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FRIDAY JANUARY,2IIBB9.
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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.