Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-04
METROPOLITAN MELANGE.
no Rest for Poor nIcAlII.ter.


No Rest for Poor 1IcAlIister.
fNEw YORK BUREAU sPEc1ALs.l
NEW YORK. May a-Governor Morris, Sec
reA Atry OF the Centennial Entertainment Com
m 4ttee, tells the public in an afternoon news
kAper what Ward McAllister does not know
&bout cenrennials. Mr.. Morris does this, he
rsays, to shut up McAllister's yawp. According
to Mr.. Morris, Mr.. McAllister was bounced
from the Entertainment Committee because he
did not know a business proposition when he
saw it, and because he lied. Moreover, Mr..
McAllister was stubborn and phenomenally
stupid. His official reports Mr.. Morris con-
siders about as lucid as Chinese pnzzle. AL
together Mr.. Morris pronounees Mr.. McAllister
as ''congenitally incapable of managing balls
or anything else as he Is of telling the truth.
Forty Little Italians in Hook.
Fortylittle Italian boys and girls were brought
to Castle Garden by a steamship from Naples,
to-day. all under II years of age. and were
dressed in gorgeous petticoats, trousers and
jackets. All save three wore big, gold-plated
earrings. The children were detained at the
Garden because the Superintendent did not
believe they had been fetched over to parents
and other relatives in America, as was repre-
sented. He thought they had been imported
black boots or beg. A score or more OF italian
sisters and cousins and aunts besieged the
superintendent this afternoon, and begged for
the release of their small relatives who peeked
out at them curiously through the cracks in
the high board fence around the Garden. The
children win be held, however, till the Com
missioners of Emigration learn whether or not
they were imported under contract.
The Highest of High Bridges Open.
The new Washington bridge across the Har-
lem river, near One Hundred and Eightieth
street, was quietly opened to traffic, one week
ago. It was opened so quietly, however, that
in the excitement of the Centennial no one
thought to speak of 1t. The Washington bridge
is higher than the famous High Bridge. It is
about half mile long, and cost s.. 100000 It
rests upon two big steel arches which are sup
ported by two massive stone piers. A small
park has been laid out at each entrance. The
bridge was begun four years ago.
Governor Buckner's Farewell Dinner.
Logan G. Murray, President of the United
States National Bank. entertained Governor
Buckner. of Kentucky, at q farewell luncheon
to-day. Among the big men who were there to
bid Governor Buekner goodby, were: Govor-
nor Gordon. of Georgia; Hon. Carl 5churz,
Justice Field, of the United States Supreme
Court; Ex-Governor Norton, General Roger A.
Pryor, John c. Calhoun and Cyrus W. Field.
Great Returns Expected on nm Investment.
Senator Fry, Congressman Dingley and sew
eral wealthy New Yorkers have Just organized
company with 500, 900 capital to operate an
abandoned cotton mill in Lewiston, Me. O.
Barker, formerly of the Bates Manufacturing
so -
The Lewiston Cotton Goods Mill cost some
100000 Three years ago the owner died, and the
property since then has been in liquidation,
The negotiations of the new company for the
mill were consummated here last evening.
The City of New York Gaining.
The steamship City of New York still leads
in the ocean race which began at Sandy Hook
last Wednesday morning. At 8 o'clock yester-
day morning the steamship Lain, which ar
rived here to-day, passed her. She was then |
moving at the rate of Is knots an hour. Forty |
minutes later the Lain passed the City OF |
Rome As the Lain was steaming in the op-
posite direction the real difference in the time
Of the big racers must have been about an hour |
and 20 minutes. The Trave, which was in the |
race at the start, was not sighted By the Lain. |
Entirely Broken Up by a Dngo Ghost.
Con d'Elia was one of the most prosperous
Italians in Brooklyn year ago He owned a
liquor store, grocery and sub-let rooms in
four or five tenement houses to his fellow |
countrymen at an enormous profit. To-day he |
is almost penniless. He was dispossessed to-
day of the tenement houses for non-payment of
rent, and the Sheriff may turn up any minute
20 close his saloon and grocery. A Dago ghost
s the cause of Mr.. d. Elias downfall. Antoni
Balinska was murdered in the corridor of one
,f Mr.. d'Elia's tenement houses one night
'ome time ago, and every night for the month
following the Balinska ghost cut up all sorts of
,apers with the tenants It kicked at doors, i
Knocked on the walls, and tried to get into bed
With the widow Balinska. This is what all the
Italian women in the neighborhood said, at
east, and every one Of the tenants seems to
lave believed it, for they gave up their lodg-
ngs In hurry. Some moved out by night
Without paying their back rent. Others re-
used point blank to settle with Mr.. d'Elia at
IL. because, they said, they had not bargained
or ghosts when they took the rooms All Mr..
PElla's old tenants left, and no new ones came
ecause the stories of the Balinska ghost had
een spread far and wide in Little Italy" He
aid his landlord for the big empty tenement
ouses for several months This month his
money gave out and he collapsed financially.