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further improved and the charms Of those
popular localities are more widely known.
The DISPATCH has photographed some
Pittsburg homes-some of the pretty places
where the men of brains and Drawn, energy
and capital, who have made the city great
live. Camera and pencil, paper and ink
cannot do justice to these places, however.
The rich coloring of velvety grass cluster
ing vines and autumn-tinted foliage cannot
be reproduced by such means. Even the
coziness of an Oakland home is lost in the
stiff lines Of picture. The beauty spots
must be seen to be appreciated.
THE EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
Palaces and private grounds there be out
Fifth avenue and Forbes street and in the
vicinity on either side that would do credit
to any city. These are the homes of wealth,
luxury and fashion. They are not few and
tar between, but come one after another In
such imposing array that one Is led to
wonder whether all the people in this busy
town are rich. Not merely are they evil
dences of wealth, but their surroundings
and Punishment speak of culture, taste and
refinement in eloquent terms.
Not all the pretty East End places are
given over to the wealthy. The well-to-do
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B0UCICAULTs LAST WORK.
Clara Belle Furnished the Plot and Wrot
Half the Chapters.

Clara Belle Furnished the Plot and Wrot,
Half the Chapters.
That versatile genius, Dion Boucicault
is dead, and I was the last person with
whom he did any literary work, writes Clara
Belle to The DISPATCH. We were chat.
ting one day on the subject of plots fol
novels and plays, and he expressed doub,
of the possibility Of anything absolutely
new in that line. I disputed that
"Well," said he, 'If you will invent an
entirely original theme, will go into part
nership with you to write it up"
'"Then here it il" I responded. SIN all
your own concoctions of plots, and in all
your appropriations Of other folks plots,
have you come across one in which hus-
band deliberately placed his wife as the
bride of another man in order to get this
second husbands money. as soon as he
should die, which an incurable malady
dooms him to do within year or so?"
mo, l haven't, and it is right down
good one. The title ought to be Two Mems
Bride Shall we write it?''
Boucicault was an impulsive man. and
before parting we had settled it to write
alternate chapters of the proposed romance.
That is how I came to be the genius collabo-
rator in novel, the completion of which
between US constituted his last composition
on earth,
We labored very pleasantly, each being
unhampered by the other in his or her own
chapters, but discussing together the general
plan and its execution. Boucicault ALWAYS
did his writing in solitude, and with pen.
knew of his having dictated to a stenog-
rapher, as rapidly as ordinary talk, q quiet,
thoughtful and considerate article for the
North american ReUie,o, and was therefore
surprised when he said:
~ never undertake to make fiction hastily.
I must see it 90 out from the point of INV
pen in black ink right onto white paper.
Opinions can be phrased glibly enough. but
to originate story matter, with elaborate
scenes and Characterization is slow work if
we'll done"
We differ only on one point, and that was
whether, in the estimation of the novel read
ing public, woman or money is the more in
teresting. He insisted that the dunIex
bslde of our story was the prime object
while 1 argued that the million in money.
at which the scheme aimed. was of
more popular consequence. But he con-
vinced me that he was right, and SO we
agreed on 1.-TWO Mems Bride" as the title.
just as he had at first proposed. Had he
lived little longer the story would have
been put into dramatic form for theatrical
use.
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BY WILLIAM LACK
WITH CONTEMPORARY LIFE
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

and apparently so unconscious of ii, too.
Again and again 1 noticed people halEturn
their heads to get another glimpse of her as
she went by-anj no wonderfully, really,
such a earriage-such an air Of distinction
and quiet selfpossession, for all she looked
so young-I never was so surprised in all
| my life. Oh, most beautiful creature
| and that must say in common honesty,
whatever comes of il"
Nay, the very incoherence of his praise
was proof OF its sincerity; and Vincent's face
| burned with pleasure and pride. How
| could sweeter words have been poured into
a lovers ears?
did you chance to notice her hair?-did
you?" said he, eagerly. "Ah, but it is
braided up just now: if you could only see
it as she used to wear it-howing loose, that
is-why, it's the most wonderful thing you
ever saw-a kind of-of splendor when the
sunlight is on it-you never saw such a
beautiful color, and so quiet and soft at the
same time. Yes, you must really see that,
to do her justice, you know" the young
man said,- in his surprise and delight at
having at last found one sympathetic con-
fidant. "I'll tell you what I'll do: the next
time she is going out for a walk I will ask
her to let her hair down; and will give
you hint beforehand, so that you may
come along"
win, what are you talking aboutP" his
friend said-and prudentlv be did not laugh
he only looked amused. "You couldn't
ask girl to do such a thing as thatP'
"Oh, yes, could" he said, "And I'm
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uhuer CaDIe engaged In prayer. He said he
had dropped piece of tobacco l didn't force
matters with DAVIS because I wished to AVOID
nloodshed. II there must be anyI should pre-
fer that it would occur after your return.
| thought very likely it would. I wrote
Eddie to be gentle but firm, and to get the
rent money if he had to steal it. His next
letter contained the following record OF
clever fnanciering:
ONE BILL PAID.
Caught the artist to-day. Said to myself that
l must collect of somebody and couldn't think
OF any way TO do it. Finally told Billings Pd
play bin seven-ur. He's always telling me
about his hard luck, and 1 thought it would be
snap to win the rent out of him. But my lack
was enough to ruin millionaire. Billings got
me for 81. gave him my 1. o. u, and then he
sald nee pay the rent, so he gave me back the
l. Y. u. and Pm saving it for you, old man. So
you see Eve made one collection. anyway.
Eddie is good fellow, but his paper is
subject to heavy discount T think /
would rather have taken a sketch by Bill
lngs. Affairs were getting serious; but Ed
dies next letter made them worse.
brought matters to head to-day-Barrow
wouldn't settle and so got the janitor's man
to put the old fellows desk and chair into the
elevator and run them down to the ground
moor. when Barrow saw this he smiled like a
hammer-headed shark jnst turning over to bite.
Ihen ne went for lawyer, who informed me
that had given grounds for action. asked
them what they were going to do about it. and
they sald nothing SO far as was concerned.
because 1 was only your agent. but they pro-
posed to sue you for $1,000. Awful sorry, old
man. but thought was acting for the best.
Haven't seen old Barrow so cheerful for weeks
Don't you think you'd better come back?
GOING TO COLLECT HIMSELF.
thought had. The next train was
none too soon for me. 1 reached New York
about noon and hurried toward the Office.
Near the door l met Marshall.
w hat are you going to do?" he asked.
Going to collect that rent" replied.
mo use, said he; "there isn't man up
there. I told 'em all yesterday that the
money would have to be paid at noon to-
day. When went there found the place
as lonely as Jim Healey's grave. You re-
member Jim? He was blown up in a DOW.
der mill and his remains couldn't be found.
That's the way with those cormorants. Go
up and take look" \
l did so. There stood the desks in q row.
and nota man in sight. Every desk had
sign on 1t. Here are some of them:
ALL UNAvoIDABLY ABSENT.
Called away by sudden death" "Gone
70 visit my grandmother's grave. Return
Friday" "Please call again."
Eddie, said l, "let's put the whole
crowd OUT
Cant do it without regular papers," said
he. I've found out about 1t. The papers
will cost 81 apiece and the average rent due
is only S. apiece. I allow that it's 50
'piece cheaper to let 'ein stay than to put
EN- out How do you figure it?"
I've been figuring on it ever since. Eddie
s right about the law, and, by its provisions.
can't see why those fellows aren't quar-.
cred on me indefinitely.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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FRED MUssEYs NEW BOOTS,
Frank G. Carpenter Tells an Amusing Story
of His Newspaper Friend.

Frank G. Carpenter tells q good story
about his friend, Colonel Fred Mussey, now
managing editor of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette. 1t was when Fred was boy
Of 5, be writes to THE DISPATCH, in one of
the backwoods villages of Vermont that he
got his first new boots. They were red
topped and copper-toed, and when Freddy
first tried them on he was the proudest boy
in the whole Green Mountain State. He
strutted up and down the street in front of
the house, and stamped along the wide hall
of the old double house in which his father
lived, making as much noise as though his
feet were soled with lead
As be did this his elder brother who knew
that the event, SO momentous to Fred, was
to come of that morning, came into the
hall. he did not look at Fred's boots, but.
shifting loudly with his nostrils dilated as
he turned his head this way and that. said in
an excited tone: "What's this I smell? I
smell new leather" and then looking all
about the floor he at last fixed his ewes on
Fred's feet and concluded: "Why, it's
little Fred's new boots.''
And with this Fred swelled more than
ever until he looked fat little bow that be
was, like the frog in Esop's fables that
tried to blow itself up as big as bull. And
so the early morning went off. Before 8
o'clock everyone in the village knew of
Fred's new boots, and he persuaded his
mother to let him go with his elder brother
to the country school and wear them.
The two got there little late, and Fred
as soon as he entered the schoolroom in
order to call attention to his greatness, con-
cluded to initiate his brother, and In shrill
piping tones, as he shifted his nose in the
air, he cried out: whats this I smell? I
smell new leatherl Whyr' and here he
lifted up one leg SO that half the school
could see his foot, sIt must be nv new
boots" 1t is needless to say that the school
broke into laugh and that his boots were
generally admired.
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The cares Of this Office weighed upon me-
was afraid it would involve me in a scan.
dal. The Colonel might cut somebody in
two, or Barrow's head might fail off in his
sleep. On the whole / was very uneasy,
and 1 ,longed to accept an invitation sent me
by some relatives who wanted me to visit
them in their quiet home in Ohio. III had
known what to do with the Office would
have gone at once.
In this emergency star OF hope appeared
in the form of young man named Edward
Marshall. Eddie" was good boy and
very ambitious. He volunteered to run the
office and collect the rents while was gone.
be SAID that If there was anything in the
world he enjoyed 1t was making other peo-
pie pay up in time and be business-Iike in
their methods.
had saved up money enough for the
next months rent, but as Eddie was going
to collect from the other fellows spent the
sum in buying suit of clothes calculated
to astonish the entire State OF Ohio.
REPORTS NOT VERY SATISFACTORY,
Osie week of my little vacation had passed
away when received this note from Eddie:
! have begun collection. Started with Jack
ollIlngs. the artist. He is temporarily embar-
rassed; Billings draws very fair pictures, but
he can't draw to four-card flush. This is why
he is broke all the time,
A few days later came this:
Barrow, the real estate man, hasn't q cent
nor customer. I have learned that he had
aesk room with Brown, on the fourth floor. be-
lore ne camc up here. He was there two years.
and owes Brown rent for "a months: also s47s
borrowed money. Brown, you'll remember is
the man who introduced Barrow to you Shall
thump breWn2 When struck Barrow for
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many OF our own people know all too little
OF all the delightful places within the city
limits.
Really Pittsburg lives. 1t is city Of
good homes, happy, bright and intelligent
families. Workshop it may be, no doubt is.
But those who think it is nothing else have
merely failed to take into the account the
fact that in Pittsburg the shop and living
room are not combined. Industry is prom
lnent here, and people are more generally
employed. perhaps, than anywhere else in
the world 1t is the fruits of this universal
toll that may be seen In the more pleasant
parts of the city. A. r. CRUM.
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A HANDSOME EAST END MANSION

from shop life to home life, from dingy
tenement to fine residence. Hazelwood
eaptlVates the eve with its broad, smooth
lawns. The SouthsIde hills are covered
with comfortable dwellings. with pleasant
and picturesque surroundings. Pittsbureers
don't work all the time. They live,
took friend out in the East End re-
Gently and it was a revelation to him
though he thought he was pretty we'll ac,
quainted with Pittsburg. So he was. in a
business way. "Do you know" he said
II have long had close business copuections
here, but never thought of living here until
now. l had no idea what an attractive
place Pittsburg really is"
A CABLE CAR REVELATION.
Before the cable cars surmounted tbe
hump and brought the East End and
Oakland into easy communication with the
business district this widespread. Ignorance
regarding the finest residence Quarters of
the city was not much to be wondered at
Neither is it difficult to see that people have
been viewing the beauties of those sections
since the means OF communication have
been improved. The hundreds of costly
and elegant new residences to be found
there fully attest the fact. Nor is it hard to
LOOK in the future and see the greatly in
creased demand there will be for homes
when the means Of communication are
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Washing the Imperial Elephants.

The Emperor Of China having commanded
the Board Of Astronomy to appoint an
auspicious day for the annual washing Of
the imperial elephants, August II, at the
first hour, was the day appointed, and the
officers of the Board of Ceremonies put up
temporarily mat sheds beautifully decorated
on the north side of the creek, outside the
Hsuan WI Men, Peking. where the i'm
perial elephants received an ovation. Vari-
ous ceremonies were performed before they
took their annual bath,
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railroad or steamer, the stranger sees oul
mills, our factories, our shipping interests.
Penetrating to the business quarter "down
town" he sees our great business houses,
marts of trade and is tussled and confused
by the flying cable and electric cars. He
even sees the throng on the principal thor
oughfares and wonders "what is going on
or where the crowd comes from.
A GLIMPSE OF ALLEGHENY.
Now and again the curious one follows
the crowd down Sixth street and over into
Allecheny, sees the pretty flower garden
parks and the rows of dwelling houses.
Then he goes away satisfied that he knows il
all, believing our sister city to be the chief
residence quarter of Pittsburg.
Comparatively very few take the trouble
to board a cable car to the East End, an
electric car to Hazelwood, go over on the
Southside, slide gently up Mt. Washington
or Mt. Oliver on an inclined plane, or pene-
trate the depths of Lawrenceville. Yet in
these places Pittsburgers live, and many
thousands of them live well.
Beauty spots are not rare in this big
town. They are not found on the crowded,
narrow streets of the busy triangle, but out
in the residence quarters named-out in the
places where the casual or business visitor
never sees them. venture to say there are
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middle classes are represented with splendid
residences, architecturally handsome out
side and finely furnished inside. These
share the natural beauty of the locality in
common with their more pretentious neigh
bors. While not surrounded by spacious
grounds, ornameuted with shrubbery, flow
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A Dance on the Street.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l

There were few people on the sidewalks
and plenty of room for everybody. Sud-
denly we met well-dressed lady hur-ying
along as if her life depended on it. My
friend stepped to the right. So did she. He
skipped two feet to the left; she was there.
He tried the right track again, and met her
squarely face to face. (which shall it be.
madam. ]" he exclaimed in breath, ga waltz
or schottische2"
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AND NOT AT ALL DESERVED.
1t has Its Splendid Palaces Set in
Rolling Grounds of Green
As WELL AS ITS CHANGING SHOPS.
Rapid Transit to the Suburbs is Enlighten-
ing City Visitors.
coII HOMES OF THE MIDDLE GLASS
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l

HAT stranger has ever
come here and gone
away without remark
ing that Pittsburg is the
great workshop of this
country? What stranger
who has never been here
has any other impress
sion than that Pittsburg
is all workshop, covered
with CRIME and dust?
Pertinent is the ques-
ton: Do visitors see
Pittsburg? Truthful is
the answer that compar-
atively few OF them do.
Most of them cling to
the down town district,
the river fronts and rail-
road yards.
Coming into town by
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NELL GWYNNE'S NAME
Perpetuated in What Conkling Called
the H0liest Charity
THAT EVER BLESSED MANKIND.
Greenwich Hospital Where John Bulls
Jack Tars Are Trained.
SCHOOLS FOR OFFICERS AND sEAMEN
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH.

rooRR1spoNDENcR OF THE p1sPATcH.I
GREENWICH, ENGLAND, October TO-
Roscoe Conkling once said to me that Green
wich Hospital was "the holiest charity that
ever blessed mankind" At the moment he
was discussing the caprices OF Charles II.
and drawing a picture of the life of Nell
Gwynne, who exerted such wonderful in
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Repairs Needed An Around.

New York Herald.l
Parson Prosy (who has brought the archi-
tect to see about repairing the church,
There's a good deal OF dry rot in the south
gallery, Mr.. Gable.
Gable-Jess so, parson; and there's o good
deal also In both nave and pulpit,
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the rent he said he didn't have it, but guessed
Brown would lend 1t to him. guess not.
This hopeful communication was followed
in the next mail by this:
ENCOUNTER WITH A DOG

IsNOOON1 1Eh WITH A DUG.
Had tussle with Davis, the Notary Public,
to-day. When mentioned rent be set his dog
on me. Do you know what a Notary Public's
dog is? It's the big iron seal he stamps papers
with. 1t has dogs head on it. He took it by
the handle and said he'd put his official seal on
my cerebellum if ever mentioned the Subject
to him again. When this rumpus occurred the
Colonel was telling how he bisected Jim
Waters. After 1t was over found the Colonel
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ers and statuary, they have pretty little
laws, terraces and flower gardens about
them. Sometimes there is a bright bit of
park left, surrounded BY the street. All
these are evidences of widespread pros
perity.
REPUTATION OF THE PAST.
All about the vicinity Of schenley Park
1t is a most desirable residence quarter. It
is mistake to suppose that all the charming
places are out in the suburbs. The city it.
self is full of them. Many cities are sur
rounded by attractive little suburbs while
they are grimy and forbidding, but this is
not the case with this city. Yet, it is, posi-
Bile that no place on this continent has a
worse reputation, in this respect, beyond its
own limits than the one time "Smoky CITY" I"
This title was gained in the old coal days BY
the city's matchless industry, and the idea
Of SCOT and dirt cllngs to many minds long
after the reality has disappeared from our
streets and buildings.
Even the workmen, the clerks in short,
the great industrial army, have neat and
pleasant homes. Thousands of comfortable
dwellings OF pleasing exterior, each with
large lot, may be found on the Southside
hills above the CRIME and dirt of the hum
ming hive of labor which supports them.
Well furnished all of them. From their
windows far-reaching views of most attrac-
tive scenery.
THE sMoKELESs FUEL,
With q smokeless fuel this great indus.
trial center has also become most desirable
place to abide in. Fine residences afore-
time have been improved and Frightened
mp, and new ones are appearing all the
time. 1t is not too much to say that great
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couraged. I figured clear profit of 60 cent.
a month, making an allowance for car fare
aud lunches downtown.
True, it wasn't much of place to write
in. Old Barrow, the real estate dealer.
used to put his feet on his desk and 90 tc
sleep. Barrow wasn't an energetic man,
when he was awake, but he snored so dill.
gently as anybody ever knew. And then
his poor old head would hang over the chair
in frightful positions. till by and by il
would droop straight backward, and his
eyes, sightless in sleep, would stare at me
and give me nightmare, too. Barrow was
not beautiful in any position, but could
contemplate his countenance more calmly
when it was right side up.
PRADTIcE OF REAL ESTATE MEN.
Real estate men in New York rarely have
a customer, but, when they do. they get the
boots of his feet and the coat off
his back, and rob his grand mother
and his widow and his orphaned
children, after which they take the
money to Wall street where they "blow it
In" Then they return to their cages and
| wait for another special providence.
But the most annoying of my tenants was
man whom scarcely ever saw. He said
he didn't want an Office except as a place to
6Cp hio moAi. 11C dlSO LudL one or
two of his friends might like to have their
letters come in his care. interposed no
objection because didn't understand the
situation. 1t wasn't long before this mans
friends began to drop in to get their mail.
I may as we'll say right here that never
saw letter for any of them, but they were
always waiting for one, and they took all
the chairs in the Office, and when the chairs
gave out the rest OF the party sat on my
desk.
THE KENTUCKY COLONEL.
Then those that had chairs drew them up
and put their feet on the desk, and a Ken
lucky Colonel stood at one end of it and
told them stories. The Colonel smoked
clay pipe and cut his plug tobacco with
pocket knife which had blade six inches
long. While he cut the tobacco he told
stories, and ir the exciting parts he pounded
on the desk with the handle of the knife.
Every time I began feeble remonstrance
ODE OF the Colonel's staff would say:
Colonel, tell US about the time you cut
Slim Jim Waters in two with that 'ere
knife Ef 1 don't disremember Jim, he
favored our irien' here-'bout the same
fgur', wasn't he?"
I was ''our trien'," and I did not care to
die in two separate places, as poor Jim
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people with business connections in this
city who come here three or four times a
year, or even once or twice a month who
have no idea OF the residence quarters of the
place.
INTO ANOTHER WORLD.
Fifth avenue, beyond Soho, is a glad and
surprising panorama OF pretty places. Here
and there glimpse is caught of the beauty
on either side little way removed from
that popular thoroughfare. The whole
Oakland district is delightful. Yet, be-
yond East Liberty are lovely suburban
places. LawrenceviIle covers the transition
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GLAD TO GET AWAY.

Waters did, according to the Colonel 8
story; so said no more.