THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SECOND PART. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1890. PAGES 9 TO 12 v - - CAP1TALPATR1AFSCHS, Historian Bancroft Now at His Washington Home for the Winter. HE IS YET HARD AT WORK, Having Completed Bis Labors Down to Polk's Administration. SENATOR MORRILL STILL HEARTY, Although He Has Broken All Eecords in the Length of Service. HOW HE CAME TO STDDI THE TARIFF rCOEEtsrOXDEXCE or TUB D16rATCH.l Washington, October 50. Fall has come, for Mr. Bancroft, the historian, has returned to Washington. Since he leit the roses in his garden on II street to spend the cummer at Newport, he has passed another golden milestone in life, having reached his 90th birthday the 3d of this month. If his snowy hair and beard is whiter or his spare figure anr Jess vigorous, his old neighbors do not perceive it. He frequents the old familiar haunts, riding or walking as his pleasure commands, seeking out old friends, noting the passing changes which the city undergoes in this busy age, and displays an interest in all as keen and abiding as if he were entering onlvupon his third score ol rears instead of the last decimal of the cen- ji'r. Bancroft's home is one of the land marks of Washington. No cabman is properly educated until he learns where it is, and the visiting tourist who is not allowed a jog-trot glance at it fares badly indeed. The house is one of the old-time structures bm t i.rj. square ana piain ntsllrtan Bancroft The seconil fhor belongs to the historian or he belongs to it "With the exception of one chamber it is devoted to books. Mr. Bancroft's workroom is a Jarge front room fronting south. Its walls have not oeen papered for half a century. Indeed, no body has seen the walls since Mr. Bancroft took possession. BOOKS OK KTEET SIDE. They are surfa-ed with the costliest decorations ever devised since man first dabbled in rcstheticv. On all sides are hooks. The ceiling alone escapes the deluge of literature. The massive table where the nonogenarian write or dictates is piled high with the latest tomes from England and Germany. In the corners of the room me high towers of volumes, and in the middle spaces of the room are numerous islands of history, biography and science. Opening to the east is another equally lnrge room and that, too, is a mass, of books.tr Here and there stand flower pots with new roses or chrysanthemums making experimental growth under the critical eye of their master who, besides being 3 historian, is one of the best indoor and outdoor gardeners in America. ".Little Bancroft," as his classmates -at Harvard called him 75 years ago, spends the greater part of his precious time in his w ork room or library. He rises arly for an old man at 8 and before the schoolchildren are well on their way to their daily tasks, he has breakfasted and is making the tour of his upstairs flower garden, and a few min utes later is at his desk reading ordictatiug. He is still toying with Shakespeare and working into shape the story of President Polk's administration. Of course at this extreme age his progress is slow, but like the real literary hero that he is it is sure, ami the world will be the richer for the toil he is doing as the shadows of the century fall about him. a.t susiBEn op visitors. Mr. Bancrolt's visitors are numerous and he always holds himself ready to receive up to the limit of hie strength. His conversa tion is simple and unassuming. You find him dressed neatly in black, a small spare man with a face covered with wrinkles piled on each other in concentric masses that remind you of the rings that mark the growth of trees. His hair is like the snow and his long beard seems a burden for a man so small and aged. He is always ready to talk. Do vou like "Washington? Do you like the President? Do you think he is a just man trying to do right? Mr. Bancroft is still a Democrat, and he is sure to say something good of President Cleveland and coin a compliment for Mrs. Cleveland that would be worthy of a knight errant. He will very likely ask you if vou are fond 01 flowers and lead you around the room to look at his choice specimens. The magnificent yellow chrysanthemum in his south window is his special pride. The kindliness of Mr. Bancroft's nature displays itself in his willing surrender to the autograph fiend. I called on him not long ago with the first volumeof my Ban croit in my hand. I have never read the .a mous history, for I do not want to impeach that witty description attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, who 6aid Mr. Bancroft was the famous man who had written a work that would never be read through. WILLING TO OBLIGE. The book on my arm was perhaps the open sesame to the old scholar's heart. I said I desired his name on itsflyleaf. forlintended some time in the future to give it to mv son as the -oundanon of his library when he should drop out of the paternal nest and take himself off to college. "Ah, that is a true father's thoughtful ness!' satd the historian, his dim blue eye kindling with appreciation of mv compli ment. "Such a chance seldom comes to an an- Luut, '. iw uuiif ma iaoie ana Dean to search along the walls of bookc. Hold ing his lace close to the serried lines of bacKS anu uucs lie pulled out volume after volume but seemed never to find what he was looking for. "I want a line I remember from Goethe," he said at length. "I ought to remember the German, but I don't." He made half the circuit of the room and finally drew a little gold edged book nerv ously from the shelf. "Here it is!" he cried. "It is simple t d brief. I ralchl have remembered it seems to me. But memory is fickle always." lie opened the little a uodecimo, fingered its leaves anxiously, and when he found the passage he sought, turned the open book lace down and took up a quill pea. Then he wrote: "Happy is the father who has a son to love." Beneath this, slowly and firmly he wrote his name, then below that and to the left of the line: " Aelat an. 90, dies 23." A PECULIAE AUTOGRAPH. This is one of the old scholar's idiosyn cracies. Since his age has become remark able he puts a charming little premium on longevity by adding his age to his autograph, even noting down months and days. May he long continue to do sol The withered hand that writes the treasured autograph has made history in deeds as well as in words. Mr. Bancroft, as Acting Secretary of "War, issued the order to march into Texas, and so caused the Mexican war. It was his order that caused the seizure of Cilifornia. He established the naval academy at Annapo Senator Mo'-rilU lis. "While Minister to England his di plomacv brought about the settlement of tt-.e .Northwestern boundard qnestion, and while Minister to Germany he established the right of the immigrant to America to abjure his allegiance to his native land, and so opened wide the doors for the greatest emicrHtion from one part of tho world to another ever known in all history. Mr. Bancroft suffers now and then from n cold, but his mental and physical tenacity usually carry him past such inadvertences, and he seems likely to round out the cen tury. He eats two meals a day, dieting on simple, elementary foods, preferring oat meal, white bread and pure white wines. He takes in a good deal of fresh air, and may be seen on all fair days with his Ger man secretary walking about the streets en joying himself thoroughly. ELECTED SENATOR ITVE TIMES. Another monument towering o'er the wrecks of public life is Justin S. Morrill, who has for the filth time been elected to the United States Senate. On the third of last December he completed 35 long years of ser vice in Congress. " Of this 12 were spent in the House and 23 in the Senate. "When ADril comes again he will be 81 years old. No other man was ever elected to the United States Senate after passing tbe eightieth birthday. His four score years sit lightly upon him, though his tall, spare form is bent and he has suffered severe illness at times during the past year. Yet he has at tended the sessions of the Senate, taken an active part in debate, and in the committee room has brought to tbe discussion of the tariff tbe cumulative force of his long years of experience in financial legislation. "When Mr. Morrill came to Congress in the prime of life, rich from keeping a coun try store in a small Vermont town, he knew nothing of the tariff. He was in Congress one whole term before he paid any attention to it, and even then wonld not have thought twice of making a study of the tariff hut lor a singular circumstance. James li. Orr was Speaker of the Thirty fifth Congress, and in making up his com mittees he tried to put the weakest Repub licans he could think of on the Ways and Means Committee. He chose Mr. Morrill as the New England member. The spare, thin-faced Yankee merchant seemed to him not a person to cause much trouble in the committee-room when the questions of the proposed low tariff were discussed. a speakek's mistake. But Mr. Orr caught a Tartar. Mr. Mor rill buckled down to hard study, and four years later he was the author of the Morrill tariff, and had earned the title of "Father of the tariff," which he wears to-day. He was also the father of the agricultural col leges of the country, laying foundations that some day will bear worthy superstructures. Mr. Morrill, when in 'Washington, lives in one of the plcasantest homes on Massa chusetts avenue at the intersection with Vermont avenue and Fourteenth street, his next door neighbor being Senator Allison. The plain old brick house looks out to the north and east over Thomas circle. It is the frequent scene of cheery old-fashioned hospitalities, and every one who has once enjoyed one of the 40 dishes which Senator Morrill can himself cook from Iudiau corn, treasures the memory of it as one of the most important experiences of a life time. If the aged Senator survives the term for which he has just been elected he will be 8G years old, aud if he retains his strength and vitality as well as he has in the past ten years he may fitly be a candidate for his sixth election to the Senate. He has long ago surpassed Tom Benton's remarkable period 01 public service. AS AN AUTHOR. Besides finance the senior Vermont Sena tor loves books, and his houses at Wasbintr- ton and at Stratford, Vt., are full of them. He is himself the author of just such a quaint work as might be expected from such a cannv, dry-witted old fellow. Its title is "Self-Consciousness of Noted lien," and it ranges from Thucydides to Garfield. The Senatorial 'author refrains carernllv from giving specimens of cotemporaneousH sen-consciousness, ana, as 10 nimself, says nothing, simply vouchsafing this hint: "All unite in the Scotchman's prayer 'Good Lord give us a guid conceit o' ourseis,' but all should agree with the ancients that 'it is not becoming to sacrifice to our heroes till after sunset.'" Julius A. Teuesdell. THE Ghost Dance of the Sioux in honor of the new Indian Messiah, will he fully de scribed in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. The writer Is Relieved to bo the first white man who ever witnessed this weird performance. The dance is the prelude to what promises to be the greatest Indian uprising of recent times. Tw enty rages. largest Circulation. STATE OF, THE UHI0N PACIFIC. "What President Adams Has to Say of tho Present Situation. Chicago, October 31. In an interview to-day concerning the Union Pacific Kail road President Adams said: "We have made every arrangement with our Eist ern connections to amply protect our traffic. We have no apprehension that other lines in the long run will decline to participate in this traffic on these terms. If the existing rates are sustained no line will hare any cause of complaint. The difference, about which so much talk has been made, is purely temporary, and in our judgment by no means a serious one. "The Union Pacific, in common with all the other roads of the couutry, has sus tained a very great loss of traffic this year and a corresponding loss of income, from the fact that all Eastern machine shops have been overcrowded with orders. The gross earn ings of the company for the current month of October will be probably somewhere be tween (54.000,000 and $5,000,000. Had we had the motive power and equipment which was ordered s:x months ago, we might juct as well have eurned for October a rising of $5,000,000 instead of rising $4,000,000." Men's kid walking gloves. James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Fifth are. . WINTER WALKING LIKELY TO BE GOOD, IF WE HAVE SOME FAIR WEATHER. A Number of East End Streets Fixed Up or Under Way Pushing tho Work to Com pletion Reletting the Craig Street Con tractBenefits of Car Tracks. Mayor Gourley is of the opinion that the streets of the East End will be in very bad shape this winter. This view is .not alto gether borne out by the Department of Pub lic Works. His Honor, however, holds that it is largely the fault of the property holders. They refuse to sign petitions for paving and grading the streets they live on, and then kick about the mud. Another trouble that worries the Department of Awards is that the petitioners often fail to agree upon the character of the pavement to be used. Many of them insist on firebrick, and this material the Department of Public Works has decided to be unsuited for the streets of Pittsburg, where heavier loads are hauled than any other city in the country. His Honor says, and he generally knows what he is talkincr about, that there has been more paving done in the East End this year than in the preceding five years. Among the highways in the East End graded and paved, or on which this work is being done are Amberson avenue, Aiken avenue. Cope land street, Westminster street, Roup street, Morewood avenue, Center avenue, Dennis ton avenue, Carnegie street, Fifty-first street, Keystone street, Garden street and Holmes street The cost of this work falls upon the abntting property holders, and not npon the city. Among the streets which have been or are being repaved are Ellsworth avenue, Pcnn avenue from the forks of the road to the city line. North Highland avenue, Stanton ave nue, Edraundsstreet and Frankstown ave nue. WEST END IMPROVEMENTS. In the West End the work of paving Wabash avenue is being pushed, and on the Southside heights several streets are being paved, among them Grandview avenue. President Holliday, of Common Council, who lives in the Thirty-fifth ward, says that some of the streets up there are in fairly good condition, but others are almost im passable. Walnut street, Sbadyside, is in a bad con dition, but the property holders will not petition lor the paving of the thoronghfare. They will benefit lareely by the actiou of the Duquesne Traction Company, which will run a track down this street, and will pave between the rails and one foot on either side with Belgian block. Chief Clerk Bingaman, of the Depart ment of Public Works, said yesterday: "I think we will have the streets in very fair shape this winter. The rainy weather has hindered us terribly and kept the work back, but now, if we have a little dry weather, everything will be cleaned up and put into shape. The contractors have been losing money op their contracts. They have been working in the rain and mud, and much of the work has to be done over sev eral times. Of course the streets are in a bad condition where the work is only par tially completed, but I think all the con tracts now under wav will be completed this fall." Booth & Flinn, who are paving several East End streets, are laying heavy plank sidewalds for the benefit of pedestrians un til the work is completed. CRAIG STREET UP AGAIN. The Department of Awards met yester day afternoon and opened bids for the pav ing and curbing of a number of streets, but the bids were referred to Clerk Bingaman lor tabulation and the contracts will be let at the next meeting. Among the bids opened there were several for the paving andcurbingaf, Craig-street, which improvement has been for two years delayed on account of. a contest among the property holders whether the street should be paved by Booth & Flinn or another and lower bidder. The decision of the Supreme Court, rendered three weeks aco, settled the matter as far as the contract was concerned and it was readvertised. The street will now he paved and it is more than probable from the bids offered yesterday that Booth & Flinn will get it to do. Other bids opened were for paving Thirty sixth " street, from Charlotte to Kailroad; Virginia avenue, ivearsarce to Wyoming; Woolsfaver alley, Thirty-seventh to Thirty eighth streets; Poe alley, Filty-second to McCandless streets; Hopper alley, Overhill to Koberts streets; Clark alley, Overhill to Boberts streets. Mayor Gourley did not visit the ground on the Marbnry street vacation in the Four teenth ward yesterday, but says he will not sign the ordinance until he gets time to per sonally investigate. The Board 01 Viewers were out yesterday making assessments on sewers on Webster avenue ard Kirkpatrick street FATHEB AND SOU UNITED. A Runaway Boy Who Returns With a Bride to Find a Fortune. Kolston Maxwell and his father were united yesterday after a separation of 18 years. William Maxwell, the father, is a farmer in Washington county, near Bur gettstown. When 10 years old Bolston ran away from home and went West After some years he returned to Pennsylvania and settled in Rostraver township, West moreland county. He fell in love with a neighbor's daughter, and they came to Pitts burg to be married. The notice of the marriage license was seen by the lather, and he at once started in search of his son, and found him yesterday. During his absence Kolston's grandfather has died, leaving him several thousand dol lars. THE CODHrs HARROW ESCAPE From Being Crushed to Death Between the Wheels of His Train. New York, October 31. The Comte de Paris had a narrow escape from a horrible death during his journey from Montreal to New York yesterday. At PlattsBurg the Count got off the train with others to get some lunch at tne railroad station. Not understanding the signal for departure, he remained on the platform until the train was fairly in motion. Then he made a spring for the high platform of the Wagner car. He missed the guard rail with one hand,, but, holdiuz on with the other, swung in between the oar platforms. For an instant it seemed inevitable that he wonld fall and be torn to pieces. Several trainmen, however, rushed to theirescue and succeeded in hauling him on to the plat form. COMBINATION, OR CONSOLIDATION! Rumored Arrangement Between the B. & O. and Northern Pacific Chicago, October 31. Beports are again circulating of important negotiations in progress between the Baltimore and Ohio and the Northern Pacific roads for an agreement offensive and defensive which, if consummated, will practically amount to a consolidation of the two sys tems. It is said that a close traffic contract has been drawn up and agreed to by both roads, covering both ireight and passenger business. . ' The arrangement will be very similar to that now in operation between the Chicago and Northwestern and the Union Pacifio roads. Country Store Burglarized. Inspector McAleese received a telegram from Tresher & Schad, drygoods merchants at Irwin, Pa., stating that their store at Irwin station had been robbed, and that two of the thieves with two webs of silk warp henrietta Bilk were on their way to this citv. EXPOSITION AND ART. Some Criticisms and Suggestions Concerning the Gallery. STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. A Kumber of Good Pictures Were Upon the Walla This Tear, bat TOO HANI 01? A MEDIOCRE Q0ALITX fWBlTTXn FOB TUB DISPATCH. At first glance we may seem a little late to critically discuss the recent Exposition collection of paintings. I fear it will so appear to the editor of The Dispatch, who honored me with an invitation to write upon this subject more than a month ago. A paiuter cannot, however, even though he feel an interest in the development of testhetic taste in the community, lay aside his brush in the very heat of the harvest time to write for publication. The influence of a collection of paint ings exhibited during six successive weeks, aud viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, is 'of almost paramount impor tance, and, as this influence is not spent in a day, the topic may still be considered timely. It is from the educational stand point that an exhibition of art works is of highest importance, and it is beyond dis pute that a widening influence is always ex erted by such exhibitions. u A PROFOUND IMPEESSION. Indeed such is the popular method of art education, and as such this means should be jealously guarded. The most profound im pression, aesthetically, ever made upon the people of these cities was that exerted by the Loan Art Exhibition which graced the opening of the Carnegie Free Library in Allegheny. The influence of that notable collection cannot be overestimated. Therefore, many of our people had enjoyed little opportunity of examining the collective works of for eign painters, or of discovering by compari son and research the higher qualities which exist despite the wide difference in treat ment and subject. This privilege was en joyed by the lew who could make frequent pilgrimages to New York and Washington, and who had the entree into the private galleries in tbe East The Carnegie loan exhibition offered the golden opportunity at home, and tbe tre mendous pressure upon the art gallery set forever at rest all questions touch ing the earnest desire of our peo ple) "to enjoy and understand the creations of art It did more it fixed, for all who carefully and thoughtfully studied the works there exhibited, a high standard, and at least this number of people will never be satisfied with an inferior col lection of paintings. Tbe pictures parted with this influence, and are unless valuable. Our people experienced a great testhetic impulse, and theconsciousness of increased capacity for enjoyment, and are vastly richer. It is this thought which makes the dedication of an art gallery or library to public use grand. THE final estimate. Of course in the examination of any col lection of paintings the final estimate is de pendent upon some standard of judgment deliberately or unconsciously adopted. There is a wide difference between the original application of the word art, derived, as it was, from the Greek, or probably, Aryan word, which meant to plow, and which, in this sense, was intended to de scribe any jacxpt dexterity; and tbe more modern application of the word, as used bv Palixenes, when she reminds Perdita that "there is an art which doth mend nature change It, rather, but the art itself is na ture." If we" accept the standard which requires dexterity simply, the careful reproduction of objects and colors upon canvas.then there was a reasonable percentage of merit in the Exposition collection of paintings. If, on the other hand, we adopt the higher standard of judgment, then simple hon esty compels me, since my opinion has been asked, fo say that the collection as a whole was a very inferior one. It is just ns ncii bu suiie jacis ui mis Kino piaiuiv. Iu all that pertains to art our citv has made rapid progress in the past few "years, and the most potent influence for good has been that exertedby paintings of sterling worth. A common interest in the development of sesthetio taste in our midst should prompt us all to seek only the truth in relation to any collection of paintings exhibited. Nothing is ever gained by dissimulation. NO INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSION. It is not my purpose to discuss the pictures 01 the collection individuallv. Nothing is to be gained at this time by" review of that kind. A considerable num ber are very good, comparatively few pos sessed any of the highest qualities, and a large majority of the entire collection were of very mediocre quality. A large majority of any collection, of course, give to the col lection its distinctive character. It is a pity that through motives of econ omy, or for any reason whatever, a collec tion of this kind should be exhibited to such a vast multitude of people. One of the highest purposes of the Exposition is that of education. If the musia and art fur nished by the Exposition Society each year is of a high order the influence will be great, because the opportunity for exerting such influence is magnificent. It may be replied that the highest class of paintings cannot be secured for an art exhi bition connected with an industrial exposi tion, but the St. Louis Exposition Society secured this year one of Munkacsy's impor tant works, the "Death of Mozart," and a large number of works by the most eminent painters of the Barbizon school. Pittsburg is destined to be an art city ot no mean pre tensions, and these matters are worthy of our most careful and conscientious consider ation. John W. Beattt. THE Children's Department for THE DIS PATCH'S Sunday Issue is always made as at tractive as possible. Pajsie'B translations are clever and pleasing. The Puzzle Depart ment is the best procurable. Twenty Pages. Largest Circulation. H00SIERS IN CHICAGO. Tho Sons of Indiana Will Organize a Society This Month. Chicago, October 30. Indianians who are residents of Chicago will have an associ ation to be known as ihe "Sons of Indi ana." Last Tuesday evening n meeting was held for the purpose of preliminary organi zation, but owing to inclement weather the meeting was postponed until Tuesday even ing, November 11. Since the adjournment of tbe first meet ing, Messrs. Alfred Moore. C. F. Sheldon and L. P. Conpland, sons of Indiana resi dent in Chicago, have set about ascertaining the names and residences of Indianians res ident in Chicago. It has been ascertained that many reside here, and all are to be In vited to the Shcrmnn House meeting. MINERS W0ST STRIKE. The Indiana Convention Decides to Abide by Their Agreement Teebe Haute, October 31. A dele gate convention of Indiana miners, began its sittings here to-day, under the auspices of the United Mine Workers' Union. Many of the delegates represent unorganized liners. The conservative element ruled, and the convention decided to stand by the contract signed in tbe spring with the operators, and will not demand an advance in wages. The contention adjourned at noon, THREE COLTS POISONED. SCOUNDRELS AT WORK IN NORTH FAY ETTE TOWNSHIP. Stomachs of the Animals Entirely Destroyed by Strychnine or Lead Wild Cherry Leaves Hooted at Robinson Township Formers Troubled by a Dog Poisoner. People" iu the neighborhood of Imperial were in a ferment yesterday morning re garding what appeared to be a case of fiend ishness in North Fayette township. Dur ing the night a valuable colt belonging to William Armstrong, who lives on the Miller farm, died and two others were found to be very sick. Soon after daylight a sscond died and the third during the fore noon. Dr. Crawford examined the animals and stated that they bad been poisoned, but he would not say by what kind of poison. It was thought it might be either strychnine or lead. Dr. N. Eecktenwald, a veterinary surgeon of the Southside, was sent for and he brought the animals' stomachs' to the city for analysis. He said the lining of the stomachs was entirely destroyed. The colts were Hambletonians worth con siderable money enough to wipe out Mr. Armstrong's profits for one year at least He makes a specialty of fine stock. Some people in the vicinity speak lightly of the matter and sav the animals were poisoned by eating wifd cherry leaves and bark, but the explanation does not seem plausible in view of Dr. Recktenwald's statement that the coating of the stomachs was eaten away. Beside wild cherry grows all over that section and no other in stances of horse poisoning are reported though there are hundreds running in pas tures where it abounds, and no horse is likely to eat enough wild cherry to poison him when he can get other green food. Some scoundrel has been poisoning dog? in Robinson township, and suspicion points to a certain individnal, but he is not likely to have anv motive sufficient to take him to North Fayette. A short time since a dog poisoner was operating in Stowe township, but from the way his work was distributed it was supposed he was animated by pure cussedness and was not wreaking his malice on any one in particular. Mr. Armstrong stated that he hadn't the least suspicion of any person. He stated that he had some trouble with a neighbor some time ago, but would not for a moment suppose his antagonist mean enough to do a dastardly act of any kind. People about Imperial were talking of offering a reward for the apprehension of the scoundrel, and there is no doubt that they would pay hand somely for knowledge that would convict In the northern part of Indiana county there has been of late a reign of terror. Horses have been poisoned at intervals for years, and some were mntilated by having their tongues cut out. The poisoner is also supposed to be the cause of the burning of several barns in Indiana county. ANOTHER CIRCULAR NAILED. Why Governor Pattison Vetoed the Mercy Hospital Appropriation He Merely Obeyed the Law An Explanation From Ex-Postmaster Larkin. The Republican State Committee has issued a circular charging ex-Governor Pat tison with having vetoed the Mercy Hos pital appropriation on religious grounds. The circulars are being sent to Catholics everywhere, with the hope of arraying tbat denomination against him. The following letter explains Governor Pattison's position: To the Editor of The Dispatch: The charge that Governor Pattison vetoed the Mercy Hospital appropriation on account or its sectarian character is a vile slander on a liberal, high-minded ccntleman, and Is without an atom ot truth. When this worthy institu tion was In greatest need Governor Pattison was Irs friend. During tbe Legislative session of 18K2 the directors of Mercy Hospital, one halt of whom are Protestant centlemen, made application to the Stato for 30,000 for bnildine purposes, ine unopirai was crowded, and. as it was one of the oldest and best Institutions in this citv. ana bad always opened Its doors to every race and sect, rich and poor alike, tbe request was respected and Governor Pattison signed the bill. At that time we were ignor ant ot tlm law, and did not ask for the ncproval of the State Board ot Chanties, until the time for such npprovaMiad expired. In consideration, however, of tho meritorious character of tbo institution, an examination of the proposed improvements, and their neces sity was made, and a supplemental report made to the Legislature favoring tho grant We were then advised Dy the State Board of Chari ties that any further appeals must be made through that body at least 60 davs before tbe Legislature convened, as required by law. In 1884 (I must depond on memorv for dates), notwithstanding we had raised $30,000 by pri vate subscription in addition to the 530,000 given us by tbe State in 18S2, wo were again compelled to ask for State aid and again neg lected to eomp'y with thelawasto tne time fixed hy tho act. The Board of Chanties again very kindly approved of tho charity, and sent a sup plemental report to the Legislature. The bill was passed and vetoed for the reason that the revenues of the State were not large enough to meet the amounrs appropriated tn State Insti tutions, whoso applications were made accord ing to law, and within the time required by the act. Governor Pattison treated tbo late Colonel James P. Barr, T. D. Casey. Mr. O'Lcary, myself and other members of tne Board ot Di rectors with the utmost courtesy and consider ation, and bis reasons were consistent and en tirely satisfactory. The fault was our own, and there is not now and never has been any complaint against Governor Pattison for his action. His whole course was that of a man who wanted to do right, and to discharge his duty as the law re quired it should be. Tbe attempt to misrepresent him and to accuse him of un worthy motives will meet with the jnst Indig nations of fair-minded men everywhere, and no respectablo man In this community would at tach his signature to such a statement. I was a member of the Board of Directors at that time and a member now. and this statement of facts Is In the inteicst ot an honest, courageous public officer whose every public act 13 as un assailable as his personal integrity. 1'iTTsnuno, October SO. J. B. Larkin. POLITICS of tho Presidents and interest ing gossip about their lives In the White House are admirably treated forTO-3IOK-KOW'S DISPATCH by Frank G. Carpenter. Tho letter contains some entirely new facts, and is worthy of a place among recent his torical works. Twenty 8-column pages. ESCAPED FROM SD3EHIA. The Exiles Are Greatly Encouraged by American Sympathy. London, October 31. A Russian named Kelchvitsky, who succeeded in making his escape from Siberia after having served 14 years there, has arrived iu this city. He was arrested iu Vitna, when only 18 years of age, on suspicion of having in his pos session revolutionary doenmeuts and of being concerned in a conspiracy against the Government. M. Kelchvitsky is unwilling as yet to publish an account of his life in exile and his escape, for fear that by doing so he will endanger bis comrades left in Siberia. He states that the exiles there are greatly en couraged by the expressions of sympathy with them" in their late by the American people, and claims that the Russian Gov ernment is much disturbed thereby. SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC. End of an Escaped Maniac From the Michi gan Insane Asylum. St. Johns, N. B., October 31. A luna tic named Blais, who escaped some time ago from a Michigan asylum, and who on Wednesday morning last committed a mur derous assault upon Constable Lareau and Joseph Lajeuse in Lacolle, was this morn ing found dead, haying committed suicide by twisting pieces of his sheet into a rope and hanging himself with it from an iron bar in the corridor of the jail. SOUTH AMEBIC AN travel is an absorbing subject. Fannie B. Ward, THE DISPATCH correspondent, is now on the Western coast One of her best letters will appear to-morrow morning. Largest Circulation. Twenty Pages, CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR The Almost Phenomenal Growth of the Society of That flame. AN OUTLINE OP THE MOVEMENT. Started in a Terj Hnmbla Manner Scarcely Ten leara Ago. COMING CONTENTION IN PITTSBURG The Pennsylvania State Convention of the United Society of Christian Endeavor will meet in tbe Fourth Baptist Church of this city next Wednesday. This is one of the most rcmarkabje movements of this country. Within ten years it has spread like wildfire. Christian Endeavor societies have been organized in every State in the Union, as well as in Canada, Great Britain and in many foreign lands. In the number ot societies in tbe country Pennsylvania ranks third, having 484. At the present time the total enrollment, rapid ly increasing, is nearly 12,000 societies, with a membership of over 700,000. These so cieties are becoming an important basis of supply for church membership. THE CHEISTIAN ENDEAVOE IEADEE. Little did Dr. F. E. Clark, the president of the organization think, when he organ ized the society ten years ago, of the vast proportions to which it would grow. He Rev. Charlet Wood, D. D. was then the pastor of a Congregational Church, in Portland, Me., and felt the need of enlisting his young people iu Christian work. Dr. Clark was born in Aylmer, Quebic, in 1851, but he was of Massachu setts descent for generations back. He graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1873, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1876. After being pastor some time in Port land, Me., he toot: charge of a Congrega tional Church in Boston, from which work he was called in 1887 to take control of the Christian Endeavor movement as its presi dent, and ' to become editor of the Golden Rule, the organ of the organization which has an euormous circulation. His work makes him a very busy man, and modest as he.is, with, great administrative ability, a competent leader, he is universally popu lar. He will be the most prominent actor in the Pittsburg convention. In 1880 there was a revival in the Port land Church under tbe ministry of Dr. Clark. A great-many young people came into "the church. The pastor and older members felt anxious to keep them from falling away, and felt to do this they mnst Rev. W. R. Harper, D. D. get them to work. They felt the Sunday school, the voung people's prayer meeting and the regular church prayer meeting was not sufficient to mold the character of the young converts. Hence it was the pastor drew up a constitution, essentially the same as the one in use to-day, and got his young people to sign it. From that on the history of the movement is one oft-told tale. For a long time the movement was confined to Congregational churches. A BROADER FIELD. For some years the convention and officers were of that denomination, and the Congre gatfonalists deserve full credit for originat ing and fostering the society. It has now, however,got a foothold iu all denominations and isespecially strong among the Presby terians and Methodists. Tbe latter have re cently organized a movement ot their own, calling It the Epworth League, aud are en deavoring to run in the Christian Endeavor societies, but with limited success. There is some agitation in Presbyterian circles for Rev. F. F. Clark, D. D. a Westminster League, but as yet the idea has no visible form. There are a great many Christian Endeavor societies in this city and the number is constantly increasing, and they are felt everywhere as a controlling in fluence in the church. The movement brings the young blood of the congregations into vigorous circulation. The Society of Christian Endeavor is not designed to be :ui organizition independent of the church. In Jai-t, its purpose is to enlist the wholo church iu work, especially for and with tbe youug. As the societies exist in all the Evangelical denominations, the basis of union is one of common accept ance. No doctrinal or ecclesiastical basis Wk F'ft is made prominent, but the religious feat ures of the constitution are made para mount All temperance and true moral re forms get sympathy, and especially the cause of missions at home and abroad, but hobbies aud 'cranks are not encouraged. The expenses of the society are chiefly in the dissemination of literature and in the sup port of a general secretary. a thousand delegates. More than 1,000 delegates, from all parts of the State, will be in attendance udou the convention in Pittsburg. Among the noted frff Rev. J. F. Patton. speakers will be Dr. F. E. Clark, or Boston, President of the United Society; Dr. Francis L. Patton, President ot Princeton College; Dr. Harper, ot Yale; Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, and Dr. Charles Wood, of Germantown, Pa. Dr. Wood is the clerical gentleman who made the sensation two weeks ago by his speech in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, in opposition to Dela mater. Dr. Harper is one of tho leaders in pro gressive theology and by his advanced views creates some consternation among the old-fashioned orthodoxers. It is not known whether he will indulge in higher criticism in Pittsburg. Over 1,000 delegates are ex pected to be in attendance, Philadelphia alone sending about 300. WAGES in England have been carefully investigated for THE DISPATCH by Colonel Frank A. Burr. Ho has gone among; the mechanics, talked to them and eaten meals In their houses, thus making himself thor oughly acquainted with the facts. See to morrow's 20-page Issue for the results of the investigation. Largest Circulation. STORY 0FA SABER NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF A NASHVILLE FAMILY. It Vfos Once the Property of A. 9IcD. Mc Cook From West Folnt to the Wild West-Itlse of a Cadet to Brigadier General. The appended letter from Nashville pos sesses much interest to many people in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and New York: Nashville, October Z). 189a To the Editor or The Dispatch: Dear Sir-Will yon please publish tho fact that an old saber is now In the possession of a family here, tbe saber tearing this inscription: "A. McD. McCook, Third U. a Infantry." There must be some of the McCook tamily yet about Pittsburg or in Ohio who would value tbo relic. Further information may be bad by addressing Mr. H. G. Herrick, Nashville, Tenn. Very truly yours, J. P. Dake. The writer is of the firm of J. P. Dake & Sons, physicians. The letter was shown Willis F. McCook, Esq., aud he said at once that Alexander McD. McCook was a cousin of bis father, Dr. George L. McCook, and, consequently, second cousin of the speaker. Mr. McCook said that Alexander lately commanded the Third U. S. Infantry, as Colonel, and is now a Brigadier General iu the regular service. He graduated at West Point, and then went West and fought Indians for some time, after which he was sent to West Point as an instructor, about 1858. When tbe rebellion began he asked to be assigned to active duty, and entered the volunteer service' as Lien tenant Colonel of the Second Ohio Infantry, succeeding Schenck as Colonel when the latter was appointed Minister to England. Colonel McCook rose from this position to Major General of Volunteers, and served under Sherman in the Army of the Cumber land. Alter the war he was chief of Sher man's staff, and on Sherman's retirement took command of his old regiment, the Third United States Bezulars. While stationed at Ft Douglas, Salt Lake Citv, he one day gave the Mormons five minutes' time in which to raise the Stars and Stripes on the Tabernacle under penalty of having it shelled. The gunners weie awaiting orders to fire, but the flag went up within the time prescribed. A PATERNAL government seems to he the tendency of the times according to a lawyer of tho Northwest who has talked entertain ingly to Charles T. Murray, one of THE DIS PATCH'S New York correspondents. It is a new idea. See to-morrow's mammoth Issue. All tho News. BEE KEEPERS ADJOURN. Their Next Meeting "Will he Held in Al bany, N. Y. Keokuk, October 31. At the last day's session of the International Bee Keep ers' Association the following offi cers were elected; P. H. El wood, Starkville, N. Y., President; Eugene Secor, Forest City, la., Vice President; C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, 111., Secretary; Ernest B. Boot, Medina, O., Treasurer. Albany was chosen as tbe place of next meeting. DEED OF A MANIAC. He Kills His Brothers-In-Law and Probably Commits Salcide. Westpobt, Cal., October 3L Frank Mason shot and killed Charles and Matthew Vann, his brothers-in-law, this morning, and fled to the woods. Other shots were heard, leading to a be lief that the murderer had committed sui cide. He is believed to be insane. DOOMED TO THE DEATH CHAIR. Wood is Denied a New Trial and Sentenced to Kemmler's Fate. New Yoek, October 31. Becorder Smyth to-day denied tbe motion for a new trial for Joseph Wood, the colored man who shot aud killed a man named. Euffin at Shaft 21, on the new aqueduct, April 17, 1889, and fixed tbe day of execution during the week begin ning Monday, December 1. An Agent Held for Court F. M. Stewart, the agent in charge of the Interstate Manufacturing Company, C33 Wood street, who was arrested on Thursday last on a charge of false pretense preferred against him by John Russell, of Allegheny, waived a hearing yesterday for trial at the December term of court, and gave bail in $3,000. . Camping In Palestine. Kev. C. C. Hayes, of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, "Camped Outin Pales tine" last night, interesting and instructing his audience on the features of the Bible lnnd. The lectnre was given in tbe Second U. P. Churcb, at the corner of Stockton avenue and Sandusky street, Allegheny, and the proceeds were for the benefit of Dr. Hays' church. $20,000,000 A YEAR Expended Upon the Game and fish Preserves of Scotland. THOUSANDS OP ACRES ARE IDLE Except as They Are Used Ij the Wealthy Sportsmen of England. A EICH YANKEE'S BIG LEASEHOLDS 1COREESPONDESCE or THS DISrATCHI ToaiiCH, Scotland, October 15. On coming face to face with the fact of the de population of rural Scotland, and especially of the Northern and Western Highlands, it is astounding that any system of land laws is permitted to exist which will work such fatal resnlts to a country. There must be a practical reason for all this, you feel. You dig and delve for that reason, and you are still more astounded. Inqnire where you may, there is iu effect but One answer: "Highlanders are not worth to the great landlords so many red deer. Crofters are of less account than partridges and rabbits. Human beings in the form of Scottish peasantry are les valuable than their weight in pheasants or fish!" Not satisfied with assertions and general ities, you delve and dig again, it is easy enough to find proof of depopulation. But it is difficult for the average American to realize how land proprietors can find ade quate compensation for the iSss of popula tion and its labor which ordinarily alone give to land the greatest value possible for it to possess. Agents and factors every where tell you that the income from hunt ing and fishiDg privileges is more than re paving proprietors. This seems so inex plicable that you delve and di a?ain. u I did, and finally arrive at some most as tounding fact3. The great overwhelming fact is that a greater area of land in Scot laud is now devoted to the exclusive pur pose of game reserves than is occupied by farmers for the exclusive cultivation of the soil, and that nine-tenths of all land and of all rods ot locb, brook or river shores in the kingdom are annually leased in shooting and fishing privileges to British sportsmen. TEASAItTS IX THE TV AY. Naturally Scottish peasantry are in the way of game and fish. But passing a dis cussion of the efiect of this land policy upon the sociologic and economic condition of Scotland, we Americans have no conception whatever ot tbe stupendous sums annually paid by British titled and gentleman SDOrts men for their few weeks' delights with rod and gun. The amounts received by single owners for single privileges are equallysurprising. Mrs. Chisholm, owner of the Chisholm estates, which border Strathglass here, must receive 14,000. I find that for 69shootingn and fishings the Duke of Sutherlandreceives rentals amounting to 23,096. As he has more than 100 for lease, hi3 income from this source alone must reach 35,000 or 40,000. In Forfarshire, on the estate be longing to the "Tators of the Earl of Dal housie," these privileges whose rental prices I have been able to secure reach 10,400; and of those of tbe Countess Dowager of Seafield regarding Trbich information is available, 13 shootings and fishings in Elginshire give her 3,189; 8 in Banffshire, 566; and 14 in Iuverness-ihire, ,4,605; or a total of 8,360; which is probably not one-third of her entire income from this source. As I am quite certain the facts have never yet appeared in the public prints either in Great Britain or America, I have been to the pains of putting into tabulated form the actual rentals known to be annually paid for these shooting and fishing privi leges in Scotland: Shires. Shootings. Fishings. Aberdeen 21.412 1,915 Argyll 33,518 5,801 Ayr 10.120 994 Berwick 1,513 2,523 xnt6 , 0017 Caithness 11.1U3 Clackmannan SCO Dumbarton 2.5S7 Dumfries e.77 LS50 Kdinburzh or Midlothian 1,313 E'gin or'Moray 11,162 10,191 File 7.155 Forfar 25.196 5,717 Haddington 3,910 Inverness oi,vS S65 Kincardine 7,360 11.475 Kinross L3G2 L030 KirkudOright 11,971 1.2KJ jjinarii,ll..l.aa,a,((ll.,(((t JfjOlo Linlithgow. &J8 45 Nairn ..... 555 1,200 Orkney and Shetland ISO Peebles 7U0 Perth 19.322 17.4SJ Renfrew l.lai 56 Ross and Cromarty 11,727 6.SS2 Roxburgh 5.552 2,361 Selkirk 3,010 Hb Stirling 3,411 1.4S2 Sutherland. 26.201 3.325 Wigtown. 16.590 513 Total 331.123 35.181 AN ENOKMOTS AGGBEGAXE. The total of these known rentals, 469,612, exceeds 2,300,000. There are. altogether, 3,578 "shootings" and 636 "fishings." The above sum represents only the rentals paid on not quite one-fourth of the entire 4,234 shootings and fishings; so that a moderate estimate of the entire sum paid annnilly in rentals alone would probably not fall short of $10,000,000. This vast sum is actually annually secured by Scottish landlords ex clusive of all other rentals for grazing ahd agriculture which their lands secure to tbem. But it is by no means the principal ex penditure by titled and gentlemen British sportsmen. It is of common report here that their other expenses equal or exceed this first cost of possession. An army of conveyancers are employed making and" re newing leases and in modifying their term and conditions. Nearlv every shooting and fishing has its factor or a?ent who mulcts the absent tenant with innumerable petty charges. Hunting lodges with tbe appoint ments and accessories ot palaces must be kept in repair, occupied and in order. Accouter ments for the chase or moor require large original investment and constant renewal and addition. The average annual cost of ' the support and care of a pack of 25 couples of fox or deer hounds is $5,000. A host of game keepers is supported the year through, and, during the hunting season, an average deer forest shooting will employ, aside from a half dozen huntsmen, from 30 to CO gillies, or general utility men. These gillies are recruited from two classes, the hangers-on of stud-stables in the large English and Scotch cities, and from later day crofters' families; the latter causing a complete change iu the character of young Highlanders. Just enough crofters are per mitted to remain npon these great northern estates to assist in furnishing a supply of this class of human cattle; and the trifle of 16 or 20 per year for a few weeks' attend ance upon the sportsman lord, with the cor ruptions ot kennel and saddle rooms at the lodges, and utter idleness for the remainder of the year, ars making a sad and unworthy lot ot a class that iu former times possessed many of the highest qualities of the sturdy Scotch race. OIHEK EXPENSIVE FXATUBES. The item of transportation of studs, ken nels and innumerable forms of luggage from the English and Scotch capitals, when now the greatest number of British gentlemen sportsmen reside, has become one of such importance that all the northern-bound railways in the two kingdoms not only an nually employ 'large numbers of 'agents to solicit this particular traffic, but daring August and September they are sorely taxed to supply adequate accommodations. The expense of entertainment ot a bevy ot ladies and gentlemen for two months st one of these splendid hunting lodges is very great. i A .1 jtffel.
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