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PAGES 9 TO 16.
SECOND PART.
NO EXCUSEJD GIVE,
Balfour Says It is Beneath His
Dignity to Tell Why He Left
His Post in Erin.
ORDERS WIRED BY HIM
To Irresponsible Officers Who Ad
ministered Affairs in Ireland
in His Absence.
THE CONDUCT OF THE SECRETARY
Will le Fnlly Discnssed by Gladstone in
Another of His Great Oratorical
Campaigns.
O'BRIEN AKD DILLON LIONIZED.
Puis TretU Tien EeyiHy, WlaTs til Btjort that
BcglsaJ Eu Asked to Tleirxtr
fliica U Dealed.
EETT0N3 LOSIKO THEIB LOTAL EnEIT
IBT CABLE TO THZ DISPATCH.!
Loxdox, October 18. Copyright Mr.
Balfour addressed the Tories at Newcastle
last evening in a speech which lasted 55
minutes and might, with much advantage,
haTe been considerably curtailed, for al
though a good debater, the Irish Secretary
is not an orator.
The speech had the merit of being to some
extent apologetic, and Balfour actually con
descended to reply to one or two minor
charges which haT6 been brought against
his administration of Ireland, bnt ho was
clearly unable to justify his prolonged ab
sence from his post and could think of noth
ing better than the good old rhetorical de
Tice of falling on nis dignity
During the most troubled weeks of this
year the Chief Secretary, Lord Lieutenant,
Lord Chancellor and the Permanent Under
Secretary were all absent from Ireland, and
the administration was left in virtually ir
responsible hands, guided by an occasional
telegram from Balfour, who was playing
golf in Scotland.
Balfour's Explanation.
But, according to the Tory view of duties
and responsibilities, there is nothing repre
hensible in such a state of things, and Bal
four last night declared that it was beneath
his dignity to explain how or where he
impends his time. He gives certain orders
which are executed by officers who can do
no wrong and the. people who pay him
5.000 a year must take hHs word that they
get lull value for the money. That is Bal
four's argument in brief, and bis dignity
will not permit him to elaborate it
It Is c mfortmg to know that this new
theory of political morality will be sub
jected to analysis next week by Mr. Glad
stone, who has to-day started ou another of
his great oratorical campaigns. He will
remain in Liverpool over Sunday and start
for Scotland Monday morning. His
speeches are looked forward to with extraor
dinary interest and are expected to have
important results.
Gladstone on the Tariff.
Gladstone's remarks will be mora varied
than usual, as, in addition to questions of
purely home policy, they will include an
impeachment of the Turkish Government
for its cruelty to the Armenians and a de
fense and exposition of iree trade principles
apropos of the McKmley tariff. The Grand
Old Man has been of late bombarded with
pamphlets and letters from economic here
tics, and has been roused to scornful indig
nation by speeches by obscure Tory mem
bers of Parliament and by editorials in the
Tory newspapers, all predicting England's
ruin unless it be averted by retaliatory
measures against the United Slates.
Mr. Gladstone, the friend of Cobden, has
no sympathy with or tolerance of snch
"damnable heresies," and as he will cer
tainly sieak out his mind next week, the
speeches should be particularly interesting
to Americans. Balfour's speech at New
castle put his Tory auditors into a frenzy of
enthusiasm, being lull of jibeb and sneers at
his political opponents in general nnd Glad
stone and Morley in particular. The Irish
magistrates and police were paraded as just
men, doiDg honorable duty, courageously
and loyally, while the Bight Honorable
John Morley was accused of consorting
with criminals and inciting to lawlessness
and violence.
O'Brien and Dillon Lionized.
The election for the Ecclcs division of
Lancashire will take place next "Wednesday.
The seat is a Tory one. and the home rule
question had no effect one way or the other
in '66. By the rules of political mathe
matics the Tory ought to win now by a
slightly increased majority. It will be a
striking phenomenon indeed should the
Liberal candidate be elected and the Tory
majority be considerably reduced.
Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon are being
lionized in Paris and the report that the
British Government had asked for their ex
tradition is an absurd invention. They
will sail from Havre in the Champagne
next Saturday in company with other mem
bers of the mission. Mr. J. Tnke, the good
old Quaker who helped to administer the
famine funds in Ireland in 1846-47 and
1879-80, has communicated to the Timet the
results of his recent inquiries. He is confi
dent that there is no dancer of a general
famine and is apprehensive that evil may
follow the indiscriminate distribution of
money from America or England. But in
certain districts of Donegal, Mayo, Galwav,
Kerry and Cork the Government will have
to interfere actively to provide work for the
people and use every means in its power to
avert or minimize the distress.
5ib Government Help.
But this is precisely what is not being
done. Not one of the much-vaunted public
works promised by the Government has yet
been commenced, and some of tbe districts
enumerated by Mr. Tnke has cot been in
cluded In the official schemes. Mr. Balfour
says he has received many exhaustive re
ports, but he has not yet acted upon them, J
and Dnblin Castle will, for the first time in
its history, belie its evil repute If It does
not blunder atrociously iu this matter.
Even Mr. Tuke is evidently uneasy on this
point. 'While exhorting the Government
to do its duty, he expresses the opinion that
after December there may be opportunities
for the exercise of private charity, and sug
gests, as two methods of meeting the dis
tress, the supplyfof wheaten flour, Indian
meal and potatoes -at market prices in the
congested districts, and tbe assurance that
"from one source or another" the supply of
tbe best seed potatoes and oats shall be
forthcoming.
Another proof has been given this week
of the decadence of that spirit of loyalty
which once was supposed to animate every
British breast. The Queen, in the exercise
of her undeniable prerogative, has nomi
nated the Iter. Randall Davidson to the
bishopric of Rochester.
The Queen Parlous.
Now, a section of the radical press is de
nouncing the nomination as a "scandalous,
royal job," and a good many clergymen
who feel they could wear a bishop's mitre
with dignity, and draw a prelatical salary
with grace and satisfaction, are saying the
same thing. The Queen, who is always
very touchy over these matters, is said to be
furious, especially with the Pall Mall
Gazette, which is the chief sinner. But
there are really solid grounds for the charge
of jobbery. There are dozens of distin
guished men in the Church of England
who, by common consent and ancient usage,
should have been promoted before David
son. It would be gross flattery to describe Mr.
Davidson as iu any way distingnished. He
was in the third rank at Oxford, and that
university took such little pride in him that
he had to go to St. Andrew's to obtain his
doctor's degree. Furthermore he is a poor
preacher, and is only 42 years old; bnt as a
courtier Mr. Davidson has no equal among
the clergy. He married an archbishop's
1ughter, and was brought under the
Queen's notice by his father-in-law. He
made good use of his opportunities, became
chaplain to the Queen and finally Dean of
Windsor. He owes much oi his success in
life to tact, and his career is full of encour
agement to mediocre young men.
JUST LIKE BOSTON.
LONDON'S GRAVE FATHERS GO AFTER
THE MUSIC HALLS.
They Make Tours of Investigation and Get
Kicked About as Common Nuisances
but are Determined to Protect the Tonth
From Harm.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISrATCn.l
London, October 18. This is a season of
the vear when the London County Council
makes an ass of itself, the occasion arising
annually out of tbe question of renewing
the licenses of the music halls. This week
the Empire and the Aquarium have been
under discussion, and it looks somewhat
doubtful whether either will be able to con
duct business as heretofore, owing to the
lofty moral views of the Councilmen
for the last fortnight. A "vigilance com
mittee," constituted of members of the
council, has been doing detective duty at
the Empire and Aquarium. The members
have strolled about during the performance
and endeavored to get up flirtations. They
have sneaked behind the scenes to witness
the ereen room orgies related in the penny
dreadfuls. They have secured vantage points
in the galleries where they might peep into
the boxes.
One or two of these dignitaries have been
kicked ont of the music halls as common
nuisances, but they have made horrible dis
coveries, which have been duly related to
their shocked associates inthccouncilcham
ber aua published in ihe newspapers. What
has offended the chaste sensibilities of these
old gentlemen most is the costume of Zaio,
a young woman of unusual physical de
velopment, who rides a bicycle on a wire
in the top of the Aquarium. The Countv
Council is united in the opinion that this
spectacle is calculated to drive tbe London
youth of both sexes to certain ruin. One
of the "Vigilance Committee" also dis
covered that Zaio's photograph, present
ing her in the objectionable cos
tume, was on sale at the Aquar
ium, as was also that of Mile.
Paula, a sylph-like creature also in tights,
who performs an illusion act and stands on
herheadinthe air withont any support.
Ttic Vieiiance Committee has recommended
that tbe licenses be not granted.
The truth is that the Empire, Aquarium,
and the other London mnsic halls are as
well conducted as any places of amusement
in the world.
FAVORED BY THE PBHTCE.
O'Brien Thinks H. It. H. Is Disposed to
Stand by the Irish Leaders.
tBT DUNLAP'S CABLZ COMPA1TT.1
London, October 18. Mr. "William
O'Brien and Mr. John Dillon are un
doubtedly the heroes of the hour in France
as they continue to epgross public attention
here and to furnish an absorbing
topic of conversation. They have been
interviewed by tbe representatives of
every journal in Paris as well as by the cor
respondents of all the English papers. The
Times publishes a column interview which
M. DeBlowitz, the representative of that
paper in Paris, had with them. Mr.
O'Brien's views on the subject of the Prince
of Wales' attitude toward the question are
interesting and were given to the editor of
L .eclair, who nskd in which direction the
sympathies of the Prince of Wales lay. Mr.
O'Brien replied:
"Ihe Prince of Wales has not taken, and
conid not openly, take our side, but I may
tell you that if Parliament to-morrow
adopted the laws we demand no opposition
on the part of H. B. H. would be en
countered. That is not merely Mr. Dillon's
impression and my own. It is a very gen
eral one, for the Prince enjoys great popu
larity among our friends, and I have every
reason to believe he is favorably disposed
toward us."
SPIES FE0H EUSSIA.
Workmen Sent Out to Discover 'Welsh Tin
Plato Secrets.
LONDON, October 18. The Eussian Gov
ernment is sending workmen to various
countries to obtain situations and pick up
all the information they can that may be
useful to Enssian manufacturers nnd ex
porters. The Welsh tin-plale makers have
taken alarm at this, and have given warning
that if the secrets of their trade are discov
ered in this way and made nse of by tbe
Eussians, they will import no more sheet
iron from Bussia and will boycott all Bus
sian products so far as possible,
Busia's sheet iron exports to Wales is far
more important than any tin-plate export
that she conld hope to build up in competi
tion with the Welsh.
Americans Sell Ont to a Syndicate.
TBT CABLE TO TUI DISPATCB.1
London, October 18. F. W. Kinne, a
well-known New York journalist, and H.
K. Gilmore, of Wall street, have sold to a
private syndicate in London a large gold
quartz property in the Coeur D'Alaine dis
trict of Idaho. Tbe price paid is in the
neighborhood of $2,500,000.
Hebrews Become Christians.
Odessa, October 18. Two hundred He
brew students in this city have renounced
the Hebrew faith and become Christians to
avoid expulsion from their universities in
accordance with the enforcement of the anti
Hebrew law.
AGITATED BY GOLD.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY MAY ADOPT
METAL-AS A STANDARD.
THE
Financial Perturbations Expected if the
Movement is Carried Out Herr Lang
Studies the Situation in England The
Scheme Hanging Fire Silver on the
Decline.
IBT CAULS TO THE DISPATCH.
LONDON, October 18. One cause of the
decline in the price of silver since the recov
ery which followed the final passage of the
American silver bill has been the anticipa
tion of a movement iu Austria-Hungary
towards the adoption of the monometallic
gold standard. Such a movement has cer
tainly been prompted by a strong party
in the kingdom of Hungary, where
the agricultural interest has become
alarmed at tbe prospect of lower prices, and
wnere there is a strong political feeling in
favor of a closer alliance with England.
This.it was thought by many . niagyars,
would be advanced by the adoption of the
Euglish gold standard, while it was also
taken for granted that Germany would look
with favor upon the imitation by Austria
Hungary in '90 of the monetary policy
adopted in '73 by Germany.
The adoption of a gold standard by Austria-Hungary
would, of course.throw a fresh
mass of silver on the markets and develop a
demand for some 25.000.000 of gold.
This would mean, of course, great financial
perturbations, and dnring the past week the
subject has been made interesting in Lon
don by the arrival here of Herr Lang, who
comes as an agentaccredited by the Govern
ment of Count Szapary to study the situa
tion in England and look into the feasibility
of the operation.
Herr Lang met at luncheon on Thursday
some active friends of bi-metallism in Lon
don, including Mr. S. Dana Horton, of the
United States, recently arrived in England.
He has had conferences, too, with some of
the magnates of the city, and it may be said
with some confidence that the prospect of an
adoption of the gold standard by Austria
Hungary is by no means promising. It is
not likeiy that Herr Lang will recommend
such a step to his Government in the present
financial condition of both hemispheres.
The subject of an European conference to
consider tne economic conditions created by
the McKinley bill has also been considered
hy Herr Lang, the initiative in that direc
tion having been taken some time ago by
France, bnt it finds no favor with the
British Government.
HE FOOLED GREAT SCHOLARS.
Death of a Man Who Deceived Many With
Forged Greek Manuscripts.
TBT DUNLAT'S CABLE COUPA2TT.1
London, October 18. A man whose
name was in every one's month a few years
ago has just died in a little town of Albania.
This is Simonides, the notorious forger of
Greek manuscripts. This man had a re
markable history, as a forger of Egyptian
and Syrian antiquities, In which career he
stands absolutely withont an equal, as he
never attempted to defraud ignorant people,
.but always went with his reputed frauds to
the mo st celebrated scholars and authorities
on the subject. Among his exploits was
his presentation to a committee of a dozen
scholars at Athene of 'a manuscript of
Homer's works written on lotos leaves which
he asserted belonged to a period consider
ably anterior to the Christian era
Eleven of the 12 members of the commit
tee were perfectly convinced of the authen
ticity of the document, and believed it was
everything Simonides claimed for it The
twelfth, however, made the discovery that it
was a faithful copy of the text of Homer as
published by the German critic, Wolff.
Simonides succeeded iu swindling Ismail
Pasha put of a large sum tor a forged manu
script of Aristotle's works. He also sold to
the British Museum a forged memorandum
addressed by Belisarius to the Emperbr
Justinian,
BACK AGAIN TO AMERICA
Vice-Consul General Johnson
Leaves
London Very Soon.
TBT DUNLAP'S CABLB COMPAOTT.l
London, October 18. Vice-Consul Gen
eral Oliver B. Johnson, whose resignation
has been in the hands of Consul General
New for several weeks, will leave his post
very soon after New's retnrn from America.
It is safe to say that no American public
officer has ever made more friends in so
short a time in London than Johnson, or
lost fewer times at poker. He will be re
membered for his. universal courtesy and
obliging disposition Dy every Englishman
and American who ever did business at the
United States Consulate, and he has given
more time to looking np the eases of desti
tute Americans, sailors and others of his
countrymen and women stranded in London
than he has spent in his devotions.
Johnson leaves tbe Consulate because he
pines to eet back to his original vocation,
journalism, and he will probably identity
himself hereafter with some New York
newspaper.
HOLDING OUT FOR MORE.
Ex-Milan Wants a Bigger Offer to Get Ont
of Belgrade.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.;
Londow, October 18. Ex-Milan has al
most succeeded in tbe object which he had
in view when he decided to live in Belgrade.
He has, in lact, made himself so disagreea
ble that the regents and ministry will soon
be glad to buy him out on his own terms.
Ex-Milan has been offered a pension of
200,000 francs a year if he will live outside
Servia, and he is holding out for 360,000.
He will certainly obtain 300,00, unless the
Government should pluck up courage to ex
pel him from the country, which is improb
able. HE WILL DO IT HIMSELF.
Professor Huxley Intends to TVrlte His Own
Autobiography.
fBT BUSLAP'S CABLE COMPAHT.l
London, October 18. A new departure
is to be made by the editors of Chambers' En
cyclopedia. The article on Professor Hux
ley, instead of being intrnsted to anyone
else, will be written by the celebrated phys
iologist and thinker himself.
Already people have begun to talk of the
possibility the new idea opens up of the issu
ing of a dictionary of autobiography which
they say would have far 'greater interest
than any other dictionary if it is only prop
erly edited. "
HO WELCOME FROM THE POPE.
Reports That His Holiness Won't Becelve
Dillon and O'Brien.
IBT DCMLAP'S CABLE COMrANT.I
BOME, October 18. It is stated on posi
tive authority from the Vatican itself that
if Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien Bhould ven
ture to Eome tbey will not be received by
His Holiness.
Many people connect this refusal with the
visit of the Duke of Norfolk last year,
although at that time it was asserted that
His Grace's visit was merely a pious func
tion. Stanley Coming IT ext Week.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
( London, October 18. Stanley and his
wife sail for New York to beein his lecture
tour in 'America on the Teutonic on the 29th
inst
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See Boland Beed as Samnel Bandy, en-
rrarmA tn ttivaa 9 1 AT. ah t wmtci mi An tfvsk
in "The Woman Hater," at the Grand
Opera Honse this week.
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY,
A BRILLIANT FINISH.
The Exposition of 1890 Closes, Being
Crowned With Success.
0PIKI0NS OP THE EXHIBITORS.
AH Were Benefited, and Are Terj Proud
of the Affair.
FUTURE BECESSITIES FOISTED OUT.
More Room Is NeedeJ, and It Will Likely Be runiiatl
Next Seuoa.
At 1030 o'clock last night the ever beau
tiful strains of "Home, Sweet .Home" fell
upon the ears of thousands of people at the
Exposition, as rendered by the Innes Band,
and what has been by long odds the most
successful exhibition of the kind ever given
iu this city, came to a close.
All day yesterday and last night there
was a constant stream of visitors, both going
and coming from the splendid display, and
many times the extensive buildings "were so
crowded that they were almost impassable.
Parting scenes were the order of the day,
and thousands of people who have been both
pleated and instructed by the great variety
of attractive features were to be seen again
taking a farewell snrvey of the tbousand-and-one
things which testify to the progress
and wonderful development of this city and
its surrounding points.
On every hand only words of the highest
praise could be heard for the splendid re
sults of the great show. Manager Johnston,
altbough quite thoroughly worn out, was in
the best of good humors, and while a little
backward about making any positive state
ments as to details, talked very freely in a
general way. Said he:
THE SHOW BETOND 4XIi HOPES.
"The Exposition has exceeded tbe fondest
hopes of the Board of Directors, and the fact
is fully established by the unusually large
attendance, that Pittsburg and surrounding
points are willing and anxious to maintain
an exposition here Becond to none in the
country."
As for the exhibits, while he was proud
of them they spoke for themselves, and the
merits of the same had the indorsement of
hundreds of thousands of people who had
seen them. He said the general sentiment
among firms that had displays there was of
the most flattering character, and dozens of
applications for room for next year are
already in, many ot them being from new
people. The unusually large attendance,
he said, had been all the more gratifying
from the fact that since the doors were
thrown open some six weeks ago they had
been handicapped by 21 days of rainy
weather, conditions unprecedented in the
historv of Expositions. In spite of this, the
attendance greatly exceeded that of last
year, or, in fact, any Exposition ever held
in this part of tbe State. Exact figures he
was as yet unable to give.
To-morrow the work of removing the
great variety of articles will be taken up,
and will likely be continued during the
week, and perhaps longer. In the meantime,
and probably for days after, a laree force of
men will be employed in putting tbe build
ings in condition to stand the severities of
the coming winter.
ESTIMATES ON THE PROFITS.
When Manager Johnston was asked for
estimates on the attendance and receipts, as
compared with last year, he displayed a
wonderful lack of reliable information. He
said questions of that kind could not be
answered until after the books had been
gone over, counts made, bills paid, etc He
even declined to make any statement of a
general character, but some facts were
picked up from exhibitors that may throw
some lighi upon the subject. Last year the
net profits were 59,000. Everyone concedes
that the attendance this season was much
larger than that of 1S89, and it is generally
believed that the profits will reach ?75,000,
and likely more.
Manager Johnston was also questioned
concerning the desires of the directors to
increase the facilities of the Exposition, but
he was also very conservative in his utter
ances on this subject. He said:
"We hope to be able to furnish additional
accommodations or the public next year,
but no steps have been taken in that direc
tion yet. Nothing in that line will be con
sidered until the directors meet in Decem
ber. Then we will have all of our accounts
straightened out and know just where we
stand. We need more room and it will
likely be supplied, but it would be hardly
proper to express any ideas until after the
meeting of that body, although we depend
largely upon the press of tbe city lor the
success ot the enterprise."
"Do you think any of the directors would
be willing to talk on the subject?"
"They may be willing, but I really don't
know what information they could give you.
While these matters have been talked over
in a general way, nothing definite has been
done, and nothing will be done until after
the meeting I referred to."
ENTHUSIASM Off DIRECTORS.
Later a call was made at President Mar
tin's office, when it was learned that the
gentleman was in Boston.. Vice President
Bindley was also absent from his plane of
business. Colonel Boberts, a lire member of
the Exposition Society, speaking in the
general way for Mr. Bindley, said he knew
the gentleman was very enthusiastic for the
ultimate success and development of the un
dertaking, and was satisfied that he would
insist upon extending the accommodations
as rapidly as possible. The Colonel is sat
isfied that next year will find some marked
improvements in the ereat undertaking.
Eepresentatives of The Dispatch spent
some time yesterday among the exhibitors
gathering their impressions of the Exposi
tion. The first call was made at the Pitts
burg Glass Exhibit Company, which em
braces the firms of Macbeth & Co., Dith
ridee & Co., Thomas Evans & Co., Duncan
& Sons, Adams & Co., Ripley & Co., J. T.
& A. Hamilton, and Dixon, Wood & Co.,
who built the furnaces. This exhibit has
been one of the great attractions Of the sea
son. In speaking ot it Manager W. O. Bus
sell said:
'I guess this is the first time any of ns
have ever been accused of doing any retail
business. We have been selling wares
manufactured here at moderate prices, and
they are valuable as souvenirs, but directly
we have not profited much. That was not
onr object in coming here. The chief motive
was to instruct and entertain, and if we have
succeeded in doing that we are satisfied. Onr
trade is entirely wholesale, and indirectly
we may be benefited by having been here.
AS A MEANS OP TEACHING.
"The best feature of the whole affair is
that we have done much to elevate the
workers of glass in the estimation of the
general public We hate shown a repre
sentative force of bright, intelligent, indus
trious toilers, all of them civil and oblig
ing, and this in itself is bound to brine
about good results for the great army of
peogie engaged in this business. The .Ex
position has been a most pronounced suc
cess, and thousands of splendid people have
attended it. The enterprise is a fixture and
a credit to the city."
G. W, Hubley, who has been connected
with one of the electrical displays, said that
while his firm might not profit directly, it
certainly wonld be benefited by tbe ex
perience. He said that many eminent men
in scientific circles had pronounced their
exhibit as the finest one of the kind ever
seen in the United States. Tbe wonders of
electricity bad been demonstrated to the
t
OCTOBER 19, 1890.
THE SHOESTRING STATESMEN HAVING
public for weeks, and much valuable in
formation had been imparted.
Manager J. W. Fisher, of the oil com
pany's display, was about the only gentle
man encounteerd who would not plead guilty
to having received any marked benefits.
Their chief business was to furnish supplies
to the exhibitors of machinerv. He said the
company intended to have a flowing well, a
pumping well, a pipe line and refinery on
exhibition in order to show the people all
the points of the oil business, bnt a firm that
was to fit them out with appliances fniled at
the last miunte. He thought, however, that
tbey would be in line next year with the
complete outfit. He believed the Exposi
tion was a great thing for Pittsburg, and
bound to bring about great results.
DIRECT BENEFITS RECEIVED.
A manager of a stove display, speaking,
as he said he was qualified to do, for De
Haven & Co., Graff & Co., Anshutz, Brad
bury & Co., Bissell & Co. nnd Baldwin Ss
Graham, said that they had all received di
rect benefits. Tbey had taken many orders
from their country patrons, and introduced
new goods quite extensively. Their only
complaint was that they did not have room
to display anything like a full line of their
goods, but as it was they were all highly
pleased with the general results, and looked
for greater things in the years-to come.
At Joseph Home's, Kaufraanns',Gusky's,
Hugus & Hacke's, Home & Ward's, Camp
bell & Dick's, O. McClintock & Co.'s. Bo
vard, Eose Si Co.'s, E. Groetzinger's, E. P.
Roberts & Son's, E. G. Hays & Co.'s, and
in fact all the bewildering displays of do
mestic articles, those of art dealers,, bnt one
sentiment prevailed, and that was of the
highest praiset A majority of the exhibit
ors were benefited directly, through orders
for goods being placed with .them, which
were filled at the respective houses. Atone
of the places mentioned the manager voiced
the general sentiment when he said: "We
are not prepared to say just how much
good this Exposition has done ns. It will
take time to count up all the benefits. As
a medium of advertising it is without an
equal. People who have visited here have
seen the latest and best goods in nearly
every line of business. They have been
cheerfully informed as to all details, and iu
many instances have made purchases.
CHARACTER OF THE ATTENDANCE.
The attendance has been of a much more
substantial character this year than last,
and when it is known that between 400,000
and COO, 000 people have visited us some
idea of the far reaching benefits can be ob
tained. The display this year was much
better than that of last and it will
improve greatly in the years to come. So
far as I know there is but one opinion and
that is that the Exposition of 1890 has been
a pronounced success."
Out of a great number of calls, where
any one was left in charge of a display, but
one impression was gained, and in a general
way it was in keeping with the views ex
pressed above.
An official of the Exposition said last
night he was satisfied that the space be
tween the lower end of the Exposition and
the point would be utilized next year by
several permanent class exhibits, and from
all indications this surmise will likely turn
cut to be correct.
LEETSDALE'S NEW LIBRARY.
The Building to he Dedicated with Appro
priate Ceremonies Tuesday Evening.
Andrew Carnegie's free library example
has been followed by at least one com
munity in this neighborhood and on next
Tuesday evening the good people of Leetv
dale propose to formally open their hand
some new building, just completed by the
Library Association of that beautiful sub
urb in the Sewickley Valley. There will
be an interesting programme for the even
ing, including refreshments to be served be
tween the hours of 7 and 10, the proceeds
going into the association's treasury to help
purchase books and other reading matter.
This building is about 40 feet square.
having a tower at the southeast corner. It
was built upon subscription by sale ot shares
or membership cirtificates, and cost 53,500,
the designer being W. H. Seaman, of.
Leetsdale. The hallway, leading from the
street entrance to the main hall, divides
that part of the interior which it traverse
into two cozy little studies or reading rooms.
It is the intention to keep the 'rooms open
between the hours of 10 a. M. and 10:30 p.
M., daily, except Sundays.
The list of members of the association con
tains the names of all the prominent resi
dents of Leet township. They are a follows:
H. M. Atwood, Smith Acnew, Bobert
Wardrop, F. M. Love, D. B. Stuart, James
M. Kerr, Bev. E. F. Johnson. S. A. Sea
man.C. W. Hopkins.D. Leet Wilson, David
B. wnson, Thomas L. Shields, rea Way,
H. F. Blackstone, Jasen B. Atwell, Mrs.
H. M. Atwood, Frank Biner, Thomas
Woods, Joseph Kobinson, C. F. Eobinson,
A. G. Sieg, B. E. Smith, George Gibb,
George Barnes, W. C. Hamilton, Harry
Atwood, L. N. Davis, J. W. Syms, John
Copeland, George B. Johnston, James Ow
sten, John Laugher, W. K. Seaman, H.im.
Biggert, P. A, Gibb, E. S. Davis, J. K.Mc
Cormick, George Bohr, Jr., Charles Stacy,
N. O. Walker, Leonard Gray, A L. Brown,
J. B. Johnson, J. M. Woods, George M.
Seaman, William Gray, George H. Hop
kins, Charles Gray, Prof. F. A. Albreicht,
D. E. Bpringer, E. B. Hamilton, Henry M.
Long, C. P. Caughey, James Creese, E. F.
Kiely, F. L. Bainbow, Homer Creese, John
Haebe'rlin, H. M. Davis, Martin Kaelin,
Charles Woods, J. P. Carey, E. E. Cooper,
John Q. Gibb, George L. Park, William
Spratt, E. Barnes, John Seven, J. M. Ston
er, Sr., J. M. Stoner, Jr., D. McWoods, L.
A. Morris, John Dodgson and E. N. Ham
ilton, many of whom are employe! of the
Pennsylvania Company.
We pack household goods for shipment
an HAuas & Keejn, 83 Water it.
GOTTEN
MAJOR M'KINLEY INTO A GERRYMANDERED DISTRICT, HIS FRIENDS COME
TO HIS ASSISTANCE.
OIL WITH ITS GOLD.
California Has a Petroleum Field of
Increasing Importance
FIRST NOTICED BY PATH-FINDERS,
It Has Not let Beached the Highest Point
of Its Development
RICH 6AS FINDS ABE PREDICTED
rSPECIAt TELEQBAM TO THE DISPATCB.1
Los ANQELE8, October 18. The oil field
of California is growing in importance
every day and though it was discovered
many years ago its full development is still
a matter of the future. Signs of oil, tar
spriegs and beds of asphaltum excited the
attention of the early path-finders of Cali
fornia who saw in the high price of illumi
nation on the coast fortunes as great as
could be dug out of the mines. But they
left the uncertainty for the certainty and
years passed before tbe great reservoir of
golden greece was tapped.
The Pacific coast oil field, so far as it is
now known, extends from a point near
a San Francisco suburb to beyond the
frontier or Mexico. It is a belt lying chiefly
between the great Sierrian mountains and
the sea. At -numerous points along tbe
coast mostnoticable at Santa Barbera and
BedoudolJeaeh oil oozes from the rampart
which frowns upon the Pacific, and for a
long distance to seaward from the shore
petroleum floats upon the surface of the
ocean.
A STORY OT DEVELOPMENT.
The history of the oil development of
California dates substantially from 1862,
when Hon. Charles N. Felton and his as
sociates made the first persistent effort to get
oil in the Newhall country. They organized
the Pacific Coast Oil Company, and it cost
those enterprising gentlemen $200,000 to get
a paying well, to say nothing of dishearten
ing failures and hope long deferred; but
failure ended where success Degan, for after
the first good well was found, many others
were drilled, and scarce a "dry hole" has
since been discovered.
For years Pico Canon has been pouring
forth its oleaginous treasure. It has been
taken to San Francisco to be refined, and
the oil is light and well suited for refining.
In the Sespi and Santa Paula districts and
Ventura county other wells have been sunk
which yield large qnantities of oil. The
Puento wells, located 18 miles east of Los
Angeles, 14 in number, and comprising an
area of eight sections, yield a regular flow
of oil.
FIRST FIND IN THE SOUTH.
The first oil well drilled in Southern Cali
fornia was operated by General Banning,
and was appropriately called the Pioneer
oil well. It was located just across the garden-girdled
valley, among the hills, east
from the city of the Angeles. Acopious
flow of oil was secured, and gas was so
abundant that frequent explosions, of a
harmless character occurred. Bnt the in
dolent natives and simple "squatters" of
that early era little dreamed of the import
ance of this discovery, and so the treasure
remained in the hoarv hills. Dr. Griffin,
Mr. Bouderv and ex-Governor Downey are
the sole surviving members of the Pioneer
Oil Company.
In Pennsylvania boring for oil has ever
been, to a 'great extent, experimental, be
cause in that Apalachian country, the strata
of rock lie horizontally; but in this tavored
region the width and trend of the oil bear
ing stratum has been carefully mapped out,
with as much accuracy as if it lay on the
surface of the earth. The said stone ledges
which crop out iu the mountains are very
narrow not more than a mile in width, say
the experts. The oil is forced to tbe surtace
along the southwesterly edge of these ledges,
which have a dip of 45 degrees.
THE FLOW IS STEADY.
During the de'parted ages this oil, on
coming to the surface, was converted into
asphaltnm or "brea," as it wag called by
the early Spanish settlers. To get it the
rock oil wells must be sunk to the north
ward of the deposits of "brea." As the
south edge of the stratum is approached tbe
flow falls off, and as the wells are extended
to the north the flow increases in volume.
Thus at the end of many years' persistent
and intelligent labor the oil men can tell
almost to a certainty where to drill, how far
they must go, and approximately what
amount of oil they will get.
The possibilities of these oil meaures are
undoubtedly beyond calculation. There
are wells here.which have been flowing for
more than 12 years with a daily undimin
ished yield. Even the small holes first
drilled are yielding a thick oil, used lor
coating the sheet iron water pipes so gener
ally used in California. This quality of oil
sells for f5 a barrel, while the oil used for
fuel sells for $2. The wells range is depth
from S76 to 1,160 feet.
THE COST OP niBL,
Coal sells here by the cargo at $11 per
ton. A ton or coal is equal to 140 gallons ot
oil, or 3M barrels. Oil at SI is equivalent,
as a fuel, to coal at ?3 50 a fact which fur
nishes a solution to the problem of cheap
fuel.
But little attention, comparatively, has
been paid to natural gas in this section; yet
it is evident even to casual observers that
vast deposits exist. At the Pnento fields
all the cooking, lighting and heating are
done -by natural gas, and a weird appear
ance it presents as it flares sp flamboyant
ly from the black bowels of the earth.
EPISCOPAL MISSIONS.
THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING BEGINNING
TO-MORROW.
A Number of the Noted Divines Have Ar
rived In the City, and Will Occupy Local
Pulpits To-day The Programme of the
Week.
The Protestant Episcopal Bishops of the
United States are arriving in twos and threes
for the third annual meeting of tbe Mission
ary Council of the church. Those who have
arrived thus far are: Bishop Potter, of New
York; Bishop Perry, of Iowa; Bishop Mc
Claren, of Chicago; Bishop Burgess, of
Quincy, 111.; Bishop Howe, of Central
Pennsylvania; Bishop Lyman, of North
Carolina; Bishop Scarborough, of New
Jersey; Bishop Enight, Jof Milwaukee;
Bishop Tuttle, of Missouri; Bishop Spald
ing, of Colorado; Bishop Grafton, of Fon
du Lac, Mich., and Bishop Seymour, of
Springfield, HI.
One of the leading events of the visit here
will be the trip to Johnstown to-day for the
laying of the corner stone of the new church
there. The ceremonies will be under the
charge of Bishop Whitehead, of this dio
cese, and he will be assisted by Bishops
Perry and Tuttle. This will be made a very
interesting occasion in Johnstown.
Several of the Protestant Episcopal pul
pits of the city will be filled to-day by the
visiting clergy. There will be three ser
mons at Trinity: At 10:30 Bishop Lvman
will preach; at 4 P. M. services will be con-
'j. II T)!-1 C I 1 3 -. rr.nn
uuuicu uy xi3iiuj ocaruuiuugu, auu ai i,oJ
Bishop Potter will preach.
At Emanuel Church Bishop Knight will
occupy thepnlpit in the morning and Bishop
Spalding in the evening. -
At St. Andrew's Church Bishop Burgess
will preach in the morning. The same gen
tleman will occupy the pnlpit of St John's
Chnrch in the evening.
Bishop Howe will occupy the pulpit of
the Church of Ascensionin the morning
and in the evening Bishop Thomas will
preach.
Bishop Spalding will preach at St. Peter's
in the evening. Bishop Potter will occupy
the pulpit of Calvary Church in the morn
ing. Bishop Grafton will be a guest of
Wilkins&urg friends and will preach there
to-day.
Following is the programme for the week's
sessions of the council:
Monday, October 20-8 r. ST. Preliminary
missionary meeting at Trinity Chnrch, Pltts
burc. Addresses bv Bishop Leonard, of Utah,
and Mr. James L. Honghtahnir.
Tuesday, October 31 10 A. . Opening serv
ice, with holy communion at Trinity Church.
Sermon by Rev. Joseph N. Blancnard. of St.
James' Church. Philadelphia. 12u.to 1:30 p. w.
Business meeting: Organization and report
of the Board of Managers. 3 to fl P.M. Business
meeting. Domestic niisssion, including In
dians. 8r. jr. Popular missionary meeting at
Calvary Church, East End. Speakers, Bishop
Kendrick, of New Mexico, and Rev. D. H.
Greer, D. D of New York. 8 P. M. Popular
missionary meeting at Carnezio Hall, Alle
cheny. Speakers, Bishop Coxe, of Western
New York.andlHerbert Welsb.of Philadelphia.
Wednesday, October 229 A. jr. lloly Com
munion at Trinity Church, Pittsburg, followed
by business meeting of the council. Subject.
'Foreign Missions and Mexico." 12.20 to 1 p.
M. Popular missionary meeting at Trmitv
Chnrch. Pittsburg. Speiker, Bishop Tuttle of
Missouri. 3 to 6 P. jr. Business meottng,
colored missions and church builolne fund.
At Carnegie Hall Meeting or the Handay
schools of the two cities. 8 p. jr. Popular
missionary meeting at Calvary Church, East
End. Speakers, Bishop Whitaker, of Penn
sylvania, and Rev. L. S. Osborne, of Newark,
N. J. 8 P. K. Popular missionary meetinjr at
Carnegie Hall, Allegheny. Speakers, Bishop
Dudley, of Kentucky, and Rev. J. S. Lindsay,
D. D.. of Boston, Mass.
Thursday, uctooer 23, u A. jr. Holy Com
munion at Trinity Chnrch, followed by sessions
of the council, miscellineoaa and unfinished
husiness;12.20 to Ip. jr. Popular misionay meot
inc at Trinity Church. Speakers, Bishop Pot
ter, of New York, and Bishop Gilbert, of Min
nesota. Friday, October 24, 10:30 A. It All day meet
ing of woman's Auxiliary to the Board of
Missions, addresses by Miss Carter, Miss
Emery, Miss Spencer and others.
The delegates, bishops and others coming
to the city to attend the council will be en
tertained at the residences of the members
of the local churches, at the Dnquesne club,
at the Duquesne Hotel and at the Monnnea
hela House. It is expected that at least 200
strangers will be in the city. No one is ex
pected to arrive to-day but to-morrow those
who have not already arrived will be here.
END 07 A TRAGEDY.
An English Murderess, Acquitted, Will Now
Go on the Stage.
Atlanta, October 18. Mrs. Lillian M.
Gould, on trial at Murphy, N. C, charged
with the murder oi her husband, has been
acquitted.
- Gould was an Englishman of good fam
ily who married beneath his station and
neglected his wife for years. For six
years Gould had been in America, while
his wife, who was In England on a
beggarly allowance, was Ignorant of his
whereabouts. She was permitted to come
to him in Georgia last March, when the
couple went to Murphy, N. ft, where
they lived in a house in an iso
lated spot. On the 7th of July
the couple were drunk, and the wife, in a
drunken frenzy, stabbed the husband with a
toy dagger, inflicting a ratal wound, from
which he died that night. The wife now
proposes to go on tbe stage.
Passed Through Pittsburg.
The remains ot Justice Miller were taken
through Pittsburg yesterday on the way to
Keokuk. The train was made up of three
special cars. Outside of the relatives Chief
Justice Fuller, Justice Brewer, Attorney
General Miller and a number of court offi
cials were on board. The body will be
buried in lows shortly after the arrival
there.
CAUGHT CLUHY.
Life in the Highlands Where
Pittsburg's Iron King
Spends the Summer.
GUESTS RISE TO MUSIC
Of Scotch Pipers, Who March Thrice
Bonnd the Castle Walls.
BEITOS'S BRIGHTEST INTELLECTS
Gather There and Glow Under the Htimnlns
of American Wit.
IilBEEAHTT OP THE HOST AND HOSTESS
rcoBBXsroxpxxci or ths disfatcbi
EDiNBtJEorr, October 10. You certainly
have Andrew Carnegie at his best when yon
seejhim in his Highland home in Scotland,
surrounded by his chosen friends, and find
ing his chief happiness in making others
happy. There all the best qualities of the
man come out in strong relief, his geniality,
his humor, his strong common sense and his
boundless hospitality. His guests are mads
to feel themselves thoroughly at home.
Though plans are made for the common
good, the carrying out of these plans does
not interfere with individnal liberty, and
that is a very near approach to real hos
pitality. It need hardly he said that Mr. Carnegie
is most efficiently aided in hs kindly efforts)
by his charming wife. That is scarcely a
fair way to put it Withont her it would
be impossible for him to do what he does, so
fully has she realized, and so admirably does
she discharge, the duties of hostess. A few
words must be said about the location of
this highland home of the Carnegies. For
the last two or three years they have occu
pied during the summer season Cluny
Castle, the ancestral seat of the Cluny Mo
Phersons, in the famous district of Ifl
vernessshire called Badenoch.
HOW HE 13 LOCATED.
The castle stands on the left bank of the
Spey on the side of a broad and rieh valley
north of the Grampian Mountains. It is
eight miles from Kingussie, a favorite sum
mer resort on the Highland Eailway, and
six from Dalwbinnie on the same line, the
highest railway in the British Isles. Cluny
itself stands high, being upward of 900 feet
above sea level, and enjoying therefore very
strong, pure air. Tbe scenery around it i
magnificent. The house is embedded in
woods which would not suffer from being
trimmed; and mountains upward of 3,000
leet high look down on it from all sides.
Through the valley flows the Spey, fed by
numerous brooks which brawl and bicker
down the hillsides. The present house is
modern. It is a solid square block, built
throughont with gray granite, and with tba
turrets of the same material at the corners.
The old castle was burned down by the roy
alists after Colloder in 1746. The McPher
sons have been a long-lived race. Tha
grand old Cluny last of the chieftains
who died four years ago, after having held
the property for 70 years, was only second
in descent from the Jacobite exile.
HIGHLAND PIPEE3 OALOEE.
It is here that Andrew Carnegie, the un
compromising Eepublican, hold his stata
and plays the part of a highland chieftain
in the midst of feudal traditions and Jaco
bite relics. He does not wear the kilt him
self, bnt he takes .care that some of his re
tainers do. He does not yet speak Gxlic,
but his gamekeepers and giilie3 ire mora
tamiliar with that tongue than withjthe
English. He has also his pipers, and he
thoronghly enjoys the music they discourse.
The sound of the pipes is tbe first thing yoa
hear in the morning, and you may hear it
if you like all day long, more or less.
The household is awakened every morn
ing by a piper marching three times round
the castle and playing reels and strath
speys, varied with "Hey, Johnny Cope"
and "Jennie's Bawbee." You are startled
by the first blast under your window, but
the sound is pleasant, and even soothing, as
it dies away in the distance. You have just
dropped oil into a deligbttul snooze when
the growing swell of tbe pipes rudely re
calls yon to consciousness. By the time
that this process has leen repeated tbrics
yon are pretty wide awake. At dinner time
also the pipes play an important part. A
piper in tnll canonicals marches from the
drawing room to tbn dining room, and, as
the distance is short, the company marches
three times ronnd the entrance hall to the
enlivening strains of "Tnllochgornm" be
fore entering the dining room.
DLNNEE AT CLUNT.
At dinner, as at other meals, yon art
waited on bya butler iu swallowtails and
by footmen in kilts, a combination of the
Saxon and Celtic civilizations which is in
genious and admirable. Though the dinner
hour is 7 o'clock, Mrs. Carnegie dispenses
with evening dres3 on ordinary occasions.
She doe3 not approve of bringing city fash
ions into the country, but prefers a homely
style. Of course, there are some men who
cannot dine except in evening dress, and
they are excused. Tbe style ot living par
takes of the same pleasant and sensible
homeliness. It is simple and elegant and
entirely unpretentious in the matter both of
meats and drinks.
Costly delicacies are eonspicnons by their
absence. In proof of this I may mention
that the fish course one day consisted of
trout caught in a neighboring brook, and
the next of herrings, which Andrew thinks
the finest of all fish. Only a millionaire can
venture on such boldness. Similarly, the
dessert consisted almost entirely of the fruits
of the castle gardens, such as gooseberries
and strawberries. The breakfast table also
is plain and served in the good old Scottish
fashion. The only foreign element is the
course of iruit, with which it begins ia tha
American manner, but the fruit is again
gooseberries and strawberries, not melons,
bananas or grapes. Then follows a course
of oatmeal porridge, supped with dainty
black horn spoons, each of which bears tha
name "Cluny" on a tinv silver plate. As
each gnest leaves the castle Mrs. Carnegie
presents him with the spoon be has used as
a memento of his visit.
the coaiPAirr m bbilliaitt.
At these meals there is no lack of tha
feast of reason ard the flow of soul. At
least if there be, it is not the fault either of
the host or the hostess. Mr. Carnegie is
then in the highest spirits, and he keeps tha
table alive with anecdote and banter and
with talk. He tikes care to surronnd him
self with very good company, so that neither
his wit nor theirs is likely to tall fiat for
lack ol due appreciation. There you meet
members oi Parliament,Iiterary men.artiiU,
musicians, and pretty and brilliant women.
When he has as his guests men like John
Morley, and Prof Blackie, and Henry
Fowler, and Sir Walter Foster, and Colin
Hnnter, he is perfectly happy.
When yoa have two or three M. P.'s tha
talk often degenerates into the House of
Commons gossip. Now there is onthing that
Andrew Carnegie dislikes so much, or sets
himself so determinedly against, as talk
ing shop, and when he sees matters going
too far in that direction h very adroitly
turns the conversation into a new channel
bv telling an amusing story or by startlnr st
new subject Once I heard Mm crHto