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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
PRAISE DUE THE POLICE.

The police force of Pittsburg is more
efficient body to-day than it has ever been.
The public can see this for themselves. 1t
is fact that the official figures and state
ments which We publish elsewhere
sbundantIy establish. Chief Brown has
reason to be proud OF the showing made by
his department during the past year, and
Pittsburg's guardians of the peace as body
may fairly felicitate themselves. 1t is also
right that Inspector McAleese should
have recognition for his share in the good
work. Over two-thirds of the arrests made
by the police department 60 to the credit of
the First district, over which Inspector Nc
Aleese presldes, and over two-thirds of the
revenues, which exceed the estimate by fifty
per cent, from police business emanate from
the same district. The extinction OF the
speak-easy in the downtown precincts seems
also to have been due to Inspector Nc
Aleese's energy, and it is only just that he
should receive full credit for the thorough
ness of his work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
A YEAR OF PROSPERITY.

1t is worth while to look back over the
year now drawing to a close. Such a year
of prosperity and progress has never been
known in Pittsburg before. A review of the
year in detail which appears in another
column is most pleasant reading. 1t
shows that everybody who wanted
to work found it and at fair
wages There have been no disastrous
strikes, no proftless conflicts between capital
and labor; harmony has reigned in all the
relations OF men in this community for a
year past. Among other gratifying signs
of the period is the purchase of building lots
by workingmen. 1t is safe to say that more
Pittsburgers own their own homes to-day
than there were renters twenty years ago.
If 1891 makes no violent departure from the
record of1S9O in Pittsburg we shall be more
than content.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

tion more broadly than any other authority
has yet done. This widespread attempt to
nullify the law was plainly founded upon
a belief that its penalties would not be en-
forced. IF the law is to be of any value
whatever in checking the evils of discrimin-
ating rates, that idea must receive the con-
vincing disproof of the imposition of the
penalties on every railroad official who un-
dertakes to violate it. The pleas in the
cases decided by Judge Gresham were inter-
posed to prevent the enforcement of the
penalties, and that Judge with his usual di-
rectness has swept away the legal cobwebs
which were spun to prevent the enforcement
of the law.
As these cases will go to the United States
Supreme Court on writ of habeas corpus, it
may be hoped that an early decision will be
obtained that will make it possible to en-
force the law. But the United States Su-
preme Court has of late years come to be
very uncertain body.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

cities of smaller population have exceeded
the 80 per cent of Pittsburg's growth during
the past decade; but among the larger cities
only Chicago and Boston show a greater
growth than Pittsburg has enjoyed. With
the additional presumption that our popula-
tion is actually larger than the census
credits us with, the display of growth for
our city is extremely gratifying.
The value of this method of comparison,
and at the same time the injury done to our
standing as city by the present division OF
our community into the great municipalities
and half dozen suburbs, appears very
strikingly in the fact that when the COM
parison is made by counties Pittsburg ranks
in the same class as Boston, Baltimore and
St. Louis; while when the comparison is
made by municipalities we are ranked with
Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and New Or
leans
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
A COMPARISON OF GROWTH.

The figures given elsewhere, on the sub
ject of the relative growth of population OF
the leading centers, as shown when munic-
ipal lines are disregarded and the entire
communities are included in the population,
are not only very interesting, but quite fat
tering to Pittsburg, 1t appears from this
statement that the actual growth of the
manufacturing community, known as Pitts
burg, was exceeded by only four cities. New
York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.
The growth of the last city was only about
thousand greater than the growth in Pitts
burg, while the percentage of growth was
only little over half as much.
: On the same comparison we find that the
percentage of growth for this commuuity
gives il even q far higher position. Othei
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
POINTED AND WITTY.

A young man who married butterfly of
fashion, - was unable, year later, to provide
'grub'' for his butteriy.-HOrristoon Herald.
Ernesrine-What is the one fault you have
TO find with Charlie2
Celestine-None Of the other girls are in love
with him.-Munsey's Weekly.
"Are you a suitor for Miss Browns
hand?''
''Yes. but didn't"
"Didn't what?''
'sSuitor. ''-MUnsey's Weekly,
1t is generally admitted that the pyro-
technical display at the dedication of the New
York World building on Wednesday night sur.
passed anything that had been seen since the last
edition of the paper came out.-PhiLadsiphid
Inquirer.
''I can't imagine why mems pockets are
so easy to get at and women's so hard, " be re-
marked.
SITS plain enough was her reply. 'Tt's a
sign men have 10 business with a woman's pocket,
but a,woman has with a mans. "-PhiLadslphfa
Times.
Mr.. Gates (of the moonshine district)-
You started t. marry us this morning.. parson.
an got as far as asKin' US whether we'd hey each
other when her ole man came up.
The Parson-I did.
clum over Bald mountain. an waded Simm's
swamp; an now that we've shook him. we wanter
say yes an wind up tin ceremony, Judge.
Mr.. Bloobumper-Did you enjoy the SER
mon, love?
Mrs. Bloobumper-Oh, 1t was exquisite, but
would have enjoyed it better II I'D had as pretty
q bonnet as Mrs. Gimp's to wear. Mines \ per-
feet fright, and so old fashioned.
Mr.. Bloobumper-I guess you didn't notice
what the minister said about envy.
Mrs. Bloobumper-Well, 1 don't carei One
can't cultivate the Christian virtues with only
two bonnets a year.
Mr.. Bloobumper-Well. If made my morey as
unscrupulously as Gimp makes his. could afford
to let get all the bonnets your heart could de-
sire.
Mrs. Bloobumper-I guess you didn't notice
what the minister said about love and eharity.->
HunsV's Wsskfv.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
TO ENFORCE THE LAW.

The decision of Judge Gresham in the
Counselman and Peasley cases afirms the
right of the legal authorities under the
interstate commerce act to req ire evidence
from those cognizant of its violation, such as
the officers of the corporations or the recipi-
ents Of preferential rates. The Judge points
out that both the provisions of the act and of
statutes protect witness against prosecu-
tion on his own testimony; while the plea on
behalf of corporation official that while
his testimony would not incriminate him il
would his corporation, is swept aside by the
remark that the Interstate commerce law
does not attempt to impose criminal punish
ment on that famous class of organisms
which have neither bodies to be imprisoned
nor souls to be damned.
This certainly looks as if there was going
TO be something like a real enforcement of
the law. The fact that there have been gen.
eral violations of that enactment has been
fully disclosed of late, not only by the cases
before the courts at Chicago, but by the re-
port of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, which stated the fact of general viola
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Disappointing.


lie was desperately in earnest and she was an
attentive listener. All sorts of subjects he
had tried in the hope of finding something she
liked and could talk about She was a puz-
zling sort of girl. Her low, broad forehead
and large brown eyes spoke of intellectuality;
she was dressed in excellent taste; modest sill
very gray gown not cut too low, and the alb
sence of Jewelry confirmed the promise of her
face. And yet he had tried her on books, on
the opera, on the culture of orchids-their
hostess was famous for her orchids-and her
responses had shown neither enthusiasm nor
knowledge. Above the corner of the music
room in which they were sitting hung small
Corot-a little bit of meadow with big trees
sheltering woodman's hut and dense forest
in the background. He called her attention to
the soft twilight effects which the great painter
had reproduced and from this drifted into
talk about some pictures he had seen at New
York sale the week before. To his delight the
dark eyes lit up for the first time and she fol-
lowed his description Of the paintings with evi-
dent interest.
when was in Philadelphia in October
she said presently, II saw a picture that
would dearly like to own. 1t was so full of
light and delicious color-a goddess in golden
car floating among rosy clouds, the loveliest
woman have ever seen. Do you know it p
it is famous picture, believe; I've seen en-
cravings of it."
Il don't know" he said. "What is 1t
called ~
Let me see-it was sunrise and the horses
were white" she said, and the big brown eyes
seemed to be looking at something at least
thousand miles away.
"Was it Aurora p" he ventured.
Eyes p' she cried. That's the name-'Aurora
Borealisp"
That settled it. He allowed her to turn the
conversation to the intellectual game Of Tid-
dlewinks without murmur.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
GETTING CHRISTMAS TREES.
Pennsylvania Supplies Them to Nearly All
the Large Cities.

Pennsylvania Supplies Them to Nearly All
the Large Cities.
The Pocomo Mountains, in Lackawanna coun-
ty, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, supply the
Christmas trees for nearly all of the large
cities. Overj100,000 spruce and tamarack trees
will be shipped from that locality during the
next few weeks Most of them go to New York
and Philadelphia.
The trees vary in height from 6 TO 18 feet, and
they are now lying in huge heaps and rows near
the side tracks at the Pocomo Summit and
Tabyhanna Mills stations, on the Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western road. Scores of
men worked all through November to cut the
trees in the woods and swamps and haul them
out to the log roads. They were then loaded
on large bark-rigged wagons and drawn to the
railroad by OK teams.
The shippers pay the land owners at the rate
of 81 per 100 for the trees as they stand in the
woods. Between 600 and 700 are packed in each
car. Last year about 10000 Christmas trees
were shipped from the same vicinity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
TO-MORROW'S DISPATCH si''' y. n.s: :: :''.,, a.

UlNfAIGH be made u
into THREE PARTS, containing TWENTY
FOUR s-coIumn pages. This means 1872
columns ofREADING MATTER. Scattered
through this mammoth number will be
found the HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS
of Pittsbure and AlleghenYs LEADING
HOUSES. Every line will be represented.
All in search of HOLIDAY BARGAINS will
find To-MoRRoW's DISPATCH splendid
SHOPPING GUIDE. The Literary and
News Features Of To-MoRRoW'S DIS
PATCH will be found equal to previous
issues in every department. Every ne ID OF
Newspaper and Magazine Literature has
been oulIed. The special contributions
will be Entertaining, Instructive, Amusing.
Nothing not calculated TO be spread before
young and old is permitted to enter the
columns of The DISPATCH. All classes
are catered to except the morbid. TO-
MoRRoW'S 24-PAGE ISSUE should, in
fact II will, find resdersat every freside.
A table of contents would fill too much
space. Readers can rest assured that TO-
MoRRoW'S DISPATCH will give them all
they car wish for both as regards variety
and quality. Order through the mails,
from News Agents and Carriers. Address
The DISPATCH, corner SmithfeId and
Diamond streets, Pittsbure, Pa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
A Political Inquiry.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please let me know through the columns of
THE DISPATCH what this "force bill is"
A READER.
SHARON, PA, Dec. 10.
IThe so-called force bill" is aImeasure
designed to give the Federal Government
the control of the registration, voting, count
ing and particularly the certifcation of the
elections for members to Congress. Its advo-
Gates admit that it is designed more especially
for the South, and say thatit will protect the
colored mans ballot
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

AN interesting expose of the relative
value of real and nominal authority was re-
Gently afforded in Philadelphia. where the City
Councils passed a resolution directing its Rail-
road Committee to report at the next meeting
the Belt Line ordinance. The committee had
carefully kept that measure on the shelf these
many months while the Pennsylvania Railroad
was maturing plans to head off the new enter
prise. The committee, after prolonged confer
ences with the representatives of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, reported the ordinance loaded
down with amendments designed to defeat the
measure. 1t is a wise Council committee which
knows its own master.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
COMMERCE OF OUR LAKES.
A Greater Tonnage Than That of London
and Liverpool Together.

"a
and Liverpool Together.
The commerce of our great Northwestern
lakes, says the Chicago Inter- Ocean, both as to
the volume and value of business, overshadows
the combined traffic of all the rivers in the
world, is greater than the commerce of the Gulf
of Mexico and Caribbean, Mediterranean and all
other seas, and the arrivals and departures at
the port OF Chicago outnumber the port of New
York for eight months in the year, and of all
the other American seaboard ports of entry for
the entire II months.
Here are some figures which will tend to give
an idea of the real greatness of the business
transacted on the great unsalted seas for the
season which came to an end on December l,
1889:
Annual tonnage of entries and clearances of
the great seaports of the world for the year
1889: New York, II, ,05l, ,2S6 tons; all other sea-
ports in the United States, 26983,315 tons:
Liverpool, 4,175,2 200 tons; London, 19,245.417
tons; tonnage passing through the Detroit river
(inter-lake connection), SO, 203, ,606 tons.
1t will thus be seen that the lakes carry TO-
O0O 900 more tons than the entries and clear
ances of all the seaports of the United States.
and 1900. 900 more than the combined foreign
and coastwlse shipping Of London and Liver
pool ports open to craft from all over the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
Laid It to Lightning.

A UNIT BELINDA visited Pittsburg for the first
time in twenty years last week and she has
been entertaining the family circle at Scarlets-
vile with stories of strange sights and perilous
passages in the city ever since.
Your Cousin George took me to ride on
them cable cars" she says. "and the way them
things tear rounds somethin' frightful Scared
me bit, but never let on till the car stopped
one time awful sudden. Threw me sideways
and grabbed Georges arm. We had to lay
there good while, for they'd run out er light
min p
Electricity gets the blame as well as the
credit for most things these dave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
According to Hoyle.
To the Editor of The Dispatch

10 tno hQlLOE Ol Lie Dlbpdtcu.
In late issue of your paper, Constant
Reader" of Wheeling, makes an inquiry about
the privilege of the 'lone hand" in the game of
euchre. For full information of this subject,
permit me to refer him to the several editions
of "Hoyles Games' as published by Dick and
Fitzgerald, from 1858 to 1890. Referring to the
fourteen edition of ''The American Hoyle,"
page SO. we find the following law: ~ A
player may play alone when he adopts, orders
up, OF makes trump; or when his partner as
sists, orders up, or makes trump" Constant
Reader" is in error when he assumes that a
player can order up his partner; he can only
order up his adversary. B. b. b.
PITTsBURG, Dec. II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

A NEW ORLEANS professor of what he
calls 'the new astronomy" predicts that at
some time in the future. the sun will rise in the
West. Possibly even this will take place when
Pittsburg gets her Streets cleared of telegraph
masts and overhead electric wires.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
AN HISTORICAL LANDMARK.

1t Commentaries the Famous Penn Indian
Walking Purchase.
Henry c. Mercer, of Doylestown. and the
Bucks County Historical Society, says the
Philadelphia Inquirer, have set up memorial
stone at the starting point of the famous
"walking purchase" of lands from the Indians
by the sons o. William Penn. On one of the
large boulders that surround the base of the
rough hewn obelisk the inscription reads:
To the Memory of the Lenui Lenape Indians,
Ancient Owners Of This Region,
These stones are placed at this spot the starting
point Of the
'INDIAN WALK
September II, 1877.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

The delightful comic opera of robin Hood"
was repeated before splendid audience at the
Duquesne Theater last night. There is moth.
ing to add to the praise already given to the
work and the performers. unless 1t be to re-
mark the exquisite quality of Miss Juliette
Corden's voice, which was displayed in the
numbers falling to the lot of Maid Marion
Miss Corden has improved in every way since
her last appearance here, and she now holds
easily a very high position among the younger
nnaratic stars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
OF LYNNs BEAUTIFUL PARK.

Some Very Suggestive Facts About Its
History and Extent.
Many years ago, writes Edward Everett Hale
in the NeaD England Magazine for December,
a private society of gentlemen In Lynn took
every chance which offered to buy land which
seemed fit for park purposes, tor the common
good.
OF all this, the upshot is that Lynn has now
what l call the finest park in America. Has
any other city park. close on the ocean, rising
often to points more than 400 feet above it,
with precipitous descent, perhaps. SO that the
prospect is wholly unbroken? Nay on the
mere measurement Of acres, what other city
has in one enclosure LOGO acres. of which you
would not willingly spare one inch?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

THE announcement that the custodians
of the Irish parliamentary fund. raised in this
country, will hold on to the money until the
pending differences are settled. is referred to by
a cotemporary as locking up the Irish money"
1t may produce a financial stringency among
the Irish leaders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

THE fight between the Irish factions was
appropriately begun in Kilkenny; but the pro-
verbal Kilkenny method of warfare seems to
have been transferred to the Dublin Office of
that journal which bears the name, hardly in
harmony with the present condition of affairs
of United Ireland
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

CHICAGO is now calling on the President
to issue his proclamation inviting foreign gov
ernments to participate in the Worlds Fair.
1t is certainly to be hoped that the proclama-
ton will get out within year from the time
when the bill was passed locating the fair at
that city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
A Bit of Advice.

From the New YORK PresS.1
The old lesson that Americans make the best
husbands for American girls Is once more en-
forced by the sad experience of the unfortu-
nate Kentucky heiress, whose worthless Span
ish husband has just fed with the fortune she
confdingly intrusted to him, leaving her i'm
poYexished and frlendless in this city
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

THE Governments of the South American
republics are sending commissioners to Europe
to induce immigration to their countries Since
the United States has no longer any desire for
assisted or contract immigration it might turn
its surplus in that line over to its South Amer
ican neighbors, under the policy of reciprocity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
G. Wins the Wager.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Please inform me through your paper which
is right. A. bets in case a national bank
breaks that the Government would pay the de-
positors dollar for a dollar. c. bets that it
would not. CONSTANT READER.
PITTsBURG, Dec. II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Joseph w. Steel, Millionaire.

GREKNsBURG, Dec. 12.-Joseph W. Steel, one
of the wealthiest and most widely known men in
this county, died at his home in this place this
morning aged 70 years. Mr.. Steel was said to be
worth a. 900, O00 all OF which he made by hard
work He was a director IN the Merchants and
Earmers' National Bank, and owned more farms
in this county than any other man. He was well
known to all the coal men in Western Pennsyl-
Yania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

Two and half millions in gold are COM
ing across the Atlantic, the tide of exchange
having turned the flow of the precious metal
in this direction. This will do more to relieve
the stringency than any quantity of legislation
the first effect of which would be TO make the
gold go out of the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
A Travelling Passion Play.

THE many thousand English and Americans
who attended and grew enthusiastic over
the Passion Play during the last summer will
be interested to know that the identical Ober-
ammergau performance is now beng given by
a company of so-called "Old Bavarian Passion
Players at popular prices in many of the
smaller towns. The province of Posen has
been selected as the first trial grounds by these
imitators. If the Polish dog takes kindly to it
this new version of the Great Play of Life"
may probably be seen on larger scale in all
the capitals of the world. may add here that
none of the original Oberammergau cast is con-
nected with the new undertaking. which is
simply private enterprise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13

REPRESENTATIVE MASON, of Illinois,
said in debate the other day that General
Grant needs no monument" This remark may
not have been inspired by the New York mil
lonaires; but they are acting on exactly that
principle.