Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
HITLER AND THITHER.
Movements of PIttsburgers and Others of
Wide Acquaintance.

Wide Acquaintance.
Once every year Rev. William Rossiter,
silver-haired, ruddy-faced little traveller,
comes to Pittsburg. He arrived here yester-
day. He is the head of the American Tract
Society. He figures out that this quiet agency
has issued over II, 600 distinct publications, in
l50 languages about Christ and has circulated
Is 600 900 volumes by its missionaries alone.
Statistically considered, the results of its
work, during the AZ years thereof, are the dis
tribution of Is, ,26S ISL volumes of saving truth:
the holding of 454, 1858 meetings; the finding of
l. ll34, $50 homes destitute of all religious read
ing, and 676,SSl without the Bible; 1908 lS2
Protestant families neglecting evangelical
number Of 1S 543 223 families. TO personally con-
verse and pray with them; giving away thus
more than s., ,oOo. 900 during its history.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions Of Pennsylvania will meet in their twenty.
second annual convention, at New Castle to-
day, ana will continue their sessions during the
week. The following gentlemen will represent
Purves, s. P. HARRISON. II. Z. Porter, NJ. Z.
Jennings, E. s. Morrow, ]. F. Robinson, ]. NJ.
Shields, Benjamin Thaw, Robert Wardrop, W.
wacds P6sssy Charles TRs0 l. LsP5GT GfsTR PPSPs PSPs
Miller, Smith Agnew, Peter Dick, R J. Buch-
anan, I. F: Bailey, F. W. Kiefer, 8. L Full
Castle yesterday. Rev DR.. Purves will this
evening address the convention on Real Earn
estness: Its Necessity How Obtained and Re-
tanned" Ira D. sankey will lead the singing.
Archie d. Glenn, one of the Deputy
State Superintendents of Public Schools, was
in the city yesterday He is the right-hand
man of DR.. Higbee in the Department of Pub
lie Instruction at Harrisburg. 1t is Mr.. Glenn's
pen that makes more than 81 100000 worth of
warrants as good as gold to hundreds of schools
throughout the Commonwealth every year.
Some years ago this same gentleman was editor
OF the Free Press in Kittanning. He became
so popular that Armstrong county sent him to
the Legislature. While there he introduced
and had passed the famous law for the study of
physiology and hygiene in the public schools
Hon. Walter Lyon, o. S. DistrictAttor-
ney, returned yesterday morning from Wash
ington, ID. C., where on the previous day he wit
messed the grand parade of the Triennial Con-
clave, Grand Encampment Mr.. Lyon states
that the display made on Pennsylvania avenue
was one of the grandest in the history of the
Order, and that native Washingtonians were
puzzled to remember an event in which pomp
Allegheny county Knights Templar made their
usual magnificent showing, both numerically
and in personal appearances.
Senior Brega, a citizen of Honduras.
stopped over in Pittsburg for few hours yes
terday, on his way to New York In his far.
away home he had heard of natural gas, and he
desired to see it in operation. Senior Brega
says that the people OF honduras are watching
with interest the building of the Nicaragua
canal. They are confident that it will benefit
their country, because of its contiguity to Mica
ragua
The furniture of the office of the Pro-
thonotary of the Supreme Court was being put
into shape yesterday in the third story of the
Court House. Mr.. Newmyer will have beauti-
full quarters when the work is finished.
Sergeant Beck, of the Twelfth ward sta
tion house, is lying sick at his home, and
Patrolman G. ]. F1uker has taken his place as
acting sergeant
Judge Wilson, of Clarion county, who
has been in the city on business connected with
the Supreme Court, left last night for home.
j. s. Rinehart, the Green county polit-
ical manager, was at the Seventh Avenue Ho-
tel yesterday.
George W. Chalfant, of Spang, Chal-
fant d Co., left last evening for New York on
business.
-Ex-State Treasurer Silas NJ. Bailey. of
Uniontown, was in the city yesterday.
Colonel J. M. Schoonmaker, of this
city, went 60 New York last night