US GBEEIffi GRASS
And Filled With Thousands of Dead
Fish Are the Waters of the JIo-
nongahela at Present.
UNPARALLELED IK ITS EISTOEY.
Stained With Unhealthy Imparities Formed
tj a liixtnre of Mineral and
Organic Matters.
DAKGEETHEEATEJ.S SODTHSIDB WATER
Distillation Bnrrwteabya Medical Expert as the Only
Zlficient Eemedj.
Death is riding on the Monongahela.
Dark green veins discolor the treacherous
muddy -waters lapping the shores of the
city The river has undergone a change
never known before. Suddenly and with
out warning the sluggish stream has been
mysteriously stained with the sickly hue.
Boatmen discovered it first, when the mora
ine sun tore away the mantle of night and
revealed the wonderful metamorphosis. A
faint, repulsive odor assailed their nostrils.
Humors of the startling discovery spread
through the city. Thousands scauned the
greenish waters yesterday. Nothing of the
kind was ever seen before in the mountain
stream. Ki ver men were at a loss to account
for the singular circumstance. The broad
sweep of swirling water was freighted with
an unknown substance. More remarkable
still, thousands of dead fish floated on the
top of the river, and carcasses lined the
banks for miles.
STAKTLED THE SOUTIISIDEKS.
Citizens ot the Sonthside who depend on
the Monongabela lor their water supply
were filled with apprehension when the
news reached them of the change in the
river. A new danger was presented to
them. The sight of the tainted fluid flow
ing into the water works alarmed many.
Fears of dreaded disease lurking in the
depths of the darkened stream impelled
anxious ones to make inquiry of physicians
as to the safety of drinking the Mononga
hela water. They could get no satistaction.
No one knew the nature of the greenish
color in the stream. Nothing had been done
to examine the water.
The decomposed fish and the sudden dis
coloring were mysteries. People who have
been on the river for years were plied with
eager questions, but their responses were
vague.
In view of the fact that there was an ex
planation somewhere, a Dispatch reporter
yesterday sought information from a num
ber of persons acquainted with the stream
irom source to mouth, and slowly light was
thrown upon the matter. In the morning a
trip was made cd the Monongabela to as
certain the cause of the phenomena, and
later some glaring facts were learned from a
prominent medical practitioner on the South
side. THE COLOEIXG TRACED.
On board the bteam packet Germania,
that left Pittsburg at 8:30 A. m., the green
ish colored water was traced up stream to its
starting point. Gradually as the slack
water lying at the city was left behind the
peculiar stain in the river grew darker and
darker. This was owing to the fact that
there were bat few boats running above the
city, while the numerous craft within the
limits of the metropolis stirred up the
muddy waters there and partially concealed
the foreign fluia.
The Monongabela was a sheet of emerald,
when Brown's station Love in sight. Pas
sengers gathered on the decksof the boat and
watched the heaving bosom of the river,
with curious eyes. At every turn the white,
lifeless bodies of dead fishes, large and
small, could be seen floating on top of the
water, while the sandy shczes of the stream
were littered with the decomposed in
habitants of the poisoned river.
"Thousands of dead fish have passed us
within a day or two," said Captain H. B.
Cock. "The circumstance is unparalleled
in the bUtory of the Monongabela. I can
not account for the marvelous green color of
the water. It appeared tor the first time a
day or so ago. The water is unhealthy and
dangerous to use.
cotjldx't be dysamite.
"Last Tuesday night a deckhand named
George Freeland was struck with fright
when a coal tow swung round and crashed
against us, and he fell overboard. He was
drowned, and the discharges of dynamite
made to bring up the body vere thought to
have caused the death ot so many fish, but
it is impossible for such a large number to
be killed bv that means. It is something
else."
In spite of the recentrains, such as usually
cause the Monongahela to turn several
shades yellower than its original hue, the
river was glittering with green where it
drains a large amount ot country soil.
Even at Hazlewood the dark liquid empty
ing through the sewer into the river was
lost in the grass-colored stream.
Arriving at Braddock, the Monongahela
still retained the startling hue. At the ,
lower end of the town Tnrtle creek
poors its waters into the river.
The small stream was slightly tinged
with green. Inquiry among people
residing along its banks elicited the infor
mation that the creek had assumed its green
ish hne this summer. About a mile in the
interior It flows past the Westinghouae Air
brake Works, while it drains a large section
of land 'filled with stagnant pools covered
with malarious growths of fungus.
WHEBE THE HUE BEGINS.
Further up the river the water suddenly
underwent a change. Nearing McKees
port, where the Yonghiogheny joins the
main stream, the Monongabela once more
was f-een in all the splendor of its old-time
golden tint. Above McKeesport sbe looked
as yellow as the waving grain, while there
wasn't a trace of dead fish. They were all
boubtng around in the long stretch of green
water below.
Then it was. found that the cause of the
curious color lay in the mass of mineral
substances brought down from the Connells
ville coke regions by the Yougbiogheny.
"This mineral matter," as Conductor J.
J. Sharrar, of the McKeesport and Belle
vernon road, remarked, "kills the fish in
the Monongahela where the rivers unite,
and the dead fish, mixed with the mineral,
turns the water green. If you will notice,
this it where the Monongabela begins to
take on that peculiar color."
A call was paid to Dr. E. A. Mundorff,
oi the Southside. After a hasty analysis of
a sample of water obtained from the Mo
nongahela at the foot of Thirtieth street,
near the water works, he said: "The sam
ple on microscopic examination proves to be
infested with an unusually large amount of
organic matter which has come from sources
contaminated by animal matter. Immense
quantities ot putrifactive bacteria in various
stages of their development are piesent The
water has a peculiar odor and a smoky
color. This of necessity is due to the large
proportion of organic and other matters
held in solution by it.
CAUSE OF THE COLOR.
"The coloring matter contained in the
water is due to the chemical elements in it
which have been gathered up in solution
irom some peculiar geological strata
1 through which the river flows. It is prone
Jto be colored by minute fungi, and these
fungi become more diffused as the condi
tions of their growth become more favora
ble, as by water becoming more or less stag
nant or shallow, and furthered by the
pressure ot the necessary chemical constitu
ents on which fnngi feed. As I
have not seen water containing the
coloring matter in a marked degree,
I am not prepared to pass an opinion as to
its nature, but it is highly probable that the
coloring begins where the side streams come
into the main channel of the Monongahela.
In regard to its detriment to the health as a
drinking fluid, which depends on the ex
tent of its nature, we can rely on the view
that water perceptibly discolored and con
taining so large an amount of impure
organic matter as the Monongahela river
has not had the proofs of its purity made
more clear by its presence.
"The large number "of dead fish in the
river is probably due to the contaminations
that are pouring into it from some of the
side streams connected with the mines. It
has long been the opinion of people who
live along the upper circuit of the Monon
gahela that the fish are killed by the strong
mineral solutions that flow into the river.
The direct relation of dead fish to the purity
or the impurity of the water would assume
greater significance to the quantity of fish
destroyed, but while dead fish in a state of
advanced decomposition are not to be con
sidered as affording a desirable admixture,
and cne which under any circumstances is
conducive to the purity of the Monongahela
river, vet the cause that destroys them is
probably as dangerous an impurity as the
substance of the dissolving fish.
CAJf "KILL SOMETHING HIGHER.
"Therefore we need not be alarmed over
the discovery of the water of the Mononga
hela being a "deadly fluid to creatures that
live in it. It has amply demonstrated its
power as a potent fluid to increase the death
rate of living beings of much higher organi
zation than fish.
"The helpless human beings who are com
pelled to drink it, add their names to that
of the city's mortality list. The proposi
tions that have been made from time to
time to purity the Monongahela water, if
carried out would only partly remedy the
evil of the impurity of our river water, and
allay the objections to its use. One sugges
tion made as to the increase of the number
of basins in order that the water may partly
purify itself by standing and ridding itself
of the organic matters held in solution
would be of some advantage, but it must be
borne in mind that the organic matter de
posited on the bottom of the basin would
still leave the water more or less impure,
because, while a stratum of water near the
surface would be rendered free through the
deposit of particles in it, the layers of water
approaching the bottom ot the basin would
become aesin impure through the currents
set up in draining and redraining the basin.
The Monongabela water can be rendered
lairly pure by distillation on a small scale,
and tnat is the only way that it is possible for
people who use this water to get it in a
relatively pure state."
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
SOUTHSIDERS CANNOT DO AS THEY
PLEASE, HEREAFTER.
Inspector McKcIvy Institntcs n New and
Unexpected Order of Things To Check
bnnday Rowdyism Respectable Citi
zens Think His Flan n Goad One.
"If the people want to go to the country
to get drunk on Sunday they must stay out
there until they get sober again," said In
spector MclCelvy, of the Southside, last
night as he completed his day's work. He
had put in a pretty busy day, too, gathering
in the individuals who had wandered
across the city line on Arlington
Heights into the wine gardens and speak
easies, and alter getting pretty well under
the influence disturbed the peace of the citi
zens. Complaints have been frequently
made to the Southside police about the
manner in which the people conduct them
selves in the hill districts on Snnday, but
as the crowds usually kept themselves out
side of the city limits the police had no
jurisdiction over them, and could do noth
ing. Yesterday the Inspector determined to
prevent some of the disorder of the return
ing crowd at least. With him went Lieu
tenant Johnson, Special Officers Carrigan
and Bichards and a squad of patrolmen all
in street dress. The officers were stretched
along Borkkammer street like a line of
guards with instructions to arrest every
drnnken man wandering in the vicinity of
the incline.
At 4 o'clock the work commenced and two
men were captured and sent to the loot of
the incline, from whence they were taken
to the Southside station bouse. This was
kept up with vigor until 1020 last night,
when the last run was made by the wacon
and the officers returned to the station
house. During that time every "breezy"
unfortunate who stumbled within the city
limits was locked up.
"When the evening's work was over 17
men in various stages of exhilaration were
behind the bars in the Twenty-eighth ward
station. They gave the following names:
"William Thomas, Daniel Judge, Patrick
Dndey, Joseph Jones D. B. Latan, Joseph
Kodgers, George Murray, Gilbert Strong,
John "Werner, Joseph Evsner, John Smith,
Max Steke, William "Campbell. Charles
Murphy, Peter Kelly, Emil Helbling,
Anthony Fundenberg.
After the patrol wagon had made a couple
of trips it was apparent that there was some
regularity about its arrival and departure,
and a crowd gathered at the bottom of the
inclosure to await arrivals from the
upper station. The size of the gath
ering steadily increased, until in an
hour fully COO persons were seated about
the lower station, and there they remained
until Master of Ceremonies McKelvy ap
peared with his assistants and declared the
seance closed until next Sunday afternoon.
No recent event in police circles excited the
attention and brought out the comment
than yesterday's raid did. Inspector Mc
Kelvy was very well satisfied with his day's
work, and he evidently pleased the resi
dents of the Southside and Lower St Clair
township, as the people of both places were
loud in their praise of his action.
THE PEES1DENTS SON SILENT.
Rnssell B. Harrison Declines to Tnlk About
the Lottery Business.
Bussell B. Harrison, whose chief claim to
distinction has been that he happens to be
the son of a President, passed through the
city last evening on his way East. He
said he came from Chicago. The young
man was pressed for a little information on
several matters, but he refused to talk. He
assured the reporters he wished to be cour
teous, but he was not in the interviewing
business. "When asked about the lottery
story he declined as usual to talk.
A Montana Republican from Helena hap
pened to be on the train, and the sight of
Harrison did not tend to soothe his nerves.
He claimed that Montana would go Demo
cratic this fall because the son bad influ
enced the father in the matter of Federal
appointments, against the protest ot good
citizens, and some very objectionable officers
had been named as a result.
TALKED OF THEIS CHILDHOOD,
Bat Two Park Policemen Had No Romance
in Their Souls.
Albert Hood and Mary McCarthy, a
rather intelligent looking and well dressed
young couple, were arrested last night by
Allegheny Park Policemen Gensinger and
Lannigan, on a charge of violating a park
ordinance. The complaint made by the offi
cers was that the couple were sitting on one
of the benches in the park, at 10 o'clock,
with their arms about each other. The
prisoners indignantly denied this, and
stated that they came from the same part of
Ireland, and knew each other as children.
They happened to meet last night, and sat
down in the park to have a chat about their
childhood and their old home, when the offi
cers came along and arrested them.
Some gentlemen who happened to be in
the park at the time characterized the ar
rest as an outrage.
THE
VICTIM OF A STfilKR
Daniel SuIIiYan Shot and Killed by a
Colored Watchman Who
FEARED AN ATTACK BY STRIKERS.
A Keg of Beer Gets Four Boys Into Terr
Serious Trouble.
END OP A SATDKDAI DKIKEIKG BOUT
Daniel Sullivan, an 18-year-old boy, died
yesterday afternoon, the victim of a strike
with which he had not the slightest connec
tion. On Saturday evening Sullivan, with three
young companions, William McCntcheon,
Ed Murphy and James Cronin, bought an
an eighth of beer, and took it into J. B.
Hill's lumber yard at the foot of Thirtieth
street. The boys, for they were but little
more, became noisy after they had consumed
most of the beer, and attracted the attention
of people living in the neighborhood.
There has been a strike for some time past
at the Carbon Iron Works at Thirty-first
street, and non-union men are now em
ployed. To prevent possible interference
from the outside the company has employed
three colored watchmen, Richard Hernden,
William Lane and James Burns. In addi
tion to these sub-Officers Bogers, Cornman,
Markey and Hendricks have been detailed
to watch the works.
Officers Henry Bond and Eobert Bagley
went down to the lumber yard to arrest the
boys, and the entire Carbon Works garrison
turned out to see the fun. Three of the boys
submitted gracefully to arrest, but Sullivan
was in a fighting mood, and gave the officers
a tussle. Finally he struck Officer Bond
and broke away.
SHOT 'WHILE BUNNTNG.
Sullivan started on a run along Small
man street, but he had not gone many
yards when three sharp cracks from a re
volver rang out on the night air, and the
boy dropped to the sidewalk. The officers
rushed up to him and found a gaping wound
in the lad's right side, from which the
blood was pouring. The patrol wagon was
hastily summoned and Sullivan was taken
to his parents' home on Thirty-seventh
street Dr. T. K. Evans was called in and
announced that the boy was fatally injured.
As soon as Lieutenant Holnies heard of
the shooting he proceeded to investigate. He
went to Sulliv.in's home and asked him who
shot him. Sullivai replied that Officer
Bond had shot him.
The lieutenant said: "This is a very seri
ous charge to make ngainst an officer. Are
you sure of what vou say?"
Sullivan replied: "No, I am not sure. I
was running and my back was turned to
the man who shot me. But Bond was the
man I struck, and who else would shoot?"
The Lieutenant sought Officer Bond and
examined his revolver. All the chambers
were loaded, and it bore no evidence of hav
ing been recently fired. Bond denied that
he had shot at Sullivan, or that he knew
who did. Lieutenant Holmes then decided
to place the three colored watchmen under
arrest, which he did. All the men were
armed with revolvers.
SAW THE SHOTS FIBED.
At the hearing yesterday morning before
Police Magistrate McKenna, at the Twelfth
ward station, William Lane, one of the Car
bon Works watchmen, said that when they
heard the noise in the lumber yard they
thought it signified an attack upon the
works. They went out on the streets in
order to discover from what quarter the at
tack was likelv to be made. He said he
saw Hernden fire three times at Sullivan,
and that after the shooting he gave Hern
den three cartridges with which to refill the
chambers ot his revolver. Ed Murphy, one
of Sullivan's companions in the lnmber
yard, also testified that he'saw Herndon fire
three shots at his friend. The three colored
watchmen were committed to jail to await a
further investigation.
McCutcheon and Cronin were fined $10
apiece lor disorderly conduct, but Murphy
was discharged.
Sullivan died at 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon, still persisting in his statement that
he was shot by Officer Bond. Drs. Evans
and McCandless will make a postmortem
examination, and Coroner McDowell will
bold the inquest to-day.
Sullivan was a steady young fellow, and
was employed in running a dinky engine at
Carnegie's'Twenty-ninth street mill.
SEE WENT FOB THE SERGEANT.
An Amazon Makes Thins Lively in tho
Central station.
Sergeant Berry had a lively time with a
woman at Central station yesterday. Lizzie
Henderson and Maggie Thompson had been
arrested in the morning for disorderly con
duct at Eleventh and Liberty streets. At
the station bouse they were noisy and gave
the matron considerable trouble. The Hen
derson woman, who is s'tout and large, re
quested the privilege of leaving her cell
for a few moments, and, as is customary, the
privilege was granted, but she refused to
return when ordered to do so by the matron.
The latter called Sergeant Berry to assist in
returning the woman to her cell.
Miss Henderson was apparently willing
to obey the Sergeant, and was walking
along at his side when suddenly she stooped
and picking a heavy cell bar raised it to
strike him over the head. Berry saw the
act just in time, and jumping out of reach
of the descending bar, grappled with the
woman and overpowered her. She was
locked up then and will have two charges
to answer this morning.
HAESHAUNG TTTTTR F0ECES.
The Congressional Cnmpnign in Allegheny
Becinnlnir to Get Warm.
George Shiras III. was at the "Union depot
last evening seeing a friend off. He re
marked that he hadn't been in the station
since the last session of the Legislature, and
it reminded him of old times. Mr. Shiras
stated that he was still in the Congressional
fight on the Northside, and he fully realized
what 'he had to contend with, though he
feels that the odds are not so strong against
him as when he ran against Colonel Bayne.
"Both sides," said he, "are now secretly
marshaling their forces, and the fight will
occur later on. My opinion is that the peo
ple will not take the same Interest as they
did before. When the primaries were held
it was a beautifnl alternoon, and I was
surprised at the number of gray-haired men
to be seen at the polls. It shows the interest
manifested, when the vote cast was larger
than in the Presidental election, and then
the work was done in a few"hours, while at
election times the whole day is given up."
THE LADY DIDN'T LIKE IT.
Two Tonus Men Arrested for Throwing
Kisses to n Maiden.
Two young men who gave their names as
James and William Green were arrested on
Fifith avenue Saturday night on complaint
of Miss Catharine Bechtold, who accused
them of acting in a disorderly manner. At
the hearing" yesterday morning she testified
that as she passed the two men, near Tunnel
street, the one who called himself James
Green, threw kisses to her, and when she
frowned her disgust and disapproval the
pair lauehed at her.
Magistrate Gripp imposed a fine and
lecture on James, and "William was let off
with a word of advice.
A Six Hundred Dollar Fire.
A fire among some rubbish in the cellar
of Creamer's erocery store, on Beaver ave
nue, Allegheny, caused an alarm from box
13 in Allegheny at 9:30 last night The
cellar was damaged to the amount of $600.
PITTSBTpiG - DISPATCH,
THE FARMERS' CONGRESS,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER M'KEE AP
POINTED A DELEGATE.
Granger Interests and Grievance! to be Dis
cussed !Hr. McKro Opposed to Agrar
Innlsm Effect of the Original Package
Decision on Oleamnrgarlur.
County Commissioner George Y. McKee
has been appointed a delegate to the Na
tional Farmers' Congress, at Council Bluffs,
la., which convenes on the 26th inst, and
will remain in session several days in com
mittee of the whole on the state of farmers'
interests, grievances, etc. Prom the text of
the programme it would apper that the
grangers intend to have a good time, as
there is abundant space on the listfor music
and other etceteras.
Mr. McKee states that the first intima
tion he had that he had anything to do with
the movement he got in a letter from the
Secretary, B. F. Clayton, announcing his
appointment by the Governor. As Mr.
McKee did not say what Governor, the im
pression gnined was that the appointment
was made by Governor Beaver. W. B.
Errett,Esq., however, states that the official
meant is an officer in that capacity in the
Farmers' Alliance, and not a State official.
Mr. McKee expresses himself favorably
toward the movement, provided it run not
into agrarian ism, for which he finds no room
in his system. Nor is he en rapport with
many grangers' views on the subject of the
exclusion ot oleomargarine from Pennsyl
vania markets, and for which they proudly
take credit in securing the passage of a pro
hibitory law. He says oleomargarine has
never been known to be an unhealthy food,
and, if sold on its merits, has as much right
on the market as any other article of food.
The Council Bluffs comvention will dis
cuss railway 'freights, tariffs, inter-State
commerce and politics, especially the latter,
and its proceedings will form instructive
reading to all, especially farmers, as the
latter will find it a foundation widener.
The Grange, while quite active in the
northern and central portions of this State,
is comatose in this county, or nearly so.
There is still some latent heat in the organi
zation, however, hereabouts, and it seems
there has been some talk ot resurrection in
North Fayette and Bobinson townships,
where once Grange councils cast a 1am
bient flame for the enlightenment
of.bucolic intellect. It is evident that they
never got very deeply into the science of
government, as the practical politician still
finds those townships good gleaning ground.
Of late they have taken their platforms out
for examination, and possibly for future
use. They find considerable dry rot in
some of the planks, and these will be re
moved to make room for sound timber.
As an instance of the futility of the anti
oleomargarine law, it may be stated that
one person in this city is making $50 a day
selling oleo, and the original package de
cision by the United States Supreme Court
is hutting that dealer rather than doing him
good, as it is killing the retail trade. This
dealer wouldn't give a baubee to sell oleo on
its merits, consequently had rather nave it
remain under the ban of the Farmers' Al
liance, and masquerade as "Creamry" at 25
to 30 cents a pound. Were it stamped
"oleo," and sold as required by the original
package decision, there would be bnt a
legitimate profit in it, and this dealer's
profits would be ?2 50 instead of 550 a day.
A CHAPTEB BY A CLEBK.
Use of the Ere nnd nr in Helping People
to Uecognlze Each Other.
"I knew who you were as yon walked up
to the desk, though I couldn't see your
face," was the greeting of a hotel clerk to a
reporter yesterday. "Did you ever study
the walks of people?" he continued. "Why,
when I was a boy I used to know my father
if I could just faintly see his outline,
squares ahead of me. He bad a peculiar
walk, and it was associated with no other
in my mind. Some clerks study the faces
of guests; but years ago I fell into the habit
of watching the legs, and I can distinguish
any of tbera if I can see tile motion of their
lower limbs.
"Every man has a walk of his own, just
as no two men look exactly alike. Some
amble, others shamble, some wear the shoes
down on the side of the heels, a few walk
square on the foot as they should, while
some others wear out the toe of the shoe
first As for telling character in the walk
I take no more stock in it than I do in
studying the hand writing, phrenology)
palmistry, or any of the other would-be
mysterious sciences. How often do we draw
hasty conclusions from alleged signs, and
misjudge people who afterward become our
best friends.
"The ear is another organ that helps us to
recognize people. One soon learns to know
a man from the sound of his step as I used
to be familiar when I was a boy with the
patter of my mother's slipper when in opera
tion on some of my brothers. I couldn't see
it, but I could hear it, and always stayed
outside until her wrath was over. When I
went to school I roomed on the first floor of
a big buildintr and the other boys in going
to their quarters passed my door. It wasn't
long before I learned to distinguish every
one of them by the sound ot their walks.
It merely required a little attention."
EONS OF AHEBICA,
Itlcmbcrs of tho Patriotic Order Coming to
Attend the State Camp.
The State Camp of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America will be held in Pittsburg
this week. The Central Hotel will be the
headquarters. All the State officers.will be
present, and two of the Philadelphia dele
gates, H. S. Bissex and W. C. Wilson, ar
rived last evening, and are stopping at the
Central. They are the advance guard, and
the other delegates will come in to-day and
to-morrow. J. B. May, of Birdsboro, is the
State Chaplain. George W. Hawksworth,
of Allegheny, is one of the leading officers,
and he was at the hotel last evening to re
ceive any delegates who might arrive. A
band in the East End has been selected to
furnish the music.
The order numbers about 40,000 in Penn
sylvania, and its principles are similar to
those of the American Mechanics. Mr.
Hawksworth expects a good turnout from
all parts of the State, and for the next Tew
days the city will be given up to them. The
members are rather reticent about what is
to be discussed, as the organization is a se
cret one. It was learned that the present
immigration laws and their stringent en
forcement will form one of the important
topics. The decision of the Wisconsin Su
preme Court abolishing the reading of the
Bible in the public schools will come in for
some consideration and possible censure.
A SUNDAY BIOT
Between While and Colored Men Broken
Dp br One Detective.
A big fight was in progress at the corner
of Fountain street and Seventh avenne
yesterday afternoon, in which about a dozen
men, black and white, were engaged.
Detective Bobinson heard of the affair and
ran to the place in time to see a colored
man making desperate attempts to stab his
white opponent with a big knife. The
crowd broke and ran at Bobinson's ap
proach, but he succeeded in capturing two
colored men, Sidney Booker and William
Brown, one of whom be identified as the
man who was flourishing the knife.
Both men were taken to Central Btation.
Others of the crowd will probably be ar
rested to-day, and a charge of riot preferred
against them
A Cbance for Murderer Smltli.
The commission appointed to inquire into
the sanity of Smith, the colored wife mur
derer, will report to the Pardon Board at its
meeting next Monday. It is said the com
mission will recommend a commutation of
sentence on the ground of irresponsibility
of the murderer at the time the deed was
committed,
MONDAY. AUGUST 11.
MISSING A MARKET.
T
An Extensive Champagne Bottle
Trade Open to manufacturers
BT USING THE RIGHT MATEBIALS.
Englishmen Will Eny Breweries if They
Can Earn a Fair Profit.
FLIKT GLASS H0DSES STARTING T0-DAT
It seems that with all the pride Pittsburg
takes in its manufactures, there is still a
point or two in some branches sbe has yet
to learn from the more experienced workers
of the Old World. One of these is in the
manufacture of wine bottles, especially
champagne bottles, which, it appears, can
not be made in this country of sufficient
quality to meet the requirements of the
growers.
The champagne produced on the Pacific
slope is annually increasing in volume, in
proportion to its improving quality, and a
large trade there awaits the manufacturer
who discovers the art of turning out bottles
of such material as will not affect the quali
ties of the wine. That this point in their
manufacture has not yet been reached is
proven by the fact that of the millions of
bottles of champagne annually bottled on
the slope, not one is filled in flasks of native
manufacture; second-band French bottles,
gathered from every end of the country,
being exclusively used. The element of
cost is not a factor in the matter, because by
the time the French bottles are collected,
scoured and prepared for their new con
tents, they stand the grower in about as
much, if not more, than native bottles
would.
"WHERE THE TKOUBLE LIES.
These points were developed yesterday, in
conversation with Mr. Eugene J. Cantin, of
California, who represents Arpad Harasz
thy, the largest champagne grower on the
slope. Mr. Cantin says that the reason na
tive bottles are not used for champagne is
because the wine is affected by certain chem
ical properties in the glass from which the
French article is free. Native bottles have
been tried, but in every instance it
has been found that the delicate flavor
of the wine was affected by certain
constituents of the glass. His firm depended
solely tor a supply of champagne bottles on
what French bottles they could collect over
the country. They required to be subjected
to an expensive cleansing process, before
being used, and be thought that native bot
tles could be produced at a cheaper rate; if
otherwise they could be made to snit the re
quirements. The French bottles were made
ot such material as did not yield any trace
of its composition to effect the delicacy of
the wine, and he thought that if manufact
urers would try to make such bottles they
would very materially increase their trade.
As an example of the number of bottles
used in this branch of the trade Mr. Cantin
said that his firm always had 1,000,000 un
dergoing the process ot fermentation at one
time, and that during the two years re
quired about 160,000 bottles were lost
through breaking. The breaking was
caused by the heavy pressure which the
bottles were obliged to sustain at this
period, running from a pressure of 110
pounds to the square inch, when fermenta
tion began, to 90 pounds pressure at the end
of a couple of weeks. "
THE LOSS BY BREAKAGE.
During this period the loss from breakage
averaged 4 per cent., and anyone entering
the cellars was obliged to wear a mask, ow
ing to the flying particles of glass. Speak
ing about champagne glasses, he said that
manufacturers should see that the glasses
were grooved, ribbed or brought to a Doint
on the inside. Glasses so finished afforded
a point of assemblage for the gases which
prodnced the fizzing properties of the wine.
Of the 35,000,000 gallons of wine annually
consumed in the United States, California
prodnced 20,000,000; 5,000,000 only were im
ported, and the other 10,000,000 gallons were
made in Ohio and other States, and of such
ingredients as he could not well describe.
He said there was not much champagne
used in Pittsburg. The area under wine
vines in California Was 200,000 acres, and
the amount of canital invested in the busi
ness about $65,000,000 or $75,000,000.
STARTING UPJHE FIRES.
Flint Glnss Houses on the Sonthside to
Resume To-Day Workmen Anxlons to
Get Back to Work Window Homes
ninr be Idle Six Weeks Vet.
To-day several hundred glass house boys
who have spent the past six weeks camping
along the Cheat and the headwaters of the
Monongahela, will return to work. Most
of the houses to resume operation to-day are
on the Southside. Judging from yesterday,
the weather will not be too warm, and the
boys are not likely to have cause for com
plaint on that score.
Pots were set at Bryce Brothers, and
King's Glass Company's tableware houses
last Wednesday, and two furnaces will be
started at each place to-day. Thomas
Evans & Co.'s chimney house will
also start up to-day and pots will be set in
Jones, Cavitt & Co.'s factory, where opera
tions will be commenced about Wednesdav.
It is thought that by the close of the week
all the flint bouses will be in operation.
The workmen are anxious enough to get
back to work again, and the prospects are
for a good fire. It is said the stock in the
market has been reduced considerably, and
that the outlook for a busy season was never
brighter. A large number of families will
profit by the resumption of work, and busi
ness men will look upon it as a good thing.
The window houses may not start np be
fore September 15, and possibly not for two
weeks later. The men endeavored at the
recent conference to get the manufacturers
to start as early as possible, but they re
fused to set a date, and in fact exhibited no
anxiety to resume much before October 1.
STILL IN THE IIABKET.
Englishmen Are Open to Bay Breweries, bnt
Must Have 7 Per Cent.
"There's not any doubt that the English
men are prepared to buy breweries when the
figures suit them," said Thompson Burton,
of Cincinnati, yesterday afternoon to a Dis
patch reporter. Mr. Burton speaks with
authority on the snbject, as he is the editor
and proprietor of the Cincinnati Southwest,
the official organ of the Brewers' Associa
tion. "I know for a fact that they offered
57,000,000 for Morelein's and wanted to put
down $350,000 as earnest of their Intentions.
The offer, however, was refused. The only
Cincinnati breweries they have secured are
Jueng's and the Aurora brewery, which are
practically the same. The Englishmen are
cautious in their dealings. They go over
the books carefully and examine into
the minutise of every transaction for
five or six years back, and if the accounts 'do
not show a net earning of 6 or 7 per cent
over the period they won't touch it When
they took over the two breweries I have
mentioned they did not make any changes
that any new firm might not have done.
They interfered in no way with the charac
ter of the product, retained the brew-masters
and proceeded to conduct business on the
same lines as usual.
"They met with some opposition at first,"
continued Mr. Burton, "people being under
the impression that some innovation was
proposed. After a time the German cle
ment came round to the view that the beer
was the same as usual, 'but the Irish would
have nothing to do with It because it was
made by .Englishmen."
Mr. Burton is an old-time Pittsburg news
paper man, and be made inquiries after his
co-workers of tho 1867-70 period.
1S90.
STBTJCK. A SNAG.
Tho Trade Conncll Unable to Find a War to
Iteopen- Discussion.
The Central Trades Council struck a par
liamentary snag at its meeting on Saturday
night, and concluded to adjourn for enlight
enment. At assembling the minutes were
approved with the correction by Joseph L.
Evans that in the case of the M. M. P. TJ.the
whole matter, instead of the letter, be laid
on the table. Calvin Wyatt then moved
to reconsider the matter, and the motion was
carried.
At this point the snag made its appear
ance. The meeting had approved of the
minutes, had also voted to reconsider the
matter, but didn't know how to go about it
So, rather than stay and debate the matter,
an adjournment was taken.
ACTING IH HABTE
To Repent nt Leisure, tho Position of Bono
WcstloBbonse Employes.
It was stated last night that the men in
the winding and other departments of the
Westinghouse Machine Company, who de
cided on Saturday night to remain out to
day in support of the machinists, on recon
sideration had concluded they were not
justified in doing so.
It is understood that a committee or ten
will call on the management this morning
and seek to explain why they had supported
the machinists in their petition.
TO P ICNIC AT SILVER LAKE.
Catholics Wondering: Whether They Can
Use Mcnt or Not Next Friday.
A meeting of the congregation of St
Paul's Cathedral was held last evening to
take action in regard to the annual picnic
of the church. It was decided to hold the
picnic at Silver Lake some day within the
next three weeks.
Tbe proceeds of the picnic will be used to
help pay for the new stained glass windows
about to be put in the church. At tbe sev
eral masses, yesterday Dr. Wall announced
that the windows bad arrived at New York
from Germany and would be sent to Pitts
burg as soon as possible. There are eight
windows altogether and they will be in posi
tion about September 1. Six of them will
be" paid for by individual members of the
congregation.
Next Friday will be the Feast of the As
sumption and will be a holy day of obligation.
All the Catholic churches will hold services
the same as on Suuday, and the faithful are
obliged to hear mass. By a special dispen
sation of Pope Leo, it is said flesh meat can
be eaten on the day, notwithstanding the
fact that it is Friday. This information
comes by cable dispatches from Borne, but
nothing was said about it in tbe churches
yesterday. It is stated the reason for it is a
desire to recognize and respect the feast and
is another step toward a relaxation of the
rigid laws regarding holy days. If the use of
flesh meat is allowed it will be only the sec
ond instance where it is permitted to be
used on Friday. Heretofore tbe only time
it was allowed on Friday was when Christ
mas fell on that day. Thursday, the day
preceding the feast, will be a day of fasting.
SUNDAY'S ACCIDENT BECOBD.
A Sonthside Boy Badly Injured Wbllo Riding:
n Bicycle.
A little son of Mrs. M. V. Arenholtz, of
No. 2517 Carson street, was seriously in
jured yesterday evening at his home. He
was riding on a bicycle, when the backbone
of the machine broke. Thelittle fellow was
seated back from the head, and when the
perch snapped he fell backwards, the broken
end of the perch striking him on the spine,
lacerating the flesh and injuring his back in
a way that may prove dangerous.
Between 5 and 6 o'clock a freight wreck
occurred on tbe Pittsburg and Western
road in the tunnel under the bridge en
trance at Anderson street A train of
freight cars was being backed down, when
one of them jumped the switch. Three cars
were piled on top ot each other.
John B. Sheets, aged 29 years, was found
dead on the P., McK. & Y. tracks at Home
stead yesterday. He had been struck by a
train. The young man was unmarried and
lived on Fourth avenue. Homestead.
Evan Boer, a little boy whose parents live
on South Twenty-fifth street, tell down a
flight ot stairs at his home and was seriously
injured.
Willie Gorman, aged 8 years, was steal
ing a ride on the hind end of a carriage on
Wylie avenne. He fell off, and the back of
his head striking on tbe edge of the car
rails cut an ugly scalp wound.
AN UNLUCKY PHTLADELPHIAN
Dislocate! His Knee While Beating nil
Way oa a Freight Car.
John Kervin is the name of a young iron
molder from Philadelphia, who applied for
assistance at Central station yesterday
morning. Kervin is suffering from a dis
located knee joint
The injury was received on a freight car
upon which he was riding from Altoonato
Pittsburg. The railroad company shipped
him here, but since his arrival Saturday
morning the limb became very painful and
there are symptoms of mortification setting
in. Kervin was given a bed at the Central
and surgical attention.
niisslnic From His Home.
Fred Nestle, who resides at 106 Beaver
avenue, Allegheny, was reported missing
from his home yesterday. The police were
notified and are'looking for the wanderer.
Supposed to be Stolen.
Saturday morning about 7 o'clock a
young man hired a horse and buggv from
the stable of J. H. Skelton, on Twelfth
street, and has not returned it yet He said
be wanted to go to Wilkinsburg, and would
be back about 10 A. M. He is supposed to
have taken the rig out of the city with the
intention of disposing of it. Side bar buggy,
painted black, red stripe; brownmare, blind
with one eye, and a little white on hind
foot; weighs about 900 pounds.
An Extra feervnnt.
Walker's Wax Soap is equal to an extra
servant in the house. It costs no more than'
common soaps, and goes twice as far, and by
using it you save a servant's expense.
Ask your grocer for Walker's Wax Soap.
v aull,13,14,15
B. fcB.
Sacrifice is the word all over the store,
and especially summer dress goods this
week.i Bogos & Buhl.
Echols, McIUurray Si Co.
Upright pianos, $75. $150, $200, $250.
Square pianos, $50. $75, $100, $125.
Organs and melodians, $10, $20, $10, $60.
123 Sandusky street, Allegheny.
Tttw foil ..(.inn nf th Rlinnprv "RlrV
State Normal School will begin September
2; expenses $60 lor 16eeks; to teachers $52.
Address Albert E. Maltby, Ph. D., Slip
pery Bock, Butler county. Pa.
Scholarship in the Pittsburg Female
College can be rented by applying to Mr
Jos.' Shallenberger, Duquesne Bank, Toes
day and Friday from 11 to 12 o'clock. Mlh
Hendricks & Co , No. 68 Federal st,
Allegheny, continue to. lead in fine photo
graphs at reduced rates. Try them. Good
cabinets, $1 a dozen.
Everett Piano Club Announcement.
Certificate No. 54, held by Mrs. E. S.
Seitz, Jeannette, Pa., receives the club
piano this week. Alex. Boss, Manager,
Mv 137 Federal st, Allegheny, Pa.
81 Until September 1, 1S90 $3 30.
12 cabinet photos, $1, or a life-size crayon
portrait, $3 CO. Auirecht's Elite Gallery,
01G Market st, Pittsburg. Bring children.
Ice.
Canada Ice for sale. Address
B, Hopsou", Mayyllle, N. Y, J
THEIR OWN STORES.
Sovereigns of Industry Considering
the Co-Operalive System.
MAT ADOPT THE ENGLISH PLAN.
An. Official Points Out the Advantages of
the Enterprise.
IT WOULD BE A C0KP0KATB C0XCEEN
The Grand Council ot the Sovereigns of
Industry has a committee at work preparing
a plan for the establishment of a co-operative
store, to take the place of the contract
system, by which the membership of the or
ganization is now supplied with tbe neces
saries of life. It has been the aim of the
present Grand Council officers to see a co
operative store-established, but not until the
last quarterly meeting did the scheme as
sume anything like a tangible shape.
For two years the councils in the various
sections of the county have been- talking
abont starting stores on their own responsi
bility, and doing away with contracts with
merchants. Last winter one of the Sonth
side councils became interested in the mat
ter, and began to make arrangements to
start a store on that side of the river. This
plan did not meet with the approval of the
grand officers, and the proposition now un
der consideration is to establish a store un
der the jurisdiction of tbe Grand Council.
The plan in detail, as given by the Grand
President to a Dispatch reporter, is to
form a corporat ion under the laws of the
State, the stock to be subscribed for hy the
Grand Council, as a body, subordinate
councils and individual members of the
order. No one but Sovereigns will be per
mitted to own stock.
The Grand Council will formulate all the
laws for the control of the concern. One
large department store will be established
in Pittsburg for the accommodation of the
members in Pittsburg, Allegheny and the
Southside. When the membership in tbe
surrounding towns, such as Sharpsbnrg,
East End, Braddock, McKeesport, Cannons
bure, Washington, Eochester and Beaver
Falls, is sufficient to support them, branch
stores will be established at those places.
"WHERE THEY AEE SUCCESSFUL.
It is ths intention to pattern after the
English co-operative system, as far as they
can be made applicable. Co-operative
stores have become eminently successful in
England. One system was founded there a
few years ago by three gentlemen, who car
ried on their business for a long time in a
basement Now their enterprise is worth
millions of dollar.1). They control factories
and workshops where all the clothing worn
by the people interested in the concern is
made. They have established schools in
which they educate their own children.
Every necessity is lurnished through this
concern, which'is carried on on an exceed
ingly large scale.
The committee having charge of the local
arrangements does not expect to be so suc
cessful from the start, but it is confident tbe
enterprise can be made of great value to the
members. TJnder the present system tbe
trade of the order is said to be worth over
$100,000 per annum to one firm in Pittsburg
alone, and that more than $500,000 is spent
by the members with the firms which have
contracts with tbe organization. It is
claimed that fully one-quarter of tbi3
amount could be saved to the individual
members by the co-operative plan, and the
remainder, being held and controlled by a
beard of able financiers, would help to rap
idly swell the treasury of the corporation,
from whicb, at the end of each year, would
be paid to the stockholders a pro rata
dividend; and in addition, 3 per cent on all
money expended in the concern dnring the
year.
SOME OP THE ADVANTAGES.
Thus the enterprise would have a three-fold
advantage to tbe members. They would
first save the retailers' profit on all goods
bought in the co-operative stores. They
would be paid an annual dividend on their
stock, and, as an inducement to purchase
only at the co-operative store, tbey would
receive the extra 3 per cent on the amounts
of their purchases tor the year.
It is not vet determined what amount of
-3LA2iNEBS,S-
Weakness, Indisposition to Work,
Headache, Dullness, Heaviness,
Lack of Appetite, Constmatlon,
all indicate that you need a few doses
of the genuine
Dr. McLane's Celebrated
LIYER PILLS.
They strengthen the weak and purify the
BLOODr
They are prepared from the purest
materials and put up with the great
est care by
FLEMING BROS.,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Be sure you get the genuine. Count
erfeits are made in St Louis.
au9-57-jrwT
Crane Elevator Co..
Pittsburg Office, Lewis Building.
REVERSING ENGINES.
HYDRAULIC AND STEAM
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT
ELEVATORS.
je-14 42-HWT
OUR PROMISE
TO THE
PUBLIC FULFILLED.'
OUR STORES
ARE NOW OPEN.
ALL STOCK
CARRIED OVER
WILL BE
SACRIFICED.
C. WEIBBER,
435 and 437 MARKET ST.
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money will be necessary to start the stores.
That will depend on the size of the enter
prise. From $00,000 to $75,000 can be raised,
it is calculated, to give the enterprise a
start, and then, if handled properly, it will
support itself and provide for improvements
aod a broadening of scope annually there
after. It is not anticipated that the co-operative
store will be established on the proposed
plan without some objection. Curiously
enough most everything undertaken by the
Sovereigns meets with objections 'rom soma
quarter. The councils on the Snuthsida
will oppose the plan of giving the Grand
Council the full control of the stores, and
will endeavor to have smaller stores in dif
ferent sections of the city, under the man
agemen of the councils in the vicinity in
which they are located.
It is thought hardly probable the Sover
eigns will De readv to co into business be
fore the expiration of the present contracts,
AN EYE TO BTJSDirS3.
Western Commercinl jllen Tailing; Advaa
iago of tho G. A. It. Kntos.
"It is surprising," said a Pullman con
ductor last evening,-"how many people are
taking advantage of the low G. A. K. rates
to visit the East. The trains are crowded
with Western business men going to New
York to buy their fall and winter goods.
Few of these men will see Boston, and have
no desire to go there."
What the conductor said is a fact, and
the trains are still badly crowded. Last
evening it was necessary to run out two sec
tions of the Eastern express, and extra sec
tions of other trains were started. Pullman
cars are a scarce article, and some of the .old
sleepers that look as if tbey had been side
tracked forever, judging by their faded ex
terior as well as interior, have been resur
rected and are being pressed into service.
Peter Pled tho Fallen.
Peter Ford, better known as the "Star
Gazer" about Soho, was arrested by Officer
Haas and lodged in the Fourteenth ward
station last night on a charge of disorderly
conduct It is alleged by the officer that
Ford was loafing about Second avenue, near
Frankstown, last evening, insulting and
throwing mud. at persons passing by. At
times Ford acts as though partly de
mented. PrrraBUEO, Monday, August 11, 1S90.
JOB. HDRNE k CD.'S
PENN AVE. STORES,
To vivify trade
In hot weather takes in
ducements
Our August trade is ph&5
nomenal.
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''Prices
ducement.
did it" the
TWENTY (20) PIECES J
1
More to-day of those $1
yard Black Silk Warp Hen
riettas. They would cost
$1 50 a yard at any other?
time. Now $i. )
FIFTY (50) PIECES
First quality Printed All-
wool rrencn naines, in
choice designs and Dlentvi
to select from, only 35c 3,
yard. Short lengths go to
you at 25c a yard. (
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Dark shades plain French
Challies, $1 quality, now
50c a yard.
Your attention again to
those double-width, cream,
all-wool Nun's Veiling: at
25c. A quick trade spot
where they are.
Near the entrance for lottf
priced Dress Goods.
Add to-day lot more dark
colored French designs half
wool Challies at 10c a yard
(reduced from 18c).
Fancy stripes and side
border Suitings, 36, 40 and
46 inches wide, some all
and others nearly all wool,
at 35c (reduced from 50c).
36-inch Cheviot Stripes
(50c quality) now at 35c a
yard. ',
A new item from the
Wash Goods Department.
All the 45c and 50c Ox
ford Cheviots cut from 25c
a yard to put them out
quick.
Your choice is great here
Cottons at the lowest
in
prices ever heard of
The clearance sale of La
dies' and Children's Hosiery
renewed to-day. "
JDS. HDRNE 2c CD., '
609-621 PENN AVENUE. (
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