VOL. XX. SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION PITTSBUGH^POSIWMJ SOCIETY. OPEN from SEPTEMBER 6 to OCTOBEK 13, 1883. Artists, Inventor*, Mechanic* and Mannfaetnrer. of America are Cordially Invited to participate In this Popular aud SacccaifiKl Exhibition —OF .A-HSTID Y. ADMISSION, 2 5 CENTS. SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS —AT — GREATLY REDUCED RATES —WILL BE ISSUED— By All Railroads Centering in Pittsburg & Allegheny. For Prospectus and Entry Blanks, 'Atldrest, E. P. YOUNG, Gen'l Manager. J. C. PATTERSON, Sec'y. HENRY BIEHL $ CO, Dealers in AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Remington Clipper Plow. IMPROVED KELLER DRAIN, SEED AND FER TILIZING DRILL, TOLEDO I. X. L. WOOD PUMPS The Celebrated American Fruit Dryer, or PNEUMATIC EVAPORATOR, It is portable, durable, absolutely flre-proof. economical and will core fruit and vegetables in less time and with lets fuel lhan any Dryer in tbe market. It will pay for itself in less than tblrtj days if properly attended. 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FEBHAXEHT STAMPING FOR KENSINGTON, ARRASENE AND OUTLINE WORK DONE, Also lessons in same given by ANNIE M. LOWMAN, North ttreet, Butler, Pa. jnt2o-l y WM. KELLEN, Washington, Pa., nresents to the public a CE MENT! More durable than I RON for .stoves, ranges, fire places antl steam mills. Also, set grates in workman-like manner. This Cement takes the place of stove hacks. All work guar anteed. july2;»-12t. for the CITIZKN' BUTLER, FA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1883 A RAILROAD CENTER. Under the above heading the Pitts burgh Com-Gazette <»f a late date con tained a very interesting account of all the railroads running into the two cities, with their connections and branches, and from this article wo make the following extracts which are of local interest : Railroads depend on their tonnage for success, and it is this fact that has turned the eyes of the managers of al most every large system operating in New York, Pennsylvania, the \ ir ginias and Ohio to Pittsburgh. Fne tonnage of Pittsburgh is acknowledged I to exceed that of any other city in the United States, and consequently all the great carrying companies are anxious to receive their share. This fact with in the past few years has inaugurated a regular railroad boom in the attempt to reach this city and the coal territory contiguous thereto. Coal furnishes one great part of the immense tonnage, and a number of lines have been con tent to reach after it, but the great ma jority have ruled that to come thus far means to come entirely, until to-day there is hardly an accessible avenue between the "hills leading into Pitts burgh and Allegheny but that is occu pied, if not with a railroad, at least with a charter for a railroad. THE GREAT RIVALS. At present there are three great sys tems of railroads operated through Pittsburgh or in course of construction and positively assured. The first of these east and west is the Pennsylvania railroad and the Pennsylvania Com pany system, the second tho \ ander bilt, and the third the Baltimore k Ohio and the Pittsburgh k Western system combined. Dependent branch railroads are as plentiful as mush rooms, and a network of independent lines has completely surrounded the approaches to this busy industrial cen tre. Other trunk systems are creeping in, either by independent lines or by excellent traffic arrangements with what would ordinarily be competing lines, but who are gladly extending terms in order to keep new lines out. The importance of Pittsburgh as a railroad centre, unknown to a great majority of the general public, has prompted this sketch, aud the facts given balow were secured directly from officials of the different roads by a re porter. The different systems and their connections are described inde pendently, and the growth of the past year separately, so that the increase of railroads in this section within the past year can be easily comprehended. The parent of all Pittsburgh rail roads, the Pennsylvania railroad, has not seen fit to lay behind its younger competitors, and while the new pro jeeets were building their main stems the old reliable was constructing its branches and fortifying itself for a con tinuance of a greater part of certain traffics. In addition to this the Penn sylvania railroad has been preparing to enlarge its facilities and improve its capacity by improvements to road-bed, the building of additional track and the creation of stems for handling the over flow freight from the main line. This necessity is not strictly confined to the Pennsylvania railroad proper, but has also been recognized by the Pennsyl vania Company's lines going west from Pittsburgh, which are being double, treble aud quadruple tracked essential distances. These improvements have mostly been commenced or completed within the past year and have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. In addition, great freight engines have bean added to the service and other improvements made in the motive power. Of the great improvements to the main line, the preparation of the West Penn railroad for transfer of through Pittsburgh freight from Boli ver to Allegheny without passing through Pittsburgh is most important. The West Penn railroad as at present operated is sixty-six miles in length from Allegheny City to Blairsville in tersection, which is fourteen miles longer than the main Pennsylvania railroad line from Pittsburgh to Blairs ville intersection. Tbe cause for the compromise, in addition to the press of business on the main line, is to make a low-grade division. Between Pitts burgh and Derry station the main line has grades of fifty-two feet, but from Derry to Conemaugh a comparatively low grade is used. The West Penn road from Allegheny to Freeport, where it crosses the Allegheny river, is a low-grade, but from there to Blairs ville intersection the grades are also 52 feet and over. Tho improvement in volves the reduction of this grade to a maximum of twenty-one feet to the mile. The difference of elevation be tween Blairsville aud Blairsville inter section makes a low-prade line imprac ticable, and it has been necessary to extend the West Penn from. Blairsville through the l'acksaddle Gap to a con nection with the main line at Boliver, eight aud a half miles long. OTHER WEST I'ENN CHANGES. 'The heavy grade between Roaring Run and Saltsburg necessitated a new route, which followed the Kiskimine tas river and the line of the old Penn sylvania canal. Near Salina the river makes a series of bends, and in order to get a short line with good nline ments, the Salina tunnel was built through a point above Salina and a bridge thrown across the Kbkiminetas river at its eastern terminus. The Salina tunnel is one-fourth of a mile long and was built by Thomas Rutter k Co., of New Vork. Two-thirds of its length is on a six degree curve and the remainder is on a tangent. It is a great piece of tunnel building and it has probably the largest section of any double track tunnel in the world, being twenty-eight feet wide at the springing line. The road is single tracked, but has double fuck masonry, tunnel aud bridges. A bridge has also been erect ed at Boliver and the road generally completed Iwtween Boliver and Blairs ville. The improvements have taken two and one-half years in building un der the personal supervision of J. X. Dußarry, third Vice President of the P. R. K. Samuel Ilea is the engineer in chief. The work is virtually com pleted now, but the dressing up of the line will defer the opening until Sep tember 10. After that date through West bound freight will leave the main liue at Boliver and continue over the West Penn to Sharpsburg, where a traffic arrangement with the Pitts burgh & Western railroad allows the use of its river front tracks through Al legheny to Wood's Run, where the Pittsburgh Ft. Wayne & Chicago tracks are entered upon. The present passenger service over the West Penn road will be continued. A branch of the West Penn railroad extends from Freeport to Butler, But ler county. On Thursday evening, August 9, the extension of the She nango and Allegheny railroad from Hilliard to Butler was completed. The Shenango & Allegheny is now a road running from Shenango, on the Erie k Pittsburgh and the New York, Penn sylvania k Ohio to Butler, and will give a through cut-off from Pittsburgh between North-western Pennsylvania and tbe East. yanderbilt's HAND. The second great trunk system as sured to Pittsburgh is the Vanderbilt. The Philadelphia k Reading railroad gives entrance to New York and Phil adelphia and Ilarrisburg. The Pitts burgh k Lake Erie railroad passed in to Vanderbilt's hands during the year, and gives him connection West with his Lake Shore k Michigan Southern railroad. The Ilarrisburg & Western, 220 miles long, will be built by the Vanderbilt-Gowan syndicate, who promise the contracts for grading will be let by September 15. This road will run direct from Harrisburg to a junction with the Pittsburgh, McKees port k Youghiogheny railroad near Broadford. A half million dollars bridge will cross the Susquehanna at Ilarrisburg, and ten tußnels between Ilarrisburg and Broadford will run the cost of the road up to SIOO,OOO per mile. This road has been described so frequently of late that more extend ed notice is unnecessary. It is the last link remaining to be constructed of the system, as the Pittsburgh, Mc- Keesport k Youghiogheny is practic ally finished and will be opened before the end of the present month. The Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Yougho gheny railroad has its Pittsburgh ter minus at a junction with tbe Pittsburgh & Lake Erie tracks at the foot of South Twentieth street, and follows the river bank to Twenty-sixth street, where it enters a peculiar tunnel or covered wav. This tunnel passes under Jon<;s k Laughlin's great iron works and is 1,(529 feet in length. It is built en tirely through cinders and other mill refuse and at no place is the summit of the covered roof more than eight to eleven inches below the surface of the ground above. Overhead the mills are working day and night and a fifty ton engine with train passes over this thin partition hundreds of times daily. The tunnel is forty feet in depth and thirty feet wide, double tracked. The tunnel was built by first bracing the crumbling sides by timbers aud as tbe borings proceeded 'bulk-heads were placed to hold up the cinder. The side walls are twenty-two feet high and 7i feet thick at the base, resting on a bed of concrete feet thick. The tracks rest on an inverted arch of concrete covered with eighteen inches of ballast.. Tbe work is supported with heavy iron girders, arched with double lines of brick and covered with concrete. Work was commenced on the tunnel August 1, ISB2, and it is about finished. It is built on a two-degree curve and re quired the removal of 80,000 cubic feet of cinder. In its construction 12,000 cubic yards of masonry were used, 4GB iron girders, 1,000,000 bricks, 14,000 barrels cement and 7,000 yards of con crete. The tunnel cost $400,000, which includes the cost of repairs to Jones k Laughlin's mills. THE B. A O. SYSTEM. The relations between the B. k O. and the Pittsburgh k Western are the most cordial. The first named sees in the latter a short through route to the northwest, and the last named in the B. kO. a direct through liue to the east. These peeps into the future have so far crystallized that the building - of the Pittsburgh Junction, railroad is now in progress. Anticipating the construction of the Junction, an in clined plane to the river is being built by both roads to connect them by water transfer until the Junction is completed. This transfer will be com pleted next month. The Pittsburgh Junction railroad will connect the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie on the south bank of the Monongahela by a bridge across the river at Glenwood with the B. kO. Four mile run is then fol lowed across the country lying between the Monongahela and Allegheny riv ers. When Neville street is reached the tunnel, a fraction over six thousand feet long, is encountered. This fol lows the line of Neville street, sixty feet under ground, and emerges a short distance from the Pennsylvania rail road at Miilvalc. The Junction passes under the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, and the sight of the Pittsburgh East End railroad passing the Pennsyl vania railroad overhead will be seen when the latter road is built. The Junction continues down Skunk Hol low to the corner of Thirty-third and Liberty streets, where it takes to a bridge, crossing Penn avenue overhead and continuing to the Allegheny river, crossing that stream on the same struc ture to the Pittsburgh <fe Western tracks ou the north bank. THE JUNCTION BRIIXIE. This bridge will be more than one mile in length, and the construction of its piers has been commenced. The contract for building the junction was let to Stearns, Shaw k Morris in March, and the work has been indus triously prosecuted since. Its length will be about lour miles, which in- eludes two branches, one paralleling the Allegheny Valley railroad up the river and the other paralleling the same road down the river to Eleventh street. The contract lor a portion of this work has been let. A joint traffic arrangement between the Baltimore k Ohio and the Pittsburgh & Western warrants sufficient traffic to insure the investment from the date of opening. The road will be in operation by April next. The Pittsburgh k Western to-day comprises in its system a standard gauge line from Pittsburgh to New Castle, and the Pittsburgh, Bradford Buffalo railroad. The third rail on this line to Callery junction makes the road also a narrow gauge into the city. Its river front terminal extends for one mile along the Ohio river and along the north shore of the Allegheny river from its mouth to Sharpsburg, a dis tance of four miles. Two months ago the merger of consolidation of the Pitts burgh, Bradford & Buffalo railroad was filed in the State Department, which gave the P. & W. 206 miles of road complete, and since then thirteen miles have been buildiDg. The Standard gauge branch to New Castle, that part between Wurtemberg, Beaver county, and New Castle, was built during the present year, giving sixty miles of standard gauge main line. At New Castle connection is made with the Pittsburgh, Cleveland & Toledo road, now building, with the Buffalo, New York k Philadelphia, and with the Sharpsville railroad. The Pittsburgh, Bradford & Buffalo railroad is a first class example of ttfb narrow gauge sys tem in Pennsylvania. The road com mences at Foxburg properly, but has been extended to Callery Junction on the main stem. From Foxburg out the first branch is at Clarion Junction, six miles of road extending to Clarion The main line then passes through the lumber regions of Clarion and Forest counties into McKean county at Kane, eighty-two miles from Foxburg. On the 13th passenger and freight traffic was opened into Kane. The most im portant work on the Pittsburgh & Western at present underway is the 12 mile branch to Mt. Jewett, where the road will connect with the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad over that portion used by the Rochester & Pittsburgh. This connection will be completed by October 1, and arrange ments have been made for laying the third rail into Bradford. This will al low the three roads to use the one line into Bradford, and will result in Pitts burgh business over the Erie and the R. k P. being divided there for the Pittsburgh <fc Western and the Alle gheny Valley. Of the entire length of the P. k W. narrow gauge system, there is only about forty miles of it which cannot be made standard gauge by widening the track. Twenty-five miles of this distance is between Clarion Junction and Allegheny and fifteen miles between Parker and But ler. "De Sun Do Move." BY REV. J NO. JASPER, OF RICHMOND, VA. When 'de history run afoul ob de Amelikites, an' Joshua be made de sun stan' still for de rest ob de day, how could she hab stood still if she hadn't a been a-goin ?' "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised ' But if some body says de sun don't rise an' go down, he robs de Lord ob his praise, like all dis yer blasphemin' science.' ' 'The sun hasteth to his place where he arose ;' but what a fool to t'ink de sun c'uld be a hurryin' up to get ready t.o rise, if de sun couldn't move!" ' 'The sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.' If de sun didn't move, poor Hezekiah would neber got well, on' had no mo' hope in de name ob de Lord dan dese modern scientifiking fellows what are goin' to be sunk deeper dan de Jehovah fat Valley fur dar awful lyin." Brother Jasper's indignation was especially fiery against such men as 'dat yar Mister Copper-nicus and Mis ter Snewtons what tells us dat de arth am rouu' an' a floatin' on noffin' when de Bible says it's got foundations. Guess I'se been as near de bottom ob de arth as any ob dem folkses ; seben huner an' fifty feet in a mine shaft, an' gib my word ob honor, dar was no sign ob gittin' through it; not a wink ob daylight from de udder side. O, de irreb'rince ob sayiu' de arth am roun,' when de Lord say in Reberla tion dar am four angels a-stannin' on de four corners ob de arth a holdin' on to de four winds ! Dese scientifiking men can lie so as to make black white; but dey can't make what's got four corners onto it roun ;' dey can't square de circle in dis yer respect." —The wives of W. J. Florence, of the late Barney Williams and of George Brown, of theatrical and chop house fame, were the Pray sisters, who were dancers on the stage before they became regular actresses. —Mr. W. W. Thomas, of Maine, the new Minister of Sweden, is a lineal descendent of George Cloves, who founded the city of Portland, Me., in 1830- He is 44 years old, a graduate of Bowdoin, and a lawyer. —Let us beware of losing our enthu siasms. Let us ever glory in some thing, and strive to retain our admira tion for all that would enoble, and our interest in all that would enrich aud beautify our life. Did She Die? "No; she lingered and suffered along, "pining away all the time for years, "the doctors doing her no good; and "at last was cured by this Hop Bitters "the papers say so much about. In "deed! indeed! how thankful we should "l>e for that medicine." —King raised a rum pus in his realm by introducing a short weight dollar, oil which he no glected to put a pious maxim to atone for the deficiency of silver. HOW THE HEATHEN SEES US. American and Chinese Customs Contrasted—Wah Hing says the Chinese are not Idola ters—the Missionary's Game. From the Chicago Herald. A Herald representative lately rode from Chicago to St. Louis in company with Wah Hing, a Chinese student, who is en route from an eastern college to his oriental home, the orient being west nowadays. Mr. Wah is a de lightful little gentleman, who per mitted the reporter to give his curiosity full swing and answered his questions with a gravity that made him feel somewhat abashed. 'How do you Chinamen tell each other apart ? You all look alike to me." 'Ah, that is not strange. When I first came to America I could not get acquainted with many, for everybody looked like everybody else. Especially did the women bother me. I suppose it was because the general appearance of their dress was more similar than that of the men. But I had trouble in identifying men. I think, perhaps, the same is true of all people. Ne groes still look like each other to me; and I am almost sure I never could learn to tell Indians apart. Don't you think it takes a goodj while for a per son to overcome the tendency to look at new things in too general a way ? Now, babes all look alike to me, even those of my own nationality. I think when you have become acquainted with a few Chinese persons you will cease to look at their yellow skins and almond eyes and long hair as the only features worth seeing.' 'Tell me, Mr. Wah, or Mr. Hing, which is your family name?' 'Wah is my family name. Hing is my given name—what you would call my Christian name.' 'Why do you Chinese have your names upside down ?' 'We don't; it is you whose name is backward. What was your name when you were born ?' 'Blunt.' 'Well, when did you get your other name ?' 'About three months afterward, I suppose.' 'Then why do you place the one got last ahead of the one you got first ?' 'Gracious,' mentally ejaculated the reporter, 'are the heathens coming over here to give us a reason for everything they do ? If they are I don't wish to argue these cases with them ?' 'Yes', continued Mr. Wah, 'you A mericans are a sort of wrong-end-up people in more ways than one, judged from a Chinese point of view. When it is day in China it is night here. When we are walking about with our heads up you are sticking to the under side of the earth like flies on a ceiling. Nature seems to have intended to have us in a direct contrast with you, and so most of our customs are reversed. Your boys do all the playing, and your old men are quiet and sedate. In China the old men fly the kites and play the games and the boys stand and look on. Here you have abomi nably hot dinners and freezing cold wines. At home our wines are served hot and our big dinners cold. When you meet an American he takes off his hat; when you meet a bare-headed Chinaman he will cover his head as quickly as possible. When you salute a friend here you shake his hand and squeeze it, perhaps, until it hurts him. I don't wonder your handicraftsmen are not as cunning with their fingers as the Chinese; they have all the delicacy squeezed out of them by shaking hands in this barbarous fashion of yours. In China we salute a friend by shaking one of our own hands in the other, and we are very careful not to squeeze it until the fingers stick together, as you Amei'cans sometimes do. In your art, too, I notice that you think only of perspective ; in Chinese art there is hardly a thought of perspective. We make figures without distance, you make distance without figures.' 'ls there any such thing as music in China ?' 'Oh, yes, we have some excellent music ; but you could not appreciate it until you had learned our language. There is a very close connection be tween language and music. Before I learned your language your music was simply a jumbling of deafening noise in my ears. The first piano I heard in San Francisco nearly drove out my wits, and when I heard a brass band I wondered that the law suffered such an unmusical mob to walk in the streets. Now that I know the language, I like the music of this country and Europe and can play a little on the piano. But still a Chinese orchestra is better, I think, though you would probably think it made only a very poor quality of racket.' 'Are the Chinese idolaters ?' 'Certainly M>t. The Buddhistic re ligion is very much like the Christian, except that it is a good deal older and has suffered the priests to ring in a few more superstitions. The Confucian re ligion is really only a code of morals. By the way, Confucius lived five cen turies before Christ, and taught just about the same things. Might not some of the Christian ministers defend thoir plagiaristic practices by referring to Christ's golden rule, which was al most identical to the word with the gol den rule of Confucius—'Whatsoever ye would not that men do unto you do ye not so unto them'? Takeout the 'not'and you have the Christian text. Now, as for idolatry, I can tell you where that idea came from. In almost every house in China there haugs a picture of an old man and a young child. The one national wish of China is to be as wise as age and as innocent*as infancy. Instead o( the morning prayers that Christian families have, the Chinese bow before these pictures and renew their resolutions for another day. Missionaries who don't object to being pretty well paid go to China and send back word that this is idola try. Kven Catholics, who kneel be fore their crucifix and call it holy, de- Clare us idolaters because we bow be fore an embleru of wisdom and inno cence. In some parts of China there are temples with stone or metal god 3 in them, but those gods are no more sacred than the statues of Christ or the paintings of Mary in many an American church. They are represen tations of an idea, that is all. 'Speaking of religious, I must tell you what I thought of America when I first came here. Hiding on the rail road, I noticed crosses stuck in the ground every few rods beside the track. They were held in place by wires that ran from one to another; though I supposed, of course, that they were re ligious emblems until I learned that they were telegraph poles with cross arms for the wires. 'I wrote home some wonderful things about this country when I first came here. As we were coming through lowa the train was stopped at a little bridge over a creek, and the engineer went down and found a girl baby in the water. lat once wrote home that Americans had a barbarous habit of drowning their surplus female children. Not long after that I heard for the first time that some such story bad gained currency in America about China. I suppose it started in somewhat the same manner.' 'ls it true, Mr. Wah, that the Chinese give away their babies ?' 'lt is just as true as that they drown them. No, they do not eive them away. I suppose that story started from the fact that Chinese mothers very often change babies for weekS and months at a time. You know they be gin training children there almost as soon as they are born; and as there are no schools for infants the mothers trade babies, because it is a well-es tablished fact that a mother's love blinds her to the faults of her own chil dren which others can plainly soe. Then, too, the child is apt to have the same faults as the mother, and you know we do not see oar own faults as others see them.' State, Press Notes. —The Catawissa A/eics-Item says the ten dollars a day which Legislator Hines draws is wasted on a dollar and a half man. —The Indiana Messenger thinks the over-flowing State Treasury will cheer the hearts of the ten-dollar Leg ißlatu r e for some time yet. —The Williamsport Qazette and Bulletin wants to know if Chairman Ilensel proposes to assess the Demo cratic Governor and teu-dollar-a-day legislators for campaign funds this year. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch is of the opinion that for a good fat sinecure the position of members of the Pennsyl vania Legislature in this year of our Lord is equaled by few and excelled by none. —Chairman Hensel's Lancaster In telligencer is advising the Democrats not to yield another inch in the mat ter of apportionment, but if they can get no concessions from the Senate to adjourn and relegate the matter to the peopte to decide. IIARRISBURO, August 10—The House met and adjourned until Monday eve ning. No business was transacted, owing to a want of a quorum. The Republican Senators had a grand jubi lation last night over the breaking away of Coxe and the others, and it is freely predicted that the Legislature will get away on Tuesday, August 21st, the day set in the Senate resolu tion for final adjournment, but the Governor may throw a bombshell into camp by vetoing the appropriation bill on the ground of no work no pay. Should he do this the average Legisla tor who has sat not exceeding three hours per day during three days in the week would get little sympathy. —The Philadelphia Record tersely suggests that those representatives in the Legislature who find it impossible, in consequence of party fealty, to obey the mandate of the Constitution re quiring them to apportion the State into districts should resign their places. This is the only way to honorably es cape the performance of an oath-bound duty. —Mr Frederick Singer, Slackwater, Pa., says: "I had dyspepsia for six years. I used Brown's Iron Bitters and felt immediate relief." There are nearly six thousand Americans residing in Paris. Even when trade is rather dull in other lines, there is generally a bustle in dry goods stores. —Mrs. Zachariah Chandler, of Mich igan, is now living in Maine with her daughter, Senator Hale's wife. |CgTTast, brilliant and fashionable are the Diamond Dye colors. One package colors Ito 4 lb3. of goods. 10 cents for any color. —A calculation made at the Post office Department shows only one reg istered letter in every 13,000 is lost. who worked in the right way ever died of work. Peruna. This medii-ino was introduced to the medical profession and to the pub lic at large by S. B. Ilartman, M. IV, in 1877, after he had prescribed it to over 40,000 patients in almost every disease to which flesh is heir. It wholly composed of numerous vegetable ingredients, each one of which is acknowledged by the medical profession to be the most potent of all the herbal remedies known to medical science. But its grate virtue is mainly attri butable to the new and peculiar pro portions in which the harmonious in gredients are combined, and to the ex treme cave exercised in its manufac ture, using only the pure, active prin ciples, and excluding all that is crude or irritating. No one should be with out I'eruna. NO. 39
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