The Johnstown Democrat. v J. ( vy PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, N". 138 I'IiANKLIN STREET, J Oil 'So iv .V, CAMBRIA CO., J'A. TERMS—9I.3O per year, payable in advance; outside the county, ittteen cents additional lor piWtago. It not paid wltliln three months S3 wilt he charged. A paper can be discontinued at any time by payfng arrearages, and not otherwise. The failure to direct, a discontinuance at the aspiration ot the period subscribed for will he littnsldered a new engagement. .Vet/t subsirlp 11mm must tie accompanied by the CASH. L. 1). WOODRUFF. Editor and Publisher, FRIDAY JANUARY,2IIBB9. CAM, h'DK DEMOCRATIC COUNT? (hilt -MiT'tniv. T i tb£ 3i''i,<h*l\; /;/' Ih. Ih'lH'M'i'ilt ii' C.m.'ij GUNTI.SMKN : There seems to be a prevailing opinion among Democrats that a change should be made in our system ot nominating candidates for ollli" s. it is urged iliat the present system has damaged the party In tlui county, and a like result lias followed Its adoption in all other counties where it prevailed. I have been re peatedly urged by prominent Democrats throughout the county, who have no other In terest In the matter than the good of the party, to call the county committee together tor the purpose of eonslderlngthe propriety of retnlnlug the presenter adopting the old style delegate sys tem or increased delegate system. Therefore. I will ask what deems a public demand, Thai the members of the Democratic Committee meet at the Armory llall, tn Ebeusburg on Monday the 34i1l day of February lsht). at 3 o'clock r. M , for the purpose of deliberating on this and other matters of Interest to Lhe party. I would further suggest that each member of the com mittee consult his constituents on the tho sub ject so that any action taken by the Oomintttee would be endorsed by the party. JOSEPH A. OItAY. Chairman of the Democratic commutes. Carrolltown, l'a., January 31, 1890. SPEAKER UKKD IS opposed to toilers, be cause if lie doesn't count straight tliey wil llell. THE question of the location of the World's Fair is to the patriotic citizen not a question of politics, but one of con venience and suitability. It is a blot upon our boasted public spirit that poli tics should have been allowed to come in at a!!. What, location is most accessible to the world ? where can the purposes of the fair be best carried out ?—there are the questions that should decide the m itlit. SOME wise people are proposing luut the World's Fair lie postponed I ill .893, saying that the date of opening iu that year, say May Ist, would he as near Oclo b"' 12th, the date of lite discovery of America as May Ist 1892. Well, suppose ii U; how will it be about tiie closing time? it is a great pity, if the American republic is not able to eel remit to celebrate such an unni versary wlir.i it really occurs instead o: a year later. Let's call in some help. Tisvi late Lewis Cassidv, of Philadel phia, Ifft a handsome fortune. It was thought at iii'-t that his debts would oat tip hi-, estate, but after every liability has been met there will he at least ¥'MO,OOO to he divided between four heirs. .Mr. Cassidv made an enormous amount of money during his professional career, lie receives! a salary of SO,OOO a yeur from the Philadelphia Traction Company, $lO,- 000 from the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad, $15,000 from the Liquor Dealers' Associ ation, and general lees bringing up Ids yearly income to more tlmn $50,000 yearly. ROAD MAKING. There is much agitation now about changing tlie n nd laws with a view of improving the country roads, which a ceitain s ■; sons of the year arc a'tnost im passable. Jt is well to agilate the qties tion and discuss it thoroughly before tlie matter is laid before tlie Legislature. Some propose that the State should build roads, and others that tlie matter should be in the hands cf the county. The peo ple are adverse to having the matter taken out < f their bands, as it would likely take money out of their hands instead of their being allowed to " work out" their taxes. We believe, however, that an efficient -eheme for road improvement can lie made without lakiug the matter out of the hands of the local authorities, and lief sides the State can never in Hie lifetime 'if those now living, coustruei roads in half the places where they are needed. The reform migli! lie started by making the term of office of supervisors about five years long, and requiring some stand ard of qualification. Three-fourths of the money spent on roads at present is lost through the lack of knowledge,ori the part of supervisors. A good work on road-making might, be placed at public expense in tlie bauds of every sepervisor, and lie be required to be familiar with its contents. Three or four contiguous townships might be un der one good supervisor, and they then might have much of the improved road machinery in common, with little cost to each district. The people could still be permitted to work out their taxes or tlie main part of them, but there should be more efficient management and better di rection to tlie work. Many farmers and others it ss interested in the matter than tliey arc. work on the road for the pur pose of " working out" the IJXCS instead of improving tlie roads. A few good roads in a county will make a demand for other good ones. The matter should bo discussed that public opinion can take shape before the next meeting of tlie Leg islature. TUE BEGINNINGS OF THE P. It. K. The Story of One Who WHU Employe" on Great Itaiiromt at Its lteK<nnlng[. To the Editor of the Joltueloxr.n Democrat. PATTERSON, PA., January 81, 1891. As I read your valuable and always very welcome weekly, I have from time to time found in its columns the names of some your citizens with whom I was very well acquainted, away hack in the years 1853 and 1854, when I was quite a young man and in the employ of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, at East Conemaugb. In the year 1853, my brother Daniel was Despatchcr for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at East Conemaugb, and my brother W. I). Cramer, was Conductor of through freight between Conemaugb and Pittsburgh. I was Conductor of a train that hauled all the Pennsylvania Railroad Company cars from Conemaugb to the Viaduct. The engines of the Portage, or State Road, also used the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks from Conemaugb to the Viaduct, thereby abandoning that part of the Portage Railroad lying between East Conemaugb and the Viaduct, thus cutting off the use of about five miles of the level and also do ing away with plane No. 1, and the only tunn'd on the line of the Old Portage State Railroad. At the viaduct I back d off all Penn sylvania Railroad cars, and then the Por tage engines would take on from livedo ten Pennsylvania Railroad cars, in addi tion to the number of liuo cars they left Johnstown with, on account of the very heavy grade on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Conemaugb and Via duct. The State engines could haul only about half as many cars between these points as they could from Viaduct to foot of plane No. 2. So an engine leaving Johnstown with twenty four-wheeled cars wetild arrive at plane No. 2 with double that number. Judge Edsou was train master for the State at that time at Viaduct, and Johnny Bracken, father of .Patrick and Barney Bracken, was switch tender. During this lime of running trains to Viaduct I became acquainted with a great maDy engineers, firemen, and train hands, some of whom are deud, while others have, I suppose, left Johnstown and located else where. Among those with whom I had become well acquainted was Geo. Mc- Clain, who was engineer on the Chero kee ; Yank Laugdon, who run the Ni agara, and there was the three Hudson brothers —Henry, John, and Terrence, Arthur and Frank Devlin, John Brook bank, John Woods. Stewart McCleilan, and Thos. Bracken. The last named and myself were near one age, and boarded at the same bouse, and we became very much attached, but HI the flight of time and changes made, I have no knowledge of his whersbuuts. but would be pleased to hear from him if lie is still living. I would be much pleased could 1 meet those who are still living whom I have known, and have a friendly chat ever the days we spent together railroading thirty-six years ago. At that time Johns town was quite a small town. I believe there wa9 mote people drown cd in the flood of last May than there was inhabitants in the town in May, 1853. The only industries (outside the forwarding business) that I can recall, was Smith's Car Works, the State Shops, and Smith's Cement Mill. Everything was business and bustle, however, around the ware houses, where all freight had to be trans ferred from the boats to the cars or from the ears to the boats; and the putting ot the four-section boats upon the trucks whereby I hey were transported over the levels and inclined planes of the Stute railroad to ' Uollidnysburg, where they were again run into the canal basin. I remember well my aged friend, David Lucas, Sr., had charge of the section boat slip at Johnstown in the year 1853. The works of the Cambria Iron Compa ny were to a great extent, built in the year 1858. My brother Daniel, Despatchcr at Cone lr.augh, hauled a great deal of the ma chinery that made up the original plant of the Cambria Iron Company, to tlie dif ferent sidings near tlic works and shifted the ears into position so as to be easily bandied in the unloading. The Cambria Iron Company from a small beginning in 1853, has certainly de veloped to astounding proportions in this years of grace 1890 The Cambria Iron Co., have to-day more engines employed around their works, than the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had in the year 1853, to perform all its Passenger and freight trafficH;etween and Cone maugh. The freight and passenger business on tlie Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad was all done over a single track road with exceptions o( short pieces of double track here and there over the division, and used for passing trains around other* in opposite directions. I can only recall telegraph offices at the following places on the divi sion at Hint time, viz : Conemaugh, Johns town. New Floience (which place was then headquarters for Supervisor 'l'hoa. Gilson,; Lockport, Illairsville Intersec tion, Latrobs, Greensburg, Irwin, and Brinton*. About cigntcen freight and six passenger engines was ail the motive power required to convey the passengers and freight over the division at that time, lull during the fall months of that year the company began to add largely to their motive power by introducing a number of engines built by Smith & Perkins and Richard Morris & Son. The engines in nee on. the Division when I went on in March 1853, were al most exclusively built by M. W. Haiti win, of J'bilitdelphia. The changes that have been made in the increased weight and power of the locomotives and the in- crease iu the size, weight aud carrying capacity of the cais is almost beyond be lief. Then Hie locomotives weighed from eighteen tons to twenty-six ton", and the carrying capacity of an eight wheeled Pennsylvania Railroad car was from nine tons to twelve tons per car. Now the heaviest freight locomotives, I suppose, weigh over fifty tons, and the carrying capacity of the freight cars is up as high as thirty tons to an eight-wbee'ed car. The four-wheeled ears owned by the transportation companies of that day and run ever the old Portage system carried from two and one-half to three tons per car. Surely the changes have been great in railroading since I made my first trip as brakeman on a freight train from Cone maugh to Pittsburgh one night in Marcli in the year of our Lord 1853. Respectfully Yours, DAVID T. CRAMKE. THE BODY OK ARTHUR DOOUSSFOUND. II Now l.iifs at the Morgue Awaiting Burial. The body ef Arthur Doouss(not Doons, as some have tried to make it) the young man who was drowned from the works at No. G bridge on December 18l h, and for whose body such diligent starch us made, was recovered from the Cone maufi'h Tuesday. It was found lying on a rock about two ftet out of the water, just opposite Buttermilk Fall", one-half mile from East Conemaugh. The body had been washed over a mile from where the drowning occurred. After being brought to Johnstown slation on an en gine ami thence to the morgue, the body was fully identified by David H. Dooms, brother of the deceased. The brother states that to his knowl edge the deceased lad at least SSO in bills and a watch and chain, when he fell into the river. These are missing from the body. Even the boots had been stripped.off. The presumption is that the ' body was found and taken from the river by pome unknown parlies, robbed, and left where it was found by the workmen yesterday. The body will be buried at Grand View. Special Excursions to Washington via Pennsylvania KailroaU. In order that the residents of this sec tion may enjoy the opportunity of visit ing Washington the Pennsylvania Rail road Company will run a series of special excursions to that city on the following dates : February 18th, March 6th, April 3d, and April 34th. The National Cap ita! is one of the most interesting cities in the Union. It is esteemed by many tie most beautiful city iu America, aud the fact that it is the saat if governmeut and the location of tin- handsomest public buildings in the land maices it interesting to every citizen. Botli brunches of Congress will be in daily sessions, and, in fact, every branch of the public ..orvice may be seen in the actual work of conducting the the gov ernment. The public buildings, em bracing the Capitol, While House, Treasury, State, War, and Navy Depart ments, the great Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, are open to the public every day, and offer a field for in terest and study that cannot be excelled anywhere. The great Washington mon ument, the highest memorial shaft in the world, is in itself worth a trip to see. The rates are unusually low, and the limitation of the tickets ample for a most pleasurable visit. Excursion tickets, good for ten itays from date of sale, admitting of a good stop-over in Baltimore in either direction within the proper limit, will be sold from Pittsburgh at $9, and at correspondingly low rates from other stations in Western Pennsylvania. The tickets will be good for use on any regular train of the dates above named except limited express trains ; and in addition to the regular service a special train of parlor ears and day coaches will leave Pittsburgh at 8 A. M., aud run through to Washington, stopping at principal stations. The re turn coupons will he valid for passage on any regular train within the return limit, except the Pennsylvania Limited. Where to Get Jolt Printiug Attention is directed to the jobbing do partmeut of the DEMOCRAT, which is pro vided with the most approved and' exten sive facilities for the execution of job printing of all kinds, from the smulles label to the largest poster, iu black or colored inks, at prices as low as can be bad elsewhere for an equal grade of wo-k. We are prepared to print at short notice, pamphlets, paper books, posters, sale bills, programs, circulars, letter heads, checks, envelopes, bill beads, blanks of all kinds, catalogues, business cards, and everything in the line of pirn ting used iu the conduct of every day business. — A Laugh on the Doctor. From the Troy Press. A Utica physician lias to bear the ban ter of his medical friends on account of a natnraJ mistake that he made recently. A patient called to be treated for a severe cold. lie described his troubles at length, and the doctor advised him to go home and soak his feet in hot water. "That will do no good," was the riply of the sick man. "How is that?" asked the doctor, a little put out. "My legs are cork," said he, with a smile." The doc tor did not fail to appreciate Hie force of the reply. The attempt of O'.Shen aud his backers to discredit Darnell in England seems to have been a signal failure. Several pub lic bodies have passed resolutions of con fidence in the Irish leader's innocence, and it looks as if the famous divorce suit will prove a veritable boomerang to its con coctors. PHOTOGRAPHY AS A PASTIME. Ili lNwsiMlilirr. for J'leitHnre and Instruc tion Which It Presents. The wonderful growth of amateur pho tography its a popular outdoor pastime illustrates in a marked degree the ele vating tendencies of the modern devices for health giving recreation. To the lover of those polite diversions that are devoid of the elements of daring adventure and the prowess of reckless exposure, the study of lield photography presents at tractions that are iincomparably superior to those of other outdoor pastimes. Photography enjoys an acknowledged supremacy over all other outdoor sports in that it cultivates tiro finer instincts and depends not for its fascinating feat ures upon an exhibition of physical har dihood or athletic training. The pursuit of the pastime is beyond question enno bling and refining in its influence. It de velops a keen and artistic eye for the beautiful in nature. Through the mys tic and enchanting alchemy of the "dark room" it brings the receptive mind into contact with the great Artist who lias filled the earth and sky with such regal beauty. The whole realm of nature with its green fields and woodland symposium of daisies and buttercups, its babbling brooks, where the laughing rivulets go clattering with their silver heels over the stony depths and the nodding lilies drink in copious libations from the perpetual fount—-all this isthe kingdom of the ama teur photographer. The pastime is one that not only con duces to physical exhilaration, but, through the fascinating mystery of its results, it engages our admiration and enlists our ripest mental endeavor. Other outdoor sports are largely calculated for the development of the body without rendering to the mind any adequate rec ompense. Moreover, such pastimes as hunting, fishing, lawn tennis and base ball combine elements of roughness that are incompatible with the refined deli cacy of the gentler sex. Photography is a recreation admirably adapted to both sexes. After all, the excellence of the results accomplished are dependent upon the skill of the artist. The time of the ex posure must be regulated according to the light and the character of the subject. To make indiscriminate "shots" at all sorts of objects is the pastime of the schoolboy and not of the artist. The most beautiful effects are obtained by a proper study of the lights and shadows of the landscape, coupled with a skillful ex posure of such duration as is best calcu lated to draw out all the beauties of the scene. The dark foliage of trees will re quire a longer exposure than a house that lias been painted white. And in this connection it is proper to remark that the most inane and insipid feature of the pas time is the photography of houses. No artist who is in love with the art will waste any of his precious negatives upon houses except, perchance, those that are singularly beautiful and rustic in their architectural conception. Landscapes constitute the poetry of photography. They make up the rhyth mic beauty of the photographic melody. A proper appreciation of the art is pre dicted upon the delicate impressionable ness of the artist with reference to natu ral scenery. The photography of faces that have been previously prepared to the "ordeal" should be left for the "professional" whose appreciation of the art is circum scribed by the limitationsof the almighty dollar. It is his business to flatter human vanity for sordid lucre. The amateur must not prostitute the art to such base ends. If he desires to embalm a sweet face or a graceful form on the unfading tablets of photography, lie should "take" them by the instantaneous process, when they are not posing for it. Groups of merrymakers, taken at a picnic or outing, without any warning from the operator, form a laughable feat ure of photography, and the pictures have the rare merit of being exceedingly "natural." The time is coming when an educated man will not think of starting upon a pilgrimage without his trusty camera, upon whose never failing power he may depend to secure a panorama of his journey, which will be one of the com forts of his declining years. A glance at the pictures will revive a thousand tender associations of earlier days. The time is also coming when every educated man who builds himself a home to live in, will give as much at tention to the construction of the "dark room" as he does to the library. In the dark room, where may be developed at leisure the results of a day's tramp in Held and forest, are to be found the true delights of photography. Here are evolved by the wand of the photographic wizard, the pictures that will hang on memory's wall for many years to come. After the day's battle and the ignoble strife for gain is ended, it is sweet to re tire into the quiet seclusion of the en chanted dark room, and bring to light the hidden sun pencilings of a long ramble through the woods in the au tumn days. The dark room is an institution that will mollify the asperities of connubial life and dissipate the corroding perplexi ties of business care.—Forest and Stream. Tlio Deepest Lake Known. By far the deepest lake known in the world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia, which is every way comparable to the great Canadian lakes as regards size; for, while its area of over 0,000 square miles makes it about equal to Erie in super ficial extent, its enormous depth of be tween 4,000 and 4,500 feet makes the volume of its waters almost equal to that of Lake Superior. Although its surface is 1,350 feet above the sea level, its bottom is nearly 3,000 feet below it. The Caspian lake, or sea, as it is usually called, has a depth in its southern basin of over 3,000 feet. Lake Maggiuro is 3,000 feet deep, Lake Como nearly 2,000 feet and I.jgo-di-Garda, another Italian lake, has a depth in certain places of 1,000 feet. Lake Constance is over 1,000 feet deep, and Huron and Michigan reach depens of 900 and 1,000 feet.—New- York Telegram. I YANKEE LOCAL NAMES. SOME OF THE ODD TITLES BY WHICH LOCALITIES ARE KNOWN. I Flow Kite End tVai Named —-Where tho Ilog Was Itan Down by a Train—Ned | BuntlineNContributlon—Stony I,ouesome, Barbary Coast ami Christian Shore. I "Can you direct me to tho Richardson j neighborhood?" said a newspaper man, | tramping along a dusty country road | last summer. Two fanners leaned on their rakes and looked at each other in quiringly. "Richardson neighborhood? Never i heard o' no bucli place. Guess you must mean the Coop. Used to a Richardson live there once." It is just this way all over New Eng land. Every township is subdivided into localities and neighborhoods bearing odd and distinctive names. Often they are more than odd; they are quaint and ec centric, and sometimes laughable. This jame Coop was bounded on the east by the Rock o' Dundee, on tho north by the City, a solitary house, standing where four roads met, and on the west by Shada gee. And so it is in every town, there is an unwritten geography of New England. THK HOG'S GREASE. Boston may have at one time been blessed with queer subdivisions of this sort, but they have now nearly all been swallowed up in the Nortlt End, the West End, the South End, etc. Lynn, on the other hand, abounds with them. There are Rail Hill, Breed's End, Blood Swamp, New Light Hill, Pan Swamp, Vinegar Hill, Sadler's Rock and Pudding Hill, This last name came to be applied from the fact that the father of Preserved Sprague, who lived in this section, was noted for the quality of his puddings. What is now Market square was once known as Kite End. It received its name at the hands of the late Joshua C. Oliver, who published a little sheet known as The Tattler, and, out of spite, he nick named the locality Kite End, and its peo ple Kite Enders. Manchester, N. H., boasts of a section known as the Barbary Coast, a name given it by an old sailor. Here too, are found Jacob's Ladder, Pig Village and Phinenton square. The city itself has been variously known as Harrytown, Tvngston, Derryfield and Notuoskeag. In the suburbs of Bangor, Me., on the line of the old Veazie r; ilroad, is a vil lage still known as Hogtown. Years ago, when the railroad was in full opera tion and trains used to drag lazily along between Bangor and Oldtown, a terrible accident occurred there one morning. A woman living near tho track was the happy popsessor of a very large hog, and the animal in its meandering* came upon the road in front of an advancing train. The hog had never been accus tomed to turn out for anything, and did not propose to commence with a trifling thing like an engine. It therefore held its ground, and a dying hog was soon rolling down the embankment. The train stopped, as was its custom upon all occasions, even to allow a pas senger to alight and cut a twig. Out came an angry woman, brandishing iter arms and wildly calling upon the con ductor of the train to pay for the fatally injured porker. In those days the con ductor of the line was of as much im portance as the general manager, and lie flatly refused to pay for the hog, saying that the owner ought to luive kept him away from the track. Tltis settled the matter, and lie started his train and left Iter. When that train returned, how ever, there was sorrow on board. The woman had taken tho fat from the hog, and for a long distance had greased the rails so that it was impossible to pass the place. None of the modern appliances for surmounting sttch obstacles were then known, and tile train was hopeless ly stalled. A crew was employed to help the trainmen, and it took hours to clean the grease from the rails so that the train could proceed. Since tliat time the place has been called Hogtown. OTHER ODD NAMES. To everyltody in the city of Portland the neighboring town of Cape Elizabeth is known by lite simpler name of Poo duck. This is a contraction of its an cient Indian name of Purpooduck. Augusta has among its subdivisions Rotten Row, Slab City, Mud Mills, and Britt's Gully. Suburban Lewiston is made up of "patches." There are tho Baby patch, the Strawberry patch, the Bleachery Hill patch, the Foundry patch, Water street patch, and the Gas House patch. Portsmouth, N. H., lias its oddly named localities, and these have been well de scribed in Thomas Bailey Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy." One of the best known is Christian Shore. Tlte name of the district is supposed to have come from some early settler named Ciiristian, who lived upon and owned the land on that side of Strawberry Bank creek, as the inlet now called tiie North pond was named by the early colonist In Providence, R. 1., and its vicinity there are locations known by sotne pe culiar names that are not to be found in the maps or directories. There are Squaw Hollow, Chicken Foot alley. Bulldog square, Shoo Fly Village, Maiden's Prayer park and a variety of others less familiar to the general public. In tltis state Gloucester is especially rich in these queer localities Loblolly cove is situated on the eastern sidoof the cape, and was probably the scene of an old time feast, at which "loblolly," a dish made from Indian meal, was the bill of fare. Cat pond is probably named from the plant called "pussy willow," which grew on its margin. DoncTudg ing is the name applied to that strip of Squam river between the cut bridge and tho old town landing. There are various derivations of this. One is that, the river being shallow near tltis locality, tho boatmen in the olden time, wlto used polos to propel their crafts, were done "fudging 1 ' or propelling with their poles when the deep water in this vicinity was reached. Goose cove, on the northern side of the cape, was probably so called from the tame geese whicit were kept in that place.—Boston Dispatch in New York Sun. THAT V. M. C. A. KF.FL'SAI,. The fetitinn (or Aid tojtoe Flood ltelirf - J Ho • tin- Association Receives (be Do- '1 vision . riip refusal of the Flood Commission to -wt\ appropriate money for the purposes set 9 forth in the peiiiiou given herewith is provoking much comment, most of which* is of an unfavorable character. Tho pe titinh as sent in to the Commission is signed by twenty-five ct the most promi nent men in the city, mid is as follows: ' JOHNSTOWN, PA., Decern tier :il, i.ss. ; 'JYitlw Flood Commission: (IENTI.SHEN We, representative business men of Johustown, respect fully request ail ap propriation towards the erection of a permanent and substantia! building In our city tor tho " Young Men's Christ lan Association." > ' The confidence this organization has enjoyed In this community Is more than ever Indulged. ' Statistics show that Its temporary quarters | reached to the sheltering of as many astlvehuti- * dred men In a single rainy day, largely drawn from the •' State forces" then at work. In thus sheltering and shielding these men we believe it has helped the State work, while the many ot her features as to Its worth need no argument. j We believe an appropriation would be Justl- j fledattdas loudly applauded bvourcltlzens and sufferers as was the commendable appropriation j] for a city hospital front a similar fund. Firm. Because such a home for young men , Is our city's loudest cry, and the money was given to relieve want. Second. While •• children's aid," general be nevolence, churches, lodges, etc.. have prose- 1 cuted a nobl" work in their lines, nothing doll- ; nlte has been done Cor young men as a class, save through this Association. Third. That In the adjustment of loss by the commission, thts Institution has never received a cent, and the young mon and business men awarded the least consideration. Fourth. That this organization must not be classed with schools supported by general taxa tion, or churches maintained by Individual members or assessment, but as a public Institu tion. Its doors stand wide to all creeds. Fifth. That to the extent of commission's con* slderatlon, we, who have received least, will be relieved of the burden that must fall heavily upon us at this time In the erection of this building. Sixth. 1 hat such building would have weight In the business Interests of our city, and in helping to rear Its walls again would thus ben efit all. Seventh. That with actual want lully pro ■ vlded (or, out ol the gratitude ot our hearts we would be denied personal benefit that a monu ment might thus stand open to young men and speak the generosity of this wondertul world after all other visible remembrance has passed v away. Eighth. That no committee or organization could better care (or such a memorial tower, and combine greater benellt to humanity from humanity, than this " Young Men's christian Association." It stands as most substantial business men of the community, yet by special Act of the Legislature ever under the State's control. Xlnth. That as all personal loss has been ad- Justed to the full proportion ot t'ommlsslon'sliw tent. It would be an Injustice to withhold (bis money from such a public need. And we who have lived here lu prosperity betore the flood, passed through the waters, know where thJs money can do the most good, If greatful hearts can be allowed a lasting souvenir, In the name of u common cause we again ask a most liberal appropriate n. John Thomas A sous, guttural nterchanalse; L. M. Woolt A Son. clothiers ; John Fulton, Gen eral Manager Cambria Iron Company ; John D. Roberts, Cashier First National Bank ; ..lames McMlllen, President Wood, Morrell A company, and Resident Director Cambria Iron Com pany; W. c. Lewis, cashier savings. Bank George A. liager. Assistant Cashier ot Savings ; Bank ; Herman ltaumer, Postmaster; John >l. • Brown, Board of Inquiry of Flood claims ; Sam 4 uel Masters, Board of Inquiry of Flood Claims ; John Uannan. Board of Inquiry of Flood claims; George W. Wagner. M. D.. Secretary Board of Trade ; W. E Matthews, state Board of Health; James J. Fronhelser, General Superintendent Cambria iron company: Cyrus. Elder. Esq.. Solicitor Cambria Iron company; G. W. Moses, grocer; ;B. F. Speedy, wholesale grocer; Alex Kennedy. President Johustown council; W. A. Stewart. Although the above list lacks a few natnas to be complete f the re being ililii cully in getting the names) yet it cur tains a number of our most prominent men. Speaking of tho refusal to grant the re quest, a member said it should be tioticed that only a few of the signers are prom i ncotlv connected wit It lite Association. It is thought that the amount appropriated • for the hospital, §40,000, is not nil needed for that purpose and that a portion of it : might have becu devoted to the purpose j mentioned in the petition. TIIE BODY OF A MAN FOOD. The Search Force Comes I pon the Remains F * of Another Flood Victim Near Cooperf tlaie. On Saturday the search force at work near Coopersdale came upon the body of a man, buried deeply in the sand. It was removed and brought to tlte morgue late in the afternoon. The description is as follows: No. 531, male, height live feet nice inches, large irregular front teeth some what decayed, lower right back teeth out. v gum boots, black and red ringed woolen hose —rings one-half iuch wide, tlte legs <\ had been darned near the top—calieo shirt wiilt square rod dots one-half inch apart, brown and white striped shirt of regu lat cotton shirting worn under tlte other, covered scapulars, two pairs of pautaioons—lop pair of pepper aud salt colored woolen goods the others gray mixed goods with narrow black stripes j one-half inch apart vest of heavy wuo'.uu goods grayish wiilt narrow black stripes SOUK what closer than in pantaloons, gutta ,' percita buttons. The body is in a fair state of preserva tion considering the length it lias been buried. A watch chain was also found on the clothing. And Tims Ar Mie " FaithtiM " Rewarded It is given out thai in place of Loun Wehn, Democrat, who ha- recently Te signcd the position, Mi .William P. lteese. of Millville, has becu appointed Stamp / Deputy at Johnstown. Mr. Reese was / Deputy Chairman of the Republican ' ' County Committee in this section last fall, and by his unt'ring efforts succeeded in letting O'Connor, the Democratic eand'r date for District Attorney, gain several votes in his ward. Mr. Reese is Principal of the Millville schools, which position ho lias held for several years.
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