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FOURTEENTH EXHIBITION
i OF THE
Maryland State Agricultural and
Mechanical Association
41AN
WILL BE HELD AT THE FAIR GROUNDS,
-PIMLICO.-

WILL BE HELD AT THE FAIR GROUNDS,
-PIMLICO.-
From September 1911 to 17th, inclusire.
Purses and Premiums aggregate about $4,000.
Twenty-Five first-class races, in which many of
the noted horses of the country will participate.
On the evening of MO IDAY, SEPT. 18TH, "a
municipal holiday GRAND AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY BALL will be held in the spacious room
under Grand Stand.
Grounds Illuminated by Electricity.
Music by the best artists
Restaurant with all delicacies of the season.
Handsome decorations, &C., &c.
Special trains direct to Grand Stand.
TICKETS TO BALL S2.O0-Admitting Gentle
man and Ladies.
During Fair week excursion tickets viii be sold
over all transportation lines.
D. COWAN, Secretary,
IS N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Nd.
Mp-ADMISSION % CENTS.
July 3I.-6t.
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w-Mr. Henry ]. Michael, of the well-known
firm of Michael Bro, 125 west Baltimore street,
Baltimore, died on Friday morning of last week,
of Bright's disease, aged fifty EIGHT years. He
was native of Hartford county but had been en-
gagged in the paper hanging and upholstery bust
ness in Baltimore for many years.
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U,HIs is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the SUBJ

NNHIS rs TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
scribers have obtained from the Orphans
Court for Baltimore county, letters testamentary
on the estate of
SARAH E. WARD,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against the said estate are hereby warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof to
the subscribers,
on or before the 31st day of February, 1887;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
Given under hands this 2sth day of July, 1885.
VIRGINIA V. WARD, Executors
T,,Iu 81 al
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privileges AT COUNTY FAIR
l asksAe

PROPOSALS will be received by the under
signed, at his office, l2S W. BALTIMORE ST.,
Baltimore up to IL o'clock noon,
Saturday, August 18th, 1886,
For the following Privileges at the Fair at limo
mum, September 18th, Sth, 9th and 10th, 1886:
EATING HOUSE AND RESTAURANT.
Building enlarged and improved.)
CONFECTIONERY, CAKE ICE. CREAM
STAND, No. l.
CONFECTIONERY, CAKE & ICE-CREAM
STAND, No. 2.
THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH AND CIRCU-
LATE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF TRACK
EVENTS.
Bids will also be received from BANDS desir-
ing to furnish music during the fair, and from
any parties desiring to occupy space on the
grounds for proper purposes.
ny Terms and conditions made known on ap-
plication.
The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
WIN. B. SANDS, Secretary.
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a~An excursion numbering about $500 peo-
pie, under the auspices of the Western Maryland
Beneficial Association, reached Baltimore on Sat-
urday morning last by the Western Maryland
railroad and went BY water to Chestertown. The
excursonists came from number of towns in
MARYLAND and Pennsylvania.
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MG-A young man named Stephen Brodie
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge into East river,
on Friday of last week, and accomplished the feat
without doing himself any serious injury. The
distance from the bridge to the water is over one
hundred feet and he made this terrible jump on a
wager Of 800. The last foolhardy fellow who at
tempted this lump killed himself.
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u.s. The New York and Chicago Limited Ex-
press on the Pennsylvania Railroad now stops at
Cresson in both directions. This new departure
on the part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny indicates an increased demand for facilities of
travel to this most popular resort, and the yield
ing of the company to the pressure of popular
sentiment in this matter perects the train service
to Cresson and gives it the best facilities of trans
portation enjoyed by any mountain resort in the
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rs The Westminster Sentinel, one of the old
est country newspapers in Maryland, appeared
last week in a full suit of new type, presenting
very neat and attractive appearance. We con-
gratulate the Sentinel upon this evidence of in
creasing business prosperity.
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NS-Another good man has gone wrong in
Philadelphia. This time it is William F. Pierson,
chief keeper and cashier of the Baptist Board
of Publication, who is short in his accounts some
$4,000. He was trusted official, but had been
living in a style beyond his means.
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@-Noah a. Rohrbaugh, well-known farmer
of Hanover Junction, Northern Central Railroad,
committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting
himself through the heart. He was in good cir
cumstances and leaves wife and three children.
No cause is assigned for the act.
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ES- Recent floods in South Carolina have done
have had all their crops swept away, and starva-
ton is staring some of them in the face. Such a
food has not been known in many years.
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TNHIs IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the SUBJ
l. scriber has obtained from the Orphans
Court for Baltimore county, letters of Admins
tration on the estate of
ELISHA F. KELLEY,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against the said estate are hereby warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to
the subscriber,
on or before the 17h day Of February, 1887;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this sth day of June, 1886.
ADAM D. TALBOT,
July T.-4t. Administrator.
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TNHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the SUBJ
l. scriber has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Baltimore county, letters testamentary
on the estate of
CARL W. WIRSING,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against the deceased are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof to the
subscriber,
on or before the 24th day of February, 1887;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
Given undermy hand this Goth day of July, 1886.
EBERHARD WIRSING,
July 24.-4t%.) Executor
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By virtue of an order or decree of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, sitting in Equity,
passed in the matter of the estate of Thomas
Gladman, lunatic, the undersigned, Trustee, will
offer for sale, at PUBLIC AUCTION, at WILL
LIAM SHIRLEY'S HOTEL, HARRISON
WILLIE, on
Tuesday,, August tie I'm, A. d. 1856,
at 3 o'clock P. M,
ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND ON WHICH
THE SAID THOMAS GLADMAN NOW
RESIDES,
Situate in the I'd election district of Baltimore
county, on what is known the Marriottsvie
road, and is about , miles from Marriottsville,
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and about two
miles from Harrisonville, the Libertytown
Turnpike.
Said farm consists of about
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES OF
LAND,
A small portion of which is in Carroll county.
About one hundred acres ofthe land is clear, the
balance in good TIMBER. The property is in a
good neighborhood convenient to schools, mills,
&C., and has upon it valuable deposits of lime
stone, quarry being now open /; also lime kiln
ready for use.
The improvements consist of
FRAME HOUSE AND STABLE.
Title to the property is indisputably good; taxes
paid to day of sale.
TERMS OF SALE AS PRESCRIBED BY
THE ORDER OF COURT-One-third of the
purchase money to be paid Cash at the time of
the ratification of sale, one-third in six months
and the balance in twelve months, or all cash at
purchasers option, credit payments to bear in
terest from day of sale.
gag-A cash deposit of one hundred dollars will
be required from the purchaser at time of sale.
MILTON W. 0FFUTT,
Trustee.
WILLIAM c. O'DELL, Auctioneer.
July Its.
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D. G. MCINTOSH, Attorney, Towsontown.
TRUSTEES SALE
OF
VALUABLE FARM IN THE SEVENTH DIS
TRICT, BALTIMORE COUNTY.

Valuable Nm LIN OEN EN- IL DlC-
TRICT, BALTIMORE COUNTY.
By virtue of q decree of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county, sitting in Equity, pass *
eTTA ed on the 2Sth May, 1886, in a cause SS
W wherein Wesley Green, administrator, II =
was complainant, and John W. Anderson and
others were defendants, the undersigned, Trustee,
will sell at public auction, on the PREMISES, on
Friday, the 9th day Of August, 1886,
at II o'clock P. NJ,
ALL THAT VALUABLE FARM AND PAR
GEL OF LAND,
containing about
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ACRES,
MORE OR LESS,
of which the late Joshua NJ. Bell died seized and
possessed, described in the proceedings in said
cause and situate on the public road leading from
Newmarket to Jarrettsville, adjoining Shane's
Post Office, in Baltimore county. The improve
ments consist of two-st,ry
FRAME AND LOG DWELLING HOUSE,
with Pump and Spring House at the door, Gran
airy, Barn, Stabling, &C.. also small Tenant
House.
About 80 acres are cleared, the balance is in
timber. Growing crops are reserved from the
sale
The place will be sold clear of all incumber-
ances, save only the payment of 500 two years
after the death of Rachel Bell.
TERMS OF SALE Cash balance in and
IL months, with interest from day of sale, to be
secured to the satisfaction of the Trustee.
D. G. MCINTOSH,
JOHN v. SLADE, Auctioneer.
July 31.-ts.
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YELL0TT & 0FFUTT, Towsontown and 25 Lex
ington ST., and EDWARD n. RICH, Court
land St., Baltimore, Attorneys at Law.
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MARRIAGES.

SPRO July 81, 1886, at Wood
berry by Rev. G. E. Dudrear, Nelson Sproul and
Florence Haus, both of Woodbury..
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Nov. 1T.
BOARDING..

BOARDING.
PRIVATE BOARDING, with home comforts.
Charges moderate. Apply to
H. W. SHEALEY,
May 15.-3m.) Towsontown, Md.
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Said property consists of FARM of ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX ACRES sag.m
ss@ of Land, improved by large STON e S ss
E3 DWELLING HOUSE, containing IL ~
rooms; Bank Barn, Ice House, and all other
necessary outbuildings
1t also has upon it large STORE, Dwell
LING and WAREHOUSE combined, where
country store has been recently conducted, and is
an excellent stand. The house is only about
three minutes walk from Phoenix Station on the
N. c. r. R. will sell the property as a whole
or in two or three tracts. For information and
terms, apply to or address,
MILTON W. OFFUTT,
May 29.-tf.) Trustee.
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Money to loan on Mortgage in sums of from
$500 to $4,000. Apply to
II. L. BOWEN,
Real Estate Agent, Towsontown, Md.
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Sales of Property.
MORTGAGES SALE

YELLOTT & OFFUTT, Attorneys at Law, Tow
sontown and % Lexington St., Baltimore.
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Has GOOD DWELLING, nearly new ; nice
Young Orchard Good Business Stand. Will be
sold reasonable, the owner desiring to leave the
neighborhood. Apply to
FRANK /. DUNCAN,
Mch. 13.-tf) Cockeysville or Towsontown.
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me- The fund being raised for Mrs. Gen. Han
,ock now reaches something over $4,000.
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YELLOTT 4 OFFUTT, Attorneys, Towsontown,
and 25 Lexington street Baltimore.
DOR SALE,
Il VALUABLE
FARM AND STORE STAND, AT THE VII
LACE OF PHOENIX, IN BALTIMORE
COUNTY
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Proposals will be received by the undersigned
until Saturday, August 7th, 1885, for Color Wash
ing all the Buildings and Fences at the Balti-
more County Fair Grounds at Timonium.
The right is reserved to reject any or all bids
offered. d. M. MATTHEW'S, President,
Dulany's Valley, Baltimore county, Md.
July 31.-2t.
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TRUSTEES SALE

YELL0TT QUIT, Attorneys at Law, Tow
sontown and 25 Lexington St., Baltimore.
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SALE
|" OF

YELLOTT & OFFUTT, Attys., Towsontown,
and rs Lexington Street, Baltimore.
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lyl OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, SITUATED
IN THE SSKse
gIN EIGHTH ELECTION DISTRICT, %S%
imE BALTIMORE COUNTY.
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A VALUABLE FARM, SITUATED IN THE
SECOND ELECTION DISTRICT OF -,
eH% BALTIMORE COUNTY, a
Wty ABOUT IL MILES FROM BALTI- IT
MORE CITY.
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66-Inch FOurdrinier Machine.

For full particulars address
H. C. TURNBULL, JR.,
No. AZ Lexington street, Baltimore, Md.
Mch. 13tJan.9,'S7.
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Miscellaneous.
DOAD NOTICE.

APPLICATION TO CONDEMN AND OPEN
A PUBLIC ROAD IN THE NINTH ELEC-
TON DISTRICT.
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TRUSTEES SALE

VALUABLE FEE-sIMPLE PROPERTY IsAc
s1fM ON THE ISS5%s
GiZ WESTERN MARYLAND RAIL
ROAD, ABOUT SIXTEEN MILES FROM
BALTIMORE CITY,
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Legal Notices.
THE0S. B. H0RWITZ, Solicitor, 25 Lexington
St., opposite the Court House, Baltimore, Md
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

CHARLES NJ. HEAD,
WALTER S. WILKINSON,
SOPHIA f. GRAPE AND
JOHN 7. GRAPE, In Me Circuit Count
PLAINTIFFS, for Baltimore County
-KS- In Equity.
JOHN II. HEALD, TRUSTEE,
AND OTHERS,
DEFENDANTS,
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New Advertisements.
PROPOSALS

Il FOR
COLOR-WASHING THE BUILDINGS AND
FENCES AT THE BALTIMORE COUNTY
FAIR GROUNDS, TIMONIUM.
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EOR SALE OR LEASE.

A NICE LITTLE PROPERTY SITUATED
BETWEEN C0CKEYSVILLE AND
WARREN FACTORY.
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WILLIAM C. O'DELL, Auctioneer.
July Its.
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DEATHS.

Deaths Free Tributes, &C., 10 cts. a Line
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A VALUABLE FARM, SITUATED IN THE
SIXTH ELECTION DISTRICT taR:e
W:| BALTIMORE COUNTY.
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= WIN w SIIhNhLI4NJ OItTh'
True Copy-Test:
JOHN w. SHANKLIN, Clerk.
July 3.-5w.
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FoE SALE. sYN
1 -
A FIRST-CLASS PAPER MILL.

Complete in every particular and in perfect run
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MONEY TO LOAN.

July 24.--ts.)
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JOHN V. SLADE, Auctioneer.
July 31.-ts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-20

Occidental Hotel: Thomas Pore, Rushyile
Nathan Lamar, Hagerstown; B. 3. Tatmani
Shelbyville; A. r. Walker, Greenfield; w. H.
Strawbuckle. Oovington; Andrew O'Hara, Union
City; p. N. Woodbury.. Kokomo; !. w. Paris, At
tica; j. s Ferris, Shelbyyille; G. G. Moody,
Madison; l. Fl. Mcpherson. Peru; VIM. Kopp,
Covington.
Grand Hotel: @. K. Mccullough, Anderson;
Robert Douglass. Princeton; j. III. ONeail,
Washington; John W. Buskirk, Bloomington;
Thomas B. Buskirk, Paoii; j. Mullendore, Frank
lin; j. M. Smith. Portland; A. H. Ham, Will
iamspcrt John w. Cravens, Bloomington; w.
III. Donaldson, Westield; VIM. FL. Newman Lo-
gansport; Thomas S. Eames, New Albany; VIM.
e. Thompson, Evansville.
Denison House: Ell. H. Elliott and wife, Pitts
burg; VIM. HI. Thornton, New York; p S.
Heath, Washington, ID. c.; Horace Waters, Bal
timore; e. e. Vincent Springfield, ILL.,; G. Nj.
Fairbanks, Pawtucket; S. III. Doyar, Frankfort:
G. Clemen, Chicago; w. G. Smith, Williamsport;
A. F. Mason, Hartford, Conn; William Leming,
Trenton, N j.; L. @. Pease, Columbus, O.; E.
A. Landon, New York: b. G. barrow, Peru;
John p. Bonte. Cincinnati; George w. Adams,
Chicago: Gus SchantZ, Detroit.
Bates House: S. W. Kahn, Kokomo; Thos. FL.
johnson. E. B. eager. Columbus; j. C. Martin,
New Orleans; Calvin Morton, Covington Henry
G. Stephenson, Montreal; j. A. Mcpherson,
Wichita Chas. d. Beck, wife and child, Corners
vile; Ben L. Smith and daughter Rushvile:
John Koelner, Terre Haute; W. c. Bailey, Peru;
j. Ell. Harris, Noblesville; j. j. Roney, Rich
mond LeMar Ayres. st. Louis; j. @. Hudderson
and WIFE New Castle; G. L. Maseley, Virginia:
g. W. Kendrick, Marion; Geo. S. Terry, Elk.
hart
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Kautz-Gillen.,

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Aug I9.-One of the most brilliant
weddings that has occurred in Wabash for a
long time took place as the residence of DR.. and
Mrs Ell. Fl. Gillen, last evening. Their beauti-
ful and accomplished daughter Inez was mar
ried to Prof. ]. A. Kautz, superintendent of
schools al Bluffton. The bride was elegantly
attired in cream-colored satin. richly trimmed
in lace. The groom wore the conventional
black Rev. L. L. Carpenter. of the Christian
Church, performed the ceremony after the SIM
pie yet beautiful form of that church. In add
tion to a large number of guests from this city,
persons were present from Kokomo Andrews,
Dora. St Louis, NO., and other places. The
presents were numerous, elegant and costly
After the wedding supper, the bride and groom
left for Chicago. After their wedding tour, they
go to Bluffton. where Prof Kautz will have
charge OF the city schools
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MIR. Bxnum and tha fsarmans.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Will you please allow me to make an answe,
to the enthusiastic Democrat who says tina,
all the Bynumites left the convention an
hour before the adjournment because there
were too many Irishmen theref Who are Mr..
Bynum's friends2 Are they the Irishmen or the
GermansI Look at his appointments. There
are Bowling. Conroy, Conuff, Colbert, and many
more which care not to mention. Has he ev II
appointed any Germans happen to know of a
German from way out on Michigan road and
one on the South Side whom he has promised
for year. Did they get any appointment No;
but then if we live until the I'd of November
we will remember. SoUTH SIDE
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Democratic Tactics.

AS the boys begin to return from the annual
meeting of the Travelling Passenger Association
and settle down to business, it leaks out that
their meeting was not of harmonious character
The first trouble they encountered was short
age of the treasurer. which, after deducting his
salary, amounted to $470. The election of off,
GERS was matter over which there was consid-
cradle squabling. The Union Pacific and the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul pitted their man
against the world and elected him, but, it is al
legged, by foul means. It seems that Hicklin, of
the l., d. & S., put in nomination Col William
Shaw. and lord of the Chicago & Alton, N. r.
Warwick. Finding on canvassing the
membership that q vote taken when all
members We're present would result in a tie
Warwicks friends resorted to scheme which
carried their man into the presidency. One Of
their number made a motion that Colonel Shaw
and Colonel May, who is warm personal
friend, should be committee TO escort the ladies
from the hotel to the hall, and the motion was
carried, Colonel Hicklin even voting for it. Col.
Shaw and Col. May had not got one square away
before one of Warwiok's friends moved that the
election of officers be at once taken up. The
motion was carried, and the Warwick men, by
one majority. elected their nominee president.
and by three majority their man for treasurer.
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A Big Undertaking

After a couple years rest the passenger de-
partment of the Pennsylvania railroad are again
attempting to clear the towns and cities on their
line of scalpers. This is certainly big under
taking, unless the movement becomes more gem
eral and over all the important roads of the
country. The best friends to the scalper are
long as these roads pay commissions, just so long
win the scalper thrive In commenting on the
bold dash the Pennsylvania is now making upon
the scalpers, the Pittsburg Dispatch says:
"The fact of the matter Is that the ticket brok-
orage business is the natural and legitimate out
come of two practices on the part OF the railway
managers. The first is that of allowing general
agents commissions on the sale Of tickets. The
practice of these officials in enlarging the sale OF
their tickets through the brokers is more COM
mon with Western roads than with the roads of
this section; but the latter make ur for that by
the other effective cause of the business, name
~, discrimination in passenger rates between 10
calites. When, for instance the rate from In
dianapolis or Cincinnati to New York is just about
the same as from Pittsburg to New York,
the fact that if man wishes to stop at Pitts
burg he can, by the aid of a scalper, escape part
of the penalty which the railroad rates impose
on such practice. will not be regarded as an
unmixed evil by the Pittsburgers.
Undoubtedly this business, like all irregular
ones, is subject to abuses. But the railways
can abolish the abuses if they wish to. by abol-
ishing commissions and making the rates bear
an approximate proportion of the mileage over
which the passenger is transported. They will
not have to make an exact pro rata tariff. There
must be q wide discrepancy in order to make it
profitable for the first traveller to sell, the broker
to handle and the second traveller to buy the
unused end of a ticket So that the railways
have the matter In their own hands, and can, If
they choose, by reforming their own errors, wipe
the abuses of the scalping business out of exist
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to the contract put upon the terms of the con-
tract There 10 a clause in the contract provid-
ing that no road shall be entitled to percentage
which canno. do the business.
The superintendents the several divisions
of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg are
squirting their section men up to putting their
respective sections il condition for the annual
inspection this year. The inspection will not be
made until early in November, but the superior
division officers give the section men early no.
tice that they may improve the time On some
divisions the numerous washouts of few
months have done serious damage to embank-
rnents and washed the banks of large cuts more
or less, and it will require good work for few
weeks to bring the physical condition of the d.
visions which have so suffered up to even last
years nearness TO perfection