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FORTY SEVENTH YEAR
PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, MAY 15 1892.
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SHERMAN
The Foraker Faction Now
Supporting the Senator
for President.
A POLITICAL SOMERSAULT
Turned by Those Who Were Only
Lately Fighting Honest John.
Ohio Politicians Given Enough to Talk
About for Weeks to Come The Ex
Gorernor's Friends 'Working to Se
cure Harrison's Shoes for Sherman,
That Fire Alarm May Step Into the
Senator's Blair County EaBUy Car
ried by Quay Early Speculation on a
Successor to Senator Barbour
Reeder Slated for Chairman "Watres
Place.
KrECIAL TELEGRAM TO TOE DISrATCH.l
Columbus, O., May 14. The whole Be
publican situation in this State has under
gone a revolutionary change in the past 48
hours, and Ohio will cast its solid rote for
John Sherman at the Minneapolis Conven
tion. The fruits of the visit of Hon, Tom
C Piatt to Cincinnati this week, and his
interview with ex-Governor Foraker, were
seen in this morning's Cincinnati CommiviaU
Gazdte, whose double-leaded editorial, sav
ing the anti-Harrison men had united on
Sherman, and that Ohio must support the
latter, has set Buckeredom wild and made
the air very Shermanish.
That paper is Foraker's organ, and it
shows that the ex-Governor has gone into
the alliance with Quay, Piatt, Alger and
Mahone to down Harrison.
By Sherman's election Foraker can step
into his six years' Senatorial shoes from
March 4, reunite the party in this State
and be the chief dispenser of executive
patronage.
Tho Sherman Frelinc Amonc Delegates.
Delegates in 18 districts have already been
chosen for the Minneapolis Convention, and
these, with the Senatorial delegates and
those to be elected in the three others, will
stand: Sherman men, 28; Forakerites, 18,
and by the ex-Governor's forces joining with
Sherman's friends the State will solidly go
for the Senator for President. They could
not nnite on McELinley, because George B.
Cox, the Cincinnati boss, says he would in
no event go for McKinley.
As the case now stands in Oh la, Forak
er's supporters are getting no State patron
age under McKinley, have been tabooed by
Harrison, and in case of his re-election
would still be out in the cold. Br Sher
man's selection to the Presidency Foraker
goes to the United States Senate, the- Buck
eye breach in the party is healed, and
Foraker's friends come in for an equal
divide for the national patronage. Harri
son has not a hearty friend in the Ohio
delegation, who are distinctively known as
Sherman or Foraker men.
The New Jlora Taking tike "Wildfire.
Columbus to-day nas been a babel over
the new Foraker movement of booming
Sherman, and it takes like wildfire as the
best solution for the party nationally, and
for bridging orer all State differences.
When Xeir York, Pennsylvania and other
States vote for Sherman, Ohio's vote will
be clianged bv Foraker to the Senator, who
is then expected to carry the convention by
storm. The hotels and streets to-night are
full of Republicans talking of the Foraker
Sherman coup d'etat, and the coming de
feat of Harrison, for whom no one seems to
ranurn.
Ever since Toraker began his fight for the
Senate the Republican organs of the State,
foreseeing the disaster sure to overtake the
partv if it were split into Shermauites and
Forakerites for all time to come, have been
urging the factions to "get together," This
proposed plan of "getting together" is
universally considered the very best that
could have been suggested.
Forahr Makes a Rlo.fr Good.
The Clet eland convention was not the
love feast that it appeared on the surface.
Foraker went to Cleveland knowing he was
be.itcn, but determined to make a bluff with
his strength and get all lie could. He did
pet much more than he expected, and pre
vented a solid Sherman delegation going to
Minneapolis.
This characteristic obstinacy of the ex
Governor has been a source ot great annoy
ance to the other leaders of his party, for,
as Sherman holds the Federal patronage of
the State in his hand, Foraker cannot with
confidence expect to regain the prestige he
had before his defeat by Campbell, except
by the aid of Sherman and his friends.
In all this talk of a Sberman-Foraker
combine, though, there is one man who
must not be forgotten. Charles Foster is
his name. He is now Secretary of the
Treasury, and was selected for that place as
much for his ability as a political organizer
as because he was so well fitted for its
duties. Mr. Foster is more than likely to
step in and upset the Slierman-Foraker
churn and spoil the batch of butter before it
is made.
Sherman's flnnris Completely Tied.
Sherman's re-election to the Senate was
accomplished more by the influence of the
adminstration than in any other way,and his
hands are consequentlr tied when it comes
to joining or personally figuring in a com
bination to upset the Harrison "setting" of
cream.
It is only a few days since Sherman stated
in most positive terras that he was not a
candidate for the Presidency this year. That
doesn't let him out ol this new move though,
for, as the ComnvrciaJ-Gazetle says to-day:
"As toOhio.Itwill hardly present the name
of Mr. Sherman to the convention. But if
other States should present his name and
vote for him to such an extent as to make
his nomination probable, then it would be
in place for Ohio to tall into line and vote
for him, not against Mr. Harrison, but as
the apparent choice of the majority. Ohio,
under such circumstances, would not hesi
tate, but no one has a right to ask Ohio to
vote for Mr. Sherman unless under cir
cumstances made apparent by the action of
other delegates."
A Total Chance of Dsir,
This language is not so significant as an
other portion of the editorial quoted, which
is very interesting reading, when it is re
membered with what vindictiveness the
same paper was antagonizing Senator Sher
man only a few montty ago. Then it could
scarcely find anything too mean to say of
him. To-day it says:
Within a few weeks a very powerful oppo
sition to Mr. Harrison has been developed,
and it will probably exhibit Itself with con
siderable strength at tbe Minneapolis Con
vention. The Teadlns men engaged In the
morement are rery strong In political cir
cles. This party seems to have concentrated
on the Hon. John Sherman as their candi
date to oppose Mr. Harrison. They assign
various reasons for this, among them that
there arereveral States which, in their opin
ion, could be carried by John Sherman
which would ho doubtful if Mr. Harrison
ere a candidate.
We do not think the support is given to
Mr. Sherman lor any other treat reason than
that he is the onlr available man to heat
Mr. Harrison, while, at the same time. It
must be said that there is no statesman In
this conntrv so well equipped for the office
of President as the Ohio Senator. There can
be no trades with him. He will stand firmly
in his place and carefully protect his honor.
Sherman Not a Party to It.
He is not a party to this movement in any
sense, and must not he connected with It to
the extent of claiming that he is a candi
date. At the same time if the Minneapolis
Convention should fall to nominate Mr. Har
rison on the first or second ballot that would
be the end of him, as It was the end of Sher
man in ISS3, and in 1876, in Cincinnati, of
Blaine. Mr. Blaine was not a candidate In
16SS or he would probably have been nomi
nated. But Mr. Snernmn's strength not being
sufficient to carry him through then, lie was
dropped and Mr. Harilson was selected.
Somcthinc like this may happen at Minne
apolis. If Blaine would agree to accept the
place he would undoubtedly head the ticket,
bnt lio has said that he is not and would not
be a candidate. This would seem to place
him outside the range of consideration, and
it is now Mr. Harrison or somebody else. If
it cannot be Mr. Harrison, then the opposi
tion to the latter would, as it seems, center
on Mr. Sherman. If. under the circum
stances, the honor would ho forced upon him
as a Republican and a man fully fitted for
the position more so, perhaps, than any
other statesman in the country he could
not decline It.
SPLITTING THE SOUTH.
Ex-Governor Brown, or Georgia, Thinks the
l'eople's Party Will Dl.rnpt the De
mocracy la That State Logical Kesnlt of
a Third Parry Movement.
Atlanta, Ga., MayH. Spe.-lai Ex
Senator Joseph E. Brown, the War Gov
ernor of Georgia, who hauled down the flag
before the State had seceded, and who took
the leadership of the Republican party as
soon as the war was over, later becoming the
boss of the Democratic party, has writ
ten a letter which will appear
to-morrow. In it he recognizes the fact that
the Governmont of the United States is one
of party, that there will always be two main
parties, and that other parties are always
merely side issues to be absorbed at a con
venient time by one of the great parties.
The present movement of the People's
partv, he says, will be a feeder to the Ee
publican party. He adds:
"For the present the Bepublicans will
not attempt to absorb them, but, as thev
will be more unfriendly to the Democrats
than the Bepublican party, they can more
readily be induced to unite with the Bepub
licans, and we may expect, if the third
party is successful this fall, or if it polls a
strong vote, to see it unite with the Bepub
lican party a year or two hence,
and then, by the union of the
white and colored Bepublicans and the
People's party Democrats, who are all
fnsed together in one party, they may have
strength enough to take control of our af
fairs in the Sonth, and the result may be
the almost indefinite retention of national
power by the Bepublican party.
"It seems to me, therefore, that nothing
is more to be deprecated than a third
party movement, which has resulted or
may result in a division ot the Democratic
partv and a division of the white race in
the South."
BLAIB COTJSTY FOE QUAY.
The Senator Has boraethlng Uke 5,000
Majority- There Ovrr Dalzell,
HOLIDATSBUBG, Pa., May 14. Special
The Blair county Bepublican voters ex
pressed their preference for United States
Senator at the primaries to-night, and Sen
ator Quay proved an easv winner. His ma
jority will range between 3,500 and 5,000.
Josiah D. Hicks, of Altoona, has charge of
the campaign, with the Bepublican press
and veteran politicians strongly aiding
him. It is reported that several thousand
dollars were expended in Quay's interests.
The Second ward of this citv, in which Ed
win K. Baldridge, the Dalzell leader, re
sides, is the only district which gives the
Pittsburg Congressman a clear majority.
Every voter received a personal appeal
from Quay, under his lithographed signa
ture, and the mails were deluged with other
evidences of a campaign of education.
Chairman Baldrige, of the Dalzell forces, in
an interview says: "We had no conntv
organization. The Quay forces were well
organized and in full possession of the ma-
cnine. uoth the officeholders and office
seekers were in the camp of the enemy.
We distributed 6,000 anti-Quay circulars
and carried on a campaign supported only
by voluntarv contributions." Hon. Ben
jamin L. Hewitt, of Hollidavsburg, and
Hon. A. S. Stayer, of Koarinc Springs, will
be the legislative candidates. "
BEEDEB TO SUCCEED WATBES
As Chairman or tlv State Committee, and
ach Is Not Lett Out.
Philadelphia, May 14. Special
General Frank Beeder, of Easton. appears
to be slated to succeed Lieutenant Governor
Wntres as the next Bepublican State Chair
man. This is the result of a tacit agree
ment between General Lilly, E. K. Martin,
Chairman of the late convention, and Major
McDowell, who, it is said, reached this con
clusion as the best way possible to satisfy
all parties. Inasmuch as ther make the .
lection, and favor General Beeder, his pro
motion to the chairmanship is considered
certain.
General-Lilly is bound to General Beeder
by ties springing from a community of in
terests. Both are old political friends, and
have been in the Bepublican harness on
many a field. Major McDowell will vote
as Senator Quay wants him to vote, and the
Senator wants him to vote for Beeder. Mr.
Martin likes to go with the popular tide,
and he believes Beeder is quite on top.
This is the arrangement of matters as the
past few davs have developed the situation,
and as Frank Willing Leach is included in
the agreement he is provided for as usual.
SENAT0E BABBOUE'S STICCS830R.
Governor McK'nney May Name the Editor
tVlio Managed Ills Campaign.
Nobfolk, Va., May 14. The death of
Senator John S. Barbour came upon this
section of Virginia as a shock, being so un
pected. Coming upon the eve of the Dem
ocratic Convention next week, it was es
pecially sharp to the politicians. His suc
cessor has been talked about in Norfolk,
Portsmonth, Snflbik and Tidewater,
since 10 o'clock to-dar, when his
death was announced, 'and K. C
Murray, editor of the Norfolk
Landmark, who organized and managed Gov
ernor McKinney's forces in his nominating
campaign with splendid ability and success,
has received numerous telegrams to-day,
expressing regret at the death of Senator
Barbour, andthe expectation that Governor
McKinney will name him for the vacant
seat in the Senate.
Several other names have been mentioned
among prominent Virginians, but the im
pression prevails that the Governor will
naturally be more inclined to appoint Mr.
Murray because of his unqualified friend
ship for the Governor and his unquestioned
fitness for any representative position.
SHE LIKES AMERICA.
Lady Somerset Says We Are Ahead
of England in Temperance.
ATTRIBUTES IT TO OUR WOMEN.
Says the British Peerage Is Fast Becoming
.the British Beerage.
THE BLUE BLOOD OP BEER DE BEER
CBT CABLE TO THX DISPATCH.
London, May 14. "I left America with
the sense that during the last six months I
had learned most, lived most, loved most,"
were the concluding words of an interesting
interview which Lady Henry Somerset
graciously accorded me shortly after her ar
rival at Liverpool from the United States.
Lady Somerset made many warm friends in
Pittsburg who will be glad to know they so
favorably impressed her.
She was received on landing in Liverpool
by a large delegation of the British
Women's Temperance Association and at an
enthusiastic meeting was presented with
addresses by the United Kingdom Alliance
and the United Temperance Societies of
Liverpool.
"It is impossible," said Lady Somerset to
me, "to visit that great country of the
larger hope without being profoundly im
pressed by the glory of its present and its
oncoming civilization, the magnificence
of its commercial prosperity, the
splendor of its Western country,
where wonderful cities are rising up
with the commerce of the world in the
palms of their hands; but more than any
thing else have I been struck by the great
throb of sympathy that beats through the
heart of that nation for all that tends to
build up holiness of hnman brotherhood,
by the rare intelligence and capacity of its
women, and by the existence, in spite of
much corruption, of a living and sensitive
national conscience. I attribute this latter
quality largely to the influence of the
woman.
The Influence of American Women.
It is impossible to note the growth cf
such a society as the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, with its constituency of
300,000, without recognising that there is
within that organization a power that im
presses itself on tbe national life. The
Fresident,Mist Frances Willard,is a woman
ol such rare genius and such varied gilts
that she will leave a mark on her genera
tion, and hers will rank in the future among
the names of the great reformers of the
past ot whom America is justly proud.
"Oh, how I wish," said Lady Somerset,
as she clasped her hands and raised her
eyes to heaven to give emphasis to the fer
vor cf her exclamation, 'that this dear
country of mine would emulate America in
one grand God-sent characteristic, America
has a sober womanhood! I saw no drunken
women in its streets, while they mar, un
fortunately, so often be seen here. Never
but twice at an American table d'hote did I
see a woman touch wine or beer,
and, as I traveled throngh the land, I
I held most dear, if I could sav the same of"
this country. This was the first grand fea
ture of American life that I called to the
attention of my friends on my return. I
told them that if a woman went into a
saloon in America, she would, if it became
known, immediately lose her standing in
every respectable element of society.
Children and Girls Kept Pare.
"In America little children are not seen
running to the saloons with bottles and tin
cans for beer, as you will see here, and thus
you have averted one of the greatest
dangers of childhood. The saloon and its
perils are at least confined to men. You
have not even bar-maids, as we have here.
Oh, it is pitiable to know that there are
thousands of splendid-looking and intelli
gent young women hourly brought face to
face with the temptations that are inevita
bly associated with the bars of public
houses. I know temperance workers in
London who have seen young women fall
from the bar to the lowest depths of dis
sipation: and these poor girls began their
liquor-selling careers solely with the hon
est intention of earning a livelihood.
"Another thing I was forcibly struck with
in my travels that in America to be en
gaged in the liquor traffic debars a man from
many social privileges, and causes him, no
matter what his wealth to be generally looked
down upon, except by politicians. I wish
again that this were the case here.
A Boast for the Peers.
"In the olden davs England kent her
honors for her Nelsons, her Wellingtons
and her Harelocks; to-day the men who
brew the strongest XX and the gin distill
ers who can place on the market more than
anybody else are raised to be the perpetual
legislators for this countrv," Baid Lady
Somerset, referring to the Guinnesses and
other large drink manufacturers in the
House of Lords. "The British peerage,"
she continued, "is becoming the British
beerage, and what used to be the blue blood
oftheVerede Vere is altering into the
fiery liquid of the Beer de Beer."
In one -respect, howerer, Lady Somerset
said that the drink traffic in America had a
worse aspect than it had in England. There
the saloon had more political influence, and
in that lay America's greatest danger. A
member of Mr. Harrison's government had
admitted to her that both the great political
parties catered to tne power ot tne saloon,
notwithstanding that the best element of
each party would stamp it out if it dared.
Pleased With Her Reception.
"Personally," said Lady Somerset, "I
owe America a debt of gratitude. AVhere
ever I went loving hands were held out to
greet me, loving hearts bade me welcome,
flowers weie strewn in my path, and the
cause I represented seemed the passport to
love and loyalty. May God bless America's
women and her men, too.
No doubt these contrasts in the lives of
the two great English-speaking countries,
which Lady Somerset pointed out to me,
she will also point out to many British
audiences in the near future, and it is prob
able that the temperance advocates in the
House of Commons will re-echo her words
when discussing liquor legislation. They
will make rather strange readiug in the
British press parallel with contrasts of an
other kind, which are repeatedly made here,
and may cause one great English daily to
revise its remark of a few days ago that
"our American cousins have to pay dearly
in many respects for the rapid development
of their wealth and civilization.'
SENATOR VANCE IS BETTER,
Bnt Bis Appearanca Is Certainly That or a
Very Sick Man.
AsnEViLfE, S. C, May 14. Senator
Vance left his home at Gombroon, in the
Black Mountains, at 9 o'clock this morning,
and arrived at the station at noon. The
Senator was unable to eat breakfast, and
the rough ride over eight miles of mountain
roads brought on an attack of nausea. The
sickness was but temporary, and was
quickly overcome by simple remedies. The
patient then rested quietly at his room at
tbe hotel.
On Wednesday last the Senator worked
in his garden and contracted a cold that de
veloped a case of lumbago, from which he
suflered intensely until the arrival of
physicians from Asheville yesterday after
noon, when hypodermic injections of mor
phine were administered. The physicians
state that there has been no recurrence of
paralysis. His appearance 1b that of a very
tick man. Senator Vance boarded the
train this afternoon for Washington.
AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS
MADE BT OKLAHOMA INDIANS WITH
A HEAL GRIEVANCE.
They Claim a Set ot Lawyers 'Whom They
Had Not Employed Grabbed 807,000 or
Their Money A Glaring Fraud B
Tealed by an Investigation.
Oklahoma Citt, L T., May It
Colonel Lee, one of General Miles' inspec
tors, has just left Fort Beno, after having
conducted an investigation into the com
plaints made by the Arapahoe and Cheyenne
Indians that they were robbed by a number
of attorneys in the recent sale of their lands
to tbe Government From what can be
learned, Colonel Lee carried back to Chicago
some startling facts, which, it is said, will
result in showing conclusively that the'
lawyers succeeded in getting away with 567
500 for doing nothing. The amount has al
ready been allowed by the Interior Depart
ment, and when the first payment was made
to the Indians, each red man found his al
lowance short a certain sum.
Colonel Lee has, it is said, eridehce;iir
his possession that the attorneys bribed sev
eral interpreters to make false statements
to the Indian Chiefs during the negotiations
for tbe sale of the lands. Colonel Lee's re
port may be laid before Congress and an in
vestigation ordered. The attorneys claimed
ther had been employed by the Indians tfi-
protect their rights in the land. The In
dians protested that they had not employed
the lawyers, and demanded an investigation.
They asked that the case be referred to
General Miles.
At the investigation several of the chiefs
spoke of the bribery of interpreters and at
tempts to bribe others. Manr of the hot
headed Indians have been talking of going
on the warpath. The Kionas and Sioux,
whose reservations are near those of the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, are also excited
over the alleged steal. There is talk among
the Indians that if redress is not given ther
will take revenge oat of the white settlers.
The total amount received br the Araahoes
and CheyennCB was but $190,000. They
should have been given 5250,000, as agreed
upon by the Indian Commission. The differ
ence is the amount paid to the lawyers by
tne interior .Department.
UNSAFE THEATERS.
Tbe f hlladelplila Coroner's Jury Censor
Lessees, Their Employes and City Offi
cials for Gross Negligence Lame Laws,
and How They Conld Be Improved.
Philadelphia, May 14. The jury in
the case of the victims of the Central Thea
ter fire have found the lessee and his em
ployes grossly negligent
In not providing sufficient means of exit
from the galleries, one of the two stair
ways leading therefrom being closed at tlie
street and open at the gallery landing, the
other being partly obstructed on tho middle
landing between tho gallery and the street:
in not having competent means of access to
the Are escapes on Walnut street, the doors
and windows leading thereto having to he
broken-open, and thorn being no led lights
to indicate the location of the fire escapes,
asiequiredhy law: in not having means of
exit from tbe dressing rooms of the perform
ers directly to the ontslde of the building Dv
war of the stage or auditorium, which, we
believe, was probably the cause of sacrific
ing the lives of four of the company, whose
west side of the
uuu a neioiuuuu in wo psbv on tno
tneater leioinir from tho
staxe to the auditorium
back of the pro.
centum boxes.
The Fire Marshal, Building Inspectors
and others composing the Board of Eire
Escapes of the district, are also found to
have been negligent in failing to report
that the law was not observed. The jury
further reports, as a result of a visit to the
theaters in the city, that in one the law con
cerning fire escapes is not fully complied
with, and the inspection of such places is
not as rigid as necessity warrants. An im
mediate and rigid inspection is recom
mended during the summer, the jury sug
gesting that it is clearly the province of
the Maror to withhold a license from any
place of amusement not provided with the
proper safeguards. The present law is
found defective, and the jury suggests that
the following requirements should be in
corporated: A brick nro wall separating the stage from
the auditorium, extending from the founda
tion to the stae and using at least 15 feet
above the roof, an iron girder supporting
wall above the stage, covered bv nie-nroof
material, w lth a relieving arch; fire-proof
doorways through the separating wall, with
out locks; curtain of asbestos and woren
wire, or some other non-combustible cur
tain, sliding in grooves on both sides of the
stage, curtain to extend at least six inches
Into the grooves: fly galleries, rigging lofts,
dressing rooms, partitions, doors and other
staxe appointments of steel or other
lire-proof materials; a sliding automatio
metal skyllzht at the apex of the stage loof
to carry off smoke and Are; at least two
exits from each floor, independent of ont
slde stairways; no less than two side aisles,
besides tie center aisle; all doors unfastened
during performances; Incandescent Hants;
automatic sprinklers on the stage side of
the proBCeninm walli; nro signals in all
dressing: rooms: at least nne fireman and a
city lire alarm box; an area way six feet
wide on each side of the auditorium, which
should be flic-proof, as far as possible, and
two outside stairs, at least four feet wide, on
sides of auditorium.
The jury was composed of well-known
architects and builders.
A FAITH CUBIST GOES J7BEE.
The Jury Thinks If One Sends far Euch a
Doctor It's Nobody's Business.
CHICAGO, May 14. The grand jury has
returned "no bill" in tbe case of Mrs. B. C.
Stebbins, the exponent of "faith cure."
Mrs. Stebbins was held responsible by a
Coroner's jury for the death ot Mrs. Jennie
L. Nichols. The latter went to Mrs. Steb
bins' home and submitted to her treatment.
The physician, who was finally summoned
by the police officers, had to force his way
into the house. Mrs. Stebbins was ar
rested and released on bail. The grand
jury decided if anyone wants to submit to
the faith cure it is nobody's business but
his own.
A SHORTER BAT AND BETTER PAY
Asked
by the Underpaid aiotormen and
Conductors In Cleveland.
Cleveland, May 14. A committee
representing the 500 men employed by the
East Cleveland Electric Street Eailway
Company, presented a list of grierances to
the officers to-day. They ask for uniform
pay of $2 a day, and ten hours for all
motormen and conductors.
The conductors now receive $1 92 and the
motormen $2 for about 12 hours' work.
President Everett promised to lay the mat
ter before the Board of Directors at their
meeting early next week.
100,000 Granite Men to Strike.
New Yobk, May 14. The latest decision
of the Executive Committees of the Granite
Cutters' and Paving Cutters' National
Unions has settled that there will begin
Monday tbe greatest strike in the granite
industry ever.ordered in America. At least
100,000 men will go out
The Democrats Got Him.
Shelbt, Mich., May 14. Benjamin
Morse, a prominent merchant, left home a
week ago last "Wednesday to attend the
Democratic State Convention at Muskegon.
He has not been heard from since. Foul
play is feared.
LOYE AND LIBERTY.
The Bronze Head of the Goddess the
Scene of Its First Wedding.
OHE OF DR. PARKHUEST'S AGENTS
Pilots
His Bride and a Small Party
Three Hundred Steps
Up
TO GET MAERIED AWAY ODT OF SIGHT
ISFEUIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
New York, May 11 When Pack Meyer,
the rotund, optimistio saloonkeeper, ofPort
Bichmond, left this world he asked his con
yiviaj lriends to have his body cremated
and the ashes thrown to the four winds
from the windows under the tiara of the
bronze Goddess on Bedloe's Island. His
iriends did as he desired,
Not since then has a procession wound up
the spidery steps of Liberty on a more sen.
sational purpose than that which left
the Battery at 2 o'clock this after
noon. This time it was a wedding
party, and the groom was Private
Detective Gardner, who played the frog in
the celebrated circus in which Dr. Park
hurst participated at Hattie Adams' house.
in April. At that time the detective was a
married man. He obtained a divorce from
his first wife only a week or so ago, alleging
that she had left him tor Eugene Leigh, tbe
Guttenburg horse owner.
There was no good reason why the de
tectire should have selected the head of
Miss Liberty to get married in. He said
he was entirely responsible for the idea.
"He had never heard of anybody getting
married there, and he thought it would be
an odd thing to do." Dr. Parkhnrst, he
said, had uot been consulted in the matter.
Arrival of the Bridal Party.
The bridal party came down to the land
ing float a few minutes before 2 o'clock.
The bride, Miss Florence A. Collins, and
her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Collins, ac
companied by Mr. Gardner, arrived in a
carriage. Lawyer Stephen B. Brague, who
does work for Mr. Parkburst's society, and
the clergyman who performed the ceremony,
iter, a. a. uianin, ot the Jb'orsythe Street
Presbyterian Church, came down on the
elevated road. Mr. Claflin is a Michigan
der. He is a picturesque person. He is
over six feet tall, and wore a slouch hat and
a flowing mustache.
The bride is a girl of 18. She wore a
lavender silk dress, and carried a boquet ot
lilies of the valley, carnations and pinks.
Before the party took the little propeller
for the island, Mr. Gardner sat down at a
desk on the float and scribbled a note to a
newspaper in order to keep the public in
the dark about the marriage. The result
was that ten reporters were waiting for the
groom when he came back.
A Long Climb Into Liberty.
There is no elevator in Libertr, and so
the party had to climb up 300 feet of nar
row winding stairs. Tbe bride had to climb
up unassisted, as there is not room enough
for two on the stairs. The other members
of the party shouted encouragement to her
and her mother as they toiled up the steep
steps. There are niches on the several
platforms on the way for weary folks to sit
in, but the bride and groom did not tarry
on tli e way.
It was 3:48 o'clock when all were in the
goddess' head, panting. The minister looked
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thrr was anything in such a ceremonv sug
gestive of a show. A few people had fol
lowed the party up to see the wedding.
Lawyer Brague gave the bride away. Mr.
Gardner gave the bride a ring, and each
swore to love and honor the other. After
they were pronounced man and wife the
groom kissed the bride. The clergyman
did not. The husband, according to the
testimony of one of the witnesses,
scratched his name and that of
his wife on the bronze of the goddess'
crown. This is against the law, and Mr.
Gardner, when nsked about it afterward,
said he did not do it, because it was not
right.
Gardner's Story or Bis Marriage.
To a reporter who met the groom as he
stepped ofl the boat, the groom said: "Call
at my office, 287 Broadway, in half an hour
and I will tell you all about it." He took
the bride to a hotel, and returning to his
office related the story of his marriage to a
company of newspaper men. He expressed
regret that he had been driren into a corner
by the reporters and compelled to dirnlge
everyuung. ng even wonaerea now ther
knew he would be at his office. He said he
had known his new wife several yean. She
was the daughter of Past Master Collins, of
Munn Lodge, F. A. M., of which he
(Gardner) was a member. He was a
boarder at Mrs. Collins' house. Mr. Collins
was not present, because he was at his place
of business in Eighth street, Philadelphia.
uaraner naa not tnougnt ot the marriage
unt:l the day before. He did not know
positively that it was going to be to-day
until a few hours before it occurred. The
thought struck him while he was eating
lunch at the Astor House that Liberty
Island would be a good place for the wed
ding, because nobody else had been married
there, although, he was informed, several
babies had been born there.
He had not asked Dr. Parkhnrst to per
form the ceremony. The tall dominie from
Michigan had attended the meeting of the
Young Beformers in Scottish Bite Hall,
and Mr. Gardner met him there. Gardner
went to Poughkeepsie at 8 o'clock to-night
with his bride. He will leave her there
and return to the city Monday to hear sen
tence passed on Mrs. Andrea, the woman to
whose house he piloted Dr. Parkhnrst,
TEST OF AH AIUHINim ENGIUE,
tYhlch Is Expected to Cnt Down the Ocean
Kecord to Four Days.
Peekskill, May 14. Special A large
number of persons gathered at the yards of
William B. Osborn & Son, boat builders, in
this city, this afternoon, to witness an ex
hibition given by the Bliven Palace Steam
ship Company. A. Perry Bliven, of New
York, the inventor of the Bliven
rapid steam generator and engine,
conducted the tests. He has had
built an engine weighing only 600
pounds. This engine, though so light, will,
he says, develop 105 horse power. The en
gine is made entirely of aluminum bronze.
His steam generator, he says, is the most
rapid in t'ue world. In the test this after
noon he generated steam in exactly four
minutes from cold water. The engine was
put in motion, and it ran smoothly and
without accident. It developed 300 pounds
pressure.
Inventor Bliven and his company say
with their engine and machinery they will
build steamships which will cross lie At
lentic in less than 4 days. Builder Osborn
has constructed for Bliven a 50-foot launch.
This will be furnished with experimental
machinery, and will develop, it is expected,
a speed of 24 miles an hour. Its ownersays
this boat will soon be completed, and, when
launched, an exhibition of her speed and
other qualities will be given.
Flylnjr Faster Than the Wind.
Philadelphia, May 14. Stxcial
The five-hour Boyal Blue Line flyer be
tween "Washington and New York made a
remarkably fast run to-day. It was hauled
by engine No. 618, of the Beading Bail,
road, a new compound locomotive from the
Baldwin works, and the 85 miles from
"Wayne Junction to Jersey City was made
in 87 minutes.
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LIBERAL CHURCHMEN.
Two Archbishops in Favor of li
braries and Picture Galleries
OPENING THEIR DOORS ON SUNDAY.
Eoyalty Responsible for a Large Amount of
Lord's Eaj Labor.
A EOCIETT GOING OUT OF ITS WAT
BT CABLE TO THE DI8FATC1T.1
London, May 14. Copyright. When
the cables first brought news of the proposal
to open the Chicago exhibition on Sundays
"the Lord's Day Best Association," a body
composed of well-meaning women and
bigoted men, promptly' set to work "to
bring the pressure of British public opinion"
upon the would-be Sabbath desecrators. If
the "World's Fair Commission has not
already receired it they may expect to re
ceire shortly bulky petitions and a protest
bearing thousands of signatures.
Chicagoans, as the world knows, are
famous alike for their politeness and their
modesty, and doubtless the committee will
send a polite reply. But the Lord's Day
Best Association might justly aud without
breach of courtesy be requested to mind its
own business and to settle -its own Sabbath
observance troubles before taking in those
ot Chicago. The association is at this
moment wrestling with an archbishop, he of
Canterbury, the Tery head of the Church of
England, who recently sanctioned by his
presence a Sunday opening of a popular
picture exhibition in "Whitechapei,
Hleher Game to Be Aimed At.
, There Is still higher game for the associa
tion to shoot at if it shquld manage to brace
itself for the effort, of which there is no
present indication. Queen Victoria, wit
tingly or ignorantly, will be the cause of
the performance ot" an immense amount of
work to-morrow in London. The Queen
has fixed a drawing room, which her
daughter, Princess Christian, will hold on
her behalf for Monday, which, beyond
doubt, is the most inconvenient day in the
whole week for such a ceremony. It will
be impossible for the court dressmakers to
avoid employing some of their work people
on Sunday, because, as the newspapers are
to-day pointing out, fashionable ladies
habitually postpone ordering their dresses
until the verr last moment, and insist upon
alterations even then.
The court florists have to work pretty well
all day to-morrow. Hundreds of huge bou
quets will be required for Monday, and they
must of course be delivered fre'sh. There
will not be time Monday forenoon to make
up a tithe of thein, and obviously flowers
which have to pass before royal eyes cannot
be bunched up 36 hours or so beforehand
and stuck in a jug ot water like a cottager's
nosegay.
Protect From a NewsDaper.
The Daily Kens ventures upon a mild pro
test to Her Majesty. It is perhaps too
much to expect, it respectfully observes,
that the Queen should think ot things, she
having had few opportunities of studying
the practical aspect of life among the work
ers; but those upon whom she depends for
advice ought at least to make themselves
acauainted with everv chase of the snbiect.
The iWjAVirj further affirms that the fixing
of a drawing room for Monday and another
tbe same week will inflict upon hundreds of
toiling girls and women an amount of hard
ship and inconvenience, to say nothing of
actual suffering, which it is hard to
compute. This criticism is relevant and
reasonable, and it is somewhat strange that
the Lord's Day Best Association, while
shouting at Chicago, should have no voice
for the roval transgressor at "Windsor
Castle. " -
The association may urge, in mitigation
of its apathy in this matter, that it has its
hands full just now; it has not yet done
with the Archbishop, and when that ex
alted prelate has been disposed of there
will be the Bishop of Bochester to tackle,
A Btahop More Than Usually Liberal.
Let it be known in Chicago that this bishop
is actually in faror ot the opening of publio
libraries, museums and art galleries upon
Sundays, and that yesterday he presented to
the Upper House of Convocation petitions
advocating such a "desecration of the Sab
bath." The vast majority of clergymen in
the Church of England believe in Sunday
opening of churches and taverns only, and
no one would have been surprised had the
convocation ordered the petitions into the
waste-paper basket. Instead of that, the
Bishop of Bochester was accorded quite a
respectful hearing, and his petition was re-
Jerred for consideration
to a committee of
four prelates.
NEW YORK'S GREAT GROWTH.
An Increase of Over 813,000,000 on Its Tax
Valuation in n Year.
New York, May 14. Special. The an
nual report of the tax commissioners on
the assessed valuation of city real estate
was received at the 3rnyor's office to-day.
The total valuation is 51,500,579,703, an in
crease over fast year of 542,331,883.
The increase is about 3 per cent,
and the greatest increase is in the Twelfth
ward, which embraces a considerable part of
the growing district of Harlem, where a
great deal of building is constantly being
done.
All that portion of the city above the
Sixteenth ward has increased largely in the
value of its Teal estate. This is especially
the case in the Twenty-second and Nine
teenth wards, where the total inerease is
511,403,582.
Type Writing .Record Itroken.
Bt. Paul, May 14. Charles H. McGuir
rin, of Kalamazoo, Mich., official reporter of
the Ninth Judicial district of Michigan,
this afternoon broke the world's fast type
writing record, writing 200 words in one
minute.
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soiic, one of them piobably tfc ' About
2 o'clock John Lardnerand Thoii.as Beno,
both of Sheridan station, were driring in a
buggy along Main street. At the junction
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of Main and Carson streets a train passed
over the bridge. A whistle from the en
gine frightened the horse and it ran of
Lardner and Beno were thrown out,landing
under a wagon standing at the enrb.
The horse continued along Carson street
until in front of the Thirty-fifth ward
school, were it took to the sidewalk.
Lonls Black, a fireman in Singer's
mill, was walking along with his
back to the approaching horse.
The animal plunged against him,
crushing him to the ground. The horse
continued along the sidewalk, colliding
next with Patrick Danehey, an employe in
Painter's Milk He was left on the ground
with a gash in his head and numerous
bruises. A mill man named Matthews next
went down before the horse, which took for
its next and last victim John Fox, who was
riding a bicycle. Like most of the
others, Fox had his back to the runaway
and did not see it in time to escape. He
and his bicyole went down in the rush, and
becoming entangled in the buggy wheels
were whirled round and round for some
distance. At length, in front of Grimes'
Hotel, the horse ran against a hitching post
and was thrown down, its race coming to an
end. The injured were gathered up and
carried into a drugstore near by, and
Doctors Miller and Graham called in to
dress their injuries. Louis Black was the
most severely hurt. He had been tramped
on and injured internally. He is 60 years
of age and it is thought that he cannot re
cover. He was taken in the patrol wagon
to his home in Elliott borough, just outside
the city line.
Fox, the bicyclist, had a severe scalp
wound rnd wa3 badly cnt and bruised. His
bicycle was a wreck. In the course of a
couple of hours, however, he was able to
start for his home in Allegheny.
Patrick Danehey had a scalp wonnd four
inches in length in the back of his head.
He was removed to his home, on "Wabash
avenue.
Matthews was only slightly bruised.
Lardner had his kneecap and foot hnrt, and
Beno his arm. Both were also bruised.
Their buggy was a wreck and the horse
injured, but not beyond recovery.
RIVER BARRIERS BROKEN.
The Floods on the Two His Wen torn Streams
Are Still Growing 'Worse.
Gbeejtville, Miss., May 14. Bumors
of the break at Panther Forest, on the Ar
kansas side of the river, were current here
last night. This morning positive informa
tion was received that the great levee had
succumbed to the pressure. The width of
the crevice is 350 feet at 6 P. M. It is feared
that almost the entire country will be
flooded.
The river at St. Louis reached a height of
328 feet this afternoon, which is only 18
inches below the big flood of 1884 and a rise
of about a foot since last night. As the water
rises more land in the northern and south
ern parts of the city becomes submerged.
The Missouri rirer at Kansas City is still
rising, and several low-lying suburbs are
completely under water.
THE" DISPATCH DIBECT0BT.
Contents of the Issue Classified for the Con
Tenlenon of the Reader.
The Issne of The Dispatch to-day has 24
pages. The first nine pages are devoted to
news. The literary features and class news
will be found most readily by reference to
the table below:
Fage 9.
FOSMOIT SIWI. HABBISOITATCArzafAT.
IK the Nobthwest Radjanl Kipling
Page 10.
Im "Waitts. To Lets. Ton Sales. Miscellane
ous aito Real Estate Notices.
Page 11.
The Mrstc World C.W. S.
Business Cards.
Page IS.
News or Soctett. Tnic Geaxd Abut.
educational News.
Page 13.
Ptttsbubo's Neakest Sumsieb ErsoBTS.- Il
lustrated. Page 14.
Prrrsnuso Women at Chicago.
Page 15.
Eevtew or Sports JohnD. rrinxle
Ahateub SroRTiNO News. Late Science.
Page 10.
Tesla's New Lioiit George H. Guy
Page 17.
Blaine's European Tour T. C. Crawford
A Whaler's Adventures Captain Robinson
Page 18.
Anangbt Emperor "W. G. Kaufmann
Gossip about Men FrankG. Carpenter
Facts About ambib.
Pago 19.
Paris Laundresses Ida M. Tarbell
A Fair Adventuress Inspector Urrnes
The Sisters Algernon Charles Swinburne
Late Electric News.
Page SO.
Fashions and Fads Ada Baehe-Cone
Gossip of the Hour Margaret H. Welch
Oirls at College .Elizabeth M. Howe
Reducing the Flesh hairier Dare
fags 21.
Pests or the Sea Admiral Khnbertr
Bugs That Abe Common Pror. Riler
Drawing the Elephant... .Caroline H. Rlmmer
Training for A Race .'Walter Dohm
A Dash to the Pole Herbert D. Ward
Page 23.
Dinners and Dances Rev. George Hodges
Wealth in Bananas Horace J. Hill
Evolution or the lake Boat.
Page 23.
beckzt80cixtrnws. militabt gossip.
The HabxetKxfobts. The Oil fields.
Page 134.
News or tbb Stage. Amusement Notices.
IS FREE,
The Object of the Consolida
tion Is to Let Him Ont
of the Harness.
MAT GO INTO POLITICS.
Details of a Great Combination Backed
by Forty Millions.
STRAWS AS TO THE CASH TALUES.
Enormous Enrden That Ia Shifted to E. C..
Frick's Shoulders
BEACHING OUT IN MINNESOTA FIELDS;
The consolidation of the Carnegie inter
ests will create the greatest combination of,
capital Pittsburg has ever known.
It will be backed by about 540,000,000
and employ lrom 12,000 to 14,000 men.
It has been expected for some time thai
Andrew Carnegie would retire from tho
active management of his varions concerns
to even a greater extent than he has dons
for two or three years past. The real man
ofafiairsin the Carnegie combination for.
several years has been Henry C Frick, tho
brilliant business man who organized tho
coke concern which bears his name, and'
who, in a little over 20 rears, h.is leaped
to the control ot this great combination.
For some years there has been a tendency,
in the great iron and steel companies to '
combine all their various interests under
one compact and money-saviug manage-
meet, having at its disposal enormous credit
and great sums of cash.
Other Great Consolidations.
The Illinois Steel Company, whiclt
has headquarters in Chicago and which,
operates plants in various parts of tbe coun
try, was one of the first to take this step.
It formed a company with a capital stock of
525,000,000. which some months ago wa3 in
creased to 550,000,000.
The Minnesota Iron Company, which ha
great ore and lake transportation interests,
has increased its capital from $15,000,000 to
517,500,000, and others have taken similar
steps. Apropos of this, it may be said, it is
reported that ultimately this company will i
ioin hands with the Carnegie combination'
and give it greater ore and transportation
facilities.
These concerns are not trusts or syndi
cates of that nature, but are concentrations
of connecting interests in partnerships or
corporations owned by the same individuals.
CARNEGIE
It has been announced that after July 1
all the Carnegie-Frick concerns would bo
drawn together nnder one hand in one cor
poration, but a very faint impression of tho
size and potency of this combination has
been made public. It is the intention to
form a limited partnership under the Penn
sylvania laws, which will be called the Car
negie Steel Company, Limited, and in which
will be combined Carnegie Iirox. & Co.,
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., the Keystona
Bridze Company and a numhex.of-srnaLIc'--conceras
which are controlled by these
larger ones, together with all the ore, fur
nace and transportation interests connected,
with the Carnegie plants.
It Involves SlaDy millions.
The present capital of Carnegie, Phipps
& Co. and Carnegie Bros. & Co. is 55,000,
000 each. It has been stated that this would
be simply added together with the 5700,000
of the Keystone Bridge Company, making;
tho capital of the new company
510,700,000. This is incorrect. The
capital of the new company will be not less
than 525,000,000 and it mar possibly reach.
535,000,000. It is understood that Car
negie Bros. & Co. some time
ago had inrested in plants under
their control 522,500,000 of which
518,000,000 was paid in, leaving a debt of
54,500,000. It is understood that the Car
negie, Phipps & Co. plants represent 510,
000,000 at least. In addition to this thero
is the Allegheny Bessemer steel plant re
cently purchased at Duquesne and the wire!
rod mm at .Beaver .balls, bought from Mr.
Hartman.
Only three of the chief officers of tho
new company hare been decided upon, the
being H. C. Frick, Chairman; John G. A.
Leishman, "Vice Chairman, and Henry 3X.
Curry, Treasurer.
"While the Keystone Bridge "Works will
be made a department of tbe new Carnegie
Steel Company, there is no intention of in
cluding in that concern the great coko
property controlled by the company. Tho
coke interests will be retained in their pres
ent shape under the control of the H. C
Frick Coke Company, of which Mr. Frick:
is and will continue to be the official and.
actual chief officer There are a great many
matters of detail which have not as yet been,
decided upon, but which will be arranged
within the next 30 days, among which will
be the selection of some men as depart
mental chiefs, the consolidation of offices
and the notification of certain employe
that they are no longer required. N
3Ir. Carnegie's Plans for the Fatnre.
Andrew Carnegie will continue to be tho
largest single owner in these steel and coka
plants, but he will turn over the manage
ment of the whole thing to Mr. Frick whose)
interest is second in size to that of Mr,
Carnegie. It is the intention of Mr. Car
negie to devote the remainder of his career
to spending his millions in artistic, social
and other directions. It is not unlikely
that he will take an active part in political
life both in this country and in Great
Britain. By this it is meant that on tho
other side of the water he will give aid and
counsel to the advanced Liberal politicians,
while in this country he may seek mord
solid honors.
Mr. Henry Phipps. Mrs. Thomas Ml Car
negie and Mr. "W. L. Abbott will continue
as large stockholders in the new company.
The retirement of Messrs. Henry Phipps.
John "Walker and "W. L. Abbott from actual
part in the management is understood to
hare been more or less under pressure.
The growth of Carnegie iron and stcej
interests dates from about 18T3, when the!
Edgar Thomson Steel Company was '-rgan
ized. The incorporators were Edgar j hom-.
son, Thomas A. Scott, Andrew Car egie,
Thomas M. Carnegie, "William P." Shinn,
David McCandless, John Scott, David A.
Stewart, "William Coleman and E. V. Mo
Candles. The capital of the company was
51,000,000, and it is said to have been
granted a very favorable freight contract by"
President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania
itauroaa uompany.
9 Straws on Talne of Property.
Xeither Messrs. Thomson nor Scott wero
prominent in the company when it becama
an active plant in 1875! as they had beert
crippled in the panic of 1874. Messrs. Cole-t
man, David McCandless and Shinn sooa
sold out their interests, and later they wera
followed by Messrs. Scott and E. V. Mo
Candless, and by the estate of D. A. Stewart.
An idea of the growth of the value of tha
property mar be shown by the Stewart and
Scott sales. Each had 550,000 in the original
company. Mr. Scott got 5183,000 of interest)
for his 550,000 when the Edgar Thomson
Company was reorganized in 1881 into Car
negie Bro. & Co., and about 1882 he sold
his holding lor 5300,000. Mr. Stewart's ?50,
.
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