f
ERROROFTHE SEAS.
he Completion of an Ameri
can Crniser Expected to
Defy tlie World.
- COMMERCE DESTBOYEB.
i Speed and Coal Capacity It Will
Surpass All Others.
OHPARED TY1TH E1YAL WAR-SHIPS
he TVill Go 22 Knots an Dour and Can Re
main at Sea 109 Dajs.
3IE PIRATE TO BE LAUNCHED TUESDAY
Philadelphia, July 22. Shortly after
30 next Tuesday afternoon there will be
unched from the yard of the Cramps what
expected to be the swiftest, most destruc-
ve and most formidable naval vessel in
ie world, Crniser Ifo. 12, otherwise 'The
irate." The cruiser will be named for one
the States. Secretary of the Navy Tracy
1 a party of Congressmen and Govern-
ent officials will attend the launching,
d half an hour before the event the gates
the yard will be opened for the public.
No foreign navy has such a vessel as this
uiser will be. Commodore Wilson said in
recent official report: "The function of
is vessel is to destroy the commerce of the
.emy. Therefore her general appearance
such as to enable her to get within range
' her victim before her character is dis-
vered." Should thi3 nation become in-
lved in war with any other nation the
Pirate" and her sister ship, now being
lilt by the Cramps would become the two
ost widely known and most feared vessels
the world. The cruiser was designed
ith two objects in view sneed and coal
trying capacity. To obtain these essen-
lls the cruiser had to be given a large ton-
ge. This is 7,500, and yet the engines,
ilers and apartments uses up nearly all
is space. She is 400 feet in length on the
ad water line, 53 feet in beam, and in
-acght 24 feet. This will make her more
a greyhound than the Atlantic liners
hich, for stability, are obliged to have
uch greater beam.
Great Speed ExpecteJ.
As to her speed, the contract requires her
so 22 knots an hour on her trial tiips.
she cannot do this she will be subject to
jection or penalty. Tne Cramps mean
at the cruiser shall go faster than any
ean liner. The best hour's work by any
the liners was that of the Teutonic last
Jar, 2L0C knots. The Pirate, her builders
e confident, will surely reel oil 22, and
iey are equally confident that she will be
jlc to keep itup for 24 hours, making a
istance of 52S knots. The record for 24
aurs at present is held by the Majestic,
For every quarter knot of speed over the
-2 knots contract limitations the Cramps
ill be given 50,000.
The coal carrying capacity of the cruiser
ill be greater than that of any steamer or
ival vessel in the world. The big bunkers
ill hold 2,000 tons. This would be suf-
nt, at the rate of ten knots an hour, to
w the cruiser to remain out of port for
' days, or a radius ot action ot 26,240
ids, or nearlv the circumference of the
irth. Fourteen knots mil be the usual,
eed of the cruiser, except when she is on
resing business, when she will tear
rough the water like a race horses It
ould be bad business ior the P'rate to get
mcht in the Southern Pacific and exhaust
cr coal, as, under the present conditions
loi g the west coast of South America, it
ould cost 580.000 lor her to coal up. The
ovcmment, it is said on good authority,
ull in a few years establish coalins: stations
u the Chilian coast and on othcrportions of
ie South American coast.
The machinery ot the cruiser will be more
ntricite than that of any steamer in the
orhl There will be three triple expansion
ir;ines, each working a separate screw, one
n either side of the rudder and one above
u The horse power of the engines under
rced draught will be 20,550. The engines
11 have the same stroke, 42 inches, and the
lameier ot the high intermediate and low
ri-'ure cvliuders respectively are 42, 59
ad S2 inches. Under lull pressure each of
ie8 three screws should turn at the rate of
2S revolutions per minute. On the City of
"aris 0 revolutions per minute was the
laximum in her record-breaking trip.
Tho Three-Screw Idea.
The three-screw idea originated with
'hief Engineer Jlelville, whose idea was to
void, if possible, tlie heavy shafting which
rould Late been necessary had only two
tes beau used. In the latter case 10,000
i use-power -would have been transmitted
' a tingle shalt, while in the three-screw
i langemect only C,fc50 horse-power passes
nrough each bhalt. The strain on the
mvy shafting is tremendous and the "on-
(juences of a break down are most disas
. ms. One rcison why Mr. Melville
olvcd tne three-shaft scheme was the fact
. at the ship had to be entirely American
naile, and there are grave doubts as to the
iDility oi American manufacturers to guar
mteeso enormous a forging.
Some engineers hate doubted the effi
jiency of the three-screw system, on the
'round that in certain trials in France the
enter bcrew was found to have only a niin
n.urn propelling power. This, however,
; a when the screws occupied the same
c-rtical plane. To obviate this difficulty,
he side screws in Mr. Melville's plans are
situated 15 feet lorward and above the cen
ter one, so that the water from the side
screws does not interfere with the water
Howmg into the periphery of the center one.
Each of the three shafts is fitted with a dis
"ngacing coupling, so that the prppellers
li ay be free to revolve when not in use.
f ms. the -vessel may be propelled at a slow
-; eed of 14 knots by the center screw alone,
at a medium speed of 17 knots by the two
Je screws, and at a high speed ot from 20
to 22 Knots by all three together. This ar
rangeiueut allows the machinery to be
worked at its maximum and most economi
cal number oi revolutions at all rates of the
vessel's speed, and each engine can always
be used for propelling the vesseL This is
an advantage that two sets of engines work
in" on the same screw do not posters.
There are ten boilers. Six of thfte are
double-ended, 15 feet in diameter by 21
feet long. Two others are 11 2-3 leet in
diameter by 18i feet long, and the remain
ing two, which are single-ended, are 10 feet
iu diameter bv 8 feet long. Ihese boilers
are made of steel, and they carry a pressure
ot 1C0 pounds. Eight of the largest boilers
are built in air and water tight compart
ments to which there is forced a draught
ot 210,500 cubic feet or air per minute when
running at full speed.
The efficieucv of the meciianism of the
commerce destroyer is shown by a compari
son with certain Jeatures of the Philadel
nl ia, which is now a representative of the
liiiest tvpe of ship in the United States
na v The total grate surface of the Phila
delphia, for instance, is G24 square feet; that
oi the commerce destroyer is 1.285 square
tcet The total heating surface of the
Philadelphia is 20,457 square feet; that of
the commerce destroyer is 43,371.4 square
lett.
The Armor and Arinament.
The vital portions of the vessel are pro-tcc-ed
by an armored deck four inches thick
oi. the slopes and 2 inches on the flat The
s.,ace between this deck and the gun deck
w ill be niinutelv subdivided by coal bunk
ers and .storerooms. In addition there will
be a cofltr dam five feet wide running next
to the ship's side throughout the whole
length of the vessel. Iu the bunkers not
used for coal this will be filled with a patent
substance of such solid! tv as to form a wall
five feet thick, "having all the advantages of
an inner and supplemental armor. In the
event ot an emergency this pateptinbstance,
the nature of which is kept secret, can be
taken out and Ubed for fuel. Forward and
abaft the coal bunkers the coffer dam will be
filled with a water-excluding substance
similar to woodite.
"The Pirate" will carry no big guns. The
uses for which she is intended will not re
quire any. Not a gun will be in sight, and
the battery will be abnormally light. There
w ill be one 8-inch gun as a bow-chaser.
This is expected to play the principal part
in the cruiser's career should sne ever get to
chasing the merchantmen of any of the na
tions across the pond. Besides this she will
carry four G-inch breech-loading rifles,
eight 4-inch breech-loading rifles, 12 rapid
firing 6-poundcrs, six rapid-firing 1-pound-ers,
two machine guns, one field gun and
six torpedo tubes. The armament of the
cruiser is designed to be rapid firing, and
the cruiser will be effective more for this
reason than by any tremendous broadsides.
In the wake of the eight 4-inch and machine
guns the ship's sides will be armored with
4 and 2-inch plating. The 6-inch guns.
wmen are lour in number, will he mounted
in the open deck, protected by heavy
shields attached, as in the other two ships,
to the gun carriages.
Points of Superiority.
The superiority of the commerce-destroyer
and the ships of other navies is shown by
the table given below. The Blake is un
questionably the finest ship in the British
navy, and the Dupuy de Lome, although
an armored ship, is the fastest and strongest
in the French navy. The Piemonte, ot the
Italian navy, is a representative of the re
cently adopted programme of that Govern
ment, to which the admiring eyes of the
navies of Europe are turned. The Phila
delphia's figures are given as furnishing in
teresting comparisons as to her relative
powers and speed. Following is the table:
3 5
3
G-S?
H
r. H
K
ra
. . o
: s : o
-2.
: S
norse-power !X),509 20,000
bpeed (Knots) SI 22
fCoal that tan
O l bp cirrled In
44.000 12,000
so 2i
10,600
19.7
bulkheads
(tuns) P.W0 1,500
niatnnff. that
703 900
800
z c a u be
sieamea at
10 knots
without
rccoaling
(knots) 21240 13,000
4.000 13.000 12,000
The Pirate is to be ready for service by
October 1, 1893. The contract for her con
struction was awarded to Cramp & Sons, on
October 4, lb90, their bid being 52,725,000.
Added to this the cost of armament and
equipment, and the vessel will have cost
about 53,200,000. It was stipulated in the
contract that the entire vessel, in all its
parts, should be of domestio manufacture.
As a whole, this vessel will represent the
latest idea of a powerful, economical, pro
tected crusier, embodving the highest re
sults of the naval knowledge of the world,
with improvements designed by American
ingenuity. The accommodations for officers
and crew will be spacious, well ventilated
and lighted. All the most -improved mod
ern appliances for exhausting the vitiated
air and for incandescent lighting by elec
tricitv have been incorporated in the de
sign. The sub-division of the hull is such
as to form a double hul below the water,
and will ofler as gieat security against dam
age from torpedo attacks as can be given in
a vessel of this class. She could do irrep
arable damage before she could be caught
bv any ship that could whip her.
"When the Pirate is launched, she will
leave standing in the stocks, her sister,
Cruiser No. 13, the construction of which
was awarded to the Cramps on August 11,
1891, at their bid of 52,745,000, less ?55,000
which the contractors threw off Both
vessels are identical in character, but
Cruiser JTo. 13 is destined to carry a heavier
battery. .
CHOLERA THREATENS US.
The Disease Conld Easily Break Through
Canada's tVenU Sanitary Farriers.
Montreal, Que., July 22. Prominent
medical men of this city have sounded an
alarm against the danger which they de
clare threatens Canada from Asiatic cholera
on the Pacific, as well as on the Atlantic
coast. The quarantine regulations on the
Pacific and the Gulf of bt. Lawrence are
most Selective. The attention of the Cana
dian Government has frequently been
called to the defective system, but nothing
has been done to remedy it
Dr. Lefever. Chairman of the Vancouver
CR. G) Board of Health, declares that the
danger on the Pacific is very great, and ex
treme precaution is necessary against the
dissemination of cholera and smallpox by
immigrants and passengers from China and
Japan.
AN INDISCREET KILL WOEKEB.
William Howard Robbed at tne Foint of a
Revolver lu a Lonely Spot.
"William Howard, a Lawrenceville mill
worker, was held up and robbed under the
Ft. "Wayne Kailroad bridge in Allegheny
early yesterday morning by three men to
whom he had indiscreetly exhibited a roll
of monev.
The highwaymen were in Howard's com
pany throughout the afternoon and evening,
and decoyed him to the lonely spot and
threatened his life with revolvers. The
men were afterward apprehended by the
police and identified by Howard. They
gave their names as "V. S. Bean, Jerry
Driscoll and David Lindsay.
VTnES the mucous surfaces of the
Bronchia are sore aud inflamed, Dr. D.
Jayne's Expectorant will aflord prompt re
lief. For breaking up a cold or subduing a
cough you will find in it a certain remedy.
Room Renters and Boarding Houses Who
Have
Used The Dispatch's Cent-a-Word advertis
ing columns under Wanted Boarders and
Kooms To Let find ic the best.
In Making; Bread
The best le-ults are obtained from the host
brands of flour that's why tlie Iron City
Milling Company's "Rosalfna" and "Our
Best" have sucii a tremendous sale. If
"Itosallna" and "Our Best" brands of flour
is not used In your household, don't lull to
try it. To use it mico Is to always use It, as
theiesults are absolutely satlsiactory. All
grocers. tts
Excursion Tin the I'Icturcsque B. & O. lt.lt..
To Atlantic Cltv, via Washington, Baltimore
:ind Philadelphia, on Thursday, July 23, 1691
Kate $10 the round trip; tickets good for 12
days from day of bale and good to stop off at
Washington "City leturniug. Trains with
Pullman parlor Rnd sleeping cars will leave
B. & O. depot, Pittsburg, at 8a. x. and 9 20
r. h.
Excurlon to Whee'ins To-SIorrow.
Kate. $1 50 the round trip. Train leaves B.
& O. It. U. depot at 8.10 s. M. S
I'lTTsBURG & HKE EltlE 15. R.
Fpscial Excursions.
July 20, Cleveland and return f 3 00
Good until July 30 to teturn.
July 23, Niagara Falls aud return 7 00
Good fifteen days to return.
July 26, Toiontoand return $3 00
Good fifteen days to return.
Every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday to
Chautauqua, Cambridge and Saeger
tonnand return, goodlS days..... ....$5 00
A Trip to Denver at Gr'atly Itednoed Rates
Over the Pennsylvania hhort Line and
Their Connections.
Excursion tickets will fee sold account
Knlstnts Templar conclave In August Irom
principal tiCKer stations on this popular
thoroughraro. Dates of sale, low rates and
return limit will be given later.
Rooms boon Rented.
Don't fail to send in your adlet to-day for
tbo Sunday Cent a-Word Columns.
TB
THE BUSINESS WORLD..
Bradstreet's and fi. G. Dan .Report
That Trade Begins. to Revive,
EVEN IRON AND STEEL LOOK DP.
Big Crops and a Dying- Congress Add to
General Good Feeling.
FIRES, F1IIJJRE8 AND.RAIIiWAT NEWS
Hew Yobk, July 22. Special telegrams
to Bradstrtel't from the more Important
trade centers show a moderate revival of
general trade, with indications that the
autumn's demand is already making itself
felt and will meet expectations, with a fair
expansion in volume of distribution of all
staples. Woo), leather, print cloths, bar
iron and shaped steel are all firmer and
(except wool) higher in price.
The "West has been visited with hot
weather and rains to the material advantage
of the wheat crop. Jobbers in drygoods,
boots and shoes, clotbing and hardware at
Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Joseph,
Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and other
points tell of liberal orders received, many
for "future deliverr." It is even reported
that the week's sale of flour at Minneapolis
exceed production, which amounts to mil
lers having "gone short" of flour to that ex
tent. Three woeks' sales of general merchandise
at several points have exceeded the July
record or 1891. Texas oats are arriving at
New Orleans freely. Live cattle are quoted
lC15c lower, and hogs steady without being
film.
A Brtter Outlook in Iron and Steal.
Speculative markets have ruled unusu
ally dull as to all agricultural staples, owing
in part, to an unwillingness of the public to
enter Into engagements which the anti
options bill, now betore the Senate, may in
terfere with.
Our own advices from Chicago and St.
Louis are that -the demand for bar iron is
such that prices have been advanced $1 per
ton. Tlieie has been a little advance on
steel billets at Pittsburg, and structural
steel and Iron are higher. Fig iron, how
ever, is no stronger, recent statistics show
ins a heavier 1S92 output than had been an
ticipated. The production of pig iron
within six months has increased, compared
with the first half of 1891, 13 per cent. Con
trasted with the latter half or 1891 this year's
decrease is small, only 2.3 per cent. Stocks
of unsold pig iron June 30 were 18,600 tons
larger than on January 1 last, about 23 per
cent.
i tail way earnings in May, 1891, were about
3 per cent heavier than In May, 1890, for
both cross and net; but lor Hay this year,
while 3 per cent larger for gross, they are
more thun 2 per cent smaller lor net than in
May, 189L For five months of this year,
total net earnings are 4 per cent larger than
In a like period ofl891.
Bank clearings aggi egate 11.052,000,000 this
week, a decrease ot about 8 per cent, but an
inciease as compiired with the total for the
third week in July, 1E91, or 116 per cent.
Bis Crops and no Congress Stimulate Hope.
Encouraging crop prospeots,the approach
ing adjournment of Congress and the cessa
tion of gold exports create renewed bullish
sentiment in speculative circles, the dull
ness of tho Now York stock market being
broken by a moderate degree of activity
and advances, mainly In the Granger and
Vanderbilt shares. The movement, how
ever, receives no foreien support, and un
certainty regarding the attitude of the Bur
lington toward the Western Railroad Traflio
Association checks Its continuance. For
eign exchange rates tend downward.
Business lailuies In the United States this
week number 179, against 252 in the corre
sponding week a year ago and 1SS last week.
Cotton goods are selling freely this month.
Print cloths ate htgher,and some mills have
sold for "future delivery" as far ahead as in
i3. It is likely that some of these print olotbs
which have been "sold short" may be made
from cotton not yet picked. The entire out
put is being taken weekly and another ad
vance is probable. Woolens are in im
proved demand, manufactuiers receiving
duplicate orders.
llaw ootton is very dull. Dealers prefer
to do as little as possible owing to the omin
ous position of the anti-options bill in Con
gress, Wool prices tend upward, the staple
moving freely under fair demand Irom man
ufacturers. Folly 31,000 bales were taken at
London for the United States, of which only
6,000 bales will be sold here.
Wheat at Home and In Karopr.
A London correspondent advises Brad
ftreefs that four cargoes of Busslan wheat
hich had reached German and Dutch ports
have been purchased for reimportation into
Kussia. Heavy stocks of wheat in the
United Kingdom are said to "more than off
set" decreased quantities on passage.
Our own total of exports of wheat from
Untied States seapoits this week, including
flour as n heat, is 2,716,000 bushels, against
2,53,000 bushels the week-be lore; against
2,3SO,OO0in the thud-week of July, 1391, about
twice the quantities exported respectively
in like weeks in 1890 and 1889, and us com
pared with 2.27J.OW bushels in that week of
1S&3. Trading this week has been very dull.
It. G. Dun's weekly leview says: Improve
ment is noted, not only in comparison with
tho same time last year, but also in ptospects
for the coming season. Prospects of spring
wheat are lemarkably good, and returns
from many.'of the states surpasses all expec
tations. Wheat has risen 2 cents in spito
or Western receipts amounting to 2,136,000
bushels In three da s, against exports of
906,000 bushel?. Oats also roso 1 cent and
pork products a shade, and corn has ad
vanced i cents. In coffee there was a
slight advance and In oil a motional docline,
but in the cotton maiketadeollne of a six
teenth occuried, with sales of 560,000 bales in
a week.
Manuiacturedlron is stiffened (it Pittsburg
by thee lobing of the mills, and the works at
Cleveland aie pushed beyond their capacity,
with some advance in structural Iron. Trade
theie Is better than last year.
I'itUbnrc TVellUpln the Bank Race.
The following table, compiled by Brad
ttreet't, shows the bank clearings for the
week ended July 21, with the percentage of
increase or decrease as compared with the
coiresponding week in 1891:
Inc. Dee.
13.0
18.8 ....
11.7 ....
17.7 ....
6 4 ....
'.'.'.'. i.'7
.... 18.4
11.6
15.4 ....
8.0 ....
.... 13.6
1S.4 ....
37.1
4.2 ....
. ....
72.2 ....
21 I
8.3 ....
12.8 ....
5.8 ....
21.3 ....
1.3
63.5
21.7 ....
8.4 ....
6.3 ....
11.4 ....
.... 21.0
7.1
24.8 ....
27.9
18 4 ....
9.9 ....
22.6 ....
15.7 ....
4 2 ....
11.9
8.0 ....
24.2
8 1
28.5 ....
43.8
6.3
1.6 ....
3.8 ....
16 6
27.7 ....
9.5
87.3
23.5
11.9 ....
.... 23.1
7.8 ....
14.1 ....
New York
Chicago
Boston
FhlUdelphta
bt. Louis
Pittsburg
Baltimore
San Francisco.,.,
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Kansas CI ty
Buffalo
LoulsTllle.. .......
Mlnne&uous
Detroit
Milwaukee
Omaha
Providence
Denver
Cleveland ........
fit. Paul
Houston
Indianapolis
Memphis
Columbus
Richmond
Dallas
Hartford ,
Dulnth
Nashville
Washington
bt. Joseph ,
I'eorla
Portland, Ore...,
Rochester
fcaltLakeCltv....
New Haven
Portland. Me .
Worcester.
bpriogueld ,
aco
Sioux City
Fort Worth
Norfolk ,
Umlngtou ,
Lowell
Grand Kaplds..
Seattle
byracusc
Des Moines
Tacoma
Llneo hi. ..........
Wichita
Lexington
Birmingham ....
New Bedford...,
Topeka ,
Galveston
Savannah ,
Atlanta
lllnghamton
Helena
Great Falls
670.771.838
S.tX,V3i
Da. 043, 29
7S.2K.210
2S,7:i,2M
11,819, 1U0
15.000.574 -
14,801.843
13,7114, SCO
7.1155,038
8,938,203
8. OSS, SO
7.2S1.2U)
7.4J1.114
6,120.074
6.009,580
6,512,233
6.632,1(0
5. 17V 047
6.340.522
6,314.451
2,748. TO)
4, .HA 372
1.S3I.824
3,32,1,00
2, 410, 25'J
1,470, J);
2,465,756
M48.S1I
1.G34.5I5
2,049.202
3.761. 80S
l.OAOOO
1. 809. 376
1,612,819
1,812,256
1.614,910
1,247.848
1,300,436
J, 4J9. 188
867, .115
815,171
833.181
934,5.3'
979,101
H,804
983.512
l.aa.274
97.414
1,027,263
876. ia
51G.M5
601,372
432,048
444,211
491,783
33J.40
2.868.V4S
1,223,970
1,012.812
214.900
1.544.267
471,892
16.8
Total 11,052, 304.7
12.6 ...
11.8 .
31.S ...
Outside New York f 481,533,381
Dominion of Canada
Montreal 12.830.573
Halifax. 1,181 287
Toronto , 7.IU5.4S6.
Hamilton , 803.380
Total 22,010,71
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Teoxas E. Paxtoit, of Princeton, has been
f ' )
PXITSB'UEG DISPATCH,
appointed receiver of the Vlnoennes Na
tional Bank.
Thb exportation or corn to Mexico via
Eagle Pass, Tex., shows bq abatement.
Tuiai is no prospect of a settlement be
tween the 8t Louis planing mill owners and
their striking hands.
Oks of the finest strikes of mineral made
at Leadvtlle for some time occurred Friday
at the Dorrls property.
Thb Louisville Bagging Manufacturing
Company has assigned. Liabilities, $70,000;
assets, nominally $116,000.
The Amalgamated scale has been signed
by the Illinois Steel Company so far as tt
applies to the rod. and wire mills at Joliet.
It is doubtful If shipments of ore to Lake
Erio ports between June 15 and July 15,
liavo ever equaled the amount brought
down In that period this year.
Thb Western Mercantile Company, at
Denver, dealers in hay,' grain und flour, as
signed yesterday in laVor of Earl M. Crans
ton. Liabilities, tSiOOOj assets, $140,000.
The Clerk's Association or East St, Louis
lias agreed to boycott all merchants keeping
their pluce or business open Sundays. They
are assisted by all labor organizations.
The Cherry Valley Iron Works, of Lee
tonia, O., manufacturers of mucK and mer
chant bar, has signed the Amalgamated
scale. This will give work to 600 men Who
have been out since July L
The stone-crushing company at Clinton
Foint, near Englewood, N. J., Is said to be
In financial trouble. The company employs
nenrlj 50 men. the most of whom have not
been paid for a month or more.
The United States Circuit Court at New
York has elven a deoree, settling the ac
counts of Becelver -William C. lloone, of the
Ameiican Exchange lu London (limited!,
and directing a distribution oi the concern's
assets.
A recext Iron mining transaction, that
promises greater activity for a Veimlllion
pioperty, is the purchase of 12,500 shares of
Pioneer Exploring and Mining Company's
stock by Oglebay, Norton & Co., tho well
known ore firm, and Captain Thomas Wil
son, of Cleveland, the pmchnso lepiesent
aboutoue thiidorall holdings.
KAIIAVAY INTERESTS.
Seykiui. Western railroads have agreed to
the commeicial travelers' 5,000 mile ticket
scheme.
The Illinois Central has resumed traffic
through the teaently overflown sections of
Mississippi and Louisiana.
J. Pixrfoiht Morgan bus bought the $300,
000 bonds of the New England Terminal Com
pany in order to wind up the concern.
The Order of Railroad Telegraphers has
succeeded In gaining from the Louisville and
Nashville Kailioad the concessions asked lor.
Freight agents In session at St. Louis
agi eed that all railroad ft eight rates to the
Enst should be cut to meet the tariff Iroui
Chicago by lako and rail.
Co-orEltATixi with the Atchison in Us
Chicago to Denver cut, the St. Louis and
San Francisco announces that It will make
a round trip rate irom St. Louis to Denver
of $12 for the Knights Templar meeting.
A HUMBER of the night employes of the
Pennsylvania lines struck at Richmond,
Ind., Friday night. The day men were
called out to fill their places. In a conflict
between the strikers and the police, two of
the lormer were injured.
The contract for the extension of the Kan
sas City, Nevada and Fort Smith Railroad
from Hume, Mo., to Pittsburg, Kan., has
been let, and the extension will be com
pleted within 60 days. The extension will
give the road 120 miles or completed line
through the coal fields of Southeastern Kan
gas and the lead and zinc fields or South
western Missouri.
ArrxR giving the three days' legal notice
to the Inter-State Commerce Commission of
a reduction in rates, the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has put on sale round trip
tickets between Louisville and Chicago foi
ls. The rate between Indianapolis and Chi
cago was cut to $3 75, and that between
Louisville and Chicago and Cincinnati and
Chicago to $6. Tbo Monon and Big Four
were, of course, compelled to follow suit;
THB FIRE RECORD.
St. Louis The distributing warehouses of
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company. Los-s, $200,
000: Insured In Capen's Agoncy for about
$100,000. Cause, spontaneous combustion.
Sauk Center, Minn. A great Are swept
the city Friday evening, doing damage to
tho extent or $60,000. The flie originated
from a hot Journal In the Davidson mill.
The great mill in a short time was beyond
saving. It had Just been pui chased lor $38,
000. The electric Hubs works are a total
loss. The water woiks building was crushed
in j ust as the fire was fiercest, and the w hole
city seemed doomed. The flames were
creeping into the Northern Pacific depot
when the wind suddenly changed.
ADVFNTDKE by Ed Mott in THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow. A bjar In a nillk
house. BOASTED TO DEATH BT BRIGANDS.
Mexican Merchants Have Fingers and Toes
Cnt Off Belore Burning at the Make.
Zacatecas, JIex., July 22. In the lit
tle mountain town of Tlajtenango, this
State, Candelarce Perez, one of the most
inhuman and desperate criminals ot Mex
ico, was yesterday shot to death by process
of law. Perez was about 40 years of age.
For three years he has been the leader of
a band of brigands who have kept the peo
ple of Tlaltenango in constant terror.
Three weeks ago Ramon Morales and
Carmen Pluvo, two prominent merchants of
that place, started on an overland journey
for Zacatecas. They had in theirpussession
ZS00 with which to .buy goods. They were
attacked when a short distance out from
Tlaltenango by Perez and his band. The
merchants made a brave resistance, killing
three bandits and wounding Perez in the
arm. The brigands finally overpowered
them, and by direction of Perez both mer
chants were taken to their rendezou in the
mountains and there horribly tortured.
Their fingers and toes were cut ofF one by
one. Then they were tied to stakes and 'a
fire built around them, slowly roasting
them to death.
IHE BOILING NORTHWEST.
Minnesota and tin Dakorns Sweltering
-With Maroary Above tlie flu's.
St. Patjl, July 22. The hot wave covers
nearly the entire Northwest. Yesterday at
Yankton, S. D., the meroury was 101, at
Huron ard elsewhere in the eastern central
portion, it was in the 90's. North Dakota
was nearly as warm, and Minnesota is
sweltering to-day. In this city it was 90
before noon and;96 at 2 o'clock. At Du
luth it reaohed 94. At Redwood Falls,
in Western Minnesota, it was 90 before 9
o'clock, and at Rochester, in the southeast
ern portion, it was 103.
The hot weather is helping grain greatly,
and another immense erop is assured.
Forty thousand men are needed to harvest
the 'crop, and low railroad rates are an
nounced. ELECTRICITY twisting iron rods de
scribed in TUB DISPATCH to-morrow.
THE BAIRDS EXONERATED.
Verdict of the Coroner's Jnry on the Cov
ington Bridge Disaster.
Cincinnati, July 22, Coroner M. G
Wilson, of Covington, has rendered a
verdict upon the falling of the Covington
and Newport bridge June 15, whereby 25
lives were lost.
The substanoe of his findings is that therj
was no fault in the piling or in the false
work, but that the accident was caused by
the rails spreading under the traveler. The
Coroner specifically absolves from all blame
the Baird Brothers, sub-contractors for the
King Iron Bridge Company.
Do Ton Want tha World's Fair Open Sun
day? We are interested in getting a thorough
expression of this town and vicinity on
this important question. To every reader
of this paper who will send us a postal card
with "Yes" or "No" and their name and
address, we will send, free, a handsome
book, "The Way to Win," telling about
the rapid increase in real estate values in
Chicago. Address James E. & Eobt. L.
McElroy, Chamber ot Commerce, Chicago,
SATUllDAY, JULY
A SADDENING SHRINE.
Wakcman's Trip Through Bristol's
Churls and Consistories.
BIRTHPLACE OP CHATTERT0N.
EcucliiTe Church, its Muniment Boom and
the Cenotaph.
HISTORIC HINTS AND NOBLE NAMES
COUHKSrONDHNCE Or TUB DISPATCH. 1
Bkistol, England, July 11. The
name, the birthspot and the shrine of Chat
terton are all that will ordinarily impel the
traveler to turn aside from pleasanter En
glish sights and scenes to loiter in the matter-of-fact
old city of Bristol. Above its
hard, dank streets, its grimy smokestacks
and harbor spars, at the whim of the Seven
tides overtopping its tallest warehouses or
again disappearing below its mossy, crumb
ling quays, the one name, more sad and
clear and luminous than all the other acts
or facts in its history, seems to conjure all
else of civic, commercial, eccles'iastio or
literary interest in the ancient seaport's
moldy past.
And what a marvelous proof is here of
the overshadowing quality of literary fame.
It eeema to me to furnish one of the most
impressive illustrations known to men.
Chatterton died August 24, 1770, before
be was 18 years of age. Yet this stripling,
starved in Bristol oud hounded to death by
indifference and desperation in London, in
what had been done by his pen from the
time he was 10 years old to the morning
they found him dead in the London garret
and mtched his noor bodv into the Shoe
aLane workhouse potter's field, cut higher
and deeper niches in the adamantine walls
of fame than all other of the millions who
have lived and died in Bristol More has
been felt, said and written about this one
delicate lad, his misfortunes and achieve
ments, than altogether has ever been pro
duced or complied by or concerning Bristol
or Bristol folk.
Resentment Against the Pilgrims.
This Bristol and these Bristol folk, save
in a lew shining exceptions, have never
been pleased with this. The old town has
always seemed to wish the glamor of im
mortality on its own account, for its wigged
pudyes of rulers, its wicked old slave trad
ers, its old-time pedantic and hypocritical
merchant princes, its churches, docks and
warehouses, and resents to this day the pil
grim's coming to the one shrine which the
whole world has forced upon the place in
spite ot itself, as if to retrieve it Irom in
famy and contempt.
Something like the canny and almost
brutal suspicion and watchfulness of Chat
terton's attorney master of Infamous mem
ory, John Lambert, has always pervaded
the town, in its attitude to the memory of
Chatterton, and to those strangers who come
to Bristol with sad and tender thoughts of
the boy poet. From the first vindictive
effort to uphold the currish Walpole's def
amation of the dead boy, in his own defense,
to almost the latest Bristol publications on
Chatterton, the effort has been ceaseless to
befoul his character and disparage his
achievements.
Ecclesiastical consistories, animated by
inconceivable venom, hunted the very
memory of the lad to perditionary finality,
as far as their little power could'go, fight
ing bitterly to the last the erection of a
monument to his name in the churchyard of
Itedclifie church, until nearly 100 years had
elapsed from the time of tne poet's death
betore this paltry requital was forced upon
Bristol; while 10,000 travelers every year
come here, and especially to the beautiiul
church of St, Mary of BedclifTe, because of
Chatterton's association with the latter, to
one who comes to see Bristol or Bedcliffe
on their own account; and still the hard
old civic andecclesiastie heads arc blind to
the world's judgment of themselves and
Chatterton.
A Mournfully Lndloroas Situation.
Mournfully ludicrous does this feeling
display itself to strangers, even to this dav.
If you are in charge oi guide or friend, he
will insist on your visiting the -potteries;
the Downs; tne docks; the Avon bridge;
the place where Sir Humphrey Davcy had
charge of the Pneumatic Institution in
Dowry square; the Council House, rich in
ancient parchment lore, unique old char
ters and somber pictures by Kneller and
Vandyc. the museum and a peep at the fa
mous miniature likeness on ivory of Oliver
Cromwell; the ancient stone images of
Brennus and Belinus, Bristol's tutelar
deities removed from an ancient church to
their present place in the old city gateway
arched in the fourteenth century; to that
wonderful old Norman archway in the gate
way leauniK into lower college ureen; ana
to scores more places and objects of modern
and antiquarian interest. But he will
never have a word or a moment to devote
to your longings regarding the personality
of and object associative with Chatterton.
If at last you humbly beg to know of
these, his interest in vour interest is at an
end. Even your landlord will regard you
with contempt if you mention the name of
Chatterton. If you attempt to penetrate
the dust-mounds of the local antiquarians,
everything is at your disposal until that un
fortunate name is heard. They are then all
instantlv dead, voiceless and mummied as
the moldy old stuff upon which their lives
are passed. Happening into several old
bookstores with the hope of finding odds
and ends regarding the poet and his birth
spot, after the inevitably unsuccessful
search was mado, timid inquiry after what
I wished invariably put to flight the weaz
ened habitues ot tne place, as though pesti
lence came with the breath that formed the
name.
The Moit Carious Thing of All.
But most curious of all was the conduct of
the verger of the Bedcliffe church, which
owes its chief notoriety and its riohest offer
ings to its hateful hostility to Chatterton,
his trifling association with its old muni
ment room and the miserly Chatterton ceno
taph within its churchyard close. He
labored three mortal hours to impress the
wonders of Bedcliffe church npon me. In
conceivable eloquence flowed from his fer
vent lips. I would occasionally pleasantly
intimate that I believed it all; was willing
to credit more; but most wished to visit
the old muniment room: whereupon the
storms ot descriptive eloquence would
break forth anew. Something in the
hushed quiet of the place, the hopelessness
ot ever coming to see whatl longed for most,
and the .sustained notes of his chant about
the worthies whose dust was beneath us and
their wondrous deeds and gifts to St.Mary's,
furnished an uncontrollable somnolence, I
finally sank into a pew in an attitude of def
erential interest, bulged my eyes to the lim
it ot human endurance, and with this won
derful human talking machine in regular
pulsations growing to giant's size and di
minishing to the stature of a pigmy de
claiming before me, refreshing slumber
came.
I awoke with a start as the verger shook
me and upbraided me with the charge that
he could not interest me in this ''prince
of English churches." I pressed a half
crown upon him and again timorously
hinted something about "the Chatterton
muniment-room." As if in a frenzy of de
spair at the perversity of all humankind,
he flung me a key, motioned tragically
towards the inner sta'irway leading to above
the north porch, covered his heated face
with his hands and actually burst into
tears.
Bristol's Most Interesting Relic
But at last I stood alone within what
seems to me to be the most tenderly in
teresting relic in Bristol. It is entered
through two massive narrow doors from the
stairway. The room is hexagonal in form,
low, perhaps 25 feet in diameter, and lighted
by 40 narrow, unglazed windows. The stone
floor rests on the groined arches of the ex
quisite -porch below; and huge beams of well
preserved oak form and support the celling.
It did not seem dismal spot to me, On
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the contrary, one could imagine a no more
reposeful and retired place for his own day
dreams or those of such a genius as Chatter
ton. Pleasant! v came the sounds of the
street through the open windows; sweeter
still were now and then wafted the organ
notes and voices of the singers engaged be
low in vesper service. The open, rotting
and discarded muniment coffers, or "cot
res," are still there, No one knows their
age. It must be very great. But these
veritable ancient chests were the ones
whose contents, first largely pilfered and
scattered by the parish authorities them
selves, furnished Chatterton with the im
pulse and means of attracting public atten
tion to his own compositions, to appear in
the guise of antique manuscripts from the
pen of the fictitious monk Bowley, the
whole the creation of his own fertile brain.
There are few other Chatterton memorials
in Bristol. The Colston Hospital or school,
where he had secured nomination as a char
ity scholar, was removed to the old Euisco
pal palace at Stapleton over a quarter of a
century ago. The building in which were
located the offices of John Lambert, attor
ney, to whom Chatterton was articled as
apprentice, is still standing in Corn street.
Birthplace of the liny Poet.
The place where the boy poet was born,
in File street near its conjunction with
Thomas street, is immediately opposite the
north side of Bedcliffe church. It is a
dreary, mildewed spot to-day, though the
old buildings are supplanted by others. A
free school is still conducted at the place by
a weazened spinster. The yard is narrow,
damp and dank; the structure is damp, and
dank and narrow; and the little tots whom
I saw leaving the place are ragged, pinched
aud squalid.
Between this place and the church oppo
site, upon the hill, within the churchyard,
though not within "consecrated" ground
for though churches sing the Jboy-poet's
hymn's, and the church received the Col
ston boy into its saving embrace through
confirmation, ecclesiastic intolerance Insists
upon his damnation on the ground that he
died by his own hand and an "infidel"
stands the monument to his memory. Bed
cliffe Church, more dishonor to it, forbade
its erection within the edifice.-where lie in
pompous state the remains of libertines and
traders in their fellow men.
After the bitterest of struggles on the
part of the poet's friends, this cenotaph was
finally put in place, outside the church, be
tween the tower and the muniment room, so
intimately associated with his youthful
dreams and struggles. But repairs upon
the north porch, soon gave an excuse for
its removal, for it was discovered that the
monument impinged on "consecrated"
ground. Then it was taken to pieces and
bundled away.
After years of further struggles with
bigoted consistories it was finally re-erected
where it now stands, near the northeast en
trance, just within the churchyard green.
But even then these fine folk of the cloth
turned the face of the statue surmounting
the cenotaph away from Redcliffe Church.
And that was well. Chatterton, with his
back to Bedcliffe Church, hi tiny face half
in smiles, gazing affectionately down upon
bis birthplace across the way, is fitting
enough satire, while stone may last, upon
the intolerance and vindictiveness thus so
aptly recalled and emphasized.
The figure is represented in the habila
ments ot a Colston schoolboy; a muffin cap,
with band and ball; a coat with long plaited
skirt; a leathern belt, corduroy knee
bi eeches, and rough-ribbed stockings. The
left hand holds an open scroll, upon which
is written, "iElla, a Tragedy." In one of
the monument's niches is a torn or severed
scroll, with the legend, "The Poems of
Bowiie." While the chief panel bears the
words from the poet's own pen, written
half in jest, half in earnest, but incompara
ble in their aptitude: "To the memory of
Thomas Chatterton. Beader, judge not if
thou art a Christian. Believe that he shall
be judged by a superior power. To that
power alone is he now answerable."
Charming Literary Kemlnlscencr-n.
If something like a resentfulness and
heartache did not come at every turn When
seeking for kindly Chatterton shrines, one
would be deeply charmed and interested in
the antiquarian, historic and literary remi
niscences of this fine old Bristol town.
Cabot, who should be equally honored
with Columbus, sailed on his voyage of
American discovery from this port The
"Great Western," the first steam craft to
successfully demonstrate the practicability
of steam navigation between the two conti
nents, was built and manned at Bristol. The
great Burke, "friend ot America," repre
sented the city in Parliament; and the un
happy ex-Empress Eugenie was once a
schoolgirl here.
I have come upon names and local remin
iscences of nearly 60 really noted men and
women of letters who were born in or for a
time lived at Bristol. Defoe frequented its
"Bed Lion," and Selkirk for a time lived
in St. Stephen's parish. "Hugh Conway"
was born, and Canon Kingsley educated
here. Hallam came out ot its Grammar
School and Hume was a Bristol merchant's
clerk. The author of Butler's "Analogy"
was Bishop of Bristol; Hannah Moore,
though living most ot her lite at "Barley
wood, ' a few miles distant, was born in
and died at Bristol; the Porter sisters,
Mary liobinson and Amelia B. Edwards,
were all Bristol women; while a oharming
book could be alone written on the early
careers of Southey and Coleridge, both
begun in Utopian dreams of "Pantisocraoy"
in this grimy yet rich and mellow old West
of England seaport town.
EOGAK L. WAKEMAN.
THE Czar I looking to Uncln Jerry Itnsk
to prevent another fumlne. Kead Carpen
ter's letter In THE DISPATCH to-mnrrow.
VEEY QUIET AT CHICAGO.
Comparatively Few Heals of Any Size Are
Being Contemplated.
Chicago, July 22. Special. Kogers.Brown
& Merwin say: Increasing quiet character
izes the pig iron market in this district.
This is the condition which usually prevails
at this time of year. Carload orders are
numerous. These, with small lots for early
shipment, cover the main run of business
going, still here and there large consumers
are found making Inquiries on round lots,
but comparatively few deals of size ore
pending. Consumption continues at a
healthy rate. Consumers have settled down
to the conviction that there Is likely to be
little change In the way or prices before the
latter part of the year, and those who have
not bought for scattered delivery are dis
posed to wan ana taao tneir onances irom
month to month as they need metal for con
sumption. Ho particular change exists in the Lake
Superior charcoal department other than
that the few furnaces which have been will
ing to ont $16 SO, Chicago, have now stiffened
up and are holding firmly at this price.
Cotton.
LiVEitrooL. July 23. Cotton steady, with
fair demand: middlings, 3 15-16d; sales, 8,000
hales, of which 1,000 nere lor speculation
and export, and Included 0,800 American;
futures closed Arm.
GALViSTOir,July22. Cotton quiet; middling,"
7c; low middling, 0jc: good oidlnnrv. 6c: net
and eross receipts, 209 bales: rales, 499 hales;
stock:, 17,75-3 bales. Weekly Ket and gross re
ceipts, 447 bales; exports coastwise, 703;
sales, S94; spinners, 43 bales.
New Obleans, 'July 22. Cotton steady;
middling, 7c; low middling, 6Jc; good oidl
nary, 6c; net and gross receipts, 4 bales; ex
ports to Great Britain, 4,004 lmle; to tlie
continent, 23J bales; sales, 3tf) balca; stock:,
35,554 hales. Weekly Net receipts, 4.541
bales; gros, 4.635 bales; exports to Great
Britain, 9,035 bales: to the continent, 1,923
bales; coastwise, 912 bales; sales. 3,400 bales,
Exports eoanwl-o Julv 16 should have been
224 bales; July 20, 602 bales.
Wool.
New Tons, July 23 Wool firm and quiet;
domestio fleece, 2533c; pulled, 2032c;
Texas, 1726c
St. Lours, July 22. Wool Becelpts, 91,700
pounds; shipments, 107,800 pounds. The
market Is quiet and the feeling ratuer easy,
stooks being rather heavy for the season;
medium Missouri and Illinois, 2022c; Kan
sas and Nebraska, 1720o; Texas, Indian
Territory and Arkansas, 19J2c for 8 to 12
months; Wyoming and DaSota, 1721c;
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, 1720c;
coarse from all sections ranges 1316c; Colo
rado, 18019s,
DITOBCE by climate Is a kind not recog
nized by law. Bead of an extraordinary
case in THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
iwwwm'
IS NOW BELOW 20,000.
The Production of McDonald Is Lower
Than for Many Months.
GORDON SANDERS SHOWING UP.
Greenlee & Font's No. 1 on the Noble Will
le Prilled in To-Day.
SATiB OP SISTEESTILLE PE0PEETT
The estimated production of McDonald
bas at last fallen below 20,00 barrels a day.
It was given out yesterday to be 19,B00, and
it may be many a long day before it goes
above that mark again, as the outlook is
not favorable for such a movement.
There was a little change for the better in
the Gordon sanders of the Meise pool yes
terday. The Forest Oil Company's No. 3, on the
Mrs. Campbell farm, is now making about
ten barrels an hour. Thursday the indica
tions were not favorable for it to be a 100
barrel well.
The same company's No. S, on the Mrs.
Campbell, was eight feet in the sand yes
terday forenoon and making about live bar
rels an hour.
b Their No. 2 on the Robert Wallace farm is
almost through the Gordon, and dry. It will
be drilled to the fifth sand. It Is about 800
feet northeast of the old Meise No. L No. 1
on the Itobort Wallace which was shut
down In order that Its gas might be used In
drilling their other wells has been started
np and Is beins rushed to the Gordon. It is
now down about 1,400 feet.
The Forest has still three wells on the
Mrs. Campbell property. No. 4 is 1,600 feet
deep, No. 6 about 1 200, and No. 7, 800 feet.
This company's No. 4 on the John MoEwen
farm is drillinz at 1.20O feet, and No. 3 on the
McClelland property northeast o( Oakdale.
is 1.300 feet deep.
VI ade No. 7 Yields 150 Barrels.
Greenlee & Forst brought in their No. 7,
on the Wade farm, yesterday and It Is good
for probably 150 barrels from the Gordon
sand. It was spraying steadily yesterday
morning, and the flow seemed to be increas
ing. Their No. I, on the Noblo farm, in the
western part of the McDonald field, was in
the top of the sand at noon yesterday, when
it was shut down to be measured up. The
owners expect to get a well, as it Is on
a 45 line southwest of the old Fire
and Fitzglbbons & Co.'s No. 3 Walker, both
of which weie good wells. It ia about 300
Seet south of Siaglo. Lenz & Co.'s No. 4
Walker, In which they found a little oIL
North of the No. 4 Walker, about l.MX) feet,
is No. 1 Walker, which was dry. Greenlee
Forst, therefore, believe that the belt runs
south of the Walker wells and that they are
on top or it. Their No. 6. on the Marshnll
farm, at Noblestowu, Is still drilling in the
Gordon, which at this point is over 40 feec
thick. They expect to reach the fifth sand
by Monday.
The No. 2 Kirk, of Greenlee 4 Forst, lo
cated south of the old Meise well, is due in
the Gordon next Tuesday.
Slagle, Lenz & Freed shot their No. 2 Noble
vesterduy morning, and it wnt reported to
have Increased from 50 to about 100 barrels
a day.
WiLDwooD Operations In this field are al
most at a standstill. About the only oil
wells drilling arc fatlerson & Co-'sNo. 1
llessler, which is down 500 feet, and Bams
dall & Co.'s No. 1 Moon, which is drilling at
200 reet.
The Philadelphia Gas Company has three
gas wells under way. Their well on the
bteel larm is down 500 feet; on the Thomas,
1,300, and they are building a rig on the
Boyle farm.
Spans, Chalfant & Co.'s well on the Brad
foid farm is 400 leet deep.
Miller's Ban I'roperty Po'd.
One of the bis deals in oil property which
Tue Dispatch mentioned a few days ago as
being in tho air was brought to earth yes
terday. It is the purchase of the Miller's
Bun Oil Company's property, in the Sisters
ville field, by Georjte W. Ilenry, of Chicago.
The consideration, $150,000.
The Miller's Run Company was a pioneer
in the Sistersville field, and leased up about
1,000 nores In Monroe county, O., ana above
Sistersville about two miles. It consists of
leases of the btowart. Deist, McKnlght, Mlt
tendorf, Ludolph, Jarre tt Colvin. Charles
Colvln and the Jacob and the Ben Bowls
fiums. There were eight producing wells
transierred outright .and a one-half interest
In lour wells iu-rwhj,b, the Kanawha Oil
Company is Interested.' The Miller' Run
people refused yesterday to give the pro
duction of the wells. J. B. Younjtson is
Jretident of the Miller's Bun Oil Company
and Joseph F. Brown Treasurer.
Ihe Ganges.
Tho hourly gauges of the larger wells at
McDonald yesterday were as follows: Morsan
No. 2. Oakdale OH Company, 23: Bobo No. 3,
Florence Oil Company, SO; Sinclair Oil Com
pany's No. 1, 35: Forst & Greenlee's No, 3 Mc
Mnrrav, 2Z. The estimated production was
19,500; stock in the field, 50,000.
Bans and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs on the 21st
were 34,401; shipments, 10,433.
Southwest runs, McDonald division, on the
21st. 24,613. Outside of tho McDonald.
8,500. Buckeje Pipe Line. SIncksburg divis
ion. 1.S83. Lima division, 44.521; shipments,
51,195. Eureka Pipe Line, 10,093; shipments,
1,976. Now York Transit shipments, 16,614.
Southern Pine Line shipments were 28,871.
The runs of the Tidewater Pipe Line yes ter
day were 5,016; total, 74 S35: averaee, 3,539.
The shipments were 22,06o; total, 180,969; aver
age, 8,617.
The OH Market.
ftange of the August option: Opening,
52io; highest, 52c: lowest, 52Jc; closing,
"kc.
Iteflned oil New York, 6c; London, 4d;
An twerp, 13Jf.
New York. July 22. The petroleum mar
ket opened steady but there was no move
ment to prices, and after the opening sale
the market became dull and remained so
until the close. Pennsylvania oil, spot sales,
none; Angnst option sales, 5,000 barrels, at
52o. Lima oil, no sales. Total sales, 5,000
ouireis.
Oir. Crrr, July 22 National Transit certifi
cates opened at 52c; hhthest, 52c; lowest,
52'c: closed, 62c bales, ll.OOObarrels: clear
ances, 76,000 ban els; shipments, 83,330 bar
rels; runs, 88,0?4 barrels.
Allegheny County M. D's on an Ontlng.
A nnmberof members of the Allegheny
County Medical Association enjoyed a holi
day yesterday at Elwood. The party reached
the pretty little village shortly after noon,
and were welcomed by the local physicians
and entertained at the Hotel Oliver in a
becoming manner.
'A YOUNG WOMAN AT FIFTY."
Or, as the world expresses it, "a well-preserved
woman.'' One who, understanding
the rules of health, has followed them, and
preserved her youthful appearance. Mrs.
Pinlcham has many correspondents who,
through her advice and care, can look with
satisfaction in their mirrors.
LYDIAE.PInKHArn'Scv?u
goes to the root of all female complaints,
renews the waning vitality, and invigorates
the entire system. Intelligent women ot
middle age know well its wonderful powers.
All Druggists sell it as a standard arti
cle, or sent by mail, in form of Pills or
Lozenges, on receipt ot SI. 00.
. Mrs. Finkham freely answers letters o!
Inquiry. Enclose stamp for reply.
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Send two 2-cent stamni Iar Mrs. Plnkham
beautiful 83-page illustrated book, entitled
bUlUb IU HESLIH AND EI UUEII&.'
ii cgnuuns avoiumo ot raiuaaia imormauon,
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it wis satg lliet. and way save jouri.
Ijtflsi E. Plnkham Mod. Ca.( Lynn. Massb
SWEET FACES OF
When One is Born There's
An Angel in the House.
What One of These Sweet Human
Buds Means to Parents.
Huge Albums That Contain the Like-'
nesses of Happy Little Ones-
As babies we were all Interesting.
And as parents there Is not&lnjr In this world la
teref U ns to much as babies. They are pictures
that have no need of a frame, the homeliest oue of
them more beautiful than any painting ever can
be.
Almost anyone who has peeped Into the store
windows of booksellers has seen the faces of the
choir of anjteliby Corregjtlo. and the pictures by
Baphael of that enudbood which Christianity dei
fied, and the sweet faces of Sir Joshua's slnginr
cherubi. But who will say that amid the whole
group of these glorious pictures one blunt, button
faced, living baby is not more loTely, more angelic,
fuller of Inspiration than them all?
-When the baby Is born there's an angel ia the
house.
From tne possession of one of these sweet human
buds comes a sympathy with many things, a hun
dred beauties never sus
pected, a new world of
pleasure. But babyhood
Is a serious affair, and
many plain, homely
truths must be looked In
the face. Tlie little one
must live and be well. And
yet those cold affairs, the
lintl MISS DCNPHY. doctor's figures, show us
that far too few do live, and that fewer still are
well.
And that July and August Is the season when
they suffer.
They starve and grow sick and die, for want of
proper nourishment! The nursing mother Is often
weak or sick herself. In
elties there Is a proverbial
danger la the milk sup
ply. Cholera infantum
comes, and half the fu
nerals In Julv and August
are of children under S
years old.
tVlse doctors and expe
MAPJOr.IE.
rienced mothers know that the baby's health at
this time depends on proper food. Do not, they
are continually saying, experiment with cow's
milk, condensed milk or doubtful preparations. If
the mother's milk Is, for any cause, insufficient,
simply use the standard substitute for mother's
milk, lactatcd food. In it the combination of the
necessary elements of purr, healthy mother's mill
is accomplished.
-Vith pure milk sugar as a basis, there Is com
bined the richest gluten fluur of wheat and oats,
which, by long subjection to high steam heat
under pressure, and while In constant motion,
has been perfectly cooked and made ready to be
easily acted qpoa by the important addition of pure
malt extract. This ex
tract Is obtained from the
finest malted barley, with
out the aid of heat, so
that Its full dlastasle
power Is retained unim
paired. It Is combined
with Ihe other elements of
the food, the result being
a homosencous product
that is easllr assimilated
MISS babves. "by the feeblest stomach.
It is a safe, simple, Invalnable food for Infants,
and they like It and thrlye upon It, and grow
healthy and strong. Ilalfl a dozen photographs
were taken at random t-'ij
other day from ths
huge albums that contain
the likenesses ef ,audreds
of happy Utile ones whose
fond parents have written
to the Wells A Rlehardion
Co, heartfelt letters telling g
vi lutr Kiwti bust inciaiBfi ji
Miul 1,4a ilftn. fnw ft. t
babies. li"?
Mrs. William May Smith. master smith.
ofl'roylncetown, Mass.. a portrait of whose little
son Is given here, writes:
"My baby was a frail little thing when he was
born.. lie was nursed at the breast no til he was
four montbs old, when the doctor said De and bis
mother would both die If he was not weaned. We
tried cow's milk, which was not adapted to his '
needs, so we used lactated food, following the
directions exactly. Since then be has gained a
pound a month, has bad very little sickness and
seems strong and bright. I hare had no exper tenet
with any other child or any otber food, hut I am
sure this child has thrived on lactated food. One
friend says of him: I would not hare given two
cents for him when he was two weeks old,. bat now,
if he was mine, no money could buy him. And I
am sure his father and mother agree with the last
clause of that statement."
Mr. J. B. Henderson, of Burlington. Vt., says:
The photograph of
little Marjorle, which I
send you herewith, shows
that her use of lactated
food has been perfectly
satisfactory. Living ex
clnslrely upon this food
for months.wltbout a sick
day. istbe best evidence
minnix iiatxis. that lactated food thor
oughly nourishes. She had but little trouble while
cutting teeth, and I ascribe this to the bone-form
lng properties of the food, and that It prerents
Irritation of the stomach and bowels."
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ilaynes, 4 Autumn St., East
Somerrllle, Mass., send this letter:
"Our little adopted daughter, seventeen month
old. weighs SK pounds and Is a very healthy.happy
child. She owes health to lactated food. It agrees
with her In every respect, keeping the bowels reg
ular. I can recommend It for keeping the bowels
regular and being the best food for bottle babies.
Baby Is the picture of health and knows nothing
of th many diseases children usually suffer from
while teething."
from Bpencerport, X. T., Mrs. I. J. Woodman-
see writes:
"My little girl was quite
sick last May with bowel
trouble, and after trying
several things, the drug
gist advised lne to use
lactated food. I did so
and she improved rap
Idly. She has been using
the food since then, and
it has kept her well and
strong. I shall always
recommend It when I see
"
KISS WOODMASSII.
a baby that la sick or fretful, for my experience
has satisfied me that lactated food will make any
child rosy, plump and welL' '
And so they write, hundreds of happy parents,
about this nutritious, palatable and easily digested
food, which comes done up In a handy package
and can be had at any drug store.
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KIDNEYS,
Is a relief and snro enrofo
the Urinary Organs, Orava
and Chronic Catarrh of the
Bladder.
The Swiss Stomach Bitten
are a sure cure for DvsdodsIs,
tbadxkjlbx Liver Complaint and every
roocles of lndlsrsstion.
TUd Cham Tonic thn mmt nomilar
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ration for cure of Couztis. Colds. BronchitU
suid Inn? trouhln-
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