Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
AMERICA ABROAD.
Thousands on the Wing in Europe-shorren-
ing the Sen Trip-The seligmans Back OF
Cramps-Free Trnde Does Not Prevent

Thousands on the Wing in Europe-shorren-
ing the Sen Trip-The selIemans Back OF
Cramps-Free Trade Does Not Prevent
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MniI Gleanings.
CTRAws show which way the wind blows Mr..
Sharmap, who manages Gaze & Sons
tourist office at Piccadilly-circus. tells me that
he has issued more tickets this year to Ameri-
can tourists than he did up to this time when
the Paris Exposition was in full swing. In
crossing from Antwerp to Harwich, a few
nights ago, on the Great Eastern steamer
Cambridge, encountered Gu citizens of the
United States in one party, who had been visit
ing Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam and the
Hague, says writer in the London IILustrdted
Netos The chief steward of the Cambridge
assured me that from so to 100 Americans cross
every night on the steamers Of the Great East
ern Railway, many of whom are en- route TO the
Ardennes, and others making their way to the
Moselle. to Coblenz. and along the Rhine to
Cologne and Rotterdam. 1t is estimated that
$1,000 Americans are at present on the wing
throughout Europe. sightseeing and having
good time" generally.
t<&
Tariff Not an Aid to shoddy.
The Hon. R. @. Mills, in his article on New
A.. England and the new tariff bill in the
Foratrr, says that the present high protective
tar1t has resulted in the development of
large shoddy industry that could never have
come into existence If there had been no re-
strlction on the Importation of wool" To what
extent the use of shoddy in American manu-
Iactures Is due to tariff influences is question
tnat cannot we'll be answered. I doubt very
much If the use of wool adulterants is any way
iessened or increased through the instrumen-
tailty Oh legislative acts. Under all conditions
Oh manufacturing, the tendency is to produce
goods at the least cost consistent with good ap-
pearance and fair degree of durability. The
proneaoieness Of producing low grades of
affected by the low cost of better
grades, yet their manufacture will be
prosecuted, with varying limitations, SO long
as tnere exists class of people that part with
tnelr money according to the first cost of the
article which may be purchased. The low cost
OF good goods raises the quality of poor goods;
and as proficiency in the arts of manufacture
increases. the use of wool substitutes and their
concealment from observation also increases.
The fact OF England obtaining her wool from
all parts Of the world free from artificial re-
strictions does not seem to affect the liberal
use Oh shoddy, mungo, and the like in her
woolen manufactures. One hundred and
twenty-five million pounds of such materials
are annually worked up into the wooden fabrics
OF Great Britain. This fact can always be
reckoned upon-that all materials of wool that
can be carded, spun and woven Will be en-
pioyed in some sort of fabrication, no matter
Wnat the cost OF genuine wool may be.
Great Future for shipbuildiur.
7 AND W. sELIGMAN & Co., the bankers,
have contributed to large increase in the
capital of William Cramp & Sons, the ship
builders of Philadelphia. The new capital at
the command of the Messrs, Cramp will be
s5.0O00O Most of his associates in the enter
prise, Mr.. Seligman writes me, are Philadelphia
steamship men, who will supply some of the
new business which the extension of the plant
would make possible. Il believe there is a
great future for shipbuilding in the United
states" he writes, land am going into Tins
matter for permanent investment, not for a
speculation, and SO are the others. There are
only few persons interested in the scheme,
and 1t will not be possible to issus particulars
just yet; but can say that the Cramps are to
continue their management Of the business, and
that they are to have another shipyard beside
the one now in use." 1t is said that the Messrs.
CramD have themselves put in new capital, and
that among the subscribers are Thomas Dolan,
a woolen manufacturer of Philadelphia; Gle
ment A. Griscom, Of The Inman ana Inter-
national Steamship Company, and John r. Dos
Passos, who IS to be general counsel OF the re-
organized company.
Kate Fields Latest Victims.
MISS KATE FIELD is an amiable spinster Of
years so mature as to justify suppression
of their number. She Is both literary and COM
mercial. When I first had the honor of know
ing the lady-I might say of being first present.
ed, for do not feel that quite know her yet
she was at the head of business concern in
the city of New York. It had a restaurant in
it, where dined. on the third floor The res
taurant IS not now in operation, 1 believe.
next heard of Miss" Kate Field at Salt Lake,
she gathered enough anti-Mormon observa-
tionS for book and a lecture tour.
The book / have not read, and the
lectures have not heard, and therefore con-
cede to them the presumption of intellectual
value. Next, II remember Alright, she visited
Alaska. and approved the purchase of that
Territory by Secretary Seward. and commend
ed him for it: doubtless very grateful was Mr..
and the fame of the statesman is that his acts
sometimes harshly criticised when living, meet
the approval of the wise and good when he is
dead. Miss Field is both good and wise. The
next heard Of this enterpr1sing lady was to
find her engaged In temperance crusade in
California. She engaged In this work of be-
at salary from the wine growners
benighted countries east of the Rocky Mount
ains in elucidation of the proposition that the
drinking Of good, pure wine Is a practical
scheme OF temperance reform, and cures the
lOYe Ior aIcoHoilc peVeIaSeS-a uOcLElne WHICH
fully indorse.
In this engagement It was her misfortune to
run counter to Mr.. Boruck, private secretary
to Governor Waterman, and to incur his dis
because the private secretary
doubted the wisdom or the necessity of the
miracle of turning water into wine at the mar
riage feast in Galilee, for must do the Gov
ernor's secretary justice to believe that he
would have consented to any miracle that at
any time would have transformed Miss Kate
Field into a married woman. This lady's last
venture is in the literary line. She edits and
owns weekly journal printed at Washington,
and in which she criticises the Yosemite Park
and the Big-Tree Grove of Mariposa. She
finds no fault with the grove or with the gran
deur Of the rocky scenery in the valley, or with
the sDlendor Of the mountains and forests In
which those two wonders of nature are hidden,
but she does criticise Governor Waterman and
his secretary, and the nine who compose the
Yosemite Commission; also the stages, the
hotels, the roads, the mules and calls The Gov
ernor a dog" an accident" an incubus"
and an obstinate fool" and charges him with
being ''vagarious" to the extent of running
weekly journal at San Bernardino. edited by
his private secretary. who is charged with the
responsibility of "wagglingn the proprietor,
whatever that may mean. Miss Field is always
on the lookout for sensations, and these Cali
n