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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
RAILROADS SEEKING KNOWLEDGE.
They Meet Cooley and Morrison and Ask
for Information,

AOE
CHICAGO, February l9-Judge Cooley and
Hon. w. H. Morrison, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, arrived here this morning
and proceeded to the Rookery building where
representatives of all the principal Western
roads were assembled. The Judge in his re-
marks said the meeting was called more for a
general conference on rates than to adjudicate
any specific charges. He was followed by the
Hon. II. Austin, Ex-Governor of Minnesota
and a railroad commissioner for that State. He
said:
THE object of the present inquiry, as un-
derstand it, is mainly to ascertain whether the
companies cited in the notice comply with the
requirements of section of the interstate
commerce act and if not, to secure obedience
in the future and more uniformity in the
method of preparing the schedules required by
the law, and in the manner of putting them
into execution-the charge made In said petit
tion as to alleged offenses on the part of the
companies against other provisions of the inter-
State commerce law being still held under ad-
visement of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The object is not to point out the
technical otfenses or violations of that section
in order that the companies heretofore Offend
ing should be subjected to penalties, nor to se-
cure merely technical acceptance thereafter,
but to obtain from the commission an authori-
tative Interpretation of section 6, and to show,
if we are able. that the companies have largely
misapprehended the scope and meaning of the
provisions of the section, and consequently
have failed to comply with either the spirit or
the letter of the law"
He asked the question: ''Should the public
all?" and answered it with a decided affirma-
tive,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
AN OPENING FOR PASTEURISM.
How We May Protect Ourselves From the
Insect Armies.

How We May Protect Ourselves From the
Insect Armies.
From the London Globel
Adistinguished savant has made discovery that
mosquitoes and other irritating insects carry
with them their own antidote. His theory is
that the victim gradually becomes inoculated
with the venom elected by these pests when
feeding on human beings. so that each bite is,
in effect, homeopathic application of the
Pasteur system. The only fact adduced in sup
port of the hypothesis is that, after time, the
stinging of mosquitoes and their congeners
ceases to ifritate. But is that so? Is it true
that the Anglo-Indian who, on first arrival,
was converted into sort of animated eruption,
becomes almost musquito proof in the course
of some years. But this immunity may be con-
sequent upon the impoverished condition of
his blood. The musquito IS an insect of taste;
it loves rich fare, and therefore rarely taps
either the acclImatized or the ''black man."
Our savants discovery extends, however, to
insects with which stay-at-home Englshers are
more often brought into contact He believes
that the domestic pests of which country
cousins imagine London lodgings to be the
headquarters have similar gift of case-hard-
enipg their victims. If this be confirmed,
grand opening will present itself to DR.. Pas
teur. 1t would only be necessary for children
to be inoculated with poison OF gnats, mus
qu1toes, and the unmentionables to safeguard
them throughout their lives from the vista
tions of the whole insect army. The amount of
strong language and bad temper that would be
saved is simply incalculable. Perhaps the
method could be carried even further; it might
be found applicable to the case of husband
blessed with a shrewish wife. The respectable
Caudle would seem to have undergone some
operation of The sort, judging from the calm
ness and the SnoreS with which he bore the
st1nging comments of his sleepless spouse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
AFOssIBLE RESTRICTION.

Rev. Washington GLADDEN. in a recent ar
ticle, on Safeguards ofthe Suffrage, makes
as uggestion with good deal of force in it, to
the effect that criminals, paupers and mis-
demeanants be excluded from the right to
vote. These are classes most liable to be Sc
cured by bribes and are among those whose
votes are sought for by dishonorable means.
A computation of the number that would be
affected by such a restriction of suffrage
places the average at 1.5OO in a city of 1OO,-
600 population; while in New York it is es-
timated that the proportion of ignorant and
undesirable votes thus thrown out would be
even greater than the $1,000 or 1900 indi-
Gated by that ratio. 1t would certainly
seem that such law would sensibly dimin-
ish the power of vicious elements in politics,
especially in cities where they are at pres
ent the strongest. The grayest question is
that which stands in the way of most re-
forms in the present age, namely, whether
it would be honestly enforced or not.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
able, and the first who did not, in a word,
know il all
THE SOURCES OF PANIC.

An interview in our financial columns
discusses the panic of 1873, and the ques-
ton whether there is any such parallelism
between the era Immediately preceding that
convulsion and the present time, as to war
ranting forebodings.
1t is about time for people to clearly
recognize that the crash of 1873 was due to
variety of causes, all Of which combined
to produce business disaster. An era of
railroad building on bonds, with the stock
purely water, was precipitated into disaster
by the failure of Jay Cooke & Co.; but that
was not all, Nearly every other branch of
business was on an inflated basis. Pig iron
had just been pushed up to s45 ton. Real
estate in Pittsburg was very nearly as high
as it is now, with little more than half our
present population. All this imitation and
speculation was in the teeth ofthe natural
decline of values produced by the return to
a specie basis; and the pricking of the bub-
BILE was inevitable.
We have, at the present time, the same
features of highly watered railroad build
ing and wide speculation; but all the other
factors of general failure are absent. The
commercial staples were never on more
conservative basis The currency Of the
nation is not fuctuating. There may be
checks and liquidations in the speculation
quarters, as there have been before; but any
repetition of 1873 is impossible until there
is a repetition of the general imitation and
boom in all commerce that was characters
tic of the years Immediately preceding that
event.
We think that the commercial memory of
the nation is good enough to avoid that
source of danger. The best guarantee of the
stability of our prosperity is in the distinct
separation of Legitimate business operations
from the speculative element.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
BAYARD'S BUGABOO.

1t is comforting to know that Secretary
Bayard has found a broad national reason
for the justification of a foreign policy
based on the tactics of the crawtish,
Through the columns of his inspired organ,
the Baltimore Sun, he discloses the weighty
considerations which have impelled the
administration to swallow all that the
strong powers can do, and to roar ferocious-
ly only against petty foe like Hayti, or a
distant and safe one like China.
Mr. Bayard breads and reprehends the
military spirit. If the military spirit should
get the better of US, the liberties of the ma
ton are among the things that are past.
Better let foreign powers break their treaties,
ignore our rights and teach our diploma
fists how easily two-Year-old declarations
may be swallowed and digested, than that
the country should be dominated by that
dreadful military spirit, and consequently
throw away its power of self government.
Listen to Mr.. Bayard's Cassandra-like
prophecy:
the military spirit got thorough possession of
the people this army would become perma-
nent establishment 1t would, of course, have
leader, and if the army became the dominant
force in the State it would be but a step to a
dictatorship. Sooher or later our liberties
would be trampled in the dust; the rights of
the individual would disappear, and upon the
ruins of our cherished institutions would be
reared the fabric of military despotism.
This is somewhat ancient bugaboo; but
it has been so long disused as to have re-
gained all the merits of freshness and novel;
ty, During the war, gentlemen of Mr.. Bay
ards pacific stripe were much more con-
cerned lest the creation of dictator should
destroy our Government than they were lest
a rebellion in arms should accomplish the
same result. Its last appearance was when
Frank Blair brought out his alarming pict-
ure of "the warrior on horseback" as a
reason why Grant should not be elected,
with rather disappointing effect on the i'm
agination of the voters. Mr.. Bayard's resort
to the old scarecrow indicates that he is
hard up for more modern arguments.
A nation which dissolved an army of over
a million men twenty-four years ago, is not
to be scared out of its wits by talk about
military relationships. There is not a
tlthe as much danger of destroying our in
stitutions in that way as there is of corrupt
ing them by the insincerity of politicians
and the spirit of plutocracy and monopoly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
LIFE In A GREAT CITY.



NEW YORK. February l9-Lawyer Delaney
Nicholl refused retainer to-day from the city
of New York. The corporation counsel wanted
Mr. Nicholl to act as special counsel for the city
in the present investigation of the leasing of
stands in the city's big market, recently opened.
The leasing of the market was put in the hands
of political heelers. who blaekmailed everybody
that wanted stands. The scandal became so
great that an investigation was ordered. Some
of the blackmailed market men retained Mr..
Nicholl to look after their interests. One mar
ket man deposed to having been blackmailed
out of $500 Controller Myers thereupOn re-
voked this mans lease. Yesterday Mr.. Nicholl
withdrew from the case. To-day the corpora
tion counsel asked him to work on the other
SIDE mo" said Mr.. Nicholl, the investiga-
tion is farce. The City Controller is protect
ing the blackmailers. He threatens contisca-
ton to any market man who dares to testify
how he has been imposed upon. With the atti-
tude the Controner has taken there is no prob
ability of unearthing the corrupt transactions,
and bringing home the guilt where it belongs"
This is q parallel case to the ceiling investiga-
tion now in progress at Albany. In the Assem-
bly, ceiling contract it is proved that the State
has been robbed of s1O5, $50. The contract
called for s270, ,l50. whereas the actual legiti-
mate price, according to estimate, should have
been S16o, 900. Beside that, the Superintendent
of Public Buildings certified to SIS 600 in excess
of the contract The steal probably amounts to
Sl50,000 A resolution to suspend the Superin-
dent was offered to-day, and passed over till TO-
morrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
MoDESTY IN UNIFoRM.

There is tender pathos in that question
which young Naval Officer put to Mrs.
Sherwood, the authority on etiquette, in
these columns last Sunday. cam L ex-
pected to wear my uniform at private par
ties? 1t is very stiff and uncomfortable, -
said he, and Mrs. Sherwood hastened to tell
him that he need not wear his uniform
everywhere, but that he would be comforting
favor upon us all and beauty upon himself
by wearing his uniform wherever he could,
The idea OF young naval officer asking
anybody's advice about his personal ap-
pearance, is simply pathetic. 1t shows that
the service, sir, is going to the dogs. Who
has ever known a naval officer of
junior rank who was not perfect
iy confident of his ability to
be right and do right under all circum-
stances? And of all things he is best posted
In the matter ofs dress. We can barely
imagine handsome young wearer of Uncle
Sans cloth asking where under the shining
sun he might not appear in the dark blue
and gold.
The young naval officer who appealed to
Mrs. Sherwood is to be pitied. He will have
a hard time of it. His career will be dotted
with novel experiences, and he will be
known to all the world as the first young
naval officer who possessed modesty, the
first who confessed that a uniform which
enhanced his looks was stiff and uncomfort-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
THE HANDS OF PROMINENT MEN.

BENZ. F. BUTLER has a hand like dough
| ball.
SECRETARY BAYARD has hand like Henry
Clay's.
! LAWRENCE BARRETT trims his nails to suit
| his moods.
| WHEN excited in debate the hands of sun.
set Cox become eloquent in their interpreta-
| ton.
A MODERN belle is not more fastidious and
| exactlng with her manicure than Mr.. Berry
| Wall.
| WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT has large square
| hands, but he has managed to warm both at
| the fire of life.
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs has habit of rubbing
| his hands together, with sort of 'What can
i do for you" air.
A HAND which describes the very poetry of
motion is that of Edwin Booths. 1t is one that
any woman might envy
Dr. PAxToN's hands look as if they might
toss baseball with as much relish as they
runctuate his pulpit oratory.
PREsIDENT-ELECT BENZ. HARRISON has
| hand firm enough to keep the powers behind
the throne in the background.
JAY GOULD is in perpetual state of warfare
| by trying to prevent his left hand from know
| ing all the secret corners of his right.
L,
comes down like spile-driver when the Brook
| lyn dominic wishes to emphasize point.
LIKE Uriah Heep, Oscar Wilde has ghostly,
clammy hand, which makes one feel like rub
bling his afterward to warm it, or to rub his off,
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND gives one a real
Captain Cutie grasp with his large chubby
hand which makes one feel that his heart has
been the prompter.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS had hands so
thin and bony that they looked like skeletons
but they were always ready to minister to the
wants of the suffering.
A HAND which bespeaks the man is that of
Henry NJ. Stanley. When he takes yours be-
tween both of his he establishes current of
geniality which fingers long after the act.
HENRY IRVING, the actor, gives one a Mr.
Merdle shake. his hands seeming to retreat up
his coat sleeve, leaving the honor to his cuffs
except when diplomacy dictates more suitable
form.
JUSTICE L. Q. G. LAMAR has a hand as soft
as a woman's, but his manner of shaking hands
always suggests DR.. Chillips in David Copper
field, he seems relieved when he gets his hand
safely back again.
~ Y. Evening Sum-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
WHERE THE FAILURE Is,

The Failure" question has had all the
changes rung upon it until it is fully worn
out. Starting with the question, SIS Mar
riage Failure?" it has gone through the
entire gamut of the functions and relations
of life until it gets down to the discussion
whether housekeeping is failure, in the
latest North american ReUiew. The result
of the discussions is likely to convince those
who depend on these essayists for their opin-
ions that everything is failure
1t is not difficult for the pessimists to find
examples of failure in every quarter. That
is the necessary accompaniment of living.
So that the whole thing turns us back to
Mallock's conundrum of decade ago: 'Is
Life worth Living?" However the writers
NAV rank themselves on that question, the
great mass of mankind by their insupera-
bic objections to leaving this world, reply
that it is.
The whole thing may be summed up by
the truth that everything is a failure to
those who fail in everything; for which the
responsibility lies less with the things than
with the persons.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY,, FEB. %. 1859.
A GRATIFYING SUCCESS.

The information given in our local col
umns that subscriptions to the Exposition
now reach S192, 900, and that but $4,000
more is required to provide for the compile
ton of the main buildings, indicates the
view which THE DISPATCH has taken of
the enterprise, in Its most discouraging
stages.
We have asserted steadily that while
Pittsburg is slow, and sometimes diScour-
agingly so, there is abundant capital and
public spirit to support any enterprise that
is for the public welfare. Some of our citi-
zens who are largely supplied with capital
may be lacking in public spirit; and others
who are most overfowihg with public spirit
may be deficient in the other quality, But
the general distribution of both elements in
live community is such as to insure that
when the necessity and Importance of public
enterprise is fully brought home to our
people the money and energy necessary to
carry it through will be forthcoming.
1t is one of the most gratifying features Of
the Exposition subscription that it includes
dll CldsstS, lIOm tne 4aOoISI up W bne 1dIS
est capitalist. Every dollar will be returned
ten-fold in one form or another; but that is
not the richest return which will come from
this effort Our people are learning the
lesson of working together for the advance
ment of the whole community. 1t is being
taught that united action for the common
benefit will accomplish more for all in
year than selfish policy of every man for
himself will in decade.
When Pittsburg learns that lesson as
some of her Western neighbors have learned
ii, the capital and natural resources of the
city and section can be made to give her
strength unsurpassed, if not unrivaled, by
any city in the land.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
BISHOP BEDELL PARALYZED.

The Venerable Prelnte Frustrated While
SojOurning in Southern France.
CLEVELAND. February ia private cable
gram has been received here announcing the
prostration of Bishop G. T. Bedell, of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, at Nice,
France, from stroke of paralysis. The Bishop
of his Episcopal office nearly a year ago on
account of failing health. With his wife and
niece he has since been travelling in Europe
j. Three diocese conventions have been held to
choose an assistant Bishop, who will eventually
succeed him. but none of the divines elected
would accept the position. Should the Bishop
die soon the Episcopalian Church in Northern
Ohio will be left without a head.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
A NIGHTS SOCIAL PLEASURES.
Amateurs Play Still Winters Run Deep Be-
fore Large Audience.

Amateurs Play Still Wnters Run Deep Be-
fore a Large Audience.
Probably there has never been SO large an
audience at performance of the Sewickley
Valley Club as there was at Choral Hall In Sc
wickley last night Many Pittsburgers were
present, including large number of members
OF the Tuesday Night Club. To the latter the
performance possessed peculiar interest, be-
cause "Still Waters Run Deep" is to be given
at the Pittsburg Club Theater next Friday
evening by the Tuesday Night Club ITSELF AS
it was, Choral Hall was packed literally to the
walls.
The cast was as follows: Mr.. Potter, Mr.. o, s.
Richardson; Captain Huuoksteg; MI. J; b.
Booth; John Mitdrndy, Mr.. R. A. Franks; Dun
biz, Mr.. c. A. Richardson; Mr. Ld,lgford, Mr..
J. @. Chaplin; Mr.. Markham, Mr.. F. E. Rich
ardson; GfnlLet, Mr.. ]. E. Porter; Jessop, Mr..
Q; L. Doyle; Mrs. Sternhold, Miss Black; Mrs.
MiLdmdy Miss Whiting.
The play went very smoothly, and taken as
whole it was very entertaining. From the
day that Tom Taylor wrote it and 1t became
the re1gning suceess-in which Madge Robert
son, now Mrs. Kendall, made great hit, still
Waters Run Deep" has been beloved OF
amateurs. 1t is a simple little comedy drama,
with very subdued charms. The play was very
fairly done last night.
Mr.. Franks made more of Mr.:
MtIdndy than is usually made, and showed
SOhONy pOWcIo uO uao OFOL "
vealed before. In his interview with Mrs. Stern
hold in the second act he was clever enough,
but the real surprise came when he met the
villain of the piece Captain Ha,Oksley, in that
famous scene at the end of the second act. He
proved himself fully equal to the occasion, and
though he had to endure comparison with a
veteran amateur in Mr.. Booth, he didn't
suffer at all. The climax of the act
was very. thrilling and Messrs Franks
and Booth received hearty recall
hn nr6l 80 hat NJ
gave natural color to Captain Hd,0ksley. Miss
Black worked very hard with the difficult and
dlsagreeable part Of Mrs. Sternh0ld, and Miss
Whiting was able to gain for Mrs. Mildmdy
the sympathy of the audience Mr.. o. 5.
was refreshingly quiet and easy in his style.
The rest of the company was entirely compe-
tent.
After the play there was dancing to the
music of Gernert and Guenther's Orchestra.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
Hermes Will be Protected.

At the big German Hospital fair now being
held at the American Institute Hall there is a
valuable statue of Hermes. lent for the occa-
sion. Hermes is Greek god, with never a
stitch of clothes to his back. Anthony Com
stocks sleuth hounds got scent of the disgrace
full exhibition and laid complaint before Cap
tain Gunner, in charge of the Sixty-seventh
Street Station House. Gunner detailed some
officers to investigate and arrest the frivolous
statue if need be. They interviewed Manager
A. B. DeFrece and asked him what he meant
by "them sort of shows" DeFrece parleyed
with the officials and quickly called a meeting
of the Fair Committee, at which Henry Viii
lard. Carl Schurz and others were present.
That was yesterday. 1t was unanimously re-
solved that Comstock and the police be told to
go to thunder. Up to late hour this evening
no arrests had been made
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
Whistling Alice J. Shaw.

Those who have never heard any whistle but
that emitted by the precious boy can have TO
conception of the charming concord of sounds
of which whistling Alice-Shaw is capable. She
whistles at Lafayette Hall Saturday afternoon
and evening, under the auspices of the Pitts
burg Press Club, and, if the lively sale of seats
that began at Kleber's yesterday is any cri-
ter1on, The hall is going to be SO well crowded
that everybody will feel at home while listen
ing to the sweet concert, of which the
whistling is only single feature.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
ELECTRICIANS IN COUNCIL.
President Duncan Tells of the Great In.
crease in che Various Branches.

CHICAGO, February 19.-The annual con-
vention of the National Electric Light Asso-
citation met In the Exposition building this
afternoon. An address of welcome was deliv-
cred by Prof. John Barrett. City Electrician of
Chicago, to which President S. A. Duncan, of
Pittsburg responded. Mr.. Duncan then read
his annual address, dwelling chiefly on the re-
markable development in electric Lighting and
in the use of electricity for motors within the
past few years.
There had been, within the past few years,
he said, an increase of $50 600 in the number of
incandescent lights in use in the United States,
and they now numbered 2,500,000. Almost 800
miles of track for electric roads had been laid.
Secretary A. T. Garratt, of New York, reported
that the association numbers 1873 members.
After hearing reports of committees the con-
vention adjourned until tomorrow.