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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
THE NEW CUT IN RATES.

Another cut on freight rates in the North
west is agitating railway circles. The Chi
cago, Burlington and Northern road has
announced reduction of about one-third
in its rates from Chicago to st. Paul; and
railway circles are much wrought up over
the question whether this inaugurates an
other wholesale slaughter of rates. The ex-
PLANTATION of this sharp reduction of rates is
that the rates which the 500 road, leading
direct to St. Paul from the Lake Superior
district, has been holding out all along, are
taking away the business from the Chicago
lines.
This carries the obvious inference that the
lower rates have been profitable for the new
line, and will also be profitable for the
line that has just made the reduction to get
the traffic. Otherwise it would be better for
the Chicago road to lose the business alto
gether than to carry the traffic at unproft-
able rates. Nevertheless, the changeevo
the usual gloomy predictions about the
general cutting of rates and improbable
business
1t ought TO be plain enough that any
serious disasters of the railway interests by
this reduction can be averted by letting each
line conduct its business on its own basis.
If the rates are Improbable, the line that
carries the most traffic at such ruinous
charges will be the heaviest sufferer, and
the lines that refuse to meet those reductions
will gain by their refusal. On the other
hand, if there are any lines which can afford
to carry freight at these prices it is their
right and the right of the public, to have
the freight carried on the line which can do
SO the cheapest.
The most salient and gratifying feature Of
the reduction is its proof of the futility of
the combination between the Northwestern
roads to sustain rates at an arbitrary basis,
free from competitive influences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.

A NEW underground light, operated by COM
pressed air. is to be introduced in the zinc
mines at Friedensville. Pa.
A THUNDER clap in Lock Haven, the other
day. raised John Heibley off his feet and
pitched Jeff McCracken some distance.
A BRUTAL mother in York, Pa, Is in the
habit of tying two of her children together and
beating them with sticks with nails in them.
AI12-YEAR-oLD Bible was stolen recently
from Squire Russelrs desk at West Chester,
Pa. 1t had been in use since Mr.. Russelrs
election.
A WEST CHESTER, Pa, naturalist reports
having discovered the legger-headed shrike, a
rather rare bird, breeding abundantly in the
crab apple trees in Erie county.
A PRIVATE telephone wire of John R. Davis.
a NJ inersville, Pa. coal operator, which with
stood the late blizzard and the hghtning's
force, snapped in two few days since during a
heated dialogue in Welsh between father and
son.
UP on the mountains Of Garrett county, West
Virginia, gentleman owns dog which has
queer taste in selecting his playfellows. About2
o'clock every day he goes to point some dis
tance from the house and there meets a small
garter snake. He plays with the snake for a
half an hour or more and then returns home
The snake never fails to meet him.
AN old man who lives near Lima, o., has a
peculiar hobby. He has read the story of
Robinson Crusoe'' thirty-three times, and is
now half way through on the thirty-fourth
time. He is such an old man, being 90 years Of
age, that one would think that he would not
take much interest in the story, but he says ne
enjoys it just as much now as when he was a
boy.
PRESTON COUNTY, West Virginia, has ayoung
lady who would make fortune for dime
museum manager. She can write just as well
with her left hand as with her right. She has
been known to write twoletters on different SUBJ
jects at the same time, one with the left and
one with the right hand. and what makes it
doubly curious is that the style of writing Of
the two letters is always different.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
FACTS ABOUT COLLARS.

GENERAL GRANT wore high and low collars
alike.
THOMAS HOOP wore high collar to hide a
tumor.
On the necks of the ancients were collars of
silver and brass.
JAMES G. BLAINE wears a standing collar;
Grover Cleveland wears high or low.
THE standing collar had its origin in Ger
many in the reign of Ohio ~, 1918
PROBABILITIES of red and green cloth came
into fashion at the close of the fifteenth cent
ury.
GENERAL SPINoLA's collars are laundried
by a colored "Aunty." They measure 81
inches IN width.
BILL NYE says he always sports straight
band collar without any projecting masonry or
ornamental facades."
BYRON imported his famous low rolling
collar from Belgium. He delighted in exhibit
ing his white, almost feminine appearing
throat.
last years of his life The stock or ''swathe" had
been discarded, and the old gentleman rarely
went out visiting.
THE poet Whittier affects cross between a
high and low collar. 1t may be described as
wide band folded near the middle, and having
soft, overhanging roll.
PRESIDENT BUcHANAN's friends were
highly incensed because Representative Abra-
ham Lincoln made speech at atSprlngfeld, ridi-
culing the Presidents notorious neckwear. He
said it always reminded him of an under
takers shop."-Czothfer and FhTnisher.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
A RFTTRR PnLICY

The material reduction in the freight rate
on iron and steel to the West, announced in
our local columns, is another point regis
tered iu favor of Pittsburg's prosperity. A
gain of 81 to cents per hundred pounds,
or 20 to so cents per ton on iron and steel,
exceeds that recently secured by the reduc-
tion on ore rates. The two, together with
the previous reduction on pig iron be-
tween Pittsburg and the valleys, betters the
position of our iron interests by 81 25 and
81 40 per ton of finished product. This i'm
provement may cover the difference between a
slight margin of profit and steady loss in
manufacture. Ifthe railroads will add to this
a reduction in coke rates from the ovens to
Pittsburg furnaces, they will have given
the most satisfactory evidence of their de-
sire to preserve the best relations with our
great freight originating industries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01

that The DISPATCH state what it is that
gives man the right to property. is a
rather strong penalty for the chance re-
marks which The DISPATCH made on the
remote and comparatively unprogressive
Pitcairn islanders. But as the request is
made in good faith, we will do our best to
meet it, by stating that the right of man to
property is based on the greatest good to the
greatest number. Generally speaking, be-
cause it is for the greatest good of human
ity that man shall enjoy the results of his
own energies he has the right of property
in what he creates; but this principle is not
universal. The taking of property for pub
lie use and compulsory service of the indi-
vidual to the State are cases where the right
of the individual to himself and the results
of his own labor are overridden for the
public benefit
Our Henry George friends contend very
plainly that this greatest good will be
secured by the levying of a single tax to
the full rental value of land. No more
signal example of this contention need be
cited than the argument of the communica-
ton signed Fanatic" that the single tax
would be the surest method of securing
cheap homes for the people. Our corre-
spondent avoids the paradox involved in
claiming that the cost of an article will be
cheapened by taxing it, with the assertion
that this would destroy speculative values
in land. But he entirely overlocks the fact
that if the speculative value is to be de-
stroyed, the revenue from that value will be
destroyed also. You cannot tax a thing
out of existence and derive revenue from it
at one and the same time, any more than
you can both eat your cake and have it
There is certain degree of foundation
for the criticisms of this school upon the
present system, in the cases where taxation
favors the holding of large bodies of unim-
proved land for speculation and puts
larger share of taxation on the property
that is improved. But they are mistaken
in supposing that this is the source of the
worst evils that threaten our nation and also
in the idea that they can at once tax prop
erty in land out of existence and derive
remedy from it, to support the Government
Inequalities in fortune in this country arise
out of corporate abuses at the present day;
and there is scarcely any class of property
more widely distributed among the people
than landed property.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

SOME genius who loves to delve in the tombs
of ancient things, has figured out that visiting
cards can be traced back to the Tong dynasty,
in China, 6lS-907.
TEN years ago French plate glass sold in the
United States at 50 50 per foot. To-day Amer
ican plate glass, which is superior article,
sells for 81 per foot.
A PROJECT is on foot among the large rail-
road corporations to organize stock company
of SlQ000,0O0 capital for the purpose OF build
ing six mammoth ocean steamers, and SAL
them under the American flag, that shall cross
the Atlantic in five days. The vessels Will cost
about 81. 100000 each.
THE area of the Territories of North and
South Dakota, Montana and Washington, is
equal to the combined area of the German
Empire. Great Britain and Ireland. the Nether-
lands and Switzerland; the former being S6l, o6o
square miles, and the latter 36l, 500 square
miles. The European area contains popula-
tion of over 9Q,0c0, 900; the American area mas
present population of less than 1,OOO,OOO
The bottle industry of the world is very
large one. The quantity produced per day In
the respective countries being estimated as
follows: Great Britain and Ireland, 62O6 gross;
Sweden, $50 gross; Norway. 600 gross; Denmark,
$50 gross; Germany and Belgium, 300S9 gross;
France, 100 gross; Austria, 1000 gross; United
States. $40 gross; Canada, l2O gross; Australia.
2O7 gross; total. 46, ,48l gross. With 300 working
days this gives no less than 1925, 900 gross per
year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
Al SINGS CRUEL STAR.

The whole country has heard with un-
alloyed pain that Mr.. All Sing, the only
Chinaman on the police force of New York,
has resigned. He has taken to carting,
which be says contains more honor though
less Doodle than policing. The police force
which is not good enough for a Chinaman
must be anything but celestial. Mr.. All
Sing has, Intentionally or not we do not
know, stabbed the New York police force in
the back. The policemen of Gotham may
put brave face on the matter and scoff at
the heather Chinee, but the fact will remain
that Chinaman found the finest of New
York not fine enough for him. Under the
circumstances Mr.. All Sing will be wise if
he drives in conservative fashion and not
too near the feet of the big policemen at the
crossings He has trodden on their feet; he
cannot drive over them with impunity.
We are glad to be able to congratulate the
Pittsburg police force on the utter impossi-
bility of such mean and cruel reflection
being cast upon them. There is not single
Chinaman in their ranks. 1t takes but a
slight exertion of the mind to discern that
it is therefore impossible for Chinaman to
resign from the police force. Our police
force may not be free from all imperfections.
but at least it can be said that it is devoid
of Mongolian complexion altogether and
always has been.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
DOWN WITH CITY FORESTS.

Our esteemed cotemporary, Forest Leaves,
the organ of the Pennsylvania Forestry As
sociation, thinks that Arbor' Day has not
yet obtained the prominent place it deserves
in the minds of the people, |bnt it is not dis
couraged because there was not a universal
impulse to plant trees on April 26. Itfwrf
be work Of time of course to convince
people that it is really most necessary
work to plant trees regularly each year, to
make amends to some extent for the de-
structiou of Pennsylvania forests, which
is still proceeding rapidly.
1t is decidedly pretty idea that the New
York Evening Sun advances, to plant live
tree for each of the telegraph poles chopped
down, and considering the reality of the
movement TO clear New York of cumbrous
telegraph and light poles, it opens a way to
the Identification of that city's streets. But
unhappy Pittsburg has no such pleasant
prospect before her. A forest is already in
her streets, but of unsightly murdered trees
over which trail not the ivy and the vine,
bnt the dangerous electrical wires. The
forest is not growing less, but larger every
day. As old poles decay and are removed,
thicker and taller ones take their places.
The interlacing wires are constantly multi
plying. The very city sparrows have to fly
with the greatest circumspection to avoid
the wires everywhere.
When will this forest be destroyed? The
question has been answered by an active
May pr in New York, and since his first
orde was issued 1,6S2 poles have been re-
moved. There is large vacancy here for a
public man with an ak and the courage to
defy big monopoly. Not soul would
lament our city forests. Cut the timber
down
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
P1TTsBURG, SATURDAY, JUNE l, 1889.
THE RETURN OF THE BooDLER.

The return of McGarigle, one of the Chi
cago boodlers, after an absence in Canada of
two years, his plea of guilty and the impos-
ing of fine of thousand dollars on him
is a rather unique termination of one Of the
celebrated cases of the country.
When McGarigle fed be was under SEN
tence to the penitentiary. A new trial hav-
ing been ordered after his fight, he takes
Vantage of the lapse of time to walk into
c6art, plead guilty on the trial and get of
with thousand-dollar fine. The fact that
sentence of Imprisonment imposed on the
first trial was not given this time smacks very
strongly of an arrangement by which the
total cost of McGarigle's Doodle career is
assessed at 81, 900.
OF course this result will exercise a
strong deterring influence upon the repeti-
tion of boodling-if it does not yield enough
to enable the boodler to comfortably pay a
thousand dollar fine after the affair has got
little stale.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
FAMILIAR INFRINGEMENT.

1t is pleasant to observe the progress of
the work of retrenchment and reform in
New York City. The newly-appointed
Commissioner of Public Works has carried
on that work by the discharge of the in
cumbents of useless offices, as he announces,
to the extent of saving ffty-three thousand
dollars year in salaries. This step has a
rather unique character, from the fact that
the political antecedents of the new official
are not such as to create any hope that he
would engage in such a work from pure
love of the public If useless Offices are to
be cut of, what will be the rewards of prac-
tical politics? But the departure from
Tammany precedents by the Commissioner
of Public Works is perhaps condoned by
the fact that the ofice-holders retrenched
out of Office are invariably members of the
County Democracy. In view OF that fact,
the retrenchment has somewhat familiar
air. New York will wait with some inter-
est to see whether the Commissioner does
not, in the fullness Of time, discover that
the Offices are more useful than they seem
at present. Possibly it will be found that
their highest degree of utility can be at
tanned by filling them up with good Tam
many Democrats.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
SEVEN TIMES MARRIED.
Mollie Corwin Divorced From Husband No.
= in Order to Wed No. 8.

mOll1e CorW1n Divorced From Husband No.
in Order to Wed No. 8.
SHELBYvILLE IND, May 3l.-Mollie Corwin
was yesterday divorced from her seventh hus-
band Joseph Corwin, for the second time
within year. The history of Mollie's matri-
monlal ventures commences with her giddy
girlhood. way back in 1857. when she was II, and
was living with her father, Jacob Howery, a
wealthy farmer of this county. Her
first husband was William r. Usher.
One year was enough for Will
lam and he left, and soon after she got a
divorce. Her next capture was William ]. Nu-
gent, whom she married in 1872. She lived
divorce and came to this CITY, Her third hus-
band was John II. Little, section boss and
they were married in 1880 She lived with John
three years and then secured divorce
She then cast about her for a successor to
her third, and found him in Lincoln ]. Van
Buskirk, a good looking young man several
years her junior, and month after her divorce
from Little they were married. Four years
later Lincoln was sent adrift and soon after
she married her fifth husband, who socn gave
way for No. in the person of Joseph Corwin, to
whom she was married in 1887 A year later
she secured q divorce from him, and about
three months ago they were remarked She
soon became tired of him again, and again ap-
piled for divorce which she received yester-
day, and it is reported that his successor is now
in training In the person of man whom she
intended to marry the first time she was di-
vorced from Van Buskirk, but who incurred
her displeasure by his jealousy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
THE MOUNTAIN FLOODS.

The appalling disaster which is reported
as the result of the storms among the mount
aims of Cambria, Somerset and Bedford
counties, and especially the sweeping loss
of life caused by the bursting of the South
Fork dam, furnish new and awful evil
dence of the power of the destructive forces
of nature. At the present writing the full
extent of the calamities to life and property
along the banks of the mountain rivers is
beyond estimate; but the reports which will
be found elsewhere are sufficient to show
that the terrible and sudden nature of the
floods have wrought great and almost un-
paralleled calamity.
The dispatches from various points show
that the rain storms of Thursday night and
Friday morning, which at this point were
mild and drizzling, took on furious char
acter to the southeast of us. In the mount
ain region referred to, the storm evidently
reached the height of water-spout such as
caused the Butchers run disaster here Is years
ago, except that it covered a greater extent
of territory and flooded scores of valleys in
SUedQ OIL nail u UOZeu. 4ueSIl6duS III WHICH
there was no artificial obstruction became
suddenly and dangerously swollen. The
dam in the South Fork of the Conemaugh
being subjected to unprecedented pressures
gave away, and the addition of its immense
storage of water to the floods has wrought
fearful havoc along the thickly settled por-
ton of that valley near Johnstown. The
total destruction cannot yet be estimated;
but already the returns include scores of
houses swept away, and of lives lost in the
terrible foods.
In the presence of such terrible work, the
human powers are paralyzed. We can only
recognize the fact that within hundred
miles of us a terrible calamity has fallen
upon the people. Whatever can be done in
the way of alleviating the suffering Pitts
burg should be prompt to do; and beyond
that we can only acknowledge the impotence
of man against the terrible force of the ele-
ments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01

AMELIE RIvEs CHANLER, who is now
in Paris, was the recipient of call from
Louise Michel. who had lot of manuscript
which she desired the American writer to
criticise. Mrs. Chanler says she was so
much afraid of the Partisan Anarchists that
she did not dare to refuse her request. This
does not seem to make our fair compatriot a
very reliable critic of the French females
work; but it might make Louise Michel
very competent TO criticiseN Mrs. Rives
Chanler's writings. If the Frenehwoman
would criticise the Americans works with
her favorite implement of a petroleum fire,
she would establish an international obliga-
ton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
QUE MAIL POUCH.
Homes for the ToiIers.

To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Under the above caption you discuss, edito-
| rally Mr.. Wiman's scheme for providing
cheap homes for the laboring man. II it were
not sad it would be amusing to see how good
people scheme and work to accomplish in q
roundabout way, what would naturally come
of ITSELF if only the artificial obstacles were re-
moved. 1t is like securely tying mans hands
and feet and then hiring somebody to feed him.
when, II you should unite him he would feed
himself.
There is but one thing that prevents work.
ingmen from providing their own homes. and
that Is the high price of land Suppose you
organize several companies on the plan pro-
posed by Mr.. Wiman: a number of kind
hearted people OF means being willing to put
In their money without expectation of profit,
Il would only result in putting premiums into
the pockets Of some land owner. As soon as
the company of philanthropists select site.
up will 60 the price. and a large share Of the
money intended to help the poor will be re-
CURED to pay the speculative value put on the
land.
So long as the present false custom of allow
ing private absolute ownership in land OBJ
tains. all schemes to help the poor will be sue
cessfuI only in small degree. and then at
great cost. The law recognizes land owners as
tenants only. Put this correct theory into
practice and resolve taxation into ground rent;
that Is, raise all revenue necessary for the COM
mon use, for the support OF government, roads,
schools, ETC., by assessment on ground values
only, and take the burden of taxation of of
property, and workingmen will then build their
own homes without assistance from any one.
Why? Because under such system it would
pay no one to own unimproved property; taxa
tion would eat up the speculative value; only
the man who used it could afford to own land.
lot that workingman would to-day have to
payi s., 900 for would under the proper system,
be purchaseable for 500. AL the wealth now
tied up in ground would be released and put
into improvement, thereby making work plenty
and keeping wages up. The money that now
goes to increase the wealth of the land owner
would be transferred directly to the wage fund.
Some day hope that the philanthropists of
the country will awaken to these truths and
take steps in the right direction.
PITTsBURG, May 81. FANATIC.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
A PERTINENT REJoINDER

There is rather pertinent commentary
on the action of the white Republicans in
Alabama, who recently resolved to separate
themselves from the colored people of the
South, in the action of meeting of col
ored Republicans at Richmond. The white
people having resolved to organize Re
publican party on the plan of cutting loose
from the negroes, and, therefore, practically
deprivihg the Republican party of the
South from any considerable number of
votes. the Richmond negroes retaliate by
starting a movement for the purpose of
forming q political party from which the
white trash will be excluded.
This is nothing more, than tit for tat on
the part of the colored brethren. If the
white people are going to draw the color
line presumably for their own benefit, with