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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

NINE. DosNE, sster-in-law of M. Theirs, owns
the finest private collection of pearls in the
world.
JOHN STEPHENSON, the street car builder,
will be 81 years old on the Fourth of July. He
is still on the track.
PROF. RICHARDSON, of Dartmouth College,
will sail for Europe on Saturday next to assume
the dictatorship of the American School at
Athens.
BISMARCK has two secretaries helping him to
write his "reminiscences" After awhile the
secretaries will be claiming the geminiscences
as their own.
BLISS PERRY, son of Prof. A. L. Perry, of
Williams College, the writer on political
science, has begun literary career. A new
novel, "The Broughton House." is his.
GEoRG EBERs, the Oriental scholar, is a
paralytic. but manages to do great amount Of
work. He is of decidedly Teutonic appear
ance, having blonde hair and beard and blue
eyes.
EMPEROR WILLIAM conferred LOS decora-
tions and medals last year. Fourteen new
Knights of the Black Eagle were created. 10
of the female order Of Louise, and one OF the
famous order Pour lie Merite.
Mr.. ALEXANDER POPE, of Boston, has
painted scene ftom THE Last Days of Pom
peii." 1t contains life-sized lion painted from
a lion at the Geological Garden in this city. 1t
has leaped from its cage and Glaucus is await
ing 1t in the background.
A NEW YORK evening paper says that Sena-
tor Wolcott, of Colorado, is to be married next
Wednesday. His bride will be Mrs. Lyman K.
Bass, of Buffalo, widow of ex-President Cleve-
lands old law partner. The wedding will be
quiet affair and will take place in Buffalo.
THEODORE HALLAM, of Covington. will be
candidate for Congress to succeed John 6. Car
Isle in the event Of the latter's election to the
Senate. Hallman is "a fellow of infinite jest"
and if he ever goes to Congress many of the
alleged funny men now there will have to take
back seats.
Mr.. AND MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
yesterday sailed for Europe with their five
children. They will not take the Herbert
II ouse in London, as their stay is limited to six
weeks, most of which will be spent in travel on
the Continent, combining business and pleasure
in their tour.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Rev, Father william KeeRau.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, May 1o.-The Very Rev.
Father William Keegan, Vicar General of the
Roman Catholic Church in the Brooklyn Diocese.
died this morning of pneumonia, at his home in
this city. He had been Ill since Monday last
when he was attacked with chills and fever with
malignant pneumonia. Vicar General Keegan
came to this city IN 1858 the assistant Of the Rev.
David W. Bacon. Father Bacon was subsequently
made the Bishop of Portland, Me-. and Father
Keegan succeeded him the rector of the As
sumption Church. He had been pastor of that
church ever since. some 10 years ago ne was ap,
In New York. Father Keegan was widely known
as one of the most vigorous church workers, was
a forcible and eloquent preacher. He WAS pict-
uresuue in the ecclesiastical life of the city his
quaint old-fashioned ways, his shrewd good sense
and his arm-heartedness endearing him to all
classes OF citizens. irrespective of faith. No
churchinan of any denomination was more favor
ably known than he was. nor had any more
friends, the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher being
one of his warmest admirers. Father Keegan was
about 20 years old.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
TRAINS IMITATION.

George Francis Train, under the guardian
ship OF the Canadian Pacific Railroad, has
progressed far enough around the world to
show a decided probabilityof beating Nellie
Bly's record by several days. Two features
OF his trip, however, will tend to make the
popular interest in his journey much less
than that ielt in the Pittsburg girls excur-
sion. The first is that she led in the effort,
and imitators cannot hope for the success of
the originator. The second is that it is very
different to make quick trip that is pre-
arranged by great railroad corporation
from what it is to make one taking the ordi-
nary chances of travel. II Train does not
stop on the way to indulge in some of his
eccentricities of lunacy he will probably
lower the record by about week; but his
rip will nevertheless be but an imitation in
lat field of brilliant uselessness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
ITALIAN LABOR NOT WANTED.

The statement made by one of the leading
contractors of the city that after full trial
of italian labor, it has been found SO un-
satisfactory that it will be discarded and
colored labor tried in its place, is an inter-
esting outcome of the Italian hegira, 1t has
been evident to most close observers that
this exceedingly cheap labor was in the end
the dearest that employers could get; but it
was supposed that it must be accepted for
lack of better. Whether the colored labor
ers will command higher wages, is a ques-
ton that NAV be left for the future to de-
eide. While employers are seeking good
and reliable labor it may be taken for
granted that such laborers will get their due
wages. But what will become of the
Italians? Are they to be shipped back to
the land Of the citron blossom or will they
stay here and organize bands of banditti in
the mountain regions for lack of better en-
ployment?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
AMONG OUR RURAL EXCHANGES.

CAMBRIA Herald: On Tuesday some person
shot 32-caliber ball through one of the plate
glass windows in the Court House.
DU BoIs Courier: The merchants and
clerks wish to accept the challenge Of the bar
tenders to play them a game of baseball, but
owing to the condition of the grounds suggest
next Tuesday as the time.
MoRGANTowN NeD Dominion: A number
of our people are painting their houses, and i'm
proving their yards and lawns. Morgantown
intends to put on her old-time neat and sweet
appearance this summer. aud greet her visitors
with her pleasantest smile.
TITUsvILLE Herald: Comrade N. Cross
man, OF the Union Veterans Legion, presented
that lodge last evening with gaVel made
from piece of pine timber taken from Look
out mountain. The gavel still contains bull
let. and will be priced very highly by the
union.
PARKERsBURG Sentinel: The COWS will
once more have the freedom of the city. The
near approach of an important city election
renders it inadvisable to interfere with the
rights of cows to browse in our public streets,
destroy gardens, and drive pedestrians from the
sidewalks.
PUNxsUTAwNEY Spirit: Our genial and
amiable blonde friend, Willie Baker, of the
Ridgeway Advocate. says that some women are
old maids because they want to be, and others
because "a condition, and not a theory, con-
fronts them" to which statement we can take
no exceptions.
ERIE Herald: Landlord Holcomb has
postponed the formal opening of the popular
resort at the head of the bay until about June
Is on account of the continued cold weather.
The hotel now presents an attractive appear
ance The grounds have also been beautiied
and a large refreshment stand has been
erected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY.

First Tramp-We have got to be careful,
Gully.
Second Tramp-What's de matter?
First Iramp-I read in paper dat skin diseases
is spread by de circulation Of bank notes.
SVtiHgs.
Fashionable Mamma-Doctor, want
this child yaccinated where nobody will ever see
the scar.
Push back your bangs, my dear.
A Long Hunt.-Jersey Farmer-Your
huntin', be ye?
City sportsman CweariIY)-Ye-e-s. been hunt
ing all day for a patch of woods without a law
penalty sign on it.-Nelo York Weekly.
Farmers wife-If you will help beat this
carpet will give you something to eat.
Dirty Davidson, the Tramp (haughtlJ)-
Ma'am! I'm gentleman, never beat my way
Toledo Blade.
seBy iove, Bronson! Excuse my saying so,
but this is the rankest cigarI ever smoked "nere
did you get it?''
It myself. ''-Epoch-
IT'S now that true bliss
Is embodied in this
The greatest of Joys that a mortal could wtshr
To sit on the edge
or some cool. mossy ledge,
And dandle fly o'er the nose OF hsh.
ANU u"--~ -WashtB9ton Pos:.
"pretty bad soil here for garden, isn't
tt?', said the potato vine
..1 snould think it was,'' said the onion, 'I'm
,o,,,, Strength ever day, and never had much to
ho@ip with. 1 don't get along worth SCENT"
81 can't get ahead here said the cabbage.
..I'm going to leave"
II know can't get long at all, " said the Gu
..Nor L., cried the asparagus. 'T don't get
,long or tall"
.This isn't 1T for 3 berrying ground," said the
.-,uberry s.but here come0 the sun. SO dry up,
an of YOU ,,-DetrOtt Free Press.
wConsiderate Brother--l say, Clara, il
Young Nogood comes around here again, rope
him in. Don't let him escape.
Ciara-why brother Tom, 1t was only day be-
fore Yesterday that you warned me against him.
You said he was loafer and never could earn
enough TO support himself, much less wife,
Considerate Brother-fes, but nave FOUND Gus
,nes ,h.t bs was. college chum Of kuss Harri-
son. He would make a bully protner"in'laW,Wtts
me for his deputy. .-SVtiH5s.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
THE WAND OF FORTUNE.

When Andrew Carnegie comes within
ffuy miles Of the town he is usually good for
a couple of columns of live, interesting read
ing to the Pittsburg papers; and his visit
the past week was no exception to the rule.
His comings and his goings, his discussion
of plans and his new revelations of generos-
itv made the uppermost topic during bis
stay.
No one now underestimate the reach and
influence of the Carnegie gifts, so there is no
need of expatiating further in that direction.
The whole country recognizes that Pitts
burg is splendidly provided for-and even
more so in respect to the art gallery and
collection, the latest of Mr.. Car
negie's surprises, than in regard to
the library, the giving Of which made
the first sensation. As Mr.. John w.
Beatty points out in his interesting review
of the matter in another column this morn
ing, a collection of the best works of
American art established upon such lines
as Mr.. Carnegie plans must make Pittsburg
forever notable among American cities and
the Mecca of artlovers 1t may just now
tax the imagination to fancy our one-time
smoky burg, the very CRIME and grossness
of whose manufactures were the towns
pride and trademark, transformed into the
chief American home of architecture and
painting; but really the tide seems to be
setting that way. Mr.. Beatty not inaptly
remarks upon the educative in
fuence and visible fruit of the
splendid Richardson county buildings,
exemplifed strikingly in the number of
handsome edifces of more recent date
which now adorns our streets. If the Car
negie gifts exercise a similar influence,
Cincinnati may go back to its pig-killing,
and Boston take refuge for celebrity in its
beans; for, in the distant future, it is evil
IDENTIFY neither of these cities, but Pittsburg,
which will be in a position to make modest
allusions to itself as the Athens of America.
OF course this is a long way ahead. The
disputes of the traction roads will have to
be settled first; the country roads
macadamized, and the new Post
office finished. Without looking down the
long and rather indefinite vista of time
thus indicated, it is safe to say that before
twenty-five years have passed, these Car
negie gifts and their consequence will have
given Pittsburg a proud, notable and
permanent reputation among the cities of
the world, apart from, and not less i'm
portant than that which she is already establ-
ishing for the magnitude of her manu-
factures.
It is needless to say that under the cir
cumstances. and in his role of good fairy,
D.. oF
delight. He seems to carry some new sur
prise in his pocket each time. Therefore
it is that the reporters welcome his advent
on each occasion; and thai the columns
which tell of his prospects and his move
ments are latterly always recognized as the
liveliest news of the day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
A TROUBLESOME OFFICE.

Let us hope that the McKeesport Post
Office fight is finally settled. The course of
events in connection with appointing a man
to distribute the mail matter of that thriv-
ing town has furnished sufficient amuse-
ment to the nation. and annoyance to the
people connected with it, to deserve rest and
retirement until another administration is
compelled to tackle the question over again.
There was a sufficiently unique aspect to
the anti-poker stand OF the administration
with reference to the first nominee. The
high moral position that Government off,
cials must not play poker could not be ex-
cepted to; but when the attitude practically
is that the McKeesport Postmaster is the
particular official who must be free from
the vices of swelling the anti or standing
pat on an ace high, the matter assumes
comic element to all except the rejected NOM
inee and the Postmaster General. But that
aspect of the case is cast in the shade
by the trouble occasioned through
the abundance of the Soles family among
those who are willing to manage the postal
matters of McKeesport. Soles is not a
common name; but there are enough of
them in McKeesport to bring Messrs. Ray
and Wanamaker within fifteen minutes of
putting the wrong one In the postofice, and
reduce them to the verge of distraction over
the difficulty of getting the right man there.
This is the reason, why, out pure charity,
we hope that the McKeesport Postofice
matter is settled. If any more trouble is to
be experienced over it, two of our states
men, at least. will conclude that political
life is no longer worth living.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11

tion by an illustrious example which comes
to us from Paris, the city to which all good
Americans hope to go when they die.v There
the young Prince of Naples has introduced
a fashion of wearing pink, blue or red shirt
and large jet studs, with low-cut evening
vest. The peerless dandies of Paris, it is
needless to say, are charmed with the au-
dacity which combines jet studs and
infamed linen. 1t would be suficientlyim-
pressiye as an initial step in the movement
here. From incsrnadined shirts to sky
blue coats would be an easy transition.
Combinations attuned to the shrieking
tints of a tropical sunset would next be
evolved naturally, while such details as
cooked hats, ruffies and shoes would
be an inviting field for the creative genius
endowed with vivid Imagination. The
gray and black procession which ceaselessly
files through our narrow streets to-day
would give place to rainbow hued multi
tude something like that which New Y ork
knew a century and half ago, when the
fashions of st. James were mirrored on
Broadway.
Would it not delight the aesthetic souls Of
our young men if they could wear long
skirted coats Of velvet, silk or satin-lined,
or of brocade with gold EN- mbroidery, rows of
buttons of precious metal, cuffs richly
trimmed with Flemish lace, deep jabots of
the same costly and elegant material, long
waistcoats OF equally brilliant stuff. small
silk stockings, gloves edged with
lace, powdered wigs on their heads, about
their waists rich embroidered sashes for
swords, and high-heeled shoes
with diamond buckles? The vision is en-
trancing. If some curled darling will play
Prince of n aples with red shirt and jet
studs for Pittsburg. all the rest may come.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11

troll the trades interested by illegitimate
methods. The practical assertion, that a
man who gives his workmen better wages
than others in the same trade will agree to,
shall not be able to buy material, is the de-
velopment of boycott more indefensible
than any for which workingmen have been
arraigned and punished. While such re-
fusals to sell material can be most effectively
punished BY giving the trade to men who
conduct business on basis of American in
dependence, the fact that employers resort
to conspiracy, for which laboring men are
punished, ought not to be permitted. The
best way to teach the working classes to re-
spect individual rights is for the employing
classes to set them the example.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
ORIENTAL HAND1woRK.
People Watching n Bewildering Network OF
Irvine Grow Into n Turkish Mat.

People Watching Bewiidering NetwOfk Oh
Twine Grow Into n Turkish Mat.
Crowds of curious people have gathered in
front of one of John Wanamaker's Chestnut
street windows, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
and watched bewildering network of coarse
looking twine grow into beautiful Turkish
mat. A cardboard bearing the unpronounce-
able name of Swarthy ycomplexioned Moham-
medan. hard at work on the other side Of
the window, states that the fabric is the
first genuine Turkish rug ever made in
Philadelphia Two months of incessant labor
Will be required to finish the work, and
through its soft texture will be an inscription
TO the effect of the above statement. 1t is more
than passing curious how the crude-looking
twlne and mass of vari-colored yarn at the
Workman's right side are gradually assuming
the soft tints and quiet beauty of the Turkish
rug. To the hustling American the hand pro-
cess OF the Oriental rugmaker seems painfully
slow when compared with the lightning
manipulations of American machinery. The
facetious ones among the onlookers cal
culate that the rugmaker will have tied
over LOCO, 900 knots when his task is done.
The mat will be beauty when finished. 1t
has a dark-blue background, and the edges are
patterned with every shade. The twine body
upon which Is knotted the yarn is stretched on
astif frame, before which the rug-maker sits
knits each shred of the fabric together, har-
monizing the color following out the pattern:
Around him hang number of heavy rugs, and
the Juniper street end of the Chestnut street
window looks like small slice of the map OF
Turkey.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
BoUTELLE,s INTERSTATE IDEA.

The recent decision of the Supreme Court
is taken by the friends of prohibition as
calling for some actioo by Congress in the
way of regulating the interstate liquor
traffic. The result of that demand in the
form Of bill introduced by Mr.. Boutelle,
of Maine, as an amendment to the inter-
State commerce act, makes the following
unique legislative enactment: ''That nothing
in this (the interstate commerce) act shall
be construed to authorize the sale or traffic in
intoxicating liquors in any State contrary
to the laws thereof"
IF it be true that the views Of the Supreme
Court have the effect of nullifying either
the regulative or prohibitory enactments of
any State, it would be proper exercise of
Congressional power to subject all liquor
coming under the head Of interstate COM
merce to the police power of the State where
it may be consigned. But no such idiotic
measure as that proposed by Mr.. Boutelle
would have the slightest bearing on this
question. Nothing in the Interstate COM
merce act could be construed as authorizing
the sale of LIQUOR in any State. because there
is not the slightest reference to that subject
from the beginning to the end of that law.
1t deals only with agencies of transporting
Interstate commerce. and while whisky in
the old times used to be considered neces-
sary mechanical agent at raisings and log
ging bees, no one has yet asserted it to be an
agent of transportation.
1t would be interesting to know whether
this measure reflects the ignorance of MIR.
Boutelle as to the contents of the Interstate
commerce law. or his reliance upon the
ignorance of his prohibition constituents in
Maine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
EMPLOYERS BOYCOTTs.

Two or three indications of the building
strikes, in various cities, show the necessity
of some instruction on the question where
united action ceases to be legitimate and be-
becomes conspiracy. The first is a report
that contractor of this city who has con-
ceded to the timers their demands for wages
found, on trying to purchase of jobber,
that no material was to be sold to any con-
tractor who gave the men their wages.
Akin to this is statement in the dispatches
from Chicago that the architects and material
men "have Joined hands with the master
carpenters to defeat the new boss carpenters
association. Another development of the
same sort, in different form, is a statement
from New York, that one article of the last
agreement between the employing plumbers
and their journeymen was that the latter
shall refuse to work for anyone who does not
belong to the plumbers association.
These things indicate disposition to con-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
A CoLoRFUL REFORM.

Now that Pittsburg is luxuriating in
visions of all sorts, and resolutions are i'm
pending on every hand, why would not this
city be a good place in which to start a
reform in masculine attire? Perhaps the
word reform does not convey our meaning
exactly-let us call it return to the
fashions of our ancestors. We are going to
inject color into our mental life, why not
put little judgment into our pantaloons-
we beg pardon, trousers?
We are encouraged to make this sugges-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
THE CHALLENGE.

Iheard to-day upon. the street,
Where beggars sang careless song'
A note a tone, SO wondrous SWEEP
That stood silent in the throng.
But ali, saw not those who sang;
Iheard not their wild madrigal;
A thousand voices round me rang,
And sweeter still one maiden's CALL
For which I'D change the fame oil men.
My load unloosed like Pilgrims tnrau,
feed my hungry heart again;
I saw my boyhood home and all
And heard the black birds, Nesting, sing
Their tender songs of evening.
Clear, martial call of buried hosts:
How sure thy challenge passed the years.
saw like sentries at their posts
A myriad forms; the pines like spears
Shot through the after-sunset's red;
The darkening fields; the CLEANS OF panes;
The musty dusk, star-panoplied;
The lazy kline along the lane;
The schoolhouse dun. the village sPire;
The home-bent dusty harvest folks;
The corntieids famed with sunset fire;
And in our tryst beneath the oaks,
We heard the blackbirds, nesting, sing
Their tender songs of EVENING"
Thus, Angel of our later days,
With ever-hoyering, unseen hand,
Are flashed upon our blinded ways
The hidden shrines we understand.
We climb the rugged sleeps of Truth,
And falter. Loi the helpless bring
The lesser to the larger Youth!
A note, tone. the humhlest thing,
Sweeps irresistless all between.
And there the N Now prays with the Then
Where once our heaven was lived unseen,
And where. like pilgrims come again.
We hear the blackbirds, nesting, king
Their tender songs Of EVENING"
-PhttGdelphiG I'irnss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11

THE esteemed Philadelphia Record de-
clares in connection with the contest for Ran
dalIs seat that these wretched bunglers are
satisfied to see either Mr.. Gentner or Mr..
Adams rattle around, like bean in a bass
drum, IN the chair of Sam Randall, and make
Philadelphia contemplate by the insignifcance
of its representative" This reveals the fact that
the harmony which prevails over the Democratic
councils in Philadelphia is of that peculiar and
strenuous sort that not only can be cut with a
knife, but is likely to be SO served by the
knives that the Democratic workers are sharp
ening on the soles of their boots