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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
SECOND PART.
PAGES 9 TO (2.
PITTSBURG-, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1890.
NEARLYAJV1ILLI0N.
The Aggregate of State Appro
priations Asked by Pitts
burg and Vicinity.
FIGURES FOR LEGISLATORS.
Applications Now Being Filed With
State Board of Charities.
"WHAT EACH INSTITUTION WANTS.
Important Improvements to be Made in
ilanj of the Charities.
60ME EXTENSIVE PUSS AT KIVEESIDE
The Iiecislature of Pennsylvania will be
asked this winter to appropnato nearly a
million of dollars to the charitable and
penal institutions in Pittsburg, Alle
gheny and vicinity. All applications for
such appropriations must be filed with the
State Board of Charities not later than
November 18, so that the papers have by
this time been nearly all made out. During
the week past The Dispatch detailed me
to secure the figures in so important a matter
to the public. They are given in detail in
the various items below. Summarized, they
ere as follows:
West Penn Hospital 8172,000
Wes.ern Penitentiary 151,000
Pennsjlvania Reform School 135,000
Holland Domb Institution 93.600
Homeopathic Hospital 4U.O0O
Allegheny General HotpitaL 30.000
Institution for 151ind 20.000
Various other institutions 50,000
Total J700.GOO
So large a sum covers not only mainte
nance and salaries, but a great many im
provements. The value of the property held
by public institutions in Allegheny county
is already vast, and any movement to en
hance it by improvements at once enlists
the public interest. Therefore, these pro
posed improvements are given in detail
below.
New members of the Legislature may be
to some extent unfamiliar with the personnel
of the management of institutions applying
for .State aid at their hands. Therelore, the
names of trustees and directors are given
herewith in connection with the applications
of most of the institutions.
A careful investigation of the needs of
each institution shows that the amounts
asked for are the minimum, and the call of
Pittsburg and vicinity upon the State
Treasury cannot well be "cut down." The
t eonnomical legislator will arrive at the
tame conclusion if be gives the matter
impartial study. L. E. Stofiel.
"WEST PENN HOSPITAL.
An Application for 8172,000 to Cover Sev
eral Large Deficiencies.
The Directois of the "West Penn Hospital
will ask the forthcoming Legislature for
1 172,000 for the two years. This appropria
tion is divided up in the following estimates.
Maintenance, 1S91 $45,000
Maintenance, 1S92 -15.000
Deficiency from IMS. 12,ouo
Deflciency I mm ItSO. 20.UO0
To refund loan from P. It It 50,000
Two other exempts were made before to
pet the State to appropriate the item of
$50,000 for refunding the P. B. K. loan, but
the Governor vetoed it each time That
loan was secured several years ago to pay
off debts of maintenance incurred through
insufficient appropriations.
The above appropriation is for the Twelfth
"Ward Medical and Surgical Hospital alone.
The insane branch at Dixmont is self-sustaining,
and they will not bother the Legis
lature this year.'
Since 1878 the State has given to this hos
pital 5213,763 20, of which 583,763 20 was
lor building purposes. In addition, at the
last session of the Legislature, 511,753 17
was appropriated for buildings, and $25,000
lor maintenance for each of years beginning
June 1, 18S9 and 1890.
, The 'West Penn's management is as fol
f lows:
Life Manager Charles Artrathnnt. Joseph
Albree. C. V, . Batchelor. F. S. Bissell, F. R.
Brunot, Andrew Carnegie. John W. Chalfant,
Thomas Fawcett, Abraham Garrison, John
Harper, L. H. Harris. John B. Jackson, H. P.
Juno. It C. Ijoomis, Beubcn Miller, Jr., AY'll
son Miller, M. K. Moorhead. JameiMfCandless,
William McCrecry. Alexander Nimick, Henry
Phipn. Jr., C E. Ilumej. Charles H. Spans.
J. J. Vandcrgritt, W. V. Young, Christopher
Zuc
Managers Elected by the Contributors
Charles S. Harper, William A. Herron, Ilenrv
H. King, P. 11. Miller. William Thaw. Jr., R.
T.L Tindle. M. D., William P. Townseod. August
Amnion, Geory A. Berrj, F. H. Collier. Samuel
Hamilton, Joseph Home, David McCargo,
"William Rosebure; James I. Bennett. Joseph
J-. Denniston. Charles Has, Rufus IL Herron,
A. Sm. M. Morgan, J. W. Porter, John II. IticL
etson. TEE WESTERN PENITENTIARY.
The Inpectors Expect the Legislature to
Oivo Them S1S1.O00.
The Board of Inspectors oT the "Western
Penitentiary will apply to the Legislature
tliis year for 5131,000, which will cover two
years. This embraces 525,000 Jor the com
pletion of the south wing of the main prison
building, 570,000 for salaries, 51,000 for
books and stationary.
One extensive improvement included in
the above appropriation is 529,000 lor a
female cell house. It will fill a want of the
present institution. The inspectors also
want 55,000 ior building a storage house for
the commissary department. This will
place the supplies of the prison entirely
under the control of one person. Now the
system is different
It is alto proposed to build a chapel with
seating capicity for 1.060 prisoners. This
will cost 513,000. At present worship is
held in an old shop. The chapel will be
erected between the hospital and the re
formatory building.
The State Hoard of Charities, in its late
report, Baid or the Western Pennsylvania
Penitentiary:
The work on tho new wing Is rapidly ap
proaching completion, and when done will en
able the wardec to adopt several deirable im
provements in management. Warden Wright
has well uon acknowledgment as being amon
the viry first penologists either in America or
elsewhere, and a visa to toe penitentiar) will
be instructive and pleasant to all who may be
privileged to make it.
The following gentlemen compose the
Board of Inspectors of the prison: George
A. Kelly, James McCutcheon, James B.
Beed, John S. Slagle, William P. Trimble.
THE REFORM SCHOOL.
Morganza Directors Will Ask for 8135,000
for Bad Bojs and Girls.
The Pennsylvania Beiorm School, at
Morganza.will ask the Legislature for $135,.
000 for the two years. This sum embraces
55,000 for the erection of an ice machine; all
the money for salaries; and 510,000 for the
building of an industrial school for the
manual training of the boys. In this school
wiil be taught brickmakiug and bricklay
ing, carpentry, glazing, and all other
branohei of the building trades. The school
will be patterned after the great industrial
school at Rochester, N. Y., which a. com
mittee of the Morganza directors have vis
ited lately. The State appropriation asked
for does not include maintenance of inmates
as that is charged up to the counties
interested.
The appropriation now asked for is in ex
cess of that awarded the school two years
ago, for the reason that now there are about
100 more inmates than there were then. In
the school now are CIS boys and girls, and
the capacity of the building is really only
300. Within the last year an assembly room
for the girls has been erected over the" brush
factory, and a hospital department is now
being built.
DEAF AITS DUMB.
The WHklnsburg Institution Will Have
"eed forS93,G00.
The Western Pennsylvania Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb, at Wilkinsburg, will
ask the Legislature this year for 593,600 for
the next two years. This is a per capita of
5260 per year per each State pupil in the
institution, and the application is made on
the basis of 180 State pupils. This appropri
ation is somewhat in excess of that asked at
the last session of the Legislature because
the number of pupils is greater now. Every
year the number of pupils is in excess of the
number which the appropriation is supposed
to cover. For instance, before the next two
years are out there will be more tlian 180
pupils, and yet that is all the State is pay
ing for.
IMPBOVEMENTS CONTEMPLATED.
No State aid for improvements has been
asked for four years past, and this policy
will be adhered to this session. The
directors contemplate the erection of a new
building worth about 52,500, but that will
be paid for without State appropriation.
The building is to be a school of domestic
instruction for the girls attached to the in
stitution, in which they can be taught cook
ing, needle-work, bed-making, sweeping,
and all that goes to make a good house
keeper. It is intended to have the boy in
mates of the home make all the woodwork
for the new building this winter. For a
few years past there has been an industrial
school in carpentry run in connection with
the institution ior the boys, and Irom this it
is hoped to have the boys practically con
struct the girls' school themselves.
During the past yeara great deal of paint
ing has been done. A large filter was
placed in the school at a cost of 5250.
AN HONEST POLICY.
The Carnegie library in the Deaf and
Dumb Institution is being gradually filled
up. Andrew Carnegie donated 55,000 for
this purpose, and it was invested so as to
yield 5 per cent, which sum annually is ill
vested in books.
Tney tell a good story about Eev. J. G.
Brown, D. D., the ex-principal of the
school. Ten years ago alter hard and labor
ious work he secured an appropriation from
the State Legislature for the institution. At
the end of the two years there was 55,000 of
this appropriation left unexpended. Dr.
Brown stated this fact to the Legislature,
and said they could deduct that amount
from the forthcoming appropriation. Poli
ticians laughed at him and said be should
chuck the 55,000 into the institution's treas
ury and say nothing about it. The State
Board of Charities expressed unbounded
surprise at an institution that thus carefully
husbanded the mean they got from the
State, and insisted on returning part of it.
But the doctor held his ground, and the re
sult was that bisinstitutionhas had scarcely
any trouble since then getting State aid
every year.
A contrast to this incident is that of a
well-known public institution in Pittsburg,
which once applied to the Legislature for
525,000 appropriation, and, through a cleri
cal error at Harrisburg, they were given
550,000. Some very conscieutious friends
contended that they should not take the ex
tra S25.C00, but the Board of Directors de
clared that the bill, as signed by the Gover
nor, said "550,000," and, as they needed
every cent of the money, it was their right
to keep it. And so they did.
At this school the sign method is the one
principally adopted, although several pupils
are instructed orally with such good results
as will justify greater attention being given
to it and greater opportunities being allowed
for its practice.
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.
The Trustees Will Ask the State for St 0,000
The Thaw Annex.
The trustees of the Homeopathic Hospital,
on Second avenue, have filed their applica
tion asking the Legislature for 540,000.
This sum will cover maintenance for two
years and pay ofi 515,000 of old debts. Ko
money will be asked for improvements, al
though some are now underway. A laundry
is being built back of the institution which,
with the machinerv it is to be fitted with,
will cost 54,000. This will be paid out of
the contributions of Pittsburg people.
A contract wili.be let next week also for
the building of an annex to the hospital. It
will cost about 540,000, and Mrs. William
Thaw pays the entire sum as her donation.
FIFTT BOOMS ADDITIONAL.
This addition will increase the capacity of
the hospital very much. It adds 50 rooms
altogether, and it is hoped by that means
to prevent the overcrowding of the hos
pital for manr years to come.
Last session the Legislature appropriated
533,008 to the Homeopathic Hospital. This,,
honever, was under the actual cost of oper
ating the establishment In 1889 the total
expenses were 36,454, and the appropriation
stated above is for two years. In that year
but 57,000 was derived from pay patients,
leaving the great bulk of its work as char
ity. The bed capacity of the hospital is 200,
and the nurses' training school connected
with the work is the largest in the city.
AGGREGATE OF STATE AID.
The State has, since 1882, given this hos
pital, Ior buildings, $100,000, and for main
tenance, 545,000. In addition to this the
Legislature at its last session appropriated
to it 522,042 38 for liquidating the deficit in
the past two years and 512,500 for mainte
nance for each of the two yeara beginning
JuDe 1, 1889 and 1890.
Colonel W. D. Slack is Superintendent of
the hospital; William Metcalf, President;
SI. K. Moorhead and W. A. Herron, Vice
Presidents; George L. McCoy, Secretary;
Frank Semple, Treasurer. The trustees are
as follows:
SOME WELL-KNOWN' NAMES.
Life trustees, by virtue of 51,000 contribu
tions (stars indicating trustees who have en
dowed beds in perpetuity by contributions
of 55,000 and over) Mrs. William Thaw,
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. M. K. Moor
head, Mrs. William Metcalf, Mr. W. H.
Barnes, Mr. W. T. Shannon, Colonel J. M.
Schoonmaker, Mr. Edwin Miles, Mr.
Daniel Bushnell, Miss JSllen Metcalf, Mr.
William Metcalf, Mr. Charles J. Clarke,
Mr. Eeuben Miller, Mr. J. W. Paul, Mr. B.
F. Jones, Mr. B. S. Hays, Mrs. George
Westinghouse, Eev. W. E. Mackay, Mr.
Harry Brown, Mrs. Eobert Bruce, Mr. J.
D. Lavng, Mr. J. B. D. Meeds.
Trustees elected from the corporators J.
F. Cooper. M. D., Miss Mary E. Moorhead,
D. H. Fralicb, H. E. Collins, Hon. John
H. Bailey, L. H. Willard, M. D.. George
S. Griscom, Captain James Boyd, H. W.
Oliver, Jr., Joseph D. Weeks. George W.
Backoieu, H. S. Paul, J. J. Vandergrilt,
Edwin Miles. IT. J. Bailey, J. B. McClel
land. M. D., Frank Semple, Colonel Will
iam A. Herron, Hon. George H. Anderson,
John W. Herron, J. C. Burgher, M. D A.
H. Childs, J. H. McClelland, M. D., George
L. McCoy.
ALLEGHENY HOSPITAL
Thirty Thousand Dollars Requested to Aid
the Northslde Charity.
The Allegheny General Hospital will ask
the Legislature for 530,000 for the two years.
This is for maintenance. It is inexcess of
what the institution received list session.
Then it only got 516,000. The increased de
mands are based on an increased population
of the institntion, and on the large capac
ity of the institution after next April,
when the hospital management will
take possession of the two adjoining build
ings on Stockton avenue for hospital pur
poses. Tho worthy character of this insti
tution is well known, and its field of use
fulness has been largely extended within
the-past two years.
Its officers are: President, B. F. Wood
burn, D. D.; Vice President, William G.
Park; Secretary, L. Peterson, Jr.; Treas
urer, James McCutcheon; Superintendent,
Miss Florence K. Tildesley.
THE HEW BLIND ASYLUM.
It Will Ask for Its First State Appropriation
This Winter.
The new Institution for the Instruction
of Blind Persons will apply to the Legisla
ture for its first appropriation this year.
On the basis ol 40 pupils it will ask for per
capita support of 5275 each State pupil per
year. This will make 529,000 which they
will ask for the two years, and it is divided
as follows: 55,000 until June, 1891, 511,000
until June, 1892; 513,000 until June, 1893.
OTHES PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,
Which, Among Themselves, Will Probably
Apply for 850,000 Aggregate.
Mercy Hospital, which was refused an
appropriation by Governor Beaver, will ap
plv again to the Legislature. They
will probably ask for 530,000, al
though John D. Scully, one of the
directors, said Thursday that the amount
had not yet been fixed. The officers of the
Mercy Hospital are: President Andrew
Carnegie; Vice President, Albert J. Barr;
Secretary, A. F. Keating; Treasurer, John
D. Scully.
The management of the Children's Hos
pital will probably also apply for State aid
this year; what amount has not yet been
definitely stated. The Children's Hospital
is a new institution in Pittsburg; and is
officered as follows: President, Hon. M. W.
Acheson; Secretary, Dr. W. E. Hallock;
Treasurer, Mr. E. M. Ferguson; Managers,
Hon. M. W. Atcheson, Mrs. E. M. Fergu
son, Mrs. S. S. Marvin, Geonre W. Guthrie,
Esq., Mr. David G. Stewart, Dr. F. Le
Moyne, Mrs. George M. Laughlin, Mrs. W.
J. Holland, Miss Mary Dawson, James H.
Eeed, Esq., Mr. E. Neilson Clark.
The Children's Aid Society, on Sixth ave
nue, has heretofore received State aid
through the appropriation made to its pa
rent branch at Philadelphia. One year it
had 55,000 at its disposal from this source.
THE Frlnco of Wales has been Investigated
by Colonel Frank A. Barr for THE DIS
PATCH. The Colonel finds the Prince isn't
snch a frivolous fellow after all. See to-mor-row'sTwenty-fottrpagelssue.
Anunequaled
newspaper.
SAWING MARBLE,
A Brief Description of How This Is Accom
plishedMethods Now Used.
The saw used to cut the marble is merely
a flat iron blade placed on its edge, and held
by a sort of vice formed of wedges at each
end, attached to a movable frame oscillating
back and forth incessantly, night and day,
at the bidding of the tireless steam engine.
Several of these saws fixed in one frame
form a gang; a gang of 15 to 20 saws cuts a
block into slabs, according to the size of the
block or the thickness of the slabs. The
edge of the saw is perfectly straight, and
the requisite friction for triturating the mar
ble is obtained by keeping the top of the
marble block drenched with sand and water.
Formerly men vere obliged to stand by each
gang of saws, and pour on the sand and
water with spades. But in recent years a
contrivance, operated by steam, Jias been in-,
vented by which the sand is supplied by
feeders irom above.
UNION SERVICES
To be Held at Old City Hall To-Morrow
Afternoon and Evening.
An unusual and special service will be
held to-morrow afternoon in Old City Hall
at 4 o'clock. All the churches in the two
cities are invited to join in it Working
men are also invited to attend. The services
will be under the auspices of the Western
Pennsylvania Sabbath Association. Eev.
Dr. W. F. Crafts, of New York, will speak
on "The Duty of Young America to the
American Sabbath." Mrs. Cralts will give
a blackboard exercise.
In the evening at 8 o'clock Dr. Crafts will
speak on "Fair Play and Sunday Play."
CBUELTY TO THE BICYCLE.
A Heavy-Weight Wheelman Has an Odd
Experience In New England.
Boston Traveller.
An enthusiastic wheelman relates that
during a trip through New Hampshire and
Maine last year crowds would gather in
many villages to watch him go past The
wheelman was a man of considerable weight
and the natives were thoroughly astonished
to see a wiry, 60-pound wheel gracelully
ridden by a man three times its weight.
It was in Cape Neddick, Me., however,
that the crowning point was reached, when
an old lady saw the heavy-weight rider and
exclaimed: "Lucky for him that thir thing
ain't a horse, for if it was he'd not ride in
this deestrict it would be crueltv to ani
mals!" WON'T BE mXEKYlEWED.
What President Harrison Had to Say to a
Would-Be Interviewer.
An intrepid newspaper man, who tackled
the President for news recently, got this
answer, according to the St. Louis'Gfooe
Democral: "I am surprised that newspaper pub
lishers send their representatives to me for
au interview. They must understand that
I cannot talk except on extraordlnarr occa
sions for publication. Why, if I should
make it a rule to talk to representatives of
the press I would be kept busy, and perhaps
in hot water also. I do not blame news
paper publishers for trying to secure inter
views with me if they can accomplish it, but
I will not be interviewed."
EEPLENISHINO THE TREASURY.
Financial Report of the Department of Pub
lic Works for October.
The receipts of the Department of Public
Works for October as shown by the report
to the Controller yesterday were 510,320 96.
This came from the following sources:
Diamond markets, .57,184 71; Old City Hall,
5250: Adams market, 585; Southside mar
ket,' 51.297 10; Salisbury Hall, $10; Mo
nongahela wharf, 5488 87; Allegheny
wharf, 5453 32; Munincipal Hall (sale of
old chairs), 511; city weigh scales, $182 33;
Bureau of Water Assessments, 5283 63;
switch licenses, 575.
THEIB PEIDE WOUNDED.
Florists Object to Their Products Being
Classified as Farm Exhibits.
Indianapolis, November 14. The In
diana Association of Florists discussed the
scope of the floral exhibition which the
United States will make at the World's
Fair.
Mnch displeasure was expressed because
the florists are to be classed with agricul
tural products. A formal resolution em
bodying this feeling was prepared, and will
be forwarded to other State associations for
indorsement.
A MAMMOTH PEOJECT
To Supply the Whole Southside Dis
trict With Filtered Water.
CITIZENS ORGANIZE FOE ACTION.
Hard Blow Aimed at the Prestige of the
Water Companies.
A COUNCILMANIC ISSUE KEXT IEAE
There, is now a big project on foot to sup
ply the Southside, as well as the Hill dis
tricts in and out of the city, with pure
filtered water. The supply will be drawn
from a point above Beck's run, and then
put through a process which will eliminate
all deleterious matter and disease germs.
The projectors are none other than thestoek
holders of the South Viev Water Company,
chartered early this week, ostensibly to sup
ply residents of the new suburb called
South View, and adjacent territory with
water. This is as much of the plans of the
company as the public have been allowed to
know.
Now it has been ascertained that the goal
of the company is to supply the whole
Southside with water and that a direct blow
is aimed at the prestige of the Monongahela
Water Company, inducefi by the demand of
the public for a better supply.
NOW LOOKING UP A SYSTEM.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of
the company, plans and specifications ot
different firms supplying water apparatus
were looked over. The directors have de
cided on one thing that under present cir
cumstances it is an impossibility to obtain
a sufficient supply from any other
source than the Monongahela river.
That being the case, their only resource
is a system of Alteration that will make the
water pure. The Pasteur-Semen's system,
which has been tried by many cities, is the
means the company looks to to bring about
the desired result
The agent of the new system of Alteration
was at the meeting of the Board of Direc
tors. All of those present, who had pre
viously been studving the subject, were very
favorably impressed with the system, and
there is talk of its being adopted. This
much is sure, the company will use some
system of Alteration, and the first question
at issue now is, which is the best one?
PLENTY OF FINANCIAL BACKING.
The company has the financial backing to
undertake any" project it wish. The stock
holders are mostly citizens of the Southside,
who have had practical illustrations of the
condition of the water supplied by the
Monongahela Water Company, and need no
chemical analysis to tell them whether it is
palatable or pure.
As stated at first the company was osten
sibly formed to supply Sontli View with
water, either by connection with the Monon
gahela Company's lines or by lines to the
river at Beck's run, with a standpipe at
the latter point. It seems that the company
has all the while been looking further. The
new company's charter calls for operations
in Baldwin township. The Monongahela
Company's charter calls for the city but the
the new company has had attorneys looking
up the matter aud believe that the water
company act of 1887 dees not make the
rights of territory to any company exclu
sive. If this be th: case then the Monongahela
Water Company is not the only one that
can enter the business.
LEGISLATION IN THEIB FAVOB.
If the people do not like the water and
anothMcompanx.Sees fit to supply, thesame,
the Legislature can give the necessary char
ter, if needs be, and the company can com
mence operations at once. Or, it may be
possible that it will not be necessary to ob
tain a charter other than the one already in
the hands of the company's secretary.
The Southside has just elected Emmet
Cotton to the Legislature and will have rep
resentation in that body when it meets agate.
It is not thought that any difficulty will be
incurred in that direction.
The Councils of the citv. when a oharfpr
Us obtained, does not have to issue an ordin
ance. All that body has to do is to give the
company a license to tear up the streets to
put down their mains and pipes.
The plans of tho company are
the direct outgrowth of the agita
tion on the Southside for pure
water. It is not simply a money-making
scheme, but a question that come home to
each of the stockholders, and regarding
which each one is interested for the sake of
his health and that of his wife and children.
A DIBECTOB SPEAKS OUT.
Said one of the directors yesterday, when
asked if he thought there would be any op
position in Councils: "How in the name
of common sense and justice could there be
opposition. The demand for better water is
not spasmodic or confined to one district
The cry is going up from the whole South
side. When a matter of health is at stake,
and the demand of a whole section is for a
thing, Councils could not refuse.
"I tell you the people are awake on this
water question and we must and will have
better water.
"If opposition is encountered it will be a
Councilmanic issue at the next election and
the people will demand representatives in
Council that will stand like a solid phalanx
before every bit of legislation, until the
Southside is given justice.
NO FEAE OF OPPOSITION.
"I do not think there will be opposition.
If the people band together to furnish them
selves with a pure supply and no
appropriation is asked nothing but the
assent of Councils, who can say nay.
"There is no opposition tojthe powers rul
ing; instead we are most of us friends of the
men in power, and do not think of else save
a better supply. It is a common cause, not
political at all, and one that thinking men
can join with earnestness, whether they live
on the Southside and have to drink the
water or not.
"The company propose to filter the water
by a process that will take from it its inju
rious qualities, and you may be assured the
company will leave no stone nnturned to
give the Southside a water supply sufficient
and of the best quality consistent with
modern science and engineering. Our plans
are as yet in their infancy, but we mean
business from the word go."
HOWARD FIELDING in THE DISPATCH
to-morrow will tell how a friend of Ids
wooed an heiress. It Is In the popular
humorist's most happy style. Twenty-fonr
Pages. Best Paper in the State.
HIS H0N0E WANTS TO KNOW WHY
Police Magistrates Allow Some Prisoners to
Escape Without Punishment
Mayor Gourley has written a communica
tion the Police Magistrates instructing
tbem to enter on their dockets in pen and
ink all the evidence adduced against pris
oners. They are also requested to make a
weekly report to His Honor, containing a
complete statement of the reasons leading
to the discharge of prisoners.
The Mayor says he has received com
plaints that the Police Magistrates have
shown partiality in the administration of
their duty, and while he does not believe it,
nevertheless he desires that a record be kept
of all evidence taken at police court hear
ings, especially in the cases of discharged
prisoners.
A Noblestown Father In Trouble.
Humane Agent O'Brien yesterday charged
Wallace Singer, of Noblcstown, with cruelty
to his children. The suit was brought be
fore 'Squire Weibie, at OakdaleJ
THE COMPANY HUSTLING.
Communication From an Official of the
Monongahela Water Company Im
provements Now Being Made Some
Figures to Prove the Water Is Pure.
The following communication was left at
The DrspATCn office by an official of the
Monongahela Water Company, aud is inter
esting as showing what the company is
doing:
"A sort of resurrection seems to be in
progress in the water supply on the South
side. The Monongahela Water Company
have been working with their coats off and
sleeves rolled up for a long time. They are
also getting all their friends to help them.
This week, their purchasing agent, Mr.
Prenter, awarded a contract to the Oliver
Iron and Steel Company for a large iron
building to be placed over their new boiler
honse. On Thursday they raised steam for
the firt time in their new boilers. Best,
Force & Co. are getting out an entirely new
steam line to run their pumps. Atwood &
McCaffrey erected the 16-inch natural gas
main in front of their boilers. The supply
of gas has been quite short of late, and coal
has to be used to supplement the gas.
"J. A. McCormick, of this city, is under
contract to deliver the 10,000,000-gallon
Worthington pumping engine by January
1. This new pump will give them a pump
ing capacity of over 30.000,000 gallons in 24
hours. It seems to be the intention of the
water company to drown out the people of
the Southside.
The deatbB in the entire citv during month
of October were: East EnSfsU&JDld City,
71; Southside. 66.
Contagious diseases reported to Board of
Health officer for week ending November 7:
East End, typhoid fever, 11; diphtheria, 5;
Old City, typhoid fever, 4; scarlet fever, 1;
diphtheria, 11; Southside; typhoid fever, 10;
scarlet fever, 3; diphtheria, 3.
From this it would appear thai the South
side is the healthiest district in the entire
city. The population of the East End is
only slightly in excess of the Southside,
while the death rate is 150 per cent greater.
Does this speak badly for the health condi
tions of the latter district?
''Mr. Prenter, a painstaking official of
the Monongahela Water Company, thinks
not 'To the word and to the testimony'
gentlemen. The official record of the
Board of Health is more reliable as a basis
for a solid argument in regard to compara
tive conditions of the city's health than
private opinions of local physicians.
"From the official record' of the Health
Officer it can be shown that the Southside is
always the healthiest district in the city.
What can be the reason? It is not found in
the good quality of the water used here,
which every chemist who has analyzed it of
late has pronounced to be of 'excellent
quality?' "
"If Southside physicians attribute any
typhoid fever or other sickness that may be
over here, to what do they attribute the
greater number of deaths and sickness to be
found elsewhere in the city? To the worse
quality of water used in the East End and
Old City, no doubt. This seems to be the
logic of the question at all events.
KIPLING'S great serial story, now running
exclusively in the Sunday edition of THE
DISPATCH, Is the literary sensation of the
day. The second Installment together with
a synopsis of the first will appear to-morrow.
A Mammoth Newspaper containing 193 col
umns. Twenty-four Pages.
BEAU1Y AND ITS PHOTO.
The Shortcomings of the Photographlo Art
in Revealing the Beauties of Faces.
Sir Thomas Browne says, "Nature hath
made one world and art another," a dictum
which many admirers oft the female face are
quite ready to indorse. The reluctance of
some young ladies to pe "taken" on the sun
plate is thus accounted for, according to
Touth'i Companion.
In regard to beauty, a photograph tells
nothing beyond form or face. An Ameri
can physician, explaining his wife's anti
pathy to the camera, said:
"Her features arc not regular, and she
takes a horrid picture. Her beanty rests
in her deep liquid eyes, coral lips, rich au
burn hair and lovely complexion, qualities
which a camera cannot reflect On the other
hand, a lady dull of eye and faded of hair
may make a capital photograph, if she has a
straight nose aud a tolerable good outline of
features, without the least expression."
AN ISLAND PARADISE.
An Unknown Coral Atoll In tho Pacific
Which Is Inhabited by Hostile Races.
'The Asiatic Quarterly Keview.l
The Island of Hogolen, in the Polynesia
is an immense coral atoll, 130 miles in cir
cumference, having four entrance passages.
On the reef aud within it are 70 islands,
four of which, near the middle, are high
basaltic masses abont 30 miles each in cir
cumference, magnificently fertile, yielding
spontaneously many valuable products, sit
uated in the midst of a rock-bound lake 00
miles long by half that width. This un
known ocean paradise has been for ages an
arena of combat between two hostile races,
one copper-colored, inhabiting the two west
ern of the great interior isles, the other upon
the two eastern, a darker people with long,
straight hair. The two tribes are supposed
to number over 20,000.
ULLIAN SPENCER has written a series
of letters for THE DISPATCH describing her
Tour of Enrope on Toot. The first letter will
appear to-morrow morning. A Mammoth
Newspaper and Magazine, containing 193
columns.
JUNIORS AFTER HONORS.
Contest for Marshalshlp of the Washington's
Birthday Parade.
The Southside Juniors are already hust
ling to secure for a Southside man the chief
marshalship of the Jr. O. IT. A. M. Wash
ington's Birthday parade. Circulars are
being sent to the different councils asking
the support of members for Thomas J.
Morley, of Lescollette Council.
The custom has been when the parade was
in Allegheny to have a chief marshal from
the Southside. The Allegheny Juniors are
hustling this year to secure the honor, and
the Southside members are likewise wide
awake.
ladies' Stockinet Jackets.
At 55: Plain tight fitting; tight fitting
braid bound; vest front, and braid bound.
At 56: Plain tailor-made, braid bound.
At 57 50: A special value in plain, tailor
made, silk bound jacket; others, braid
bound, same style.
At $8 50: Plain tailor-made jackets,
special value.
At 59, $10, $12 and $14: Best and latest
styles, and all more than usual values.
We invite your special attention to-day to
onr stockinet jackets.
Jos. Hobne & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
Stanley's Story;
"Or, Through the Wilds of Africa," hand
somely bound, illustrated, covering his en
tire career in Southern and Central Africa.
Price only $1 25 ut The People's Store.
, B.&B.'
Far trimmed jactets to-day $10 to $50
each. More styles than ever.
Boggs & Buhl.
Ladies' Jackets. An immense assort
ment, all the best makers, choicest styles,
per ect fitting, from lowest to finest grades.
ttssu HnGUS & Hacke.
Final day of millinery opening.
Joa. Hobne & Co.'a
Penn Avenue Stores,
LAST OF BIRCHALL
Benwell's Murderer Dies From
Strangulation on the Gallows.
FACES GRIM DEATH LIKE A MAN.
Ho Makes No Statement and Leaves Ko
Confession Behind llim.
FRIENDS GAINED IN BIS LAST HODES
Woodstock, Oki,, November 14.
Eeginald Birchail, the murderer of the
Englishman Benwell was hanged this
morning at 8:29.
The doomed man ate a good supper last
evening. It was after midday when he
arose and dressed himself, and his first meal
of the day was about 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The afternoon was spent in
receiving the visits of the Bishop of Huron
and the Eev. Eural Dean Wade, and after
ward Dr. Sice, the prison surgeon, was
with him for a considerable time. At 7
o'clock a carriage drove up to the prison
containing Mrs. Birchail, her sister, Mrs.
West-Jones, and Mr. Leetham. All three
went into the jail, but only Mrs. Birchail
climbed the circular iron stairs to her
husband's corridor. The wife of the
murderer spent the night nntil 1 o'clock in
communion with him. He was then lelt in
company of the turnkey and Eev. Mr.
Wade.
PEEPABING FOB DEATH.
The time during the hours after Mrs.
Birchail left the prison were passed by
Birchail and thedivine in reading scripture,
praying and talking. During the night Mr.
Wade came out of the cell and Mr. Forbes,
who is one of Bircball's executors, went in
and spent some time with him, talking
about temporal affairs. Birchail had little
to leave, except a legacy which he expects
to fall to him next spring. The extent of
his property was the $1,500 he received for
the autobiograpiiy and $150 he received by
bis agent from the proprietors of a Toronto
museum for the clothes he wore on the 17th
of February, and also authority solely to
exhibit a cast of his head, bust and figure.
Birchail gave Midgley a gojd pencil for
his son, and said he had left instructions
sent out from England for the old soldier
himself. Jailer Comdon visited the prison
about 3 o'clock and then retnrned to his
house. The guards were much affected by
the near approach of the end of a prisoner
who had been always cheerful and courteous
to them, and had succeeded in exciting their
deepest pity.
FOBESTALLINO FAKE CONFESSIONS.
Birchail had begun to fear that by some
means a "faked" confession may be worked
off on the public alter his death, and to
guard against this he made out this docu
ment: "Woodstock Gaol, November 10, 1S90.
AU Bights Eeservod.
"If, after my deatbj' there shall appear in the
press, or any other manner whatsoever any
confession that I had any hand in the murder
of Mr. F, C. Benwell, or any personal knowl
edge of said murder with intent or malice
aforethought, or any personal connection with
tho murder on the 17th of February or any
other day, or any knowledge that any snch
murder was likely to be committed, or any
statement further than any that I may have
made public previous to this date, I hand this
statement to Mr. George Perry, of Woodstock,
Ontario, that he may know that any confession
or partial confessions are entirely fictitious,
ana in no way were ever written by me, neither
emanated from me in any way whatsoever to
any person, and the whole are fictitious and
without a word of truth. This likewise applies
to my story in the Afatt. in which I have made
no such ctm rcsslon or partial confession. This
holds good throughout.
Signed "Beg. Uiechall."
BIS LAST MEAL.
At 5:30 the cook began to prepare Birch
all's breakfast, which had been ordered for
6 o'clock. This consisted of poached eggs,
toast, canned peaches, canned raspberries
and coffee. Breakfast was brought into
Eirch all's cell by the cook at 6 o'clock
promptly. Birchail looked at it and said
he did not feel like eating anything. The
cook left the food, however, and withdrew,
and on second thought Birchail turned to it
and ate a little. He pushed the tray irom
him after eating a couple of eggs. Then he
began to prepare himself for the final terri
ble ordeal. He put on a white flannl
shirt, with coat and vest over it, but had
previously asked Turnkey Foroes to see that
this was replaced after execution by the or
dinary white shirt, with starched collar and
tie. He would not wear a starched collar at
the execution, be said, because it might in
terfere with the placing of the rope.
About 730 Deputy Sheriff Perry arrived
and the doors of the jail were opened and
the crowd of waiting men admitted, passing
straight through to the yard in which the
scaffold was erected. About 100 were ad
mitted, but the number was subsequently
increased by abont 50.
THE DEAD SIABCH.
At 8:23 o'clock the execntioner was beck
oned to go up. He had been walking around
the rotunda, in his hands the straps with
which to tie Birchall's arms, waiting for the
3ignal to go up. He went up the stairs,
took a minute or two to strap the prisoner's
arms behind his bark, and then the march
to death began at 8:25 o'clock.
First came the Eev. Eural Dean Wade,
in his surplice, and reading the Church of
England service for the dead. Behind him
Dr. Chamberlain, followed by A. D. Stewart
and Deputy Sheriff Perry. The prisoner
came next, deathly pale but resolute, his
jaws locked with the fixity of death. His
step was steady. His jet black hair and
mustache made the pallor of his face like
marble. He was dressed in dark colored
tweed clothes, a white flannel shirt with a
black bow at the collar and light patent
leather shoes. He looked so young snd
there was such an expression of nndaunted
courage that the men who saw him and
knew him to be worthy of death in the eye
of the law forgot that he had shot a friend
in the back in a lonely swamp.
THE PBISONEB BOTTND.
As Birchail stood listening to the service
there was no indication of iear in his eyes,
but a fixed purpose that seemed to consume
his reason. At the close he stepped firmly
forward and took his position under the
scaffold. He took Leetham's bands in his,
and the friends kissed each other under the
gallows. The executioner put a strap around
the prisoner's legs just above his knees.
When the clergyman took Birchall's hand
and kissed him the witnesses were sure the
end was near, and the suspense was terrible.
As the priest entered upon the Lord's
prayer the executioner put the black cap
over the head of the doomed man and ad
justed the noose about his neck. Birchail
had declared that he would say nothing at
the scaffold, but the witnesses did not ex
pect that he would pake his silence seem,
bv the intensity of his purpose, to be silence
concentrated a hundred times. He did not
say a word after leaving his cell except it
might have been to mutter a word to Mr.
Leetham or Mr. Wade when he hade them
goodby with a kiss.
THE FATAL DBOP.
At 857, six minutes after the procession
started from the corridor, the words "De
liver us from evil" gave the signal, and a
qnick pull on the small rope by the execu
tioner, who stood behind the law's victim,
released the immense weight. It fell swiftly
and swiftly and sank six or eight inches in
the ground by the force of its weight
Birchail had been placed close to one of
the uprights, and the jerk of the noose drew
his body first obliquely and then up. The
body was jerked into the air abont five feet
and fell nutil the feet were witbin two feet
of the drop. ,
The drop was made at 829 o'clock. The
convulsions commenced half a minute later,
but they were not at all violent, more re
sembling heavy breathing, with slight
twitching or the hands and legs. At 8:3034
the convnlsions bad ceased, and at S'25 Dr.
Chamberlain, who stood with his hand on
the body, declared that life was extinct.
DIED FBOSI BTBANGTJLATION.
Numerous dark blue spots appeared all
over his face. The red of his eye balls was
quite apparent The post mortem examina
tion was nnder the direction of Coroner Mc
Lay, conducted by Drs. Odium and
Mearnes. The verdict was to the effect that
no dislocation of the neck had taken place;
the windpipe was crushed in. Death was,
therefore, caused br strangulation.
It is now definitely stated that Birchail
went to the scoffold without a confession.
The last words that Birchail uttered were
addressed to the hangman. Just as he was
putting the cap over the condemned man's
bead Birchail said:
"Have you any objections to shaking
hands with me?"
The hangman replied, "Certainly not,"
and then they shook hands.
Mrs. Birchail has been under the influence
of opiates since her return this morning
from her interview with her husband. She
awoke abont 930 and the facts ot the execu
tion were told to her. She bore up much
better than was expected nnder the circum
stances. BIBCnALL'S CRIME.
The crime for which Birchail paid the
death penalty was the murder of F. C Ben
well, February 17 last, in a swamp in Ox
ford, Canada. The details are still too fresh
in the public mind to beir repetition. Cir
cumstances pointed to Birchail as the mur
derer, although he protested bis innocence.
He was tried, convicted, and on September
29 sentenced to death.
THE STBEETS THBONGED.
The jail surgeon said, in speaking of the
execution, "There is a partial rupture of the
posterior ligament of the neck, but not suffi
cient to cause death." The doctors agree,
however, that there was no sensibility of
pain after the jerk into the air.
Birchail had a lone talk with Dr. Eice
about the execution, and spoke freely, ex
pressing the hope that the "job" would be
well done.
The principal streets were thronged with
people from the surrounding towns and
country, all discussing the last scene in the
Benwell-Birchall tragedy. The people of
Woodstock, with few exceptions, believe
that Birchail deserved bis fate.
It is impossible to learn anything definite
as to when Mrs. Birchail will leave for En
gland, but it is reported that she will re
main in Woodstock for some little time.
THOMAS EDISON has been Interviewed
for THE DISPATCH, and in to-morrow's
issne he will tell all abont the future of elec
tricity, the possibility of the flying machine,
and other scientific developments. Twenty
fonr Pages. All the News.
WHAT IS SLEEP!
The Theory, the Fact and the Uses of This
Sancho-Panza-Pleaslng Invention.
What sleep is no one knows. The pre
vailing theory as to its nature, according to
Youths' Companion, is that of the physi
ologist, Preyer, who holds that refuse matter
accumulates in the neivous centers in such
quantities as to bring about insensibility,
which continues nntil the brain lias been re
lieved of the waste matter by its absorption
into the circulation.
Whatever feats of endurance men may
accomplish, they cannot live long without
sleeping. Under every condition of bodily
and mental suffering, men sleep. Those
condemned to die, althongh they fear their
fate, generally sleep the night before execu
tion. Soldiers have been known to sleep
when on a long and wearisome march while
walking in the ranks, or lying on a bed of
stones, or in the mud and water.
The question is often asked, "How long
can a man live without sleep?" The victim
of the Chinese "waking torture" seldom
survives more than ten days. Those con
demned to die by the waking torture are
given all they wish to eat and drink, but
sleep is denied them.
Whenever the poor victim closes his eyes
he is jabbed with spears and sharp sticks
until he is awake. There 13 no torture more
horrible.
TO KKKP AN TJMSEELLA.
A New Yorker Tells of an Ingenious Expe
dient Which He Finds Satisfactory.
Gossip In the new York Saa.J
"Do you know how I have kept my um
brellas for years?" said a man this morning
to his companion in the elevated train.
"Well, I'll show you," and he lilted up a
fold of the handsome silk one he had in his
hand. Eight in the center of the fold was
a round hole. "First thing I dot" he said,
"when I get a new umbrella is to cut a cir
cular hole in it abont as big as a cookey,
close to the edge. That doesn't hurt the
umbrella for service any, but it looks qneer
and nobody ever wants it Nobody at home
borrows it, nobody ever takes it 'by mis
take;' or, if it is taken, the 'mistake' never
lasts longer than it takes to open the um
brella. It's surer than one's name, even
when one puts 'stolen from' before it, be
cause nobody ever really believes that
legend, you see, and it passes ior a joke. I
began putting this markon my umbrella 12
years ago, and I've carried every umbrella
I've bought since, until the silk wore out
And not one would have been taken off if I
had carried it until the holes wore out"
QUARRYING IN WINTER.
How Vermont Marble Quarries Are Operated
In the Winter.
Harper's Weekly.
The Vermont marble quarries are worked
in winter, although perhaps with less result
than in the summer. One would snppose
that when the excavations are carried fir
down below the surface there would be no
frost encountered; hut, notwithstanding the
walls of these quarries are draped with
colossal icicles or frozen cataracts, which
impart an extraordinary effect to the cavern
ous gloom.
It is not so pleasant for the workmen, who
have to climb the slippery ladders, and are
not keenly interested in picturesque effects.
What is enrious is that the marble itself at
those depths becomes frozen, and needs to be
thawed before it can be taken out, other
wise it has the brittleness of glass. This is
done by carrying pipes down, and drench
ing all the channels cut by the machine
with steam until the frost is driven out
THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
An Italian Dignitary With Polite Decision
Gets the Better of Count Bismarck.
A good illustration of the "retort courte
ous," says an exchange, was given to Count
Bismarck, the rough and rnde son of Prince
Bismarck, on the occasion of the German
Emperor's visit to Eome. At the railway
station Count Herbert pushed rudely against
an Italian dignitary, who was watching the
proceedings. The dignitary, greatly in
censed, remonstrated lorcibly against such
unceremonious treatment, whereupon Count
Herbert turned rouud haughtily and said:
"I don't think yon know who I am. I am
Count Herbert Bismarck." "That," replied
the Italian, bowing politely, "as an excuse is
insufficient, but as an explanation it is
ample.'
Funeral of Mrs. Ann McDowell.
The funeral of Mrs. Ann McDowell, who
died at the Home for the Aged,on Thursday,
will take place to-day at 2 P. M., from the
Home. Interment at Allegheny Cemetery,
Mrs. McDowell was 78 years old.
THE SUNLESS FOREST
Stanley's First Lecture a Deliv
erance of Most Graphic
Interest
VISITS TO THE REAL PIGMIES
Bare Glimpses of the Snow-Clad
Mountains of the Moon.
ENTIRE SILENCE AS TO BARTTELOT,
Eat Emin Pasha Handled in a Sarcastically
Humorous Way,
NEW FACTS FOB THE GE0GEAPHEK8
Henry M. Stanley's first lecture in New
York is of absorbing interest to the whole
civilized world. Mr. Stanley begant
"Mb. Chaikvian, Ladies and Gen
xlemen: In a future lecture I hope td
give you a few incidents of our march across
the continent of Africa. In this one I pro
pose to take you through the great forest u j
to the Mountains of the Moon, around th
great lakes and across Africa.
"Our journey measured over 6,000 miles!
The time occupied was 987 days. The firs!
section of about 1,000 miles was along an unl
known country by steamer up the Arnwimi
river, to a place called Yambuya. The
navigation was interrupted by rapids. Onf
foot next for 160 days we went through one
unbroken forest
"That journey was not through poetie
glades, with here and there thrown in a bit
"So Ends the Serio-Comie Story of Emin't
Heappearance."
of mossy dell, with little or no undergrowth
and free access and an open view into sylvan
wilds. You may remember your experience
of last summer, when you took an excursion
into the woods. There you found a poetie
seclusiou, a graceful disorder, mossy
grounds, trees of familiar kinds, springy
turf, bits of picturesque skies, and the sun
shedding softened streams of light upon tree
and turf.
"Ah! the African forest furnishes no snch
picturesque sights or pleasant glades. Lan
guage is too poor to describe it. First,
think of the tropics and a climate of humid
ity and heat of perpetual summer. You feel
as you enter into this unknown region the
robustness ot vegetation. There is a still,
warm vapor in suffocating volumes. First
you dispense with yonr upper garments,
and then you want to get rid of the rest
stveltebing olooii.
"The gloom is so great you can only com
pare it to the twilight of eveniug. You see
the leafage rising up black and green, im
penetrable clumps of trees, some of them
rising to the height of 220 feet There is
no symmetry, grace or softness, bnt all is
wild, uncouth and awful. At every step you
see masses of bewildering uudergrowtht, a
wonderful variety of plants. There is the
absence of any sense of decay, but rather the
sense of the general healthiulness of the
plants, an enduring youth, exhaustless
wonders.
"There is no longer any energy among us.
We behold everlasting greenness, eternal
vitality and fertility. Above all is a pro
tecting, impenetrable canopy. Sacred trees
with leafy crowns tower above us, African
mahogany, the unyielding iron wood, the
butternut tree and other varieties too numer
ous to mention, all united in closest embrace,
darkening the life below till it is suggestive
of mystery and awe.
"As we march silently, slowly and pain
fully on the forest changes its aspect, and
we note the labors of forgotten tribes and
come to swampy grounds. One day our
march is very slow through masses of forest
wildness. On the next day we go through
a more open section; on the following day
through frowning depths and overground
strewu with dead leaves, wormeaten trunks
or dried branches. But always and above
all tower the primeval woods, the deep
shadows unbroken save by the flashes of
lightning.
"On some days the march has to be pro
longed beyond the usual hour for halting
that bad been fixed upon because of the dif
ficulty of choosing a ground fit for a camp.
For we bear with us tons of perishable
goods that have to be protected from the
floods of rain.
"But at last a suitable spot is found. The
whistle is sounded and the loaded files coma
up, and one by one they deposit their
burdens in due order. Then when the tents
were erected the camp resounded with the
sonnds of voices. Some men with axes
trim the poles of the tents or cut fuel. Some
with knives peel the saplings to utilize the
bark for bedding. Some dig holes in th
ground for the tent poles.
TOBEST GIANTS.
"In a conple of hours a little town would
be seen and hundreds of fires would blaze
and 100 pots would be sending up clouds of
savory steam. The camp was animated and
resounded with chatter, and it was all the
louder because confined by the four sides of
our forest home.
"After the guards were set around the
camp we felt safe from the surprises of the
cannibals and those who wished were free to
wander away. At snch a time I have been
sensible of the utter poverty of words to de
scribe my surroundings. It was not a time
for poetic brooding, but one alter another
the senses yielded to the charm of seclusion.
Then I beheld a magnificent forest in listen
ing attitude, a great gloom, trees eloquent
of antiquity and of venerable brotherhood.
"I marveled at the age of the giants. X
saw the acorn drop and take root Genera
tions had passed, empire after empire had
passed away, but the tree grew taller and
taller, ever speechless, ever fixed, but ex
tending its limbs and root, indifferent
whether its crested top were illumined with
sunshine or wet with the rain.
"Yonder is an ancient tree with massive
trunk and gray bark, with millions ot
wrinkles, which was Dorn J,wu years before
the nere of Troy. On the river bank
spreads out another, born about the time -
S.-1 t 1 .L- A ft!-.3 V ..1- -ji
UDIUmUUI C1D33CU tUD AUKUUU JQ9 lecifl
tempted to interview these giants on the
times before the dusky natives had scarred
1 i I