v&cmg TSFffrnFtmi "s:-Vff ?FvPsaipr,Tv' "J5M1I-Wfa sp-sra" s V h aaSaHl -X T SECOND PART. THE TAMMANY FIGHT Progress of New York's Politi cal Battle for Munic ipal Control. CHAT WITH COL CAMPBELL Keid or McKinley for President if Harrison Does Sot Knn. A FUTURE IX STORE FOR FOEAKEC. The Contest In Ohio Sext Tear Will be an Important One. M.Uil Bl'CKEIES AT THE METROPOLIS rSriCTAt. TI1.XGRAM TO TBI DIgPATCff.l New York, October 17. This has been a busy week politically in New York. The People's Municipal League, engineered bv the reverend gentlemen, has selected fiom the County Democracy and the Bepublican party a tnongrel ticket. As is generally the cace when such coalitions take place in New York, the Democracy takes the prin cipal offices. The straight-out Republicans are very much chagrined, have fumed and fretted," anil threatened to present a ticket of their own to be voted for at the coming elec tion. It is doubtful, however, if this latter move will amount to much. It would le well for the Kcpublican Con gressional Assembly candidates if it would, for, as the matter now stands, a very large number of Bepublicans are disgruntled, and will refuse to register or vote; whereas, if a straight-out Republican ticket was put in the field in addition to the preachers ticket and the Tammany ticket it would cause the disgruntled Republicans to regis ter, and thus would give the candidates ol that party lor legislative positions the bene fit of all of the Republican votes in the city. AN OniO 3IAN XASIED. Among the nominations for Congress npon the part of the Republicans in this city, was Colonel T. C. Campbell, a gentle man well known in Ohio affairs a few years ago, and whom I supposed still resided in Cincinnati until I saw his name as among ihrse selected for Congressional honors. He will be remembered by your readers as the attorney who defended young Birner, the acquittal oi whom led to the famous Cincin nati riot of '81, the burning of the Court Houe, and the killing of 100 people or mere. I found Colonel Campbell at his office, Xo. 2Co Broadway. He informed me that he had practically withdrawn from business in Ohio, and had been established in New York for some two years past, though his legal residence is still in Ohio. It is strange how a carpet bagger, as it were, can take -oot in this metropolis. I asked him how it was that he should be selected as a candi date for Congress when there were so many "to the manor born" who desired honors ortliat character. Colonel Campbell said: "I really don't know. When 1 came here about two years azo I did a good deal of speaking for the Republican party, and was engaged in a joint debate as a repre sentative ot the Hamilton Club against the representative of the Tammany pople in the Thirteenth district. Some time after ward, while in the West, I was informed by telegram that I had been elected as Presi dent of the club. That has kept me more or less before the public in political affairs, and I was told that I would be nominated us the Republican representative in that district. I wrote to the committee Jrom Washington tint I could not be a candidate, and SUPPOSED THAT EKDED IT, until last night when I was called upon by a delegation who desired to escort me to the convention for the purpose ot accepting the nomination, which they said was unani mously tendered me. I declined, and the papeis are in error this morning when they s-aythat I was nominated, for upon mv declining, a very worthy young Republican gentleman ot New York ancestry was se lected lor the place, Percy D. Adams." "Have you given up all connection with, or interest in, Ohio politics?" "With politics? Oil, yes. I never was much in the matter of politics, anyhow. Occasionally attending a State convention was the limit of my conned ion therewith, but I do still take a'lively interest in Ohio. Although my old home, Cincinnati, is not as progressive as some places, I still regard it as one ot the best cities in the Union to live in." "What can yon tell me about the Foraker Campbcll ballot-box imbroirliu? T nnrier. stand yon are conversant with the detailsof that fight." "Well, that was an unfortunate affair for Governor Foraker and some others. I was the attorney 01 the company, and it was very surprising to me that Foraker got into the position which he occupied in that mat ter. He should have known that the story which his over-zealous friend Halstead pre sented to the public would not bear investi gation. The trouble in that matter was that Foraker was too easily deceived. Halstead had a noselor what he called news, but which, in point of lact, was a disposition to be malignant toward those from whom he differed." rOEAKEE'S FUTURE. "Has it des troyed Foraker's prospects in politics?" "Xo, I think not. Foraker is an ener getic, active fellow; something like Price Kupert; too dashing and reckless at times; too conservative and cautious at others. A man of his temperament is apt to make mis takes, but he is also possessed of that vitalitv which will always as long as his health re mains enable him to recover himself, and fill a tair share of public thought. I see just now that he is endeavoring to replace himseli in the attention of the nublic bv de claring that Mr. Blaine must ' be the "next candidate of the Republican partv. Of course a declaration of that character which is a direct assault upon the present occupant ot the A hite House, will attract more than a passing notice, but that I thiuk will beac credited sooner or later as another of the es-Governor's mistakes. Blaine lit. n.,. Webster and Douglass will never reach the Riesidency. Harrison has given a good safe administration, and is more likely to be renominated than it is at present sup posed by manv. If he is not renominated then the party will look to either McKinley or Reed as a candidate. Mr. Blaine, aiwavs brilliant, over-shot the mark when he put himseli in a quasi position of opnosition to the new tariff bill. His reciprocity scheme makes agreeable reading, but only needs to be examined for any thoughtful person to realize how chimerical it is. lu Mr. Blaine's AXXIETr TO MAKE A TOIXT he forgot the accuracy which usually characterizes his remarks. He stated in regard to Mexico that we were importing from her 17,000,000 and selling her but 59,000,000, yet the fact is that Mexico docs cot sell to all the world, outside of the pre cious mctais, anything like 17,000,000. We I sell to Mexico more goods than any two na tions in the world combined. We sell more goods to Mexico, Cuba, Central America and Canada than any other two nations combined, and it is the product of our man ufactories, too, as we do not sell beef, wheat or food to Canada or Mexico. If McKinley should be defeated for Congress in his dis trict, which I doubt, then he will be the candidate of the Republican party for Gov ernor of Ohio next year, and if Mr. Harri son steps out of the way, he will in all probability be the candidate of the party for President the following year." "I thought you were a very warm friend of Governer Campbell's." "Yes, I am. I think very highly of him. He is an honest man, with all the courage that can be reasonably asked for in any man. If Campbell had been properly sup ported by his party in the effort to give an honest government to Cincinnati and the State oi Ohio, and if his party bad not com mitted the foolish act of hari-kari in gerry mandering McKinley's Congressional dis trict, McKinley would not then be a candi date for Governor, and Campbell would have been re-elected." TWO OHIO POSSIBILITIES. "Many people seem to think that Camp bell will be the candidate of the Democratic party for Vice President in any event." "No, I think not If Campbell carries Ohio for Governor in '91 he will command the first place. If he is beaten the party wonld not want him for second place." "Is McKinley regarded as a shrewd poli tician?" "Xo, I think not. I do not believe that it ever occurs to McKinley whether what he is about to Jo is a shrewd thing or not. I think that both Campbell and McKinley first satisfy themselves that what they are going to do is right, and they do it and let the consequences take care of themselves." "Won't this fight over the Cincinnati offices and the calling together of the Legis lature at this time destroy Campbell's chances in his own party?" "Xo, I think not. The majority of the American people in either party are honest, and admire energy and courage, even if it is unaccompanied by shrewdness. Public me j do not lose by at times taking ground airaiust the majority ot their party. The public is almost as often wrong as right. In the end it comes right, but 1 always mean in spurts it is apt to be wrong. "Vox populi is not always vox dei, for you will remem ber that it was the mob who cried out, 'Crucify Him, crucify Him.' Campbell's action is a bold, aggressive one, and will gain him friends all over the Union. Samuel J. Tilden did not lose anything by striking down the Canal ring and the other cormorants who were in charge of affairs in Xew York, and who for the time were 'We, the people.' McKinley has one advantage over Campbell. He can have as his coad jutor in political matters in Ohio the services ol oneof the shrewdest and keenest politicians in the United States, and when I say that, I do not mean that he is lacking in integrity in the slightest. I reler to ex-Governor Foster. He is A MASTEK OF DETAILS, and success in politics more than in almost any other line of human action depends upon attention to the details. I see a fool ish statement is made that Foster is a Green backer. He is not a Greenbscker in the sense that was used by the defunct political party of that name. Mr. Foster is as bright and keen in bis financial views and acts as any man on Wall street, and in fact has helped to moke some of the big guns of Wall street- With McKinley fighting for the Presidency and Foster for the Senate, Campbell would be more than matched. The lact is Campbell has no strong, large, broad man snch as poster is in his party and State wh would act. vilh-him. The Hon. William Groesbeck is the largest figure in the Democratic partv mentally, and almost physically, bnt Groesbeck would be no match for Foster, even though he should undertake a joint leadership with Campbell in that State. Groesbeck is a student of books; Foster a student of meu." "How about the Ohio men located in New York now?" "The woods of Manhattan Island are full of them. They are here in every walk ot life, and many of them taking leading posi tions. Hoadley is regarded as among the leaders of the bar; the Rev. Thomas Dixon, an ex-member of the Ohio Legislature, is a leader among the active theologians of the city; the Rev. Peters, who has been so active in the politics of this city for the past few weeks, pastorof the Bioommgdale Reformed Church, is also, I think, an Ohio man Irom T.ffin; Homer Lee, the President of the big Bank Xotc Company, takes A LEADING PLACE in the business world, and when S. S. Cox died, tji.it famous son ot Ohio, New York lost her single prominent figure in the Con gress of the United States. Take your own profession, and still the Ohio manseems to he well at the front Colonel Cockenll, born in Brown county, has been for some years and is now chief editor of the World, and has had much to do with bringing that paper to its wonderful pinnacle of success. Carson Lake, another Ohio man, is one of the most active and best known o: the news paper men of Xew 1'ork. Brown, oxner and editor of the Sews, was formerly of Youngstown, O. But the list might be lengthened out to the "crack o'doom." Indeed the Ohio man seems to be becoming tn America what a Scotchman is to Great Britain. They are to be lound almost ev erywhere, and almost everywhere are getting a share of success. It is true that Xew York as a rule has proved itself the grave yard of village reputations, and yet a large number of the Ohio men have escaped the boneyard." "Does that remark apply to vonr old friend Halstead?" "Well, I don't know, Halstead has his strong points. I judge, however, that lie cannot become a success here. In the first place, he makes the mistake of having his business located in a suburb. For in reality you know Brooklyn is to Xew York what Brad dock is to Pi'tssburg or Ludlow to Cin cinnati. However, it may be a case with Halstead of "no meat in the house." I un understaDd that his "bridges have been burned behind him," and bis interest in the Commercial Gazette entirely closed out. His many mistakes culminated in the ballot box embroglio which drove him from Ohio for all time. R. W. Ckiswell. THE ALTON TO EXTEND WEST. It May Purchase an Important Peeder Be yond Kansas City. Chicago, October 17. An evening pa per says: It has been currently talked among railroad meu for several days that the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company is negotiating for the purchaseof the Kansas City and Southern. It is a well-known fact that the Alton is contemplating an impor tant departure from its lormer policy, and will, if possible, secure new advantages by the acquisition of feeders west of Kansas City. THE COUNT IN NEW YORK Highly Delighted With His Trip to Southern Battle rields. New Yoke, October 17. The Comte de Paris and suite arrived this morning from Philadelphia. The party expressed them selves highly delighted with the trip to the Southern battle fields, and the Count was enthusiastic over the receptions tendered him by bis old comrades. The party will remain in New York for about ten days. They will then leave for Europe via Liverpool. TIIE DISPATCH to-morrow morning will he an Immense newspaper for the masse. It will hold twenty 8-column pages. Larger, better and more widely read than any other newspaper In the State. Ladies' plush sacques, Walker's fabric, 16 SO. FLEISHHA2T & CO. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. IT IS LARGE ENOUGH. THE THIRTY-THIRD STREET SEWER WILL BE A SUCCESS. Contractor Jones Says It Will Thoroughly Drain the District Xo Danger of It Be ing Choked A Long and Vexatious Work Nearly Completed. Evan Jones, the contractor, who has the contract for the Thirty-third street cewer, said yesterday that he expected to finish work on the sewer, except the making of connections with the lateral branches, by the 10th of November. This is the second largest sewer system of the city, the Xegley run sewer being the largest It is to drain the whole East Liberty valley west from Shady avenue to Thirty-third street and the Allegheny river. The cost will exceed $300,000. Atthetime the sewer commission decided to build it there wan much discussion as to the size of the main sewer. The commission, under City Engineer Bieelow's advice, decided that a seven-foot sewer would be large enough to carry off the sewerage as well as the small stream which runs down through the valiey. Many persons believed other wise and there was considerable discussion about it Mr. Jones says he has proven to his own satisfaction that Mr. Bigelow was right Several times during the past few months when there have been particularly heavy rains he was compelled to turn the whole stieam throush the partially completed sewer. Mr. Evans says the volume of water was not large enouzh to more than half fill the sewer, and the temporary frame arches that had been put in while the bricks were being laid were not moved from their positions. Mr. Jones is of the belief that the sewer will be plenty large for the next 20 years. One sewer was begun two years ago. For the first year the work progressed fairly well, but lor the past year there has been so many heavy rains that the excavations have been flooded, the embankments washed down and the work greatlv delayed by other causes. Almost one-fourth the time has been consumed in undoing the damage the rain caused. The greater part of the sewer line bad to be tunneled through solid rock. BOUGH EASTERN EIVEES. High Gales Cause Several Accidents lu and Near New Tork City. New Yokk, October 17. Never before in the memory of the oldest mariner along the water front have the East and North rivers been so dangeious and boisterous. At 9 o'clock this morning, when the tide was about at its height, the tide as far as the eye conld see was as fierce and choppy as any stormy sea ever witnessed along the coast. The waves were high and cov ered with whitecaps, and the spray dashed five or six feet into the air. Early in the morning the water drove the loungers on the tvalk of Battery Park back in dismay, and all the morning dashed up and over it The wind was blowing at the rate of about 40 miles an hour, and was from the northwest. Only the largest and staunchest vessels ventured out. The day was so bright that most people never knew that a storm was raging. At Paterson, Scott Nixon, a brakeman on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, was on the roof of a f'cight car at 8 o'clock, was blown off by the wind. His leg was broken in several places. The gale on the bay, aided by a strong ebb tide, caused a collision off the Battery late this alternoou between the big tuglioat James A. Garfield and the freight boat Amos C. Bar. ston, of the Stonington Ship Com pany. The boat went like a shot to the bottom. John Steele, head carpenter of JlcColdcn Bros., and John Lyons, a fireman on the Garfield, were drowned, while the seven other men on the tug were rescued by the Barston's crew and the crews of the three tugj. Captain Hen derson, of the Garfield, had his arm and jaw broken, and was taken to his home in Brooklyn. The Garfield was an old boat and valued at $7,500. FD2E Itf A PEISOlf. Oil Within the Walls Consumed, but No Prisoners Escape. Nashville, Tenn., October 17. Fire broke out in the oil rooms of the Cherry Morrow Manufacturing Company, situated within the walls of the State penitentiary in this city, at 6 o'clock this evening. The flames spread rapidly and the plant of the manufacturing company was destroyed. No convicts were in this portion of the prison, and the origin of the fire is unaccountable. The old prison building is unharmed, and the convicts had been safely housed there for the night before the fire began. A com pany of the State militia and a division of the municipal police successfully controlled the crowd, Outside the walls three small cottages aud a lumber yard,belongiug to the Cherry Morrow Company, were consumed. It N estimated that the losses will amount to 200,000. The fire was out by 8 o'clock, and owing to the efficient service of the militia aud police no escapes or casualties occurred. CABLE LETTERS gHing all the news from Great Britain and the Continent are exclusively published in the Sunday issue of THE DISPATCH. It Is the only paper In Western Pennsylvania carrying a Daily Special Cable Service. Largest circulation. Best Advertising Medium. MAIL TRAIN WRECKED. Serious Accident on the Burlington Rail road, Injuring Several Men. Galesbueg, III., October 17. Some section men this morning lelt open a switch near the Monmon pottery, and the Burling ton fast mail, going at the rate of CO miles an hour, left the main track and plunged into a long line of cars standing on the side track. The engineer and fireman jumped in time to escape serious injury. In one of the cars several pottery bands were working. The escaping steam from the wrecked locomotive filled this car and scalded Roderick McLain so badly that his condition is considered critical. Charles Hines sustained a broken leg and arm William Smiieywas severely bruised. The locomotive is a complete wieck. One mail car was damaged badly. Texas Preparing for the Fair. Springfield, III., October 17. A license of incorporation was to-day issued to the Texas Exhibit Company to maintain at Chicagoa pernianentexhibitof agricultural, horticultural, mineral and other produc tions of the State of Texas. Capital stock, 100.000. POLITICS devoid of partisan coloring will he found in THE DISPATCH lit all times. To-morrow's big issue will be np to the usual high standard. Largest circulation. Twenty 8-column pages. Civil Rights Violated. Boston, October 17. Rev. J. H. Hec tor, of San Francisco, a colored Prohibition orator who recently went to Pittsfield to ad dress the Prohibitionists of that city, in company with his wife and little boy and Mrs. Bayard, also colored, of Boston, were refused admission to two hotels there on ac count, Mr. Hector claims, of their color. Admiral Case's Son Drowned. Peovidence, October 17. Augustus Case, a son of Admiral S. Ludlow Case, U. S. N., was drowned off Pappoose Quash Point at Bristol this forenoon. Ladies' plush sacque at 14 25. Fleishman & Co. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, NEWWATER COMPANY A Number of Southslde Capitalists Will Ask for 'a Charter TO SUPPLY THE HILL DISTRICTS. Councilmen Inaugurate a More Against the Monongahela Concern. THE LATEST ANALYSIS OP THE FLUID A new move has been made in the water agitation. When The Dispatch made the exclu sive announcement a few weeks ago that a new water company was to be organized on the Southside to supply the hill districts, the idea was laughed at by many, while by others interested in the present water company it was regarded as a blufl to compel them to extend their lines on the hill. ' Since then the matter has as sumed a more tangible shape, and on No vember 6 an application will be made for the charterfor the prospective company. With in the last few days the following agreement has been circulated among a few well-known business men of the Southside and signed by them: COPY OF THE AGBEEHENT. We, the undersigned, citizens of Allegheny county. State of Pennsylvania, do hereby agree to subscribe the amount set opposite our names to the capital stock of an intended corporator! for the supply of water to the public of Bald win township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to be known as the "South View Water Com pany." The capital stock of the intended cor poration is to be 510,000, divided into 400 sbares of tho par valuo of 25 each. Among those who signed this paper are Edward F. Hays, Thomas Miller, Chas. G. Miller, John H. Nnsser, Win. Wigman, John P. Schneider, P. M. Pfeil, J. Boyd Cuff and Thos. A. Noble. It is the purpose of the company to in crease their capital stock to at least $100,000 as soon as the charter is secured, and work will be commenced at once on the water works. The right of way has already been secured irom the township authorities and the main will be run up along Beck's run to South View place. The water works will be located above the month of Beck's run, so that the water supplied the consumers will be free from the contributions of that stream at least. It is claimed by the pro moters of the new company that they can furnish a better supply of water than is fur nished to either Pittsburg or Allegheny. Bids have already been received for the erection of the water works, which will be built upon the latest and most improved plans, and the best appliances for purifying the water will be adopted. THE COMPANY A NECESSITY. Those interested in the formation of the new company are largely interested in the Birmingham Land Improvement Company. This latter company marie several efforts to induce the Monongahela Water Company to extend their mains out Southern avenue, bnt without avail. Several reasons were as signed for this. One was because the Monongahela Water Company had not a sufficient pressure to force the water out to South View place, and another was be cause it was sajd tbev had no charter to supply water in-Raldwln' .township. This latter'reason seems to be the most likely, as it is said the Monongahela Water Company had begun to consider the matter of getting an extension of their charter, so they could supply the water to the Birmingham Land Company. It is also said the Monongahela Water Company will object to the new company securing a charter, and an interesting con flict is looked for. The South View Com pany will have public sympathy and the Southside Councilmen at its back in case a fight should come. The Councilmen have already inaugurated a move to annul the contract between the city and the Mononga hela Water Company on the grounds that the latter has not lived up to its agreement, by failing to supply up to the standard of quality. The special Couucilmanic committee will meet this afternoon. There is said to be a general Impression among the members of this committee that the water is bad and they are determined that a better and more plentilul supply must be furnished. Dr. McCord, a member or the committee, said in an interview upon the subject: A PHYSICIAN'S OPINION. "There is no questian as to the impurity of the water, and the citizens on the Sputh side havejust as good right to pure wafer as the city when they nay for it The lactthat the Monongahela Water Company threw barrels of limeinto their reservoir, when we had an epidemic of typhoid fever, is evidence of the bad condition of the water. Another thing we have to complain of is the insuffi ciency of the supply. Whenever there is a fire on our side ot the river it is almost im possible to get water. At times there is not even enough water to supply the works and private houses. If the analysis of the water shows it to be impure, and I think there is little doubt as to the result of the analysis, I will move that the contract be tween the company and the city be annulled. The health and welfare of the Southside. is at stake, and we intend to leave no stone un turned until we see the people of our siVie getting pure water or know the reason for uot getting it" The Monongahela Water Company's officials have made frequent assertions that they were persecuted by the newspapers. Tney have recently ordered Prof. Phillips, of the Western University, to make an analysis of the water for their benefit, (and in order to show that there is no disposition on the part of The Dispatch to persecute anyone, the result of that analysis is given below: ' fa ECSULT OP A KECENT ANALYSIS', Cully &. Cn.'s glasshouse on Carson street1, be low the Smithfleld street bridge, and the report on it Is as follows: Grains per gallon. 10.7 2.5 U.S 0.14 0.18 0.0021 0.0OI1 0.021 ,0 3.0 Parts per million. 141.31 SJ.T P 0'.03 0j13 0.M M Total sobids Losson Ignition Chlorine Oxyrcn consumed In 3 hnuis In 20 hours Free ammonia Albnminnd ammonia. .Nitrogen in nitrates.. Nitrogen in nitrites .. Total Hardness Hardness in boiling I one-halt hour. 2.2 S1J0 In addition to the anal j sis Mr. Phillips savs: 'The water appeared slightly turpld 5nd de posited a very little sediment on standing 24 hours; L000 volumes or the water contain 6.1 volumes of dissolved oxygen." J A letter accompanied the report. (It wns addressed to Mr. G. Stengel, the Superin tendent of the water company, and read as follows: 1 I accordance with instructions from Sir. Wat son I collected a sample of water for analvsis from AlcCully fc Co.'s giass works, Bepiteni'ber 23. Inclosed I seud you results. The Analysis shows that the water on the date named was of an excellent quality. Yours trnlv. Fkancis C. Pnitxirs. The fact that Prof. Phillips finds the water to be of "an excellent oroality," is significant, in face of the other lact, that so many previous examinations proved the water to be directly the. contrary. So long as there is snch variance in the opinions of expert chemists, the citizens will.be dissatis fied. If all would agree that the wjiter is good the matter would be settled, bnt while the majority of opinions stand against the' water, the people will cling Jo the belief that-the water is bad and wilji ask the in vestigation to be continued juntil one f.ct or the other is thoroughly established. OCTOBER 18, 1890. DISEASED CATTLE SHUT OUT. Countries From Which Importations Are Prohibited. Washington, October 17. A circular issued by Acting Secretary Batehellor, of the Treasury Department, to collectors and other officers of the customs on the subject of the importation of meat cattle, says: "In pursuance of section 8 of an act of Congress, providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the importa tion of adulterated articles of food or drink and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases and for other purposei, I hereby approve the desig nation of the customs ports and districts named as quarantine stations by the Secre tary of Agriculture, at which all animals described in said act must be imported into the United States." By virtue of the act of October 1, 1890, the section suspends the prohibition of the importation of meat cattle into the United States from any part of the world, provided, however, that the importation of such meat cattle must be subject to and made in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture for the quarantine of cattle that arrive in the United States. By the same authority the Drohibition of the importation of hides of meat cattle from the several countries of North, Central and South America is sus pended, meat cattle from these countries being free from contagious diseases. Im portation from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark,Eeypt,England,France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Rou mania, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden and Turker is prohibited, because contagious cattle diseasesof different kinds are known to. exist, more or less, in these countries. PAHIC AMONG CHILDBEH. Many Seriously Injured in a Stampede From a Burning Church. Chicago, October 17. During children's service this' morning in St Stanislaus' Polish Catholic Church, an alarm of fire was sent in and the noise ot the approaching engines, with the ringing of the bells, made the panic still worse. In less than five minutes after the alarm was sent in over 10,000 people assembled around the church, while the panic was at its height. The altar draperies canght fire from one of the candles and a stampede ensued. In the wild rush about 20 of the children were crushed and trampled on, and some of them received injuried which, it is believed, will prove fatal. Nearly 1,500 children, from 5 to 15 years of age, were assembled at the church. When they saw the fire thev were panic stricken and made for the exits. All the efforts of the Sisters ot Notre Dame proved of no avail. The children rushed toward the door and rolled down the stone steps, followed by the crying and screaming women who were also in the church. The pecun iary loss by fire was only 100. SHIPS IN PEBH. Serious Effects of the Storm off the Massa chusetts Coast Nantucket, Mass., October 17. A gale ol 45 miles per hour is blowing. The United States coast survey steamer Bachee is in a precarious position near Great Point, about a mile off shore.and dragging. As sistance has gone to be ready in case of dis aster. A four-masted schooner is laboring heavily near Tuckernnck Shoal. At Wellfleet several fishing boats are ashore in the harbor. The schooner Grey Eagle whs completely demolished by the lorce of the wind. - At Princetown a stiff southeast gale set in at midnight, with rain, shifting to north west at noon, increasing in violence. Sev eral small boats were sunk in the harbor, and many trees were blown down on shore. At noon a small schooner was seen adriit in the harbor, and was soon after dismantled, but it was too rough to board her. At Gloucester the most violent gale of the season is blowing from the northwest. Ad vices from Annisquam report the schooner Mexican, of Wiutcrport, Me., ashore on Squam bar. The crew were rescued by the life-saving crew. THE l'KETTX SIDE or Pittsburg will he shown nl th pen and pencil in THE DIS PATCH to-morrow. No longer an unsightly city. Twenty 8-column pages. THE OLDEST G. A. . MAN. Peter Fisher, of Mt rieasant, la., Father of a Pittsburg; Man. The venerable Peter Fisher, who died at Mt. Pleasant, la., on October 8, was the father of Joseph S. Fisher, the lumber dealer, in the Hamilton building. The senior Mr. Fisher had the distinction of be ing the oldest Grfnd Army man in the United State, being at the time of his death over 95 years old. Mr. Fisher served about a year in the War of 1812, and about two years in the War of the Rebellion. He was a cripple ever since his discharge from the war, caused by breaking his hip while on guard duty. FUNEEAL OF A KNIGHT. Preparations to Honor the Late Pythian, Hon. John Van VRlkenburg. Foet Madison, Ia., October 17. The funeral of the late Hon. John Van Valken burg, Past Supreme Chancellor of Knights of Pythias of the world, will occur in this city at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, October 19, under the auspices of the order of the Knights or Pythias, assisted by the frater nity of Odd Fellows. The remains will lay in state from 9 A. M. lintii 2 p. m. Telegrams of condolence are being received from all over the United Stales. Mrs. Van Valkeuburg is danger ously ill. BEE JEWELS EEST0EED. Decision in Favor of Fay Templeton in the Diamond Case. New Yobk, October 17. United States Commissioner Lyman decided to-day that Fay Templeton was entitled to the possession of the diamonds which were seized from her valet, Henry Herschy, who had them con cealed on his person when he arrived from Europe recently. The Commissioner was convinced from the evidence that Miss Templeton owned the diamonds before she went abroad, aud that she pawned them in Paris, as she as serted. He will recommend to the Secretary of State that the jewels be restored to the actress. FUN Fast and Furious in Howard Field ing's regular letter to THE DISPATCH to morrow. Ho is the brightest young humor ist of the day. Read to-morrow's 20-Page issue. Largest circulation. Dynamite for a Liquor Prosecutor. Beblin Falls, N. H., October 17. A charge of dynamite was exploded under the house of E. J. Bonnett at 4 A. M. to-day, badly shattering the front of the hoiise, but not seriously injuring any member of the family. Bonnet is a liquor prosecutor. More Bonds Bedeemcd. Washington, October 17. The offer of 4 per cent bonds to the Treasury to-day Yor redemption under the circular of October 3 aggregated 8495,800, making a total thus far of $1,354,200. THE BEST contributors and correspond ents serve THE DISPATCH in America and Europe. Kcllablo and Iteadftble. To-morrow's big number will please all. Twenty 8-column pages. Largest circulation. J THE CRITIC'S EEYIEff. A Deluge of New Volumes, Mainly Hovel?, From Foreign Shores. AN AMEK1CAN HKYIK WEE ABROAD. Some Useful Information for Those Who Will be Looking for CHRISTMAS BOOKS FOE THE I0DKG I WBITTBS Ton TIM DISPATCH. 1 I. Eighteen books in paper covers. Novels, of course, and the majority ol them by foreign writers. No, not all novels; here is one exception, "The Passion Play at Oberammergau." (John W. Lovell Com pany.) Canon Farrar's name is on the title page. "Archdeacon" is Dr. Farrar's iitle. And a full third of the book belongs to that extraordinary enterprising writer, Mr. William T. Stead, once of the Pall Mall Gazette, now af the Review of Reviews. By the way, there is an American edition of the Review of Reviews published now. Everybody ought to read it It contains everything about everything. Of course, the Archdeacon and the editor, fri company with almost all actual witnesses of the play, approve. They give their reasons in these pages. Looking at the backs of the 17 paper novels, I would at once assert that the best one in the lot is "The Chief Justice" (Lovell), written by Karl Emil Franzos. Because I have read "For the Bight," a book of his, one of the most remarkable piece of fiction which has been put into the hands of English readers for several years. We want our fiction with an unconventional background nowadays. Or else with a background so remarkably conventional that its very familiarity sur- I prises and pleases us as in Mr. Howells' novels, lhat remarkable young man, Mr. Budyard Kipling, owes some of his popu larity to the untrodden paths in which he makes his heroes walk. "The Chief Justice" lived sufficiently out of the world to please anybody. He presided over "The Higher Court of Bolosch, an important German-Slavonic town of Northern Austria." It is worth while to go there in Herr Franzos' company. He lives there and knows all about it. And he has made a special study of that region. One of his books is entitled "From Semi-Asia," and describes South Bussla and North Austria. This is no light novel. It is sad, like "For the Bight," even tragic. That insistence upon absolute justice, which is so emphatic in "For the Eight," has its place here, too. Here are four translations, two from the German, two from the French. "Louis' Mistake" (Worthington) is by W. Heini burg. It looks like an interesting story, and comes out all right in the end. "Children of the World" (Worthington) is by Paul Heyse, and has his picture for a frontis piece. "Flirt" ( Worthington) is by Paul Hervien. The pictures in these three, to which attention is especially called on the title pages, are atrocious. The subjects are commonplace, and the photo-gravure" treat ment spoils whatever good work the artist may have done. "Jnancho, the Bull Fight er," (Cassell Publishing Company) is Irom the French of Tbeophile Gauticr. You are not asked to cut any leaves to get at it; you do not have to use a microscope to read the text; and.yna arejoot vexed by impertinent pictures." -v ' Aud these four are English novels inLov ell's "International Series:" "TheGreatMill Street Mvsterv," by Adeline Sargent; "The Night ot'the Third Ult," by A. T. Woods; "Dumps," bv Louisa Parr, and "With Essex in Ireland," by Emily Lawless. These books are authorized reprints, their authors receiving at least some measure of their lawful earnings in them. The rest are American. "In Stella's Shadow," "The New Adam and Eve," "Nearly Lost," "Her Nemesis Vengeance." "At the Dawn ing" all pretty trashy. At leait this is heir look to ono who only turns the leaves. That may seem a rather hasty way to tead a book, and a still more hasty way to- criti cise it. But is it? Can't you form a fairly active judgment of people who pass you in the street, just from looking at them? Do you need to know their whole family history for four or five generations? You can tell what sort of people they are by the way they dress, by their manner of carrying them selves, by their hands and feet and luces. There are some books which can be read, summed up and pronounced upon without opening their wrappers. And "if you read this, you can't read that." So many books, and so lew hours! And so much the more need then for wise choosing. There are some books which are only time-killers. And time just now, in this stirring generation, is worth too much to be killed after that careless fashion. "Sunset Pass" (Lovell), by Captain Charles King, looks like a good book. The scene is laid in the Attache laud. The author's name is a promise of interest. "Stolen America" (Cassell) takes the read er to Bermuda a journey worth taking. "Not of Her Father's Race" (Cassell). by William T. Meredith, is one of the loug series of tragedies growing out of the rela tions between the blacks and the whites of the South. II. All good fathers and mothers, a good many thoughtful Sunday school teachers and a whole host oi people who will begin in a few weeks from cow to plan their gifts for Christmas will be glad ta know of some excellent books for boys and girls. It makes more difference than some people think what books the children read. Because books are doors into new worlds. The boys and girls follow the writer as the boys and girls of Hamelin chased after the Pied Piper, and where do they go? Where does the writer take them? And into what company are they introduced? It is as important to choose good books as to choose good schools or good playmates. Well, these books are helpful and inter esting, all of them, and attractively bound. They are commended with no reservations. First, is the new "Alice." Alice who? Why. "Alice in Wonderland," of course. In literature there is only one Alice, and that is the small girl who went "through the looking-glass" aud found such a remark able country on the other side, aud who had such extraordinary adventures with the Cheshire Cat and the March Hare and the Queen of Hearts and the big chessboard. Here she is, with the pictures (only they are colored in this book) aud the story selec tions from it made by the author, aud in very simple language, and adapted lor the nursery, so that the very small children may get acquainted with Alice. Tbev can begin with Bill the Lizard and the White Babbit, and by and by they will be old enough to be introduced to the Jabberwock, aHd the whole- company who dance so merrily and discoursed so wiselv in Alice's queer dreams. "The Nursery Alice" is the name of the book; price SI 50; published by MacMillan & Co., aud for sale (as are nil the hooks which I have on mv desk this week) bv J. K. Wcldin & Co., Wood street. "The Winds, the Words and the Wan-le-er" (Eobcrts Bros.) N n "fable lor chil dren" by Lily F. We.-sclhoeit, who wrote "Sparrow, th-Trimp," and "Flipwing, the Spy." The Oaks and the Birc!is mid the Firs and the East wind have the gift o" speech, and ate as much alive ns the old Pagans in Pan'a days thought they were. Aud there are Indians in the book, aud small boys and girls who make their ac quaintance, aud adventures growing out of it. Children are taught to love nature. Two excellent books, of the kind which all growing boys ought to read, aud for the mnt nnrt like tn read. nro. "Heroes and Martyrs of1 Invention," by George M.Cowle, j and "Stories of the Civil War," bv Albert F. Blaisdell, both published by Lee & Shepard. Each costs $1. The heroes are the early printers, and Baliosy, the Potter, and the invention of the stocking frame and of cotton machinery, and of the steam engine. The tales of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the balloon, the safety lamp, the steam hammer, the railway locomotive, the steamboat and the sewing machine are told, and all" in such a bright, graphic way that attention is at once gained and kept The "Stories" are selections from good descriptions of epi sodes in the great war, most of them written by the men who took part in the events. Onef the purposes which the editor had in his mind, he says in the preface, was "To prepare such pieces as will arouse a greater love and reverence for those who fought, bled and died, that we, as a people, might live to-day in peace and prosperity." That is a good aim, and the book accomplishes it "Against Heavy Odds" (Charles Scrib ner's Sons) is the story of a young Lap lander; up under the shadow nj the North Pole. Prof. Bryesen is fond ot bringing hi3 heroes from those frozen regions, and this time he makes the boys and girls acquainted with a capital young fellow. There is an enemy and an invention in the story, aud the two together combine in a number of adventures, which result in the right way in the end. A good, healthy, upliiting story, which will do the hoys good who read it (51.) "A Little Book of Profitable Tales" (Charles Scribner's Sons) commends itself by its ingenious title, and is dedicated by the author, Mr. Eueene Field, "to my se verest critic, my most loyal admirer and my only dauehter." A good many other peo ple's daughters will share in the loyal ad miration. There arc some of the sweetest stories in the'' English language in this book, charmingly conceived and most grace full v written. "The Symbol and the Saint," "The Morse and the. Moonbeam," "The Diveil's Chrystnosse," and all the rest of them will interest all the young old people dnd all the old young people, and indeed everybody who appreciates sympathy and pathos and reverence and love and gentle humor. The last story, "The Fairies of Pesth," has music in it arranged by Mr. Theodore Thomas. "Dear Daughter Dorothy" (Roberts Bros., $1), is the nicest kind of a story about a little girl and a violin, and a great trouble, and a judge and a law court, and how every thing was straightened up at the end. There are graceful and fitting pictures in it, which are sketched by the author. Aud the author's name who has done this good deed is A. G. Plympton. My list for this week ends with three daintily bound books which are published by E. P. Dutton & Co. They are as dainty within as they are without One is "Fri day's Child," by Frances. Another is "Wikky," and the third is "Bonnie Little Bonnibel and Her Day Off," by Mary D. Brice. The first and the last cost 75 cents. The middle one is sold at GO cents. And by J. It. Weldin & Co., as are all the books of this week. "Wikky" is the story of a little boy and how he learned about the King and went to see him. It is too bad that he dies at the end ot it. But that cannot be helped. This is a good Christian book, with plenty of good religisn in it, but no nonsense, nor weak and sentimental and unreal piety be tween its covers. "Friday's child is fair of face," and he has his hands in his pockets on the cover, and looks like a manly little fellow, but dearl dearl They make him die, too, at the end. It is very discouraging. But Bonnie "Little Bonnibel" meets no tragic ending. She gets lost and after many adventures is found again. The pictures, which nre by Miss Plympton, are most charming, and the whole book, beginning with the "oats, peas, beans" ol the frontis piece, and through to the small girl and the big dog on, the last page, delights the heart of The Ceitic. RAISING MONEY In Churches, and the recent criticisms prosed upon the ladies are cleverly handled for THE DISPATCH to morrow by Bessie Bramble. Twenty broad pages. Largest circulation and Best Adver tising Medium. THE 1WENTY-SLVENTH CONVESTION. Dedicated by Shandy Magulre, the Engineer Poet, to His Colleagues. Old Father Time, the hoary thief. The hearties? wretch keeps driving on; Unmindful of our joy orgrlet. lie marks another twelve-month gone Since last we met at Denver, where We all inh.ileil pure mountain air. And saw tho glories ot the sUies KcsDlendent in their changing dyes; Where snow-capped peaks louk smiling down Upon that enterprising town; Again vtK meet in numbers here. To scan the ledger ot a year. Our order's progress to review; And pledge our steadfast faith anew Upon the altar of our love, Willi confidence iu heaven above. Oor lease of life Is short at best Our sun is gliding down the west. And, ere another j ear goes o'er, May set on the eternal shore We once were boyi 'tis long ago Our hair could shame the sutl crow; Tliu locks of o.uu now growing old Were onco the shade ot purest gold. Alas! a cbangu has coma to stay. The black and gold have turned to gray; And some I tee in numbers small Have not a single hair at all The men I mean, each lady fair Retains the color of her hair All through her lite. Perennial yontfl Is her rewaid fur lure aud truth. The day of doom for many here May dawn within the comiug jear; Forbid it heaven! A widow's prayer For many more wo well can spare; We do not wish a tearful face To luok upon each vacant place We've tilled so lung, at board and bed. Lamenting lur the darling dead. This life is Sivcet, and, mark me well. upon tne earin wo mean to uwtii Ho long as Gud shall spare uur lives, And nut uiuku wulws of our wives: So now, dear friends, bow best to live, And hou- v,'u shall in future steer. So men shall approbation civo. Are question which have brought us hare. Trans-Rocky Mountain men have come To greet their brothers here from Maine; Old Mexico cm uuriuwaru some Ot long experience on tue train; Vuucouver In the far Nor'ncst Has sent her wisest and her best, t'nim every sea, from every shore, Where locoinotivo whistles roar, There comes a dolegate alons To swell thu legislative throng; To labor fur our.tuturo weal. Old sores if any here to heal; Old friends t greet, new frismls to make, To guard agaiusteach past mistake, To keep tha vanguard in the fight For justice, self-respect and ribi; For all that men ou earth liolu dear, Tuese mighty matters brought us here. Our good old ship of Brotherhood Full many a eale has bravely stood; Hhe shielded every faithful tar. And never jet has lust a spar, bho floats to-day with canvas spread From decks tn every topmast head; Htitl may she that. My fervent prayer. Is fur the breeze to woj her Tair, Upun tlio lutaro ouurse she'll steer. It on new charts yuu shape it here. Let self be deeply sunk from sight; Remember bat the generul good: Tread bravely on tho path of right, Aud lear nut for our Brotherhood. llicht here my rhyming task should cease, iiut visions of delightful skies, Wlmro all is calm content and peace. How daun before mv frenzieu eyes; And in prophetic uinud 1 see Tne birth of brighter days tu be; When Capital's paternal lure. Inspired by wisdom from above. Shall stanch the wnauds which Labor feels, And listen to all jast appeals, Which cume In manly mien along, To seek redresK from grievous wrung. When Labor real.zes, too. Destructive tactics wilt nut do To solve that mighty problem, which Antagonizes puor and rich. Cool heads and'mcdltatlve brains Must ever hold the driving reins; Aud if they do. we'll hall tlie day. For which we most sincerely pray; When firemen and when engineers fciuall louk on each as other's peers: When discord, down to liades deop, Shall sink ior an eternal sleep; When selfishness Is pulled apart From every God-created heart; Woen reason rules.witb queenly sway. And J nstlce at her slue is seeu. And calm contentment-whiles away The hours beneath bright skies serene. "I PAGES 9 TO 12. GIVEN OYER TO GAME. Portions of Scotland Which Should Blossom Like a Bosa Are NEAfiLT DEVOID OP INHABITANTS. Edgar Wakemin Penetrates Far Into This Secluded Territory. UNEXPECTEDLY A GDEST AT A WEDDU& rcoiurespOXDracx or the msrxTCH.i FASXAK.TLE, Scotland, October L- Leaving the little railway station atBeauly, we saw, not a hundred feet away, at the road-head of a loug pair of stairs a huge wagonette, already filled with people. This was the Stratbglass "coach," so my com panion said. Two seats were reserved be side the driver. These we sarambled into, and before the train had steamed out of the station our coach was rolling heavily away toward a region of silence eternal. For when the Stratbglass coach finally stops, some 30 or 40 miles west of Beauty, in every direction save that from whence it came, is a land that has never known a road or a wheeled vehicle. Ones under the old clan system it was peopled with a grand and noble race. From clearance after clearance and evic tron after eviction it is now more lone and silent than when skin-clad helots huddled in its straths and glens, and savage Pagan rites were celebrated within its olden stone circles and cktchans. To-day its very foot paths and bridle paths are given over to the gamekeeper, the gillie and the red deer. Perhaps a hundred grave-faced crofters may occupy every 100 square miles of land. Landlordism has exterminated the grandest portion of the Scottish people throughout the entire North of Scotland, precisely as, with lainine aud Balfourism, it is gradually bat surely murdering an entire race in Ire land. The Green Isle is being transformed into a sheep and cattle range for London butchers; and the Scottish Highlands from the Grampians to the ocean rim around the whole North of Scotland and to the outer cliffs oi the Western Isle, is already simply a vast game preserve-for London sportsmen. EOMANTICALLY BEAUTIFUL. But God's sunlight never shone on so ro mantically beautiful a land; and the inex pressible pathos of it all mists your eyes as they look ' in vain for the homes where a whole race has been plundered of its herit age. Of the scattering remnants of these people who, despite all injustice and loss, still cling to the mountain eeries which gave them birth, our coachload was completely typical. One huge, grave fellow was a blacksmith who leased a little forge far up the strath where he still starved along, now and then getting a driblet of work in shoe ing the horses kept at the gentry's hunting lodges. Another man held a few acres of land and a dreary old inu nt the edge of the strath, where occasionally gillies loitered and dropped a few pence, or at odd intervals, lords and ladies, irom freak, or accident of requiring shelter, flung a lew pounds into his groveling hands. Three were cro.ters pure and simple with Tarn O'Shanter hats, bushy beards, hollow cheeks, bloodless faces, and deep-set bine eyes that seemed ever set upou some lar object, as it intently endeav oring to solve the riddle of their lives of endless want and wretchedness. There were- two'-women. One was a cottar's wife, miserably clad, with au ailing child which had been taken a score of miles to Beauly that aphysician might see it, as no doctor lived in nil this vast region irom sea to sea. The other was a scraggy old guidwife, travel worn, but bravely making her way back to some Highland croft, with a few pounds in her pocket from among the herring-curing crews at Wick or Lerwick in Shetland. What she had earned would keep the thatch over her family's heads an other year. Another man, sleek and well fed, was irom Lord Tweedmouth's great Polled Angus stock farm and lodge, far up the strath; and still another was a strath merchant who dealt in "sweeties" and meal in a little hat by Fasnakyle Bridge. Then there was the driver, earnest and awful, be cause entrusted with Her Majesty's mail pouches; myself next to him on the box; and to complete the party, alongside myself the Bev. Mr. Mackenzie, my companion, Free Church minister to the tiny fold in grand Strathgias3, and resident in the Free Chnreb manse, by Fasnakyle. A SACRIFICIAL LIFE. And how came I to be the guet of this man who, capable oi filling a New York pulpit is passing a devoted and sacrificial life among the lowly oi these tempest-ridden mountains, has a spice of humor in it worth the telling. He had been cycling in Norway, and, returning to Scotland, came to the same little hotel which housed me in Edinburgh. With like sympathies and longings to know all strangers can tell each other, we had tumbled into an acquaintance and mutual liking at breakfast; were in my. own room directly, feasting on a pile of sev eral hundred delicious old volumes I had dug out oi the second-hand shops in Edin burgh, and while thus gosthering at each other in a glorious wjy we were suddenly overtaken by a little romance. Bursting into the room in a great state of trepidation our kindly landlady of St Andrew's, Mrs. Steele, breathlessly stated in the richest Aberdouian dialect that a wedding dinner aud a wedding ltselr were in the process of spoiling lor the want of a "meenistcr." They had come all the way from Alloa, poor souls ! with kith and kin, and their parson had missed the ferry; and everything and everybody would be rained if my friend "diuna coo in awa doon the coffee-room, an'joiu the puir bodies di rectly." No; my friend was obdnrate. It was his vacation. Besides, how did hs know they were "right in their lines." But the brisk landlady had him there. She had been a school teacher; had already examined their "lilies" hersel.; and the nairwere entitled to succor on that score. No, again; because he had been cycling, was in grays and knickerbockers to hoot; and whoever heard of a clergyman marrying or burying anybody without the regulation black? But I bad him there; aud soon saw him clapped inside a black evening suit of my own. But, ob, Scotch perversity! he had no white collar and choker. Then I cornered liim again; this time with a Yanfccp paper collar and a ha'penny white muslin tie, and we were now sure of victory, for under these conditions wo got him. to the lauding below. Here he balked completely. On how slight a thread hung the fate of this wretched couple then! He had not the form of service with him, and proceeding without it was utterly out of the question. Bless those second-hand books, this time they were the recourse. I bade the landlady hold the man of prayer, and with visions of loss and the aronin of a scorching dinner prompting, die held him like a vise. In a moment more I had bounded to my room, with emotions of defeat, hope, victory, had swept my eyes along the mildewed covers of mv second-hand books, and finally pounced with exultant delight npon a little brown volume of l&JO, "Anderson's Minister's Directory." A SCOTCH WEDODIO. Bounding back to our captured "meenis ter," I placed this in his hands, opened at page 11, and before he could offer farther protest that vigorous Scotch landlady and myself had him in Iront of the blushing bride and brideginom, perspiring through an Established Chnrch form ot marriage ceremony; and within ten minutes time Isabella McCarthy Cameron and Charles Macdonald, bnrgli and parish of Alloa, hire ot Clackmannan, Kingdom of Scot land, were made man and wi e; and I had my name down with boldness and flourish. 1 fWTS."PBi
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