Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-25
HITLER AND THITHER.
Movements of Plusburgsrs and Others Of
Wide AcQunintance.


Wide Acauninfance.
ALI the hotels of the city are crowded to
the utmost limit. Last evening and the night
before dozens of strangers were turned away
to find quarters in the cheaper and more unpre.
tentious houses of entertainment. The Ander.
son has more people in it than it can con-
veniently accommodate, and many could not
get bed in the Seventh Avenue The
Duquesne and Monongahela also have been
pushed TO- supply quarters. When Adjutant
| General Hastings arrived at the Anderson
Monday night there was no vacant room for
him. With his characteristic ideas about
being comfortable under any circumstances, he
said he would be satisfied with cot in the hall.
Chief Clerk Crosby managed to place him in
the night clerks room. which he has been occu-
py1ng ever since. II it had become necessary
ne would have slept out on the roof and turned
MS bed over to some more unfortunate indi-
vldual: Such actions as these made him dear
to the hearts of the survivors at Johnstown.
-Ruel B. Karib, native of Persia, lee
tured last night at Curry University Hail. on
matrimony in that section of the world. The
gentleman dressed in the various costumes that
are used by the men and women of low and
high degree in Persia. Mr.. Karib is tall, dark
with an intellectual expression beaming from
his face. He said: 1.-THE custom in Persia
when young man or girl Is at marriage
able age, is for the parents of both to negotiate
Tor their disposal. The young people are at the
caprice of their sires. There is no such q thing
as love, because neither contracting parties
have ever seen each other before. The mar
r1ageable age for women Is from 13 to Is years,
Tor men. IA to % years of age. Very elaborate
ceremonies are performed at the betrothal and
the marriage. 1t is the thing in Persia for the
brides father-in-law to provide her wedding
outnt and furnish her all the necessary articles
Tor housekeeping"
Rev. DIR. w. II. Pearce, pastor of the
Butler street M. E. Church, has been unani-
monsly requested by his congregation to allow
the Presiding Elder to present his name to the
Bishop at the coming M E. Conference for a
return to that charge. He has been with this
people three years, but may stay longer under
the newdve-year term Of the itinerant system.
-"Toady" Hamilton, press agent of
Barnums show, left last evening for Philadel-
phia, and will spend few weeks at home. The
show left last night for Washington, and will
end the season Saturday in Altoona Mr.
Hamilton will De the only American represen-
tative of the circus in this country when it
goes to Europe.
w. 81. Ritter, of Butler, Pa, member
atlarge to the Republican State Executive
Committee, went East last night on business.
He is the Montooth hustler of Butler county,
says the fight will be a lively one, and the
Major" is gaining strength every day in that
section.
e. P. Stolesberry, President of the
Orange Belt Railway, running from Jackson
vile to st. Petersburg, passed through the city
last evening on his way East, in a special car
he was met at the station by D. P. Black, the
real estate agent OF this city, wi tn whom he Is
doing business.
AS consequence of the visit OF the
Baltimore and Ohio officials to this city Mr.. j.
F. Constans, at present Chief Rate Clerk, will
become contracting agent and he will be sue
ceeded in his present position by Mr. R. Eby
Rate Clerk Of the Trans-O Ohio divisions.
MIR. George Kretzler, of 1928 Butler
street, and his daughter, Mrs. Davis McCauley.
left M the city Sunday evening for a trip to
weeks.
james P. Witherow, proprietor of the
Hotel Duquesne, gave a dinner party last even
ing In honor of Senator M. c. Butler, of South |
carolina; Colonel F. Fl. Steth, OF North Caro- |
lima, and Colonel ]. N. Echols, of this city.
Mr.. J. II. Sawyer. the Secretary of the |
Plttsburg Bridge Company, left the city yester- |
day to attend the convention of County Com |
which will be held in Allentown. |
"a. He will be gone about one week.
Miss May Murray, of the West End.
sister of John Murray, the welI-known young
newspaper man of this city. returned last even
ing from Lakewood, where she has been
spending the summer.
Mr.. Henry Fox. son of Mr.. George
Fox, OF the Pittsburg Bridge Works, is here
from Denver on visit to his father Mr.. Louis
Fox, another son. is also here on visit from
Buffalo
e. B. Taylor, General Superintendent
II the Pennsylvania Company, and family.
vent to New York last evening to attend 4 |
Wedding -
MIR. B. R. McNeirney. the popular
Squire Of the Eighteeth ward, arrived home
asst week after an extended tour in the West.
Mrs. William H. Tarr, wife of the we'll
Zuown banker of Wheeling. and daughter,
3essie, were in the city yesterday.
james B. Laux, editor of the Green's
,urg Press, was among the guests at the
seventh Avenue Hotel yesterday.
Samuel Warden and daughter, of
dount Pleasant. were in town yesterday and
isited the Exposition.
w. D. McKeefrey, the furnace owner
t Leetonia, O.. was in town yesterday on busi-
less.
R. L. Kenochan, of Titusville, is at
he Monongahela.