TSFsS " "!W'?pF?5';lT, V? THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. 3, T - -,-W - -' V?C ' i PAGES 9 TO 12. f " "i SECOND PART. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1890. . THE PRIZE WINNERS A Second Batch of Exposition Essays That Have Been Drawn Out by THE DISPATCH PREMIUMS. Benefits of the Exposition to Pitts burg Set Forth by WRITERS "WHO ARE KOT WITH TJS. When a City is Striving for Prominence in the World's liace ITS ADVANTAGES MUST BE ADYEKTISED The second Prize Essay Contest in con junction with the Topical Balloting inaugu rated bv The Dispatch with the opening of the Exposition ended Saturday, Septem ber 13. In announcing the topic for compe tition and the prizes to be awarded success ful writers. The Dispatch said: Tne Prize Essay contest this week is open to all writers except those regularly em ployed on the staffs of Pittsburg newspa pers. Prizes will be awarded for the best article on "THE BENEFITS OF THE EXPO SITION" TO PITTSBURG." Eor the best contribution on the above topic The Dispatch will award a prize of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Tor the Second Prize TnE Dispatch will award a Ten -Dollar Gold Piece. For the Third Prize THE DISPATCH will award a Five-Dollar Gold Piece. Each article must make at least 1,200 and not more than 1,500 words. Competitions must be written legibly, on one side of the paDer only, and must be labeled, "The DISPATCH Prize Essay Contest." Contributions must be left at THE DlS TATCH Headquarters, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.'s space, Exposition Build ing'. Correct name, address and age of contest ant must accompany MSS., name only for publication if successful. The Dispatch reserves the righUto publish any contribution, whether it be awarded a prize or not. At midnight of Saturday, September 13, the big batch of MSS. was wrapped up and forwarded to thegentlemen selected to judge the merits of the competitions. His com petency and fairness cannot be questioned bis long services on the press being too well known to admit of controversy. In fact, he is the Dean of the fraternity in Pittsburg. In awarding the prizes he says: "After a careful examination of the Prize Essays I have selected the three which I think are entitled to the prizes in the order following: First JYfca. T. E. WAKEHAM, Sewickiey, Pa. Second J'mc. E. V. BltADSHAW, SS Juniata street, Allesbeny. Third Prize. JOHN W. 3IOODY, Monongahela City. "The competitors ranzed in age from 18 to GT years. It is a little strange that Pittsburg people did not produce a winner. It cannot be tbat we have no good writers not regularly employed on the city papers. Perhaps the city folk are too bnsy at pres ent. It is rather hard to send two of your three prizes to the agricultural districts, but, as an impartial judge, appointed to deal with the matter from the standpoint of i newspaper man, I have tried to render a just decision. Not one of the essayists is personally known to ine, hence no bias. "After the three prize essays those pos sessing sufficient merit to entitle them to any consideration at the, hands of a news paper man are: 1. The essay or Martin Prenter, 1113 Carson street. "2. Tbat of Mrs. Mary Cleland, 40 Sheffield street, Allesheny. a J. B. Goodwin, 12 Zulema street, Pitts burc. "4. R. H. Durbin. 17 Mercer street.PittsbnrR. a Emma S. Dow crman, 174 Plymouth street. Good for a cirl of IS. "G. Tillie M.Graf, aged 19 years. 309 Forbes street. The winners will receive their Prizes on application at The Dispatch Business Office, corner Smithfield and Diamond streets, at 3 o'clock this attcrnoon. The contributions of the prize winners fol low: BENEFITS OP THE EXPOSITION. The Essay of T. E. Wukciinn. Fewlcklcy, Winner of tbe First Prize. It needs no proof to assume that every thing which contributes to the prosperity of a city is beneficial and should be favored and fostered by all honorable meanE, if a solid, rapid and healthy growth is expected or desired. There are natural circumstances which directly tend to build up and expand a town or city: as the great highways for commerce by ocean, late or river: also being im planted in the midst of an almost boundless fertility. Beside these may be cited the ad vantages of being peopled with active, en terprising citizens, quick to devise liberal thing;, but also possessing the nerve and energy to execute tneir plans. Note, for example, the city of Chicago in which all these advantages appear conspicuously. What a phenomenal growth she has had and how persistently she strives to avail herself of every scheme that gives promise of enhancing her greatness! But Chicago has learned other cities have learned and we are rapidly mastering the lesson, that success in any enterprise aiming to secure important advantages depends largely upon the measure of publicity given to it. That great city on the lake irom her very infancy has been straining her powers of utterance to proclaim to the world her superiority iu location, in the wealth of the vast prairies by which she is almost surrounded; in short, in eery thing that strengthens and expands, and to-day she revels in a verv ecstacv of de light because the jrrand privilege of holding a World's Fair in the near luture has been officially conferred upon her; and this inuuipuani joy ansei Irom the per suasion that such publicity will materially enhance her prosperity. It is also true of every business enterprise, however small, that its success mucn depends on, the pub licity it enjoys. This explains why some men in everv communitv have found it im mensely profitable to acquire business noto riety by a judicious and liberal system of sd vertisine through the columns of a well conducted and widely-circulated newspaper; also that the wore skilliuily and constantly this is done, the quicker, surer and more satis.actory are the results. Illustrations of this are striking and abundant in the city of Pittsburg, as in all the great centers of trade the world over, so that even tbe growth of cities is olten affected by such means they and the ad vantages they oiler must be made known to win appreciation and wield a drawing in fluence. Our own beloved city, so long nestled in comparative obscurity because unknown and unsung, has, in these later years, drunk in a new spirit of enterprise, thrown aside lethargy, and now by the action of her gas- fountains,' has been lifted into such favorable prominence, that she is about ready to add her own praises to the reluctant praises of an envious but admir ing world. The Exposition of Pittsburg, profusely laden with her own productions, adorned by the manipulating skill of her own artisans, and to crown all, brought into desirable notoriety by an enterprising and intelligent prest, rises to view, the unrivaled advertiser of the age. With this potent and indispen sable adjunct, the press, the Exposition brings, by every avenue, from far and near, hundred: of thousands, not merely to hear of, but actually to witness what Pittsburg produces from the wealth of her resources, and offers to the country and the world in the multiplicity and excellence of her crea tions. Artisans, manufacturers, merchants, all in their respective lines, are stimulated to make the best possible exhibit, both in the quality of their several offerings and in their attractiveness. Thus many hundreds annually extend their business and influence, receiving substantial benefits from an in creasing and profitable patronage. As evi dence of this, business men who have made expensive and liberal displays in past years are eager to enter the list of exhibitors again, with an outfit still more lavish and attractive. These have shrewdly dis covered that such special advertis ing pays so largely as to justify a generous expenditure of both time and money. Let it be remembered that a visit to the Exposition this year cannot suffice for the years to come, because it is not a finished work, as an edifice or monu ment would be; it is really progressive in its character, revealing new devices, im provements in design and structure. In this age of invention, when the world is con stantly confronted with wonders, these nov elties are expected and are the certain result of the lively competition begotten among rival exhibitors; they alsoariBe from a land- able desire to present the very best for pub lic inspection. By a comparison of our present prosperous condition and the mar velous growth everywhere apparent, with what Pittsburg was only a lew decades since, our citizens are encouraged to hope for and predict a grand future for our boom ing city. The time was, in the memory of thou sands, when the manufacture of glass in Pittsburg was very limited compared with what we see in that line to-day. While it is true that this branch of industry was greatly extended before Expositions .were established here, this enlargement was attained by slow, laborious and ex pensive methods. How different is the case to-day, when the whole process of glass manufacture is exhibited in our Ex position to the delight of multitudes, who become active in proclaiming the skill of our workmen, as well as the beauty and variety of the wares they produce. The same can be said of our iron and steel in dustries, our lacilities for the construction of machinery of every description, all of which is shown to periection in this annual exhibition. All these objects of deepest in terest, with full descriptions thereof, pro claimed far and near by tens of thousands of earnest observers and emphasized by a vigorous press can only resnlt in a healthy expansion of business, rapid growth in population and permanent increase in financial strength. Already the solid character of Pittsburg's prosperity appears in the higher place sne has reached and is destined to hold in the volume of her banking transactions as com pared with tbat of many cities of much larger population. In summing up some of the benefits that must accrue to Pittsburg by its annual Ex position, note first that it is a source of great pleasure to her own citizens as well as to strangers by furnishing them with a rational recreation and iustrnctive enter tainment, the moral effect of which, upon our youth, especially many of whom are thus happily diverted from ruinous tempta tions for a season cannot be estimated. Moreover, during this period, they are brought much in contact with objects of in terest, real, useful and beautitnl things that affect character that may beget in many a wholsome ambition that may so radically change the current of thought'and purpose in many lives as literally to save them from destruction and canse them to become a blessing to tbe community in which they have been reared. Another advantage is that it quickens and perceptibly increases the volume of trade during its 40 days' continuance, for those who come from considerable distances are sure to combine Business with pleasure in these annual visits; consequently, large sums of money will be expended in the city where purchases can be made on term's more favorable than would be possible at home. This leads to periodical preparation for laying in as large a stock as possible at this period, both by retail and wholesale buyers. Thus an important trade springs up thatbecomes permanent, because buyer aud seller are mutually benefited. Besides these the Exposition is an efficient educator of all classes, but especially of the yonng. It is in itselt one grand object lesson and needs only to be judiciously used to accom plish much for the rising generation. And all will admit mat, with its beautiful and spacious buildings, so admirably planned, it is a splendid and conspicuous institution, an object of beauty to which Pittsburg's citizens may ever point with pride, a monu ment of the sagacity and liberality of its projectors. T. E. Wakeham, Sewickley, Pa. VAST AND FAR-BEACHING. The Essay of It. V. Bradsuaw, Allcsheor, Winner of tlie fcccond Prize. "Benefits,,like birds, may be said to come home to roost." So it well behooves us Pittsburgers to consider the probable results of this yearly undertaking of ours. Enter prise, energy, intellect, capital, all have been expended to render it vast and far reaching, and in proportion, as it touches every need practically, and every art asstheti cally, the beneficial scope will be widened. The records of the Patent Office show ibat Pittsburg teems with busy, ingenious brains no less than fuming mills and factories, and so to the whirring panorama of wheels, this pandemonium of steam and elec tricity, verge the mechanically-minded. So behold him standing: Here a screw and there a pivot, there a piston, here an arm perfect, we say; but not so this enkindled genius. Bather he sees here an imaginary screw and there a thought-made pivot; now he places tham in juxtaposition with this mechanical lact, and next year a begrimed artisan is a millionaire inventor, and Pittsburg adds another gem to her al ready lustrous crown of practical invention, and not only this city, but mankind, mjv pay admiring tribute to the possibilities of our yearly test school. So we may theorize through the whole range of practicality and putting our theories to the test find them amply confirmed by the record of labor saving machinery in Pittsburg's shops aud lounderies. In no other way conld the fruit of accumulated national and foreign inventive" ingenuity be so systematically and exhaustively, as well as cheaply and con veniently, placed before our mechanically inclined genius for bis thoughtful study aud inspection. As with invention, so with art. Time alone will show the Iruit of inspira tion derived irom that comparatively small, though wonderiully diversified collection Dresden, Munich, Paris, Vienna at onr doors. How much technical benefit derived 4av be readilv inferred bv those familinr with the faces of the devotees and adherents of the School of Design and Pittsburg Art School. Since as a city we are known as "million aire artisans" and "intelligent, though work-a-day wage-earners," it must be toc eeded this little leaven of inspiration may show its effect by raising us as a whole to a worthier place in tbe esteem of the edu cated and liberal-minded, as well as giving us a keener appreciation of our permanent educational and esthetic institutions onr public libraries, parks and conservatories. The so-called craze for household decoration and art-furnishing is held, by some author ities, to have emanated from the Centennial exhibit at Philadelphia; and one will scarcely lament tbe innovation if we com pare the present home or the com paratively wealthy of to-day with that of his compeer of 20 years ago; but how many of Pittsburg's stanch workmen were then carving the comfortable home of to-day and so were unable to take advantage of this opportunity, content to share the reflex benefit But here enterprise brings the fruit of foreign and domestic talent to our door, and places them within the means and comprehension of our vast so-called middle class, and Pittsburg's tradesmen are finan cially rewarded, Pittsburg's Clearing House reports so np a notch, and if. as philoso phers assert, the "fireside is the college of the world," our particular department will add another chair for the benefit of our rising generation, viz: practical sstheticism with all the term implies of what is truest and best. Practical advertisement may be consid ered the primary object of the Exposition. The rapiditv with which the available space disappeared", the energy, ingenuity, and or iginality in the design and construction oi individual exhibits, as well as the scope and diversity of the industries represented, tend to show the entire snecess of the scheme. The daily press, the usual advertising me dium, recognizes this potent factor and fall ing into the line of general advance, reaps tbe benefit of advertisement by increased vigor and a wider loray into the realm of journalistic achievement Not only ex hibitors, but the smaller tradesmen acknowl edge the increase in trade, not only dnring the term of exhibition, but also by the per manent extension of trade to the surround ing towns. Anotner point worthy of consideration is the increased insight into our commercial advantages which may so readily be obtained by those who come to us merely in the pur suit of pleasure. Visitors from surround ing districts have time to investigate, and cannot but appreciate our healthy location, our water supply, the railroad facilities, our internal system of cheap and speedy transit, ourranidlv developing suburbs, our wide spread and generous gas supply all must commend themselves to the astute capital ist, and our volume ofcapitalisticenterpri.se may very readily be considerably increased. This necessarily means enlarged opportuni ties for the employment of labor, stilled and unskilled, as well as an influx of a desirable population, and, in these days of census re turns, how gladly do we rejoice at this prob able result. "Rivalry is the life of trade," so say the wise, and what a poor showing old fogyism has in these bustling Exposition days! Every nerve, figuratively speaking, is strained to produce a new effect Here we see tbe benefit of "mental attrition" in trade life. Employer and employed have im pressed upon them the necessity of the latest improvement, the best procurable product in every line of trade the effect of this worthy emulation can only be limited by the scope ot buman ingennity. The actual financial income can only be approximated since railroads, cable and electric lines, hotel and general produce appreciate the temporary increase in com mon with the general hue of the city's staple merchandise. So then, the "benefits of the Exposition to Pittsburg," though manifold, mav be briefly summarized a spur to practical in vention; an incentive to the local artistic tal ent; a power in the construction and fnrnish nient of the homes of her citizens, a wise con servator of public taste; a perfect school for tbe training of the judicious domestic buyer; a-far-reaching scheme for advertising not only the staple manufactured lines, but also the city itself, and itj advantages in ad dition to placing it where it belongs among the intelligent and ingenious all this be yond the actual cash distributed by our un ceasing stream of visitors. And what of the bnilding itself? It is a study in its architectural beauty and adapt ability to its beneficent purpose. It stands a monument to progressive and intel ligent foresight of our business men. And when we reflect how mnch its presence may do to redeem that naturally picturesque and historic site from its erstwhile deplora ble state, we long to make the man who gives us "Duquesne Park," presiding genius of the city's beauty, to give him the freedom of the city and invest him with anv 'rite, modern or mejiseval, to show our just appreciation of his most noble achievements. May the spirit ot these progressive times inspire him! And can we overlook that genial social phase which is an absolute leature of our Exposition? Here, rich and poor, aristocratic and humble, meet in tbe mutual enjoyment of onr great autumnal treat If onebnt stops to consider the instructive and elevating influence of the music, the beautiful in art and science, and accom panying scenes ot-airth and gayety thus placed so pleasingly before those who other wise see nothing but the humdrum of ex istence, we might catch the spirit that an imates worn faces and to some degree enter into the joy of expectation with which hundreds ot weary hearts, young and old, thrill, when along the line is passed the happy watchwords the "Expo opens to dayl" E. V. Bradshaw, 209 Juniata street, Allegheny. BENEFITS TO PITTSBURG. The Essay ofJobn W. Moody, Blonoucabela Citr, Winner of Tbinl Prize. In selecting a subject upon which to write The Dispatch acted wisely in pluraliziag the word benefit, for most assuredly there are a number of 'benefits' to be derived by the Iron City from the Exposition now being held. The purpose of this article is to point ought three of them. In the first place I believe Pittsburg will reap a moral benefit. Itjis almost impossible to look upon the wonders of art and mechanism here dis played, and not feel that labor is ennobling. Tnat which produces aspirations for higher things, aud stimulates the mind and muscles to new endeavor along the lines indicated, touches a chord in tbe moral nature that vi brates with tuneful harmony. What mag nificent displays of powerin the engines and dynamos that keep in motion the whirling wheels. Think of the primitive source of all power and you see the God of Nature enthroned in awful majesty. Wonderful being though man is, he never yet created anything. That he has developed what the Almighty has originated can easily be proved by a visit to the Pittsburg Exposi tion, look at tne iigntnings ot heaven chained by man and made subservient to his will. W,ho can gaze into the cloud enveloped skies and see the flash, and hear the booming roar of nature's electric demon strations and fail to recognize that there is a God? From this awe-inspiring display of Divine power turn to the works of man,"and see bow he has been enabled so to blend existing matter, possessing latent lorces, as to generate a similar power. We are told that "the heavens declare the glory ot God, and the firmament showeth His handi work." Keeping in mind that God is the father of all motion, and tbat He has dele gated to man the wisdom to utilize the agents which He has made, no thinkiug mind can look upon the ingenuity and art displayed without feeling that the moral nature is thereby uplifted. Truly the Al mighty is in intimate touch with the cap stone of His creation. When He breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living soul, must there not jn some degree have been an emanation irom and of Him self? How otherwise could Art link itself sojlose to Nature nr Mechanism so inti mately resemble His Infinite potentiality? From the standpoint of easily deficed analogy it is perfectly legitimate" to ass ime Qputmued on Tenth Page. WANT ANOTHER TEST. Citizens Will Petition for a Second Examination of WATER SUPPLIED TO SOUTflSIDERS. Dissatisfaction Oyer the Eesult Chemical Analysis. of a FORMER REPORTS TBRT DIFFERENT As stated iu last Monday's Dispatch the citizens are not willing to accept the ex amination by Hunt & Clapp, of the South side water and a petition will be presented to the special committee of Councils to-day, asking that a new examination be made. The petition has not been largely signed, but it bears representative names. The fol lowing is the petition: Being wholly unsatisfied with the recent chemical analysis of the water taken from the Monongahela river under your direction by Hunt & Claop, we the undersigned citizens of the Southside bereby petition yonr honorable body to order a new analysis to be maae by the use ot the microscope, believing this to be tbe only certain way of discovering all the impuri ties, organic and other matters which tbe water contains. Notwithstanding the fact that the people are becoming weary of the water question, and many of them don't want to even hear the fluid discussed, to say nothing of using it; still it has been the talk of the week. The opinions expressed in these columns on Monday can be taken as about the general drift of opinion. Dr. Mundorff, who has always been interested in the water ques tion, and who has probably given it more study tban-any other man on the Southside, and whose views on the water now supplied to the citizens are pretty well known, was called upon yesterday. He was asked for a statement in regard to the present exam ination, and a comparison of it with a for mer one made by Hunt & Clapp. He said: THE DOCTOR'S OPINION. The analytic chemists, Messrs. Hunt and Clapp, in their excellent report on the con dition of the water in 1887, say in that re port that the samples of water taken on the Southside, taken as a whole, prove the water to be iu a very dangerous condition for potable purposes. They expressed themselves thus after a preliminary ex planation as to the uncertainty that attaches to the practice of regarding any one in gredient of tbe water as the sole or chief cause of the dangerous impurity of the sam ple tested. However, to avoid a. too general scope in their definition of what constitutes proper, as distinguished from excessive quantities of the separate ingredients of good water, they quote the following sen tences from the best authorities: "Potable waters to be used by large communities should not contain in parts per 100,000 more than 10 parts of total solids, not over 0.01 parts tree ammonia and not over 0.01 parts of albuminoid ammonia, net over 1 part of chlorine, nor .009 parts of nitrogen existing as nitrites and nitrates.' "Turning now to the results obtained by these well-known chemists, from their anal ysis of the sample gotten at the mouth of the influent pipe and as embodied by them in their report on the water in 1887, we find the free ammonia is set down at 0.0202, and the albuminoid ammonia at 0.0246, while the total solids from this sample foot up 14.3. Reverting again tri the report made by them in this month (1890) to ascertain the results of the analysis of tbe water at the present mouth of the influent pipe, we learn tbat tbe free ammonia is found to be U.UVO, and the albuminoid ammonia 0.0104; the al buminoid ammonia, by the way, from the sample obtained at the reservoir this year amounting to 0.0304, and those obtained from the reservoirs in 1887 reaching 0.0266 and 0.019. The total solids in the sample of water from the mouth of the influent pipe are set down at 14. OCOO. Thus it will be seen at a glance, that when we compare the numbers of the total solids obtained in the past (1887) and in the present (1890), they are very nearly the same; when we compare the respective numbers for tbe free and tbe albuminoid ammonia at the in fluent pipe, we Had the free ammonia in larger quantity in the present sample and the albuminoid ammonia less; the free am monia representing, according to Messrs. Hunt and Clapp, the amount of complete decomposition of the nitrogenous matter in the water, and the albuminoid ammonia, the amount of change tbat the undecomposed nitrogenous matter in the water may un dergo. But wben we turn to compare the respective amounts of albuminoid ammonia as found in the samples obtained irom the reservoirs, we discover that tbe sample ana lyzed in 1S90 has the larger amount THE WATER IS IMPURE. ''The chlorine, as shown in both reports. shows that the water at the mouth of the influent pipe in 1887 contained a much larger quantity than was found at the same source in 1890, while in both years the quan tity of chlorine in the reservoirs exceeded that found in the water of the river at the influent pipe. The quantity of organic matter and sulphuric acid cannot be con veniently compared, as some of the details in the two reports are carried out after different methods. The presence of nitric acid is noted in both reports, and a compari son of the quantities found at the mouth of the influent pipe in 18S7 and 1890 shows a slightly larger amount in the analysis of the recent date. "Judging the character of the samples by the quantity and nature of the ingredients in them and gauging them by the standard of good water sanctioned iu the report of Hunt & Clapp of 1887, we must arrive at the conclusion that the water is impure. It is necessary only to compare the figures of analysis given oi me same components in both reports to discover a dangerous equal ity in the respective figuresexamined. These figures in both reports, indicating the pres ence of grave contamination in the water, are shorn oi their true significance by the diverging conclusions that the chemists draw from their later work. For, while the analysis of the first samples of water made by them was sent to the Board of Health to 'provethe water to be in a very dangerous condition for potable purposes,' the analy sis of the last samples presented to the Com mittee oi investigation was found to prove, in spite ol its fatal similarity, that the sam ples 'are within the limits ot what is recog nized as good potable water.' EXERCISED TROPES CAUTION. "But in justice to the experts of the Pitts burg Testing Laboratory it should be borne in mind that only two samples ot water were submitted to them, and in drawing conclusions as to the purity or impurity of our river water from an analysis ot these samples, they simply exercised that pro verbial caution which analysists of their de served fame should do. "Moreover, they present the analysis of the water in tabu lated form, which'enables anyoue that reads it to agree or differ with tbem as to the soundness of their own conclusions. How ever, there is one thing that there will be very Jittle contention over, and that is the manifest nnfairness of taking the analysis of twosampies of water from the river at high tide aud from a river channel flushed out temporarily with the flow of the rains as satislactorv evidence of the cendition of the same river all the year round. "And there is auother thing that there will be no ground of contention on, and that is the nse, in connection with the cbem i"l analysis, of a parallel biological test. For we ire now sure that the presence of putrefaction and disease germs in water may oe demonstrated to auv extent bv the use of microscopic appliances, when tbe J organic constituents of the right kind for their development are discovered only in minute quantities by chemical analysis. "The experience of competent observers within recent years has taught them to be ware of potable water, in which this coin cidence of small quantities of organic matter and large quantities of disease germs may easily exist, where water is rela tively thought to be free, even after a chem ical analysis. The chance determination of the extent ot organic contamination in a given water doesnot of necessity determine the presence or absence of harmful, germs in it MUST FOLLOW NEW LINES. "The latter point must be gotten by work ing along new lines of research the lines of biological analysis. For it is to the disease germs we must look to establish the pathological relations of our river water to endemic fevers among the people who drink it i "But passing on to the consideration, in a brief manner, of another constituent of our river water generally found in undue quantity, and that is mud. I beg leave to differ from the chemist who pronounced it harmless, and decidedly so from the South side water folks, who flatter themselves that it is nature's happily chosen purifier. That it is not a happily chosen purifier even with adult people is frequently demon strated in their experience with a venge ance. As a partial remedy for this lament able state of affairs, many people boil and filter tbe water, others discard it and di rectly import other water for household use, while others still continue to use it in the pitiful trnst that the rights of 60,000 people will not always be passed by in silence. "But it is time to have done with imper fect analysis of our river water, tbat ever tend to the same conclusion, and for us to endeavor to allay the evil of trafficking in disease germs and nameless organic impur ities as articles of legitimate mer chandise. For the following facts have, beyond doubt, been shown: First, the presence in the Monongahela river of a large proportion of mud. Second, the presence in it through the sickly seasons of the year of an undue proportion of organic matters of various characters, free am monia, albuminoid ammonia, acids and earthly solids. Third, the presence of bacteria and other live forms of kindred nature in excessive quantities, together with epithelium and animal refuse. Fourth, the persistance of fevers in our midst which take on an epidemic form when the volume of wa'er in the Monongahela is lessened, and as a consequence the quantity of contamina tions increased." OUT IN THE WORLD. A Pretty Detroit Girl's Mysterious Disap pearance. Chicago, September 19. Esther Lor enger, a pretty blonde, 17 years old, left De troit for Chicago on Wednesday evening and has not been seen since. She bad neither money nor the address of her friends, and is now in all probability lost in the city without a friend or acquaintance. Her mission here was to act as interpreter for Madame MacCaud, a tailoress. The Madame has just arrived from Paris, and yesterday telegraphed Esther's mother to have tbe girl come on at once, sending a money order to detray her expenses. At 4 o'clock Madame MacCaud received the re ply: "Miss Lorenger left for Chicago last evening," meaning Wednesday. A messenger went immediately to the Michigan Central depot and from there to the Grand Trunk depot, but found nothing of the girl. A young lad told him there had been a youn? French cirl around the depot of the Grand Trunk road nearly all day. The police have been asked to search -for the missing girl, hut all efforts to find her have thus far been without success. A FIRST-CLASS PROGRAMME To be Rendered at tbe Canuslo Hall Orgai Recital This Afternoon. The nineteenth free organ recital at Car negie Hall this afternoon wilt be of especial interest to tbe music-lovers of Allegheny, presenting some interesting musical novel ties and a wide range of popular music by the best composers. Organist Wales will play a recently composed mazurka, which is full of delicate beauty. It is shortly to be published by a New York firm, with a dedica tion to Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. Following is the programme: L Fanfare Militaire J. Ascher (KMII-IV) o J a Spanish Dances Moskowski 6 Mazurka Kossuth Leonard Wales 8. Overture "Merry Wives ot Windsor" Nlcolai 4. Sons; "Waltz Hondo"..... Gnmbert 1 a Gavotte "Jngenue". IVArditt " 7 6 Carrie Gavotte F. lirandeis C Pol La do Concert Homer N. llartlett 7. Song '.'Alpine Flowers" J. H. Wekerlin X. Cornflower Waltz C. Coote 0. Mnuett J. li3puste Calkin 10. Soup; 'The Flower Girl" Berignant It Turkish Patrol March Michaelfs 8. HOWARD SPRAGUE DEAD. One ol Pittsburg' Best Kuown Young Busi ness Men Passes Away. S. Howard Sprague, one of the city's best known young business men, died yesterday at bis home ou Lang avenue, East End. He was for several years Mr. George West inghousc's private secretary, but had to re sign bis position about a year ago on ac count of ill-health. The malady which finally claimed Mr. Sprague as a victim was Bright's disease. Mr. Sprague's wife, formerly Miss Klawman, died about four years aso, and since then he has been living in the East End with his two small chil dren. The funeral takes place Saturdiy after noon from Mr. Sprague's late residence on Lane avenue. FOR CAMPAIGN AMMUNITION. , H. Stevenson Asked to Allow tbo Publica tion of His TarllT Catecblam. Mr. J. H. Stevenson, ol 100 Fifth avenue, the gentleman who originated the famous "Tariff Catechism," during the last Presi dcntal campaign, is in receipt of a letter from ex-Assistant Postmaster General Clart son, asking leave of the owner to allow its republication by the Congressional Commit tee, of which Mr. Clarkson is the head. The latter gentleman, in his letter, said the committee wonld pay for the printing and distribution of the pamphlet, which many Republicans ot national reputation have pronounced to be tbe best campaign document issued in many years. Mr. Stevenson, who bas copyrighted the matter, has given his consent to its publica tion by ths committee. A Meeting ol Survlrars. A meeting of the survivors of the ex plosion of the Allegheny Arsenal, Septem ber 17, 18C2, will be held Sundav afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Patterson's Hall, Butler street, near Fortieth street A number of prominent citizens have been invited to ad dress the meeting. Question for Slnrfe Tax Mcctlnc At the meeting of the 8ingle Tax League to be held next Sunday evening at their rooms, G4 Fourth avenue, they will discuss the condition of tbe workincwomen of Pitts. burg, showing how the adoption of thesingle '" ""i jiciuancauj ameliorate tneir con dition. Committee Meetlnc To-Dnr. The Finance Committee will meet this afternoon to consider matters submitted to it by Councils. The Southside Water In vestigating Committee will also mppt thf afternoon, and it i p-mepti-A that i ln-r. number of citizens will appear'to testify. TO BRIDGE THE OHIO. West Enders Want a More Convenient Way of Getting to Allegheny, THE PROJECT IS WELL UNDER WAY Committee Appointed to Interest Allegheny Capitalists. A. TALE WITH ONE OF THE PROMOTERS A bridge across the Ohio, connecting Al legheny and the West End, is the latest project. The scheme is agitated by West End citizens, and it is believed it will be carried through. A meeting of the pro moters of tbe enterprise was held this week. There was a dozen ormoreof the best known citizens of the West End present, and the matter was tally discussed. A committee was appointed for the pnrpose of visiting some of tbe brokers In the city, to induce them to see some of the Allegheny people, and, if possible, get them interested in tbe proposed bridge. This committee will per form its duty early next week, and then an other meeting will be held to see what can be done. As far as can be learned, it is the inten tion of the promoters to run the bridge from the foot of Chartiers street, in Allegheny, to the foot ot Steuben street, in the West End. This will reach the present travel on the Steubenville pike, and when the proposed new electric road is built on tbat thorough fare the traffic will be largely increased. But this is not where the bridge would be the greatest benefit There is now a great deal of travel from the West End to Alle gheny, with no means of getting there ex cept over the William Thaw ferry or up across the Point and Union bridges. In the winter the ferry does not run with any regularity, and it is not only incon venient but expensive to teamsters to be compelled to drive heavy loads so far. Then, there is another class of people that will be benefited by the bridge. There are hundreds of workmen employed in Alle gheny who live in the West End. Tolls on the ferry cost them at least $20 a year if the boat runs regnlar, and it not, they mnst walk around by the bridge, a distance of two or three miles. A Dispatch reporter talked to one of the projectors of the bridge yesterday, and he said: "The citizens or this end of the city have for a long time been considering the advisability of putting abridge across the Ohio at tbat place, but we never got so far with the scheme as now. I believe if we can get tbe Allegheny people interested in the project, it will go through. It will be a convenience and a benefit in more ways than one. It will be a convenience to our people who are employed on the other side ol the river, and it will be a benefit gener ally to this side, and especially to property owners. Besides if the bridge is built, it will not he long until some company will want to rnn an electric road across it to con nect the West End with Allegheny." GRAND OFFICERS PRESENT At a Meeting of Wcit End Council No.S21, RotuI Area nam. The hall of the old Odd Fellows' build ing, the pioneer structure of the West End, has been the gathering place of most of the secret meetings of this place, and its walls have .been ,the limit of the work of these societies, and hold volumes of their uttered sentiments that will never be known to the outside world, but the meeting of last Monday evening of West End Council No. 824, Royal Arcanum, was one at rare oc curence. This event marks the history of the first visit of the grand officers, and in apprecia tion of this occasion the members decided to make it one that they and visiting councils will long remember, and such was the re snlt It was about 8 o'clock before the meeting was called to order. After a few preliminaries an address was made by Grand Regent J. A. Laatrfitt, whose main topic was upon tne airaiandoujectsot theorder. Grand Secretary, James Wright; Grand Orator, Mr. Knox, and D.G. D.,H. A. Tanner, also made short addresses. Among the members of the council who occupied the speakers stand were Mr. Samuel Harper, who made an interesting and humorous address upon tbe success ot their council. Mr. H. L. Mc Gaw made the closing remarks, citing the benefits to be derived irom life insurance, and urging upon all to lend a helping hand toward tbe future growth of the Royal Ar canum. There was now only one thing remained that was, how to devour the tempting re past which had been prepared. The sus pense was not prolonged, and all presentdid ample justice to the good things placed be fore tbem. POISONED BY CANNED GOODS. Tbe Cause of Much Sorrow-After a Wcdiilao Fenst Was Over. A wholesale poisoning case at a wedding near Monongahela City, at which 40 person were made severely ill by the effects of canned frnits kept tbe doctors of that section very busy during the fore part of this week, and there are still cases that demand the physicians" care. W.G. Berryhill and Miss Margery McC.irroll were married Monday night at the residence of the bride's father, and after the ceremony there was a big sup per, at which a bountiiul supply of canned fruits were eaten. As a result the guests after their return home became very sick, and the two physi cians in the neighborhood were kept in busy attendance. They pronounced it poisoning. All will recover. Some of the fruit will be analyzed by competent chemists. UNITED ITALIAN SOCIETIES' PICNIC. A firnnd Time rromUed nt Rosa Grove oa Next Monday. The United Italian Societies of Pittsburg will give their second annual picnic, in com memoration of he entry into Rome on Sep tember 20, 1870, at Ross Grove on Monday, September 22. The parade of societies will form on New Grant street at 10 a. jr., and, after a short street parade, will leave for Ross Grove, The Italian Fraterna of Con nellsville, and the French Society, of the Southside, will be present aud take part in the festivities. The new Italian' Christopher Columbus Cornet Band will be in attendance, and the music at the grove will be furnished bv a selected Italian orchestra. Worlc of (lie Coroner. The Coroner held an inquest yesterday on the body of Mark Benson, who was killed on the Baltimore and Obio nt Laughlin station, and the verdict was that tbe car in spector was negligent In not properlv ex amining the car. Iu the case of Frank Yawolsky, who was injured by a casting tailing ou him while at work, the verdict was that death was caused by the shock to his nervous system. Prcsidei t Newell Horr. President John Newell, of the Lake Erie road, made one of his regular visits yester day. There are few details that escape the "old man," as he is called. His presence is required here at least once a month to sign vouchers and attend to other necessary business. Additional extreme novelties,in Scotch and French plaids placed on our counters this week. Huacs & Hacke. TTSSU 'Well?" asked William.as we stood upon the desolate prairie, gazing blankly over our blackened crops. "Well, nowl" was all I could ay in reply. We certainly were two unfortunates; In England onr professional prospects had been blighted by the malice of the examin ers in law and medicine respectively, who showed such an unaccountable dislike to us during onr first trials as to convince us" that it was futile to strive since we were doomed beforehand. Then our relatives professed to discover that we were wasting our own time and their money; and packed ns off to a fresh sphere of action. On this side the ocean we had really braced ourselves for an effort, but ill luck had still pursued us. We gave ear to a plausible land azentia Chicago, who said he was an Englishman and loved us, and we bought a farm of him, and found too late that our "rich improved prairie farm, with unimpeachable residential and other accom modation, centrally situate in the most pros perous portion of that masniflcentand booming- State of Dakota, crossed by a main trunk road, and close to a celebrated rail road center," was a wretched sterile track, with a plank box for a dwelling, iully 30 miles Irom a-settlement, and with not even a neighbor under ten miles. Still, not caring to own ourselves swindled, we had hung on in desperate hope, and had sent home peri odical accounts, more or less fantastic, of our condition and prospects,, and bad man aged' to exist on the resulting remittances. And now, iust when afterthree vears of harder toil than we had suspected ourselves capable of, we had managed at last to get a I ABANDONED xnfl fair-portion of ourland'into something re sembling cultivation, and saw looming" before us the prospect of at any rate some sortofa return, we awoke to find the June sunshine- gleaming through a window lat ticed with icy tracery, and the water frozen in a bucket on tbe floor, and tbe fate of onr tender growing com sealed. William, who was more volatile than I) had been urging-me for months past to aban don the place and try a fresh start elsewhere, but somehow Iliad been unreasonably loath to do so. It might be my pblegmaticnature, ot it might be because our nearest neighbor, the Dutchman, had a fair daughter any how I would not go, and William wonld not go witnontme. "Now; are you s-.tisfied tbat it's nothing but a howling- wilderness xea're in?" he asked. And though I did'not reply. X was satis fied of it, and felt that not all the daughters' ot eartn conld oind me to such a place. "Philip Sintnn, do you hear me?" Will iam repeated. "You're a leech by training, aud the sou of a leech: but what earthly benefit can yon everget by hangimg on like- a. dead glionl to tins lamentable fraud or a farm? We came West to 'grow up with the country.' How can we expect to do it by stopping in a part where never a single thing does grow?" Now, listen to mel I'm off this verv day."" "Where?" I asked meditatively. "Where?" echoed he. "Anywhere! So long as it is not to a ranch on a boundless per-air-ie, where the life U as slow as why, say as yon,respected and costly animal." He indicated another of our bad bargains, a sober old mule, which had been palmed off on us at a high price as beinz-ol a breed "peculiarly adapted to the soil, and cli mate." "Look here, Philipr" he went or). "So berly, this is what 1 propose. You remem ber all the talk we heard last time we were in Scuta of the bitr. mining boom up in tbe Siiverbovi Valley? Well, I'll just take the cars and go cjuietlv up there before onr" funds run quite out, and 'prospect around' a little, as our friends would say. I'f it's no sood, and just anotheroi" the gigantic frauds of this gigantic conntry, I'll come quietly back here, and we'll make a break together in another direction. Bur it it ooks like paying, why then I'll stake ouf my claim like the rest, and you can follow up and join me. We'll leave this rich ranch: of ours to the claim jumpers; and if the rascal who jumps this doesn't thereby geCI nil pun ishment tor his past crimes, then niv name's not William Harlow." In existing circumstances I really had nothing to urge against this scheme, and we set about immediately to put it into execu tion. It was arranged that I sbould go down with William to the settlement and see him start, and in an hour or two we were on our way over the prarie to Scuta. We reached the place late aC night, and' found that the west-bound train there was but one in the 21 hours was timed to leave in tne small hours of the morning: We therefore hung about the station till the train. drew np, and then William took bis seat and left me standing- on the desolate landing. As he said "Goodby" he prom ised to write to me immediately after bis"ar rival, so that I nii;ht expect at leaafto hear from him within onr days.i Nevertheless, as I siw the-great train, so lull ot ireaiiaiignt, draw away frow the sta tion and sfnk into the darkness; a1 strangely iors.ir.en ana uesoiare leeinrg-stuie'over me, and niv eyes r nstinctively-held iasfto tbe retreating lights until the highest of"tliem had sunk below the distant horizon. When daylight came I trudged laboriously back across the great rfrearr rincrof grassy earth with a sense of utter loneliness and when I reached the ranch I wondered' at tbe wretched, sunken- look of everything: The stipulated days p-tued heavily, and then I hastened to our nearest mail station to fetch the promised letter: "No letter foryorr," said the posf-agent "Oh yes, there- is-," I repliedr "mv-name-ii Philip Sinton;" I III H W 1 1 Vi -lilt'' r 11)1 rw-4 r !?THE WEPBOUND J3XPRE55 "1 know" it," answered" the man. "Ho letter" lor yotf, I tell youl" And with that he slammed down the shutter'angrily. My heart sank as he did so, thouzh quite unreasonably, since iu these unsettled re gions there was notbing unusual in a letter being-delayed. William was srf thoroughly trustworthy; and'so punctilious of his word, that' I felt' confident he had written, and tbat ofcourse the. letter had miscarried. There was nothing for it but to retnrn and wait patiently a littlelonger. Two days later I again made the tedious journey; only again to be disappointed. This time, however, I felt'so lonely that I went out of my way in returning to call on my neighbor, the Dutchman, and, though I found him busy on his larm, and not in clined for gossip, I counted his daughter Mina a famous substitute, and felt quite cheered by a few minutes' chat with her. la fact, such relief did I find that iu tnture I always returned that way. And' thus for a fortnight did I regularly everv alternate day trudge off to the post, only as regularly to be disappointed. More over, at the end of that time, wben I called on the Dutchman, Mina was missing, she whose comforting words had never failed to reassure me. I hung about the place for some time in the hope that she would reap pear, and then ventured to ask her father where she might be. "Mein tochter hav gone avay," he an swered. "Some frients hav fetched her in BrUken. Dot ish where her verliebte vot you call it? her bettrotted lif, und she go recht frendig." You mayguess in the circumstances, with what crushing force this news fell upon me, and how cheerless were my after journeys! Now I had to bear not only my great anxiety aooui wiiiiam, out also a violent desire to get away immediately from the neighbor. hood. And yet I dared not go, for fear that RASCH FOREVER. tbemiBsing letters mieht bear the news tbat my friend had met with no snecess and was returning. What would he think of me if became back to find tbe place stripped, and no friend to welcome him? Nol I must have patience for just a little longer. And thus another fortnight passed a more miser able time than I had ever spent before; and yet there came no news of William. Then I resolred to go in search of him, and piled together onr tew movables upon onronlv wason ready to start. But that night my anxiety kept me awake, and when morning came I was tormented with the idea that mv friend would open the door and enter at every moment, and so strong was this im pression inai at tne sligbtest sound I started nervonsiv and thought: "Here he comes at last!" With such a feeling it was impos sible to go, and so another day passed, and another, and yetanother. But at tbe end of that time I stifled my misgivings, and, harnessinir the old mule, abandoned the ranch; as Lhoped, forever. We went at a mournful pace, and never had the way- seemed so tedious or so long. The hot midsummer sun shone over the shelterless' plain, and the crickets and loensts whirred and rasped all round, while the-old mule with sagging cars plodded on and on, till I seemed to fall asleep as I walked and lost all perception of tne tbing3 about me. Whether I really passed into-a state of somnambulism, or whether it was simply the resnlt of the dreary suspense and loneliness of the past weeks I cannot SSV. bnt fdr-the rest Jit thf riair mv minrl 'had constantiybefdre it vivid and horrible pictures wnicu a was powerless to banish. ,A crowd of faces seemed always to surround me, jeering, deriding and threatening; and always I seemed to be struggling td cet through them to nnd William, whom I'. knew to be just behind them, and yetX could not reach him. The cicadas' hum translated itself into a babel of voices, and once or twice I heard most distinctly above theni all William's well-known call bidding me come to him. Theso visions struck aa .inexplicable ter ror into me, and several times I felt as though I must shout for help. But still we went wearily on and on, till at last, a the sun got low; a cooling breeze sprang, up and blewwith refreshing force across my brow and soothed ray jaded sense, and soon the roof of a bouse loomed upon tbe horixan, and then several more. My' trance was broker, nnd T stepped forward witn fresh' vigor, cheering up-tbe peor tired animal., and we entered tbe settlement 'just as night tell. Companionship, and a strong dose of qui nine, were- the first things I sought, and theseseon brought me back to my normal statcy and when I awoke next morning after a'conitnrtable night's rest, I could laugh at my dismal forebodings of the previous day. Nevertheless' Ir set ubout hurriedly to dispose-of ourbelongings, that I might be able to take my. departure by the next west bound trail.-. It was tbe west-bound ex press No. 1, the same as that by. which I had watched-William leave me. Long be fore it was- dne I was at the station im patient to start, and I kept a weary vigil into the dark hour: of the morning. At last, however, just before dawn, the train came in. "All aboard !" was called, and with a solemn tolling-of the great bell on theengine we steamed away over tbe shad owyprairie. As usual, on these Western trains.' there l were but few passengers in the ordinarr ears; iormost'of tne travelers were for long distances, aud had taken their places in the luxurious sleeping cars. Consequently tbe. conductor had lorthis stage but littleVlo do, and borenone ot the autocratic and repel lent airs winch characterize his class when in the full tide of their occupation, as he. sauntered through" the train with something ot the air of a ship's matter, whose craft.is going: steadily; with plenty of sea- roosts He seemed, besides, a friendly; fatherly sort, ofman, and I found no difficulty in- opening-! cotrvemtion with him, as he leisurely; examined my ticket My eagerness would" 1 i - iSr&,fr.v. 'MiMti- .'-
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