Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
HITLER AND THITHER.
Movements of Pitrsburgers and Others of
Wide Acquaintance.

Movements of Pitrsburgers and Others of
Wide Acquaintance.
William 9. Mcpherson, of the firm of
Mcpherson q Son, contractors, of Philadel-
phia, is in the city for the purpose of purchas-
ing heavy structural iron from Carnegie, Phipps
& Co. He is after beams of an extraordinary
length and thickness, and it is said Carnegie's
is the only firm in the country who can make
them. Mr-.:McPherson is the man who had the
contract for the erection of the new municipal
hall in the Quaker City. 1t is the only thing in
the country known to have been started before
work on the new Pittsburg Government build
ing was begun. The Philadelphia building was
started in ISL and will not be completed for
two years yet. The cost of the building is esti-
mated at Sl6.5O0000. A bronze statue of Will
lam Penn will surmount the top, and will be 81
feet high. The top of the statue will be 555
feet from the ground According to Mr.. Nc
building in the world excepting the Eiffel
tower in Paris. The city officers will move
into the building November l.
United States Commissioner McCand-
less, Assistant District Attorney Alcorn and
United States Detective McSweeney left last
night tor Williamsport, to be present at the
opening of the United States Circuit and District
Court, which sits there to-day. They were ac-
companied by Mr.. Wilson. one of the directors
of the Marine National Bank, who will repre-
sent that corporation in the case against Harry
Flamm, the embezzling bookkeeper. District
Chambers will leave this morning. The latter
will be In charge of the prisoners whose trials
will come up. In the case of young Flamm, an
indictment will be found and the case will be
tried in this city next month. Judge Acheson
is now in the East. and the sessions of the
court will last till Saturday.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the Chicago beauty
who figured in the famous divorce case, was a
passenger on the limited express last night, on
her way home from New York. She had given
orders TO the colored porter of the car TO admit
nobody to see her, and during the whole time
she was at the station she sat staring out of the
window. She was dressed in a dark travelling
costume, and, unlike the other ladies on the
train. did not discard her heavy fall hat. She
has been in New York for some time, studying
for the stage, and her visit to Chicago leads to
the belief that she has given up the stage
project for the present
Rev. Strict, pastor of the Mount Wash
ington Presbyterian Church conducted services
at the West Penn Hospital yesterday after
noon. The institution has go patients at pres
ent. Forty of them are cases of typhoid fever.
james Chambers, of the firm of Cham
bers & Mckee, with his interesting family, re-
turned last night from the mountains All of
them were looking as brown as berries after
their summers stay
Miss Ida Sweeney, Of Wooster, arrived
in the city last evening and with Miss Helen
Rubesill, a well-known belle of Ashland. will
spend several weeks with Miss Banker of Mey-
ran avenue.
&C. L. Mackey. the Republican politi-
clan, who was a candidate for Congress against
w. l. Scott, of Erie, arrived in the city last
evening and will spend several days here on
business.
Stanley G. Thomas, Alexander G. Mat
terson. Mrs. Robert Pool ard Miss Pool of
1ankton, Oak, stopped over in the city last
night on their way East.
Richard Collins, the well-known indus
trial reporter of this city. returned yesterday
from his two weeks vacation to his home in
Maryland.
&C. B. Wheeler, of the Detroit Steel
Company, who has been here on business con-
nected with his firm, left last evening for
home
Mrs. W. A. Cowan, wife of the Super
intendent of the West Penn Hospital, arrived
home last evening from a trip to Atlantic
City
John B. Schlosser, lately of the Hotel
Duquesne, has returned from Long Branch
where he was looking after hotel matters.
james G. Wyman, ex-Mayor of Allie
gheny City. went to New York last night to see
his racer. kinsman, run at Freeport
Wharton Mcknight, the boiler manu-
facturer, went to New York last evening to
bring home his family.
George c. Dean, prominent riverman
from Cincinnati, is in the city stopping at the
Central Hotel
&C. H. jackson, Of the Standard Under
ground Cable Company, went to New York last
night.
Joseph Craig, of the Globe Refining
Company, left last evening for Philadelphia
Frank Armstrong, the coal dealer, went
to Philadelphia last night.