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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
THE NEED OF WORK.

The reports of yesterdays situation at
Johnstown show the need of prompt and de-
cisive action, not only to furnish supplies
for the destitutes but to direct the work that
is isrNtessary to prevent further danger from
the disaster and to restrain the thieves who
are robbing and mutllating the dead.
The work of relief has started nobly and
in such a way as to avert immediate suffer-
ing from lack of supplies. But there is
evidently need of a strong central authority
to control and direct other necessary work.
With thieves robbing the dead and desti-
tute, force is necessary 10 control the law
less element Whether there was proper
authority for starting out the troops yester-
day afternoon may be questioned; but it
was a grave mistake to order them back.
The destitute district should be put under
guard until civil law can be re-established.
The other pressing need is for skillful
and organized work in cleaning up the
debris and burying the dead. That the
thousands of dead bodies, both of animals
and human beings, already amount to a
positive danger in the stricken district,
seems to be beyond dispute. That unless
l., prompt and well-directed work is done the
evffmay spread is also a vital possibility.
Our oSp water supply and that of almost
every citvralong the river is in danger of
contamination. Every effort should GER
tainly be made to prevent the spread of a
pestilence as crOwning result of this great
disaster.
The presence of these necessities does not
permit of standing upon quibbles about au-
thority. Thousands of lives depend on
sharp and quick action and it should be
taken at onee -
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

AN anti-woman suffrage society Is being or
ganized in England by Mr.. Frederick Harrison
and Mrs. Ward, author Of "Robert Elsmere."
Up to date their efforts have not met with any
pronounced success.
A UNIQUE woman's club Is the Seidl Society
of New York, organized and presided over by
Mrs. Laura c. Holloway. 1t was established
with view to obtaining greater privileges for
women attendants of the Seidl concerts at
Brighton Beach.
THE woman's club has come to stay. Ouida
and some others to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, the movement is growing steadily. Scarcely
a day has passed since the lst Of January in
which the inauguration of some new society
has not been recorded.
A BILL will be brought before the summer
session Of the Georgia Legislature providing
for the establishment of a State industrial
school for girls. A similar step has been taken
in Mississippi, where girls are to be admitted to
the Agricultural State College.
ANOTHER library of women's writings is to
be founded-this time in Germany. 1t is to be
started in q small town. wnere room in the
public library will be loaned for the collection
until 1t is sufficiently formed to be taken to
Vienna or Leipzig to be formally made over to
the Algemeine Deutsche Frauen Verein.
New YORK has three charitable clubs COM
posed of women. They are the Kindly, the
Mizpah. and the Emma Lazarus. The same
city boasts of q number of eccentric women's
clubs, among them such oddities as the Hered-
itary, Clio, Meridian, Science Of Lie, Spiritu-
alist, Germ Of Reason, Struggle for Truth, So
cialist, Communist, Sociologic, and the
Woman's True Friend.
THE Woman's Penny Paper, published in
London, Is perhaps the only paper in the world
fad inf md an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
QUE MAIL POUCH.
Cronin and the clan-na-eael.

CrOnin and the Clan.na-GaeI.
To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Permit me to protest against the manner in
which the newspapers, for sensational pur.
poses assume connection between the mur.
der OF DR.. Cronin and the Irish National
League of America. In your telegraphic intel
ligence it is stated that Mr. Sullivan. late Pres
ident of the League, went to Paris and
forced" Mr.. Egan to hand him over 100000,
the greater portion of which he afterward ap.
propriated to his own use.
Now this is serions charge, but is mani
festly untrue, taken in connection with the as
sertion that Mr.. Egan consulted Mr.. Sheridan,
''the No. of the Irish InYinoIbles,n previous to
never occupied such prominent or contden-
tial position as your correspondent would lead
us to believe and his bitterest enemies never
alleged that he was ''No. l." The fact Of q
man belonging to a political society does not
insure him from assault If for private reasons
people think themselves aggrfeVed by any act
of his, but that or any other party should not
be assumed an accessory before or after the
"fact" by reason of his membership and with
out proof sufficient to convict which, up to the
present is lacking in this case.
The Irish are a justice loving and liberty
seeking people. and while they will use all law
ful means to realize their freedom, no people
have more wholesome adherence of crime
Theirs is not the nature of a conspirator,
though they are ever ready to resent an insult
in the open day.
/ would suggest to the Irish-Americans of
Pittsburg to meet in public and denounce this
murder. GEORGE LANDES .
PITTsBURG, June !.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. MONDAY, JUNEs, 1883.
THE HORROR GROWS.

With every days additional details the
overpowering horror of the Johnstown dis
aster increases, and the testimony of all who
have visited the scene unites to the effect
that it surpasses belief and stuns the mind
with its stupendous disaster.
To the tale of deaths by food and deaths
by fire are now added the horrors of fiends
robbing and mutilating the victims, the
fearful punishment meted out where they
are discovered, the appalling presence of
hundreds of bodies after the supply of cof-
fins is exhausted, and the awful probability
of pestilence from the decomposition and
stencil of the unrecovered dead.
Above all these details of horror is the
awful total set forth in the returns as far as
they are collected. Three thousand dead
recovered and ten thousand whose fate is
unknown. This defes comment and re-
duees language to impotence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
STOP THE sIGHTsEERs.

The appeal from Johnstown to keep sight
seers away and send only workers is one
that should be needed by the authorities.
There is great and pressing work in the
stricken district for people who are fitted to
do it. Thousands of homeless and destitute
people are to be succored, fed and clothed;
hundreds of corpses are to be given burial;
miles of railway track are to be rebuilt and
thousands of houses are to be restored to
habitable shape-if there are any that are
capable of such restoration.
To permit this work to be hampered and
delayed by sightseers, who simply go to the
scene of the disaster for the qualification Of
curiosity, is little short of criminal negli-
gence. The sightseers are not only in the
way of the workers; but it is reported by
some who have been there, that the crowds
focking there, being without provisions
themselves, have actually been eating the
provisions.
Elsewhere will be found the report of the
condign punishment visited upon the despic-
able thieves taken in the act of rob-
bing the dead. But those who go on a jun
keting trip to the scene of the disaster and
consume the provisions intended for the suf-
ferers should ask themselves, what is the
difference between robbing the insensate
corpses and lightly taking the food that be-
longs to the suffering survivors? Doubtless
whatever has been done in that way was
thoughtlessly done; but with the effects
properly understood, it should be recog-
nized that the provisions shipped to thesuf-
fering are sacred to the work of relief.
Some authority should be found which
will put stop to this. Until the sufferers
have been relieved, no one should be al
lowed in the flooded district unless he aids
in the work. When the destitute are fed
and the roads are opened the sightseers can
have their chances.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
THE FORTUNE OF OPPORTUNITY.
Circumstances the Test OF Men-Granf,
Lincoln, Cromwell.


Philip Gilbert Hamerton in June scribner's.
The nature of every man is so mysterious, SO
unreasonable and unfathomable, that what
seems to others the narrowest mental organi-
zation may contain within itself unexpected
resources. This is the hidden cause Of the in
variable appearance Of great men in times
of national trial and disturbance. At
such times quiet, unpretending individuals
come to the front by the forces of nature
that formerly lay concealed within them, and
they win fame, perhaps immortal fame, like
Cromwell, Grant, Lincoln, for qualities that
would scarcely have attracted notice in private
life and in ordinary times. The fact OF such
appearances Of great men ought to warn US all
against the presumption Of setting bounds to
the future of any one, except in matters where
techical excellence is a necessity. If man
cannot play the fiddle at so years of age we
may safely predict that he will never become
an accomplished violinist but when there is no
technical obstacle the limits cannot be fixed.
Scott fell into novel writing accidentally. and
a very trivial circumstance "a search for fish
ing tackle that made him stumble upon the un-
finished manuscript of Nv averly') caused him
to resume it after irst abandonment. George
Eliot spent her time in translating German
philosophical books, not at all suspecting the
existence of her own gifts as novelist, until
Lewes urged her to make experiments. A pos
would have left the gift dormant forever.
If Byron had not appeared Scott
would have remained the first poet, so
that he would not have. turned to
prose; for Shelley and Keats counted for hardly
anything in those days. and Wordsworth was
unpopular. II Miss Evans had married rich,
ordinary man the Intellectual side of her
nature would have overshadowed the artistic,
and she would never have been anything more
than a student and expounder of philosophy.
Unthinking people express an astonlshment
at examples of this kind which is in itself un-
reasonable They think it is very surprising
that anyone should succeed in a pursuit for
which he has not been trained, but that never
haDDen6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
AN AMERICAN VESSEL FIRED UPON.
Legitime's MAN. of. War Chases the Steam
ship Caroline Miller OF Cape Hayti.
Spectal Telegram to The Dispatch.

Legitime's Man-of War Chnses the Steam
ship Caroline Miller on Cape Hayti.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
NEW YORK. June 1.-THE steamship CARO-
line Miller, from Hayti, which started to come
up to her berth on Saturday night and then
went back to an anchor off Red Hook. got in
early this morning. The reason for her erratic
movements was learned to-day Captain Fred.
@. Miller thought he had the first news Of the
fall of Legitime and the government Of the
South, and he wanted to keep it until Sunday,
because he thoughtit was too late to get good
show in the Sunday newspapers. As the news
was here ahead of him, his story is merely
corroborative. He, however, gives with lurid
details the narrative of his escape from under
the guns OF Legitme's cruiser, the Toussaint
1--WE left Cape Hayti," he said, ION May Is
for st. Marc with number Of passengers
aboard. The next day we sighted steamer
making for US. When she was still about five
miles away she opened fire. Her first shots fell
short. We were steaming along at about
seven knot gait. We ran up the American nag,
put on more steam and kept whooping it up un-
til we were going II knots. At first the Tous-
saint pOuVerture, for 1t was she, gained upon
us, but finally we outran her and began drop
ping her astern. She followed Us however, for
TWO hours after the first shot was fired, and she
kept raining shot all around III"
The Toussaint's guns, Captain Miller says,
are OF the best pattern of breech loading rifles
made In France and of long range. 1t looks as
more chance to fire them of. The Miller got
into St. Marc that same day, May 16, and re-
manned five days. Captain Miller lodged
While he was there mounted messenger
came across the mountains, bringing the news
of the fall of Legitime and the entry Of Hippo
lyte into Portau-Prince.
The Caroline Miller was chartered by Hip
poyte's Representatives to carry the news to
Port-de-Paix. They also engaged him to bring
four Gatling guns to America to be put in
order. These guns, it was said, were abandoned
fed from the Notifications at Dessalines. For
fear of losing the deadly machines, which they
did not have the nerve to use, Legitime's
feeding tubes and parts of the breech ma
chinerV
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
FEW DEFECTS FOUND.
Inspector Patterson Satisfied With Work on
the Pittsburg Government Building.
c,oot,I rralaor,,, Tho nienatch

Inspector Patterson Satisfied With Work on
the Pittsburg Governments Building.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, June 2-Mr. Windrim, the
Supervising Architect of the Treasury received
on Friday last a report from Inspector Patter-
son in regard to the condition of the Govern
ment building at Pittsburg. 1t is quite vol
luminous and contains details of the inspection
of every part Of the structure, as well as criti-
cisms of the conduct Of his Office by Superin-
tendent Malone. On the day following the
receipt of the report a telegram was received
from Mr. Patterson asking that the report be
held subject to his revision in some Of its feat
ures, with the information that he would arrive
in this city tomorrow
twas necessary, therefore, that the super
vising architect should withhold the report
from the public until after his conference with
MI Patterson. 1t is learned, however, from
one who has had indirect access to the report,
that it is entirely favorable to the building and
contradictory of the wild storiess of the insta-
pility and defects of the structure. 1t is posi-
lively stated to the correspondents of THE
DISPATCH that defects were found In the set
ting of only two stones Of the entire building,
and those were the two last lifted in place at
the moment Of removal of Superintendent Pat
terson, and which were left in the situation
they happened to be at the time he delivered
up his badge of Office.
Just what part of the report Mr.. Patterson
desires to modify is not known.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
FUNNY MEMS FANCIRs.

Mohair is obtained from the Angora goat,
and consequently the mo- hair an Angors has the
more valuable goat he is.-EUsntng Wseonsfn.
Strange to say, none of the American as
tronomers discovered any Of the star route frauds
They have been looking too high.-HslO Orleans
Pieayune.
A Chicago young man proposed in q cab
and was accepted. That was . hanson way Of do
ing the business. None but the brave get the
worth Of their fare. Minneapolis Journal
Uncle James (who enjoys "Barkis
reputation--a trfne near)--Bobby, what would you
do II were to give you bright new silver dolarr
Bobby with a gasp)--I'd bite II, uncle, TO see Ii
it was good.--Hdrper's Bdsdr.
Had Had All He wanted-( (SolIcitously)
s.Grindstone, stop moment. That's fearful
cold you have. Are you taking anything for ~.
fHurrying on) 'sNot In the shape Of advice, Kill
Jordan. ',-Ohfcago Tribune.
Determined to Run No Risks-Citizen-
Here. cabl
Cabman docking at him eriticaIly)-Is it re-
ception, sir?
Citizen (angrily)-What dinerenee uOeS lnos
make to you?
Cabman--AH the difference in the worid, st;
You're In full dress. II it's reception us aA
right Fits suicide you pay in advance ST.
Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Parvenu-Charles, you know you
positively promised me you would reform during
the new year Are Won drinking any less hquorf
Mr.. Parvenu-rYes my dear, l am graouany
tapering on. TAke only half the amount OF water
with my whisky that did, ana hope 70 crop II
altogether by July. Then shall begin 70 reduce
the amount OF liquor ITSELF Trust me 70 keep
promise, my dear.-0nce Hssk'
Assistant Ito great magazine editor)-I
see this Young Mss Is making herself quite
famous through the medium Of the newspapers.
Great Magazine Editor or--Yes--um--haven't We
got story Of hers sent in four or i've years ago2
Assistant--Yes. SIR.
q. n E.--Run It this month ana give page
editorial to "A Newly Discovered Gepius.-Ss
Paul PfonesT PTeees
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
MODERN cATAsTRoPHEs.

1t is probably fact that no catastrophe
of modern times has been so terrible as that
in the Conemaugh valley, the details of
which now fill the public mind almost to
the exclusion of everything else.
Flood and famine have wrought destruc-
ton on larger scale in China and India;
but if the victims were more numerS
Gus, they were also scattered over a more
extended area. In both these Eastern coun-
tries human life has not had the value set
upon it in Christian lands. Despotic, or
otherwise imperfect, governments of the
East are not unaccustomed to such priva-
tions, suferings and loss of life among their
subjects, which in the newer circumstances
of Western civilization would arouse not
merely nations but an entire race of people
to quick measures of immediate relief and
future prevention. In the Tyrol districts Of
Austria and Switzerland there have also
been disasters with immense death
rolls, though it is doubtful if even
there any single event was more
numerously fatal than this so near home.
But among the Alps the people are born
and bred familiar with such danger and
always conscious of their possible peril.
The inhabitants of Johnstown, on the other
hand, had no realization of the fatal danger.
If there was any fear of the South Fork
dam, or any anticipation OF such effects of a
food, there was at least nothing in their
local experience to make either feeling vivid
or alarming. The disaster has indeed been
one Of terrible extent 1t is well that In
pushing actively, vigorously and compre-
hensively measures for the relief and care
of the surviving sufferers, the public may
itself find some relief from continuous con-
temptation of the dreadful details.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
SOMETHING LIKE VENICE.
Tint Was the Appearance of Things at the
Capital Yesterday.

Tint was the Appearance OF Thrngs at the
Capital Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, June 2-Boats piled along
the avenue near the Pennsylvania Railroad
station and through the streets of South WASH
ington, and things wore an aspect family re-
sembling descriptions of:scenes in cities built
on canals A carp two feet long was was
caught in the ladies waiting room at the Balti-
more and Potomac station. and several others
were caught in the streets by boys. These fish
came from the Government fish pond the
waters Of the Potomac having covered the
pond and allowed them to escape. Along the
river front the usually calm and peaceful Po-
tomac was wide, roaring, turbulent stream of
dirty water, rushing madly onward, and bearing
on its swift moving surface logs, telegraph
poles, portions Of houses and all kinds Of de-
bris.
The stream was nearly twice its normal
width and flowed six feet aud more deep
through the streets along the river front, sub
merging wharves, small manufacturing estab-
lishments and tapping the second stories OF
mills, boat houses and fertiliZing works in
Georgetown. Further down stream it COM
pletely flooded the Potomac fats, which the
Government had raised at great expense TO a
height in most parts OF four or five feet, and
inundated the abode of poor negroes, who had
built their frame shanties along the rivers
edge. The rising of the waters has eclipsed
the high water mark of 1877. The loss will be
enormous. Some places it will amount to
thousands of dollars but no definite idea can
be had until the weather settles and property
owners examine their buildings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
A GREAT NEWSPAPER.
Brief Summary Of the Contents Of Yester-
days 90 Page Dispatch.


The latest news from Johnstown demon
strates that the loss Of life in the appalling dis
aster at that point was far greater than at first
reported. Never before has the State OF the
country known so great calamity. 1t is yet
impossible to estimate accurately how many
persons perished by the fire and food, but those
best informed say that between 5000 and 10000
are dead or missing. The DISPATCH devoted
its news columns almost entirely to the reports
of its staff correspondents at the scene of the
horror. Its Representatives were the first
newspaper men in the country to reach the
ruined city, and the accounts published were
more complete and comprehensive than those
Of any other paper in the world A relief train
from this city, loaded with provi
sions and aid, arrived near Johns
town Saturday and contributions
of money and goods are pouring in, yet the
utmost amount that can be raised will not be
sufficient. The suffering among the survivors
Is terrible-the homeless and the hungry are
numbered by thousands. PIttsburg's business
men, with their accustomed iberality, have
contributed nearly s10O, 900 to the relief fund,
and the good work is being pushed energetic
ally.
The day in'this city was most eventful. Peo-
pie swarmed upon the river banks from early
morning until late at night, watching the
Iuduly uOHluR 6bEcduls WuOoo SuTI1C6 was COf-
cred with the wreck of once happy homes.
Several dead bodies were rescued from the
debris here, and many hundreds at points on
the Conemaugh. The city is full Of people who
have lost relatives or friends 1t is now feared
that number of passengers on Pennsylvania
Railroad trains, who were supposed to be safe,
were overtaken and destroyed by the fatal
food. Anxiety. gloom and grief are evident
on the faces of thousands.
II.
In the second and third parts pages to 20,
Of the paper the usual valuable literary feat
ures were retained. CableI news and the
record of sporting events also appeared in their
customary places. The sixteenth page was de-
voted to the news for which the world is most
anxious-that from the Conemaugh Valley.
Among the contributors of choice literature
were Joaquin Miller, whose pen furnished
complete novelette,, dealing with Western
frontier life; Bill Nye, Frank g. Carpenter,
Blakely Hall, Lillian Spencer, L. B. France, L.
8. NJ; E. 81. Heinrichs, Mary g. Humphreys,
Shirley Dare, Rev. George Hodges. Henry
Haynie. Nell Nelson, Oliver Optic, Mrs. Lew
Wallace, "a Clergyman" E. L. Wakeman,
Clara Belle. and other special contributors.
Interesting sketches were also contributed by
staff writer's.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03
DIsENoHANTnIENT.

Twas long ago in hammock days
How very long 1t seems!-
That down the winding country ways
Beside the singing streams
Invent IN search of dreams!
One dream L found as there strayed,
A perfect vision, tool
A merry, muslin-kirtled maid.
Whose eyes were hare-bell blue,
A most enchanting huel
She smiled. smiled. Ahi who can tell
What volumes there were said,
Although we spoke no syllable?
= The ciover-blooms were red;
There was no cloud o'erhead.
Ileaned. She lifted up her face-
Z What ruby lips she hadi
Bliss for one little moments space
And then she cried; There's dadI''
Oh, wasn't it too badl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-03

\. WE have been waiting to see why some of
the regular Republican organs do not re-
prove the President for using the yacht of
an offensive partisan free-trade editor in go
ing on excursions. When it is destructive
of government by party to let the frst-class
clerkships and fourth-class postofices stay
in the hands of the members of the other
party, what shock to party organization is
dealt by the association of the President in
his leisure moments with such a political
hereto as VIM. M. Singerly. 1t would be
sad if President Harrison should turn out
to be hated Mugwump.