V
TBE HCU3ES FOB IT.-
Small Ails for Two Weeks
Ending
Oct. 3, ISill 2.913
Sairr rcrlpd 180O...l,8U3
Increase, 1,020.
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR
COST OFMOPEBBM
Ina Score of Counties of the
State Under a S3rstem
"Which Is a
HEAL EELIC OF BABBARISM.
In Over 400 Townships the Poor Are
Practicallv Sold at Anction.
MUCH ILLNESS AND MANY LURIALS
Where This Method Is Fureued, Thereby
Adding to the Eipensc.
flGURES-TUAT ABE TRULY STARTLING
no. I.
I have been investigating one of the worst
evils in Pennsylvania. It is the dangerous
policy pursued by many of the counties in
dealing w ith their paupers. Few persons
have any idea of the ruinous results grow
ing out of the operation of the antiquated
poor law of 1836- Ruinous alike to the tax
payer and the pauper. To thoroughly sift
these, nnd bring them before an intelligent
and advanced public, The Dispatch com
missioned me to travel wherever the work
took me. I did not have to go far, how
ever, to discover a startling condition of af
iairs. Iu Armstrong county 525,738 is being
spent on the poor this year. In Blair
county only 515,S59 of a poor tax was neces
sary. The paupers of Armstrong county
came from among a population of 46,747,
while the population of Blair county is very
ranch greater, viz., 70,866. Why is it that
with not much more than half the number
of inhabitants, Armstrong must raise $10,
000 more poor tax than Blair?
A COMPARISON OF COUNTIES.
Bntler county has raised this year 520,877
poor tax, and Butler has a population of
C5,339 human beings to create the circum
stances under which some people will always
be poor. Tet on this same Pennsylvania
soil there is Northampton county, with an
aggregate of 84,220 inhabitants to create the
same state of society by which the more
unfortunate .' us will be underneath. In
the natural order of things, you wonld
suppose that Northampton's pauperism
would cost more than Butler county's, but
Northampton had only to levy enough tax
this year to raise 516,000, nearly 55,000 less
than Bntler.
One more instance, that of Clearfield
county. The paupers of that hardy district
w ill be supported with 44,420, raised from
among 69,565 people. Six hours' ride from
there you will step off the cars in Lancaster
county, with its populous city of Lancas
ter. Including tliat city the county has a
population of 1411,095, and there the paupers
must certainly be asnumerous in proportion.
But Lancaster county only found it necessary
this year to tax the people 547,000 for the
careoftheunfortunatebrothersandsistersits
nctive competition produced. That is only
f 2.G00 more than Clearfield county raised,
and yet Clearfield has much less than half
as many inhabitants.
A BEMAKKAB1E EXAMPLE.
The foregoing are among the larger-counties.
Here is a remarkable sample from
among the smaller ones: Elk county has
taxed its citizens this year 513,990 to sup
port the poor, and that had to be raised
among a population of 22.2J59. Perry county
"Little Perry" they call it in the Legis
lature only taxed its people 56,031, and it
poes Elk county 4,000 better in population.
Where would you rather live? In Perry,
of course, where you would see more people
irom your window, and uot have to pay
such high taxes.
The sum of 513,950 for the poor in Elk
county! Think of it! "Why, across in Cam
bria county, where G6,375 people reside, and
where they had a flood not long since that
sweptout of existence all the purses, jewelry
snd bankbooks of most of the people, the
poor-tax lat year was only that figure
513,321. to be exact, and that is a trifle less
than Elk's levy.
"Why this striking difference? Some
thing in our social condition must be seri
ously out of joint what is it?
WITH TUB OVERSEER PLAN.
A question to be clearly answered must
be clearly asked, and, to make the outline of
the situation all the more distinct, before
attacking its foundations, I wish to submit
mo groups ui counties wnioli l hove pre
pared witii ane regard lor accuracy. The
counties n which the ancient system of
township cerscers ol the poor is still in
force, either in whole or parts of the
counties, I have embraced in the first group,
which is as follows-
COCXTIES. O SO
: ?
Armstrong $25,733 19 $22 800 oo' 46 747
Bntler 20,877 07 18,500 OOl 55 3.ffl
Cetitor 21,(O0 CO' 19500 01' G)
Columbia 31,786 oil 2C3UJ M1 3i!s3"
Carbon - 36,000 00 34,OlO Ml . 3 1C4
Cameron S574 00 2,550 00 ' 7H3
Clarion 22,500 CO 21.389 87! 3s's02
Clearfield v.. 44,420 57 41,873 73 09 563
Elk 13.990 00, 11,40b Wi 22 239
Tulton 1,246 57 1354 99' 101.17
Indiana,, 22 9S2 3S' 20,000 00 42.175
Jefferson 13,4 171 11,000 00 44 005
.Inn in ta J0.5j83 11 53 23' 16C5".
1-awrenco - J9703 71' 22,949 40,37,5:7
Monioe 930236 f,000 00 20111
Jiiontour 10,533 40 11,145 07 15,64
l'ottor 9.051 2 7,PH M)j 22.77S
IMKe 3,228 95 4.304 U I 9,412
Mlllivmi 3,706 431 3,S91 87 11 (HO
nyder 8,00, 00i 7,000 00 17G51
Sli-;l.tina... 21,603 89 21,029 20 0,USi!
Union 9,000 00! 8,500 OOl 17.K20
Waviiu 17,343 471 16,820 25131,010
Wyoming 4,274 391 6,707 OOl 15,rt)l
TotnU $384,027 49i$C5!,2S5 751709,275
The co'in;!s marked with a star are not
oSiciai, bui are estimated from such good
sources as to ghe them nearly the same
-aliie se the others. All other of the
counties arc officially recorded here, the
figures being taktn from the returns which
the various County Commissioners have
been making within the last month or two
to the Secretary ol Litcrn&l Aflairs.
N.nEn TIIK ALMSHOC&B SYSTEM.
The serond g-oup I have collated is com
posed of f'ou-ties having the County Alms
house sytem. It is as follows:
Adams
ll'-ilr.
Jli-dtcira
Huclc..
Cniuunn,...
Chester ,
Dauph'n.....
I $12 350 00
$11,100 O0
15.S.VI 74
11.IK10 00
12,000 00
ir-,321 41
32012 II
33.486
70
3r4t
70 615
E6 375
89,377
96,177
15,83:1 61
11.000 00
10500 OU
13,321 4!
27,116 32
23,000 00,
2S.00O GO
S3 ' I 3
COO.NTlFS. r - OS
: "
z z
51,453
28,935
35,751
201,203
149,09$
55,744
123,290
84,220
26,276
46 640
37,58
71,155
112,819
99,489
Totals .
1,539,975
The startling picture these two tables
show is this: Twenty-one counties which
own almshouses for their poor, and possess
ing an aggregate population of 1,589,975
people on which to draw for the money
necessary to the support of those alms
houses, had only to raise a poor tax this
year of 5435,700.
TnE IHG DIFFERENCE IN COST.
But 24 other counties, operating under
the pernicious system of township over
seers, possessing no county almshouses, and
having only an aggregate population of
709,275 to raise taxation from, assessed and
collected the immensely disproportionate
EUm Ot (3S4,UZ.
Turn it around so that the light will
strike it at another angle, as, for instance,
hide the two counties of Lancaster and
Adams from view. Then you have the sum
of 5385,350 with which "the directors of
county almshouses support the poor in a
territory where the population is 1,406,494.
"With just half that number of inhabitants
the other 24 counties burden the taxpayers
with exactly the same sum, roundnumbers.
"Which is easiest, for 1,406,495 people to
raise 5385,027 or for 709,275 people to raise
the same 5385,027? And, generally consid
ered, the 709,275 people who raised the sum
this year are inhabitants of an agricultural
region, while the odd million who paid the
same sum represent the interests which mass
w ealth in the hands of men and should make
it easier for a few persons to pay taxes than
the many.
A HORDE OF OFFICIALS.
Come back to the case of Armstrong and
Blair counties. The one, working under
the provincial plan of the Act of 1836, has
to pay wages to 06 overseers of the poor,
39 attorneys, 39 physicians, and numerous
livery stables, representing the 39 townships
of Armstrong county. The other countv,
acting as a parent to the poor of all the
townships, and housing them under one
common roof, pays the salary of one super
intendent, his few assistants, one physician
perhaps, and raises much of their own
food.
That is why Armstrong, with not much
more than half as many taxpayers as Blair,
pays 510,000 a year more for its poor or, it
would be more proper to say, in reaching
its poor. Pity the poor when it gets the
little that is left after that grand distribu
tion is made !
The counties which still clincr to the
faulty poor law have from 400 to 500 town
ships. Each township will average two
overseers, and in half the counties each
township has a yearly contract with an at
tornerby the year, another contract with a
physician by tne year, countless other con
tracts with merchants to fill orders given to
outdoor relief patients, the Justice of the
Peace in a township entitled to a fee of
from 25 cents to 51 for every order that a
pauper is compelled to get from him before
the overseers will consent to look into his
case; and besides all this
THERE IS CONSTANT LITIGATION
between the townships over disputed pau
pers, each trying to loist them on the other,
ending iu big bills of extras from the at
torneys employed, constant "removals" of
the disputed paupers in hired conveyances
from one township to another until the
question of hu legal settlement is settled .
which, in seveial instances, resulted
in totals of expenses larger " than
what would have kept the dis
puted paupers throughout their natural
lives. A pencil and tablet in anyone's
hands will quickly demonstrate how out
rageously expensive this cumbersome sys
tem is, and you will readily see why, by
obliterating township lines and providing a
common county roof for the poor of all
townships, with but one set of officers, the
21 counties I have cited are able to provide
for the unfortunate crust of a society of
1,400,000 with the same 53S4.000 which 550
townships extravagantly waste on the
scavangery of only 709,275 people.
Is this the charity for which the taxpayers
gave their money? Do the worthv poor
get the most of "it, or the little end of it?
In the articles that are to follow in these
columns, this week, startling instances will
be related from all sections of the State,
which will make it a matter for individual
judgment in answering that question.
rOSTEKINO PAUPERISM.
Is Pennsylvania tostering pauperism?
Glance at the two tables given above and an
answer way be found. You would imagine
that the populous counties, even where thev
do operate under the single county alms
house cover, would find each year, with the
increase in the general population, a cor
responding increase in pauperism, and a
consequent raising of expense in maintain
ing the poor. But the figures tell a sur
prise. The 1,589,975 people in the territory
embraced in one of the tables must have
had a proportionately greater increase in
legitimate pauperism than the 709,275 of
the territory embraced in the other table.
But it seems the cost of taking care of
the poor among the million and a half of
people was 5467,571 in 1890 and 5465,700 in
1891. That was nearly stationary; if there
was no decrease there was practically not
m4ch of an increase either. But the 709,275
people had to pay 5384,027 in 1891 as
against 5354,385 in 1890, a plain increase of
nigh upon 530,000. And it has been climb
ing up like that all these years in the coun
ties where township overseers dispense the
coin. hy should there be such an enor
mous difference again in the comparison of
the two systems ?
Because, it you tell a man or woman when
they apply to you for extreme pecuniary
assistance that you will have him or her
sent to the almshouse, the result in nine
cases out of ten, or in 800 out of every 1,000
applications, will be that the applicant will
leave you very quicklv. They will work
for their living rather than go to the poor
house, if work is at all a physical possi
bility with them.
ALMSHOUSES RESULT IN A DECREASE.
In counties where the coi ty almshouse
is the only possible waj public'officials can
assist mendicants, the result is a vast de
crease in the number of so-called paupers.
In empting my note-book this week I
w ill be amply prepared to prove this, and
by shameful cases of imposition on the
township overseers, show bow people, lost
to all sense of self-respect, have become de
morali7ed by the chance of so much money
per week, of idleness bought for them by so
much a v, eek out of the township fund. The
policy has created and fostered a generation
of drones in Pennsylvania. The overseers,
honest as they may be, are powerless to
root them out The law is at fault.
The growth of legitimate pauperism, i. e.,
poverty through inability to perform labor,
or by reason ol mental incapacity, can only
be judged in the counties where the town
ship system does not exist The counties
where It does exist is the abode of idlers
rather than the worthy poor. They cheat
God's honestly unfortunate out of their
bhare of sweet charity's offerings.
One mere thing I expect to expose in all
its abjectness before I have done with this
prolific subject. That is the serious ques
tion of whether the life of manv a pauper
is not actually shortened by the miserable
food, the imperfect attention, and the over
work he or she receives in the homes where
township overseers place them. "When a
"charge on the township" cannot be foisted
on to some other township or county; when
a couple of hundred dollars has possibly
settle the matter ic the courts, and in all 1
Franklin
Greene
Huntingdon . ..
Luzerne
Lancaster
Mercer
Montgomery. .
Northampton... Perry
Venango
Warren
Washington. ...
Westmoreland.
York
17,162 51 16,?CS 0
7,810 00 7.BU 79
9.C.75 00 11,000 OJ
09,000 00 C9.341 fil
7,0C0 00 47,9(12 73
52 353 10 23,000 00
29,713 74 28,126 59
16 000 00 16,000 CO
0,031 79 7,430 CO
37,700 06 32,001) 00
4.570 00 4.570 CO
10,401 10 18,837 17
31,000 00 31,000 00
31,000 00 81,000 00
$405,700 09 $467,571 22
w
other instances whatsoever the overseer has
only one recourse under this law of our fore
fathers. SOLD TO THE LOWEST BIDDER.
That is to notify the residents of his
township that he has a pauper on hands for
whom he will pay boarding. The lowest
bidder may have him. He is thus knocked
down, literally "knocked down," although
it may not be at public auction, to the per
son who will board him cheapest. The rate
paid by overseers in Armstrong county
on an average runs from fl to 52 per week.
Some counties only average 51 each.
"Who would board a common pauper for
even 52 per week? Only the farmer who
is badly in need of money, or a poverty
stricken townsman, would take a pauper
into his familyfor the trivial sum of 51 and
52. "Would you believe it? there are some
families within 40 miles of Pittsburg who,
at the end of a week, are able to count that
52 as nearly all clear profit! They are as
pew as the pauper himself. They take him
from the overseers to make money off him.
What a travesty on charity!
"What sort of treatment does a poor, old,
decrepit man or woman, fast approaching
the twilight of life, get in a domicile given
him for that purpose? "What nutritious
foods, what soft beds, what clean clothes,
can be given him there by persons as poor
as himself is? "What is the effect on "his
health?
"With this query in my mind, I glanced
through the report of the State Board of
Charities for 1889 last night The statistics
there, scattered through a score of pages,
were never collated with the same thoughts
I read them. From reports received by
them from the overseers, the board esti
mates that in the townships where the over
seer system is in vogue there were in that
year 5,030 paupers so-called paupers, and,
of course, there must have been some of
the genuine article among them.
THE COST OF FUNERALS.
In another table they prepared at the
time I find that the expense of attendinc
these 5,000 odd persons with physicians
and medicines was 517,111, and the cost of
funerals in that single year 58,124.
In that same .report of the Board of Char
ities I find that the combined population in
the almshouses of Pittsburg, Allegheny
City, Allegheny county, Lancaster, Brad
ford, Schuylkill and Berks county was
2,500. The cost of medical attention for
that 2,500 was only 50,300.
What is the inference, if 56,300 will
furnish all the medicine for 2,500 paupers
in the comfortable dormitories of the county
almshouses, while it takes 517,111 to keep
o,000 poor people under the oharge ot town
ship overseers alive, to say nothing of the
58,124 in addition for funerals? The ques
tion naturally arises, doesn't the dispro
portionate cost of medicines for the 5,000
indicate impaired health, or does it indicate
a waste of money by the multiplied-physi-ciau
machinery? In either case the evil is
apparent. Tlic matter in all its phases will
be fully ventilated in the forthcoming
papers. L. E. Stofiel.
WORSHIPING THE BABY.
ALL AMERICA TALKING ABOUT THE
CLEVELAND HEIRESS.
Sho Has Hazel Eyes and a Dimple and Is
Bonnd to Be a Boautj- of the Brunette
Typo A Fairy Wardrobe for Hor Out
ings. New York, Oct 4. The handsome four
storied and gabled house which is the home
ofGrover Cleveland was stared at by many
curious eyes to-day. The soft Indian sum
mer air with its autumn haze brought thou
sands to Central Park, which is only one
block from the Cleveland home. Hundreds
sauntered from the, part -through 'Sixty
sixth street to view the house where Gen
eral Grant was so long sick before going to
the mountains to die, and where his widow
now lives. Turning into Madison avenue
the sightseers strolled np the" avenue to
look nt the house where a new-born baby
was.
Opposite the house across the street, all
the afternoon, there were loitering curious
people, who stopped in little knots and
groups to look at the house whose open
windows let in the soft air which gently
lifted the curtains behind them. There
were many messages of congratulations dur
ing the day, but the doctor and the messen
ger boys chiefly made ud the callers. Word
came out from the quiet bouse that the
little one and her mother were in satisfac
tory condition. The little one's grand
mother, Mrs. Cleveland's- mother, left the
house for a briel airing during the after
noon. The most definite description of the child
is that it has light hazel eyes and there are
indications that she will be a brunette.
There is no doubt whatever that she will
have a dimple, it all the statements of those
who have seen her are to be believed, be
cause they all agree on that point. They
also agree that she will be a beauty not as
great a beauty as her mother, possibly, but
still a beauty.
The baby's outfit of wearing apparel is
said to be a dream of tasteful elegance and
millinery skilh She will have no use for
these -pretty things of silk and satin and
velvet for some timeto come, but when she
does make her appearance in public she is
likely to take the shine off most of the
"babies on the block."
The city home of the Clevelands is at 816
Madison avenue. The exterior is amingling
of Moorish and English designs. It is of
pressed yellow brick with brown stone
trimmings. It has four stories and a base
ment Mrs. Cleveland designed all the
lurnishing. The floors are of hard wood,
upon which lie rich rugs. The furniture in
the halLs is Moorish, that in the library,
Spanish. The drawing room is finished in
the rich, graceful French style. The house
abounds in old and charming little corners,
which Mrs. Cleveland calls snuggeries.
The lower floor is devoted to a reception
room and the dining room. On the second
floor are the drawing rooms, the library and
the sitting and living room. The library is
in the rear. The windows look out upon
Central Park. The chambers are on the
third floor. Mrs. Cleveland s boudoir fronts
upon Madison avenue.
CAMPBELL IB BESTING,
In Order to Prepare Himself for the Joint
Debate With McKlnlcy.
Columbus, Oct 4. Special. Governor
Campbell intended to speak at Logan to
morrow evening, but the meeting has been
postponed. The Governor left Tuesday and
Wednesday open to give him an oppor
tunity to prepare for the joint
debate, at Ada. When Mr. Campbell
reached here Saturday evening
from Coshocton, he found so many affairs of
State waiting for his consideration that it
was necessary for the Logan meeting to be
declared off. The Governor is hampered
for time and will not be able to make as
many speeches on the stump between now and
November as Major McKinley. The latter
is free and uutrarameled. Campbell has his
duties as Governor to look after, as well as
the campaign.
The Governor won't do any talking until
the joint debate comes off. After that he is
scheduled to appear in numerous places
throughout the State. Major McKinley has
a full string ,of appointments. He will
speak to-morrow at Xenia.
Senator Meliord Beported Dvlttg.
Beaver Falls, Oct. 4. Special
Senator Thomas M. Mehard, of Wampum,
who has been suffering irom typhoid fever
for the past two weeks, is reported to be dy
ing to-night Yesterday morning he was
somewhat better, bnt took a ctange for the
worse last night His physicians have given
him up nnd his death is expected at any
minute.
"Bffi&toak
PITTSBURG, MONDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1891.
CANADA IS KICKING.
The Seizure of the Sealing Schooner
Otto by a Yankee Cruiser
NOW DECLARED AN ACT OP PIRACY.
An Irregularity in the Vessel's
Caused the Capture.
Papers
FORMAL PROTESTS WILL BE ENTERED
rsriCIAI. TELBORAM TO TOE DISPATCH.!
Ottawa, Oct 4. Word receiyed here to
day indicates the possibility of the recent
seizure of the Canadian sealing schooner
Otto by the United States man-of-war
Mohican in Bering Sea becoming the sub
ject of international correspondence, if not
complications, between the United State
and British Governments. It appears that
the seizure was not made for any infraction
of the law regarding the protection of (ne
Eeal fisheries, but owing, to the fact there
was some little irregularity in the register
of the Otto, the change in the name of the
owner and captain having been entered on
the ship's papers.
While the United States cruiser had a
right to protect the seal fisheries and enforce
the regulations jointly entered jnto with
Great Britain in Bering Sea, she had no
jurisdiction in those waters to question the
regularity of any ship's papers, and the
seizure appears to have been unwarranted
and one likely to result seriously for the
commander of the American war vessel.
BRITISH COLUMBIANS INDIGNANT.
The people of British Columbia are up in
arms over the act ot piracy, as they call it, and
the Admiral commanding the British fleet
in the Pacific has ordered an investigation.
The specific charge against the commander
of the Otto by the commander of tho
Mohican was that of having "irregular
papers." Finding thnt he has made a
serious blunder, it is stated that an attempt
will be made to prove that the Otto had
cleared from British Columbia after Bering
Sea had been declared closed. A letter
from a gentleman on ono of the
warships in Bering sea has been received in
support of this contention. It is dated
Ounalaska, and
is as follows: "Seized
was found by United
of war Mohican,
sea, with 48 skins
schooner Otto;
States man
Inside Bering
aboard. Her
papers being irregular,
she was towed into port, and after a confer
ence of the naval and revenue commanders
of both nations, was made a seizure on the
ground that she knowingly and willfully
defied
THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
published and proclaimed to the world
18 days beiore she left Victoria. She saiied
on July 3 after the Nymphe, Pheasant,
Mohican, Thetis, Alert, Aleki and Costa
"Rica had sailed to execute the law. She
will be left to settle her case with the civil
authorities. This is the fourth seizure."
The facts are, however, as reported by
Collector of Customs Milne, that the Otto
cleared from Victoria on the 26th of June,
and the fact that the sea had been declared
closed and a modus vivendi arrived at had
not been seml-officlally announced until the
27th. This was the first and only official
notico given. The Otto had then been 24
hours at sea, and was out of the control of
the Custom House authorities Admiral
Hotham thinks he has a clear case against
the United States Government, and will in
a few days lay the facts before the British
authorities.
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
BT THE EXPLOSION OF THE BOILER
OF A TUG IN CHICAGO.
Several Others Seriously Injured and Some
May Die People Standing on the River
Bank Strnck by Flying Missiles The
Bodies Not Recovered,
Chicago, Oct 4. A boiler explosion
aboard the steam tug C W. Parker killed
seven persons and seriously injured many
others in the neighborhood of Archer ave
nue bridge on the south branch of the river
about 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. The tug
in company with three other tugs was en
gaged in attempting to tow the ooal steamer
L. a. I'ickands out or tne uraw ot the Driuge
when the explosion occurred.
Three of the killed were employes of the
tug. Their bodies have not yet been recov
ered. The other persons killed were stand
ing on the banks of the river, to which a
number of spectators had been drawn to
witness the removal of the steamer Pick
ands, which arrived Saturday from Buffalo
with a cargo of coal. The vessel had run
aground in the draw, and four tugs were
putting forth every effort to move it when
the C W. Parker exploded.
The list of the killed and wounded, so far
as can be ascertained at this hour is as fol
lows: Killed James R Carter, Captain of
the tug C W. Parker; John C. Moore, en
gineer of C. W. Parker; Samuel Armstrong,
of Manistee, cook of 0. W.Parker; unknown
man, killed by iragment of boiler while
standing at east end of Archer avenue
bridge; Mary Kice, of 3013 Archer avenue;
Barbara Kioc, her 18-year-old daughter.
Samuel Sawyers, laborer, 3425 Blume
street, Wounded .Joseph Cullen. fireman
of C. W. Parker, will probably die before
morning; Hehry Bell, deck hand, badly
scalded and leg paralyzed: Charles Kirtin,
wounded by missiles; Frank Wagner, arm
broken; Joseph Bomorazk, skull fractured,
may die; George Juell, Captain of the tug
Vail Schaack, leg and back hurt; Louis De
Mass, deck hand Van Schaack, back
sprained; James Cunningham, cook Van
Schaack, scalp wounds.
LEPERS SENT AS FREIGHT.
A Couple of Them Locked in a Car and
Shipped to Now York.
New York, Oct 4. Special A freight
car containing Chinese lepers when lost
heard from was being pulled out of Van
couver. The lepers were inside, with a cask
of water and a barrel of bread. The car
door was sealed. The car should have
reached New York a week ago, if the Cana
dian Pacific Bailroad succeeded in getting
past the authorities of the United States
border. Friends of the lepers' would like
to know what has become of them, and so
would the New York Health Board.
The lepers are Oung Moy Tov and Tsong
Ding. The lormer belonged to the North
Brothers Island lazaretto, and the latter
escaped from Charity Hospital. Oung Moy
Toy was sent away by the Board of Health
to join a party of 30 of his countrymen who
were returning to China, and Tsong Ding
went with him. Arriving at Vancouver
they found that the other Chinamen would
not travel with them and that the Canadian
Government would not let them stay in
Vancouver. They were in a quandary until
an official put them in the freight car with
provisions, sealed it up and sent it off.
The news of this was telegraphed to New
York.
Heavy Weather tor Steamships.
New York, Oct. 4. Special. All
steamships of the belated fleet that arrived
td-day met heavy weather the first part of
iuc voyage and unusually aenso logs on uie
banks thereafter. The Kaiser William.ofthe
Ifbrth German Lloyd Xine, was more than a
day late. The City of Kome was two days
late. She passed Cape Bace, the southeast
extremity of Newfoundland, 48 hours be
hind time on Friday morning. It is proba
ble that she mnv have been fop-bound, as
well as tempest-tossed. The America, of
the .National Line, was two days late.
MRS. IESLIE A BRIDE.
THE PUBLISHER WEDS THE
BBOTHEB OF OSCAR WILDE.
BIG
A Simple Church of England Ceremony In
a New York Church After the Congrega
tlon Had Left It Was a Surprise for
Pastor Deems.
NEW York, Oct 4. Special. -There
as a surprise in store for the Bev. Dr.
Charles S. Deems, the eulogist of Commo
dore Vanderbilt's beautiful feet, after the
simple services which he conducted to-night
at the Church of the Strangers. Mrs.
Frank Leslie, the publisher, aud Wm. C.
Kinasburv Wilde, a stalwart elder
brother of the aesthetic Oscar Wilde, were
among the congregation. Mrs. Leslie was
plainly dressed, and looked youthful, but
not so youthful as her six-foot, black-beard
ed, black-eyed escort
Dr. Deems had pronounced the benedic
tion and was descending the pulpit stairs
when he was halted by tne sexton, mr.
Wijde had previously spoken briefly to the
sexton. The substance of his remark was
that Mrs. Leslie was going to be married.
The bridegroom was to be Wilde; the wit
ness "Mnrshnll T "Wilder. The COnureza-
tion. which was small, was out of the
church when the Doctor, who is the editor
of Mrs. Leslie's religious monthly, received
the announcement of Mrs. Leslie's inten
tion with apparent equanimity.
Dr. Deems is not a sectarian, and any
form of marriage service agreeable to the
bride and eroom was asreeable to him.
They preferred the service of the Church of
England. The ceremony was begup at au
o'clock and ooncluded within ten minutes.
Mr. Wilde, who is a writer on the Lon
donTdegraph. is the eldest son of the late
SirWilliam Wilde, M. D., of Dublin. He
has known Mrs. Leslie for some years. He
came here from London October 1. Ever
since the death of her husband left her
alone in tho world, Mrs. LesKe has been
surrounded by suitors; but for a long time
.she devoted herself to business and would
not even listen to them. It was at one time
repqrted that sho would marry the eccentric
Marquis de Leuville.
STILL IN THE MINE.
NO.HOPE OF SAVING THE IMPRISONED
" MAHANOT cm MINERS.
It Is Believed That the Six Unfortunates
gave Been Suffocated Further Details
of How the Terrible Accident Occurred
Several Other Badly Injured.
MahanoyCity, Pa., Oct 4. Sptcial
Great excitement still prevails at Glen
carbon and through the Heckschervillo
Valley, occasioned by tho mine disaster
which occurred at the Bichardson colliery
mine last evening. The six miners who
have been reported imprisoned are still in
the mine, but all hopes of rescuing them all
alive have vanished, there being no air course
in that part of the mine, beyond what the'
gangway affords, and this entrance is
blocked up for a distance of 40 yards;
v Martin Kellev. mine foreman. James
Uronnan, Thomas Grant,. Thomas Conville,
John JVlcKasker and a Polish laborer named
Michael Culick were standing along the
gangway, about to quit for the day, when
the accident happened, and the concussion
of olr caused by the heavy rush of coal
threw the men in every direction. Mc
Kasker was so badly injured that he died
before he was removed from the mine, and
Conville sustained such injuries as caused
his death a few hours later. Grant was very
badly bruised and, it is feared, injuredin
ternally. Kelly and Brennan escaped with
but slight injuries.
The rush of coal was occasioned by the
giving way of a huge pillar containing
several hundred tons of rock, coal and dirt.
John Lawlor, James Simons, John Pur
cell, Michael. Welch, Joseph Shields and
Thomas Clancy, all married men, were
working beyond this pillar, and when the
gangway filled up it cut off their only means
of escape. A force of men are engaged in
driving a tunnel through this moss of ,
debris, and the work is being pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible, but with no
hope of getting the men out alive, as the
general belief is that they have been
suffocated.
A GERMAN FESTIVAL
In Celebration of the First Teutonic Immi
grants to This Country.
New York, Oct. 4. Special. About
2,500 Germans assembled in the Carnegie
Music Hall this afternoon at a musical
festival in commemoration of the landing of
the first German immigrants on American
soil. The ship which brought the first
Teutonic pioneers was the sailing vessel
Concord, from Amsterdam, which arrived
at October C, 1G83. The festival
was given by the German Liederkranz
and the Beethoven Maennerchor, the Arion,
the Deutscher Vereln, the Deutscher His
torischer Verein, and the Geseling Wissen
schaftlichcr Verein of this city; the
Deutcher Club of Hoboken, and the Ger
mania of Brooklyn. The surplus is to be
devoted to German charities in this city.
The first oration, In German, was deliv
ered by Carl Schurz. Mr. Schurz briefly
sketched the history of Germans in this
country. He exhorted his hearers to bear
in mind not to maintain a separate and dis
tinct nationality, but to merge themselves
into the American people, impart to others
the good qualities they possess, and take
from others such as they are lacking in.
POISONED BY CANNED HAM.
An Episcopal Minister and Seventeen Boys
Violently 111 From It.
Williamspoht, Oct 4. Special The
Bev. W. H. Graft, rector of Christ Episco
pal Church, accompanied by a number of
boys, mostly members of the boy choir,
left yesterday lor a day'B chesnut
tine. Shortly after partaking of
their lunch, 17 members of
the party were taken violently ill, and for
a time fatal results were feared in several
cases. Canned ham, of which all had used
freely, is believed to have been the cause of
the poisoning.
The Itev. Mr. Graff was one of the suffer
ers. When attacked, the victims suffered
excruciating agony and lav upon the ground
until assistance reached them. They were
brought home last night and are now" out of
danger.
Swallowed a Shawl Pin.
Youngstown, Oct 4. Special. A case
ot rare Interest to the medical fraternity
was developed at the City Hospital to-day.
Samuel T. Kraft, aged 25 years, was oper
ated upon for abscess of the urethra. Upon
opening the canal the surgeons found im
bedded in the walls a shawl Din over three
inches long. Kraft says he had suffered
from the presence of the pin for over a
year. By reason of excessive inflammation
his case is doubtful. Surgeons assert his
case Is one of the greatest Interest in hls
tory, as the pin must have worked its way
to its dangerous location.
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THE HMTFOR LIYSEY
Details of the Extradition Plans Kept
Secret by Pattison.
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QUAY CALLS ANOTHER
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Haerisburo, Oct. 4. Governor Patti
son's attention having to-night been called
to the story that he contemplated the extra
dition of ex-State Treasurer Livsey he
would neither affirm nor deny its truth.
"I would rather say -nothing about the
matter," he said, "but I would very much
like to have Llvsey's statement." Continu
ing the Governor Baid in substance: "I
have always had great confidence in his in
tegrity, bnt his absence is a very suspicjous
circumstance. It not only puts him in a
bad light, but throws a cloud about others.
I am anxious that these men shall have the
benefit of his presence. I want to get at
the bottom of this affair if possible."
The Governor expressed- his surprise that
the State Treasury Investigating Committee
took a recess of two weeks after the inter
esting developments at its last meeting in
this'city. The Governor will visit the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania on Tuesday: on
Wednesday he will participate in the Ecu
menical Council of the Methodist Church at
Washington, and the same night he will
return to this city to be present at the
monthly meeting of the World's Fair Cora
mission on Thursday.
pattison's policy applauded.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says: Gov
ernor Pattison's purpose to issue extradi
tion papers on ex-Cashier Wm. Livsey
caused widespread comment in the city to
day, and the contemplated movement to se
cure this leading witness of transactions in
the State Treasurer's office during the past
ten years was generally applauded. Sheriff
Bobinson, of Scranton, said that "doubtless
by this time the people all over the State see
that the Governor is in dreadful earnest
in this thin?, and that he is acting on any
thing but partisan lines. The stories of
men like Livsey and Yard cannot be drawn
out too soon, and when they aro out, then
we shall begin to see the mystery clear
away."
A prominent Democratic leader from the
State said that "the time is not yet ripe for
sensations in this McCamant-Boyer busi
ness, but when the inquiry begins some
now considered very excellent men, who
aje not at all suspected, will be incrim
inated. some letters yet to come.
"Treasurer Bayer's recent admissions
about his dealings with Bardsley, and es
pecially in that 5492,000 payment to save
State money from getting into the sinking
iund, came so unexpectedly that the Re
publican leauers in mis city nre paraiyzea
by it and hove nothing to say. And what
can be said in extenuation of such a high
handed proceeding? There are a number of
letters also which Mr. Boyer would like to
get back, full of Bardsley s peculiar style of
acknowledgment, and I understand that
Attorney General Hensel either has them
in his possession or will have them."
Congressman John W. Cansey, of Mil
ford, Del., in talking over the Pennsyl
vania fiscal situation, said he did not doubt
but what a requisition for Yard on the Gov
ernor of New Jersey would be honored.
"The eyes of the nation are on Pennsyl
vania to-day," continued Mr. Cansey, "and
nothing but rigid, relentless exposure will
do."
It is stated that Senator Quay will be in
the city again to-morrow to meet a number
of State Bapublicans. The Governor's
plans, as far as known, have caused a de
cided sensation.
HENSEL HAS THE EVIDENCE.
They indicate only the line of the Gov
ernor's action when the Senate meets, but
enough is known to show that the Attorney
General's office is in possession of facts for
a series ol substantial cases, anu jir. yuav
is wanted to suggest some counter proceed
ing to intercept the prospective onslaught
"Is Yard to be spirited away to meet
Marsh?" was a question asked to-day and
quite often.
A neat story came to tne ironi, to-uay in a
statement made by Mr. Harry A. Burley,
a prominent young Kepublican worker of
Altoona. Mr. Burley said that Auditor
General McCamant, probably feeling that
his official life was rapidly crowing short,
had started out to get the Senatorial nomin
ation next year in the Blair-Cambria dis
trict over Senator John A Lemon, and that
the Tyrone McCamant had been quietly
working up the scheme.
"It is all done for now," said Mr. Burley,
"as the recent McCamant exposures have
ended his career in Blair county. Even ex
Sneaker Ben Hewitt has a better chance,
which means that Uncle John Lemon
is more than ever on t top."
A telegram received in this city this even
ing from ex-Cashier Livsey's brother in
Pittsburg said that Mr. Livsey was not in
Canada but they knew exactly wherehe
was. The telegram was shown to a leading
Democrat, who pronounced it not alone
misleading, but as a part of a game of de-
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ception started to get the State authorities
off the track.
"We know where Mr. Livsey is," said
the Demooratic leader, "and as'Re is under
watch he has no chance, or a very small one,
indeed, to become lost to sight.
LIVSEY A SICK MAN.
HIS RELATIVES STILL SAT THAT HE IS
IN MILWAUICEC
""ey Declare No Extradition Papen Axe
-ft "'ceseary Insist That He Was Never In
T tfv "'. ' The Governor's Plan Called
CONFERENCE -A ., Bnncomhe.
a. . ports from Harrisburg, "published
yesteruay morning, announcing that Will
iam Livsey, the much-wanted ex-cashier of
the State Treasury, had been located in
Canada, and that Governor Pattison would
Immediately issue the proper papers for his
extradition, caused quite a sensation among
the missing man's friends in this city. A
number of Mr. Livsey's personal friends
were asked concerning his present abode,
but all disclaimed any knowledge of his
movements.
Since the disclosures concerning the ex
cashier, Mrs. Livsey has been almost pros
trated, and has declined to xsee anyone ex
cept her relatives andmost intimate friends.
She is still at the family residence, 4620
Fillmore street, but spends a large portion
of her time at the homi-tof her brother,
James Livsey, wh.o,m!tdES!Efc 684 Lytle
street, Gleirwood. -Slrsv Jlvsey's-jnaiden.
name was Livsey, which accounts for the
similarity in names.
iUr. Livsey said to a .dispatch reporter,
yesterday afternoon, that he had read the
reports send out from Harrisburg, and he
denounced ther.i as false.
"Do you know your brother-in-law's ad
dress?" was asked.
"He is just where he was reported to be
by his family."
"In Milwaukee?"
"l'es; he is there, sick, at the home of his
daughter, who is also very ill."
"Hut it is said that Governor Pattison
says the demand for extradition will be
made upon the Canadian Government of
ficials at Ottawa."
"Livsey is not in Canada, and never was
in his life. There are plenty of people
about Harrisburg who know where he is and
can find him when they want him. This is
nil political buncombe."
"Has Mr. Livsey been in Milwaukee ever
since he left here?"
"No, not all the time. A part of the
time he was at other places."
While apparently knowing all about the
missing witness, the brother-in-law pre
tended to know but little more on the sub
ject than he had read in the papers.
WHEBBAB0TJTS OF LIVSEY.
A Keport That He Beturned to Milwaukee
Only to Bo Scared. Away.
Milwaukee, Oct 4. Special. The
whereabouts of Cashier William Livsey, of
Pennsylvania, continue to remain a mys
tery. A gentleman who is acquainted with
William Jones, Livsey's son-in-law,- at
whose house the treasury official stopped
for several weeks during the early part of
September, said to-day that Livsey had
again returned to Milwaukee only to be
scared away again by a report that Gover
nor Pattison was about to extradite him, to
appear at the extra session of the Pennsyl
vania State Senate.
If Livsey is not hiding here or in the im
mediate vicinity he mav be either at Water
town or Grand Bapids, Mich. There is a
probability that he has gone to Seattle,
Wash., but those who know the man say he
would not get away that far, as he wants to
be In close communication with his friends
in Pennsylvania.
B0CKEFELLEB IS NOT ILL.
The Many Stories of His Alleged Danger
ous Condition Denied by Friends.
Cleveland, Oct 4. Special. The re
ports that mostly have been sent away from
Cleveland asserting that John D. Rocke
feller is dangerously ill are denied by those
who should be able to state from
positive information. Mr. Rockefeller
has been passing the summer, as
is his wont, at his elegant
summer home' on Lake View Ridge, east of
the city. His family has been with him
until recently, and the mere fact that his
household has returned to the East without
him is supposed to be responsible for the
many stories that have been placed in circu
lation. The worry of vthc past business season
may have been a strain upon the great
financier and doubtless showetLitsclf. but it
certainly is a fact that none of those who
should know have intimated to their Cleve
land friends that Mr. Rockefeller is ill. Mr.
Rockefeller has been away from his home
within the past week attending, among
other places, the funeral of a valued friend
and he did not give any indication at that
time of any serious ailment.
Uniontown nad Good Spiritual Advice.
Uniontown, Pa., Oct. 4. Special.
The pulpits of the different churches of this
city were filled both morning and evening
by the visiting ministers of the Pittsburg
Methodist Episcopal Conference. Bishop
Fowler has been very busy with the com
mittee of elders, making out the appoint
ments, and it is expected they will be fin.
ished and ready tor .announcement by to
morrow mornins.
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THE DISPATCH.
THEEE CENTS.
LAW FOR THE CLUBS
A Decision Coming as to the Right
of Chartered Societies to
SELL LIQUOR WITHOUT LICENSE.
The Case Almost Certain to Be Carried to
the Supreme Court.
OPINIONS GIVEN IN OTHER STATES
PniLADELPniA, Oct. 4. Before the fall
is over Judge Pennypacker will probably
deliver an opinion in the Court of Quarter
Sessions which will compel the Union
League, Art Club, Manufacturers' Club
and other prominent social organizations to
take out retail liquor licenses if they wish
to furnish beer or wine to their members
without being classed as speak-easies. This
question of the right of clubs in this Stata
to sell liquor to their members is at last in
a fair way to be settled, and if the opinion
ot Judge Pennypacker as already out
lined, and the decisions in similar cases in
adjoining States, can be taken as an indica
tion, it will be settled adversely to the
clubs.
The question came up in the trial of
Patrick Tierney, the steward of the Ells
worth Club, a chartered organization at
Twenty-third and Kimball streets. It was
admitted that he sold beer at 5 cents a glass
and whisky at 10 cents a glass, but argued
in defense that it was sold only to members
of the club.
JUDGE PENNYPACKER'S CHARGE.
"Citizens cannot acquire a greater right
when they combine as a club than they can
acquire as a combination of individuals,"
said Judge Pennypacker in his charge to
the jury.
"Under the act it is not unlawful to buy,
but it is unlawful to selL Two men may
agree to purchase a quantity of liquor and
divide it;so may a hundred or any number.
But in this case there was more. There was
not a distribution of the liquor bonght
among the members of the club, but there
was something more. There was a sale of
the property. This is admitted by the evi
dence. If you believe this testimony to be
true, it is your duty to find the defendant
technically guilty.
"It is a novel and an important legal
question that arises in this case. I shall
grant a motion for a new trial and shall
allow the defendant to renew his bail. On
the motion for a new trial the question may;
be considered fully in all its bearings. If
the defendant has offended against the law
he has offended under a question of right.
There is a difference of opinion among the
courts of the various States on this question
of a claim of right. The Supreme Court of
this State has never passed upon the ques
tion." Under this charge the jury rendered a
verdict of guilty and the defendant renewed
his baiL The motion for a new trial will
be argued as soon as the stenographic re
port has been transcribed, and if decided
against the defendant it will be taken to
the Supreme Court and settled once and
for all.
WHAT THE LAW SAYS.
District Attorney Graham was not in the
city yesterday, but Assistant District At
torney Boyle stated that there were two law
points involved that of selling to the mem
bers and that of profits, it being claimed
that where there was no profit itwas merely
a distribution among the members. "The
act of 1887 is very broad," added Mr. Boyle,
"providing that it shall be unlawful tokeep
.or jcaintain acy house,- room, or placet
hotel, Inn or tavern, where any vinous,
spiritou", malt or br"wed liquors, or any
admixture thereof, are sold br retail, except
a license thereof shall have been previously
obtained. That seems to cover everything.
If the decision is adverse to the clnbs I
don't suppose it will be necessary to take
any further action, as they will all probably
stop immediately, and at the next succeed
ing session of the License Court make ap
plication for licenses."
The action of Judge Pennypacker is in
line with what Lewis D. Vail, the counsel
for the Law and Order Society, has been
urging for seveial years. Mr. Vail has
always contended that clubs had no more
right to sell liquor without a license than
any individual, and has favored making a
test case out of the steward of some prom
inent club, not to send men to jail, but
merely to decide the point of law.
DECISIONS IN OTIISB STATES.
"The matter has never come before our
Supreme Court," said Mr. Vail, "but it has
been decided against the clubs in many of
the other States. New York, New Jersey,
Maryland, Kansas and other States have all
strong opinions from their courts of last re
sort, deciding that clubs have no right to
sell liquor without a licence. In New York
a test cae was made and the lower court de
cided against the club. The Supreme Court
reversed this, but the Court of Errors and
Appeals in turn reversed the Supreme
Court There was a perfunctory opinion in
favor of the clubs in Maryland, and
that has recently been overturned by a very
strong opinion against them. The best
opinion of the lot Is, I think, the Cone in
New Jersey. Every part of the question is
carefully gone into," and the decision is that
liquor cannot be sold either with or without
profit The only recent decision in favor of
the clubs was given early this year in Mon
tana in a very superficial opinion. One of
the cases referred to there was the Mary
land case, which has been reversed by a
subsequent decision in the same State.
FALLACY OP THE ARI1UMENT.
"It has been urged that when a club sells
to its members it is merely selling to itself.
That is a very poor argument, and on that
basis any member could steal the property
of the club without danger of prosecution,
because he would b'e merely taking his own
property."
The ultimatum of Judge Pennypacker
has created consternation among some of
the clubs, but no further steps will be taken
pending a final decision. The decision of
Judge Pennypacker may be announced iu
several weeks or a month, but the Supremo
Court will scarcely act before the expira
tion of the time allowed to file applications
for licenses. Under the circumstances, all
the leading clubs will probably file their
applications, and in case the Supreme Court
decides that no licenses are needed, the ap
plications can be allowed to go. by default.
The first year under the new law several
clubs, in doubt as to their right to sell, ap- '
plied, and were granted licenses.
BANKEE MLL'S SUNDAY.
People Show More Charity and Aro Begin
ning to Believe in 111m.
Clearfielu, Oct 4. Special Tho
excitement of the past five days in this
region has been allowed to quiet down, and
to-day the people spent their Sunday as
usual, though their talk was rather worldly
for the Sabbath day. There is a disposition
to show some chanty, and more sympathy
is being extended to the imprisoned banker.
Dill. His side has not yet been heard, and
he declines all interviews.
Dill spent his day in the parlor of the '
jail with Deputv Marshal Clark. His family
were with him 'during the day, and several .
friends were also admitted. His meals are
furnished from home and hotels, and he - '
dines in the jail en famille. He says he '
will come out of the affair all right, and :
thnt bi dennsitors will be satisfied. Every- n
thing is also quiet at Houtzdale. and Cashierjy
TWeOrnth's statement has rather restored!-,;
public confidence. At first the depositors'
thnnirht nil was gone, but now they believed
they will receive at l4at -CO per cent of 1
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