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lportant constituents in a commonwealth
or a community, and landscapes and cas
! cades, however grand and imposing, are not
'the kind of a "collateral" which even a pio
neer cares for when it comes to the counter
lto do business. You can't pay notes or
meet grocery bills with such airy "assets,"
It is a simple, undisputable proposition
that manufacturing does not grow in the
Xorthwest in proportion to its population
or its material growth. Pittsburg points to
5200,000,000 of a manufacturing output
yearly, and Portland, with even greater
business pretensions than ourcitv, turns out
a beggarly 520,000,000. and this, too, from a
city with exceptional facilities for manu
facturing and which boasts that it is the
natural distributing point for ten States
"Why should it not distribute manufactured
products as well as fhe wheat of Oregon or
the teas and spices of the Orient? Here, for
instance, is a cascade that nature designs for
"luiMness"' as well as for picturesnucuess.
Pittsburg has used natural gas for
"power" to its manufacturing advantage,
hut here, where nature lavishly furnishes
"power" without limit and without cost, it
is utilized to but a trifling extent. At
present niDctcen-twenlieths of this "gigan
tic" power is absolutely wasted. A por
tion of it is used for lighting Portland, but
those on the ground unite in saying that
tic power is so enormous that it is not
probable that it will ever all be used by
mills located at the falls, and it is more
than possible that a larce part of the fu
ture manufacturing establishments located
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VCllJlMiVrtTT. rAT.T.S, PORTLAND'S WATEIl POWER.
r
tlircctlv in Portland will receive their
jiowcr from here by means of the electric
wire.
Xjick of Iasin?ss Enterprise.
Here is a city with one-third the popu
lation of Pittsburg and only one-twentieth
of its manufacturing, and tliis with a practi
callv illimitable market for manufactured
product- The manufacturing done there
now is mostly small specialties eential to
immediate wants. There is no expansion
or reaching out for new fields, as w ith the
shipping interests. All this in a city which
5oai-ts that it is the richest city in the
United States of its size: that it lias more
millionaires to the square mile than any
other city of its sie, and that its
shipping trade is the largest in the
world in proportion to population. But the
very business element's that brought it
wealth biing it weakness in the shape of
lregs of an Oriental population that is daily
crowding wiiiie labor to the wall, and build
ing upjapane": and Chinese colonies in
American cities to the detriment of Amer
ican citizens. The fact that Portland has
tpecial facilities and opportunities for man
ufacturing makes it all the greater puzzle
why it does not avail itself of them. It is
the poorest manufacturing city in the world,
judged by iti, opportunities. Iron beds of
excellent grade and inexhaustible in qual
ity extend fiom 8 to .10 miles in a circle
around Portland more than Miflicicnt to
make it the Pittsburg of the Pacific coast.
It i-- au enigma to me. A few ve.irs ago on
a visit to lielaiid and Scotlan'l 1 had occa
fion to refer to the lack of enterprise
on the part of Irish capital in
.Publin. That city made Guiness' Drown
Stout r.nd porter and shipped it in millions
if bottles to the uttermost ends of the world
annually, and when I asked why Dublin
capital could not, instead of sending to
Liverpool for "stout" bottles and paying
freight both wa, build glassworks in
Dublin and by making these bottles at
home give profit to Irish capital and em
ployment to Irish labor I got no answer.
The reply probably would have been the
tame that Xieolas I.ongwoith gave when he
Ears he was once offered the site where the
cify of Cincinnati now stands for a fiddle,
but, alas! he didn't have the fiddle.
Tbe Irish probably hadn't ibe
money and lacked the financial abil
ity to negotiate a loan. But
Portland to-day with its great almndacce of
wealth is.if anvthinc, less enterprising than
the citizens of Dublin, with no weahlu
How? Here is a fruit-raising State which
immises to be one of the grati-st fruit pro
ducing countries in the world where the
truit farming business is daily extending
with every facility "that nature
and apital can give, hut with
Ihniled markets in Jact California is
8nwr supplying the home market. And
With all this fruit area think of its million-
m-zr- rr
;V7a? mm-
O.U.J rORXIA'S
aire merchants sending far East for fruit
jars, or what is perhaps worse bringing both
mh and jars from 3,000 to 4,000 miles.
Thh. with railroads in every direction.watcr
Kcr for manufacturing sand suitable for
plass manufacture everything ecpt en
terprise. There is big money here lor East
ern capital seme day. There is also a good
home market for cheap wirdow glass; for
w Agon niani:fr.cturing,harvesting machinery,
rtc, etc A wagon which fin b bought
East for 55 ."5 commands Sl'ij to S150 here
a.d in Califoru'a. "With no end of choice
timber, with unemployed labor thronging
tr-" streets there ought to he an "ojwning"
here surely for capital and enterprise.
l'nrcliaso Their Product at an Advance.
The same country that sends barlcv and
hops East brings their product back to the
coast in the shape of Milwaukee or Cincin
nati beer. And California products have
tli call here in the greatest fruit producing
area on the continent. lets are grown
here in great perfection. "Why cannot the
Oreconian make beet sugar as profitably as
his s-ensual brother, the Mormon, at Salt
Lake.' Eastern enterprise has offered to
supply beet seed to the Oregon farmers free
aud Jjuy their Migar beet product at market
price, "hut thcreare no "taken." in sight
and the Oregonian simply won't have it.
I attended the Portland Exposition and
was amazed at its fruit and farm products.
It lacked completeness in one direction
only. No exposition is complete any
where in Oregon, unless it has one of its
lareest booths vacant and dedicated to "Neg
lected Manufacturing Opportunities."
It is said in some quarters that the rail
roads discriminate in favor of Eastern
products acainst Pacific coast enterprise.
But if" Oregon had the enterprise, as
it has the resources, to supply the "Inland
Empire" with manufactured "products the
railroads would just as soon collect freight
from an Oregon as from a Chicago shipper.
The unadorned fact is that capital here now
-wastes its fragrance on the desert airand is so
accustomed to "soft snaps" that, so to speak,
it does not care to invest except when the
output is ncarlv all profit. Take the sal
mon canning industry which seems to have
more life in'it here than anywherc else, in
a manufacturing way. 'An Oregonian capi
talist will lease orputchase a "water right"
along the Columbia, and erect thereon a
fish wheel at a nominal cost. This is
mainly his stock in trade in the salmon can
ning business.
Salmon Fishing a Soft Snap.
The fish seek the headwaters of the great
river at certain seasons. The fish wheel is
constructed with a sort of "paddle buckets"
that catch the JiMi with every revolution 01
the wheel and throw the contents into a
shute which runs directly into the cannery
where the fish are cured and canned.
Nature furnishes thcpower and the fish do
nearlv all the work and the cost of the
"catch" is nominal practically nothing
compared with proportionate labor and out
lay elsewhere. The finished product brings
a good, roundanarket price, and the profits
are very large. Xow, contrast this easy
money-making with the difficulties of a
Nantucket whaler in the East with a half-a-vear's
trip for prospect of a cargo, a big
investment in a vessel, big pav-roll for
seamen, and hip risks attending a "catch."
whether of whales or "small frv" and it is
easy to see that our Pacific slope brother
has verily a '"soft thing."
Some of the home millionaires do not en
courage "home industry" to auv alarming
extent. One of the largest business blocks
in Portland is now being erected by W. S.
I.add, the Portland twenty-millionaire.
The lower story of the liuildmg is of cut
stone. In the other live or six stories a
peculiarly colored sun-burnt or lire brick is
used. 1 innocently asked whither came
this "brick," and was informed in a hesitat
ing way, for they speak in hated breath of
these things out here, that it came from
Japan as ballast, and was used because, for
sooth, it was cheap! costing the buyer, de
livered here, I was informed, something
like 51 50 per ton. Now, Mr. Ladd is a
very enterprising citizen in his way, a
hanker, and knows his own business: and it
j is, as Arteinus "Ward "used to sav, "none of
our luneral anyway. still, it will
occur to some people that if Sir.
I.add wanted Portland to boom as a
manufacturing city he could do it
more effectually by starting a brickyard in
Portland to make brick, and thus give em
ployment to Oregon home labor in the
making, hauling. etc., of home
made brick, instead of throwing the worfc
and profit to the almond-eyed heathen be
yond the seas.
Indifference to Small Profits.
As Miss Grundy says, "People will talk,"
and some of them talked that way even in
Portland. Mr. Ladd could have had his "vel
vet," too, as brickmaking is almost
everywhere a fairly remunerative in
dustry, and as a result cither hun
dreds of the idle men in Oregon
could find employment or that number of
new laborers would be attracted to the
Pacific coast Tiiat it about the size
of it from an Eastern standpoint,
and the Eastern A iew will stand very criti
cal inspection in the "sweet subsequently"
when perhaps "blooms" will be "no longer
on the (Western) rye." They are indiffer
ent to small profits, and small economies,
aud have not learned the value of the "nim
ble sixpence" owr the "slow shilling." In
the East, a good four per cent bond would
be easily marketed, but such is the eager
ness and thirst for big "velvet" out here
that some of their (i per cent, gilt-edged,
gold-hearing bonds are hawked around and
PREntCAIIENT.
sold at auction in neighboring cities.
For
instance this lrom San irancisco:
A UCTIOX SALE OF BONINs.
Witt. Kn Sold ron Accoi-t op "Whom It "Mat
Concern-.
200 1st mobtgaoe bonds op 81,003 rch
or Titr.
rOUTLAND CAULK KAII.WA1' CO.,
or l'oitTi.AN-n, oitE.,
BeatuiffJatprtstnt Hie rate or C per cent prr an
num, nayablewml-annii.illv. Principsl iu;i1iimii
tlielsfdiyoCIaiitiin. 1'UO. principal and'Intcirst
payable in UmtI Mates GoM Coin.
These Iwnds arc part of the issi'of400boiil. of
like tenor, seeured by a mortgage on the franchise
roadway, rolling stocV and proper! belonging to
the said Portland Cable Kailway Company.
If anybody cares to see a region given
over to commerce and non-taxpaying mill
ionaires, with Chinese labor profitably em
ployed and home labor idle, with neglected
manufacturing and no home market, he
need only gaze at this picture equally true
of Oregon as of 'Frisco of a surplus and
moneyless husbandmen with no markets.
In my next I shall faintly outline some
of the social and industrial conditions in an
American city on the coast, where the
almond-eyed juggler is not only protected
but favored, where the best business streets
are abandoned to John andhis strange gods,
where the white man alone is poor, and
where the Chinaman and Japanese revel in
competence and wealth by crow ding free
white labor into the "last ditch."
- James "W. Bbeejt.
THE ,
DOERFLIWS FIX,
A Wylie Avenue Drnggist Is Short in
Bis Accounts as Treasurer
of a School Board.
HD1I0RS OP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
The
Deficit in the Funds Amounts
$7,500, Which Is Covered ly
Attached Assets.
to
JUDGMENTS ENTERED UP AGAINST mil.
His Friends Claim That the Matter Will Soon Be
Agreeably Adjusted.
"What proved to be as unfortunate as
startling was the discovery yesterday that
Theodore Doerflinger, a well-known "Wylie
avenue druggist, had been charged with an
embezzlement and forgery. Hissubsequent
attempt to suicide adds to the sensational
end of the matter. George Booth, City
Clerk, preferred the charge at the instance
of the Seventh ward School Board, of which
he is Treasurer The accused gave bail
in the sum of $10,000, Colonel J. S. Foster
and a "William Wood going his security.
The main charge against Doirflinger is
the embezzlement of school funds, and the
shortage amounts to abont 57,500. He is
also President of the Dexter Spring "Works
but the report that he.was short in his ac
counts with that concern is positively
denied by the officials. There is no denial
by his close friends outside of his "family
that he was driven to desperation by
brooding over the inevitiable ex
posure, which resnlted in his tak
ing poison. The School Board of the
Seventh ward held an important meet
ing on Tuesday evening at which Mr. Doer
flinger was to have been present, but he
failed to pat in an appearance. Some of
the board were expecting some startling de
velopments and even a shortage in the
Treasurer's accounts, and their suspicions
were at once aroused by his absence. The
excuse that he had been taken sud
denly ill was sent by his family.
Secretary George Booth was at
once instructed to enter suit 3gainst him,
and as painful as it wa3 to Mr. Booth
he could do nothing but perforin his duty.
He and Mr. Doerflinger have been life long
friends aud intimates.
Illg Judgments Entered Against Him.
Two executions, one of S8.400 and another
of ?!),400, were filed by Ex-Mayor McCallin
yesterday. The former was in favor of him
self and the latter in favor of Doerflinger's
mother and McCallin jointly. The Ex
Mayor is alo on his bond as Treasurer of
the School Board, and in a case in the
Orphans' Court where Doerflinger is
guardian or trustee of the Archie "Wallace
Estate.
George Booth was seen and spoken to
about the atiair. He is deeply worried and
sympathizes with the unfortunate man and
his family. He attributes his downfall to
sheer, downright moral cowardice. "Why,"
said he, "Theodore had no stamina what
ever, because if he had this matter could
have been adjusted before it reached the
public He had many friends who
would have willinglv come to
his rescue with loans of 1,000 or more if
necessary, to shield and help him out of
financial embarrassment. He was an easy,
open-hearted man, who lacked business
capabilities and this is fully demonstrated
by his loaning money to every Tom, Dick
and Harry who would apply to him. He
has any number of debtors about the city,
and the chances arc that no good security
was taken by him to protect himself. In
business deals of this sort he was entirely
too careless, and to this is attached the
prime cause of his trouble." Large sums
of money have been entrusted to his keep
ing by the school board, and the elegant
new building, which hac recentl been
elected at a cost of $130,000, was under his
eve as treasurer, he paying all the bills.
This money was in his hands. According
to law tlie secretary and treasurer or a
school board must make an annual report of
the school finances. Secretary Booth pre
pared his statement at the end of the fiscal
year and turned it over to Treasurer Doer
flinger for verification. This occurred last
February.
ltoolh demanded tlio Report.
A balance of $;i.'!,90f was at that time in
the treasury, and subsequently ?ll,000 was
added to the"amount,making nearly $30,000.
Treasurer Doerflinger delayed in his veri
fied statement.and the auditors, J. O. Brown
and George P. Letsche, became anxious
about the matter and demanded it. George
Booth went to Doerflineer and explained
the state of things, and made
a formal demard of the paper
and account. The Treasurer told
Chief Brown on Tuesday that he would
have the statement in readiness at his drug
store on the same evening at 7 o'clock.
Chief Brown, George Letsche and George
Booth w ere promptly there at the appointed
time, but the clerk said Mr. Doeiflinger had
been taken suddenly and seriously ill at his
home. This aroued suspicion, and Booth
hastily ran to the house, on Elm street,
where it was learned that he had taken a
dose of aconite with suicidal intent. Dr.
Jones was in attendance administering
emetics in the effort to save his life.
The School Board accounts were taken
from Doerflinger's safe by Brown and
Letsche, and the following entries were
found in it: Three warrants for contractors'
estimates were missing. One was for esti
mate Xo. 0, dated February (, amount
?9,430: the second was ?S,l!ib, of May 15,
and the other was for $.",400, of March 5.
The two latter had been discounted at the
German National Bank, of Allegheny, and
turned oyer to the Odd Fellows' Bank as
four month notes. Murphy & Hamilton,
the contractors, accepted the notes. How
ever, the total shortage will, after the re
ductions and Doerflinger's commission ofl
per cent of all moneys is deducted from the
amount on hand, not be over $7,500.
Always Itejjarded a Wealthy Man.
Theodore Doerflinger has always been a
highly-respected business man on the hill.
He was thought to be in quite affluent cir
cumstances, possessing all the luxuries of
an elegant home, horses and carriages and
everything to go toward making him happy.
He was a liberal liver and never stinted
himself in anything. He is married to ex
Mayor McCalhn's sister a charming lady
hut has no children. His aged mother
lives with him and she was on his bond for
$7,500, but recently transferred her prop
erty without the knowledge of the School
Board. It is said also that the drugstore
and two houses on Elm street, which were
thought to be the absolute property of Mr.
Doerflinger. arc in her name.
Ex-Mayor McCallin was seen at his resi
dence on Elm Btreet, by The Dispatch
reporter. He was not any more conversant
with the trouble than the average person,
because it was all news and a surprise to
him. When asked if he thought Mr. Doer
flinger's difficulty would be adjusted he said
he could not say. "I hae not inquired
into the matter thoroughly as yet, although
I am one ot his bondsmen as Treasurer of
the School Board."
"How about Mr. Doerflinger's capabili
ties?" was asked the ex-Mayor.
"lie is a very shrewd business roan ordi
narily, and I was somewhat surprised to see.
him go wrong in this manner. He still has
considerable property in his own name, and
I never heard of it being transferred to his
mother to secure her. The truth of the
matter is the fellow has been lying sick for
the past two weeks, and had he gotten out
among his friends as he should have done
this exposure and consequent disgrace
PITTSBURGr' DISPATCH,
would not necessarily have befallen him.
He had many friends on the Hill who
would only have been too glad to shield
him from exposure by lending financial
aid."
.His Frlendi Ready to Aid Him.
At the drug store a knot of Doerflinger's
friends gathered about the door and dis
cussed the story. The tenor of the talk was
to the effect that he was to blame in not
allowing his friends a knowledge of his
affairs. Expressions of regret were heard
on every side and such sympathetic remarks
as "Poor Theo" and "Too bad" were very
frequent. Inquiry at the Doerflinger home
brought forth the answer that Mr. Doer
flinger was not present and his mother or
wife also refused to be approached on the
subject.
John E. McCrickart, formerly Secretary
of the Modern Building and Loan Associa
tion at 140 Fifth avenue, said that Doer
flinger's accounts with the concern were as
straight as a string.
Dr. M. O. Jones, who attended Doerfline
er after he took the poison, would not talk
on the subject, it being flagrantly unprofes--sional
to give out information concerning a
patient's illness, and especially so in a case
like the present one. Mr. Doerflinger was
not of a speculative turn of mind, further
than he was fonJof fast horses, and spent
considerable money in maintaining his
stable. This is very expensive pleasure, and
some think a great deal of his means were
wasted on unprofitable horseflesh. Outside
of the two judgments being entered up, and
the deficit in the school funds, his business
is in good shape.
His assets amount to about $40,000,
which is ample to cover all claims so far
against him. The stock in the Dexter
Spring Company amounts to $15,000, the 300
snares of Modern Building and Loan Asso
ciation, the drugstore, valued at $5,000
(Mrs. Doerflinger, Sr., furnished the money
to establish this store), and two houses on
Elm street, said to be worth $10,000. The
difficulty, his friends claim, before the
judgments were entered up against him was
that he did not have time to get out of the
house and gather together enough money to
tide him over his embarrassment. Late
yesterday evening It. & W. Jenkinson &
Co. issued a probate against Doerflinger to
obtain $73 19 alleged to be due them on a
bill of goods purchased by the defendant
The probate was sworn to by J. K. Wallace
before Alderman McKenna.
The family wish it positively denied that
the gentleman attempted suicide by taking
poison, and that he was suffering from a
stomach trouble.
A hearing will take place next Thursday
before Alderman McKenna.
TEACHEHS IN SESSION.
Opening Session of the Allegheny County
Institute.
At the meeting of the Allegheny County
Teachers' Institute in the First Presbyte
rian Church last evening Justice Williams,
of the Supreme Court, pi esided. Kev. Dr.
W. J. Iteid made the opening prayer.
Colonel F. W. Parker, of Chicago, was then
introduced. He said they had met to con
sider the welfare of the child. That included
the welfare of everything else. The common
school system, he said, was the salvation
of every child in the United States. Our
common school system is not more than 50
years old. No institution in the world has
made such progress. Next he touched on
the necessity of manual training and teach
ing the girls to cook. Colonel Parker was
followed by a chorun of small pupils from
the Grant school, under the charge of Miss
Steinert.
The next speaker was Dr. James McAllis
ter, of the Drexcl Institute of Philadelphia.
He spoke on the progress of education gen
erally. The great question of the whole
world to-day, he said, is to educate the peo
ple. Eleven per cent of the population of
the United States can't read or write, and 25
per cent lack in one of these qualifications.
A selection by a chorus of pupils from
the Grant School preceded the next ad
dress. The last speaker was George W.
Atherton, of the State College at Belle
fonte, Pa. He indorsed the first speakers,
and said the perpetuation of Christian civ
ilization depended on the education of the
people. In conclusion he made r a-strongr
argument also for industrial schools. I he
meeting then adjourned until this morning.
BII.I, NYE stndics the mechanical make
up of a drams. See bis notes In THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
ALLEGHENY'S INDEBTEDNESS.
Pcopio Object to the Appropriation
lor
Public Lighting.
Messrs. A. H. Mercer, Charles H. Ger
wig, Charles W. Neeb. W. M. Kennedy
and Emanuel Werthcimer, composing the
committee appointed bythe Allegheny City
Councils to arrange for a public meeting by
wTiich the people of that city would be en
lightened on the proposed increase of city
debt, have decided on Saturday evening,
October :'.0, as the day.
It is proposed to increase the debt $950,
000, and the committee will prepare circu
lars giving the purposes, which are as fol
lows: Street improvement. $500,000; water
extension, $200,000; public lighting $100,000,
and opening a new street in the flooded
district, $150,000. The $500,000 for street
improvements is proposed to be issued at
the rate of $100,000 per year. The annual
appropriation will also be expended in ad
dition to this.
Already there is being a strong feeling
worked up against the increase. One of
the principal objections raised is against
the expending of $100,000 for public light
ing, as it cost the city nearly $200,000 re
cently foran electric plant and light toyers.
HAPPY PACES IN THE SCHOOLS.
rrof. aiacAIster tondly Praises the Pitts
burg Teachers and Pupils.
"I never saw such happy faces as the
children in the primary grades of the Pitts
burg schools have," said Prof. James Mac
AliBter, Principal of the Drexel Institute,
of Philadelphia, after having been shown
through several of the Pittsburg schools by
Superintendent Luckey, yesterday. "They
all seem to work hard, fhey are neatly
dressed and everything about them indi
cates energy and good training. The build
ings, I notice, are costly and well arranged.
The teachers are intelligent and in every
way it seems to me the system of public
education is of the best."
Mr. McAlistcr was formerly Superin
tendent of Schools in Philadelphia. He is
recognized throughout the country as an
authority on educational questions. He is
in favor of a compulsory educational law,
provided it is prepared in such a way that
it can be carried out. He is also a "strong
exponent of industrial training in the pub
lic schools.
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It Pays to Use Its CENT-A-WOKD $.
COLUMNS. See How They Grow.
O Small ads Sept., Wl 6,911
A . 2S90 3,907 O
$ Increase For momhor sept. 1,944 1
Board and Boarders, Wants. Helps
and .Situations
ARE SECURED QUICKLY.
' TRY A &JIAIX AD O
And See How They Catch On.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBEBT 24,
DELEGATES GO AWAY.
The American Street B.ailway Asso
ciation Leaves the City.
IflYENTOR SPRAGUE'S OPINIONS.
He Believes That a Successful Air Ship
Will Be Invented.
GOOD PROSPECTS FOR CMCAGO'3 FAIR
The electrical current that has kept the
street railway convention in the highest
enthusiasm has been turned off, and to-day
Pittsburg will resume its normal state.
The greater part of the visiting crowd left
yesterday and the remainder will go to-day.
The closing part of the association's pro
gramme was an excursion on the steam
boat Mayflower to Davis Islaud dam
and up the river to Braddock, where
the Edgar Thomson Steel Works were
visited. A few of the delegates
who always cast pleasure aside for business
remained in the city and inspected the dif
ferent power houses. The star among the
visitors yesterday was Frank J. Sprague,
whose name among electricians is known
second only to that of "Wizard" Edison.
Mr. Sprague is a small man, about 38 years
of age, very non-communicative and appar
ently in constant study.
AN ELEVATOR FOR THE WORLD'S FAIR.
"I am not doing much in the electric rail
way business now," he said. "The greater
part of my time is given over to the perfec
tion of an invention for running elevators.
The invention has already been proven to
be a success, and we are at present putting
in a big elevator in New York. It is possi
ble that my plan will be used for the ele
vator to be placed in the tower at the
World's Fair. Even if it is not, I will cer
tainly have an exhibit there."
"Do you expect any wonderful discov
eries soon in the application of electrical
power?" Mr. Sprague was asked.
"Not in the near future," he replied.
"The work from how on will be in the de
velopment of details rather than new inven
tions. In the street railway business I ex
pect speed to be greatly increased, and pos
sibly a successful method for the under
ground system. The storage battery is not
assured and would be too expensive to com
pete with the trolley system. I expect to
see the day when electricity will be used
to propel' passenger railroad and rapid
freight trains, but not for heavy hauling.
AIB SHIPS ARE A POSSIBILITY.
"It is also possible that a successful air
ship will be invented. I see no reason why
an air ship would not be a success. Birds
weigh a great deal more than the air they
displace, and, besides, they have not strong
muscles. A flying machine, it seems to
me, could be constructed out of light ma
terial and then be propelled by elec
tricity." Mr." Sprague concluded with the state
ment that lie is working on several im
portant things of which it would be im
politic to speak. He came to Pittsburg to
meet the street railway men with whom he
is acquainted.
Another prominent electrician who came
to the city yesterday was W. J. Hammer,
who represented theEdison Company at the
Paris Exposition. He came to Pittsburg
from Chicago and believes the World's Pair
will be on a more extensive scale and a
greater success than the one at Paris. The
American display at the latter place, he
said, was poor. Europeans, he thinks, will
take great interest in the World's Pair and
will send their best exhibits.
It D. Coflrain, cf Buffalo, who has had
charge of the convention and who was in
strumental in making it a success, will not
leave the city for several days.
Pleased With the City.
A number of the street railway men went
East last evening on a special train of four
Pullman ears. Some are still here remov
ing their exhibitions from the Mononga
hcla House. They were much pleased with
their reception in Pittsburg, but hoped
when they returned that the hotel accom
modations would be more ample.
TALMAGE tells Frank G. Carpenter In
THE DISPATCH to-morrow that lie could
make a thousand dollars a day if he wanted
to market his services.
ABBESTED AT THE DEPOT.
Farmer Blsbee, Wanted for Working a
Green Goods Racket, Nipped.
"I want you," said United States Deputy
Marshal Barry to a well-dressed man at the
Union depot last evening. "Oh, do you,"
he replied, just alittle bit surprised. "Well,
I guess I am your man."
It was S. Bisbee, a farmer living near
Union City, and charged with being
one of the Lowe and Lathrop
gang of green goods men
who have been operating ii the country
around Corry for several years, Lowe an'd
Lathrop were arrested a week ago. Since
then true bills have been found against
them, and they will be tried at the next
term of the United States Court. Officer
Barry has been looking for Bisbee for some
timeand met him accidentally last night at
the station. He was waiting for a train to
go home. The prisoner was turned over to
Deputy Marshall Lord, of Erie, and he
will be taken to the latter city to-day.
Mr. Barry said Bisbee was a well-to-do
farmer and a rather intelligent man. He
thinks he has broken up the green goods
business in that section by the arrest of the
three men supposed to be the principals.
Postmaster Putnam, of Corry, was present
when the arrest was made, so was Govern
ment Detective Daniel McSwceney. Mr.
Putnam had been in the city as a witness
against Lone and Lathrop and was on his
way home.
ASKS FOB A BECEIVEB.
James Chapman riles a Bill in Kqnity
Against the Hainswortli Steel Co.
Joseph Chapman, of Ohio, yesterday filed
a bill in equity in the United States Circuit
Court against the Hainswortli Steel Com
pany, asking for a receiver. Chapman is
creditor of the company to the ex
tent of $3,000, that being the amount
of promissory note, bearing the date of Sep
tember 18, 1891, payable in 30 days to the
order of the Oliver Iron and Steel Com
pany. The note is indorsed by the com
pany. The bill also says the Hainswortli
Company is insolvent, and will be unable to
pay its debts.
Mr. George Oliver said last(night he had
nothing to say about the matter at present.
He denied having stated that at the time of
the suspension of the Oliver & ltoberts
Wire Company none of the other firms in
which the Olivers were connected would be
aflected.
BOUND FOB CLEVELAND.
The Amerlcus Club Leavei to Attend the
McKiniey Meeting.
The Americus Club left at 11 o'elock last
night to attend the McKiniey meeting at
Cleveland, O., this evening. The proces
sion formed in front of the club rooms on
Smithfield street, with 102 men in line, and
marched to the Union depot. Each man
was attired in a dark suit and overcoat,
the regulation white plug hat and carried
the club umbrellas.
Each man also wore a badge of ingenious
make-up. The shield was mode of Ameri
can tin plate, colored red, white and blue,
and projecting out like the edge of an um
brella, serving as a "protection" from rain
to the white satin ribbon below. The Grand
Army Band led the procession, which was
under the command of Major Logan. They
left in a special Pullman train.
1891.
DEUOCBATS ON THE ALEBT.
A Circular Letter From Chairman Kerr to
Be Issued In a Few Days.
The Democrats under the leadership of
Chairman Kerr are putting forth a deter
mined effort to make a good showing for the
Stjte ticket in Allegheny county. The
democratic School District Committee will
be far reaching in its work. Its object
is to reach every Democratic voter,
and already the committee has se
cured the "names of all Democrats
in the county. Each man will he seen and
urced to go to the polls. The regular
Democratic County Committee was a little
shy of the new organization at first, for
Chairman Kerr instructed them to look
after the interests of the State ticket alone.
He argued that it was not the aim of the
School District Committee to usurp the
place of the cqnnty organization, but to be
supplementary to it. For this reason they
were not to interfere in local affairs.
Yesterday the Execntive Committee of
the school district people met to draw up a
circular letter to be distributed in conjunc
tion with one issued by Chairman Kerr.
Mr. Kerr prepared his epistle while here
last Thursday. On the committee are T. D.
Casey, Lewi's F. Holtzman, Lawrence M.
Fagan, Herman Obermaucr and Joseph A.
Langfitt, The meeting was secret, but it
was learned that they could not agree.
There was some discussion relative to Hie in
dorsement of the county ticket in the letter.
The judgeship was thebone of contention.
Xo decision was reached and another meet
ing will be held this afternoon. The com
mittee expects to have the letter ready for
distribution on Monday. The Republican
administration of the financial department
of the State will be reviewed, and it will
conclude with an exhortation to all good
citizens to rebuke corruption in high places.
COMPULSOBY EDUCATION.
Dr.
Atherton, Principal of State College,
Believes It a Necessity.
One of the State's most ardent supporters
of the compulsory education theory is Dr.
George W. Atherton, Principal of the State
College. He thinks it a necessity, not only
to prevent an increase of illiteracy, but as
a means ot compelling foreigners who come
to this country toidopt American ways and
become good citizens. Another of Dr. Ath
erton's ideals is industrial education. "!Kot
instruction in any particular trade,"
he explained. "That is mortgaging
a man's future by directing the
boy what vocation he shall follow.
But I think education is not thorough
until a fair knowledge is gained of ma
terials, their uses and the means necessary
to bring about a certain result At State
college we give instructions in all the
learned branches, and besides that we have
the workroom, the farm, and the laboratory
where practical knowledge can be gained
under a competent instructor. Not simply
the routine act of construction, if in the
carpenter's room, for if that is desired, it
can best be gained by serving an apprentice
ship, but a clear understanding of the ma
terials used and the tools necessary to shape
them.
"I am glad to see that Pittsburg is taking
the proper course in establishing a Sloyd
and a cooking school. By doing so the
peoplewill learn the value of industrial
training and will ask for itsadoption. Pitts
burg is in the lead with its public schools,
and the last step will make its fame still
greater."
Dr. Atherton was Chairman of the Indus
trial School Commission appointed by
Governor Beaver, and still favors the
recommendation made then, that industrial
training be placed on the regular course of
study.
THK progress of the sugar industry In
America under the hounty plan and some
thing of Its history, In THE DISPATCH to
morrow. LABOBEBS AT WAB
Over a Djspntcd Claim to the Right to Work
on a Street.
Agang of Booth & Flinn's laborers and
those employed by the Philadelphia Com
pany got into a fight out Fifth avenue yes
terday and several men were seriously in
jured with shovels. Booth & Flinn's men
have been repairing Fifth avenue between
Neville street and Aiken avenue. Yester
day morning they found the Philadelphia
Company's men "there. During the night
they had torn up the street to put down
new pipe.
Superintendent Paisley, of the Depart
ment of Highways, ordered the contractors'
men to fill up the ditch. Assistant Super
intendent Ellwood, of the Philadelphia
Company, protested, but his men were
finally driven off Chief Bigelow said he
had granted the gas company a permit to
put down pipes ten days ago, but they had
delayed and could not spoil the street now.
It is'said the case will go to court.
THE STBIKE MAY BE SETTLED.
To-Morrow's meeting of the Strikers looked
to With Jtlnch Interest.
The labor leaders are non-committal about
the outcome of to-morrow's meeting of the
striking miners. It is the general impres
sion, however, that after this meeting the
strike will be declared off, as many of the
men are tired of staying out, and are will
ing to ret lrn to work at fhe old rate. Xo
conferences were held yesterday with the
operators, but it is likely a consultation
will follow to-moorow's meeting.
Everything was quiet in the Youghio
ghenv region yesterday.
The operators yesterday tried to start
Banning mine, on the Pittsburg and Mc
Kecsport ltailroad, with 20 Huns and Ital
ians, but the striking miners scared them
oil: Thursday Scott's Xo. 2 had 30 men
working, and yesterday the strikers won
over 2." of the men. The operators have
decided not to start any more mines until
Monday.
BESSIE BRAMBLE finds women in poli
tics deeper than ever. Her comments on
Senator Sherman's answer to Mrs. Emery In
THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
Going Home This Morning.
President Itoherts andhis party inspected
the P.. V. & C, the Southwest branch, and
some of the side roads along the mainline,
near Greensburg yesterday. They found
everything in good condition. The party
will "return to Philadelphia this morning.
The story that the Pennsylvania road is
angling lor the Northern Pacific system is
denied.
Trusses, Etc.
Trusses, abdominal supporters and clastic
stockings at No. 909 Penn avenue, near
Ninth street, Pittsburg, Pa. Open Satur
day evening until 9 o'clock. Cut this out
for future reference.
Wo Have Started the Sale
Of 10,000 men's fine overcoats at the special
bargain price of ?10 each. This is the most
gigantic sale of overcoats ever attempted by
any one clothing house, but there is not the
least doubt that it will be a grand success.
Every garment is strictly tailor-made at our
own Xew York factory, 627 and (529 Broad
way. We guarantee the color and material
of each garment. Itemember, these 510
overcoats are regular world beaters. They
are really the best value in America.
P. C. C. G, Pittsburg Combination
Clothing Company, corner Grant and Dia
mond streets.
Men's Neckwear, Nobby and Stylish,
From New York, London and Paris 30c,
7."c, SI and upward handsomest assortment
we have ever shown. This department open
till 9 o'clock this evening.
Jos. Horse &Co.,
G07-C21 Penn avenue.
Ladies, get your gloves dyed or cleaned
at Linnekin's, 638 Penn avenue, Pittsburg,
and 174 Federal street. Allegheny. tus
If your complaint is want of appetite, try
Angostura Bitters before meals. ttssu
BEFOEMEES BESUEBECTED.
Allegheny's Committee of Fifty Takes New
life.
The spirit of reform has beep resurrected
in Allegheny, and a new organization
formed with Joseph Albree as President.
The other officers elected were: Vice Presi
dents, Henry Holdship, John Wilhelm,
James B. Scott: Execntive Committee, John
Walker, Theodore Sproull, Thomas Cul
linan, Gilbert Follansbee, Mr.. Smith, Mr.
Pontefaet and two others. The organization
has been formed to prosecute official
offenders. A number of the old Committee
of Fifty arc members.
Objected to Being Tramped On.
David Hutchinson, the Bluff street con
tractor, is under 1,500 bail for assault and
battery. Last Tuesday evening in a
crowded Fifth avenue car Nicholas Messner
stepped on Hutchinson's foot and the latter
struck Messner over the eyes with an um
brella. Information was made before Ald
erman Donovan and the case goes to court.
Dr. B. M. Haska. Eye, ear, n ose and
throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720
Penn street, Pittsburg, Pa. SSu
The Leading
Dry Goods House.
Pittsburg, Pn.,
Saturday, Oct. 24, 1S9L
JOS. HOME & GO.'S
PEW AVENUE STOESi
LADIES' AND MISSES'
Winter Hosiery
AND
UNDERWEAR.
Stocks larger and more complete
than ever before. That no collec
tion of Underwear in these cities can
compare in completeness of assort
ments and lowness of prices goes
without saying. Every point of in
terest to your pocketbook is looked
after and guaranteed to you. Prices
are the lowest it is possible for the
largest direct-from-the-factory pur
chasers to make.
Ladies' Vests:
In Heavy Ribbed Iialbrfgznn andWinter-
weiglit Merino, 50c tq $1 50 each.
In Swiss Rihbed Merino, 73c. $1 and $1 23,
and in Plain Scarlet at $1 each.
In White or Natural Swiss Ribbed Wool,
$1, $1 25 $1 33, '$1 50 and $2 each.
Nursing Vests a new garment in Swiss
ribbed wool.
Drawers to match.
Ladies' Union Suits:
In Heavy Winter-weight Balbriggan, a
special quality at $125. Finer grades
in Balbnggnn up to H a suit.
Also, in all leliable qualities in Natural
Wool, Camel's Hair, Silk-and-W ool and
Pure Silk at lowest possible prices.
Ladies' Camel's Hair Divided Skirts, Cot
ton, Wool and Silk Equestrian Tights,
Chamois Jackets and Knit Wool Bands.
Children's Vests:
In White Merino, sizelCat30cto32at50c,
10 at 55c to 32 at f 1. 1C at 75c to 32 at $1 60,
1G at $120 to 31 at $2 10.
In White Merino, buttoned down front,
90c and upward.
In Natural Wool, 40c and npward.
In Scarlet Wool,35e(for 18's)to$l(for32's).
In White and Natural, Ribbed Merino,
45c to $1.
PANTALETTES To match Vests.
Children's Union Suits:
In White Merino, $1 40 (for size 18) to
$2 10 (for size 30).
In light and heavy-weizht, white and
natural wool, $1 75 to $2 CO.
In Ribbed Cotton, $1 to $1 33.
In White Ribbed Merino and Natural
Wool, $2 73 to $4 23.
Ladies' and Mioses'
HOSIERY.
Our complete winter stock. The
last importations have come from
the custom house. All the best
German, French and English manu
facturers are represented. The fol
lowing items are all big values, and
more for your dollars than can be
offered you anywhere else:
Ladies' black and unbleached fleece
lined Stockings 23c to 73c a pair.
Ladies' black -Cashmere Stockings in
three weights of plain and two weiirhts
of ribbed at 50e. Finer goods at $2 50.
Ladies' best domestic wool Stockines,
plain, 25c: ribbed. 33c, 50c and 032 upair.
LadieV ribbed Cashmere Mockinits, elas
tic, soft, perfect-fitting, COc to $1 a pair.
Ladies' best fierman.Frcncli and EiikH1i
makes of Klack Silk Stockines, now 73c
to$2 51 a p-iir. ail fully 2" to 40 per cent
less in price (while superior in quality)
to same makes ofeoods last season.
Ladies' bilk and Wool Stockings, $150
and J2. extra quality and goods not
generally hnndled by trade. Firm and
clinging, giving great warmth without
weight or bulk.
Children's English, German and French
heavv libbed Cashmere Stockings,
"double knees and double soles, double
heels and double toes." Sizes, Cat 50c
to 9 at 75e. Other special value begins
at 00c, BOj and $1 for 0's, and go by regu
lar rises toO's.
Misses' French Cashmere Stocking9, sin
gle thread tol shoe top. donhle thread
leg, extra well made, perfect fitting and
elastic, 70s (forr) to $130 (forlO's).
Boys' Fiencli and English Cashmere
htockinss for boy. fxtra heavy, 2 and
2" and '-7 and 1" ribbed, hest yarns that
money can buy, double thread from top
to toe, 90c (for (Ts) to f 1 70 (for 10-s).
Misses' Plain Cashmere Stockings, best
English goods, 33c (for 5's) and upward.
Fli.et grades, 31c (for 6 s) and upward.
Misses' Ribbed neeee-iincd Stockinjrs In
2 grades: 33c (ror'; to 30o (roru's);50
(rorffs) to03c(for9 3).
Ladies' and Misses'
WINTER GLOVES:
Ladies' fleece-lined and fur-topped Mit
tens, 50c to $2 a pnir.
Ladies' flecce-lmed and fur-topped
Gloves. $1 to $2 a pair.
Ladies' fleece-line Silk Gloves, 73c, $1 and
$1 25 a pair.
Children's fleece-lined and fur-topped
Gloves 73c to $1 3D: Mittens 50c to $L
Boys' Scotch Wool Gloves, 33c, 45c, 50c,
75c, 83c and $1 a pair.
SATURDAY SPECIALS
MILLINERY. .
Stvlish Trimmed. Hats and Bonnets, $5,
$S, $10 aud $15.
New styles in trimmed Felt Sailors at $1.
Special importations of Men's high
quality English Neckwear added to
day to our already superb stock.
JOS. HORNE& CO.'S
PENN AVENUE STORES.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GREAT SEMI-ANNUAL SALE -
OF
SHORT LENGTHS
AND
REMNANTS
OF
CARPETS !
ALSO,
ANNUAL SALE OF GOODS
SHOWN AT EXPOSITION
AT HALF PRICE.
On Tuesday morning, October 20, we will
begin our semi-annual sale of short lengths
of Carpets, which have accumulated daring
the summer. Carpets large enough to cover
any floor can be found in all the qualities
enumerated below, and the prices are the
lowest ever made on such goods. At the
same time we will place on sale all the fine
goods shown at our display at the "Exposition.
Daghestan and Smyrna Kugs, Fur Bugs,
Lace and Chenille Curtains, etc You seen
these while going through the bis show, and
we only need to say that they will all go at
one-half the prices asked before being ex
posed to the dust for weeks.
MOQUETTES.
One lot, 10 to 20 yard lengths, at 65c a yd.
One lot, 13 to 40 yard lengths, at 85c a yd.
One lot, 20 to 60 yard lengths, at SI a yd.
600 yards Moquette Border, 10 to 30 yards
in piece, at 6oc a yard.
BODY BRUSSELS.
One lot, 5 to 30 yard lengths, at 75c a yd.
One lot, 10 to 40 yard lengths, at Soc a yd.
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
One lot, 5 to 23 yard lengths, at 40c a yd.
One lot, 5 to 30 yard lengths, at 43c a yd.
THREE-PLYS.
One lot, 15 to 23 yard lengths, at 65c a yd.
INGRAINS.
One lot, 15 to 23 yd. Iengths,at 12c a yd.
One lot, 13 to 25 yd. lengths,at 20c a yd.
One lot, 13 to 25 yd. lengths,at 23c a yd.
One lot, 13 to 25 yd. lengths.at 33c a yd.
On up to Best Lowell Ingrains, same
lengths, at 50 cents a yard.
BRUSSELS RUGS.
5.000 pieces Brussels Camets, all sizes.
suitable for Bugs; also, a lot of short pieces
of Border, to i yards long, at 10 to 50
cents per piece.
COCOA MATTINGS.
A lot of short lengths Cocoa Mattings at
one-nail regular prices.
INGRAIN SAMPLES.
500 bundles (10 pieces i yards long to
each bundle) will go at $2 a bundle.
Kemember, this sale begins Tuesday mom
ing and continues during week.
EDWARD ,
GR0ETZINGER,
627 and 629 Penn Avenue.
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BIBER & EAST0N.
SPECIAL SALE
HOUSEKEEPING
GOODS,
BLANKETS.
SHEETINGS,
TABLE DAMASKS, ETC.
All housekeepers will he Interested in our
ofTering of Cable Damasks at 30c, 33e, 43c and
SOcner yard, with Napkins to match. Our
line of fine Bleached Table Damasks, 6 to 73
Inches wide, at 65c, 75c, aoc, SI and upward,
with Napkins tp match, is probably unsur
passed for variety or sterling value.
The best line of Towels ever offered. See
our unusual qualities at $1 and $125 pat-- K
dozen fn Hnck and Damask with hrieh tat- 1
tractive border. Wc show at 12Jc. 15c and
18c extra large Linen Towels and really un
der value.
Elegant Table Linen in hemstitched and
drawn work put np in boxes with Napkins
to match from $4 to $20. These make a de
sirable wedding present.
NOVELTIES IN TABLE LINEN.
Table Covers and Napkins, Tray Cloths
and Doylies, as well as Center Pieces and
Table Mats, Scarfs, Art Squares, etc, in hem
stitched, with and without stamping for em
broidery. We have recently enlarged this depart
ment, and can offer you a very choice lino at
very moderate prices.
RED, WHITE AND GRAY
Country Blankets
-A5D-
Country-Made FlanneL- -
AT VERY LOW PRICES.
BIBER & EAST0N
C03 AND 507 MARKET ST.
N. B. Onr importation of Fine Dress
Goods, Ladies' and Children's Wraps, etc, ;
was never more attractive.
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TJ. axLd. S.
SILVER CROWNS.
We are prepared tnis season to show you
onr own importation of Fleeced-Llned Ilose
infastbiack and colors. They are taking
tlie place of cashmere hose to u large extone
and are more serviceable. Wo 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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Warm Air Furnaces
and
Wrought steel Ranges.
CINDEUELLA EANGES
AND STOVES."
GAS KANGES AND BROILERS.
J. a BARTLETT,
203 Wood street, dttsburif.P a
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