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TWELVE PAGES
EVERYONE IS INTERESTED.
Local freight agents make a great mis
take in assuming an air of injury and of
fended dignity on account of the agitation,
to remove freight discriminations a'gainst
Pittsburg.and establish a bureau to further
the city's interests in the matter. When
it is remembered that local manufacturers
and merchants are only just realizing the
necessity for united action on behalf of
individual and municipal rights, there is
little need for wonder or reproach that the
railroad agents have hitherto been labor
ing under a similar mistaken apathy. Now
that the question is coming to the fore, it
behooves the freisht agents to do all in
their power to aid the movement for the
inauguration of a more satisfactory state
ot affairs. The interests of the freight
agents are identical with those of the city
as a whole, and they will be wise to show
their realization of the fact by throwing in
their lot with the agitators. To deny the
existence of inequities and profess that
anyone asks the railroads to do business at
a loss is ridiculous to the face of the evi
dence. A freight bureau nnder such properly
qualified management as is proposed
would be no less a convenience for the rail
road aeents than for the shippers. There
is- every indication that such a bureau
will be established, and the freight agents
will find reasonable co-operation far more
profitable than factious antagonism.
Every merchant and manufacturer and
in fact every Pittsburger is the gainer by
any enhancement of the city's benefits.
And local railroad agents should join
with other individuals to secure the ad
vantages only to be derived from con
certed action.
FRAUD MADE DIFFICULT.
The activity of both parties in New
York in appointing officers to watch one
another and preserve the purity of the
polls is an indication that the repeater
and the colonist will find more than the
usual obstacles in the way of fraud. The
Democratic party by its threats of resist
ance to the United States Deputy Mar
shals shows a disregard of the decisions of
the United States Supreme Court, and a
desire to be free from supervision at the
polling booths that amounts to something
stronger than an insinuation of the means
by which it hopes to secure ballots at any
price.
If any collision should occur between
State and Federal authorities the former
will be directly responsible therefor, and
the nation will note the fact
A ROAD FOSSrurxiTT.
A remarkable indication of the possible
development ot good roads is given in the
instance of a farmer in California, who
utilizes an available highway to haul his
grain by a traction engine pulling a train
of farm wagons to the nearest market,
thus avoiding the local freight charges.
By this use of machinery on the highways
he takes about forty ton3 of grain to
market at a single trip, and as he uses the
same machinery largely in farming opera
tions the saving by this adaptation of
machinery for agricultural motive power
is very markel
The development is akin to that noted
in TnE Dispatch the other day of elec
trical buss.es in the cities. For both the
best classes of roadway are required. In
the city a perfectly smooth pavement is
needed for the electrical machinery; in
the country a solid and level roadway is
requisite to make the steam traction
engine practicable. Where both are pro
vided the possibilities of development for
both agricultural transportation and
municipal transit are almost infinite.
It is easy to see that if a system of solid
roadways mads all farms accessible to
steam traction it would exercise a great
influence on one of the problems of the
day. The road engine cannot of course be
expected to haul as cheaply as the rail
way locomotive. But as the local rates of
the railwajs arc always the most exorbi
tant, and as this method would enable the
farmers to reach competitive points, its
first and greatest result, if the improved
highways were furnished for the traction
engines to run upon, would be the bring
ing of railway competition to every farm.
Such a result would mean an immense in
crease of the value of farming property.
It depends, of course, on road improve
ment for its possibility. The benefit's to
be secured from that great reform are con
stantly being demonstrated m infinite
variety and almost incalculable magni
tude. TO STUDY FIRE-FIGHTING.
New York is about to make an experi
ment that will be full of interest for the
entire country. Private enterprise, with
semi-official baclang.'intends to establish
a New York School of Fire Extinguish
ment. The Board of Directors includes
several leading fire chiefs, and Charles O.
Shay, ex-Chief of New York's fire de
partment, is to have charge of the insti
tution. The undertaking has .the support
of the President of the New York Fire
Commission, and the National Association
of Fire Engineers, while Chief Bonner is
one of the ardent advocates. A steam
fire engine, trucks, ladders and all modern
fire apparatus will be found in the equip
ments. Daily classes covering a period of
three months will form the course, at the
end of which diplomas will be awarded
on the result of a rigid examination.
There is also to be a post-graduate course
open only to men and officers of paid de
partments and chiefs of volunteer depart
ments. Simon Bretano.the projector, has
long made a specialty of fire-fighting
studies, has a large library on the subject,
and is frequently consulted on the meth
ods best adapted lor emergencies.
There is a great opening for an estab
lishment of this kind, and its inaugura
tion should mark a new era in the prog
ress of America's fire departments. The
practical training to familiarize intending
firemen with the paraphernalia of their
work will in itself be highly useful by its
tendency to minimize the awkwardness of
raw hinds and establish a standard of
Initial efficiency. From the post-graduate
course a great deal of valuable information
should be derived. Fire-fighting Is rapidly
developing into a science, and there Is" an
immense field for research in what may
he termed its theoretical side. The" New
York School of Fire Extinguishment de
serves every encouragement and should
jprove so successful as to lead to the es
tablishment of similar institutions up and
down the country. '
WHAT PBOTECHON.DOES.
There is a great deal of incontrovertible
logic and sound sense in the arguments
on behalf of Protection which will be
found addressed to The Dispatch in an
other column of this morning's issue.
Mr. Holsopple's letter is a clear exposition
of reasons for continuing a protective
tariff as deduced from the historic experi
ence of the country, and as supported by
the arguments of common sense. The
Democratic claims are taken up and de
molished seriatim as they are brought into
collision with the evidence 6f hard facts.
Our correspondent does not give all the
arguments on behalf of Protection, but all
that he does give are weighty. He says
nothing of the advantages of establishing
American industrial Independepce, from
the view of practicalinternational politics.
But he clearly points out that the protective
tariff is no respecter of persons or locali
ties, and that on the contrary its benefits
are national No discrimination is made
on behalf of this or that particular indus
try, but those occupations -which are not
directly protected by the tariff on foreign
products are in most cases directly pro
tected by geographical circumstances, and
In all derive benefits more or less directly
from the protection of other industries.
A tariff for revenue oniy would reduce
the natural advantages of this country to
their mimimum value. A protective tariff
enhances them to the maximum. Protec
tion shuts off the competition of foreign
cheap labor, it diversifies American in
dustries, encourages industrial Independ
ence, maintains the rate of American
wages, does not increase the cost of the
necessities of life, and generally it se
cures for Americans the natural advan
tages of America, while Increasing and
making the most of them. A tariff for
revenue only would admit foreign prod
ucts, confine American occupations to
those for which the situation of the coun
try provides natural protection, make this
country dependent on others for many
necessities and most luxuries, would
diminish thn home market and generally
do everything to aid foreign interests at
the expense of Americans.
These are the leading pros and cons in
the prime issue of Tuesday's election, and
it is on these that the business sense of
the country is called upon to make Its
decision.
THE AGITATION IN ALLEGHENY.
The discontent of the people of Alle
gheny with the conduct of their city gov
ernment is abundantly justified to anyone
w ho has kept track of the surprises de
veloped across the river during the past
couple of years. But we fail to see that
Allegheny taxpayers will better their con
dition by refusing needed expenditures
for improvements simply because of a
fear that dishonest officials may steal or
misappropriate the money as soon as it is
raised. The persons who hold office in
Allegheny, from Councilmen down, have
been elected by the Allegheny taxpayers.
Had these taxpayers beeu alive to an in
telligent and vigorous use of their suf
frages, they would have men in office
upon whom they could depend. If any
elected officials behaved dishonestly or
corruptly there should be enough spent
among the taxpayers to s;nd such
offenders out of City Hall and into certain
other institutions also on the .Allegheny
side of the river where places are pre
pared and maintained for such and their
kind by the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vaniathe penitentiary and workhouse.
But the taxpayers will also have in the
future this same power which they may
have neglected in the past. They will
still have the election of Councilmen and
of other officials on their hands. If the
state of the case is so utterly bad in Alle
gheny that even the suffrage is unable to
secure honest and upright agents, then
that community had better throw up the
sponge and apply for admission to Pitts
burg. Pittsburg does not by any means
point with pride to her Councils. There
are many notorious occasions on this side
of the river when the public interests are
in the coolest manner possible subordin
ated by Councils to private interests. But
the situation has never got quite so hope
lessly bad, that the Pittsburg taxpayers
feared to authorize the money for needed
improvements lest it might bo stolen be
fore being expended.
But if at present the situation seems to
give a decidedly unpleasant quarter of an
hour to the Allegheny taxpayers, it is
really the jobbers who are In danger.
When a people get driven by corrupt and
incapable government to a polut at which
for a moment they do not seem to know
what to do, that is the very time when
they are apt to arise in their might, al
most without warning, and do notable
things which bring for a time at least the
greatly desired relief. It was so on the
famous uprising against Tammany at
New York twenty years ago. It has been
more recently so in Cincinnati, Toledo,
Chicago and other cities. It may be so in
Allegheny very soon.
FOREIGN TESTIMONY.
The bitter outcry raised by the British
peers against the disastrous effects of the
McKinley bill have a good deal of force
as an argument in favor of a protective
tariff, from an American point of view.
It is perfectly natural that the exclusion
of British producers from the American
market should appear to them a great
hardship. The direct object of protection
is not of course to cause disaster to Brit
ish commerce. But the shutting down of
trans-Atlantic factories, and the low ebb
to which British trade in general has been
reduced, is striking testimony that Amer
ica has been preserved to Americans.
In framing the policy of this country
the first consideration must be its own
welfare, and If that can only be secured
at the incidental expense of others, that is
the misfortune of the others and no fault
of ours. , The closing down and migra
tion of foreign plants as the result of our
policy is something for foreign govern
ments to remedy if they can. Our busi
ness is to look after the interests of Amer
ica exclusively without any consideration
of foreign distress. The hopes expressed
for Mr. Cleveland's election, so that the
American market may be thrown ojen to
British producers, Is an argument against
permitting Democratic success for every
American who can distinguish black from
white and see the advantage of fostering
home industries and. maintaining the
American standariof wages.
A vote for the continuance of prosperity
and protectlon'is a-voto for the principles of
Hamilton, Jaokson, Jefferson, Madison,
Webster and Washington. A ballot cast for
ex-President Cleveland, at this time, is sim
ply in indorsement of Calhoun's ideas on
nullification. " l
FROM the local" article in another column
it will be seen' that Superintendent Hamil
ton, of the Allegheny,. Parks, has a great
treat in store for lovers of the beautiful. It
is promised that a, brilliant display of form
and color will be made in the Fhipps con
servatories, wner. the public is admitted to
view the chrysanthemums within the next
few days. Aside from its multiform beau
ties, this flower is especially interesting to
the floriculturist ana fhe average person,
whose1 knowledge of botany isi scant, be
cause it is a siriklng"lndication or the ex
tent to whloh .the skill of man can modify
the production's of untratnmeled nature. Ev
ery season brlpgs to light some fresh va
riety of shape, or sbine'new tint in the ranks
of the gracllo and bright or soft-lined orient
al flowers. Superintendent Hamilton lias
several novelties to delight the visitors
withal, the successful maturing of which is
due to his own patient skill, and there is
every reason to suppose that the exhibition
will be patronized as largely as it merits.
There is some What of fad and fashion about
the amount of attention now paid by West
ern folk to the flower -which the Japanese
have cherished for centuries as a national
emblem. But In this case fad and fashion
aie to be liberally encouraged, as in every
instance where they are found in attend
ance on the cultivation of the really beau
tifnL The interdependence of the various factors
In tbis country's commercial prosperity
would become 'painfully evident if a tariff
for revenue only were once enforced at the
expense of manufactories whose very exist
ence is dependent upon protection.
First the Democrats say that Protection
is unconstitutional, then they say that a lit
tle of the unconstitutional is an excellent
thing. Again they ask for the re-establishment
of a wildcat banking, and at the same
time profess to be opposed to unstable
money and a fluctuating currency. All tbis
is an interesting indication of the Demo
cratic inclination to band together all men
anxious tOTepIace existing office-holders by
their none too humble selves. But it is, too,
a display of unti us t worthy inconsistency
which is little fitted .to meet with appioval
from the common business sense of the
country.
From the amount of money contributed
to, and spent by, the" Democratic National
Committee, It is evident that some lew Dem
ocrats, at least, have managed, to thrive
along with the rest of -the country under a
protective tariff.
It is well that the Chicago directory of
the World's Fair sbonld be attempting to
bring about a 'reconsideration of the Sun
day closing of the Exposition. There can
be no doubt that' under certain proper re
strictions there would be a great pnDlic gain
by opening up the priceless treasures to bo
gathered there to the inspection of visitors
on Sunday. The fact that the labor organ
izations of Chicago favor the opening, while
the. saloon keepers take the opposite, is a
strong argument in itself.
Free bridges -and all other municipal
blessings will be secured for Pittsburg when
citizens take the amount of interest in
municipal affairs which their duty and their
profit alike call for. '
The outward and ""visible sign of the
conspicuous absence ot those long-delayed
street signs Is found In the bewilderment of
the wayfarer who cannot keep a mental
record of Pittsburg's growtn, and the no
menclature of its new' streets and avenues
to say nothing of the stranger's inconven
ience in the very center of the city.
" ' 2.
A vote at the polls Is worth .several in
the rainbow-chaser's estimates, and over
confldehce is liable to "encourage disastrous
inclinations to absenteeism.
It is said that when the French forces
capture Abomey, King of Dahomey, they
will cut his head off. No doubt a guillotine
was imported by the invading army with
tbis end in view. But your King has to be
caught betore bis head.can be chopped off.
What will be the late of surviving Amazons
is not stated.
A Democratic, candidate who Is afraid
of his party's platform Can hardly wonder
that the country is disinclined to trust the
nominee of such a party.
Allegheny, needs improvement, and
nobody doubts that the boncVissne wonld be
a good thing if the proper use of the money
conld be guaranteed. It depends simply on
the care with which Alleghenians select
their Councilmen whether the guaranty is
obtainable or not.
Soke of the office-seekers must be under
going a painful suspense Just now, compared
to which even the decision of defeat would
be a relief.
Mr. Jay Gould is to send some of the
contents of bis celebrated conservatories to
the World's Fair, It is likely that some of
his celebrated railroad plants will also make
an exhibit at Chicago. Jay Gould is a deeply
interested connoisseur in plants of more
than one kind.
Two deaf mutes were married at Spring
field, O., yesterday. This is one of the cases
where silence save consent.
Speculation in politics is as risky and
unprofitable as in anything else.
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
TjAdv Randolph' Churchill has re
covered lrom her illness so much that the
physicians have ceased to issue dally bul
letins. Mrs. Sunabbai Wadia, a lady from the
East, as her name implies, is about to reach
out for famo on the London stage as a come
dienne. Bishop Phillips Brooks strongly con
demns the holdlngof secret sessions of religi
ous conventions as nn-American and un
christianlike. Collecting old china is Miss Braddon's
hobby, and in her house at Richmond, near
London, she has a series of well-stocked
china cabinets.
The" marriage of" Miss North, only
daughter of Colonel North, the Nitrate King,
to Mr. Lockett, a merchant of Liverpool,
took place In London yesterday.
Miss Kate. Field does not like desk
work. Give her a big, sort, easy chair, a
qnlet but cheerful corner and a good knee
pad and she will pour out copy as if it was
no.trouble.
Kedfield Proctor feels as if he was
itting upon velvet. Vermont has elected
him to fill out the unexpired term of Senator
Edmunds and the next regular term, which
will carry him over until 1899.
Charles H. Hoyt, the playwright, has
been nominated for the Legislature by the
Democrats of Cbarlestown, N. II., a strong
Republican district. The boys have got back
on Charlie with interest this time.
PnoitA. D. Hopkins, of the "West Vir
ginia experiment station; has arrived from
Europe with a bug which, he thinks, will de
stroy the pine-tree beetle that has so greatly
damaged the West Virginia forests.
Edwin Booth, the actor, left Lake wood,
N. J., yesterday for New York. He has not
improved In health. Be had to be supported
on either sldo by his son-in-law and daughter
as he walked from the hotel to the carriage
that was -waiting for him to take him to the
statioa. '
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CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.
The complications caused by fusion In
crease rather than diminish as election day
approaches. The Democrats are not having
It all their own way in the later combina
tions, either. That in Virginia may cause
them serious tronble. Cleveland's plurality
In the Old Dominion four years ago was less
than 2,000, and If, as reported, the Populists
have agreed to support the Eepublican
electoral ticket in exchange for votes for
Congressional candidates, the State must at
least be placed in the doubtful column. The
Democrats base their hopes on the race
that they carried the State at the last Gub
ernatorial election by 12,177, and on the
force bill scare. In Arkansas, too, the Ee
publicans and new party have effected an
alliance, out as the Democrats had a ma
jority of nearly 30,000 over all at
the recent State ' election they are
not greatly alarmed. Mr. Magee Is
still hard at work in Alabama or the
uninstructed electoral ticket. In the West
the Democrats and Populists have com
pleted fusion in South Dakota, and even the
Piohlnltionlsts are going to vote for the
Weaver tioket because their own nominees
were not allowed on the official ballot. The
Republicans seem to bo making headway
against the Inharmonious combination op
posed to them in Colorado, while the pro
posed deal In Oregon has fallen through be
cause ofithe retusal of the Democratic eleo
tor. to withdraw.
It is probably owing to the many dis
turbing features in the West and South that
the political gamblers are more eager to
make wagers on individual Statos than on
the general result.
There is no formal fusion irfNebraska,
but the Democratic leaders are advising a
portion of their adherents to vote for the
Weaver electors. . Major J. M. Carson, who
was clerk of the" Ways and Means
Committed during McKinley's regime,
has been investigating the situation
in the State. He writes in part as follows:
"As to the electoral ticket, personal Inquiry
and observation thus far lead me to say that
the eight votes of Nebraska are likely to be
given Weaver. The figures on the election
for Governor in 1S90 are taken as the basis
for calculation in estimating the probable
result of Tuesday's election. In that
contest an aggregate of 210,000 votes was
polled. The great local Interest felt in that
election, the Prohibition question being
involved, made the vote unusually large,
and It is generally believed that it will not
be exceeded this year, and, if it should be,
that the excess will be within 5,000. In the
last Presidental election the Prohibitionists
polled 9,129 votes. This is, perhaps, the
most uncertain quantity that enters into an
election, and the most export calculator
oannot approximate its strength with any
degree of accuracy. In their calculations
some experts eliminate the Prohibitionists
entirely, and others take 210,000 as the basis
of calculation, giving the excess to thePro
hibitlonists. The Republicans lully appre
ciate the danger which threatens their elec
toral ticket, and are working with a degree
of earnestness and determination never be
fore exhibited in this State, because Repub
lican supremacy was never befoio seriously
threatened. The opposition are equally
earnest and active, determined to lose no
advantage they now possess. Divisions on
the State ticket will continue, but these are
not likely to affect the Presidental contest.
Where the latter,may be affected the result
is more likely to strengthen than to weaken
the Alliance ticket. Surveying the field at
this time, I am Inclined to the belief that
the electoral rote of Nebraska will be cast
for the Weaver ticket."
The New York Recorder figures that the
electoral vote will stand as lollows: Harri
son, 277; Cleveland, 156, and Weaver, 11.
Murat Halstead has made a final
resume of the political situation. He still
sees the brightest Republican prospects,
and says: "I am of the opinion, now that
the air of November sparkles with frost,
that the Flower and Sheehan, Slocum and
Sickles, Murphy and CroKer and the unani
mous Now York delegation were in hot,
humid and tempestuous Jane in Chicago
that Mr. Cleveland will never again carry
New York and will not Have a second teim
of the Presidency. I know something
about tlio Republican managers of the cam
paign. They were reserved on the subject
of the State of New York until they had the
figures of registration, and the detailed
correspondence from the couuties. Then
figures showed''strqhger. by many thou
sands, above Hailem than four years ago,
and they are1 convinced the State
is for Harrison and Reld. They reach
this conclusion through the evidences
of public sentiment or which they are min
utely informed, and the analysis of registra
tion, which affords a better index to tho elec
tion than ever beiore, and thoir conserva
tive estimation of the favoring influences of
thepiosperity of the country and the de
moralizing imprudence, complicated with
irresolution, ot the Democracy in first chal
lenging und then evading rugged issues
with sharp and ragged edges. Thore has
been a curious jeaturo of the betting that
tells more than the gambling usually dis
plays. The Democi ats have" steadily given
odd- on the State ot New York and refused
to give them on the general result. They
have given odds on New Yoik and wanted
them on the event of the campaign. I think
Tammany's revenues have been emploved
to hold steady the odds on New York, and
that chances to hedge are reserved outside;
aleo that Republicans have been content to
get the favorable offers, and have not cared
up to this time to turn them, and I antici
pate a change before tho close of the week."
T. C. Von Storch, one of the Eepubli
can candidates for the Legislature in the
First district of Lackawanna county, has
withdrawn, leaving the field to John IE.
Farr. Mr. Farr's name will not be printed
on the official ballot, but as the distriot has
a Republican majority he can be elected it
the Republicans keep their eyes open and
use the proper energy.
The Republicans need much more money
for legitimate expenses in getting out the
vote In New York than, the Demoorats,
whose vote is massed in the cities. Imag
ine, for Instance, the extreme difficult' in
reaching the voters in a town like Wllmurt,
in Herkimer county. This town is narrow,
but stretches out like a parallelogram,
and is 50 miles long. Yet It only has one
polling place, which is so situated that the
inhabitants of the northwestern part ofthe
town will have to travel lOJnilesin order to
vote. It will be necessary for them to stay
over night at the polling place in order to
vote. The new railroad will carry them
within eight or ten utiles of the polling
place, but the fare is $3, and a wagon must
be hired to get over the distance not cov
ered by the rallioad, and thU will cost $5
more, unless several voters club together to
share the expense. It costs something,
therefoie, in money und time to vote in this
town, and It Is expensive being n patriot
there. If the State Committee undertuKes
to "get out the vote" in such sparcely set
tled, but, extensive, places as Wllmurt, it
will be obliged to spend a good deal of
money.
"William A. Sutherland, New York
member of the National Republican Com
mittee, has this to say of the political out
look: "My observation has been tbat we
am everywhere in splendid fighting trim,
pnJl see no reason to doubt success. In
diana is oars. So is Connecticut.: New York,
with its tremendous vote, cannot be lairly
put down at this lime as sure for either
party.
While the Democrats are parading a few
prominent Hoppers there Is a steady hegira
from their ranks of the manufacturers and
workingmen, who appreciate the uangors of
the Chicago platfonn. Benjamin W.Greer,
a well known manufacturer of worsted
goods in Germantown, the Philadelphia
suburb, is one of the latest protection re
cruits. In discussing his change of political
affiliation he says that as a careful business
man, after a most successful and prosperous
era, which gives every Indication of contin
ulng such, he thinks it would be nnsafe and
unwise to take any ohances, and that
the McKinley bill has already proven
a'benent and should not be endangered by
adverse legislation until it has boon given
ample time to prove the benefits claimed
for it. Iu sneaking of the claim that the
consumer had to pay the additional duties
through the increase of the tariff, Mr. Greer
said: "This talk about the consumer suffer
ing is all rot. The fact Is that not only bet
ter goods are being manufactured bore now
than before tne McKinley bill went into
effect, but thoy are actually being sold
cheaper than before the nigh duty was im
posed. In fact the Amerloan goods are fast
taking the place of the Imported, and the
competition through the Impetus given to
American manufacturing keeps down the
prices; and, the greater the competition, tne
lower the prices must be forced. In other
words the competition makes the goods
cheaper, and the workpeople get the benefit
of the wages."
Only a few days more of "claiming
with confidence."
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Stirring State of Affairs In Allegheny
Mr. Wachob Asks "What Has Become
of Large Sums Due tho City.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Since I was not allowed to explain at a
citizens' meeting the reason why Allegheny
is away behind in the way of publio im
provements Judging from the tone or your
editorial In Tuesnay'g Dispatch you might
feel willing to allow me to ask our city au
thorities to explain some llttlo matters per
taining to our finance before next Tuesday,
at which time they ask us to mortgage our
property for the little sum of $2,250,000, and
that, too, without any definite plan or esti
mate as to the actual cost of the improve-'
ments which they contemplate to make. '
Perhaps by the time they spend $2,250,000
they may request us to spend 3,000,000 more
or lose what has been spent. Perhaps the
Improvements might turn out like the elec
tric light plant, when Councils undertook
to light the heavens instead of the earth.
In looking over the reports of the experts
of the Auditing Committee I find that there
Is due the city from the various street rail
roads the sum or $238,079 27; from the various
natural gas companies the sum of $19,310 61;
scrdp metal which was not fonnd by the
experts on the books, but where it had been
sold to the amount of $1,853 35, and other
bills too numeious to mention, such as the
Items lor printing, where one item had been
charged 17 times and another 13 times. There
is another little matter some of us would
like to have information on. The book of
the Controller shows that during the year
1888 our treasurer put into the hands of the
delinquent tax collector the sum of $101,
322 20: In 1889 the sum or $107,571 31; during
1890 the sum or $131,867 75; during 1891 the
sum of $195,215 75. The sum total during the
fouryeais above mentioned is $538,180 01.
From the best information I can get, the
Controller's annual reports which, I con
fess, are to say the least bard to understand
nothing like this sum has been paid back.
Now, I ask: Whore is the balance! Is it
in the hands of the Collector-- or is it out
standingnot collected? This is what tho
taxpayers would like to kno; and I lor one
would like to know the facts in the case.
Our tax collector certainly cannot claim
the same excuse as our Controller that he
could not do the woik because he did not
have sufficient help. If he collects all that
weut into his hands during 18J1 his salary
and commission would be over $15,000. That
ought to be sufficient to command the help
required. Take the commission on the $195,
215 75 put into his hands by Tieasurer
McFerron for the year 1:91. .Upon this
ne gets a per cent, xnis would net mm
the nice little sum or $9,760 78. The sum
ho received from the County Treasurer iu
1891 was $35,610 64, upon which he has a com
mission of lu per cent, which would make
him the additional sum or $3,561. Tnere are
still tno additional sums to be heard from,
viz., $1,500 straight out or the treasury or
the city, also $300 for servics as clerk of the
Sinking Fund Committee, which it is said
only meets once a year.
I desire to be fair in this matter. The
$195,215 75 put into his hands by Treasurer
McFerron in 1891 was all against property
(so says McFerron). ,The $35,640 6i received
from the Comity Treasuier against
people or Allegheny, was in part personal
tax, and would no doubt in part be lost.
All we now desiiels to have a fair state
ment to show Just what amount has been
paid bade to the Treasury and what amount
is still uncollected. I would suggest to our
worthy Mayor that while he presses so
heavily with the right hand on the bond
question, he gently press with the
left the claims I have mentioned, and if he
succeeds in collecting them he Will have the
$200,000 which he proposes to spend per
annum on the streets by the issue or bonds.
He will not only have (he amount he asks
for, but will have money to loan to some
worthy object.
And irhe will impress upon the minds of
Councils the importance of charging the
stieet railroads a lair compensation, as well
as all other corporations having privileges
from the city, he will find sufficient funds to
more than repave the streets, which he de
sires to do with the proceeds or the bonds.
Thompson Wacuob.
Alleohext City, Nov. 3.
ABANDONED FAB US WASTES.
Many of the Old Massachusetts Homesteads
Pass Into New Hands.
BosTOir, Nov. 3. eciaLJ Excellent re
sults are being obtained from the efforts of
the State Board or Agriculture to find occu
pants for the abandoned farms of Massa
chusetts. The third report of the board will
be issued November 20 and will contain be
sides tho large number of abandoned farms
in Massachusetts already known to the pub
lic, descriptions of 10 others, whose locations
were recently discovered. Already there
have been hundreds of calls at the office of
the board for the catalogne and many letters
of commendation have also been received.
The circulation of the fimt edition of the
catalogne began December 5, 1S9L Requests
ror it came from nearly every State in the
Union, and within two months tho entire
edition was exhausted. The circulation of
the second edition of 1,500 copies of the cata
logues began February 1. 1S92. Nine new
descriptions were Included in thi3 edition,
making a total of 339. Requests lor the cat
alogue were received from time to time,
until in the middle of September the edition
became exhausted.
Efforts made to ascertain tbe results of
this work have resulted in returns being re
ceived concerning 221 of tbe 339 farms de
scribed in tbe catalogue. Ot these 16 nave
been reported sold. Thirteen owners wish
to have description withdrawn, and 162
owners wish description continued in the
third edition. It is noticed that a large ma
jority of the purchasers or the farms sold
are of native American parentage. Twenty
five or tbe purchasers wore residents or
Massachusetts at the time of pnrchasimr,
one of Nova Scotia, one or Illinois, one or
Florida, while the residences or 18 have not
been obtained.
Seventeen of tbe farms sold were reported
as sold for farming purposes, two for farm
ing purposes and poultry raising, three
for poultry raising, one for poultry raising
and market gardening, one ror sheep rais
ing, two for summer residences, three for
homes, one ror the timber on it, one for an
investment. Tbe intentions of 15 purchasers
have not been obtained.
METH0DI3T CHTJKCH EXTENSION.
The General Committee on This Branch
of the Work Now In Session.
Philadelphia, Nov. 3. The first day's ses
sion of the General Committee or Church
Extension of the Methodist Episcopal
Church met here this afternoon, Bishop
Foss presiding. The meetings or this com
mittee, which occur yearly, bring together
the representative men or the denomina
tion. The business transacted Inolnded
primarily the extension or the cause of
Methodism into new fields.
The Secretary's report shows that the
gross receipts during the year ending Octo
oer 31 weie $319,980. Since the beginning tne
receipts have been $1,619,779. In 1892 603
churches weie aided, the total since the be
ginning being 8.5S0. The fl-jures for tbe past
year show an encouraging gain.
Something to Bern ember.
Atlanta Journal.
Keep the Indian summer carnival iu mind.
It will be here to lejoico us even after the
election is gone.
DEATHb HhUE AX1) hLbtiWUERE.
Sirs. Agnes RItchey.
Mrs. Agnes Iiitthey, one ,of the oldest
residents of the comity, died suddenly at the resi
dence or her son-in-law, Samuel Young, on Frank
lin street yesterday afternoon. She was 90 years
or age, and wa born In Stowe township, her
maiden name being Agnes Speer. Although feeble,
as a result or her j ears, Mrs. Rltchcy always en
joyed good health, her death bclnit caused br a
suildm cull. ipse. At noon yesterday she ate a
hearty dinner and walked from in dining room
w Itliout assistance. She sat down to take her usual
arterdlnner nap and was fouud dying a couple or
honrs later. Mrs. Young, her daughter. Is the
only survivor of Mrs. HUchey's family. One of
her sons died of starvation hi Andersonvillc during
the war and another was killed In battle. Two
brothers are farmers In Stowe township. The
funeral will take place from No. 10 Franklin street
to-morrow afternoon.
Obituary Notes.
JAMES WIGGINS, the oldest locomotive engi
neer in Ohio, and probably In the United Slates,
died yesterday morning at Springaeld. O.. or old
arc, aged 87 yeirs. He negan as an engineer on the
old Baltimore and Washington lnls37and retired
in 1S73 from the Little Miami.
Jaxe Elizabeth Kellooq, mother or Clara
Louise Kellogg-Strakosch, died in New York
Tuesday or heart rallure.
Mrs. A. Jaoobs, one or the most noted char
itable ladles In the West and a leading worker m
tbe Society or Christian Aids and Endeavor and
all other like organizations, died yesterday morn
ing at Dearer, after a brief illness, of pneumonia.
BEAUTY AT 'A BAZAR.
The Fare at a Church Fair Held to Be Slore
Than Ordinarily Good A lawrence
vllle Teacher Married and Gone to
3Iexlco'-Brilliant Wedding at Boches--ter.
The bazar under the auspices of the ladios
of the Ninth United Presbyterian Church
commenced in Semple's Hall, Allegheny,
yesterday. The hall was prettily decorated,
and the different booths were arranged to
the greatest advantage, in friendly rivalry
with each other. Dinner and supper were
served, and the many guests who par
took or tho meals spoke highly of the cui
sine, and wished that the bazar would con
tinue longer than two days, if It wore only
to give the public an opportunity to enjoy
the excellent cookery of the ladles of the
bazar.
The Dooth in which fancy articles or dress,
etc, were served was in charge of Miss
Mamie Mahaffey and aids, while Miss Mar
garet Pattorson presided over tbe flower
booth. Ihe cdndles were dlsuensed Dy Mrs.
Martin Printer and aids, and Miss Sadie An
derson directed the serving of ice cream
Miss Lizzie Anderson took care of the doll
booth, and Mrs. Win. Boggs of tho flower
booth, and Mrs. James Mahaffey of tbe com
mon sense booth. Mrs. Oliver Anderson
was at the bead of the Supply Committee,
and Mrs. J. E. J. Mllllgan managed the din
ing room. Among other ladles who were
most useful in carrying on the business ot
the bazar yesterday were Mrs. Wm. An
derson, Mrs. James Crow, Mrs. JohnSmllev,
Mrs. McDonald, Mrs. Boyle, Mrs. MeFall,
Mrs. Tinsen and Mrs. Donaghue. The fair
will be continued to-day, and there Is every
indication tbat a large sum will be made for
the benefit of the church. .
A pretty wedding In Lawrenceville last
evening was that of Miss Hattle Fox, a
teacher in the Lawrenceville schools, and
Dr. Williams, a well-known physician of this
city. They will reside in Mexico.
This evenine the East End Musical Club
is to give the first or its series of concerts
for the season in Orphans Hall, East End.
Mr. Joseph C. Breil, the director, has pre
pared a good programme, including the fol
lowing choruses: Sanctus," from Mozart's
"Twelfth Moss;" "Love in May." and "Ode
to Columbus," with Mr. E. C. Grant as the
soloist. Among the well-known singers that
will take part are Mr. M. S. Rocereto, Miss
Agnes Liddell, Miss Grace Miller and Mr. J.
a Breil.
A NUMBER of prominent Pittsburgers
were in Rochester, Pa., last evening, attend
ing the wedding of Miss Clara Belie Fry, of
Rochester, and Mr. Henry Judson 'Sage, of
New York City. The cereirronv was per
formed at the residence or the bride's par
ents on New York street. Bev. A. J. Bonsall
officiated. The house was a mass or chrys
anthemums. The bridal parlor was fes
tooned with garlands of white chrysanthe
mums and smilax. The curtains were hnng
with the same sort or mixed green and
white. The portieres were hung with chrys
anthemums, arranged with artistic careless
ness, while in tho dinlnic room yellow
chrysanthemums were nsed, and the scent
or these beautiful flowers pervaded the
whole mansion. Tbe bride wore tbe con
ventional white silk wedding gown, and was
attended by four maids. The father of the
bride is 'Mr. H. C Fry, of the Rochester
Tumbler Works, and "is interested in tbe
ba'iklng business or that town. This was
tbe first wedding ever held in tbe Fry resi
dence, but it was decidedly one or the most
beautiful that was ever held in Rochester;
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Kate Calvert Carse to Mr.Wm. McNeil Pratt,
to take place next Wednesday evening.
This evening will take place one of the
most interesting ot the social gatherings or
the season so far. It will bo the musicale at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. Jarvis
Adams, Grnndview, Shadvside, for the bene
fit of the nurses' dormitory of the Homeo
pathic Hospital. Tbe details of decoration,
etc., are expected to be perfect.
A dinner was given "Wednesday evening
by Miss Elizabeth Dickson, of Sewlckley, for
her cousins, the Mlssos Elizabeth and Clara
Dickson, who left last night for New York.
Tbe Misses Dickson have been visiting in
Sewlckley for some weeks. The guests at
the dinner were Mrs. Thomas Graff, Mr. and
Mrs. Dexter Thayer, Mr. Thayer, of Buffalo;
Messrs. Bennett and Paul Graff and Mrs.
Hepburn Johns.
JUrs. George D. Hayes, ot Buffalo,
N. Y., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. N. McLain,
of Marchand street. East End- '
WILLIAM AT WITTENBERG.
William had a difficult part to play, but
acquittod himself most creditably. New
York Berald.
The Emperor's speech was in good taste
and trree from offense to any portion of the
German people, Cldcago Herald.
The Emperor's presence seems to have
given additional zest to an exceedingly in
teresting occasion. Washington Star.
These is one thing to be said in favor or
the Kaiser. He doesn't claim to he a
"bigger" man than old Luther. Washington
Post.
Kaiseb Wilhelm neither surprised nor
offended anybody'in particular in his two
addresses at the Wittenberg Luther celebra
tion. New York Recorder.
Kaiser Wilhfxm spoke with dignity and
earnestness, and with a restraint of ardor
somewhat unusual in his addresses to the
populace. Chicago Newt Reoortl.
The Emperor's participating, while it will
doubtless provoke criticism, will probably
bring tbe masses or the people still closer in
touch with their young ruler. Cliicago Inter
Ocnm.
The Kaiser's utterances had a quasi-political
meaning, and nil Germany listened with
wrapt attention while their Kaiser was set
ting rorth his views upon the religious con
ditions of the Fatherland. Baltimore Ber
ald. The fame of Luther belongs to the great
ness of Germany, and the German Emperor,
in his character or official custodian of Ger
man traditions and German fame, could not
well have done less than he did. Evening
Wisconsin.
Kaiser Wilhelm showed an unexpected
moderation and restraint in his Wittenberg
speech. It had nothing to offend either his
Catholic allies or the Center or the lesser
sovereigns pt Germany, the support or both
or whom is indispensable to the passage or
the army bill. Philadelphia Press.
THE MAID OF CAB0SCA.
How She Nerved Up a Simple Mexican
Tribo to Fanatical Heroism.
ElFaso, Tex., Nov. 3. A letter from Chi
huahua gives the origin of the trouble
which led to the terriblo battle last week
between the Tomachlcans and the Mexican
Government as follows: Some months back
a young Mexican maiden called the "Maid
of Cabosca" was looked upon by the Toma
chfeans as one possessed of supernatural
powers. This woman, though young, ex
hibited a degree of inflnenco with the simple-minded
Tomachicans which can hardly
be conceived. Her methods and the teach
ings or tho priest of the Tomachic people
violated tho civil law. In this they were
sustained by the Maid of Cabosca. She en
couraged them in delying the law or the
Tho result was that the Maid was expelled
from Mexican territory, and is now living at
Nogales, Ariz., and known as Santa Teresa,
while the bravo defenders of Tomachic,
save a few prisoners, are lifeless and in. their
graves.
Nancy's Record In Danger.
Washington Star.: '
Locomotive racing Is being engaged in.
There is no good leason why Nancy Hanks
should not have a counterpart among the
iron horses.
A Brave Woman.
Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Langtry is10, and has the fortitude
to admit It.
Persona Non Grata.
Dallas News.
The straw man is wholly unsatisfactory
to woman.
Necessarily.
New Orleans Picayune. J
Haiti Is to have a revolution next. All re
ports from it will be highly colored.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
New York has 30,000 cash glrli.
Chinese streets are not often more this
eight feet wide.
In every minute 67 people die ia tht
world, and 70 are born.
Berlin has 40,000 unoccupied dwelling!
tbat cannot be rented.
The hourly rate of water falling ovtr
Niagara is 100,000,000 tons.
It will take 7G tons of ptper to oast
the ballots for New York City.
The fur seal and fur otter trade of
Alaska is worth $300,000 a year.
New and valuable halibut bankl
haebeen found to the west of Cape Flat
tery, Washington. .
Bees never store honey In the light,
because honey so exposed granulates and is
useless to the bees.
The trolley car is literally astonishing
the natives of Singapore, Asia. T hey call it
the wind carriage.
Nineveh, the ancient city, was U milei
long and 8 miles wide, surrounded by a wall
100 feet high and 29 feet wide.
A woman in Georgia who is not 20
years of age has made, up to date, 171 quilts,
27 or whioh were made during this year.
It Is very probable that the Govern,
mentwlli set aside the snmmit or the Cas
cade range, in Oregon, as a national park.
Testing the big Erapp guns is said to
be responsible for tbe cracking of every
brick and stone house at Essen, the seat of
the great armory.
Among the relics in the rooms of tht
New York Historical Society is the tail of
George III.'s horse, which was taken at
Bowling Green.
At Dundenong, Australia, there is a
blue gum tree which has an estimated height
of 150 feet. Ills believed to be the tallest
tree In tbe world.
The highest lakes in the world are in
the Himalayas In TblOet, where there are
some bodies or water as high as 20,000 feet
above the level of the sea.
In Great Britain it is illegal now to
employ girls in shops under 13 for more than
71 hours a week, and shopkeepers who diso
bey the law are liable to be fined.
Leaves attract dew; boards, sticks, and
stones do not, because leaves have a chomi.
cal use ror dew and detain it, while boards,
and stones have none and do not.
The average expenses of the students
at Yale were: Freshmen, $786 95; sophomores,
$S31 31: juniors, $833 11;- seniors. $919 70. Tho
largest expense reported was $2,903.
A chain made for the United States
Government at Troy, N. Y.,in 1S83 was six
miles and a fraotion in length. It was made
or bars of Iron each 2 lncbes in diameter.
Six brothers of the Frost family at
Kansas City own the following odd lot or
names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White
Frost, Co.d Frost, Early Frost and Snow
Frost.
The Democrats have not had full con
trol or the Government, that is, the Presi
dency and tbe House of Congress, at the
same time since the Thirty-nftb. Congress,
which met in 1857.
Banana juice makes a first-class indeli
ble ink. A spot on a white shirt from a dead
ripe banana is marked forever, and tha
juice from bananas thoroughly decayed is a
bright clear carmine.
When a healthy horse is enjoying per
fect rest his pulse beats at the rate of 10
times per minute, that of an ox 52 times,
while in sheep and hogs the average cardiao
pulsations are 7S per minute.
A Berlin chemist claims to have dis
covered the art of reproducing colors true to
nature-with the camera If true, the discov- '
ery is one of tbe most Important that has
been made in the line of photography.
The Supreme Court of tne United States
is fast becoming a Yale tribunal. The last1
tbree Justices appointed to the court have
been Yale men Judges Brewer and Brown
of the class or '56 and Judge Shlras of 'S3.
Asahel Thoraburg, who died at Mnncie,
Ind., recently, within 50 days or being a cen
tenarian, left 111 great-gr&ndoblldren and 17
freat-gfeat-grandchildremtamourn his loss.
ie had used tobacco since he was 13 years
old.
It hat long been known that diamonds
(especially the class known as "rose dia
monds") are likely to explode If anhfeeted
only to what would seentaTeryortttaSry
degree of heat, such aa ltrong ray lrom tha
sun.
Experiments have been carried out at
St. Petersburg on tho Illumination of tho
ground surface by means of electric projec
tors on ballons 2,000 feet in the air. More ex
haustive tests will be made at the forth
coming siege operations at Ivangord.
A "Welshman has devised a new process
of giving a uniform coating to tin plates.
Instead of employing rollers the plates are
put in racks above the pot of coating metal,
in which they are inserted and from which
they are withdrawn at a uniform rate.
Photographs of growing plants show
some marvelous results, especially amon;
tbe climbers. The youmr stems are said to
move In a succession of irregular circular
or elliptioal curves, whioh vary In every
direction. These movements are due to the
irregular growth In various parts of the
stem.
The first pastor of the church at East-
hampton, N. Y., directed that he be buried
with his head .to the east so tbat at tba
resurrection be might face bis congregation;
but so general is the custom of burying with
the bead to the west that this direction is
noted as an instance of the minister's eccen
tricity. '
Granite is the lowest rock in the earth's
crust. It ia the bed rock or the world. It
shows no evidence or animal or vegetable
lire. It is from two to ten Inches as thickas
the united thickness of all the other rooks.
It is the parent rock from which all other
rocks havebeen either directly or indirectly
derived.
Although there are large exports of
petroleum from this country to India, tha
first cargo, it is reported, to go by steamer
was ordered on Saturday, when a steamer
was chartered for Calcutta to carry 100,000
cases of oil at 19 cents per case. Bnsiness
heretofore with Indian ports has been done
with sailing vessels.
There are to-day more than 200,000
women In tho United States earning a living
by professional and personal service out
side that of mechanical -labor or work in
the shops, in the practice of law and medi
cine, the teaching or music and art, litera
ture and science, and in clerical work or
different Kinds in government and other
official places.
Great numbers of vultures hover over
Para, on tho Amazon river, blackening
every housetop and church spire. A heavy
fine is imposed ror killing one of these im
mense carrion birds, a fact which is less
strange than it appears when it is known
that they do more toward keeping that un
riMinAii ,-itvfn . fltnte or comparative clean
liness than is accomplished ia any other
way.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.
Gussie (of the East End) I got a great
deal or pleasure this morning for a penny.
Verny lor Allegheny) Yes; what?
Gussie-1 got from Allegheny tb Pittsburg.
"That's a pretty typewritist you have ia
your outer office. " remarked Mr. Chlny to Mr.
Bottles, as be entered bis sancto-sanctorom the
other day.
Not only pretty, but an 1892 one," said Mr.
Bottles.
What's the particular charm of an 1S9J one?"
' 'Able to write with one hand while the employer
holds the other."'
AIT EABLT XOIUtrsO LAMEXT.
I do not envy him who sits on royal thront
And wields a mighty power;
1 do not envy him who has much wealth at can.
For the sixtieth of an hour.
I do not envy him who rales this glorious land.
And rules it la a way that's right: .
But my envy Is ror him who can sarely eat
A Welsh rabbit late at night. i
As they were walking down street th .
other dav, Kasper remarked, 'There is Just one
thing in this city that reminds me of Pblladel- -'
phla."
"And what is that?" asked Jasper.
That solitary horse car on Wood street."
They were sitting' in the front row. It
was between the acts.
Why?" he asked, "does this curtain at ths
present moment remind me or an elder dock?"
I give It up," she replied.
"Became It's down."
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