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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
CANADIANS WOULD MAKE AMERICANS.
A Question OF Railroad Rates Leads to Ar
gamenta in Favor Of AnnexntIou.

A question OF Railroad Rates Leads 70 AR
gumenfs in Favor of Annexation.
NEW YORK, May Sat yesterdays session
of the Senate Committees investigation Of the
workings Of the Interstate commerce law,
Charles Francis Adams, Pre- sident Of the
Union Pacific road, said the law was in many
cases cruel one. Those who obeyed it lost by
the operation, and those who evaded it profit
ed. He thought that q common railroad law
between Canada and the United States and q
legalized pool would be a good thing, and
would tend to bring about solution Of the
present troubles in reference to Canadian
roads.
President James j. Hill, of the St Paul. Min
neapolis and Manitoba Railroad, was asked by
Chairman Cullom if much foreign trade went
over the Canadian Pacific Road. He said that
1t did, owing to difference of five or six cents
hundred pounds from its western terminus to
Omaha in its favor.
Chairman Cullom asked whether or not the
ROAD IN guesgon was not trying to get an outlet
across the State Of Maine and after cross
question or two, Chairman Cullom asked:
What II we made Canada a part of American
wen, think the Canadians would make
good Americans" answered Mr., HILL with
smile.
Mr.. Erastus Wiman spoke strongly in favor
OF commercial reciprocity, and figured out how,
in the event OF that as an assured fact, Cana
dian territory would at once be built up by en-
igratlon from Europe and largely from the
United states. This close Interchange Of ideas
and peoples must eventually bring about one
grand republic. Any attempt to shut out the
Canadian lines from operating in this country
would be serious blow to Western American
farmers, and would be badly received by the
Canadian people, according to Mr.. Wiman.
rs 1t policy for the American people," asked
Senator Blair, Ito help with their resources to
build up great nation with hostile, or, at
least alien connection on the north of us?'
''The tie which binds Canaua to England is
but sentiment The State of New York to-
day. in certain sense, is far more important to
England than all of Canada. Canada cannot
stay as she is. She must either become an in
States. There are many forces at work in
Canada. The hopes of great party there rest
entirely upon one old man. After the death of
Sir John Macdonald will come the deluge.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, THURSDAY, MAY Q, iS8q
THE END OF THE MILK FIGHT.

The announcement that the original milk
combination has gone to pieces, is a cor
roboration of what The DISPATCH told its
members concerning their policy all along.
They sum up the whole story of what must
befall any attempt to engross the market,
with the words: ''They (the dealers) got
their milk from Ohio, and we found we
could not prevent them from getting a sup
ply"
But there seems to be combination about
as undesirable In its character, to take the
place of the old one, if there is any founda-
tion for the assertion that the members of
the late shippers organization are going to
intercede with the dealers association to
let their recent agent join the new clique.
What combination is there in this town
whose assent is necessary to let a man con-
duct the milk business successfully? If
there is any such in the shape of the milk
dealers association it is time that it were
broken up.
In order to do that, if the milk shippers
have any business sense-which their late
career, surrounds with doubt-they should
instruct their agent to continue selling milk,
not for the illegitimate purpose of squeezing
other dealers, but for the legitimate and
profitable one of building up the largest
business possible by the most moderate
charges for distributing the milk.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
PATRIOTIC BLusTER PAYS.

It is astonishing what din of growing
and grumbling always seems to follow big
public festival in New York City. The
latest howl in the wake of the Centennial
celebration comes from the Governors of
the States, United States Senators and other
distinguished guests of New York. 1t is
claimed in their behalf that they were
treated with scant courtesy, and just as if
they had been mere common people. They
did not get front seats in the best stands
every day, and hardly any of them reached
the choice luncheons spread in upper cham
bers for the elect in the Wall street cele-
bration.
In great Republic like this it is very
pitiful to see any of the aristocrats merged
with the common herd, and forced to pay
for their dinners out of their own pockets.
Ii is no wonder that the dear creatures are
angry. But they ought to have observed
how the members of the New York Legisla-
ture and the Board of Aldermen obtained
their rights. The shrewd New Workers de-
manded the earth before the celebration
came of, and they kicked and kicked and
kicked until the Centennial Committee gave
them large slice of the bestthings in sight.
They had free grand stand in choice po-
sition, free tickets to the banquet and to the
ball, and generally about all they could see,
eat and drink for nothing, The Governors
and Senators are making their means too
late. An hours bluster the day before is
worth many weeks weeping after the event.
That is what the New York patriots in the
service of the sovereign people discovered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
PHARlsEEIsM AND PORK

A rather peculiar difference between Mr..
Cleveland's Centennial speech, as it was de-
livered, and Mr.. Cleveland's alleged speech,
as revised for publication, is noted by the
Sun. The speech delivered said that if the
people "have wandered" or shave been mis-
led" they will correct the error. The revised
report makes it read if they should
wander or should be misled." The latter
form the brilliant Sun praises as containing
nothing pharisaical or Mugwumpian, I"
while it regards the former as 'the regular
old-fashioned cant"
This indicates the belief of the brilliant
Sun that it is ''pharisaical" to point out the
errors of the time and to insist on reforms
We never heard before that this was the
function of the Pharisees. We were under
the impression that they were fond of dis
playing religion in high-toned sanctuaries,
and making profit out of the vested interests
arising from the gain of turning the Temple
into a place where active commerce was
transacted. Between Judge Gresham's use
of the term, when he said, with regard to the
use of money in politics, that "the Pharisees
are doing this, /" and the view of the esteemed
Sun, there is great gulf.
In this connection we observe that Mr..
Jay Gould's remarks, in response to Bishop
Potter, evoke from another cotemporary the
comparison of Mr.. Gould to the juryman
who 'tgot some of the pork" This in en-
tirely incorrect both with regard to Mr..
Gould's share and his position in the case.
Mr.. Gould occupies the position of the man
who appropriated the hog and escaped con-
victiOn by means of his judiciOus distribu-
ton of the proceeds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
FARMS WILL BE FAT THIS YEAR.

Are not the farmers and market gardeners
about here rather oddly taciturn? This is
the time of the year when the bullish
farmer tells us that his fruit trees are so
heavy with blossoms that the crust of the
earth has sunk six inches in their vicinity;
when the bearish farmer tells the man at
the village store that he can't pay his bill
for some time because the wheat crop is
already ruined by the drouth. The astonish-
ing fact to be noticed hereabouts is that the
farmers are not dealing at all in superla-
tives. They are for the most part silent.
Out in Illinois the reverse is the case,
There one half of the farmers are saying that
the first blossoms have been ruined by a
recent series of frosts, and the other half are
contending that if the frost killed some of
the germs it is probable that an abundance of
them remain uninjured to load the trees
with fruit. This is the good old style. We
fear it is going out. The peach growers of
Delaware we notice, have not as much as
hinted once that the peach crop is bound to
be failure. The perjuries of the peach
growers have hitherto added largely to the
picturesque quality of current fiction. But
the vocabulary of the greatest liar on earth
is bound to run out at last, and so the
peaches will have to come along without
the usual prelude of poetic perjury about
frosts and worms and blight
The railroad, the telegraph and the news
paper have made an end to much of the glib
romancing of the agriculturist. 1t is better
for all parties. In this region the farmers
silence is pretty sure to presage prosperity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
PUBLIC PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

LORD TENNYsoN has so far regained his
health az TO be able to take out-of-doors exer-
else.
Mr.. AsHMEAD BARTLETT has begun the
record of climbers of the Eiffel Tower. His
time is q minutes.
SIENKEwIcz is the name Of the leading
Polish novelist. His characters are Poles, but
by no means sticks.
HATTIE BLAINE, youngest daughter of Sec.
retary Blaine, was recently confirmed at st.
Johns Episcopal Church. Washington.
SECRETARY RUsK is one of the hardest
workers at Washington. 1t is said that he is
the only Cabinet officer who uses gold pen.
MAX O'RELL is coming back to America on
another lecture tour in the fall. One may hear
the chestnut tree already rattle its branches.
WORD comes of the death of John Kidd, the
last survivor of the passengers of the Forfar-
shire, who were rescued by Grace Darling in
1888.
Mr.. T. P. OCoNNoR says that the Prince of
Wales never pays tailor bill. The advertise
ment his patronage affords is all the remuner-
alton Poole wants.
R. d. SEARS the tennis champion of Ameri.
ca, says that, comparing the playing of men
and women Of equal grades in the game, the
latter would be entitled to discount of so per
cent.
To Colonel Shepard belongs the credit of
perpetrating the best mot of the season. He
says in his newspaper: "Just now it seems that
the Centennial ball was bat" This joke Will
be understood by pious people when it is ex-
planned that "Dat" is the slang expression for a
jamboree or spree.
"SYDNEY LUsKA," whose real name is Mr..
Harlan, has written new story entitled
''Metamorphosis," which is running in the Sun
day DISPATCH 1t is one of Mr. Harlan's ablest
works. and is full of promise for something
still greater from this interesting and per-
severing young novelist. Mr.. Harlan is now
only about 25, and, considering his youthful
ness, his work is quite remarkable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
CURIosITIEs FOR PARIS.

The industrial exhibit contributed to the
Paris Exposition by the United States is
said to be very inadequate. As a CORE
spondent with rather unkindly feeling for
Connecticut says: "The section is in
adequate if it purports to exhibit more than
the industries of a single town like Hart
ford. It is, of course, unfortunate that
the magnificent industries of this country
are not properly represented at the great
Exposition to which 50 many people OF all
nations in the world are now on their way.
But after all the United States is, to great
extent, showing in the most practical way
to the whole world her industrial potency
the year round.
An interesting exhibit that might have
been made has probably never been thought
OF. A collection of American curiosities
might have been sent to the Exposition.
We do not refer to the fat women, skeleton
men and elephant boys of the museums.
These would be very tame and commonplace
compared with such national curiosities as
F, the New York Alderman, the ubiquitous
practical politician, the society actress, the
tank dramatist, the st. Louis critic, the
Mail and Express editor, the postofice arch
itects, Wall street kings and sensational
preachers, all of whom America could fur
nish in large numbers and great variety.
The country would spend pleasant summer
with all these euriosities under lock and KEY
in Paris.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
THE PITTSBURG STAGE.

A GOOD show and good business at Harry
Williams this week.
The attraction at Harris next week will be
that amusing skit, 1--WE, Us & Co."
]. c. STEWARDS musical comedy, 1.-THE Fat
Mems Club" at the Bijou next week. This
will be the final attraction Of the season at this
popular house. A clever and very amusing
performance may be expected.
AT the Opera House next week Rice's famous
burlesque company will appear in "The Corsair'
and "Evangaline." The former will be given
the first half of the week and the latter the last
half. The sale of seats begins to-day.
THIS morning at o'clock the box sheet for
the sale of reserved seats for the two concerts
to be given by the Mozart Club and the Boston
Symphony Orchestra at Old City Hall, May Is
and l6, will be opened at Mellor & Hoene's
music store.
FRIDAY at noon the sale of season tickets for
the May Festival closes. On Monday next at
A. M. the sale of tickets for single concerts be-
gins. The official hand book is now in the
hands of the printers and will be issued the end
of next week. This will be a handsome volume
of over LOO pages, containing programmes, with
analytical notes thereon. and biographical
sketches of the singers The book will be pro-
fusely illustrated, and in every way be in keep
ing with the high standard set for the festival
by the management.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
PROFITS nE PUBLIC SPIRIT.

The claim, of the New York Times that
the Centennial celebration there demon
strated the presence in that city of genuine
public spirit is good in its way. One sar-
casm might refer to the public spirit exhIb-
ited at the Centennial ball, but taking the
remark as it is meant, it is rejoined by the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette that as New
York spent $500, 900 and took in s., ,OOO, 900,
almost any city could afford that kind of an
exhibition. The remark seems to be just
enough. Yet it does take considerable pub
lie spirit for a city to go into mOney-making
that way. In proportion, there was about
the same income from our Centennial last
fall, and il could have been made to yield
bigger results. Money for exactly such
purposes is now needed to complete the
manufacturers building of the Exposition.
Our citizens should come forward with the
funds, certain Of getting the money back in
one form or another.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
A coMMENpABLE VIEW,

Mr.. Joseph Fleming's view of the license
business is refreshing departure from the
usual attitude of the rejected. He at
tributes his defeat solely to the Judges
excessive integrity and care to avoid even
any appearance of favoritism, and points
out that like himself, every applicant who
retained the Judges son for attorney was
rejected. While this is a rather extreme
application of the Roman father principle,
it is much pleasanter to hear Mr.. Fleming
testifying to the Judges purity, even
though he has suffered an annoying and
probably costly defeat, than to hear the
vague talk Of corruption which was so fire.
Quent last week, but utterly failed to pro-
duee any definite excuse for its existence.
Mr.. Fleming is disappointed man; but he
does not let his disappointment make him
unjust or revengefuL Such an attitude
certainly offers better ground for reopening
the case than some others that have been as
sumed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09

that there is no monopoly in telephones in
Sweden, which are in consequence supplied
on commercial principles at competitive
prices. The companies make reasonable
profits, but the service is SO cheap that
nearly every country store, as well as every
city house, takes advantage of 1t. 1t looks
as if it would pay this country to send
commission to Sweden and find out how
they do things there. It would be safe to
wager that one of the first discoveries made
would be that the absence Of monopoly
carries with it the absence of some millions
of watered stocks on which dividends must
be earned by exorbitant rates. This would
permit fair profits to be made by supplying
telephones at about one-fourth the charges
assessed in the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS.

A FARMER of Chester county was found dead
in pigpen, the other day, with q, pigs in
clover" puzzle in his hand,
SAMUEL BILLIARD, of South Bethlehem,
while dancing in front Of q saloon to the music
of German band, recently, fell and broke =
leg. He was evidently dancing the 'break-
down."
A CoLoRED family in Minersville were all
made sick the other day by drinking beer from
bottle that had contained Easter egg dye
stuff. The result is that the people have be-
come suspicious Of bottles and have taken to
buckets.
THE story is told Of Butler county man who
begged a bundle of straw from a neighbor
The request was cheerfully granted but the
ungrateful suppliant bundled up hay instead
and spread thin covering of straw about it to
hide his meanness, but neighbor detected the
fraud This is not the case in everyday life.
We usually find our neighbors with thin
covering of hay to hide the straw.
A GENTLEMAN living near Beaver Falls Is
said to have the power of curing rheumatism
''by gently blowing uponthe patients face, and
rubbing the afflicted parts in silence" One
blow and rub make a cure, but after each case
he suffers exactly the same pains as he has
treated. He accepts no fees The people Of
that section don't take kindly to this heroic
treatment. as they think the cure is worse than
the disease.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
AN OCEAN FLYER.
City of Paris Breaks All Records Between
New York and Queenstown.

City Of Paris Breaks All Records Between
New York and Queenstown.
NEW YORK, May S.-The steamship City of
Paris, of the Inman line, which arrived at
Sandy Hook at Ills o'clock to-day, has broke
all records from Queenstown. Her corrected
time is days, % hours and 2 minutes. The
best previous record, which was made by the
Etruria, was days, hour and So minutes.
1t is the first voyage across the Atlantic made
in less than six days, and there were many men
In maritime circles who prophesied that the
trip would never be made in less than that
time. On the first day out from Liverpool the
City of Paris covered AS miles. The next day
she progressed 494 miles further on her jour
ney. Then on the third day she still further
increased her stint and went sos miles. .SThe
fourth day was the best of all and the City of
Paris made oil miles. On the succeeding day
she made 504 miles, and in the last fraction of a
day she went 392 miles.
The City of Paris not only broke the record
for the entire voyage, but also made the quick
est single days run having accomplished 5ll
miles in one day. The longest run previously
made in a single day was sos miles, by the Um-
bria, of the CuDard line. The City of Paris
was commanded by Captain Frederick Wat
kins and brought a. large number Of saloon
passengers, among whom was David Dudley
Field, who, though IS, refuses to go slow. The
wholef:distanee run by the City of Paris was
2955 miles.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
PENNSYLVANIA DIRECTORS
Hold n Regular Meeting and Decide TO
Issue Some More Stock.

Hold Regular Meeting and Decide to
Issue Some More Stock.
PHILADELPHIA, May Sat the regular
meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany's directors to-day it was decided to make
per cent allotment of stock The presenr
capital is S106. .545, 400, and the new issue will
make the capital stock about $ll30O0,0 900. The
stockholders of record to-day will, according to
the resolution passed, have the privilege of
subscribing to the new issue to
the extent of per cent of their
holdings This subscription may be made any
time between June Is and July /, and holders
of fractional parts will be enIitled to full
share of the new stock. The stock may be paid
for July /, or one-half may be paid then and
the balance September l. The new stock will
be issued in November, and per cent interest
will be allowed on payments made in July up
to the time stock shall be issued. The allot-
ment blanks will, as usual, be negotiable in the
exchange
The money will be used for improvements to
the line and construction. All requirements
of the company this year will be between Sll-
0G0. 600 and $4,000, 900 and only so per cent of
this can be spared from the assets. The CON-
pany's business is increasing very fast and re-
quires increased expenditures. The tonnage,
it is sad increasing at the rate of 10 per cent
per annum, and locomotives and cars must be
provided to move it, Third and fourth tracks
are required in many places and will absorb
some OF the money.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
THE WORLD OF WORKERS.

MICHIGAN capital has bought 10000 acres of
Mississippi timber land, andislooking all about
for 1900 more to buy.
In 1883 the United States sent abroad g.
100000 worth of sewing machines and Sc, ,0O0, 900
worth Of steam engines.
SIXTEEN hundred Of the finest cigars ever
made were sent from Cuba to New York for
Centennial smoking and cost justs60
REPAIRS TO Pennsylvania fences cost about
s5,OO0,OO0 each year. In some cases the in
closures are worth more than the land they
protect.
THE largest crane in the world is at the
Chatham (England) dockyard. Itlifts 240 tons.
stands l25 feet high and has radius of IS feet
inches.
TWENTY factories. with the aggregate cap
ital of 81, 500 600 have been established in Flor
ence, Ala, town Of some 1850 people. during
the seven months just past.
KANGAROO leather has become so important
an article Of commerce that the Australians
have set about protecting the animal BY forbid
ding the slaughter Of It from the lst ofJanuary
to the lst of May.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09

In certain quarters the license discussion
has become even hotter than the weather;
and, whatever restrictions are to apply to
the service of liquors, there are evidently
those on both sides of the controversy as to
the Court who do not go in for equally dis
Greet regulation of speech. In this state of
the case the communication in to-day's DIS
PATCH from the well-known lawyer, Mr..
McClung, considering the License Court
proceedings from purely legal standpoint,
cannot fail to be of interest. The dispas-
sionate manner and intelligent grasp of the
more important phases of the subject which
characterize Mr.. McClung's letter raise the
question considerably above the plane Of
mere personal controversy. The point
brought forward that judicial discretion
not arbitrary discretion" is to be exercised
in respect to licenses, and that it bears upon
the case, is decidedly interesting.