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EARNlfiGJHEIR PA!,
Pittsburg Police Put in as
Busy a Sunday as They
Have Erer Had.
THE SPEAK-EASIES SUFFER
And a Big Chinese Gambling Den
Is Also Scooped In.
A HAN BEATEN UF WITHABOARD.
Another-Is Shot at for Trying to Climb
in a Window.
OUTER THINGS MAKE UP A LIYELT DAT
The-wave of mcralSythat made porlce
business dull one w eek ago proved a decep
tion. It rolled back yesterday in tbe shape
of scores of lawbreakers, filling station
bouses to their utmost capacity. Patrol
wagons rattled ever tbe downtown
streets in all directions, well-filled
with material for this morning's hearing.
Gambling and illegal liquor selling proved
the most numerous offences. Those who
plied the beer trade in defiance of law were
picked up on all the back streets of the city
and hurried behind the bars. Inspector
McAleese, as usual, was the busiest police
"official in town. He had made informations
against numerous speak-easy operators and
had his well-trained men in every suspected
Fpot
The Inspector is never more in his glory
than when those who have braved his alert
ness are being hauled in by the dozens. He
was doubly pleased with the results of yes
terday's efforts
CHINESE GAMBLEKS TAKES ET.
The First police district had aharvestof
eight speak-easies, and the other districts
furnished four. By way of a variety a'Chi
nese gambling joint intruded itself on the
regular routine of business, and had to be
cared for.
The scene in Central police station last
night was a lively one. This was especially
the case after the raid of Mrs. Jennie
Smith's place on Second avenue, below
I'erry street. The First ward had been out
almost in full force to see the occupants
of the place piled into the wagon.
Second avenue had been blocked with peo
ple, who greeted with cheers of derision
each of the unlucky visitors as he stepped
out between two rows of brass buttons. The
house was a tony one, and apparently quite
popular. A small army of friends of tbe
prisoners followed "the wagon to
the station house. There were
several hundred of them, and they
filled the office to the door. Almost every
man had a friend behind the bars he desired
liberated, and forfeit money was flashed
everywhere.
"Buck" Cornelins was there with a roll of
bills, putting up bail for the beer drinkers
in a profuse sort of way. He
was apparently willing to stand
good tor them all. Having
himself been released just a few hours before,
after the payment of f3 fine and costs for a
row in a somewhat similar resort, he sym
pathized with tbem. All the visitors were
finally released except one voung man, a
stranger in the city, who had neither friends
nor money.
GOOD EECEirTS FOK A DAY.
At Central station, thanks to the many
raids a trifle over 51,000 was placed in
Sergeant Gray's hands as forfeits during the
day aud e ening. When he balanced his
cash at midnight he had a big roll of bills,
se eral gold pieces and a quarter of a peck
of silver coin. The silver was made up of
dollars, halves and quarters, the scrapings
ot many a pocket. In the roll of bills there
w ere several 5100 and 550 notes.
The work began yesterday afternoon.
Captain Dan Silvis, who. though still
suflering from the effects of his dislocated
arm which he carries in a sling, is again on
duty, led the charge, ably aided by Lieuten
ant'Lewis and a number of officers in citi
zens dress. They succeeded in gathering in
six speak-easies with the proprietors and a
total ot ten visitors during the afternoon.
The houses captured were principally of the
common low dive order, except one or two,
notably that of Mrs. Lou Martin, in Mad
dock's alley, near Duquesne w ay.
Mrs. Martin, it is said, has been conduct
ing a very genteel place, not exactly on the
gilt-edge" order, but very neatly and com
fortably furnished, and very orderly and
cleanly kept. Her customer have-been of
the better class, coming mainly from the
hotels along Duquesne way and from the
Allegheny bide of the river. Ordinary fel
lows, unknown to the proprietress, "were
not admitted. This fact, it is thought, w as
the cause of her being informed upon, as
several parties who claim to know that she
had been doing an illegal selling business
were refused admittance to the house yes
terday morning. "When she was liiited by
the officers Mrs. Martin was very indignant,
denied her guilt, but submitted to arrest
very quietly and was permitted to walk to
Central station. Three male visitors found
in the place were, at their urgent request
allowed the same privilege.
CLAIMS HE WAS BOBBED.
Lavint Jackson's establishment at 255
Second avenue was raided through the ef
lorts of Officer Meyers. The house was fre
quented by men and women, colored and
white. Yesterday, Samuel Burget, a miner
and old soldier from "West Newton, claimed
be had been robbed of nearly 510 by the
people in the house. He was picked up in
the raid with two other visitors, one of
whom was Norman Jacobs, colored,
whom Burget accuses of the theft. ,
The "l'ellow Bow " furnished the other
four speak-easies. Benny Hughcs,a former
policeman, at No. 299 Second aenue, sold
Lad liquor and its quality led to his being
informed upon. He had only one visitor
when arrested.
Jennie "Welch, at No. 281 Second avenue,
had two iitors when raided.
Jrnuic CollinSj in rear of No. 281, and
Annie Conrey in rear of 283, had both
been imbibing freely of their own booze
and were drunk when arrested. Miss Col
lins had jiarttd with her guests, but two
isitors w ere found in the Convrcy woman's
house.
The evening's operations in the First
district were opened with the capture of a
Chinese gambling place at No. 311 Grant
itreet. To American citizens who do uot
w ear their hair braided the place has long
been known only as Jim Sand's Chi
nese supply store. They are excusa
ble in this, for Jim does make
a pretense of selling -various articles
of Chinese make. He lias his sign oat and
tends bis shop during the day with an inno
cent air decidedly deceiving. But Jim's
countrymen haie had a little secret of their
null about the place for some weeks.
Through some unfortunate circumstance
ju-pector MiAleese got in on the secret
aud the fun was spoiled.
HOW THE CHINESE WEKE CAUGHT.
"When Captain Silvis, Detectives Shore,
Bendel and Coulson,and Officer Jack walked
to the place last evening ot 8 o'clock, they
found a crowd of Chinamen sitting around
tbe front door, innocently talking, and so
interested in their conversation that they
failed to notice Detectives Bendel and Shore
blip past them into the storeroom, the door
of which was open. After getting inside
the detectives walked through to
the rear of the house and thence by
a rear stairway climbed to the second floor
and entered a room. Fourteen of the Celes-
tials were there so busily engaged at their
favorite game of fan-tan that the entrance
of the officers was unnoticed. Shore and
Bendel stood quietly in tbe background
watching the gama and studying the faces
of the players for a few moments before
announcing their presence. "When they
finally did speak the Chinamen jumped to
their feet and scrambled for the doors in
wild confusion, yelling and jabbering like
a family of maepies.
The other officers had come up by this
time and the doors were well guarded so
that none of the players escaped. The pa
trol wagon was called and the party, in
cluding the gambling outfit, was taken to
Central station. There it -was found that
Jim Sands, the proprietor of the house, and
Sam Key, who is now under indictment for
court as the dealer in a similar game a
couple of weeks ago, were among the num
ber. Soon after the raid about 20 friends of the
prisouers trooped into the police station
and after much chattering and talking drew
from various places in their odd garments
forfeits of 515 each for their countrymen's
release, except in the case of Jim Sands and
Sam Key, for whom 5100 forfeits were re
quired and furnished.
SO END TO THE SENSATIONS.
The Chinese delegation had left the sta
tion house, and quiet had hardly been re
sumed when a sensation was created by the
arrival ot a load ot 11 men irom jars.
Smith's place, mentioned aboie. The
wagon took anothar trip, and in a few min
utes was back with another load of tour
men from the house of Mrs. Kingston,,
which adjoins that of Mrs. Smith. Both
women have been arrested before on the
same charge.
Mrs. Smith had seen the officers enter her
house, and being upstairs she slipped out a
back window and was in the act of crawling
over the backvard fence when captured by
Detective Bobinson. Two well dressed
women, who gave their names as Edna Rey
nolds and Lucy Bohe, were arrested in Mrs.
Kingston's house.
Among the crowd was James McTighe,
who had been in Mrs. Smith's house when
the officers got there. He had managed to
escape over the fence, though recognized by
Detective Coulson. When McTighe came
forward to put up a forfeit lor one of
his friends, Captain Silvus at once ordered
him locked up, and as a result McTighe's
money was required in securing his own re
lease. The other men gathered in on the
raid were soon all released on 510 forfeits,
and then the women were let out on $00
forfeits, excepting the two young women
from Mrs. King's, who each put up 525 for
feits. Next to the Pirst district the Southside
was the most prolific in speak-easy raids.
LIVELY TIMES IN SMOKY HOLLOW.
Officer Cochran had a very lively time
yesterday afternoon in arresting some per
sons in Smoky Hollow, at the foot of South
Eighth street. Eli Gelbraith and his wife,
Becky Gelbraith, were entertaining "William
O'Shea, Barney Harrity and Kate Showal-
8jsted of beer drinking, and as this caused
ter. The entertainment principally con
an exuberance ot spirits, a row started, in
which all hands got mixed up. The entire
neighborhood was starred up so that Officer
Cochran was summoned and the entire party
placed under arrest and 6ent to the Twenty
eighth ward station in the patrol wagon.
As the prisoners were leaving the wagon
to enter the station, Harrity thought he saw
an opportunity to escape. He broke from
the line aud dashed down Fourteenth street,
with half a dozen officers and half a hundred
citizens after him. Harrity was fleet of
foot, and managed to keep a goed lead on
his pursuers. He ran into Jackson's livery
stable, where he was soon nfterward found
by Officer Cochran, and was taken back to
tne lockup.
Officer Hagerling made a raid on the
speak-easy of Mary Kennedy, No. 2614
Carson street. The proprietress and six
visitors were locked up in the Twenty
eighth ward station. The crowd was a very
Tinisv one nnd made ihinirs verv unnleasant
for those li ing in the neighborhood of the
lockup.
BECK'S WHITECAPS TAKEN CAKE OP.
Lieutenant Johnston last night made a
rain on the disorderly house of Thaddeus G.
Beck, on South Thirty-fourth street, and ar
rested the proprietor and eight visitors.
The crowd has been known under the name
of "Beck's "White Caps." They were all
locked up in the Twenty-eighth ward
station.
The Second district came to the front with
one case. Lieutenant Sullhan and Officer
Bogan, raided the disorderly house kept by
S. Caran, an Arabian, at No. 31, Basin alley,
Seventh ward, last night. The proprietor
and six of his countnmen, were arrested.
Thev were all locked up in the Eleventh
ward station.
Allegheny had no speak-easies, but pro
duced a juvenile gambling crowd.
Lieutenant McKelvey, of the Allegheny
force, mode a raid on a gang ot boys in
dulging'in a game of poker in a planing
mill on Irwin avenue. Charles England,
Frank Cornealius and Ben Lee were cap
tured, together with the cards and 12 cents
in the "jack-pot." Theboys were placed in
the lock-up.
SUNDAY POLICE COURTS
Bnve as Much Business as They Can Com
fortably Handle Magistrates Furnish
Many New Inmates for the Workhouse
Record ot the Various Stations.
From the crowds of criminals at yester
day morning's police hearings it was evi
dent that Saturday night's business was
about as lively as yesterday. All the mag
istrates had as much as they could handle
during tbe morning.
Long List at Central.
The Central fetation docket contained 35
cases. George Roan, who was connected
with a High street spoak-casy that had been
raided on Friday nhtht, but tnIio was not
captured antil Saturday, was given a 30
days' sentence in default of a $50 fine. Wil
liam Gunning, a visitor, who had escaped at
the time of the raid, was also gicn a 30
das sentence, his past record having the
.llcct of stiffening the dose. Mark Wishart,
of tbe Law and Order League fame, had no
money to pay his fine of $5 and
costs for drunkenness, and as Offi
cer McAdams testified that Wish
art had been not only drunk, but
erv Quarrelsome, and had to be thi own out
-of several saloons in Diamond Square, a
s cntence of ten days to jail was imposed.
James Jobnston suffered for loyalty to a
friend, lie Is black, and so is bis pal, Ells
worth Manks. ManLs was disorderly on
High street, and Olhcer Rosenblatt arrested
him, but Johnston went to lcscue Manks
and took the officer's mace away trominm.
A crowd collected, and Johnston threatened
to knock the offlcor down, but Ofllcei Allen
came to his assistance and ariestcd both the
men. The magistrate flne'd Manks $5 and
costs and ga o Johnston a 30-day ' sentence
to the workhouse. Sam Carter and seven
visitors to his house at the corner of Fifth
ay cnue and Brady street were brought bo
fore the magistrate next. It was shown that
Carter encouraged poker plaving, crap
shooting and other forms of gnmblng in his
bouse, kept a large supply ot liquors on
hand, and had been tried on the same
charge before. Be was ent up lor
30 dajs in default of $50 fine and his
visitors were each fined $3 and costs.
Henry lion ard had been caught at midnight
In a house on Brady street to which ho had
gained an entrance by forcing a rear w m
dow, and when the officer entered w as ran
sacking a bureau. He ran when ho saw Offi
cer Hilderbrecht but was captured and
feigned drunkenness so successfully that he
cot off with a 30-da s' sentence. John iinii
colored,bad been found in a house on Arthur
stieet under suspicious circumstances. The
occupants of tho house wore away Saturday
night but a light was seen Inbide by the offi
cer w ho made un investigation, lie found a
rear door open, but wen lie got iusido the
light had been extinguished. After groping
around lor some time the policeman found
Hall covei ed up in bed w ith. his clothes on
and pretending to be asleep and drunk. lie
made no resistance to an est and was sent
up 30 days. A lurtbcr investiga
tion of the case will he made.
Duncan Saris, who says his home is at
Brownsville, was found acting suspiciously
on I'oibes near Brady street about the time
the rear door of Mary Benon's house was
forced open by some unknown person early
yesterday morning. He coulo give no satis
lactory explanation of his being at that
place at such a time, and was sentenced for
a 30-days trip. Frank Killerman, an oil
well driller from Butler, had been arrested
from the Merchants' Hotel at the request of
tho proprietor, w ho testified that Killerman
had been acting indeccntlv. The case was so
c.car against him that Killerman was civ en
uZ0-du)t sentence.
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Boathnlders Sentenced
The Twenty-eighth ward station hearing
was made up or abont 30 cases. George
WalbaohgotSOdays for assaulting an old
man named Cole and knocking him down.
William Prlle, acoordlng to police reports,
was a generally worthless character whose
home is principally at the workhouse, and
lie was given 90 da vs. J. P. Johnston, for
assaulting ThomusFitzsimmons with a beer
glass, was held over, as an information will
e made asatnst him. -Tonn Smith, arrested
for keeping a gambling house on Carson
street, was fined $20 and costs, and fourvis
itorswere fined $10 andcosts each.
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Magistrate Hyndman's Work.
Magistrate Hyndman, of tho Second police
district, disposed of 26 oases. At the Four
teenth ward station there were 19. Mr. and
Mrs. William Sexton w ere-ljo.tb. fined $50 and
costs or 60 days to the workhouse for keeping
a disorderly houso on Bates street. Honry
McCord was sent SO days to the workhouse
for assaulting Alexander Kadcllff. Wallace
Radcliff was fined $25 and costs for Immodest
conduct. Albert Bobbert paid $10 and costs
for running a small gambling room at Glen
wood and Joseph Williams, John Brown
;md Harry Martin were fined $5 and costs
each tor Visiting the houso. Patrick Sexton
and Daniel Lacy were fined $5 and costs for
disorderly conduct. At the Nineteenth ward
station tbere were seven cases. Bobert and
Edward Clemens were sent SO days to the
workhouse for fighting. Nick Garnettwas
given 30 days to tho workhouse for entering
a house on Carver street. The others were
common drunks.
Nothing but Small Business. .
The-Twelfth and Seventeenth ward hear
ings before Magistrates MoKenna and Les
lie, while well up In numbers, were singu
larly devoid of interest. All the cases wered
of tbe common order, nna lignt sentences
resulted.
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Allegheny's Heatings.
The hearing before Mayor Wyman, of Al
legheny, was productive of 29 cases, but nono
of them were charged with any grave of
fense. Patrolman Ball succeeded in cap
turing seven boys, with the assistance of
Officers Bellly and Sliultz, In a vacant house
on Perrysvllle avenue. For some time the
neighbors have been complaining of the
habit of oung men from U to 20 years of
age, using the house as a loafing place and
drinking and carousing in it. At half past
tw o o'clock yesterday morning the noise at
tracted the officers who raided the place
and caught seven of them. The Mayor lec
tured them und let them go on their promise
to reform.
BEATEN WITH. A B0ABD.
An Alleghenlan Crippled, and His Assailant
Released From Custody.
Charles Grainor, a groceryman, of East
street, Allegheny, was assaulted by an un
known man on Saturday night. He was
hit on the head with a board, cutting his
head and breaking his jaw bone in a fearful
manner. Serious results may follow.
Mr. Grainor and his brother Were in a
wagon driving along Boyal street, in Be
6erve township, when they met a man driv
ing a team in the opposite direction. The
team was stalled, and the driver was whip
ping his horses, when Mr. Grainor remon
strated with him, and volunteered to drive
the team. Grainor jumped out of his own
wagon and was about to jump into the
wagon of the stranger when tbe
latter took offense at his interference,
and attacked him with the seat of the
wagon.
The first blow knocked Grainor down and
another cut his face from the ear to the
mouth, breaking his jaw bone and exposing
his teeth. The brother then came to the
rescue, but was beaten off. The fight at
tracted a crowd of some 200 people, all of
whom were about to pitch into the stranger,
when Constable Homan, of the township,
appeared and placed him under arrest.
The stranger was sent to the lockup in the
patrol wagon, but as the constable
had failed to state the man's offense aud no
warrant accompanied the body Chief Mur
phy would not allow him to be locked up
and ordered his release, particularly as he
knew nothing of the man's offending. Later
in the evening the unknown secured his
team w here it had been left standing, and
drove away, since which time no trace of
him has been found. His name was not
learned, and it is possible he may escape
arrest.
Meantime Mr. Grainor bad been taken to
his home and revived from the insensible
condition he had been beaten into. Dr. P.
"W. Heron was called to attend hem. He
sewed up his wounds, pronouncing the inju
ries to be very serious ones, and likelv to
result in a confinement at least for several
weeks.
SCABED BY THE LABEL.
A Bottle ot "Whisky that Frightens Two
Thirsty Old Soaks.
Yesterday was a pretty close day in
Allegheny, and had not the speak-easies
been watched effectually they doubtless
would have done a thriving business.
Drug stores had many customers begging
for "spiritus," but as the prescription did
not accompany the call the customers were
turned away empty-handed.
A customer at Egger's pharmacy, on East
Ohio street, however, was very per
sistent. He wanted just 10 cents'
worth "to rub on the sore
leg of his horse." He pleaded
so hard and stuck to his story so faithfully
inai ine cierK nnaiiy gave mm tne pure
liquor, but at the same time labeled the
bottle "poison." The customer's face
brightened up as he grasped the phial, and
almost ran out of the store. The clerk
w atched him and, as he suspected, the cus
tomer joined his "friend" around the cor
ner. They were about to swallow the con
tents, but politely insisted on drinking
"after you," when in the action the label met
their eyes. A halt- was made. They looked
at it long and intently, smelled of it, shook
their heads doubtfully, and finally poured
it out in the gutter. Shortly after the cus
tomer visited the store again and meekly
u-ked the clerk if he had sold him poison,
and collapsed when the clerk answered
that he had sold him the very best whisky
in the house.
Another customer in the same store was
given half a pint of water yesterday instead
of the "spirits" he asked for. He joined
his friend around the corner, -where both
men tasted it and shook their heads, swore
a little and dashed the bottle to pieces on
the sidewalk.
LOCKED UP THE LOCKSMITH.
S. Brooks, of Uniontown, Kejrarded as a Sus
picious Person for Being an Expert.
Yesterday Sidney Brooks, of Uniontown,
was arrested at the Baltimore and Ohio
depot and locked up as a suspicious charac
ter. On Friday among the prisoners was a
man named Carter. He had three skeleton
keys in his possession, which he said he had
gotten from Brooks. Yesterday Detective
Shore heard Brooks was in town, and after
a search found him at the depot:
Brooks denied all knowledge of tbe keys,
but he was locked up, all the same. Carter
has also been held. Brooks, for some years
has been engaged in the lock business, and
is known as an expert in ODcnine locks of
j any kind, boaeting that he can unlock any-
tning. ne is me man recently arrested on
a charge of stealing some clothes at the
Glenwood yard, on which charge he was
dismissed.
WILL PICNIC TO-DAY.
The Jacksonlan Democratic Club of Alle
gheny Go to Boss Grove.
The Jackson ian Club an organization com
posed of the best known young Democrats
in upper Allegheny will hold its annual
picnic at Boss Grove to-day.
The members of the club will meet at their
rooms, corner of Second and East streets
and headed by a band will march to the
"West Penn depot. The members have ex
erted themselves to make the picnic a suc
cess and a good time is assured those whp
attend.
TnE best class ol help respond to adver
tisements in the want columns of The Dis
patch. Only 'a cent a word no7
THE P1TTSBUKG- DISRSTCH. TiTONDAT, AUGUST 24, 1891
COUNTY FAIR 'WEEK.
Allegheny's Only Agricultural Ex
hibit for the Present Year
FAR IN ADVANCE OP LAST SEASON.
The Display of Fine Cattle-NeYerEqualed
in This Region.
OPENING-DArOFTIIE FAIE T0-M0RB0W
The only country fair in Allegheny
county will be held this week on the
grounds of the Tarentum Agricultural and
Driving Park Association. It will open to-;
morrow morning and continue until Friday
evening. This is only the second year of
the park's existence. ' It is beautifully situ
ated, high up on the Harrison township
plateau, commanding a magnificent view of
the windings of the Allegheny river, and
overlooking the old town of Tarentum, a
mile distant Fast trains on both the "West
Penn and Allegheny Valley Railroads reach
Tarentum in 30 and 40 minutes from Pitts
burg, so that from the very first the fair had
crowds of visitors from town. City people
generally enjoy an opportunity of seeing a
genuine, old-fashioned country fair, and
here was one right at their doors.
But the first fair held on the Tarentum
grounds last summer not only sprung into
favor with the city folk as a rustic counter
part of the Coney Island idea it had vastly
more useful results. In one brief year it
has led to a revival in the agricultural pur
suits of Allegheny county. They had un
questionably been on the wane for many
years. They had been overshadowed and
blighted by the importance of municipal in
terests. The two big cities in Allegheny
county seemed to absorb all its prosperity,
and as their -wealth and population in
creased the more the farmers of surrounding
townships were forgotten. There was no
hue and cry about the finer grades of
fertility being attained in our Allegheny
county soil; or of any increase in the num
ber of blooded live stock imported into our
Allegheny county barnyards; or of the big
cabbages, giant pumpkins or elegantly
flavored canteloupes grown bv Farmer "A"
or Farmer "B." Of course there were not
any columns of newspaper exultation along
these lines, because it was doubtful whether
extra fine soil, blooded stock or prodigious
garden truck could have been found in Al
legheny county without a microscope.
THE PKIDE Or EACH COCNTT.
"Washington countr had her fine sheen:
"Westmoreland her beautiful stock farms,
from whence come Pittsburg's powerful
draft horses; Butler, Beaver and Indiana
counties the garden truck, butter and
milk with which to supply the wants of
Allegheny county's two large cities. "With
the immense increase in the population of
Pittsburg and Allegheny, there was a pro
portionate increase In the demand for food.
For some reason the farmers of Allegheny
county never met this demand. If every
farm along the "West Penn Bailroad be
tween Sharpsburg and Freeport had been
turned into gardens for the finer grades of
products, if the farmers along the Alle
gheny Valley Bailroad, the Ft. Wayne and
Chicago, the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bail
road, or the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charles
ton Bailroad in short, it farmers all over
Allephenv countv had let the 2reat "West
take care of the corn, wheat and oats, and
VinH WkfitAnrl 4-iwnnl 4haii n nva inA Tina
fruits, garden truck, dairy products, eta,
how easily and profitably all of it would
have found, ready sale witn the 350,000 peo
ple clustered about the junction of the
Bivers Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio.
Some Allegheny county farmers will give
an excuse for what looks like their want of
foresight and enterprise. They will tel
you that they are woefully neglected by the
county government because the corporation
interests of Pittsburg and Allegheny claim
all the attention and public money, and
because sufficient encouragement is not
given the rural residents of this
county for the perpetuity of agri
cultural pursuits, xney will say that the
only interest Pittsburg economists ever
take in the agricultural land of the county
is to test it for natural as, oil or coal, and
drop it quickly if they find that "'it is only
fit for tanning." They will declare that
they, the farmers, are never cajoled by the
citizens of Pittsburg, unless there he a
particular set of county officials to be elected
by the farmer vote, or a new Court House
to be erected by farmers' taxes.
ALLEGHENY'S GEEAT -WANT.
Be all this as it may, it was the testi
mony of the members of The Dispatch
County Boad Expedition, last year, that
whenever they missed finger-boards from the
trees at cross-roads they always put it down
that they had once more crossed over into
Allegheny county; that when they found
ram-shackle wooden bridges over creeks,
they knew the difference at once between
them and the substantial iron bridges of
Armstrong or Westmoreland counties, and
they found their guess eorrect, viz: that
they had struck Allegheny county again.
The summary of the exploring pa'rty's in
vestigations rankediocalities witn wretch
edly kept up roads in the following order:
First, oil fields; second, Allegheny county:
third, and last, unusually rich agricultural
regions,
Perhaps the strongest evidence of all that
something was lacking in the agricultural
interests of Allegheny county was the fact
that everv other county in "Western Penn
sylvania held fairs regularly every year.
They resulted in competition, and the other
counties thrived in their agricultural inter
ests in consequence. But Allegheuy had
none. There again the farmers complained.
They said the Pittsburg Exposition and
Homewood Driving Park knocked out all
hopes of success for a rural exposition.
Notwithstanding all this, though, the
first agricultural lair at the Tarentum Park
last ear was a success. A reporter of The
Dispatch has taken some pains during the
past week to investigate the more substan
tial results ot the rivalry set on loot there
among Allegheny county farmers. Here
are a lew significant instances:
Mr. P. Quinette, a farmer along Deer
creek, had his enthusiasm aroused by the
fine exhibit of sheep he saw at the fair. He
made up his mind to go the exhibit one bet
ter, and not let Allegheny county be beaten.
So he went up to Torento and spent $300 in
fine sheep, paying 48 a head tor his ewes
and $80 lor the bucks.
IMPORTATIONS OP FINE STOCK.
Mrs. Hugh Barr, of Tarentum, made a
study of the cattle exhibits, and brought to
this country a Jersey calf. A staid old
farmer from Sarver station has also im
ported a bull. A farmer at Spripgdale had
a couple ot heads of cabbage. "Take a pre
mium on them and I'll give you 510 for
your trouble," said a friend who had
coaxed him to exhibit Sure enough
he won the premium for cabbage,
pocketed tbe $10 besides, and since then has
found it hard to satisfy the demand of farm
ers in all that part of Allegheny county for
seed to raise that now famous cabbage.
Turnips, pumpkins, apples, fine garden
products exhibited last year by the wives of
Allegheny county farmers excited the jeal
ousies of other Allegheny county farmers'
wives, and daughters too, and the writer has
heard of scores ot farms in that section of
the county where special little gardens,
special little fences, aud very special care
are being kept up to produce
something that will lay over neigh
bor so and so's pumpkins, cucumbers,
or fruits." In the immediate neighborhood
of the fairgrounds there are at least two
farms used this year entirely for the culture
ot garden stuff intended for marketing in
Pittsburg, where last year the fields only
raised hay, corn ot weeds.
The very strongest indications of a revival
in agricultural pursuits, however, are found,
in the extensive arrangements lieiii'-' made
to satisfy the demand for apace in tbe i'arcn-
turn fair this year. Additional chicken
houses have been erected for 180 more fowls.
The stalls have been improved until 200
horses can be accommodated. Up to yester
day 150 exhibition horses had been entered.
They embrace the magnificent stallions, the
powerful draft horses of Clydesdale and
and Percheron extraction, the showy coach
equines and the serviceable family cobs.
There had also been entered up to last
night 70 speed horses. All these figures
are ahead of the extent of last years ex
hibit. NECESSITY FOB MORE F.O0M.
So many more pigs, cows and 'sheep have
been entered this year above the capacity of
last year, that the pens for swine have been
enlarged, cattle pens remodeled and sheep
folds overhauled. A new feed house had to
be erected for this increase in Allegheny
county live stock, and as a great many more
farmers will be in daily attendance to take
pare of them carpenters have also just fin
ished additional buildings for restaurants,
etc. The fruit and floral departments have
each been gone over with an eye to meeting
all the demands for space. In every way
the applications for the privilege of exhibit
indicate a healthy renewal of agricultural
ambitions.
Tuesday will be altogether devoted to
receiving livestock dnd classifying exhibits.
The races will begin Tuesday and continue
all week. "Wednesday will be the first day
of real interest. Cattle, sheep and swine
will be judged, and a cavalcade of all the
horses on the grounds will take .place
at 3 p. m. On Thursday another cavalcade
of both horses and cattle will be
held, and the show horses w ill be judged.
In the Farmers' trot no professional drivers
will be allowed. This one race is intended
to encourage the breeding and training of
driving horses by farmers. To encourage
the breeding and importation of fine cattle,
sheep, poultry, swine, eta, premiums will
be awarded. Fven an educational depart
ment and a domestic department have not
been overlooked, but in both premiums
have been boored for penmanship, fancy
needlework, eta
H. 2?. Brackinridge is President of the
Fair Association; B. S. P. McCall, Secre
tary, and O. C. Camp, Treasurer. The dif
ferent departments are in the hands of prac
tical Allegheny county farmers, and the
stockholders are nearly all suburban resi
dents of the Allegheny valley. A few
shares are held by Pittsburgers, among
them ex-Mayor McfJollin, Senator "William
Flinn, Magistrate John Gripp, Max Klein
and Senator John Keeb. They went into
it solely to encourage agriculture. The
charter allowed no dividends to accrue to
stockholders, all profits to go into the im
provement of the grounds.
DR. STEWART'S DEATH.
Important Evidence Develops Which Car
ries With It Grave Responsibilities lie
Was Fut Off a Train, With a Ticket in
Ills Pocket.
The Coroner's inquest on the death of Dr.
Samuel Stewart, of Hulton, who was killed
by a work train of the Allegheny Valley
Bailroad, at "Wildwood, on Saturday after
noon, will be held at the Court House to
day. The investigation of the Coroner
will be very searching in view of certain in
formation he received yesterday.
Mr. James Clark w as a passenger on the
same train with Dr. Stewart, and saw him
get on the Braeburn accommodation at But
ler Btreet about 4:45 Saturday afternoon.
The doctor sat down in the seat in front of
Mr. Clark, and soon afterward the con
ductor came along for his ticket. Dr. Stew
art was 70 vears of age, and has lately been
rather feeble and forgetful. It is reported
that when the conductor came for
his ticket he fumbled around through
his pockets in search of it. The
conductor waited some little time. Being
in a hurry and evidently not believing the
old gentleman bad a ticket, ne stopped the
train and put him oft" at "Wildwoocf. It is
not known how long afterward it was the
accident occurred which cost Dr. Stewart
his life. A work train passed along and
caught him on the curve near "Wildwood,
and when the body was searched at the
morgue the missing railroad ticket was
found in the old gentlemen's vest pocket.
Dr. Stewart was a native of Dublin, Ire
land, and a graduate of tbe Dublin Uni
versity. He came here and began the
practice of medicine at Bakerstown, this
county, 45 years ago. He married a daugh
ter ot the Bev. James'McConnell, of East
Deer township, and they had a family of
children, only two of whom survive, a
widowed daughter with whom the doctor
made his home at Hulton, and a son who
is in the glass business at Streator, 111. His
son had been here visiting the doctor and
had purchased his ticket aud put him on
the train at the Sharpsburg bridge, intend
ing then to come to union fetation and take
an early train foi the "West. He had the
body removed home from the morgue last
evening and will remain for the interment
to-morrow morning.
GOT IN BY THE WINDOW.
A Sonthslder So Attempts to Xnter a House1,
and Is Shot At.
About 2 o'clock yesterday morning Phil
lip Gossell, an Italian, living at 161 Carver
street, East End, was awakened from his
sleep by hearing some one attempting to
enter his room by way of the window. Mr.
Gossell had his revolver handy and fired a
shot at the intruder, who dropped to the
ground and got out of the wav. Lieuten
ant Snyder heard the shot, and hurrying to
the place, found the man who had been
shot at and placed him under arrest. At
the station the prisoner gave his name as
Nicholas Garreth and stated that he roomed
in the house and was only trying to get to
his room.
Mr. Gossell was under the impression that
Garreth wanted to rob him, as he could
easilv have entered the house by the door.
At the hearing yesterday morning Magis
trate Hyndman sent Garreth to the work
house for 30 days.
A FAMOUS OLD SEA DOG.
Captain "William Wllligerod, of the Spree,
and His Great Record.
Captain William "Willigerod, of the North
German Lloyd steamer Spree, passed
through the city yesterday en route from
Milwaukee to New York, from where he
will return to Germany. The Captain is a
.jolly old fellow, and during his stay at the
Union depot talked very entertainingly
about life at sea.
The fastest time made by any steamer,
says the Captain, will yet be beaten by'
several hours, but he does not think this
racing will be kept up much longer on ac
count of the great expense. The Captain,
during his connection with the German
Lloyd Company, has crossed -the ocean 181
times and has carried over 270,000 passen
gers. In 1803 he brought Joseph Pulitzer,
then a penniless youth, from Europe to
America.
STANDS BY M'KINLEY.
A Toung Ohio Man Who Sees How tbe "Wind
"Will Blow.
Charles "W. Chambers, a handsome young
commercial traveler from Mansfield, O., is
in the city, a guest at the Hotel Schlosser.
"While Charley hails from a Democratic
stronghold, he feels it his duty to shout for
Major McKinley and Bepublican success
in the Buckeye State this fall.
"McKinley is sure of election," said Mr.
Chambers last eeuing, "and he will have
a majoritv to be proud of. Ohio voters are
not the kind to go against the Bepublican
candidate a year like this when so much is
at stake. It is a fight on the tariff, and pro
tection will win."
Shortsighted
To leave stocks, bonds and valuables in
safes accessible to others when you can for
a small sum have your own private box in
the safe-deposit vaults of the Farmers' De
posit National Bank, C6 Fourth avenue.
Administrators, executors, guardians and
o hers will find it to their adtantagc to
fook into this. Mvr
SCORED ON SUNDAY.
A large Coneregation,.Attracte6r-by.-Some
Unique Advertising,
LISTENS TO DR. GEORGE'S SERMON.
Rev. Eooert A. Cutler Talks Entertainingly
for a Few Minutes.
OTHER PULPIT TOPICS OP YESTERDAY
Bev. H. H. George, of Geneva College,
preached last night at the Central B. P.
Church of Allegheny, on "The dangers
threatening the Sabbath." The city had
been billed as though for a circus, and
thousands of dodgers were distributed many
of them by ladies. As a result, the house
was crowded to the doors, by an audience
that listened attentively to the reverened
gentleman as he thundered denunciations
from the pulpit against modern Sunday
desecration. First he described Sunday as
it should be a "home" day, a day too sacred
to be spent in visiting any house but the
house of God. The law of Sabbath obser
vance was a law of God. He traced, briefly,
the working out of that law,
down along the line of history
coming down to the Puritan Fathers, who,
it might be said, "smoothed off the face of
Plymouth Bock" and wrote that command
that Moses wrote on Sinai: "Eeraember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
"AVe are asked," he continued, " 'But do
you want the Puritan Sabbath, with all its
restrictions and fanaticism?' I ask you, do
yon want the Continental Sabbath, with its
freedom, its license, its vice and crime?
Pittsburg, we are glad to say, has a clean
Sabbath. Here it is impossible to buy a
glass of soda water, but there are cities in
this country where the Sabbath approaches
a continental aspeot. Cincinnati is to-night
largely free and open; three-fourths of the
population of Chicago would vote to-day
tor a continental Sabbath; St. Louis is the
same; New Orleans is worse; San Francisco
is 20 times as bad. Now is it not time for
us to stop and consider where "we are? If
we would prevent this danger that threat
ens our homes and the sacredness of the
Sabbaih, we must unite, and we must
fight.
"One of the most gigantic dangers that
is mowing down and crushing and destroy
ing our Christian institutions is the United
States mail system. This is the foundation
of it all, and this Government, which does
not recognize God in its Constitution, is at
the bottom of this. The whole system is
wrong and is a sin against the Most High,
and it must be stopped."
Mr. George then proceeded to demon
strate the utter lack of any necessity for
the handling of the mails on Sunday.
"London, over there, a small village in
which considerable business is transacted
probably as much as in Allegheny has no
Sunday mails and no inconvenience is ex
perienced." The railroads, saloons and other things
were then touched upon. In speaking of
the "World's Fair he stated that the contro
versy about keeping it open on Sunday was
the greatest fight this country ever had, and
if those doors are thrown open on the Lord's
Day this nation will leap backward 100
years into heathendom.
A GOOD SHOBT SEBMON.
An Invitation to Come and See tho Mighty
"Workings of the Lord.
The cosy little auditorium of tbe Central
Christian Church, corner of Caldwell and
Pride streets, was comfortably filled last
evening with warm-weather worshipers,
who had come to see what the pastor had to
say on his announced subject: "Come and
See." They heard a very able and enter
taing sermon by the young minister, Bev.
Bobert A. Cutler, though he talked less
than 15 minutes.
Discussing the words of his subject the
pastor briefly referred to tbe high claims
Jesus makes for Himself, and the striking
neculiaritv of Bible expression in its sim
plicity. He compared the Bible language
with that of other works, and said that even
a child could read chapter after chapter of
Scripture and not find an obscure word or
one that it could not understand. The
simple and beautiful imagery and poetry of
the Bible where in literature are their
equal? he inquired.
Then taking up more properly his text,
contained in David, 'Come and "see the
mighty workings of the Lord," the pastor
cited innumerable Bible quotations where
the expression "Come and see" bore di
rectly upon the lessons which he desired to
impress. To those who disputed the resur
rection of Christ Mary and the Angel said
"Come and see." "When Nathaniel asked
Philip, "Can any good come out of Naza
reth? the reply was "Come and see." The
bumble abodes of Jesus were described, and
the question suggested: "Can we ask to-day,
'Master, where dwellest Thou? " "Yes,"
was the reply, "Come and see" come to the
Christian and there Jesus dwells in his
heart. Have you in your heart lurking
some secret sin? Then come and see Jesus
now. Go to your home and kneel by your
mother's side and confess it. Then go into
your closet. After Nathaniel, who asked
"Can any good come out of Nazereth?" had
consulted with Jesus.he said: "Master.Thou
art the Son of God, the King of Israel." If
we accept the invitations to come and see
we will believe them' all.
SPntlTUAL WELFABE.
Bev.
Henry Tarrant, of St. Mark's Episco
pal Chnrcli, Gives His Opinions.
Bev. Henry Tarrant, of St. Mark's Epis
copal Church, Southside, took for his text
yesterday morning, Isaiah v., 6: "I will
also command the clouds that they rain no
rain upon it." He said: "The words of
the text represent God's vineyard, and the
main idea conveyed is the means without
the blessing. Bain is essential to the pro
duction of all vegetable matter. The in
fluence of the Holy Spirit, represented by
the rain, is essential to the growth of all
spiritual life. The withdrawment of the
Holy Spirit is the last and most terrible of
God's temporary judgments. "What does
this mean to us? A great many things.
The ministry permitted to preach without
power, ordinances and sacraments, are ad
ministered without the divine blessing; con
gregations are gathered without Christ be
ing felt; the word of God is read without
any application of it to the human soul, and
what are the consequences? Personal hu
miliation, and of the need of an atoning
Savior. The way to avoid the consequences
of havinsr means without the blessimr is to
acknowledge one's un worthiness both of the
means and the blessings, and to confess our
entire dependence upon the spiritual influ
ence to gather encouragement" from tbe
slightest indication of the divine presence."
AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW
Of the Future of tho Chnrch, by a Preacher
From Nebraska.
Bev. P. P. Boyd, of St. Superior, Neb.,
conducted the services yesterday at the
Allegheny B. V. Church, comer of San
dusky and North Diamond street. He chose
for his text Bevelation xi, 15: "The king
doms of this world are become the king
doms of our Lord, and He shall reign for
ever and ever." Mr. Boyd took an opti
mistic view of the church, and after touch
ing on the prophecies in this chapter, and
in the Book of Isaiah, said: "From the
trials and tribulations through which l.he
church has passed, and has yet te pass, she
will finally come forth triumphant. The
sruth, as revealed by Christ, will be be
lieved and accepted by all nations. The
Bible is a revelation of what we were, and
what we must become. To open the seal of
this book, Christ came from his inherit-
ance of glory and lived among men, and
died on the cross.
"The Christian religion is gaining in
power and elorv. It towers far above the
collosal systems of idolatory. The blade of
saennce is blunted by time and rusting in
its scabbard. It is spreading through every
clime little bands of Christians here, little
bands ot Christians there. In Madagascar,
in Africa, in Asia and the isles of the sea
their white-winged sails are on every
ocean."
He reminded his bearers that tbe united
action of every member of every church was
necessary. "See that ye fall not out by the
way," said he. "We can point to denomi
nations to-day that are shaken from center
to circumference by controversy and dis
pute, and the hosts of infidelity are jubi
lant." THE HOSPITAL BENEFIT.
Arrangements for the Fairies' Carnival Mak
t ing Good Progress now the His Stage,
the Scenery, Costumes and Other Neces
saries Are Being Constructed.
The magnificent arrangements for the
great Homoeopathic Hospital benefit, though
necessarily on a collossal scale, costingthou
sands of money and the time and labor of a
thouand persons in the cast of the "Fairies
Carnival," are progressing so handsomely
that nothing short of stormy weather can
prevent it from being a most gratifying suc
cess. The task of collecting a thousand chil
dren, necessary for the production of
the musical and spectacular effects of a
pantomine and operetta of such
proportions, has not been one of the
most easy tasks, though through
the efforts of the Ladies' Society of the
hospital and other friends of the institution,
the Sabbath schools have been induced to
lend good assistance, and the cast will be
complete, with pretty prattlers to spare.
Many children were brought home from the
country to take part. Mr. H. P. Ecker, the
musical director, has been met with flatter
ing success in the rehearsals, as has also Mr.
J. Edgar Owen, the author and nroDrietor
of the play. Another rehearsal in the pretty
marencs, nances ana songs will take place
this morning, and to-night the 200 or 300
choir boys, who are to take part, will also'
be trained in their parts.
The attractive costumes, 1,000 in num
ber, are being made at the Central Bink,
which presents the appearance of a very
active juvenile tailoring establishment. A
large force of sewing girls has been engaged
for this part of the work, and all necessary
machines were kindly lent free to the
Ladies Society by the New Home Sewing
Machine Company. Many of the costumes
are being made so as to transform the little
performers into fairies and prettv butter
flies, bees, and crickets, and fantastic, in
deed. The contract for the construction of
the enormous stage to be erected in front of
the grand Btand in Exposition Park was let
on Saturday to Murphy & Hamilton. It is
to be 300 feet long, "and so substantially
built as to preclude the possibility of
danger. John Johnson, the scenic
artist, is busily engaged . in
the production of 200 yards " of
Fairyland scenery, which is from designs
especially prepared for this exhibition. In
addition to the electric lights, 12 calcium
lights have been arranged to show the daz
zling spectacle properly and lend pleasing
sharps and shadows.
Some of the members of the committee of
the Ladies' Society, which is composed of
Mrs. "William Thaw, Mrs. George L. McCoy,
Mrs. J. J. Vandegnft, Mrs. Norman M.
Smith, Miss McClelland, Miss Pitcairn,Mrs.
"W. J. Moreland and Miss "Woods, are al
ways present at the rehearsals, witnessing
the progress of the entertainment and look
ing to the care of the children. Tickets will
be placed on sale by the members of the
Ladies' Society and at various places of bus
iness throughout Pittsburg and Allegheny
to-day. It is hoped and believed that the
receipts will reach 515,000, which will net a
good profit to the hospital fund, which is
short this year.
MISSED IT ONCE MORE.
Sirs. Mattlson Fails to Diagnose the Case
of Valentine Bishop Shall He Is Suffer
ing From Typhoid Fever Only One
Place Was She Bight.
Mrs. Dr. Mattison's communion with the
spirits yesterday was not a pronounced sne
cess. She failed in every particular, and
there is only one point on which to hang a
hope. She said that while the case was
being diagnosed a short woman entered the
room carrying a bowL At the time there
was a short woman who carried a glass of
water to the patient under treatment.
"When The Dispatch received a request
from its Lily Dale correspondent for an
other test, Dr. "W. F. Edmundson, of Fifth
avenue, was asked to give his assistance in
the matter. Mrs. Mattison asked for the
full'name, age and sex of the patient, and
said she would prefer to have the patient in
a private house, as there are so many in a
hospital. The following telegram was sent
Mrs. Mattison:
Hero is diagram for the test: Sunday
morning, 10 o'clock, standard time. Patient,
Valentine BUhop Shull, male, 10 years 6
months. Kcsidence, 73 ilain street, Sixth
ward, Pittsburg: room second story. All
arranged for 10 o'clock in the morning.
On account of the telegram having been
delayed the test was postponed to 5 P. ar.
Dr. Edmundson was accompanied by "Willis
J. K. Perrine, who slightly leans to spirit
ualism. In the room .also was the boy's
mother. The doctor's diagnosis follows:
l'ulso 96, temperature 99 4-5. Diarrhcea,
tongue coated brown. Xo pains oraches.
Clear case of ty plioid fever.
The boy is not seriously ill, but his case
may develop, or it may be only a mild at
tack. The Dispatch correspondent at Lily
Dale seuds the following as the result of
Mrs. Mattison's trance diagnosis:
Tho medium was in a hurrv to catch a
train and tbe test was hastily made, she
was not sure she had the right place, as tho
number ol room was not mentioned. She
described the place as a large brown house
with the outer door in the middle of build
ing. She said on going upstairs and turning
to the left she found in tbe third room a.
lame boy under the effect of opiates, and
eho would not make tho diagnosis until he
was free from its effect. Two persons, a
man and a woman, were in the room besides
tho patient. There were three windows.
Tho loom contained a sofa, lour chairs and
a stool. Another short woman entered tho
room w ith something in a bowl.
Dr. Edmundson says the patient has had
no opiates at all and could not have had, in
the condition named. He is not lame, and
the only illness is typhoid fever. The room
is the second after turning to the left on the
second floor. A small servant girl entered
during the diagnosis, carrying a glass of
water.
ELECTED DALZELL DELEGATES.
Tho Result of the Ballots of the Standard
C. I. Magee Club.
The Standard C. L. Magee Club at their
meeting Saturday night elected John
Ginley, President; Thomas Donahue, Vice
President; John O'Hanlon, Secretary; and
M. J. Donahue, Treasurer. John Ginley,
M. J. Donahue and John O'Hanlon were
elected delegates to the League convention,
with Frank Caanaugh, T. Donahue and
Fred Mcgle alternates. The delegates were
instructed for Dalzell.
This club was organized in 1831 and for a
long time was known as the Fifth Avenue
Bepublican Club. It has taken part in
every campaign since its organization. The
members are young men residing in the
Sixth, Eleventh and Fourteenth wards.
A Question of Jlrains or Booze.
Patrick Clary, of "Wilkins street, Alle
gheny, was taken to the Allegheny General
Hospital yesterday in the belief that he was
insane. He fell off a high pair of steps a
few days ago and alighted on his head, and
by some he is said to nave injured his brain.
At the hospital, however, he is thought to
have too freely indulged in liquor.
EIYALS EOE TKADE,
Tests to Be Made of Steel From
Homestead and Bethlehem
FOR GOVERNMENT ARMORED SHIPS.
Which Ever Firm Makes the Best 2IateriaI
Will Get the Orders.
THE HARVEY PROCESS TO BE APPLIED
H. A. Harvey, Jr., a son of the owner of
the celebrated process for treating steel, is
staying at the Anderson. He is here to su
perintend the application of that process to
armor plates now being made by"
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., for Govern
ment vessels. From what Mr. Har
vey stated in "a conversation yester
day it seems that Carnegie, Phipps Ss
Co. and the Bethlehem firm are engaged
in rivalry as to qualities of plates turned
out. The government has recently ordered
21,000 tons of armor plates, about equally
divided between the two firms. Thesa
plates, when made, would be treated by the
Harvey process.
Preparatory to the entire order being
placed in hands a test of the steel made at
each works would be made at Indian Head.
The tests of each firm's make would be made
by the Government, and the Government
officers and representatives of the firm
whose steel was being tested would be per
mitted to be present.
TWO FIKMS IX r-IVALKV.
The. Government desired to obtain th
best armor to be had, and it expected by
this meaa to ascertain which firm turned
out the best plates. The one firm would
not be allowed to witness tbe tests of the
other's material because of any advantage
that might accrue to one over the other.
These plates are to be ten inches thick. Mr.
Harvey stated that the process known by
his name would be applied at the re
spective points of manufacture. "When asked
if his people were not afraid of the latter
being observed and copied, he said the pro
cess was a secret and they had no fear of its
becoming known.
Mr. Harvey remarked that the process
could be applied to either steel or nickel
steeL Begardingthe Iatterhe did not know
the Government was inquiring into its use
as armor plate, but he conjectured from tho
Government having invested 1,000,000 in
the mineral, that it proposed to use nickel
steel somewhere or other. The atten
tion ot Commodore Folger, he said, had
been recently drawn to a nickel-steel aud
manganese bronze, reputed as possessing
extraordinary qualities, which nad beea
made by a Pittsburg gentleman named Har
rington. The Commodore had instructed
an inspector detailed for duty in this dis
trict to report on the subject.
INQUIBDfO I2JTO NEW JIETAXS.
Mr. Harvey was without official informa
tion as to the" nature of the report, but ho
had learned that it had been very commen
datory of the material. He understood that
the Bureau of Ordnance would still furthei
investigate into the merits of this new ma
terial. Mr. Harvey is of the opinion that alK
steel armor plates are superior to others
composed of nickel-steel plates. He thinks
that a mateaial which, when penetrated,
yields with radiating cracks, as does all
steel with a hard face and soft backing it
makes the best kind of armor. Nickel
steel armor does not yield. The shot in
penetrating does so without cracking the
plate, and makes a clear hole. He think?
that, so far as reeent tests have gone, Gov
ernment is satisfied that all-steel armor
plates are the most serviceable.
Referring again to the tests into tha
quality ot the Homestead and Bethlehem
steel Mr. Harvey said that which ever firm
makes the best material as proven at Indian
Head in about six week's time would un
doubtedlv get the bulk of the Government
work. Mr. Harvey is here to inspect tha
Homestead plate and superintend tha
Harvey process.
FIVE UNFOETUNATES ON THE LIST.
The Accidents of Two Bays "Were Mora
Painful Than Serious.
Of two days' mishaps a little girl run
over by a wagon affords the most serious
case. The list is as follows:
ITobd 31iss Ford, a young Allegheny lady,
cut off two of her fingers in a singular man
ner Saturday night. She was talking with
Mr. Herbert, at the corner of Xorthavenno
and East street, and the latter had a razor
in his hand. Miss Ford desired to examine
it and in attempting to close the razor she
held her hand over tho opening so that the
blade came down on her hand and partly
chopped off two of her lingers.
Stabb Mrs. William btarr, tne wife of a
baker living at No. 1 Lacock street, Alle
gheny, was severely burned about tbe faco
iiy an explosion of a gasoline torch yester
day morning. The torch had been packed
In a barrel and sent from Bock Point Satur
day, and while using a lighted match to re
move it from the barrel the gas caught and
exploded. Her injury is not a serious one.
Beows Dennis Brown was struck by a
train of the Ft. Wayne road in Allegheny
yesterday while walking along the track.
The cars passed over his arm. He was taken
to the Allegheny General Hospital, where it
was amputated.
Kramer On Saturday afternoon, a 3-year-old
daughter of H. w. Kramer, of KasS
street extension, Allegheny, whilo playing
on the street was run over by a hay wagon.
The wagon passed over the child's thighs,
crushing them so badly that she may die.
"Sstrrn Albert Smith, a laborer employed
at tho Lluden steel works, was badly burnt
last night. He was nassing a natural gas
jet, when It suddenly flared up, setting lira
to his clothing. Before the Are could be ex
tinguished he was seriously burnt about the
head, face and hands. He was removed to
his home on Linden Hill.
THE SILENT BEAPEE ABB0AD.
An Octogenarian and Old Soldier Join tha
Great Majority.
Union Veteran League No. 1 lost another
of its members in the death of James S. JC
Huff, who died at the home of his sister.
Mrs. AVilson, at 170 Bobinson street, Alle
gheny, yesterday. Mr. Huff was a membal
of Company F, Pennsylvania Tolunteers.in
which he made a creditable record. He
was an engineer by occupation. The
funeral takes place from the house at 8
o'clock, from whence the remains will ba
conveyed to Tarentum for interment.
Another Pittsburg octoganarian passed
away vesterday morning in the death of
Mrs. Nancy H. Chambers, relict of the lata
Matthew Chambers. The funeral takes
place to-morrow at 10 o'clock from the resi
dence of Dr. Calvin King, of Neville street.
FELL DEAD IK DETBOIL
Sad Fate of Charles North, a Weil-Known
Pittsburg; Contractor.
Bobert North, of Lawrence ville, received
a telegram yesterday morning about 11
o'clock stating that his father, Charles
North, had dropped dead on the street in
Detroit abont 8 o'clock.
Charles North had taken his wife, who
had been in very" poor health, to Mt.
Clemens to recuperate, and was returning
home by way of Detroit. Mr. North was a
retired contractor, and a well-to-do citizen
of Lawrenceville. He was about CO years
of age, and lived on Butler street, neat
Forty-ninth. Bobert North started for
Detroit immediately after receiving the sad
news.
SI We Mean .Business Si.
A dozen fine cabinets $1, or a large pic
ture for framing $1, or a life-t ize crayon
portrait S3, during this week only. This
means the good work or no delivery. Coma
early and bring baby to
Javess & Ca's,
77 Fifth avenue.
Over Mcllor & Hoene's musio store.
Totj can easily get a situation by adver
tising in the want columns of The Dia
patuh. Oje cent a word is all it costs.
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