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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"
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