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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28
SILTERWARE.

Special Sale Of the celebrated
Rogers Spoons, Forks, DC, Con-
timed.
Extra A plate GEO per cent. heavier
than usual standard) on finest nickel
silver, quality guaranteed, at prices be-
low those usually asked for inferior
goods.
Tea Spoons, 90 cts. per set.
Dessert Spoons, s1.55
Table - l.8S "
Breakfast Forks, 1.j5 "
Dinner l.SS
Cream or Sauce Ladies', 45 cts. each.
Gravy Ladies, 60 " "
Butter Knives, 80 to 50 s. "
Sugar Shells, 30
Preserve Shells, 40 &"
I77nxNMM3M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28
WASH FABRICS.
Extra Values this Week,

12i ct. Ginghams for y cts.
- ct. French Satines for 25 cts.
% ct. Lace Stripe Swiss Zephyrs for
Is cts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28
OUR BIG SISTER CITY.
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
Busy Days at the Navy Yard. National Guard Men
and Their Regiments. The Week at the Play
houses. What Club Men Doing Notes
About the Baseball Men. General News.

open for work on the 3oth instant. BY direction
Of the Navy Department
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28

A reference 10 the Eastern District in one OF thr
foregoing paragraphs suggests that there are people
In Brooklyn-pcrhaps not fow OF theni-to whom
that region IS not only an unknown lard, but who
actually think that they In the midst OF 1t whcn
then are not even on tie borders heard yesterlay
Of new resident OF the Twnty- fifth Ward who sup
posed and had told all his friends that he was vlns
In the Eastern District. lie was considerably sur
prised when Informed that he would have 10 cross all
entire ward before reaching that quarter OF the city.
which hy the way. he spoke ~ IrdScrmlnatcly a tho
Eastern District or tho Eastern Division. apparently
with no clear idea Of the proper torn or " IT. true
significance. The Eastern District los north OF Flush
ing ave. and consists 81 the Thirteenth. Fourteenth
Fifteenth sixteenth and Nineteenth Wards. Inc
seventeenth Ward GrcenpoInt and the Eighteenth are
sometimes Included bu they do not properly belong
10 the District" which. Of course Is the part Of
ilnotlvn which gcncraton ago was the city Of
William burg. The newcomer 10 the lVenty-h'i
Ward was cratined TO learn thai he was living
close 10 the section called Styvcsant Heights when
I'm one Of the attractive -csdenc" portions 81 mo
civ. though TO BE- sure. it cannot comrcr WIN mo
1.roenecf Park sicrc. which numbers among Us ne"
rcefdcuts MAJOR ChanIn. Park Commissioner hehh'd'
and otbcr wcll-known citizens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28

Speaking OF Dr. Abbott reminds OF wha; ore
Of his panshionerS sad recently. when told that
there was a minister in churrh not far away nom
Plymouth whom he ought Ia 60 ~ hear Il don't
sec how can do IT. was his answer. 3" You see. /
can't afford not to hear what Dr. abbott has u say
II knew in advance Just what his sermon to
be- perhaps might induce myself for not 10
hear but that IS out OF The question. there Is
nothing for me do hut be In NV every
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28

Sunday morning. Now, ! should like 20 bnr DR..
very much indeed. but I do not how
can accomplish IT 40 long DR. Abbott presc hes
Why wouldn't It be q good idea. by the way. to
have ono minister preach al o'clock in the morning
another at TO- another az IL. and on throughout
the day. That would give a chancc to hear these
other men that hear nd read so much about. Ana
presume there others who ioel Just * | 90
on this matter There may be practical
difficulties In the way OF such scheme, but they
could probably ~ overcome ~ any ate. thar
h the only way out of tie matter that can ere.
Otherwise, | shall have to keeP On go IS to hear
Or. Abbott. at least until he fakes vacation
There can be no harm In saying that th" othe-
preacher in this case H. Price Collier, who recently
came 10 the Church Of the saviour. IN Pierrepousf.
Mr. Collier Tho Is not u. D. yeu Is a son OF
the Rev Robert Laird Collier, aud came 10 Brnokyn
run bingham. Mass where he Wa the pastor oi
the church attended by Ex-Governor !onS He looks
handy moro than thirty. md is an energetic ana
vigorous speaker SOIlc accoun, OF one at - enter
prscs which he has set going during Bis bict pastofaiH
the Boys Club-was printed In The Tribune iaft
sunday He bids fair make his mark among the
numerous widely known ministers OF BroohN i'
4 nrom,ncnt member Of the Church OF the saviour
he the WAY IS General ard Park Commissioner John
T. Woodward This name seems 10 be commonly
pronounced a. If the second d" W were omtt'd-thus
Wood'arJ noted recently the fact OF "cneral "o"u
wards return to the regular Democratic ioi anu Ms
active participation in the scheme 10 build Demo
cratic headquarters. 1t has since ranspFcl that MS
ambition does not lie in the direction OF a Homiha'oh
for Navor next fall a. was surmiscd in certain quar-
ters. General Woodward says that he Is gong 20
Furope with his family In few weeks, 10 DC absent
i've or six months and. Of course, he VIII not DC III
brooklyn during tho fail campaign 1t would oe o'Ao
indeed II he should aspire 10 the regular NOMINATION
Of his party when only four yeats ago he ran as al
independent candidate and did all In his power I"
prevent the election OF Mr Whitney. But ouoer
things than that have been known 70 happen III pun
ties
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-28

Rapid transit by elevated roahs-whlch IS prooaoly
all that Brooklyn will enjoy in the present genera
tion at least-is making good progress ana soon al
sections Of the city, except the Eastern District WI"
no sunulied TO some extent When except the East
ern District do not overlook the fact that there J.
An elevated road in Broadway but that accommodates
the Eighteenth Twenty first. Twenty-hith ana I"eh1
sixth Wards rather than the Eastern DISTRICT proper
What mean is that II is easier now to get from
Crcenpont TO the neghborhOod OF the tly HAIL. anu
scarccy easier TO 60 thther from the Eastern D'ue
than il has been at any time in the past from mos
rccons New-York is and always has boon lar more
accessible than tho centre OF brooklyn. 1t was Inc
Same in the neighborhoods reached by the Bro'HSh
elevated road until the Myrtle-ave branch was quit
Tho extension of this cOmpany's line In Myrte-aVe
opens M new region which has sadly ielt the id'A
4 an elevated road for the last three or four years.
during which time lis ncighbors TO the sou'h nave c
loved the privilege Of rapid transit At 'he sam
time work +, going forward on the branch 10 Ho"'u
proohlvn which It Is hoped to have open As lar a.
the ball grounds by juno or July Afr"he'HlchF
have been perfected Ior putting in The curve Al nun
son.aye 50 that the dangerous crossing AZ Thar POM
vii, not be necessary. Tie peril arising from gram
crossing was never more strhuely illustrated nan by
the accident there In November, on th" SECOND daA
that tbe crossing was in use II has never been used
since and probably never will be.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
Ex-sPEAKERs OF THE HOUSE.
Only Eight of Those Who Held the ONCE
Now Living.

Only Eight of Those Who Held the Once
Now Living.
Frank A. Burr in Philadelphia Tmes.I
There are only eight men who have held the
Speakership of the House of Representatives
still living. Robert Q. Winthrop, Of Massachu-
sets, is the oldest, both in years and date Of
service He was Speaker one term, from De-
Gem ber 6. 1847, and succeeded Daniel Webster
in the Senate in 1850 He is still living in
Boston, enjoying his wealth and his books.
Nathaniel P. Banks was elected Speaker in
December of 1856, and his snow-white hair and
mustache will again be seen in the Fifty-hrst
Congress, but this time he will be member on
the floor. He had hard struggle to pull him.
self once again into the stream of public affairs
for he had been left high and dry on the banks
years ago Still he succeeded in the last Con-
gressonal election and will probably retain his
seat until he dies.
Galusha A. Grow, of PENNSYLVANIA, is alive
and still ambitious to be heard again in Con-
gress. He has made two or three campaigns
for the United States Senatorship, but has al
ways fliled He is full of vigor and sturdy
manhood yet, although he has reached his 66th
year.
]. Warren Keifer is another forgotten States
man who once welded the Speakers gavel,
and then retired to comparative obscurity. He
lives in Springfield, o.
Another relic Of the Speakership, and next
to Mr.. Winthrop in age is R N. z. Hunter, Of
tary of State of the Confederacy during the
War. He is now quietly waiting the final call
in Virginia The other three men now living
who have been Speaker of the House owe
their public careers to any help derived from
the Speakership. They would have made their
names known anywhere and at any time. They
are James g. Blaine. Samuel ]. Randall and
for the Fifty-hrst Congress will do as well as
they
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
REFnsING To ANSWER.

Mr.. Philip Armour, of Chicago, has con-
cluded that the United States Senate is
worthy of little of his attention. He ap-
pears at Washington, therefore, and goes
through the motions of telling the Senate
Committee what he knows about the dressed
beef and hog packing business.
1t is noticeable that Mr.. Armour's testi-
mony bears a strong family resemblance to
the similar appearances of the Standard Oil
and Sugar Trust magnates before investi-
eating committees. On the surface there is
an apparent willingness to tell the repre-
sentatives of the people about those great
business transactions by which a few men
have become fabu1ouslyrich and their rivals
have been wiped out; but the moment the
questions touch upon the subject of combi-
nations and railway favOritism, they run up
against refusal to answer "by advice of
my attorney"
The public will judge of Mr.. Armour's
testimony less by what he says than by
what he refuses to testify to, as soon as the
inquiry reaches the vital points of the sub
ject, in public point of view.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01

his right to sell goods as cheaply as he
wished, and as this is an assault on the very
citadel of combination prices, the other
druggists responded by cutting prices lower
than he did, This policy of slsughtering
prices to maintain the combination, has been
kept up until the comDiners have reached
the point of giving away liver pills and
nerve and bone liniment and selling Pears
soap at 80 cents per box.
The dissipations which this outbreak of cut
prices has opened up for the Atlanta people
are almost unrivaIed. 1t is little singular
that the Southern druggists should make
the pills and liniment free of cost while
still charging the public a price, of some
sort or other, for soap. But. the general
cheapening of these agencies of civilization
disarms criticism. The Atlanta people will
have a revel of cleanliness and leave them
selves no livers worth mentioning before
the druggists restore their combination and
the practice of charging 75 cents for bottle
of patent medicine that costs SZ cents
to put up.
In the meantime it is worth noticing that
the recalcitrant druggist knows how to meet
the combination tactics of cutting prices to
a losing basis. He says that II his rivals
wish to sell drugs for nothing, they can do
so. After they have got tired of losing all
the money he will keep in the business
under legitimate competition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01

years ago made the trip amount to some
thing; and the striking facts brought forth
in its report have evidently made it neces-
sary for the Senate Committee to do some
thing. After enjoying the hospitality Of
the Pacific railroads under the guardian
ship of Senator Stanford, the Senatorial in
vestigators inform the public that the Sc
curity of the Government is ample, and
therefore the debt should be extended for
iftv years.
This conclusion is the more remarkable
because 1t is just the opposite of the repre-
sentation made by the representatives of the
Central Pacific Railroad at the last session.
By these worthies it was argued that their
property was not worth the debt, and there
fore that the debt should be extended one
hundred and fifty years. The process of ar
guing from Numerically opposite premises
to the same conclusion may strengthen the
latter, but the public will be prone to think
that there is something wrong about the de-
cided disagreement of the agreeing parties.
In the hope that Senator FrYe's facts are
indisputable, We will suggest the obvious
conclusion. The security which the Pacific
railroads have to offer being indisputable,
let the corporations negotiate them in the
markets of the world and pay the Govern
ment its debt without further monkeying.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
TEE PROBLEM OF FIRE rNsuRANcE.

Nobody will feel surprised that the first
impulse of the insurance companies which
lost SO heavily last week by the fires at
Lynn and Boston is a general increase of
the rates. There is also some talk of en-
gaging the most competent experts who can
be found to visit the different cities of the
land and agitate for further efficiency among
the fire departments
But while the arbitrary course of putting
up insurance rates may seem to the COM
panies the easiest way of recouping for the
losses at Lynn and Boston, it will strike the
general public-most particularly the in
sured-as neither logical nor lasting rem
edy. There are districts in which the losses
of the year have been relatively light.
There are cities where, by close attention to
discipline and liberal expenditure of money
raised by taxes, the fire departments are
splendidly efficient and all that could be
desired. 1t would be decidedly rough If
the property owners who contribute to these
satisfactory results should have to meet in
creased rates because at Lynn, Boston, or
elsewhere there were destructive confagra-
tions-and these, perhaps, in part, resulting
from different condition of things.
Insurance against fires has for about seven
years past been, on the whole, anything but
profitable business. The sum of losses has
puzzled the most experienced underwriters.
A number of the smaller companies have
been obliged to euit the business, and many
of the larger ones have Jared scarcely, if at
all, better. But If anything is demonstrated
it is that the mere increase of rates does not
meet the difficulty. The most thoughtful
men in the business are beginning to see
that the real problem of fire insurance is to
be solved by securing better construction
of buildings and greater watchfulness in
caring for them. More is to be had
by encouraging owners who notably adopt
these precautions, by giving them light ard
easy rates, than by a general increase. It
is doubtful If this policy has been sufi-
ciently tried. There are also preventive
measures which are not enforced with the
vigilance which the interests at stake de-
mand. Thus though the city of Pittsburg,
thanks to the general carefulness of its peo-
pie, and to its undoubtedly excellent fire
department, has been fortunate in escaping
large losses, it is still fact that in the very
heart of this city wooden buildings have,
within few years, been permitted to be
erected. without effective protest, or so far
as is known even notice, from the local in
surance interests.
Nc destruction of property is so absolute
or embarrassing as that by fire. Insurance
is wise provision; it is a necessary busi-
ness; but if it is to be profitable to the COM
panies engaged in it, and real protection
to the community, persistent vigilance in
preventive measures is the one thing needed.
1t is more important and it will pay better
in the long run than the delusive process of
attempting temporary swelling of the re-
ceipts by enforcing increased premiums.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
RIVER COAL TROUBLES.

The dispute over wages in the river mines
has crystallized into an announcement that
the operators will mine no more coal at the
21z-cent rate of wages. The declaration as
to the inability of the market to pay that
rate might be more effective if it were not
somewhat stereotyped in connection with
wage disputes. A year ago it was an
nounced that the mines would all shut down
for three months, but subsequent events
showed that there was no trouble in start
ing up again and finding market when
the miners were brought to accepting the
wages that the other side considered right
We are not undertaking to settle the rights
and wrongs of the present dispute; but the
familiarity of these statements about the
overstocked condition of the markets rather
damages their value; while both the pres
ent situation and past experience demon
strate the futility of trying to reach rea-
sonable settlement of wage disputes by the
brute trials of strength known as strikes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY. DEC. l, IS8g.
THE REAL TEST COMING,

There has been good deal of bitter feel
ing over the Republican nomination for
Speaker which was made yesterday, as well
as the contest for minor Offices at Washing
ton. Pennsylvania Representatives were
placed in a rather awkward position with
Reed and Mckinley, both strong tariff men,
pitted against each other. In one sense
Mckinley, being neighbor and brilliant
man to boot, might reasonably be supposed
to have the first claim to Pennsylvania
votes; but of Reed, it is not doubted that he
is equally strong for protection. As no one
worked harder for him than Senator Quay
and Congressman Bayne and Dalzell, the
conclusions certain that they knew before
hand his course in the Speakers chair would
be favorable to the protective interests which
all three are supposed to have at heart in
common, however they may differ about
anything else under the sun.
1t will be a relief to the country when
Congress takes up matters of legislation,
and when the struggle for precedence and
leadership, for patronage, for personal prefer
ences and resentments, is relegated to the
background.
Now is to begin the real test Of the ad-
ministratiOn and of the party which is re-
EpOnsible for it There are questions of
the gravest importance to the business in
Ierests Of the country booked for cOnsidera-
tion this winter. 1t is by their utterances
and by their actions upon these that the
public will gauge the statesmen, not by their
chickering's over personal honOrs and prefer
mentz ....
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
PRosPERITY OF THE IRON TRAnr

All the reports concerning the condition
of the iron trade unite in demonstrating
that the improvement is based on the most
healthy conditions of legitimate demands.
One Of the strongest features is presented by
the development of new uses for iron. A
few years ago it was thought that Bessemer
steel would drive great share of the iron
industry out of existence. But while steel
has taken the place of iron in some depart
ments Of manufacture, the loss has been
more than made up by the increased use of
the latter in architecture and in minor
forms.
The growth in the use of iron has, of
course, been stimulated by the cheap prices
Of the past few years, and is also sus-
ceptible of being checked by an undue ad-
vance. But the most decided element of
stability In the trade is furnished
by the indisposition to advance
prices beyond the reasonable level that
will encourage consumption. That element
in this market cotemporaneously with
the boom in Great Britain produced the
phenomena of actual expectations of Amer
4Cau lTOu " GngAduus SOme Ol our cOlem para
ries are disposed to make good deal of two
sales of that character. But as they were
due to an excessive and inflated advance of
English prices which has since reacted, it is
not really of as much importance to the
future stability and prosperity Of our iron
interests as the strong and legitimate home
demand, and the conservative policy which
has 50 far prevented the advance of prices
to level that might affect the demand un-
fsvOrably.
While these influences prevail, the iron
trade may. notwithstanding momentary
luIls, be expected to remain active and
prosperous; and the preservation of that
state of affairs should, therefore, be the
prime effort of the entire trade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

JAY GoULD's recent retirement from busi-
ness netted him several million dollars.
THE Rev. H D. Ward and Mrs. Ward Cnee
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) have taken house
at Washington for the winter.
PROF. CHARLES s. LITTLE, of Syracuse Uni
veTsity, will give a course of six lectures at
Lasen Seminary, Auburndale, Mass, during
the months of December and February on
The Founders and Reformers of the Christian
Church"
W1KIE COLLINS directed in his will that he
should be buried in Kensal Green Cemetery
at cost not exceeding Sl25. that no scarfs or
hatbands should be used. and that plain
stone cross to be placed over his grave should
bear only the inscription which he had pre-
pared.
THE Empress of Austria has been yachting
in the Mediterranean for some months. She
has transferred her fondness for horseback
riding to sailing DER the sea. Being an invalid,
she is unable to take equestrian exercise, and
having a love of adventure, found yachting
the most available substitute for her former
fad.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said, has a number
Of unpublished manuscripts in herpossession
which may see print after her death. Their
nature is not known, but it is understood that
poems and short stories form the bulk of the
collection. Victoria's books of travel do not
indicate that her posthumous publications will
be of great literary value.
THIRTY years ago w. n. n. Miller, present
Attorney General of the United States, was a
successful lawyer in Keokuk, Iowa. One day
an awkward, addressed youth called at the
Office and asked for work. Miller liked the
young mans appearance. and finally won his
partner over to employing the youth. That
addressed young man prospered in the law
served his district in Congress several terms
was Secretary Of War in President Hayes
Cabinet, was United States Circuit Judge IN
Iowa, and resigned that Office to become chief
counsel of the Santa Fe Company at salary of
$4,000 per annum. His manner George W.
McCrary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
THE EXPOSITION AND THE MERCHANTS

The proposition to extend the season for
holding the Exposition has been mooted,
and is received with general favor. Mer-
chants clearly recognize that their business
was enhanced by the Exposition and natu-
rally they come to the conclusion that the
longer the Exposition is kept open the more
trade they will get. The ease with which
that logic can be carried too far, would be
plain to all if some one would propose to
hold the Exposition all the year round.
While q moderate extension of the time
might attract more people here, the conclu-
sion is legitimate that most people who wish
to come will get to the Exposition in the
usual period that it is kept open. The de-
sire to have the time of exhibition extended
is valuable, however, as showing the aDpre-
citation of the Exposition among business
men, and as indicating their readiness to
JON in all measures to increase its attrac-
tions and extend its fame.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
cnNFusEn CONCLUSIONS.

1t is one of the unique features of the rela-
tions between great corporations and the
legislature that is presented by the Senate
JOmmittee's report on the Pacific railroads.
1t is worth while 10 remember that the oc-
cupation of looking after the Pacific rail-
roads has been a perennial one for a long
time. 1t affords an excuse for a trip to the
Pacific coast at the Governments expense
and otherwise rarely amounts to much else.
The Government has been represented by
Government directors and commissioners
who have been noted for the industry with
which they oA itted to look after the Gov
ernment intereSts; and Congressional Com
mittees without plumber have taken the over
land trip with great pleasure to themselves.
The Pacific Rai1EOad Commission of two