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The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

THE Gripof Pneumonia may be warded off with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's loothache Drops Cure ill one minute.
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
OUR REPUBLIC.
Tho Centennial Celebration of It's
 Birth.
Inauguration of George Washington as First Prcsident-HisT Triumphant March from Mount Vernon-Bricf Ei-
 ographicaI Sketch.
N New fork City April

N New fork City April 90, 17S9, Georg e
 Washington was in avgurated first Presi- de It of the United
 States. As long as the Nation exis s Us, says the C hic ag o Times, this day will henceforth be second only to the Fourth of July. Washingto Il after a weeks jour ney from his home at Mount Vernon a dis
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

A MONTREAL man has patented device by which he claims he Cin make years supply of ice for seventp-tive cents.
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

ALL disorders caused by a bilious state of the system can be cured by using Carter's Little Liver Pills. No pain, griping or dis comfort attending their use. Try them.
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
THE MARKETS.

A CHICAGO man was lately fined fve dol lars for snoring in church.
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

A MISSISSIPPI company have received an order for 100000 wooden butter dishes from St Louis house
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

wASHINGToNS NEW YORK RESIDENCE.
 tion of his plate, knife and fork or spoon This custom puzzled visiting foreigners. The Prince de Brogle relates that when dining with Mrs Robert Morris, being re- peatedly asked to take aaother cup of tea, he had twelve times consented, not know ing how to decline without giving offense, when a compassionate gentleman at his side whispered that if he had drank enough he should indicate it by laying his spoon across the cup else the hostess would go on urging him till the crack of doom.
 While Washington was serving his first term two stages and twelve horses sufficed for carrying all the travellers and goods passing between New York and Boston, then the commercial centers of the coun- try, making from twenty five to forty miles day, according to tho season There was no protection for the mails, and the in- quisitive post-rider often beguiled time on the road by reading all letters III his charge For long time after the revolu- ton business men and politicians wrote in fcipher Such was the practice of Madison, Jefferson, Monroe and Aaron Burr.
 In many cases packet sloops took the place of coaches, plying between important points along the coast and inland cities on the banks of nayigable streams. For in stance there was a line from New York to South Amboy, where passengers would take coaches to Burlington, N J., and proceed thence to Philadelphia by another line of packets Another line ran to Providence, where coaches were taken for Boston. With favorable wind tho sound could be trav- ersed in three days but not unfrequcntlv the voyage lasted fortnight Ocean voy- ltf rrtD VI the most urgent business could induce a man to shut himself upin packet from one to three months and breathe the foul air of adingY cabin
The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
ElY'S CREAM BALM

ID ,CdS surprised after using Ely's Cream BdIm tlro months to fnd the right nostriI, tohich tcds closed for 20 yedrs, tcds open1dnd free Gs the other. l feel re,-y thdnkf1A. F. II. Cressengham, 275 18th Street, Brooklyn.
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The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
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The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

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The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

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The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
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The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

Ch.
Of the leading agencies tells me that his firm
will sell s., ,000, 600 worth of real estate dur
ing the year if business continues to be as
good during the ensuing ten months as it
has been during January and February of
1889. he bases his calculation on the
actual record of sales made since the begin
ming of the year. As his frrn is only one
of several that have a business almost if
not quite as large, some idea may be formed
of the magnitude and Importance of the
transactions in city and suburban prop
erty.
Ten years ago one of The leading real es-
tate firms found ample accommodations in
the Office of firm engaged in another line
of business, though they had only desk room
there. Now some of the Fourth avenue
dealers require Offices as spacious and as
numerous as the principal banks. The in
terror of the average real estate Office, in
deed, closely resembles that of bank. The
business has been thoroughly systematized
in recent years, and its different branches so
managed that callers are waited upon with
great promptitrde. Every firm dealing in
real estate handles mortgages also, and the
majority of the dealers make feature of
securing tenants and collecting rents for
landlords. Insurance business is also ct
tended to By many agents. One firm has
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

A NATIONAL CIRCUS.
The Inaugural Pageant is But a Sop
Thrown to the Masses.
MR.. CLEVELAND'S GRIM F0RTlTUDE
Under the Unpleasant Exactions OF Prssi-
dental Etiquette.
THE POLITICAL WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
Appearance of Republican Statesmen Who Are
Almost q "Reminiscences
MR.. CLEyELAND'S GRIM FORTITUDE
THE POLITICAL WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
lrnoM A STAFF oonRrspoNpNNr.l J

IFROM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, March 2.-There never
was anything like it-this barbarous dis
play in honor of the incoming President.
If the present is SO much of an increase over
four years ago. what will it be four years
from now? A halt must be called some
where, but I suppose 1t never will be until
President is elected who will have nerve
enough to put his foot down on the whole
performance, inaugural procession, ball and
the idiotic receptions that follow for four
long years, and stamp them out of existence.
If the people will not shame the President
by refusing to engage in such things l sup
pose we must wait for President who will
shame the people. The preparations for
the inaugural parade tomorrow are posi-
lively insane. The lunacy four years ago
was only beginning to this. Seats cover
every available foot of parking. The peo-
ple's ground has been sold for the time to q
few spectators, and those who do not choose
to pay the prices asked, must take their
chances on the sidewalks.
The streets along the route of the process
sion are roped in, and an army of men with
clubs is detailed to drive the "nob" to the
narrow space that is left for them on the
footways-though the "mob" certainly de-
serves no better treatment, if it will persist
in going to such performances, and invit-
ing and permitting itself to be trampled
upon. Even half of the sidewalks are OBJ
structed for the most part of the route by
the erection of scafolding and seats by the
owners or lessees of the buildings, and the
chances are that many of those will come
tumbling down upon the poor people who
will crowd the space below.
Windows are selling at prices never heard
of before. / know of several for which $500
is paid. Two hundred dollars is a common
figure. 1 asked the price the other day
of a room at little family hotel in the in
terest of friend. "Two hundred dollars,
sir, was the prompt reply, without blush.
1t was a very ordinary room, and said so.
"But whoever takes this room can use it for
sleeping purposes as well as for the view of
the procession, and that is more than you
will usually get, and the clerk pointed out
to me half a dozen windows in the neigh
borhood which rented for 5000, simply for
the procession.
Seats upon the open stands are, selling
like hotcakes for from 50 to $5 each. If it
were Italian opera, with Patti and Nicolini
in the cast, the rush would not be so great.
But long live nonsense! Give US bread and
circuses! Let the men who run the politics
of the country, and who are in reality the
rulers, buffet and rob us to-day, if they but
give us show and plenty of noise and
fireworks tomorrow we will forgive them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

city. Among the reasons urged for the
necessity of such an exchange are the lack
of uniform rules among real estate men in
the conduct of their business; the DISPOSE
ton of few 70 work for low commissions
and thereby cut prices; the occasional loss
of commissions, after property is sold,
through dishonesty on the part of the former
holder, and, in fact, the need generally felt
by men in this line of business for an or
ganization that shall be mutually beneficial
to their interests.
Among the men now engaged in the real
estate business, who have been identified
with it almost from its inception, are W. A.
Heron, c. II. Love, Henry A. Weaver, G.
Beringer and L NJ. Pennock. Mr.. Heron
started an agency in 1868 and is now the
head of the firm W. A. Heron & Sons,
r. II. and J. W. Heron being associated
with him in the conduct of the business.
Mr. Heron is about &c years of age, a ma
tive of Pittsburgh and one OF its best
known citizens. c. H. Love was
a pioneer in the business, beginning
it in 1857, but not deyoting his whole at
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

Thomas HcCGTrey. long, became the
associate of Mr.. Drape in 1874. Thomas
McCafrey, q brother of Pittsburg's cele-
brated Domlnick, opened all Office in
Lawrenceville three years ago, and now has
liberal share of the business in that sec
tion of the city, besides dealing
quite extensively in rural property.
Reed B. Coyle s. Co., the firm being
composed of r. B. Coyle and R. J. Coyle,
Jr., are among the youngest of the we'll
known agents. They engaged in business
for themselves in December, 1887. Mr..
Reed B. Coyle had previously been with
Black & Baird.
Among other prominent firms, whose Off
ces are located IN the cold city" are Alex
ander & Lee, Allies s. Bailey, John f. Bax-
ter, Henry A. Breed, Baltensperger & Will
Jams, J. r. Cooper & Co., j. Dermitt. D.
P. Thomas s. Co., Dunlap & Bennett,
Grabbing & Co., Morris & Fleming, j. j.
Howley, Hart & Wilkinson. McCune s.
Coulter, W. W. Mcneil & Bro, John II.
McCreery, A. J. Pentecost, Pittsburg Com
pany Cimited), George Schmidt, w. c.
Stewart, Straub s. Morris, Ed Wittisch and
E. D. Wingenroth-the latter one of the few
who have graduated from the newspaper bus
mess and engaged in real estate transac-
tions.
The firm of A Leggate & Son, of ALE
gheny, is one of the Oldest, if not the very
oldest, on that side of the river. Ewing &
Byers, A. D. Wilson, and many others are
among the agents in our sister city, where
values, especially on residence property, ,are
increasing very rapidly. Among Penn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

u.
like the other leading agents, much of his
success to his live and iudicious adver-
tising. The steady and rapid growth of the
business of this firm affords the best of evil
dence of the value of such advertising,
Speaking of old-rime methods of real estate
dealers and contrasting them with those now
in use, Mr.. Black said:
Formerly an agent kept his list of
properties for sale or to rent, in q book in
writing, which he showed to customers as
required. That system soon went out of
date, and was succeeded by the plan of pub
fishing list to place in the hands of those
who made inquiries. These lists, at first
published at intervals of several months
each, grew into monthly, then into weekly
and finally into daily publications. Lately
we have adopted the plan of printing a
To Let list, column long in THE DIS
PATCH twice each week, as the best means
of informing our customers what we have
to offer. The renting of property, once an
inconsiderable part of a real estate agents
business, has grown to be one Of his most
important sources of income"
One of the best-liked men in the real es-
tate business is Mr.. John c. Reilly, who
was formerly in the livery business as men,
Der of the firm of Burns & Reilly, and who
was also one of the builders of the West
End Passenger Railroad. MIR. Reilly is an
excellent Judge of property. His manners
ar. quiet. He is very popular with the
other agents as well as with buyers and sell
ers.
The firm of Black & Baird, though re-
Gently established, has business of large
proportions. In December. 1887, David P.
Black, Milton /. Baird and Ledlie Glon-
niger, three enterprising young men, who
had previously served an apprenticeship at
the business, severed their connection with
the firm of Samuel W. Black & Co. and
formed a partnership under the style Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
March 11-James III. wall
A VERY SELECT AFFAIR.
Ward McAlIister Superintends the Ticket
End of the Centennial Ball.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcH.i

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, March 2.-The tickets for
the ball at the Metropolitan Opera House,
on April 20, which is to precede
the Centennial celebration Of Washington's
Inauguration were not ready to-day.
SO the considerable number of people
who applied at the Madison Square Bank
for them were disappointed. If ready to-
morrow they will be issued at
once, at $40 each, only to those
whose names are found in a list
furnished by Mr.. Ward McAllister, mana.
ger of the Entertainment Committee. The
bank will submit the names of persons not
on the list who apply for tickets to the
committee, but will not sell their tickets
until authorized by the committee. The
list is said to be list of applicants whose
applications have been passed on already.
Several who applied for tickets to-day
were not on the list. They took it good
naturedly when told that they could mt have
had tickets even if they had been
ready, and lett their money as required.
The tickets, if ready, will be on tap to-
morrow, at little window like that of the
box Office of the theater, just within the
door of the Worth Monument entrance to
the bank.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Presidential Etiauette.

Mrs. Cleveland has borne herself charm
ingly in the almost humiliating ordeal
through which she is passing, and Mrs.
Harrison has done what she could to re-
lieve the embarrassment of the situation.
There is something almost grotesque in the
grim etiquette of the time. When the new
President comes to the city he must call
upon the great defeated. That is the pre-
scription. Then the old President must
call upon the new. If they have wives they
must be accompanied by the ladies. When
Cleveland was elected he was not married, and
President Arthur was to all intents and pur-
poses single gentleman.
Now, these old single fellows, the one
bachelor and the other for years a widower,
both having a profound knowledge of the re-
courses of the worldly, had means to soften
age Of the situation, and bridged over the gulf
between them with span of glass. They grew
mellow and genial, and congratulated and con-
doled with each other as two good fellows will,
and there were no hard feelings. But the situ-
alton is different now. There are ladies in the
served man, sincere, frank, and not given to
saying what he does not feel.
Cleveland, as everybody here knows, is
awfully hurt by his defeat In these circum-
stances the etiquette of the time must be, to
say the least, very tiresome. Here comes
man who drives you out of your house against
your will, and yet you are forced to dine him
and embrace him and welcome him as though
he were an angel of light come to bless your
home. You pack up your traps, your visitor
eats your best meal and drives in your best
carriage, and then all in moment he says
"Now you get" and you can only say THANK
you," instead of the other thing which you
would like to say.
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fed and unprofessional; business would be
accepted if it came in the dealers way, but
present methods of soliciting it
were little used. 1t is safe to saw
that any man who should attempt
to conduct q real estate agency now, as
those of 80 years ago were conducted,
would find his occupation improbable. In
these days it is the man who has property to
sell who advertises-seldom the man who
desires to buv. Those who are most success
full in this business are those who take the
most pains TO keep the public informed of
what they are dong and of what bargains
they have to offer.
For business so recently established the
growth of the real estate traffic has been sur
prisingly great. The war period was sea-
son of great activity for the few who were
then dealing in realty. Money was made
rapidly, and a great deal of it lost with
equal suddenness when the panic of 1873
brought financial stringency and swept
away inflated values. Recovery from the
effects of the panic was slow and painful.
For period of five years or more the real
estate market was depressed, but the steady
growth of the city necessarily forced
it to rally by degrees. Since
improved steadily and during the past
three years especially the real estate men
have enjoyed season of unprecedented
prosperity. 1t is the almost unanimous tes-
fimony of the dealers of to-day that values
are Fixed and substantial, and that most of
the property which exchanges hands is sold
at such figures as to render the investment
safe and profitable one to the buyer. Of
course there are owners who are, asking
more for their properties than they can
reasonably expect to realize at present; but
these instances are not numerous, and fic-
fitious values are rare among those who de-
sire and expect to find purchas-
ers Immediately. The great COM
petition in the business at present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

10 uQO IDal II re- @ACfHy -
quired more and more of their time each
year to look after their vested interests.
Gradually they dropped other occupations
to devote their whole attention to the man.
agement of their properties. Those who
succeeded in making their own estates yield
profitable returns came, after while, to be
entrusted with the conduct of similar bust
ness for other parties. They also speculated
in a small way, and so by easy gradations
became brokers and dealers in real estate.
The real estate agent, as we know him to-
day, came into being in Pittsburg some
time between 1910 and 1850. Sterley Cuth-
bert, whose sons still continue in the bust
ness, was the pioneer. Shortly after, Ben
jamin Mclean secured tract of land, laid
of lots and began selling them. His son-in-
law, Thomas S. Maple, next took an inter-
est and the business was continued for some
wears under the firm name of Mclean &
Maple. In ante-war times Mr.. Cuthbert
and the firm just mentioned were. the lead
ing operators.
= For many years, and indeed until after
after 1868 the business done was inconsider-
able, and probably some single firms in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Rerurrected Statesmen.

But the time has brought lots of interest
ing, prominent and historical people to the
town, and many are given chance to see
them, if nothing more. Men like Cassius
NJ. Clay and Hannibal Hsmlin and Will
liam Window, who were nearly forgotten,
turn up almost as bright and as fresh as ever,
and remind us that death is not always CT uel
as so many good people are allowed , live long
beyond the average age of the human kind
The swallow-tail coat of Hamlin is sight for
sore eyes, 1t recalls the good old-fashloned
past The swalow-tail has disappeared from
Congress- When Hamlin passed out of the
chair of the President Of the Senate, Conger
came in a few years to supply the lack in that
body. Then Luke Poland, whose swallow-tail
had the addition of brass buttons, came into
the House, and so both the House and the Sen
ate for time had representatives of the old
school.
What revival of the past this remittance of
the Republican party is. Here at glance, in
the rooms of the Arlington, may be seen Blaine,
Morton, Platt Window, Clay, Clayton, of Ar
kansas, Speer, or Georgia, Longstreet Hamlin,
Elkins, Boutwell,, Proctor, Malone, Hender-
son, of Missouri and dozens of others whose
forms were familiar years ago, but most of
whom were practically retired from politics.
Dorsey and Brady are about the only ones who
are absent of the old circle of managers. They
have reformed. E. w. L.
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lively engaged in real estate dealings, his
age being almost three score and ten, and
he has long been connected with the
civil and business interests of the city. He
was formerly merchant, and from 1857 to
1860 served as Mayor of Pittsburg. He
afterward held the position of United
States Assessor of Internal Revenue for six
years. and for a period of 16 years has con-
Quoted his present business, dealing in real
estate and mortgages. c. Beringer, who
was born in Germany, but came to ALLIE
gheny county when a boy, opened real
estate Office in Allegheny in 1868, and, ex-
cepting short interval, has followed the
business ever since. His son, w. G. Ber-
niger, is now member of the firm, the style
of which is c. Beringer & Son. 1. NJ. PEN
mock, of l. NJ. Pennock & Son, came to the
city from the neighboring county of Fayette
in 1887, and has devoted his attention to his
present business since 1866.
prominent among the younger real es-
tate dealers, those who have come con-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

james W. DTdpe. to S25 for examining a
title. The Fidelity Title and Trust Com
pany makes a business of examining and
insuring titles, and because of the immense
security it gives Its guarantees are much
sought after. Notaries also come in for
their share of fees for the execution of con-
tracts, deeds and mortgages. All in all
there are few businesses with more ramifi-
cations than that of the real estate dealer.
The recent custom of selling houses and
lots for small cash payment, the balance
to be paid in monthly installments, has
greatly increased the number of real estate
transactions. The plan is in every way a
commendable one. By taking advantage
of it thousands of workingmen in this coun-
ty are now property owners, or in fair
way to become so, instead of rent payers.
OF course, man who buys house or other
property on the installment plan, eventual
ly pays considerably more for it than its
cash value at the time he made the bargain;
but the prospect of securing home makes
him economical, and oftentimes the money
invested would otherwise have been used in
a manner that would benefit neither his
family nor himself. 1t is better to live in
your own home, even if you are five or ten
years in paying for it, than to pay rent for
some other man house all the days of your
life. As it is now, it is possible for every
industrious man of good habits to become
real estate owner, unless some unusual
misfortune befalls him.
Nearly every agent in Pittsburg is earn
estly in favor of the establishment of a real
estate exchange here, similar to those In