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xcars -would likelv have been among .the
""..Misht Have Ueen's."
But with these Uravoacks real or ap
parentPortland sot her shirt, and with no
rival foraquaiterof a century she naturally
attracted the trade of the contiguous coun
trv, until now she Lasa jobbing trade of 51 50,
100,000 a year. Twcnty-hvcof hercommercial
princctdoabusiness6f51,000,OOOayeareach,
and ie is no w the accepted distributing point
for a range of country having an area of
250,000 square mile, numbers 48 million
aire;, among her 1,500 business men. and all
this in a city but little over t ice the popu
lation of McKeesport and with not quite
half the population of Allegheny City. All
this is the more wonderful when it is con
sidered that according to the census of 18S0,
there w.ii not a single on ncr of a govern
ment bond in all AVasliington, and all Ore
gon at that date only held ?12G,000ofFive
tft7c:itie.
Soliil 3Icn With the Long Green.
And this wealth is no fiction, as the
VoliJ men" are there to show the contents
ik wdim
So'tbriJgc Drove an Ox Team in 'St.
of their strong boxes, which when the lid
is liftei would shew the millions and the
millionaire thus"
1 M. l:ioli.ir-n Sl.na'.Odo"". H. lnii ... $1,000,000
" K. Mnith . 1.00K.OG0 Hitrrlnfrtor. l,:03,oH
1 V. Swnl'R l.OOOCOi'Mlvltl-Ko-rnpy 1.OW.M0
Thro B. 'Wilcox
it. I. inoinp ii .i.yai ii. nviHH.ii.t . .,-.,.
Jacflnhamn .
Jos. lloludjj
inlm Gnfiip .
15,0.0i HawthV llnrs 1,000 OX)
l.OM OIO TvierWoiHin M 1.501 OH)
1.0UO.000 WhlltUT&Co. L500.C01
l.vop.ooo mw . & vo j.auu.H"
1.000 000 Jacob-. l!n.... 1,000.000
J.Loowenbor'U
i.'uki.oihi o. k R. x.Co. a,oa.oro
l,OW.ono'B. I)'I.a'-hintt 1,H.0C0
1.000,000 G. n rianders 1.000.OT0
1.0X'. Hcr.rv FatllliR 5.0na0P0
BuitpIi ncirs-. .
lili.singr A Co.
T. .1. Oeriln
Iwis l.oe
1.0OT.000 K. B Knapp . 1.O00.OTO
2.OM.0CO W. S. I-add ... 20,0(10,000
1.0 10. 000 C. E. I-add l,010,t
1.0il,i0 A. V King.... 1,000.000
l.om.(X W. M. I.add. . i0Wi,ui0
L. .1. liurrnell.
A. O. Francis,
Allf n
P.A.Marr7uam.
.I.N.Mo'liridfrc
l.om.OiO J B. MarMe i000.()
l.tW.(XX)4.B Montzo'rv 2.000,000
11. .lorntion
II. V. .-rtett 10.0(fl,ono Don. MacC-ir. 2,axi.ix)
J. W. oK . . 2,000.000 II. I.. Plltock . i.mLWW
i: rorixtt.. . i.om.ooo b. G. Hd S,000,w
Frank Dtium . 3,000,000
Seattle' Solid Men.
And, while taking a census of the big
monev makers of Portland, I may add, by
way of contrast, a liet of the millionaires of
Seattle, the chief of the Puget Sound cities
of Washington, and the younger "up-couu-iry"
business rial of Portland:
-EATTI.Z'S SOLIO JIE.
GutC. riiinnv ono.dlOinextfrHorton.. LOnafOO
II It nm.iT .510.0)0 II. Gauanl 1.00H.0U0
It. T. l)enn . . 2,soo,ooo Cvrn WalUiT... 1.000, H00
W. squirt's
. ,(j.tKV u. walker i,wip
, i.s0TnV. Rcntcne-t. . . i,ooo.rt
. l.SOU.OOO J. 31. Coleman.. l,OM.00o
. l.O1.O00 LecS. J. Hunt. 1,,("0
l."i (OO'Thos. Burke l,U)u,0u0
Gvo. HlniK-ar.
John Collin-' ...
W. -. I.-nll...
AvriiirSon 1.KU.UU;
A fen instructive observations may be
leduced from tbe-e lists.
Fir-: That none of the millionaires were
"boomers" or made their millions by
vhat ilaiown in the East as speculation.
They got the land for cash or credit or from
the " Government as squatters and just
patiently Malted and grew up with the
-oantrynnd let the Eastern fellows come in
and do"the developing while they did the
accumulating.
Second That no new millionaries have
been added to these lists within the last
few vears.
Third That, with trifling exceptions,
ilint 0.-1I3- prove the rule, all these million
aires made their pile in land.
Outsiders Can Do the Booming.
Fourth That instead of now speculating
in Lind, when a panic or reaction might
throw them back on their "uppers," these
far-seeing money-getters and,-holders there
of are planting their surplus in business
blocks, in wholesale mercantile business,
banking, etc, kindly permitting outside
capitalists and Eastern nd enturcrs to go up
or tlown with the booms.
A- the preacher &aid to Dorothy: "There
K very much of a moral in all this." They
all started from humble beginnings, and they
n-alizc that hile land is the "babis of all
wealth" there is"a time to hold it and a
time to let it go. They have let go enough
to "feci" the liit and retain the "velvet."
The elder Ladd who away in the CO's dug
out tree stumps for a living, and traded
around in land and such, is now the second
richest man on the Pacific coast, Leland
Stanford, I". S. Senator from California, be
ing considerei' the richest man oa the coat.
I-add i- rated at $17,000,000 on AVall street,
lint a member of the Chamber of Commerce
here a-sured me that he is ea-.ily worth
20,TOO,090, and his two sons are each mill
ionaires. He is a paralytic, and does not
seem to enjoy his million-, but takes great
pride in Portland, and is considered very
liberal toward new home entetpri6,s. His
hpcctaltv is corner lots and holding on to
"tracts" with a future.
Iliif They All Got There.
As a specimen of how his land crew a
plot is shown in the center of the town,
Jstarkand First streets, which he bought for
S2,."i)0 in 18T.0 and for which 5310,000 was
recently paid. Jacobs Brothers made theirs
in la-ail and wool. Kahm in stcamboating
and land, Thompson in land, Johnson in
cattle and land, Dekum in corner
lots, llced in land and mining,
McCleary in land and groceries and bank
ing, FIander- in shipping and land, Stow
bridge droo an o.team in 4!1, but subse
quently dropped teaming for investments in
jcaity. P. A. Marquam made most of his
5n land. V.'oodward in land and banking,
liowenbnrgli in land and banking. Mnrkle
in laud and street cars, Van de Lushmalt in
mining and laud, and so on land being an
integral part of all their fortunes. They
yot land one waj- or the other, and, alter
many backsets some of them trying to sell
out at half price with no "takers," the boom
came and behold the millionaires! ISone of
tlicm bought land with a view to a future
"boom." They were mere tenacious land
holders wlni simpiy held on while the land
went up in phenomenal jump. .They did
not believe in "booms" then. Neither do
they believe in them now. Despite their
immense wealth, they are not buying any
futuics in land now.
Conservative but Hospitable.
If the city is to grow again in the same
ratio n1- it did since 1SS0, and if there is any
big money in buying land now, clearly they
do not know :t, and at prevent writing they
arc not "in it." They are quite willing to
let outsiders ooine in and make Portland a
metropolis wiih a million of inhabitants
in the l.exi ten years, but their faith in that
flireclion is not strong enough to induce them
to "Jiaui." heavily on that iuture. The past
growth of the city was quite mysterious
enough to them, and they were simply
borne up by the rising tide when it came
along, but there is not a shred of evidence
or assertion to show that any of them went
outside of normal holdings and "specula
leu" on the big rise that was apparently in
tight and actually came. Hence they are
not branching out as purchasers at present
price, as a reaction might visibly dissipate
:hc contents of their strong boxes. Hence
they pre conservative great wealth always
is bat tiiey are hospitable very
the latcii string is out step in
and "take s-micthing" thev seem to say.
The prospect for making a million here for
obvious reasons diminishes every day, and
the policy of the present millionaires is
rather to liold what they have than to risk
Eiiy in the shuffle for more.
The city has enjoyed a phenomenal jump,
but it is not likely to grow as fast in the
inture ten rears" as in the past ten. The
efforts of ambitious rivals the completion I
of the Nicaragua Canal, the diversion of its
present trade to Chicago or New
Orleans, may disturb its present
commercial supremacy. The rail
road problem out here especially
is proverbially complicated and uncertain.
Gould and Huntington, it is said, contem
plate a deal to divert the great traffic from
Chicago and Portland to New Orleans,
claiming nearness to tidewater and cheaper
transit over the southwestern systems.
Curiously enough, although the railways
seem to have developed the country won
derfully, nearly everybody out here claims
that they are injuring the country
by their heavy freight tariffs and "traffic
pools." Portland" has three transconti
nental lines and a State exception
ally rich in fruit, and yet
San Francisco, which has only
one through line north.supplies Oregon with
most of its fruit. This ought not to be
with a home market and competition, but
there is no competition where the "traffic
pool" rules.
Future Growth Will Be Slower.
Another very potent reason why the
Northwest willnot grow in the same ratio
in the future as in the past is in the increased
and increasing scarcitj" of desirable land for
homesteads and the high prices of
lots in the "Boom" and mushroom
cities. There are still 579,000,000 acres of
vacant public lands, but not one acre in
100 is adapted to agriculture. Practically
speaking, there are very few chances left to
secure desirable claims under the home
stead act. Several very important sections
of the act have been repealed, presumably
in the interest of speculators and syndi
cates, which are the largest holders of land
that is worth anything. The boom system
of buying land" to-day at 525 an acre, and
offering it to-morrow at 5100 a lot, I need
only aliude to here as a factor that is kill
ing the goose that lays the auriferous eggs.
As a residence city 1 was not particularly
impressed with Portland and this, perhaps,
is the stray "fly in the amber." It is ill
laid out, the streets in the main are narrow
and dirty; sewerage defective; has too many
millionaires who are privileged under the
law and flexible commercial conditions to
pay no taxes, and what ought to be
the best parts of the town are given to a
class of women and to the "Johnny
One Lungs and the Heathen of All the
Isles."
Architecture Not in It.
The business blocks are an odd mixtu-e
of country and city massive buildings
alongside of shanties, while the pave
ments are a mixture of macadam, Belgian
block and "mother earth." In a country
where money is dear, luxuries and wages
are iairly high, but the question here is not
so much'one of wages as of work at any
price. Portland seemed to me a very
sleepy town, and large numbers of
unemployed men thronged the high
wars and byways. Compared with
Chicago they moved so slowly that they
seemed to be going the other way. They
are probably built that way. Money chang
ers are allowed to charge as high as 10 per
cent, but they often "juggle" on the deal
and get 20 per cent, nnd Attorney General
Jones, of "Washington, informed me that
there was no usury law in Washington, so
the"men whom the Savior scourged out of
the temple can have a "go-as-you-please"
time with the borrower, who pays oftener 25
per eent than 10 per cent.
Taxes and values seem high, enough. In
Portland the citr, State and county tax rate
is 29 mills on a valuation of S4i,000,000. In
Seattle the city tax is 4J4 and county 10
mills 011 a valuation of county, ?71,500,000;
city, $46,000,000. The highest priced lots
in Seattle are $1,100 per front foot, corner
of Yesler and First streets. The average
along the block is 950 per front foot In
Tacoma, on Pacific avenue, 51,000 per front
foot is about the average. In Portland lots
on First street, between Morrison and Stark,
have sold as high as ?2,000 per foot front,
and this is considered a top price, and
corner lots on Alder street with two
fronts have been sold at fl'.OOO per
front foot. Comparing these with the re
cent sale of the Messier lot at 541 per
square foot on Smithficld street, near the
Postoffice, Pittsburg, would make the value
of the choicest 20-foot lots in these cities
relatively as follows:
rittsburg lot $80,000
1'ortland lot 40.000
Seattle lot 22,000
Tacoma lot 10,000
Ileal Estate Value Test-, .
As tests of growth such figures are often
misleading. A French savant has formu
lated a law that in estimating real estate
values prices must be gauged by
the number of persons passing a
given locality. On that theory the
Splane corner, on Fifth avenue; The Dis
patch corner, on Diamond street, and the
Hartley corner, on Fourth avenue, and the
Johnson corner, on Third avenue, are, since
the new postoffice location has been changed,
probably the most "congested" corners in
the city for travel, and inferentially the
most valuable. Chicago has a way of its
own in testing such things and illustrating
the difference between real and fictitious
value. Here is a lot, says the owner, that
js worth $i!,o00 per tront foot, and there is a
four-story buildingon it net income, $5,000.
Owner says if a four-story building will net
?5,000 an eight-story structure will net over
10,000, for the ground investment is reck
oned in with the first four stories, and the
interest on the money invested in the addi
tional four stories and the nominal increase
of insurance and taxes is all to be deducted
from the gross rental of the four upper
floors. A contractor is called and he sug
gests, if the foundation is strong enough,
you might just as well run it up 12 or 10
stories as 8, as everything that can be said
in favor of 8 stories can be urged for 12 or
16, and up goes the fourfold income to
520,000. The land is no longer rated at
52,500 per foot but is held at a figure
in proportion to its producing power
510,000 a foot. Then the Tacant
lot adjoining is put up to 510,000 per foot,
and here the artificial value began to be sub
stituted for the real. And so it goes. When
it comes to real growth of real estate there
is nothing in th "bounding West" that
grows like values in the East. Permit me to
make an Eastern citation: In 1818 the
Lennox estate near Central Park was bought
under forced sale for 50,920 by Bobert Len
nox. For years it lay as a stagnant pool,
and Lennox in his will said: "My motive
for so leaving this property is afirm persua
sion that it may be at no distant day the site
of a village, and as it cost me more than its
present worth." Lennox died in 1839 25
years later 59,000,000 was refused for it, and
last year appraisers valued it at one hun
dred and ten millions of dollars (5110,000,
000) !
The jump in value of one tract in New
York could almost buy out "lock, stock
aud barrel" a half dozen States or a dozen or
so of the "magic" cities in the Great North
west !
I expected to refer in this letter somewhat
to the manufacturing interests of the Pacific
coast, but want of space forbids it in the
present letter. James W. Bkeek.
-mui-(
Ijookingfor Cear Tillable Land.
UOT PAYING SO BIS.
The
Exposition, Financially, Falls
Below the last Season.
SEVERAL IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED.
Competitive Plans of the Carnegie Library
to Be Shown.
DOIXGS OP A DAT ABOUT A BDST CITT
To-night the Pittsburg Exposition will
close until the season of 1892. Big crowds
are expected for the last day. The attend
ance of the past few days has been larger
than at auy time during the season, owing
chiefly to the railroad excursions from sur
rounding towns. City visitors have not
been plentiful owing to the expected crowds
from other places. The number of visitors
during the closing days is not known, as the
management positively declines to give any
figures on that subject But it has been
very large.
Taken as a whole, the Exposition this
year has not been the success anticipated,
and financially it falls below last season.
Thequfstion now bothering the minds of
the management is whether there will be
enough money to carry out several proposed
plans for improving the institution. An
increase in the capacity of the buildings has
become a necessity.
The association has ground for an annex,
but is not certain as to the means for build
ing it. Manager Johnston was asked last
nigh whether or not the season just closing
had demonstrated the need of any improve
ments. '
"Yes, it has," he replied. "The society
has plenty of places to put its money to ad
vantage. " In the first place more room is
needed for exhibits. This can only be se
cured bv building an annex on the river
side. The association owns a plot of ground
there 80x300 feet. This can be used for ad
ditional building whenever there is money
enough to carry the plan out. I cannot say
whether there will be enough this year or
not. Another necessity shown by this sea
son is more seating capacity for those who
wish to hear the music. This, of course,
would encroach on the exhibits and would
necessitate other quarters for them.
"The Exposition has been a success this
vear, bnt noi. so much so as was expected.
Financially it has not been so good as last
year. But we are not complaining at all,
and are confident of providing still better
attractions for the public in 1892. The
number of people attending, the receipts
nnd exnenditiires jind other details will not
be made public until the board so directs."
A CAPTAIN BEHIND THE BAES.
An Officer of the Galon Line Charged With
Disorderly Condnct.
Captain James B. W. Mullett was the
name of a prisoner registered on the Alle
gheny lockup blotter last night with a
charge of disorderly conduct. The blotter
also gave the man's occupation as a ship
captain, his home as Philadelphia and his
plice of birth as Australia. He
said he was the captain of the
steamship Alaska, of the Guion Line, and
that his boat was booked tc leave New York
to-day.
The prisoner, who was very well dressed
and intelligent, stated he arrived in the
city a few days ago on business. Yester
day he was in Allegheny, and when he
wanted to crosi the bridg? some one grasped
him and demanded a cent. The prisoner
said he demanded the man's name, and was
placed under arres:. The prisoner further
stated that he had property in Pittsburg,
being the owner of 20 houses. He was very
indignant at his arrest, and said he decide
to stay in the lockup all night, as he in
tended to bring suit against the bridge com
pany, and the imprisonment over night
would help his case.
THE OLDEST POSTHASTES.
W. W. Wallace Has Served at Hammondg
ville for the Fast 61 Tears.
Postmaster McKean yesterday received
the following letter from W- W. Wallace,
Sr., of Hammondsville, O., who is the
oldest postmaster in the United States in
point of continuous service:
"I am duly in receipt of the souvenir of
the Pittsburg postoffice with which you had
the kindness to. honor me. In looking over
its pages I am vividly reminded of having
entered the service of the Postal Depart
ment June, 1830, General Jackson, Presi
dent, and William T. Barry, of Kentucky,
Postmaster General. I have served under
all the successors of Mr. Barry consecu
tively to Mr. Wanamaker, being a period of
61 years, and am still in the service."
A Newsboy Buys a Brick Block.
Quite an excitement was caused in finan
cial circles yesterday when it became known
that the Ttomas Dalzell who purchased the
old pension office building on Third avenue,
for ?27,000 was the well-known newsboy
whose stand is at the Ft. Wayne depot in
Allegheny. When interviewed yesterday
he said it was a boni fide taansaction, but
that the purchase had been made by him
for another person, he only acting as a go
between in the transaction. He declined to
state who the property was purchased for,
but said it was to be turned into a res
taurant. McConnell's Kemarkable Record.
Abner McConneU, arrested for counter
feiting in Armstrong county, had a hearing
before United States Commissioner Mc
Candlcss yesterday and was held for trial
in the sum of $1,000 bail. He is 67 years of
age, has a remarkable record and has been
more generally known as '"Bed Fox." He
served honorably in the war, taught school
in various places and then joined a gang of
horse thieves and counterfeiters. He lias
alreadv served two terms for the latter.
After an Absence of Tilts Tears.
George Johnston, a former resident of
Pittsburg, was here yesterday for the first
time in 50 years. The only landmark he
could recognize was a wagonshop on Old
avenue. He was greatly surprised at the
locality surrounding the Court House. He
remembered only a high hill there, which
was then known as Grant's Hill. Mr.
Johnston is an uncle of J. C. Smith, Presi
dent of the McKecsport Passenger Railway.
Tried to rass Counterfeit.
Alexander ICaird was arrested and lodged
in Central station shortly after 11 o-clock
last night for attempting to pass a counter
feit 5 gold coin at the American House.
It was detected and Officer Costello was
called in. Caird hae no more counterfeit
with him. He denied knowing the money
was bad. He said he was a stone mason
and worked at Braddock and had received
the coin in his pay.
An Unknown Man Killed.
An unknown man was killed by a train
at Woodville station, on the Washington
branch of the Panhandle Railroad, yester
day. He weighed 150 pounds, was about 40
vears old, had fair complexion, dark brown
bair and mustache, wore a black derby hat,
jean pants, dark brown and white mixed
coat and vest, blue and white calico shirt
and white canton flannel underwear.
Caught by a Guilty Conscience.
Dan Mnlcahey and another man were
passing along River avenue, Allegheny,
yesterday afternoon carrying a firkin 0f
jelly. When they saw Officer Gausman the
pair dropped the jelly and started to run.
The officer managed to capture JIulcahey,
and landed him in the lockup. It was
afterward ascertained that the jelly was
stolen from one of Cruikshank's wagons.
TO EXHIBIT THE FLANS.
The Public to Get a took at the Drawing
for the Carnegie Library. ,
The Pittsburg Carnegie Library Commis
sion has decided to give an exhibition of
the plans of the new structure being pre
pared by prominent architects from all
parts of the United States. James B. Scott,
president of the commission, when seen yes
terday, said it had been decided some time
ago to place the plans on exhibition, as had
been done with the County Court House and
the Allegheny Carnegie "Library building.
The plans are all to be in bv November, and
the commission will then take up the work of
examination. Rooms will be secured either
in the new Ferguson building or some
other suitable block. If they are not large
enough to hold all the plans, the best will
be selected and placed on exhibition for the
benefit of all desiring to see them.
Mr. Scott said it was impossible to pay
every one who would make a plan. The
commission have decided to take the
next six best ones after the one
selected and give a cash prize of
?2,000 ro each of the architects, as
an incentive for good work. The architects
go to a great deal of expense and trouble to
make the plans and the commission hit
upon this plan in order to insure good work
from everyone.
Mr. Scott concluded by repeating that it
was not definitely settled just where the ex
hibition'would take place, but if satisfactory
arrangements could be made with Mr.
Ferguson it would in all probability be in
that building, but he could not say posi
tively as he lad not seen Mr. Ferguson for
a month.
FIGHT 0VEE A FAIE OF PONIES.
They Are Finally Sold by Police Superin
tendent TVeir.
Police Superintendent Weir yesterday
sold at public sale a pair of Shetland ponies
and a small wagon, which had been picked
up estray by Inspector Whitehouse, in the
East End, about five weeks ago. The outfit
only brought 5168, but that is considered a
good figure. The money realized will be
held by the city until a suit now pending in
court relative to the team is decided.
Cyrus Poole, a saloonkeeper of Franks
town avenue, was the original owner of the
team, and about two months ago sold it,
with the wagon, to Albert Bertalott, the
Libert street wholesale liquor dealer.
After he got possession of the ponies Berta
lott declared one of them had been misrepre
sented to him and sent them back to Poole.
Poole declared Bertalott had foundered one
of the animals after they had been delivered
to him, so Pool&drove them back to Berta
lott. This sort of thing was kept up, and
finally the team was turned loose on the
street and was taken up by Inspector
Whitehouse.
The ponies have been kept in the stables of
the police department ever since, and last
week Superintendent Weir decided that it
would not pay to keep and feed them any
longer. He warned both Poole and Berta
lott of his intention to sell the ponies unless
thev were reclaimed by the owner. Neither
of the interested persons would claim them,
and. suit having been entered, the matter
there rests.
AEEESTED FOB EMBEZZLEMENT.
Detective McTighe Picks Up Charles Beam
for Taking 8200.
Detective McTighe yesterday arrested at
Uniontown Charles L. Ream, aged 20 years,
on a charge of embezzlement preferred by
W. G. Johnston & Co., dealers in printer's
supplies, of Ninth street and Penn avenue.
Ream had been employed for several weeks
as a collector at Johnston's and on Monday
last, having about $200 in his possession, he
disappeared. He failed to put in an ap
pearance the next day and Superintendent
Weir was notified with the result that an
information for embezzlement was entered
the nexi day.
On Thursday Detective McTighe started
after Ream, tracing him from one town to
another until he caught him at Uniontown
yesterday. Ream is now in Central station
and will have a hearing before Magistrate
McKinna to-day. It is said that" Ream
about a year ago got into a similar scrape
while employed in the People's Insurance
Company, but the matter was fixed up by
his relatives and prosecution dropped.
Nearly Completed to Sharpsbnrg.
The work on the Citizens' Electric line
from the terminus of the traction road to
Sharpsburg is being rapidly done. Before
two months it is expected the electric line
will be in operation and the trip will be
made in half the time that is needed by
horse cars. Yesterday the first of the poles
was erected and it is said that before No
vember the electric line will be completed.
Ten cars will be used on it and these will
be of the same weight and general appear
ance as those of the Second avenue line.
An Unusually Jjarge Number of Births.
The number of births in Pittsburg is in
creasing at a large rate if the returns to the
Bureau of Health are to be believed. For
the three months ending on October 1, 1,856
births were reported. For the quarter pre
ceding this one there were 1,336, and for the
first quarter of this year there were 1,278
births; which makes a total of 4,470 births
for the first nine months of 1891. Should
the present rate of increase continue during
the last three months of this year the num
ber of births will exceed that of last year,
which was 6.320.
Snap Shots at City A flairs.
William Hawkey, a laborer at the Penn
sylvania Tube Works, had his arms and
hands badly burned by a flash from hot
iron yestorday evening.
The Young Men's Library Association, of
the Twenty-fourth ward, will hold its
eleventh annual reception next Friday
evening at Odd Fellows' Hall.
The sub-committee on fireof the Commit
tee on Public Safety, of Allegheny, will meet
this nfternoon, when it is expected that
some important business will be taken up.
Constable Conjtelly, of Alderman Dono
van's office, is missing. He is supposed to
have landed in America on October 5 from
Ireland but so far no trace of him can be
found.
Chief Bioelow has returned from an
Eastern trip during which he spent consid
erable time studving shade trees. He has a
number of new ideas which he will put into
use in Pittsburg.
The coroner's jury in the case of Henry C.
Sbanley, hurt in a Pennsylvania railroad
wreck at Greensburg, September 19, and
who died Thursday, rendered a verdict yes
terday of accidental death.
Dn. Moses Blackburn, the well-known
physician, died at 11 o'clock last night at his
home, No. 3313 Penn avenue. He was 80
rears of age. The funeral wi'l take place
Monday atternoon at 2 o'clock.
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WORK FOR MISSIONS
Convention of Christian Church So-
cieties to Open To-Day.
WILL CONTINUE ALL NEXT WEEK.
Noted Workers Among the Delegates Arriv
ing Yesterday.
PROGRAMMES OP VARIOUS SESSIONS.
The International Convention of Mis
sionary Societies of the Christian Church
will open to-day.
It will probably
continue until near
the close of next
week. About 800
delegates are ex
pected. About 250
of them arrived yes
terday and last night
the First Christian
Church at Arch
street and Montgom
ery avenue, Alle
gheny, was thronged
with" them. The
gathering was en-
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ture. One of the objects of interest last
evening was a table laden with curiosities
brought by missionaries from India and
China. They consisted of images of Budd
has, pieces from old heathen temples, etc.
To-day, to-morrow and Monday will be
given up to the Christian Women's Board
Z. T. Sweeney,
Vniled fflatct
for Turkey.
Consul General
of Missions, of whom it will be the seven
teenth annual convention. Their programme
is as follows:
Saturday morning Devotional exercises,
appointments-of committees, reports of offi
cers, address of the President, Mrs. O. A.
Burgess, and praise meeting.
Saturday afternoon Report of Superin
tendent of Children's Work, Mission Band
conference and an address on "Some Details
of Our Work in India" by Miss Mary Grey
biel. Saturday evening Praise service and ad
dresses on "Our Western Work" by M. L.
Streator.
WORK FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Sunday evening Praise meeting and ad
dress on "The Romance of Missions," by
Miss Jessie H. Brown.
Monday morning Devotional exercises,
reports if committees, organizers' confer
ence, short papers Jby Mrs. Jennie Ensell
and Mrs. Helen E. Moses, discussion, and
address on "Our Jamaica ork, by C. JC
Randall.
Monday afternoon Devotional exercises,
address by Ben Mitchell, reports of com
mittees and consecration meeting.
Monday evening Thanksgiving services
and address by Mrs. Persia L. Christian.
Following the meetings of the Women's
Society will come the sessions of the Gen
eral Christian Missionary Society, in forty
second annual convention, and the Foreign
Missionary Society, in sixteenth annual
convention. Thev will alternate the ses
sions. The Women's Society, which com
mences to-day, has six missionaries in Ja
maica, six in India and 24 in the United
States. The societies of the church have
missionaries in all the foreign fields and all
throughout the United Statss.
SOME CELEBRITIES PRESENT.
Prominent among the delegates present is
Rev. R. LinCave, of Nashville, Tenn.,
formerly President ot
the ChristainUniver
sity at Canton, Ind.
Many of the prom
inent workers ot the
church remember
him as their in
structor. He was
born in Virginia and
graduated from the
Lexington Bible
College. He spent:
some vears in Mi
souri and for the1
East eight years ha
een pastor of the;
Vine Street Church
at Nashville. He is
one of the bright
litrhts of the church.
Rev. Ii. Lin Caie.
Another well-known divine is Rev. A. P.
Cobb, of Normal, 111. He is widely knon
as an evangelist, and has held two very suc
cessful series of revivals in the Allegheny
church.
Mrs. P. Y. Christian, of Chicago, is also
here. It was her husband who nominated
Governor St. John for the Presidency of the
United States in this city. Among others
are President Butte, of Butte University,
Lexington, Ind., and Dr. Craig, of Den
ver, Col.
SOME historians have -written of Abraham
Lincoln as if he were rnral and unsophisti
cated. Colonel A. K. McClnre in THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow will show that this view
is wholly wrong.
THE MULTIPLE ECHOES.
Remarkable Repetitions of Sound in Vari
ous Parts of the World.
The multiple echoes, which repeat the
same word or tones several times, are among
the most wonderful of their class. An echo
of this kind in the chateau of Simonetti, in
Italy, repeats a note 30 times; at Wood
stock, in England, there is one which re
peats from 17 to 20 syllables; and a remark
ably fine echo occurs beneath the suspension
bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales,
which returns the sound of a blow with a
hammer on the pier in succession from each
ot the crossbeams that support the roadway,
and from the opposite pier, at a distance of
576 feet; and in addition to this the sound
is many times repeated between the water
and the roadway, the whole effect of the
series being most peculiar.
In the whispering gallery of St. Paul's,
London, the faintest sound is conveyed
from one side to the other of the dome; and
in the Cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the
slightest whisper is borne with perfect dis
tinctness from the great western door,
where the old confessional used to be, to
the high altar, a distance of 200 feet. The
echoes of the Lake of Killarney are also
world famous.
Thrown Twenty Feet.
C. A. Albright, of Monterey, Pa., was
struck by a Birmingham Traction car in
front of the Monongahela House last night
and severely injured. He had stopped be
tween the tracks, and saw the car coming,
but evidently became bewildered, and made
no effort to get out of the way. He was
thrown 20 feet. Officers Jack "and Yeager
carried him to the Homeopathic Hospital.
He was cut about the head. Motorman
Sadler was arrested by Officer Jack, but was
subseauently released on bail.
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LINES OUT EOS SHAKES.
How the Fishermen Amnse Themselves
When Business Gets Dull.
Harper's Young People. .
If cod, halibut, or haddock are scarce, the
firshermen say, "Let us try for sharks."
But, of course, fishing for sharks ten and
twelve feet long in a small boat would be
dangerous, so it is only from the fishing
smacks of thirty to fifty tons that the lines,
are pnt out. There is great excitement on
board a fishing boat when the shark lines
gr oat, for every man is afraid of the beast
that he wants to capture. Very often large
sharks remain for days at a time near a fish
ing boat, eating the cods heads, sounds,
bones and entrails thrown overboard, and it
is known that they are there, because they
are constantly thrusting their black fins
above water.
If the fishermen know that the sharks'
are near the surface, they put a piece of
cork on the line close to the hook, which is
baited with about a quarter of a pound of
fat pork; the hook is thrown as far as pos
sible in the direction of the wind or tide,
and then allowed to drift. The shark sees
the pork, comes stealthily up to it, then
turns on his back, and bolts bait, hook and
a couple of feet of the line. When he feels
the hook in his stomach or throat
he dives and swims off at great
speed, the fisherman paving out
line to him gradually. When at iast it is so
tired that it can resist no more, it is drawn
to the side of the boat and pulled to the
surface, when the fishermen stick gaffs into
its body, and put two or three half hitches
of rope round its head. The fish is often so
large that it lias to be hoisted aboard bv a
block and tackle, but as soon as it finds that
it is being lifted out of the water it strug
gles and thrashes violently with its tail.
When put upon the deck it flounders and
flops with such violence that the fishermen
are often afraid to go near it.
COLONEL A. K. M'CLTJRE says in an in
teresting letter for THE DISPATCH to
morrow that Lincoln was by no means
frank. He never told half he knew, and
none of his closest acquaintances had his
entire conDdencr
A TBAVEinTG MOUNTAIN.
The Mighty Mass of Basalt That Seems In
tent on Damming the Columbia.
Goldthiralte's Geographical Magazine.
A traveling mountain is found at the Cas
cades of the Columbia. It is a triple-peaked
mass of dark brown basalt; six or eight miles
in length where it fronts the river, and
rises to a height of almost 2,000 feet above the
water. That it is in motion is the last
thought which would be likely to suggest
itself to the mind of any one passing it, yet
it is a well-established fact that this entire
mountain is moving slowly but steadiy down
to the river, as if it had a deliberate pur
pose some time in the future to dam the
Columbiaand form a great lake from the Cas
cades to the Dalles. The Indian traditions
indicate immense movements of the
mountains in that region long before white
men came to Oregon, and the early settlers
immigrants many of them from New Eng
land gave the above described mountain
ous ridge the name of "traveling" or slid
ing monntain.
In its forward and downward movement
the forests along the base of the ridge have
become submerged in the river. Large
tree stumps can be seen standing deep in
the water on this shore. The railway en
gineers and the brakemen find that the line
of the railway which skirts the foot of the
mountain is being continually forced 'out of
place. At certain points the permanent
way and rails have been pushed eight or
ten feet out of the line in a few years. Ge
ologists attribute this strange phenomenon
to the fact that the basalt, which consti
tutes the bulk of the monntain, rests on a
substratum of conglomerate or of soft sand
stone, which the deep, swift current of the
mighty river is constantly wearing away or
that this softer subrock.is of itself yielding
at great depths to the enormous weight of
the harder mineral above.
MURRAY'S New York letter for THE
DISPATCH to-morrow tells how buttons
are made from vegetable ivory. His
Gotham Gossip is breezy.
Water Scarce at Beaver Falls.
In a suit argued at Beaver Falls yester
day before Judge Wickham the fact has
been brought out that there is a great scar
city of water for power in that vicinity.
Several establishments have been forced to
suspend operations on that account.
RULES for selecting nnd cooking various
meats will be given by Ellice Serena in THE
DISPATCH to-morrow.
F0INTS ON POLICE HATTEBS.
James Doyle, of Center avenue, was ar
rested yesterday for wife beating.
W. H. Joxes was held for trial at court by
Alderman McMasters yesterday on a charge
of deserting his wife, Mary Jones.
Patrick Cohnellt was sent to jail yester
day by 'Squire Holtzman, of Braddock, on a
charge of larceny, preferred by J. K. Fisher.
Patrick Burks was arrested yesterday on
a charge of assaulting a son of Con Ma
loney. Ho will have a hearing before Alder
man Moore.
Lindsat Black was committed to Jail by
'Squire William T. Dart, of McKeesport, yes
terday on a charge of larceny, preferred by
Harry Schnelhof.
William Tritch. who was accused of steal
ing $10 from Thomas Sloan, was given a hear
ing by Alderman McKenna yesterday and
discharged for want of evidence.
William Qcisn was arrested by Detectives
Bendel andDemmcl last night, charged with
the larceny of $55 from Reinecke & Co., the
Wood street plumbers' supply dealers. Quinn
had been in their employ. He denies his
guilt.
Alokzo Wilsoit, of Washington, Pa., who
declined to behave properly while out on
parole from the Morganza Reform School,
was sent back to that institution yesterday
by Sergeant McCurry, of the Wost n"d
police force.
The police are still vigorously searching
for Francesco Amorosa, the Italian mur
derer, but as yet be has kept his hiding place
a perfect secret. As the man has no money
to keep himself in concealment very
long. Superintendent Weir is confident of
catching him before many days.
BESSIE BRAMBLE recalls episodes in
the careers of the old Cantata and Gonnod
societies of PIttsbarg in her letter for THE
DISPATCH to-morrow.
Trusses, Etc
Careful fitting of trusses, supporters,
shoulder braces, artificial limbs, etc Arti
ficial Limb Company, 909 Penn avenue,
near Ninth street, Pittsburg. Open on Sat
urday evening until 9 o'clock.
HXEBERS'
FAMOUS MUSICAL INSTRU
MENTS. Klebers Take the Lead in Jllnslc, as .Ever.
In addition to the numberless Steinway,
Conovcr and Opera pianos and other mu
sical instruments sold daily at this popular
old-time establishment, the Messrs. Kleber
have also disposed of quite a number ot
Vocalion church organs. No one can have
any idea of the surpassing musical beauty
and excellence of these wonderful Vocalion
organs without having seen and heard
them. At the low price of 800, the Vo
calion furnishes more variety, delicacy and
strength of tone than any 52,500 pipe organ,
while for durability it far surpasses the
latter. t
The Klebers enjoy the confidence of the
public for their integrity and also for the
superior excellence of their instruments.
Anything that conies from Klebers' must
necessarily be musically perfect and satis
factory. Their store is 500 Wood street.
After a sleepless night use Angostura
Bitters to tone your system. All druggists.
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THEY CHOSE OH FBEE 8ILVEB.
Judge Fawcett' Ideas on the Political
Situation In Ohio.
Judge J. P. Fawcett, of Canton, O., who
for several years was Chairman of the Re
publican Executive Committee of Major
McKinley'g county, was in the city last
evening. Judge Fawcett is regarded as one
of the most effective political managers in
Eastern Ohio, and is a warm personal friend
of the Republican candidate for Governor.
"There is no disaffection," said he, "in
the ranks of the party that amounts to any
thing. The Democrats are disorganized in
Hamilton county, and in the manufacturing
towns throughout the State McKiplev will
receive the votes of many protection Demo
crats. The position of tne Democrats on
the silver question is a hard pill for busi
ness men of that party to swallow, and ivill
be the canse of many . votes being
cast for the Republican ticket. The
People's party, or Farmers' Alliance,seems
to be the only uncertain element in the
contest, and that movement does not cut
near the figure it did at the opening of the
campaign. About all that is left of it is the
old Greenback party. Everybody is going
to vote this year, and Major'McKinley will
receive the normal Republican majority
from 15,000 to 20,000."
River Men Returning Home.
Thomas P. Roberts, chief engineer for the
Monongahela Navigation Company, re
turned home from the convention of river
men at Evansville, Ind., last evening. The
other four delegates from Pittsburg re
mained for the banquet held last night.
Captain Henderson intended to return yes
terday, but decided to remain and hear Cap
tain John F. Dravo's toast on "Plenty of
Water Not Too Much of It." Captain
Sam S. Brown will visit Kentucky, where
be is interested in new railroad enterprises,
before returning home. B. L. AVood, who
has important interests near Charleston, W.
Va., will visit that city for a few days.
Dr. B. M. Hanna. Eye, ear, nose and
throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720
Penn street, Pittsburg, Pa. ssu
TJ. and S.
SILVER CROWNS.
We are prepared tnis season to show you
our own importation of Fleeced-Lined Hose
infant black 'lind colors. They are taking
the place of cashmere hose to a largo extent
and are more serviceable. We have them all
black, split feet and all white feet; also,
colors, from 25c to 75c per pair. Guaranteed
to wear well and to be fast colors.
ULRICH & SPENCER,
642 Penn Avenue.
Open Saturday Evening.
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BIBER & EASTON.
THIS WEEK
THIS WEEK
THIS WEEK
VISIT OUR CLOAK ROOMS.
VISIT OUR CLOAK ROOMS.
VISIT OUR CLOAK ROOMS.
BERLIN
AND
PARIS GARMENTS
In almost
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Endless Variety
from the plain
Tailor-Made Jacket
to the elaborate
FurTrimmed Novelty.
Diagonal Cheviot Jackets, .with
large horn buttons, 5.00.
Cheviot Jackets, with handsome
loop ornaments, S8.00.
Very stylish Fur-Trimmed Gar
ments, 7.50, 9.00, io.oo, $11.00
and up.
Black Diagonal Cheviot Garments,
with collar and front trimmed with
Astrakhan Fur, at $9.00 and $10.00.
BIBER & EASTON
05 AND 507 MARKET ST.
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ANOTHER CUT !
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS
CARPET
THIS WEEK.
THREE GRADES.
50c ' 55c 65c.
PER YARD.
From 4,000
of each grade.
10 to 15 cents
to 6,000 yards
These prices are
a yard less than
regular.
See the display
dow you'll come
invitation.
in our win
in without
EDWARD
GR0ETZINGER,
627 and 629 Penn Avenue.
The Moquettes .are
last week's prices.
still going at
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Warm Air Furnaces
and
Wrought steel Ranges.
CINDERELLA RANGES AND STOVES.
GAS RANGES AND BROILERS.
jTc. BARTLETT,
n.3.TTS 203 Wood street. Pittsburg-, Pa
ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Leading
Drygoods House.
. Pittsburg. Pa
Saturday, Oct. 17, 1331,
jos. home &co:s
PENN AYENUS ST0R31
A STOCK OF FALL AND WIN
TER DRESS GOODS such as we
never had before.
We speak now of the variety, the
bigness, the extensiveness and the
lots you get for your money in every
yard you buy here.
BROADCLOTHS.
Always in style, and as this is a
great fur and feather season it is easy
to make a Broadcloth Suit or Walk
ing Dress very handsome.
We have Broadcloths, and we have
the best. The cheapest grade of
Broadcloth we sell is $1 a yard, and
you won't find a better one at the
price. The highest priced one we
sell is 3 a yard, and the man that
makes it has been making Broadcloths
for a lifetime, and he gives us the
privilege of selling all of his goods
brought to this section of country.
Now between this $1 Broadcloth
and the 3 kind there are four other
grades, so you have here six qualities
to make your selections from.
SCOTCH TWEEDS.
In every mixture that the "best
Scotch manufacturers of these Dress
Goods can get up.
Just as peculiarly nice and much
quieter in styleare the French Camel's
Hairs.
More qualities will be shown here
than you ever knew were made.
Did you ever feel how light and
soft, even to silkiness, is the texture
of one of our finest French Camel's
Hair Suitings ? They come in every
desirable color, and one Dress of
them is always desirable for a satis
factory winter's outfit.
WIDE WALE DIAGONALS IN
NAVY BLUES AND GREENS.
Also, smooth -surface French weaves
that make up very stylishly, and are
a change from the BEDFORD
CORDS, which you find here in the
good to best grades, and in the colors
that you most want and are hardest
to find.
FANCY PLAID DRESS GOODS
In rough plaids, of all siies of blocks
and bars.
Novelty Check and Plaid Suitings,
novelty Jacquard or figured effects
that come seven yards in a pattern,
that are the most stylish things im
aginable, and that are the most de
sirable, ultra -fashionable goods made.
For people that want the finest
Dress Goods and the completest vari
ety of styles we recommend this great
Dress Goods Department.
SOME SPECIALS.
All-Wool Bourette Checks, in
stylish colorings, at 50c, that sell
usually at 75c.
54-inch genuine Scotch Cheviot
Plaids and Mixtures at $1.
Stylish and good All-Wool Suit
ings. Some will cost you 50c, which
is half price; some 75c, some 85c a
yard. They might sell as. fast at $1,
but we don't ask that for them.
We are still selling All-Wool Cash
meres worth 50c at 40c, and 75c
ones at 50c. Not as stylish as rough,
shaggy goods, but the" best material
in the world for a house wrapper, or
any always nice looking dress. No
more of these bargain Cashmeres can
be bought anywhere when what we
have are gone. Can't get 'em.
FOR HOUSE DRESSES
We have opened recently some of the
prettiest styles in All-Wool French
Printed Challies and in Printed Bed
ford Cords and in Printed Satin
Stripe Nun's Veilings. Some of them
in light colors, suitable for Morning
Gowns, as well as for Evening Cos
tumes. If you are more interested in Black
Dress Goods that you are in Colored
Dress Fabrics, don t forget that in
our Mourning Dress-Goods Depart
ment we are offering values that can
not be matched elsewhere!
Black French Cashmere(imported),
39 inches wide, fine twill, all pure
wool, at 50c per yard.
Black Henrietta, 40 inches wide,
high finish, all pure wool, at 60c per
yard.
Black Henrietta, 45 inches wide,
extra, superior quality, 'beautiful fin-
ish, finest wool, at $1 per yard.
Lupin's Black Cashmeres. (World
renowned for quality and finish.) 40
inches wide at 65c and 75c per yard.
46 inches wide at 85c, $1 and
ji 25 per yard.
Black Cachmyre Foule, with tufted
and looped stripe, four different
styles, 44 inches wide; all pure wool,
extra fine quality, at $1 25 per yard.
This makes an exceedingly hand
some and dressy suit, and is worth
fully $1 65.
Black French Serge, extra quality,
heavy make, 40 inches wide, all
wool, 50c per yard.
Black Ladies' Cloth,-- all wool, 50
inches wide, at 50c per yard. The
best value ever offered for the money.
JOS. HORNE & CO.,.
607-621 PENN AVENUE."
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