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SECOND PART. "
TICK SEEDED
To Provide an Inexhaustible
Market for Pittsburg's
Coal Product.
THE DEMAND DIMINISHING,
Because of Uisli Freight. Hales and
Difficult Distribution.
EFFECT ON FOREIGN COMMERCE.
Cheap Coal for Steamboats Would Eevive
the Merchant Marine.
AX ANALYSIS OF FACTS AND FIGURES
ItriUTTEK FOB TBI DISPATCH.l
"Where is Pittsburg coal to find a market?
Pittsburg coal is tbe best coal; it must go to
the best market by the best means. If our
coal trade is to grow with our growth we
must have first-class water transportation to
New York; there onr coal will find the most
extended use, the readiest sale, the best
prices and the leastconipetition. Fortunately
two comparatively economical measures
nill enable Western Pennsylvania to place
coal in the New York market at prices to
defy competition. These two measures are
(1) the construction of the Pittsburg and
LaEe Erie Ship Canal; and (2) the enlarge
ment and improvement of the Erie Canal.
"We must get an Eastern outlet and East
ern trade, for the Western and Southern
trade is being fought for by "Western and
Southern coals, which have material ad
vantages in every point save excellence.
We cannot sell coal west of the Mississippi.
That section mines most extensive native
deposits. Underlying the Rocky Mountain
region vast coal measures extend from Mex
ico to Alaska from which were mined in
1883 anthracite, cannel, bitumimons and
lignite coals nearly 7,000,000 net tons in all.
A Few Facts Clearly Stated.
tjnderlying the 11 States and Territories
beAween the Mississippi and the 103d
meridian are coal measures extending from
Mexico to Canada from which were mined
in 1SSS cannel, bituminous and lignite
joals nearly 12,000,000 tons in alL
I Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan
mined in 18S8 nearly 29.000.000 tons trom
the central field. West Virginia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Alabama mined in
1S6S a trifle less than 13,000,000 tons, nearly
all from the Appalachian coal field, which
we ourselves work, and far the greater part
from the Southern extension of the Pitts
burg seam.
The facta carry their own argument The
operators of the Western and Eocky Moun
tain fields can and do supply the trade west
of the Mississippi, andean carry an effective
competition to Gulf ports.
The operators of the central field, im
mediately west of ns, can maintain a keen
competition in the lake trade. The southern
miners in the Appalachian field have ad
vantages in lower Mississippi trade. The
Kanawha, Cumberland and Tennessee rivers
have better navigable waters and a longer
season of navigation than the upper Ohio.
Alabama can ship coal down the Warrior
river and supply the Gulf and East Indian
trades so cheaply as to monopolize them. In
all Western and Southern trade we are under
disadvantages which only the certainty and
volume of our output and the excellence of
our coal enable us to overcome at all.
Our Proportion of Trade Diminishing.
In the past few years our proportion of
this trade has steadily diminished; and no
reason se:ms to exist that it should be oth
erwise. It appears that we must either
open new markets or mine coal mainly for
our own use and for coking. We must turn
from Western and Southern trade and look
for the future to the North and East; from
markets where other operators can place
coals cheaper than we to markets where we
will have the advantage, and exchange a
relatively narrow and ever-narrowing mar
ket tor one practically limitless.
We have an inexhaustible supply. The
Pittsburg seam alone, in the counties of
Allegheny, Westmoreland, Payette, Wash
ington ami Greene, being estimated to con
tain 11,000,000,000 tons of coal. Beneath
this are other seams, the coal measures being
3, bOO feet thick, bearing coal seams aggre
gating 100 feet in thickness, and upward of
100,000,000,000 torn of coal, one-third of
which is easily workable, even with our
present crude and wasteful engines of de
velopment. These vast deposits, in fact,
nearly ail the countless millions of tons or
coal in the coal-bearing counties of West
ern Pennsylvania are most advautageously
located upon the natural road lines, being
adjacent or convenient to the Allegheny
and Monongahela rivers and their principal
tributaries, which render easily practicable
the development o: first-class water trans
portation for the products of all this region.
Ihe wonderful ramifications of the river
system, the nearness of the great lakes and
the ease of access to them point unerringly
the best methods to convey the best coal to
the best market.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Shin Canal
will he our outlet; will give us dollar
freights to Chicago and Duluth; will give
Pittsburg coal a decided advantage in the
lake trade. It will do more: It will give
us a market fur Alder and more absorbent
u market practically without a limit
Com cnient A ccess for Pittsburg.
Tne Eric Canal will be enlarged and im
proved, ami will complete a line of first
class navigable waterways, lroni Dulnth to
New York City, to which Pittsburg will
have convenient access at a central point
.tiie? waterways will give us encan carnage
lo interior New York, where 40 tnanufact-
urine titles and towns are accessible by
waier, to vliicli, and to 50 railroads, we can ,
uelivcrtoal ur cheaper than it can be ob-
taintd from any other source. This region
alone lists more coal than we now ship.
Tins is n great opportunity, but greater are
in t-iore lor us.
Nov York Cuy js the great objective the
center of lhe Eastern coal trade. Last year
the Sew Y!k market handled near! f 31,
000,000 net tons of anthracite, nearly 17,000,.
000 Ions nf bituminous ar.d cannel coals and
tw.i.-ly 1,000 U0U toi.s of imported coals. The
nuthracite cts an aviri?c of $1 37 at the
nine's month, jiikI &i oQ,i 00 delivered on
i-ars at New York, 'lhe bituminous coal,
which is tn be delivered under a pool ar
rangement, comes as lol!ow:
Cumbciland, Md., 30J-K per cent rail and
Mater.
Clearfield. Pa.. 3S per cent rail.
1'ocabuot.iR. Va.. HlX iter cent rail and water.
New ltirei, Yi a.. 11 per cent rail and
water.
lli-ecu Creek, Pa.. 'H per cent rail.
Wen Virginia Central Railroad, o per cent
rail.
Rcjnnldsvillc, Pa., Us per cent rail and water.
The imported coal was all by water from
dpo llielnn and Nova Scotia, brought in
under a duty ol 75 cents per toi..
Bi.uniii.oui coal sold for $33 25 on cars,
and about 20 cents higher alongside. About
five-eiebths of the bituminous coal comes
from Chesapeake Bay and its watershed,
and costs 90 cents to $1 at the mine abont
the same as Western Pennsylvania coals.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie and improved
Erie ship canals will enable us to come into
New York with freieht charges not much
over half as hieh as freights from the Cum
berland and Pocahontas coal mines.
Must Drive Anthracite Out of Use.
What will this mean to us? What will
this mean to New York and New England?
To us it will mean freight rates less than 51
to New York. It will mean to run our
mines to the limit; that Pittsburg coal will
drive anthracite out of use as a steam coal.
It will mean that we can carry Pittsburg
coal by water to 70 manufacturing cities
anu towns and to nearly 100 railroads and
their terminals in New England; that we
can place coal on all sides of New England,
and in each city and town within her bor
ders. To New'England it will mean salva
tion. To many of her languishing indus
tries it will insure profits; and enterprises
now profitable will extend business and in
crease profits. In fact. New York and New
England will be the principal gainers.
They will save 510 where we make 51.
The Eastern anthracite coal combination
and other disreputable schemes of like
nature fleece Eastern people of a fabnlous
amount every year, certainly 550,000.000,
probably more. If New Yo'rk and New
England defrayed the entire expenses of
making 20 feet of water to the Great Lakes
and the Ohio, their savings on coal hills,
freights and incidentals dependent on fuel
would pay interest and maintenance and
leave enough to pay the expenses of the
Government of those States.
A Great Effect on Foreign Trade.
The construction of these waterways will
have a great effect on foreign trade. When
they are completed Pittsburg coal can be
delivered in New York cheaper than English
coal can be delivered in English ports. This
will canse the use of our coal in coastwise,
West Indian and South American steam
ships; in all trans-Atlantic steamers for
the eastward voyage, and in many as the
sole fuel. It will cause onr coal to be a
standard fuel in Southern Europe and
Mediterranean ports; in South Africa and
South America; and in the West Indian
ports, except where Warrior coal from Ala
bama shuts us out.
Warrior coal is to be our chief com
petitor in foreign trade, with the exception
of anthracite.
We will be about 750 miles by water from
New York, and nearlv 2.000 miles from
New Orleans. The Warrior coal is scarcely
half so far from Mobile as Pittsburg coal is
from New York. Warrior coal can shut us
out of the gulf; but when we get to New
York we can confine Warrior coal to the
gulf. Take a globe and with a pair
ot dividers strike a circle throuzh New
York from Para, as a center, and
at the same time consider the advantage
which the t-ade winds, ocean currents and
free navigation give shipping from the
Northern port It will be seen at a glance
that New York is our objective is natural
ly and inevitably the port of Pittsburg. All
our energies should be devoted to obtaining
cheap first-class water rontes to that point.
Ten times greater is the advantage to the
East of a cheap ronte to us.
Coal for Our Commerce
In this connection a few reflections on
foreign trade will not be out ot place. Our
Government is solicited to grant subsidies
and bounties to steamships engaged in
foreign trade. A first class steamship, car
rying net 5,000 tons or" freight, running 500
miles a day, uses 500 tons of coal daily. For
onr Government to so develop internal trans
portation routes that this coal can be laid
alongside the vessel at a reduction of SI per
ton is a very practical way to give a bonnty
of 500 a day every day the steamship is
under way.
Bounties, subsidies and reciprocal trade
arrangements will not alter the facts.
Nearly all the commodities of trade must
originate in the Mississippi Valley; if not
in manufactured shape, then as raw mate
rials. It certainly seems reasonable to ask
the people who beg for subsidies and boun
ties (that foreign trade may betimulated)
to help us get cheap transportation, that we
may deliver goods so cheaply that a natural
trade will develop, bounties or no bounties.
THE CHILEAN REBELLION.
GOVEBNHENT TROOPS WIN A BLOODY VIC
TOBY AT PISAGUA.
It Is Offset by a Terrible Disaster at Fort
Coronal, Which the Insurgents Bombard
ed and Captured Two Hundred People
Burled Beneath Falllnc Wall.
NewYoek, March 13. The report that
President Balmaceda, ol Chile, has been
murdered, is as yet unconfirmed. The con
dition of affairs in Chile is so desperate,
however, that no occurrence there will sur
prise those well informed on the situation.
A bloody b?ttle has been fought at
Pisagua. The rebels were defeated, having
40 killed and 34 wounded. The Govern
ment continues to exile all persons who are
in any way inclined toward the rebels.
Several German and Enelish merchants
have been given 36 houre in which to leave
the country forever. A perlecl surprise, to
say the leas., has been the decree of the
Government expelling from the country the
representative of a foreign nation the Con
sul of Austria at Valparaiso. The Consul,
it seems, was very much inclined toward the
rebels, and in an unguarded moment stated
his feelinsrs and opinion of Balmaceda to a
friend. The Government prisons are filled
to overflowing with prisoners not the scnni
of society, but revolutionists who are con
sidered worthy of imprisonment by Balma
ceda, who is styled by the revolutionists
"The Modern Despot" Confiscation on a
grand scale is being resorted to by the Gov
ernment. A most terrible disaster took place at
Port Coronet It was about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon when the Esmeralda appeared
in the harbor and demanded the surrender
of the town. This was refused. A perfect
shower of grape end canister was followed
by solid shot The people fled to the
heights for safety, while some took refuge
in the railroad station. The bombardment
continued, amid the screaming of women
and children and the imprecations of men,
when suddenly a shot struck the railroad
station. This was followed bv several
others, and before auybody could escape the
roof and the next wall fell in, bnrvin" over
200 men, women and children in the rnins.
lhe hnug continued, and this,
dried tn
the rrip nf the tlvirirr f!iiii.d tl,- nnn.M.n.T..
in,nrnJiiii)nni. a. , ' j
was sent t0 the cruiser, the surgeons of the
sIli,,( witn a detachment of marines were
snnt tn nPT mi the wr.t ,A i.nj ' .:..
r ----. uku icuu USaiOV
aucc iv mc nuuuueu. oixiy-seven aeaa
bodies were taken out, and about 100 per
tons were more or less injured. The block
ade of Valparaiso is beginning to tell. Pro
visions are scarce and expensive. The two
cruisers which are now blockading the port
keep up an incessant vigilance and nothing
can get in or out
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON will tell
Rome tor!es of the South Sea cannibals in
THE DISPATCH to-morrow. This Is the
fourth letter on the Isles of the Pacific.
ACHES and pains don't stay long where
Salvation Oil is kept handy. Price bnt 25
cts. '
B.&1S.
Windsor ties 66 dozens extra qnality
silk, lor ladies and children's wear, 15 cents
25e quality. Boggs & Buhl.
8-B. Sncde Mosquctalrcs,
Tans, 75c, worth SI 23; bner qnality black
or tau, 51, worth 51 50, at Roieuoauni &
Co's. xbs
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
MONTE CARLO'S LOSS.
English Players Struck the Bank for
$200,000 the Other Day.
GREAT GROWTH OP THE CASINO.
The Downfall of the German Gamblim;
Places the Causa of It,
BAD CHaEACTEBS ARE MOT TOLERATED
PABI3, March 13. Yesterday the Monte
Carlo bank lost $200,000, the largest amount
lost in any one
day for 20 years.
The winners were
JSnglish players,
but others of, that
nationality can be
relied upon to soon
return the wealth
to the bank's
i coffers. The exist-
i ence of Monte
I Carlo as the home
oi roulette is one
of the many indi
rect consequences
of the victory
gained by the
Prussians at Sa
dowa. Till then
thepublio gaming
tables in Germany
Entering the Casino.
existed without
their proprietors caring for the morrow.
7, Ok
fiMfk
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AT THE BOULETTE TABLE.
After that event these proprietors rigbtH
felt that their days were numbered, and M
Blanc, the ablest among them, made ar
rangements in view of the inevitable conse
quences. He was thj founC - vand chief ot
the gaming tables at Hombu -g.
He sought for the site of a new Casino,
where he might be free from the interference
of any Prussian Parliament or Minister,
and he found what he required in the Prin
cipality of Monaco. In that small State
there is no Parliament, the ruler being as
autocratic as the Czar of Bussia. Before
M. Blanc appeared on the scene the Prince
of Monaco had been driven by his financial
necessities to grant a concession to the
founders of a gaming house. The venture
had not Droved so successful as was ex
pected. It is easy enough opening a gaming
house, but it is far from easy to keep it
filled with players. About the year 1872
one gaming house after another in Germany
closed its doors forever. All that is special
in the life of a place where play is the chief
subject of talk and attraction is now con
tinued and concentrated at Monte Carlo. It
is the last home of roulette in Europe.
The Great Transformation Effected.
The visitor to Monte Carlo who now sees
it ior the first time cannot conceive the
transformation which the spot on which it
stands has undergoue since M. Blanc
tounded the Casino. Before heacquired the
concession for keeping gaming tables there,
similar tables were in operation in the citv
of Monaco. That city was then very diffi
cult of access. It was not n pleasant place
of abode. One hotel existed lor the enter
tainment of visitors, and those only who
can feel t.t home in a fourth-rate Italian ho
tel could feel at home there. It accurred to
him that a fine sice for a Casino, a hotel and
villas, existed on the nromonotory opposite
to Monaco, which is now the suburb oi
Monte Carlo. He built a Casino, which has
been nearly quadrupled in size since then,
and close to it he built au hotel, which has
long been one of the best on the Riviera.
M. Blanc had appealed to the public for
the money wherewith to carry out his plans,
having formed a company under the name
of "Societe des Bains de Mer et Cercle
des Strangers," with a capital of 15,000,000
francs. The response was but slight, not
more than a. fourth of the shares being ap
plied for. M. Blanb and his friends took
the rest, and the original shareholders have
had no reason to complain of their venture,
as the shares are at upwards of 200 per cent
premium, and the dividends on the original
capital have been at least 30 per cent. Monte
Carlo had the advantage over the German
towns in which there were pnblic gaming
tables in possessing a fiue climate in winter.
At Homburg the Casino wait kept open dur
ing the winter, but the climate of Homburg
in winter is much less balmy than that along
the Biviera.
Everybody Not Allowed to Play.
Perhaps it may be well to correct a com
mon misapprehension about the Casino at
Monte Carlo. It is spoken of as one which
the publiccan enter just us the public could
enter those at Homburg, Wiesbaden and
Baden-Baden. The inhabitants of the Ger
man towns were forbidden to play at the 1
Counting Hit Winnings in the JJalL
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1891.
gaming tables, bnt no resnectably dressed
stranger was excluded from the casinos.
Now, the company to which the Casino at
Monte Carlo belongs claims and exercises
the right to admit and exclude whom it
pleases. There is little difficulty in obtain
ing a ticket of admission, yet tickets are not
granted as a matter of course. The natives
of the Principality are not permitted to lose
their money at play. Sometimes foreigners
gain admission who would -be excluded if
they gave a correct description of them-
selves; but the company cannot be blamed
for this. The tiroprietors of the tables have
no interest in those playing who cannot
afford to lose their money. '
Though the gaming tables are the chief
feature in the Casino, they are not the only
attraction. Concerts are given twice daily
all the year round, and in the winter season
a classical concert is given weekly which
cannot be surpassed anywhere. Indeed, the
lovers of music have a frequentlv recurring
treat provided for them in the Casino, and
for this they have nothing to pay. It donbt-
'ess happens that the crowds which fill the
oocert room afterward flock into the gam
ng rooms and help to fill the coffers of the
hink. Por those who abstain from play a
large supply of newspapers is provided, and
the Casino is mJe a: pleasant a place as
possible to those who frequent it. The sums
which change hands in it are enormous.
Last year the gross receipts were 20,000,000
francs; the expenses were 14,000,000, ieaving
a sum for distribution among the share
holders of 6,000,000.
The Advantage of the Bank.
The administration plo. against its cus
tomers individually, everyone ot whom ex
pects to win, but the administration is
quite sure, on the whole, not to lose. The
roulette wheel, divided into 37 stalls, of
which 18 are colored red, 18 black, num
bered one to 30, while zero has no color, is
the familiar instrument of apparently fair
Supplird Free of Charge.
chances. Wheu the ball is dropped in, from
a fixed groove at the outer edge of this
plausible toy, uo hand having touched it,
and the wheel begins to revolve horizon
tally, you may put down your money, call
ing either "Rouge" or ".Noire," and you
think it as likely as not that the ball will
stop in a stall of the color you have named.
In that case the bank will p,y you equal
to the money you have stiked, and you are
lucky to get it, wise if you put it in your
pocket and walk away. If yon have chosen
to bet on one of the numbers, instead ol the
colors, the bank will pay you 35 time-ynnr
stake in the improbable ovnt of the ball
resting in the stall marked with your num
ber. When the hall settles in tlie'uncolored
receptacle that is designated zero, every
plaver on color forfeits half his stake to the
Dank.
As there are 37 chance in the revolving
wheel, it is evideut that the bank, in its ag
gregate of operations, has the advantage ol"
half a chance over the collective plavers on
either color, reckoning 18 for red aai 18 for
black, while it has a chance on in 37
gainst each of the players on numbers.
In the long run, the total of zeros is more
than twice the exress of either color above
the other color. AVe do not see any c.iuse to
complain of this ndvantaze over the public;
tint it makes the business of the administra
tion financially safe.
The mischief done to the player begins
with speculating on a series of" ventures,
imagining that he will retrive his first losses
by subsequent gains; that by some mysteri
ous law of sequences or alterations the past
event may effect a future chance. All snch
persistent gambling comes from the conceit
of beine too cunning, either in blind reliance
on a presentiment of final victory, or belief
in some fanciful "system1' of arithmetical
combinations. The fallacy or supposing
that there can be any statistical ground for
such a system was ably exposed by a
recent writer, Mr. Norwood Yonntr, iii an
article analyzing the results of 37,691 con-,
secntive tnrns of roulette at Monte Carlo.
It may be regarded as certain, however,
that a millionaire playing all day long,
every day of his life, against the wheel,
would, if he lived long enonch, be deprived
of hisMaftt franc; and nobody who determines
to nlay 50, or 500, or 5,000 tnrns can reason
ably expect to be a gainer.
Beating Up the Money for the Night.
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II 111
FAY0RITES FOR '92.
Views of Senators as to the Nomi
nees of the Two Great Parties.
BLAINE AHD CLEVELAND AHEAD,
With Some Expressions for Harrison, Alger,
Kusknd Bill.
A EECEET POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
As the summer of 1892 draws nearer and
nearer, the coming great national event
the nomination of a candidate for the Presi
dency of these United States by the two
prominent political parties already begins
to cast its shadow before. "Whom do yon
waul in '92?" is the question that each man
is asking of his neighbor, and to which he
is eagerly waiting a reply. This query is
followed up immediately by another:
"Whom do you think the Democrats and
Republicans will nominate in '92?" With
a view to ascertaining the preferences of a
large number of voters, and by thus answer
ing the first question to approximately an
swer the second also, there was recently pro
pounded to the United States Senators rep
resenting 11 different States, this following
qnerv: ''Who, according to the best of
yonr knowledge and belief, would be the
most congenial Republican nominee to the
Republicans of your State for President in
1892, and who would be the most congenial
Democratic nominee to the Democrats of
the same section?"
This inquiry was made by a man who is
the head of the most powerful and most
secret order ever organized for political pur
poses. Its very name is a mystery and it
already has a large membership "in every
one of the 49 States and Territories compos
ing the Union. It is, therefore, unques
tionably destined to exercise a powerful in
fluence upon the political future of every
candidate for national office in this country,
though its only object is to carry out the
will of the majority of the whole people,
irrespective of pa"rty, race or creed. The
answers received will be found below, and
they certainly present a better and more re
liable report of the popular feeling on this
all important subject and a better forecast
of the action of the two great nominating
conventions of 1892 than can possibly be ob
tained in any other way, as their authors are
of all others the best qualified to write on
these subjects.
Whom Oregon Wants.
Hon. Joseph N. Dolpb, the senior United
States Senator from Oregon, writes as follows:
"I am just in receipt of your letter. In reply
to yuur question with regard to the preferences
of political parties in Oregon as to the Presl
dental nominations for 1S92, 1 would say that
Secretary Blaine has been for many years a fa
vorite candidate upon the Pacific coast. If he
were to be a candidate forthePresidental nom
ination in lt921 have bnt little doubt that a
majority or the Republicans in the State I rep
resent would very sirongly favor his nomina
tion. Governor David B. Hill, of New York,
has Some warm admirers among Democrats in
the State of Oregon, but now tbat he is wholly
out of the Presidental race by his acceptance
of the United States Senatorship from Now
York, I think, from all the expressions I have
hearu in regard to the matter from the Demo
crats of my State, that at present a majority
of the Democratic party wonld favor the nom
ination of ex-President Cleveland."
Whom Massachusetts Wonld Like.
Hon. George F. Hoar, the senior United
States Senator from Massachusetts, contrib
utes the following interesting letter: "1 do not
think there Is as jet any marked feeling of
preference among the Republicans of Massa
chusetts as to their candidate for the next
Presidency. The developments of the next
year are awaited with great interest and uncer
tainty in my State, and tho opinion which will
determine the next Republican randidate is
yet to be formed, lassacbusetts Democrats
feel a cood deal of respect for Mr. Grover
Cleveland, but the expressions of that respect
are. I think, largely artificial, and do not repre
sent a very deep-seated popular feeling among
the Democratic masses.
Some ot the agricultural papers of my State
recently undertook to obtain the Uev.sof the
farmers throughout the country on cer:ain
practical, economic and political questions, and
also desired them to name the men whom thev
desired to see nominated for the Presidency
by both the Democrats and Republicans.
Thousands of answers were received, and when
the votes were counted li was found that tne
ballot for a Republican nominee fbr President
gave Blaine 39.209 votes: Harrison, 81,013; Sec
retaiy Rusk, 20,746, while 16.DC3 were scatter
ing. Tin- vote for Democratic candidates
showed 71,787 for Cleveland; 17.11S for Hill,
11.0S2 for Congressman William H. Hatch, of
.Missouri, Chairman of the House Committee
on Agriculture, and 8,803 scattering.
In the "ev England Siates alone the result
was as follows: Republican candidates For
Blaine, 11,630: for Hamson. 10,921; for Secre
tary Rusk, 7,02-1: scatterinir, 4,837. Democratic
candidate Cleveland, 23,5J!: Hill, JUS!:
Hatch, 4.7GS; scattering, 2.031."
Maine lor Blaiuo and Cleveland.
Hon. William P. Frye may he called the
junior United States Senator from Maine by
just H days, having first taken his seat in the
Senate on March IS, 1831, while Eugene Hale,
the other Maine Senator, had first takou his on
March 4, of the same year. He gives the news
from the Pine Tree State in the following
words; "In reply to yours of the other day r
would say, that in my opinion the administra
tion uf President Harrison has in every regard
commenuea itscii to me republicans ot Maine.
Hut they are very loyal to Mr. Blaine, and
would probably prefer his candidacy to that of
any other man in the country.
'I believe the Democratic preference wonld
be decidedly for Mr. Cleveland."
Michigan ior Alger and Cleveland.''
Hon, James McMillan, the junior Unitod
States Senator frum Michigan, thinks that bis
Stato will continue loyal to her favorite son,
Oovernor Alger, as will be seen from his letter.
"In reply to your letter inquiring as to the
Presidental preferences of Michigan Repub
licans and Democrats for 18U2, J would say that
the delegates from my S'.ato to the Chicago
Convention in 1888 gave their united and most
hearty support to our former Governor, Gen
oral It A. Alger, and I firmly believe tnat the
delegates to the next Republican Convention
in the summer of 18'JJuill repeat that action.
At the M. Louis Convention of IBS! the vote of
the delegation from the State 1 leprescntwas
cast for the Hon. Grover Cleveland, and I
think that there is no doubt that our Demo
cratic ex-President will continue to be the
favorite with the Michigan representatives of
tne uemocratic party at tne Democratic nomi
nating convention in the summer of 18U2."
Little Delaware's Choice.
Hon. Anthony Hiscins, is the junior United
States Senator from Delaware. Ho thus gives
voice to tho Presidental desires of his State.
"Wnh reeard to the choice ot the Democrats of
of Delaware, ot a standard hearer for their
party in the approaching Presidental contest of
1832. 1 would say that the Delaware faction of
tho Democratic party controlled by ex-Secretary
of State Thomas F. Bayard and United
Senator George Gray, have the mastery of
their party In my State now, and I believe ihey
are heartily for Grover Cleveland in 1S9Z. With
regard to the chuice of tho Republicans of
Delaware for a Presidental candidate in 1S92, 1
think opinion has not yet taken definite shape.
No preterence, eithcrpopnlar or otherwise, has
as yet been expressed."
Arkansas AVants Cleveland and IUaine.
Hon. James K. Junes, United States Senator
from Arkansas, first took his Senate seat on
March 4, 1S85, while his colleague, Hon. James
H. Berry, did not do so until March 25 of the
same year. Mr. Jones may therefore take rank
as the senior Senator irom the good old State
which is popularly believed to 'pick its teeth
with the tiouie knife. He voices the choice of
his people for '92 as follows: "Yonr favor is
received, and while it would be impossible for
me to give you in detail all the reasons lor my
belief, there is no doubt In my mind that Mr.
Cleveland is by all odds, at this time, the most
popular Democrat among the people of
Arkansas, and I am Inclined to think tbat Mr.
Blaine is the most popular anions the few in
telligent Republicans in that State, but the
fact that Mr. Harrison is PreIdent,would give
him a strong support, and as tie rank and file
ot the Republicans in the State have no
opinion of their own and I have no doubt they
wonld follow the one class or the other the
supporters of Blaine or the followers of Har
rison." Kansas on the Fence.
Hon. P. B. Plumb, junior United States Sen
ator from Kansas, writes tbusly: "At the pres
ent time I hardly think there has been mani
fested by either party In the State ot Kansas a
preference for a Presidental candidate for 1892
sufficiently strong to last until the assembling
oi me itenuuilcan anu .Democratic conventions
in the summer of that year. Blaine and Har
rison have many admirers among the Repub
licans and Cleveland and Hill amons: the Dem
ocrats. Whether the Republican delegates
will vote for either of the two former, whether
the Democratic delegates will voto for either
of the two latter, or whether either or both
will favor some 'dark horse' it is now Impos
sible to tell. Personally 1 have no opinion of
my own to express as to who will be nominated
or who misbt with propiiety be nominated by
either party."
Senator George Gray Speaks.
Hon. George Gray, the senior United Status
Senator from Delaware, Is now in his seventh
year in the Upper National House, he having
been elected to fill the unexpired term of Sen
ator Bayard when tbat gentleman was called to
Cleveland's Cabinet In 1885, and having been
re-elected in 1887. As be la one of the political
masters of the Democratic party in his State,
his views, as expressed In the appended com
mnmlcation, may be regarded as oracular.
"In reply to yours I wonld say that at tho
resent time the overwhelming cnolce of the
lemocrats ot the State I represent for Presi
dent in 1892 would be the Hon. Grover Cleve
land. As to who is the most popular man
among the Delaware Repunlicans. 1 wonld say
tbat 1 believe that his name is James G.
Blaine."
Connecticut Wants Cleveland or Hllh
Hon. OmlleH. Piatt has sat for Connecticnt
in the United States Senate since March 18,
1879, and in point of service is the senior repre
sentative of his State in that body. Senator
Hawley having first taken his seat on March 4,
1881, bnt in point of age the latter is nearly one
year the senior of Mr. Piatt, who sends the
subjoined epistle: "In their choice of the
next Democratic nominee forPtesident 1 think
the Democrats of Connecticut are pretty evenly
divided between Hon. Grover Cleveland and
Hon, David B. Hill. Which, if either, has the
preponderance of the popular sentiment in his
favor it would be hard to say. Whether or not
the recent election of Governor PH11 to the
United States Senate has affected or will affect
the feeling in his favor it is difficult to tell. I
do not think that the question ot who shall be
the next Republican nominee for the Presi
dency has as yet been much agitated among
the Republicans of -Connecticut. Both Blaine
and Harrison have many admirers in the
State."
Iowa Is Non-CommlttaL
Hon. James F. Wilson, junior United States
Senator from Iowa, speaks for his State:
"There has been very little discussion In Iowa as
to possible or probable candidates for the Pres
idency in 1892 by either Democrats or Repub
licans. Blaine and Harrison, Cleveland and
Hill are the names most frequently mentioned,
and each one ol those gentlemen has, no donbt,
a considerable following; but it Is Impossible
for me to say at present who is leading in the
popular favor of their respective parties or
what will be the action of the Iowa delegation
at tho nominating conventions of the Repub
licans and Democrats In 1892. Public sentiment
among both parties seems greatly divided at
the present time."
A Letter From Chairman Quay.
That no shrewder politician or one more fa
miliar with the political complexion of bis own
State and the conntry at large ever figured in
American politics than Matthew S, Quay,
Chairman of the National Republican Com
mittee, tbat gentleman has himself abundantly
demonstrated. He therefore speats with some
authority In the appended letter: "I believe
that Blaine is the Presidental candidate de
sired by the Republicans of my State for 1892,
and that Cleveland occupies the same position
among the Democrats. If it were left to the
Democratic rank and file Cleveland would be
nominated. But despite his popularity with tho
masses I believe he would be easier beaten than
any other Democrat. He has made too many
enemies amongihe Democratic leaders. Sena
tor Gorman, of Maryland, is now talked of by
the Democrats. He would be a strong man. I
believe we wonld fair better with a Southern
Democrat for President in the event of such
a calamity as the election of a Democratic
Chief Magistrate than a Northern one. The
Democrats of the South are more liberal
mindeu and cleaner than those of the North."
A Kentucky Senator Talks.
Hon. Joseph C. S. Blackburn, Kentucky's
senior Senator, has thus civen his sentiments:
"However popular Mr. Cleveland may have
been witn Democrats generally, I think bim no
longer available as a candidate by reason of
his letter on the silver qnestion. Personally, I
have not the slightest objection to bim, but I
believe any man opposing (ree silver coinage
wonld be defeated for President in '92."
CABLE LETTERS covering Enrope com
pletely make the Sunday Issue of THE DIS
PATCH a welcome caller at all homes who
have relatives abroad.
ONE MAHEIAGE A TRAGIC FAILURE.
A Young Wife of Five ajonths End Her
Troubles With a Pistol.
Indianapolis, March 13. Last October
Kate Weaver, daughter of prominent peo
ple of this city, married Leon E. Rbiueh, a
young lawyer with a good practice. They
settled in their own cozy home, and life
seemed full of promise for the young couple.
Lately, however, the neighbors have shaken
their beads ominously, and intimated that
all was no: well with the couple.
At 10 o'clock last night pedestrians pass
ing the Rbinehold house heard a pistol shot
within. An entrance was forced, and Mrs.
Rhinehold was found dying Irom n wound
in the breast She had taken her own life
while alone in her home. The following
letter, written by her just berore firing the
fatal shot, tells the story: "When this
reaches you I will be out of this world. I
could not stand it. I hud a bad, low hus
band, who beat and cursed me and tried to
make me believe I was unfaithful. I could
not stand it, and took my own life."
WILL BEK0VJ3 LEGAL OBSTACLES.
The True Title to the Cherokee Strip "Will
De Tested In Court.
St. Louis, March 13. Advices from the
Indian Territory are that, although
the civilized tribes are willing that further
negotiations with a view to the sale of the
Cherokee Strip should be had, some con
tend that nothing will be done toward nego
tiations until the case of Jordon and Bushy
Head versus the United States for damages
done them by being removed from the Cher
okee Strip, where they held a lease from the
nation to quarry stone, is decided.
This will settle the title to the Outlet, und
the Cherokees are looking forward to the
decision with much interest. The c.se
comes up in Guthrie, March 20.
WOODEUFI'S EHOHTAGE GROWING.
Rumors of Other Defalcations by the Ex
State Treasurer Flying Fast.
Little Rock, March 13. Rumors of an
additional shortage in the accounts of
Treasurer Woodruff are again flying fast
and furious. It is said he is short more
than 600,000 in scrip.
Members i.f the joint committee investi
gating the office reluse to talk at all on the
subject, and it is impossible to learn any
thing authentic. Senator 6. Tillman, 'a
meiuberof the committee, says there is no
truth id the report.
LENVEE WITHOUT A MAY0E.
The tjittinz Official, Who Has Served a Year,
Declared Illegally Elected.
DENVER, March 13. This city is with
out a Mayor. The Supreme Court this
morning denied a re-hearing in the Mayor
alty case. The present Mayor, Wolle Lon
douer, was a few weeks ago declared to be
illegally ele:red, after holding his office
nearly a year.
D. & Packard, President of the Board of
Supervisors, will probably act as Mayor un
til after the city election next month.
Mks. VVinslow's Soothing Syrup is the best
of all remedies for Children Teething.
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"Randolph Crescent, N. W.
"My Dear Pngh I hone you will like
the pipe which I senU with this. It is
rather a curious example of a certain school
of Indian carving. And is a present from
"Yours truly,
"Joseph Teess."
It was really very handsome of Tress
very handsome! The more especially as I
was aware that, to give presents was not
exactly in Tress' line. The truth is that
when I saw what manner ot pipe it was I
was amazed. It was contained in a sandal
wood box, which was itself illustrated with
some remarkable specimens of carving. I
use the word "remarkable" advisedlv, be
cause although the workmanship was un
doubtedly, in its way, artistic, the result
conld not be described as beautiful. The
carver had thought proper to ornament the
box with some of the ugliest fignres I
remember to have seen. Tbey appeared to
me to be devils. Or perhaps, they were
intended to represent deities appertaining
to some mythological system with
which, thank goodness, I am unacquainted.
The pipe itself was worthy of the
case in which it was contained. It was of
meerschaum, with an amber mouthpiece.
It was rather too large for ordinary smok
ing. But then, of course, one doesn't smoke
a pipe like that There are pipes in my j
collection which I should as soon think of
smoking as I should of eating. Ask a china
maniac to let you have alternoon tea out of
his old Chelsea, and you will learn some
home trnths as to the durability of human
friendships. The glory of the pipe, as Tress
had suggested, lay in its carving. Not that
I claim that it was beautiful, any more
than I make snch a claim for the carving
on the box, bnt, as Tress said in his note, it
was curious.
The stem and the howl were quite plain,
bnt on the edge of the bowl was perched
some kind af lizard. I told myselt it was
an octopus when I first saw it, but I have
since had reason to believe that it was some
almost unique member of the
lizard tribe. The creature was repre
sented as climbing over the edge
of the bowl down toward the stem, and its
legs, or ieelers, or tentacula, or whatever
the things are called, were, if I may use a
vulgarism, sprawled about "all over the
place." Por instance, two or three of them
were twined about the bowl, two or three of
them were twisted round the stem, and one,
a particularly horrible one, was' uplifted in
the air, so that if you put the pipe in your
mouth the thing was pointing straight at
your nose.
Not the least asreeable feature about the
creature was that it was hideously lifelike.
It appeared to have been carved in amber,
but borne coloring matter must have been
introduced, for inside the amber the
creature was of a peculiarly ghastly green.
The more I examiued the pipe the more
amazed I was at Tress' generosity. He and
I are rival collectors. I am not going to
say, in so many words, that his collection of
pipes contains nothing but rubbish, because,
as a matter of fact be has two or three
rather decent specimens. But to compare
his collection to mine would be absurd.
Tress is conscious of this, and he resents it
He resents It tn such an extent that he has
been known at least on one occasion to de
clare that one single pipe of his I believe
he alluded to the Brummasem relic prepos
terously attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh
was worth the whole of my collection pat
together. Although I have forgiven this, as
I hope I always shall forgive remarks mda
when envious passions get the better of our
nobler nature, even of a Joseph Tress, it is
not to be supposed that 1 have forgotten
it He was, therefore, not at all
the sort of person irom whom I expected to
receive a present And such a present! I
do not believe tbat he himself had a finer
pipe in his collection. And to have given
it met I had misjudged the man. I
wondered where he had got it from. I had
seen his pipes; I knew them off by heart
and some nice trumpeiy he has among them,
too! but I had never seen that pipe before.
The more I looked at it, the more my
amazement grew. The beast perched upon
the edge of the bowl was so. like life. Its
two bead-like eyes seemed to gleam at me
with positively human intelligence. The
pipe fascinated me to such an extent that I
actually resolved to smoke ti I
I filled it with Perique. Ordinarily I use
Birdseye, but on those very rare occasions
on which I use a specimen I smoke Perique.
I lit np with quite a small sensation ot ex
citement As I did so I kept my eyes
periorce filed upon the beast The
beast pointed its upraised tentacle
directly at me. As I inhaled
the pungent tobacco that tentacle impressed
me with u feeling of actual uncanniness. It
was broad daylight, and I wag smoking in
front nf the window, yet to snch an extent
was I affected that it seemed to me that the
tentacle was not only vibrating, which,
owing to the peculiarity of its position, was
quite within the range or possibility, but
actually moving, elongating stretching
lorwani, that -is, further toward me, and
toward the tip o! my nose. So impressed
was I by this Idea that I took the pipe ont
of my mouth and minutely examined the
beait. lie illy, the" delusion was ex
cusable. So cunningly bad the artist
wrought that he had succeeded in
producing a creature which, such was its
uncanniness, I could only hope bad no orig
inal in nature.
Replacing-lbe pipe between my lipsl took
several whiff. Never had smoking had
such an effect on me before. Either the
pipe, or the creature on it, exercised some
singular lascinatlou. I seemed, without an
instant's warning, to be passing into some
land of dreams. I saw the beast, which was
perched upon the bowl, writhe and twist I
saw it lilt itself bodily from, the meer
schaum. . . .
II.
"Feeling better now?"
I looked up. Josenh Tress Was speaking,
"What's the matter? Have 1 been HI?"
"Xbu appear to have been in some kind
of swoon."
Teess' tone was peculiar, even a little dry.
"Swoon! I never was guilty of sueh a
thine in my life."
"Nor was I, until I smoked that pipe."
I sat up. The act of sitting up made ma
conscious of the fact that I bad been lying
down. Conscious, too, tbat I was feeling
more than a little dazed. It seemed as
though I was waking ont of some strange,
letharzic sleep a kind of feeling which I
have read ot and heard about, but never
before experienced.
"Where am I?"
"You're on the couch in yonr own room.
Yon were on the floor; but I thought it
would be better to pick you up and place
you on the couch though no one performed
the same kind office to me when I was on the
floor."
Again Tress' tone wa distinctly dry.
"How came you here?"
"Ah, tnat's the question." He rubbed
his chin a habit of his which has annoyed
me more than once before. "Do you think
you're sufficiently recovered to enable you
to understand a little simple explanation?
I stared at him, amazed. He went on strok
ing bis chin. "The truth is that when I
sent you the pipe I made a slight omission
"An omission?"
"I omitted to advise you not to smoke it"
"And why?"
"Because well, I've reason to believe tha
thing is drugged."
"Drugged!"
"Or poisoned."
"Poisoned I" I was wide awake enough
then. 1 jumped off the couch with a celerity
which proved it
"It is this way. I became its owner In
rather a singular manner." He paused, as
if forme to make a remark; bnt I was silent
"It is not often that I smoke a specimen,
but, for some reason, I did smoke this. I
commenced to smoke it, that is. How long
I continued to smoke it is more than I can
say. It bad on me the same peculiar effect
which it appears to have had on yon. When
I recovered consciousness I was lying on the
floor."
"On the floor?"
"On the floor. In about a3 uncomfortable
rjosition as you can easilv conceive. I was
lying face, downward, with my legs bent
under me. I was never so surprised m my
life as I was when I found myself where I
was. At first I sunposed that I had had a
stroke. But by degrees it dawned upon me
that I didn't feel a tbongh I had had a
strofee." Tress, bv the W3y, had been an
army snrgeon. "I was conscious of distinct
nausea. Looking about, I saw the pipe.
Witb me it had fallen onto the floor. I
took it for granted, considering the delicaoy
of the carving, that the fall had broken it
But when I picked it upl found it quite un
injured. While I was examining it a
thought flashed to my brain. Might it not
be answerable for what had happened to me?
Suppose, for instance, it was drugged? I
had heard of such things. Besides, in my
case were present all the symptoms of drug
poisoning, though what drug bad been used
I conldn't in the least conceive. I resolved
tbat I would give the pipe another trial."
"On yourself? or on another party, mean
ing me?"
"On myself, my dear Pugh on myselfl
At that point of my investigations I had not
begun to think of yon. I lit up and had
another smoke."
"With what result?"
"Well, tbat depends on the standpoint
from which you regard the thing. From one
point of view the result was wholly satis
factory I proved that the thing was
drugged, and more."
"Did you have another fall?"
"I did. And something else besides."
"On that account. I presume, you resolved
to piss the treasure on to me?"
"Partly on that account, and partly on
another."
"On my word, I appreciate yonr gen
erosity. You might have labeled the thing
as poison."
"Exactly. Bnt then you mutt remember
how often you have told me that you never
smoke your specimens."
"That was no reason why you shouldn't
have given me a hint that the thing was more
dangerous than dynamite."
"That did occur to me afterward. There
fore I called to supply the slight omission."'
"Slight omission, you call itl I wonder
what you wonld have called it if you bad
louna me aeaa.
"If I had known that you intended
smoking It I should not have been at all
surprised if I had."
"Really, Tres, I appreciate your kind
ness more and more! And where ii this ex
ample of yoursplendid benevolence? Have
you pocketed it regretting your lapse into
the unaccustomed paths of generosity? Or
is it smashed to atoms?"
"Neither the one nor the other. You will
find the pipe upon the table. I neither de
sire its restoration nor is it in any way in
jured. It is merely an expression of ser
sonal opinion wheu I say that I don't believe
it could be injured. Of course, having dis
covered its deleterious properties, you will
not want to smoke it again. You wfll there
fore be able to enjoy the consciousnesa of
being the possessor of "what I honestly bf
lieve to be the most remarkable pipe in ex
istence. Good-day, Pngh."
He was gone before I conld say a word. I
immediately concluded, from the precipi
tancy or bis flight, that the pipe was injured.
But when I subjected It to close examination
I could discover no signs of damage. Whili
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