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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
A DEPARTING CITIZEN DINED.
His Friends Entertain the Hon. J. A.
Goulden With Banquet.

His Friends Entertain the Hon. y. a.
Goulden With Banquet.
A farewell banquet was given the Hon. j. A.
Goulden by his numerous friends at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel last evening. The oc-
casion was to mark the close of his business
relations in this city consequent on his removal
to New York, where he goes to enter into
wider and more profitable field. Mr.. Goulden
was General Superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania!Life Insurance Company and ex-National
President of the Emerald Benefit and Literary
Association. 1t may be remembered that he
ran for State Senator. two years ago, against
Mr.. Newmeyer, and was defeated, and that ne
stumped Indiana for Cleveland at the last
election. The farewell reunion was organized
by number of his friends, among whom were
]. B. McCallery, Colonel John G. Mcdonnell, j.
M. Molamphy and Sam II. ellison, who TOOK
leading part in the affair.
The banquet was held in the large dining
room and at $50 about 130 people sat down be-
fore the well spread board. When the viands
had been duly discussed, the following sentl-
ments were spoken to: "Our Country" in
happy phrase, by Colonel Molamphy, The
Barr by William ]. Curran, "Our Flag" by
John f. Miller, 1.-THE Press" by j. G. Bergot-
resser, 1.-THE Ladies" by Jos W. Einstein and
the guest of the evening responded TO the
toast of Farewell to Our Guest" A present
alton of handsome gold watch and chain on
behalf of the Emerald Benefit and Literary
Association to Mr.. Goulden, was made by Sam
H. ellison, The Lewis quartet furnishe
very pleasing music. y. B. McCallery offciated
as M. C. ]. q. Mcdonnell as Toast Master and
the Hon. 8. F. Patterson as presiding officer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
NO COCKTAILS THERE.

A new race of people has been discovered
in Alaska. Bravery, hardihood and friend
illness to strangers are some of their char
aeteristies, but these will not make them
famous, as will the simple fact that they are
absolutely ignorant of any form of intoxi-
eating liquor. They live near the river
Yukon; they bathe in it, and they drink it
exclusively. As far as we are informed,
the waters of the Yukon have not the
strength or body of the Allegheny's pellucid
stream. Yukon water is certainly not in
toxicatlng, and yet this simple race, from
time immemorial, has been satisfied to drink
it, and nothing else. In fact, Pittsburg,
with its handful of saloons and entire free
dom from speak-easies-as Judge White
beIieves-cannot vaunt its temperance be-
side that of the race by the Yukon.
We would not have been surprised to
hear that these poor benighted heather had
never known the rare beauties of old No
nongshela whisky, the gaseous gladness of
Extra Dry, or the frothy appeal of lager
beer, but that they should have never
squeezed intoxication out of root or berry,
fruit or grain is singular indeed. Nearly
every savage race has known how to get
drunk by means more or less nauseous to
the civilized taste, but more the less sure.
The luxury of exaltation in the evening,
and headache in the morning, is still un-
known to these benighted Yukonites. Never
have they heard Of ten dollars or ten days.
Their murderers have never been able to
save their necks by shifting the blame upon
the demon Rum. They are not civilized,
poor things. Their virtues are old-fash-
ioned, and their beverage behind the times.
Yet when civilization and fire water and
white mems rifles have removed them from
the face of the earth it may occur to some
of us that it would have been better for the
dweIlers by the Yukon had they never been
discovered aud civilized.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
DANGER nF PRIVATE CARS.

The Philadelphia Ledger calls attention
in quiet but forcible way to the part
played by two Presidents private cars" in
the accident near Palatine Bridge, on the
New York Central Railroad. Our con-
servative cotemporary very rightly remarks
with surprise that one of these cars was
strong enough to resist the onset of huge
passenger express locomotive, and another
SO much stronger than the sleeping car pro-
vided for ordinary passengers as to be able
to telescope the sleepers and kill three of
the ordinary passengers. We agree with
the Ledger that it may become question
sometime, and the quicker the better,
whether cars provided for the public shall
not be made as stout and strung as the
"private cars"
The life of railroad president is verv
precious no doubt, and to his mind its pre-
servation is the first consideration. Next
to him the vice presidents, general man.
ayers, superintendents, and lesser officials
are made the object of especial care. All
of them do most OF their travelling in special
cars, which recent events have shown to be
built more substantially than the cars de-
signed for everyday mortals. The arrange
ment is delectable enough to the railroad
officers, but the public is beginning to be a
little shy of it. What brings safety and life
to the railroad president in his private
coach, may carry destruction and death to
the traveller in the public cars. Hitherto
travellers have been rather inclined to regard
the presence of a presidents car in a
train as an assurance of additional
safety. Now the presidents car has as
sumed the role of a selfish destroyer, aggres-
sively disposed and apparently indestruct-
ible, it will not be surprising if the travel
ing public protests against its attachment to
ordinary trains. No matter how picturesque
and humorous the idea may be to railroad
president to emerge from his unscathed
special car and view the ruins of the common
coaches and locomotives about him, the pub
lie has not yet been educated up to the point
of seeing the incident in the same light.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2. 1883.
STILL BATTLING WITH TIME.

How the ocean can alter a coast line, de-
your landmarks, destroy mans buttresses
and build up anew its boundaries the tides
of the Atlantic taught us but a few weeks
ago. And yet the havoc the Atlantic
wrought and the ravages it made are not
more noticeable than those which the seas
Of time are making in the ranks of the vet
Grams who celebrated Grand Army Day In
this city yesterday. The tide of time is in
exorable. No man can stay its advance; no
man can stem its food. 1t needed not the
charger with the empty saddle and mourn
ing emblems, which made such piteous
chapter in the procession yesterday, to re-
mind us how often deaths scythe has swung
in those blue ranks since last they passed
before us. The tide OF time flows on; 1t is
man whose fight is stayed.
Time has riven many gaps in the line
the men who fought for their country are
falling fast. They cannot fight time, and
vet it is no inglorious defeat that awaits
them. If they capitulate at last, they go
out with flags flying and drums beating. A
grateful nation stands ready to minister to
their needs in life, and to honor their mem
ory when death shall have taken them
hence. So, though the tide of time has
overwhelmed so many, and though the
spray of invading breakers has touched
with gray the heads of so many more, there
is a grand and cheerful lesson in the year
Iy parade of the veterans, spur to patriot
ism and recompense in some slight sort to
those who served and saved their country
when the call came.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

The item of local news, to the effect that
a Pittsburg firm has obtained the contract
for supplying the Philadelphia mint and
the mint of the Argentine Republic with
rolls for rolling out gold, indicates progress
in direction which Pittsburg has been too
prone to neglect. 1t is not so much the i'm
portance of this one contract-although it
is gratifying that Pittsburg is obtaining
work that has heretofore only been done by
the Krupps-as that our manufacturers are
turning their attention to the more highly
finished and complete forms of iron and
steel manufacture, that should be taken as
a favorable indication. The tendency in
Pittsburg has been to devote its energies
mainly to the production of iron and steel
in large masses, and let other places work
them up into fine machinery. Everything
that tends to having the complete work done
here is gratifying sign of progress into a
field that permits infinite growth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
THOSE ENGLISH INVESTMENTS.

The recently reported, though still rather
doubtful, large purchases by English syn
dicates of breweries, grain elevators and
Touring mills arouse considerable COM
ment and much objection by various lead
ing newspapers. The suspicious of the
American public in connection with such
transactions are natural, in these days of
trusts; and the outgrowth of that suspicion
finds expression in such declarations as this
of the Chicago Tribune: ''These bargains
are pleasant for those who sell out, retire
from business, and 60 to Europe with their
families to enjoy themselves and spend the
money, but they are not agreeable reading
for those who believe that American manu-
factories like American lands should be
controlled by Americans and not by
aliens"
Such an objection would have good deal
OF foundation if there was any possibility
chat British capital could control the indus
tries into which it is purchasing, so as to
freeze out rival establishments, or exact en-
orbitant prices from consumers. But a
study of the list of purchases reported to
have been made will show that everyone of
them is in line of business which by na-
ture is incapable of being monopolized.
The people who have sold out cannot go to
Europe and spend their money without
finding good investments for their capital.
If the British management should put up
prices no better investment could be found
than in putting up new mills, elevators and
breweries. The investment Of foreign cap
ital in competitive enterprises affords no
threat to this country. The creation Of
monopoly and bogus capital upon it is
danger, whether the owners are foreign or
domestic.
Indeed we think that the persons most in
peril by these purchases are the investors in
whose hands the stocks of the concerns are
expected to be placed. According to the re-
port about $50, ,O0O, ,OORof English money has
been put into about twenty concerns or an
average of about 81, SOC, 900 for each. 1t is
probable that the total of $4,000, 900 repre-
sents the extent to which the stocks are to be
watered, rather than the actual value of
the purchased concerns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02

or wealthy courts, but brave and indie.
pendent people. The contrast is even
stronger when we study the creation of COM
mercial centers. The harbors may be
furnished; the manufacturing sites may be
there; but they cannot, except by Chicago's
own fault take away the qualities of indi-
vidual enterprise and combined public spirit
that have made that city what it il.
1t is vital tact that the last place where
these qualities are likely to be developed is
in the towns that are owned bv corpora
tion or orsyndicate. Where industrvis depend
ent on a control of that sort, the qualities
that make cities great are always stifed.
Neither Chicago nor any other city that has
been created by spontaneous enterprise need
fear the rivalry of syndicate-built towns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
THE CHILDREN's HOSPITAL.
The Managers Will Take Charge of Their
New Building In Oakland shortly-A
Meeting Yesterday = General Society

The Managers Will Take Charge of Their
New Building In Oakland short1y-A
Meeting Yesterday General Society
Gossip.
The managers of the Pittsburg Hospital for
Children held their annual meeting yesterday
and reelected officers and directors as follows:
President, Judge Acheson; Secretary, DR..
Hallock; Treasurer, E. NJ. Ferguson. This
board of directors include DR.. and Mrs. lie
Moyne. DR.. Hallock, Mr.. George Guthrie.
Judge Magee. Mr.. James Reed, Mrs. II. n.
Frick, Mrs. George M. Laughlin, Mrs. O. O.
Beggs, Mrs. III. ], Holland and Mrs. D. A.
Stewart
At the meeting they adopted the bylaws pre-
viously drafted and the rules and regulations
by which the hospital will be controlled. A
second meeting will be held next Friday at DR..
Hallock's office for the purpose of appointing
a matron, surgical staff, resident and assistant
physicians.
This enterprise, Of which Dr. LIE Moyne was
the originator, had its birth about a year ago.
Since then the members have been actively en-
gagged in collecting money and selecting site
for the fulfillment of their desires. They
have purchased the property at the cor
ner of Forbes street and Craft ave-
nue.. They will shortly take possession and
transform the residence into modern hospital.
The idea is to admit children between the ages
of and IL years who do directive proper care
IN their own homes. Contagious diseases will
not be admitted. The hospital begins life under
the most favorable auspices. 1t received
large sum OF money from the Jane Holmes
estate, and $4,000 from private collections.
After purchasing the property surplus OF s4G; ;;
600 remains in the treasury. The hospital VIII
have all the advantages of large grounds and
river breezes. 1t is non-sectarian.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
QUE MAIL POUCH.
The OrIgin Of Lynch Law.

NJ OHA8hn 'A A<TuCn LhWs
To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
have seen brief article, copied from your
columns. about the origin of lynch law. In the
article, Colonel Charles Lynch, of Virginia, is
mentioned as the person from whom this
slaw" (f) took its name. The truth is, that it
is probably as hard to tell who was the founder
Of lynch law as it is to tell "who struck Billy
Patterson"
Appleton's CyclopBdia says: According to
some authorities, the term was derived from a
Virginia farmer named Lynch, who, having
caught thief, instead of delivering him to
the law. tied him to tree and flogged him
with his own hands, Another account says
that in 1873 one Lynch was sent to America
to suppress piracy; but as the laws were
not administered with much vigor in
the colonies, owing the the difficulty
OF adhering to the usual forms
OF law in the newly-established territories. it
is presumed that this Judge Lynch was en-
powered to proceed summarily against pirates,
and thus gave rise so the term Still another
account, which seems to rest on no good
authority, connects the term with Mr. Lynch,
the founder Of Lynehburg, Va. But it can be
Traced to much earlier date in Ireland. In
I49S James Fitzstephens Lynch was Mayor and
warden of Galway. He traded largely to
spain, and sent his son thither to purchase
cargo of wine. The young man squandered
INC inOuoy cutIusJeu TO MIN Tor this purpose,
but succeeded in running in debt for cargo
to a Spaniard. by whose nephew he was accom-
panied on the return voyage to Ireland where
the money was to be paid. Young Lynch, to
conceal his defalcation, caused the Spaniard to
be thrown overheard, and was received at
home with great honor, as having conducted
most successful business operation. But
sailor on his deathbed revealed to the Mayor
OF Galway the crime which his son had COM
mitted. The young man was tried before his
own father, convicted, and sentenced to be
hanged. His family and others undertook
to prevent the execution; and the father,
finding that the sentence could not
be carried into effect in the usual way, con-
Quoted his son up a winding stairway to a win
dow overlooking the public street. with his
own hands fastened the halter attached to his
neck to staple in the wall, and acted as execu-
TONER"
According to the above lynch law is nearly
four centuries old. There is yet another ac-
count of the original Lynch. In the sketch of
the old Pendleton District, contained in Robert
Mills interesting STATISTICS of South Caro-
lima" published in 1926, we read the follow
ing: AT the foot of the mountain resides
captain John Lynch, the author of the famous
law called by his name, of very notable effect.n
MCDONALD FURMAN.
RAMSEY, g. c., September %.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
TRACY is CLEANING HOUSE,
He Orders His subordinafes Into Active
Service on the Sea.

He Orders His subordiuates Iuto Aetfve
Services on the Sea.
WASHINGTON. October L-Secretary Tracy
has relieved Commodore John G. Walker from
the head of the Bureau of Navigation of the
Navy Department The text of the order is as
follows:
SIR: You will proceed to the navy yard at New
fork, confer with the eommandant and hoist
your nag on board the Chicago as an acting Rear
ADMIRAL commander in chief of the squadron OF
evolution. You will prepare the squadron for
sea with all proper dispatch, and when in all re-
spects ready, you will sail for Europe and assume
command Of the European station until further
orders. The squadron will, for the present, con-
sist Of the Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and York
town, to which the Enterprise will be added upon
your arrival within the limits Of the European
statlon. When you have hoisted your flag you
Will return to Washington and temporarily re-
sumo your present duties In the Navy Depart
ment. BENJAMIN II TRACY
Secretary Of the Navy.
The Secretary says that the relief of Com
modore walker grew out OF no personal or Of
hclal differences between himself and the Com
modore. The officer has been eight years at
ths head of the Navigation Bureau, and his
term would soon expire. To reappoint him for
another term would mean continuous service
on shore and in the department for II years, a
precedent which the Secretary does not care to
establish. The vessels which will be under
Commodore Walkers command are the pick
of the navy, and in fact, with the exception of
the Charleston and Baltimore which have not
yet been accepted, they represent all of the
navy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Iudre Jones.


Mrs. Louise Jones, the widow Of Judge Samuel
Jones. died at Philadelphia yesterday morning.
She had been in poor health all summer, and was
returning from q visit TO her daughter In Cane
May when death overlook her. Mrs. Jones lived
for many years on Duquesne way, and leaves
three unmarried children-Miss OliDe, Howard
and Jessie Jones.
Mrs. Jones was a devout Catholic, a prominent
member OF st. Paul's Cathedral, and closely
Identified with charitable works in the CITY. <
woman Of broad and liberal ideas she over
stepped the bounds of creed in relieving the
wants of the poor and caring for the sick of ali
denominations.
The Sanitary Fair, the Pittsburg Library Loan
Association. the Bazaar Of Nations the Re-
lief Committee for the benefit OF the
Chicago sufferers and the recent benefit for
the West Penn Hospital are some Of her Charitable
achievements. Mrs. Jones was the originator of
the annual Tea parties tor the orphans in the asy-
lum connected with the St. Paul's Cathedral and
the little folks will sadly miss the sweet-fsced
lady and gracious hostess. During the AIleehenv
County Centennial Mrs. Jones was in charge Of
the Ladies' Reception Committee, and for two sne-
cessive nights entertained the guests at her home
on Duquesne way while the exhibition Of fire.
works was in progress. Her kind deeds and 9en-
erous actions will be missed, and it's pity such
good women are removed from the face of the
earth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
NOT A DANGEROUS RIVAL.

A rather novel idea in the way of town
building is reported to have taken the form
of an enterprise in Chicago, to build city
on the lake shore, to tshe north of the pres
ent city, which shall take away its trade.
A syndicate is stated to have bought the
water front of a comparatively small port
there. They intend to build fine harbors,
to dredge deep channels, to cut up the
neighboring territory into manufacturing
sites, the result of all which, it is asserted,
will be that Sin twenty years the present
site of Chicago will have lost its greatness
and that the great inland city of the conti-
nent will be established at this new point"
Such speculation may have great cap
ital at its back, and yet Chicago can afford
to view it not only without alarm, but with
complacency. A syndicate can build har-
bcrs, lay out manufacturing sites, improve
streets and even build manufactures; but
still may not be able to command the vital
element that will create great city. The
poetical inquiry, What makes q State?"
Is familiar to us all, and not less so is its
answer that it is not high walls, great ships
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
Fred DOUGLASS Sails at Last.

Frederick Douglass, United States Minister
to Hayti, with his wife and Secretary E. d.
Bassett, held an improptu reception in the aft
cabin of the Kearsage this morning shortly
before sailing away to the Black Republic.
Among the score or more OF friends who had
come to say good-by were c. H. w. Smith, ex-
Minister to Hayti; John Little, Past Com
mander of the William Lloyd Garrison Post
G.. A. R.; Miss Zenorah Nahar. colored elocu-
Zionist of some repute in Boston, and Mr..
Douglass two sons. Just as the commander of
the Kearsage ordered the men to cast of the
gangplank little old woman with big
umbrella rushed on board, screaming: " am
Mrs Zursika, grandniece Of Count Pulaski,
and must see Mr.. Douglass" The grandniece
of Count Pulaski was finally allowed to come
aboard. With both hands she seized the hand
of the Minister as she cried: II want to say
good-by to Mr.. Douglass. You have been so
kind to me when was destitute. and you fed
me when Iwas hungry, and never want to
forget your kindness. No, never" The tears
began to trickle down the cheeks of the little
woman, and the eyes Of Douglass moistened in
sympathy. By 10 o'clock the Kearsage was
gotten under way. and started down the bay
amid the booming Of cannon. She will arrive
at Port-au-Prince In about week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
THE MELANCHOLY DANE.

Booth ms Hamlet and Modieska as Ophelia
ut the Opera House.
A crowded house witnessedGthe performance
of "Hamlet" at the Opera House last evening.
The demand for seats was so great that Man
ager Wilt placed the orchestra on the stage
and crowded so extra chairs into the space the
orchestra usually occupies.
Edwin Booths rendition of Hamlet is gen.
orally conceded to be his masterpiece, and
his Interpretation of the character last
evening was smooth, mastery and
effective. Madam Modjeska as OpheLia
lent a winning grace to that rather
ielly-like creation of Shakespeare, and brought
out as strongly as possible every point in the
character. Both stars were warmly welcomed
by their large audience. The balance of the
cast was good.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-02
An Indian Play Prevented.

"The Indian Mail Carrier" was not produced
at Jacobs Hoboken Theater, last night, be-
cause Mr.. Go-Wan-Go, who says he is the hus-
band of the star Of the play, prepared to shoot
his wife and her husband Mr.. Go-Wan-Go
says he is an Indian. He met the star, who is
Mrs. Charles Charles, called ''rhe only Indian
actress in the word" down in Mexico. he Gays,
and she married him and was satisfied to live
with him until Mr.. Charles Charles, who was a
cowboy, came along, and then she eloped with
Mr.. Charles. He discovered afterward that
she was in Baltimore. but by the time he got to
that city she was on her way to Hoboken. He
arrived in Hoboken about the same time she
did with Mr.. Charles. He vent directly to the
house where Mr.. and Mrs. Charles were stay
ing. and on meeting the star claimed her as his
wife. She denied 1t. Mr.. Charles approached.
and Go-Wan-Go hit him over the head with an
umbrella. Mrs Charles tainted. Go-Wan-Go
went to the theater to wait for the play to be-
gin and shoot Mrs. Charles. At least, so he
said. Word was sent to the actress, and she re-
fused to 60 to the theater. To-day she was
taken i'll with nervous prostration. and her
physician says she cannot play for some time.