-A.' ki.. RAPID GROWTH Pittsburg's Gain in Population Only Exceeded by Three Other Cities. FIGORING ON A JUST BASIS, Each American City "With Its Suburbs Estimated as a Whole, and COMPARED WITH ALLEGHENY CO. This City Outruns St. Louis, Baltimore and Cincinnati, and MEASDEES ARMS WITH PHILADELPHIA A strong point about Pittsburg's position in the new census is made by Mr. Thomas S. Blair, one of the owners of the Hunting don Furnace, whose office is in the Hamil ton building. "With the assistance of The Dispatch's 'Washington correspondent, he has made up a table which shows that, with the exception of New York, Chicago and Boston. Pittsburg has had the largest in crease in population in the past ten years. He had hoped to show that Pittsburg even ranked next to New York and Chicago in the matter of percentage of increase, but the later returns from Boston pnt us in fourth place in the matter of increase. Something to be Frond Of. But that is ample honor for Pittsbnrg. It is enough to know that in ten years we have grown faster than the larger cities of St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and eTen Philadelphia, when proportions are taken into consideration. Ever since the new census was talked about Pittsburceri have complained that its figures would only give Pittsbnrg credit for the population actually within the city boundaries. It was argued that this was unfair, because a large proportion of Pitts burgers doing business in the city lived out side its limits; that the city's industries really exist anywhere from 5 to 25 miles from the postoffice corner; that the populous com munities thereby built up all over Allegheny county are naturally a part of the city's growth, and, finally, that Allegheny City should be considered part and parcel of Pittsbnrg, so far as making a showing to tbe outside world is concerned. To sum it all up in a nut-shell, it is justly held that to show the growth of Pittsburgh you must include all of Allegheny county in tbe cal culation. All riaeed on an Equal Footing. This is precisely what Mr. Blair has done. But he has gone farther. In order to make a just comparison with other cities he has taken them with the whole of the counties in which they lay, or as much of their con tiguous territory as will give them equal looting with Pittsburg when comparing tbem with all the territory in Allegheny county as Pittsburg's population. For instance, Baltimore appears in the table below with a. certain number of in habitants. That is not simply the popnla- ' tion of Baltimore City, but to it has been added the population of Baltimore countv. which surrounds the city, and tlie total ot both are given opposite the name "Balti more." In the population accredited New York is included Kings county. St. Louis City is bounded by two counties St. Clair county, III., in which is located East St. Louis and St Louis county. Mo. and so the populations of both of those connties are given in a lump with the population of the city of St. Louis. To give Boston the bene fit'of the population within a radius of eight miles Iron) the State House in Boston, the counties ot Suffolk, Middlesex and Nor folk must be embraced all in one. The city lies in Suffolk county, so the total of all three counties is given as one below. Soma Interesting KeMilts. Therefore, starting with Pittsburg, and placing opposite it the population of the en tire county to show its actual growth, and niakintr up the table on the same basis lor each of the other cities, Mr. Blair produces the following results: cities. ltm I lb7u I lnc- lSb0 lnc- lsso lnc Fittsbnrc 17d.831 2G.2M 83.373 355,b69 83.555 551.858 195.937 XcwYork 1,0112,791 1,061213 209.422 1,81)0120 443,913 2,350.053 543,927 Clncajo HlOal S49.966 Sb012 tB7.524 257.5W 1.189.259 681.735 Boston 192.700 270.UU2 78,102 337.927 110.824 677.913 290.016 Philadelphia 505.5J9 C74.022 1(18,491 847,170 172.958 1.044.894 197.724 Baltimore 60.5)3 330,741 6Ub) 49S.9S5 84.783 579.829 80,841 StLom 3!JO.o24 331,189 16D665 476.104 124.915 563,188 87.082 Cincinnati 210.410 2o0,370 43.960 313374 52.9 374.313 60.939 banFiaiicisco o(UC2 149.743 98.911 233,959 81.213 297.990 64.031 New Orleans 174 491 191.41k 16927 21b OW 24.722 24L933 25.905 I'rondcnce 1C7.7U9 149.1 41,591 197,874 4S.6S4 255.006 57.192 Buffalo 141.971 17S.C99 30,7.5s 219.884 4L1SS 322 274 102.3)0 Cleeland 7S.033 132.010 53,977 19V943 61933 S09.939 112,996 Detroit 75 517 119 (a- 43.491 160.411 47.38S 250,833 90.501 Newark SB.877 143,839 44.962 189.929 35980 255,600 65,731 St Paul 12,150 23,085 10.935 45.MW 22.830 139.736 83,846 Minneapolis 12,819 31.566 18,717 C7.013 S5.447 185,533 11S.525 LouisilIe wm 118.853 29.549 146,010 27,057 18S.341 42,381 Indianapolis 39,855 71.939 S2.C84 102.782 30.843 141,153 38,371 Milwaukee 62.518 89.930 27.412 13S.5S 45.607 235.737 87.200 Washington. I). U 7a.080 13L700 60.620 177.624 45.924 229,796 52.172 Pittsburg is practically entitled to fourth place in the foregoing table in the matter of increase. Philadelphia actually shows a larger increase than Pittsburg, however, hut when you come to consider that with two times as many inhabitants as Alle gheny county, it only has gained 1,737 more population than Allegheny county in ten years, that increase becomes so trivial as to be almost lost sight of. In proportion to the population, Pittsbnrg has outran Phila delphia in growth. The next two closest rivals to Pittsburg have always been supposed to be Baltimore and St Louis. By Mr. Blair's taDle we have left both those cities far in the rear, havinir more than doubled on their rate of increase. We have nearly trebled the rate of Cincinnati's progress. For the balance of the American cities, the above table is comprehensive, and will show at a glance how Pittsburg has ran in the decade's race with all ol them. EMPLOYEES SUDJG FOR PEACE. The Long Dispute Between Master Car penters and Employes to End. Chicago, Dec 12. The Master Car penters' Association, which for months past has been fighting the Journeymen Car penters' Union, took a more amieable view of matters to-night and appointed a com mittee to meet a similar body from the journeymen. The conference will be held Saturday, It is expected that a compromise will be reached. T-nrpraTT.Tra TWO WTTTJ0HB. A Chicago Man Arrested for Purloining Valuable Bonds. Chicago, Dec. 12. Curtis G. Scoddard was arrested to-night on a warrant charging embezzlement Scoddard is accused of em bezzling bonds of the Chicago and Arkansas Construction Company to the amount of $2,200,000, with an actual Talue estimated t $100,000. Scoddard to released on $6,000 b&IL A COSTLY CANDY PULLING. Reymer Bros.' Wood Street Factory Scorched Great Damage to Stock by Water The loss Placed at 820,000 The list of Insurance. Reymer Bros.' candy factory and store, Nos.508 and 510 Wood street, was scorched early yesterday morning, and much of the stock badly damaged by water. The entire loss is placed at $20,000. The fire started at 4:35 A. 21. on the fifth floor of No. 08, and was confined to this floor. It is supposed to have originated trom a defective flue. The damage to the building is about $2,500. All the stock in the retail department was destroyed. About 10,000 pounds ot candy were mined. In one room 8,000 pounds had been packed, ready for shipment to-day. This was all ruined, and in order to get through the building it was necessary to literally wade through melted candy. Such a quantity of water was poured into the fire that it was several inches deep on each floor and three inches deep in the cellar. Here were stored about 200 barrels ot sugar and a Quantity of im ported cigars. The latter were badly dam aged and a number of the barrels ot sugar rained. While the fire was entirely con fined to the retail store. No. 508 "Wood street, the deluge of water ran into the wholesale department and damaged much of the stock. The insurance is as follows: .Armenia, ot Pittsbnrg, 55,000; Artisans, $4,500; M. & M. of Pittsburg, $2,000; Druggists' Mutual, $2,500; Western, of Pittsburg, $2,500; ;SIo nongahela,$2,500; Hartlord,$5.500; Pennsyl vania, of Philadelphia. $2,500; Spnnafield, $3,000; Allechenv, of Pittsbnrg, $2,500; Citizens'. $5,000; Beading. $1,500; City of Pittsburg,$2,500; Manufacturers' and Build ers'.of New York, $2,500; Providence,$l,500; Spring Garden, $1,500; Cash, of Pittsburg, $2,600; Franklin, of Philadelphia, $1,500; Mercantile, of Cleveland, $1,250; German, Pittsbnrg, $1,250; Security, $2,500; Mer chants', of New Jersey, $1,000; Equitable, $3,000; Western, of Pittsburg, $3,000; German-American, of New York, $1,500; Teu tonia, Allegheny, $1,500. Insurance on furniture in retail store: Union, of Pitts burg, $2,500; Northern Assurance, $1,000; Farmers', $1,500; total, $71,000. a contemptuous mm Is Brought Into Court Altera Fight at the Slozxle of a Revolver. John David, a Hungarian, whose home is in Braddock, was committed to jail yester day afternoon charged with contempt of court David was subpoenaed on Thursday to appear as a witness in court in a case of felonious assault and battery preferred against George Matzo. David told the officer when he subpoenaed him that he would not appear. Yesterday when the case was brought up in court David was missing. Officer John Howard was sent to Braddock with a war rant for Dwid's arrest. When Howard went to David's honse he was surrounded by David and four or five other men, who brandished knives and threatened to cut him to pieces if he attempted the arrest After some discussion over the matter How ard managed to get out of the way of the men with the knives and arrested David, by pointing a revolver at him. KEEPING XTP THEIR WORK. Alderman Bell and Captain Wishart Still After the Oil Pumpers. Alderman J. W. Bell and Captain Wishart yesterday made Gillespie Bros, take their dose of treacle and brimstone as a penalty for having petrolenm pumped from their well at Forest Grove on Sunday. On the fourth conviction they were .fined $70 and costs! Defendant3rpaid but little atten tion to the matter, neither having counsel nor offering testimony. The indications are that the pumping will go on and defendants carry the case into court, where, if they succeed in the same de fense made a week or two ago, showing pumping to be a necessity to save tbe destruction of the wells, they will come out on top. BEHOVING THE BEHAIK8. Hundreds of Coffins of Forgotten New York "Worthies Transferred. New York, Dee. 12. Within a few days the last of the crumbled habitants of the crumbling vaults under the site of old St Luke's, in Hudson street, will have been brought up to the light once more for re moval to Woodlawn or Mt Hope. There are 70 vaults crowded together in the church yard and under the chapel. All but four of these vaults have been opened the four under the chapel. From them over 600 coffins have been lifted. Tbe whole space of the graveyard was not more than 100 fett long by 50 feet broad. The church was built in 1821, and the vaults were built at the same time. On these slabs appear tbe 'names of old New York families, some of them now unrepresented and almost forgotten. I 'ARTICLES on cooking from the pen of Elllce Serena are a feature of THE DIS PATCH. Shirley Dare is also popular. A paper for the home circle. Twenty-four pages, 102 columns. DEATH'S RICH HARVEST. Scattered Cases of Diphtheria Beported Trom All Over the City. The mortuary report for the week ending December 6 shows a total of 88 deaths, as compared with 6G during the corresponding period of 1889. In the old city there were 21 deaths; East End, 31; Southside, 25, and institutions, 11. Twenty-one of the deaths were those of children under 2 years of age; 17 were between the ages of 2 years and 10 years; 27 between tbe ages ot 10 years and 40 years, and 23 between the ages ot 40 years and 90 years. There were 7 deaths from typhoid fever, 6 from diphtberia.lO from phthisis pulmonalls, 6 from diseases of heart, 6 from pneumonia, G from bronchitis, 4 from cronp, 1 from asth ma, 1 from congestion of longs, 9 from dis eases of the nervous system and 3 from old age. During the week there were reported to the Bureau of Health 33 cases of diphtheria and 4 of scarlatina. Seven oi the diphtheria cases were in the Sixteenth ward, 5 in the Fourteenth ward, 3 in the Eleventh ward, 2 in the Seventeenth ward, 2-1 n the Twentv fonrth ward, 2 in the Thirteenth ward, 2 in the Thirty-second ward, 2 in the Fifth ward, and one case in each nf tbe following wards: Thirtv-first, Eighteenth, Eizhth, Twenty eighth, Twelfth, Twenty-ninth, Twcnty seventh and Second. EUROPE is covered by Special Cable tet ters from ell tbe Capitals. See THE DIS PATCH To-Morrow. 84 Paget. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH I0CH AND HIS IMPH The Home Life of the Physician Who is Now so Prominent. N0MBEE OP YISITIHG DOCTORS. He Believes, in Exercise and Takes a Horse back Eide Dally. DOES NOT LIVE AS AN ARISTOCRAT Not more than a stone's throw from the Bellevue station of the Berlin Stadtbahn, in the last honse of the Bruckenstrasse, says tne Pall Mall Budget, lives Dr. Koch, the "consumption curer," or, as somebody called him here to-day, the Faust of tbe nineteenth century. The Bruckenstrasse is by no means an aristocratio thoroughfare, though any one who does not know tbe secrets of the "new Berlin" which has sprung up round the old town during tbe last 20 years would at first sight imagine that all those bigh white stone buildings, with balconies, carvings and other ornamentations, were so INJECTING many palaces of the rich. In reality they are nothing more than rather superior honses of the type which the Berliner sweep ingly cnlls"Mietskascrnen" (hire-barracks). In the basement live five cobblers, tailors and small shopkeepers, and iu the front windows oi the ground floor humble flower pots, and here and there a hyacinth in a glass, with a big paper nightcap over the spronting top, to keen the light off, stand in a row. Tbe second floor, the bel-eUge, is the show floor, for which most rent is paid, and to which a balcony and occasionally a bow window belongs. Bnt Dr. Koch lives not on either of these floors; his qnarters are higher iVXT, up "three- nights of steps, covered with the' regulation cocoa nut matting. And there he has only the one side of -the house, with three win dows loosing upon the opposite side of the street, where the houses are still in the course of erection, aud with a pleasant view from the side windows over an empty space to where the roof of the Bellevue Palace looks over the bare trees. "Dr. B- Koch" is printed on the small china plate above the letter-box on the door, behind which, on entering, yon find a dark little vesti bule again just as you find it in scores and scores of thousands of Berlin flats. A big looking-glass, a hat-stand and a lew chairs are the only furniture upon which a dim ray of light trom a window in a passage round the corner falls on a gray November day. THE DOCTOE'S WIFE. Three doors lead into the vestibule: tbe one nearest to the frontdoor admitting to tbe doctor's cozy and comfortable study, tbe chief ornament in which is a fine large marble bust of the old Emperor William I., rising above a eroup of healthy-looking foliage plants. Evervthing is of that spot less cleanliness which is the German house wile's greatest pride, and the Fran Pro fessor in herself is exactly the woman one wonld imagine to be the presiding genius over the establishment She is of me dium height, and a very simple dark dress, held at the throat with a cold ornament, fits closely round her slight and elegant figure. Her complexion is iresh and healthy, and her fair hair, which is simply parted in the center, in the way which is now often playfully called 'the "madonna coiffure," is just beginning to turn gray.- Sometimes, however, the family servant, a middle-aged woman, in whom tbe sim plicity and neatness, and even the slight nervousness, of the "Frau Proressor" are repeated, conies out, and bids the visitor enter. The honrs of the early afternoon, and again the pleasant time from 9 P. 21. to midnight, are tbe visiting hours in Dr. Koch's household. The morning callers find him pleasant enongh and courteous, with the ease of a man of the world, but with much more than the kindness and geniality of that personage. But it is only at nignt, wnen tne wore of the day is over, that he gives himself fully up to social pleasures. It is then that bis friends drop in, to share his ample meal (during which he take a great deal of soda water, but very little of any alcoholic drink), and more fre quently after snpper. Up to midnight the conversation flows on; tbe professor, who is an excellent talker and companion, being never weary of entertaining his guests. NOT AN EARLY RISER. In the morning Dr. Koch likes to remain undisturbed till about 9 o'clock, when he rises and dresses, carefully and rather slowly, and comes to breaklast ready to go out, except that, instead of the usual morn ing cost, he wears a garment at the sight of which one is at first almost inclined to turn away and hide a -wicked smile. This is a long, loose coat, not unlike a lady's dressing-gown, and it is quite sleeveleea, Iu ex- THE KENNELS. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, treme comfort is, plainly, its one advantage; and attired in it, and unconscious of its" wild peculiarities, Dr. Koch sits down to his breakfast No coffee for him, nor any other cup that cheers, but instead a rather uninviting-looking, thick white soup, into which he puts any amount of little squares ot toasted brown bread. Then he changes his coat,, starts ofi by the Stadtbahn to the Hygienic Institute, where we shall presentlv see him at work, and is seen no more till, punctually at 2 P. ar., he returns home to the most frugal of dinners, consisting of one course of meat and vegetables, one light sweet dish, and to finish up with a plate of soup. Dr. Koch's amusements are intellectual rather than physical, but he is not for nothing Professor of Hygiene at the Berlin University; and he knows well that after hunting and breeding and studying bacilli for four hours he is in duty bound to take some bodily exercise. This he does faith fully every afternoon. When the clock strikes 3 there comes hobbling np the Bruckenstrasse. and led by a sturdy sub altern of the newest bait stables, a comfortable-looking dapple grav. The animal has learned by long experience where to stop, and turns to look at the two fierce stone lions that guard the steps in the little front garden of the house on the top floor of which the Professor lives. Presently he comes out, in an attire which, were it ever seen in Botten Bow, would be the joke of the clubs that night, and which, eveu at Berlin, is regarded with a good- THE LYMPH. natured smile. Were the doctor twice as stout as be is, and were tbe beast from the bait stables just a little better groomed and spirited, one might imagine tbe man in the slouch hat and the ill-fitting coat were another Bismarck, for it is about the same time that the guarded gates of Friedrichs ruh open to let ont tbe ci-devant Great Chancellor. CBOWD OF DOCTORS AND PATIENTS. So far Dr. Koch's daily life. It still goes on as it did before the great discovery was published, and Berlin Is only just awakening to the laet that the ereat man lives and moves and has his Jbeingwjthin her walbw-Bnt- iue uuiei Keepers Kuowriorit is not notion, but a plain lact. that all the hotels are crowded with medical men and with con sumptives. About a dozen English doctors arrived on Tuesday, aud are staying in clusters of threes and fours at the Bellevue, the Conti nental, and the Kaisernof, and there is not an hotel at Berlin where there are not at least a couple of doctors. At one hotel no less than 38 of the fraternity have their haunt; they have come from "the ntmost ends of Europe, an especially large contingent of Italian medical men being among them. Montreux, Davos platz, and most of the Biviera sanitary re sorts have sent a medical man, and every morning tbey go to assist at the "demonstra tions" ot Koch's method, or to visit the patients at tbe various temporary hospitals, and every night they sit together, discussing now gravely, now noisily and excitedly, the wonderful discovery that has sent a thrill of new hope through uncounted numbers who, nntil a lew weeks ago, were believed, and believed themselves, to be slowly, bnt surely, drawn into the valley of the shadow of death. A YOUNG BTTJDENTS SUICIDE. The Dean of His College Wrote to His Parents of His Delinquencies. Baltimore, Dec 12. Arthur C. Cald well, of Victoria, B. C, aged 20, a student in the Baltimore Dental College, killed himself to-day by taking poison. He was liberally supplied with money from his home, and became lax in attend ance on the lectnres and classes. The dean of the dental college wrote the family of the young man, and a fellow-student informed him of what the dean had done. THE SOY MURDERER CONVICTED. I- The Attorney of Charles Miller Will Apply for a N ew Trial. Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec 12. Charles Miller, the 15-year-old boy, who last Sep tember murdered Boss Fishbangb. and Wallie Emerson, of St Joseph, while steal ing a ride with them in a box car, was to day found guilty of murder in the first de gree. His attorney will spply for a new trial. THE DISPATCH'to-morroTV will consist of 24 Pages, or IDS Columns. Get it It will surprise yon. THE ASSIGNEE ASSIGNS. Another Man Most Finish the Settlement of the Fotter-Xovell "Failure. Boston, Dee. 12. The statement Is pub lished that William A. Haswell will prob ably resign as thePotter.Lovell assignee the present month. His successor has not yet been sjlected, . Mr. Haskell has settled all the Wallace Cnmmings and Clement suits and adjusted accounts with 3. V. Farwell & Co.. of Chi. eago. so as to realise 100 cents on the dollir I for Gogebia bonds. DECEMBER 13, 1890. WILL NOT PAY TAXES. Assessors Want a Law lo Compel Foreigners te Give Information, 1MET THAT COULD BE COLLECTED. A Trip Through Some Crowded Quarters, and What Was Seen. HOW BOARDING HOUSES ABB MANAGED A good deal has been said and written about tbe crowded condition of some tene ment houses and the trials of tax assessors, but the half has not yet been told. There are now bonses in the heart ofv Pittsburg that would be a revelation to the majority of people, and it would doubtless surprise many a person to learn how much each year the city and county loses through the failure ot this class of people to pay their taxes. When the enumerators were taking the census they had the United States Marshals back of them to compel the Poles and Hun garians to give answers. The tax assessors say they have no such protection and must depend wholly upon the foreigners to tell them the facts. The foreigners are, most of them, shrewd enough not to offer violenceto the assessors, bnt lie regarding the men liv ing in the honse and profess not to know their names. The Poles and Hungarians are very say ing of their money and are nearly misers in this respect One gentleman said he saw a Pole who got only ?1 25 per day put $7 in the bank each week. If made to do so, these foreigners have the money to pay their taxes. ' A TRIP WITH AN ASSESSOR. It has often been a matter of comment that Poles and Hungarians who get only SI or SI 25 per day can save as mnch money as tbey do. A trip with a tax collector will settle that point in anyone's mind, and it is doubtful if any person would then envy the benicrhted sons of toil their boarded wealth. Such a trip as spoken of was taken by a Dispatch reporter yesterday. The first house visited was on Enon alley, Southside, near Sarah street The house, though small, it is said shelters some 60 Poles and Hun garians. A little room about 4x15 feet was entered and a man found sleeping in a bed about a foot from the stove on which a woman was cooking some food. In another room something that looked like huge pancakes were, seen spread out on ft bed. It was learned that the woman was making noodles. There was hardly space in either of the two small rooms to stand, and yet seven per sons made it their home. Another room was entered, about 10x15 feet, which sheltered six persons. How they slept or existed only they could explain, and they would not tell the as sessor. Bedding, food, dogs and cats were mixed tip in one promiscuous jumble until it was perplexing to under stand how the people found a place to even sit down. Over on an improved mantle was a statnette of Christ and the Virgin Mary, covered with mosquito bar. In the chaos of tbe dirty room the statuettes loomed up like a flake oi snow on a nea ot airiy coal. IN A POLISH BOARDING HOUSE. Several other rooms were entered and the Bame story of 7, 8, 9 and as high as 15 boarders was told, though it was impossible in many cases to get the names. The sur roundings were, if anything, more revolt ing. A piece of meat would be seen on the bed, a loaf of bread on the floor and the men and women lying and standing around in a dazed-sort-of manner.-." . n-s . , Up at the bead of the alley was a house where it was said that ten men were known to have slept in a cellar aud in one room five beds were fonnd, showing that at least ten persons must occupy them. Enon alley is not the only locality where this state of affairs exists- OnSIxteenth street, Fifth street, and, indeed, all over tbe South side can be located houses that a visit to, would surprise almost anybody. On Six teenth street thero is a house which was visited, that has living in it three families. One family in the basement has 13 boarders. It is said that during the summer the boarders sleep in the yard and in cold weather the floor is chalked off, each person being given a certain space to lay on during the night Some interesting things were also learned of how these hoarding houses, or rooms more properly, are carried on. The men each pay the woman in charge $1 per week for sleeping space and cooking their food. Each man then buys his own food and brings it home to be cooked. Five cents worth of meat and a little bread makes a good meal. PORK PAT AS POOD. The fat trimmincs from pork are eaten with gusto. . Each man bnys his own loaf of bread and cnts it off with a pocket knife as he wants to use'it. Where soup is served the boarders each give their pro rate share of the cost Some work at night and some days, so unlets the statements of those found in the house can be relied upon, it is impossible to find nut exactly how men live and sleep in a house. A bed may serve for tour, as it often doe. The boarders also move from one place to another, so that it is impossible for a tix assessor to get their names, and still less possible to collect the taxes. Generally one can be found in a house who can speak German, and through him conversation, in a manner, can be carried on with others. Tbe vast majority of this class of citizens do not pay taxes and it is hard to devise a wav to make tuem. It has been suggested that assessors be clothed with powerto make arrests, if names are relused, the same as in taking the census. As a general thing the tax assessors, while being looked upon with suspicion, do not have violence offered them, but in several cases the assessors have been ejected from the- bouses. Houses where long lists of names were given during the census enum eration were seemingly nearly deserted when the assessor called. FASCINATING letters of travel by Edgar L,Wakeman, Fannie B.Ward and others, lend variety to the Sunday Issue of THE DISPATCH. A paper for everybody. The best In the State. QOT THEIR PLACES HONESTLY. Officeholders Before the Cincinnati Inves tigating Committee. Cincinnati, Dec. 12. The Investi gating Committee to-day took np the matter ot the appointment of the Decennial Board of Equalization, concerning which Mr. Zuxnstein had testified that Controlled Stev ens bad offered to appoint himtfor $4,000, saying he had offers from others of (6,000. The committee examined James Allison, J. H. Bhodes, Charles Whiteley, Frederick Baine, Michael Mueller. William Schmidt, A. C. Gilllgau and F. M. Pattison, who had received appointments. They all agreed in saying that no im. proper means were adopted to secure their places. They had recommendations from leading citizens. One of them was a detec tive and used that fact as an' indncement Most of them thought the pay was S8 a day, bnt found it only $3. Mr. Drausin Wilson denied that he was employed by Stevens to urge giving him the appointing power. Two Tng Boatmen Drowned. New York, Dee. 12. The tng Vandeeook sunk at her dock in Jersey City early this morning. Two of the crew" were drowned. THE DISPATCH, to-morrow wfll consist of84Pseorl92ColBE9BS. Get It It will y surprise yon. THE FEAST OF HEROD. One of Knbens Masterpieces Admired by Many Pittshurgers A Beautiful Speci men of the Great Artist's Best Work A Treat to Have Seen It There will leave tbe city this evening to delight the lovers of art in New York, the finest genuine Bubens painting that Pitts burgers ever had an opportnnity to ex amine and admire at home. -It is the property of Hermann Linde, and is one of a costly collection owned by that gentleman. He has shown it to many con noissurs in this city,at his room at the Hotel Schlosser, during the past two weeks. After to-day, thongb, it is not to be seen here. The work in question is called "The Feast of Herod." It was painted by Peter Paul Bubens in the artist's best moods in his lat ter days, from 1638 to 1640, when, as a vic tim of gout, he was obliged to confine his work to smaller canvases than previously. II is about 2J4 by 3 feet in size, and contains 22 figures. As an example of the famons painter's wonderful manner of blending tbe Flemish and Italian schools, it has prob ably no superior. One ot the peculiarities of the painting is tbe fact that each character represented at the feast is a portrait. Bnbens himself posed as Herod; his first wife. Isabella Brunt, represents Salome, and HeleneFour ment, his second wife, sits beside Herod. The gnests at the table represent the most celebrated Italian painters cotemporary with Bubens, most conspicnous of whom are Titiens, Tintoretto, Paul Veronese and Baphacl. Only one could have employed the rich coloring of the pictnre and that one, Bubens. Such transparency, such bril liancy, and yet such fidelity to nature and durability as if he did his work for hun dreds of generations cannot be mistaken. One needs not the authority of the French governmental work on tbe life of Bubens to be told it is surely the work of that great master of flesh tints. Mr. Linde is greatly to be congratulated upon the possession of such a valuable work of art, and so. indeed, are all -who have an opportunitv to see and admire it. Local artists consider it a great pity that the paint ing cannot be kept in Pittsburg, where it would form a grand nucleui for a public collection. SEVEN HEN MAY 00 TREE. History of a Remarkable Case Originating in No Man's Land. Washington, Dec 12. Attorney Gen eral Miller acknowledges that he erred in the condnct of the Hay-Camp killing case, in which seven men were sentenced to die December 19 by the United States Court for tbe Northern district of Texas. This will probably reverse the verdict and sentence of tbe Texas conrt Captain Cyrns Frease, of the Nineteenth Ohio Volunteers, formerly of near Canton, O., and six citizens of Hugotown, Kan., were indicted for the killing of Sheriff Cross and two companions from Woodsdale, Kan., whose bodies were found in No Man's Land. The evidence was all circumstantial. Sam Wood, a Woodsdale leader, was shown to nave worked up the prosecution, and it is claimed that 8100,000 was spent in the name of tbe Government to -convict these men. Grand Army men and various society organizations all over the country have been moving in behalf of the prisoners, one of whom was a Countv Commissioner and another a Congressional candidate. Senator Manderson, ot Nebraska, has been active in behalf of the prisoners. The question of the jurisdiction of the Conrt of the North ern district of Texas, over No Man's Land, is involved in the case, and is now being argued by Judges Dillon, of New York; Peck, of Topeka, and Day, ot Canton. 'A -BXCf COMBINE. Owners of Steel "Patents Hold an Im portant Conference. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12. Fifty millions of capital were represented by a little gronp ot iron and steel magnates that met in this citv yesterday. They were members of the Steel Patents Company and owners of the patents controlling the basic process of man ufacture and also the Bessemer process. A number of important patents connected with both the Bessemer and the basic processes have expired, and it was mainly this that brought the magnates together. They pro posetotake steps which will make it next to an impossibility for anyone outside of the big combine to 'get a foothold, even in possession of patents. Competition of smarter plants may grow .more lormidable as the patents expire, and how to get rid of this competition was one of the important matters discussed. Among the companies represented at the meeting were the Andrew Carnegie Works, the Cambria Iron Company, the Pennsylvania Steel and Iron Company and others. FRANK G. CARPENTER has a brilliant letter of Washington gossip, for THE DIS PATCH to-morrow. He, always entertains and Instructs. Contributor far ahead of those of any other paper. Twenty-four pages, 193 columns. WIXL KEEP THEIR PROMISE. Southside Chicago People Will Raise a Million for the World's Fair. Chicago, Dee. 12. The local World's Fair fund of $10,000,000 is to be increased SI, 000,000, to be subscribed by tbe Legisla tive authorities or by the many rich men of the Thirty-second ward. This Interesting fact was communicated to Vice President Bryan this morning by Alderman W. B. Kerr, of that ward. When the question of a site was under discussion, Mr. Kerr was Chairman of a meeting in Hyde Park, which promised the Directory 1,000,000 if the fair was located at Jackson Park. Mr. Kerr this morning stated that he recognized their engagement to produce this sum and steps will imme diately be taken to get bold of it "There is one thing- evident," admitted Mr. Kerr, "and that is, if we cannot induce the Leg islature to grant the Sonth Park Board the right to borrow this sum, we, the responsi ble people of tbe South Park district, will have to go down into our own pockets." TO RESTRICT PRODUCTION. A. Farmers' Organization Desires Products Withdrawn From the Markets. Decatur, III., Dec 12. The Maroa Lodge of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association announced the adoption to-day of the following resolntion: Believing that the farmer's products are far below the average cost of production, and be lieving tbat the agriculturists can, through their orgaizations, control the markets, there fore be It Resolved, That it is the sense ot this meeting that the State and national organizations of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, Grange and Alliance be requested to Qx the day and date for taking all the cattle, hogs and grain off the market in this month for 20 days. HARDWARE JOBBERS IN COUNCIL. The Relations Between Manufacturers and Wholesalers Will Come Up. Chicago, Dec 12. The Heavy Hard ware Jobbers' National Union, representing the large dealers throughout tbe United States, began its annual meeting here to day with closed doors. The chief topic to bf discussed is that of the relations of the manufacturers and the jobbers. Treasurer Hoston'a Wife 111. Washington, -Dec 12. Treasurer Huston has been called to Indiana bj the serious ilium of fait wile, n v .. . ttm W& ftm -tl-C---"" TL ITnTTTllist lilimES --vusS I. Arpino, the blind beggar, sat at his usual post opposite the Palazzo Medina. For nearly three months he had never missed taking up hi position there at 10 o'clock in the morning, and he never left it till 6. As he sat slightly forwards, with his sinewy hands clasping his knees, and the yellowish whites of his sightlesa eyes nptnrned, the sun, which at Naples, even in April, has fierceness in it, flamed upon his lean, menacing head till the scalp's whiteness shone through the closely-shorn red hair. A large plaster covered some sore on his right cheek. The man sat there so perfectly motionless tbat he might have been a lay figure From morning to evening he never nnclapsed his hands 'from bis knees, unless his quickened sense of hearing caught the approaching footsteps of a chance passer-by. Then Arpino extended one hand, and cried, with a loud, monotonous cry, "For the pity of God." He received a dole or no, as the case might be; but the yellowish whites of his upturned eyes remained fixed on the Palazzo. So fixed, indeed, was this upturned stare that tourists at first supposed that Arpino was really admiring that interesting piece of domestic architecture' of the Fitteenth century, attributed to Antonio Baboccio, with its inscription of 140G over tbe door way, as the date of its erection, with its lilies of Anjou, and the feathered pen, the armorial cognizance of its founders. But when the beggar, still with his upturned yellow eyes filed npon the building, set np his loud, monotonous cry "For the pity of God" the tourist stood corrected, perceiv ing that be was blind. As the blind beggar sat thersLQpjtbis April morning, staring at thTPslizzo, he became the subject of its conversation. Though it was as yet only middav, tbe Conntess Medina h'ad a visitor. ' The Countess herself was a pale, elegant Flor entine, with black hair and melancholy eyes. She was known in the great Neapol itan world for her rigid devontness, and a strangespiritual expression about her meek eyebrows and forehead suggested that her thoughts were not of earth, and recalled someof Bafaelle's Madonnas. Some physical debility, or a shyness which she was unable to overcome, prevented her looking her guests straight in the face Her voice was. low and caressing, and in moments of ex citement the pulse in her temples was seen lo beat "So, mia cara," she said to her visitor and next-door neighbor, a painted butterfly of Eaglish fashion, who had married a Neapolitan Jew for his millions and pre tended to be eternally legretting the step; "so," she said, "onr poor, blind warden, Arpino, appears to yon to be shocking!" The Baroness Bravura, nee Emily Trevor, who had the evening before retnrned from one of her annual visits to her native land more bigotedly English than ever, answered, smoothing some creases out of an exquisite silk gown: "My dear, it's only in Italy tbat one can be confronted with snch horrors." "Poor Arpinol He would be pained if he heard youl" "Of that Lhave no doubt But why does the wretch sit stuck outside your gate?" "Carissima, how should 1 know? Some beggar's whim!" "I dare say. A whim prompted by rumors of your charity. Arpino, I will be bonnd, is amassing an independence." "Well, his cry, 'For the pityofGodl hurts me. I always give him something when I go ont" "Arpino," said the -Baroness Bravura, "Will die iu a villa. Tbat it clear!" She rose from her seat, and, strolling indolently to the window, looked through the drawn blinds down into the sun-smitten street below. An intolerable glare devoured the Strada Banchi Nouvi. Passers-by moved languidly, shelter ing themselves from tbe fierce heavens. Bnt right opposite the Palazzo, on the burn ing pavement, there Arpino sat in his eter- nal attitude; his gaunt hands clasping his knees; the yellow whites or bis sightless eyes upturned. The Baroness laughed sar castically. "Yes," she said, lounging back into the most comfortable armchair. "The stead fast sentinel is still at his post! But will he not be getting anxious? Has not the fullness of time come to throw him a lira?" The Countess looked at her guest re proachfully. "Yon are sarcastic," she said, "but tbat blind man has sat there so long before my doors it istbree months,I think, tor he took up his position some two weeks after my husband's return from Africa that I have come to look upon him quite as a dependentl You will call me superstitions and iangh at me probably, bnt do yon know that I should really look upon it as a bad omen if that blind beggar were to dis appear from his customary seat before the Palazzo? "You really surprise me, my friend," said the Baroness. "Were I in your place, nothing would please me better." "Ahlbntyou do not know poor Arpino's qualifications. He is such an attractive beggar, bideons though he is. You smile, mia biondina; but the proof of what I say lies in tbe fact that people who never dream of giving to other beggars give to himl There is my hnsband, for instance," she went on and here a certain unsteadiness showed itself in her voice. "May I trouble you lor that fan, hanging on the wall, carissima? I thank you. The beat is in supportable Well, the Count always takes a fireat interest in Arpino whenever I speak of him." "I confess I am surprised to hear it," said the Baroness, yawning. "Surprised you my well be, but it is true. Why, this very rnorulne?, before my husband started for Uaserta, almost his last word at parting had reference to the blind beggar." "H'm," says UtaBatoMM. Then du, too, SI PAGES 9 TO 12. it n rar 1 nFiirtii - HitL. began to fan herself languidly. Presently she asked, rather abruptly, bow long the Count would be at Caserta. An unwonted vivacity appeared in the Countess' tones as she replied. ''For a month certain," she said. "My estimable husband has gone to his country estate to superintend the sheep shearing, Carissima, in this sorrowful world we must be thankful for small mercies." As she spoke a beautiful resigned smile lighted her worn face. The Baroness Bra vura, however, threw off her apathy and answered with some warmth, ''Do you know." she said, "that I admire your hus band?" "Cara binuda. you were always singular.' "Possibly: but I admire your hnsband all the same. He is so grim; so stern looking; so out of the common run ot Italians, with that long, fixed gaze of his, which seems to tell of the privations he has undergone in the deserts. Then that scar on his bronzed lace where the lion clawed him makes him additionally interesting I Yes, my friend, 1 envy you your husband." "You I the universally admired wife of the greatest banker in Italy I" "What is a banker to an Alrican explorer? Antonio's sole idea is saving; and he has no figure. Your hnsband has at least a waist" And being launched on this agreeable theme, the Baroness passed some further criticisms on her absent financier. She finally concluded by sayins that for so de- vout a Catholic the Co nntess showed a quite unchristian discontent But at this remote illusion to religion the Counters' manner became chill. "You speak," she said, "of my husband without knowing him, and of my grievous burden without a conception of its weight. Ah, my friend, my husband is a brnte! He is a brute! Let me tell you that. It is not only that he deserts me that he goes ont early every morning and comes back late every night It is not only that It is worse much worse." The Baroness stared, and adjusted her pincenez. "Hehl" she asked, "has he beaten yon?" But the other made a gesture of denial, and her tones took a chilling gravity. "My hnsband is so impious," she said with sft slight shudder. "He is an infidel." Now, the Baroness Bravnra's attention was so engrossed on the efforts of her mil liners as to leave her small leisure for inves tigating theological truths. "That failing in a husband would not dis tress me much," she said. Bnt the Conntess Medina's manner became much like ice; and she looked at her flippant English friend austerely. A superior pity shone from her grave dark eyes, and her hushed voice trembled, as the voice of one initiated speaking to the outcast of sacred things. "My poor friend," she said, "knowing aa I do that you have not yet lonnd the True Faith, I fear that I may not be able to make you understand my real suffering. Ah, bionda, if you could only be persuaded to see the Beat Light!" The Baroness Bravnra somewhat ostenta tiously applied to her tin-tilted nose an ex quisite lace handkerchief in which a minia ture powder puff lay hid. "Let us hear this real suffering," aha said. "My real suffering, a suffering bidden from the world," the Countess said, "bnt which is eating my heart out is this: Mr hnsband, not content with being an infidel himself, insists on trying to force his infi delity on me." "Ahl" "Like all men without religion, he hates the sight of a priest He is always offend ing my ears with a quotation from some In fidel French poet 'A priest is a eat,' ha savs. 'When I see a priest I feel myself a dog.' " "Ahl" "Ever since he returned suddenly from Africa three months ago he has forbidden me to attend confession." The Baroness Bravnra raised herself slightly in her arm chair and again ad justed her pincenez. "My friend," she said, "was your eonfea , sor handsome?" "Ab. you hurt me!" cried the Countess, A silence; fell between these two a silence painful and prolonged. The Baron ess, consummate woman of the world as the was, felt that she had outraged her friend' religious feelings so deeply tbat for the mo ment It would be wisest to sit still and say and do nothing. Buf as these two sat motionless in tbe tub dued light of the boudoir, outside there, be low, in the terrible glare of the Strada Banchi Nnovi, another, seemingly up to now eternally immobile, was suddenly stirred to action. At the sound of light swift footsteps coming toward him on the deserted pavement, Arpino, tbe blind beg gar, who still kept the yellow whites of his nptnrned eyes riveted on the Palazzo, raised his head abruptly. His mustache bristled. "For tbe pity of Godl" he cried in his monotonous voice, and with hi accustomed action extended his' open hand. This hand shook. The light, swift footsteps were stayed; and low. sweet voice sounded is the beggar's ears. "Afflicted brother have you long beea blind?" "For ten years, my father." "Are you stone blind?" "Stone blind, my father." "How came you to know that a priest spoke to you?" "Who but a priest would call the outeast an afflicted 'brother? " "The blessings of heaven support yoa la yonr affliction, my son." A lira note was placed in Arpino's band, and the light, swift footsteps passed on: passed on, and mingled, with the crowd, and died into indistinctness in the many-voiced murmurs of the street But Arpino listened. There was something almost menacing ia tbe blind man's attitude of strained intent ness. Even his hearing, however, prett-, .naturally quickened as it was by his ote; amiction. coma not nave traeea tM 1 1 "Va "i f 4 1-. . Tfe 1 oiiii:.
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