Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-13
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
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Yet Steady Locomotive.
SOMETHING of a sensation attends all the
| public appearances of Miss Una Durfee, whose
beauty and liveIiness lends not little gliding
to "a Gold Mine.n
1t is really funny to see what attention she
attracts upon the streets. On "Wednesday
afternoon happened to see her walk down
Fifth avenue from Smithfeld street to Wood
street. and it is fact that not man she
passed but wheeled about to take second Iool,
at her. The blue coat she wore-it was brigh,
and light blue-became her amazingly. 1t is
not so much in regular features that Miss Dur.
fees beauty consists, as in her perfect blonde
complexion, slender and shapely figure and the
contour and poIse Of her goid-crowned head.
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CAPTAIN WIsHART is not looking we'll His
broad-brimmed high hat overhung a very
pallid, weary-lOoking face when I saw him
mount the postofice steps the other day. Is it
the result of the arduous labors in which he
INDUCED last year, or does he miss the excite
ment aud anxiety which those labors brought
himf Anyway the shining star of Law and
Order seems to have lost good deal Of his
luster.
Its an odd fact that Captain Wishart's face
is not very generally familiar to the public.
For a man who has made such noise in this
town, he is singularly free from public atten-
tion.
THERE is a good deal of curiosity among
physicians about the organization of the med
ical and surgical stats at the hospital which
the late Mr.. Shoenberger's money is to
build. Some people think that because
the hospital is generally speaking,
to be conducted under the auspices
of the Episcopal Church the doctors win have
to be Episcopalians. This is neither probable
nor complimentary to the founder of the hos
pital. Perhaps it might be possible to gather
together competent staff of doctors profess
ing to be piseopalians-though 1 am told by q
good authority that there are very few Episco-
palians practicing medicine in this eity-but
such selection would be unWise and against
all precedent
There are only two hospitals. strictly speak
ing, under religious domination in this city, viz:
the Mercy and st. Franciscus, both admirably
conducted institutions. The Roman Catholic
Church owns and manages both these hospitals
Yet in neither is doctors religion looked into,
but simply his ability, before he takes his place
upon the staff. At present believe it SO
happens that all the doctors attached to the
Mercy Hospital are Protestants. And very
happy ard blessed thing 1t is that this enlight-
ened spirit prevails. There is no reason to be-
lieve that the st. Margaret's Hospital will be
conducted on narrow, Illogical lines. The Epis-
copal Church is nothing if not broad-viewed
and liberal.
LOCOMOTIVE II, of the Fort Wayne Railroad,
accomplished q singular feat yesterday, 1t
was drawing the Leetsdale accommodation,
which is due in Allegheny at 145 yesterday
afternoon, and had reached the crossing Just
below the signal box outside the Federal street
depot when it left the track. At this point
there is network Of switches, and the engine
by rights ought to have turned upside down
without more ado. But it didn't. For 80 or 40
feet it ran, turning gradually to the right till it
was making course directly at right angles to
its proper one. The ups and downs over the
steel rails did not disturb its equanimity in the
slightest and it ran to the edge of the grassy
bank finally coming to q standstill at the base
Of telegraph pole, which the cowcatcher cut
half in two.
Meanwhile the cars, which did not emulate
the levity of the locomotive but kept their
place on the rails, came to a sharp halt as the
air brakes-the connecting pipe being broken
automatically seized the wheels. The passen-
gers thought little of it till they saw people
running down the street TO the tracks, and then
few wiseacres opined that somebody, small
boy at most, had been run over. They were
happily soon undeceived, for no one was hurt
The locomotive even seemed little damaged.
A locomotive engineer who came to look at
the engine gone astray, said to me; "It's ex-
traordinary thar she didn't upset. 1 remember
bringing my engine off the turntable once, and,
running slowly as she was, she stood right on
her head when she left the rails"