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mercial bodies Of Philadelphia, for the
obvious reason that to admit railroad com
petition to all the wharves would naturally
enhance the shipping interests. But the
railroad interest has interposed, and being
very powerful in Philadelphis has forced,
at least one of these commercial bodies, to
swallow its formal resolutions.
Upon every theory of public right in the
construction of railroads, the project of
bringing railroad competition to the wharves
and elevators of Philadelphia would stand
on an indisputable foundation. 1t rests on
The same basis as the idea of belt line, pre-
sented by the Junction and Marginal rail-
roads for PIttsburg, or as that of increasing
railroad competition by building the South
Penn Railroad. But the Pennsylvania
Railroads idea that its title to Philadelphia
is exclusive, is rather stronger than its other
idea of a complete ownership of the State Of
Pennsylvania. 1t is, therefore, probable
that the owners of wharves and elevators in
Philadelphia who think they ought to have
the privilege of increasing their business by
enhanced railroad competition will find
that their rights, and what they are able to
are, are two very different things.
When the business men of Philadelphia
are ready to join hands with the rest of the
State in making constitutional rights supe-
rior to corporate edicts, the era when projects
beneficial to the public can be choked of, in
the interest of monopoly, will be suddenly
ended.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mr.. WHrTELAw REID, the newly-appointed
Minister to France, took the oath of Office at
the Department of State yesterday.
RUBNsTEN will celebrate his jubilee on
July %. 1t was in 1889 that he made his first
public appearance at a benefit concert in
Moscow.
SECRETARY TRACY of the Navy is man OF
wide reading and fond of quotation. He has a
fine library and has special partiality to Eng
lish classics
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has been pris.
oner in his Staten Island residence since last
summer, when he sprained his leg. He is i'm
proving, and expects to be able to walk in a
month or so.
The Prince of Wales now practices upon
the banjo, or california harp" as it is styled
in his district, with great persistency, and the
Czar is hard at work upon one of the lower
wind instruments.
ALAN ARTHUR, son of the late ex-President,
is not desirous of any political Office. He in
tends to devote his time to business, and will
settle permanently in New York. He is not
engaged to be married and his intimate friends
are his former classmates at Princeton.
CLINTON P. FERRY, who not very long
ago had his nose bitten by his wife in Paris,
is the nephew of Ex-Governor Ferry, of Wash
1ngton Terr1torry, and the prospective first
Governor of the new State. He has two
adopted daughters, one of whom, May Bucka-
low Ferry, is sole heiress of his first wife, and
is worth $4,000.
CHARLES SAvARY, who was known as one
of the most eccentric citizens of Bangor, Me-,
died Wednesday Of pneumonia The greater
part of Mr.. Savary's life was passed in New
York. where he was member of the New
York Stock Exchange, and was known as ''The
Mathematician of Wall street." Mr.. Savary
was at one time worth about million. Nearly
all of this was swept away from him ON Black
Friday. He soon after left the Exchange.
For years past he has lived in Bangor q lonely
life.
MAJOR JOHN CoDDINGToN KINNEY, of
Hartford, commander of the Governors Foot
Guards of Connecticut, and the Commissioner
from Connecticut to the Centennial, has a
unique war record. He was a lieutenant in the
Thirteenth Connecticut. He was the first to
learn flag signalling. and was specially detailed
to Admiral Farragut's feet in its operations
around Mobile. In the action during which
Farragut was lashed to the mast Lieutenant
Kinney was also lashed to the mast far above
the deck and the Admiral's head To him Ad-
miral Farragut issued his orders, and in the
midst of Whistling bullets and exploding shells,
Lieutenant Kinney waved his flags, conveying
the Admiral's orders to all parts of the feet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

been devoting his best energies and his lime,
for both of which the city paid him salary.
to campaigning in the interest of the Re
publican party. The Chicago police have
SO well attended to politics that they have
had very little time for guarding the public
and arreSting criminals. .Murderers have
been allowed to escape while the patrolmen
made themselves solid in s'der ward"
Everyone in the department, from the rank
and file to the highest officers, has been more
careful to make his party strong than to
keep life and property safe IN Chicago. The
consequence is that Chicago has the name
of being one of the most lawless cities in
this union.
What is Chicago going to do about it?
One set of political heelers called policemen
is being turned out of Office; will another
set of different political stripe take their
places? That is the question. And Pitts
burg viii not do amiss to study it also. Po-
licemen ought to serve the public, not po-
litical party. 1t would be great blessing
if the police department were to be man
aged in accordance with the latest civil
service reform rules. When q police force
becomes merely part of political ma
chine its usefulness is almost annihilated.
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WHICH BOY DROWNED FIRsTp
Title to n Fortune Dependent ON the solu.
tIon of the Question.

Title TO n Fortune Dependent on the Solu-
tion of the Question.
BRooKLYN, April 1S.-There Is suit pend
ng in the Supreme Court in which the title to
100000 worth of property depends upon which
of two boys, who were drowned together. died
first. They were the sons of Osmin Atkins,
who resides at Middletown, Conn.,, and were
drowned in December, 1881, while skating.
The property consists of real estate in the
Twenty-sixth ward of Brooklyn. which Os-
min Atkins decided to his brother, Thomas
]. Atkins, who also is wealthy and lives
in Middletown. osmin Atkins died, and then
Thomas made known the fact that Osmin had
conveyed the property to him in trust for his
(Osmins) wife and two sons providing that If
decided to them, subject to their mothers right
of dowry, and that if they died before reach
ing the age of q years it was to go to their
mother. Shortly after this the boys mother
died, leaving the two boys and brother, Frank
r. Knowlton, of Illinois, surviving her.
The dispute now going on is between Thomas
Atkins and Frank Knowlton, both of whom
claim the estate. Knowlton claims that the
property all belongs to him as the maternal
uncle of the boys who inherited the title from
their mother, while Mr.. Atkins claims the prop
erty as the paternal uncle of the boys. Even
should this be 80, counsel for Knowlton claims
that he would inherit half the property, because
the question would then arise whether one of
the boys died before the other. In case that
were so, the one who survived the other would
inherit his share of the estate and that share
would be divided between the uncles.
1t is claimed that Osmin, the younger boy,
fell through the ice frst, and that BERTHE
attempted to rescue him and was also drowned.
On the strength of this and other circum-
stances, it is claimed that Berthe survived
Osmin at least a few seconds, which is sufi-
cient to establish the fact that he inherited his
brother Osmin's share of the estate.
The matter is now pending before referee,
and Judge Cullen has issued a commission to
take the testimony of Jerome H. Markham,
now residing in Colorado, who saw the boys
drowned, regarding what he knows as to which
of the boys fell into the water first, and which
was first drowned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
POLICE AND POLITICS.

For long time a number of Chicago
papers have complained of the ineficiency
of the police force of that city. Important
police officers were suspended by the Mayor
who has just retired, and now designations
and removals are generally changing the
personnel of the force. But apparently
nobody In Chicago has discovered the true
source of the inef::iency of the police de-
partment. Perhaps the remarks of Police
Captain Aldrich, of Chicago, will make the
matter clear.
Captain Aldrich, in accounting for his
resignation from the police department, told
areporter that he was Republican and
would not stay under Democratic admin
istration if he could. 81 am not one of
those fellows" said he, "who fight one way
and beg another. TO the victors belong the
spoils. Had been on the other side fight
ing as hard as have for the Republicans 1
shonld expect to be rewarded. Now, it is
fair that get out and give the others a
chance"
There is the key to the inef6ciency and
rottenness Of Chicsgo's police force. Cap
tain Aldrich calmly confesses that he has
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
THE OKLAHOMA BOOM.

CHICAGO Ipter-Ocean: The man who visits
Oklahoma without an accident policy is short
sighted.
CHICAGO Netcs: 1t is probable that the first
crop In Oklahoma will be a bountiful one and
win consist manly of mortgages harvested by
Eastern men Of capital.
PROVIDENCE Journal: 1t is getting to be
very serious question if Oklahoma is big
enough to hold all the people who are staud-
ing about the borders trying to get into it.
OMAHA Bee: If the adventurer, fortune
hunter and desperate were weeded out of the
Oklahoma boomers the United States would
need very few soldiers to keep the handful OF
bona fde settlers out of the promised land.
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat: To nearly every
able-bodied citizen in the West, and to many in
the East: We are. abundantly supplied with
Oklahoma correspondents and shall not need
any more until about so per cent of those al
ready at the front are killed OF.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin: Milwaukee will
furnish her quota of pilgrims to Oklahoma in
search Of great riches easily gained. Not many
months hence Oklahoma will be furnishing her
quota of pilgrims to Milwaukee in search of q
comfortable and sure livelihood in return for
honest days work.
MEMPHIS Avaldnche: "what fools these
mortals ber' could not be more aptly applied.
In nearly every case the boomers are leaving
better lands than those they will find in Indian
Territory. There is not State in the South
which does not furnish better opportunity to
those who are as much in earnest as those who
are going to Oklahoma seem to be.
THE Cimarfon may rise and roar,
The mud may gather and the rains may pour,
But we're going for the Land o. Promise shore,
In opening Oklahoma;
In hundred thousands were rushing along,
Some of us good men gone very wrong,
And this is the howl and burden Of our song:
20, oklahoma!"
.-Nep York Sun
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Easter Presents in Germany.

All but the very modern Easter eggs are yer.
table productions of the hen, and concerning
their ornamentation it may be remarked that
an old and easy way to make neat thing Is by
heating the egg in water, then writing words OF
drawing design on it with tallow pencil; and
then putting it in dye. The parts covered with
tallow are left white, and so rather remark.
able looking result is reached easily. In Ger
many, however, print is sometimes used for
the Easter present instead of the eggs them
selves. In one old thing of the kind three hens
are represented holding up basket containing
three eggs which have representations illus
trative Of the resurrection. Over the center
egg the Agnuse Del, with a chslice symbolizing
Ealtn, while the other eggs bear the emblem of
charity and Hope. Under all comes q rhyme
which may be translated thus:
All good things are three;
therefore present you three Easter eggs
Faith and Hope with Charity.
Never lose from the heart
Faith in the church. hope in God
And love Him to thy death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
LITTLE PLEAsANTRIES.

The man who lost his shadow was being
looked for by our able detectives.-PUck.
The critic is the barber of letters. He
lets his own face go, and lives by shaving other
men.-Pwck.
Sylvanus-We can not use your Joke
about the brakeman being the non-conductor Of
the lightning express. Go to thunderI-Puek.
Equally dangerous-"H Have you ever been
through the st. Lawrence rspidsg''
''No; but married my third wife last week. ~
Judge.
Mr.. N. Peck-I never spoke cross to my
wife but once.
Thompson-Quite remarkable, that.
Mr.. n. Peck-Not SO very. See this sear9--TsrrS
Hdute Express.
Philadelphia art dealer-''Live in New
Alderman in that city, SIR ''Oi James show
the gentleman our new stock OF b1rroom pic
lures. Philadelphia Record.
so, for the golden age of lettersP' said
the comic editor. 'The past contains all, the
present nothing, the future no promise. - ''AhP'
replied Cynicus; ''and that is why you print oniy
sixteen century jests, 1 presume!''-HaTper's
Bdzdr.
Needless regrets-Jawkins (sadly)-
s.And so Chatty and his wife have been separated
for year. What pity it is that they cannot Do
HoFg-''why, bless your soul, they ares''-
Judge.
THE HITTER END OF 1T.
Brother Tom-"Why do you let that little
cad pay you so much attention. Itold Tou he was
nothing but frippish dude!"
Miss Curllngham-'H Heavens. Tom, I thought
you said British dukel and I've ABOUT promised
to marry him.-JudSe.
For shame, William, to come home to
your wife so late. Last night It was Il and now
it Is actually O'Clock in the morning." 'sWell,
well. my darling, don't be angry. Supposing
had come home early it would have been 2o,clock
now just the same. .''-Scrdnton Trttth.
Not his ''decliLing years."-''You say
you have no confidence in yourself What do you
mean? don't understand you.'
III have no assurance whatever. once held the
ONCE Of treasurer OF corporation for seven years
because didn't have the courage to decline -
election--.Boston Herald. ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

TIE foreign glass-blowers were brought
here by contract with their employers; they
were imported by the labor union officers
and no one knows how they were brought
here. This is the sum total of the authori.
tative and exclusive information up to the
present time. From this the public is able
to tie to about one or two points. The for.
eign blowers are here; their labor is wanted
and they will throw no one out of employ.
ment. Beyond this there seems to be a 'tol.
erably well-founded impression that the i'm
ported labor law is barren and innocuous
ideality.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

IT is said that England's Chancellor oi
the Exchequer proposes to make up the
deficit of e2, 900, 900 in the annual budget by
imposing duty of fone-fourteentho of penny
upon every gallon of beer consumed in the
British Empire. There may be recoil in
this proposition. A tax upon beer has over
thrown several previous English Cabinets.
John Bull will rebel sooner at tax upon his
beer than for an Infringement upon the
liberties of the Irish people.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

THERE is a solid chunk of truth in the
Chicago Tribune's recent remark, that, "of
all the editors whom the President ought to
compliment and reward, the rejected Hal
stead is the only one still exercising the
privilege of free speech" 1t is also worthy
of notice that, among the editors whom the
President omitted to compliment and re-
ward, the editor of the Chicago Tribune is
exercising the privilege of speaking right
out in meeting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. HuRh Bean,

Mira. Hugh Bean, the mother Of Ed. L. Bean,
one Of the proprietors of the Anderson Hotel, died
at her home in WellsvIlle yesterday. Mrs. Bean
was about so years old, and was well known In
this city, where she lived for long time. She
had charge OF the old American House on Water
the leading public houses Of Pittsburg. Mrs.
Bean was an excellent Christian lady, much given
to acts of charity. She was the mother of Il chill
McKinnie, of the Anderson. is one of her daugh-
ters. Her eight children we're at Mrs. Beams bed
side when size died,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Paca Errara in EnrInnd.

A popular name for the Easter egg in some
parts of England is pace egg"-a corruption
of "Pasque egg" and they are given to boys
and beggers who go about after them and are
called 'pace eggers." The old custom is said
to hold to this day in some of the out of the
way nooks and here is the beginning of one of
the songs they sing in their rounds:
Here's two or three jolly boys, all of one mind,
We have come pace egging and hope you'll
prove kind;
hope you'll prove kind with your eggs and strong
beer,
And we'll come no more near you until the next
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
pH1LApELpH1As EXPERIENCE.

The commercial bodies of Philadelphia
are engaged in struggle which very closely
parallels some that Pittsburg has embarked
in. 1t has been found that the elevators
dependent on the Pennsylvania Railroad
could not compete with those of other ports
on accountofunfayOrable railroad rates; and a
belt line has been proposed which shall admit
competing railroads to those elevators, all
along the Delaware river. This project has
been Endorsed by many of the leading COM
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Blessing Eggs in Church.

A religious and social observance in Italy is
described by one old writer thus: ION Easter
eve and Easter day all the heads of families
send great chargers full Of hard eggs to the
church to get them blessed, which the priests
perform by saying several appointed prayers
and making great signs of the cross over them
and sprinkling them with holy water. The
pEest, having finished the ceremony, demands
how many eggs there be in every basin. These
blessed eggs have the virtue of sanctifying the
entrails of the body, and are to be the first fat
or fieshy nourishment they take after the alb
stinence Of Lent The Italians do not only abb
stain from flesh during Lent, but also from
eggs, cheese butter and all white meats. As
soon as the eggs are blessed every one carries
his portion home and causeth large table to
be set in the best room In the house, which
they cover with their best linen. all bestrewed
with flowers, and put around it a dozen dishes
Of meat and the great charger of eggs in the
midst Sometimes there are no less than 20
dozens in the same charger, neatly laid to-
gether in the form of a pyramid. The table
continues in the same posture. covered, all the
Easter week, and all those who come to visit
themin that time are invited to eat an Easter
egg with them, which they must not refuse"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

The decision of Acting Secretary Busy,
that soldier who was drowned while bath
ing died in the line OF duty, causes an outcry
from the Democratic editors. The idea that
bathing can be is the line of duty is
calculated to arouse extreme surprise among
the average Democratic politicians. Bath
ing in Bourbon view, must be ranked as
luxurious and futile dalliance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

The public attention a prominent young
member of the son-of-his-tather's class is
attracting by newspaper enterprises, libel
suits and senatorial aspirations, may yet
make it necessary for some one to firmly de-
clare that this Government is not run by the
firm of Russell Harrison s. Father.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
A VERY POOR DAY.

Pennsylvania Gets Only Two New Post.
masters on Thursday.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, April l8-The absence Of
Postmaster General Wanamaker to-day cut
short the list of beheaded Democrats, as there
we're only SO in all appointed, and only two of
them for Pennsylvania, which were George
Kise, at East Prospect, and w. =. Olerviler, at
Long Level.
The following were appointed for West VIr-
ginia: w. R. Aukrom. Center Point: w. II.
Harris, Glen East; r. a. Riggs, Grayson; s. ii.
Legg, Oak Hill, and William Suter, at WOOD.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Helping Ireland's Cause Along.

Erom the New York Press.l
The bailiffs and stewards of the Irish estates
are really Gladstone's allies Every cruelty
strengthens his hands and swells the chorus of
his adherents. Evictions are no doubt doomed
in the near future; but the custom dies hard,
and the Irish tenants must suffer still awhile,
though their very sutferings will hasten their
deliYeranoe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

IT required the authority of the United
States Supreme Court to put a quietus upon
Adam Badeau by deciding that he cannot
draw pay for two offices at once Now if
some equally authoritative tribunal will de-
eide that he shall not draw pay for one Office
at once. the needs of the occasion will be
fully met.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

CONNECTICUT demonstrated yesterday
that it could hang its wife murderers. This
will be likely to discourage the sport of
shooting wives and the occupation of lobby
ing in the Legislature to get the murderer off
from punishment. Other States will please
go and do likewise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

IT is stated that the surplus of the United
States Treasury, which was S1oS, ,OOO, 900 last
year, will not, at the close of the present
fiscal year, amount to half that sum. 1t is
evident that an able-bodied Congress proved
adequate to solve the surplus problem by
dint of industrious and wholesale appropria-
tions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
The Anarchist. Coming to Life.

The Anarchists here have taken a fresh
start. They have organized a new Agitators'
Club, which will publish an anarchistic pamph-
let every month. The club has already dis
tributed many thousand copies Of blasphem-
GUS four-page tract entitled: IAN Address to
American Workmen; or the Answer to the
Lords Prayer Anticipated" A pamphlet en-
titled: IA Hundred Years Republic" will be
published this week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

The fashion papers, which now have de-
partments exclusively devoted to pet dogs,
announce that dogs will be worn larger next
week than this, including settlers, grew
hounds and collies. Nothing is said about
the fashion in husbands, which, perhaps,
may suggest an explanation for the decrease
of matrimony. The ladies must find great
difficulty in getting husbands to match their
dnOo
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Sport tor Small Boys.

Easter eggs have sometimes been used to toss
like ball in play, but the great sport with
them is knocking them together to see which
would break. This has been very popular, es-
pecially in England, although it has perhaps
entirely disappeared now. The play came
chiefly Easter Monday, although it was some
times continued for many days, the boys pre-
pared by getting as many eggs as possible, and
played by simply striking them together. One
was inevitably broken, the winner stood up to
strike with the next boy, and SO on until he
whose egg broke not at all took the whole lot.
In this the egg which broke another was called
''cock of dozen" or more, and of course be-
came highly priced. As this breaking was in
evitably accompanied by eating the wrecks
and the eggs were all boiled hard, it Is to be
hoped that the sport somehow provided more
exercise for the boys than appears on the face
of things