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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27

but otherwise they are surpassed by none in
boldness.
There is a pronounced element of the
ridiculous in the spectacle of communities
possessing such resources for government as
exist in this country being subjected to such
outrages. But the trouble is that they have
been treated ineffciently. Either Alabama
or New Mexico, not to talk of Pennsylvania
or Ohio, is able to track and capture
desperadoes within its borders whenever the
authorities feel earnest enough in the un-
dertaking.
The suggestion that more pluck and
personal courage among train hands would
quickly stop the train robberies might
answer for that branch of the business; but
it does not cover the cases nearer home
where citizens have had their houses broken
into, with theatrical, dime-novel accom-
paniments of masks, revolvers and such dis-
bolical devices for physical torture as were
not so long ago tried on by the burglarious
scoundrels in Somerset and Fayette coun-
ties. The county authorities should not
rest in any instance where these audacious
robberies are attempted until the strong arm
of the law, gripping the shoulder of the
criminals, shake them into knowledge of
the century they are living in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
SYNDICATES OF AIR.

1t was hardly necessary for Mr.. II. D.
Porteus, of Liverpool, England, to inform
us that the talk about English capitalists
gobbling up American breweries, iron
works and what not, is largely gas of no
value. The English syndicates in a good
many instances have had no existence, and
in others the parties operating under the
shadow of the name have certainly been
American.
There is plenty of room in this country
for the employment Of capital wherever OBJ
tanned, and there is every reason to believe
that not little British money has found
profitable investment here, especially in the
West But it is very hard to understand
how shrewd English capitalists could be in
duced to take such enormous risks as nearly
all the so-called 'syndicates' plans in
volved. We are not surprised to hear that
English capitalists have laughed at the re-
ports of their gigantic transactions In
America, but they must not think that they
had q monopoly of the laughter. An En-
glish syndicate is a synonym for any crea-
tion of fancy on our stage and streets to-
dav,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
NOTHING IN LARGE LETTERS.

A misty autumnal sadness enveloped the
Convention of the Union Prohibition
League at Harrisburg yesterday. Every
one of the one hundred and odd delegates in
attendance felt that the saddest days of all
the year were at hand. Nobody thought of
reading poetry in the convention, so a great
chance to introduce Gray's Elegy or "Willie
We Have Missed You," was overlooked.
But, as piece of melancholy mummery
the convention was several furlongs above
the mud.
1t is not every body of intelligent voters
that can erect platform without new idea,
nor is it often that a platform is made for
nobody TO stand upon. The Union Prohi-
bition League has done both these things
solemnly and without smile. Everything
1t did was on a par with its sage declaration
that prohibition did not win this year for
about dozen reasons, whereas the ordi-
nary observer of events would ascribe that
memorable Waterloo solely to a lack of
about one hundred and eighty thousand
vote. There was no lack of words, and
MesE', Boyer, Bigler and Johnston NAV
all expect the leagues support in different
degrees. Under all the circumstances, and
having full regard for the leagues platform,
We think it is safe to say that the campaign
may proceed, The league did not decide to
elect anybody, so that all the candidates
may still remain in the field. Harrisburg
is reported to be restless and complaining.
1t is suffering with wind, poor thing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
THE WESTERNS POSITION.

The publication of a statement from a
prominent official of the Pittsburg and West
ern Railroad in our columns to-day as to the
status of that corporation will dissipate a
number of rumors that have been current
since Mr.. Callery's death in relation to the
controlling interest in It's affairs. 1t is clear
from this rehearsal of facts that the Pitts
burg and Western cannot change hands for
several years unless Messrs. Drexel, Morgan
& Co. see fit to abandon their powers Of con-
troll. Nor does the appearance of the road s
affairs suggest the necessity of change
We are glad to know that when transfer of
the control of this important feeder of Pitts
burg shall take place it is likely that 1t will
fall into the hands of such able and honest
Pittsburgers as Messrs. Andrew Carnegie,
Henry Oliver or John Chalfant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
LINKING SPADE WITH PEN.

While the fact is clear that remarkable
novels are not being written In these days,
ahd while so many remedies are being sug-
gested for the diseases Of authors, it is inter
esting to read that r. d. Blackmore, one of
the best writers of fiction England now has,
spends more time cultivating flowers than
writing books Mr.. Blackmore loves his
garden and takes great pains with it. 1t is
impossible to say for certain that the virility
of his style and the richness of his i'm.
agination spring from his horticultural
labors, but such a deduction has much to
justify it. Fresh air and physical exercise
are great brain-feeders.
Assuming that Mr.. Blackmore's books
owe much to his healthy habits, would it
not be well for novelists to take to garden
ing? A great many of them would undoubt-
edly do well to substitute horticulture for
authorship. Their lives would be more
useful and beautiful, exclusively applied to
the culture and husbandry of flowers, fruits
and vegetables. The damage to be done with
rake or hoe is ineonsiderable compared to
the immense possibilities of evil in the pen.
A gardener may spoil rose bush or mar a
cabbage; but an author can ruin lives and
pervert souls to destruction. Besides a
novelist of necessity must soil an infnity of
good, clean paper.
The few novelists who are worth mending
should try a horticultural course. They
will find it wholesome if not exciting. Mr.
Howells will discover that some of the
creeping things, aphides, ants and other in
seets, about him in the garden are even
smaller than his men and women of Boston.
1t will teach others Of the modern school of
fiction many lesson in perspective and
proportion. The aeshly writers will find a
congenial and odorous study in the COM
position of fertilizers. Perhaps the forcing
bed may literally bring out the great
novelist.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
SEVERAL HoUsE-CLEANINGs.

If President Harrison had not prolonged
his stay at Deer Park he might have e1-
perienced the joys of house-cleaning to the
full. His better half is giving the White
House what folks here would call a
thorough "redding up" 1t is the first
chance Mrs. Harrison has had to clean out
the cupboards shake the carpets and make
of the Presidents abode a bowling and
sloppy wilderness for a season., She is said,
like every good and true woman, to enjoy
the operation immensely. In her exultation
she is reported to have said that the White
House ''is now clean for the first time in
year or two." We all know what untidv,
graceless people have always occupied
houses before us. 1t is a coincidence about
former tenants that the most recent occu-
pant is never slow to remark.
In another direction General Harrison
has shown a disposition to put his house in
order; but his is political house cleaning.
1t is not likely that he is so well satisfied
with his work as his wife is with hers. The
consensus of criticism is not exactly favor
able to him. There are great many peo-
pie who do not admire the sweeping out of
Corporal Tanner. The President does not
appear to be very proud of it himself
But the throng of heart-sick Office seekers
who hang about Washington, or regard her
sorrowfully from afar off are praying for
another sort of house cleaning still-a
revolution that will shoot out the Demo-
cratic oficeholders and impel Republican
patriots into their places. 1t has been de-
layed long while, as they think, and the
prayer and hope of the great unsatisfed is
that the President will cut a good broom
while he is at Deer Park and use it to some
effect behind lingering Democrats when he
returns to the capital. Unhappily for these
seekers after soft seats, it may occur to Mr..
Harrison that the direction of the house
cleaning after 1892 is involved in the politi-
cal sweepings of to-day. The civil service
reform plank of the Republican platform
is an awkward barrier to the partisan
broom,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
oU2 MAIL POUCH.


Cheap Materials md Cheap Houses.
To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
In your Saturdays paper was published an
interview with a Fourth avenue real estate
dealer, Just returned from Philadelphia, In
which he gives the impression that Pittsburg
contractors charge about 33 per cent more for
building than the Philadelphia contractor does.
Now If the real estate dealer. or the lady who
is going to send Philadelphia contractor to
Pittsburg, will submit their plans to Pittsburg
contractors. and will have the work done in the
same manner that large amount Is done in
Philadelphia, will guarsntee they can have it
at the same figures and POSSIBLY less than from
the Philadelphia contractors.
-Four or five years ago gentleman OF this
city, contemplating the erection OF quite
number of dwellings, and, like many others.
having seen the advertisements or houses for
sale at very low figures (much less than they
can be built for in Pittsburg). took the writer
to Philadelphia to see the houses and get plans
and ideas of how to build so cheaply. We Wis
tied 40 or so and found in the first place that
anything man can stand in is called room-
We found house advertised as an 1l-room
house. would mean seven rooms In Pittsburg.
The laundry, bathroom, closetroom on third
floor and kitchen pantry were counted in order
that rented at $40 per month we found had only
two fireplaces, one in the dining room and one
in the library. The balance Of the house was
heated from q FURNACE In the cellar.
4tOW luluk Ol OuoIluS IlbbcDui6CI q AOucO
at $40 per month, with two fire placesl We
also found that the houses were all built in the
cheapest possible manner, and you must re-
member that Pittsburg houses are among the
most substantial and comfortably built houses
of any city in the United States. After ex-
amining the houses and obtaining large num-
Der of plans and the cost in Philadelphia,
offered to duplicate any of the houses we mad
examined and build theR in Pittsburg for
from 10 to Is per cent less than they cost in
Philadelphia, providing we were permitted to
use the same kind of material and do the work
in the same manner.
I know the Philadelphia contractor Is no
smarter or more economical than his COM
petitor in Pittsburg. A perch of stone, a thou
sand brick, thousand feet of lumber, and a
days labor cost the same in Philadelphia as in
Pittsburg There is no possible way of getting
them for less. CONTRACTOR.
PITTsBURG, September %.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
PRODUCTS OF BUSY BRAINS.
Inventions ON Which Pittsburgers and Others
Have Secured Patents.

Inventions ON Which Pittsburgers and Others
Have Secured Patents.
The following patents were granted to West
ern PENNSYLVANIA. Eastern Ohio and West Vir-
ginia inventors on the Oath day of September.
The list is furnished by o. D. Lewis patent at
torney, lSl Fifth avenue. Pittsburg:
Anchor Lewis and Il. Hamilton, Martinsville,
o., heating apparatus; Albert E. Dane, Pittsburg,
portable forge; james +. Durkin, Scottdale. au-
tomato car brake; John W. Bookwalter, Spring.
field, o., refining iron; John W. Bookwalter,
Springfield, D., (2) converting iron into steel;
William B. Bradshaw, Leetonia, o., work holder;
Louis N. Frymire Watsontown, Pa, music leaf
turner; p. j. Gibbons, Pittston, storm apron for
vehicles: r. j. Gibbs, Tyrone, dumping car;
George w. Goetz, Pittsburg, iltering apparatus;
Robert W. Hare, Allegheny, two-wheeled vehicle;
E. A. Everson, Toledo furnace pipe; Charles
FOLSOM, Bellefontaine, o., hold-back fastening:
W. W. Harter, Arcanum, o., shock compressor;
John Lane, Massillon, o., stop-action for reed
organ; James j. McTighe, Pittsburg, transform
ing heat energy into motive power; Edward J.
MiIdren, Black Lick Pa, SCOOP for clay or ore
mill: j. b. Motter. Warrington. w, Va, car
coupling: A. w. PAUL, Wheeling, lantern guard
frame: Charles H. Reed, Pittsburg, juice ex-
William H. Ridgway. Coatsville. o.: crane; Fred
erick {. Smalstig. Allegheny, cigar punching ma
chine: Charles Werner Canton, o., glass-cutting
machine; Milton Shaeffer, Canton, o., cake grid
die: William 5. Barker, Troy, o., fence machine:
=. W. Barr, Mansfield. o., cash and package car
cutting table; Charles Shartle, Middletown, o.,
lathe dog.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
PITTsBURG. FRIDAY. SEP. q. 1889.
THE MILL ACCIDENT.

The accident at the Edgar Thomson
works last night may possibly deprive thou
sands of our citizens of a valued friend,
counselor and master, and the pitiful ac-
count of the food OF molten metal which
enveloped Captain William r. Jones
and a number of others cannot be
read without pain. Throughout Western
Pennsylvania and, indeed, far and wide
through this continent Captain Jones has
been long known and in the best way. 1t
will be a most serious loss to the COM
munity if Captain Jones shall not recover
from his terrible injuries, loss that will
fall as heavily upon the humblest worker in
the mills as upon his employers. A more
broad-spirited. generous and sensible man
than Captain Jones can hardly be imagined.
His services to labor and capital have been
immense.
We can only trust that both he and his
fellow sufferers will be brought out of the
shadow of death. Doubtless 10000 hearts
will echo an amen to the hope here ex-
messed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Father DAWN.

On Tuesday there passed away at Denver. Col,
another victim of the terrible Johnstown fatality
the Rev. Thomas DAWN, pastor of st. COLUMBIA IS
Roman Catholic Church, Cambria City. Father
DAWN was only Al years old, and had been but Is
years priest. His whole sacerdotal career was
spent in the Pttsburg diocese. The history of his
gallant exertions in saving life during the events
which succeeded the bursting of the South Fork
dam need not be told here. They are too well and
too widely known.
On Saturday June ], he found some men en-
gagged in robbing dead body on the river side
Father DAWN struck one of the rascals with his
cane, and the man few at him. Kicking him saw
agely in the side with hobnafl shoe. 1t is said
that Father DAWN never recovered from the eff
fects of this brutal attack. Until the time of his
death he complained of internal injuries.
Father DAWN was an Irishman, having been
born in Cahir, County Tfpperary. He came to
this country, and was ordained priest in St.
Mehae's Seminary. this city. in 1873. lie success
lively acted as pastor of JOhnstown, North Oak
land and other places being at last sent pastor
to Cambria City. Bishop Phelan has telegraphed
the Bishop of Denver to have Father Davin,s
body embalmed and sent to YOUNGSTOWN, Father
DAWN leaves one sister, Stella, the only member
Of the family residing in this country. The last
Pittsburgers who spoke to the worthy priest on
his departure from tbs Union depot were Father
Molyneux and reporter Of THE DISPATCH. He
was then looking very pale and careworn, and he
remarked that he feared his VACATION had come
too late
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
THOSE SENSATIONAL RoBBER1Es,

Burglaries, by masked men with revolvers,
have been so recent in our own State that
Pennsylvania is in no position to point the
finger of scorn at Alabama or New Mexico,
where train robbing is a sensational, highly
profitable and unmolested industry. Even
from the neighboring city of Youngstown,
Ohio. and from the neighborhood of New
Brighton, there come accounts of two such
domielliary visits paid to citizens no later
than yesterday and the day before. But
there is general feeling that it is time to
treat this species OF desperadoism with new
vigor. Amazement at the audacity of the
robbers may well be succeeded by deter
mination TO discover and punish
them. 1t is perfectly clear that
every case Of the sort not punished
inspires fresh enterprises Of the same class.
To read of the holding up of trains is to
imagine that the South and the West are
back 10 the days of Dick Turpin, Jack
Shepard or Claude Duval. The gentle
manly road agents have not yet taken up
the ides of the brigands of Southern Eu-
rope of carrying of passengers for ransom;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
IN A SOCIAL WAY.
Little Bits of Gossip of Interest to Society
People.

Little Bits of Gossip of Interest to Society
People.
ENAMELED pins in designs of pansies and
forget-me-nots are the rage.
The florists of this city will have an elaborate
display at the Exposition one week from to.
day.
THE jewellers of Pittsburg are authority for
the following: The Gipsy ring is becoming
more popular every day.
THE wedding of Miss Nettie Card, the daugh-
ter of Mr.. VIM. w. Card. of the Westinghouse
Air Brake Company, to Mr.. Daniel Agnew
Moore, is announced to take place October 10.
The young people are both well known in So
ciety circles.
A VERY pleasant wedding was that Of Miss
Annie B. Schaub and Councilman Robert
Berry, which took place Wednesday. Miss
Schaub is the daughter of Andrew Schaub,
well known in business circles. The groom is
a rising young politician. Father Joseph Suhr
performed the ceremony.
A VERY pleasant little reception was given
last evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles 9. Mellor, in Edgewood. The event
was in honor Of Mr.. Mellor's birthday, and was
a surprise to him. Eighteen of his gentlemen
friends were invited to partake of sumptuous
repast furnished by Kuhn,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
THE TOPICAL TALKER.


The Suspicious Mans Dinner-A Chinamnn
mt the Circus-Mongolian Humor-Old
Adam still.
THE suspicious man dimes under difficulties.
He sat opposite to me In restaurant yester-
day.
What say you to fried oysters?" said l.
II say no." said the suspicious man; "they
sort out all the doubtful oysters when they are
filling orders for raws, and the doubtful oysters
have to be used. What easier than to slip them
in among the fried oysters"
Later during dinner proposed Dreaded veal
outlets, but the suspicious man turned up his
nose, remarking: You can never persuade
me to eat Dreaded outlets. know if the cook
has an uncertain quantity in the way of veal
he will palm it off as good goods in coat of
bread crumbs.
AT the circus on Tuesday afternoon. a
Chinaman Of unusually green and guileless ap-
pearance, attracted some attention. He came
in with the immense crowd, and was carried
with it till he reached a man who was selling
reserved seats He bought reservedseat, but
instead of going into the section which he had
the right to enter, pushed on with the crowd
until he encountered another ticket seller who
was crying, "Reservd seats so cents" The
C11naInan calmly pdlu duotucI Hall uoAioi LUZ
a reserved seat. Still he did not seek what he
had bought but wandered on. A third man
sold him another reserved seat, and then he
walked clear around the ring and sat down
cheerfully in a free seat He had paid 81 for
so cent place, but he did not know it and he
grieved not Probably the sights the only
Barnum spread before his bewildered eye more
than repaid him.
HAS the Chinaman any sense Of humor?'
asked Mr.. Less.
There's a Chinese laundryman in Allegheny
who has fine sense of humor," replied Mr..
Much; "he gave me an old shirt darned with
black thread in the bosom and ragged at the
cuff for a brand new one in my laundry to-day"
-
WHEN an eccentric freight train distributed
itself over tho Fort Wayne tracks near ASnew
Station on Monday afternoon. thereby bring
ing half a dozen express and accommodation
trains, one after another to a halt above Glen
field, good many hundred men were thrown
together with nothing In particular to do to
while away the time.
1t was odd to see at this juncture men ad-
vanced in years and presumably vested with
wisdom vie with a crowd of boys returning
from the circus in an attack upon an orchard
that lay above the tracks on the hill side. Men
who would not look at green apple at home
without a sensation of cholera morbus threw
stones at the unripe fruit and ate the round
packages of pain with feverish avidity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27
AN IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING.
The Attempt of the Navy Department to
Build Two Steel Cruisers.

Build Two Steel Cruisers.
WASHINGTON, September 26-Chief Con-
structor Wilson to-day. by direction of Secre-
tary Tracy, sent the following letter to Com
modore Ramsey, commanding the New York
Navy Yard:
SR-The Department having directed that one
of the cotton steel cruisers be built at the yard
under your command the Bureau forwards by
mail the plans and IL copies of the specifications
ten copies of which please turn over, with the
plans. to the naval constructor. The work of
laying down this vessel will be commenced as
soon as the mold loft floor and appliances can be
gotten ready, and will be pushed to completion
with as much dispatch as is possible. As soon as
half model of the vessel can be prepared and the
plates, frames, etc., laid OFF on 1t and verified
then schedules for materials must be prepared in
tripllcate, one to be retained by the constructor
and two sent to the Bureau that one NAV be sent
to the contractors for furnishing the material
The schedules must be made out in the regular
order in which the materials are required for use
that they can be obtained promptly. and the work
materials other than steel that will be required in
building this vessel will be prepared in duplicate
built on the site where the Tennessee and Java
were built and the work of putting down the
foundation or bed blocking, erecting keel block
with p-''eoueu
Until the vessel is named she will be known and
designated as cruiser No: Z, and funds for carry
ing on the work required will be charged TO an
preparation increase of the navy ~ construction
and machinery. The Bureau expects that every
effort will be made by the master mechanics and
those employed under them on this vessel to ex-
pedite the work for their own credit and that of
the yard, and that the Secretary of the Navy NAV
not be disappointed in being able to build the
vessel as cheaply she could have been contracted
for, and of this they should be Informed.
THEODORE ID. WILSON
Chief Constructor u. s. Navy
A similar letter was sent to Commodore
Brown, commanding the Norfolk Navy Yard.
the only change being in the order that the
cruiser should be known as No. s. and that she
be built on the slip north of the Texas Site