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PAGES 9 TO 12.
SECOND PART.
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1890.
THE PRIZEWINNERS.
A Little. Lady Yet in Her Teens
Captures the $20
Gold Piece
AWARDED BY THE DISPATCH
For the Best Descriptive Article on
the Pittsburg Exposition.
A LADY ALSO GETS SECOND PEIZE,
And the Third Goes to a Man, After a
Close Contest.
WHO THE SUCCESSFUL ESSA1ISTS ABE
A few days previous to the opening of the
.Exposition, The Dispatch offered prizes
for essays on a chosen topic The Exposi
tion opened on September 3, and the con
testants had only three days in which to
prepare their papers, as the first contest
closed on September 6, with the close of the
Exposition's opening week on Saturday
night In announcing the Prize Essay con
test Tnn Dispatch said:
Tue Dispatch each week will offer Frizes
fortbe best Essays ar.d Contributions on a
topic to be chosen and announced. The Prize
Essay Contest for the opening week will bo
open only to Amateur Writers, professional
ucxiepaper and magazine contributors being
barred. All Amateurs in Western Pennsylva
nia can contest for the Prizes.
For the opening week The Dispatch will
offer tbe prizes announced herewith for the
best Descriptive Article on the Exposi
tion as a w bole. Articles must be General in
character and deal with tbe instructive and
unique features of the displays and attractions.
No puffing in the line of designating byname
the exhibitors will be permitted. The features
and attractions can only be referred to in a gen
eral and interesting way. T
For the best contribution on the above topic
The Dispatch will award a prize of a
TWENTY DOLLAR GOLD PIECE.
For the Second Prize The Dispatch will
award a Five Dollar Gold Piece.
For tbe Third Prize The Dispatch will for
ward by mail to the winner a copy of the
Sunday issuo of The Dispatch for One
Year.
Each article must make at least 800 and not
more than 1,000 words.
The mass of MSS. placed upon the desk
of the Managing Editor necessitated the en
gagement of a competent person to act as
judge and pick out the winners. The Dis
patch selected a gentleman who has occu
pied every chair in the editorial rooms of
various newspapers, but who is not at pres
ent actively engaged in newspaper "work.
It is satisfied to award the prizes on his ripe
judgment, and his decision is final. The
winners of the Prizes are:
First J'm
MISS OLLA a H. HOTHAM, No. 133 Pearl
street, Pittsburg.
Second J'rize.
MISS MAE DAVIS. No. SO Taggart street.
Allegheny City.
Third Fnzc.
CHARLES F. HOOD, Husscy building, Fifth
pvenue. P)ttsbwc
In awarding the prizes the Judge says:
"The competitors are about equally divided
eo far as sex is concerned, young ladies
leading the list slightly, however One of
the lady contestants is 50 years of age, but
the remainder are far below the half century
line. The winner is a young lady yet in
her teens. As between the first and second
prizes, I find it hard to decide, but after
mature deliberation awarded it to another
young lady just out of her teens, the third
prize going to a gentleman on the shady side
of 30. A great nan? of the writers seem to
have no proper conception of descriptive
writing, and, if the mass of MSS. I have
read is any criterion, this class of writers
cannot be very numerous. While there are
school girl er-marks on the winner's con
tribution, still it is very sketchily written,
and indicates a writer's talent, judged from
n newspaper standpoint."
The winners will receive their Prizes on
replication at The Dispatch Business
Office, corner Smithfield and Diamond
streets, at 3 o'clock this alternoon.
The contributions of the prize winners
follow:
THE EXPOSITION.
Written by SIN Olln It. II. Ilorhnm, Winner
of the First Prize.
"We are going to visit the Exposition to
day. It yon wish to see the at present
j;ieatest attraction of the citv just come
along. "The more, the merrier," is our
inotti.
Purchasing tickets, we present them, and
are permitted to enter the building. For a
moment we stand and gaze around. Here,
there and everywhere the national colors
float out grandly and bravely over the scene
spread out before us.
As we pass slowly around the building
pleasing sights greet our eyes at every turn.
There arc stands of lovely dress goods
fchimmeriug s.lks and satins, and cash
meres and other goods of finest texture.
Hcie is a stand ol laces black net, gold-em-bioidercd,
delicate mousseliue de sole and
crepe lisse, rich, creamy dnchesse and rare
beautiful point laces that bring delight
and longing to the heart of everv feminine
beholder.
Yonder, amid all this splendor, is a little
oasis of green palms. Up a small path we
go, and there, on a little height is a cozy re
treat, whci e tea is served in tiny old-:ash-joned
cups. Just below this is a Japanese
house, so constructed that neither nail nor
screw is used in putting it together. The pieces
simply fit together. There is no end to
the wonders of this wonderful place. The
displays of the jewelers delight us. At
their stands there is the gleam of silver, the
glitter of cut glass; there are dainty articles
of bric-a-brac, statues in bronze and marble,
and vases of rare and delicate beauty. Next
on the list are the furniture dealers'displavs.
.. e juuii, encnanieu, on ine luxurious furni
ture, the soit carpets. It is all so rich, so
Oriental-looking that we almost imagine
ourselves on the threshold of one of the
palaces described in the "Arabian Nights."
Here, my muic-loving friend, is some
thing that you will like. "Ve see before us
all kinds of musical instruments. There
are deep-toned organs and sweet-toned
pianos. There are guitars that call to mind
Jark-eyed Spanish cavaliers, and violins
that make one think of the old masters who
called forth such sweet music from just such
internments.
The leading clothiers are well repre
sented, and everything in their line is
shown to the best advantage. We examine
the cooking utensils, and look at the car
riages and other vehicles, with their lifelike
horses and erect coachmen. At the foot of
the stairs are some cases ot preserved flow
ers whicn we admire. Then we go upward
and give a moment to the different sewing
machines and watch their deft operators
construct pretty articles of fancy work.
Here is the work of the pupils ot the
High School and of the public schools. The
specimens of drawing are fine and much
natural talent is shown. The specimens of
botany are well worth looking at, as are the
other specimens from the High School.
Then we examine tbe books that contain
specimens of work from the vens of the pub
lic school pupils. As we look over the first
year's work we could see, in imagination,
the little flushed faces and patient little
fingers that prepared with such care the
pages before us. The work of the older
pupils is excellent
Having admired the architects' work,
which is very interesting, we entered the
art gallery. The pictures are hung so as to
show to their best advantage. Realistic,
indeed, are the paintings. It is no wonder
that the art gallery is a' favorite place.
There are autumn scenes, over which the
golden glow of the closing days ef summer
lingers as if loth to depart; there are scenes
ot summer that seem to bring with them
the breath of roses and sunny days of June;
there are paintings of winter so real and
lifelike that one almost feels the chill, cold
breath of December; there arc pictures that
speak of the spring time; hunting scenes
full of life and action, quiet pastorals and
pictures of historical scenes are to be seen
in this wonderful gallery of art Then, too,
there is the photographers' display, which
is extensive and nicely arranged. Some
finely executed work is shown. It is with
reluctance that we leave the art gallery be
hind us.
We next visit Mechanical Hall. There
the roar of machinery greets us. Every
thing is being put into place as rapidly as
possible. Tbe glass factory is one of the
points of interest, and is surrounded by a
crowd, who watch with interest the work
men as they make lamp chimneys and other
articles. We look at the steam pumps, and
then turn our attention to the carpet loom
which is being erected, after which the sys
tems of locks and dams for rivers attract us.
Weexaniine the other machinery, and the
exhibits of stoves and safes, and after that
we go into the open air again. We visit
the fountain, which is unique and beau
tiful, the basin being in the form of a Mal
tese cross, and the water is thrown from big
bunches of waterlilies. The oil derrick is
visited, and then one exclaims:
"We forgot to get a pickle!" So we re
enter the building and proceed to regale
ourselves with pickles and popcorn. Then
we take another peep at tbe art gallery.
"That's a nice picture but ob! isn't the
frame too lovely foranything!"saysa strange
voice. The picture is by a noted' artist, aud
one of the finest in the gallery, but it was
the carved and gilded frame that was ad
mired. Such is life. A gilded exterior
dazzles the eyes and makes some forget the
beauties enclosed within it. Just then there
is a burst of music, and we hapten out to
where we can sit and look and listen, then,
when the last number is played we leave the
building, tired, but satisfied that we have
seen one of the grandest shows on earth.
Olla B. H. Hotham,
No. 133 Pearl street, city.
FIRST NIGHT.
Written by MUn Mao Da?li, Winner of tbe
Second Prlzp.
Flags waving, lights flashing, the 3ir
pulsating with delicious strains of music,
thousands of happy, animated faces and yon
have the interior of the Pittsburg Exposition
on opening night, September 3, 1890.
Coming in from the comparatively quiet
thoroughfare, I paused, dazzled and bewil
dered by the array of attractions surround
ing me, and, mentally, took a long breath
before beginning my inspection.
It did not take me very long to decide
that the display far exceeded that of last
year, and the farther I advanced the greater
grew my admiration. I found myself nod
ding a most decided approval of the new ar
rangement of the music stand and the num
ber of chairs beneath jt, all occupied by a.
well-dressed, quietly-attentive audience
with satisfaction plainly beaming from their
countenances as the sweet, familiar airs by
the famous Innes band fell upon their listen
ing ears. This improvement docs away
with the crowded galleries. Moving leisure
ly with the crowd, murmurs of surprise
and admiration were heard on every
side. Of course, all the women'
went into ecstacies over the dainty
china, gleaming silver and sparkling glass
ware; tbe exquisite statues, bronzes and
cabinets tbe hundred and one articles of
wearing apparel, dear to the feminine heart,
at whose prices tbe unenlightened escort
stares in blank wonder not unmixed with
dismay. The beautiful carpets, curtains
and elegantly furnished roams called forth
their share of admiration and the dear
creatures joined their brethren in sounding
the praises of the stylish turnouts; beauti
ful mantels, chandeliers and all the other
accessories to the perfectly appointed home
structure.
The pretty pavilions with their cosy chairs
and cool looking palms and ferns appear
very inviting to the weary sight-seer, and
the very sight of the huge dragon perched
on top of the tea pagoda is enough to recall
all the fairy tales of one's childhood. And
such tea and such dainty service!
Aud the pictures! Oh, the pictures! En
ter the art gallery and you are iu a land of
enchantment. Beautiful faces smile at you;
fair scenes lie stretched before you, and
turn which way you will your wondering
eyes and changing fancy are arrested and
charmed by some new beauty.
Here a friend's lace greets" you from out
its frame of gilt and plush; there are num
bers of photographs of familiar places re
calling old times and associates, and so it
goes on ad infinitum, every moment filled
with interest and amusement.
Have you ever visited a glass works? I
have, and I felt determined that if I suc
ceeded in getting out alive and uninjured I
would never be guilty of such foolishness
again. Not that the process itself was in
tensely interesting, but the heat, the noise,
the glare, the army of small men, each armed
with a spear capped with red hot glass and
running around in a seemingly reckless
fashion, were a little too much for my nerv
ous system. However, all this is done away
with in Machinery Hall, and the interested
spectator can, with ease and safety, watch
the entire proceess of glass manufacture, and
a most wonderful and interesting study it
certainly is, as evinced by the crowd which
constantly surrounds it. Machinery Hall
is certainly an education in itself, and must
prove of incalculable benefit to the thou
sands of its visitors, to whom the huge wheels
and belts, the mighty dynamos and engines,
down to the simplest mechanical contriv
ances, are a source of wonder, admiration
and never failing interest. What a monu
ment to science is that huge electric arch
just without, whose many lights cover that
end of the building as with a blaze of glorr.
This year the exhibitors seem to have
united with the management in sparing
neither labor nor expense to make the sea
son of "SO" a most unqualified success and
how well they have succeeded will be
evinced long before the closing night.
And such a place as it to meet one's
friends! All the world and his wife, or
sweetheart, go to the Exposition and one is
constantly bowing to right and left.
'But haste! what is this the band is play
ing, ''Home, Sweet Home;" surely, it is
not time for closingl Take out your watch.
Ten o'clock! Impossible! How quickly the
time has passed! The first night of the-Ex-position
is over. Miss Mae Davis,
No. 80 Taggart street, Allegheny City.
THE EXPOSITION OP 1890,
Written by Chnrlei F. Hood, Winner of the
Third Priz-.
As a source of instruction, excellent! of
profit, most satisfactory, and as an advertis
ing medium, immense! Such are the ex
pressions that would most likely be received
by the average visitor to the Exposition,
should he be not too closely identified with
the city's interests, and to these would cer
tainly be added pride, o! the most pro-
nounced type, if he were enrolled among its
citizens. And why should not anyone be
proud of this magnificent display of Pitts
burg's wonderful resources, of her mechan
ical and commercial achievements, and the
conclusive evidence ot her solidity aud
wealth. From a point of vantage near the
band stand in the large gallery sur
rounding the main building, bril
liant under the glare of myriads of
incandescent electric lamps a scene of sur
passing beauty bursts upon the gaze.
Thousands of upturned faces of ladies, gen
tlemen and children combined with the most
elaborate and gaily colored draperies with
which the rafters and supports of the build
ing are decorated and the innumerable
pagodas and booths filled with the choicest
labrics, statuary, china, and almost every
couceivable article for the convenience and
comfort of tbe human race, from the plainest
necessaries of life to the most opulent lux
ury, makes the picture one long to be re
membered, limes' Thirteenth Regiment
Band, of New York, gave proof of their
wonderful ability and their claim to
popular favor by the superb rend
ering of a number of selections of
high class band music and popular airs.
Among the most attractive features in the
main ball are the magnificent exhibits of
drygoods, carpets, tapestries, curtains, fur
nishings, furniture, musical "instruments,
statuary and floral groups. The display of
statuary and ceramics is especially fine.
The He"-No T booth is also a great novelty
and attracts a large share of attentien, as
does the display of wire work and stoves.
The display of drawing and art work by the
pupils of the public schools, in the main
gallery, is remarkable and creates a great
deal of favorable comment, which is un
doubtedly well merited. It is a strong in
dication of the great progress that has been
made in the schools during the past few
yearB. In the same department mention
should be made of tbe fine collection ot
mechanical drawings from the mechanical
drawing schools. The art gallery
contains a much larger number of
pictures than it did last season and
of a superior quality on the whole. Chief
among the oil paintings are "The Return
From Elba," "The Offering of the Rose,"
"La Pierritte" aud "Waiting by the Sea."
These belong to the Haseltine collection. In
the Beerstadt collection there are "Sequiod
Giganted," which is perhaps the best pict
ure on exhibition: "Sunset on the Prairie"
'and "The Last Charge." In the American
collection the pictures which no doubt de
serve the most mention are, "A Forest
Glade," "Sympathy," "An Impromptu
Affair" and "A Pennsylvania Farm."
There is a very clever sprinkling of water
colors, mostly by American artists, as well
as a number of water and oil pictures by
Pittsburg artists that will prove very inter
esting to those who are interested in the ad
vancement of local art production, as well
as those who are not so well posted on the
prominence and standing of "our own."
The ubiquitous popcorn man 'is on hand
ns usual, aud adds his quota of amusement.
It might be interesting to know just how
much popcorn it will take to supply visitors
to the show during tbe next six weeks.
Machinery hall has, like the main building,
a few incompleted spaces, bnt everybody
seems to be hard at work, and all exhibits
will no doubt be finished during this and
the coming week. The glassworkine plant
in this department is the star attraction,
judging from the numerous crowd of sight
seers completely surrounding it from the
time it was put in operation. Here can be
seen the work of manufacturing lamp chim
neys, sherbet glasses and numerous other
specimens of the glassworker's art from the
mixing of the materials to the crimping of
the chimneys and the etching of your name
on the article selected as a souvenir. The
plant is a model one in every way, and is
one of the strongest cards of the whole show.
After it the electric plants and pumping
machinery seem to attract the most atten
tion. Iu fact all the machinery from the
beautiful, almost noiseless engine that fur
nishes the power for the great number of
machines in the building down to the small
est mechanical contrivance displayed is as
fine as can be found anywhere with the
chances very much against finding its equal.
Tbe Exposition in its entirety is a great im
provement over past efforts. There is more
than sufficient iu this one to fully justify
tbe pride of the people of the two cities and
to greatly enhance their commercial pros
perity. Charles F. Hood,
Hussey building, Pittsburg.
A NEW INCLINED PLANE.
Better Traveling Facilities to be Provided
for West End People Cam to Ran From
Wnbi.nU Avenoo to the Top ot Kerr's
mil ho tbe Projectors Arc.
The West End is booked for another im
provement This time it is an incline that
is proposed to be built from a point on Wa
bash avenue, near the car stables to the top
of Kerr's Hill. The line has been surveyed
and the parties interested iu the enterprise
are considering plans for the erection of the
plane. Some years ago there was talk of
building an incline at or near the same
point by the owners of the property on top of
the hill, but as there was only a small popu
lation, from which to draw patronage, the
scheme was dropped as an unprofitable one.
Since then Kerr's Hill has become the
"East End" of the West End. It is the
most desirable residence portion of the en
tire Southside, and it is populated with the
wealthiest people of the West End. A
great many complaints have been heard
from those who arc compelled to walk up a
mile around a steep hill, alter leaving the
street cars, before they can reach home, and
so the proposition to put up an incline for
their accommodation has been revived.
It is understood that William Warden,
ol the old Warden estate, is backing the
concern, and will furnish most of the money
required to eajry the project through. Mr.
Warden and a man named" Alexander,
formerly owned the West End, or at least
that portion of it lying on the west side of
Sawmill Run. A good part of it is still
held by the Warden estate, and it is said the
heirs intend building 200 houses in the
vicinity of the proposed new incline. This
will make tbe demand for incline
accommodations still greater, and also
increase the value of nroperty on Kerr's
Hill. It will prove a great convenience to
fiersons coming to the city, as they will be
anded on Wabash avenue, near the pro
posed new electric road, which, when com
pleted, will bring tbe business men and
others to their offices in less than half the
time now consumed.
It is not krsBjvn when work will be com
menced, but the incline is an assured -fact.
The lower station will be located on the two
lots now owned by the Warden estate, a
short distance below the car stables. A few
weeks ago the agent of the estate was offered
51, COO apiece lor these lots, nearly twice
their market value, as compared with sur
rounding property, but the offer was refused,
with the statement that the lots were not for
sale at any price. The reasons now given
for refusing to sell is that the lots are to be
used for the incline station.
IT RAINED ALLIGATORS.
A Story That Completely Eclipses Former
Records In Yarn-Splnnlnc.
Birmingham, Ala., September 12.
During a heavy rainstorm late this after
noon a live alligator 18 inches iu length fell
in the yard of George Lumpkin and was
captured. Lumpkin, his wife and two
daughters were sitting on the porch and
saw a long, dark object fall in the yard,
coming apparently from the dark clouds
above. As soon as the rain was over Lump
kin found the alligator crawling about in a
little pool of water.
YOUNG and old will be Amused and En
tertained IT tbey read tbe bis 20-page Dig.
PATCH to. morrow.
WE COME OUT AHEAD.
America Sells to Australia and
Doesn't Buy a Single Thing.
CLOTHESPINS ARE THE STAPLE.
Kerosene.Cars, Canned Salmon and Lumber
Make Dp the Trade.
ALL THE COAL OIL GOES IN TIN CANS
i warms roa. imt DisrATcn.l
Barren at first sight is the great Southern
Continent of Australia, and closer view and
longer acquaintance but more clearly dis
play the barrenness which exists side by side
with abundant wealth of the sort that makes
no display of green forests and fertile plains.
It is in this barrenness which accounts for
the notice which appears in the shipping
columns of the colonial papers with almost
the exactitude of a stereotype: "Entered in,
ship Soaring Eagle, from New York, with
cargo as per manifest, mostly clothespins."
A clothespin is a small matter, an armless
biped, a bifurcated and wooden similitude
of humanity, a thing to bold clothes and
therein still approaching the human like
ness which its form suggests, a thing to
straddle lines, and that, too, is an occupa
tion not unknown to human kind, a thing
to be weather-beaten in faithful service, to
be neglected and cast aside; a cheap bit of
timber. No one knows the extent of the
clothespin industry. Nothing short of a
Federal census can avail to disclose a
clothespin factory; its prices are not quoted
in financial columns,no one reads its highest
and its closing quotations, it simply goes on
being sold at the corner grocery for a trifle
the dozen, it dances its few stormy Mondays
on the laden line and disappears.
OUR GREATEST TRADE.
Yet poor despised clothespin is a staple
article of our trade with the Australian
colonies. The clothespin of America, fab
ricated in mystery and living in the world
of trivialities below even the reach of our
vivacious press, is exported to the land of
the Southern Cross and there figures in the
newspapers as "cargo as per manifest, mostly
clothespins."
Australia would be clothespmless were it
not for the enterprise of our merchants of
mystery who lurk in retired corners and
have transactions awav from the prying
crowd which involve the purchase and sale
of the merry Monday dancers of domestic
back yards." What those transactions are
never comes to light, perhaps there are
bears and perhaps bulls, perhaps some go
long and perhaps some hazardously short
tbe market, there may even be clothespin
puts and calls. Modestly emerging from
the secrecy of bis birth and the mystery of
those who deal in him. the clothespin goes
to the colonies by tbe million, and never
seems to satisiy the demand for him; for
Australia cannot make a clothespin.
HO LUMBER SUITED.
This humble instrument stands as the type
of a large class of manufacturers of wood tor
which Australia provides a market, which
is as brisk and active in protected Victoria
as in tree trade New South Wales. The
mountain ranges of the land are clothed
with dense forests, some of its trees overtop
the sequoias of California, which look down
upon nil other trees; thousands of miles are
covered with unbroken groves; it produces
tbe only timber which will resist the marine
worm ami the destructive white ant, but it
cannot produce a timber which will be
available for the production of clothespins
of barreir-and-pails, of-cbeap-fnniitrre, ana
the thousand and one other articles made of
our soft wood.
It is aland of the eucalypts, and the use
of the eucalyptus has yet to be determined;
like the mosquito it exists without percepti
ble moral end. Some have theorized the
tree would serve to dispel malaria from
fever-trodden districts and planted it about
the Roman Compagna and here and there in
this country, and the tree flourishes as fairly
as the ague it is designed to extirpate.
When dried it presents a problem of
crookedness too great for saw or plane to
solve, and therefore is almost worthless for
building timber. Even as firewood it has
scarcely any value.
PENNSYLVANIA COAL OIL.
The mineral wealth of tbe land, and it is
a rich country indeed, shows no discovery
of petroleum in iu extensive coal measures.
There is gold and silver, there is copper and
tin and coal and iron, and some of these are
richer deposits than our miners have even
dreamed oi; there is even kerosene shale,
but the first barrel of colonial 'petroleum has
yet to spout from the many shafts which
have been sunk to seek it and still remain
dry memorials of failures. The Ministry of
Mines, of New South Wales, in annual re
ports of great scientific interest, still holds
out hopes of the discovery of petroleum, and
urges that the search be kept up, but the
men who have already sunk their Sydney
sovereigns in the lruitless digging of empty
holes have lost confidence and have tnrned
to other things.
The domestic light of the colonies, which
its own soil denies, is spouting now in Penn
sylvania, and that must remain the source
to be drawn upon in larger and larger
quantities every year, until New South
Wales itself strikes oil, and of that there
seems little chance, despite the hopeful at
titude of the head of its official mineralogical
bureau. The trade is closely hemmed by tbe
custom ot the market and the judicious re
strictions of the Government Inspectors,
who are there clothed with far more sum
mary powers than would be tolerated here,
yet their powers are wisely intrusted to
them, and rigorously exercised for the, pub
lic good.
ALL GOES IN CANS.
The custom of the market governs the
form and size of the packages of petroleum
imported, the Government inspeotion takes
cognizance only of the imflammability of
the oil and its storage in quantity, whether
in Government wharfs or private ware
houses. Of every million gallons of kero
sene which is shipped from the ports ot our
Eastern seaboard to Australian ports it is
safe to say that not 1,000 gallons goes in
barrels. The people do not care to handle
packages of that sort for some reason or
other, perhaps because the barrels are odor
ously useless for other purposes, and the
freight charge utterly prevents the return of
empties, as is the universal practice in
European ports.
In place of the familiar blue barrel we
find throughout the colonies the five-gallon
tin, and all shipments are reckoned by cases
of two such tins boxed in wood. The tins
areput to use when empty of kerosene by
heating to secure the solder and the tin
plate, which is applied to many purposes,
and in protected colonies the sale ot this tin,
which has entered free of duty, as an orig
inal package seriously affects the sale of tin
plate which, as snch, has been taxed at the
Customs House.
A PIEB OP TIN CANS.
In one case the tins were boldly applied to
the solution of a difficult problem of bridge
architecture on a VictoriaD river. At a
point where the dfficulties of sinking a cais
son to lay the foundation of a bridge pier
seemed insurmountable a foundation pier
was easily built up from the river bed out of
kerosene tins filled with sand, and each tier
securely lashed about and locked to the
courses above and below by a sort of Flem
ish bond. Upon this pier the stone pier was
laid and snnk as need arose by piercing the
tins below so ns to allow tbe sand to escape
and the tin to flatten out The Government
inspection concerns the flash test ot the oil,
and in the interest of the public security ex
ercises the right to destroy all which falls
below the standard which has been fixed; it
is a high one and nearly uniform in the sev
everal independent colonies.
On New York streets one sometimes sees
horse cars of an odd build driven along
without regard to the uplifted finger of
those who wish to ride. The angry stare
of the one left upon the curbstone sees that
after all it was not the car he wished, for
upon the sides be may read such inscrip
tions as "King William Street Tramwav,"
"Lake Torrens and North Adelaide," "Bot
any and Woolloomooloo."
OUB STREET CAB SHADE.
The horse cars are being driven toward
the East river piers below Wall street.
where they will be loaded into the holds of
colonial packets to come to light again quite
around the world and in tbe darkness some
where to undergo a sea change, to cease to
be horse cars and to become trams. Very
nearly all the horse cars in use in Austra
lian cities are made in this country, and
fully nine-tenths of them bear on the doors
the painted mark of one New York firm. It
is not that the cars are cheaper than those
made in England, for the difference in price
is compensated by the difference in freight
charged, but the American cars are lighter
and far more handsomely finished, and their
running gear is appreciably more durable.
From the prominence given these articles
of our export to tbe colonies, it is by no
means to be supposed that they complete the
list. Besides our woodenware other products
of our factories find a ready market under
the Southern Cross. Some of our calicoes
meet with favor because of their more
artistic designs, but in general tbe English
looms have an advantage which cannot be
overcome. Machinery of American make
needs but careful handling and honest deal
ing to secure a lncrative business.
AMERICA IN BAD REPUTE.
In general it is point for point lighter and
more attractive than similar articles of
English make, but it has yet to win its way
from under a natural suspicion of rascality,
for knaves in business have succeeded in
duping the people into buying some worth
less farm implements which were widely
announced as American, and because of that
trick all American manufactures, no matter
how good, have to suffer. If manufacturers
interested in securing this trade will take
the trouble to send out none but goods hon
estly made and commit their introduction to
some trustworthy agent who will combine
with Yankee energy a knowledge of the
needs of the people, there is no reason why
the Australian trade should not double in
three years and again in five. This is true
of all farm and domestic machinery and
windmills, it being necessary to remember
that in this dry climate all wood fittings
must hrve been thoroughly seasoned.
The Pacific coast conducts a brisk trade
with its neighbor diagonally across the
Pacific. It is large in amount, but limited
in extent, since it is confined almost entirely
to redwood lumber from California, pine
from Washington and canned salmon from
Oregon. In return it receives a steady sup
ply of coal from Newcastle and Wollongong
in New South Wales.
WE DO NOT BUY.
One distinguishing peculiarity of this
trade remains to be noted. With the im
material exception of coal freighted to Cali
fornia, almost as ballast, our trade with
Australia is most emphatically onesided.
We sell, we do not buy.
Australia is a great and advancing wheat
growing country, and competes with the
plains of the San Joaquin and the Missouri-Mississippi.
It exports wine, but not
to us, who are busy pasting the labels of
Medoc and St Julien upon the produrts of
the vineyards of Lake Erie's isles and shores
and California. It exports tin, bnt we do
not buy direct of the producer at Armidale,
choosing rather to pay middlemen's profits
in London. It is a grand wool country, aud
competes with us on every grade of fleece
which we shear; the higher grade of staple
which we cannot raise we do not import, be
cause of the duty. It is all a most onesided
tricsictlon. Our ships sometimes, more
commonly ships under foreign flags, loaded
with our clothes-pins and such, clear from
New York, Boston, Philadelphia for Adel
aide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Dun
edin, bnt they find no return freight, for we
do'not buy, we only sell.
William Chubchill.
WILLING TO WED A DUSKY BRIDE.
Numerous Appllcnnlnfor tbe Hand of Squaw
Sinn Dup'co's Daughter.
Piebbe, S. D., September 12. A recent
statement by Fred Dupree, the Cheyenne
river squaw man who is reported to be
worth $100,000, that he would give some
young business man $10,000 to take in
marriage his half-blood daughter, "Swift-as-the-Wind,"
has brought a flood of letters
from every section of the country from those
who desire the dusky maiden and the yel
low $10,000. Two years ago Douglas F.
Carlin, a sou of an ex-Governor of Illinois,
married Dupree's oldest daughter, and tbe
old man made him independently rich.
"Swift-as-the-Wind" is said to' be the fin-est-looking"Indian
maid in the great reser
vation, but old man Dupree must alone be
consulted in bargaining for her hand in
marriage. He says he picked a model
young man for the older one, aud the man
who gets "Swift-as-the-Wind" must be of
the same make-up as Carlin. Dupree is the
oldest white man in either of tbe Dakotas,
having come here 60 years ago, and being
now 80 years old, bale and hearty. His
daughter has French, negro and Indian
blood flowing in her veins.
DISGUISED AS GIPSIES.
Rovenno Officer Succeed In Capturing a
Gang of Moonshiners.
Louisville, September 12. There was
a big raid in Nelson county last night,
made by United States revenue officers, re
sulting in the destruction of a big illicit
distillery and the arrest of seven prisoners,
including the distiller. All the prisoners
were brought to Louisville this afternoon.
John W. Sayres, Division Deputy Col
lector, made the raid. He wasaccompanied
by seven assistants, all disguised as Gipsies.
They traveled in a Gipsy wagon and thus
slipped upon their prey without suspicion.
Eleven miles south of Bardston they
found a new distillery just refitted with new
coppers and stills of good capacity. The
still house was in full blast, and 2,000 gall
ons of beer, 100 gallons of whisky, 10 mash
tubs and other property was discovered.
The mash and beer was all destroyed, and
all of the property, which could be saved
for, evidence, was brought to the office of
Internal Revenue Collector Scott, of this
city, to-day. This is one of the biggest
raids ever made in this section, and all
without the loss of life.
A BABE EVANGELIST.
He Will Hold nirctlngs ETery Evening and
and Take Up No Colectlon.
Theelcbrated evangelist, Rev. Joseph H.
Smith, f the Philadelphia Conference,
member of the National Holiness Camp
Meeting Association, will conduct devo
tional meetings for one week in Liberty
street M. E. Church, corner Liberty and
Fourth, beginning Tuesday evening, Sep
tember 16.
These meetings are not for the benefit of
one church or denomination, but for every
body Members of all churches and con
gregations and persons who do not go to
cburih at all are cordially invited to come
every evening. Seats free and no collection.
J Another Fox for the Zoo.
Another quadruped was added to the
Sche ley Park "Zoo" yesterday. It was a
red fi x, and was kindly given to the depart
ment by H. Ulrich, chief engineer of the
Hote Anderson. The auimal was captured
in W sconsin. and is quite tame.
Am iTEUR Photographers will find some
valna ilo Information In To-morrow's Diss.
PATI
THE CAPITAL BETTER
So Far as Drinking and Gambling is
Concerned Than it Used to Be.
THE TIGEE HAS BEEN BANISHED,
Eat tbe Gin Mills in the Capitol Are Still
Handling Cold Tea. '
PROHIBITION THAT D0E8 NOT PROHIBIT
ICOBKEEFOXDENCI OF IHZ DISPATCH. I
Washington, D. C, September 12. I
remember a time, and it is not very many
years ago, when I made my first visit to
Washington. It was not in that dim and
ancient day, which the old soldiers love to
tell about, when pigs and cows ran in the
streets, and heavily laden wagons stuck fast
in the bottomless mud ot "The Avenue," but
at the later time of which I speak. Congress
men and diplomats ran wild in "the open,"
aud cared not who saw them at their pranks
when in their cups. To get drunk was sim
ply to be a good fellow, and the general
drinking of the day was but a crazy inter
lude between momentary success, abound
ing ambition, and speedy ruin, in the case
of many a man of talent and energy, whose
habits previous to his advent in Washing
ton had not been more loose than the habits.
of most tolerably good men.
Gambling was as open to the light of day
as drinking. I well remember tbe first time
I was being shown "the sights" of the capi
tal, going with my Mentor to a magnificent
vaulted room, blazing with chandeliers, the
heat of liquors, and the most delicate of
viands free. At this or that of the many
tables where games were in progress sat
members ot the House or Senate whom I
had heard in serious and earnest debate dur
ing the day, taking the most exalted view
of everything. Diplomats of high rank
were pointed out to me, whose names had
rung far and wide in the press in connection
with international complication. High
officials of the department were there. Ex
citement was intense, but well repressed.
Tbe play was reckless. Thousands were won
and lost on the turn of a card.
THE TIGER HAS DISAPPEARED.
Now there is not a faro "layout" in
Washington. To this tabooed game Vir
ginia luia nn.n.tl tY nrmc ftnH fivp nlnh-
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houses have sprung up at the Old Dominion
end of tbe long bridge. J. have not seen
them, but I'm told the play is lively
and the attractions the best of their kind.
But Congressmen and high officials are not
of the players. There are Congressmen's
sons, clerks of the departments, young busi
ness men, men about town and professional
sports, but that element which was wont to
lend dignity to the game in the old days is
wholly lacking.
Gambling is confined to the private circle
in a hotel room, or to chartered clubs,
which so far have found immunity from the
law, but which are growing so bold as to
challenge the attention of the authorities.
If a club be chartered, if members pay an
initiation fee, if their names are recorded in
a book kept for that purpose, they may
gamble all they desire, so long as the club
room does not contain a "lay out," such as
a faro table, roulette, rouge et noir, and so
forth; and so these clubs are thick as drink
ing places, almost, and draw poker and
stud poker, which are the great games, rage
from uight till morning.
But even to the safe seclusion of these
protected places the Congressman doe3 not
come. -He is a transformed man. His
gambling must be done like his excessive
drinking, in the privacy of his own room,
if he would not lose caste. The Congress
man who now drinks to excess openly is
shunned even by those who o.'teo. drink to
excess secretly, and almost the only one now
to be seen drinking regularly at the bars is
one whose district lies in the heart of a city,
and where his election depends on setting
it up for the boys and in his being himself
one of the boys.
STATESMEN ABE HUMAN.
This suggests that Congressmen outwardly
are just what their people are. They are no
more moral than of old, but the moral stand
ard of the mass is vastly advanced. That
moral sentiment will in one way or another
at no distant day drive both gambling and
liquor selling, as a business, out of ex
istence, and public treasuries will no more
be replenished from licensed lotteries and
bars.
Did Plumb, of Kansas, introduce his re
solution prohibiting the sale of liquor nt
the Senate restaurant because he personally
objected to it?
Ob, no, that was simply due to the growth
of prohibition sentiment in Kansas, as his
opposition to portions of the tariff bill was
due to the growth of the Farmers' Alliance.
In one way or another the Senators are all
Plumbs.
I do not believe tbere is a single total
abstainer in the Senate, though several
Senators claim to be.
Edmunds' fondness for good brandy is a
matter nf history, and be has been often seen
on the floor of the Senate when his potations
were noticeable; bnt his fine brain had
always good control of his speech, and un
like poor Riddlebcrger, of Virginia, he
never made an exhibition of himself.
Riddleberger was the most unconscionable
drinker of the Senate since the days of
Matthew Carpenter, and his continuous
excesses ruined a brilliant life.
didn't tby to sneak a DBINEU
The late and always to be lamented
Beck, never drank behind the screen. He
walked into a bar not thinking nor caring
who might see him, and if any of the old
colonels, or judges were around (and they
always were) he would invite them to join
him." Blackburn is much like him in his
free and hearty methods of drinking, and
Carlisle is even more so. All of the
Kentuckians are distingnished in this re
spect, and no representative of the
blue grass regon was ever disloyal
to the liquid product of his native soil;
and in their manner of drinking they sim
ply import to Washington the Kentucky
style. Indeed, all of the Southern people
here appear to be doiug something toward
the consumption of home products, for, if
there is one who does not drink and chew
and smoke tobacco, I have not seen him.
But, as I have said, the visible drinking
is fallen away wonderfully in response to
tbe spreading sentiment in favor of prohibi
tion. Yet, in the face of all this, and from
no necessity whatever, Speaker Reed's order
to stop the sale oi liquor in the House res
taurant is a dead letter, and the Sen
ate refuses to adopt a resolution pro
hibiting the sale ot liquor .in
tbe Senate restaurant It is not
for the comfort or entertainment of tourists
or visitors that this is the case. With all
the decrease of drinking ou the surface, it is
Congressmen alone whose influence per
petuated the sale of liquor at the Capitol
and runs a bar in both wings the only par
liament building in the world where such a
spectacle can be seen.
Can Tom Reed explain to bis prohibition
constituents why he does not enforce his
order against the sale of liquor at the House
restaurant?
Can prohibition (?) Senators say plainly
why they refuse to close the bar of the
Senate wing?
It seems to me tbe prohibitionists should
beginwith their representatives in Congress
and interrogate them, pending their elec
tion, whether, if elected, they will vote to
shut down the bars in this building, which
is the property .of the people, and should
not be used as a gin mill for the convenience
of Congressmen, who, if they must drink,
can keep a demijohn in their committee
rooms, as many of them do. E. W. L.
JSz-
U3
In an ancient university town there lived
formerly an unattached student His name
was Beggs, but a stranger would scarcely
find that out in a year, though he was a
sight as well known as the proctors. For
he bad ten separate nicknames, and men
never spoke of him hut by one ot these.
The favorite, however, and that which the
most nearly described him was "The Beam,"
which took its beginning from the sun
like radiancy and broad universal smile of
his huge countenance. In girth and height,
in substance and general proportion he was
of the sons of Anak; yet, great as he might
appear in cap and gown, hurrying to lecture
in the the wake of supercilious pigmies, it
was nothing to one who has seen him (as I
have) wholly cased in white, stalking,
gigantic and solitary to the football field.
No one was ever seen to speak to him.
For though in his absence his existence
was recognized as a sort of base necessity,
yet the lack of speculation in the eyes of
those with whom he daily perforce consorted
might lead you to fancy him invisible o
them as he moved substantial. He was
elder by no mean period to the majority of
his fellows, having, indeed, for some years
previous, as master in a national school,
been known among his coevals as "poor
Beggs;" but the boys, with more candor,
called him "that ass Beggs." And he had,
but God knows how, collected together
enough money to go through his university
course, not without hardship, on such a
system of bare toleration. Yet, because he
was not accustomed to be considered, and
was happy in capping a tutor, and even in
the very name of undergraduate, these
things remained without meaning to him.
Moreover, he had a companion at home,
who was all that a companion shonld be.
He lived in an extremely small house; in
deed, it could hardly be called anything but
a cottage, for there was no passage in it, and
you could get to it only by a narrow, sloping
path that was like the entrance to a mews.
But it was not a bad place to live in,
especially in the Summer. There was a
small garden behind; sweet herbs grew in it,
and a clump of lavender and some flowers,
and behind that again was the river. JL have
seen strange effects as the white mist came
drifting over tbe fields at sundown, and
sometimes covered them softly like a deep
mantle of snow.
Some people said that the place was not
healthy, but the Widow Beggs always re
marked that tbe mist stopped short at the
garden paling, and, of course, she knew.
There were two steps leading to the cottage
door, and they were always beautifully clean
and white. Any morning in the year, be
fore the sun rose, you mightbaveseen Beam
kneeling before tbem with a pail of water.
He cleaned tbe steps with all his strength,
a labor of love which was, moreover, first
rate exercise in winter; and what an addi
tional glow came bver him when the old
mother came out and said admiringly,
"Well, now! I'd eat my dinner off 'em as
soon as look at 'em!"
He then went to his breakfast of cease
pudding, and after that there was a dinner
of pease-pudding, and a supper of pease
pudding also. But on Sundays he had her
rings for supper. This, he said, was his
favorite diet; but for the old lady he pro
vided something better, and since she could
not help believing what her son told her,
and saw that he became every day stouter
and redder, she was convinced that it was
the best thing for him.
What a son he was, to be sure! Old Mrs.
Beggs was certainly the happiest woman in
the world when she went out with him. So
many people stopped to look at bim that the
walk was like a triumphal progress, and she
has often observed to me that, even when
there was a pretty girl on the other side of
the way, all eyes would turn by preference
toward her son.
In the long summer evening you might
see the pair stroll silently in the fields,
hand in hand. I have seen tbem walk so in
the town, but only once, upon a special oc
casion.
But in the winter, when the lamp was lit,
and the warm small room was full of flick
ers from the fire, that shone upon the china
dogs on the mantelpiece with golden collars
and red ears, on the black paper profiles in
gilt frames, tbe big Bible and the scriptural
groups in glazed earthenware of Elijah and
the ravens, and Peter with the cock then
the Beam covered the ronnd table with his
books and studied. The sense of compan
ionship, the possibility of conversation were
agreeable to him, and tbe old lady was al
ways ready to agree, even when she was
dozing. "Listen to this, mother," he would
say. "Is it not beautiful?" And he would
read a passage from St Cbrysostom or
Gregory Nazianzen, and she nodded her
bead and thought of the talents of her son.
They had sat thus one evening for some
time. The fire had burned a little red. aud
the student sighed and shut the Greek dic
tionary. His mother was sitting by the fire.
She was awake, and when he came' and took
her hand, she spoke.
"Do you not think, my son," said she,
"that you might now engage yourself to bo
married?"
"Now that yon mention it," he replied,
"I will certainly see about it immediately.
I would have done so before if I had known
that you would like it, for the idea is not at
all a bad one."
"It occurred to me just now while I sat
here looking into the fire," said the widow.
"I thonght to myself, here is Joshua, who
has now nearly gone through the university
course, and is about to take his degree: and
it seemed to me that considering the good
appointment that the Government will cer
tainly give you, it would really he a mis- J
fortune if you were not able to settle in lif
immediately on oDtaming u. iear mei now
agreeable it will be to be sitting here with a
nice young thine on the other side of the
hearth just we three, you know and then
you will have little ones who will come up
to me and say; 'Goodnight, grandmammar
I almost fancy sometimes I hear their little
voices."
"That will be charming, mother!" cried
the student, and then he fell a-thinking.
"It is necessary to consider." said he.
"Take your own time, my boy," said the
old lady.
After five minutes tbe student raised his
head and said: '-There is Penny Morrison,
next door. She's a good girl, mother.
Would you like her? it would be neigh
borly." "It is true," said the widow, who had
been thinking of no one but Penny Morri
son, "that, with your abilities, you might look
higher, my sonl Yet, as you say, Penny
is a good girl, and I remember that when I
went in there to my tea the bread was ex
tremely light it "had been scraped at the
bottom, but that was the fault of tbe oven;
and it will be handy for your courting, for
even when you are very busy you will be
able to slip in and say 'Good evening!" "
"Certainly, that will be the very tbingl"
cried the student, "and 1 will begin to-morrow,
mother, before tea, for perhaps it will
occupy seme time, and I sometimes fancy I
am rather a slow person."
"'.Cake your own time, my son," said the
widow again, as she patted his large head as
she went up stairs to bed.
II.
The next day the student stood at the door
of tbe Morrisons' cottage. He wore a new
necktie and bad a polyanthus in his coat,
and he also had on his college cap and gowu.
Mr. Morrison was the foreman of "the
Works," for so they were always spoken of,
and thus they were superior people.
"I have come," said Joshua, "to inquire
after little Ehret, aud is Miss Penny at
home?"
"Dear! and it's kind of you, I'm sure,
Mr. Beggs," said Mrs. Morrison, in a tone
less loud than its wont She looked back
ward athwart her shoulder Into the room
where he heard a low voice. Eut he could
not see within for the figure of Mrs. Mor
rison. "Penny's out just now for a breath of
air," said she, "for Ehret's been but poorly,
and Penny was up witb her the most of the
night But come in; tbe district lady's
there, but don't you mind that, and Ehret's
always wild to see you."
Little Ehret lay on achair-bed by the win
dow, and a young woman sat beside her on
a low stool," explaining to her the pictures
she held in her hand. "And so," said she,
"whenever he spread out his cloak he had
only to wish, and the cloak rose np in tbe
air aud carried him wherever he wanted to
go
Little Ehret, who had for half an hour
forgot her pain, now began to weep, and
said, with sobbing: "I'm tired! I'm so tired
of this brown room I want to go out in the
sun and see the green fields and see the
birds!"
And then she saw Joshua, who, having
entered, stood awkwardly without a word,
and she stretched out her long, lean arms to
him. '"Take me"' said the cripple, "in
your great, beautiful, strong arms, and carry
me to the river to see the boats."
"Nay,, said Mrs. Morrison, "for shame,
Ehret, to plague Mr. Beggs so. And it's
downr.igbt naughty of you, that it is, to go
for to cry like that, making yourself ill all
for nothing, when the lady's been so good to
you and all; and she won't come and see you
no more nor Mr. Beggs neither, if you're not
a good girl and lie down quiet now and go
to sleep."
The lady put her arms around the child ia
a quick gentle manner that she had, and the
child dune, to her. "I think some fresh air
is what Ebretta wants." she said. "Do not
cry, Ebret, and I will come to you to-morrow
and bring you a custard pudding that my
Mrs. Binny knows how to make better than
anybody else in tbe world. And it you are
good, Mr. Beggs will take you out Will
you not?" said she, and as she spoke she
looked at him and half laughed. Yet in her
eyes there was something of shrinking
gravity. He now for the first time met them,
and they bad over him some curious influ
ence. Whether they were gray or blue I
cannot t ell. They were ot the sort that for
depth seemed to go through to the back of
her head, and that piercod far into the souls
of others; much looked out of them forthosa
who were wise or fortunate enough to behold
it Tbe student discovered there in one
moment something that he had never known
of before. But he lifted little Ehret very
carelully, and her mother wrapped her in a
shawl, and the lady put in the pin and said;
"Goodby." Again he met her eyes.
Then he carried Ehret down to the river.
'ILL
"And what did you sav to her to-day, my
son?" asked the widow, as she sat in the el
bow chair and looked at Joshua, who was
making toast for her tea for toast is no
dearer than bread, and is always a relish.
"She said 'good by," and who did you
mean, mother?" said the student, and he
dropped the slice among the cinders. In
seeking for it, he knelt upon the cat, which
he mistook for a footstool. "That was very
careless," said he. "You were speaking of
Penelope. Yes; I did not see her to-day, for
Mrs. Morrison told me that she was out, but
to-moirow I will call again."
"I have been thinking," said the widow,
"that she would peihaps take it kindly if
yon were to make her some little present.
lor A-nrsr. came to think of your father from
his giving me six pain of porpoise-hido
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