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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1890 TWELVE PAGES.
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ALLFMHKT
"With Hardly an Exception
His Fellow-Townsmen
Stand by Him.
BOUNDS OF APPLAUSE
And an Overcrowded House
Greet the Anti-Dela-
mater Leader.
W EFPOBT AT ELOQUENCE,
Jut for Over Two Hours the Speaker
TVas Listened to With ihe
Closest Attention.
THE YERDICT OF THE AUDIEKCE.
;A Stereopticon Called Into Play to Eepro-
duce Interesting Documents in
a Fac-Simile Form.
11FE-L0KG EEPUBLICAN IN THE CDAIE.
A Letter rnm Hetarille Frozniasg Aootttr Bitch of
Evidence Even Stager Than Thit
PreJeatedLutHigM.
SHOET STATZKEKT EOTPLEMENTIKQ THE SPEECH
Ex-Senator Lewis Emery, Jr., spoke in
the Bradford Opera House last night for
two hours and a half in producing
the proof of his charges against Candidate
Delamater. He W3S received with enthusi
asm, listened to with attention, and con
vinced the overwhelming majority of his
hearers. Afterward Mr. Emery made a
statement to The Dispatch expressing his
eagerness to go into court, when more evi
dence would he forthcoming.
IFBOJI A STAFF COKBESFOXPEXT. J
Bradford, September 26. The Dis
patch, desiring to inform the public of the
exact nature of the proofs to be offered by
ex-Senator Emery in support of his charges
ol bribery, perjury, and forgery preferred
against Candidate Delamtter, .directed me
to come here and secure for it every detail
of the matter.
On arriving here I found the town con
siderably agitated over the coming event.
Knots o: citizens were everywhere discuss
ing the charges, the proofs and the political
situation.
Hone knew what proofs were to be offered,
but very few seemed to doubt that Mr.
Emery would produce conclusive evidence.
A standard View of the Case.
L. B. Lockhart, of the Producers' Con
solidated Land and Petroleum Company
(Standard), was iound in front of the Oil
Exchange declaring that Emery's charges
were nonsense. Mr. Lockhart also an
nounced himself as a Democrat who intended
to vote for Delamater.
John P. Zane was also found moving
about vocuerating against Emery. Mr.
Zane was feeling satisfied with a letter he
had just published in Philadelphia scoring
Mr. Emery.
Bv way of explanation, I will say Mr.
Zane is the man who has been twice hanged
in effigy in the public square in this city.
The first time for his support of the "imme
diate shipment" order jn 1S79, and the last
time for his opposition to the Billingsley
bill in 1887.
All the Others With Emery.
No other persons were found who had
anything to say asrainst the ex-Senator. All
others were anxious to know about the
proofs, many were interviewed and some
characteristic sentiments will be quoted.
In the evening the Opera House was
crowded to discomfort some time before the
speaking began, because of the anxiety to
get seats.
The audience welcomed the appearance
of the speaker with vigorous applause
Mr. W. B. Chapman was elected Chair
man of the meeting. In accepting the honor
he said in effect it was his own judgment he
should not preside, but "God hates a
coward, and so do E" His son was a can
didate for District Attorney and his appear
ance as Chairman might lose him votes.
JCTcr Voted for a Democrat.
He declared, however, that he was a Be
publican, bad never voted for a Democrat
and never would. But as this was a citi
zens meeting, to bejaddressed by his neigh
bor, Emery, he wonld accept. ,
He asced for Mr. Emery careful attention
and an impartial hearing, that he might
stand or fall, as he produced sufficient
evidence or failed to do so.
He then introduced Hon. Lewis Emery,
Jr., -whose appearance was again greeted by
several rounds of applause. Mr. Emery
spoke for two hours and a half, the vast audi
ence giving closest attention and frequent
applause.
Mr. Emery is not a fluent speaker, but an
earnest one, and the patience oi his audi
ence can only be ascribed to deep interest,
as there was no effort at oratorial effect and
no pleasantries injected to keep the listeners
from tiring.
Jntradnctinn ofn terropttcon.
The affidavits and other documents offered
in evidence were placed upon a screen at the
back of the stage by means ot a stereopti-
VANT" of nil kind nre qnlcklr nnswerrd
firoiish THE DI-PA1CH. Investors, nr.
ti-.iti. bargain hunter, buyers nncl srller
cl-rlr scan it. ClassifieJ Advertising
Column.
con, so all in the audience could see them in
fac simile of the originals.
The original documents and the written
statement read without the names were dis
played to the audience, and handed over to
Chairman Chapman for inspection and safe
keeping.
The conclusion of the speech was im
promptu. A letter was read, which was
received last night, from Meadville, saying
the writer could produce ample proofs, in
addition to those already in the speaker's
hands, that thousands of dollars had been
used to secure Delamater's nomination and
election.
Emery then referred feelingly to the per
sonal abuse heaped npon him because he
had for ten years defended the right. He
declared he was not a disgruntled
politician; that had he resorted to the
low and illegal methods of Delamater
he could have had a seat in Congress
years ago, and that had. he been willing to
put on the yoke and hush his charges he
could have had a nomination to Congress
within the past six weeks. This reference
to Mr. Quay's pronuueiamento from Wash
ington just aiter the death of Congressman
L. P. Watson, of "Warren, elicited hearty
cheers.
-TSenator Emery stated to The Dispatch
,-that the names signed to the written state
ments read at the meeting were reserved for
production in court if Mr. Delamater dared
call him to account of this second challenge;
that the persons as well as the names would
be produced; that a mass of testimony not
available on the rostrum was ready to be
produced in court.
A Significant Closing Utterance.
This adds significance to the utterances at
the close ot his speech, to this effect:
"God knows I would like to go into conrt
to-morrow and produce these proofs and
others, that this man who asks for your
votes is unworthy of them."
"When the ciowd was dispersing exclama
tions were heard voicing the sentiments of
Emery's hearers, as follows:
"Mr. Delamater now has the floor."
"The charges are proven."
"Chambersburg denials don't go this
year."
"No Delamater in the Executive Chair to
veto Billingsley bills."
"The Standard don't own the State, or
Emery either, yon bet"
"It would have been better for Delemater
had he plugged the gas well plugging con
ference report.
"Briber, perjurer, forger a nice combi
nation for Governor."
Only One Who Thought Otherwise.
One lonebaldheadedmao, of short stature,
with what little hair remained to him turned
white, remarked: "It was a weak effort.
It proved nothing."
As the matter stands, to-night Mr. Emery
has captured the town. His supporters on
the streets are many, and free but quiet ot
utterance. His opponents are very few, or
very silent, probably both. Cetjm.
EX-SENATOR EMERY'S SPEECH.IN FULL,
IN SECOND PART OF THIS ISSUE OF THE
DISPATCH.
TALKS WITH THE PEOPLE.
OIL MEN SEEM ALMOST UNANIMOUS FOR
PATTISON..
The Published I.l.t Did Not Contain the
Knmes of One-Half of the Independent
Adherents The Boole cf a Thorough
Fell ofa District.
FEOM A STAFF COKRESFONDEXT.J
Bradford, September 26. Directed by
The Dispatch to get expressions from all
possible sources and all information possi
ble, I went about asking whomsoever I met
for their sentiments.
Mr. Alex. TJVqubart, oil producer Have
always been a Bepublican. People here are
very bitter against Delamater. He will get
little more than 25 votes in this city. In
the Foster Brook Valley I know of only six
Delamater men, though the voters in that
district are nearly all Republicans.
Mr. McCray I'm tor Pattison. I signed
the paper published a few days ago. That
list does not contain half the names of Pat
tison Republicans in the city. My brother
is Tor Pattison. He was not in that list.
The Dispatch can say there are mighty
few Delamater men here.
Be W 111 Chnnee This Tear.
C. J. Boylston I have always voted the
Bepublican ticket. I am for Pattison this
year. We nearly all are. I think there are
only four or five men in this Exchange who
are lor Delamater, and their connections
account for their sentiments. Mv name was
not in the published list.
Mr. J. E. Haskell Yes, we are all for
Pattison. I'm glad to see vou here. I
signed the list Am a Republican, of
course.
Mr. L. A. Brenneman I have been a
Bepublican, but will vote for Pattison. I
thiuk Emery's proofs are all right. Our
spines are stiff enough against Delamater.
I hope he will be de'eated.
Mr. Caldwell Well.thereare a good many
kickers. I was out at Big Shanty to-day,
and a bie crowd is coming in from there to
night There are a good many Delamater
men too, and all of them appear very strong.
They are in the minority, and minorities
usually are strong in their convictions.
A Democratic Observation.
Ex-Mayor James E. Broder I am a
Democrat, and conseqnently don't want to
say much. Wallace was my choice, but
there is no reason why any Democrat should
not vote for Pattison. His record is
unexceptionable. He is honest and
clean. He didn't do all he might
have done for his party, bnt he did his best
by the Commonwealth. I am pretty well
posted on the sentiments of our voters.
There are only two Democrats in the county
who declare lor Delamater. One you have
referred to, Mr. Lockhart. The other I
won't name, but he is employed by the same
people.
Inside friends of Delamater. who refuse tn
be quoted, say they can only hope for a
small majority in this county, pos-dbly 500.
A thoroughly posted Democrat said: "We
have made a canvass and JC predict
A Majority of 400
in this county for Pattison. The ordinary
Bepublican majority is over 1,000."
A complete poll has been made of Poster
Brook township, the result of which was
shown me for The Dispatch. The dis
trict comprises the villages of Bed
Eock, Bells Camp, Gilmore, Der
rick City and Babcock's Mills.
The poll 'shows 123 Bepublican voters
in the district, of whom exactly 13, the un
lucky number, will support Delamater.
The others will vote for Pattison, and 60 de
clare an intention not only to vote that way,
but to work at the polls all day.
In the Kendall Creek Valley the poll has
not been completed. So far as it has gone it
shows more Delamater men, though the
kicking Republicans number more than 50
per cent of the total. The lists are not all
in from this citv, but those returned foot np
172. The published list was about 80.
There Are HI ore to Come.
So it is now more thandouble with several
papers not heard from. It is stated
that these signers are not all of the Pattison
Republicans.
It is claimed by Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Zane,
Mr. Bannon. and others that a lartre number
of Democratic Grand Army men will de-1
fault on their ticket, because of Pattison's
veto of the soldiers' bnrial bill.
The Daily Record makes its first appear
ance to-morrow morning, containing Senator
Emery's speech in full. It will be pub
lished as an independent Bepublican paper,
supporting Pattison.
The Democracy are trying to force W. C.
Kennedy to accept the nomination for Con
gress. Mr. Kennedy is in Florida on busi
ness, but bis business associates say he will
not be forced into the nomination.
A STRANGE SUICIDE.
A BALTIMORE MILLIONAIRE ATTEMPTS
TO END HIS LIFE.
He Is In the Prime ol Life, and Successful
Alike In Business and Society An Attack
of Illness Is Supposed to Have Un
balanced His Mind.
IFTZCtAL TZLXCBAX TO TUX DI8PATCTI.1
Baltimore, September 26. Mr. George
S. Graham, the millionaire merchant of
this city, attempted suicide at his country
residence,, in Baltimore county, by cut
ting his throat with a razor. The
family tried to keep the matter
quiet, but it leaked out this morning
and created a tremendous sensation. It
was explained that the wound was an acci
dent resulting from his falling while hold
ing the razor in his hand, and just as he
was about to shave himself.
The fact is, Mr. Graham was out of his
mind. In his youth he suffered from a very
severe attack of scarlet fever, from which
he recovered with somewhat impaired
vitality, although not a confirmed invalid.
This rendered him unable to sustain as
well as a stronger man might have done any
subsequent attackjof illness. Early last
summer the impenect drainage ot a neigh
boring dwelling gave rise to an
effluvia which affected his heatlb,
and produced a case of blood
poisoning for which he has been under
medical treatment during the past three or
lour months. He spent the summer at Nar
ragansett Pier, and only returned home last
Friday. This morning his wile found him
lying on the floor in his room with two cuts
in his neck, Irom which the blood was gush
ing. He held the razor firmly clenched in
his hand.
A physician was quickly summoned who
sewed up the wounds, which he does not
think are necessarily fatal. The jugular
vein was not touched. Mr. Graham was
only 35 years old, and widely known in
social as well as business circles.
His father, who was a member of
the banking house of Alexander Brown
& Sons, died recently, leaving him 51,000,
000. His city residence, on Charles street,
is one of the handsomest buildings in the
city. Two years ago ne married the beauti
ful Miss Paulin, a leader in society here.
WAB OH THE LOTTEBY.
Urgent Appeal for Aid in Crushing Out the
fewindlr.
rsFECi At Telegram to the disfatco.1
Columbus, September 26. Governor
Campbell to-day received the following com
munication from Charles Parlange, Chair
man of the Anti-State Lottery Leagne in
Hew Orleans:
We are engaged in this State In a life and
death contest with the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany. The strnggle is not for ourselves alone,
bat for all our sister States, which are made
tributary to this lottery company in a sum ex
ceeding doubtless $25,000,000 annually. The
flgbt is for your State as well as for
ours.' We are -doing- all that men. can
do, sparing no effort, remitting np"
labor, to destroy the common enemy. Wo
urgently appeal to Your Excellency to help us.
Congress has, with promptness and unanimity,
closed the United States malls against the lot
tery in answer tor our appeal. This Is a severe
blow, but the giontic gambling monopoly still
lives. It announce' in the public prints "agents
wanted everywhere." It states publicly that it
will now answer correspondents aud carry on
its traffic by means uf the express companies.
It further advertises that aiter its drawings
official lists of prizes can be obtained from ex
press agents by all holders of ticket". Whether
the United States Government will permit
them to carry out this announcement the near
future will disclose. But in the meantime the
States hare it in their power to destrov this
great evil within the next 30 days. Forty
two States in the Umou, including your
own, have penal statutes against tbe selling
of lottery tickets, etc. The annihilation of the
lottery company would promptly follow the
vigorous enforcement of these laws. An ap
peal to Your Excellency with all oar earnest
ness to assist us in our struggle for ourselves,
for the country, by causing tue laws of your
State against lotteries to bo rigorously and
strictly enforced. We know you will pardon
our nrgency in consideration of the magnitude
of our object.
The Governor replied to the communication,
indorsing the objects and sentiments ot the as
sociation, and promising his co-operation to
tue extent of his official ability.
THE KEETTIZEB SONATA TO BLAME.
A Breach of Promise suit for Which Tolttoi
Is Responsible.
rSrECIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE DISrATCH.1
Ottawa, September 26. Florence Har
rison claims $5,000 from Roderick McBea
Mackenzie for breach of promise. Macken
zie is a Scotchman, and for many years was
in the employ of the Allan Line Steamship
Company. Afterward be worked in Chi
cago, and lately lived in Walkerville, Ont.
He has been engaged to Miss Harrison for
more than two year. Two weeks ago he
came to Toronto lor the purpose of making
arrangements for the wedding, which
was to have been on Saturday last.
Everything went on harmoniously till Mon
day, the 15th, when Mackenzie packed a
small grip and leit the house. He sent a
telegram from Walkerville telling Miss
Harrison to stop all arrangements for the
marriage. This was followed by a letter, in
which Mackenzie broke off the engagement
and said that he had centered his ufiections
on another and was going to wed her. He
expressed remorse for his conduct, deplored
Miss Harrison's forlorn condition and
wound np by laying the blame on Tolstoi's
"Kreutzer Sonata" for his sudden change
oi heart. He was determined to follow his
present course, he eaid, if he had to leave
the country.
To-day Mackenzie returned to the city,
and, going to the Harrison house, demanded
his trunk. The request was refused, and
Mackenzie had a lawyer's letter sent to his
fiancee saying that if the trunk was not de
livered forthwith action would be taken.
The trunk, however, was held till a writ
could be issued against Mackenzie and the
nrder for his arrest made ont It was re
ported that a settlement would be arrived
at, but no advances were made to the
plaintiff's lawyers to-day.
HE CAME BACK F0M CANADA,
And tbe Pol.ce Were on Hnnd to Arrest
All Enibrzzlern.
Detroit, September 26. Last night De
tective McDonald arrested W. B. Schriber,
who is wanted at Columbus, Ind for em
bezzlement of $38,000 in money and $100,000
in Government bonds irom the bank in
which he was employed. After a time be
returned the 5100,000 in bonds, sending a
Eolite note to his Hoosier Iricads, saying that
e could not use the paper.
Schriber came over irom Windsor yester
day, thinking that the officers had quit
watching him. He was mistaken. He was
captured. Extradition papers are waiting
him here, but nothing will be done until one
of the bank officials arrive to-morrow.
CHAf-.T. MURRAY nnd CIirnBcIIo bIto,
nil the Gossip Going In New York to reader
of To-morrow' 20.Face DISPATCH.
Havana Wants Reciprocity.
Havana, September 26. The leading
papers here continue to advocate reciprocity
with the United States. .
AN OPEN COBFLICT
Between the Flood Relief Commission
and the Board of Inquiry.
THE PUBLICATION OP THE LIST
Of the Johnstown Beneficiaries, With the
Amount Beceived, the
SIOYIKS CAUSE OP ALL THE TROUBLE.
Borne Decidedly Interesting Correspondence of Very Be
cent Dite.
It is stated that the local Board of In
quiry at Johnstown has decided to publish
the names of the beneficiaries as a private
speculation. Bobert C. Ogden, of the Flood
Commission, has entered an emphatic and
apparently useless protest. He denounces
the publication as outrageously improper.
rSFECTAI. TM.IORAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Philadelphia, September 26. There
is just now a lively row between the Johns
town Flood Belief Commission and the
local Board of Inquiry, which was formed
just after the great flood of May 31, 1889.
The local board's duties were to accumulate
such data as would be useful in the distri
bution of the funds so generously donated
by the whole country. It acted in con
junction with the Flood Beliel Commission,
of which Bobert C. Ogden, of this city, a
member and Chairman of the Committee on
Classification and Distnbntiou had charge,
and furnished that commission with much
useful and necessary information.
In the course of the board's work it
obtained many facts of a personal nature
regarding the needs of the many unfortunate
victims of the disaster, and tbe course taken
to relieve them. This information it was
the desire of the Flood Belief Commission
to keep from the general public, as they
considered that it would be cruel aud unfair
to publish the details of the charity they
were called upon to administer.
DECISION OP THE COMMISSION.
The commission decided that the only
persons having a right to say whether these
details of personal relief should be given
to tbe world are the donors themselves. It
was rumored last week, however, that mem
bers of the Board of Inquiry were engaged
in the preparation of a list of the awards
and payments made by the commission,
which they intended to publish as a private
speculation. .
This brought forth a letter of protest from
Mr. Ogden, addressed to the Board of In
quiry. Mr. Ogden was asked this evening
li he had anything to say concerning the
report that the names of the beneficiaries in
the Couemangh Valley were to be published.
He replied that he was "ashamed to say
that he understood such to be the case."
"But will the commission be responsible
for the publication?" was asked.
"Not at all," said the Chairman. "The
publication, if made, will be in spite of tbe
decision of the commission that the details
were to be withheld. The accounts have
been officially audited, and any proper per
son can get information to which he maybe
entitled, but a public parade ofjiersoojl
charity was repugnant tothe commission,
and the decision was that it should not be
made."
"v ho then is responsible for this pro
posed action?"
THE RESPONSIBILITY LOCATED.
"The Board of Inquiry in Johnstown are,
aside from the commission, alone in posses
sion of the facts in the matter."
"What is the Board of Inquiry, Mr. Og
den, and how does it possess the data which
it means to publish?"
"Immediately after the flood the citizens
of Johnstown appointed various committees
or boards for the care of special interests
growing out of the disaster. The principal
of these was a Board ot Finance, which re
ceived and disbursed such'funds as were
sent directly to the official local organization
in Johnstown. Another was the Board of
Inquiry, to which was assigned the duty of
tabulating the statements of loss by the
various sufferers. The Flood Relief Commis
sion advised freely with the Board of
Finance, and availed itself of the prelimi
nary work of the Board of Inquiry. AVhep
the commission's system was formed the
Board of Inquiry was continued and was
largely used in the preparation of the state
ment ot losses upon which the hual awards
were made. The commission laid down the
principles and the methods, and the Board
of Inquiry accumulated tbe facts. Several
reasons indicated this to be the wisest
course. The Board of Inquiry was created
by the Johnstown people, and therefore
would command their confidence.
THEY HAVE THE MEMORANDA.
"They had large personal knowledge of
individuals; they had undertaken a prelim
inary work that brought many lacts to their
knowledge, and it was the course of wisdom
to use the local agency. As matters pro
gressed the records of the Board of Jnquirv
uuuiameu meiuorauua as to wnat the aLtlon
of the commission would be in each case.
and therefore, while the final ofhcinl papers
are in tne archives of the commission the
preliminary memoranda setting iorth the
same facts still re.nain in possession of the
Board of Inquiry."
"How did it come to your Knowledge that
such a publication w is proposed?"
"Rumors were rife last week that the
members of this Board of Inquiry were en
gaged in the preparation oi a list of the
awards and payments made by the Com
mission, to be published as a private ven
ture. The statement taxed the credulity of
certain members of the commission and an
investigation in Johnstown last week made
it morally certain that the rumors were cor
rect This induced me as the Chairman of
the Committee on Classification and Distri
bution to address a letter to the Board of
Inquiry, of which a copyjwas sent to the Sec
retary of the Board of Finance, asking that
the board in case its views harmonized
with the expressions of the letter to use its
good offices with the Board of Inquirv to
stop the proposed publication."
A PEOTEST BY LETTER.
"Would you be willing to give that letter
for publication."
"Certainly," said Mr.' Ogden. "It is an
official letter and the public have a right
to it." 6
The letter is as follows:
John Hannan. John H. Brown, Samuel Masters,
Board of inquiry, Johnstown, ra.
Gentlemen It is currently reported, in a
mariner tint leads to the belief that the report
Is correct, that the Board of Inquiry In Johns
town proposes to poblish on its own responsi
bility, and tor the private gain of its members,
a mi of the awards and payments to the flood
survivors of the Coneuiaugb Valley by the
Flood Relief Commission. The sources of this
information are sufficiently trustworthy to
warrant this protest against a course of action,
which, if peisisted in. will reverse a carefully
made decision of the Flood Relief Commission;
will do violence to the will and wishes of thou
sandsof the generous donors of the relief fund:
will bring discomfort, present and prospective,
to many of the recipients; will discredit the
community of Johnstown, and cannot fail to
seriously compromise the men that make so
mistaken uses of a public trust. It will reuulre
bnt little reflection to convince any fair-minded
person that tbe alleged proposed action is
wrong and ill-advised, without pausing to
discuss tho source from which vour board de
rived its experience aud its official relations to
other organizations of relief, local and State,
all of which in a subordinate way have to do
with the subject in hand, it maybe well to con
sider i
THE BROAD PRINCIPLES
which have to do withthe whole Question of
relief to the unfortunate sufferers In your com- J
llfjWiK.
.SIrIcai. HOGS NOT ADMITTED.
France Putting Up Bars Against Our Porker?
munlty. It was the human sympathy of in
dividuals going out to the suffering persons that
inspired tbe creat contributions. Tbe only
persons having the right to say whether the de
tails of personal relief shall be given to the
world are the donors, and in this case tbe
donors have a competent agency through which
to speak, namely tbe Flood Kehef Commission.
at exists on bebalt ol the donors and is re
sponsible to them. Therefore when the Flood
Keller Commission decide that it would be
cruel and unfair to publish the details of tbe
charity they were called upon to administer, it
becomes all men and organizations in posses
sion of facts to respect tbat decision.
Failure to do so is a violation"1- of
the expressed wish of a competent authority,
and at once indecorous and improper. Common
humanity would of itself forbid such a publica
tion to the world. Many persons wonld be
seriously pained thereby, some would be in
jured, bnt the lame damage would come with
accumulating years. As time passes the
special conditions surrounding the great
disaster'of the flood will have passed away, and
the cold bare facts of chanty given and ac
cepted will remain in permanent form, a
record without taint or humiliation to the re
cipient, but which in unfriendly hands may be
made to serve the cause of malice and in
justice a power tbat right and reason would
not say should he passed on to future genera
tions. If the allegation is correct that tbe pro
posed publication is to bo made as a personal
venture by the men composing the board,
words sufficiently strong to condemn such a
course do not exist The labors of yonr board
were arduous tbat is well known and recog
nizedbut YOTJ WERE ALL PAID
a liberal per diem for yonr services from the
charity funds. With that payment your
financial claim for services ceased, and no right
exists whereby you can be justified In using the
incidental information that remains with ou
forprivate speculation. The condemnation that
will fall npon you from all right-thinking people
in your town and throughout the State and
the country should the proposed course be pur
sued, will be severe and lasting. Trusting that
the suggestions contained herein will receive
your careful consideration, aud soliciting the
favor of a prompt rebly, I am
Very Respectfully,
Robert C Oqsen,
Chairman Committee Classification andDls-
tiibution. Flood Relief Commission.
Philadelphia, September 23, 1E90.
"Has any replv been received by you to
this letter?"
"Not irom the Board of Inquiry, but I
know tbe Board of Finance have considered
it officially, fur a prominent gentleman in
Johnstgwn writesjnejukfoUawr" - '
I aw Messrs. Brown and Hannan. I learn
that the publication is really made, as copies
are in circulation and I saw one. It will be
useless to try and sunbress it now. asltwoula
appear to the world in some other form. AVe
regret It exceedingly. Mr. offered to pay
all expenses incurred if it could be stopped.
"Have you any idea as to what the motives
are that inspired the publication?"
INTENDED AS A DEFENSE.
"The most prominent member of the Board
of Inquiry is Mr. John H. Hannan, who, in a
conversation with the commission's repre
sentative, claimed that in the proposed pub
lication the Board ot Inquiry wassimply de
fending itself against criticism of the awards
and meeting a local demand for the informa
tion. The explanation is weak and flimsy,
as the work of the Board of Inquiry was
merely clerical, and the entire responsibility
for the awards and payments remained with
the Flood Belief Commission. Of course
there is a local demand for the information.
There always is, and especially in the
smaller cpramnnitics, a demand for a knowl
edge ot the private affairs of all members of
the community. Neither of these reasons
would have the least force as against a true
sense of Dropriety. Well-informed people
in Johnstown believe that the actual motive
is speculation, out of which about $2,500 is
expected to be realized for the personal
benefit of the three persons concerned."
"Under whose name will it be pub
lished?" "I do not know the imprint, but it will
doubtless be that of a Johustown printer The
Board of Inquiry is alorie responsible. It is
said that one order for 20,000 copies has been
placed. I do not know how true that is, but
I do know that everybody having any
knowledgsof any person in that list will
want to know all the distressing details it
has to give."
M4GrETlOI nnd Electricity are treated
by experts for THE DWATC1I, and lovers
of science will find ibo subjects cleverly
handled In to-morrow's bis isiur.
ENTEBPBISING TAJXOBS IN TBOTJBLE,
A Scheme to llo'p Trade Lcids to nil Indict
ment by I lie Grand Jury.
rEFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUE DISPATCH.!
Syracuse, September 26. The tailors of
Northern New York have for some months
past been forming "suit clubs" for helping
along the business. It seems now that their
schemes are to be nipped in the bud by the
application of the lottery law of the State.
The grand jury ot Lewis county has found a
bill of indictment against Fred C. Myers, of
Lowville, under the general lottery act
Some time ago Mr. Myers formed a "suit
club." The club is composed of 75 per
sons, each of whom pays to Mr.
Myers 51 per week nntil they have
drawn a suit of clothes, when payment
ceases, so far as tbe lucky person is con
cerned. One suit of clothes is drawn each
week. The agreement is that none of the
members shall pay over 35 weeks, or in
other words $35. At the expiration of 35
weeks, the remaining 40 members of the
club, who hare not drawn a suit of clothes,
are to be furnished a suit by Mr. Myers
without additional expenses. Every mem
ber of the club is to receive a suit, but he
takes his chances on its costing him $35 or
less.
Under this scheme Myers receives $27 05
for each of the 75 suits of clothes. In Bald
winsyille, this county, one of the clubs
flourished until quite recently, and Oswego
county has one or two in full bloom. The
disposition of the Lowville test case will be
watched with- no little anxiety by the tailors
throughout tbe northern section of the State.
If the clubs are decided legitimate they
will flourish like banyan trees.
BANDA1IS SHALL ESTATE.
He Left No Will and Ills Property
Onlr
Amounts to S3, 000.
Philadelphia, September 26. Hon. S.
J. Randall, who died at his Washington
residence on the 13th of April last, failed to
execute a will, and to-day Begister of Wills
Gratz granted letters of administration on
his estate to the widow. Fanny W. Randall.
The entire estate left by deceased is valued
at abont?5.000, and consists of entirely per
111101
Gr?
sonal enecis.
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AUSTEAUAIS AHEAD.
Siayin Knocks Out McAuliffe Without
Wasting Any Time On It.
TVY0 E0DNDS AND SIX HIKUTES
Sufficient to Paralyze the American Pugi
list Completely.
THE TICT0E CLAIMS TO BE CHAMPION.
Great Disorder Frerailid Among tlie Tvo Hundred
Eager Spectators.
The long expected prize fight in London
ended early this morning before it iad
scarcely commenced. Slavin soundly
thrashed McAuliffe in just two rounds.
lasting exactly six minutes. There was
but little betting upon the result
tBT CABLE TO TUK DISPATCH.
London, September 27. Copyrighted.
The fight between McAuliffe aud Slavin
ended in a most disastrous defeat of the
American! in the second round. McAuliffe
entered the ring weighing 204 pounds, while
Slavin fought at 185 pounds. Slavin struck
the first blow after cautious sparring for a
few seconds on each side, and then both men
went at each other like demons. -
The greatest disorder prevailed among the
spectators, who numbered about 200. Tt
looked the first part ot the first round that
McAuliffe was getting the best of it, but he
evidently excited himself too much at the
beginning, for at the end of tbe round
Slavin pursued him around the ring and
knocked him back npon his elbows.
THE FIRST ROUND INDECISIVE.
McAuliffe recovered at once, however,
and neither conld be considered in the as
cendant at the end of the first round.
The second ronnd belonged to Slavin alone.
He drew blood from McAuliffe's left ear to
start with and then started in to make
things hot for him. He pounded him, he
slugged him, he drove him around the ring,
he banged him on front of his head and back
thereof, he smote him where he was sorest
and downed him in tbe sawdust.
McAuliffe strngglcd to his feet barely in
time to observe tbe ten seconds' intermission
for recovery allowed under the Marqnis of
Queensberry rules. When he got to his
feet he leaned against the ropes in a dazed
manner.
Slavin stood off and withheld his hand for
several seconds, then McAuliffe made a
feeble effort to put up his fist, and then
Slavin was down upon him.
THE FINISHING BLOW.
He knocked him to tbe floor again, and
McAuliffe failed to rise within the ten sec
onds permitted him, and after the referees
had given the fi',-ht to the Australian, Mc
Auliffe's seconds lifted him up. His gore
was running from his ear over his chest, and
two to one was offered that he wonld quit
the ring and open a saloon.
The fight lasted exactly six minutes, and
in. thatoMme. Slavin won Hhoxhampionship
belt, and according to the Ormonde Club,
the heavy-weight championship of the
world.
The front seats at the fight, on a Iuxnrious
sofa, were reserved for those two dis
tinguished aristocrats. Lord Marcus Beres
ford and Lord Esmie Gordon, and among
others present were Chippy Norton, the
eminent bookmaker. Jinks, the baccarat
king. Courtier Pounds, John L. Shine,
Eugene Stratton and two or three others
from the West End. The rest of the audi
ence was composed of bookmakers, gamblers
and sports. As one sporting gentleman
pathetically remarked: "I don't see no
swells here except Gordon and Beresford.
It ain't right for a mill like this."
THE SPORTS PRESENT.
Bichard K. Fox was of coarse present,
and so were Charley Mitchell and Pony
Moore. Chippy Norton created interest
during tedious wait for the fighters by
jumping on his hat while he offered small
odds on Slavin.
Slavin was seconded by Billy McCarthy
and Jack Lewis, and the same tender offices
for McAuliffe were performed by Billy
Madden and Jack Burke. The- referees
were G. W. Vyze and Jack Angle,. both
well-known sporting meu in England. The
timekeeper was Joseph Montagne.
There was no real betting. The odds of
fered on Slavin were 22 to 20 and 55 to 50.
The baccarat king offered to bet 200 to 300
that no one could name tbe winner, aud
many even bets ol 100 were offered on
Slavin before the men came into the ring.
However, there were few bets taken.
YOUHG WOMAN MUBDEBED.
Aou, Terrible TrnsedyNcnr the Place
Where Annie Leconev Wan Hilled.
ESPECIAL TELXGBAU TO THE DIHFATril.J
Philadelphia, September 26. A little
lonely lane in New Jersey, one mile from
the famous Leconey farm, was the scene of
a terrible murder this morning. Mrs. An
nie Miller, aged 25 years, wife of John
Miller, a farmer, was found weltering in
her blood in a clump of bushes on the side
of the lane stone dead, with her head nearly
severed from her body. Her throat was cut
from ear to ear, and the wonnd extended all
tbe way around the neck on either side to
the spinal column.
Francis Lingo, the negro who was at first
suspected of having killed Annie Leconey,
is under arrest tor the murder ot Mrs.
Miller, and is locked np in the Camden
conntyjail.
A DE0P IN ALUmNUM.
Tbe Price Cnt Vaw.i In Cleveland From
82 SO Per Pound lo SI.
Cleveland, September 26. An an
nouncement of interest to the metal trade is
made to-day by the Cowles Electric Smelt
ing and Aluminum Company, of this city.
Heretofore tbe Iowest price made to the
public on alnminum in small lots has
been 52 50 per pound, but this company
has cut the price down to 1
At $1 per pound aluminum will become a
serious competitor with both nickel and.tin.
At 50 cents pure aluminnm would become
a formidable competitor with copper.
EUROPEAN NEWS Is Cabled to To
morrow's bis DISPATCH by a Corps of
Correspondent out.lde of the recular As
sociated Press agent". '
HE WANTS HIS SHAEE,
A Former Councilman Claims Ho Was
aliased In a Boodle Divide.
Cincinnati, September 26. Andrew T.
Moonet, now of Chicago, to-day sued to re
cover of William Forbes, of Cincinnati,
$2,100. The petition says Moonet was
chairman of a committee in Cincinnati
Council, and Forbes, President of Council,
had money to pay that committee to influ
ence its action in a specified matter, and
tbat Forbes did not pay Moonet bis share."
Moonet now sues to recover.
HOW TO MAKE
What Must be Done to Promote the Greatness and
Prosperity of Pittsburg.
SOME CLEYER IDEAS
Our Natural Besources Unbounded Pittsburg the Key of the Mississippi Yalley Im
proved Waterways and Canals Will Make Us Great A Grand System Outlined
How We Can Advertise Ourselves Towers of Iron and Palaces of Glass We Must
Blow Our Own Horn Croakers Must be Silenced Concerted Action Will Push Us
Easiness Men Mnst Join the Chamber of Commerce Transportation Facilities Nov
One of the Greatest Needs.
When The Dispatch offered prizes for
the three best essays on such public under
takings as would most speedily and effect
ually promote the greatness and prosperity
ofPittsbnrg, it struck a responsive cord in
tbe breast of the community.
Every Pittsburger is proud of the strides.
of the past few years.
But everyone also knows that m
remains to be done. Our people have a
yet taken advantage of more than a fractio.
of their opportunity. How to exhibit whal
has been lacking, and how to get what we
have not, but should have, was tfTe purpose
of The Dispatch in asking for these
essays. More than 100 came in during the
week, out of which four are given below.
The Awards of Merit.
The palm of merit has been awarded in
the first instance to an essay specially ex
cluded by its author from the formal com
petition. He is a business man, who gave
his name, but not for publication, and ex
pressly relinquished a claim to any of the
prizes. This essay, which is printed first
below, is adjudged superior because of the
breadth and scope of its views and their
forcible presentation. Excluding then this
paper, the first prize of $50 is awarded to
Henry B. Thompson. Mr. Thompson is a
former Pittsburger, latterly resident in New
York, but for a few weeks past visiting
friends in the Eist End. He leads all com
petitors in offering novel, striking, and at
the same time practical suggestions for, as
he terms it, "The nationalizing of Pitts
burg." Mr. Thompson writes sharply as
one who sees our deficiencies. He is none
the less readable for that.
The second prize of 515 is awarded to
Charles S. Mentzer, Merrimac street, Thirty-second
ward, because of the many ad
mirable points made on the value of co
operation and of a right spirit of helpful
ness and local ambition in the community.
The third, prize of- $10 goes to Eoger D.
McCart, 101 Fulton street, Pittsburg, for
his excellent'elaboration ot tbe needs and
benefits of the Lake Erie Canal; of macada
mized road's through Allegheny county; and
of a great consolidated city topics which,
while not original, are among the most ur
gent. Originality Aimed At.
In making the selections the principle has
been observed of securing the greatest orig
inality, and the best plan of doing what was
proposed. There are many others among
the essays so excellent that it has not been
easy to award the palm. Several of these
will be used by The Dispatch with hon
orable mention later on as means of arous
ing the city to its vital interests. The
prize-winners will receive their prizes by
calling at The Dispatch counting room
at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Meanwhile the
public will, we doubt not, keenly enjoy
their essays, which follow in the order des
ignated. A GRAND SYSTEM
OF IMPROVEMENTS WHICH WOULD MAKE
PITTSBURG TRULY GREAT.
How Nnture Ha Tlmned Oar Future A
Wonderful Wrterwny Irlnpprd Ont En
slnrerlnz Difflcultip Enilr Overcome
How All Roads ConM be Made to Lend
ti Pittsburg.
Most fortunate for humanity that the
natural features of America did not favor
the growth of a native civilization: that a
virgin continent was at hand to which to
transplant the flower of European civiliza
tion at the very time its native environment
threatened to bar farther human progress,
anil roll the wave iu reflex arc back to that
darkness of barbarism from which it so
many times emerged, to be again en
gulfed. Most fortunate was it that the Mississippi
Valley, crown and key of America, was
peopled by the Anglo-Saxon-Norman race
that all-subduing, all-transforming, all-as-sirailating
people, who spread from moun
tain rim to rim, irom summer
lands to frozen seas, drawing her
stores from Natures teeming breasts
in smiling harvest and from hidden mine
and well and waterfall and timbered slope.
pioneering, settling, discovering, inventing,
combining, subduing all things to their
ends; freighting the flood-crest, driving
their thunderbolts of engines overland and
lake and river, whispering on the lightning
from farthest bound to bound; that fierce
Northern energy that once filched punch
bowl and province, turned to noble peaceful
ends, creating here a productive capacity
and accumulation more than imperial, an
internal commerce vaster than all Europe's
foreign trade.
Eastern commerce finds two gates to this
great storehouse.
The northern, a narrow line via Chicago
and the Hudson, Mowhawk, and lake
drainage systems; the other, broad and
many doored, by way of tbe Ohio river,
whose wide-branching feeders from tbe
lake-lapping Allegheny to the Cumberland
and Tennessee, form a gigantic funnel con
veying a continental trade, to lave the feet
ofPittsbnrg.
A Five-Fold System.
From the Hudson clear around the Atlan
tic coast and into the gulf all natural roads
center in the Ohio Valley, of which Pitts
burg is the key.
Here nature has planned. Man mujt
obey. At present we are headless; or rather
do not rise to the situation, which requires
the execution of a five-fold system of public
improvements, to wit:
1. The control and canalization of the
Mississippi and its tributaries, to make the
Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri navigable
for large stearashipsand lesser tributaries
ior river emu; iiupuuumug toe uoous ro
float snips in due season.
A GREAT CITY.
FEOM PEIZE ESSAYISTS.
2. 'A sfeip canal connecting the upper Ohio
with the 'ikes.
3. The c.nvrsion of the Erie Canal into a
ship canal.
4. The con ruction of the Hennepin Ca
nal for ships.
5. A shin cs-al connecting Lake Michi
gan with the MiV.issinni.
...These iniprove&ent? will be made. They
mid pay now. ot
.ev cost a million a
..t
i -V and ten thr jiles were necessary,
7. 'j . . ..... .' - w U.,. UC LUC lUUSL III 1111 L.1IIIH
v jtv- ikt as. Fifty years Irom to-day
', A V an imPe"tive necessity, for
arily transport our raw and
rA vwnArtnta ?n.n.AnA .3 1.,........
fej V-Par railroad system to a strain
, Almost exceeding their capacity.
tP "2, Tjqnent freight blockades, short
aS a tug stock, slowness ol delivery.
elt jA te3 etc- 0nr population and
prof, &r .apacity increase at a tremen
dous ever-accelerated rate, and will con
tinue to do so, provided we have cheap and
abundant means of transportation. Beyond
a certain limit we must find these in our
waterways, to which Nature has set no limi
tations, whereas she has set definite bounds
to the economical development of the rail
road system.
Wealth In Waterways.
All natural roads are now occupied by
railroads, which may multiply their capac
ity several times by laying more tracks and
and improved equipment and manacement.
But beyong theselimits, no w nearly reached,
are engineering difficulties which can be
overcome only by expenditures so great as
to raise the cost of transportation so high as
to be an incubus on the energies of the peo
ple and hinder their advancement. We
mnst, therefore, turn to our water routes,
which, when improved, will never be out
grown, even when onr population becomes
as dense as tbat of Belgium. Tbe cost mav
now appear tremendous, but it is not beyond
our means. If it were 510,000,000,000 and 50
years were required it would only be 5200.
000,000 annually a less sum than we now
spend on railways. Nor is the sum vast rel
ative to the bulk of commerce to be served.
Our present (Mississippi Valley) annual
commerce now probably exceeds" the total
cost. Ten years from now ft will be treble
it. What it will be in 50 years mind can
not conceive.
When we consider the yasf projects now
completed, under way and projected, and
how small a volume of trade relative to ours
can be served by them the things- seem
cheap.
For instance: The cost of the Nicaragua
canal, 5150,000,000. General Grant figured to
be warranted by the export gram trade of
onr Pacific slope,
Tbe Suez canal, cost 5100,000,000 pays
handsomely out of a small part ot the
foreign trade of England.
Manchester is spending half as much to
become a seaport in a small way.
And so we might enumerate Panama
Canal, Ead's Tetiauntepec Ship Bailway
and that at Amherst, canals of Corinth,
Cape Cod, Chesapeake and Delaware, etc.,
and soon reach a total cost which would
control and canalize the Mississippi, Ohio
and Missouri, and which will not serve one
tenth tbe volume of trade the rivers would
bear; for in the river system nature has
planned her greatest work, and in this
valley man is at his best. Give him cheap
transportation and in another generation
the achievements of the past century, vast
as they are, will be relatively a "trivial
thing.
All Roads Lend Here.
When the rivers are the roads, all roads
--. -, --. u.uuuw. .U.UJI.U4W U.JMAUV.CJ.
will lead to Pittsburg. They must have an
outlet. Our best water route to the At
lantic mnst be via the lakes and Hudson
and Mohawk Valleys. Hence tbe import
ance to us of improving the Erie Canal.
Hence the necessity of the ship canal to tha
lakes. We must have it or be dwarfed.
When we get onr routs to tbe lakes, tha
Hennepin Canal will be our short-cut to
Like Michigan; and the Michigan and
Mississippi canal will be our royal road to
the upper Mississippi, Missonri and great
Northwestern region.
From the westward, every stream would
swell the trade npon tbe great Ohio road;
and its every tributary, from the Allegheny
to the Tennessee and Cumberland, would
intercept tbe commerce of tbe Atlantic
slope, converging these two great waves to
meet and break in golden soray in Pitts
burg harbor.
The logic for the best road is unanswer
able. Pittsbnrg will have the commercial
primacy, as she now has the manufacturing.
Onr manufactured and raw products would
have a steady outflow, and we would lay
tribute on all the commerce of the East and
West, except what slipped through the
Northern road to Chicago.
Our industries wonld take many forms
now undreamed of. We would build steel
ships for all this commerce. We wonld
bnild them, load them with coal, or oil, or
steel, or manufactured goods, and sell ships
and cargoes in foreign ports. We would
build war navies and peace navies for all
the nations. We would send out complete
bridges, tunnels, dams, houses, rolling stock,
manufacturing plants, aud every other thing
conceivable. There would be no limit to
onr expansion. Already we feel the iron
bands of deficient and costly transportation.
We are "cabined, cribbed, confined; then
"the whole boundless continent is ours"
aye, and the furthest sea as well.
NON-COMPETITOE.
NATIONALIZE PITTSBURG.
HOW TO SHOW THE WORLD OUR CAPITAL
AND RESOURCES.
Novel Slonumentnl Schemes Outlined Tow
ers of Iron and Pnlnces of Glass What
United Effort Can Accomplish Hw Onr
Nnturql Resources Can be Utilized.
The question of Pittsburg's condition fiva
years hence will be a foregone conclusion if
yon can stimulate the city to prompt action
on some well-defined plan, which your very
able question is sure to bring forward.
"The prosperity of the city," beyond the
success of her present attainments, depends
upon the united efforts uf her citizens in at
tracting capital to new enterprises, securing
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