL GIRL.
The girls at Newport are doing one sensi
ble thing. They are fixing a more agree
able code of manners, and doubtless ;ha
effect will spread with reasonable celerity
throughout the land. Men have accused
women of being so frightfully artificial.
Now the fad is to be natural. There will
be less of this mealy-mouthed, lackadaisical,
don't-know-wbat-nanghty-means style of
girl. When a woman means anything, she
will say it, as the English do.
A number of onr West End ttay-at homes
were treated to a rare and unexpected exhi
bition one hot night As sleep was impos
sible, they bad gathered, singly and in
groups at the windows for a stray puff of
air from the Hudson. Of course, no gas was
burning in the honses; dim lightand silence
enwrapped the avenue; It was the hour for
ghostly visitants and suddenly, as the clocks
struck 12, sleep-forsaken eyes were opened
far beyond tbeir daylight limits. A figure
in white was making strange gypratlons a
few feet above tbe street pavement, and
floating erratically a long distance up and
down the avenue. It looked weird and un
canny enough to send a superstitious mortal
shivering to bis sheets. But West Enders
are not superstitious, they are wide awake,
especially to hot nights and ghosts; and
scanning the vision as it approached nearer,
they discovered that it was a woman celes
tial or otherwise attempting to ride m
bicycle.
A PLUCKY APPARITION.
The machine wabbled and reeled as if It
had lately imbibed; the rider took many a
header, bnt recovered herself in a manner
wholly mysterious, until it was farther dis
covered that she had a male attendant, who
gallantly caught her and replaced her in
her seat The tyro's figure for no one alter
this mistook her for a wanderer from celes
tial spheres was beautifully lithe, her
movements light and graceful, these details
being clearly shown by her white costume,
backed as it was by the dark attire of her
companion. Some of the white-robed on
lookers behind the window screens accused
her of having counted on just this effect In
preparing for her adventure. However that
may be, she was plucky, for neither the nu
merous falls nor the steady effort diminished
her zeal.
At last she mounted her subdued steed
unassisted and rode along the avenue as)
smoothly as a veteran wheelman. This
triumph brought a round of hand-elappisg.
which spread from window to window and
house to house. The unique ghost, unused
to such mundane demonstrations, vanished?;
down a side street and the refreshed Westf
Eaders retired from their windows to find
coy sleep quite ready to attend them.
bUUU. .BELIiX,
The Venllr Ptrloi.
The Impressionable youth very early In Ufa.
JTaus in iotb wiui eaca maiden ne sesr
In fact he no sooner gets down on his lip,
Xnau he's apt to get down on hi knee