IP t &"V"iU&' ' .54 r - - -it "- ".e1 s. yc-z . ; i - '- - -.- - I. I - "-KJSJf. ST ' - W -v ' r THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH,' "SvEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 4 180a $fc B$aftij; ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY ISIS. Tol. 74. No. 29J Entered at Plttabnrr Postofflca November, ltsi. as second-class matter. BUSINESS OFFICE, Cor. SmlUifleld and Diamond Streets. Kews Booms and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 78, TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where complete nies or THE D1SPATCII can always be found. THE DISPATCH Is on sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout tbe United States, and at Brentano'a, E Union Square, Kcw York, and 17 Avenue de V Opera, Paris. France. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE TOEE IS TnE UNITED STATES. J) AILY DIEPATCn. One Year. 1 g eo Daily Dispatch, Three aiontns oo Dailt DispatciI. One Month 70 Dailt Dispatch, Including Snnday, lyear.. jooO Dailt Dispatch, lncludlngSunaay,3m'ths. 5 60 Dailt Dispatch, Including Sunday. I month 80 cndatDikpach, One Year ISO Weekly Dispatch, One Year. 1 25 The Dailt Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 3.' cents per week, or, Including bunday Edition, at .l cents per week. ' REMITTANCES SHOULD ONJ.T BE MADE BY CHECK. MONEY ORDER. OR REGISTERED LETTER. TOSTAGE Sunday Issue and all triple number copies, 2c: single and double number copies, lc PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. NOV. a 1892. . TWELVE PAGES THE BRIGHT SIDE. While the failure of the strike at Home stead presents features that are immedi ately unsatisfactory to tho labor element, ' It is pertinent to remind the public that the ending of the struggle has Its brighter lichts. Whatever wishes may be enter tained that it might bare had a different result, all can unite in congratulation that Pittsburg's horizon is now almost entirely clear of wages disputes, and that industry can now go forward without interruption. .No observer can fail to have seen that the Homestead trouble had an unfavora ble effect on business. The violence of the struggle was a disturber of confidence. The large number of men kept without wages for nearly half a year restricted re tail business, limited collections and lessened the amount of money circulating in the hands of the people. Such influ ences spread through all the ramifications of trade were enough to turn the scale be tween moderate activity and business langour. The struggle being over, things will re sume their normal course. Labor will re ceive wages, trade will be maintained in lurnishing the workers with supplies, mer chants will find sales and collections more satisfactory and money will pass from . hand to hand. Even what is one of the most unfavorable aspects of the defeat of the men the fact that some of the Amal gimated Association will not get back tlieirold places .s not withontiNalleviat ing view. Skilled workmen like them are secure or employment somewhere. In dustry has its uses for them; and while they may be compelled to seek work at some other mills, their industry and skill will insure that they are not permanently left without work. The loss of wages and destruction of life during the struggle cannot be re paired. But there is a bright aspect in the fact that the trouble is ended and that business can now eo forward steadily and on its normal basis. A LOCAL ART EPOCH. The opening of the Art Society's per manent exhibition last night marks a new epoch at onco in the progress of that so ciety and in Pittsburg's future in art. The society has heretofore maintained a cred itable position in the encouragement of artistic culture; but in establishing this exhibition, with its scope for enlargement, it has taken a positive step toward broad ening its force as a factor in the artistic field. The exhibition as it is opened presents a very creditable collection of the work of local talent It is appropriate that the start should thus be representative of Pittsburg art: but its scops is much Droader than thit It will present a con stantly changing and ever new collection of paintings of both home and foreign artists. In this function and in its pres ent quarters it will present a more positive and attractive artistic feature than our city has heretofore possessed. The importanceaud success of the exhi bition will be very materially increased when the plans of the Carnegie gift as sume the concrete form. This exhibition placed side by side with a permanent gal lery purchasing $50,000 worth of Amer ican art work annually will attract the best. examples of current art. Both in its influence on the commercial side of art, and in its wort of giving the people constant access to the newest productions of the country's artists, it will have a na tional rather than a local importance. It has always been pleasant to observe the growth and success of the Art So ciety. In this case the recognition must be made of a step of moie importance than any other in Pittsburg's art history, except Mr. Carnegie's endowment, with which it is intimately associated. A POLITICAL SUPERSTITION. It is worth while for those who uphold the theory that the possession of offices establishes a powerful political engine to give some attention to the testimony which the late election adds to that al ready on record. The idea is the basis of the spoils system in politics. The -party work must be done, the politicians urge, and if the party workers are not given that means of support the party will suf fer defeat This is the logic by which it is argued that offices ought to be distrib uted among party workers; and the expe rience of the last three Presidental cam paigns shows that it is entirely without foundation in fact Consider the fact that in three Presi dental elections the party having control of the offices, and what becomes of the doctrine? There maybe some founda tion that an organization of office-holders may exercise influence in shaping nom inations. In sections where the party ma jority is Invincible tnis may insure elec tion and establish the nurture of rings. But no better illustration of the way it works when the popular vote is nearly balanced can be given than the experience referred to. In 1884, the Republicans controlled the Federal offices . and were defeated. In 1888 the Democrats Xad the same alleged factor in their favor and were also beaten. Some en thusiastic Republican politicians pro claimed that this victory properly im provecLmeant a new lease of power to the Republicans for a quarter of a century. The result of the improvement indicated was the most severe defeat the Republican party has sustained in its thirty-six years of life. This testimony of experience, which can be corroborated by election results in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, is also In accordance with the logic of the case. The fact is that an adminis tration which has to distribute the offices on the spoils plan is always weakened after the spoil is divided. Even among the politicians one appointment must cre ate half a dozen disappointments, while among the people the bestowal of an office for political reasons rather than fitness cre ates widespread and justifiable dissatis faction. If the appointments were made by recognized and impartial tests of fit ness the result would be different The theory that the use of the offices is necessary for parry success is like tho similar one that large campaign funds are essential a political superstition encour aged for the benefit of the practical politi cians. It is contrary to the reason of the case, and is utterly without foundation in fact A BTEHEOTTPED POSTPONEMENT. The decision of the Pennsylvania di rectors to spend $2,000,000 in carrying out their four-track plan is satisfactory in one aspect It shows that the managers of that corporation are not, as was reported some months ago, adopting the unwise policy of discharging men and suspending improvements. On the other hand, their course adopts the policy which The Dis patch has constantly, urged, of preparing the improvements and increase of fa cilities In advance of the time when they are needed. '- On tho other hand there is a feature of the improvements which i3 typical of the course that corporation is but too apt to adopt toward the city which makes the most material contributions to its traffic Two million dollars are to be spent in in creasing facilities; but with regard to the improvements needed in this city we re ceive the usual and. almost stereotyped assurance that they win come later on. This persistent ignoring of Pittsburg's re quirements is so familiar thatPittsburgers are beginning to accept it as a part of the order of natuie. But even a familiar injustice can be carried too far. Pitts burg furnishes the largest and most profit able tonnage to the Pennsylvania Kail road originated by any city on its line. It is legitimate to expect that such a city should have early attention to its needs. But it seems that not only is railway management indisposed to rectify tho in justice in rates so clearly shown in yester day's Dispatch, but that even the im provements granted to other parts of the line cannot be afforded to Pittsburg. Naturally Pittsburg might expect that when the Pennsylvania Railroad has $2,000,000 to put into betterments some thing better than the brick shed which masquerades as a passenger station would be given to Pittsburg; that a substitute might be found for the track which burdens the widest and most central street of the city, and that facilities gen erally would be Improved In a manner commensurate to the magnitude of Pitts burs's contribution to the tonnage of the Pennsylvania Railroad. These things do not imply any neces sary enmity to Pittsburg in the Pennsyl vania 'Railroad management They are simply exponents of the tendency com mon to humanity to do the things that must be done and to postpone those that can be put off. The Pennsylvania Rail road leaves Pittsburg in the background, and the railway combination keeps rates 6 to 10 per cent higher than to correspond ing points, simply because they think that they can get the traffic in any event When Pittsburg becomes sufficiently aroused to establish the opposite status, they will tumble over each other in their haste to comply with the requirements o$ our city. ALLEGED CABTNET MATERIAL. Naturally one of the early results of the Democratic viotory Is that enterprising editors at once betake themselves to con structing cabinpts for President Cleve land. Of course any attempt to foretell what the exact composition of the Cabinet will be is not worth the paper it is written on. The President-elect would probably be unable to designate half the Cabinet appointments for weeks to come. But an effort of the Philadelphia Record to point out the material available for Cabinet min isters is worthy of comment as indicating the possibilities of the new administration. For Secretary of State that Democratic organ named as available Bayard or Gray, of Delaware; Carlisle Phelps, of Vermont; James C. Carter, of New York, and Chief Justice Fuller. All of these names are respectable. Except Bayard and Phelps, none of them have diplomatic experience, and the first name rev.ves a memory of the positive sentiment of the State De partment during Cleveland's first term that it would be an Irretrievable misfor tune if the United States should giin any influence or extend its commerce in foreign lands. The available men for Secretary of the Treasury are stated to be McPherson, Flower, Cable, of Illinois, Franklin, Mac Veagh and Simmons, the New York banker. The list is redolent of corporate associations, the name of Simmons being the most hopeful, while some of the other candidates are the reverse of satisfactory. For Attorney General Wilson Bissell, William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, and Wayne MacVeagh are named. The first suggests a possible repetition of the ex perience of President Harrison in selecting a personal friend and law partner for the place. Either Wilson or MacVeagh would make a first-class Attorney General. The West Virginian would be preferable to those who wish to see the interests of tbe people vigorously upheld in opposition to the great combinations. It is when we get to the possibilities for Postmaster-General and Secretary of the Interior that we find suggestions incon sistent with the professions of the party for reform and opposition to corporate abuses. For Postmaster General our own Harrity is first named; and it needs no prophet to foretell that his appointment would reproduce In the Postoffice De partment the campaign of spoils which signalized his administration of the Philadelphia postoffice during Cleveland's first administra tion. The name of Campbell, of Ohio, for thesame office suggests better possibilities, while Duncan B. Cooper, of tho Nashville American, and J. W. Doane, of Chicago, are unknown quantities. The list for Secretary of the Interior, compris ing Henry Villard, Governor Gray, of In diana, Daniel S. Lamont and Editor Charles H. Jones, of the St Louis Re public, is a very questionable one. Mr. Villard has controlled that department once by proxy with disastrous results to the imterests of the people; and once ought to be enough. Mr. Lamonl's cor porate affiliations are public property; Governor Gray's relations on that impor tantpoint in this department are unknown, and Mr. Jones is professedly an opponent of corporate abuses. For Secretary of the Navy Governor Pattison, Daniel J. Campau, of Michigan, and Felix Campbell, of Brooklyn, are named, and for Secretary of War, P. A. Collins and General Palmer. It may be taken for granted that Governor Patti son will' not surrender the executive power of Pennsylvania to a Republican for the next two years. Otherwise the fitnes3 of the men named for the places ranges from Indifferent to bad, with the possible exception of Collins, of Boston. Governor Russell, Senator Gorman, Gov ernor Peck, of Wisconsin, William A. Wal lace, Leon Abbett, William B, Morrison and Judge Lambert Tree are named as available for almost any position. Here, also, we see the range from the good to the very bad, which characterizes the other lists. It is possible for Mr. Cleveland to'select a very good Cabine t from these lists; and It Is also possible for him to select an ex tremely bad one. Let us hope that his discrimination and good fortune will guide him to the successful performance of the former task. It Is a poor policy to talk of inspecting a water supply to dlsoover whether It can be improved if cholera should make its ap pearance. Cholera can best be kept at a dis tance by maintaining a state of, sanitation as nearly approaching perfection as possi ble. And a pnre and wholesome water sup ply is one of tbe most rudimentary elements of sound sanitation. Pittsburg may expect a breezy time to morrow. Senator Peffer with his whiskers and investigating committed are expected to arrive here. And where the whiskers are, there will the winds be gathered to gether. Washington State is the latest scene of flood devastations. Some day science will manage to control the elements to some ex tent by a reasonable system of forestry and a proper treatment of water courses. Mean while loss of life by flood is less to be la mented because less preventable than loss of life by railroad wiecks and grade crossings. Yesterday the International Monetary Conference was formally opened at Brussels, and'for some weeks the world will listen to more or less learned discussions on finance as affected by metallic standards. The Salvation Army is to be encouraged in the aggressiveness with whloh it is gain ing a toothold in this country. There is no doubt that its uncouth methods roach thou sands whom no other religions body in any way touches. And sincerity is a virtue rare enongh in theso days to more than com pensate for any incidental oddities of man ner. The provision of homes for the aged and incapacitated and the laying by of some thing for a rainy day, are objects of charity and prudence for which labor organizations cannot work too hard. The Confederate veterans of Atlanta, Georgia, did well to determine henceforth to march under the Stars and Stripes as well as the Confederate flag on all public occa sions. This is one nation, and every indica tion that the dead past is burying its dead ever deeper in the union of to-day is matter for congratulation. Mayor Grant, of New York, is con vinced that there is no room for woman's usefulness on Boards of Education. He evi dently does not believe in profiting by the experience of others. Long may the permanent art exhibition flourish, and may its prosperity continually increase! Anything that tends to popular ize tbe beautirul in this city is for this city's good. The Art Society is to be encouraged In and congratulated on Its enterprise, and our artists should never be without honor In their own home. This is a late date to discuss who fired the first shot in the war. But there is some thing about that .Tames Chestnut, Junior, which carries with it a conviction that he must bo the man. Ik Kaiser Wilhelm'i latest speeoh there is little variation from his oft-told tale that an immense expenditure on preparations for war Is the only method competent to preserve the pe'ace of nations. Some day that theory will collapse by a pro cess of reductio ad absurdum. No quorum is one way of avoiding the discharge of their dnties. But Allegheny Councils onght to realize that it is a mighty poor one, little calculated to .excite public confidence. Br all means let violators of the smoke preventive ordinance be prosecuted, and let the prosecutions be pushed with the utmost vigor. The way to get rid of the smoke nuisance is simply to prevent it. And the way to prevent it is to enforce the law and extend its scope. A man's partisan affiliations have no more real ponnectfon with his fitness to serve the municipality than lias the cut of his clothes or the color of his hair. However the charges,of actual corrup tion in connection with tbe Panama scheme may turn out under investigation, there is no room for doubt that the abortive enter prise has been carried on in a spirit of care less wastefulness and folly. To-morrow the Eastern question so far at least as it relates to Turkey and Grease will receive the attention which this nation devotes to its annual discussion. Fortunately for its peace of mind, the latest comet lemuins in blissful ignorance of tbe various fates to which astronomers doom it. Comets are nearly as disrespectful to astronomers as the Eeadlnj combine is to the law courts. F01 K TAMvfcD IBOUT. Thomas Gilroy, Mayor-elect of New Tork, accompanied by' his wife, daughter and friends, has arrived at 6an Diego, Cal. Jules Simon used to live on 13 sous a day. and for this he managed to get two thin meals and give the waiter a son for his trouble. The late President Garfield's son and namesake wears a heard that is said to so complete the son's resemblance to his father as to be very striking. Hagen, the Norwegian skater and pro fessional champion of the world, has arrived In St. Johns, N. B., and will shortly leave for tbe Western States. Governor Pattison has. appointed Eev. James Blalr.D.D., of Philadelphia, a delegate to the .National Prison Association, which will meet at Baltimore, December 3 and 8. Miss Mart Abell, daughter of the lste A. S. Abell, founder or the Baltimore Sun, has taken the white veil at the chapel of the Academy of Visitation, in Wilmington, Del. Tbe name that she chose was Sister Ma ry Joseph. General von "Werder will succeed as German Ambassador at St. Petersburg General von Schweinitz, who resumed owing to ill health. The Czar has npproved Germany's selection of its' new representa tive to his court. EX-GOVERNOR Gear, of Iowa, has tele graphed Secuatary Charles Foster that he has decided to accept the appointment of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury recently made vacant by the President, and that he will come to Washington as soon as possi ble Tor the purpose of qualifying. The court at Galatz has condemned Prin cess Gortschakoff to transfer to her brother Prince Gregory Stourdza, the sum of $5,000, 000 and residences held by her in Paris and Baden-Baden, under the disputed will of her father, the late Governor of Moldavia. The judgment financially ruins the Prin cess. Mrs. Cleveland and Baby Euth ar rived at Lakewood yesterday afternoon and went direct to the cottage of F. P. Freeman, During tho stay or the Cleveland family at Lakewood, the Presldent-eleot will spend much of his time there and will only go to New fork, when ho has pressing engagements. OUR MAIL POUCH. Tlie Stranger in tho Sky Cause Specula tions by Correspondents No Danger of a Collision in Spite of tbe Alarming Surmises or Some Scientists. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Three very accurate observations must be had in order to obtain the elements of any comet and define Us pathway. The writer has not yet learned that tbe one now in sight has been definitely determined to be Blela's comet, due about this time. If it be true, however, that this comet will bisect the earth's orbit on the 27th lnst., only elsjht bonis after tho earth's passage, some very wonderful phenomena may be looked for. Eight hours would mean a distance only about 550,000 miles, a distance which will quite cleverly clear our moon, but still leav ing a rather scant margin for errors in the calculation. The passage of the earth through a comet's tail would probably be attended by no very alarming phenomena; but such would not likely be tbe case if the eaith and the comet's nucleus shonld happen to meet. But while there are hours of time for passage through comet's tails, it is a question of minutes only lor the earth and the nucleus, hence the likelihood of collision between the last named is remote, though still possible. We are told that comets have no apprecia ble weight, af least not measurable by the perturbations or any of the planets near which they have been observed to pass at very short range. Still some of them are known to possess the elements of solid bodies, and therefore must have some real weight. Who knows hut what the fiery belts now enveloping Jnpiter, or the rings or Saturn, are tbegUtsorcometsthosegiAnt planets attracted to themselves ages ago? We have the word of our own Ignatius Donnelly, who can prove anything he takes a mind to, that the great gravel beds of the northern Hemisphere, which the geologists tell us were the nork of glacial ice in the drift period, are no such thin. "Ig." proves In about 500 citations Irom "old folk lore" and Scandinavian nursery rhymes, that about 0,008 years ago, more or less, the smil ing Jocund earth was peacefully traveling in its orbit, Just as it will be next Sunday, the 27th, when without one moment's warn ing It ran into a comet traveling about 35 miles per second, said comet being composed of several billions of cubic yards of small pebbles and sand. It must have been an awful swipe, for the gravel buried thousands of square miles or the earth's surface many leetdeep with the stuff, miscalled, drift, under that drift there aie to be found even to this day in many places the remains of animal and vegetable life, and even human beings, which to all appearance were very suuueniy ovorwneimeo. There Is lacking, however, the evidence or any great 'degree of hear generated by the impact of such prodigious masses suddenly precipitated upon the earth's surfaoe. .lust how "I." got over this possible objection to his theory the nter railed to note, but that would be a small matter, for the man who can prove that Bacon wrote the Aztec inscriptions. Be all this as it may, Mr. Editor, there is some real ground for alarm concerning the outcome of the new comet. Vers wicked people should put In tho time this week try ing to refoim;andir the comot gives us the go by, they will feel all the better for the rest thev have given themselves. B. PiTTsmnto, Nov. 21, 1892. ' Comets Are Erratic, To the Editor of The Dispatch: I was amused at your lemarks a few days ago on the subject of "Celestial Grade Cross ings."' Suoh criticisms are necessary to keep theorizing scientists in check. The comet which is now approaching tbe sun is creating quite an excitement and some alarm. Astronomers predicted that this same comet supposed to be Blela's on its return to the sun in 1S32, ould strike the earth and blot it out or existence. I well re member the alarm that existed on that occasion. There is no branch of science more re liable than astronomy, and no writers more reliable than writers on that suhject, while they keep within the confines of exact science, and none more unreliable than they when they step beyond these limits into the fields of speculation, especially on the sub ject of comets. It required ages to produce exact tables of the movements of the planets, but comets set at Geflance all the laws or calculation, although a few of them seem to return occasionally, according to predicted time; but when one or these erratic wanderers fails to come to time, tho failure Is laid to some accident, such as run ning against a planet, or having its tail caught on something-. A remarkable comet appeared in the year 1770, and Lexell predicted that it would le turn in five years: but it didn't becansn it got tangled amOnir tho satellites of Jnpiter. Another appeared in 1554, which eclipsed the moon. That was bad for the moon, since they tell us that we enn see small stars through the comets. A fierce comet made its appearance in 1436. which spread terror through all Europe and Asia. Astionomer said it would strike the earth and reduce It to chaos. Still this comet retreated in dis order. No class of objects furnish so fruitful a field for conjecture ns comets, and some theorists work it for all that is In It. Even our home astionomers, for whom we have the highest regard, aie tempted to makoa guess. I saw an article in a Saturdav miner In reference to the new comet, in which we are told that it is "heading straight for the earth at the rate of ISO miles a minute and that it will be here on the 28thof this month; that we will come in contact with some part of it, and that it will come closer to us than any other comet ever careered before is ab solutely certain. What the result will be can only be guessed, but that It will cer tainly come within 1,000 miles of us." Now I am entitled to one guess. I gness that if it comes within 10.000,000 miles or ns that some enterprising Yankee will catch It and have it on exhibition at Chicago. Why, if it moves at that rate it will not reach our crossing in a month; it will require pushing to get there in two months. Out little globe is not a great runner, yet it makes more than 1 000 miles a minute. If we were going straight at the comet we niigiit scai e the lit tle fugitive, but we are not, and we will pass it out of hailing distance. There is nothing about the present comet to inspire us with that awo, that was pro duced bv the sudden appearance of the comet of 1813, or that of 1861. These blazed forth suddenly without any warning, and were so bright tliat they conld be seen in daylight. If one or these had appeared so suddenly in full blaze in the zenith, or at any great distance from the sun, such a sight would indeed be alarming, and science could not aocount for the phenomenon; but such a thing can never happen. The sudden ap pearance or these bodies can only be caused by their coming down from the regions be yond tbe sun, and are consequently hid in his rays till they pass their perihelion and commence their return to the regions whence thev came. J. C. MoConviCK. E3I8W0RTB, NOV. 2L DEATHS HERE AND ELSBWHERE. Colonel George Richard. Colonel George Ei chard, one of the earlier settlers or Pittsburg, Is dead. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence. No. 32S Dennlston avenue. East End. His remains will be Interred In the Allegheny Cemetery. Colonel Richard was born In Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, on December 10, 1813. When qnlte a voungman he came to this city, where he was actively engaged In prominent busi ness transactions for many years. He was highly esteemed by all and Ids loss will be deeply felt. He leaves a family or four children. Mrs. John Porter. Fannie L. Wilson, wife of John McM. Potter, Secretary and Treasurer of the Porter Foundry and Machine Company, died suddenly at 1:43 o'clock yesterday ai'tcrnoou. The deceased was 27 years old. She will be burled from the resi dence of her husband on PerrysTllle avenue, near Mllroy, .tu-day at z o'clock. Mrs. Thomas Gill, Sharon. Mrs. Thomas Qill, nee Miss Lizzie WolfkllL died at her home Monday afternoon of consumption. The saddest feature of the event is the fact that the young ladr nas married less than two weeks ago. the groom being the chemist at the Sharon Steel Casting Company's Works. Mrs. Gill was 23 years or age. Obituary Notes. United States Commissioner Euoene a. BbeWSter. Jr., died at his home In New burg. N. Y., Monday morning of consumption, aged 27 years. KEV. Johx Brown, one of the pioneer Metho dist preachers in Illinois, died Monday at Bloom lngton at the age of 91 years. He was a native of Virginia, went to Illinois In 1836 and has been a member of the Illinois conference since then. HIRAM Wheeler, one of the old 'residents of Chicago and formerly a member of the Ann of Manger & Wheeler, which recently sold a big ele vator system to a British syndicate, died yesterday. Mr. heeler was the oldest llTlngex-Fresldcntof the Board of Trade and was one of Chicago's pio neers. D. Edgar Crouse, the millionaire grocer of Syracuse, died Monday night after an Illness of three weeks, aged 49 years. He was a son of John Crouse. founder of the John Crouse Memorial Col lege, a part of Syracuse Unlrerslty. Mr. Crouse made himself much talked about a few years af o by building a tooo.OOO stable, the fiaest building of Its kind, It is said. In tbe world. THE NEW TORK RENAT0RSHIP. A Story About Mr. Cleveland and the Troy Aspirant and His Backers. New Tork Worla.J Mr. Cleveland has said to his friends that while he is opposed to Mr. Murphy, he does not Intend to take part in a Senatorshlp fight; that the people did not elect him to make Senators, but to act as President. How the President announced his opposition to Mr. Murphy is rather a humorous story. It is worth telling. One day recently Blchard Croker and Ed ward Murphr, Jr., called at No. 12 Flfty flrst street. They were received well.warm ly, Indeed, and sat down with Mr. Cleveland In his Horary, the front room on the second floor. The three distinguished leaders. Just like most men that leel they have a tick lish bit of talk on hand, began talking about something else. They started in with the question o' an extra session. Its perils, its possibilities. Then they discussed the tarifl. the campaign, the election returns, the far West. Having got comfortably away from New Tork, the two callers rose after about a half hour in the library. "Well, we mnst be going, Mr. President," said Mr. Murphy. "Tes, we must be going, Mr. President," said Mr. Croker. And, if the two men had gone thus, ther might have truthfully told their old friends: "Tes, we saw the old man, and had quite a pleasant chat with him, and he's all right. He didn't say a word in oppo sition; he's all rignt." But the "old man" was not all right, with all due respect to the President-elect, that like the captain of every ship, his crew always call him, affectionately, or other wise, "the old man." As the two men arose, he suddenly said: "See here. Murphy, you don't want to go to tho Senate, do yont" "I didn't some time ago," said Mr. Murphy, "but now I think I would rather like it. Tes, I think I want to go." "Oh, nolvou don't want to go to the Senate," said Mr. Cleveland. "Tou're an active man of affairs and the Senate is a dull place; it would be a morgue for yon. I don't think you want to go there." Mr. Murphy said that on the whole he thought he would go. "Well, I'm against yon," said Mr. Cleveland. "I don't think you ought to go." Here Mr. Croker took part in the conversation and began to expostulate, hut the President-elect would not bear bim. "if no use expostulating," were his words, "I'm against Mr. Murphy. I don't think he ought to goto the Senate. I'm against you, Mr. Murphy." Even after that Mr. Murphv said he would try to sro, and the two gentle'men left. Gov ernor Flower made a visit to Mr. Cleveland and tried to Induce him to withdraw his opposition, but he did not succeed. Mr. Cleveland said that the Senator from the State should come from the citv of New Tork; that he shonld be abroad roan of affairs, and that the proper man for the place was Mr. Whitney. Not only to Gov ernor Flower did Mr. Cleveland talk thus, but to all his visitors. Governor Flower did not agree with Mr. Cleveland. He thought that Mr. Murnhy has served thepartv well, and that, in the interest of peace and harmony, Mr. Mnrphv should be allowed to have the honor lr he desired it. and a day or two later, when Prentiss Bailey, who had been Cleveland's 1'ostmaster of Utica, came out In his paper, the Observer, of that city, for Mr. Murphy, Governor Flower promptly appointed him Civil Service Commissioner, at a snlarv of $2,000. This is the kind or influence Gov ernor Flower exerted against the candidate opposed by Mr. Cleveland. THE A1LIANC8 OBJECTS To Calling Upon Foreign Nations to Help Settle Our Monetary Problems. Memphis, Nov. 22. W. B. Robinson, of Texas, a delegate to the national conven tion or the Farmers' Alliance, Is yet in tbe city. Yesterday he stated that no correct report of the Alliance action regarding the currency had yet been made. He was Chair man of the committee that furnished the resolntions to the Alliance in executive session, and he gave a correct copy of the resolutions as adopted, as follows: "Resolved, That it is the sense of the Su preme Council of the Farmors' Alliance and Industrial Union that the course on the part of our Government in calling an interna tional conference to adjust a purely Amer ican question violates the spirit of the Monroe doctrine, by which we have been taught that Enrop an powers should never be permitted to exert any influence In the political or material affairs or any nation on the American continent: and be it further "Resolved, That we urge our representa tives in Congress to protest against foreign nations having anything whatever to do with our financial systems, and that the entire monev question of our country be settled by the American Congress according to the demands of the great masses of the people: and be it further "Resolved, That our members of Con gross be furnished with a copy of these reso lntions." UNCLE SAM'8 BAILE0AD8. More Mileage In This Country Than in All the Old World Combined. Washington, Nov. M The Census Office to-day Issued a bulletin giving statistics of railway mileage of the world in 1890. It shows that out of a total railway mileage for tbe world of 370,281 miles, the United States have no less than 163 597 miles, or 44.18 per cent or the whole; and that the railway mileage of the United States exceeds by 3,493 miles the entire mileage or the Old World. Europe's 136,865 miles, Asia's 18,793 miles anu Ainca s J.i miies, masing an aggregate oi but P9,655mlles. It is interesting to note the astonishing growth or the railway mileage or the United States Tom the census year of 1830, when there wore less than 40 miles orrailway,up to 1890. In 1840 the figures were 2 755 mlles.in 1850 they had rise.i to 8.571 miles, in 1860 the total had swelled to 28,919 miles; the .census or 1870 showed the mileage to be 49 163 miles; that of 880 placed the flgures at 87,724 miles, while the eleventh census figures give the astonishing total of 163,597 miles. THE END OP THE 8TRIKF. Striking doesn't pay. Buffilo Expreit. Violen'-e is the worst ally that canse can have. Boston Globe. UNQtrESTioNABtT there will have been les sons to be learned on both sides. Kew York Talcgram. It is one of the saddest yet most instruc tive chapters in sociological history. Wash ington S ar. In the future, before a great strike is In augurated, arbitration should be tried Harrisbura Telegraph. The lesson that the law is supreme over all classes ought by this time to be fully learned in Homestead. Philadelphia Press. That stiike was most unfortunate and was characterized from the beginning by tbe most serious and unfortunate features. Brooklyn Times. Workwomen all over the country shonld thoughtfully study the history of this dis astrous strike and heed tbe lesson that it teaches. Cleveland Leader. The lesson to be learned from this strl ke is that violence to person and property is the forerunner of disaster to those who om ploy it. Grand Rapids Herald. It would be a grateful outcome of the whole affair if the episode having passed into history, lessons in mutual forDearance and consideration could be read from it, by both capital and labor. Kew York Tl'oi Id. The instne absurdity of a plea for sym pathy with "starved labor" that was paid more highly than the majority of members of the learned piofesslons has worked ill towaid the Homestead men. Chicago late Ocean. It was a narrow majority by which the Homestead strike was declared off, but it is off, and the whole country will be glad of it. It lias been in many respects the most im port and strfke 4n the history of this country. Detroit Free Press. The strike has been extremely costly to the men, the company, the country and the State, and nothing has been accomplished by It except the unnecessary demonstra tion that violence on the part of strikers does not accomplish any good. Philadelphia Ledger. Worse Than "Vomer's Walling Woe. Chicago Inter Ocean. 3 The English rarmers groan loud and long over tho miseries of fiee trade and fair trade But Just wait and hear American farmers whoop. Beating Around the Bush. St. Louis Ulote-Democrat. Cleveland's speeches since the election are chiefly remarkable in their fluent avoidance of all practical questions. WEDDED IN TRINITY. Marriage or Miss Julia B. Morgan to Mr. Harry W. Singer A Pretty Bridal Tro cession How Women Cling to Their Youth Gossip of Society. Bishop Whitehead last evening spoke the Impressive words, according to tbe rit ual or the Protestant Episcopal Chnrcb, that united for life' Miss Julia B.Morgan and Mr. Harry W. Singer. Trinity Church was the scene of the wedding, and the Bishop wasasslsted oy the rector, Kev. Alfred W. Arundel. Tbe bride wore white, with a veil, and looked in every particular the lovely, delicate creature a bride should. She car ried white chrysanthemums. She walked up tbe aisle on the arm or her father. Colonel A. S. Morgan, who gave her away at the altar. Miss Louise Singer was the maid of honor, and the bridesmaids were Miss Florence McKnight, Miss Nellie Park, Miss Harriet Watson, Miss Ruth Bailey, Miss Put tie Laughlin and Miss Sara Rlcketson. Tbe best man was Mr. Harkness, or New York, and the ushers were Messrs-Henry G.Brown, Marshell Cbllds, William Patton. Henry Pat ton, Winfleld Shiras, A. G. McC'lintock, George Singer and Will Singer. The church was very pretty last night in its elegant simplicity. The chancel was draped in white, and with the white and gold altar, toe gilded lectern and the stained glass windows as a rich background, pre sented a beautiful but solemn appearance. White crash covered the soft carpets and rendered every footfall noiseless. When the bridal party appeared at the door the organ pealed forth a "wedding march," and a slight movement rippling through the congregation betrayed that everyone was waiting in eager anticipation of the proces sion up the aisle. A pretty feature of tbe procession was the vanous'coiora worn by the bridesmaids, which brightened up and gave to the group the element of color that was the only thing needed to make it per fect from an artistic point of view. The family of the bride are among the oldest and best people or Pittsburg. The old home of Colonel and Mrs. Morgan at the Arsenal was beautifully decorated lor the reception that followed the ceremony at the church. Chrysanthemums and ferns were banked up In artistic profusion, and showed that this was to be considered a chrysanthemum wedding, so far as the generous use of that flower could make it one. After a short wedding trip the young couple will take up their tempoiary residence with Colonel and Mrs. Morgan at the Arsenal. It is wonderful with what tenacity woman will cling to her youth and beauty, no matter how old she may be In years. About 2,500 women ot all ages, sizes and conditions were drawn forth yesterday, in spite of the bleak weather, by the simple announcement that a lecture was to be de livered which wou'd contain the informa tion or how to retain beauty and never to grow old. For nearl'two hours these 2,500 women listened in;ntly. not losing a hint that fell from the lips or the speaker. Al though there was nothing particnlaily new and nothing that the hearers had not heard and read hundreds or times, they found the address ot deep interest. For Instance, they were told that no woman should have gray hair until she is old. They weietold that olive oil and marrow from a Deef bone rubbed into the scalp will often restore gray hair to ltsjoutliful col-r. A good deal was said about the complexion, a subject always lull or interest to women. A hot water and soap bath was procribed for young girls, to be taken at bedtime, followed In the morn ing by a cold plunge, without soap. A woman was said to be at her prime at 10 years of ge, and her figure should preserve the lines of 18. bue should not even begin to grow old at that age. It is her own fault if she is not youthful at 40. So many women as soon as thev are marrlod become careless of their appearance, being taken up with household duties, etc. The ladies have heaid all this bsfoie, but they enjoyed it yesterday, and it is safe to say that most of them went home with tbe Inward resolve to piofit by what they had heard. There was a brilliant assemblage in the Art Society's rooms last evening at tho one hundred and eighty-flfth reception of the Art Society. The walls were covered with pictures, there being about 60 in all. Can vases of Pittsburg artists were displayed carefully, showing that tho Hanging Com mittee had taken a great ileal of trouble to give each picture as advantageous a position as possible. There was only one contribu tion from afar,-nn oil painting or a stretch of pasture land, with sheep and otber familiar objects. The lace curtain that usually hang at the windows have been removed, and their places filled with pictures, while a row or electric lights run around the ceiling, throwing a brilliant glow upon the pictures. The arrangements throughout, in fact, show that it is the determination of tbe society to make the gallery perfect in its way. In the alcove aie water colors, all by local artists, and making a very creditable showing, l'alms were placed here and there, nnd with the music of a dreamy orchestra from hid den musicians, the scene was indeed a lovely one last evening. The pictures received close attention fiom the guests, and many were the critical remarks to be overheard. indicating that Pittsburg possesses a neat taste in art. The toilettes of the ladies were beautiful, and in some cases strikingly so. The occasion was a thoroughly sociable one, and the reception was, like all those held by the snciety.very enjoyable, especially for in tellectual and cultured people. The Recep tion Committee are entitled to much praise for the way in which they worked to make the evening pleasant to Individuals, as well as to the company as a whole. Henceforth tho sooietj 's rooms will be open to the pub lic every day, except Sunday, from 9 in the morning till 6 in the evening, to enable everybody to see tbe pictures. There is no question that the dinners served in the old postoffice by tbe Indies of the Sandusky Street Baptist Church are well cooked nnd well served. The menu comprises everything that goes to make up a good, substantial dinner. There was a large attendance yesterday, and the bnzuar as well as the dinner nas ell patronized. The dinner and supper will be served again to-day and to-mono w an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner, with turkey as the principal dish, will be offered to the guests of the ladies. The following ladies and gentlemen were last evening chosen for active membership in tbe Art Society: Mrs. James W. Collins, Mrs. Manrlce Coster, Miss Elizabeth M. Davison, Miss Laura Dnm mett, Mrs. Hnry W. Fisher. Miss H. A. L.Floyd, Miss Agnes Hamilton, Mrs. William Larimer Jones, .Mrs.Frank bchellenberg.Mrs.S. D. Warm castle, and Messrs. William A. Carr. Charles s. Graham. William M. Hall, Jr.. Joseph II. Haves, James E. Keeler. Dr. William P. Richardson. Max Rosenbanm. Charles Walz. Columbus J. Wilson, Dr. Otto Wuth, Last evening Miss Helen T. Stenger, of Philadelphia, was to become the bride of Mr. Frank Stewart Smith, of Pittsburg, the ceremony taking place in the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. A large number of prominent Pittsburgers went to attend the wedding. It was a fashionable event. The young c nn pie will reside in the East End, Pittsburg, after a wedding tour of several weeKS. Social Chatter. The annual meeting of tho T. W. C. A. on Penn avenne, will be held next Sunday. Mrs L. M. Gates, of Scranton, will deliver nn address on temperance before the so ciety. The management has Invited the vonng lady members whose homes are out of town to take dinner with them Thanks giving Day. Mrs. Frank Whitesex-i. nnd her sister.Mrs. Andrew Easton, will leave lor New York to day. After witnessing the football game to-morrow they will sail lor their winter home, St. Augustine, r'la. Miss Helen Hfster HuME.of Houlton, Me , was to be married to Mr. George Pearson, or Pittsburg, last evening. Mr. nnd Mrs. Pearson will reside at Shadyside, this city. Tho Universal Scapegoat. Washington Post.; The baseball players will probably charge the cut in salaries to the election result. THE TURRET'S TABEWEtX. (WRITTEN FOR TUT DIsrATCB.3 1 go bnt I return. The aery furnace has no horrors for me. M ine Is a race of martyrs. 1 can trace Ancestors bv the score who laid their heads Upon the ax-man's block. It Is a little way Wchave. Why should I care to flaunt My leathered beauty on a bare November bough? I shall appear again In a far richer dressing. Iu years to coine It will be said of me As of my ancestors, that nothing In my life Shed so much glory as the leaving ot it. Fnll many a little child that now Is prating at Its grandma's knee shall say In future years, that of all days It holds In the most sacred memory the one When It officiated at The funeral of this Turk. And now Lest some shall say I knew not bow to die. Let the ax fall. O. W. O. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS Swedish women are farm hands. I There are 1,168 submarine cable tlons. Maine has wild land worth f20,000,000 at a low estimate. The marriages of minors are 6 per ceat of the whole number. Italy produces more wlno than any other country In Europe. Mr. Gladstone earns on an average 1 15, 000 n year by his pen alone. It is said that 32,000 varieties of goods are manufactured from wood. There are more than 2,000 varieties of apples raised in the United States. The State of Washington is one of the heaviest consumers of condensed milk in the country. All sorts of lace became fashionable under Lonls III. andtwas worn In extrava gant quantities. Four-fifths of the engines now working in the world have been constructed during the last 25 years. The curtain of the Greek theater was raised through the floor Instead of being lowered from the celling. The accuracy ot surveying in ancient engineering is marvelous, considering the rudeness of the instruments. Pole-axes were first used in the ninth century; the short, heavy-headed battle ax was employed in very early times. A famous Koman glutton always wora gloves at a feast so he could handle the hot meat sooner than the other guests. The modern Italian wine jars, holding about 20 quarts, are almost Identical in shape and size with the amphoras found in Pom pell. A New Tork paper solemnly an nounces that one of the hotels of that city is to "be enlarged by reducing the size of its immense rooms." A fast perman will write at the rate of 30 words a minute, which means that in an hour's stondy writing he has drawn his pen along a space of 300 yards. The barbers oi Trenton, 3ro., attempted to charge Republicans 25 cents for a shave on account of the long faces they wore for several days after the election. The well-known high electric light mast at Minneapolis, which is 257 feet in height, has proved ineffective for lighting purposes, and has been abolished. The healthiest spot in the world seemi to be a little hamlot In France named Au mone. There are only 40 inhabitants, 23 of whom are 80 years of age and one Is over 100. A fine specimen of high grade copper ore weighing nearly 1.009 pounds, it is re ported, was recently hoisted from 40 feet be neatli tho surface on the Copper Duke lead, In Montana. It is estimated that it costs the well-to-do people in this country $125,000,000 annually to support charitable institutions, while at least $530,000.0n0 are invested in permanent buildings where the needy are cared for. Scientists have discovered, it is said, that the memory is stronger in summer than in winter. Too much food, too much physical exercise and too mnch education are among the worst foes of the memory. Eighteen teams of British infantry, each composed of eight men and a leader, have bad a race of 54 miles.. Seven of tbe teams came in without losing a man. the first doing the distance in about 17 hours. The largest steam derrick in the world is at the Hamburg shipping docks. Those who have seen it work say that it picks up an 80-ton gun or a 10-nrhnel locomotive as easily as a large man would lift a 10-pound weight. During the winter of 1886-87 a petrified frog was found in a quarry near Elmlra, N. Y., which was 2 feet 8 Indies in length and weighed over 100 pounds. This is tbe lar gest specimen of fossilized frog yet brought to light. The smallest coin ever struck in this country was a half cent, which was issued between 1793 and 1857. China is the only country that has a coin so small as our mill; the Chinese "cash" is worth about one-tentn of a cent. The Bartlett pear is a European im portation. It having originated in England. The Sectelpearis a native product; and it is said that the first tree that bore it is still standing near Philadelphia on the Schuyl kill river. The compass plant of the United States is the common "rosin weed" of our Western prairies, which has the long leaves near tbe ground set In a vertical position in such a way as to always present the edges to the north and south. The oldest hotel in Switzerland, and probably the oldest in the world, is the hotel of the Three Kings at Basle. Among its guests in 1026 were the Enaperor Conrad II., his son Henry III., and Budolnb. the last King of Burgundy. The first steamer to carry petroleum to Calcutta was recently chartered to carry 100,100 cases of oil at 19 cents - a case. There have been large exports of this oil from this countrv to India, but heretofore the busi ness has been done with sailing vessels. Maria Immaculata Caroline Margareths Blancha Leouoldine Beatrix Anna Josoflne Kafaela MIchnela Stanislaus I.'natz Hlerony mits Camiro Cntherlna Petra C-ccilia is the name which has been conferred upon the small daughter of the Archduke Stephen. Tbe gronp of individuals known in London as "Souls' are to Issue a magazine everv six weeks entitled probably the SotiVt ifrncie. miss aiargo rennint will De tne editor, aided by a board of commissioners. Contributions to tho magazine wilt be by women only. A French electro-metallurgical com pany, which employs the Herault-Killani aluminum process, asserts that it will be able to sell the aluminum at a price equiv alent to less than 15 cents a pound, provided that it is in n position to dispose of a yearly output of 3,000 tons of the metal. Switzerland is not drinking more liquor this year than last, and has not increased in ber ennsumn tion of alcoholics for threa yenrs past. There the Government controls tho sale of liquor, and the profits are di vided among the cantons. A tenth goes toward remedying the effects of alcohol. An eminent authority has it that the death rate of the world is calculated to be C7 per minute, 4,030 per hour. 95.720 per day, while tbe rate of births, slightly exceeding t e death rate, is calculated to be 70 per minute, 4,100 per hour, 100,800 per day, 35,742, 000 a year. The estimated increase per an num is therefore a little over 1,500,000. OBIGINAX. AND JOCOSE. THE bachelor's anncai. To-night as I sit in my lonely den. With the dawn of Thanksgiving near. I'm purzled to know why I shonld give thanks, (That's cigar smoke-It Isn't a tear). I seldom feel blue, but I do so now. And I wonder If I've done right. In living this single rollicking life. Having day when others have night. I might have made happy some woman on earth. Had children beside my hearthstone. Brightening dull hours with langhter and play, I've done wrong. I'm willing to own. Bat here, this Is foolish. I'll fill up my glass. And drown morbid thoughts with good wins. And I'll be thankful because I'm Invited, En famllle with Hawthorne to dine. A FOXT STOKT. His name was Baymond, and he belonged to the tribe of foies. He was, so I have been told, a pet fox. But I'm sure if yoo or I had owned blm he would have been a dead fox before he had been In our possession two minutes, for he was, with out a donbt, the meanest animal I ever heard of. He wouldn't eat the fowls about the pace-now. don't hurriedly remark. "How goodof him." for it wasn't. He only permitted them to lire for the purpose of tormenting them, and tnis momihs such regularity that life In that barnyard was far from rosy. To give you an Idea how contempti ble this fox was. I will cite the following: One day when the sun was shining brightly and the celery tops peeped coyly out from their beds, he entered the fowlyard and gathered about him a number of young turkeys, and began telling them the most Improbable tales you ever beard off. -iEsop's Fable are erery-day uccurencef la com parison. When he had reached the climax of his narrative he was approached by a very old gob bler: In fact, a grandpapa gobbler, who said: "Look here. Foxy (he knew him quite well), what are you flUIng those babes with such non sense for?" "Shutun," said the fox. and that waj rude, for he was a mnch younger fox than old gobbler was a tnrkey. "Thanksgiving Day is comInr."h continued, "and I'm stuffin' them." cmcx.
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