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being smashed or burned in a wreck !
freight car lasts on an average perhaps ter
years, passenger car 16 years and a loco.
motive 10 to IS. Each must be repaired
trequently-the locomotive oftenest of all.
To estimate the length of time that car OF
an engine could be run without returning
10 the shop for repairs would be impossible,
as 1t frequently happens that new material
breaks sooner than that which is old
and accustomed to hard usage. A
locomotive usually has many of its
parts replaced, some of them several times,
80 that by the time it is condemned as use
less comparatively little of the original
machine remains. The Importance of keep
ing both locomotives and cars in thorough
repair must be apparent even to a person
not versed in the technicalities of the rail-
road business; but the knowledge that such
quantities of material and such large force
OF workmen should be required for this very
necessary work, even on such road as the
Fort Wayne, was a surprising revelation to
me, as perhaps it will be to many readers of
The DISPATCH.
In making the rounds of the shops we
first visited the lumber yards, where i'm
mense quantities of lumber, chiefly oak and
yellow pine, are stored ready for use. As
$4,000 feet of lumber are used up daily it
Will readily be seen that great quantities
must be kept in stock. The oak used comes
principally from Pennsylvania forests, and
the yellow pine from the South and West
The former is used for many purposes, and
the better grades of 1t especially for finish
ing the interior of passenger oaohes.
1t is bought sawed in the form
known as ''quartered oak" which, when
worked, makes a most beautiful wood for
ornamental work. The lumber all comes to
the yards in the rough, and is cut, shaped,
planed and made ready for use in the
planning mill, which stands near the yard.
All wood used in the construction OF passen-
ger coaches must be thoroughly seasoned,
and to do this work there is a dryhouse, pro-
vided with complete system of hearing
apparatus and fans, which render it possible
to dry large quantities of lumber perfectly
In very short time.
The planning mill is an extensive one, and
contains great many machines of various
kinds to perform the many different opera
tions required TO bring the sticks of timber
into shape for use. The lower floor contains
the machinery for the heavy work, and up
stairs is department devoted principally to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
Educational Echoes,

| THE public schools will close next Friday. Il
being Washlngton's Birthday.
PROF. SLACK will lecture to the Ninth wart
night school pupils next Wednesday evening.
PRINCIPAL DURLING, Of the Indiana Nor
| NAL School, was a visitor at the Central Board
| rooms yesterday.
PROF. FISHER visits Cleveland next Friday
| to examine the method of teaching language
| in vogue in its schools.
SUPERINTENDENT LUcKEY yesterday re-
ceived copy of Senate. Robbins bill advo
eating uniformity of textbooks.
FROM the remarks dropped in educational
circles yesterday, women do not appear to be
in high favor for school directors.
Room IA of the Soho school captured the Jr
o. u A NJ. flag last week for punctuality at
tendance. spelling and arithmetic
SUPERINTENDENT LUCKEY, Prof. Jackman
and Prof. s. A. Andrews will attend the Ma
tional Teachers Association which meets the
week of the Inauguration in Washington, d.
C. Mr.. Andrews has been granted a full week.
absence.
Miss LUCIA B. FULTON has been elected in
the Ninth Ward School, Allegheny, to fill the
position occupied by Mrs. Carse. 1t Is said that
this is a school trouble caused by prolonged
leave of absence, and further developments
are promised.
MRS. BARCLAY of the PEBBLES school, who
was married last Thursday, was presented on
Tuesday afternoon with a handsome silver cake
basket by the pupils of her room. The teach
ers also presented her with many handsome in
dividual presents.
Miss MAY WIGHTMAN has been elected
Assistant Principal in the Wickersham school,
Twenty-fourth ward. in place of Miss Pooley,
who resigned on account of i'll health. Miss
Wightman has previously taught in the PEBBLES
and Lawrence schools.
THE Teachers Academy will meet next Sat
urday at the Grant school, when an effort will
be made to change the constitution of this
body. The following change shall be su omitted:
That there be new method of admitting e men,
bers, and all members who attend irregularly
shall be dropped from the roster.
THE examination for permanent certificates
will terminate two Saturdays hence. The fol-
lowing list comprises the names of the appli.
cants: Miss Rebecca Torrence Lillian F. Hoag,
Grace B. McMasters, Clara E. Riddle, Grant
school; Kate B Bauersmth. Hiland; Bertha
M. Werner, Morse: Mary A. Rosser, Anna NJ.
Dickson, Soho; Kate A. Barry, Hancock; Mary
A. Stein, Mary E. Holman, Bloomfield; s. A.
Snowden, Anne P. Bostwick, Homewood;
Sara c. Nelson, Colfax; Lou @. Taylor, Agnes
d. Thompson, Luckey; Sadie P. Dunn, Bloom
field; Elizabeth McCabe, Normal High School;
Mayme l. Taylor, Birmingham.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
TO RECOVER OVER 100000.
Anna r. Marshall Asks the Court to Restore
Funds snid TO be Hypothecated-Court

Anna F. Marshall Asks the Court TO Restore
Funds snid TO be Hypothecated-Court
Rules to Show Why Not.
Petitions in the Orphans Court have been
filed by Anna Frances Marshall relative to
her fathers estate, of which T NJ. Marshall,
M. W. Watson, Matilda Watson and James
Marshall, Jr., were trustees
James Marshall, Jr., was removed from his
trust in 1887 by the Orphans Court, where it
wasishown he had assigned some of the assets
of the estate as collateral for his own notes.
The other trustees were ignorant of
this until the firm of James Marshall
& Co. failed in 1888 and since then
it is claimed that they have refused TO enter
suit to recover the property disposed of by
Marshall. consisting of 6SS1S shares of Alleghe-
ny Gas Go. stock at s25 per sh are; 70 af the
Farmers Deposit at 500 per share; 20 shares of
the Second National of Allegheny at 500 per
share, all of which are held by the last named
bank; also so shares of stock of the Farmers
Deposit at 500 per share. held by the receiver
of the American Bank.
The suit is to recover from the banks, as it is
claimed they knew at the time these shares
were not Marshalrs, but belonged to the estate
Citations were awarded on the Second National
and the receiver of the American Bank to
show why the petition should not be granted.
March was fixed for the hearing
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

at a cost of 81 75. Another workman gets
$40 for carving narrow piece of wood to
go above the door of a car. Some exquisite
work is done in this line, and enough of il
is required to keep several carvers at work
all the time.
An adjoining room contains the uphol-
stering department, where the car seats are
put together. j hadn't the remotest idea oil
what constituted the interior of a car seat
until 1 saw the material being arranged.
There is wooden frame, on which are tackled
strips of burlap; spiral springs are placed
beneath; then comes the cushion: the whole
is covered with muslin and the muslin with
plush. The cushions, for seats and backs,
are stuffed with hair. A very ingenious
machine, by the way, is used for the pur-
pose of picking and cleaning the hair. The
material is run quickly through and comes
out ready for use.
A visit to the paint shop next. Nothing
here is Of particular interest save the process
BY which old paint is removed from cars
that are to be coated anew. A workman
melts il off with burning gas Jet, which he
holds against the woodwork until the paint
and oil begins to run. This done the sur
face is scraped clean, and is then ready for
new paint.
The shops contain room for 26 to 2S
passenger cars, which may be undergoing
repairs at one time. As for freight cars,
the repairs on which are made out Of doors,
hundreds of them receive the attention of
the workmen each week. The transfer
table, by means of which the passenger cars
are taken from the yard tracks into
the car shop is very ingenious
arrangement for transferring car from the
track on which it comes in to another at
right angles, running into the building.
1t consists of movable track running on
rails which have a space between them
exual to the length of the car. By running
the car on the table and then running the
table down this track, the car can readily
be placed in any part of the building de-
sired.
Next we go to the blacksmithing depart
ment of the car shops. Here, as in the case
with the wood in the planning mill, all the
iron used in building cars is cut, forged and
worked into shape lor immediate use. Hun
dreds of pieces OF different shape and sizes
are rapidly wrought. The place is full of
glowing forges, powerful machines-and
noise. The same is true of the engine black
smithing shop, only there the machines are
more numerous and Intricate, and a higher
degree of skill is required on the part of the
workman.
Then there is the boiler shop, a place
where din reigns so constantly that the
voice of a man shouting in your ear is
scarcely audible, and next the machine
shop proper, where locomotives are built
and repaired. When an engine comes in
for repairs it is ''stripped'-that is, taken
apart and each part thoroughly cleaned be-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

fore the repairing is begun. The pieces
are lettered and numbered so that it will be
known to what engine and to what place
each belongs.
The work OF removing the tire of loco
motives driving wheel, the subject of an
accompanying illustration, is Interesting
and peculiar The tire when new is 8
inches thick; when worn down to ~ inches
it must be replaced by d new one. To get
it off it is surrounded by a natural gas pipe
in which holes are cut at frequent intervals;
the gas is turned on and ignited, and in
about 80 minutes the heat expands the tire
until it drops off The method of putting
on q new tire is similar; 1t is expanded until
it slips into place upon the wheel. All
parts of locomotives and cars, save only the
castings used, are fashioned entirely in the
Allegheny shops. E. W. BARTLETT.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

the preparation of the finer woodwork for
passenger coaches. Each piece of timber, as
it leaves the mill, is finished, bored and cut
in shape SO that it will fit perfectly in the
place for which it is designated. The pro-
cesses are too numerous to describe in detail
as each of the pieces requires a different
operation.
Adjoining the planning mill on the ground
floor is the car-building shop, where passen-
ger coaches, baggage cars and gondolas can
be seen in all stages of building, from the
car just begun to that just finished Here
also are great piles of timber from the mill
all ready for the builders USE The build
ing is all done by "piece work." and a
gondola car is built from its foundation, all
complete, except the trucks, at S15 for labor.
Additional to this is the painting, letter.
ing, etc. Building passenger coaches is
work which requires much greater skill and
entails larger expense. The workmen are
also paid by the piece. -Four different
trades are combined in carbuilding-car-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

details all of them important, which are
necessary to keep the rolling stock In a
serviceable condition.
A few days ago, armed with pass from
Superintendent A. B. Starr, of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway,
which was an open sesame to scores of doors
on which the words Positively No Ad-
mittance" we're, stenciled in bold capitals,
accompanii R Mr.. William Lowe, of the
Master No isoie' office, who acted as guide
and interpreter, made tour of the ex-
tensive railroad shops in Allegheny.
Several hours were pleasantly spent, and it
is scarcely necessary to add that 1 come
awsv more than ever impressed with the
magnitude of one branch of the railroad
business.
At the Allegheny shops, which are the
principal shops OF the Fort Wayne road,
are made all repairs required in the rolling
stock on the eastern division; locomotives,
freight and passenger cars are also built
and equipped for use here. The buildings
alone cover several acres of ground and the
yard tracks and lumber yards several more,
the whole forming one mammoth industrial
establishment, which gives employment to
about 800 men. It is equipped with vast
quantities OF machinery, ranging from the
simplest to the most complex, by far the
greater portion of which is very costly.
The wear and tear of railroad material is
something enormous. Provided it escapes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
On Behalf of Dimmev

Marshall II. Reno was yesterday appointed
commissioner to take testimony on the motion
for new trial for Joseph Dimmey, who was
convicted of murder n the first degree for
killing Officer Miller. Misconduct on the part
of juror is one of the allegations. The
charges were so numerous that the Court
couldn't take time to hear them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
MONDAYS Trial Lists.

Common Pleas Nos. l and 2-Argument list.
Criminal Court-CommonweaIth vs. John K.
Scott John NJ. Haiges, D. c. Tracey. Fred
Young. E. W. jackson, Henry Schmidt, Hyman
Grundinsky, Calvin Stevens, ]. E. Gatchell.
Emma Crizier, Milton Hays. Hugh ODonnell
Andrew Harrison (3), John Graf, Andrew
Quigley ct al, Kehill Amerine Charles Finger.
Ernest Fisher John Kleppner, Charles Ford
ct al John Brady.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
ONE TRUST DOOMED.
Prof Shaler Tells Why the Copper
Combine Cannot Long Survive.
ORIGIN OF THE GREAT LAKES.
A Great Area of Land That Can be Re-
deemed From Sterility.
A SERIES OF SIGNIFICANT SURVEYS
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l

LII personswho give
any thought to the
economic cone d.
tions OF society are
much interested in
the novel industrial
devices known as
trusts. Although
allthese curious de-
vices are instruc-
tive subjects for
study, there is one
which particularly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
The Finest Train in the World

Via Union and Central Pacific roads. Sixty
four hours from Council Bluffs or Omaha to
San Francisco. A Pullman vestibuled
train; steam heat. electric light, bath rooms,
barber shop, library and dining cara pal
ace hotel on wheels is The GOLDEN GATE
SPECIAL, every Wednesday. su
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
The Grave Charges oua.bed.

Judge Collier filed an opinion in the motion
to quash the indictment against Superintend-
ent A. B. Starr, He quashed the first count
alleging involuntary manslaughter, and the
fourth because it alleged two offenses. This
leaves Mr.. Starr indicted for misdemeanor and
negligence, for which he will have to be tried.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
Pleased the Little One.

Judge Slagle listened to the arguments in the
case of little sister of Dora Hern against
P. and Anna o Hern, said to have been spirited
away. The charges were not proven, and the
child was nightly pleased on being handed
over to the O'Herns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

HE hospital depart.
ment, otherwise known
as the repair shops. Of
q great railroad, is a
place full Of interesting
sights. There, perhaps,
better than anywhere
else one can obtain an
adequate idea of the
immense expenditure OF
time, labor and money;
the innumerable me-
chanical appliances re-
ouired in railroad work
and the thousands of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
Grand Holiday Matinee Mt Harris

When every child, big and little, will be
presented with large box of fine French
candy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

Go to either of Pearson's galleries, 96
Fifth avenue, or 43 Federal street, Allie
ghenv. You are sure OF success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

CHOICE patterns in English percales suit
able for boys waists just opened.
MwFSu HUGUs & HACKE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

AMERICAN chalIis in handsome design.
from 6Ac to zoe per yd.
MwFsu HUGUs & HACKE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
IL You Want to Buy Diamonds, Watches


You can save 20 to 25 per cent; all goods
warranted. Will remove from 13 Fifth ave.
to $40 Smithfeld st. April 1.
JAS. MCKEE, Jeweler.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
HOW CARS ARE BUILT.
Interesting Facts About the Construc-
ton of Coaches and Engines
PICKED UP AT FT. WAYNE SHOPS.
What the Hospital Department Of Great
Railroad is Like and
SOMETHING OF THE WORK 1T DOES
ICKED UP AT FT. WAYNE SHOPS.
SOMETHING OF THE WORK 1T DOES

WRITTEN FOR THE p1srA1cH.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
NEW ADvERr1-EMENTs

Headed by Europe's Greatest Feature
7 NELSON FAMILY. z
The Premier Aero bats of the World, with no
rivals on earth.
The Queen of the Air.
MILE ADRIENNE ANCION.
The Eminent Character Comedians.
CLARK AND WILLIAMS.
The Premier ventriloquist of the World,
NEIMAN.
Celebrated Duetists and Sketch Artists,
SISTERS COYNE.
England's Greatest Character Artists.
THE TWIN BROTHERS, VEINS.
The Character Song and Dance Artist,
NELLY FRANKLIN.
The Flying Tailors,
GRIFFIN AND LANGAN.
Eccentric Comedian and Wonderful Gro
tesQue Dancer.
JOHN A. COLEMAN.
MILE FORGARDUS,
With her flock of Trained Birds and troupe of
Performing Dogs.
The Blazing Meteor of Mimicry,
PITROT.
French Musical Grotesques,
LES FRERES O'BEINE.
Clark & Williams Laughable Comedy in two
scenes, entitled:
IS MARRIAGE A FAILIIRE
The Somerset reporter., 1889-12-26
Practical Jokes,

A practical joke is a sort of trick
played by one person upon another, in
the hope of making him uncomfortable
and ridiculous. To put ones friend in
an absurd situation, to interfere with his
rights, to do something which will hurt
him liz body and mind, not very deeply
perhaps, yet really, is the object of the
practical joker. | have never in my life
been able to see the least good, the least
innocent fun, in practical jokes, but
have seen a great deal of evil and mis-
chief resulting from them.
Some years ago. just at dusk, maid
servant in certain beautiful home took
it into her head that 1t would be rare fun
to dress herself in sheet and frighteu
another of the servants So she Slipped
into the grounds, hid herself behind 8
tree, and waited her opportunity. Dane
ing merrily along, singing with voice
like a bird, came a sweet little daughter OF
the house, who had been sent on an er.
rand to the lodge at the end Of the greer
avenue. The merry child sensitive to heI
tnger-tips caught glimpse of the straight
stark figure skulking behind the oaks
was so frightened that few months AT
terward she died Of nervous shock, tn,
physicians said, which then began its IA
tai work.
In one Of our New England colleges ,
youth who had been studying hard tina
he might enter the Freshman class wa
startled from his sleep at midnight by
party Of fellows In masks, who proceeded
TO make sport for themselves BY the ST.
pid process called ''hazing" their compan
Ion. They bad their silly fun, but is Il
be hoped that none Of the number en-
gagged In It can ever think of that nigh
without pang, for 1t made the youth In
sAne.-Harpers Ioysg People.
The Somerset reporter., 1889-12-26

John Gay, the English poet, born in
1858, wrote the ballad, Sweet Williams
Farewell to Black Eyed Susan" begin
ming: "All in the Downs the fleet was
moored." 1t perhaps suggested to Doug
lass Jerrold his play, BLACK Eyed Su-
san," written in 1926, in which Gays bal
lad is usually sung. Gay, initiating La
fontaine, was very successful in putting
fables into verse. His poem entitled
THE Fam gives in delicate burlesque a
very ingenious as well as classical theory
as to the origin of that article Of female
use and adornment. DR.. johnson spoke
contemptuously of the poem, but he had
no appreciation whatever of burlesque,
and probably took it in dead earnest
Could the learned doctor have witnessed
one Of the burlesque plays so popular a
few years ago, in which NEUROLOGICAL
deities are burlesqued, he would have
said that gods and goddesses never use
slang.
James iompson. author OF "The Sea.
sons" was so poor in London at one time
that he went from publisher to publisher
trying to sell the manuscript of Winter
in order to buy a pair Of winter shoes
But he didn't get any shoes for winter
not that winter. 1t subsequently made
him famous. however, and he followed il
with Summer" quite naturally Q72O
He said he was bound to buy himself {
duster with the proceeds, II it took al
mmmer.-Texas 6iftineA
The Somerset reporter., 1889-12-26
POETRY.
Wishing and Having.

II 10 wish and to have wers one, my dear,
You would be sitting now
with not a care In your tender heart,
Mot wrinkle upon your brow
The clock Of time would go back with YOU
All the years you have been my VIII,
Till its golden hands had pointed out
The happest hour Of your life;
woud stop them at that immortal hour
The clock should no longer run,
You would not be sad and sick and old
to wish and to have were one.
You are no, here in the winter my love,
The snow i, not whirling down,
You arc out in the heart OF the summer woods,
In your dear old seaside town;
AIpatter of little feet in the leaves
A beautiful boy at your side;
He is gathering flowers in the shady nook
1t was but dream that he died
Keep hold OF his hands and sing 10 him
No mother under the sun
Had such a seraphic child as yours
Ito wish and TO have were one.
Methinks am with you there, dear vile,
In that old house by the sea;
have nOwn 10 you As Tue pluepHu hie9
To his mate in the poplAr-tree.
A sailors hammock hangs at the dosr,
You swing in it, book in hand
boat is standing in for the beach,
Its keel crates on the sand;
Your brothers are coming two happy men,
Whose lives have only begun;
Their days may be long in the land, dear heart
Ifto wish and to have were one.
! to wish and to have were one, ali, me
would not be old and poor
Blu, young and prosperous gentleman,
With never dun at the door
There would be no past to bewail, my love,
There would be no future to dread;
Yoar brothers would be live men again,
And my boy would not be dead.
Perhaps it will all come right at last;
1t may be when all is done.
We shall be together in some good world
Where to wish and to have is one.
The Somerset reporter., 1889-12-26
Principle.

A determination of character, firm
ness of principle, which tries to do that
which is right instead of that which is
temporarily agreeable, is the great safe
guard against evil. Impulsive eNertions
may sometimes produce magnificent
deeds; but without methodical and steady
resolutions, without system and habit and
strength of will. hut little permanent
good is ever accomplished. 1t is only in
the cultivation and improvement of our
faculties that we can properly enjoy any
of them. The large number of instances
show the vice of idleness to be the result
of luxurious habits, which break down
the native energy Of character. The per
son who regards momentary gratiilcatlon
as the chief good, will soon lose the vigor
and enterprise necessary to undertake
and the perseverance necessary to carry
through any scheme requiring industr,
and self-command.
Some, from paucity of ideas, lack en-
terprse and become torpid. being unable
to see the utility of proper undertakings
while others, overwhelmed with vas'
conception of what is to be done. sit
down in the inaction of despair. Others
begin with earnestness and hope, but
lacking perseverance, are intimidaed by
the first difficulty, and accomplish moth
ing because they have not the courage tc
energies in trying to keep others from
succeeding, and have none left witt
which to secure their own success.