Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
THE TOPICAL FALKER.
A Large Audience Astonished Her-Mr.
Strauss Ought to Stay in Turkey Chat
Ahauf NaHh of he nnx.

A Large Audience Asfonished Her-Mr.
strauss Ought TO Stay in Turkey Chat
About News ofthe Day.
miss MINNIE MADDERN had something to
encourage her yesterday afternoon in the shape
of big audience. in which were an unusually
large number of ladies' So she shook herself
together and acted with vigor and overflow
ing spirit that she has not shown before this
week through the best scene Of "ln Spite of
ALL" You could see the effect Of her dainty and
yet powerful work upon the audience quite
plainly after she had been on the stage for i've
minutes.
The contribution Of this little genius was as
enjoyable as any in the great programme ofthe
yesterday afternoon.
The New York Press is waging war on Min
lister Strauss, the Representative of the United
States at Constantinople. and is threatening to
extend its hostility to Postmaster General
Wanamaker If he continues to interest himself
in the retention of Mr.. Strauss.
Under ordinary circumstances the fact that
Mr.. Strauss is Democrat out-and-out would
be enough to make his retirement distinctly
necessary under Republican administration.
But there are other things to be considered in
this case. The Rev. DR.. Allison, of this city,
told me recently that never had Christians and
Christianity enjoyed such protection in Turkey
as they have since Mr.. Strauss went to Con-
stantinople. This happy result, DR.. Allison
said, was due to Mr.. Strauss efforts at all
times. He obtained from the Turkish Govern
ment permission for the colporteurs to proceed
with the distribution Of the Bible throughout
Turkey.
This is the more remarkable because Mr..
Strauss is by faith Hebrew. He has earned the
respect and gratitude Of American missionar-
les in that part of the world, and their infu-
ence is likely to count for something with Pres
ident Harrison.
Possibly Mr.. Strauss good deeds may be news
to the New York Press
Es*
A FEW mouse traps and an addition to the
force of cats employed by the management
would enhance the comfort of the public at the
Grand Opera House.
On Monday night last mouse had very
amusing time on the floor of the parquet, while
Caprice" was in progress on the stage. 1 do
not think any woman seated in the parquet saw
the mouse. When tried to point outthe funny
little animal to the lady who sat beside me-
she betrayed such unmistakable symptoms of
alarm that added was only joking. All the
same the mouse was there, and kept crossing
the aisle and lodging in and out among the
seats, never showing the smallest sign of fear.
Still, Mr.. Wilt it is dangerous to allow mice
to make rallying ground of the parquet while
an audience Is there. A small mouse may be
enough to cause panic.
So
GREAT changes are being made in the Fort
Wayne Railroads property adjoining the west
bound track between Werner and Woods Run
stations. Gangs of Italian laborers are cutting
away the rocky cliffs to make way for the addi-
tional tracks which the new Panhandle bridge
will call into existence when it is built.
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BY the way, owing, presume, to the disturb
ance of the west-bound track by the descent of
debris from the excavations, the Cleveland ex-
press, going west, early yesterday morning, took
the east-bound track from Superior station to
the switch at Bellevue, where it crossed again
to the proper track.
No matter how perfect o railroads block sys-
TEN may be, 1t always seems suggestive of
danger to me to run train for several miles on
the wrong track. It was just such an expert
ment on the London and Southwestern Rail
road in England that resulted in the horrible
accident at Kingston last summer, in which
number OF lives were lost. The Southwestern
runs under very strict block system, too.
So
SOME idea Of the ferocity of the storm bursts
yesterday may be gathered from the fact one
of them drove so men and women into one
Manchester line horse-car last evening 1t is
not altogether regrettable that at least six of
these passengers stayed on the car long enough
to escape the worst of the shower, and then
skipped off without paying fare.
The equipment of nearly all the horse-car
lines is ridiculously inadequate, and none of
them make the least attempt to meet for any
increased demand, like that caused by the
thunder storms of yesterday. The horses who
have to drag these shamefully over-freighted
cars are the most to be pitied. Street car di-
rectors probably had nightmare last night.