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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
THE VALUE OF WATER ROUTES.

Two features of the business situation
serve to draw attention to the Importance of
water transportation as a factor in the all
important freight question. Neither of
them are particularly new; but their joint
recurrence makes it worth while to take
their lesson to heart.
The first is the showing of the cost, to the
river coal industry, of being obliged to ac-
eumulate coal to await rise. 1t is shown
that the interruption of shipments, since
June 10, has given only an average of about
500 wages for each miner in the Mononga-
hela Valley, or less than dollar day.
The operators, on the other hand, have been
obliged to lock up large amounts of capital
in the coal ready for shipment in the pools
If there had been steady transportation, the
operators would have had their capital re-
leased sooner, and the miners would have
had steady work.
At the same time the navigable stage of
water established by the recent rains is
found to have developed a very heavy
movement of Pittsburg manufactured prod
ucts to the South and West Iron, steel
and glass are being sentby river to sections
which are made unattainable to our manu-
facturers by high rail rates. The cheap
water route has secured large amounts of
business that would otherwise be lost, and
which, on the other hand, could be indef-
nitely increased if the stage of water were
permanent.
Do not these two points show what an i'm
mense expansion of Pittsburg's trade might
be secured, not only by making the river
permanently navigable, but by construct
lug the canal from this city to Lake Erie?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SECRETARY NOBLE yesterday appointed Dr..
s. V. Miller, of Somerset, Pa, member of
the medical examining board for that district.
SENATOR WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs will soon be
home, and, although his eyesight is still little
weak, he will probably be able to see the poll
ticians regarding the succession to his Sena-
torial seat.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, of Vermont, says his
daughter is about as skilled in the law as he is.
She acts as his amanuensis and advises with
him when doubtful legal points arise Such
daughter is jewel in the parental crown.
BASIL B. GORDON, to whom great deal of
the credit of the Democratic success in Vir-
ginia is due, is a young man of about 30. For
the past ten years he has been prominent in
Virginia politics, and at present he is State
Senator.
SECRETARY BAYARD has six children-four
girls and two boys. Miss Florence Bayard mas
presided over his household since her mothers
death. Thomas Bayard, Jr., graduates from
Yale this year and his younger brother is in
preparatory school,
Miss RACHEL CAMERON, the youngest of
Senator Camerons five daughters. will make
her debut in Washington society this winter.
She is very pretty, and as bright and accom-
plished girl as can be found in Washington.
ESp6Cldl CdE0 udS DeOu pSShO"SN OA ASA SNH-
cation and her manners are very engaging
Mr. LOUIS DOUGLASS, of Washington, a son
of Hon. Frederick Douglass, Minister to Hayti,
has Just received letter from his father,
written from Port au Prince, which gives no
indication of his having found anything
specially disagreeable in that city, as has been
reported widely in American newspapers. He
has met with very satisfactory reception, and
finds everything pleasant except the, to him,
extreme heat, and that he is becoming accus-
toned to- and soon will cease to tnd it oppres-
siVe.
GENERAL CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, the late
Colonel Goodloe's great uncle, has q record
with the knife which is noteworthy even for
Kentuckian. He had three personal en-
counters before the war in which knives were
used and in each case he succeeded in killing
his opponent A fourth victim he cut almost
to pieces, but the man was stitched up and re-
covered. A few years ago he killed negro
who had insulted him, again using the knife.
Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, saved his
life in New Orleans q few years ago by ViVi.
secting with knife man VINO attempted to
assaSsinate him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
SMOKELEss POWDER.
The United States Government WOuld Like
to Have Some of the Article.

The United States Government Would Like
to Have Some of the Article.
WASHINGTON, November l3-The subject Of
smokeless powder for military uses occupies
considerable attention in the annual report of
Brigadier General Benet, Chief of Ordnance, to
the Secretary of War, which was made public
to-day. He says:
In the absence of suitable small arms powder
there has been substantial progress in the mat.
ter of a small caliber rifle beyond what has been
heretofore reported, except in the negative gain,
resulting in the apparent abandonment, or
tendency that way abroad, Of all powders but the
so-called smokeless. This change, involving the
return to a grained powder, is, If permanent, an
appreciable gain for all in economy and efficiency
of the product in the manufacture Of small arm
cartridges, and may have been brought
about as much from the difficulty Of obtain
ing uniform and satisfactory results In the way Of
velocities and pressures with the compressed
powders as from the more valuable properties of
the smokeless. No American has yet submitted
with compressed powders has shown the same ec-
centricty as developed abroad, tending to destroy
confidence in and final production Of servtceable
compressed powder cartridge. All effort official
or otherwise to obtain a smokeless powder has
been abortive, and American powder makers and
chemists have not yet awakened % to the lucrative
opportunity presented to them.
There is reason to believe from an application
made TO an officer of the Ordnance Department
more than ten years ago. that smokeless powders
originated, like many other Inventions in Amer
lea, only to be brought to the attention OF the
world in foreign countries, although in this in
stance the person concerned met with encourage
ment of which he did not avail himself. In view
of the present status of the powder question it is
not deemed expedient to produce a small
caliber rifle for compressed powder cartridges.
Such a rifle, however excellent in ITSELF
would be inferior to foreign arms using smoke
less powders, and consequently unsatisfactory to
the army and the country at large; 1t is be-
lieyed however, that all the elements entering
into the problem, except the powder, are ready
for use the moment this powder is obtained. 4
3O-caliber rod-bayonet Springfield rifle has been
made and rod -bayonet 80-caliber magazine arm
is now in progress OF construction in anticipation
of the final ACQUISITION of the much-needed pow-
der SO that no time may be lost in presenting for
trial both singe-loading and magazine small cali
10 rifles.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
BAD WATER AND EPlDEMICS
The Subjects Discussed at the Meeting Of the
State Board Of Health.


State Board Of Health.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.I
HARRISBURG, November la-The State
Board of Health is holding its fourteenth
regular session here to-day. Secretary Lees
report prepared for presentation to the Gov
ernor. includes an account of the efforts to Sc
cure legislation necessary to organize COM
plete sanitary system; and in proof of the i'm
portance of the subject instances the epidemic
of typhoid fever at Wilkesbarre, with its $50
cases and so deaths, due to the use of impure
water from Laurel run reservoir. The Seere-
tary adversely criticises the organization of
water companies by capitalists of the New En-
gland States. He adds: "a coarse strainer is
substituted for proper filter bed-if, indeed.
any attempt is made at filtration. But the
owners Of these works, hundreds of miles
away are not compelled to drink the water;
and so long as they pocket their 10 per cent
dividends. what difference does it make to
them that little country town in the wilds Of
the Alleghenies Is decimated by typhoid fever
and dysentery ~ The report enumerates 16
localized epidemics of typhoid fever, 9 of diph-
iberia, l OF dysentery and threatened cpl
demic of glanders as having been successfully
combated by the board during the year.
The bulk of the Secretary's report is occupied
by recital of the task which confronted the
State Board OF Health in consequence of the
foods of May 81 in the Conemaugh, Juniata
and Susduehanna valleys and of the means
employed and methods adopted in meeting the
emergency. The Secretary congrstulates the
board on the success of its labors in preventing
epidemics on the Conemaugh. DR.. George @.
Croft, of LewIsburg, was to-day elected Tenn
porary President of the board. DR.. Charles B.
Dudley, of Altoona, reported lamentable
want of sanitary precautions at Gallitzin,
which has caused malignant epidemics of diph-
iberia in that town.
The board created new inspection district,
embracing Armstrong, Cambria and Indiana
counties and appointed DR.. w. E Matthews, of
Johnstown the sanitary inspector. Tonight
Dr. McClelland, of Pittsburg. read paper on
"The Publication of Water by the Use of Me-
tallic Iron"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
WET DAY CONCOMlTAETS.

What the Dank Days Demand-UmbreIlas,
the Most Mysterious Personal Property
Actors Want 'Em Screaming Loud
GOssnmers TO EnvsIOp Fair Forms
Rubbers for PedalIc Protection.
The weather yesterday (no necessity of de-
scribing it'll was suggestive Of umbrellas, mack
intoshes gossamers and rubber shoes, hence an
inquisitorial topr was undertaken, with the
view of pinning few facts to a.fight of fmag-
ination.
"WiIl you show me your latest importations
in the umbrella liner was asked of a hand
some young salesman in downtown store
"Centainly. Our first assortment of holiday
goods has just arrived. These, you know are
all intended for gentlemen's use. Wen see the
ladies' afterward." And forthwith he opened
a long glass case, displaying umbrellas OF every
wood and metal from every cline and country,
in every style and quality
There were English ash, German weichsel
Usage orange, pimento white thorn and snake
wood in every conceivable design. Plain and
fancy handles-gold, silver. buckhorn, walrus
tusks. white metal and oxidized silver, were all
used in the manufacture of these handles. They
varied as much in size as the strawberries
in.the first box of the season. but, unlike them,
the larger ones were not given the most con-
spleuous place in the box, nor are they consid-
cred the most desirable. True, some people
prefer them. Among those who do are TO be
found the artists of the theatrical stage, who
want not only large handle, but one that is
fairly screaming. The odder the design the
better. Then certain class of young men of
the stage affect the very large handle; also
ministers invariably purchase natural wood
handle, with either crook or knob. Bank
cashiers are very particular in selecting their
rainy-day companions. and their tastes are in
clined to the natural wood, but they want a
bulb or root to form the head of the handle,
and it must have a brilliant polish.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
MANN ID Wlntield seort WiI.on.

George ID. Riddle Esq. yesterday announced
in Common Pleas Court No. ?, the death Of At
torney Winfield Scott Wilson, who died yesterday
morninR after several years. illness. Court ad-
iourned out Of respect to his memory. The Grim
inal Court also adjourned for the same reason.
Ouiet and unostentatious. MIR. Wilson had by diI-
igent application to his business secureda fair
ciientage though hampered and distressed for
msny Years by Brightis disease. Mr.. Wilson was
uniformly cheerful, and only his Intimate ac-
0uaintances knew that he was struggling IN the
Yer. and was on the threshold of good practice
fast week he argued case in the supreme Court
fhongh 40 III that his wife attended him through
fear mat be would be stricken down in the dis
charge Of his duty. Mr.. Wilson came from the
central portion of the State, and was admitted to
practice at the Allegheny county bar on the 18th
Of November, 1874.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
SMUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY
Ii Now Believed to be Carried on By Whole.
sale at New York.


NEW YORK, November 13-The exposures
made during the last few months of the practi-
cally free entrance to the port through Long
Island Sound have led this Treasury Depart
ment to q serious consideration of the SUBJECT,
To further expedite the action Of the depart
nent it may be stated that Of IA foreign vessels
passing into the port of New York through
He'll Gate on Sunday last only seven had any
Endorsement on their manifests.
There are between fifteen and sixteen hun
dred foreign vessels, mostly from British Amer
ican ports, which pass that way each year, and
their opportunities for smuggling are literally
boundless. Customs officials who are well in
formed on the subject say that from seven to
nine hundred Of these vessels are never
boarded by customs officer. They pass
through the Sound without let or hindrance,
anchoring where they like.
IF they don't smuggle," said veteran reve-
nue. officer, when told of the fact that by actual
count half the arrivals of one day came through
without any sort of inspection-"if they don't
smuggle, they ought to. 1t seems preposterous
that the Government should spend millions to
improve the channel and to provide all modern
contrivances for the protection and convenience
of navigation. and then, while carefully in
specting all arrivals by Sandy Hook, permit at
least half of those by the Gate to pass SCOT free.
1t Is as il New York had one entrance devoted
to protection and another for free trade"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
Ruhber, yo,ed a Nuisance.

ssDo we sell many rubbers on day like this2
Well, should think So"
ave have sold about IS pair to-day. and all
the high rubber, no foothOlds or sandal rubbers
on day like this" is the reply one enterpris-
ing young merchant gave in answer to interro-
cations. Ladies don't like to wear rubbers,
but the thin soled boots worn demand the addi-
tion on a rainy day or else the fair ones health
suffers. They are very disagreeable, draw the
feet in the most dreadful manner and spoil the
gloss and finish Of the shoe, but are necessary
evil.
them with heavy soled and cork soled shoes.
They pronounce them nuisance and say they
duh the polish of their shoes as much as the
rain, and are very uncomfortable. SO the shoe
merchant on a rainy day entertains ladies with
in his store almost exclusively
THoRNE BRANCH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
A..ncin,Ion Of ArrlcnIturaI CoIIeres.

WASHINGTON, November bat to-day's
session of the Association of American Agri-
cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
General Morgan, Commissioner of Indian At
fairs made an address, in which he urged
the colleges to prepare teachers Of
Industrial arts for the Indian schools.
Resolutions were adopted looking toward
the cooperation Of the stations and the De-
partment of Agriculture in the testing of
Varieties of fax, hemp, jute and rance and Of
fiber machinery. The association in a body
called upon Secretary Rusk at the Department
Of Agriculture and met with a cordial recep-
tion, Tonight the Secretary entertained the
deleoatas at his house.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
The Latest Our, Just In.


A trihe paradoxical the above remark is, but
none the less applicable; for the very newest
designs have just arrived. They are called
hardwood dcposite silver, ivory deposite silver
and pearl deposite silver, and they are beau
ties. No two alike. and each one prettier than
the other. The hardwood deposite silver are
just as the name indicates, of hardwood
trimmed with the loVeliest designs of sterling
silver, some have the knots all studded with
sterling silver nails, others have alligators and
snakes wound around them, and some are Just
banded with the silver. Then again the rustic
design is dreadfulIy pretty Theivory deposite
silver are less fanciful in design, but are simply
exquisite; also the pearl The silver is put on
SO as to allow the ivory or pearl to peep
through in the most attractive manner, and
they all cost-yes, they cost way up near a
tWenty-dollar gold piece, but they are new, aw-
fully swell and make handsome Christmas
presents.
The lizard and alligator skin are lust out
also, and are as handsome and expensive as
any one could desire, perhaps more so. From
this time on until after the holidays the um.
as gifts. from wife to husband, husband to
wife, employer to employe, and vice versa.
Some men buy them by the dozen, and give
them to their various clerks and officials in
their counting houses and Offices at Christmas
tide. When purchasing for themselves gentle
men invariably have forgotten theirs at home
OF Just lost them. In the latter case it was al
ways one OF the finest. ana they take great de-
light In dwelling upon the beauty and value of
the lost one Sometimes when the bereaye.
ment Is OF recent date and is bona fde the be-
reayed is in anything else but an enviable
frame of mind, and will not purchase anything
but . cheap umbrella.
Various devices are resorted to in order to
prevent the disappearance Of these very neces-
sary articles. One gentleman in desperation
had the word stolen painted in rich let
ters on the inside of his umbrella. He said he
would carry it with clear conscience, but he
thought it would be little annoying to anyone
else Whether or not it served his purpose his
tory saith not
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
Big steamers Again Racing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTOE'S FARM.
Land Nine Miles From Town 50 Years Ago
Now Very Valuable.

Land Nine Miles From Town 50 Years Ago
Now Very Valuable.
From the New York Tribune.i
When Alexander Hamilton, in 1909, bought
the property now situated at Tenth avenue
and One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, he
wrote to General Pinckney: II have pur-
chased few acres about nine miles from
town, have built q house and am oultiYstfng
garden. As farmers. new source
Of sympathy has arisen between rs.
and ] am pleased with everything in
which our likings and tastes can be approx
mated" From the present appearances OF the
neighborhood Of The Granger" as Hamilton
named his place. one finds it hard to think that
it was ever mine miles from town."
If Hamilton could have looked forward to
the time when city lots from his farm were
worth So 900 or $1,000; il he could have seen the
splendid buildings going up on different parts
of his farm and could have known that even
two miles further away from town than he was
the people were discussing the project Of open
ing q park to make Hbreathing place. he
probably would have been ready 70 believe
Mother Shipton's prophecies, even the one
concerning the end Of the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

OUR esteemed neighbor, the Chronicle
Telegraph, can be congratulated on taking
possession of its splendid new building on
Fifth avenue. Not merely finding spacious
and handsomely appointed permanent home
for ITSELF the c. T. can further have the salts
faction of knowing that it occupies the hand
soonest edifice so far erected in this city for
business purposes. The DISPATCH wishes its
evening contemporary great prosperity in its
new quarters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
The western Silver Convention.

DENVER November 1S-As the Silver Con-
vention progresses it increases in interest Dele
gates keep pouring in, and it is a novelty to see
the people of political factions working hand in
hand. Free and unlimited coinage is the war
cry alike of Republicans, Democrats and Pro-
hibitionists. The fact that the people of St.
Louis saw ft to take the initiative in this
move has worked to its good, in that
resolutions were adopted to-day favoring
that place for the Worlds Fair. Another res
oIution adopted recommends Congress to pro-
vide for the coinage of at least 81, goo 600 of
silver each month. 1t is not likely that the
Convention will conclude its labors before to-
mnrrnW night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
JUST 500 TO 1
Il the Ratio of One Mans Estimate Of
Housekeeper Above Wife.

Ii the hntlO OF One mans EsIlmato OF
Housekeeper Above n Wife.
NEW YORK, November l3-A contest of the
will of Isaac Halsey is being carried on before
E. F. Underhill, assistant to the Surrogate
Mr.. Halsey died in August last at 2Ss East
Broadway. He had been an invalid for seven
years before his death, and was cared for by
his housekeeper, Agnes Small. His wife, Julia
A, Halsey. had procured a separation from
him. Mr.. Halsey drew up his will on May 10,
1887, and kept both the original and copy.
After his death 1t was found that Mrs. Hal
sew was to receive the sum of 81 forever" and
that after several bequests had been paid, in
Guiding one of $500 to Nurse Small, the residue
of the estate was to be held in trust for Mr.
Halsey's son, E. R. Halsey, until he was rs
years old, when he was to receive the princi-
pal Both Mrs. Halsey and her SON join in the
contest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

The declaration of the No0oe Vrenlya
that Lord salisbury's talk of peace in Europe
is artificial and insincere" is generally taken
to mean that Russia is getting ready to fight
the Triple Alliance with England's navy added
But may it OF signify that the Car and Bis
marck lave taken the advice of the Demo-
Gratis and "got together?" In that case Russia
would not be afraid to bite her thumb at
Austria, England and Italy together.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

THE report that artificial eggs have been
palmed off on the people of the Southside by
the guileless granger, arouses the doubt
whether anything in commerce is safe from the
attacks of the imitator. The Southsiders will
be exsusable hereafter for entertaining de-
cided suspicion that someone will try to palm
of on them a cheap and inferior imitation of
water
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
CRIMINALS, SENSES.

signor Ottolenghi, an eminent Italian
scientist, has been testing tine senses of
criminals, and he finds that they are duller
than in the average of people. he says that
the senses Of smell and taste are less than
normally acute, and so nice are Signor Otto
lengths observations that be is able to say
that the taste Of the hsbitual criminal is less
acute than that of the casual offender.
We have been suspecting this for a long
while. It has always seemed 10 us that 4
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

The United States Supreme Court, in its
decision of the case of Duncan VS.. the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. holds that the company's
charter does not exempt it from the constitu-
tionaI provision that the company shall make
compensation for property injured or destroyed
by its roads. The same principle having been
held by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the
doctrice of special exemption from the Consti-
tuition is effectually disposed of.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD is au-
thority for the statement that the President
has made no comment on the recent elections
for newspaper publication. This gives the
unbridled opposition press an opportunity to
remark that the President resembles the Irish
mans parrot-which was really an owl-and
which said nothing, but did "a dale of think
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

colonies. So if they have no taste for the
initial drudgery that professional life en-
tails, and have no desire to draw more gold
from the mines OF trade, what is there left
for them to do? The butterfly existence
into which Ward McAllister leads the way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14

The aldermanic conspiracy cases are de-
veloping in a way that indicates a possible
necessity in the near future for the election of
new aldermen in certain parts of the city 1t
is to be hoped that if new elections are held,
the people will be little more careful as to the
kind of material they put into the primary