Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-17
HERE AND THERE.

Talking with worry intelligent iron
worker of Pittsburg tho other day, who hW
been graduated into what is known ~
higher profession, II II II not In fact, no told
me the natural gas development in Western
Pennsylvania IL something very astonishing
| even tn those who aro surrounded with IL
| Every glass house In that busy centre of hu
| man industry and, ! think he told mo,
| nearly ovory iron mill uses this fuel one
Of the results of IL il that thcy are making a.
good +" French plate glass " in tho Ponnsyi
| vania works as II made anywhere in The
| world, and that thoy admitted they could
never do before. Nobody seems 10 bt
troubled with any apprehension OF tho gas
going out, and tho dangers Of explosion are
greatly lessonod, IL not entirely obviatod, by
the system of escape pipcs established a,
| vents 10 the fugitive gas. This same author
| iiy among workingmen does not believe the
| knights Of Labor VIII hold out he thinks
the order IL altogether too comprehensive
aud will break up into the old organizations
of zach trade for Itself Meantime, however,
the average hours OF labor may bo cut down
from ton TO nine. givo it as got it.
d. Men. Stauiler, the well known engineer,
| knowledge, VINO Is one of tho owners and
editors of that prosperous journal, tho EBgi-
| nccrtng NctrS, is about to treat himself to a
| woIlearned trip 10 Europe. His vast treas
| uros in tho shape OF old letters and other
manuscripts, prints and pictures, the twenty
years gathering of an interchangeable and intel
ligent collector, are stored away in places OF
greater or less security in New York, and
many oi them arc invaluable, being originals
of tho highest interest Some day | mean to
try aud overlook a small portion of them
aud TO tell the readers OF this column what a
Lancaster county historical society no il in
himself
Speaking lately OF the easy transformation
of Names especially when subjected tn new
and alien influences, Mr.. Stauller called at
tention to tho fact that hundred or more
years ago tho scriveners hereabouts were
mostly English, aud many of their clients
were German IL was not uncommon for
the name Herr pronounced Hdrc) to he
written all through the body of an instru-
ment Hare" although subscribed Herr.
Thus Zimmerman became Carpenter Beau
champ WAS transformed to Bushong; Feier-
stein was changed to Flint in ono locality
aud Gun by another remove 1t IL true that
a Virginia family spell their name En-
ThlIntN ANU pronounce u Darby tNtfNDDtY
knows that Augustus Belmont's name was
originally SchOenberg.
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When you are in Philadelphia you can
safely go to see the opera " Don Caesar" at
McCaull's, or Boucicault IN "Jilt" But
there arc times between times when ii does
not suit 10 go 10 theatre or opera, and one OF
these hours you want 10 put IN at the Japa-
nese village now showing in Horticultural
hall NlTaNf tiftna to toll utI
see, but nobody disputes that il IL unique
and marvellous exhibition. In their booths
ranged along the sides of the hall-wIIich is
gay with balloons, fans, lanterns and every
conceivable Kind of japanese decoration
there are to bc seen at work craftsmen of all
kinds. The silk-weavor and straw platter,
the screen painter aud lan-maker, the tailor
and barber, Joiner and potter, the etchar and
coppersmith, Japanese wife and japanese
haby-go and see them.
\ good many years ago-long before older
men than ! were born-there ran with the
machine in the Moyamensing district of
Philadelphia young Mike Cassidy. He was
a carpenter by trade and mechanic of every
kind by instinct ; he wasn't particularly ten
der about his associations, and the life of the
volunteer fireman down that way in that
period was not calculated tn bring ont all
that was heSt in a man. Mike shipped for
other ports ard driltod here and there, some
times working at his trade and sometimes
not When he struck Boston with COM
paniOn they had 81. 50 between them, and the
COmrade shipped for "A voyage, gave Cassidy
his ship money s., and with the funds in
hand he spent one day at the best hotel in
town. Then he went to work. lie quit all
drink by sudden but solemn resolve that
he has never swervcd from. Ii was the
news of Richard Nau&'s Cand idaCy for mayor
that called him back to Philadelphia. lie
came back to take man in that municipal
contest-a tul hand. Some time after it was
over they needed a hand up at Cherry Hill
tho Eastern penitentiary-tO mend locks
They wanted mechanic and an honest man.
For if he was a botch no wouldn't do At all
and il he was a rogue he would only do i'll
that kind of mechanics couldn't be trusted
with chance to take Impressions OF the pen
itentiary locks. Mr.. NauN knew his man
when he sent Cassidy up there to fix the
locks The then warden wouldn't part with
him. In his demeanOr ; his quiet, uudem-
Onstratye determined manner in his me-
chaniCal SKILL his industry and the integrity
OF his workmanshi p-iOr whore can a man
he so honest as in his wOrk-the warden of
that day recognized an invaluable person for
such an institution. lie wanted tn keep him.
and did AS mechanic and overseer, Cassidy
rose to lie warden OF the place as naturally az
water finds its level.
Michael j. Cassidy, esq, warden and
handspring of the Eastern penitentiary, the
bcstmanaged concern OF its kind in this or
any other country.
Hon. Richard NauN, the highest authority
on renooey, tho most experienced prison
inspector and the most unseltish worker in
this great field ol humanitarianism and So
GEOLOGY.
For forty years. | reckon, these two men
have been fast friends, and for thirty of them
the bent OF their minds on one great topic
has been so nearly Identical, and their asso-
citation has been 50 intimate that, when
wanted to see Cassidy, | naturally sought in
PRODUCTION through a letter from NauX. | got
it u very characteristic one, by tho way I;
and l would have printed it but that the
party of the second part folded il up and
stuck it in his pocket after he had read it
with the grace Of an autograph hunter.
Hay Brown aud my self had an empty hour
ON our hands the other day in Philadelphia,
when the notion Ia go up and look at and
through the Eastern penitentary struck us.
1t il located on Paramount avenue, in as
closely huilt.up portion of the city as any.
where and the solid blocks reach miles he
yOnd it now. But there was "A time, inv
years ago, when the picture that hangs in,
| side of the great casiellated walls with green
| meadows stretched in front, of COWS pas,ur
| ing by a purling brook and a tow shsniier
scattered over the remote outskirts, was Z
| true representation of its SURROUNDINGS
| That was the yeritable "Cherry IIill," hN
| which the rogues all know it still. Tho ole
man at the little wicket gate in the big barred
| door tells us he has been there SO year,