TO.Tf?' T (SUV rjtg'V Tr&fsfvwr 10 THE- PITTSBURG DISPATCH; SUNDAT, NOVEMBER 16,- 1890. A REVIEW OF SPORTS Opinions Itegarding tlio Surrender of tne Players' National Baseball Leagne. ABOUT THE HIOBABLE RESULTS. Eeasona Showinc How the Promoters of the Players' Leagne Were Its Chief Wreckers. HOW THE LAW DEALS WITE PUGILISTS. PnUinitist of i EitUi Between Fogirty mi Li Bliscte Gtstnl Ccmment. Bear tne. what an awful week the one just one has been in baseball affairs! How awful it has been for the Players' League, and what a knockout that effort to rescue the poor players from thraldom and poverty has received. The would-be liberators, like the heroes who fought lor the liberty of the Waldeneses, the Italians, and those who are still fighting for the poor Poles, at least have the inward satisfaction of know ing that they tried to improve the moral, social and financial condition of a class of down-trodden, heel-of-tyrany-on-the neck citizens known in modern history as baseball players. Have we not been told by the advocates, and have we not read in the records that to rescue these players from the "hands of tue PhilUtines" was the only ob ject. Alas, that such a noble, such a divine like mission should remain unfulfilled. "Well, it is safe to say that what we ouce knew as the Flavors" National Baseball League lias "thrown in its chips" and disap peared. But stop; I believe I am mistaken in the "chip" business, because it appears that it was because it had no chips that it decamped in a remarkably sud den way. However, if wc look at this mat ter seriously we'll find one or two very grave features. It is a uiis.ortunethat none of us can laugh at, or at least we should not, when honest men lose hundreds of thousands of dollars innocently. Sometimes we pay dearly for our experience.and certain ly a number of business men have done so in this instance. That they will all be sad der and wiser men there is no doubt and it may be many a long mouth before a, partr of human beings, like Jonah's, gourd, rise up in a night expecting to kill the National League, more powerful to-day than it ever was in its history, and the very fact is the (strongest possible reason why the National League should be more cautious in its movements now than ever. Too much power has ruined ninny great men and wrecked many good institutions. It is nec essary then that in this instance the mag sates of the National League should show no desire to be vindictive. Doubt less the object of the Players League was to sweep the National League entirely from the earth, but a victor like the N. L. can afford to treat with the VHuquished on the unrest of business prin ciples just as if no intention of killing each other bad ever existed. Misguided men have lost much money in this abortive, though well mtentiooed, effort to relorm baseball Generally and elevate the ball player from the degradation of Pullman cars mid first-class hotels to more civilized com forts ot hie. 1 say much money has been lost, and it will not be to the credit of the National League it it now tries to exact its "pound of flesh" from people in difficulties. Some Probable Results. Of course it is much too soon to talk defin itely about what all the direct and indi rect results of the end of the conflict ill be. The National League circuit will almost certainly be the same as it was last year, and this shows that in the Cincinnati deal the old beads were very much superior to the young ones. It is difficult to say what will become of the Bostou P. L. club, but common sense will tell us that the players of that club will look out for themselves. To be Irank on the matter, I have very little sympathy for the Boston Players' League magnates. In what thev thought their hey day of success they had no syrapathv for either triend or loe. Anotner result will be the enforcement of tbe fact that while some of us can enjoy the comforts of riding on a train we ciunot own railroads and make a success of thera; that while we may be good and success ul players on musical instru ments we will be failures If we try to make them; in other words wc now know that other people know that it is one thing to be a good ball player and another to found and successfully run a national organizttion. "What will now become of the player? is a question that has been asked time and time again during the last few days. Why, the result oi the surrender will be that the player will be just as well oflfas he ever was aud that means much better off than he was last season. I am aware that stockholders of clubs are indulging in the belief that the salaries of players will be reduced. I don't anticipate this by any meaus be cause in the natural course ot things the best talent will always command good prices. That spirit of competition lor good players which has done as much to improve the game as anythiug else, will continue, and just as snre as it does good ball players will get high salaries. It is useless to talk of any concerted effort on the part of the magnates to keep salaries down. We all know of the miserable failures in the past in this direc tion. But even if concerted effort of this kind w ere to be resorted to then the stand ard pf the game would begin to wane. The good ball player has nothing to fear, except it may be, temporarily; that is, lor the first season or so, he may be required to play for a few hundred dollars less than he would otherwise have gotten. Tnere is another re sult that I anticipate, and that is that the clubs ol the National League will be of a higher' quality next season as far as playing ability is concerned, than they have ever been before. The team that wins the cham pionship will have to be a great one. Save Us rrom Our Friends. If there is one thing more than another thai I have steadily urged during the year of curious baseball history, it has been the fact that those who praise us so extrava gantly and so impulsively at a day's notice are invariably the most liable to censure and vilify us the next day; in fact, it is only a week or two since I said a few words about summer friends. By that I mean those friends who are like the leaves on the tree. When all is beautiful and warm and joyous in summer time the leaves cling to the trees, but as soon as cold blasts begin to Appear the leaves drop off and the branches are leftbare,to protect themselves as best they can. "Well, this kind of friendship has been illustrated more during this baseball con flict than during any other period that I am aware of. Those heroes of the pencil, those orators of the cafes, and, I may add, emporiums, who filled columns and yelled themselves hoarse in praise of the misguided men who were putting up thousands of dollars for the Players' League have evidently become censurers and slan ders ot the most rabid type; they are now condemning as serpents the very men whom only a few days ago they held up as gods. Alter bestrewing the paths of these men with palms as lar as praise and panegyric were concerned, they are trying to crucify them. Sure! v history lepeats itself. Again 1 say: Save us from our friends. This re vulsion of thought; no, not thought, this re vulsion of impulse only shows what a small amount of mental stability there was among thuse recognized advocates, may I use the le elegant term, "pliiggere," of the Play ers' League. But let me ask why this change of feeling? "Why are those persons who were yesterday waving palms holding em visln ot poison to-day? Simply because the people, the gentlemen whom they as sisted to allure and goad on to ruin, refused to be fools any longer; because these duped business men declined to further hand out thousands of dollars in pure squandering fashion while the "pluggers" were only doing the shouting; because, as business men, they discovered that they were on the rapid road to ruin. And it is simply fpr this that these "advo cates." these self-sacrificing advocates, are shouting "thief," "robber," "traitor," etc. In short, these advocates have deceived themselves, and they are determined to have a victim. To obtain one they have, like a pact of wolves, fallen on the" very men who have been their best friends, and who made it possible to continue one ot the greatest of modern follies for more than a year. Fie on such ingratitude! shame on such treach ery! Surely the immortal "William was right when he said: Blow, blow; ini I'hou wintrv wind. Thou are not so unkind As man's ingratitude. Who Were the Wreckers? In this paragraph I am going to show that the very persons who are now insulting honorable gentlemen for trying to redeem the national game from ruin are almost the only ones directlv responsible for the wreck of the Players' Leaeue. II I am wrong m my conclusions 1 certainly want to know it. Now, let us go back to the beginning; that is, to the time when the country was Hooded with frothy rodomontades aud clap-trap effusions regarding the wealth that was to be amused by the Players' League. Itepre sentatives ol the latter set themselves to work in every city to drag unsuspecting business men into a scheme that was stated to be one of the easiest and surest highroads to immense wealth that the world has ever known. In Pittsburg business men were told that there could not possibly be any deviation from the high road to wealth. AVhy, 50, or even 100 per centnn the desired investment was a mere trifle. And the allurements were artiully held out; the bait was enticing. It was difficult to convince the ordinary business man who knew little or nothing about baseball that ball players were not trointr to have an absolute mo nopoly during 1890 and lor succeeding gen erations. As a result, many business men were caught, and they fully believed that they iiad at last realized an out-and-out bonanza. A matter of $200,000 clear profit was to be had tor holding one's hand out. But the season started and went on and on and on until the end was reached. It was reached and oh! great Scott! what a sell! AVhy, these poor duped business men found that instead of being the recipients of un told wealth tbey had been compelled to sus tain an incessant out-going stream of money that, like the proverbial ship, never returned. They had been fooled, miserably fooled, by the promoters and advocates of a scheme that turned out to be a rank failure. They naturally said to these scheme pro moters: "Why, you people have lied to us. You promised us good returns for the money that we would put up for you. AVe not only haven't received any returns, but our outlay has been tremendously larger than you said was necessary; there fore, we have been doubly fooled. To prevent our being looked upou as living and consummate proofs of the Dar winian theory we must change our course. Our being led astray this year is your fault, but to continue in "that direction will be ours." I submit that this is a fair aud logi cal statement of the case as it stands. I further contend that the entire fabrication of the new league was built by misrepresenta tion. "Whether that misrepresentation was willful or not I do not at present say, but I do claim that not 90 per cent of even the players had anything like a correct idea of its structure, its objects or its laws. I am aware that I argued this matter about ayear ago, but I respect the statement because, since the smoldering volcano lias exploded, player after player has told me that what thePlayers' Leagne was in reality was quite different to what it was on paper representa tion. It is necessary to go into these matters somewhat exhaustively because of the efforts being made to injure the reputation of a large number ot honorable business men in the eyes of the public. More Elements ot Failure. But the Players' League was not only misrepresented to the capitalists who have foolishly thrown thousauds of dollars over, but it was misrepresented to tbe public. Headers of this paper can all remember how I assailed that alluring statement made by P. L. advocates to the effect that it was in all respects a co-operative organization and a trades union. Those who ever lor a mo ment thought that an inanity of that kind would have any good and lasting effect on the public mind were very, very foolish. The schoolmaster has been abroad too long for nonsense of that kind to have any ap preciable effect. That untrue claim helped in the work of ruin. Again we were told that there would be a sort of profit-sharine plan in which the poor down-trodden player would participate. Has Boston shared any thing? The moguls of that club claim to have cleared SG3.000. Has that "divy" con sequent on that divine principle of brotherhood and brotherly love reached Pittsburg? Has it reached any of that family ot eight, which we were told last spring were banded together to share alike iu gains and losses? Certainly it has not; and the man who expected otherwise would be one ot the most consummate of fools. True the Players League was organized on the most beautiful ot principles, but tbe great fault of its original principles was that they were either not for this world or they were a few centuries too soon. Its theo ries were captivating; but so were some of Sir Thomas More's, and so are some of Bel lamy's. Unfortunately these theories and the facts of daily life won't work together, no matter how correct the theory may be on paper. Well, the facts of fife at once knocked the P. L. theories into the shape of a three-cocked hat, aud before we knew where we were the P. L. was plodding away and aiming at tbe same common sense safe guards that had nided in the success of the National L:ague. But those misguided men who undertook the lormatiou of the P. L. undertook the accomplishment of a task that was most extraordinary They really undertook to build in a night and'with comparatively little experience, a structure superior to that which has in its erection required years of labor and enor mons wealth aided Hy the best brains that the game of baseball has known. I mean the National League. Now let us calmly ask ourselves the question: Could the accom plishment of such a task be expected? The .riayers xeague lias iiveu a season entirely because ot the pluck and generositv of tbe gentlemen who are now being slandered. They have heroically furnished the fuel to keep it going and its life has been an arti ficial one. All tpat remains to be done now is for tbe players to look alter their own oc cupation and the public to show its grati tude to those who have tried to and who hope to fully succeed in re-establishing the national game on a basis substantially like that on which it was called the "glorious game." TJio Lair and Pugilists. Once more the strong arm of the law has shown its power in holding back two men from entering a ring to fight, and once more, no doubt, the whole affair will end in a burlesque as far us the law or its enforce ment is concerned. Godfrey and Smith were due to do battle before the Puritan Club last Tuesday and the law stepped in aud vetoed the proceedings. Still the men continue in training and the club con tinues to assure ticket holders and intend ing ticket holders that the contest will surely take place. A condition of things of this kiud has existed in several instances before and the question is sug gested, is there not something strange in these cases? WhatJI mean is: That the law either is or is not; and that being so it can either stop these contests or it cannot. Fur ther, if it can stop one it cau stop all. "Well then, if one out of, say a dozen is stopped, does not that fact say that there is something "rotten in the State of Denmark?"! And we are still further prompted to ask: RVhit offended these laithful minions of tw law in the Smith-Godfrey affair? A friend of mine who has been in the East during the last six or seven months assured me the other day, a little personal difference between the Sheriff and the proprietors of the so-called Puritan Club was the sole cause of the stoppage of the contest. This is the way in which the dignity of the law is upheld. I refer to the matter in this spirit because.I have, indeed, very little admiration for these club contests. If there is a law against them enforce it, and if there is not, why in the name of com mon sense cannot a bona fide encouuter of the brave and manly kind be allowed as in the days when boxing-glove hyppodroming and boxing frauds were unknown? If a club room can be legalized lor those boxing glove prize fights, why cannot an open field? Don't tell me that there is any more brutality in the old method of set tling the question of superiority on the open turf than in a small ring in a club room or saloon room providing both encounters are bona fide. In more than 90 per ceut of the bona fide glove encounters a man is knocked senseless with a blow; that blow maybe soon or late in the contest, but the blow knocks the man "out." In how many in stances has this occurred iu "historical bare fist battles? The answer is very, very few. Even when Tom King delivered his re markable one on Mace the latter was not knocked '"out." He responded to time and when the t, ponce went up he was still able to respond. But time and time again it happens among our glove fighters that one blow temporarily knocks the senses out of a man. In view of these facts I think there is little reason to talk about tbe brutality of bare fist fighting while so many people are upholding these glove contests. The latter has, during the last decade, introduced more frauds in pugilistic circles than existed dur ing all the previous 50 years. It has en couraged a club system that is questionable from top to bottom, because these so-called clubs are nothing more or less than schemes to evade the law and make money by not only an inferior method of fighting, but also by a method that is the most brutal. All that I argue for is to let us have an im partial law regarding the two styles of fistic encounters. Fogarty and La Blanche. According to reports there is once more a prospect of Fogarty and La Blanche coming together. As far as my information goes if the contest between Smith, of Denver, and Godfrey comes i.ff all right, the Puritan Club will oiler a good purse for a contest be tween Fogarty aud La Blanche. An en counter between these two middle weights, they may be heavier, would be of very great interest because they both have been "on the shelf" bo long. Fogartv's abilities as a pugilist have always been respected by the very best authorities, but it really is so long since he appeared in the ring that it would be exceedmglydifiiculttogiveanytbinglike a correct estimate of his merits now. But Fogarty's chances of getting into his best form are just as good as the chances of La Blanche. At any rate a battle between them under the regulation club rules would certaiuly be interesting. General Events. This week baseball really demands so much attention that there is not space to deal with matters that ordinarily should be noticed. I am glad to say that football more than sustains the popularity that has surrounded it since the opening ot the sea son. There are more players and clubs than ever, aud the players, generally speaking, are of a better quality. Pittsburg is now iu possession of several good teams. During the week there has also been more than usual interest displayed in almost all kinds of amateur snorts. Of course, we'll all be glad of this, because 1 am inclined to "be lieve that the day is fast approaching wheu amateur athletes will have full sway. The remarkable amateur events of this year will most assuredly prompt more to try for laurels next year than ever, and it is safe to say that lrom now on it will be the only ambition of all athletes to head the marks made fcv Owen and Baker. Phingle. AN ARTIFICIAL EYE. How li is Made and the Difficulty in Securing a Good Fit, THE BEST AUK HADE OP SPAR. Some Are So Perfect 1 hat '1 hey Deceive the Wearer's Friends. VARIETIES AS CHEAP AS BD110XS Tnere is a jentleman in New York, mar ried and the father of a family, who has worn an artilicial eye for many years with out the knowledge of any member of his family. Thtre are many men and women in public lift who wear artificial eyes un discovered. To do this, of course, requires not only wonderful perfection in the manu facture of the eye itself, but also great cir cumspection on tbe part of the wearer, whose vision is necessarily limited, and who is liable toecposure from the occurrences of everyday life. There was, until recently, in New York City, a lady, the wife of a very well-known man, who was in the habit of meeting constantly very many persons, and who wont out much in society, who wore an artificial eye without detection. Many artificial eyes are imported from Germany ant! France, where they are made almost as cheaply as buttons. In the dis trict of Tburingia, in Germany, entire vil lages of men, women and children assist in the manufacture. The process is analogous to glass blowing. Indeed, it is a sort of glass blowing. The workman sits at a table with a gas jit flame from a blowpipe in froutofhiui, which gives an intense heat, capable of netting the glassy substance which forms Hie eye. He molds the sub stance as easily as a potter would mold clay. Then the pupil is put on by the same pro cess and the colors traced with small needles ot colored substance, so as to imitate the delicate tracery of the eyeball aud pupil. HAPHAZARD FITTING. "When cyeii are made at wholesale the workmau makes haphazard a vast quantity of sizes, shapes and colors, and it is pre sumed that a dealer cau, by keeping a large assortment of these artificial eyes, manage to match the eyes of any customer. But, in practice, this proves to be an exceedingly difficult matter. The colors and shapes of eyes vary in numberless variety, and where customers are fastidious aud with keen vision for shades of color, it is seldom possi ble to suit them with these ready-made eyes, aud they are little used iu first-class estab lishments, where perfect work is sought re gardless of price. The expression, "A bully boy with a glass eye," denotes a popular error that false eyes are mau't of glass. The tact is that the substance is more like china. About 40 years ago an Englishman named T. J. Davis began to make artificial eyes in New York by a new process. He found a spar in Conuecticutwhich was peculiarly adapted for the making of artificial eyes, and he maintained that, alter great research in other parts of the world, no stone could be found capable of yielding the same results. EYES MADE OP SPAR. This spar, to become ductile, has to be subjected to an intense heat for troni 06 to 48 hours. "When thus thus treated it is ready for shaping and coloring, and requires no metallic oxides to work it, and is, there fore, not liable to injury from the saline secretions aud more durable and artistic than eyes made in tbe old way, which was to mix common glass with metallic oxides, producing a material easily fusible by heat and very brittle. The eyes produced by the Connecticut spar aro tougher. JNlr. Davis kept his secret for many years, and before his death bequeathed it to his sons, and tbey have made many eves successfully for wealthy people who have tried in vain the best eye macers 'if Europe. The" cheap wholesale eves are very useful in sparsely settled localities or small towns where people may want artificial eyes in an emergency. For instance, a gentleman traveling in the "West broke his artificial eve, and the only place where he could get another was at a saddler's shop. He did not get a good match lor size, shape or color, but be got something that served him until he could get to New York. DETAILS Or MATCHING. There are many things to be considered in making a first-class artificial eye. The right is different from the left. The size of the bulb must be taken into account. The position must be prominent, full or sunken, to mate the good eye. The shade of the white of the eye must be noted, and the del icate veins and tracery: Sometimes the bloodshot appearance ot the good eye must be imitated. The diameter ot tbe iris and the pupil must be marke I, and tbe nature of the operation on the diseased eye must be taken into account. All this requires skill and dexterous manipulation. It is not unusual for a person to keep several extra eyes on hand in case of accident. Sometimes people out of town send orders for eyes in the same way that other merchan dise is sent tor. The European artificial eyes generally last abont 12 months only, when they become rough and unpleasant. Even the best false eyes will "after a time be come rough and require to be replaced. The best makers require that the false eyes shall be taken out at night and kept thoroughly clean. PLATES FOR ME EYEBALL. In most cases what is called an artificial eye is merely a part of an eye consisting of a small saucer which is not attached to the ball of the eye, but placed in proper position over it, and kept in place by the eyelids. Sometimes, when not skilfully fitted, they drop out and break. A first-class artificial eye. fitted in every respect in size, form and color, costs from $25 to $50. The ready-made eyes can be bought for verv much less. A well known maker of artificial eyes said to a New York bun reporter: "I have 8,000 imported eyes that are useless. They won't fit anything. My customers say they do not look like humau eves at all; that they are more like cat's eyes. Thev are of crude, unskillul workmanship. They would prove uncom fortable to the wearer and probably produce disease. They would not fit the eyeball so as to move in unison with the good ere. They are very far, indeed, from the per fection of the eyes we make here. You can buy them for 40 cents apiece. What is the need of any one buying such thinss when by waiting a day or so a perfect fitting and well matched eye can be made? It is a common thing for people to go abroad under tbe impression that the best artificial eyes are made there. But thev generally come back with a better appreciation of American workmanship. Of course there are some persons who must wear the cheap eyes or none, but no sensitive person can be persuaded to use them unle3s in an emer gency. Left Destitute! Not of worldly goods, bat of all earthly com fort, is the poor wretch tormented by malaria. The fell scourge is, however shorn of its thong in advance by Hosteiter's Stomach Bitters, its only sure preventive and remedy. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, rheumatism, nervous ness and kidney complaints are among the bod ily aflllctiuns which this beneficent medicine overcomes with certainty. Use it systemat ically. Fur Capes In great variety; all the fashionable furs in the very newest styles. 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The Hospii.il for the Ruptured and Crippled received 55,000. A Long-Headed Itailroad President. Hon. Charles Francis Adams, of Boston, President of the Union Pacific Railway, re cently returned from a trip to the West'. At Trinidad, Colo., he secured a wagon and spent four or five days near that place look ing up the coal lands there, for which Trini dad is becoming famous. As a result of his visit, thousands of acres ot coal lands were purchased, presumably in his interest and that of the Union Pacific Road, which al ready ruus into Trinidad and beyond, and is receiving an enormous coal traffic at that point. SU Eiderdown comfortables, satine and silk covers; unsurpassed values and assort ments from 55 00 to 540 00 each. ttssu Htjgus & Hacke. All kinds of cabinet work to order. Haugh & Keenan, 33 Water st. su Stjlish Saltings, Overcoat and trouser material, of the best quality at Anderson's, 700 Smithfield street! 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Now, being at no expense whatever in our Carpet Department, we will ask you, in all reason, if a firm, without any ex pense whatever, cannot sell cheaper than a car pet house whose expenses run into the thou sands monthly. Surely, you will see the differ ence at a glance. We save you fully 10 per cent in this department. Our Curtain Depart ment is full of choice goods. Our Stoves, and Ranges are made in the city, and a positive guarantee given with each. The Davis Sew ing Machine, of which we make a specialty, is the best the market affords. 25 per cent saved by buying on easy payments. Hf PER BROS. & CO, Pioneers of Low Prices anil Easy Payments. 307 WOOD STREET. Wear JToxixth. 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This is true all the year around, but truer at some times than others. By this we mean that there is more money to be saved at cer tain seasons of the vear than at others. Just at the present time prices in this department are at the very lowest on account of a special sale in Caps Hats and Caps are so nearly related that our hat man says it would never do to have Caps marked at such ridiculously low prices and the Hats not also reduced. So now's the time to secure what you want in headgear. Here are a few quo tations from the Cap sale: Thou sands of Jersey Caps slaughtered at 5c, worth 25c 19c gives you a choice of a line of Plush, Velour and Velvet Turbans for boys. Regular 39c goods. Men's Plush or Velour Turbans at 24c and 54c. These have been reduced from 49c and 63c. Let these stand for samples; the higher priced goods are equally reduced. Men's Overcoats. Hi Nor should it prove thy less important care To choose a proper coat for winter wear; Be thine of Kersey, firm, tho' small the cost, Then brave unwet the rain, unchilled the frost. Of course, we've every other material of which Overcoats are made be' sides Kersey. We've Ov ercoats in Meltons, in Cassimeres, in Cheviots, in Beavers, in Chinchil las, in Worsteds, in Diagonals and scores of other materials too numer ous for us to mention. No man whose pocketbook is not absolutely penniless need be without an Over coat this winter. CHEAP! It's no name for the price we are selling these useful garments at the present time. JFjtojocl $4 TT;p we can supply you with an Over coat faultless in fit and of prime value for the money asked. MEN'S SUITS. We honestly believe that we could go through our stock of Men's Suits and mark them up from Si to $4 per suit and then not be in any fear of com petition. Such a step would yield us a tem porary advantage as to profits, but we're not in business for the present only. We're looking to the future all the time, and we know that every suit sold at nresent Drices is tne Dest kind of an advertisement we could possibly get. No Matter What Price you think you can pay for a suit, come to us with the money and we'll guarantee that you'.ll get bet ter value for your money from us than from any store in town. We also give you a guarantee that if it isn't what we claim, you can bring tne goous uacK ana get your money, which vou will then be at liberty to do better with if you can. An enormous stock to select from, wliirh r.omnrises everv stvle of ir-ir- ment made and every material, while the prices run rrom $5. to $25. ul Boys' Clothing. This is our pet de partment. Our KILT SUITS AND Jerseys are the cutest and sweetest little things you ever saw, and the low prices are the sur- g prise of everyone. And then the Jacket and Pant Suits for the little fellows, and the Vest Suits. Where else will you see such an assortment, and where! oh, where! will you match our prices? And then the Sacks and Cutaways for the larger little fellows, embrac ing all styles and fashions of every desirable material.are innumerable marvelous in variety, quality and quantity. Overcoats for the little ones as low as 95c, Suits for them fromSi.50. The parents who can not find suitable clothing for their children from our mammoth stock and at a price that will please have a very hard row to hoe. SHOES. Sabsfac"b03DLl 1 hat's the one word that best expresses what we are do ing in our Shoe D e p a rtment. We are giving our pa ttons satis faction, not only in the price at the time of the purchase, but in a far more important m a n n e r in the wear. It is really astonishing, the number of people who say: 'The last Shoes I had I bought of you." There is no disputing tne fact that our Shoe Department is the most popular one in Pittsburg and that we are doing the business of the city in the Shoe line. We could quote hundreds of prices, but will content ourselves with but two to-day. Ladies' Glazed Dongola, button, opera and common sense toes, $1.48. Men's Extra B Calf, button, all style of toes, $1.85. FUMISHMS. If money saved is money made thenwe think we ought to dub our Fur nishing de partment a mint, for the amount o f solid cash saved our patrons each year is enor mous. This is on the same line of reasoning that a friend of ours calls his dog Catawba, be cause he whines (wines) so.- But get hold of the fact that you can save monev on all the various arti cles which go to make up this large department. See our new line of elegant neckwear, just opened. It's better than we've been selling for the price, but we are going to mark it 49c. In Underwear, everything, in every color, from the lightest to the heaviest weights. The prices GUSKY'S PRICES! That ought to be enough. If you live out of the city send for our Beautiful Fall Catalogue, which will give you hints on dress and show you how to secure the bargains we offer through our Mail Order Department. We would also like to have your name and address so that we can send you, regularly, our rrfonthly illustrated paper. iMvill interest you. 300 TO 400 j IlVLiLIRIKlIET STREET. KV'G J m .
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