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HE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
PITTSBURG-, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1890.
THIRD PART ' I
PEOPLE JLL HIDE.
Enormous Increase in. Street
Travel With the Advent
of Rapid Transit.
WHAT STATISTICS SHOW.
Pittsburg Has Liberally Rewarded
Every Enterprising Step.
LOSERS TURNED TO GOLD MINES.
At Some of the Down-Town Corners Three
Cars Pass tvcry Mlnste.
PKOGRESS IK THE DECADE KOW EXDl.N'G
iwnrms for tub dispatch.
N the past four
or five years
street car busi
ness in Pitts
burg Las been
revolutionized.
The change has
I hppn pnmnlnfn
ifcjjj in every partic-
j.ular. Not oaly
has the mule
and bell-horse
been struck by
the lightning of
progress, but the
old-time lines of
railway on our
streets have
been warped out
of all former
shape by the
heat of enterprise. And, as a result, sta
tistics show that more people ride to-day in
Pittsburg than for..ly, and ride more
cheaply, too.
Only a few years ago you could count the
street car routes upon your fingers. Fifth
avenue below Grant street had not yet Deea
disturbed; Liberty street was exclusively
traversed by the Pennsylvania Eailroad
freight trains, and Wood street had never
echoed with the silver tinkle of the horse
car bells. The routes then lay along Smith
field street, a part of Grant street, Fourth
and Third avenues, "Wylie avenue. Filth
avenue extension, Venn avenue and Sixth
street. But now the downtown streets
which are not furrowed by rails are the ex
ceptions. "What a net-work of tracks there
CORKER WOOD STREET
has grown to be in the delta of the three
rivers, and what an intricate system of
curves and cross-cuts, "loops," switches and
Blots! Cars of all colors, shapes and sizes
meet and pass each other in the oddest turns
and crooks.
SEEN AT A CORNER.
Stand at the corner of Smithfield street
ana Sixth avenue and in five minutes you
will become almost bewildered, I mean it
you are one of the old-time Pittsbnrgers
without metropolitan growth in your ideas.
From down Sixth avenue rumbles a Cen
tral cable line car. Two Birmingham cars
going in opposite directions meet it on
Smithfield street, and just at that momenta
SIXTH ATENTJE AND
PleasantValley electric car buzzes around
the Smithfield street curve from down
Sixthl A confusion of gogs, whistles and
bells, and then suddenly rushes past an
East street electric car from the Postoffice I
What excitement! What curious mixing
up of cars of different lines from all different
directions! And out of it tbey all come,
heavily freighted with humanity, without a
collision. Strange!
The snap-shot camera loves such situa
tions, and so it happened that I got some in
stantaneous photographs of well-known
street-car corners in Pittsburg and Alle
gheny this week. On Monday at 12:45 I
stood at Sixth avenne and Smithfield street
and in ten minutes counted exactly 20 cars
that passed the corner, an average of two
.every minute.- At-Penn avenne and Seventh
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Penu avenue coming from AlUaneny
where the west-bound' Citizens' cabW cars
continue on down Penn, and where Uue Wti
xens" cars bound eastward wheel an and rom
Seventh street, there I counted eaetly a
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cars in ten minntes, or five cars in every two
minutes. On Liberty street, between the
foot of Fifth avenue and Sixth street, where
the Pittsburg traction cars swing around the
loop, where the Citizens' traction cars issue
from the station house, where the West End,
Union, Troy Hill, Kebecca street and West
ern avenue cars all make their start in this
short half square 35 and 40 cars maybe
counted every 10 minutes in the busy part
of the day, or from three to four cars per
minute. Wnat a Union depot I
A NET-WOKE OF CDBVES.
Liberty and Seventh streets present
peculiar twists and ancles. The Citizens'
cable cars whirl aronnd the curve into
Seventh street; that curve is crossed by the
Pleasant Valley line's curve; the Pennsyl
vania Bailroad locomotives puff up at right
angles, and finally the electric cars disap
pear around another sharp curveon to Sixth
avenue, where in a few feet more they have
to cross the Transverse Railway on Wood
street; the Central Traction line just at that
critical juncture crosses both lines on a re
inarcable curve to get into the middle of
Wood street lor its onward course toward
Fourth avenue.
When you come out from the organ recital
in Carnegie Hall some Saturday afternoon
it is a good time to pause for a moment at
the corner of Federal and Ohio streets, well
over to the PostofSce side, for it is market
day and there are extra cars on. Now
watch! From un Federal street come the
cars that wheel around both to right and
AND SIXTH AVENUE.
left before yon. From down Federal street
glide the cars that sweep around to Ohio
back oi you. Out of Western avenue jog
the car horses, whirling aronnd into Federal
below. From Ohio streecin the same moment
come Troy Hill cars turning down Federal
street and electric cars turning up Federal
street. It is a system of graceful curves.
The cars do not come straight at jou, but
wheel aronnd on all sides of vou. It makes
your poor head turn round too, for in 10
minutes of a busy Saturday afternoon 26
cars have revolved around that corner, more
than one in every half minute.
ifext to taking snap shots in such whirl
ing situations, I have a fondness for statis
tics. So later in the week, while in Harris-
SMITHFIELD STREET.
burg one day, I dronpfd into the Depart
ment of Internal Affairs and began looking
oyer the annual reports of Pittsburg street
railways for the past 15 years. Tbey showed
by comparison some marvelous facts. One
was the enormous increase in the habit ot
riding in a street car. Tho other was that
the railway companies first to make a
bold dash into the cable and electric field,
and thus revolutionize the business and
build up Pittsburg and Allegheny suburbs,
were not the wealthy corporations, but they
were the weakest and poorest paying lines
in the city.
INCREASED EICHX HUNDBED PEB CENT.
Here are the facts: In 1876 the Pittsburg,.
Oakland and East Libert? Eailwav fnarr
I the Pittsburg traction) carried only 1,095'
667 passengers. The hard row it was hoe
ing in those years is shown by the expenses
,n 1877. which were 858,963, and the receipts,
which were only $66,038. In ten years I
find their traffic had increased scarcely any,
the report of 1886 showing 1,690,447 carried.
STREETS, ALLEGnENT.
But in 1887, after it assumed it new name,
the traffic at once jumped to 2,045,756; in
1888 to 2,800,000, and for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1890, to 8,229.809. The ex
penses in the last year were 5308,912, and re
ceipts $646,956.
The Citizens' Railway was always a pay
ing institution. In 1876 it carried 2,905.887
passengers and Its cash exhibit in 1879 was a
fair specimen of all other years. That
showed expenses $88,815 and receipts $147,
834. That paid, didn't it? Well, every
year's report from 1876 showed a steadyin
crease in the number of passengers carried.
Tn 188G it reached 5.490.372. Yet with all
'thisdifference.it was the poorer Oakland
iline that was first made a cable road and the
Citizens' was second in the race. But when
ihe Citizens' Company did start it boomed
things. In 1888 the number of passengers
carried was 6,952,131," but last year this was
swollen to the yast total of 10,832,192 pas
sengers in one year. .Fifteen years ago they
carried less than 3,000,000. Last year the
expenses were $308,912 and the receipts
$646,9S6.
i "Ihe Central Railwayf,Wylie avenue)
bnce had a stunted financial career, which,
however, is only a memory now. In 1876,"
398,777 passengers rode in its cars. The
difference between its annual expenses and
receipts was hard to distinguish. As late
as 1881 the number of passengers carried
had only increased, to 577,460. With its
new traction line the company is now carry
ing about 2.500,000 passengers. The last
report is not yet in, and this figure is an es
PITTSBURG'S GREAT CREDIT HOUSE.
legitimacy, and so can't, for the life of them, imagine in what way they're to make OTHERS interested in this Flotsam and Jetsam of Commerce. They try -all sorts of
maneuvers, extravagant language, idiotic pictures, far-fetched funniness, etc WE HAVE AN INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR GOODS IN EVERY DETAIL,
AND, THEREFORE, ADVERTISE THEM WITH CONFIDENCE. WE SPEAK TO-DAY :: :: :: :; :: :: :: :::::: iV.i
GOODS THAT ARE
0 VIEW OF
CHRISTMAS
Our superb stock takes on new
interest ith every piece or se
lection, and every selection pe
culiarly appropriate as a Holi
day Gift, how could it be other
wise? In all our departments
can be found an almost inex
haustible stock and assortment
of things that are alike beauti
ful and useful, while the quota
of things unique and exclusive
is very large.
THERE IS NOT
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THIS COUNTRY ,
A grander collection of rare'
and beautiful goods, at once
artistic and superb, than we
show. Ours is not only a col
lection of goods peculiarly ap
propriate, for .Holiday Goods,
but a collection wherein every
article shows the result of care
ful selection.
Our Credit System
Enables you to give better gifts
and more of them than you
could otherwise . afford. If we
could prevail on you to come to
our store without dilating upon
the beauties and merits of the
almost innumerable pretty
things our warerooms contain,
there would be nolneed of even
a hint from us to-day.
HOPPER BROS. & CO.,
307, WOOD ST.,
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timate based on the report of 1888, which
showed 1,062,2 passengers.
THE FATING PROPERTY LAGGED.
The Pittsburg and Birmingham Bailway
has 'always been considered good paying
property. In 1876 it carried 1,428,531 pas
sengers, and in 1886 this bad increased to
2,422,210, with expenses only $78,591, and
receipts $120,039. In 1889-90 the passengers
carried numbered 4,200,857. Yet the little
Central Bailway, with its traffic of less than
1,000,000 passengers, built a traotion road,
and the prosperousBirmingbam road i still
driving horse cars, though building an
electric line.
The Pleasant Valley electrlo lines used
to run one-horse bobtail cars in 1876, when
tbey only carried 946,721 passengers, earn
ing about $15,000 clear of expenses. In
1886 ten years had only increased this to
1.658,009 passengers, yet the little Pleasant
Valley had audacity to introduce electricity.
Last year its cars carried 4,583,900 passen
gers, the receipts were $231,379 and the ex
penses were only $153,644.
A very enrious career is that of the late
lamented Transverse Bailway, from Law
renceville to the city. It began business in
1882, and it was predicted there was not
enoueh business for two parallel lines in
that field. In 1882 the Transverse cafried
1,630,509. In the same vear its rival, the
Citizens' Line, carried 4,126,362, while the
previous year, before the Transverse began
running, it carried 4,063,640. In 1883 the
LIBERTY AND
Transverse had increased its passenger traffic
to 2,144,636, and in the same year the Citi
zens' reached 4,308,896. Both lines had in
creased. Add the two together and it shows
that actually 2,389,892 passengers had rid
den between Lawrenceville and the Old City
who had not ridden prior to the bnilding of
the Transverse. L. E. Stofiel.
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PARTICULARLY OF
GOODS THAT W KNOW Ml AP0UT!
GOODS THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL! GOODS THAT ARE SENSIBLE! GOODS FOR
GOODS WHICH CAN BE PURCHASED EITHER FOR CASH OR ON EASY PAYMENTS.
NEW !
Our Floors Are Literally Packed "With Hundreds of Different Ends of Articles, Any One of Which
Would Gladden the Heart of Any Relative or Friend to Whom Ton Intend Making a Gift.
'lrlN FACT, WE'RE CHOCK PULL OP G-IPTS FOR CHRISTMAS.,
FANCY KOCKERS, '
Tn, Brocatelles, Tapesti'ies, Silk and Crush Plush, Wil
tons, Leather; in Walmit, Antique Oak, Sixteenth Cen
'tury and Oxidized Brass Trimmings, Cherry and Ma
hogany, Natural Woods. A line embracing over 200
styles. One hundred styles of Reed and Rattan Rockers,
Child 's, Misses' and Metis sizes.
BOOKCASES,
Mantel and Parlor Cabitiels, Music Cabinets, Secretaries,
and Bookcases' iti Walnut, Oak and Mahogany Ladies
Desks a?id Cabinets combined, with cheval glasses, etc.
PICTURES:
Oil Paintings, Steel Engravings, Ar to types, Copies of
Famous Etchings, Satin Etchings, etc.
PARLOR SUITES,
Odd Arm Rocking, Corner and Window Chairs in any
style. Odd Divans, Odd Tele-a-Tetes in any style of
coverings. .
BLACKING CASES,
Chiffoniers, Extension Tables, Center Tables,both Wood
and Marble lops,tn Walnut,
And wejiaven't mentioned
HOPPER BROS. & CO,
PITTSBURG'S GREAT CREDIT HOUSE,
3fi7 WOGp STBBET . ... - Between -hird -and JPourth Avennesi
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A NOVEL DEALING- WITH LIFE IN LONDON AND EGYPT,
WBITTEN FOE THE DISPATCUl
BY RUDYAED KIPLING,
Being the First Serial Story From the Pen of the Gifted Young
Author of "Soldiers Three," and Many Other Popular
, Sketches of Army Experiences in India.
CHAPTEE X.
There wera three friends that buried the
fourth.
The mold in bis month and the dust In his
eyes;
And they went south, and east, and north.
The strong man fights, but the sick man dies.
There were three friends that spoke of the i
ueaa,
The strong man fights, bnt the sick man dies.
SEVENTH STREETS.
"And would he were here with us now," they
said,
"The sun In onr face and the wind In our
eyes." Ballad.
Dick could not sleep that night, partly for
pure joy, and partlybecause thewell-known
Catherine wheels inside his eyes had given
place to crackling volcanoes of many-colore
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fire. "Spout away," he said aloud. "I've
done my work, and now you can do what
you please." He lay still, staring at the
ceiling, the long-pent-np delirium of drink
in his ycins, his brain on fire with racing
thoughts that would not slay to be con
sidered, and his hands crisped and dry. He
had just discovered that he was painting the
face of the Melancolia on a revolving dome
ribbed with millions of lights, and that all
his wondrous thoughts stood embodied hun
dreds of feet below his tiny swinging plank,
shontinjr together in his honor, when some
thing cracked inside his temples like an
overstrained bow string, the glittering dome
broke inwards, and be was alone in the
thick night.
"I'll go to sleep. The room's very dark.
Let's light a lamp and see how the Melan
colia looks. There ought to have been a
moon."
It was then Torpenhow heard his name
called by a voice that be did not know in
the rattling accents of deadly fear.
"He's looked at the picture," was his first
thought, as he hurried into the bedroom
and found Dick sitting up and beating the
air with his hands.
"Torn! Torp! Where are you? For pity's
sake, come to me!"
"What's the matter?"
Dick clutched at his shoulder. "Matter!
I've been lying here for hours in the dark,
and you never heard me. Torp, old man,
don't go away. I'm all in the dark. In the
dark, I tell you."
Torpenhow held the candle within a foot
of Dick's eyes, but there was no light in
those eyes. He lit the gas, and Dick heard
the flame catch. The grip of his fingers on
Torpenhow's shoulder made Torpenhow
wince.
"Don't leave me. You wouldn't .leave
me alone now, would you? I can't see.
D'you understand? It's black quite
black and I feel as if I was falling through
it all."
"Steady, does it?" Torpenhow put his
arm round Dick and instinctively began to
rock him gently to and fro.
"That's good. Now don't talk. If I
keep very quiet for a while this darkness
will lift. It seems just on the point of
breaking. H'shl" Dick knit bis brows
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instances of this- everv dav. nVht here
the darbas to their oarentafre.
HOLIDAY
A Line of Oxidized Brass Tables,
With Gemiine Mexican Onyx Tops.
LACE CURTAINS,
From $1 to $35, Nottingham, Brussels, Madras and
genuine Irish Points. Portiere Curtains, in Chenille
and Turcoman Goods, from $3 to $40.
WARDROBES,
Single and Double Desk, Chiffoniers, and Wardrobe
Folding Beds.
BEDROOM SUITES, .
In Antique Oak, Walnut, Cherry and Mahogany, from
$18 to $500.
. DINING, OFFICE, PARLOR,
Bedroom, Kitchen, Sitting Room and Library CHAIRS
in patent, cane or leather.
DINNER SETS,
Tea Sets, Bronze and Silver Mantel Figures, Hanging
Bookcases, Hanging Cabinets, Wall Pockets, Hall Racks,
Splasher Hangers, 1 owel Kachs, 1 oilet csefs, etc.
got, which we'll sell either
and stared desparately in front of him. The
night air was chilling Torpenhow's toes.
"Can you stay like that a minute?" he
said. "I'll get my dressing gown and some
slippers."
Dick clutched the bed-head with both
hands and waited for the darkness to clear
away. "What a time you've been!" be
cried, when Torpenhow returned. "It's as
black as ever. And what are you banging
about in the doorway?"
"Long chair horse blanket pillow.
Going to sleep by you. Lie down now;
you'll be better in the morninr."
"I shan'tl" The voice rose to a wail.
"JlyGci! I'm' blind! I'm blind, and the
darkness will never go away," He made
as if to leap from the bed, but Torpenhow's
arms were round bim, and Torpenhow's
chin was onhis shoulder, and his breath
was squeezed out of him. He could only
gasp, "Blind!" and wriggle feebly.
"Steady, Dickie, steady!" said the deep
voice in his ear, and the grip tightened.
"Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let
them think you're afraid." The grip could
draw no closer. Both men were breathing
heavily. Dick threw his bead from side to
side and groaned.
TORPENHOW HELD THE CANDLE
"Let me go," he panted. "You're crack
ing my ribs. We we musn't let them
think we're afraid, must we all the powers
of darkness and that lot?"
"Lie down. It's all over now."
"Yes," said Dick, obediently. "But
wpuld vou mind letting me hold your
hand? i feel as if I wanted something to
hold on to. One drops through the dark
so."
Torpenhow thrust out a large hairy paw
iroin me long en air. jjiu. uunutu
it
he tries to convince others of
INK.n
in Pittsburg-. Storekeepers,
are THEMSELVES in doubt
GOODS
for cash or on easy payments.
tightly, and in half an hour had fallen
asleep. Torpenhow withdrew his hand.and,
stooping over Dick, kissed him lightly on
the forehead, as men do sometimes kiss a
wounded comrade in the hour of death, to
ease his departure.
In the gray dawn Torpenhow heard Dies:
talking to himself. He was adrift on the
shoreless tides of delirium, speaking very
quickly: "It's a pity a great pity. But
it's helped, and it mast be eaten, Master
George. Sufficient unto the day is the
blindness thereof, and, further, putting
aside all Melancolias and false humors, it is
ot obvious notoriety such as mine was
that the queen can do no wrong. Torp
doesn't know that. I'll tell him when we're
a little farther into the desert. What a
bungle those boatmen are making of the
steamer ropes! They'll have that four-inch
hawser chafed through in a minute. I told
you sol There she goes! White foam on
green water, and the steamer slewing round.
Howgood that looks! I'llsketcnit. No, I
can't. I'm afflicted with ophthalmia. That
was one of the ten plagues of Egypt, and it
extends up the Nile in the shape of cataract.
Ha! that's a joke, Torp. Laugh, you graven
image, and stand clear of the hawser, i
IWITHIN A FOOT OF DICK'S EYES.
It'll knock you into the water and make
your dress all dirty, Maisie, dear."
"Oh 1" said Torpenhow. "This happened
before. That night on the river."
"She'll be sure to say it's my fault if you
get muddy, and you're quite near enough to
the breakwater. Maisie, that's not fair.
Ah I I knew you'd miss. Low and to the
left, dear. But you've no conviotion.
Everything in the world except conviction.
Don't be angry, darling. I'd cut my hand
off if it would give you anything more than
especially certain House
as to the various articles1
EVERY HOUSEHOLD!
Bring their own reward. The re
turn of many familiar faces
proves that former purchasers
have been satisfied. Our very low
prices and reasonable terms of
payment certainly bring not only
old buyers back, but heaps of
customers daily. And in style or
quality, whatever you want, no
matter how much or how little
you wish to spend, you can get it
here. In a nutshell, ours is tho
best place in the city to buy-ar,
whether for cash or credit.
WE HAVE
EVERYTHING
The heart can desire in the way
of gifts that can be found in our
line of business, and when we say
we have the finest line of Holiday,
Goods that are to be found in this
city, we mean that no other housa
can show as large an assortment
of different grades of goods.
We Cannot
Impress it too strongly on your
mind that ours is the Great Credit
House in Pittsburg. Our3 is aa
exhibit that interests every class
of buyers, since itis one that will
meet to the full the varied re
quirements of all' the people in
HOPPER BROS. & CO.,
307 WOOD ST., .
Bel, Third and Fourth Atcs.
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