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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
THE. MOzARTs CONCERT.
The Rendition of Cinderella a Complete
sueceas-Charuetera Heartily Encored.

The Rendition of Cinderella a Complete
success-ChaFueter Heartily EncoPed.
An audience representing the wealth and
fashion of the two cities filed Old City Hall
last evening to listen to the first concert of the
season by the Mozart Club.
The initial number of the programme was
Mendelssohn's overture. 'Fingaps Cave" per-
formed by the entire orchestra. That it was
appreciated the applause with which it was re-
ceived testified. The harp solo, ''Grand Fan
tasia on Operatic Airs" rendered by the COM
poser, MI. John Cheshire, harpist to H. r. H.
the Duke OF Edinburgh, was received with
and continued ovation giyen him the gentle.
man favored his hearers with a second selec-
tion.
The ever interesting story of Cinderella was
refresneo IN sne minds of those present with
Mrs. Emma Wolfe assuming the title role. Il
was hard to imagine the beau tiful women, in
Partisan toilet of white with the simmer of
many oiamonds, poor neglected maiden, but
IN tne story suon IS narrated The Fairy
Queen" Mrs. M. Henkler, whose mission it was
TO relieve the sutferings Of poor cinderella"
by calling to her aid the fairies and spirits was
charming 1mpersonation of the benign fairy
in decollete costume of soft white silk with a
handsome diamond necklace sparkling on her
neck.
:, MI. E.6.. 2: b; Dermitt, as the King, who won
the neaTL ana after numerous trials and tribula-
tlons, the hand OF the fair Cinderella, was
kingly enough both in manner and in voice to
win the heart and hand of almost any maiden
The chorus of fairies and spirits were all that
imagination could suggest in their cooperation
with, and anxiety to assist the Queen In her
matchmaking scheme and in their expressions
of joy at her success.
The orchestral accompaniment and the rem
dering Of the entire programme was fully up
to the standard long ago won by the artists of
The programme was trihe long as was
proven by great many people leaving the hall
during che ten minutes intermis5ion between
the second and last part, but with that excep-
ton the concert was complete success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
THE PHILADELPHIA IDEA.

The singular views of some of our fellow
countrymen, concerning the entertainment
Of public guests, appears from the reports
to have reached naturalization by the So
called reception of the Pan-American dele
gates at Philadelphia. 1t is remembered
that when the Prince of Wales came to this
country thirty years ago, there was gen.
eral tendency to make a show of him. 1t
was supposed that we had since progressed
somewhat beyond that stage; but the mu-
nicipal idea of Philadelphia still seems to
be that the main use of the delegates to an
international congress is to be exhibited
like the attractions of menagerie.
The unique idea of the way in which to
develop mutual commerce brought out by
these performances is certainly striking.
Perhaps the Philadelphia mind may be
pardoned for looking at it in that way, on
account of the probability that the best
thing that Philadelphia could send to our
Southern neighbors is her Mayor and Coun-
ellis for exhibition as an awful example of
municipal government
The rest of the country need not have any
objections to Philadelphia's making cir
Gus of herself; but it is necessary to inter-
pose a decided protest against treating the
nations guests in that manner.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
HRICF IN TEF FTFLn

The information that Mr.. Calvin S. Brice
has yielded to the earnest solicitation
of his friends and become a candidate
for United States Senator from Ohio, fol-
lows rather closely upon the heels of Mr..
Briee's reported diSavowals of any such
ambition, in this city, yesterday. 1t is not
an unprecedented change of heart, as is
testified from the days when Caesar put
aside the kingly crown, or the young woman
who swearing she would ne'er consent, con-
sented.
Mr.. Brice's candidacy promises lively
times in the Ohio Legislature. With COL
lection of millionaires like Brice, Thomas
and Payne to choose from, the chances of the
wire-pullers for remunerat1ve work in the
canvass are especially promising. 1t is no
more than just to say that so far in his poIiti-
cal career Mr.. Brice has not been connected
with any acts of corruption. Whether the
combination of sanguine temperament and
wealth, which he presents, can keep his
record equally clean throughout the coming
contest is a question which depends upon
Mr.. Buce himself for an affirmative answer.
We certainly hope that in Mr.. Brice's
chase of the Senatorial rainbow, someone
else will not collar the pots OF gold which
may be scattered along his path to that
roseate goal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13

that the heads were intact promptly aided
in the task of breaking up the hogshead
and consigning it to the flames. But in do
ing this the fact was discovered that the hogs
head contained lot of china-ware packed
in hay. It was impossible that this discov-
cry should be permitted to interfere with
public and juvenile right of bonires; and so
the police proceeded to conserve the great
est good of the greatest number by distribut-
ing the crockery among the housewives of
the adjacent tenements. This operation
under the supervision of the police had just
been concluded when an employe of the
auction house arrived and informed the
guardians of the public welfare that they
had scattered two dinner sets of Haviland
ware worth about hundred dollars. The
hogshesd was ready for the bonfire, however,
and that great public privilege was en-
jOyed; although the memory of it may be
somewhat saddened in the minds of the
police by the order from municipal head
quarters that the policemen present must
settle for the china.
Between arresting members of dancing
clubs and distributing the china of the rich
among the wives of the poor the police appear
to be engaging in radical reforms. But in
this latter case the reform may prove most
effective in its recoil. As in the case of
Halloween distractions on railway tracks,
when the prescriptlve right of bonfres on
election night develops into a general dis
tribution of other peoples property, it seems
time to place the restrictions of reason on
the exercise of prescriptive customs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY. NOV. Is, ISSa
TBE REALIZATIoH OF THE PARK

The letter from Ms. Schenley transmit
ting the deeds of the new park to the city of
Pittsburg shows that the time is close at
hand when our city will be possessed of that
magnificent property in perpetuity. The
transition from the undesirable position of a
city absolutely destitute of park spaces to
one possessed of a park presenting in its
unimproved state magnificent features of
natural beauty is one that will be gratifying
to the entire community.
1t should be remembered, however, that
the entire duty of the city, in the acquire
ment and opening of improved park spaces,
will not be satisfied with the Improvement
of this property. 1t is. and will be for all
time, a splendid adornment to the
city; but other park spaces should be pro-
vided nearer to the densely populated quar-
tiers of the working people. The hill tops
furnish many places where small parks may
be located and improved at comparatively
small cost. 1t should be the policy of the
city to provide such breathing spots for the
working classes which can be reached at
the expense of shorter journey than many
of them will have to take to reach the large
and beautiful one which Mrs. Schenley has
donated.
The work of beautifying Pittsburg and
making it as attractive as it is prosperous,
commences auspiciously with this gift of
Mrs. Schenley. 1t should be perfected
and filed out by a complete system of
smaller parks scattered throughout the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
Az ACcEsSIoN To HoME RuLE.

The announcement that Lord Duferin
has given in his adhesion to the principle of
Home Rule and will take leading position
in the Home Rule party as soon as he is
able to retire from the diplomatic service
adds valuable recruit to the party of Glad
stone and Parnell. His position and char
acter, as the dispatches indicate, point to him
as the Viceroy of Ireland under the first
Home Rule government. If the statement
is as authoritative as 1t purports to be, it in
dicates that the drift toward the Liberal
policy is making itself felt as strongly
among the men of brains and craftsmanship
as it has for some time among the masses, as
shown by the results of the by-elections. 1t
will be an auspicious beginning for Home
Rule if it is inaugurated in Ireland under
the administration of so able and popular
q statesman as Lord Dufferin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
BE WOULD NOT BUT DID.

1t is rather singular commentary on the
recent Kentucky tragedy which was made by
a statement of the clergyman who conducted
the funeral exercises of Colonel Swope The
clergyman asserts that Swope told him, in
speaking of his quarrel with Goodloe: "I
could not bear to live, sir, if had made
that wife q widow and those children
orphans
This was intended to show the dead mans
goodness of heart; but it can hardly fail to
suggest to an impartial observer, that it
shows that Swope did what he did with his
eyes open as to the consequences. He could
not bear to make the wife and children of
his antagonist widow and orphans, and yet
in the sequel he did it Heidi not live to see
it because the man whom he shot slashed
him to pieces with bowie knife so that he
died first. That the responsibility of one
murderer and victim alike can be much dis
tin guished from the other, is not clear
The awful fact is that men who profess the
sentiments of Christianity, humanity and
chivalry cannot maintain differences of
opinion without shooting and stabbing each
other with the fury of wild beasts.
That such thing could be possible at the
close of the nineteenth century, raises the
doubt whether men who are capable of such
butchery have made much of an improve
ment on savagery, except upon the surface.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
BRAWN BEATS BRAINS.

1t is curious that John Bull has accorded
his broadest smiles, his biggest banquets
and his warmest words of welcome to Buffalo
Bill and Barnum of all the great Americans
who have set foot upon the soil of Albion.
Even Brother Blaine, though his name has
the cabalistic B as its initial, was received
with but 1.-THE of the clamor that the I'M
mortal Bill and our own Phineas 7. excited
Does this reflect upon England's taste or
our judgment most?
Far be it from us to underrate the Hon.
VIM. F. Cody or the uncrowned king of the
circus, P. T. Barnum they are indeed ben
efactors in their way. Itdelighted us to see
the French enslsved by the cowboy con-
tingent, and there is considerable satisfac-
ton in knowing that Barnum is raking in
the shillings and six-pences of Londoners.
Still we would like to insinuate in the
gentlest guise possible, that the welcome
given 70 our showmen in England would be
pleasanter to contemplate if the social at
mosphere of that Island did not in compari-
son grow chilly when real product of
American culture ventured there. British
taste seems to be rather beefy still. 1t is
American Drawn, rather than American
brains, that Britain admires.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
AN INGENIOUS ENUMERATOR.
A Machine That Performs the Work of Half
Dozen Clerks.

Dozen Clerks.
From the Brooklyn Citizen.l
There is no doubt that in the course of time
work people are going to be superfuity and
thas we are all going to spend our time in play
while the machines wait upon us and perform
all necessary labor. came across new proof
of this assertion the other day in one of the
telegraph offices. noticed that the man who
received my message went to a queer
looking machine and struck some
keys, something after the manner of
a typewriter There Immediately few up in the
back part of the contrivance the number of nv
telegram, the number of words in it and the
amount had paid. My curiosity being aroused
interviewed the player of this queer instru-
ment, and he told me it was new labor-saving
device, and also check upon dishonesty which
Norvin Green was trying in their Office and was
about deciding to place in every telegraph office
the Western Union controls.
1t is an enumerator. Now adding machines
have been known ever since the invention of
the old Abacus, but this enumeration performs
the work of half a dozen clerks, does it with
unfailing accuracy and is, moreover, SO
simple that it can be made for IS
or s., while the ordinary adding machine
from $40 to 500. It is a double back
action sort of affair, as the telegraph clerk ex-
planned it to me. As it is used in their work it
on slip, and at the end of the day registers
the whole number of.words dispatched and the
entire sum of money received, In banks it is
used in much the same way in filling the
checks and making up the books at the end of
the day.
On touching key the number and value of
the check is thrown up into view, and at the
same moment it is registered on the slip, while
at the end of the list of checks it registers on
the slip the entire amount calculated with per-
feet mathematical accuracy. So greatly does
it simplify and shorten the cashiers and book
keepers work that the Clearing House the
entire list in 30 minutes-the same work usually
occupying two hours and a half and the labor
of many clerks
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
RESULTS nF CnSTnM-

The fact that the police of Philadelphis
have got to pay a bill for valuable china
has bearing upon some of the customs that
seem to have been established by unwritten
law. The idea that city urehins are entitled to
indulge in an sorts of lawless destruction of
property on Halloween received an illustra-
tion in this city few days ago by the plac-
ingof distractions on a railroad track which
might have cost wholesale slaughter. The
kindred custom that on election night boys
or men can levy on anything combustible
they can find, in order to make bonfres,
stands in the relation of cause to the china
bill which the Philadelphia guardians of
the peace must pay.
In the pursuit of the grand public right
OF bonfres on election night the enthusiastic
youth of Philadelphia found hogshead in
the rear Of an auction house and rolled it to
the fire. Policemen, constables and special
officers were present. and when it was found
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
BAcK-ACTIoN FREE-TRApE LOGIC.

A rather singular exercise of free-trade
logic is made by the Boston Herald in con-
nection with some recent statements of Mr..
Swank on the iron and steel trade. Mr..
Swank states that the United States is at
present the largest consumer of iron and
steel in the world. "And yet" exclaims
the Herald, 1--WE are not able to export iron
and steel except in those cases where the
value of the exported article consists chiefly
In what has been given to it by American
labor" The idea that large consumption
OF given staple should result in its exporta-
tion is only riYaled by the spectacle of a
free-trade paper pointing out that the result
of protection is to permit the expectation of
the most highly finished products, on which
the greatest amount of protected labor has
been expended. If the Herald keeps on
arguing with sufficient industry, it will
make out a strong case for protection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
JUST SHOWING THEM OUT.

Plenty Of Postmasters Made TO Walk the
Plank Nowadays.
WASHINGTON, November 2-The Presi-
dent has appointed the following named post
masters;
nlinois-Mike t. Quirk, at ATcola, vice Albert
SNYDER removed; Franklin Melrose, at Graye-
Vile vice Thomas j.. Matthews, removed; Henry
t. woodruff, at Harvard, vice John A. sweeney,
removed: Thomas G. lAWler, 81 koekfhFd, vice
John d. Waterman, removed.
Indiana-Thad. Butter, at Huntington, vice 5.
H. Shearer. resigned; Henry M. Btcknen, at Car
rett, vice Mary Thomas, removed; A. M. Luke, at
Jefersonville. vice James Burke, removed;
George W. Bennett, at Warsaw, vice William II.
Bowser, removed.
iowa-Wallace O. Agnew, at osceola. vice J.W.
Texas-Wiiiiam H. Sinclair, at Galveston, vice
Thomas A. Cary, removed.
Ohio-Charles Hipp, at st. MaFys, vice X. B.
Gordon, Jr. removed; David j. Davis. At Wapa-
koneta vice y. w. MacFarland, removed.
Michigan-Georg T. Humphrey, at Cheboygan.
vice q. A. Gallagher, removed.
Miss0uri-W A. Morton, at Excelsior SPRING.
oflce became Presidential
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
A WORM NINE FEET LONG
Intrudes Among a Party of Beer Drinkers,
Creating Great Excitement.

Intrudes Among a Party of Beer Drinkers,
Crenting Great Excitement.
NEW YORK, November 12-John Braun and
his sister, who live at A Avenue D, were en-
joying a comfortable glass of beer in Fritz
Pabst's saloon in Park Row about 8 o'clock at
night The back room where they were sitting
was once used for a concert room before the
law divorced beer and music. Mr.. Brauns
back rested comfortably against a railing that
inclosed the otherwise open stairway to the
cellar. A step ladder rested on the rail beside
him and hung alongside the short wall between
the front and back rooms. His sister sat op-
posite him, facing the stairway. Pabst and
Louis the bartender. were behind the bar,
and in front of it. seated at tables, were Rich
ard Cluff, Andrew Shoemaker and others.
Cluff was just raising a big glass of beer to his
lips. when the whole party heard Braun's sister
cry: Look out, John, there's worm"
Everybody ran into the back room. Sure
enough, there was snake, and big one. He
was crawling out of the cellar and when Braun
first saw him he had got his head foot or so
above the rail and was surveying his new sur
roundings, Pabst spTang behind the bar for a
revolver. Shoemaker shed his big overeoat
and grabbed a cheese knife from the bench
counter, and Louis appeared with an ak from
Braun's sister got behind a table. They moved
to the attack in hollow square, and after
hard battle, slaughtered the snake. The eel
lar wall divides Pabst's from Charles Reiche
d Bros animal store, and the snake had es.
caped from there. He was about nine feet
long and as thick as a mans arm. He was
probably young python.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
WILLING TO OBLIGE A LADY.
An Amusing Story of Thnddeus Stevens and
His Red Wig.

From the New York Tribune.l
Colonel Thomas, one time member of Con-
gress was in the city this week, and among
tales of the old days told the following about
ThaddeuS Stevens:
"Thaddeus Stevens was sitting in his Office
one day with few friends when in walked an
old lady. wearing poke bonnet blue goggles,
and carrying green. alpaca umbrella. She
looked around the room as if in search of some
one and then said solemnly:
"tCan YOU tell me where to find Thaddeus
Stevens the Apostle of Lberty?'
"OId Thad" blushed.
"Tm Thaddeus Stevens" he replied
shortly
LibertyT
81 reckon am, ma'am.'
'SThe old lady dropped her parasol, made
rush toward Stevens to kiss him, and when he
held her of, she said:
"T came from Bucks county to see Thade-e-us
Stevens the Apostle of Liberty, and to take
home with me lock of his hair
''The Apostle of Liberty took off his red wig,
handed it TO her, and said:
"'There it is, ma'am. Take as much as YOU
WANT -
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
drowned WhiIs sleepw.Iklur.

About / o'clock this morning a woman.
barefooted and with her nightdress hy-
ing behind her, ran down Jay street,
Brooklyn, to the East river wharf, and
stepped OF the stringpieee into the
water. A 1ongshoreman who saw her jump
put out after her in rowboat caught her BY
the hair as she was sinking the third time, and
brought her back to shore While all this was
happening the woman did not speak word,
When lifted out Of the water she was still
breathing, but unconscious. Andersen, Joseph
Cocyle, William Kissine and Denis Palmer
worked over her IN the moonlight, but she was
beyond resuscitation. An ambulance was sum
moned. but she died just before 1t arrived.
revealed that the drowned woman
was Mrs. Rose McGoldrick. the 40year-oId
wife of Brooklyn truckman. She was in
good spirits. her husband says, when they re-
tired at 10 o'clock last night. She left his side
SO quietly three hours later that he did not
know she was gone till he was awakened by
the men who told him of her death Mrs
MeGoldrick frequently walked In her sleep, and
is supposed TO have been in . somnambulistic
state wheu she stepped into Ihe river. Her
husband, however, says he believes she DELHI
eratelY committed suicide, and that the perse-
cutions of some neighbors with whom she
Quarreled drove her to 1t.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
THEIR ANNUAL SUPPER.
About 200 ut the Tables in Fourth Avenue
Baptist Church.

About 200 ut the Tables in Fourth Avenue
Baptist Church.
The supper and annual meeting at the Fourth
Avenue Baptist Church last evening were as
enjoyable as possible for the soeiable company
of 200 members who gathered around the tables
and sharpened their appetites for an after
feast, consisting of gratifying reports and dis
cussion of the elements that had contributed
to marked success and progress in the church
the past year. The clerks report showed q
total membership of $50; the treasurer's figures
exhibited faithful activity of the members in
giving, and was admirably supplemented,
rounded out and stimulated by Mr.. H. K.
Porter's address on the benefits Of systematic
contribution.
Then there were encouraging reports from all
the interests of the church, including the nOta-
BILE Improvement in attendance and interest at
the Linden Grove Chapel in charge of Rev
William Ward West, the assistant pastor The
Young Mems League gave promise of good and
better work in the near future, and the pastor.
Rev Howard B. Grose, closed with one of his
Characteristic happy and hopeful talks on 1.-THE
Retrospect and the Prospect" 1t was an eVep-
ing well spent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
The Demand for Stree, N,.I..

Little Italy" is getting ready to make a big
protest against the new city ordinance abolish
ing curbstone music. The organ makers and
repairers and grinders held an informal con-
sultation last evening, and decided TO call q
the eurbstone music industry, for some even
ing this week. About 200 Italians are ex.
pected to respond to this call and to protest
and resolve at length in documents which will
be laid before the City Council. There are now
in the city 500 organ grinders out Of work.
Most Of them are out of money. too, and must
take to begging if the aldermen do not repeal
at once the ordinance against them and their
music ALI the little German bands have
taken to the country since the new ordinance
went into effect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
GOFHAM's LATEST GOSSIP.
Locking for q Young Tenor Thief.
flTrv Yo1r

NEW YORK. November 12-The police are
looking for Charley Bitterman, pretty little
ne"sDoy OF IA years, with a hne tenor voice.
Oharieys preeoeity a. singer has made him
quite famous In the Eastside district, where he
mas long sold papers Last Sunday night Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Bischon had him sing before
party Of their friends. After the departure
Of the guests Charley asked leave to stay at the
Bischoffs' house all night, because the News
Doys' Home, where he lodged, had already
closed, Mrs BisehOH gave hum a room. At 8
O'CLOCK this morning she awoke to find that the
young scamp had left and taken with him her
wedding dress, valued at $3.50, her husbands
gold watch and chain, two rings and $500 The
police have found no trace Of him or the stolen
goods