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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,
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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."
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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;
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