THIS IS THE SEASON
TO SELL AND KENT HOUSES.
BUYERS AND RENTER
LOOK FOB BARGAINS
IN TnE EVERY mokning dispatch.
FORTY-iETFTH YEAH.
AHORRQ
Even in the Intensely Tragic History of the Coke
Regions of Western Pennsylvania.
MORE THAI OM HUNDRED LAUGHING MINERS
Entered the Mammolh Shaft in (tie Early Morning Only to Meet
a Sudden and MpRrightful Fate.
ALL FELL EASY VICTIMS' TO
v
The Fatal Gas Was Sot Supposed to Exist in the Mine, and Ordinary Lamps Were
Used A Distant Bumbling the First Warning to Those Outside Then a Volume
of SmoXe Leaped From the Mouth of the Pit Toward the Sky The Work of
-ficcoverinj the Bodies Speedily Commenced Terrible, Though Suppressed Grief
of the Bereaved Ones The Frick Company Waking Lvery Effort to Believe the
Terrors of the Situation Many of the Victims Mangled and Blackened Almost
Eeyond the Semblance of Humanity.
irr.ox a sTArr coaKisroNDEKT.j
Mammoth, Pa., Jan. 27. "More volun
teers to go dotvn the shaft," yelled a grimy
faced man at the shaft entrance to the Mam
moth 2o. 1 mine, as he flashed his torch in
the countenances of the men who crowded
around.
There was no lack of responses, lor down
in the bowels of the earth lay the bodies of
orer a hundred of their comrades.
At 9 o'clock this morning occurred the
worst disaster ever known in a bituminous
coal mine in the Stite of Pennsylvania, if,
indeed, it was e er equaled in this country.
Mammoth was the scene of the catastrophe.
The Scene of the Disaster.
At this place ou the Sewickley branch of
the Southwestern division of the Pennsyl
vania .Railroad are located the mammoth
mines and coke works of H. C. Frick & Co.
There are two mines, No. 1 and No. 2. The
former is entered by a shaft 107 feet deep,
and the latter by a slope. The two mines
are connected by interior workings.
Gas, or hre damp, the bane of a coal
miner's life, was remarkable here for its ab
sence. No trace of it had ever been found,
and for that reason tbe common coal dig
gers' lamp was used.
Early in the morning Fire Bos3 "William
bnaith had made his tour uf tbe mines, in
accordance with the laws of the State, and
had found everything apparently in the best
of order.
Going to Work for the last Time.
The men were ordered to work 110 of
them, it estimated and went down the pit
shaft where in so short a time they were to
meet their death, with laughter and with
jests.
A few minutes after 9 o'clock there was a
dull rumbling sound like the dim mutter
in cs of thunder behind distant hills, a cloud
ot smoke and dust shot np the shaft of
Mammoth No. 1, 0 feet above tbe tall der
rick and slowly settled down.
For a few moments there was silence, and
then the workers from Mammoth No. 2 be
gan pouring out of the slope and rnshing
toward the shaft of No. 1. Many of these
men had been bruised and shaken np by the
force of an explosion, but none were in
jured seriously.
Discovery of the Deadly Fire Damp.
Superintendent George Keighley called
for volunteers, and at once 20 men
stepped forward and were lowered
down the shaft in the cage, which
had not been injured by the explosion.
"When the party reached the bottom of the
shaft, one glance, an'd the odor of the
deadly fire damp was enongh. Death
lurked in these underground corridors. He
had seized all he found there and was
clamoring for more victims.
The party returned to the top of the shaft
and the ventilating fan, one of the most
powerful in use at any coal mine, was at
once started up at its utmost speed.
Again Superintendent Keigley and his
party descended. The force of the explo
sion was visible on every hand. The
coal wagons used in the mines were splin
tered to pieces in some cases. In other
places several of them had been jammed to
gether in a solid mass. Mules were seen
which had been driven against the ribs of
the workings with such force that their
bodies had ntterly lost all semblance to the
living reality. Here and there lay human
bodies.
Appearances of the Human Victims.
Some were multilated and all were
blackened by the deadly flame which had
swept through the works. The bodies of
those who had been killed by the effects of
the explosion lay in distorted attitudes
while others, who had apparently escaped
the flame and conenssion, bnt had rushed
from the rooms in which they were working
into the flats had succumbed to tbe stealthy,
suffocating fire damp.
There they were, some at full length with
beas resting upon their hand as if asleep,
others face downward with their heads in
pools of water. One man had climbed into
a wagon which had not been wrecked, and
there, with his dinner bucket by his side,
had laid down as if to dream 3f pleasant
things.
Eaough had been seen for experienced
miners in know that all the men in flats
Nos. 2,3 and 4 of the No. 1 Mammoth mine
hid perished.
Spreading the Sad Intelligence.
General Manager Thomas Lynch at once
i mm piulud.
THE DEADLY FIRE DAMP.
notified tbe managers of tbe other coal
mines belonging to H. C. Frick & Co., and
sent messengers to Mt. Pleasant, Greens
bnrg, Scottdale and surrounding towns for
physicians. Drs. Wilson, Painter, Brown,
Myers, McCormack and Clark at once re
sponded and while they could render no aid
to the dead took charge of the arrangement
of the bodies, attended the rescuers who were
overcome while working in the still fonl
mine, and helped in many instances to dis
tinguish traces of humanity in. the
heaps of debris which the less-learned
miners were passing unheeded. The
physicians took their turns below nothing
daunted by the unaccustomed danger and
worked with a vim.
"When General Manager Lynch came in
from Scottdale he brought with him Robert
Ramsey, Superintendent of H. C. Frick &
Co.'s Standard Works, Morris Bamsey,
General Manager of the Southwest
Coal and Coke Company, Superintendent
Laird, of the Hecla Coke Company,
Captain Schoonmaker, General Manager of
the United Coal and Coke Company, and
all the best men at their several works.
Undertakers at Mt. Pleasant, Scottdale and
Greensburg were notified, and SO coffins
were brought from Pittsburg, with a similar
consignment to follow to-morrow.
Sorrow of Those, left Behind.
When the news of the explosion to
the miners' families in the little houses
dotted on the hillsides mothers, wives, sis
ters, daughters and sweethearts rushed to
the shaft. The story was soon told: "All
the men in flats Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are dead.
As fast as we get their bodies out and thev
are identified and fixed" for burial we will
send them home."
There was no loud emotion displayed. A
dry sob could be heard here and there, and
many a woman walked away with a bowed
head, returning to her desolate home to
await the arrival of her dead. At least
there was no suspense. The women bore
the news well.
As soon as the mine experts had arrived a
systematic plan for tbe recovery of the
bodies was agreed upon. The first party
went down the shaft to the Forrest flat No. 4.
Three hundred feet from the shaft they found
a wall of earth, coal wagon and human bodies
which blocked further progress. This was
tunneled through and the party turned off
at right angles along a haulage road. At
the extremity of this was found a man with J
his head completely blown from his body.
Some of the Bescners Overcome.
At this point several of the party, among
them Superintendents Robert Ramsey and
Laird, were overcome by the after damp,
and had to be carried back to pnrer air.
The entrance to each room opening into
three flats was hastily closed with brattices
to give a clearer sweep to the air being
forced into the mine, and a fer of them
were explored.
In tbe haulage road of No. 4 flat 35 bodies
were found, and 15 were counted in one heap
in flat No. 2. One man had both legs blown
off. The body of a boy was fonnd with a
stick driven 'through his arm. Fire Boss W.
Snaith was torn almost to pieces, and a rub
ber boot was found still encasing the foot
and leg of a miner. The big pumps, which
lift tons of water out at a time, were broken
and scattered as if they had been made of
straw.
The First Body Brought to light.
It was bnt a few minutes after the explo
sion when the first body reached the sur
face. It was still warm, but life was utterly
extinct. The next man brought up ap
peared to be still breathing, but the utmost
exertions of the physicians failed to resus
citate the victim.
Then commenced the dismal procession of
the dead, to which rank after rank is added
as the cage comes to the surface. All day
long it moved across the open lot in front of
the shaft, and as the daylight faded and the
darkness of night settled down upon the
frowning hills the line of stretchers, almost
unbroken, kept passing from the shaft to
the building which had been hastily util
ized as a morgue.
The morgne is a roomy two-story frame
structure, formerly used as a residence by a
former superintendent. It is a roomy
bnilding, and the bodies were taken into
what had formerly been the sitting
room. Here the undertakers with
sleeves rolled up and swathed in aprons, en
deavored to bring back to the maimed,
scorched and blackened -bodies some sem
blance of their former appearance.
Then they were garbed in black shrouds
and laid out on the long back porch. The
porch was soon filled with boaies, 20 lying
in a row at one time. The caskets were
brought up, and as toon as a corpse was
Identified it-was placed in a neat black
m
walnut casket and the vacant place occupied
by a new arrival. FbanK Jenks.,
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD.
JUST 24 OF THE FIRST 58 BODIES "WEBS
RECOGNIZED.
Some bat Not All of Those Who Were
SUU In tho Mine Are Known The Com
pany Not Able to Furnish a Complete
List.
CFBOM A STArr COBItESPOXDEh-T.1
Mammoth, Jan. 27. At 10 o'clock to
night 24 bodies ont of 68 recovered had been
identified as follows:
AUGUST LINK, JR.
MICHAEL WAN YAK.
JAMES STANYAK.
STEVE SWARDS.
WILLIAM BURCHEU
WEIR HAVEN.
JAMES DUPTE.
JAMES DORL
WILLIAM SNAITH.
PAT TUMBLE1Y.
FRI1Z NEWELL
DANIEL DAVIS.
LOUIS LEWIS and WILLIAM LEWIS,
brothers.
JAMES MURPHY.
JACOB MYERS.
JOHN KACHERO
MARTIN BRAMAN.
GUS HUDSON.
MICHAEL bTANY and his son, MICHAEL
STANY, Jr.
DANIEL EATON.
DAN GORDON.
CHARLES COLES.
Among the men still in the mine are:
JOHN VARDOSL
JAMES REILEY.
THOMAS BROWN.
JOSEPH KURN.
JAMES MURPHY.
JOHN DROPP.
No Complete List Tet Possible.
Tbe mine officials are unable at this time
to give the names of all the dead men, as the
pay roll covers all the men employed at
these works, and it is impossible to tell jnst
which of these were at work in Mammoth
No. 1.
Rev. Father Lambing, of Scottdale,
heard of the disaster. He has many friends
among the employes of the Mammoth
Works and was soon on the ground, giving
enconragement to the rescners and consola
tion to the bereft.
The work of searching for the bodies was
hard and dangerous. The afterdamp still
lingered in large quantities, and once or
twice fires were discovered where
the explosion had ignited small
heaps of dry coal dust. For a
time it was feared tbe horrors which at
tended the Dunbar disaster would be dupli
cated. Large quantities of water were
turned on the flames and after several honrs
of bard labor they were extinguished.
Extinguishing Every Spark of Fire.
Then a bucket brigade was organized and
every little spark was promptly suppressed
before it sprang into a flame. The rumor
that the mine was on fire spread among tbe
miners at the mouth of the shaft and for a
time there was a hesitancy in volunteering
for the relief ot tbe miners below.
It was only for a few moments, however,
and then a big, burly fellow with scorched
face and red shirt open at the throat, sprang
forward and exclaimed: "I'm one, where
is another?" and a dozen men jumped put of
the hesitating crowd,' and from that time on
a call for volnnteers was no sooner made
than it was answered.
AN APPEAL FROM WISE
TO MEMBERS OF THE KNIGHTS OF LAB0B
AND C0EE W0BKEB8.
Prompt Assistance to Be Given to the Prac
tically Destitute Wives and Families of
the Victims A Gloom Cast Over the
Entire Region.
rEFECIAL TXX.XGBAU TO TUX DIErATCR..
Scottdale, Jan. 27. The terrible dis
aster at the Mammoth has cast a gloom over
the entire coke region. It is estimated here
that there are 100 wives and families that are
left wholly dependent on the charity of the
world for sustenance by this disaster. In
fact they are almost penniless, as the plant
has not been running full for some time and
work has been exceedingly scarce since the
dullness has set in the demand for coke.
Every means possible will be resorted to
supply the widowed mothers and their
children with the necessaries or life. The
Frick Company will be liberal in this direc
tion and it is understood that a subscription
paper will shortly be circulated to obtain
money to support the unfortunate families.
Master Workman Peter Wise addressed the
following letter to the miners and cokers of
the region to-night:
Scottdale, Jan. 27, 1S9L
To the Members of the Knights of Labor and
Workmen of the Coke Kesion:
Tliosau nens of a disastrous explosion at
Mammoth mines has just reached" me, and I
fear many families have been left destitute. I
therefore appeal to yon to promptly render
what aid yon can to assist the families of your
brethren who have been killed. Tho Master
Workman and committees at each works will
kindly take the matter in hand and act as a re
lief committee. Let the committes select a
"check number" and each miner rnn as many
wagons as he can, under the circumstances con
tribute and arrangements will be made with
the companies to pay the amount ana thus
prompt aid can be given. Drawers can adopt
the came plan and day men can contribute from
their day's work and have thejsame deducted
in the office. This aid will be separate and
apart from any public contributions and will
be forwarded to district officers who will apply
it to the relief of those to whom it is contri
buted. Peter Wise,
District Master Workman.
NOT A NEW MINE.
THE DAHGEE OF STEIKTHG OLD WOBK
IHGS IN THE BEGI0N.
The Territory Fall of Places Where Noxious
Gases Can Collect How Miners Here
Try to Explain the Accident.
From parties in Pittsburg well acquainted
with the scene of the disaster, the following
facts were learned: The Mammoth mine,
like its deadly predecessor at Dnnbar, is in
significant' enough on the surface
to look at An incline cut into a
hillside that terminates in numer
ous ramifications under the earth
describes it. Near the mouth of the mine
are tbe COO coke ovens stretched along in
rows, and within a stone's throw is the
miners' pateb, where many of tbe unfor
tunate men lived, aud whose homes are now
desolate and their families sorely afflicted.
At the head of a ravine, about a mile from
the mouth of the incline, several yean ago
a new shaft was sunk, and it was la this
part of the mine that the explosion oocurrtd.
PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY,
At the time or the Dunbar accident many
of the men claimed that the Connelisville
region had been plettv well worked out,
and tber territory was full of old rooms and
workings where noxious gases accumu
lated. The miners are in constant danger of
striking some of these old workings and
firing the gas. With tbe meager details at
hand this is the onlv manner in which
miners well acquainted with the region
conld account for the
Keighley, who had
Mammoth works, is
bnt he hears the
rxnlosion. Mr.
charge of the
n. vonncr man.
reputation of
beinsr level-headed and experienced.
While Inspector he made a brave attempt
to save tbe Imprisoned miners at Dunbar.
This second disaster coming so close on the
heels of the other horror only proves that
the Connelisville region must be worked
with the greatest care, if the safety of the
miners is to be insured.
About three years aeo the H. C. -Frick
Coke Company bought the Mammoth mines
from J. W. Moore, of Greensburg. It was
one of the 42 purchased by this company in
the territory. It has been in operation at
least eight years, and is one of the old mines
in the region.
TALK WITH H. C. FRICK.
THE OW1TEB OF THE HINE3 SAYS IT
WAS AH ACCIDENT.
Die Had Implicit Confidence in Inspector
Keighley Tho Disaster Might Have
Been More Horrible Belief Corps Or
dered Out.
H. C. Frick was seen late last evening,
but he had not received any definite in
formation concerning the extent ot the dis
aster or its cause. "I am completely at a
loss to know how it happened," said he.
"I only know that Inspector Keighley,
who was a State Inspector when the Dunbar
accident occurred, was in charge in the
Mammoth mines, and, having implicit con
fidence in' his competency, I have no fear
in saying the explosion could not have oc
cur! ed through carelessness. It must have
been one of those sort of fatalities that arc
liable to occur any time under any circum
stances, without regard to whatever care
may be exercised.
"Although this was one of our largest
plants, employing over BOO men, we were
not running full, and consequently all the
men were not at work, otherwise I presume
the result would have been even more dread
ful. I have just received word that 18 dead
bodies have been removed, and I have ad
vices that rescuing parties are hard at work
searching for dead bodies, and ready to give
relief to any that may be found living. I
bave directed those in charge to let nothing
dismay" them in the prosecution of this
work.
Beyond this, Mr. Frick was unable to say
anything, or express an opinion.
There was no end of talk on the street last
night about the horror, and considerable ex
citement prevailed, especially in labor cir
cles. Many were inclined to fix the blame
summarily upon the management, but in
the absence of definite information others
were more conservative.
John Murphy & Co., the undertakers,
sent 25 coffins to S. P. Zimmerman at Mt.
Pleasant last night for immediate use.
REPAIRING THE WIRES.
THE NEW YOBK TELEPHONE SYSTEM IS
STILL PAEALYZED.
Telegraph Companies Recovering
Some-
what From the Effocts of tho Sarm-4
1
Alia .tvxaw jcuiituuuii (SUA aAaa Atuuiia
outs Posted on Towers and High Build
ings. i.A triu. n.A.nn ctu tt. -..
ISPKCLLL TZLEOEAlt TO TUB DISPATCH.!
Neyt Yobk, Jan. 2T. The local tele
phone service is still about as badly para
lyzed as it was just after Sunday's snow
storm in spite of three days' steady work by
nearly 300 men. The clearing away of
wrecked poles and wires alone had not been
finished to-night. Nearly every man was
busy on the streets, from the General Super
intendent down.
Superintendent Hibhard, of the Long Dis
tance lines, got the first direct communica
tion from Philadelphia this morning that
has been established since tbe storm. The
Long Distance now has communication
with Boston by way of Philadelphia and
Albany. The Western Union Company had
picked" up several direct wires to
Boston, aud had enough wires
in use to Buffalo and Chicago by nightfall
to handle its Southern business through
those offices. Direct connection with Phila
delphia and Washington won't come for a
day or two yet. " Messages were still being
received subject to delay, but the operators
were only a few. hours behind in their work.
The Postal now has communication with
all the principal cities. All the principal
thoroughfares below Fifty-ninth street were
lighted by electricity to-night. The upper
section of the city was still dark in spoU.
The fire department wasn't bragging
about its progress at all to-day. The look
outs in the high towers and buildings about
the city kept up their vigilant watch. None
of the fires of Monday night got headway
enough to be spotted from a tower.
Telegraph Operator John J. Murray, who
began on Monday to sweep the horizon sea
ward with a telescope for incoming vessels,
may have his aerial job for a week before
the wires connecting the city with Sandy
Hook and quarantine are restored.
THE OHIO LEGISLATOBS.
Bills to Seduce Passenger and
Freight
Bailroad Bates.
ISrXCIAI. TIISOIUK TO TBS DISPATCH. 1
Columbus, Jan. 27. A bill to build a
new mansion for the Governor, which has
claimed the attention of several Legislatures,
was defeated in the lower branch to-day,
and is disposed of for tbe session. Among
the measures introduced in the Senate to--
day were bills to reduce railroad passenger
rates to 2 cents a mile and to forbid the issne
of railroad passes to public officials, and to
reduce freight rates as follows:
For distances greater than 30 miles the
rate is reduced to 12 cents per ton per
mile; lor distances between 10 and 30 miles,
to liyi cents per ton per mile, and for dis
tances less than 10 miles, 5 cents per ton,
per mile. Freight transfer rates are fixed
at 20 cents per ton.
A bill has been presented which was pre
pared by the Ohio Leagne of Building and
Loan Associations, which provides for the
appointment of a State Inspector of Bnild
ing and Loan Associations and the deposit
with the State Treasurer by every foreign
association of securities for the keeping of
pledges. The Senate spent a good portion
ot the day in an effort to abolish the State
Board of Pardons, bnt the bill was probably
postponed.
WENT WITH THE BLACKSMITH.
A Xoung Woman Disappears With a Mar
ried Man.
rsriciAi. TxuasAX to thx dispatch.!
New Yoek, Jan. 27. Miss Tillie Myer,
of Lloyd's Neck, L. I., is a handsome
blonde of 23 years, with a love for fast
horses and a fortune of $30,000 in her own
right. Her father, C. Myer, hjs charge of a
farm owned by Jacob "Buppert, of New
York, in Lloyd's Neck. Several months
ago, while ah was on her way to Hunting
ton, she stopped at Gildersleeve's horseshoe-,
JA2HTAHY 28. 1891,
ing shop to have her horse's feet attended
to. While there she became acquainted with
Charles Gildersleeve, son of the proprietor.
He has a wife and two children.
Miss Myer appears to have taken a liking
to Gildersleeve, and soon ber numerous
visits to the shop where he was employed
began to attract attention. Shortlv after
this she was seen driving about in her dog
cart after dnsk with Gildersleeve by her
side. Developments were looked for when
James Bingham, a traveling salesman and
a known admirer of Miss Myer, made his
appearance. He at once began devising
means of regaining his place in her affec
tions. Mrs. Gildersleeve finally had a warrant
issued for her husband's arrest, so as to com
pel him to support her children. Hearing
of this be lea, and now Miss Myer has also
disappeared.
THE FALL OF INGALLS.
HOW THE ALLIANCE CAME TO AGEEE
OK JUDGE PFEFFER.
Scenes in the Legislature When tho Ballot
Was Taken The Friends of the De
feated Candidato Condole With Him
So Plans for the Future.
Topeka, Jan. 27. The predictions of
the wise men that the Alliance would be un
able to agree in cancus upon a candidate,
and that failure to agree would disrupt their
organization, went wide of the mark. The
can ens was no less harmonious than is nsual,
and an agreement was reached after fonr
bouts of balloting. The caucus met at 9
o'clock last night, and worked under the se
cret rule of the order. Eighteen candidates
were voted for ou tbe first ballot
Then the one receiving the lowest number
of votes was dropped from tbe list. This
was repeated orT each ballot until a choice
was made. When the fifth ballot was taken,
these names were voted upon: W. A. Pfet
fer, P. P. Elder, Speaker of the House;
John Willits, deleated candidate for Gov
ernor, John Davis, Congressman-elect from
the Fifth district, and J. W. Bridenthal, of
Chetopa. One by one Bridenthal, Davis
and Willits were dropped from the list, until
onlr Pfeffer and Elder remained. The final
vote stood BG lor Pfeffer and 38 for Elder.
In tbe House 53 petitions from G. A. B.
veterans throughout the State asking the
Legislature to select Mr. Ingalls were pre
sented, and went over under the rule. The
reading of the titles of these petitions con
sumed over an hour's lime. At 12:05 Speaker
Elder rapped for order. Cheers followed the
annonncement of each vote, and after a
few ineffectual attempts to maintain order
the Speaker gave it up as a bad job, and tbe
Alliance and Ingalls men cheered to their
hearts content. The ballot resulted: W. A.
Pfeffer. 96; J. J. Insalls, 23; General W.W.
Blair (Dem.), 5. The Alliance went wild
when the announcement of the vote was
made and cheered for fully three minutes.
Loud cries for Pfeffer were heard, but the
Alliance leader was not to be fonnd. Dur
ing the confusion some onesmoved to ad
journ and tbe Speaker declared the motion
adopted.
-Senator Iugalls was besieged at his hotel
by a crowd of admiring friends. To a re
porter he said he bad made no plans for the
future. "I only know," said he, "that I
shall remain in Kansas. I came to the State
three years before Us admission into the
Union. I have lived here ever since; all of
my belongings are here; all of my children
were born in Kansas. My dead sleep in her
bosom, and I hope to mingle my dust with
her soil."
THE WOBLD'S FAIE STATE CHIMES IN.
-rrUn&a Ad Kera tc the List of State Pro.
f . . k U. . -,
tests Against he "Force Bill.
Speijjgfield, Jan. 27. In the Honse
to-day the resolution recently presented in
structing the Senators from Illinois to vote
against the Federal elections bill in tbe in
terests of the World's Fair, in view of the
stand taken by various State Legislatures in
refusing to make appropriations for the Fair
if tbe elections bill were passed, was taken
up.
Representative Springer(Dem.)who intro
duced it, in argning in favor of its oassage,
said: "I say, if our Senators in Washing
ton vote for this force bill after this resolu
tion is passed to-day, this side of the Honse
will not vote a dollar for the Illinois ex
hibit at the World's Fair." This last re
mark of Mr. Springer created somewhat of
a sensation on the Republican side; but as
the previous question had been ordered,
there was no opportunity for any one to an
swer. On a call of the roll the resolution
was adopted by a vote of 77 yeas to 73 nays
a strict party vote the three F. M. B. A.
members not voting.
LOST HEE HEAD OF HALE.
A Brooklyn Thief Bobs a School Girl of
Her Tresses.
rSPXCIAI. TELEGRAM TO TBI DI3PATCH.1
New. Yokk, Jan. 27. The man who
robbed several Brooklyn school girls of their
hair, and who has terrorized abont all the
girls in that city, found his fifth victim on
Monday morning. She is Gertrude Breast,
tbe 17-year-old daughter of Thomas C.
Breast, of 363 St. Mark's place. She at
tends public school 15 at Third avenue and
Schemerhorn street. Gertrude Breast's hair
hnng far below her waist.
On Monday morning she started for school
a few minutes after 8 o'clock. A man with
a blonde mustache was standing .it Fourth
avenue and St. Mark's place. When she
was half way over the crosswalk the man
started after her. It was less than a minute
afterward when she felt a pull at her braid
and beard what sonnded like the click of a
pair of shears. Her braid had been cut o&
He ran up Fourth avenne and escaped.
FOTTING DEBTS TJP FOE SALE.
The Way New Tork Tailors Will Get Even
With Bad Payers.
ISrSCIAI. TELCGUA1I TO TUB DISPATCH. 1
New Yokk, Jan. 27. The members of
the Merchant Tailors' Society have decided
to take a desperate step to force their cus
tomers to meet their bills promptly. There
are about 130 members of the society, and it
is reckoned that they have customers who
owe them $100,000. At a recent meeting of
the society it was decided to put all these
bad bills up nt auction and sell them to
speculators for as much as they will bring.
Edwin N. Doll, the Secretary of the so
ciety, savs that the sale will disclose tbe
names of all the men who owe the money.
"The scheme has been resolved upon," he
said, "to expose the genuine deadbeats,
and not to embarrass those who, through
misfortune, have been unable to meet their
bills "promptly." The first public sale of
these bills will take place in the real estate
exchange abont the middle of next month.
About $5,000 worth of bad bills will be sold
on the first day.
PICTTJEESQTJE fOBlTJGttESE,
Beginning of the Influx of the Swarthy
Immigrants.
ISPECIAL TZLXOBAV TO TEX DISPATCH. 1
New Yobk, Jan. 27. The steamship
Vega brought 105 picturesque Portuguese,
many of whom were in summer attire, to
the Barge Office to-day. Nearlyall the
men were broad-shouldered fellows, with
beribboned guitars, and not a few of the
women were handsome.
This is the first of the spring influx from
Portugal land tbe Azores, Which the Barge
Office officials predict will be unusually
heavy this year. The Portuguese have 're
cently established eolonies la Connecticut
and Massachusetts.
J V
ALL AFTER CAMERON.
Radical Republicans Demand .Thai
He Resign. But He Will Not.
HARDLY A CHANCE FOR CLOSURE
And Consequently .the Force Bill May Be
Considered as Dead.
TIfiffS OP THE STATE LEGISLATORS
TROMA BTATF CORRESPONDENT.
Washingtoit, Jan. 27. While the of
ficial proceedings at both ends of the Capi
tol were ot a milk-and-water character to
day, discussion in regard to the vote upon
tbe closure rule yesterday has lost little of
its intensity. No shadow.of an excuse is
found for Mr. Cameron by the Eepublicans
of the Pennsylvania delegation and Penn
sylvanialtepu blicans in the departments,
who boldly accuse him of treason to his
party and of the most bare-faced lying in
regard to his vote in promises given before
his election.
Senator Cameron remained closely at
home last evening. His first appearance to
day was while engaged in a lonely walk
near his house on Lafayette square. He
sauntered down the sqnare in a melancholy
way, eyed askance by curious people who
passed, who had known him from seeing
him at rare intervals in the Senate. No one.
spoke to him and he kept bis eyes averted
from every one. His appearance in the
Senate to-day was only for a short time.
Not a Bepublican was seen to speak to him
except one or two of the silver ring, who
think his fooling of the Pennsylvania Ee
publicans is a good joke.
Glvlns Him the Cold Shoulder.
Never did a Senator appear to be more
out of place on the floor of tbe Senate than
Cameron did to-day. The elder Cameron,
when he was forced to resign his office as
Secretary of War, was a far more welcome
figure in familiar circles than the present
Cameron among his old associates to-day.
He soon left the chamber and was seen no
more.
The Bepublican Bepresentatives from
Pennsylvania, with the exception of Han
ner and lleyburn, are as outspoken to-day
as they were yesterday in their denunciation
of tbe Senator. They hope for spontaneous
and general action among the Eepublicans
of the State and by the Legislature to com
pel him to resign.
Such men of unquestioned standing and
ability as Dalzell, Bayne, Scull, Stone,
Townsend and Brosius express emphatically
the opinion that if tbe Eepublicans of the
State will give vent to their real feelings
they will compel the man to resign if he
has left in his organization an atom of
shame.
But Cameron will not resign, notwith
standing all the ontcry. Those who have
learned best the character of the man during
his residence here laugh at the idea of his
resigning.
The Force Bill Is Dead.
All thought of attempting to take np
either tbe closure rule or the elections bill
has been abandoned. The very best proof
was afforded to-dav that Stanford, the 50-millionaire-
rasf horseman Senator would
have voted with the Democrats bad he been
present, as other free coinage men did in ac
cordance with their bargain. His vote
would add one to tbe Democrats.
Senator Ingalls, now that he is defeated,
may return chock full of sympathy for the
disfranchised negro, as he has at odd inter
vals when be desired to abuse some Southern
Senator; and shonld he declare himself for
the closure rule and elections bill, and re
lease his pair, Senator Saunders, who is
also for the rule aud bill, these
two added votes would make a tie, and the
Yiee President, who has the casting vote in
case of a tie, would give the Bepnblicans a
majority in favor ot taking up the rule and
bill. It would be entire keeping with the
erratic tragico-dramatic nature of Ingalls to
declare himself in just this way, and invoke
A new fight
A Bepublican Senator said to-day that
while they had really abandoned- hope of
ever getting either closure rule or elections
bill before tbe Senate again, if such a thing
should happen there wonld be no delay, no
speech making. Votes on both measures
would be forced at once, and the bill sent to
tbe Honse wonld be passed without the per
mission of an amendment or a speech.
Work of the Combine Well Done.
i.It may be," said this Senator, "ihough
the contingency is remote, the Democratic
and Bepublican traitors bave done their
work too well. They have aroused the
auger of the real Bepnblicans, and it is just
barely possible that this defeat, involving
the utter disgrace of Cameron, will be a vic
tory for the patriotic Bepnblicans."
Doubt regarding the passage of the free
coinage bill in tbe House is greatly height
ened by the action of the Senate yesterday
and it is the prevailing opinion that if the
bill passes tbe Honse it will now certainly
be negatived by the President.
In the silver pool investigation to-day Mr.
David B. Littler was recalled and ques
tioned further regarding the time of Senator
Cameron's purchase of silver and of its dis
position. Mr. Littler explained tint he did
not want it understood that $100,000 worth
of silver was exactly the amount that the
Senator purchased. It might have been
somewhat less, for it was purchased in
rupees. Mr. Cameron told him that the
check for the margin put up $8,000 was
dated,May 5. He had talked with a great
many peosle on tbe silver question while in
Washington last year, but had no interest in
purchases and did not (of his recollection),
suggest to a member of the House or Senate
or to any Government official the buying of
silver.
The Date of the Transaction.
To Mr. Bowell, Mr. Littler said he was
not engaged in lobbying or influencing
members of Congress in behalf of legisla
tion. He had no interest in silver bill ex
cept as a citizen ot the United States. In
reply to Congressman Dingley's inqniry, as
to the date ot the sale of Mr. Cameron's
holding, Mr. Littler could not remember
exactly, but taking Mr. Cameron's check of
profits as a basis of calculation, the date' of
sale must have been five or six weeks pre
ceeding that date, or possibly a month. His
best Tecollecfton was that the silver was
sold before the bill was passed.
Edward Curtis, of San Francisco, a mem
ber of tbe St. Louis Executive Silver Com
mittee, testified that ha had not mentioned
Mr. Flower's name in connection with silver
purchases to Correspondent Bogart, as the
latter had testified yesterday. Mr. Bogart
had since said to him that it must have been
someone else. He didn't tell blm that any
Seriator or Bepresentative had been specu
lating in silver, and had no knowledge that
anyone had. He had no knowledge of any
silver pool.
Mr. F.J. Dunnell, who was a witness yes
terday, again took the stand, and said that
Mr. B. J. Wynne was the person from whom
he received the information on which he
sent a dispatch to his paper, the purport of
which was that a conversation had been
overheard between two members of the In
vestigating Committee to the effect that it
they had known that the revelations con
cerning Mr. Cameron would have been made
they wonld hare been reluctant to enter Into
this investigation. Mr, Dunnell said that
e understood the conversation occurred is
lili
WEARING INGALLS' TOGA.
A, Kansas Farmer Defeats the Famous
Politician in th'irst Round.
tbe committee room,
continued to-morrow.
The inquiry will be
.LIGHTS EB.
CAMERON DENOUNCED.
MEMBERS OF THE LEOISLATTB4GI'V
VENT TO THKIK WRATH.
Some Think the Senior Senator Made a Mis
take, and borne Have Stronger Words
Not Without Defenders Among His Lato
Adherents.
TKOM A STATT COKBXSFOXCSXT.
Habkisbtbo, t 3m. 27. Strangely
enough Senator Cameron is quite gen
erally criticised to-day by tbe members of
the Legislature, who, exactly a week ago,
re-elected him to the Senate. His standing
with his party friends here is undoubtedly
weakened. A nnmber of tbe members are
not backward abont speaking out.
Senator "Jack" Bobinson, who before the
joint Bepublican caucus, nearly three weeks
ago, said "having the personal assurance of
the Senator from Lebanon (Gobin) that Mr.
Cameron will support the elections bill, and
there being no other candidate in the field,
I vote for J. Donald Cameron," had this to
say: "The action of Mr. Cameron in the
United States Senate yesterday puts tbe
red-letter seal on the three free amendments
which were secured in the Constitution by
the price of blood and sorrow and the horror
of civil war. Cameron betrayed the Bepub
lican party of Pennsylvania.
Senator Gobin, who stood up in the cau
cus and assured the Bepnblicans. on tbe
authority of Cameron himself, that he would
"vnlp fnr tTift ptpptinna hill smt In-Aav' "On
the night before the caucus, when Mr. Cam
eron was at his .Harrisburg residence, he
sent for me. When I arrived" there he
Asked Me to Second His Nomination
in the cancus next morning, as he
wanted some of the neighbors of his old
family home to perform that dnty. I as
sented, bnt said to him it seemed to be a
prevalent opinion he was not working in
harmony with his party on the issne of tbe
elections bill. He then assured me he war
sound in his Bepublican principles; that it
was too late to qnestion that in a
Cameron, and said he would certainly vote
for the bill. I then asked it the point was
raised in the caucus abont the elections bill,
could I state what he had just told me. He
replied that I had his permission to do so,
and again reasserted that he wonld vote for
the bill." It is plain to everybody Gobin is
dreadfully embarrassed and vexed.
Mr. Blougb, the member from Lancaster,
made use of this language this afternoon:
Either Gobin or Cameron is a liar; we have
been betrayed."
Senator Porter, Chairman of the Bepubli
can City Committee, of Philadelphia, said:
"Cameron made a mistake. If I had been in
his place, I wonld have voted with tbe
party for the elections bill. In the light of
the promises made by General Gobin and
Dick Quay, I think the Legislature has
been deceived."
Senator Flinn, of Pittsburg, said it was
unexpected, and that Cameron made a mis
take. Senator Neeb, of Allegheny, said in
reply to a question, that while it looks as
thou'eh Cameron made a mistake, he shonld
not be condemned so universally until his
reusuu3.iouauc.uunu! ucuauiis upper
man and Steel had nothing to say. Hon.
James L. Graham said: "I was surprised."
Expressions of Allegheny Members.
Of the other members of the home delega
tion S. E. Stewart said: "If what Gobin
promised was true, then Cameron violated
his pledges." Martin Laflerty said he did
not believe in the elections bill himself.
David Weaver: "Let ns calm down first."
Mr. Marshall : "I don't think that with the
caucus resolutions and the promises of Sena
tor Gobin, Cameron should have done as he
has."
President Penrose, of the Senate, sticks
to Cameron and says he is, no doubt, acting
for tbe best interests ot the Bepublican
party, and time may show it. George
Handy Smith is another of Cameron's sup
porters through thick aud thin. He de
clared to-night that "two-thirds of the mem
bers of the United States Senate on the Be
publican side are against the elections bill
at heart but did not have the backbone to
vote that way."
Many of the Bepublican Bepresentatives
from the country districts openly denounce
Cameron.
Unless General Gobin is relieved of his
embarrassment it is possible he may take
some formal and public method of setting
himself right with the Legislature. Bepre
sentative Snmner, of Bradford, who has
that resolution asking Cameron to re
sign on account of the silver scandal, says
it is still in his desk. Some people tbink
the wording of it might be made to fit both
elections and silver episodes and the thing
offered, but this is ndt probable at this
writing.
A SLAP AT HABBIS0JT.
A Bumor at the State Capital That Cameron
Uas Explained.
trnOU A STATF CORKBSrONDEJJT.
Habrisbubq, Jan. 27. There fs a story
on the street to-night that three State Sena
tors from Pennsylvania were in "Washington
to-day for the purpose of urging some ap
pointments before President Harrison, and
that he greeted them with tbe question: "Is
Pennsylvania a Bepublican State any
longer?"
Tbe story goes on to relate that the Presi
dent treated his visitors very coldly. Later
in tbe day tbe same gentlemeu called on
Senator Cameron. He is reported to
have told them his vote against
tbe closure bill was one slap
at President Harrison and that a few more
like it might possibly bring thevxecntive
down from his high horse. That was the
war it wss told. Owing to the lateness of
tbe hour I could, not find any of the persons
named. The three visitors to 'Washington
are reported to have returned to Harrisburg
to-night with tbe impression that Cameron's
violation of his Harrisburg pledges was
actually done to hnmiliate Harn;on.
NEXT Sunday THE DISPATCH will be
gln publication of a scries of South Sea Let
ten by Bobext Loote Steresoa,tke novelist.
Watch tor this great feature.
DO YOU WANT A SITUATION?
NUMBERS OF GOOD OPENINGS
ADVERTISED EVERY MORNING
IN THE COLUMNS OF-
THE DISPATCH:
THREE CENTS.
MW LIQUOR BILLS,
A Dozen or More Measures
Intended to .Amend
the Brooks Law
WILL ALL BE PUT TOGETHER
Grangers to Back Up tbe Proposed
Four-Mill Tax on Eailroads,
AS IT WILL BELIEVE COUNTIES.
Quay Consulted about the Work of the)
State Treasury Commission.
THE CHAMPI0SS 0P BALLOT KEFOfcH
irnoM a STArr coaazsrccmcrr.!
"v Habrisbubg, Jan. 27. Some of th9
.ftro imnnFiirtt iienoa nafrtra tlii T. ! ti..
Viv atuiwitaHS .wi v w u, MbCMia
assumed shape to-day. One was tha
legislation affecting the high license;
is includes at least 3 dozen bills
j. o -Vays and Means Committee this
& ese bills and all other docu
ment. ?s and resolutions in reference)
to liq "'t ''"re referred to a special
comniitrO' , who will give the proposed
legislations .efnl consideration, and ar- m
range one general bilL to embrace the best JL
ideas of all the bills now in. This will
either be submitted to the House as an
amendment or supplement to the Brooks'
bill, or else as a substitute. Chairman
James L. Graham will name the committee
of five to-morrow. , ,
Another of the chief subjects of lecisli
lation was touched upon in tb Committee
on Ways and Means this afternoon. That
was State revenue. It was decided to post,
pone consideration of tbe State revenue)
commissions bill until to-morrow evening at
8 o'clock when a committee from the Slata
Grange will appear before tbe Ways and
Means, and argne iu fvor of the four-mill
tax on cost and equipment of railroads for
county purposes.
Backed by the Grangers.
This is one of the most radical features of
the proposed revenue law, and is bacted by
the grangers because they believe it will re
lieve real and personal property of much of
hs taxation bDrdens. A third important
subject came up this evening in the Educi-" ,
tional Committee. It was Captain Skin-,
ner's resolution for the appointment of a ,
committee to inquire into tbe enrrent re- j
ports that a combination exists among the 1
American publishers of school text books to 1
increase the prices of school books. 1
Tbe resolution met with favor in the
Educational Committee to-day, and it was
decided to give a sub-committee full powers,
to investigate and report the result to the !
House. This sub-committee "will consist of
Messrs. Cochran, Toole, Ellwood, Jamea
and Seely. They will begin work this week
bv interviewing tbe State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, who U expected to ba;
able to give them some inside tips. Ihir
portant legislation is talked abont with the? '
report of this committee as ar basis. ' 'J-
Tho State Treasury InTeitlsatlon- . j
The commusion appointed last week to-
investigate tbe State Treasury is also pre 1
paring to get down to work. It is reported
that George Handy Smith, of tbe Senate,
went down to Washington Saturday last to
see Quay abont his ideas of tbe investiga-t
tion. It may be mentioned in this connec
tion that the Legislative Bank Commission
will leave the latter part of tnis week to iiw
vestigate the condition of the banks in
Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other ci'iei of
the State with a view to discovering tha
cause of the recent failures.
The House bill for ballot reform, the one)'
especially championed by Jesse M. Baker, of
Delaware, will receive some important
amendments in the Constitutional Com
mittee befoie it comes back to tbe House.
At least three phrases in this bill have beea
pointed out which it is said would never
stand the glare nf tbe Supreme Court or tha
Constitution. The officers of the Pennsyl
vania Ballot lie form Association will prob
ably appear belore tbe committee iu fixing
up the measure. L. E. Stofiel.
HEASTJSES Iff COMMITTEE.
Bills of General Interest That Will Be Bfrr
ported Affirmatively.
irsou a siAvr coBSxsroxnxxT.)
Habbisbueo, Jan. 27. It was a busy
afternoon and evening for both VUo use and
Senate Committees. 'On tne Honse side tha
Vice and Immorality Committee gave an
affirmative recommendation tor the bill to
prevent tbe sale of liqnor on Decoration:
Day. The bill to repeal tbe prohibitory
law in Verona, Allegheny connty, was held
over. The Bailroad Committee referred to
a sub-committee for investigation two billsf
for fences along the lines of railroads within
the State. The Educational Committee
negatived bills to pay school directors for
attending division and connty institutes;
requiring school directors to make oath
that they can read and write be ore they
become candidates for election; and per
mining the election by ten or more country
schools of district superintendents. Tho
latter is an idea that came from the super'
intendent of Allegheny county schools.
The Health Committee laid over the varlt
ous bills for a higher standard of medical
education and examinations until a future
date, when the committee will give a public;
bearing in the hall of the House to both
allopathic and homeopathic medical socie tie?.
The committee returned with an affirmative
recommendation the bill to prevent tha
pollution of small streams. The Senate;
Committee on Yice and Immorality gartj
Senator Neeb's bill to take publio hanging
out of the hands of Sheriffs an affirmative
recommendation.
FILLING THE OFFICES.
Workers for Fattlson Who Are Becelvlng
Their Beward.
(TSOV X STAVT COKBrsrOSDEXT.)
HABBISBXTBO, Jan. 27. Hugh McGar
vey, Beaver Meadows, Carbon county, hal
been selected for appointment as messenger
in the State Department in the place of John
B. Parry, resigned. The appointment fs to
take effect at the end of the present month.
Mr. McGarvey was chairman of the Knights!
of Labor Legislative Committee of 1887, and
in tbe last campaign was actively assisting
Chairman Kerr, particularly throughout tha
anthracite coal regions.
Major John G. Woman, of Philadelphia,
has been decided upon as clerk in the Ad
jutant General's office. Major Worman
was one of the most valuable clerks in tha
State Democratic headquarters during th
Gnbernatorlal campaign.
Major Chambers McKibben, of Pittsburg, v
is to be Inspector General, and Major Hud
son, also of Pittsburg, is to be Staff Officer.
Bobert Wqtchorn, Secretary of thej
Miners' Amalgamated Association, of Fayt
ette county, is likely to be appointed Ex
ecutive Clerk by Governor Pattisoa. H;
Wella Baser, of Hnmmelstown, will be the .
Continued on Sixth Fags..
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