A
Tortlie Presidency Xcxt Year,
According to Sena
tor Yoorliees.
A WESTERN MAX WILLTO,
The Democratic domination Over
Both Cleveland and Hill.
STRENGTH OP INDIANA'S CHOICE.
5 he Tall Sycamore Talks About Silver and
the Ohio Campaign.
HE TMXKS HARKISOX WILIi BE NAMED
"VA:nixc:TON, Aug. 21. Senator Vor
bpes who is making a flying midsummer
trip to the capital, was a'-ked by the cor
respondent about political affairs in In
diana. The Senator has been traveling
through the Wc-t and knows what he talks
about. He said:
"We are very quiet and comfortable, po
litically, in Indiana at the present time.
The Democratic party was never more har
monious and never stronger. On the other
hand, our .Republican friends are in a state
of internal strile. There is much deep
seated and angry opposition to Harrison and
his methods, while the support given to his
administration is cold, formal and perfunc
tory. "All the warmth nnd enthusiasm in the
Tiepublican party at this time in Indiana is
divided between Maine and Gresham. Har
rison, however, will undoubtedly be renom
inated. Blaine cannot tor many reasons
allon hi name to go before the convention,
nor even accept the nomination if it be
thrust upon him. Aside from the fact that
his health is uncertain, the relation which
he hears to the administration, to my mind,
utterly forbids his candidacy. Harrison,
too, has earned well of the men and
measures nhich will control the Republican
nomination next year.- He has aided all he
could in riving the fatness of the land the
hard earnings of labor to the plethoric,
iullfcd monopolies of the country.
ci:ay a candidate.
"It i too early to be in any way positive
on that subject. I have great respect for
every centleman w hose name has been men
tioned in that connection, but as Indiana
will herself present a candidate, I hate
reason to b"liee his chances for the nomin
ation will be equal if not superior to auy
one in the field. Much is being said and
written at this time about Gov. Isaac P.
Gray, and the lact that within quite are
rent period 1 hac noticed a most deter
mined ejlbrt on the pan of certain writers
to place him in a false position by bold,
svstcmstic anil audacious falsehood" recon
ciles me to a brief political talk. It would
t ceni that a sort of bureau of unlimited
mendacity has been organized at Indianapo
lis for the purpose of flooding the eastern
press with calumnies aeainst Gov. Gray,
thus showing the dread which the leaders of
the Republican party in that State have ot
seeing him placed on the Democratic Na
tional ticket.
"Within the last three days my attention
has been called to a long ami carefully pre
pared article in a leading Eastern journel,
the Washington .iW, and em?nating from
Indianapolis, which for rank, grossand trop
ieal hing in regard to the public men and
1.iirs of Indiana breaks all the records I
have oerseen. The object of this modern
Ananias is plainly apparent. He seeks to
impress the country with the fact that Gov-'
crnor iiray nas Deen a ouuy ana runian in
politics, at war with all other public men of
the state, conspiring at every turn for their
overthrow, and ready to betray his word
and break faith whenever his selfish ambi
tion required him to do so. So far as
slanderers of this kind make use of my
name I care nothing, out I feel it to be my
duty to those with whom I am politically
associated throughout the country and to
Governor Gray himself to expose such gro
tesque and outrageous falsehoods.
NO COXrMCT 15ETWEEN THEM.
"I know Governor Gray intimately well
and have known him many rears, jfy re
lations with him are most "kindly and have
never been broken. I have received his
cordial, frank and open support for every
election of the Senate with which Indiana
has honored inc. His aspirations and mine
have never conflicted in the least. lean
say also that Governor Hendricks never had
a more loyal or faithful supporter than
Governor Gray. To my personal knowledge,
Hendricks estimated him as a mai of high
abilitv, perfect integrity and as his friend.
Anj thing and everything said or written to
the contrary I know to be fal-e. It is true
that during the last ten years the relations
between Governor Gray and Jlr. McDonald
were uiitortunatclvstrained, but not in such
a way or trom such causes as to impair the
confidence of the Deniocracv of Indiana in
cither one of them or to lessen the respect
and esieem in which they were held.
"GovernorGray prescntsmanyof the fore
most oualitie- required for an available
candidate for the Presidency and for the
successful administration of the great office,
should he he elected He has an executive
talent of the highest order. He is prompt
and decisive in action, and proverbially
laithful to his word. If he was ever ac
cused of being unfaithful to his party or to
his friends, I have never heard of it.
"If lie were in the White House there
would be a straightotit Democratic adminis
tration, without guile or deception.
on y as a ronsiris nnpunLicAj-. .
"If it be said, as it sometimes is, that 20
years ago he was a Republican, I can onlv
siv that, if such a fact is an objection to
him, it would also apply to many others of
our strongest, ablest, bravest and" best lead
ers, notably to such men as General Palmer,
Governor lioies, of Iowa, and Governor
Campbell, of Ohio, and to others. whom I
might nime.
"There is nothing in stich a point;thc fact
is that the '.tinM and most valuable men of
the w orld are those vv ho have changed pro
gressing according to events and informa
tion from darkness into light from error to
the embrace of truth.
"Then are still other considerations,
however, whieh necessarily render Gov ernor
Gray a prominent factor in the approaching
1'reMdental contest. With him at the head
of the ticket, the vote of Indiana, as against
Harmon or anyone else, would be abso
lutely assured lor the Democratic party.
Our Ineiids throughout the United States
mav settle down on that lnct. Nor can I
tee any reason why Governor Gray would
not unite the party and poll as full and
strong a vote in the State of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and in all the
other states as any other candidate that
could be named. He made an able, clean
irreproachable administration of affairs
as Governor of Indiana, and
he will havc no weights to carry
growing out of his official mishaps or short
comings. In fact, it can be said with truth
that the financial credit of Indiana was
never quite so high, as shown by the sale of
lit J bonds, as it was during his "administra
tion. Tins of itself is a full answer to all
accusation against his official career. 1
shows him to be, what in fact he is, a pru
dent, safe, strong man in the conduct of
public affairs. ,
"I notice that the scandal-mongers hnd
disseminators are again resurrctingthcoId,
stale, worn-out falsehood that Governor
Grar was once a Know-Nothing. JVhen a.
candidate for Governor in 1844, aniUin joint I
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that accusation was once, and hut once,
made against him to his face.
poruijAn AT HOME.
"It was met with such crushing and over
whelming denial and refutation that it was
never again repeated by his competitor, and
the people passed upon that, as well as all
the other points at issue, with a majority of
G.tXMl in his favor. The confidence thus ex
pressed in Governor Gray by the people of
Indiana was fullv justified and retained by
him, as was shown by the action of the
united Indiana delegation at St. Louis in
1888 in presenting bis name for the Vice
Prcsidenev. It will be found, I think, that
he has still further grown since that period
in the esteem of the Democracy of Indiana,
and that the delegation from that State in
lb!i2 will be instructed to vote for hiR nomi
nation as a candidate for the Presidency.
"Now, in w hat I have said in behalt of
Governor Gray, I must not be supposed to
be guided by hostility toward others. I
simply intend that Governor Grav shall
have fair play in the field, and that his de
tractors and calumniators shall not have the
ear of the public all to themselves. I in
tend, also, to assure our partv friends.
wherever they may be, that Indiana will
present next year a candidate fit and quali
fied to fill with honor and usefulness the of
fice ot Chief Executive of the Government.
I feel this to be a duty, while inviting the
Democracy of the country to give Governor
Gray their support."
"if you fail to secure the nomination of
Governor Grav, whom do vou regard as the
next most available candidate?"
"Of course, I cannot answer such a ques
tion specifically. It "seems to me very desira
ble, however, to take a candidate "from the
West, and in that connection the names of
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and Governor
lioies, of Iowa, naturally suggest them
selves, in the event that they should carry
their States this falL General Palmer has
6hown himself a great power in Illinois.
But neither Illinois, Ohio nor Iowa can be
counted on for the Democratic partv in a
Presidcntal ye3r; Indiana can be."
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
"What do vou think of the political out
look in Ohio this fall?"
"Governor Campbell has fully equal
chances for election. He is a superb fighter,
and with the issues shaping themselves as
they are in that State, I would rather have
his chance to win than McKinler's. The
laboring masses, whether in Farmers'
Alliances or labor organizations, are mov
ing against the agents and representatives
of the monopolies. McKinley and Sher
man both are in far greater danger than
they are willing to admit.
"As to the political issues of the present
and of the future I have nothing new to say.
The overthrow of the present horrible sys
tem of tariff taxation is absolutely essential
to the liberties of the people. Taxation of
the laboring masses for the enrichment of
the protected and privileged few is a re-enactment
of slavery in this country more
odious and abominable than African bond
age when it existed. This issue is to be
fought out to the bitter end, and I have
faith that sooner or later the people will
triumph over the ruins of the plutocracy.
There arc other issues also whieh must take
their place in the national Democratic plat
form. SILVElt AND DEMOCRACY.
"I am a Jeffersonian Democrat, and be
lieve that Thomas Jefferson was right and
wise when, in 1783, in the Continental Con
gress, he devised and secured the adoption
o: tne silver dollar ol -il2X grains as our
unit of account and payment "and the stand
ard of values. I believe also in the wisdom
of Washington, Hamilton and Madison and
the other great fathers of the Republic, who
established the free and unlimited coinage of
silv er. For DO years of American history
the American silver dollar in every in
stance held its head as high as gold, and
sometimes higher, and in spite of all the as
saults made upon it in these later years,
S100 in silver, or in paper certificates "based
upon silver, will now purchase just the
same as SI 00 in gold, and will purchase the
gold itself. It is a waste of breath to de
nounce such a currency as dishonest money.
In Indiana, and in fact throughout the Mis
sissippi Valley, there is really but little, if
any, division of sentiment among the labor
ing people in regard to the coinage and use
of silver money. On this issue, however, as
on all others, we" will defer to the platform
to be laid down in the next National Con
vention. There ought to be no sectionalism on the
silver question. The laboring masses, the
wage workers, the farmers, the mechanics of
the Empire State of New York, of the great
State ot New.Jersey and of the manufactur
ing State of Connecticut are just as much
nnd as deeply interested in the use of silver
money as the people whom I represent on
the other side of the mountains. We are
willing for tariff reform to be foremost in
the fight, hut we are not willing for any one
of the leading issues of the Democratic
party to be dropped in the coming contest
any more than the church would be willing
to have a portion of the Ten Commandments
torn out
"The force bill, too, that monstrous men
ace to free government, must never be lost
sight of. The scheme is not dead, hut waits
its opportunity. So great was the jov over
its temporary defeat that the Democracy of
ihj South and West, and indeed of" the
whole country, will not be slow in rallying
to the support of the Senator from Mary
land, Mr. Gorman, as a candidate for the
Presidency if the nomination should be
made from the Atlantic coast."
THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
"What do you think as to the present nnd
future prospects of the Farmers' Alliance?"
"I have a very great and sincere respect
for an an association of farmers. The ends
they aim at are honest. If they are unwise
or mistaken in some of their methods, other
parties and associations have been, and will
continue to be, the same. The farmers in
the country are struggling in the right di
rection. They are struggling for relief
against the most outrageous and oppressive
financial and economic measures ever in
flicted upon a people even pretending to be
free.
"There is another feature of the Farmers'
Alliance movement which greatly com
mends it to me. It is national in its organ
ization, scope and purposes. It avoids all
sectionalism, and brings the farmers of the
South and of the North and of the East and
of the West face to face together. Future
success and development of the Alliance as
a controlling power will depend upon the
course pursued by the two old parties. If
the Democratic party is true to its prin
ciples as the party of the people as against
the protected and privileged classes, the Al
liance organization will not be recruited
from our ranks, but rather from the ranks
of our opponents."
EIGHT DEATHS HJ A MINE.
Four Victims of Suffocation Recovered, but
Four Jfot Accessible.
Burke, Idaho, Aug. 21. Two hundred
pounds of powder exploded at the mouth of
the tunnel of the Black Bear mines, near
here, yesterday, with terrible effect. Four
men were imprisoned at the breast of the
drift by the rock which caved and were suf
focated. Four other miners have not yet
been found, but all hope of finding them
alive has been given up.
Last evening the rescuing party recovered
the bodies of the four men who were suffo
cated G. L McNeill, General Manager;
John Jcnse, Assistant Manager; Robert
Blackburn and John Barrows, miners. It
is leared that the bodies of the four missing
men were blown to atoms. Jubt how the
explosion occurred cannot be ascertained,
but it is supposed that a lighted candle or
fire from a pipe dropped into the box con
taining powder br some one passing was
the cause.
THE FEDEEATI05 NOT IN POLITICS.
It Decides Not to Recognize the Socialists,
tho Labor Parry or the Alliance.
Lancaster, Aug. 21. The Federation
of Labor has elected these officers: Presi
dent, Charles A. Miller, Harrisburg; First
Vice President, John H. Driver, Philadel
phia; Second Vice President, George" H.
THE
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Ullrich, Philadelphia; Third Vice Presi
dent, W. A. Johnson, of Punxsutawncy;
Secretary and Treasurer, J. S. Johnson, Al
legheny. Chester was selected as the next place of
meeting. The Federation decided not to
recognize the Socialists, the Labor party or
the Farmers' Alliance, and declared them
selves opposed to affiliating with any politi
cal party as a bodv. The Federation ad
journed finally, after approving the course
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers.
TVOMKN Margaret II. "Welch gives gome
fads and fancies for women In THE DIS
PATCII to-morrow, tetters from Klllce
Serena, Mrs. Sherwood and others.
WIPING OUT ENMITY.
An Interesting War Reminiscence A Cap
tared Confederate Revolver to Be Re
turned in State to Its Original Owner
Tlio Chasm Again Bridged.
Captain D. B, Rodgers, of Butler, a popu
lar as well as one of the most enthusiastio
Grand Army men in Western Pennsylvania,
is in the city, the guest of William J. Ruan,
the oil broker who resides at Hazelwood.
He brings with him a very interesting war
story, worthy of a place in history. It is a
bright gem from the cruel battlefield of
Gettysburg, where the slaughter of July 2,
1863, appalled the world.
A few days ago Captain Chalfant, of this
city, received a letter from Colonel R. M.
Powell, of the famous Fifth Regiment of
Texas Volunteers, U. S. A., inquiring forthe
address of Captain Rodgers, of the Eighty
third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
who had taken him prisoner on that fatal
day. The letter was turned over to Captain
Rodgers, who answered it in person. He
told Colonel Powell that he yet had in his
possession a Confederate revolver, still
loaded with the powder, wads and bullets
which it contained when so gallantly sur
rendered at the end of one of the most des
perate military encounters which the
world's history records.
Yesterday Captain Rodgers told a Dis
patch reporter that he was having the old
shooting-iron beautifully ornamented for
presentation to the Texas Colonel at the
coming reunion of the Eighty-third Regi
ment, to be held at Corry, September 23.
He is having a gold plate put upon the
handle, on which will be engraved a record
of the date of capture and return of the
weapon.
Colonel Powell has promised by telegram
to be present at the Corry reunion of the
"blues," and, in presence of the hoary
heroes of the Eighty-third, will receive
back the souvenir. Captain Rodgers says
it will be the greatest pleasure of his life to
present the weapon to the gallant Colonel,
nnd he anticipates a warm and lasting
friendship between "enemies," as that
word goes in war times, as a result of the
meeting.
AT THE HEAD OF THE LIST.
Pittsburg Jfot Surpassed by Any City in
Street Improvements Chief' Blgelow's
Observations After a Western Trip The
Ontlook for Sclienley Park.
Pittsburg's rapid strides in street and
park improvements during the past few
years have placed the city equal to all and
far superior to many places of similar size.
Chief Bigelow, of the Department of Public
Works, returned yesterday from a three
weeks' -vacation tour, daring which he
risitcd the lake cities from Cleveland to
Minneapolis. He devoted most of his time
studying public improvements.
"As a result of my trip I am better than
ever satisfied with Pittsburg," said he. In
the matter of either pavements or parks we
compare favorably with any of the cities I
saw. Detroit has a couple of very hand
some streets, wider than any of ours, but
not any handsomer than Highland or Ells
worth avenues or the east end part of Penn
avenue. Most of those northwestern cities
have one, two or three handsome thorough
fares, but that is all. We have a number of
streets developing that will be as handsome
as any of them, though on account of our
typographical conditions they will probably
not show off to such good advantage. Our
city is, in the main, better paved than any
of "them. They are using wooden-block
pavements in Detroit, St. Paul, Duluth and
Minneapolis to a large extent, though De
troit is also putting down some asphalt
streets now. Our expenence-rith wooden
pavements has convinced us of their in
feriority. "As to parks all the cities I have men
tioned are pretty well supplied in that re
spect, Detroit particularly. Belle Isle
Park in Detroit is" being mad: a very beau
tiful place. But wher. we have expended
half as much money on Schenlev Park as
has been spent in beautifying Belle Isle we
will have, I think, a much more beautiful
and attractive place. I don't think the
Cleveland parks are superior to Schenley
now."
Speaking of Chicago Mr. Bigelow said it
was the busiest city in the country to-day,
chiefly on account of the Columbian Exposi
tion preparations, but no other city he
visited seemed to be half as busy as Pitts
burg, and the working people seemed less
prosperous than in the Smoky City.
DOINGS AT THE DEPOTS.
Trains Generally Idtte "Last Kight "Large
Sleeper Berth Sales Made.
Trains on all roads were delayed last
night. On the Pennsylvania road No. 13,
the Philadelphia mail, due at 8:10 o'clock,
arrived at 9:40 o'clock, owing to a freight
wreck. The Brownsville accommodation
was 45 minutes late, and the limited was
delayed on account of a hot box. The
Eastern express, No-6, due at G:55 o'clock,
came in at 8:30 o'clock via Mingo Junction
and Wellsville, on account of the fire at
McDonald.
On the Lake Erie road the Youngstown
express due at 10:05 o'clock was three hours
late because of a landslide.
Ft. Wayne No. 0 hauled in the private
car of C. E. Perkins, President of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Qnincy road, who is
in Philadelphia. The car was transferred
to track No. 8 and in running down tha
brakes did not work, allowing the car to
run into the wooden buffers, smashing them
up. Traffic on all trains was light.
The largest sleeper berths sales made at
the Union depot were on Thursday, when
?500 were received from this source. This
city ranks about fifth in the sale of Pull
man sleepers.
NOT DIBECTLY AFFECTED.
Pittsburg Art Dealers Taking Little Interest
in a New Tork Postofflce Order.
New York importers of music, pictures,
etc., are considerably worked up over the
order issued by the Postoffice Customs De
partment, to the effect that all music, pict
ures, photographs and bo on, coming from
abroad by mail, are to be confiscated, and
in future they must be sent by express com
pany and regular custom entry, and duty paid
as on otherimportsgoingthroughthe United
States Stores. It is said that since this
order took effect the customs department at
the postoffice has been doing a booming
business. The goods taken are to a great
extent pictures and music These have been
stopped on their way to the dealers and sent
to the Custom House to be redeemed under
penalties, or sold.
A DlSPATcn reporter called on some of
the officials of the Pittsburg Custom House
yesterday and learned that the trouble
would not affect the merchants in this city,
as the greater number of them received
their goods directly from New York. The
local postoffice authorities had heard nothing
of such an order.
Want Advertisements
One cent per word
in The Dispatch now.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
THE WHIMS OF WOMEN
Forcibly Brought Otit in Hair Dress
ing and Headgear Notions.
NEWEST COSTUMES AND NOVELTIES
Chivalrous Respect Shown Ladies Traveling
Alone in Foreign Lands.
AUTUMN DEESS IIHTS AND GOSSIP
The dominant note of the fashionable
coiffure is tangled simplicity, careless order
in disorder, it
matters not at all
what style of ar
rangement is de
sired, the essential
and fundamental
principle is flnffi
ness. How this
much desired re
sult may best be
"SF&st' ''U 'em wi"cn every
woman must work
out for herself, as
she does her-own
salvation. The
woman to whom the gods have been kind
and have given wavy hair needs only to
wash her soft tresses in pure soap every
week, twist them with the simplest kind of
a knot wherever it is. most artistic on her
oven head, for the mode is kindly lenient as
to the location of the coiffure, and she will
have most enviable results. But the
woman not thus favored must twist and tor
ture her straight locks into such imitation
of nature's handiwork as she can best ac
complish. The electric curler, the French
frizz importationSjthe ordinary steel curler,
all arc brought into active service now, par
ticularly on rainy days and by the sad sea
waves which are "most ruthless destroyers of
one's painstaking efforts.
Girls of 18 or U0 have whims now of cut
ting the hair short in the neck, curling it
all about the face in childish fashion, and
binding it about with a fillet of ribbon or
tiny flowers. Girls with dark heavy hair
brush it back in smooth waves to a catogan
loop of twisted strands pinned closely
against the head. Only the exceptional
woman dares wear her locks smoothly
braided or coiled now. I saw this excep
tional woman in a ballroom not long ago.
Her dress was of crepon in soft cloud-like
gray. The draperies fell simply about her
with no flutter or flounces or ribbons. Her
dark hair, as smooth and glossy as a raven's
wing, was coiled snugly on her neck and
brushed back lightly from one of the bright
est faces in the world, and the contrast
of the neat coiffure beside the more frowsy
heads of her companions seemed indeed re
freshing. The accompanying characteristic bonnet,
says the Season, cannot fail to give readers
a Vivid idea of the newest shapes made to
suit the "coiffure grecque," now in vogue.
It has no crown, that portion being re
placed by a wreath of lobelia roses
meeting and crossing so as to al
most cover the hair. Three fold plisscs
mms
ivi&r
of light tulle go round the edge and are
sharply turned up at the back and sup
ported by a fine wire. We have seen many
bonnets made in this style, some of straw,
some of lace, beaded embroidery, etc Tho
material of the dress bodice we see below is
gray woolen.dotted over with little bunches
or tails of Thibet hair. This stuff was one of
the novelties introduced at the close of the
winter season; it seems to us more suitable
for a morning wrapper than a promenade
costume.
Handsome lace is now much used, espe
cially as rokes and cuffs for blouses, full
fronts, puffed sleeves, eta, and it never
fails to give an air of elegance to the most
simply made dresses. We often see sleeves
made "entirely of lace stuff, matching the
rest of the trimmUig. Thus in the pale
blue mousscline-de'Iaine dress in our initial
illustration the entire sleeves, the yoke
and band are made of coarse white lace.
The frock shown in the sketch shown here
js of white barege spotted with red. ' The
jacket worn with it was of red material,
with collars, cuffs, waibtbauds and cravafof
white surah.
The woman wanderers are returning from
far away lands with glowing accounts
of the chivalry of the natives toward the
woman traveler. Mrs. French Sheldon,
after her six months' ramble "in darkest
Africa," tells of the great kindness and at
tention she received from the native chiefs
and people, and brings many valuable testi
monials of their appreciation of her pluck.
Mrs. Bishop, after her Turkish Kurdistan
trip, savs that a woman meets with less in
convcniencies than a man, and that in all
countries she found that her sex commanded
the most chivalrous respect. "I have been
once attacked," she savs, "but never in
sulted, and even in Mohammedan countries
no one has ventured so much as to raise the
curtain of my tent." These enterprising
women explorers are not the" first, for they
are antedated by Lady Barker, Mrs. Liv
ingstone, who is buried on' the Shire banks;
Mrs. Hore, who carried her baby in her
arms to Tanganyika, and Mile. Tinne, who
was murdered in attempting to reach Tim
buctoo from Tripoli.
Fancy a tax being imposed on Viennese
ladies by the Supreme Sanitary Committee
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SATURDAY, .AUGUST 22,
because ofv their trailing skirts, which are
said to jeopardize the public health by
scattering and disturbing the disease germs
in the dust! The traifintr skirts will be
worn, doubtless", in spite of all arguments to
the contrary, until the agitation they have
aroused subsides, and then ihey will die
naturally and peaceably, after the fashion
of the tournure and crinoline. Modes seem
to thrive on abuse and ridicule. Once ac
cepted they die of lack of animation.
The number of new and beautiful toilettes
invariably displaved on the Paris race
courses is, at all "events, in the eyes of the
fair sex, a great attraction in the gay scene,
and, says the Season, we are glad to be able
to give our readers a description of some of
those which appeared to us most worthy of
note. As we have before remarked, the
once famous Longchamps meeting has been
quite thrown in the shade by the Concours
Hippique, where fashion now reigns su
preme, and consequently the best view of
all that is new and pretty 1b there to be ob
tained. The majority of dresses were evi
dently made with set on basques, either
plain or fluted. The late spring and con
stantly inconstant weather, often make
light dresses and bonnets composed
oi one mass of flowers, look even
yet unsuitable for the chilly air,
French Race Course Costumes.
but still as the season advances, warm things
must be discarded. Yellow seems to be the
dominant color both for flowers and jabots
of crepe lisse, and gold embroidery and
large colored stones partake of the same
fashionable hue. One very stylish toilet
consisted of a princess Tobe of gros grain
heliotrope silk with demi-long train cut on
the cross. The bottom of the skirt and the
neck of the bodice are trimmed with helio
trope and gold passamenterie dotted with
small amethysts. With this is worn a small
open work passamenterie jacket, held in with
ribbon. The sleeves of the latter deserve
attention on account of their novel make,
reaching up to the neck. The Manette hat
looks rather like a reversed flasket in shape;
it is brown straw trimmed with corn flowers
of a deep violet shade. The second lady
wears a gray and black horsehair hat with
the crown" entirely covered with velvet
Parma violets. The bodice of her dress has
a set on basque and is cut low enough to al
low the chemisette to reach to the very
waist. The bottom of the skirt, the corsage,
the basque and sleeves are of gray velvet,
embroidered with oval discs ot mother-ol-pearl.
'ow Novelties and Notions.
The idea of brightening up a dark gown by
a vest of some bright color will be carried
out in autumn costumes, only instead of
ciepo de cliino China silk or chiffon ladies
cloth or some of tlio heavier silks will be
used in accordance with the requirements of
the season.
For skiit bindings, velveteen is used in
preference to the stiff mohair braid which
was so trying to shoes. A knife plaiting
about three inches deep is also frequently
vised as a substitute. It is put between the
foundation skirt and its facing.
The bodice of a light foulard or surah
gown lias a pointed front and round back
and is shirred at tho top to give a yoke
effect. Gathers nt tne waist take tho placo
of darts-m supplying fullness. "
lie parasols, white, yellow and blaok are
tho favorite shades. Inserted gores of pnffed
chiffon and frills of chiffon or lace aro the in
variable decorations of those meant to be
earned on di essy occasions.
Shades of heliotrope and lavender, which
have held tho fli st place in popular favor
this soason, are beginning to give way be
fore tlio various shades of green.
Vkrt high collars aro still seen, but the
reaction has set in in I'nris.whoio the bodice
is frequently out low in tho neck and fin
ished with a turndown frill.
Fob street wear noxt nutumn.tho most pop
ular glove will be a four-button glace, in tan,
fawn and grn with back stitching.
Tub gaunlct promises to be a very popular
effect in gloves lor next season, and will bo
found in both suede and glace kid.
White and yellow chamois and suode
gloves, both in gauntlet a-id mousquetaire
shapes, aro much worn.
A small hat, with almost imperceptible
brim and large caplike crown, is the latest
design in millinery.
Black hats are very fashionable, and
promise to continue so throughout the
autumn.
Chiffon is quite as popular as ever and to
somo extent has supplanted lace.
Clear tints, w lthout any purplish cast, are
the newest shades of navy blue.
Stbiped oheviots aro preferred to those
with plaid or mixed designs.
Naited beavers are spoken of as probable
favorites for next season.
Satix ribbons aro becoming very fashion
able in millinery.
Jet beaded embroidery Is not so common
as cabochons.
MEXICO FranK G. Carpenter's Mexican
letter for THE D1SPATCII to-morrow de
scribes how. young men go a-courtlng.
Humorous phases ol wooing.
THE WHEEL COMPANY'S CONDITION.
It Will Contlnno in Business Under the
Receiver's Direction.
Chicago, Aug. 21. Iteceiver N". C.
Butler, of the American Wheel Company,
has filed his bond and begun the work of
disentangling the affairs of the corporation.
Attorney Morris said this morning that
creditors of the company would undoubtedly
be paid in full. He also asserted that an
investigation will show the concern to be
in a better condition than first statements
indicated.
"The total assets on August 1, 1891, he
says, are shown by an itemized statement
of that date to have been $4,074,353. Of
the fl,800,000 liabilities, 51,000,000 is in the
form of promissory notes and accepted
drafts. The rest is iu open accounts. Within
the past three months the indebtedness has
been reduced over ?3o0,000." The officers
tay they have already contracts for wheels
lor delivery during the next season amount
ing to $1,0(50,000. Other contracts beyond
one year and within three years, amount to
JUOO.OOO. After appointing a receiver each
court entered an order allowing the receiver
to continue business so that all contracts
may be carried out.
THE KNI6HT3 OF PYTHIAS ADJ0UEN.
The Next Grand Chancellor, and rosslbly
tho Next Inner Guard, Fittsbnrgers.
Haeeisburg, Aug. 21. The Grand
Lodge of Knights of Pythias adjourned at
1 o'clock this afternoon, after deciding to
meet next year at Pittsburg. Nominations
of Grand Lodge officers, to be voted for in
June next, were made as follows:
Grand Chancellor, John Davis, Pittsburg;
Grand Vice Chancellor, John Stratton, Phil
adelphia; Grand Prelate, K. H. Jackson,
Pittsburg; Grand Master at Arms, Charles
G. Freed, Philadelphia; Grand Inner Guard,
about 20 nominations, including Colonel
George Sewell, of Pittsburg.
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A I Is
1891.
BY. A PEACEFUL SEA.
Wakeman, the Wanderer, Tells of a
North of England Resort.
A RESTING PLACE FOR MILLIONS.
The Eesort for the Fashionable Folk and
Toiling Miners Alike.
ITS STOKY AND ITS VARIED CHARMS
COBRKSrOUDElTCE OF TTIE DISPATCH.
Southport, England, Aug. 8. The
western coast of England, all the .way north
from the city of Liverpool to the Solway
Firth, which on the west marks the boundary
between England and Scotland, faces an
almost silent arm of the Irish Sea. The
power of the tides in the North Channel
and St. George's Channel is broken by the
rugged shores of the Isle of Man; and with
the exception of the tides of Liverpool on
the extreme south, and in the Solway Firth
at the extreme north of this region, the
waves ot the sea reach the shore almost
ceaselessly in murmurous ripples or dream
ful calm.
Curiously, too, and as if notably illustra
tive of the seeming truth that nature ever
fashions her forces to a nicety of fitting anil
balance, the entire shore line for all this
distance a shore line accounting for inden
tations of nearly 200 miles is nowhere 50
feet above the sea level. The sea is ever
asleep beside it.
This is the Lancashire coast. It is a
coast of endless and measureless sand. Be
hind it, level reaches of reclaimed land,
with dykes of sod and whitewashed peas
ants' huts, stretch for away to many towns
clanging night and day with machinery,
dense with human strivers, stifling with soot
and smoke.
THE SUBKOUNDING LANDSCAPE.
To the east, a horizon line of chimney
stacks. Then, nearer the ocean, a valley of
truck farms. Then the shore line, a mass of
low, droar sand dunes, hiding an hundred
sunny villages and towns; every one a nest
of homes for those who strive in the inland
cities, or the holiday place for those mill
ions who change the clatter of the mine
drill and spindle for the song of the sea but
one bright day in all the scourging year.
Southport is chief of all the English west
coast resorts. It is in fact the great north
of England watering-place. Scarborough
on the cast coast directly opposite, drawing
from the Yorkshire towns for visitors, has
greater antiquity, some interesting history,
and is altogether quaint and beautiful; but
being onlv a summer watering-place it can
not vie with Southpoit.
Southport excels in the tenderness of its
sea, the soft breezes of its coast and the
transcendent splendor of its endless golden
sands. Besides, there" are 4,000,000 or 5,000,
000 people so near it in Liverpool, Chester,
Manchester, Wigan, Preston, Burnley,
Leeds, Bradford and scores more of crowded
manufacturing cities that they can get to
Southport and home again the same dav for
a railway fare of from 2 to 4 shillings
each. And'about all of them do that very
thing whenever the money can be spared.
SOT AX ANCIENT PLACE.
Southport can boast of no remote an
tiquity, though it forms part of the ancient
parish of Xorth Meols, in the Hundreds of
West Derby. It is hardly a century old.
Its founder was a Churchtown innkeeper,
one William Sutton, "rosy-nosed Bill he
was called in the old days, because his own
good cheer most prominently spoke its mer
its in his hearty old face. He was also
called the "Old Duke," because of his lordly
ways. At one end of the present splendid
Lord street he built a huge hostelry among
the sind hills. This was nicknamed "The
Follv" by those who were not so far-seeing
as William.
It soon happened that customers were at
tracted to his inn by his famous grilled fish
and good cheer; just as epicures will go half
the length of our -land for those glorious
"planked shad," that can only be got as the
shad was designed to be cooked, at a certain
inn at Gloucester on the Delaware, hard by
staid old Philadelphia. A little hamlet of
cottages soon sprang up around "The Duke's
Follv." Its owner was also the best fiddler
in all the countryside, and one night when
some roystering literary guests from Liver
pool had been reveling "lip and heel," in a
convivial moment over a bottle of rare old
port his house was named "South Port."
And Southport the place, now of 50,000
souls, will ever remain.
WHEN IT BECA3IE FASHIONABLE.
The salubritv of the air, the delights of
the sands and the breezes fVora the sea soon
drew residents to the quaint, wild spot, and
handsome dwellings were erected. By 1820
Southport had become a place of fashion
and favorite resort, the sands being in the
summertime a place of great gaiety. Visit
ors then arrived by coach and by canal
packets, and holiday makers came by carts,
or on foot with their bundles and hampers
on their backs and shoulders.
Alone in the fifties we hear of Haw
thorne, then our Consul at Liverpool, and
his friend Henry Bright making the place,
its beach and the far-stretching dunes their
frequent haunts both for dreamful idling
ana for literary work.
Perhaps it is largely a fanciful association
of person and place, but somehow with
Hawthorne in one's mind the lovely, leafy
city, as it is to-day, takes on the garb of our
own delicious Salem. The trim, pretty
yards recall it. -The long, elm-shaded ave
nues, wiin a giuiL unu Hiumiuer ui uie sea
through their narrowing vistas, bring it lov
ingly to the memory. The wide, clean, sun-shino-dappled
yards, backed by prim, pre
cise houses, hint of it: Hundreds of
"hipped" roofs, quaint gables and ivy
haunted dormers reproduce its sweet old
nooks. The half houses, half shops where
modern affairs and holiday makers' relent
less needs have conjured perky shops in the
fronts of stately mansions, gay as Fauntle
roy children in the laps of men or matrons
of the old regime, arc like the bright set
tings peering out of many of the grim old
house fronts of Salem.
LIKE ONE AMERICAN TOWN,
And one loves to trace the likeness
further in the hush of the by-streets,
where even country birds trill summer time
songs fearlessly; in the old, old folk who
saunter about the town as though they had
naught on their minds but the making of
codicils, because of fancied Blights, late
meals or overdone grills; in the flavor and
savor of olden seawise ways and memories
not from rotting hulks and wharves as at
Salem, but in the rich old sea captains who
swagger here, when their gout and rheumat
ics will let them; and in the wild-eyed
young and heartsomc life that comes from
the outer world to feel its pensive calm,
staring at its dowagers and dreamiulncss, as
a cathedral pageant might be viewed; going
away again all the better for the ruminative
reverence and rest.
The curious thing about the place to an
American loiterer is the reversal of seasons
here. To see the vast throngs at Southport
during June, July -and August, the natural
conclusion is that these months comprise
the season. On the contrary, the genuine
season is during the remaining nine months.
The rich live here during that time in their
own homes. They are usnnllv invalids, or
families some members of which require the
soft and health-giving air that is said to
prevail during the winter months. When
the summer comes the real residents leave
for the continental spas or for the High
land lochs and glens of Scotland. Then a
population of nt least 20,000 is entirely
changed. Liverpool or Manchester shop
keepers or brokers, county curates on
pinched allowances, and managing clerks
with hollow eyes and chests "let" the houses
deserted by the quality, and gain enough
life and vigor for the rest ot the year's
struggle.
ENJOYING CAST-OFF PLEASURES.
These with the "trippers" and excursion
ists make up the population and crowds in
the summer. The shopkeepers rather scorn
fully serve them. But these fine shadings
of distinction are wiltingly recognized and
borne by summer tenants, andare never
seen by those to whom one day in the year
at Southport is the sole inspiration of a
twelvemonths' brave saving.
Scenically Southport is winsome rather
than striking. It would be ranked beauti
ful in itself were there no added charm of
shore or sea. Its long, cool streets, reach
ing back, countryward, are beautiful.
Crossing' these and running parallel with
the shore, but shut away from it by a single
great range of sea-view baths, pavilions
and hotels, is one of the finest avenues in
Europe. It recalls Princess street, Edin
burgh, the Paris boulevards and the Prado
of Havana. This is the great avenuq of
shops and bazars, of equestrian display, a
sort of Itotten Row for brilliant equipages,
and the grand promenade for beautiful and
beautifully dressed women. With all its
splendor it has a hushed and quiet air. In
deed, this dreamful pensiveness is charac
teristic of the entire place. It is not
languor. It is the sea air's tender bidding
to rest. Something like it comes with the
soft breezes in Florida, in the Bahamas,
and with those witching, narcotic breaths
that pulse and throb in Cuba and the
Azores.
I lExchisive of its seashore delights the
place is provided with so great a number of
genuine attractions that the dearth of these
mour own watering places becomes a hu
miliating reflection.
WASTE TLACES BLOSSOM.
On land reclaimed from sand there ha3
been made one of the most exquisite parks
in England. Its winter gardens, open all
the year round, and affording various forms
of entertainments and recreations, cost over
?500,000. A conservatory and aquarium,
among the finest in Britain, are also here.
Its Kew gardens are only second to the
Royal Kew in London. Its free public
library and art gallerv would honor any
city. The Victoria Baths cost nearly S2j0,
000. And its botanic gardens and museum
arc alone worth a day's visit. It would al
most seem that in this extraordinary pro
vision for the recreative and educative di-
version lies a suggestion of value to our own
managers of great resorts. There are var
iety and diversity in it. It minimizes the
loafing tendency in huge crowds which be
gets rowdyism. It pays because it attracts
the same people again and again.
The city faces the sea to the west. For
three or four miles along its front runs the
Marine Esplanade. The great hotels, the
most imposing private residences, the grand
baths and pavilions, extend to the north
and south along this, forming an almost un
broken facade of great beauty and interest.
In front of all this, the sands and the sea;
the sands an ample playground for millions,
not thousands, of visitors, the sea a dream
of majestic sweetness and repose. From a
central street a pier has been built across
the sands,which are covered by spring tides
and often left like polished gold by other
high tides, to the sea channel. This is nearly
a mile in length nnd oneof the longest in
England. It provides a wide promenade all
this distance; and a cable passenger railway
runs nearly to its seaend.
A 'WOODEN PLEASURE GROUND.
Here the pier is broadened to perhaps an
acre in area, and there are refreshment
rooms, music pnvillions and room for danc
ing. Seats are everywhere, and the pier
can comfortably accommodate 50,000 loung
ers and pedestrians; while from the sea
channel beneath it, excusions are made to
as far north as Barrow, as far west as the
Isle of Man, and as far south as Llandudno
in Wales.
To the right and left of the great pier is
always to be seen the real holiday activity
of Southport. The sands, or foreshore as
they are called here, are fully three-fourths
of a mile broad. One could follow them,
along this or greater breadth, for 20 miles
to the south, and to the north all along the
Lancashire coast and around Morecambe
bav on the north, a distance of more than
100 miles. I have never elsewhere seen so
noble a reach of beach. It is pure sand, with
no "shingle" and scarcely pebble within
it. To the left is a marine park within the
sands, a salt water lake within this, and all
the grotesque shows inseparable from a
great popular resort grouped beyond in a
manner permitting the closest police sur
veillance. U To the right, there is little but the sand
and the sea. It is the playground of big
and little children, and gloriously the thou
sands enjoy it. A stranded brig, sitting
bolt upright in the sand adds zest to the
picture. A fleet of sandboats curious,
wide-tired wagons propelled by sails
course over this level plain. At the shore
edge bevond, are rows of ragged bathing
vans, like an emigrant train gone into en
campment. Donkeys, Salvationists and
vagrom musicians are everywhere; but not
a single beggar is allowed in all the parish
precincts.
THE MINERS' HOLIDAYS.
For myself I love best to come to South-
port when the great interior hives of indus
try belch forth their thousands for a dav's
outing here; or the Lancashire or Cheshire
miners come down stronger in numbers
than any one of our single armies during
the late Civil War. That may seem like
exaggeration. Only a few days ago I was
one of justsuch a crowd here at Southport.
Not only did 70,000 miners leave the black
coal pits voiceless behind them, but many
of their families came. The great wheels
at the pit mouths were still, and all the
"nit-brow lassies." with some of my own
good friends among them, came also. More
than 100,000 of these sturdy folk were here
nearly as manv sonls as are housed in
Rochester or Louisville and all in one day.
It is at such times that one may know, "if
he will use his eyes, how precious a thing is
the glint of the waves, the cool touch of the
golden sands, the whispered lullaby and
mysteries of the sea, and all the beneficence
of God's blessed, sunlight kissing through
life-giving airs the pallor from out these
toil-scarred faces, to unused, eager eyes and
haunted, hungry hearts.
Edgar L. Wakeman.
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front tho summer resorts. Personal mention
of the Plttsbarg visitors.
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are my daughters, dear."
Son. "Yes, mother, and they love yon."
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average one hundred per day, and truly has she been a mother
to the race. Suffering women ever seek her in their extremity, and
find both a helper and a friend. Correspondents will receive prompt and
conscientious answers, and the sympathy of a mother.
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V.
BIG MILITAEY MOTE.'
An Effort to Organize the State Mili
tia in One GreatArmy.
REGULAR OFFICERS WORKING IT.
The Entire National Gnard to Be Under
Control of Congress.
PROPOSED PLAN OF 0RGAMZATI0S
fSITCIAt. TEI.ZGHAM TO THE DtSPATCH.J
St. Louis, Aug. 21. The officers of the)
army arc endeavoring to consolidate tho
militia of the several States into one organ
ization to act as an auxiliary to the regular
army should occasion require it. This fact
was made known at the encampment of thai
Missouri National Guard at St. Joe last
week, but has been kept secret by the mili
tary men interested until to-day. A day or
two before the tents of Camp Wick
ham were struck Colonel Milton Moore
called together all the soldiers who were in
camp and said that two officers of the army
wished to address them upon a subject of
prime importance to the militia. The offi
cers were Lieutenant Robert E. Evans, of
the Twelfth Infantry, and Lieutenant
Joseph R. Batchelor, of the Twenty-fourth
Infantry.
The two soldiers broached their proposi
tion with great enthusiasm. A constitution
of the Association of the National Guard of
the United States was produced. It was
printed on long sheets, which were dis
tributed among the militiamen. Tho ob
jects of the proposition were declared to ba
"to provide for the defense of the United
States."
NATIONALIZING THE GUAKD.
"To that end to actually and practically
'nationalize the National Guard of the var
ious States in such a manner that the com
panies, troops and batteries thereof, as such
may, on their application, be enrolled
in the National Guard of tha
United States, remaining during
peace under State control, being
in war immediately available for national
defense upon the call of Congress and re
ceiving from Congress reasonable financial
support at all times to secure upiformity in
the arming, equipping and training of tha
National Guard and a means of maintaining;
for it a high standard of efficiency.
"To transfer the responsibility for tha
maintenance and efficiency of the National
Guard from the various States to the
United States Congress, where it properly
belongs, so that the source of its vitality
shall be in the Congress at Washington
and not in the Legislature of
the separate States which may
at any time, through hostility, parsimony
or neglect, destroy their quotas of the na
tional forces in short, to lay for a most im
portant national institution one broad na
tional foundation instead of attempting to
maintain it on 44 separate ones, as at pres
ent." PLAN OF ORGANIZING.
The slips then gave theplan of organizing
the association. Whenever any company of
not less than CO men want to join the asso
ciation they mav do so by forming them
selves into an infantry company, cavalry
troop or a battery and reporting to the Gov
ernor of their State. The Governor for
wards their application to the Secretary of
War, who enrolls them.
Each cavalry troop will be paid 55,000 by
the Government the first year it is organ
ized and 53,000 every year after that. Tha
artillery gets the same pay. Each infantry
company will get 51,000 a year after
the first year. The cavalry and ar,
tillery, in order to draw their
vearly pay, must own their own horses.
AVhenevcr a State has got 200 men or mora
enrolled in the guard, the Secretary ot War
is to detail an officer of the regular army to
establish headquarters in the State and act
as inspector of the forces, but without com
manding power.
BEADY FOB THE FIELD.
The companies will draw their yearly ap
propriation from the Government npon tna
report of. this officer. After a formal an
nual inspection they are in condition for
efficient field service. In,time of peace tha
forces shall be under control of tho
State, but when war arises and it
becomes the duty, according to the laws of
Congress, to call out the armed forces of tho
United States it shall first put these armed
guards on the field. They shall be under
its command like regular troops, and their
pay and rank shall be the same as that of
the Regular Army.
Lieutenants Evans and Batchelor said tha
organization was to be cfTected by a bill
which Congress was to be asked to pass at
the coming session, and they wanted tho
Missouri militiamen to get up petitions for
its passage. Quiet and effective work was
being done in all the States, they said, ami
all the reports were encouraging.
HOT SUICIDE, BUT HEART DISEASE
Is the Coroner's .Tory Verdict in the Casa
of Millionaire Wooilman.
CniCAGO, Aug. 21. The Coroner's jur
impaneled to investigate the cause of
death of Clark Woodman, the linseed oil
magnate of Omaha, who was found dead in,
his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel yester
day, has returned a verdict that the death
was due to heart disease.
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