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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1890.
Forest Steel and Tin Plate "Works, of
Swansea. South Wales, made a very ex
tended inspection of the iron and steel
plants in the city and neighborhood. He
visited Apollo, and had a good word to ay
for the neat manner in which these works
were handled and kept. He said that
while appreciating the extent and import
ance of the works in this district, the
visitors had not seen anything very extraor
dinary, or anything very new. But
there "could not be any doubt of how they
felt regarding the hospitable welcome they
received at the hands of the citizens.
A gentleman connected with the manu
facture ot railroad supplies in "Wales was
struck by the solid nature of the mill
structures.
"I never saw 3 neater kept plant than
Braddock," he said, "or work more sub
stantially done. Everything there is done
as a permanency and meant to last. Iu
other mills I noticed equal efforts at lasting
work. Tracks intended lor ligbt locomotives
were laid as solidly as any permanent way,
and which, to serve the "same purpose in
England, would be simply thrown down
anyway, with loose joints and gaps. You
have a big place and fine plants and are en
titled to call your district the center of the
iron and steel trade in this country."
MORE MILLS VISITED.
A TRIP TAKEN UP THE ALLEGHENY AS
FAR AS TARENTUM.
The Skillfnl Handling ofn Cast Excites Much
A&miration Notes Made of Some Fig
ures That Were Dlsplaj ed A Thorough
Inspection Made.
Another section of the city's guests trav
eled up the Allegheny Valley, yesterday
morning, and inspected the mills along the
line as far as Tarentum. The route taken
was along the north bank.
The partv, which numbered about 150
persons, was in charge of Colonel T. P.
Roberts, assisted by the following gentle
men from the local committee: Messrs.
Samuel P. Harbison, of Harbison &
Walker; Captain Alfred E. Hunt and George
W. Clapp, of Hunt & Clapp; David Mc
Cargo, of the A. V. It. K.; J. J. Saint,
William Metcalf, of Miller, Metcalf &
Parkin; N. G. Ayres, E. E. Zieeler, Benja
min Caruthers. Superintendent Hutchin
son, of the West Penn, accompanied the
party and the railroad arrangements under
his management were perfect.
A start was inadeatO o'clock from Federal
street. The first stop was made at the Isa
bella furnaces One of these was ready for
tapping and a cast was made. The visitors
observed with interest the skillful manner
in which the work was handled.
A card on one of the furnaces that at
tracted attention road: "This furnace was
blown in Slay 26. 18SG, and has made 270,
000 gross tons ot mill and foundry iron."
This was carefully put in note books, which
were quickly produced, and the record was
commented on as almost beyond belief. It
is the best made by any furnace without re
lining. The other furnace was blown in
August 1, 18S6, and has made 175,600 gross
tons of Bessemer iron.
Every part of the plant was open to the
visitors and carefully inspected. There was
no process or piece of mechanism that was
not fully explained to all. Comments were
fieelymade and favorably of the plant.
There was a general admiration at tbe mag
nitude of the plant, the processes, the man
ner of construction and operation, the out
put and everything connected with the
plant.
The new furnace is nearly completed and
was carefully examined. One of the chief
attractions and the one most carefully ex
amined and favorably commented on was the
natural gas regulator the invention of Mr.
Hugh Kennedy, who showed the party over
the works.
A portion of the party which had gone on
to Spang Brothers' mills, re-embarked at
Etna, and tbe train ran on to Tarentum,
which was reached at 10:15. When the
Ford Plate Glass plant was reached the
party was met by T. B. Ford, Jr. A thor
ough inspection of the factories was made.
All the various processes of making plate
glass were described, every portion of the
works was thrown open, and skilled work
ers detailed to explain the means and meth
ods of their respective departments. A large
amount ot plate glass was made. The visit
ors expressed much salislaction, and were
pleaded with the works.
Iteturu was made by the Valley road.
Lunch was served, and the trip voted a very
pleasant and profitable one. The Lucy fur
mcl's were-next visited, and Superintendent
James Scott and a detail of intelligent work
men explained the various methods. Then
followed visits to the Crescent Steel Works,
the Keystone Bridge Company's plant and
other works in the city. The party con
sisted mostly of Germans, who enjoyed the
instructive trip very much.
IN THE COKE REGION.
FOUR SCORE DELIGHTED VISITORS
CONNELLSVILLE.
TO
American Skill and Knterprise Compli
mented by All An Excursion to Many
Toints of Interest Some Valuable Statis
tical Comparisons and Pointers.
Four score of the visitors availed them
selvesof the Connellsville Region Excursion
yesterday morning. And four score
pleased sight-seers returned in the after
noon with widened views of American en
terprise; statistics on the commercial end of
the business, and feeling appreciative of
John Schlosser's catering.
The train conveying the tourists hauled
out at 8:15 A. 31. There were on board, in
addition to their guests, the following gen
tlemen: H. C. Frick, W. L. Abbott, H.
E. Collins, James Dorsey, J. M. and S. L.
Schoonmaker, Charles Lockhart, William
Thaw, Jr., H. W. Oliver, Lennox Scaife,
John Walker, J. Morton Hail, John E.
Atcheson and E, L. Martin, of Union
town. Andrew Carnegie boarded the
train at Bhadyside, and remained with the
party all day. Excellent maps of the region
were distributed among the passengers.
From Bcottsdale the train went by way of
the Mt. Pleasant branch to the Standard
Works, and thence to Adelaide by the
Youghtogheny Northern road, and then to
Leisenring No. 1 and Trotten and David
son, s-
At the Standard, each guest was provided
with safety lamps. The visitors, in order to
reach the cage, passed between two mine in
spectors, and each lamp was locked. The
principal of mining coal in America was
explained by Superintendent Thomas
Lynch, of the H. C. Frick Coke Company.
BLASTING IK MINES EXPLAINED.
The theory and practice of blasting in
mines was explained to a nnmber of guests
by John L. Kirk.
'On returning to the cars John B. Schlos
ser served the party an appetizing luncheon
in his usual excellent style.
The foreign guests were delighted with
what they saw. They said that here,
the coal which is thrown away they would
be glad to use, and to use its like contin
ually. In this respect, they believe Ameri
can producers are "Wasteful.
The British manufacturer pays about
$13 60 per ton for furnace coke on board
cars at the ovens and twice as much for
transporting the same as is paid in
America. They are astonished that a class
of coke equal to their own celebrated Dur
ham sells 1or 5- 15 per ton. The visitors
were told that cuke was first made in this
country 73 years ago. It was only within
the past 20 years that the discovery of the
value o! the coke ol the Connellsville re
gion demanded developments which to-day
place coke making as the greatest industry
in the country next to steel.
MUCH IS DUE TO COKE.
The large productions of pig iron west of
the Alleghenies is owing to the opening up
of tbe Connellsville region lb 1880. Seventy-two
per cent of all the coke produced in
this conntry was burned there. It is esti
mated that there were originally 72,000 acres
of coal in these fields, of which 60,000 acres
remain unmined.
So far as is known coke was first used to
make iron in 1817 by Colonel Isaac Mason
at a mill at Plumsock. Coke was used in
the old Clinton Furnace, of the South
side. In 1871 H. C. Frick, A. O.
Tmtsman and Joseph Best, as Frick &
Co. started in coke business with 50 ovens
and 300 acres of laud. Alter the panic of
1873, when the iron business took a boom
there were completed in 1850 6,237 ovens ard
1,242 were in process of construction. They
burn every day 1,0(54,000 bushels of coal,
equal to 1,600 cars or coke. With these
ovens in continuous operation it is estimated
that the coal in tbe Connellsville region will
be exhausted in 55 years.
WITH SPLENDID MUSIC.
The Iron and Steel Men Entertained at Car
negie llalt-Tlie fashion of the City In
Attendance A Grand and Successful
Concert.
The complimentary concert given at Car
negie Music Hall last night in honor of the
iron and steel institute, proved a most splen
did society event, as well as a successful and
especially brilliant musicale. The audi
ence was a large and ultra-fashionable one,
the wealth of the city being present, as well
to hear artistic music as to honor the dis
tinguished guests.
It was the first appearance of Miss May
Beesley, the new soprano of the Third Pres
byterian Church, before a large Pittsburg
audience, and she proved herself to be a
coloratur singer such as the city has long
stood in need. Her brilliant execution and
high range of voice so pleased the most ex
acting critics that she received the major
share of the evening's applause. Miss Mamie
Rueck was compelled to respond to an en
core to her violin solo, and Mr. Paul Zim
merman was also recalled for a second num
ber. Pittsburg's favorite basso, E. H. Der
mitt, was in particular good voice and
handled his aria in splendid style, but posi
tively refused to acknowledge an encore.
Mr. J. H. Gittings took the place on the
programme designed for Mr. Chnrles C.
Mellor and pfaved tbe selections chosen by
the latter. While a good many were dis
appointed at the illness of Mr. Mellor, they
could not but be greatly pleased at the fine
performance of his substitute. Mr. Kevin's
piano solos were badly spoiled by the piano
which is the instrument used as an ac
companiment and is not in condition for
solo work. Notwithstanding this handicap
his renditions were certainly successful.
The Mozart Club had a large representa
tion out and the chorus filled a large
portion of the gallery. The choruses under
tbe direction of Mr. J. P. McCollnm were
grand and tbe hall fairly rang with the
splendid melodies. Mr. John Pritchard
played the organ accompaniment.
Every number on tbe programme was
rendered in the most excellent manner, and
as the musicale was arranged to suit the
tastes of tbe visitors, it could not fail to
please.
IK THE ESSEN MINE.
Iron and Steel Delegates Watch the Opera
tion of Electrical Mining.
A party of the iron and steel delegates
directly interested in the coal trade of Ger
many and England visited the Essen mine
yesterday morning to see the Micbales elec
tric mining machine in operation. They
were present while three cuts of 4 cubic
feet were made, the machine working one
square foot per minute, or 600 square feet in
10 hours. The party was very much inter
ested in the working of the machine, which
is something entirely new to them.
Herr Bergassessor Liebrecbt, a German
engineer, asked and was given the privilege
of taking the miner's place working the
machine. The party returned at noon and
expressed themselves as delichted with
what they saw at the mine, and also in Char
tiers nil field, which was traversed.
AT BEAVEK FALLS.
Some ot" the Visitors Journey Down to See
the Carnegie Plant There.
Beed S. Blair, representing the firm of
Carnegie, Phlpps & Co., of Pittsburg, went
to Beaver Falls yesterday in company with
Messrs. John Xettleford, ol Birmingham,
England, a member of the British Iron and
Steel Institute; H. D. Johnson, of the firm
of Richard Johnson & Nephew, proprietors
of the largest iron mill in Great Britian,
and other members ot the Institute.
The visitors were met at the depot by Mr.
Bradford, cashier of Carnegie, Phipps &
Co.. and taken to the mills, through which
they made a tour. They dined with Mr.
Emerson, ol the firm of Emerson, Smith
& Co.
Had Their Pictures Taken.
Some of the iron and steel delegates have
had their photographs taken in Pittsburg.
Among those who sat for Dabbs yester
day were Sir William T. Lewis, Arthur
Keen, E. P. Martin and E. Windsor Rich
ards. WILL HAVE GAS l6 SELL
Sonthslde Manufacturers Expect a Surplus
of Fuel in a Few Da s.
Manufacturers of the Sonthside who have
had occasion now and then to complain
about a temporary shortage of gas, are satis
fied that their troubles in this direction are
about at an end. Patrons of the Monongahela
Company have been assured that within two
weeks the facilities will be increased to
such an extent that there will be a steady
and abundant supply. Tbe Philadelphia
Company also promises to be in line by tbe
first of November.
A glass manufacturer from that part of
the city said last night: "On Wednesday
we had one ounce of pressure at our works.
To-night we have 15 ounces. The former is
not enough, but the latter is four times as
much as we could possibly use. There is
not a manufacturer oyer there who has any
doubts at all about the supply of gas in this
vicinity. They all know that there are
thousands of acres of territory and gas
enough for years to come. The trouble is
the companies will have to increase their
facilities. This is apparent when it is stated
that none of them willltake in any new con
sumers. For that matter they are all en
gaged now in putting down extra mains,
and when this work is completed we will
have more gas than we can use."
COMPLETING IMTE0VEMENT3.
The Monongahela Water Company Ready to
Furnish a-JJetter Supply.
The Monongahela Water Company has
about completed its improvements in the
mains, and expect within tbe next week to
increase the supply of water on the South
side. Within a day or two the connections
will be made between the pumps and the
new 20-inch main leading to tbe hill, and in
a short time the connection with tbe tanks
in Allentown and the mains leading to Mt.
Washington and Duquesuc Heights are ex
pected to be completed.
As soon as this improvement is completed
the company contemplates others still more
extensive. Members of the company say the
talk about the formation ot a citizens' com
pany is all bluff, as they are doing all that
is possible to do for the hill districts.
'A QTJAKTEE OF A CENTUET.
German Lutherans to Celebrate Their Anni
versary To-Day.
An extensive programme has been ar
ranged for tbe celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the German Lu
theran congregation on South Eighteenth
street to-day. Ministers will be present
from Braddock, McKeesport, Millvale and
other places.
The exercises will begin at 10:30 o'clock
and will be conducted by the pastor, Bey.
P. Brandt. There will be a service in the
atternoon and a sacred concert in the even
ing. Db. B. H. Hawitx. Eye, ear, nose and
throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720 Pens
street, Pittsburg, Pa. s&su
MORE TARIFF ON TIN
Alnst ba Added Before Foreign Capi
tal Will Engasre to Any Extent
in Its Manufacture Here.
SOME FINE FIGURING IS DONE
By Experts, Who Conclude That Americans
Will Also Go Slow in InTest-
ing in Tinplate Plants.
THE REASONS FOR THEIR DECISION
Are Btsed en the UafivenMe Condition Peculiar to
tie Conntry.
English capital will not be invested in
American tin plate plants. But arrange
ments have been completed for the invest
ment of English money in an iron and steel
plant in the immediate vicinity ot the city.
Tun Dispatch stated some few days ago
that certain negotiations pending at the
time, in connection with the prosecution of
the tinplate industry on an extensive scale,
would be brought to a head when the
English tinplate masters should visit the
city. The negotiations have been completed,
bnt not with the result anticipated by the
local promoters. The visiting tinplate men
have gone into figures on the matter, and
have come to the conclusion that there is no
money in it for them, anyway.
When the English tin plate manu
facturers arrived here it was with their in
tention to invest large sums in plants for the
manufacture of that very necessary commod
ity. One of their first acts was to meet and
go into the question of cost. Some half
dozen or so, most prominent among them
including Sir John Jones Jenkins, IUvid
Jones, William Williams, David Owens
and James Jones assembled, and tiking
into council one or two of the local tinplate
authorities, of whom John Jarrett was one,
went very fully into the whole question.
MINDS MADE TJP IN A HURRY.
Each ot the Welsh makers had his own
cost made out, and they also had obtained
extensive and accurate data on the cose of
making block plates in this country. Sub
sequently the British makers held a still
lurther consultation. Then their minds
were made up.
They laughed at the McKinley tariff act;
it would not injure their American trade.
They would continue to enjoy the large
American trade now in their hands, because
tinplate could not be made in America
under a less protective tariff than i cents a
pound duty.
Americans might invest capital in the
business in ihis country, and probably
would, but they would not. It would not
pay them, Welsh makers, to do so.
This conclusion was not reached until
after very careful investigation. Several
of the makers visited mills in the vicinity,
such as Demmler, Appolo. and inquired
into the elements of cost of the block plate.
Figures on the raw material were obtained
from the leading iron and steel firms in the
city.
HIGH COST OP B.VW MATERIAL.
It was found that the cost of the unfinished
plate, even under tbe most favorable condi
tions, was so high as to prohibit the manu
facture of tin plate, also under the most
favorable conditions, at a cost low enongh to
meet the Welsh article even with the ad
ditional duty of 1 2-10 cent per pound.
The Welshmen can continue making the
article, and will sell it here at a fair profit,
after paying tbe full duty of 2.2 cents per
pound. They will do this by curtailing the
cost to themselves to a slight decrcj.
Speaking on this subject, Mr. David
Joues said tbat he thought the Welsh mak
ers had no reason to tear the tariff. "I
don't think," he said, "that the duty of 2.2
cents per pound will prevent the Welsh
manufacturers from pursuing their business
in this country. I expect that we shall be
able to send tin plate in here and compete
with any that American1; may make. Of
course, in the process of time, a change may
be effected in certain conditions which now
place the American manufacturers at a dis
advantage. And, also, those of them
who elect to invest capital in
the business may find some means to
cheapen the cost after they have acquired
the experience.
EXPERIENCE IS WORTH MONEY.
"You see, we old established makers have
the experience, and experience in the busi
ness is one of the primary essentials to suc
cess in the manufacture of tinplate. With
out experience any man who engages in the
trade will only burn his fingers. I am not
seeking to discourage anyone from
trying their hands at it, but I my
self would not regard the investment
of capital in that industry as a very safe
speculation. Putting on one side the well
recognized proneness to change on the part
of your Government, there are still other
conditions existing on which I base my
views. I cannot say that I think much
money will be put into tinplate plants. We,
however, are not very uneasy regarding the
future.
Mr. William Williams, of the New
Forest Steel and Tinplate Works at Swan
sea, South Wales, is a recognized authority
in the tinplate fade. He is the owner of 23
mills, and the largest mnnulacturer of the
product in the world. Mr. Williams ex
pressed his views on the question yesterday,
very tersely.
"If I were going to settle in this country,"
he said, "I should not embark any capital in
the manufacture of tinplates. In saying
so I am taking the experiences of
those of yonr people who have already
ventured into the business and were not suc
cessful at it. If a duty of l.cent. per pound
was insufficient tpkeep the WeKh makers
from successfully doing business in this
conntry, I do not think that an additional
tax of 1.20 cents will prevent them from
continuing to do so.
DRAWBACKS TO INVESTMENTS.
"One thing tbat would mititate against
tin plate being made here is the much
higher profit desired by your manufacturers
than by ours. Your manufacturers, owing
to the high charges in many directions they
have to take into account, .require to carry a
larger capital than we have to. They have
to pay higher rentals, higher wages, and
more for their money than we do. These
facts exist, and must be counted into any
scheme having the manufacture of tin plates
in view. I think that the Welsh makers
will continue to supply 'this country with
tin plate, and I do not think that" much
American capital will find Investment in
an enterprise for making ii here. I do not
think that English capital will be placed in
any such works here. Some works will, of
course, start. That is to be expected."
Several other Welsh makers, whose
views were obtained, expressed themselves
similarly. The general opinion was found
to be as stated Welsh makers had no fear
of the tariff, and would not themselves in
vest money in tin plate works in this coun
try. By inference, they advised, others to
keep aloof also. ,
The Dispatch some time since printed
interviews with the leading blocV plate man
ufacturers on tbe question as to whether the
proposed dntyof 2.2 cents offered a sufficient
inducement to American 'manufacturers to
engage in the trade. - The concensus of
opinion was that no duty under 3, or 3
cents at the least, would be .air inducement
to them. '
, a. C. JABBETT HEARD FEOM. '
How an Insurance Agent s Business Is Hart
by His Name.
Prothonotary John Bradley yesterday re
ceived a letter from Lee Woodwell, a for
mer clerk in Mr. Bradley's office, who is
now in San Antonio, and who stated be had
seen A. C. Jarrett, the missing real estate
agent of the Southside. Mr. Woodwell did
not know anything about the circumstances
under which Mr. Jarrett had left but im
agined something was wrong. Jarrett was
haggard and sickly, and did not care to talk
much to Woodwell, although both had for
merly beengood friends. He told Mr.
Woodwell he was going to South America.
An unfortunate'thing has resulted from
Mr. Jarrett's transactions, and one that has
already resulted in a considerable loss to
Jarrett & Shook, tbe insurance agents on
Fourth avenue. A. C. Jarrett was a real
estate agent, while Jarrett & Shook are ex
clusively insurance agents, and jet many
people have taken it for granted tnat A. C."
Jarrett was a member of the firm
and the firm has been the loser as.
a consequence. W. N. Jarrett
is the insurance agent. One day this week.
Mr. Jarrett called on a firm to renew a $50,
000 line of insurance which was about to ex
pire. "Ob, we thought you had left the
city, and we gave our business to another
agent," was the nnswer he got. "This is
only one of five similar cases that have oc
curred this week," says Mr. Jarrett, "We
had no connection whatever with A. C.
Jarrett. We transact an entirely different
business, and yet we have been made to
suffer a great deal."
PLAYING IN HABD LUCK.
A Southside Mill Man "Who Meets It More
Than HalfWay.
"We have got one of the unluckiest men
in the United States in our mill," said Mr.
O. A. Brown, a boss roller in Singer &
Ximick's. "He works at the shears, and
although he is industrious and sober he is
continually meeting with accidents. If it
is not one thing it is another, and it keeps
bim busy to get in half of bis time. He
met with a mishap Friday night, the like
of which I never heard of before. We were
putting a steel ingot through the chill rolls
when it blistered. Now it is very common
for them to do so in the soft rolls, but rarely
in the chill.
"Well sir, when the rolls reached this
blister there came an explosion like the re
port of a cannon. A chip of steel Apw from
the ingot like a rifle bullet and sailing by
the lines of rougbers made its way direct to
that shears man, who was 75 feet away. Had
it struck him in any fleshy part of the body
the injury wonld have been trifling, but it
did not. It struck him squarely on the bare
elbow, and imbedded itself fully half an
inch into the joint. We had to send him to
a hospital, and it will likely be two weeks
or more before he can do a tap of work. I
have seen quite a number of victims but
this fellow certainly beats them all."
THE FLAG WAS THERE.
No Stars Save Its Own to Heighten Its Glory
on the Court House Tower.
A magnificent sight was witnessed by peo
ple coming in Fifth avenue last night. The
electric light decorations on the Court House
tower were not visible until the building
bad been reached, but at Tunnel street the
great big flag could be seen through the
mellow lieht standing out againt the dark
skv for a background, as if held aloft by the
spirit of freedom it represents.
The effect was magical. Tbere was not a
star to be seen in the heavens in any direc
tion save those on tbe proud emblem of lib
erty, and their glory was heightPned by the
mingled rays of the electric jet's that flashed
forth from their massive granite backing.
People by the hundreds stopped and gazed
in admiration at the sight, and they will
not soon forget the impressions it left.
A FATAL DAY OK EA1LE0AD3.
Two Unknown Men and a Hoy Crushed to
Death Under the Wheels.
Au unknown man was killed by the 0n
iontown express at Lawrenceville yesterday
morning.
Word was received at the morgne last
night that an unknown man, who lives at
No. 9 Singer's row, Southside, had been
run down by a train, on the Panhandle road
at Temperanceville last night and instantly
killed. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
John Moley, a 6-year-old boy, was struck
by the shifter at the Elizabeth furnace yes
terday afternoon and instantly killed. The
Coroner was notified and will hold an in
quest on Monday.
Albert Williams, a brakeman on tbe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, bad two of
his fingers crushed yesterday while making
a coupling at Glenwood. He was attended
by Dr. O'Brien.
HEAD OF A MONOPOLY.
The Man Who Controls the Alaskan Seal
Trade Speaks Abont It.
H. Liebes, the head of the North Ameri
can Commercial Company, from San Fran
cisco, accompanied by his son, was an East
bound passenger through Pittsburg last
evening. This is the company that secured
the 20-year lease from the Government for
521,000,000, giving them the exclusive right
to hunt seals in Alaskan and BehringStrait
waters. Mr. Liebes is on a tour around the
world, and he expects to spend a year in
making it.
He says the seals are plentiful this year,
and his company expects to make a great
catch. He is well pleased with the gigantic
monopoly he controls, and feels at ease with
all the world. He also thinks that the new
tariff bill will greatly benefit the Pacific
cojst industries.
A LAKE SHOEEMAN COMING.
Train Master Dietrich, of the Lake Erie,
Gets a Job on Another Road.
Trainmaster Charles Dietrich, of the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, has
tendered his resignation to take effect Octo
ber IS. Mr. Dietrich has held his present
position for a number of years, and has
earned an enviable reputation as a railroad
man, He leaves the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie's serviee to accept a more lucrative
position in connection with another road.
His future location has not been made pub
lic. Mr. Dietrich will be succeeded by Ira
McCormack, who comes here from the Lake
Shore and Michigau Southern Bailroad.
PEDESTRIANS HAVE RIGHTS
Widen Inspector McAleese Proposes Shall
he Respected by Householders.
Inspector McAleese is about to start a
crusade against those persons who persist in
washing and sweeping off sidewalks after
8:30 a. M. There is a city ordinance which
imposes a fine of 5 for such n offense, and
he proposes to enforce it. There has been
considerable complaint oflate from citizens
who start down street with" polished shoes
and. their clothing neatly brushed, only to
have their whole appearance wrecked when
a block or two-from home.
A Mother's Denial.
Mrs. Mary Flannigan, mother of Luke
Flannigau, who was sent to the Mercy
Hospital, yesterday, denies that he was
sent there to be treated for delirium tremens,
but that he had been directed by his physi
cian to go there, as be was suffering with
erysipelas. She made an information
against Jonathan Hay, charging him with
assault and battery in having beaten her
son on the head.
Diamonds.
What for? Why, for holiday presents.
Well, where can I buy them ? Why at
Gallinger's, 1106 and 1200 Penn ave.
P. S. A full line of musical Instruments.
TOO LATE FOE 10NEI.
Seasons Given by a Well-Known Re
publican for Voting for Pattison.
INDEPENDENTS HARD AT WORK.
A Republican Committeeman Says There
" Are Traitors in Camp. -
MONET GOING UP ON THE FAY0RITES
The Committee on Organization of the
Independent Republican Organization met
last night at headquarters, on Smithfield
street, and did a large amount of routine
business, those present coming from various
associations in life, and all apparently
equally enthusiastic.
Steps were perfected for completing the
investment of tbe county. It was stated
that in the two cities, boroughs, and over
half the county election districts, organiza
tion had been effected, and that by next
Saturday night the work would be finished
and a Vigilance Committee selected for
every elcct'on district in the county.
Members dropping in reported the acces
sion of well known people from all partB of
the country, of which the following from
tbe head of a real estate firm is a sample:
REASONS FOR A CHANGE OF HEART.
Pittsburg, October 11, 1890.
Dear Sir I wish you to add my name to
yonr already large list of Republicans who
have the courage and the manhood to vote for
an honestly nominated candidate for Governor,
even if lie is the Democratic nominee. Had
Major Montooth. or any other candi
date, been honestly nominated, Instead of
being appointed. I would have voted and
worked for him, as every Republican ought to
have done, but! am opposed to one man nam
ing and owning the Governor. The slight to
our soldier candidate ought to be resented, and
I think will be by thousands of voter?, not only
in this, but in adjoining counties.
A free uso of money to help Delamater at
this stage of the game will more surely act to
defeat him than any other means tbat could bi
employed andiwill win thousands of Republican
votes for Robert E. Pattison, an honest man.
and regularly nominated by his party. I intend
to tote and work for our county Republican
ticket, as all Republicans should.
Very respectfully yonrs,
Samuel, Fleming.
An epistle of similar tenor was received
from Dr. J. S. Phillips, of Allegheny City.
MANY MEETINGS TO BE HELD.
It was decided to bold meetings in every
ward in Pittsburg and Allegheny before the
election, in schoolhpuses where they can be
had. The first one was billed for next
Wednesday evening in the Thirteenth ward;
in the Sixth, Twelfth and Twenty-ninth
wards, and the Eighth ward, Allegheny, on
j-uursuuy evening, ana in tne fourteenth
ward school house on next Saturday night.
Other meetings will be arranged to-morrow.
A gentleman reported pledges to vote for
Pattison lrom 32 Republican employes of a
business house in the lower part of the city,
and another reported that in nine houses on
Center avenue, houses adjoining there was
not a single Delamater vote, and that the
heads of seven ot the nine families were
Republicans.
PUTTING THEIR MONEY TJP.
Admirers of the Leading Candidates for
Governor Already Making Big Wagers.
A hot political contest wonld not be com
plete in this city without having a few em
bellishments added by the gentlemen who
are willing to either win or lose a little
money on the result. The present scrim
mage will be no exception to the rule, as a
number of patriots are already in line with
plenty of the wherewith to back their
opinions.
Friday night a prominent ex-official of
thewAmericns Club was in a well-known
Filth avenue restaurant, and during his
sojourn he offered to wager $100 to $30 with
au oil producer that Delamater would be
elected the next Governor of Penn
sylvania. The oil man did pot see
fit to go him, but another gentleman
present signified his willingness to take a
little of it. The result was that they ban
tered each other until a wager of $600 to $300
was made on the same terms as the original
proposition. The Americus Club man put
up 550 forfeit, while the Pattison money was
all planked down there and then. The re
maining $550 of Delamater money was to
have been put up yesterday, but the Ameri
cus member failed to put in an appearance.
and last night the $50 was paid over by the
stakeholder to the gentleman who bad the
short end of the wager.
Two more wagers of some magnitude have
also been made within the last week. One is
$500 even that Delamater will not have 20,-
uuu ujajuruy iu iue oiuie, anu an
other is $500 even that he will
have 10,000. The same party made
both bets, and he said last night that he
could sell either one of them for $100. He
intends to dispose of, or hedge one bet, but
he has not yet decided which one it will be.
Numerous small wagers have been made
ranging from 30,000 majority for Delamater
to 15,000 for Pattison. The son of a well
known busjness man made some rather loud
talk last night that he would chance $10,000
even on Delamater's chances, but as he
failed to produce any part of the money he
was not taken.
TRAITORS IN THE CAMP. .
Mr. J. B. Kennedy Arraigns the Loyalty of
the Republican Committee.
Nine of tbe 200 or 300 members of the
Allegheny County Republican Committee
met yesterday afternoon, and adjourned in
very short order, but not before one member
had declared that there were traitors in the
camp.
Chairman Porter called the meeting to
order, and T. Holmes Miller moved tbat the
calling of the roll be dispensed with.
J. B. Kennedy jumped to bis feet and ex
claimed with some excitement, "It would
be well to call the roll; this formality has
been dispensed with too often. I have, at
tended half a dozen meetings lately, and
have not heard the roll called yet. There
are names of persons on it who have avowed
their intentions to vote lor the opposition.
It is time we should eount noses and find
out who are loyal and who are disloyal. I
never saw a committee where there was so
much chilliness toward the State ticket. I
think it's about time we knew where we
stand."
One of the spectators in the lobby. worEed
up to a high pitch of indignant enthusiasm
by Mr. .Kennedy s eloquence, aided, per
haps, by .something even strouger, jumped
into tho arena and yelled: "That's the way
to talk. That's the proper thing."
The balance of the committee paid noheed
to the protest, and there- being 110 bnsiness
to transact, an adjournment was taken.
BIG CLAIMS FOB DELAMATER.
Sonthside
Republicans Hold
astlc Meeting:.
an Enthral-
A workmgmen's meeting was held in the
Twenty-sixth Ward School Hall last night,
under the auspicies of the Republican Labor
League. James Penny, Treasurer of the
Amalgamated Association, presided, and
opened the meeting. George Dovey, ex
Master Workman of D. A. 3, K. of L.,
then spoke in the interest of the Republican
fiarty, and he was followed by Charles Sul
ivan, Esq., who took the place of John
Jaarett, the latter having been called out of
the city.
Mr. Sullivan spoke for over an hour, dur
ing which time be discussed ex-Governor
Pattison's record, dwelt on Mr. Emery's
charges and extolled Delamater to the satis
faction and hearty appreciation of the au
dience. "Our dear Garfield," he concluded,
"was slandered and. persecuted belore his
election, just the same as they are slander-
Ing and persecuting Delamater now; they
charged bim with perjury, bribery and
forgery in connection with the famous
Chinese letter, and yet old Pennsylvania
rolled up a majority of 78,000 for Garfield
and she will do as well for Delamater."
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PROPOSED REPUBLICAN MEETING.
The East End to be Treated to a Street
Parade and Speeches.
The General Elections Committee of the
Americas Republican Club organized yes
terday by making W. M. Gibbs Chairman
and W. W. Colville Secretary. The com
mittee received a request from citizens of
the East End for a meeting to be held there
in the interest of tbe Republican State
ticket. Tuesday evening, October 21, was
named as the date, and tbe following com
mittee was appointed to make arrange
ments: John B. Barbour, Jr., A. G.
Roeniek and W. W. Colville.s
Invitations have been sent out to all tbe
clubs in tbe county, asking them to tarn
out in a street parade, which is to take
place before the meeting.
NOT THAT KIND OF A BILL.
A French Canadian Who Didn't Like Mc
Klnley's Tariff Ideas.
F. E. Randall, of the Detroit and Cleve
land Navigation Company, returned yester
day from a six weeks' trip into Canada.
Randall is one of the few men.who always
have pleasant experiences to rclate.and they
are not fish stories, either.
"I was smoking my briar pipe one even
ing," he said, "in the little hotel at Pres
cott when an Englishman approached me
and said: 'Ah, Mr. Randall, I see you regis
ter from the States. What do you know
about this McKinley bill?"
"Now when I trayel in Canada I am like
the Canucks, I never know anything. So I
replied: 'McKinley bill. Don't know such
a man, but il he runs a show like Buffalo
Bill it is no show at all.'"
"A Frenchman was listening to the con
versation, and catching the last words I
spoke he opened up as follows: 'Ze Mc
Kinley bill! no show, no show at all!
Why, he raise Cain with the barley!
Be raise Cain with the egg,'
and then his iace grew livid with
rage. Tbe whole thing was so funny to me
that I couldn't help laughing at bim. The
Englishman now interposed, and explained
that the bill had raised the duties on barley
and eggs, and that "Is what made the
Frenchman so mad. But I wasn't talking
about tbat kind of a bill, and so I told them
that I never discussed politics at home or
abroad."
MUST SOON HAVE A SALE.
The County Commlsioners' Stock of Brlc-a-Brac
to be Said.
Some of these times the County Commis
sioners will have an auction of goods that
embraces a very large variety. It is the
accumulation of the Collins women, of Mc
Keesport, who are now doing time in the
penitentiary. There are something like a
dozen boxes and a big Saratoga trunk full of
gonds.of almost everything conceivable.from
small metal ornaments worth $50 a pound
to common calico prints. Some of the ar
ticles stolen would indicate kleptomania,
unless tbe thieves were stealing for a
"fence." After nine months tbe Commis
sioners will shut down, the show now being
run tor the benefit of identifiers, and close
out the whole lot.
Superintendent Mercer is called on so fre
quently by claimants tbat his investigations
keep moth and rust from corrupting and so
far no thieves have attempted to break
through and steal. Yesterday a man called
for two music boxes, known to be somewhere
in the collection, but they were not found at
sbutting-up time.
EXPOSITION PEOPU: tEAVE,
And Call at Kleber Bros.'
After viewing the splendid sights at the
Exposition most of the visitors (who mean
business) call at H. Kleber & Bros.', 506
Wood street, and select one 'of their superior
pianos and organs. They know in their
hearts that to make a fine show is one thing
and to give peopl-s the very finest instru
ments at tbe price of tbe common second
class goods is quite another thing. The
Messrs. Kleber & Bro. enjoy the fullest
confidence of tbe public, and whether they
exhibit or not, whether they hold forth on
the principal business street of P ttsburg,
Wood street, or in Diamond or Virgin
alley, the public will seek them out and
congratulate themselves that they have
found out the place which is utterly safe and
reliable, and above the sharp tricks of new
houses which have come in at the eleventh
hour and which have to rely upon the
credulity of the public to get rid ot their
goods using clubs and other knock-down
arguments to bulldoze their callers into
buying their inferior wares articles which
the Kleher Bros..had long since rejected as
unworthy of being associated with their
honorable record and name. Such pianos
as Steinway's, Conover's, Opera, Gabler,
Emerson, and organs such as the greet
Vocalions, Earhuff dust-proof and Burdett,
cannot be duplicated in this country.
Klebers' give an eight-year warrantee and
sell on easy time payments.
THOSE who are shrewd and economical
in their purchase of furniture will find it to
their advantage by calling on ns before
purchasing elsewhere. Michigan speaks
for itself as to the designs and durability of
its make. Our terms being cash you are
tbe gainer.
Michigan Furniture Company,
437 Smithfield street.
Go Direct
To headquarters if you want a good over
coat. The P. C C. C. overcoats are tbe
cheapest for the money. "Everybody says
so."
P. C. C. C Pittsburg Combination
Clothing Company, cor. Grant and
Diamond sts., opp. the Court House.
One Thousand Dollars
Forfeit if I fail to prove Floraplexion the
best medicine for liver complaint, dyspep
sia, nervous debility, biliousness, consump
tion. It cures where all other remedies fail.
Ask your druggist for it. Sample hottlesent
free. Franklin Hart, New York.
MWFSU
The crowd at the Exposition will be a
large one this closing week. And there
will be a crowd, too. at Gusky's, who have
made special inducements in price
and have let their patrons from the country
know it.
Black Silks An extra bargain for
thw week in 24-inch grds grain and 22-inch
faille gros and rhadames at $1 00 a yard.
TTSSU HUGUS & HACKE.
"Amorita" and "Erminie" will both be
produced by the Pauline Hall Opera Com
pany at the Grand Opera House this week.
"Amorita,' first four days.
Bntterlck's Patterns Best and Cheapest.
October styles now on sale. Fashion sheet
sent tree by mail.
A. G. Campbell & Sons, 27 Fifth aye.
Goods well bought are half sold. We
buy our goods right, and have correct styles.
Reining & Wilds, 710 Penn ave.
Furniture upholstered and packed for
shipment. Haugh&Keenan,33 Water st.
su
Bargain week at Gusky's. People com
ing in to see the Exposition can on a pur
chase of say $15 worih pay their car fare to
and from 100 miles distant.
Add 20 drops of Angostura Bitten to
every glass of impure water you drink.
TTSSU
Order your fall and winter clothing
from E. Schauer, 407 Wood st.
ON SATUKDAY NIGHT
The Streets of Pittsburg are Not "Wide
Enough -to Contain the
SUEGIKG STREAMS OP HUMANITY.
A Stranger is Surprised at tbe Remark
able Absence of Poverty.
BOSTON GIRLS WATCH THEIB BEAUX
Each Saturday night the streets in tbe
lower portion of the city are more or less
densely packed, than on the preceding one.
The main arteries below the "Hump" are
congested by the streams of humanity pour
ing into them. Last night it looked as if
the limit had been reached, and that either
the streets must he widened, or that the in
habitants of Allegheny county must effect
an arrangement whereby, but a limited
number will be allowed to promenade at one
time on Saturday night The barber shop
system of giving checks might help the
matter.
As the human flood eddied around the
Postoffice corner a gentlesnn who had stood
for several moments watching the crowd
with great interest, turned to his companion,
and asked, "Where are the poor people.
These persons are all remarkably well
dressed, and I really see no signs of poverty
at all. In this country, it seems to me,
tbe Scriptural statement that 'the poor ye
hava always with ye' does not apply." Tbe
speaker was undoubtedly an Englishman,
from his accent. He walked away with his
companion, while the latter was explaining
that in this conntry, or anyway in Pittsburg,
pauperism was an accident and was not
recognized as a necessary adjunct to a well
regulated community.
Saturday night is especially favored by
those young men who have to be at work
early in tbe morning, and at the same time
are endeavoring to win the affections of
the, to them, best girl in tbe world. Other
evenings they are forced to go to bed early
au uiucr iu geb ueceasar jest, uut uu oaiur
day night there is no hurry there is no
steam whistle to break their slumbers on
the Sabbath morn. Tbey are out in
force, with pretty girls on their arms, mak
ing their way to places of amusements, or
A CARD.
READ, THEN RUN.
Our sales during the past week,
both wholesale and retail, have
been enormous. It was caused not
so much from the large number of
visitors in tbe city as from tbe pub
lic having been fully apprised of
tbe advance in prices which is sure
to take place in the near future.
Manufacturers on both sides of
the water have advanced prices al
ready, bnt we will continue for a
time (and tbe time cannot last long)
to serve our customers at the old
rates the lowest prices ever
touched by Carpets and Curtains
in America.
Parties who expect to furnish new
homes, or refurnish old ones, the
coming spring, can save largely by
buyinz at once. Goods bought
here will be stored free of charge
until wanted.
EDWARD
GROETZINGER,
627 and 639 Penn Avenue.
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MARBHELL,
THE CASH GROCER,
WILL SAYE YOU MOHEY.
If prices are any object, you are
the person I want to see. Our
prices are so far below other retail
grocers, we pay no attention to
them, but we would like you to read
these parallel columns and see how
our prices compare with wholesale
prices:
Our Prices.
Per Doz.
Wholesale Prices-
Per Doz.
Tomatoes 95c
Com 95c
Peaches. 2 65
Calif. Apricots.. .2 65
Can Tomatoes. ... Oc
Can Corn KOc
Can Peaches 2 35
Calif. Apricots.. .2 00
Calif. EggPlums.2 00
California Cherry
Grapes 2 00
Fine Jelly, 5 lbs.. 25c
10 lb. pall 65t
30 lb. pail 1 55
Preserves, per lb. Ui
10 lb. pail 1 Oil
30 lb. pail 2 75
Applebutter, 4 lbs 25
10 in. pails 6
301b. pails 1 00
Jelly, SO lb. pails.l 75
Preserves,
palls
30 lb.
Vpplebutter,30 lb.
pails 2 00
If you were to buy a case each of
tomatoes, corn, peaches and apri
cots, and a pail each of jelly, apple
butter and preserves, my price
would be $17 70. The wholesale price
would be j2i 45, or more than 20
per cent higher than mine. I have
not picked out my cheapest goods
to compare with the highest priced
sold at wholesale. But I offer you
strictly first-class goods, and guar
antee them as such; and there is
not, a wholesale grocer in Pittsburg
who has any goods, no matter what
quality, at any lower prices than
the ones I quote above under
"Wholesale Prices." Don't takfc
my word for this, but turn to the
market reports of this paper. Or
stop in at some wholesale grocer's
and ask for a price list and see for
yourself.
These are only sample prices.
Send for my large Weekly Price
List (I issued 10,000 this week) and
order by mail Or stop in at my
Pittsburg Tea Department and Mr.
Shaw will show you the goods.
VMARBHELL,
99 FIFTH AVE., Pittsburg,
and 79, 8 if 83, 85 and 95 Ohio street,
Cor. Sandusky street,
ALLEGHENY.
eeU
stopping in front of stores to examine with
critical eye Jurnishments which may at
some future date embellish their joint
home. If their means are moderate, some
like Twiddles and his country bride con
struct an air castle whicji they furnish on a
scale which would break a Fortunatus.
Last evening many of these couples went
to see and hear Emma Abbott in opera. A
taste for the opera is considered a sign of
high civilization, which is only another ar
gument to prove what no one disputes just
now that Pittsburg is the most remarkable
city in the world.
Talking of girls, one very bright Pitts
burg young lady who has recently returned
from Boston, where she has been studying
music, said to a frieud on Fifth avenue:
"You would be surprised at the deference
paid to woman's opinions at the Hub. Per
haps it i& because they are in the majority
there. Why, you would be amazed at tbe
care with which a Boston girl watches over
her beau. Men are so scarce there, com
paratively, that it doesn't do to take any
risks." J
"I should think that would be a pleasant
change for a Pittsburg man," replied her
companion, and then he sighed with regret,
but brightened up again as he glanced at
the animated face at his shoulder, as if be
thought Pittsburg girls were worth all tho
trouble it took to secure them.
HAU century liquors, 523 Liberty street,
foot of Fifth avenue.
Hugus & Hacke
SILKS AED YELYETS.
The choice assortments of
these elegant fabrics we exhibit
for this season are meeting
with general approval.
In the new weaves Valours,
Crystals, Bengalines and Mus
covites, a full line of day and
evening shades.
Values in Black Stlks here
tofore tinheard of. Particu
larly do we mention three
qualities of 24-inch wide Gros
Grain at $i, $i 10 and $i 25
a yard.
In all popular weaves of
Black Silks, Faille Francaise,
Regence, Armures, Peau De
Soie, Rhadames and ferseys,
I we now offer superior values
tn au grades from tne lowest
to very finest.
A beautiful line of Irish
Poplins in the fashionable
Tartan Plaid Effects.
Crepe De Chine in a com
plete assortment of evening
shades and black.
A very attractive line of
Embroidered Mousseline De
Soie and Accordion Plaited
Tulle Paris Robes for evening
wear; our oxvn importation.
JVo advance as yet in prices
of otcr Velvets; the same great
values and complete color as
sortments, at all prices from
$1 a yard upward.
The new Pompadour Vel
vets (silk embroidered) for
sleeves aud waist trimmings in
elegant assortment.
Cor. Fifth Ave. & Market St
N. B. We request patrons
where convenient, to come in
the mornings, the crowds in
the afternoons making it vn
possible to give to all the at
tention we desire.
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BIBER & EASTON.
JACKETS! JACKETS!
WRAPS I WRAPS !
A FEW OF
MANY ATTRACTIONS:
AT$
m C(-Iiagonal Chevron Jacket,
J-1 with astrachan rolling col
lar and edge. These are In
navy and black, with front
loops. The shape is per
fect, and is one ot our
rapid sellers.
7rn Extra grade Cheviot
Ou Jacket, tailor-made, with
vest front, smoke pearl
buttons, etc. This Is a
very attractive garment,
would be good value at 510.
AT$
AT S ft -in A Plain, stjllsb Jacket,
XX x p o UU bound throughout, double
breasted, with rolling col
lar.
AT4ii rio A TerT attractive Reefer
n. X pi l UU Jacket, with embroidered
ironts and collar, cord and
tassel, etc.; made lrom
heavy Scotch Cheviot.
Th! garment has warmth
without weight.
AT 4t(- cn Gray and Tan Diagonal
ni plO OO Jackets, made from
double-faced goods, with
handsome plaid backs,
cut donble-breasted. with
large smoke pearl buttons.-
AT 4t-9 iw-a Tery stylish Jacket,
XI X p i vjvj madB frora extTa ujado
Scotch Cheviot, tailor
made, wide satin-facing,
satin sleeve lining, etc
AT t6 t:n A TerT JHI longgar-
XJ' p-" 0,J ment. embracing some
new and novel features as
to treatment of back and
fronts.
In Children's Jackets and Wraps our variety
Is almost endless, from the warm, cheap, school
garment to the latest and finest novelties
brought out this season.
BIBER 4 EASTDN,
Sos and 507 MARKET STREET.
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