7?5WfSS-? ft ?rF, "F?y Tf 'SSW5?' wvmm T, Discovery of a DeTice Which is Guaranteed to Lessen the Con sumption of Gas in Mills. ISO KEED OF EETURKIKG TO COAL. A Ton of Muck Iron Can be Prodnccd 33 Cents Cheaper Regardless of the increased Bates. XO EOIALTIES TO PAY OX FATEKTS. Prodtcers Ely Himrictanri Sfcst IcoacniM With thi Frecicsi Fsel. The dancer of the twin cities havinc to re turn to coal is a cloudless ominous than the little coil of smoke that curls up from the coal fire on a Monongahela river jo-boat Natural gas for years to come is expected to five Pittsburg manufacturers an advant age over the outside world. Even if cas should by any chance become too scarce for the great manufacturing industries, fuel gas can be furnished at a cost that will cut coal bills in two, right in the middle. Therefore there is no fear that Pittsburg will ever again be known as the "Smoky City." The secret of all this is the discovery of a new application of the principles underly ing the old Sicmon's regenerative furnace. It is a device by which the heating portion of the puddling furnace is enlarged, and the amount of the checker work correspond ingly, so that all the radiant heat is util ized. The gas used in this furnace is mixed with air heated to a high temperature. HOW THE DISCOTEKT WAS MADE. The discovery was made by Samuel Ban nister, Vice Chairman and Manager of the Fuel Gas and Manufacturing Company. The results ot tests show that while it takes an average of 35,000 cubie feet to puddle a ton of iron by the present furnaces, with Mr. Bannister's process it requires less than 14,080 cubic feet of gas. In other words, it requires two and a half times as much gas under the present system to make a ton of iron as it does in a properly con structed regenerative furnace. The Siemon's regenerative furnace was brought out about 20 years ago to economize the use of coal, but that article was so cheap in Pittsburg that the old furnaces were retained. The process of using heated air was what the patent was based on, and that patent having expired, their applicat on of that process cannot be protected, and is therelore open to everybody. The change to this process will necessitate the erection of new furnaces, but the differ ence in cost is not more than $200. The fur naces on this new system can be erected for from SS00 to 51,000 apiece. The economy in the fuel will therefore more than justify the expense. AMOUNT OF GAS If OW DEEDED. More than this, the amount of gas con sumed in the production of a ion of iron in the present furnaces ol course varies with the style of their construction. In many furnaces it runs as high .as 50,000 cubic feet for each ton, t'and the most extravagant test was one made by the Philadelphia Company, in which a furnace burned 05,000 cubic feet of gas in the production of a ton of muck iron. Cut ting the amount down to 14,000 cubic feet makes the present supply of gas amply suffi cient to supply every puddling furnace in Pittsburg. The old charge of the Philadelphia Com pany to iron manufacturers was $1 75 lor each ton of iron. The advanced rates to the manufacturers who consumed from the Phil adelphia Company is 10 cents per 1,000 cubio leet. By using the new process, therefore, the cost would only be 51 40, or a saving of 35 cents a ton to the manufacturers, even at the greatly advanced rate. It means an average reduction, under the present prices, of from $3 CO a ton under the present method, to $1 40 under the new. There are about COO puddling furnaces that have been using gas in Pittsburg. The amount of gas they consume under the present system will be sufficient to operate 1,500 furnaces under the new system. STILIi A GKEATEB DISCOVERT. Beyond this is the greater discovery that no matter what the heat value of the gas maybe, with this furnace the number of heat units required to prcduce a ton of iron varies but a scarcely noticeable per cent, from 14,000,000. "With coal the number of heat units required to do this work is 30, 000,000. Therefore, fuel gas will be able to do the work in case natural gas should Jail, and at half the cost of coal. The cause of the investigations which led to this discovery was the growing leeling among natural gas men that there was a possibility of the gas finding an end. Ex perience taught them that each year the pressure is growing smaller, and that some thing must be done by mill men to econo mize the fuel so that its career of usefulness could be lengthened. JThe Dispatch has described numerous appliances to economize gas in the home, and in the above is the first to announce the discovery of a method to prevent waBte in the mills. President Brown, of the Equitable Gas Company, was one of the pioneers in this movement, and yesterday spoke of his investigations as follows: IMMENSE BATING TOSSIBLE. "For some time I have been estimating the amount of gas used in puddling mills. So far my investigations show that it re quires an average of about 35,000 cubic foot of gas to make a ton of muck iron. In some furnaces the amonnt runs as high as 65,000 cubic feet This is too much waste. The manufacturers must understand that this precious fuel will have to be economized. It will possibly come to the question, not how much will gas cost, but can we get it? Any thing that will prevent a waste of this fuel will be a godsend to Pittsburg. It is to the interest of both gasmen and manu'acturers to lessen this waste. There is now sufficient gas escaping from wells to more than sup ply all .FitUDurg. xnee wens are in the outlying districts, so far away from pipe lines of the various Pittsburg companies that it will not pay to pipe it If all these wells were turned into the Pittsburg com panies' mains, there would be no danger of a shortage. "Mr. Bannister, of the Fuel, Gas and Manufacturing Company, has discovered a process by which only 14,000 cubic feet of gas will be consumed in producing a ton of Iron. It is not tied up by a patent, and every iron mill should accept this method of stopping the waste. The process, I believe, can be applied to beating furnaces and also to boilers, and the saving will be wonderful. LENGTHENING THE LIFE OF GAS. "Unless new fields are discovered, the gas will sometime come to an end. The pres sure from the pre-ent fields is gradually growing less, but if manufacturers will intro duce this new system it means they will have gas two and one-half times as strong as at present It means more; there will be less gas needed, we can bring it in smaller pipes. The distant fields which cannot be reached on account of the great cost of the big mains which would be required can then be tapped by smaller pipes, and their pres sure thrown into Pittsburg." Samuel Bannister was seen yesterday, at the office of the Fuel Gas and Manufactur ing Company, and all he would say say: "It is criminal for manufacturers to use 35,000 cubic feet of gas to make a ton ot iron, when the irti-'- " ho Jnip i"i 110"0 WASTE MAKES WA1 cubic feet As for the process of saving gas it is simply a new application of an old principle that of mixing air, which has been raised to a high tempera ture, with the gas. Tests have been made at one of the iron mills. The tests have proved satisfactory. From the result of these tests the following conclusions have been thoroughly established: THE EESULTS OP TESTS MACE. "The amount of gas necessary to puddle a ton of iron will vary inversely with its calorific value, provided the combustion is equally perfect and the apparatus in which the puddling is done is in each case equally well designed. It also appears that when coal and natural gas are burned in the same apparatus without any more attempt at economy in one case than the other, to per form the same work about 23,000 cubic feet of natural gas will be consumed or the equivalent of a ton (2,000 pounds) of Pittsburg coal. In the ordi nary puddling furnace it takes about a ton and one-third, or 2,700 pounds of coal for each ton of iron ore puddled. This amount of Pittsburg coal contains 3G.000.000 heat units, and it was found that the ordinary furnace, burning the natural gas in the ordinary manner, consumed about 33,000 to 34,000 cubio feet of gas per ton of iron ore puddled. The average calorific value of natural gas is about 1,100,000 heat units per 1.000 cubic feet, and, therefore, it takes 30,300,000 heat units to puddle a ton of iron with natural gas in the ordinary puddling iurusce, designed to burn coal in the ordinary manner. "After remodeling the furnace on the Siemon's regenerative plans, with certain alteratives for convenience in getting at the checker-work, and with only single regen eration, i. e., regenerating the air only, a test was made to determine the amount of natural gas required to puddle a ton of iron. This test developed the fact that it took about 13,250 cubic feet of natural gas to puddle a ton of iron in the remodeled fur nace, or, calculated into heat units, 14,575, 000 heat units. The above amount of gas is the average on a week's run of the furnace. EXPERIMENTS -WITH FUEL GAS. "After the above test was made, gas made at the plant of the Fuel, Gas and Manu facturing Company, Limited, was used, with the following results, in these puddling furnaces. The first tests were made with gas containing 297,375 heat units per 1,000 cubic feet, and the average amonnt of gas necessarv to puddle a ton of iron was found to be 4700 cubic feet, or 14,065,837 heat units, "A gas of 2G0.400 heat units per 1,000 cubic leet was made and delivered to the furnace. The amount necessary to puddle a ton of iron was 54,100 cubic feet, or 14,412,240 heat units. "From the above tests it will be seen it requires about 36,000,000 heat units to be fired in the ordinary pnddling furnace to puddle a ton of iron, and about 14,000,000 heat units will do the same work with a properly designed regenerative furnace." TRANSFERRED AT LAST. ALLEGHENY BESSEMER STEEL WORKS DEAL COMPLETED. The Works "Were Shut Sown Yesterday and UioOld Hands raid Off Plant "Will Not He Idle Long Employment for More Jlen. It was stated at Braddock yesterday on good authority that tho transfer of the Alle gheny Bessemer Steel "Works at Dnquesne had been virtually consummated with the firm of Carnegie Bros. & Co., of the Edgar Thomson Steel "Works. The deal has been hanging for the past few months, and many contradictory reports have been circulated during the past week in regard to it The Allegheny Bessemer Steel "Works were shut down yesterday morning at 6 o'clock in all departments of steel making. The superintendents of the numerous de partments Friday evening posted notices to the effect that their employes need not go to work yesterday morning, and that if they would go to the general office of the works they would receive the wages due them. This was a signification that the men could not understand, as it was not the regular semi-weekly payday. The only workmen who could be seen around the mills were the mechanics and several watch men. The workmen, however, believe that the works will not remain inactive longer than a few days, or r week at the farthest, as the appearance of the mill indicates that fact Otherwise th' action of the company in closing down the mill is construed by the officials at those works and at the Carnegio works as a sure indication that the mill was to change ownership, and that the order of susDension was incidental to the transfer. It is not considered that the employes of t the Allegheny Bessemer Works will be thrown idle long, although some six weeks ago enough orders lor steel rails were not at haiid to keep the mill running, and the works were put to turning out steel billets for five weeks. A small order for steel rails was received about ten davs ago and was qnickly filled, when the mill again went to work on billets, and it was the intention of the management to produce that sort of material until the holidays. It is the intention of the firm of Carnegie Bro. & Co. to mate many extensions and additions to the Dnquesne mill during the holidays. It will be completely recon structed and turned into mills for the manu facture of angles, bars and plates to be used in constructing roofings, in manufacturing industries, bridges, etc., by the Keystone Bridge Company, which is another addition of the Carnegie interests. Several hundred workmen additional will find employment at the Duquesne works if the scheme as proposed is carried into ex ecution. It is understood that when the Carnegie firm takes control of the Alle gheny Bessemer "Works the management under the old firm will be retained, and nut changed around as it has been reported would be the case. AH mPETUOUS 1AHDL0BD Causes the Arrest of a l'oor Widow TVltli Throe Children. About 8 o'clock last night Mrs. Moran was arrested and lodged in the Central station on a charge of disorderly conduct. The arrest was made at the instigation of James Taggart, a Second avenue liquor dealer, in wnose house Mrs. Moran was a tenant An investigation of the case showed that Mrs. Moran, who is a widow with three children, had been ordered to vacate the house and while doing so some of the plaster was knocked off, for which Mr. Taggart had her arrested. On learning this Inspector McAleese released the woman and turned the case over to Agent Dean. HAS OHE OF ITS OWH. Allegheny Board of Control to Open Its Library Xo-Xight The Allegheny Board of School Control has demonstrated its ability to wage a successful fight, even against the Carnegie Library. To-night they will reopen their school library in their new rooms in the Sterrett building, Ohio and West Diamond streets. The librarv occupies the entire third floor of the building. The new cases are tastefully arranged and the reading tables are all placed along the Diamond street side. THEEE WAS NO LOVE. Sirs, ltoss Thinks Seven Tears' Separation Good as a Divorce. An old man named Dousman Boss was arrested by Detective Iiee, of Allegheny, last night Mrs. Boss complained to Chief of Police Murphy that her husband had re turned homo after an absence of seven years and demanded admittance: She refused and she alleges he threatened her injury. The conple are about 70 years old. Boss haB been making his home at a place on Duquesne way known us the Home Htrl. ' CAUGHT BY THE BAIT. The Glittering Inducements Held Out by a Loan Institution LURES MANY VICTIMS TO THE NET. Officers of the Granite State Provident Association IN JAIL FOR CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD "Gentlemen, we had some people here be fore who were apparently transacting a sim ilar business to yours, and they are now in the workhouse. Your business may be legit imate, but we propose to test It in order to protect our citizens." That's the way Inspector McAleese ad dressed three well-dressed men yesterday afternoon as he ordered their removal to the county jail to await a hearing before Police Magistrate McKenna on Monday on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. The prisoners are the local agents of the Granite State Provident Association of Manchester, N. H. They are Superintend ent H. P. Kimberly, Assistant Superintend ent Charles M. Egglestou and Bookkeeper Bobert S. Snyder, and they were arrested at their offices, Kos. 531 and 533 "Wood street For several weeks past complaints have been made to Inspector McAleese of the manner in which the local officials of the Granite State Provident Association were conduct ing their business, and finally they came so thick and fast that the Inspector determined to put a stop to the operations of the con cern. CHABGED WITH CONSPIEACY. Yesterday Bobert McAnderson, of No. 150 Caldwell street; Mary France, a washer woman of Ho. 01 South Fourteenth street, and Mrs. Mary Barnmiller, the wife of a molder, of No. 101 Knox street, Southside, went before Police Magistrate McKenna and charced the prisoners with conspiracy to defraud. The complainants had paid from 40 to $70 apiece into the association, and not receiving any return therefor, had become disgusted with the concern. The prospectus of the association holds out a glittering bait The officers are: President, Joseph C. Moore, President of the People's Fire Insurance Company, Manchester; Vice President, G. Percival Stewart, President Lowey Printing and Stationerv Company, New York: Secretary, E. E. BurliBgame, Manchester; Treasurer, Hiram D. TJpton, Treasurer of the New Hampshire Trust Company, Manchester; Trustees, in addition to the above, Hon. Ely V. Brewster, Vice President of the Dover National Bank and President of the Dover Gas Light Company, Dover; Hon. S, M. Bernard, Supreme Solicitor Knights of the Golden Bule, Louisville; G. Loring Pierce, M. D., New York; Hon. D. M. Shapleigh, town clerk, Kittery, Me.jPhilip Carpenter, counsellor-at-law, Potter build ing, New York. "The purpose of the association," as stated in its prospectus, "Is to encourage industry and frugality, and to promote thrift and economy among its members by providing a medium through which their savings may be invested so as to yield the largest return consistent with absolute safety. This association was chartered by special act of the Legislature of New Hampshire, with 14 of the most prominent and influential men of the State as charter members." BIO PBOFITS ON PAPEB. The plan of operations, as outlined, is the selling of shares of a par value of $200 at $1 per month for eight years. Thus, when the investor has paid in 9G he receives $200. On the other hand if a man desires to purchase property he invests in shares of a par value of 25 per cent more than the cost of the property, but no loan is made until the shareholder has paid dues on the shares for six months. This is where the iraud is alleged to have occurred. The three complainants, together with John Moreland, of Knox street and Pine alley, Allegheny; H. Howell, Copcland street, Allegheny; John Elk, North Dallas street, East End, Anna Dill and Gibson Graff, Smith's way, Mt "Washington; S. L. P. Kunkle, Bolla street, Allegheny, and George Barker, Bigelow street, purchased shares and paid dues for six months, expect ing to receive loan to the amount of 80 per cent of their holdings at the expiration of that period. W hen the loans were due the purchasers of shares called upon Superintendent Kim berly to mako a settlement. Then they were informed that the arrangements were made by Mr. Kimberly's predecessor, and that the present superintendent had no knowledge of the circumstances nor of the location of the man who had attended to the affair. This was cold comfort for the people who had paid their money for nothing, and they put the case into the hands ol Inspector McAleese. AN TJNSATISFACTOEr EXPLANATION. The Inspector sent Detectives Shore and Coulson to the association office, and the men were taken to City Hall. Superintend ent Kimberly was closely questioned by the Inspector, but failed to yield any important information. He did not Know where his predecessor had gone, but thought he was in New York or New Orleans. He pro tested that the business was perfectly legitimate, but failed to suggest any means by which the victims could secure the re turn of the money they had paid into the association. The men were then sent to jail to await a hearing on Monday. On the wav Assistant Superintendent Eggleston pulled out a big roll ot bills, and counting out$l,000, handed it to ueiecuve itoDicson and asked him to secure bail for him. Bobinson told Eggleston that he could not do business that way that the bail would have to be secured by Allegheny county real estate. Inspector McAleese believes this case will prove to be similar to that of the Capital Building and Loan Association of North America, six of whose agents are now in the Allegheny County "Workhouse serving sentences for conspiracy. The Granite State Association has agencies all over the country, and is undoubtedlv doinc a large business. The Pittsburg agents, to inspire confidence among persons who were dubious about investing, instructed them to make their payments to a local financial institution of undoubted standing. "While the latter received the payments and gave receipts therefor, they were merely acting as sub-agents, and had no interest in the con cern, nor gave any guarantee as to the reliability of the Granite State Association. A OENEBAL MOVING ABOUND. From the manner in which the company operated here, Detective Shore, who worked up the case, and Inspector McAleese, who directed the proceedings, are inclined to be lieve that there must be a general moving around of superintendents every six months, just before the time when the association will be called upon to make good its prom ises to loan money. In this manner the su perintendents could place all the blame for the non-fulfillment of contracts upon their predecessors. On the other hand, Superin tendent Kimberly asserts that there is noth ing crooked in the association, except the operations of his predecessor, whom he char acterizes as "a rascal," and upon whom, in dividually, he throws the whole blame. Detective Shore, in speaking of the pris oners last evening, said that he bad known them for some months past, and from their rapid improvement in the matter of dress and the quantity and quality of the dia monds tbey are now wearing, he thoughttbe loan association business must be a monev- L maker for somebody. , inspector JucAieese expects that oetween CO and GO persons, who paid money into the association, will appear as witnesses against the defendants. Dr. B. M. Hanna. Eye, ear, nose and throat diseases exclusively." Office, 720 Penn street Pittshurs. Pa. s&su THE -PITTCBURQ- DISPATCH;- OBJECT TO THE TAX, CORPORATION OFFICIALS ORDERED TO HARRISBURQ. The Pennsylvania Kjdlroad Officials Receive a Subpoena, (hut the Others Are StlU In Anticipation of the Pleasure Cause of the Coming Litigation. A telegram was received by The Dis patch from Harrioburg last evening say ing that subpoenas had been sent to Pitts burg to be served upon the officials of the Pennsylvania Company, the Philadelphia Company and the Central District and Tele graph Printing Company, summoning them to Harrisburg on November 23. The subpoena also orders that the books of the companies named be taken there for the ex aminatiorfof the Stale officials. Calls were made on the officials of these companies last night, to learn the cause of the suboenas. Mr. J. B. Liggett, Secretary of the Pennsylvaniu Company, was found at his residence, on Allegheny avenne, Allegheny. He had not read the subpoena, and was not fully ac quainted with what it was about He said that the case probably grows out of the State tax paid by the company. The officials of the Pennsylvania Company think that their earnings should be taxed on the proportion of milage of lines within the State and not under the present system, which taxes on gross receipts and also on capital stock. Mr. J. E. Davidson, Presi dent of the company, had been served with the subpoena, but wa too busy to even read it, and had merely "pigeon-holed" it until Monday, when it will be referred to the chief counsel. Mr. John CaldwelC, Treasurer of the Pila delphia Company, said he had not heard of any such suit or subpoena, and that his com pany had not been served with one or he would know it "I am very sorry I can't give you any news," Eaid Mr. Caldwell, "but as the sub poena did not come, 11 can't help it I don't know how such a suit would be brought The Philadelphia Company is now paying from $35,000 to $40,000 annnal tax on the earnings, and we think it is exorbitant. However, we have paid all our tax except this year's, and that will be paid as soon as demanded." Mr. John G. Stoal:et, of the Central Dis trict and Telegraph Printing Company, said he had not been served with the subpmna, and Knew nothing about it or why one should be served. It is estimated that if the companies mentioned are compelled to take their vouchers, ledger books and coupons to Har risburg, it will require a good sized freight train to carry them. MANGLED AND CRUSHED. MANY UNFORTUNATES WHO WERE IN JURED YESTERDAY. C. L. Magee In a Perilous Cahle Car "Wreck Body of a Dead Man Found In a Tunnel "Worklngman Cut by a Belt Other Ac cidents. A wreck occurred shortly before 7 o'clock last evening on the Fifth avenue cable line at Miltenberger street Car No. 27 stopped to let ol' passengers. Car No. 60 behind followed too close to be stopped in time, and dashed into car No. 64 attached to No. 27. The resx platform of No. 64 was smashed, and the front end of No. CO was shattered. A number of pas sengers were in both cars, and, though they were considerably shaken by the collision, no one was injured. C. L. Magee and Be-corder-elect von Bonnhorst were in car No. SO and concluded to walk home the balance of the way, John Gnagly, the gripman in charge of the rear train, was discharged by Dispatcher McDowell. The mangled body of a man was round in the P., McK. & IT. railroad tunnel on the Southside yesterday morning. He was about 38 years of age, five leet nine inches in height, weight 176 pounds, dark com plexion, long black hair, mustache and beard. He woru a black hat, brown and black coat and striped pants. The body was taken to the city morgue to await iden tification. A peculiar accident happened to Adam Handel on Hops street, Allegheny, yester day. He placed a redhot bolt in a socket. An explosion followed, blowing the bolt out of his hand and causing a sheet of flame to spring up out of the socket, burning him about the face and arm. "William McCormick, an employe of the Armstrong-Kelvey Lead "Works, Alle gheny, was sharpening a knife at a grind stone when a belt caught his arm, and the sharp edge of tho leather cut through to the bone. Michael Yocknp, a workman on the Ohio connecting bridge at Verner station, was struck on the head by a timber yesterday. He was removed to the West Penn Hospital. John Stofiel, of Baldwin township, was severely injured by being thrown out of a buggy at South Eighteenth and Sarah streets yesterday. He was turning the corner when the horse stumbled and fell, throwing Slefiel out. "William B. Lacy, who lives at No. 2G4 Bebecca street, Allegheny, was brought to the Mercy Hospital last evening suffering from severe wounds. He had been walking across the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge at the foot of Sylvan avenue when a freight train struck him, hurling him from the bridge to Second avenne, a distance oi 20 feet His condition is critical, Frank Peterson, a toamster employed by Booth & Flinn, fell from his wagon on North Highland avenue, yesterday after noon. The front wheel passed oyer his right foot, crushing it. He was removed to his home, on Beatty street Isaac Kaylor, a peddler, entered the office of Dr. B. M. Sandle on Forty-third street, yesterday afternoon and requested the Doctor to dress his wounds. He was severely cut about the head and hands and his right arm was broken below the elbow. He stated that in the afternoon he was selling tinware on the Morningside road. Two men, asked to see his wares. They took the bag containing the articles and refused to pay for the articles. Kaylor objected and he says the men knooked him down and beat him. C0UETED HIS DEATH. A Man Killed Through Crawling Under tho Gates at a Bailroad Crossing. About 6 o'clock last night an unknown man was run down by a Panhandle shifting engine at the Second avenue crossing and instantly killed. The safety gates were down at the time, but it appears that the victim crawled under the gates, and in at tempting to cross the street in front of the engine was strnck and knocked down, the engine passing over him, cutting his head in two and taking off Doth legs at the knees. The remains were picked 'up and taken to the morgue. The man is described as being about 36 years old, 6 feet 7 inches in height, 140 pounds, dark complected, with dark hair and mustache. He wore a Scotch cap, brown-blaok coat, dark pants, and had on four shirts, two cheviot and two flannel. In the pockets of the deceased was found a railroad cash slip marked from Moundsville to "Wheeling, "W. Va. Maklng Over Itu-s. This is sometimes done, it is said, for thrifty people who study economy at every turn, but not so easily as by one of The Dispatch's proofreaders who in Fri day's issue of that paper altered at one tell swoop the entire stock of fur capes adver tised by Messrs. Boggs & Buhl, of Alle gheny, into fur caps. The local notice in its proper form is subjoined. It will be seen how the omission of but a single letter com-, pletely altered the sense. Fur caps would be very costly at $76. B.SB. Fur capes the best made .at 55, at 86, at $7 60, at $10, at 12 50, at $16 and up to $76. Booob & Buhl, SUNDAY, '- NOVEMBER 16. AFIER THE CHINESE. The Immigration Committee Will Work on the Pacific Coast. CRISP PAYOEED FOE SPEAKER. Colonel Echols Pushlne His Fight for the Attorney Generalship. MONET. FOE CUEISTHAS SENT ABROAD The sub-committee of the House on Naturalization and Immigration, composed of Congressmen Stump, of Maryland; Lehl bach and Beed, of New Jersey, was on board the limited, last evening, going west Their business is to investigate the extent of Chinese immigration on the PaciSo Slope in violation of the law. Numerous complaints have been repeatedly made to the House that the wily Mongolians are slipping into the country surreptitiously, and the committee has finally decided to investigate. The Chinese locate In the towns along the ooast, or go into the in terior, and engage themselves as servants, laundrymen, and sometimes start into busi ness and become successful. The committee was unable to say, in advance, to what ex tent it was carried on, but as long as the law against the Chinese remains on the statute books they insist that it must be enforced. A PERMANENT INSTITUTION1. In cities like Portland and San Francisco the Chinese quarters have become a perma nent institution, and the truth is, their pretty little stores are features of the town. Stump and Beed are the Democrats on the committee. Both of them will vote for Crisp, of Georgia, for Speaker of the next House. Mr. Stump is enthusiastic in his support ot the Georgian, and he claims he will receive the votes of the Congressmen in the Southern States east of the Mississippi river. Mr. Beed also thought that Crisp would be a strong man in the race, but at this stage of the game, with such a heavy majority, it was difficult to predict who would be the lucky man. The result of the election greatly pleased thetwp Democrats, and they think' the high tariff ideas of the Bcpublicans were respon sible. Mr. Stump thinks it is only a ques tion of time until the Democrats secure all branches of the Government, and then their tariff reform plans will be carried out They both think that Cleveland is the only man in the Democratic race for President. LOOKING FOB ANOTHEB DAT. Congressman Lehlback, the Bepublican on the committee, stood by and listened to the crowinc of his colleagues. "Our dav will come," said he. "The McKinley bill defeated ns, and at will finally restore the party to power. The Eepublicans are not discouraged over the outlook, but then I don't blame the Democrats for rejoicing. My object now is to see that the immigrant laws are not violated." The committee will work along the line adopted by Congressman Ford when he was Chairman. The Chinese will be overhauled as Castle Garden was by the Ford commit tee. The latter Congressman, when he made his report, suggested that certain leg islation be passed to more effectually keep out paupers, but his work went for naught. Mr. Ford was defeated for re-election, and bis bill went by default He was a Demo crat, too. FOUGHT AGAINST THE CHAINS. A Product of the Howling Wilderness Battles With Six 3Ion. Imprisoned in a powerful cage in the heart of -the city is a ferocious native of the w'ild jungles. Nothing in the cold, proud look which he turns on his master and sole proprietor, Mr. Harry Davis, would betray the anguish of his wounded feelings. Peo ple who are cursed with a morbid curiosity have wondered whether he had a dark brown taste in his mouth when he revolved his hungry tongue through the astonished at mosphere, but they judged falsely. The party possessing the tongue was moved by angry feelings. Several days ago he was purchased in New York by Mr.Davis from those who had cruelly torn him away from the land where monkeys flourish. This monkey is unus ually tall and a perfect monster in strength. He is called the lion slayer. When he was lodged in the museum here it was found necessary to control his savage spirit by chaining him to the floor. Six men were on hand to put the collar on the animal's neck, but he fought with them till one, Detective Fitzgerald, was terribly scratched, and the rest hurt more or less. At last, after a des perate struggle, the combined strength of the whole party succeeded in subduing the wild beast and he was chained. An iron cage is now being constructed for him. WOHKDfG FOB THE PLACE. Friends of Colonel Echols Recommend Him for Attorney General. Colonel J. "W. Echols left for a business trip to Vermont and New Hampshire last evening to settle up some legal affairs. He will spend to-day and to-morrow in Phila delphia and incidentally call on Governor Pattison to pay his respects and tell him frankly tha the would like to be his Attorney General. "I am a candidate for the position," he said, last evening. "I have made a formal application. I am pleased with the gener ous manner in which my friends have re sponded. Seventy-six letters have been written to the Governor from lawyers, busi ness men and others in this neighborhood, claiming that the appointment should go to Western Pennsylvania, and they have rec ommended me. I will make a straightfor ward fight and there can be no harm in that." GONE AFTEB THE ELEPHANT. Superintendent McKnlght Will Soon Have an Addition to the Park Menagerie. Levi De"Wolf went to New York last evening to look after the transportation to Pittsburg of the Gusky elephant which will be presented to the city ior the Schenley Park managerie. Last August the firm contracted with a New York man to go to India and secure one for $2,200. He tele graphed yesterday that the animal had ar rived in New York. Mr. De"Wolf sent an affidavit that the ani mal wis not to be used for show purposes, to avoid paying a heavy duty which the McKinley bill provides. The animal is 6f feet high and is well trained. He is said to be very gentle, and his last owner on the "coral strands" recommends him as docile and very fond of children. NO JEALOUSY VISIBLE. Ex-Solicitor Jenks Sees Only Harmony in Democratic TtaTiirt, Hon. George A. Jenks, ex-Solicitor of the "United States Treasury, spent a portion of Friday evening at the Bandall Club rooms. Mr. Jenks states that the Thurman birth day ovation was the most remarkable out pouring of the indication of Democratic sentiment that he ever witnessed, especially as related to the possible juxtaposition of ex-President Cleveland and the next Presi dency. On this head Mr. Jenks says there did not appear to be the slightest crevice for the entrance of jealousy on the part of ac knowledged Democratic leaders present "WOULD BBEAE THEM UP. On Season Why No Tin Plate Works Are Being Established, fleorge A. Banentine, of St Louis, at present, "hut formerly of this city, who had money invested in the tin plate works at Demmler station, Baltimore and Ohio Bail 1S90. way, was in the city this week, and stated that there is uot enough tin made in this country to supply one canning factory in Chicago. He says, further, that an attempt to make tin in this country, at present, will demoralize any company that does it. BEHEHBEBED AT CHRISTMAS. Remittances of Money From America to Relatives in the Old Country, "Every year about this time I do a big re mittance business across the sea," said Cap tain J. J. McCormick yesterday. "It will commence next Saturday and con tinue about four weeks. The Irish, English and "Welsh send their money for Christmas, and the Scotch for New Year's. But it Is amazing how much money is forwarded by poor peo ple at Christmas time. I have on an aver age for four weeks before the 25th of Decem ber from 200 to 300 drafts a day, ranging in amounts from 1 to 10, and frequently less. I have sent as low a sum as 10 shill ings, but I tell you that that pittance was dear, indeed, to the giver. "The money goes to relatives, parents, children, friends and occasionally to some who have been rednced in circumstances, but at some time in life had helped tho donor, and he is not the man to see a friend of his suffer. It is often sumrising to me how some of the people can afford to send anything. They are poor, and only by pinching themselves have they been able to save it Atthistime there are any nnmberof families practicing self-denial, so that they will be able to remember the dear ones across the sea. It is a beautiful custom and reveals hidden traits of character that makes one love his race better and he glad he is living." EFFECT OF BUENING COAL. Mills Throwing Out Great Clouds or Black Smoke and Dirt On Friday ihe atmosphere in Pittsburg was very murky, but toward evening great clouds of black smoke, mixed with a dense fog, which is nothing unusual, rolled over the city, and hung like a dark shadow above the tops of the houses. ""Whew, what a disagreeable day this is," said a pedestrian on "Wood street "But I like to see those heavy black clouds," remarked another, with a smile and merry twinkle. "They mean business, trade for the coal men, and that is what coal will do for pretty Pittsburg." "Well, I thought there was something wrong with the city during the past week, but this is what one must expect when the companies withdraw gas from the mills. Bather than be covered with the sooty flakes and have the sunshine shut out, I will be glad to give up the gas in my grates to the manufacturers." "In either case I am satisfied," was the answer of the other." "What business are you in?" "I am a coal man," was the laconic reply. "Oh, Lord! Good day." HOME FE0M THE "WEST. The Political Outcome Hid Not Surprise Harry W. Paul. Harry W. Paul, President of the Ameri cus Club, returned a few days ago from an extended trip along the Pacific coast He was in Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane Falls and other Western towns. Mr. Paul was very much pleased with the Western country. He was sorry he did not get home in time to vote. He thinks it was bad politics not to nominate a man liko Montooth or Hastings. Theatrical Movements. This week the Baltimore and Ohio road had the Howard Burlesque Company to Cincinnati; Baker's opera troupe to Wheel ing and return; "Waifs of New York" from the latter point to Connellsville, and the Stewart Concert Company, to New York. Division Passenger Agent Smith is now ar ranging for the mid-winter excursions to Washington. PABALYSIS OF THE HEABT Suddenly Ends tho life of a IJtUo Girl at Play. Lizzie Kleimann, 13 years of age, died. of paralysis of the heart yesterday. Her home is at 169 Vickroy street, where she was at play about the door, when she fell on the sidewalk as if in a faint. She was carried into her house by her companions, and Dr. Look was sent for. Before he arrived, however, she had expired. The doctor said that death was caused by paralysis of the heart EXPLOSION IN A BBEWEBY. Natural Gas Collecting Between Boilers Shakes Up a Bnilding. An explosion occurred in Pier,DannaIs Ss Co.'s brewery ou Stevenson street shortly after 10 o'clock. The explosion was caused by natural gas collecting between two boil ers and becoming ignited. There was no one injured. Damage to the building, $100. OVERCOAT WEEK AT THE P. C. O. C. Monday Morning We throw open our doors for a gala over coat week. 16,000 fine overcoats placed on 62 big overcoat tables are readv for you to purchase. $12 takes a choice. Every over coat in the assortment was valued by us at $18 to $25. Now they are each marked to sell for $12. P. C. C. C, Pittsburg Combination Clothing Company, cor. Grant and Diamond sts., opp. the Court House. Don't Cut That, Please. "My friend says Thornton Bros, are sell ing this same pattern of 33-inch dripery silk at 69e. I'll go and see." A lady was about to have a piece cut at $1, when in terrupted as above. She bought at the Cash Store, 128 Federal st, Allegheny. We offer this week a special bargain in 60-inch wide all wool black serge at $1 a yard. Huous & Hacks. TT3SU Frederick Wakde has been starring in the legitimate over a decade. This year his business is better than ever before. Every where the Warde-Bowers companv are crowding theaters. They are at the Grand this week. Thornton Bros., Allegheny. Another lot of Sicilian rep goods for wrappers, just opened, at 6a This is the cloth that cost onr competitors lOo to buy. We secured eight cases from N. Y. auction. Pratt's Great Annual Sale Of 100,000 volumes of new books, fine Bibles and albums at half-price is now taking place at corner Wood and Diamond streets. Sterling Silver. "Unique table pieces, richly cased for wedding gifts, at Durbin & MoWatty's, 63 Fifth avenue. Wabde and Bowers, Grand Opera House, November 17. Bemember the date.as it will become historical. The most efficacious stimulant to excite the appetite is Angostura Bitters, ttssu An event in the theatrical historv of Pittsburg is theWarde-Bowers engagement at tne urana mis wees. Be On Hand. What a rush there will be for curtains this week at The Cash Store; 1,850 short ones of fered at 26c Thornton Bsos. Here's a Bargain for Ton, ladies. We have them all. Yon may look else where for tbem, but you will look in vain. 1,850 short lace curtains at 23c for this week at the Cash Store. Thobnion Bros., 128 Federal st', Allegheny. CLAIMING HIS WIFE. Census Agent Angell Eefnses to do Comforted "When He Yiews THE COLD FORM OP HIS L0YED ONE. Severe Arraignment of the Pennsjlvania Railroad for the TEERIBLE D1SASTEE AT KEW FL0EE5CE S. H. Angell, the husband of Mrs. Angell, who was killed in the wreck on Friday, ar rived here yesterday morning. He is special agent for the census, having in charge the recorded indebtedness,and Penn sylvania and Virginia come under his direct supervision. He called on Assistant Post master Edwards, whom he knows, and to gether they went to Samson's undertaking establishment to look at the body. Mr. Angell was deeply affected, and at first re fused to believe that he saw the mangled re mains of his wife before him. The unfortunate lady was on her way home to California to see her relatives and has been married only a short time. Kind friends did all they could to com fort Mr. Angell, but he refused to be con soled. He was very anxious about the jewelry of his wife, which he prizes highly, and, after some time spent in search, the lady's reticule was found. WILL BTJBY HEB IN CALIFOBNIA. Mr. Angell lives in California. He re turned to Washington last evening and will arrive here on Monday to take his wife's remains to the Pacific slope for burial. J. W. B. Binns, manager of the Eoyal Concert Company, who was one of the pas sengers on the wrecked Pennsylvania train, was feeling very sore yesterday. His nervous system has been badly shocked, and, as he has been in several wrecks in the last four weeks, he is almost afraid to board another train. He bitterly blames the management of the road for not caring for the passengers after the wreck occurred. He says they claim that ten bottles of whisky were distributed, but he paid 50 cents for what he got, and then the con ductor kindly stopped the train coming in until he bought it at a station. Iu speaking of the accident yesterday he said: "In my opinion the wreck was due to culpable carelessness. We left Phila delphia late, and the running was irregular until we reached New Florence. The train would go a short distance and stop. A PEEMONITION 0 DISASTER. "I had a sort of premonition all night that something was going to happen. I must say that so far as I could see, the collision was invited. I remember distinctly looking at my watch at New Florence when we stopped there, and saying to myself that we were now surely in lor it, and two minutes afterward the smashup occurred. I can't commend too highly the action of the crew. They worked nobly, as did alt the passengers. If it had been a cold morn ing we should have all been lrozeu. "By the way, Mr. Minot, who was killed, had given up his berth the night before to suit the convenience of another passenger. NO ADVANCE -IN- PRESENT STOCK or CARPETS -AND- CURTAINS. Although the mannfacturers have ad vanced prices from 15 to 25 per cent, our present stock will go at the old low prices. Largo line of Tapestry Brussels at 0 to 75c. Body Brussels at 85c to 1 35. Moquettes at 31 10 to SI 50. Axmlnsters at 31 60 to Si 75. Wilton Velvets at 31 to 81 10. Ingrains at 30a to 75c 10,000 Pairs Lace Curtains from 7o to 350 a pair. A large line of Rug3 at special low prices. EDWARD GROETZINGER, 637 and 629 Penn Avenue. Largest exclusive Carpet House west of New York City. B0I8-TTSSH Hugus & Hacke. SILK DEPARTMENT Offers Special Bargains for This Week in BLACK SILKS. Very rich, soft finish Royal Armures, Faille Francaise, Peau De Soie, Rhadames, Jersey and Duchesse at $1 a yard, actually worth 1 25. 24-inch wide Black Gros Grain Silks at $1, worth $1 25; $1 10, worth $1 25, and ;5i 25, worth $1 50. Elegant heavy Black Silk Bro cades at $1 and $1 25 a yard, just half the manufacturers' original prices. Silk Velvets for Dresses and Trimming purposes, in all the pre vailing colorings, from $1 to $4 per yard. CLOAK DEPARTMENT, Entire Second Floor. Exceptional assortments and values of fashionable garments. Ladies' Cloth Jackets, Reefers, eta, Plain, Braided and Fur Trimmed, the newest shapes and materials, in all sizes and prices. A special line of Rich Plain Cloth Mourning Wraps. New this week. Fur Capes A great assortment of the most fashionable Furs, and made in the latest styles. Prices the lowest possible at which gen uine Furs can be sold. An extra choice line of Alaska Seal Jackets, Sacques and Wraps, correct fn shape and fit. Strictly reliable Furs only. Cor. Fifth Ave. & Market St. 0l.MTTr'1 Human lives are more valuable than to be kicked about like billiard balls, and the cause of this wreck should De inoroogniy investigated." Those victims of the accident who were brought here are rapidly recovering. The Pennsylvania Bailroad officials com menced an inquiry yesterday into the causa of the accident. Harry Davis Novel Procession. The "Big Hattie" procession to-morrow will start from the Baltimore and Ohio depot at 9 o'clock in the morning. It will move along Water street to Grant to Fifth avenue to Smithfield street, to Sixth ave nne to Penn avenue to Sixth street to Market street to Fifth avenue, to the Fifth Avenue Museum. MAR5HELL, THE CASH GROCER, WILL SAYE YOU HOHEY. Colonel Bayne says the Tariff on Tin does not take effect for a month yet, And so there ought to be no change in the price of tin until that time. Now, the Colonel is a very know ing man when it comes to passing along a seat in Congress to the right party, but what he don't know about tin cans would fill a very large book. The price of tin cans was advanced long before the pack ing season was over, and jthis ad vance was added to the price of all can goods. Vegetables and fruits were scarce and there were few to pack. So what were packed cost more money. In spite of these two causes we offer you can good3 cheaper than last year. Not old nor inferior goosd, but this season's pack and strictly first-class goods. Our greatest leader is Cold Packed Toinatces, 85c PER DOZEN, Every can guaranteed. No wholes sale grocer will sell them for le3 than 95 c Corn, California Can Goods and Marvland Yellow Peaches We will sell you 20 per cent less than any Wholesale Grocer in Pittsburg, Don't miss your chance. These prices cannot last forever. We had 7 carloads of Tomatoes and 5 car loads of corn. They will last for some time, but when they are done, they cannot be replaced at my prices. Send for large Weekly Price List and order by mail. Orders amount ing to $10, without counting sugar, packed and shipped free of charge to all poinst within 200 miles. A special discount of 5 per cent al lowed on all orders of S30 and over, sugar and meat excepted. Send to our PITTSBURG Tea and Order Department, 99 FIFTH AVE., Pittsburg, or 79, 8 1, 83, 85 and 95 Ohio street, Cor. Sandusky, ALLEGHENY. solS NEW ATTRACTIONS -ix- CLOAK ROOM. A Few of Many Attractions. $5 nn Extra grade Stockinet Jackets. uu These are great sellers, being very shapely, double breasted, with French Lap seams. $5 $7. nnHeavy Scotch Diagonal Reefer u(- Jacket. One ol our best values under $10. en Scotch Cheviot Jacket, vest front, ju smoke pearl bnttons, shawl collar, nicely made and very shapely. Also Chevron Jacket, reefer front, As trakhan collar, cuffs and edee, satin faced, etc These garments would be excellent value at JltJ, and yet our price Is 87 0. tfq sn Camel Hair Cheviot Jacket, cut po. 3U double breasted, notch collar, with large pearl buttons, cloth faced, seams bound, etc. A very effectir garment, warm without weight. $ T 0 nr, Scotch Cheviot Jacket, cut with 1U.VJU Test front, shawl collar, ed"ed with braid, cord and tassel, satin faced, etc We have found this a quick seller. $to " A heavy soft Chevron Jacket: 1":0,J with Astrakhan roU collar and loop fronts. $ T, nn wide wale Cord Jacket, wltn i.jj gray Astrakhan rollinz collar huu uuuu, pociceu ana cuu backed with same. At tlfi to $?' Iare8 line of very .fit jslU IO :Z2 handsome Jackets, embracing the new est Ideas and effects as to shape, lat trimmed, etc, wlta handsome buttons, fastenings, etc Gents' Smokin; Jackets In handsome plaid and plain materials, beautifully made, with finest linincs and trimmings. Ihasa we offer at 17. 110, J12 to J18 60. BIBER I EASTDN, 505 and 507 MARKET STREET. : &j&tiSfctf s CflBsBBBBBiBsi9iS7
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