Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-27
LITTLE LONDON.
PITTSBURGH WRAPPED m A CLOUD o
SMOKE
UnequaIed By the Fogs ofthe English Met
ropolis-The Glass Industry-Satisfae-
tion Over the House Committees
Ways Of the SkiIlfuI BOSS"
Cameron.
OHIO RIVER and LAKE ERIE ROAD.
Speciu, oOrrespondence of he Raviser.


past few days we have had genuine, un-
| adulterated Pittsburgh weather. This
means that one cannot see to write three
feet from the window without the aid Of
gas light; in the streets the mud is about
! two inches deep and the atmosphere is
| more smoke than air. 1t must
have been a day, like. this when
the English traveller who; looking
could see nothing but black cloud with
here and there tall furnace stack shooting
| its lurid flames up through tho blaekpsSs,
| for want of any earthly smile exclaimed:
ssHell with the lid off," From all present
| appearances there is no hope of this state
of affairs improving for some time, so we
must be resigned and take it as it comes.
picked up recent Cincinnati Enquirer
| this morning and in it find long arti-
| Gle reported TO be an interview with Pitts
| burgh glass manufacturer, in which the
latter has most eflectually gulled the suS-
| ceptable reporter and descanted at length
upon the manufacture of glass cloth in this
city. His description of the beau
tiful pearl colOred dress made
! for Fanny Davenport, is very beauti-
ful. and his account Of the
Beauty of the Glass Hosiery,
how pretty it looks on a neat ankle, is all
very fine, but no one ever saw Fanny Day
enpOrts dress, and nobody ever will see
those ornaments for shapely feet. The re-
puted glass manufacturer goes on TO say
| that a Pittsburgh firm is at present en-
gagged in making glass chemise for Gin
Cinnati belle, the workmanship of which is
something wonderful to behold. About
one wearing would take the beauty out of
| it, should think, and out of the belle too.
| The truth is all these stories are myths.
They have been published in every
city OF the land, and South
| Side glass manufacturing firm has
| managed to get good deal OF free ad-
yertiSing ont of it, 1t is true, however,
| that something resembling cloth is made
| from glass by this firm, but 1t is nothing
more or less than the spun glass of the
| Bohemian blower, two Of whom they have
| at work, and an art viii II has been known
| for many years.
Pittsburghers are very much pleased
| over the formations of the House commit
! tees by Speaker Keifer. Pennsylvania has
been exceedingly we'll cared for, probably
I because Pennsylvania cared we'll for Mr..
| Speaker. Everett, our Congressman, is on
! the Ways and Means Committee, is chair
| man OF the Committee of Expenditures on
| Public Buildings, and Shallenberger,
The Washington County Member.
a man who has the interests of this district
| as much at heart as his own, is chairman of
| the Committee OH Public Buildings and
| Grounds The composition of the Ways
and Means Committee means strong pro-
teCtiye tariff, to which the Iron City says
| amen. Again the appointment OF the two
! gentlemen mentioned is particularly favor
| able TO PittSburg, as new postottice, Gus
tom House and L. S. Court House is in
| course of erection hore now. They
will be able to secure a liberal appro-
| priatiOn for its com pletion. ,.o ,crract
| :. ,T,ar-,-r ,JrIlIR iNniClCs. II h'Oto fIa,Soo
| growth here than elsewhere anu ao nStoe
| 3;s fame is greater Cameron is, OF course,
| tbe emperor of the Bosses, but then tnere
are plentv of untenant bosses, and OF
those sevcral make this their aDldlhg
nJscc. The methods Of this specia OF pol
,tician are peculiar. He works more thall
he talks, and hence you can't tell re e3-
actly where he is until he is there IhiS
has been twice illustrated here lately.
The Boss" element wanted new
nostmoster at McKeesport,
town in Congressman Baynes district
Rayne was opposed to the change, but
numerously signed petition Tor the aP
pointment of the new man, waS
Forwarded TO Washington,
and there it lay, with the understanding
that il was TO be held over until tutur'
day With this understanding Mr.. Bayn
left Washington. He had hardly got ava!
from the depot when the name OF the neV
an,,,or woS presented to the President witt
strong recommendations, and the mrs
thing Bavne knew OF the matter was whei
he read a notice in the papers that MF. ~
noStmoster at McKeesport. Tn
member from Allegheny fairl
q howIed with wrath for day or two 6u
Z finally his anger cooled down into settle
It determination to get square with Camefo
the first opportunity. He scored parti'
victory in McPherson's election 10 t0
i Clcrkship OF the House, Ia preventln
: Cameron from holding the Pennsylvan
= delegation solid against him. His gre
opportuuity will come in the next sta
" election when he will show the your
Senator what's what,
Another case of boss engineering Is u
Pittsburgh postOffce case, about which u III
fight is now brewing. The announGeme
a. Tuesday that the name Of VIM. ii. NJ
Cleary had been sent to the Senate to
20 Postmaster at Pittsburgh struck ninet
~ nine hundrcths OF our people
le Like Thunder Bolt.
n II was explained that the present incui
H. bent, Mr. Darlington, did not IKE the po
ne ton and had resigned, and that MT.
is Cleary being the only applicant Tor I
ar mcnt. The queer thing about the appoll
ne ment is that though Cameron sent the nal
op in many OF the Cameron men here Kh'
ee nothing of the proposed move, anu sol
ar ! ~ tbnH who are looking for positions
of .ton,snIves were badly broken up over
M Tningroms were at once sent 10 cena
NJ. S:tr6eI TO have the nomination Iaiu "
n. "a result was that II was ho' IePE. PI;
re- ana IN >nmmittee, There Is notii
r. by t1S Nr M"Clcary, but the PeSSlP.s PSlPco fI fI
to Ike 70 have such IN iInFof'TThb IMP The postmas
ht | in such aclandestin. WY ,;Sn,;ntments in
ID. b,rc has over ninety Il. liter of some
's. hands and hence ~ racc;ves the appol
Us ment Mo Is whispered
yv3e meh'ni 'ni,r,;nrton resigned because Tr I,,-
v. Mt Ia ,.orw strongly This Is lIN
81, asKeu roI " "a il has been known
~ 'o trne, t;Tne thst the office was u'S'"''>
al 10 him. In this instance
re -, his man through, and before :
t l''>'. Its again the discussion VI
81 -, will h. pretty lively; SOU; 4,
gu, ,i,:nk that this habit Don mas y,
pie ,bc w,,lrcs oi local poll'r,' :, ;s
&c ing his ruin some !%y' u, to Se the
\ prove that shch win nj ,ho Young P
~ ~ SrDs s% L. ng time tiw to t%ii'e has Strong
al
,y sylrnnis Iministration, and is using ..
s. on the AZ he can command to mtE init;
~ patronage IN an impregnapio P
I'd himself politics. p-o Pail
III Enough o. Diver and Lake Enc M, -,
re The Ohio. other day, has won TN
ly chartered the movement. The roan - 70
r. for energyOf. runs from P0int III
Of miles long and Sharon. 10 tne haH' an.
g. Ger county, Bes. ( hours oil the SS
lie within thirty-sl iminary survey wa
the charter prel whole line. fSu.
pleted along the were stanoneu ."
panies of engineers entire nne'
walls along the OF the incoLPo
when intern.stios they began
was telegraPhed. company VIII
s simultaneously. TlNt
Of At the last meetings. ,ity, and at
y Association, held in thiSl ng, presit
u Mr.. Hubbard, of WhesA e presei