Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-03


He is not a newspaper man, but an
1esog 1togld vii, MieNay Me- OF the si5sis1f goisS1
Tip" the coming season. He is dapper little
gentleman of great nervous energy. McNally
has eyes like Chinaman and the wit Of
Yankee. Another new farce comedy writer
will leap into the theatrical ring this season
with play called THE Hustler" Lew Rosen
is short, thick-set young man Of cynical
lumor and saturnine expression. He is the
dramatic editor of the big pink sporting paper
In New York. ascholar, linguist, novelist, with
fondness for fine pictures and taste for
shortskirted actresses.
These farce comedy writer's reserve royalties
according to their respective regulations. If
the pay goes well, they make money-if not,
playgoers discovered by 1.-The Tourist" who go
to be amused, care nothing for rhyme or reason.
and who couldn't be kept out of the house by
are unite only on one point-the stage man
ager. That important individual cuts and
slaughters the text to fit his people and scenery
until The author sometimes recognizes only his
name on the bill boards
Story Without Words.
7 WAS sitting in Central Park last Sunday
afternoon watching my little 3year-old
playing on the grass. A middle-aged lady,
soberly dressed, paused a moment to look. She
sat down on the nearest bench and sighed.
There was a sad, far-away look In her eyes, and
she seemed to be gazing into the great beyond.
When my little fellow came scamper1ng up
suddenly she half extended her arms, but re-
covered herself and turned hastily away with
out word, the tears coursng down her sallow
cheeks. What need Of wordsl
What Woman Can Do.
WHEN woman appears in any other role
than that OF the well-accepted helpless,
dependent creature, she usually attracts atten-
tion. She becomes conspicuous. In spite of
the fact that women have greatly advanced in
all departments of life within the last quarter
of a century, and we have become accustomed
to her presence and influence everywhere, once
in awhile she strikes US with something akin to
surprise. saw one of these brainy. energetic
ladies the other day IN a prominent railroad
office. She had an armful of colored designs,
sketches, suggestions of details, etc. They
were being submitted with the view to the dec
Grafton Of a well-known railway magnate's pri-
vare car. When she had completed her busi-
ness. which she explained in the most business
like manner, and departed, 1 was told that she
was professional decorator and an artist and
has done some of the finest work In the coun-
try. She has patented a system called Dresden
relief embroidery. Her work can be seen in
several New, York theaters. her speciality being
in the artistic combination Of colors and ar
rangement of draperles.
Interested in what L had heard afterward
called at her place Of business on Thirty-slxth
street, near Broadway. Madam Bingaman was
very courteous and showed me some of the
love]iest specimens of handiwork ever saw.
She had small prOscenium arch fitted up in a
back room showing the drop curtain and the
relative positions OF the boxes. The latter
were decorated and draped and the scheme was
her own way of getting practical idea of the
general effect. She recently decorated the
Standard and Bijou Theaters, the National at
Washington and others out West, ,app ying her
patent. The latter is the making of flowers by
embroidering the bits of silk and plush one
over or on another in imitation of roses, vines
buds. leaves. etc. The artistic combination of
colors and designs would seem to be the chief
requirement, but the work itself when COM
plete stands out richly elaborate on curtains
lambrequins, dresses: She has dress stuff cost
employs from 20 to 40 women. When decorat-
ing the Standard she was compelled to work
for hours at the top of long and shaky STEP
ladders at height that would make even a
painter giddy. Mrs. Bingaman has been to
Paris studying the French systems and designs
and will shortly leave again for Europe with
the same object By the side Of such woman
as that an ordinary man shrinks into a very
small and Indifferent being.
Congress From a Legal Standpoint.
4 PROMINENT importer who represents inter.
ests seriously affected by the Mckinley
tariff bill. tells me that had the bill passed the
House before the new Reed rule was adopted,
the question of the constitutionality of the law
would have been carried to the highest court
on the ground that the Speaker had no right to
count quorum and that the bill, therefore,
had never been legally passed. Any amount of
money would have been forthcoming to upset
the law. There were agents in Washington
watching things and collecting the evidence
deemed necessary by the big lawyers who had
advised this course. When asked why the pas
sage of the Reed rule by counting quorum
was In any less respect an illegal act when 1t
oil 4ta nf
possible, my informant had nothing to say.
There are able lawyers in New Y ork, however,
who think they could overturn the force bill, if
it should become law, by legal process. II
there was money enough In the job. But per-
hans they figure on evidence usually obtalnatle
in celebrated will cases, such as tend to estab-
lish undue influence, mental unsoupdness, or
think they could hypnotize the Supreme Court.
Troubles of the Presidents Son.
D ussE1L HARRISON and w. ]. Arkell have
IN a lively time concerning the political and
editorial responsibility for what appears in
.n,doe Every week or two Arkel has to ex-
nlain that Harrison has nothing to do with that
nnbication and is only a business partner, more
or less wicked. in the publication of Lestie's.
AS for Harrison he has to run away to escape
the deluge of indignant letters that pour IN
,ipon him from all sections Of the country.
Since the Bla1ne-McKinley cartoon Harr1son's
hair has begun to fall out and what is left is
turning gfay. Russell ought to follow his dis
tinguished papa's example and nothing of this
sort would worry him. 1t is pretty hard TO run
a paper where even the office towel may be
considered a slur on the administration at
Washington, and patent medicine advertise
ment a covert attack upon an alleged obnox-
ious member Of the Cabinet
The Volunteer Fighters.
,,.o1,o oIr for fba lafo ia
American war was much greater here
than the public would imagine. Of course a
good deal of the talk about raising troops and
fitting out naval expeditions in this country is
mere CANNON. circulated in the interests of
the agents of Guatemala or Salvador. Take,
for instance. the alleged offer Of the Texas ex-
Confederate who offered to put 1900 ex-
perienced soldiers in the feld-men who fought
In the late war. A nice lot Of fighting men our
veterans would make in hot, enervating
cmatel The youngest ex-soldiers of the
rebellion are 45 to SO years of age, considerably
above the enlistment period for even home
service. All of them want pensions instead Of
q chance to shoulder muskets to fight foreign
wars. But there is a new generation of adj
ven tirous Americans-sOiis Of the soldiers now
on the pension rolls-who are red hos for row.
domestic or foreign. 1t is this class that are
now ripe for any filibustering expeditions that
may soon be set on foot At least 10000 troops
composed of able-bodied young men could be