Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
ALIVE AND THRIVING
Beaver Falls Folks Too Busy to Take
an Interest in Politics.
COW INSURANCE SOCIETY DEAD.
A Cooperative Association That Cooper
ates and Makes Money.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS In PROGRESS

Beaver Falls is not making much noise
these davs, not half so much as she did in
the davs when the heather Chinese came to
make knives at the cutlery works, but she is
forging ahead at an astonishing rate never
theless. The town is interesting to Pitts
burg and Allegheny people from the fact
that most of its population is collection OF
busy hives or colonies that have swarmed
from time to time in this city. The shovel
works. file works. saw works, Hartman's
wire fence works, and in fact all the mills
and factories IN the town are running full
head. and the shovel works are on double
turn.
One Of the most interesting experiments
OF the past decade has resulted successfully
in Beaver Falls. The Enterprise Glass
Connapv was organized in March, 1879 and
began to fill orders in June OF the same
wear. The factory which was burned the
oath of last October, has been rebuilt and
the blowers began blowing again last Tues
day week.
The company has ever since it began work,
in 1879. been unable to fill its orders; its
stock sells away up, and outsiders cannot
get anv of it. When member dies, or
wants to retire, the company absorbs his
stock. It NAV eventually become grasp
ing. souIless corporation, but up TO the pres
ert time it is a shining example of cooper
alton, that mas really co-ope-ated. and that
not on the communistic plan. Its members
mix their religion, politics, ETC., to suit
themselves and are only communists in a
business sense They were originally
rlassworkers who were disguised
with the result of frequent and long strikes
and
CONCLUDED TO BE PRoPRIEToRS.
Their new factory is perhaps the finest of
its kind in the United States. tits an iron
clad, two stories high, and with large
basement and covers independent OF out
buildings, 1S2x200 feet. The whole build
ing is heated by steampipes, and can be
thrown open on all Sides so as to be cool in
hot weather. The partitions are also iron,
SO there is little danger of fire. Its present
capacity is ten-pot, which will be increased
to "a, as orders cannot be filled with the
present rate of working. The little Pitts
burg colony is compact. and almost all the
members have bought and paid for homes
out of their earnings in the last ten years,
and their capitai is intact. The secret OF
success in this case has been, and yet is,
that while each member of the company is
Just as large socially and generally as Man.
ager j. c. Weigel, his managerial capacity
is respected by all and each feels that he is
something more than a cog IN machine,
and that his interest is that of all, thing
that is but rarely perfectly understood in
cooperative enterprises.
WOULDN'T KNOW IT NOW.
Could Marcus Tulliers Cicero Gould.
James Patterson, the elder Bradford, Town
send, and the other spirits that in oIden
time led the van of progress IN Old Brigh-
ton and vicinity revisit ''the glimpses of
the MOON they would not know Beaver
Falls. When the Enterprise factory was
built a mile above Brighton station, on the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway, it was in
the outskirts OF the town, and now it is
about central. Economic money gave the
impetus, and natural gas and position have
done the rest
Progress, however, has killed one branch
OF business. The Cow Insurance Company
no longer exists. A year ago an anti-com-
mon-c0w-pasture Council was elected. Kline
no longer Craze on the out-lots, and roll their
great soulful eyes at passeng RS as they
Whirl by on the three railroads that skirt
the town, and insurance society found
its occupation gone. The Cow Society,
however still holds its weekly meetings,
and the members enjoy themselves as of
yore.
LIQUOR sellers expect a more liberal dis
tribution of licenses this year than for sew
eraI years past, and this is about the only
bone of contention the people have to
wrangle about now, and they are too busy
generally to give even that question much
thought.
Preparations are in progress for the build
ing of another dam this season which will
give mile of a splendid sheet of water for
pleasure boats and aquatics generally.
William Scharff, the ex-oarsman, however,
is more interested in glass blowing now than
in rowing There is more money and in
finitely more satisfaction in the former than
in the latter occupation.
ADVOCATES OF THE DAM.
The Mcknight Fishing Club members
are ardent advocates of the dam, which Will
be utilized for power as well as pleasure.
The town is already furnished with electric
light produced by water power, but there is
some complaint tha: the source of the power
is not as well regulated as it might be.
Dick Myers, who has been at deaths
door for some time past with typhoid fever.
is thought TO be convalescent now. His
critical condition has cast shadow over the
Cow Society lately.
sAlI but the approaches to the new Tenth
street bridge have been finished. 1t is ex-
pected to be a dividend payer almost from
the start.
The population ot all the towns
from Vanport, Beaver, Rochester,
New Brighton, Beaver Falls and the
galaxy of other boroughs is signing for
an electric railway that win connect them
all. They argue that there isn't particle
of doubt that the venture will pay The
solitary horse car line which runs from New
Brighton station to the upper part of Beaver
Falls was 6 per cent payer from the start,
though the company laid the track amid
much toreboding.
LOST ITS GRIP.
The old-time Quaker element has lost its
grip, or at least its conservative spirit, which
half century ago had the credit of prevent
ing that valley from being the Fall River of
Pennsylvania. A few people deplore the
political corruption that they say is growing
faster than population, and sigh for the sim
plicitv and peace which reigned when every
family kept COW and the professional
dairyman was unknown, but the majority
are satisfied with the change that has raised |
the price land from $50 to S., 900 an acre.
even though vice may have kept pace with |
growth.
WILL, pNWEP IN SINENES0