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THE PITTSBURGI- DISPATCH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1891.
rWEITTEN" FOn THE DIsrATCtl 3
xhe incident I relate came within my own
experience.
It was in 1870. "War had just been de
clared. McMahon had received orders to
cross the frontier and, by a bold stroke, par
alyze the combined action of Xorth and
South Germany. France was aflame with
excitement; and especially in Paris the
fever heat of anxiety had reached a high
pitch. "With charaeteristieimpetuosityand
sanguineness, and as if victory was already
theirs, the Parisians plunged the deeper
into the pleasures of the hour, and every
where folly was given full swing. The
chatter and din from the open-air restau
rants rose above the music irom the band
in the Champs Elysees; the lights of the
Cafes Chantants shone brilliantly upon the
dancers disporting themselves beneath the
trees; the glint of dainty dresses was visi
ble In the groves of the public garden",
and lines of carriages swept by, carrying
other pleasure seekers to the usual resorts.
The theatres were all too sraaH for the
crowds that besieged them. Especially was
this the case at one of the largest on the
Boulevards, where an impatient, eager
throng surged around the doors and fought
for admittance to witness the first appear
ance of a new actress.
Mademoiselle Jeaune de Bolney was an
nounced to make her debut that evening.
For months past her friends had pro
claimed that a star of the first magnitude
was about to rise in the dramatic sky, and
the press, voicing these opinions, had
aroused popular expectation to a point not
usuallv reached in the case of a debutante.
De Bolnev was credited with being marvel
ously endowed, strenously devoted to her
art, "and gifted with a natural splendor of
appearance which charmed everyone on first
seeing her.
For her debut Jeanne had selected "La
Dame aux Camelias," then in the zenith of
its success. The author of that work had
declared that the part of Jtlargiienie seemed
written for her and for her alone.
The result more than justified the ex
pectations of her friends. From the moment
of her first entrance her very presence had
sufficed to capture the hearts of the
audience. 'hen she advanced into the
full glare of the foot-lights, disclosing to
view an exquisitely formed figure; a head
faultlessly turned, resting on a neck
whose curve was perfect; ears, delicate and
rosy, which shone like a pearl shell in the
Hood of gold that mantled her superb,booin
and beautiful face as she bowed again and
again in the acknowledgement of the cor
diality of her reception; eye, blue and
clear and expressive ol naive astonish
ment at the applause which greeted her, a
murmur of approbation, increasing to a pro
longed burst of enthusiasm, arose from the
crowded house and continued for many
minutes. Similar manifestations of approval
were continued through the first act, and
the second ended in an ovation such as few
artists have received on a first appearance.
Among those most profoundly affected by
her victory was Louis Beleourt a pension
aire of the theater. It was through him
that Jeanne had been enabled to make her
first appearance at this house, the director
being prejudiced in favor of pupils of the
Conservatoire, through which Jeanne had
refused to pass. Beleourt loved Jeanne
from his earliest youth. His devotion to
her was unbounded and the admiration of
his friends. His loe was unselfish, but
hopeless, for Jeanne had already bestowed
her aflections and Mas Imed in return.
This had happened not long previously at
one of the last races at Longchamps at which
Napoleon III had been present. Jeannne
had paused before the Imperial tribune to
paze at the ladies of the court. "While thus
occupied, she all at once became aware of a
new and strange sensation in her heart as
she encountered the gaze of a man whose
bronzed face was visible from behind one of
the chairs. His eyes sought and held hers,
conveying to Jeanne an emotion the strove
in vain to subdue. He in turn appeared to
be profoundly affected; leaving his place
he made his way through the crowd as if
impelled by some unknown force, and
abruptly presented himself before Jeanne.
Only then did ne become aware of his
strange conduct "With his face flushing
with shame, he bowed confusedly before
her, stammering forth his excuses. Con
fused as he, and pale, Jeanne, seized with
the instinct of pity which in a woman's
heart keeps pace with love, murmured:
"Mv name is Jeanne de jJolney. I intend
to make my first appearance in a few days
in 'La Dame aux Camelias.' "
"And I, madame," boning profoundly,
"am Boger de Morfeuille, Captain of
Spahis, and for the present officer of ord
nance to the Emperor."
It was a case of love at first sight, and
neither strove against its imperious domina
tion. From that day life had nothing for either
jpjrt from the other. Fate, it seemed to
them, in its mysterious workings had
brought them together. But war was on
the horizon, and it was tacitly agreed' that
life for them would commence with but the
cessation of hostilities. Their ways, for
the present, would be different. Eoger was
sure to be ordered to the front; Jeanne
knew she had to make her debut Thus for
a brief period they lived in each other's
presence. Happy in their new-found love,
they knew they would be all in all to each
other until the end of life's road was
reached. Then at length Roger had to leave
for the front, and when the final moment of
separation arrived they silently betrothed
themselves by the exchange of rings.
v
"When the curtainhad beenloweredforthe
rixth time npon the second act of the "Dame
aux Camelias" and the plaudits which
greeted Jeanne, she slowly ascended to her
dressing room conscious of " a feeling of mel
ancholy, which her triumph could not dis
pel. Her success would not be complete
without congratulations from Roger. Even
amid the smoke of battle, she thought, he
would find opportunity to send her somo
token, some sign of remembrance. Anxious
ly she had listened to every footfall on the
ctair, ana watcnea tne aoor tor tne expected
message from her beloved.
It was, then, with a mingled burst of joy,
love and pride that on entering her room
bhe found awaiting her a telegraphic mess
age. Quickly closing the door so as not
to be disturbed while devouring the
precious words, she did not perceive
that Beleourt was following her. All at
once a scream, startling in it intensity,
rang through the building. Beleourt, rush
ing in, received Jeanne in his arms as she
lefl in a swoon. In her hand was the mes
sage. "While he was still thinking what he
shonld do in the emergency, Jeanne re
vived. Gathering sudden energy, she re
peated, as if unconsciously, the fatal words
of the dispatch:
"Ve have been crushed at "Wberth. They
are carrying me to the neighboring chateau;
amputation probable. Pray forme. James
will carry this dispatch to an open station.
1 love thee. Rogeu."
This was unintelligible to Beleourt until,
seeing the message, he had taken and read
it. With sudden energy Jeanne picked up
a few wraps and started for the door, her
magnificent costume scarcely concealed
under a long brown cloak.
"What are you doing?" inquired Louis
aghast.
"I am going to loin Roger," came back
the answer in low but firm tones.
"But, nom de ciell" exclaimed Beleourt,
"the curtain is about to rise. This is dread
ful! Remain, I implore you! You will
ruin yourself, your prospects, your life! Re
main until to-morrow.'
"Listen," said Jeanne, "it is now 9:45
There is a train from the Eastern station at 11
o'clock. If you prevent me from catching
that train you see this dagger? I swear I
will kill myself."
Louis drew back terrified at this threat,
uttered with au intensity of determination
which showed she was in earnest
Jeanne passed out and in another moment
had called a carriage and disappeared in the
darkness. Beleourt was constrained to see
her as far as the street.
When he returned to the stae he found
the greatest excitement prevailing. The
caller had just told the manager that
Mademoiselle de Bolney could not be found.
"When the director arrived a few minutes
later to inquire why, it was too
late, as Mademoiselle "de Bolney was
even then driving in a hired coach
in the direction of the Boulevard de
Strasbourg. What was to be done? The
audience was getting clamorous, and every
minute of delay onlv seemed to make mat
ters worse. "What should be done? Have
Jeanne followed and arrested but then how
to placate the audience.
Meanwhile Louis Beleourt, inspired by a
desire to save Jeanne, had hit on a plan.
After a hurried conversation with a com
rade, who immediately went around to the
front of the house, Louis, forcing his way
past the manager and director, who sought
to prevent him, gave the signal for the cur
tain to rise and stepped on the stage. His
unexpected appearance brought about
silence.
"Gentlemen," he said, "Mademoiselle de
Bolney has fainted on receiving a dispatch
announcing that France has suffered defeat
on the frontier. As soon as she recovers we
hope she will reappear before you, and we
ask j oil to be patient. " This speech was
received with cold silence, but before any
unfriendly demonstration could be made
Belcourt's friend arose in his place and ex
claimed: "We are as good patriots as Mademoiselle
de Bolney. The performance must not con
tinue under the news of a defeat to the
arms of France!"
This sentiment had the desired effect It
was greeted with innumerable bravos from
every part of the house, and the audience
dispersed, now altogether absorbed in this
unlooked for intelligence. Beleourt had
saved both Jeanne and the theater from a
disaster.
The rumor of the defeat of Reischoffen
which the Government had carefully con
cealed, spread through Paris. Dismay took
the place of the rejoicings in anticipated
victories. While Beleourt was still re
ceiving congratulations on his coup, he was
arrested and lodged in the prison of Maszas
on the charge of having divulged state
secrets. His crime was punishable, during
times of war, with death.
A month elapsed, during which Beleourt
resisted all the efforts of his guard to ob
tain from him a confession of his reason for
divulging the news of the defeat He daily
expected to be taken out and executed. The
day at length arrived which he was told
would be his last on earth. He was think
ing of something like sorrow of his love
without hope which had brought him to the
brink of a dishonored grave when his cell
door was opened.
"Mademoiselle la Comtessc de Mor
feuille." It was Jeanne, indeed, but not the idol of
a short month ago. Her shapely figure was
hidden beneath heavy mourning; her beau
tiful hair was sprinkled with silver threads;
her mouth had lost its mobility and con
tracted rigid lines, and her face bore the re
flex of lost hope and inward suffering. Her
whole appearance was an embodiment of
incurable grie
Beleourt was profoundly touched by the
sad picture.
"Vou are free, dear Louis," she said.
"The Empress has just obtained your par
don. I thank you from my heart for all
you have done and suffered for my sake. I
returned to Paris immediately after burying
my husband at Morfeuille." Let us leave
together."
Jeanne soon after left for the resting
place of him who had given her his name
on his death-bed. Beleourt had tried to
prevail with her that there was another
love which might in time take the place of
that she had lost, but she had stopped him
with a gesture:
"Do not proceed," she said mournfully,
"I am henceforth but the widow of Roger
de Morfeuille. Xot having been able to
be his, I shall never be another's."
Thus ended the sequel to that evening in
the French Theater, and thus was blighted
on the very threshold of a great career the
dramatic vocation of a great soul. The in
cident was lost in the thousand events that
marked that period, and even those who
were connected with it have probably long
ceased to recall it
HEJJRI ROLIilK PAEKEK.
A NOTED SMUGGLER DIES.
Bis Relatives Assert That Some of Bis
Former Fals Poisoned film.
Sand Beach, Mich., Nov. 20 George
Wetzel, who has borne the reputation
among United States Treasury agents as the
keenest smuggler in the business, has just
died at the home of his parents here. He
had many aliases, but his principal one was
George Thompson, a name given him bv
Harris, the noted opium smuggler. He
was about 31 years of age at the time of his
death, and had been in the smuggling busi
ness about 15 years.
About a year ago the Treasury agents
gradually closed in upon Wetzel, but he was
too valuable a man to shut up in prison
providing he could be induced to talk. He
was, however, arrested -and threatened with
punishment, and then, to the surprise of
every one who had known him, he began
giving tips to the Treasury agents, which
enabled them to capture a number of noted
smugglers. He remained in And about De
troit and Windsor in the employ of the
United States Government, and on Satur
day last came to Sand Beach to visit his
relatives. His death is announced as hav
ing been caused by typhoid fever, but, as he
was in perfect health when he reached here
Saturday, there are some of his relatives
who assert that he was the victim of poison,
administered by some of his former as
sociates. Another Express Car Robbery.
MissoutA, Mont., Nov. 20. Yesterday
afternoon two masked men entered the
Northern Pacific express car, on the Miss
oula and Cour d'Alene Railroad, and, at the
point of their guns,- made Express Messen
ger Case open the safe and give up all the
money it contained, $2,020. The robbery
occurred between Dorsey and Mullan, near
the Montana and Idaho line, a wild, moun
tainous country.
IT'EE liquor is the solution of the tem
perance question In America. See Rev.
George Hodges' sermon on saloons in THE
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CfflLDKENOFTHEYAN
Thousands of Wandering, Wretched,
British Vagabonds,
OUTCASTS, IN MISERY AND WANT.
Great Philanthropic Wort of George Smith,!
of Coalville.
EFFORTS TO BETTER THEIR CONDITION
CORRESPONDENCE OP THE DISPATCH.
Crick, England, Nov. 9. In niv last
article from this quaint old English, village,
I gave a brief outline of the work of George
Smith, of Coalville, In rescuing the chil
dren of the brick yards and canal boats of
England from their former frightful condi
tion of slavery, ignorance and misery.
The half of it all could not be fittingly
told in an entire volume. But when the
social history of England is written, this
unlettered and furiously persistent philan
thropist must stand as the greatest and
most practical child-saver of his time.
After between 20 and 30 years of labor
through penury, scoffing and cruel discour
agement, with a few later years of generally
recognized eminence and national respect,
this is the record as it now stands. Alone
and unaided he has emancipated 30,000
brickyard boys and girls from a condition
revolting beyond contemplation or descrip
tion; and he has also, alone and unaided,
rescued more than 40,000 canal boat children
from a life of still more brutal slavery, inex
pressible degradation, unnamable immor
ality and actual crime.
This has been accomplished, he believes,,
through divine aid, guidance and strength.
But I find there has been in and through it
all, the most practical and sensible methods
ever persistently utilized in any great phil
anthropic work. There have been no com
mittees, bureaus, canting officials or titles.
Thirty Thousand Placed in School.
The consistent and sequential character of
his work has been remarkable. Scarcely
had he succeeded in placing, on Januarv 1,
1872, 20,000 of the 30,000 of the brickyard
little ones in the public schools, than he be
gan his crusade against the iniquities of
child life In the 25,000 canal boats of
England. As a boy slave in the English
brickyards he had worked where the yards
abutted tne canals. His own eyes saw the
horrors of their experiences and surround
ings, in August, 1877, he had so thrilled
England with his picturing of these out
rages, that Fa.-1'atnent finally gave him all
he had asked. Txe bill provided for the
registration of all canal boats by the sani
tary authorities; abolish the disease breed
ing and carrying character of these craft:
limited their number of occupants, brought
every boat under surveillance and inspec
tion, placed three-fourths of the canal popu
lation in homes and brought every one of
the little child beasts into the publio
schools.
Hardly had the practical workings of the
enactments regarding the canal children be
come operative, when George Smith, of
Coalville, began storming Parliament in
behalf of another class of semi-savage
British children. In the long nights of his
boyhood, when watching the burning brick
kilns, he had not only seen the slavery" of
brickyard and Canal children around him,
but he had stored away grewsome memories
of another host of miserable beings that
skulked in the shadows about him. More
lost than all were these, the half wild
children of the Gipsies and other tent and
van dwellers of the English highways.
Related by Blood to the Romany.
While our own country has for more than
100 years been depleting the ranks of En
glish and Scottish Gipsies, Mr. Smith esti
mates their present number to be about
100,000 souls. These are comprised in
nearly 20,000 families. About 40 per cent
are of Scottish and the remainder of En
glish descent In my own judgment, based
upon personal acquaintance with British
Gipsies in nearly every county and shire
in England and Scotland, his estimate is
far too small. I should unhesitatingly
say there were more than twice that num
ber. However this may be, there are as many
more humans who are not gipsies, standing
in precisely their relation to the British
public. These have, perhaps, intermarried
with the real Romany, or possessing no
relationship of blood or marriage, have fully
acquired the most objectionable traits and
customs of British gipsy vagabondism" be
cause the average gipsy family among the
thousands I personally know in our own
country, is no more like the average gipsy
family of England than is the Americanized
English, Scottish or Irish immigrant like
the cringing, cowering and often squalid
personality he left on the Liverpool,
Greenock or Queenstown docks behind him.
Mr. Smith has no patience with senti
mentalism over English gipsies. He is
willing to admit that my tawny friends of
the American roads and waysides, through
their infinitely more favorable conditions,
enjoy true gipsy prosperity and lead the
Romany's genuine Idyllic life. He simply
Bees the appalling degradation of the gipsy
and van dwellers about him. It is the help
less, hopeless children of these he would
save.
Experiences With British Outcasts.
I like his rugged, vigorous description of
his rough experiences with these outcasts,
and feel sure that a few of hem, in bis own
language, will be interesting to American
readers:
"I have visited many fairs, feasts, races,
forests, lanes and wigwams in different
parts of England and Scotland, and have
eaten and chatted with the tent and van
dwellers.'with the same sorrowful results
confronting me. In many cases where
parents attend fairs, feasts and races with
cocoanut stalls and other initiatory gam
bling amusements, the children are sent
early in the morning to pick up a living in
all sorts of questionable ways, and up to
11 or 12 o'clock at night some of the
children of both sexes, together with their
mothers, are often kept hard at work
brawling, banging and shouting with co
coanuts and balls in hand, while in many
instances their fathers are drinking in the
Eublic houses, and, as a reward for their
ard day's toiling and trudging, Sunday and
week dav,the poor children are sent supper
less and unwashed to their bed. This is
usually on some old rags, under a street
stall, in hail, rain, snow, frost and fogs, and
in fine weather, with the gleaming moon
and twinkling stars peeping through the
torn apertures of their street curtains and
gutter beds.
"I have seen these men, women and chil
dren drunk, 'all of a heap,' like so many
dogs, while there were others, engaged in
thevagabond's calling, ashamed of their
position, who hung down their heads and
hands and went with the tide and pellmell
crowd down to ruin.
misery In the Gipsy Wlcwams.
"Among these folk, on the outskirts of
Iiondcn, in one wigwam I have seen a poor
woman uymg; in auouier a man Who had
taken to gipsying was gasping for breath;
iu another tent a woman was at 'death's
door,' anil at another abode of death, into
which I had to creep on all fours,' there sat
at the entrance, upon a brick in the mud, a
poor lost, present day Gipsy girl of 7 years
of age, but no heavier than a child of 1
year. Its legs were no thicker than drum
sticks. It could neither stand, sing, speak,
cry nor hear.
''At a 'crow pie feast near Rugbv I saw
in five vans 15 children, two of whom could
only read or write a little. During the
deep snow of the winter of 1887-8 I met
with in the old Watling street, but a mile
or two from our home here, nine men,
women and children crouched together,
whose only sleeping apartment was under
an old donkey cart. The man had worked
honorably and well in my neighborhood for
two years. The work gave out and he for
sook his trade to follow hedge bottom
creeping.
"At Daventry I found a traveling show-
man and his wife and their seven children.
Their only home and stock and trade con
sisted of a few sticks, old rags, knives,
whistles and a cracked drum. At a North
amptonshire fair I found ten vans and carts
and between 30 and 40 children, only one or
two of whom had ever been inside either
Sunday or day schools.
ilko the Woman Living In a Shoo.
"Moses Holland, one of my oldest Gipsy
friends, knows about 260 families in the
midland counties, and thinks there will be
an average of five children to each tent or
van. In some tents he has seen as many as
10, and in other tents 12, children. In his
own tent his wife was ill, and a dead child
lay by her side, which Holland 'laid out'
himself on a few rags and some litter.
"At Broomsgrove fair I counted over 50
vans and covered cart homes, connected
with which there were nearly 150 children.
But six could read and write. In one van,
8 feet long 6 broad and 5 high, there slept
11 men, women and children, whose night
dresses were saturated wet clothes. Some
time ago I visited a flower show at West
Haddon and found in two vans and a tum
bledown wagon 18 children and 7 men and
women. Only two could read and write.
"On a recent Sunday in a Northampton
shire lane, near Buckley wharf, during a
pouring rain I came upon 11 present-day
Gipsies, 6 men (and. women and 5 children,
whose home was a small rickety donkey
cart, tied together with pieces of cord, and
a small sheet full of holes, under which
they crept at night.
Thousands of Gipsy Children.
"On the preceding Saturday night these
gipsies were under this one rotten sheet for
the night by the roadside near weedon.
A policeman told them to 'move on,' as on
the following Sunday people would be go
ing to church, and they would be an eye
sore to all these good people. Driving the
Gipsies about the country with a police'
man's truncheon and a 'move on' will not
improve their condition. It can only be
done by means of the sanitary officer's in
fluence directly upon their homes, and by
the schoolmaster's influence upon their
heads and hearts."
These are the beings whom Mr. Smith has
given the name of "Gipsy and Van Dwell
ers," and it is the 40,000 to 80,000 "Gipsy
and Van Children" of these wretched, wan
dering vagabonds, whom he is endeavoring
to rescue from their present condition of
utter bestiality through the hoped for pas
sage of his "movable dwellings bill." The
provisions of this bill, if carried out, would
cause the registration of all Gipsy and other
traveling vans; bring each one under con
stant surveillance and sanitary inspection,
the same as with the lodging nouses of the
great English cities; prevent the present
horrible overcrowding of tpnts and vans.
and, above all, bring every one of these out
cast children compulsorily into the public
schools, but wholly free of expense to their
parents, by a system of free pass books for
use wherever the Gipsy family might be
temporarily tarrying.
Edgar L. Wakkman.
ALLIANCE plans detailed to Carpenter
hy Jerry Simpson and Senator Fefler, in
THE '.DISPATCH to-morrow.
WHERE TO GO
No Need to Be Puzzled.
In the language of an immortal (?)
"How tempus does keep fugitin!" We are
wont to note the passing seasons by certain
events or happenings. Spring is heralded
by the new bonnet, and, alas for the editor,
too often by. the old sonnetl summer wafts
us to seashore and mountain, and autumn
brings us back to the joyous wedding festiv
ities, while winter well, here we are right
"in it!" and soon the holly and mistletoe
will proclaim Christmas time the gladdest of
the year!
Apropos of Xmas, what a genuine re
lief to everybody in general, women in par
ticular, that the all-torturing question:
What shall I get that man? the chil
dren and a dozen other friends,
has been answered. The answer, as found at
the aggressive house of Boggs & Buhl, Al
legheny, is as varied as there are tastes to
gratify. Among the more substantial gifts
you'll find great comfortable looking blan
kets from ?2 50 (indeed some very fair
blanket specimens were quoted at 75 cents)
to $25 a pair. Comforts, from cotton filled
print at 75 cents, to chintz, satine and silk
eiderdowns to 530. Gents' smoking jackets
what an array! Cloth, plaids, checks,
stripes and quilted silks in all desirable
shades.
English, Scotch and American dress goods
in such variety and excellence of style and
quality as even this establishment never be
fore equaled!
Maybe the sudden blizzard was responsible
for the effect, but the cloak department was
the center of attraction. Great fur mantles
and capes of sable, seal, nstrachan, marten,
etc., boas and mulls the latter ranging in
grade and price from black hare at 75c to
luxurious sable at ?50. Wraps for 2-vear-old
toddlers to silver-haired grandmothers.
This, but mere mention of two or three of
the 52 departments of the popular house of
B. & B., gives no adequate idea of the dis
play in substantial gifts alone presented for
your choosing, without any mention what
ever of art departments bric-a-brac, leather
goods, etc., etc.
The enjoyment of the display is yours
as was it ours for the going. If you'd
settle the perplexing question: ''What shall
it be, at not too great cost?" you will find
the answer sure by going soon!
Worth Looking At,
"Turn to the press its teeming sheets
survey, big with the wonders of each pass
ing day." Among these the eye will pause
to look at the old familiar family need in
new dress. It will charm the sight, comfort
the weary and bring cheer and hops to the
pain-stricken. The columns of this paper
are graced bv its reappearance. It is wel
come, for what it promises to do, it does
with alacrity, and proves its promise by an
ample show of performance. The right
thing, in the right place, at the right time,
experience has proved it' to be. Upon this
it has won public confidence and esteem, for
while St. Jacobs Oil, the great remedy for
pain, thus makes its annual rounds and re
news its pledges of prompt and permanent
cure, its continual success is the guaranty
that what it says is true and what it does is
sure. Its best recommendation is its true
reputation, upon which all may depend for
cure and comfort.
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As the season is now at hand for ale and
porter, the Straub Brewing Company take
pleasure in announcing to the saloon arid
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MODERN SHIP CA-MLS.
Colonel T. P. Roberts Discusses the
Advantages of Waterways.
AMEEICAIS AWAY BEHINDEUR0PE
He Strongly Indorses the Ohio River and
lake Erie Prjject.
ASSURED SUFFICE NT WATER SUPPLY
A highly interesting lecture on the
modern ship canal was delivered to the stu
dents and a few invited guests of the West
ern University yesterday afternoon by
Colonel T. P. Roberts, one of Allegheny's
eminent civil engineers. The lecture was
embellished by an elaborate series of maps
and drawings, principally relating to the
mnch talked of ship canal from Pittsburg to
Lake Erie, In the accomplishment of which
Colonel Roberts is greatly interested.
As a preface to his remarks Colonel
Roberts devoted some time to a review of
canals of the past, stating his belief that
they had been abondoned too soon and that
their possibilities had never been fully de
veloped. The history of cannls dated back
to the Roman Empire, and China claimed to
have had them 6,000 years ago, though noth
ing is known of their size or importance.
Little is to be said of the early European
and Asiatic canals, he continued, for their
importance was so trifling that the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works, of this city, gives
rise to more freight trafflo than was enjoyed
hy all the countries of Europe combined at
the time of the first voyage of Christopher
Columbus. It was not until Bindley and
Telford, about the middle of the last cen
tury, created a revolution in the English
speaking world by making Manchester,
Birmingham and even Glasgow accessible
as trade centers through means of the canal
locks.
Cansa of New York's Supremacy.
Before the days of locks it was impossible
to cross a divide for tho connection of water
comses, and ascents and descents weie im
practicable by the methods in vogue. Soon
after Telford's time lock canals were Intro
duced into this country. Hew York began
hers in 1812, but her main lines were not
completed until 1823, which year marked the
relative decline of Philadelphia as a com
mercial emporium: and it is tliat same canal
which enables New York yet to hold her
supremacy without dispute, because a great
canal uy .1 reasonably direct route irom tne
lakes or the Ohio river to Philadelphia is a
ph j steal impossibility. Pennylvania begat
her canal works iu 1820, the chief lines being
opened in 1845, which year marked the de
cline of the canal's importance by reason of
the introduction of the steam railroad.
It whs not exactly tho rivalry between the
boat and the car in which tbe boat disap
peared as a competitor, for while such was
tho effect, the cause Is to be attributed to
tbe difference in the mode of propulsion. In
other words, it was rivalry between horse
power and steam engines, and I think this a
distinction well warranted and worth re
membering. The proportion of passenger
and fast freight tonnage on which time was
an clement of importance was relatively far
greater on the old canals than it is on tbe
railroad to-day, so that if sizeable canals
were in existence now they would afford to
the railroads a relief in kind which the roads
first gave them.
Wherever steam power has been intro
duced as a substitute for manual labor or
animal power, it has proved its superiority,
with the canals as with everything else.
Tho old canals run too small and too shallow
to allow use of propelling machinery. Many
difficulties were encountered and met, but
the width and depth of the canals was the
insuperable one. Tho nearest approach to a
modern canal in this country is the Elie
Canal, of New York, which has already been
twice enlarged and soon will be a third
time. It is seven feet deop, with locks llOr
18 leet, passing boats of 250 tons, yet of tho
more than 5,000 boats navigating it. not more
than 50 are steamers This canal i9 pushed
to its utmost from April to November IS
each year, and while animal power is almost
exclusively used upon It, tho finest, low
frade, four-track railroad In the United
tates, bas with its latest improved cars and
engines only reached the point of competing
with it upon equal terms.
The Necessity of Large Canals.
The French Government owns and con
trols nearly all of 3,000 miles of canals in
France, and has adopted for its standard of
inland barge canals, a size capable of passing
300-ton boats. Experiments on the largest
scale recently made in this country and Eu
rope have shown that 800-ton boat canals is
equal. If not better, than the present rail
road in the transportation service, and it is
unlikely that any will ever be attempted in
this country of less than this size. Above
this size would be too much for animal
power, in my opinion, and any built above
"it should be made available for the use of
steam power. Thus we would come to dls
tineuisu. the point at which large canals may
be aid to cease and ship canals to begin.
Of canals upon wbioh steam power can he
applied to moving vessels of 300 tons and
upward, no fears need be entertained that
land carriage will supersede them as car
riers of bulky or low classed commodities,
though the time will come, and we can see
It now in the so-called connecting rall
roadB," that will be separately built for
freight, and further reductions in railway
freight charges may be expected, still the
ship canal is of such larae possibilities that
we cannot at this day piescribc any limit to
its capacity.
There is a loss in effectiveness of steam
engines working wheels or screws in water,
due to decreese of gravity in the churned
and araeted water, but to whatever this is
attributed, it is known that less power is re
quited to move a boat by motive power
traveling along a canal band, or by cables
operated by stationary engines, than would
be developed In doing equal work with her
own screws. Tbis is a question merely in
volving economy in fuel, but it has been
seized upon by ship railway advocates as an
argument In favor of their economy as com
pared with ship canals. I am in favor of
tbe Tehuantepeo ship railway, but I can
never assent to this argument until I hear
of a decline in the commerce of our great
lakes by reason of the competition of the
"land ship." Even the saving of hajf tho
distance from Chicago to Buffalo, poslble
with ship railway, is unlikely to produce
such a startling result. Nor will even
the saving of two-thirds of tbe river dis
tance between Pittsburg and New Orleans
be inducement enough to attempt hy means
of any kind of railroad a competition in the
coal trade with the river barge system.
Ship Canals Versus Ship Railways.
Large ship railways, requiring three
trucks or six tracks, cannot tnrn curves of
less than several miles radius. Great float
ing turn-tables must be provided for more
abrupt changes of direction than this. About
Pittsburg, for instance, the topography is
aiiftli tliAt searrplvn mlln run lift fnnnrt whtcli
wonld not involve one nr moie decided
changes In direction for a ship railway. On
the Tehuantepeo route, 131 miles, onlv five
decided changes in direction weie found
necessary. While no water supply for a shin
canal exists there, it is admirably adapted
for a ship railway, and there are other ar
guments as to the superiority of this route.
However, it is apparent that only peculiar
topographical and political considerations
can bring ship railways into rivalry with
ship canals.
a It is unlikely that existing conditions in
the transportation world will he disturbed
until the economic problems involved in tbe
study of large canals have been discussed
nnd understood. After canals are built, as in
Europe and Canada, with locks of durable
masonry and slopes protected against the
aotion of waves, they stay built, France in
1889 hud 2,935 miles of canals, with 2,792 locks
and many aaueduats. etc. to care for. and
the annual cost of maintenance, exclusive '.
oi salaries, was only S3u per vane, ui tne M
canalized rivers, aggregating 2,019 miles,
with 617 locks and numerous dams, the
annual cost was $530 per mile. Canals
cost much less to maintain than railroads.
and there are situations in this country
where with equal volume of business at the
same rates tne canal would pay for Itself
much sooner than the- railroad. A careful
investigation of the gigantic transports tion
problem of the country will inevitably lead
to the conclusion that in no direction is so
large a shaie of relief in reduction of rates
and increase of facilities to he so reasonably
expected as from the construction of great
canals and the improvement of our rivers.
Tho Ohio river would be worth vastly more
to us now if it drained into Lake Erie,
though no one can tell what Its value may he
when radically Improved.
The Erie Canal a Possibility.
When we look abroad and see tho enlarge
ment of old and tho construction of new
ship canals and whore the interests bene
fited equal in few cases that which would bo
served by a canal from Lake Erie to the
Ohio, we may well wonder at tne lack of in
terest displayed by our own people on the
subject
The Got Canal, crossing Sweden from the
North Sea to Stockholm, is ten feet deep,
elevated 800 feet above tide, has a total
lockage of 600 feet, divided among 78 locks,
which is 25 more than has been suggested
for the proposed Lake Erie and Ohio Canal,
and more than 10,000 vessels pass through It
annually. The Caledonian Canal, crossing
the Highlands of Scotland, a distance of 60
miles, of which distance more than one-half
Is through natural lakes, has a summit level
of less than 17 feet depth, while small
steamers and sailing vessels pass through
It. Most oi tho European ship
canals, completed and projected, were
designed chiefly to savo distance lost in go
ing around capes or peninsulas, among
which is the North Holland Canal and the
Amsterdam, both extending from the
Znyder Zee to the North Sea. Also the
Baltic or Holstein canal, nearly finished by
tho German Government, and the Isthmus
of Corinth canal, "projected by Alexander
the Great, resolved upon by Ca:sar and com
menced by Nero." Other completed canals
abroad are the Languedoc, North Holland,
Crlnan, Gloucester Berklev, Witham, St.
Louis, Suez, St. Petersburg, Ghent and Ter
neuzen. Tho projected ones are the Bir
mingham, Great Western, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
the Scotch, and the Irish. The latter
will be 127 miles long and SO locks will be re
quired. Many others in various parts of the
Old World are being seriously considered.
The only ship canal in the United States
is the St. Mary's, one mile long, connecting
xaices superior ana .nicmgan, wmcu "'
Government is now enlarging lor the third
time. In Canada the Welland Canal con
necting Lakes Erie and Ontario, 26 miles,
having 25 locks 45 feet wide and 15 feet deep,
and overcoming a descent of 330 feet, is a
splendid example of British-American en
terprise. With her other grand ship canals
oompleted and projected, tho Canadian
Government presents a striking cpntrast to
our own.
We have a few canal projects in this coun
try, among them the Delaware and Chesa
peake, the Niagara Falls, tne Lake Michigan
and Illinois river; the Florida, the Delaware,
mow xork, cape uoa, tne uennepin ana me
Low er Michigan, which is proposed to con
nect Saueatuck and Detroit, via Kalamazoo,
length 173 miles and proposed for 1,500-ton
vessels.
Where tho Water Will Come From.
Tho Lake Erie and Ohio river ship canal
project is one in which a water supply is of
paramount importance, and upon tbe deter
mination of which rests its feasibility. The
summit level of the adopted route, which
lies partly in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Is 20
miles long, while upon the map the position
of numerous reservoirs and lakes are indi
cated. The country is so flat that embank
ments of 12 to 11 feet in height, built across
creeks, would suhmere large areas. One res
ervoir shown makes a pond of more than 8,000
ncres. The total area of reservoirs for the
summit supply is more than 5,000 acres,
gathering water from 79.2S5 acres, or 121
square miles. The available storage capac
ity of these reservoirs, including six feet to
be drawn from Lake Conneaut and certain
springs, amounts to a quantity which, dis
tributed in the days of canal navigation,
would supply tbe summit level with 13,0-3,-903
cubic feet daily.
Mr. John M. Goodwin, who conducted
the survey for the Canal Commission, flgured
upon ten Vessels each wny daily for211 davs.
which would permit the passing of 4,280
vessels, upon which 6,000,000 tons of freight
could be carried. In this calculation allow
ance is made for evaporation and percola
tion from tbe canal. The surplus of water
is fully equal, according to Mr. Goodwin, to
passing 20 more vessels each way daily, or
altogether, enough to .do the business of
18,000,000 tons annually.
No Trouble About a Water Supply.
The water supply can easily be doubled at
small expense, and I have little patience
with those who persistently assert, without
the slightest authority for their statement
that this proposed canal is impracticable by
reason of the insufficiency of its water
supply. Tho fact is it wonld be easier sup
plied than some of the old time cauals.
The length of tbe canal from Pittsburg to
Beaver is 27.4 miles, following the right
bank of tbe river. Its first level, after pass
ing the six-foot lift at Davis Island dam
would be 23 miles long. Lock No. 2 wonld ad
mit tne canal to Beaver river at New Bright
on. The Beaver would be slackwatered to
the head of navigation, 79 6 miles from Pitts
burg, requiring to that point 17 locks and IS
dams. Thence to the south end of the sum
mit 9 locks and 18 miles of canal would be
needed. The summit level is 20 miles long,
nnd from its nortb end to Conneant harbor
25 locks would be required- Tbe route is 30
miles shorter than the old canal, and the
locks proposed large enough to admit
tho new Government gunboats. With
the exception of a few points no curves are
admitted of less radius than 2,000 feet, and
the route is free from engineering difficul
ties and is only about ten miles longer than
an air line from Beaver to the lake. The es
timated cost is $20,375 000.
The route abounds in mineral deposits of
value, and runs through numerous hives of
industry, there being located on it 33 fur
naces, many rolling mills and other estab
lished manufactories.
It wonld benefit tbe lake oountry as muoh
as Pittsburg, for there is now an interchange
of from 7.000,000 to 8,000,000 tons per annum.
If this is not showing enough to warrant a
ship canal none will ever be built in the
United States.
TUBNED IN MANY FALSE ALARMS.
The Result of Queer Complications in
St.
Louis Municipal Politics.
St. Louis, Nov. 20. Fireman Eeidy, of
one of the engine companies is in disgrace.
He was discharged from the force this
afternoon-on a serious charge that of send
ing in false alarms. Ever since the spring
city elections a war has been waged between
the Mayor and the Council "combine"
who declined to approve his nominations
for Fire Chief and Water Commissioner,
claiming that the two old officers were
thoroughly competent and they ought to
stay in office.
It is now said that the Mayor's friends
are throwing every impediment in the way
of the Chief of the Fire Department
with a view to making him resign. It is
alleged that Beidy is one of the Mayor's
friends, and that while the big "Famous"
fire was burning fiercely Tuesday Reidy
sent three false alarms from as many differ
ent localities. The case is being investi
gated. Blaine's Interest in the World's Fair.
Washington, Nov. 20. President W.
T. Baker, of the World's Columbian Ex
position, to-day had a conference with Sec
retary Blaine, by appointment, on matters
connecieu wun me displays oi joreign coun
tries at the Exposition. The Secretary ex
pressed great interest in the subject
BOTSand girls will be making; yEolIan
harps after reading how to make-them In
THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
CALIFORNIA,
The Country or Delightful Winters.
California is the most attractive and de
lightful section of the United States, if not
of the world, and its many beautiful resorts
will be crowded with the best families of
the East during the entire winter. It offers
to the investor the best open opportunity
for safe and large returns from its fruit
lands. It offers the kindest climate in the
world to the feeble and debilitated; and it is
reached in the most comfortable manner
over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad. Pullman vestibule sleeping cars
leave Chicago by this line every day in the
year and go without change or transfer
through to San Francisco, Los Angeles and
San Diego. This -is a feature not offered by
any"bther line. Write to Charles T. Apple
by, Traveling Passenger Agent, Room 303,
Bank of Commerce Building, Pittsburg, Pa.,
if you desire any further information as to
the country and the accommodations for
reaching it
"Very cheap. All kinds second-hand,
first-class sewing machines.
Wheelek & Wilson Mfg. Co.,
No. 6 Sixth street .
Pratt's Great Sale of Books,
Albums and Bibles at half price is now
open at 428 Wood, near Diamond street.
Call to-day and secure the bargains, as
Pratt comes but once a year.
Society Notes.
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glass.
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A WORLD DT THE PARK
Prof. John Eiley Wants the Universe
Placed on Exhibition.
PANORAMA OF THE MRlkl BODIES.
C. L. ITagee wm tj8 Asked to Bay the Ma
chine for Sclenlej Fart.
THE PROFESSOR FOOLED BY A GERMAN
John Biley, a scientist and astronomer,
whose home, when he is not soaring among
the stars, is at 2G3 Colwell street, has a
well-laid plan in hand for filling his pock
ets with ducats and at the same time en
riching the human race with knowledge
hltnerto unthought of. lie has made a
study of the solar system, the heavens and
everything pertaining thereto, but unlike
most great men he believes books do not
convey ideas in detail, and he has there
fore prepared charts in panorama style
which he declares will show the
workings of the universe so plain
that the most ignorant will -understand. It
is a great work, and Prof. Riley thinks he
wonld be cheating humanity if he were to
hide it under a bushel. At the same time,
he thinks it would be injustice to himself
to give it away for nothing, and in order to
get some return he is going to make a
proposition to C. L. Magee that the Du
quesne traction road buy the machine and
place it on exhibition in Schenley Park in
order to increase traffic.
The most important part of the professor's
discovery is that the sun isn't a sun at all,
but only a big chunk of electricity. Like
natural gas on a cold day, he says that it
doesn't give out either heat or light, and
that the only thing which keeps the earth
from being a Raum refrigerator or some
thing similar is flashes of lightning that are
continually going on cheap excursion trips
between the place where the sun ought to
be and a plate of armor just on the other
side of the earth's atmosphere.
A Discovery Made for Revenue.
This truly wonderful discovery, sad as it
may be to believe, wns made for mercenary
purposes. Prof. Riley first commenced
study on it in a desperate effort to get hold
of 525,000, which one Herr Berger, of
Germany, offered through an advertisement
in the Detroit Free Pren to any
astronomer who would prove that
there is anything solid in the sun,
moon or stars. HerrKrupp, the great can
non maker, was given as reference by the
aforesaid Berger and Prof. Riley believing
that the offer was made in good faith re
duced to a diagram the theory that had
found a lodging place in his mind since
time immemorial. By his discovery he
claimed he could prove beyond doubt that
the stars are composed of solid material
and he therefore wrote to Herr Berger
through HerrKrupp for the stuff that would
make himself solid financially.
A Glowing Prize That Vanished.
He got an answer. It was written on a
typewriter in German. The contents were
in substance that "I don't give a d
whether the stars are solid or not I don't
know Herr Berger or any person else that
made such an offer of 525,000. Trulv yours,
Herr Krupp."
For a while Prof. Riley's hopes went
down with the letter. He thought it was a
mean German trick to capture an innocent
Irishman's invention for nothing, bnt he
didn't fall into the trap. He decided on the
plan to interest Mr. Magee in the discovery
and if the scheme works, visitors to Schen
lev Park next Vummer will be given the
privilege of standing around with the r 1
hands in their pockets and watch the uni
verse give a performance of its daily work
ings on a reduced scale. The question was
asked the professor if he would put a man
in his exhibition moon, bnt he did not
deign a reply.
The Pennsylvania 'Will Rid 840,000,000.
The sale of the Allegheny Valley road by
auction eccursDecemberl5. It was learned
from a stockholder yesterday that the Penn
sylvania's limit in bidding has been placed
at 540,000,000. This road now has 515,000,
000 invested in the Valley. It is also stated
that if the Pennsylvania officials on the day
of sale discover a combination present to
foree up the price they will go into
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noU-47a-
court and move for a postponement Tha
terminals of the Allegheny Valley in Pitts
burg alone are exceedingly valuable, and
worth a good sum to the Pennsylvania. Tbe
Valley stockholders think the full limit will
be bid. They don't propose to give up the
road for a song. It is thought that the
Pennsylvania will be the only bidder. Tna
Valley has the lowest grade across the
mountains to Northern Pennsylvania.
THE ALLEGHENY CONTEST.
Judge Ewlng to Decide To-Pay Whether
Ballot Boxes Can Be Onened Some of
the Points Brought Out by the Attorneys
for Mayton.
The Stayton-Wyman contest for the Alle
gheny Mayoralty will assume shape of some
kind to-day, is it is the last allowed Wyman
by Judge Ewing to make defense to the
case which the Stayton side claims to have
made out. Mr. Brennen says Stayton has
made a prima facie case, which will justify
an order for the opening of the ballot boxes,
and Mr. Bennett, one of Wyman's counsel,
refuses to .say what their line of defense
will be.
During the past two weeks an immense
amount of arithmetic has been expended in
calculating the probable effect of the open
ing of the ballot boxes, and only one thin?
has been definitely settled, and that is that
certainly not more than one or two of the
affidavits required "to be taken by those
whose names are not in the registry list ara
made in accordance with the law, and the
Snpreme Court has ruled that every provi
sion must be complied with in order to
make a vote legal. The person making
such affidavit must answer quite a number
of questions as to payment of taxes, whers
paid, to whom paid, etc., and if a natural
ized citizen the questions are still more ex
plicit. Investigation of the returns from
almost any district will show that this kind
of ilIegal;votes is the rule, scarceanv affida
vit being legal. Sometimes enough havs
been cast to vitiate an election from this
cause alone, though the voters had a right
to vote had they done it properly.
It was developed in the present case
that voters whose standing has been known
to be unimpeachable for 20 to 30 years have
voted illegally, though both their intent
and that of the election officers wns to do
the right thing. But the latter said when
summoned, "why we knew that man had a
right to vote, as he had been a property
holder and voter for 20 years or more, and
we did not think it necessary to swear
him." Thus an intentionally honest vote
will be thrown out, while that of a rooster
who had no scruples against swearing a lie
will probably go through, unless evidence is
forthcoming to show that his vote was
illegal.
ZH0WH IK PITTSBITBG.
Tbe Man Alleged to Be Responnlble for
Stratton's Death Worked Here.
The death by fasting of G. Henry Strat
ton in a New York museum created consid
erable talk among the museum people of
Pittsburg. Elmer Collins, of this city, was
in the fasting match with Stratton. J. M.
Cousart, the manager of Collins, is alleged
to have been the originator and manager of
the New York fasting contest, and the
museum proprietor, Mr. Hubpr, say that
Consart is responsible for the death of
Stratton.
Cousart came to Pittsburg about a year
ago. He was employed for a time as ticket
taker at Harry Davis' Musenm, and be
came well known to the profession. After
Collins completed his fast of four weeks iu
this city he left Pittsbnrg with Consart.
The two turned up in Philadelphia, where
Colhn3 appeared in another con
test. The show was not successful,
and for want of money both Collins
and Cousart were forced to fast in reality.
They left Philadelphia, and were next
heard of in New York, and the fatal fasting
contest was the first in which they appeared
since leaving Philadelphia. It is not defi
nitely known here whether Cousart has
been arrested. It is known, however, that
an effort is being made to hold him respon
sible for Stratton's death.
DRESSES for busy women, by Ada Bache
Cone, In THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
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because of the attending discomfort, but lest
it engender diseases involving more seri
ous consequences. Dr. D. Jayne's Sanative
Pills are either laxative or cathartic, ac
cording to the dose, and may be depended
upon to produce healthy secretions of the
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