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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4. 1331,
TWELVE PAGES
THE 50DTIIS1DE rr.CE ISRIDGE.
It is not surprising that a diversity of
opinion is shown as to the proper site for
tl-p proposed free bridge to the Southside,
but it will be unfortunate if that is allowed
to stand as an excuse for delay. JTo mat
ter where the bridge is placed it will not
suit even body. The general principle,
therefore, to govern the choice should be
the creates? convenience to the greatest
number, taking all the circumstances into
account. If some, as must be the cise,
are disar pointed it will be well to bear in
mind ti.at this free bridge must be fol
lowed by others for other localities.
The suggestion to utilize the occasion
for civing access to the hill wards, to the
Iis: Liberty valley and to the Schcnley
P.trk district, by making the new bridge
connect not only with Second avenue, but
with Forbes stieet and Fifth avenue, con
tinues the most important of the many
that have ben mad". This is a feature
which She best judgment will commend.
VTl.erever the site is chosen it should be
b"l! In view. Any bruise ending on Sec--
atomic alone will to a great extent
t duplicate the toU bridges with-
1. giving the quick and direct access
w liioli is desirable from the residence por
tions of the city to the Southside, and
which should be greatly beneficial to all
sections. The facility with which such a
bridge, with three outlets in place of one,
could he Lu-lt at Soho, stronsly recom
mends that site. The lines and the levels
of Second avenue, Forbes street and Fifth
avenue clcs-ly approaching each other
theie, wculd permit at comparatively
small additional cost a stracturo so ar
ranged a to txive access to all three of these
main aiteries from the Southside. It
wonM requite no extraoi dinary engineer
ing skill 10 plan such a bridge, ending on
the Piitbanr side with three outlets,
adapted to the three grades to be reached.
At present neither by toll bridce or
otherwise, is there any communication ex
cepting a c.rcuitoiis and tedious one be
tween the Southside and the greater part
of the city wh ch lies beyond Grant street.
This is an important consideration. But
wherever the bridge is to be placed, the
sile snould oon be selected. The work
should not be allowed to lag, now that the
money Is on hand to go on with it.
TIlC TKtSTV gki:,vt MISSION.
The energy with which the anthracite
coal combinat.on puisnes its mission of
ci'eapenmg the cost of coal by its superior
business 01 ganization is strikingly shown
by its advance of 15(g2o cents per ton in
the East last week, the rates to the
Western peop'e hating been previously
advanced 25 tents.
Likewise, the appointed mission of the
trusts to confer benefits on the people was
exemplified by the Electric Trust, with
850,000,000 of fiat capital, in its attempt to
justify some portion of that dropsical
capitalization by charging the World's
F.iir 1.200,000 more thin a competitive
price for electric lights. Of course, the
SuarTrust pursues the same disinterested
mission by its recent addition to the cost
of sugar for this nation of about $13,000,000
annually.
If the 'rusts keep on cheapening things
this way the cost of living will be cheap
ened so far as to be out of sight for the
ordinary laboring man.
THE PUTATIVE OPPOSITION.
As a supplement to the review of the
situation as regards the selection of dele
gates to the Democratic National Conven
tion, made recently by The Dispatch, a
summary of the action of States in sending
delegates to the Republican gathering is
inlerestinn. Such an one is presented by
the New York Commercial Advertiser with
regard to the action of 31 conven
tions, including two Territories and the
District of Columbia. The showing on
the Republican side differs somewhat
from the strong preponderance of Cleve
land on the Democratic side. It is true
that Harrison is the only candidate in the
fild, but of the 31 conventions only
twelve, sending 218 delegates, are in
structed for him. These include the
Southern States, the doubtful State of In
diana, and the Republican States of Ne
braska and South Dakota. In three of the
Southern States there is a dispute as to
the regularity of the instructions, and in
South Dakota the instructions were only
carried by a very close vote. On the
other hand 14 Northern States, two South
ern, two Southwestern Territories and the
District of Columbia have sent 390 uniu
structed delegates atterformally indorsing
the administration.
This showing of 63 per cent more dele
gates that aro not pledged to Harrison
than the number which are is widely
taken as indicating a shaky outlook for
the President's renomination. That
would be a legitimate conclusion if there
were one or more candidates whom the
uninstructed delegates could take up. But
the fact is that there is no opposing candi
date, and the character of ihe Great Un
insiructed makes it difficult for them to
unite on an available man. If the 390
could take up Gresham, for example, it
might put a new face on the political
situation. But Gresham is the last man
whom the leadprs of this element would
accept. The fact is that 200 of 390 un
instructed are under the direction of poli
ticians who have more concern with the
distribution of patronage than with thn
direction of national policy. Harrison is
in a position to deal with these gentlemen
more immediately and promptly than any
other candidate except perhaps that the
Jovial Thomas B. Reed could offer a gen
eral and sweeping partition of the spoils.
Tho large preponderance of the unin
stnicted element is a disclosure that the
President is by no means indisputably
strong with his own party; but the char
acter of the putative opposition does not
afford much ground for the expectation
that it will withstand the arguments of
Federal patronage.
FIRE AND INSURANCE.
Some new issues are introduced into
the discussion raised by the recent
fire by the Interview with Major
Wiliiam ilcCandless, President of the
Board of Firo Underwriters. Major
McCandless points out that as a result of
conferences last year the policy was out
lined of increasing the firo protection of
the downtown district by multiplying the
fire plugs, which would not only decrease
the reliance on long lines of hose but
mitigate the blockading of streets by fires;
by the transfer of smaller engines to the
residence wards; by the increase of crews
so that the heavy three-inch hose could be
handled with more celerity, and by the
purchase of a fire boat and water towers,
which would increase the effective means
for fighting fire for quite a distance back
from the river front Thess things do
not seem to have been done; and the head
of the insurance interest presents it as a
cogent question, why they have not been
done.
These points only increase the fores of
what The Dispatch lias already said
about an authoritative inquiry into all the
points on which criticism has been made,
in order that the course of the city shall
be clear for the future. The Dispatch
has invariably indorsed whatever expen
diture is necessary to afford full fire pro
tection to the business part of the city.
In the last appropriation ordinance it ac
cepted as based on valid reasons the in
creased appropriations for the Department
of Public Safety, supposed to be for the
purpose of providing this protection.
Recent experiences appear to afford a
strong argument for promptly making the
changes agreed upon a year ago.
Meantime, will the insurance men on
their part answer a fair and pertinent
question upon the other side of the case
sJnce the subject is up, viz.: Why are tho
owners and tenants of dwelling houses in
Pittsburg charged two and three times
the rate for insurance that insuranca com
panies are glad to get upon dwelling
houses in Philadelphia? Whatever may
be said about the losses upon business
property in Pittsburg it must be admitted
that there are very few losses on dwelling
house property in the city, yet Pittsburg
ers have to pay at tho rate of 80 cents for
three years where Philadelphians get
their insurance for half or even one-third
that, and can get a perpetual insurance
for 52 CO.
VENEZUELAN PASSION.
Civilization has a good deal of progress
to make yet in Venezuela, if reports
thence are to be credited. War is bad
enough with all its modern refinements
without any retrograde to the methods of
the dark ages. Here is a Dictator who has
been fortunate enough to capture the son
of the General leading a rebellion against
him. This man, Palacio, threatens to
shoot his hostage should his father succeed
in getting within a league of Caracas, the
capital. In return, the prisoner's father,
General Crespo, promises that should such
an outrage be committed he will improve
upon it by burning Palacio at the stake.
Comparisons are at best unprofitable,
and the barbarity Exhibited at the recent
Tcxarcana lynching prohibits this country
from indulging in stone throwing. But it
is clear that humanity has much to do bo
fore Venezuela can be recognized as more
than a semi-savage country. Apart from
these considerations, however, the employ
ment of such tactics indicates the heat
of passion and the stern determination
which animate the southern revolutionists,
whose performances arc too often regarded
here as a harmless pastime.
NOT LIKELY TO ROLD GOOD.
It would be a very comfortable thing for
the river coal men if the theory of Mr.
Grant, of Morgantown, that there is no
law allowing tolls to be charged on inter
State freight by. the Monongahela
Navigation Company, were to stand
the test of the courts. It would
likewise be a very bad thing for
the Monongahela Navigation Company.
But we would not advise the river men to
bank much on obtaining such a decision,
nor is there any need for the Navigation
Company's stockholders to unload their
investments in expectation of such a rul
ing. The slack water improvement stands on
the same legal foundation as a railroad,
and both of them on the same basis as the
old turnpike improved by a corporation.
All are highways improved under cor
porate charters from the States. They are
of different classes, being water highways
and land highways of characters each
adapted to different sorts of vehicles.
Their right to charge tolls rests on State
charters; and any constitutional rule
which required inter-State freight to pass
free over one class would apply equally
to all. There is no national statute au
thorizing railroads to levy charges on
inter-State freight, but, as Justice Bradley
cogently pointed out in his dissenting
opinion in Wabash vs Illinois, the rail
roads derive that right from State legisla
tion. Besides that, in natural equity
the right ot a corporation to charge a toll
for the use of its improvements cannot be
disregarded without injustice.
The Dispatch has heretofore clearly
declared itself in favor of freeing the
Monongabela river from tolls. But the
way to accomplish this is by condemnation
of and compensation for the improvements
made by the Navigation Company. The
United States has commenced this work,
and the pait of those interested in making
the river free of tolls is to urge on the
rather leisurely process.
A JOINT OBSTACLE.
Our esteemed jingo cotemporary the
New York Press notes that Spain is in
such financial difficulties that it is pro
posed to increase taxation on numerous
industries, to put stamp duties on tobacco
and lucifer matches, to impose higher
duties on wines and spirits, and so forth,
all with the hope of adding 55,000,000 to
the revenue. This suggests to the Press
that "it might be an opportune time to
inquire diplomatically at Madrid if she is
willing to dispose of Cuba to the United
States."
It might be If it were not for two objec
tions. First, that Spain has frequently
and forcibly declared that the one thing
she will never do is to sell her sovereignty
of the Island of Cuba. In other words,
Spain will not do it on any terras. The
other objection is that while it would be un
fortunate for the United States to embark
on any rohcy of territorial acquisition, the
one property of all others which she does
not want is that land of bandits, ex-slaves
and unrepublican landed proprietors that
breeding place of lotteries and yellow
fevers known as Cuba. In other words,
common sense in the United States does
not want Cuba on any terms.
When the joint obstacle of a government
that will not sell Cuba and a government
that does not want Cuba as a gift can be
overcome, then the time may be oppor
tune as suggested by our New York co
temporary, but not until then.
SiLVEnrniESD has become Victoria
Woodhull'spilvate secretary. If his name
carry no Southwestern States the lady's
chances lor success are slim indeed.
The immense growth of Pittsburg was
very creditably illustrated by our cotempo
rury, tho Commercial Gazette, In its special
business edition yesterday. The tale of this
city's great development cannot, fortlie best
interests of all, bo too often or too elaboiately
told. Pittsburg is still traveling in its seven
leagued boots. The Dispatch delights in
chronicling its progress from dav to day,
and it says "well done!" to every effort of its
cotemporaries in the sarao direction. When
the same spirit is thoroughly diffused anions
all classes "of citizens, Pittsburg's march to
vaster proportions will be greatly acceler
ated. Impostor Teed might take kindly to
feathers alone, but when they are offered
mixed with tar ho is little likely to regard
them as a becoming angelic outfit.
Governor Flower has taken two leaves
from Biaiue's book. The latter feels himself
disqualified for the Pres.dontal race by
physical weakness and has called in the ad
vice of a professional wrestler to counteract
the stress of ofllclal labor and the disastrous
delights of tho dinner table. But Flower has
taken time by the forelock and engages
nightly in an hour's boxing with a rub down
to lollow. He evUently hopes to make up
in healthy tissues what ho lacks in states
manship. More Dels irtism is nowhere when
a l'residental contest is to be prepared for.
A Habrisox "transparency" has caused
a row in a New York Republican club. Tho
particular transparency in question was not
the President's civil service views.
O'DONOVAN KOS3A says that convicts
are helped to this country by tho English
Government, and of conrse ho ought to
know. Moreover it may be regarded as cer
tain that his inclination would render him
liable to err in favor of the British govern
ment he loves, rather fian against its inter
ests which ho has striven so hard to foster.
There is more than one Presidents!
dark horso who could be fittingly described
cither :is stalking horse for others or as
talking horse for himself.
If railroad companies would confine in
J urios ai ising fi om wrecks to members of the
fraternity of tramps stealing a ndo there
would be little to complain or, but unfortu
nately no such limit is made, and the paying
innocent passenger rnns Just the same risks
as the gentlemen who scorn to walk and are
too proud to work.
Tctjn abont is fair play and the actions of
the Huntingdon Reformatory officials hair
ing been investigated riotous inmates are to
bo "placed 011 trial.
Were the truth known, there are many
people w ho could sec up as a delense for the
non-payment of taxes the claim made by a
Kentuckiau that his estato was equaled by
his debts. But the moral courage of a
colonel is necessary before recourse can be
had to so dospcratc a measure.
McKeespoet finds "speak-easy" raids so
profitable for the city treasmy that the
illicit industry is really iu danger of ex
termination. As for throwing cold water on the en
thusiasm of our firemen, thereby dampening
their ardor, no one would be foolish enough
to try to do that. Even were such action
desirable, the hoso used would berve the
puipose very fully nnd lender any further
effort entirely supererogatory.
When you see by the bill posters that
"The Drummer Boy of Shlloh" is on at tho
theaters it is safo to look up your spring un
derwear. Senator Sherman seems to have re
considered his refusal to ever enter the field
for the Presidental nomination. He has in
timated to a Chicago man that he would not
refuse if offered the prize, and, singularly
enough, the Chicago man believed him.
Fuller details are necessary to substan
tiate that rumor that .Cleveland fatheis a
Presidental boom lor the Chief Justice.
Experts declare that the air of the
United States Senate chamber is not of
very bad quality, in spite of a general belief
to the conliary. Can this be explained by
"leave to print" in tho Record instead of
personal delivery on current topics!
A mayor should be a great deal more
than a figurehead, but a head forfigutesis
a useful possession for sucb an officer.
If weather in Philadelphia be such as it
is in Pittsburg, the strike of 500 grammar
school boys may be explained by the in
dolence which accompanies spring fever
moio readily than by a change or princi
pals. It is abont time for Coleman Drayton
nnd Aureli.in Scuoll to see if they can shoot,
so they u ill not feel lonely.
As the fine tor sealing in Bering Sea is
twioe as much under tho American law as
under tho English, poachers should pray for
arret by British vessels. Or, hotter still,
avoid danger liom either by regarding the
law.
A MISS & as good as a mile.and it appears
that in the Allegheny postoflice she is better
than a Myler.
"WniLE Anarchists confine their efforts to
sell-destruction in tho manner of the fanat
ical ciank who hanged himself in the Cen
tral station, they will achieve moio popu
larity than they can othei n Isc compass.
Deeming is now "in irons." In a short
time it will be difficult to locate him so def
initely. A conservatory; of glass and iron is
peculiatly typical of Pittsburg's industries,
and its contents should urouse more en-,
thusiusm than exists at present in the pur
suit of the beautiful.
It is the magnetic pole that now forms
the center of attraction to Arctic explorers.
Surely Deeming has crimes enough on
his head without adding authorship to the
list. But perhaps this last offence is only a
final eltort to demonstrate his insanity.
lie May Have to Retire.
3IcKecsport Herald.
If many moieof the Law and Order spies
aro shown up in their truo light McCluro
should leturn to bis country home and seek
some worthier object for his talents than
the bunday newspaper.
Old Unough to Have Sliver Threads.
Chicago Times.
It is abont time that a store of precious
metiils was accumulated by the Grant Monu
ment Association of New York. The asso
ciation is certainly old enough to have silver
threads among tho gold.
Worse Than a Thunder Storm.
Toledo Commercial.
Presently the noise and con fusion of Demo
cratic hosts clashing together will be heard
in the land. Democrats never did dwell in
harmony and peace.
Backward About Coming Forward.
St. Louis Republic
lr, as alleged, tlicro is a strong Hill senti
ment in Texas it is very backward about
coming foiwaid.
-THEIR PECDLIAR-POLITICS.
Tho Articles of Faith to Which the People's
Party of Maine Subscribe Many Charac
teristic Demands Laws for Labor as
Well as Capital.
Gardiser, Me., May 8. The State conven
tion of the People's party of Malno assem
bled to-day with 100 delegates present, in
cluding many prominent labor men. It was
practically a meeting for organization.
There is no fiipd to assist delegates to at
tend the convention, and they are at their
own expense. Some walked from 10 to 20
miles in order to be present. The Commit
too on Resolutions reported the following
"Articles'of Faith:"
We heartily indorse the platform adopted
by the Industrial Conference, at St. Louis,
February 22, 1892.
tVe demand a safe, sound and flexible cur
rency, which sliail be lull legal tender for
all debts, public and private, to be con
trolled by the national Government without
the intervention of private corporations
and issued to the extent of $50 per capita.
As n step in the light direction, we de
mand tho free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver. Ve demand that all revenues shall be lim
ited to the necessary expenses of the Gov
ernment. .
tVe demand a graduated income tax.
We demand that labor shall reoelve the
same protection that is accorded to cap
ital in its various forms in this conn
try, nnd to this end we demand that Con
gtess shall enact a law that any person, firm
or corporation who shall employ the labor of
foreigners not naturalized shall pay into the
United States Treasury $1 per day for every
day such foreign laborer is thus emploveu,
or such a sum as shall be equal to the high
est average protection to capital employed
In the various industries of this country.
We demand that all land now held by capi
talists and corporations for speculative pur
poses shall be reclaimed bv the Government
and held for actual settlers only.
We demand that all trusts and combina
tions of capital for the purooseof controling
the nricea of nrtlclos of neeessitv shnnld
be placed under the ban of law and made a
penal offense.
Wodomand that the Government shall at
once tnko charge of railroad, telegraph and
telephone systems and manage the same in
the interest of the people.
We demand a livinor svstcm of taxation.
- We demand an eight-honr system in all
mills, mines, trades and factories.
We demand eqnal -suffrage regardless of
sex.
We recognize the saloon as the mortal en
emy of all the above named leforms, and,
therefore, demand strict enforcement of the
statute laws and the enactment of such na
tional laws as may bo necessary for its com
ploto and universal overthrow.
For Governor. L. C. Bateman, of Sears
monr, and for electors at large J. B. Clark,
Bangor, and W.H Harris, Anburn.were nom
inated bv acclamation. J. II: Swan, W. G.
Soulo, Wm. Hobbs. G. C. Walker, J. E.
Campion, W. M, F. Harris and Henry Petts
were nominated for delegates to tho Na
tional Convention at Omaha.
LEFT THE METHODIST CHT7ECH
To Become an Episcopalian Is the Action
of a Southern Divine.
Norfolk, Va., May 3. Special. One of
tho most surprising things that has hap
pened in Norfolk in a long time ooourred
last night. It was tho resignation of Rev.
Dr. William E. Evans, pastor of the Granby
Street M. E. Church, one of the wealthiest
Methodist churches in tho Virginia Confer
ence, with a view of becoming a clorgyman
in tho Piotestant Episcopal Church. Tho
first in timation the Episcopalians of Nor
folk had of the proposed change was during
a visit of Rev. B. D. Tucker, ol St. Paul's P.
E. Church, to tho doctor soon after Easter.
The visit had no relation whatever to the
change, but it was then nnd there that Dr.
Evans unbosomed himself and tola of his
pm poses.
Dr. Evans feels that he will be happier in
the Episcopal Church, and therefore more
useful. His letter to his Presiding Eider
conveying the credentials under which he
has for 16 years performed the duties or a
Methodist minister was written last night
and mailed this morning, so that he who
was yesterday pastor of one of tho most
prominent Methodist churches In the South
is without tho Palo of that denomination.
in quo time ne win a
pply for oiders in the
Dr. Evans' salary was
dioceso of Alabama.
$3,000 a year.
EUSSIA'S VIQIIANT POLICE
Spoil a Plot in Which an Americas Woman
Was tho Central Figure.
New York, May 3. Mrs. Theophila Kra
mer is probably1 now on her way to Russia,
but if she reaches theie she will land In the
bastile in short order, as both she and tho
object of her visit are too well known to
escape the Russian police. She wanted
to go with the Red Cross relief to the lamine
stricken distiicts and would then leave and
then elude tho vigilance of the officials and
assist the Nihilists.
But Mrs. Kiaemer's plans were discovered
and she was dropped trom the list of those
to go by the Tynehend. However, she lias
disappeared and it is believed she is trying
to go on her own account. The Russian
secret police are said to be closely on her
track and watching every movement. Mrs.
Kraemer is a naturalized Polish woman,
who lias lived in this country nearly all her
life.
P00E SEN'S TROUBLES.
General Butler Again Sued by the
C. T.
Jewett Pub'lihlng Company.
Bostok, May 3. Special.-General B. F.
Butler has to withstand further litigation
on account of his book. Suit was yesterday
begun in the Suffolk county Supreme Ju
dicial Court in which the General figures as
the defendant and is sued for $50,000. The
plaintiff is tho C. F. Jewett Publishing Com
pany, who claim that the Geneinl has vio
lated the teims of a contract made with it
on September 15, 18S9, wheieln It is alleged
he agreed to give it the work of publishing
his book.
General Butler will have 30 days within
wbicli to lespond to the allegations. A
former suit was brought by the same plain
tiff against the General, seeking to have the
court older him to perform his part of the
alleged contiact. This last named suit went
to tho Supreme Court full bench on ques
tions of law.
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PIEECE'S B00MEB DEAD.
George B. Proctor, Who Made a President,
Dies at the Age or 84.
Boston, May 3. ctaf. Mr. George B.
Proctor, of Welleslcy, Mass., who made him
self famou half a century ago by starting
tho Presidental boom of Franklin Pierce,
died Monday aged 82 years. From 1812 to
1832 he bad charge or tho Democratic head
quarters in this city, and when Franklin
Pieirecamo homo Jiom tho Mexican Wnr
his Boston friends rallied about hlin and at
the old headquarters they started the boom
which bore him on its tide into the doors of
the White House.
At that" titrte party headquarters was a
decided innovation, and this movement,
which put Pierce into the Presidental chair,
was undoubtedly the first one of importance
from such a souice.
PERTINENT AND PERSONAL.
Ambroise Thomas, the well-known com
poser, is seriously ill in Paris.
A great deal of anxiety has been cansed
in Catholic circles by Archbishop Kenricks'
inability to fill his confirmation engage
ments. Senator Stanford contemplates giv
ing his Nob Hill lesidonco in San Francisco
to the State to bo converted into a free pub
lie Hbrnr3
Emperor "William will visit Queen
Victoria in August next. He will arrive at
Cones on tho imperial yacht Uohenzollern
on August L
One of the prettiest girls in Utah rather
a dubious compliment, peihaps is Mrs. R.
W. Sloan, of Salt Lake City, who is a grand
daughter or Brighain Young.
Miss Anna Dickinson, who was
seriously ill at New York where she was
stopping, was much better yesterday morn
ing, and her physician pronounces, her out
or danger.
Dr. Mansfield Merriman, of Lehigh
Univeisity, has been offered tho chair of
Mathematics in the Chicago University at a
salary of $7,000 a year. He has taken no
action regarding the offer.
TnE Ecv. Dr. George H. McGraw,
who has been the pastor of St. Paul's Mctho
dist Episcopal Church in Now York, for tho
last three years, has formally renounced the
Methodist faith and has been confirmed in
the Episcopal Church.
IN WOMAN'S REALM.
Dau;hter of tho American Revolution Ar
ranging for a Series of Lectnres T. TV.
C. A. Reception Kennlon of the Sterrett
tV. C. T, V. Gossip or Society.
There was an important meeting at the
residence of Mrs. Park Painter, BIdge ave
nne, Allegheny, yesterday afternoon of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. The
business of the meeting was to perfect ar
rangements for a series of lectures by Miss
Jane Meade Welsh, the first of which is to
be given on Monday, Way 33. There was a
large attendance at the meeting yesterday,
and tho greatest interest was manifested by
those present. After due consideration the
following programme Was submitted by
committees that have had the matter in
chaige, and adopted unanimously by the
meeting: Monday, Mav 30, Miss Welsh will
lecture on "The Making or the Constitu
tion," at the residence of Miss Denny, ill
Penn avenue; Wednesday, June 1, "Alex
ander Hamilton," also at Miss Denny's; Sat
urday, June i, "Thomas Jefferson," Mrs.
Park Painter'" house; Monday, Juno 6, "The
War of 1S12," Mrs. Hogg's, 78 Church avenue,
Allegheny; Wednesday, June 8, "John
Qnlncy Adams," also at Mrs. Hogg's; Satur
day, Juno 11, "The Capture of a Common
wealth," Mrs. M. K. Moorhead. 6221 Ellsworth
avenue. These lectures will all commence
at 11 a. m. They will not be exclusive in any
sense of the word, the public generally being
invited to attend all of them.
The committee of armngemonti are Miss
Julia Harding, Miss Knte McEnight, Mrs.
Howard Morton, Mrs. O. D. Thompson, Mrs.
Frank LcMoyne. Miss S. Ening, Mrs. W. J.
Holland, Mrs. Walter McCord, Miss Burg
win, and Mrs. Cl.arles McEnight. Tickets
for the course of lectures can be obtained of
any of these ladies. The sale has already
commenced, and there is no question that
Miss Welsh will be welcomed by very large
audiences. Tho ladles having tne lectnres
in charge are very enthusiastic, and are de
lighted with tho Interest the enterprise has
awakened in Pittsburg.
The new building of the Central Young
Women's Christian Association at 121 Penn
avenue will be formally opened Friday
evening or this week. A reception will be
held on that day from 3 to 5 p. M. and from
7 to 10 p. M. The association was organized
in June last, so that it is not a year old, but
already has a membership of over 400. Some
of the most prominent, ladies in the two
cities are members and are working hard
for its success. The new house is very com
modious, having 23 rooms all elegantly fur
nished by the ladles of the different denom
inations or Pittsburg and Allegheny. The
intention or the association is to rent some
or the rooms to young ladles and to servo
luncheon every day at a lower prico than it
can be obtained or the same quality else
where. Girls employed in business houses,
factories, etc., can take their lunohes with
them to the association's rooms and eat
their meal there, buying coffee or not as
they pleae. They will be welcome to come,
to enjoy their lunch, to rest, to read and to
make uso of the place as if it were home.
Women out for a day's shopping are invited
to come in and rest. There are toilet rooms
snnpllcd with all conveniences, and, in fact,
everything that should he found in tho
Ideal club house for women. Beauty as well
ns utility has been carod for in the tnrnish-
ment of the association's rooms and plc
tmes nnd bric-a-brac, oarefnlly chosen, are
seen on every side. The officers of the asso
ciation areas follows: President, Mrs. James
B. Scott; Vice Presidents, Miss Essie Price
and Mrs. A. J. Norcross; Secretary, Miss
Annie D. Robinson; Treasurer, Miss J. L.
Lewis.
Yesterday afternoon the ladies of the
Sterrett W. a T. U. met at their rooms,
North avenue, Allegheny, for business, and
later in the day enjoyed a social reunion.
At the afternoon, committees appointed
some time since to visit all the publlo
schools and find out whether physical cul
ture was taught in them, reported that it
was and that the teachers as well as the
pupils were very much Interested in the
study. A lunch, free to all, was served from
6 to 8 p. m., after which theie was a pleasant
entertainment, consisting of ballad singing,
recitations and select readings. Among
tho performers were Miss Blanche George,
Mr. Luther Harper, Miss Carrie Uerber.Miss
Amelia Hill, Miss Alexander and Master
Lindsay Barr. These rooms on North ave-
nuo ai o known as the "First Allegheny Day
Nursery." Tho purpose of the Institution is
to caro for tho children of mothers who
have to go out for the day to work. A
charge of 10 cents a day is made. Formerly
the charge was S cents, but the mothers
thought it was too little, so the fee was
raised to 10 cents. Tho children are fed and
washed and the larger ones sent to school,
while the babies are kopt at home and taken
care of all day. It Is an excellent institu
tion and does a great deal of good work in a
modest, unassuming way.
The German fair in Old City Hall is
progressing most satisfactory. There was
a very large attendance yesteiday both for
dinner and supper, and the entertainment
was unusually good. Tho Gerraanla Band
gives a concert every evening, and last night
the church choirs of Mt. Washington and
Homestead rendered vocal music. A feature
of to-day will be a visit of the little ones
from tho Orphans' Home at West Liberty.
They will go to the fair in a body. The
room containing contributions from the Em
press of Germany and other notable ladies
was opened yesterday for the first time.
Miss Bertha Vierheller is in charge of tho
room, the establishment of it being her own
dca. She wrote to a number of distin
guished ladies nsking them to send some
thing for the fair, and all have rospondod.
The Empiess of Germany sent a porcelain
placque, accompanied by an autograph let
ter, in which she expressed her entile
sympathy with the cause for which
the Jalr is given. Tho placque is
decorated with a picture in colors of
Sanssoci Castle, tbe favorite residence of
tho old Emperor William, grandfather of
the piesent Kaiser. Mrs. Governor Pattison
sent a very kind letter, with a pietty linen
table square. Mrs. Gai field's contribution
WB9 a dainty haiidkerchlof case, and Mrs.
McKinloy's ten pairs of knitted invalid slip
peis. Mrs. Mclviuley ishoiself an invalid,
and tho slippers aie her own work. A fancy
w orKbox nnd brocaded pincuhion, made by
the wife of tho Indian cnief, Yellowhead, of
Canada, are among the interesting articles
shown. One present, that cannot be put on
exhibition in the hall, is a building lot at
Bell's station, on what is known as the Little
Sawmill nun roaa. xue lot is jiux'J5ieet,
and is the gift ot a piominent real estate
agent, who desires that his name shall not
bo made public
An interesting wedding took place in
the East End last night in tbe Park Avenue
Chinch. The couple were Miss Amelia May
Smith and Mr. Dean D. Goewey, and they
weio made one by Rev. Mr. Chalfant, tho
pastor. The bride wore a cream white crepo
dc chine robe, with pearl passementerie, her
veil being held iu place with a spray or
oiange blossoms. Tho maid or honor was
Miss Sadie Lawton, who wore a lavendar
gown, trimmed with chiffon, and carried
lavendar lilacs. Theushers woie Lou Latty,
Lon Stewart, Will Means and James Adams.
The happy pair have gone to Niagara Falls
and Canada for the honeymoon.
Last night the commencement exercises
oftheMonongahela City High School took
place in the Opera House, in the presence of
an immense audience. A pretty idea in the
preparation of the very tasteful invitation
was the insertion of the words "Unfinished
Still," intimating that the real school days
commence in the world after the graduating
and receiving of diplomas from the authori
ties or tne niguscnooi. Tiiograauateswere
as follows: Harriet Hamilton Hazzard,
Lituruliene Carson, Margaret Eleanor Al
ton. Floienco Rosella Dlckerson. Mary
Catharine Brings, Jane B. Dewalt, Margaret
Cecilia Cassady, Emily Clarke Byeis, Mary
Jane Anderstm, Evelyn Van Voorhis, Mary
Elinira Pollock, Cora Latta, William Taggart
Dewalt.
Colonel James Fairman, A. M,, a
son of an officer or Beinadotte's army and
an aitist, traveler and orator, delivered an
nddiessonart before the students and fac
ulty of the Western University yesterday.
Tho speaker held the attention of his audi
tors lor nearly an hour and was well re
warded by tbe heavy applause which
gieetod him at the close. Chancellor Hol
land at the close of the Colonel's address
spoke in warm appreciation of what he
styled the education or the discourse, and
expressed the hope thaf ere long Pittsburg
would inaugurate a legitimate school, or art
ouascalo and in premises worthy or the
wealth and intelligence or the Iron City.
Social Chatter.
The Coraopolls cornet band gave a splen
did coucert in the Presbytenan church,
Coraopolls, last evening under the direction
ot Mr. Thomas F. Eirk. The band rendered
soveral good selections, concluding with a
number that was applauded as heartily as
an thing during the evening. It was en
titled "A Good Humored Band." Among
the well-kmm n artists that took part wero
Miss Bertha Galentin, soprano: Mrs. LaBelle
Kennedy, mezzo soprano; Mr. Joseph C.
Breil. tenor: Mr. L. A. BIcketts, baritone;
Mr. Harper Smith, cornetist, and Mr. Harry
P. Ecker, accompanist. The Philharmonic
Society Orchestra, of Pittsburg, assisted.
There was a lance audience and the concert
was an entire success, particular credit
being duo Mr. Kirk for his management and
artistic work.
A ciiinscixo entertainment was given Inst
evening at the Auditorium under the direc
tion of tbe principal and teachers of the
Thuma Dancing Academy, it was the ninth
annnal children's carnival and fancy dress
party, entitled "TerDStcnore's festive irov,"
and it was a credit to the institution under
whoso auspices it was given. There were a
number of pretty fancy dances by tho chil
dren, all of which were- executed with
smoothness and precision, and elicited the
warmest applause.
The Westmoreland County Christian En
deavor Union met in tho Parnassus Presby
terian church yesterday afternoon. The so
cieties of Greonsburg, Latrobe, Jeannette,
Mt.PIeasint.Derry. Llvermore, Delmontand
Parnassus were represented on the program.
Theevtnlng session of the convention was
addressed by Rev. A. C. Applegarth, D. D.,
and Rcr. John F. Patterson.
Madame Cokstakce Howabb gave her sec
ond lecture-recital, "Die MeistersinecrSj" at
the Pennsylvania College for Women, East
End, last evening. The last one is to take
place to-morrow evening.
Mss-'Dazxa Aibzrts will lecture this even
in t before the pupils of tho Pennsylvania
College for Women on "Gastronomizing."
This is the first of a series of addresses on
domestic science.
S. T. McClelland and daughter, or Alle
gheny, .went East on the fast lino last night,
on a short visit to Eastern cities.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Not an Occupation for Honest Men.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In an editorial of your estimable paper of
yesterday, entitled "A Beam to Be Re
moved," you refer to the unsavory repu
tation of tho agents employed by the "Law
ond Order" organization to proenre evi
dence against violators or the Sunday, or
Sabbath, law. In the course or your remarks
you proceed to say: "Tbe necessity or agents
or good standing was recognized by a re
ported assertion of the ohiet officer of the
society," etc. Will you kindly permit me to
annex a lew observations to your state
ments? I believe nnd I tbink every good man
will agree with me in this opinion tnat an
honest and reputable man will never
engage in the nefarious and odi
ous business of systematic espion
age. To make a living, or to earn
money, by playing the spy, is an absolute
Impossibility to an honorable and conscien
tious man. The very fact that a person en
ters into such an employment causes us to
doubt his honesty and uprightness, sup
posing he is awaro of the nature of the busi
ness. To induce a man to sell a cigar, or a
glass of lemonade, ora newspaper, nnd then
to report him that is an avocation, just as
dishonorable, and contemptible, and mean,
As the callini' of those men whom some of
the Roman Emperors employed to Inveigle
others into rash utterances against the Em
peror and then to report them on the charge
of "Lesee Mnjestee," which men Taritus has
branded for everlasting times.
One more remark 1 may be allowed to
make: It appears to me that the newspa
peis in their criticism on the agents of the
"Law and Order" organization have
missed the vital point failed to hit
the real point at issuo. The legal
machinery of a civilized country ought to be
so arranged and regulated that the business
of organized espionage could find no place
'therein, far less a legal and recognized
standing. Is itnot a iad and queer spectacle
to see spies that arc stigmatized as criminals
in the public press, appear before a court of
law, as prosecutors of'honest men, who have
come, by request of the public, into conflict
with a law which is against the spirit of the
age, which ought to havo been alterod, and
adapted to the changed conditions of onr
time, long ago! Is it not a monstrous in
congruity to behold criminals poo as en
forcers of the law, and reputable citizens as
violators of the law? Is not, in the last
Instance, this Sabbath law, in its present
anachronistic form, responsible for the ex
istence of this "Law and Order" organiza
tion, with all its disgusting features and
nauseating excroscenses. A Reader.
McKxesport, May 3.
UNLUCKY MAEY STUAEX.
Blotfjeskft nnd Her Clever Company
in
Schiller's Powerful Play.
"Mary Stuart," Schiller's powerftil drama,
was presented at tbe Duquesne Tbeater'lasc
night by Mme. Modjeska and bcr admirable
company. The interpretation of tho playas
a whole was artistic, Modjeska once more
making a pathetic and romantic figure of
the unlucky Queen of Scots. Mr. Thai berg
played the Earl or Leicester with quiet in
tensity, and Miss Kato Meek gave a dis
tinctly clover performance as Queen Bess,
who is anything but "good" ns Schiller
paints her. A fair-sized audience appreci
ated the good acting and the play. To
night "Much Ado About Nothing" will be
given.
BOOMS THAT ARE BACKWARD.
Mb. Cleveland has bought a new house in
New York. This may bo a happy omen for
that "good. Western man. Chicago Times.
No convention of any State mentions
"Senator Hill's man Friday" Governor
Flower for Presidental nominee. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Governor Boies' boom is as big as the Black
hawk county convention can make it, and
there may be very good growing weather by
and by. Toledo Commercial.
Ip Senator Hill reads the proceedings of
the various State Democratic Conventions
ho must have begun to wonder wbero he
comes in. Chicago Tribune.
Some of the county gatherings in Iowa de
clare for Boles. The State Convention, too,
will mdoise him, but It will be careful to tell
the delegates to vote for Cleveland first.
Bt. Loins Globe-Democrat.
Jonit Sherman must feel queer to see his
name put forward by tho silver statesmen
as their candidate for Presidental honors.
The silver act of 1830 is responsible for this
phenomenon. Boston Herald.
Tom Reed's yellow shoes and red sash
would make a picturesque entry on the
Presidental course. But the chances are
lie would not be able to count a quorum on
his side at Minneapolis. St. Louts Bepublic.
Sexatou SnioiMAN Is not a candidate for tho
Presidency, but his refusal to answer hypo
thetical questions would seem to indicate
that he might take the nomination if it were
offered to him. Who wouldn't? Cleveland
Leader.
DEATHS IIERE AXD ELSEWHERE.
Dr. John C. McQnlston.
Dr. John C. McQniston, of the Southside,
died Monday night at his home. Picnic street and
Berg avenue. He had been 111 some time past,
suffering from inflammation of the bowels. He was
35 years old and Is snrvlTeil by wire nd four
children. He was a member of the Southside Med
ical Society and the stiff or the Southsld- Hospital.
Last evening an autopsy was held by the deceased's
fellow physicians to ascertain the exact cause of
death.
Hon. William Henderson, Indiana.
Hon. "William Henderson, one of the
oldest and most prominent lawyers of Indiana,
dropped dead at noon yesterday, at his home In
Indianapolis. Mr. Henderson was 73 years old
and was a lifelong friend of the late Vice Presi
dent Hendricks. Mr. Henderson leaves a wife,
daughter and son, the Utter. Rev. W. B. Hender
son, being managing editor of tbe St. Louis Jfitf-
uoniinem.
J. Foxcroft Coir, Landscape Painter.
The well-known landscape painter, J.
Foxcroft Cole, died Monday evening, at his resi
dence in Boston, or pneumonia, aged 5 years.
Mr. Cole has been a frequent contributor to the
Paris salon, and his pictures have been of a supe
rior order of excellence.
Obituary Notes.
CoraT notSTEiXBOBO, the eminent Danish
statesman, is dead.
TnoMAS HonLER, formerly a prominent English
opera singer, who married the DowagerDucuess of
Newcastle, is dead at Monte Carlo.
Herman Cosack. Sit., head of the Uthoxraphlng
and publishing flrm of Cosack A Co., of Buffalo,
died Monday morning, aged 66 years.
John B. MrRFlir. superintendent of the south
ern division ot the West Jersey Railroad, died
suddenly of paralysis of the heart Saturday, at nls
home In Mlmllle, N. J. He was 27 years old.
Robzrt D. Fowler, of the Anglo-American
Provision Compiny. Chicago, died yesterday
morning In London of typhoid fever. Mr. Fowler
was bora In the neighborhood of Belfast, Ireland,
and was about !S3 years old. His fortune Is esti
mated atfl, 500,000.
Rev. JoiixK. Demarest, D.D.. pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg, died at his
mother's residence In Hackensack bunday night.
In his 49th year, of consumption. He was pastor
of the Gettysburg church 17 years, and when
forced to quit preaching a few weeks since he ten
dered his resignation, which was not accepted,
and he was continued under full salary.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Every hare on a farm costs or wastei
annually Is. 6J. at least; every rabbit 2s.
The University of Oxford has appli
ances for printing in 150 different languages.
Sixteen skeletons of ancient Indians
were recently dug up in a field near Merced,
Col.
Out of the 32 ducal and princely fami
lies established bv Napoleon I., 11 are ex
tinct.
There are said to be 1,500 snakes known
to naturalists, but that only a few of them
are poisonous.
The export of apples to Europe from
Portland, Me., will be 1,000,000 barrels larger
this year than last.
Arrow heads covered with hiero
glyphics were an Interesting find in Lake
county, CoL, recently.
Gustave Dore, who never saw the Ni
agara Falls, put upon canvas one of tho
grandest paintings of them ever executed.
Two-thirds of the total number of chil
dren under ten years of age in the United
Kindom are Insured in one forjn or another.
In a court in Mississippi an important
case was interrupted because one of tho
lurors caught the mumns and gave it to the
other 11.
At an English wedding recently the
hride, in default of a male relative to per
form that office, was given away by a young
er sister.
In Normandy not fewer than 5,000 dif
ferently named varieties of tbe acid or bit
ter apple are known and grown for the man
ufacture of cider.
Food costs little more here than in
Europe. It has been ascertained that the
cost per family for food in tho United
States is $243 63 a year against $222 S3 in
Europe.
In China a man cannot by will dispose
of his land in favor of any one person,
whether relative or stranger; it must be dis
tributed evenly among all his male children
witnout exception.
A paper published in Greenland is said
to have the longest name ever given to a
newspaper, but as tbe people of Greenland
can tee to read nntll nearly midnight, that
doesn't matter much.
In the loft of an Oldtown, Me., store
are 10,000 fancy baskets, tbe result of the
work of Oldtown Indians during tbe last
winter. They are of all shapes and colors,
and insured for $6,000.
"We owe many things to Japan, bnt it is
not generally known that the pheasant of
our preserves can trace its pedigree on one
side to the more brilliant bird of the Land
of the Rising Sun. Such is, however, the
case.
Bullets made of precious stones are
rarities in warfare. But during the recent
fighting on tbe Kashmir frontier, when the
British troops defeated the rebellious Hun
za, the natives used bullets of garnets en
cased in lead.
In an old trunk in a forgotten corner of
a garret of a house in Martinsville, Ind., the
other day, were round $10,000 in gold coin. It
is supposed to have been deposited there by
the father of the present owner of the place
many years ago.
Pliny tells of an Arabian giant,
Gabara, 9 feet 9 inches, the tallest man in
the days of Claudius. John Mlddleton, born
at Hale, in Lancashire, In tbe time of James
I., was 9 feet 3 lnche in height; his hand was
17 inches long and 8 Inches broad.
Hand-mirrors of metal are still in com
mon uso in Oriental countries. In China
nnd Japan they are nsually made or bronze,
slightly convex and about 12 inches in di
ameter. The Japanese woman who is so
fortunate as to owi a mirror regards it as
the most precious of her possessions.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners
that is to say, the Church of England
pocket by far the greater share of the mining
royalties exacted in the County of Durham.
The total of these royalties last year is esti
mated at about 620,990, and of this enor
mous sum about one-third went to the
church.
The population of the German Empire
was 49,423,470 on December 1, 190. The relative
n umbers of the federated German States
staid as follows: Prussia. 29,557,307; Bavaria,
5,59982: Saxony, 3,502,6S4; U'urtemberg,
2.CSU.552; Baden, 1.657,867: Elsass-Lothringen,
1,602,506; Hesse, 992 8S3. Thenuraber of males
In Prussia on the census day wa 14,702,151.
It is not uncommon toseethe famine
stricken districts of Bussla families wander
ing about with a cart full of coffins from
ohurch to church, until they can And a
priest who will perform the last rites gratis.
They aro often finally forced to bury their
relatives themselves, and tbe piece of
ground allotted to them as a cemetery by
the municipality of Tumen is already over
crowded with graves.
It has been computed that for every
bird or the rarer species such as the hum
ming bird, the orange and scarlet cock or
the rock, tho oriole, and the kingfisher
that is worn in a woman's headgear, at least
ten have sufiered the death pang; counting
in the young who die of starvation, tho
wonnded which fly away to drop down and
die in tho woods or among the reeds, and
those which aro mutilated and destroyed by
the pellets so much ai to be unavailable for
purposes of decoration.
The colors of Great Britain are red and
blue; or the United States, stars on the bluo
with white and red stripes- The Austrian
colors are red, white and nine; the Bavarian,
red: those of Denmark, red with a white
cross; those of France, blue, white and red;
of the Netherlands, red, white and blue: of
Portugal, blue and white: of Trussia, white;
of Russia, white, with a blue cross; of Spain,
black, yollow and rd: of Switzerland, red
with a white cross; of China, yellow: or Mex
ico, green, whito and red.
Some insects are remarkable, not only
in possessing protective coloring, but also a
wonderful chango of form. Such as tho
leaf and stick insects, which deceive even
tho practiced eye, so closely do they re
semble in shape and coloring the leaves and
twlg among which they live. They are for
tho most part large, soit, defenseless creat
ures, and would readily fall a prey to the
countless multitudes of insect eaters weie
it not for the almost perfect manner in
which they simulate the objects around
them.
JOKELETS FROM JUDGE.
Charles Miss Spindle has pretty teeth,
hasn't she?
Maude (spitefully) Tes, and quite reasonable,
too.
If you have rowed against the tide,
And ad your ready cash Is spent:
If von have nothing left bnt pride
The landlord's sure to raise the rent;
"Who was Atlas?
"A famous highwayman."
What?"
A highwayman, ne held up the earth.'
Mr. Plowshare (approaching hotel clerk's
desk)-I'd like tu git a room."
Cleric (In a loud volce)-r'ront.
Mr. Plowsnare No; a back ua'U duef It comes
any ehsaper. (Sotto-voce) Wonder how he
knowed I was deif.
He growls abont tii coffee and he grumbles
at the steak;
He makes remarks abo at the bread his mother used
to bake.
And fosters tho impression with his weary little
wife
That her cooking Is the worst he ever tackled In his
life.
Butatnoonhe seeks the lunch-room and he grabs
a chunk of pie
And struggles in a manner that brings moisture to
the ere:
Ho tosses down the sky-blue milk they ladle to the
herd.
And hands his money to the clerk and never says a
word.
An Important Advantage. Adlet Mur
derers in New York State have one tblag la their
favor.
Gasket Do yon think It is an advantage to be
electrocuted?
Adlet-Certalnly. They can say they were not
born to be banged.
Briggs What is the trouble with Miss
PInkerly and her sister? I bear that they don't
speak.
Griggs No. They very foolishly Joined the
same church.
Whether fixed up or just as they grow,
There's no fruit of which I'm more fond;
For the only kind I can't go.
1 And, is the strawberry blonde.
Penfield You know that girl that Bangle
took to the theater so much? 1 believe they are en
raged. Miss Dunn Why; has It been announced?
Penfield No; but he has stopped taking her e
the theater and goes to church with her now every
Sunday evening.
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