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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
THE FOOTBALL VICTORY.

NEW YORK Tribune: The spectacle was ex.
hilarating in the extreme. An enormous crowd
was present, and the excitement was intense
from the beginning to the end of the conflict.
NEW YORK Star: 1t is generally conceded
that the teams that fought the battle yesterday
are the best football elevens ever sent out to
represent their respective colleges. That is
equivalent to saying that they are best college
teams of the country.
NEW YORK Press: The nervy, wideawake
team from Harvard scored a victory over Yale
in the splendid football game at Springfield
Yesterday, and, away up In Massachusetts, as 1t
was. many New Yorker went to see it. The
sturdy men of Yale will have another tussle
with Princeton on Thanksgiving Day at the
Eastern Park, Brooklyn, and whoever wins
will do so only after the toughest kind of a
fight.
PHILADELPHIA Press: Harvard recovered
some of her lost prestige in the field Of college
athletics yesterday by the defeat of her old
enemy, Yale, at football. Whether she can
also beat Princeton will not be definitely
known, that college being under a sort of boy.
colt by Harvard just now. The Thanksgiving
game between Yale and Princeton will go far,
however, toward settling the relative rank of
Harvard as well as of the two other colleges
NEW YORK Post: The combination of dis.
cipline. individual skill and brute strength
which it calls for; the splendid ferceness OF
the game; the element of personal combat,
which delights the savage instinct lingering in
the breasts even of the most civilized among
us-these qualities account for its growing pop.
ularity, and promise vogue even wider than
it now enjoys. There would be little rashness
in predicting that within ten wears we shall
have in the great cities professional elevens,
like the professional baseball mines, and that
thousands will gather to shout themselves
hoarss at the exploits Of hired rushsrs and
backs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
ANOTHER COMPROMISE VERDICT.

The verdict in the Myers case as rendered
Yesterday is plainly a compromise, and, as is
usual in such verdicts, presents curious
features. The case was marked by the en-
tire absence of evidence tending to show
that the crime was either premeditated or
committed in the heat OF passion, except for
the fact that the murdered woman and her
nephew, who was on trial, were constantly
euarreling The factor in fixing the degree
of the crime was evidently that some of the
jury did not think the evidence fixing the
murder quite strong enough to hang a man,
and so they compromised by sending him 10
the UenItentiary.
This, Of course, is a partial denial of the
legal rule that if the evidence of crime is
not clear enough to overcome all reasonable
doubts, a verdict of acquittal must
be given. The miscarriage of ius-
tice, however, is not so serious here
as in such cases as the Cronin
trial at Chicago, where it was evident that
if the men on trial committed any crime
they committed one ofIhe most cold-blooded
and fully premeditated murders on record,
and their conviction for short terms of i'm
prisonment meant either that guilty men
were practically UNPUBLISHED in proportion
to the Nervousness of their crime, or that in
nocent men were sent to the penitentiary.
The compromise verdict is an ofense against
the principles of law, but juries will con-
tinue to cling to 1t where there is danger OF
hanging an innocent man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, NOV. "a, 1890.



From a special article on the recent Gould
and Rockafellar acquisitions of railway
property, it will be seen that the new COM
bination will not only control the transcon-
tinental routes, but includes the ownership
of a large share of the Southern railroads
under the Richmond Terminal organization,
with two of the trunk lines in the Baltimore
and Ohio and Erie roads. Thus is concen-
trated under the control of this combination
OF capital one-ffth of the railway mileage
of the United States, with three complete
transcontinental systems.
The record of the corporate magnates who
have thus suddenly assumed such tower
ing prominence in the railway world is such
as to surround their ability to dominate the
transportation interests of the country with
very grave possibilities That they will
endeavor to establish the rule of no
competition between the railroads, and
ruthlessly proceed to wage cut-throat war
fare on any corporation that dares to
conduct its business solely on its own abili-
ties for carrying freight cheaply, is amply
proved by the steps they have taken to
ANdNh bhCAA pACoSht poSAbAOhs anu 10 AhNSOO
hardly concealed IN the statements of their
policy. That is what is meant by their
avowals of conducting their property "In the
interests of harmony" 1t was In the inter-
est of harmony that the STANDARD crushed
out competition in the petroleum refining
business, and the harmony which now
reigns in the petroleum trade is equal to
the proverbial reign OF good order in War
saw.
But this is not all that is possible from
this gigantic alliance. Suppose that, when
Nessrs. Gould and Rockaiellar get a suff-
cientlv commanding influence in the rail-
road business, they should take it into their
heads to repeat in the iron or coal business
the policy which yielded such enormous
gains in the petroleum trade. 1t is true that
10 freeze out and buy up the iron industries
of the country by means of railroad dis
ordinations would be contrary to law. But
the interstate commerce law is already
openly disregarded by the members of this
combination; and what is the barrier OF
paper statute against the power of $780,
600 600 of corporate capital in pursuit o.
the methods by which it can expand itself
to $500, 600, 900?
1t is certain that this towering concentra-
tion of capital emphasizes the necessity of
improving the internal water routes for
transportation; and it will not retard the
growth of popular opinion in favor of
government system of railways, if more
conservative remedies DO not prove suffi-
cient
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
THE NEW YOSEMITE PARK.
It's Far Greater Than the Old One, Which
Surrounds and Protects.

It's Far Greater Than the Old One, Which it
Surrounds and Protects.
From the New York SUM-
Probably few people east of the Rocky noun
tains are aware that during the present autumn
a new national pleasure ground, larger than
the State Of Rhode Island, has been established
in this country.
This spacious park is in California, COM
pletely surrounding the Yosemite valley grant
of 1854 and about thirty times as large as that
grant, 1t takes In net only the entire water
shed of the Merced river region, as defined by
the encircling mountain range which includes
Tuolumne Peak, Unicorn Peak and Cathe-
dral Peak, on the north and northeast,
Mt. Lyell, with its superb glaciers, on the east,
and Buena Vista Peak on the south; but it en-
braces also the noble Hetch Hetchy valley,ltself
a second Yosemite, and the magnificent Grand
Canon of the Tuolumne. with its massive walls
and domes, and its cascades unequaled in
volume of water by those in any other canyon in
the Sierra. 1t crosses the Tuolumne Meadows
and annexes the splendid range that contains
Mt Dana and Mt Gibbs and the Mono Pass.
1t has saved from the lumbermen and the
saw mill the Mono Pass, the Merced and
Tuoumne groves of big trees, and has secured
Lake Eleanor. In short, it has brough within
its protecting area all that needs to be reserved
in that region of natures marvels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
GOING AHEAD ON TIN MANUFACTURE.

From an interview with Congressman
Niedringhaus, of ST. Louis, published else
where, it will be seen that this gentleman,
who is more famous for foresight as a manu-
facturer than as a statesman, is not at all
uncertain as to the future of tin plate manu-
facture in this country. He has placed a
large order with Pittsburg firms for
machinery, and will put tin plate factory
in operation at the earliest possible moment
His previous experience in tin manufacture
gives him confidence in the future of the
In Sustrv, and he is not, like some more
ambitious Western legislators, inclined to
throw up his hands at the first adverse
breath, before the actual effect of the tariff
is understood. This Is the only way to
secure the growth of manufactures under
the protective policy. If manufacturing
enterprises are 10 be abandoned every time
an election goes the wrong way, protection
cannot accomplish any expansion of our
industries
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
A WITTY VERSION.

Sbe-It's such wears since we met that
nerhaps YOU never heard of my marriage?
ueNo indeed! Isit-er-recent enough for
conrr,tulations?-H -Harper's Magazine.
Teacher-How do you spend Sunday,
Tommy?
Tommy-I can't spend It at all. Pa makes Us
keep the Sabbath.-Nel0 YORK Herald.
"He is welded to his art" said Hicks,
apropos of sketchly. the artist.
sEYOu re wrong. He pays too much attention
to his art to be welded at all. He is engaged TO
it, - retorted Mrs. Hicks, scornfully.-BsU York
Sun.
Bobby Cat breakfast-table)-C did
MIR. Spooner take any of the umbrellas or hats
from the hall last night?
Clara-Why of course not; why should he?
Bobby-That's what I'D like to know. 1
thought he did. cos heard him say when he was
going out, I'm going to steal just one, and
WHY, what's the matter, CIara?-Esl0castLs
ChrOnicLe.
"But why do you want to marry her?'
ssBecause love her,
..My dear fellow, that's an excuse-not a res-
son. ''-Sdturddy EuenfHg Post.
''On what did Mr.. Hicks preach this
morning?''
ION the PLATFORM -
'1mean about what?''
''AbOut 80 minutes.n
'.You never understand. want to know what
was the subject of his discOurse?''
ii don't know. He didn't say .,-Nslo York
Herald.
A company with $40, 600. 900 of capital
has been organized to navigate the air. The COM
pany to last 90 years, according its charter. if
1t doesn't 20 up before that time.-AeIo YOrk Com
nleretdt Advertiser.
Husband-How did you get along while
was away my dear?
Wife-Pretty well. Every night got out some
of your old clothes and strewed them around the
floor. tracked mud all over the stairs and swore at
myself occasionally, and 1t seemed really Ike
home.-Nelo York Sun.
First Tramp-Where did you get that hne
overcoat?
Second Tramp-In the big house at the corner
81 went there only dis mornin' shiverln via
cold, an they wouldn't give me rag
~ didn't ask fer clothes fer meself. ] told 'em
It was fer tn poor heather in Central Africa -
Epoch.
A follower of the profession OF testing,
having taken occasion to speak Of the VEN Oh
humor was asked by his fippant vis-a-vis;
''ln what part Of the body does the vein oil numor
lie?''
Without a moments hesitation, he replied. IT
starts from the funny-bone, skirts the humerus.
and discharges In the hejssG's-Adrpsr's 4agastns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
THE FIELD OF THE CAMERA.

How 1t Recently Paved the Way for a
Grand Historic Picture.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
The camera is becoming, as no doubt the
phonographwill soon become, a recognized ac-
cessory of any historic scene. The crowning
incident of the Moltke celebration was pres
entation to him by the Emperor, standing
amid galaxy of fellow-sovereigns, generals
and statesmen. The Emperor concluded by
asking the Count to accept new marshaPs
baton of silver magni6cently inlaid with stars
and crowns of rubIes and diamonds. Count
Moltke could only find few brief and incoher-
ent WORDS of reply. but he took the Emperor's
hand and imprinted on it long and fervent
kiss. A photographer IN attendance seized the
moment, and the negative will be developed by
Prof. Won Werner's brush into grand historic
picture.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
THE AGE OF PRESIDENTS.
t is Thought That Blaine Cannot be Counted
Ont as Too Old.

1t is Thought That Blaine Cannot be Counted
Out as Too Old.
From the New York SUM-
Mr.. Blaine is not yet 81 years of age, and is
in the full vigor of life, trim as Spanish gal
leon when under review. The first President
of the United States was in the 5Sth year
of his age when elected to that office, and
four years older when elected for the second
time; the second President was in his 62d
year at the time of his first election and in his
Goth at the time of his second; the third Presi-
dent came to Office at about the same age
as the first; and if we were to run down the
line of their successors till the present time.
we would find several of them who were older
when elected than Mr.. Blame now Is. the sew
enth President. for example, and the fifteenth,
not to speak of others.
1t is we'll for the adversaries Of Mr.. Blaine to
bear in mind that he cannot yet be counted out
on account of his years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

SOUNDS OF THE SEA.
By the sea, meath summer sky,
We gathered shells together;
Life was bright to you and
In that summer weather.
Waves that washed white coral beds
At our feet spun foamy threads.
Far across those waters blue
Lay land of flowers;
Then our hearts bright pictures drew
Of its groves and bowers.
And we asked the ocean shell
Secrets of that land to tell.
Laughingly we held it long
Twas a lovers notion
But it only sang the song
OF that summer ocean.
Then we our secret told the shell,
Knowing it would keep it we'll
Light of heart and merry, too,
Were we by that ocean,
As we talked as lovers do
OF the hearts devotion.
And the music of the shells
Sounded like sweet wedding bells.
1t was long, so long ago,
Since we strolled together
Where a wild seas ebb and flow
Threw spray on the heather.
still retain an ocean shell;
1t mocks but cannot break the spell.
THE festive Red man seems to be laboring
under an overdose Of agency whisky.
JOHN BARLEYCoRN and Sullivan have again
met, and the siugger came up groggy after the
first round.
PEOPLE who blow out the gas are sure to
Tha nn6
sleepers in Philadelphia.
BUFFALO robes will soon be costly as seal
skins, thanks to the bison baggers.
SOME people live to learn, but many never
learn how to live.
PEOPLE who send anonymous communica-
tions to newspaper offices evidently imagine
that if they furnish the weapon the editor will
complete the assassination.
WHEN you borrow money you undoubtedly
borrow trouble.
NOVELS are made to read, not to believe.
WANAMAKER is raising money on mort
CAGES it is reported. Honest business men
who enter politics sooner or later realize that
the two won't mix
FORCE OF haDlt anu Will po"errun the mind
motor.
AN aching void-The hole in the decayed
tooth.
THE hand that rocks the cradle will soon be
stufing the Thanksgiving turkey.
SOME people imagine that happiness consists
of making other people miserable.
Jay GOULD and Rockefeller don't want the
earth. they only want everything on it,
Harvard is graduating some splendid foot.
ball players.
EVE doubtless charmed Adam, but IL she had
been q snake chafper how different the world
would be. WILLIE WINxLE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
FISH TO BE EXHIBITED.

Commissioners From Various States Take
Action for the Fair.
CHICAGO, November 23.-The Fish Commits
sioners Of the United States held session at
the Palmer House to-day. Nineteen commits
sioners were present at Sundays session. The
purpose of the Commission was the agreement
to a plan of exhibit to be made at the Worlds
Fair in 1892 Three plans were proposed and
constituted the discussion of the meeting
The general opinion was that an aquarium
exhibit of all the States, each exhibit retain
ing the identity of its State, under one building
adjoining the Government building. would be
the most economical. A committee was ap-
pointed TO ask appropriations for an exhibit.
The committee will meet in Detroit, Decem-
ber 4
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
COST OF STANDING ARMIES.
Some Figures That Give an Idea What
Military Expenses Are.

Some Figures That Give an Idea What
Military Expenses Are.
From the Harrisburg Telegram.I
1t costs the christian" nations of Europe
something to illustrate their notion of peace
on earth, goodwill to men," That Is 1t costs
them something to keep themselves all ready
to blow one another into small fragments.
Statistics have been published in Berlin show
ing the amount of military expenditures of the
great powers during the last three years. The
expenditures in round figures were as follows:
France 81 go 600 600; Russia SSl3 600 600; Great
Britain S6l3 000 600; Germany S607, ,0OO 600; Aus
tria-Hungary, $685., ,00O, 900; Italy, s3l3, 600
These six powers have expended altogether
$3.50 SOC. 600 for military purposes In the last
three years. or at the rate of more than ST.
3l9, 000 year. The total for the three
years considerably exceeds the entire national
debt of Great Britain, and is nearly large
enough to pay the Interesr-bearing debt OF the
United States five times over. The correspond
ing expenditure in the United States has been
about s145 000. 900, exclusive of pensions. If we
should add these our total expenditure would
be swelled to about $500, 100000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

THE deliverances of Collector Cooper. Of
Philadelphia, concerning the next Presidency,
indicates that timel or instruction convinees
Mr.. Cooper of the necessity Of conservatism in
his declarations. When in Washington the
hopeful Cooper was quoted as declaring him.
self uuqualifiedly for Blaine; but when he got
back to Philadelphia, it was discovered that he
only meant that he was for Blaine If Mr. Har-
risop should not be a candidate. Of course
this reservation must always be granted in
cases like Cooper's. For this are politicians
given Collectorships and like trifes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
Some Room for Improvement,

A LII the London papers open in the middle.
To get at the rest of the paper you must
cut the leaves. All the interest is gathered
upon the fourth and fifth pages. The best part
of the paper, and the part which most readers
read first, is the editorial department.. This is
very well done, indeed. but like that other ex-
cellent and characteristic European institution,
the table d'hote. it is very long drawn out The
Daily NeUs, on the day before L sailed from
Liverpool had an editorial of columns
length about the AntiSlavery Congress; an
other on England under the Regency, being the
bright review of a late book, more than col
umn long; '.Matrons and Maldens" is funny pa
per on the need of pre-matrimonial education IN
making good bread and cultivating good tenn
per. "Short Sentences" Cabbage Forever
aud THE Anglo Portuguese Convention" are
the other leaders. They are all ably written
in an attractive, literary style and worth read
ing. The titles of these editorials were set into
the text
The Standard, on the same day. had editor
ialS on the Southampton lockers strike, on
the opening of the Danube and on the meat
inspection acts passed by our Congress. These
were all of great length. The Standard was
not pleased with the meat inspection business.
"A more outrageous enactment than this" it
is pleased to say, has never been framed in
civilized country"
Germany and the Slave Trade" Convict
Prison" and '1ndian Railways" are the edi-
tor1als of a similar date in the Times,
while in the Telegraph. the relations OF
the clergy to social questions, the the
donkeys on the seashore at Brighton. and the
advantages and disadvantages of "frizzing"
the hair, are discussed at great length. The
smallness of some of the topics and the large
ness of the space which is given to them is an
amazement to the Americas reader.
The leading papers of the large English towns
are patterned after the newspapers OF London.
The Liverpool Me- GU y, the Manchester
Guardian. tie Scotsman and the Glasgow
Herald, all show the same broadside of closely
printed advertisements, the same length and
emphasis of editorial matter, and the same
absence of crcus-poster headlines and other
features which are dear to the American heart.
The newspapers of England, so far as they
came within my reading, are thoughtful,
accurate, clean, dignified and eminently re-
spectabe. q. H.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

THE assertion is made that it "cost Mrs.
Langtry in a London law court just $3.50 for
saying that she could not get an American dog
good enough to act with her in Robert Buchan-
ans new play" The inquiry what American
dog brought the suit against her would be cal
culated to inoculate Mr.. Robert Buchanan, the
real plaintiff in the case. with something very
like rabies
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
AFTER A WIFE.
Poor Luck of an Illinois Farmer Among
German Female Immigrants.

Poor Luck of an Illinois Farmer Among
German Female Immigrants.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
NEW YORK, November 23.-Superintendent
of Immigration Weber received to-day let
ter from Peter Miller, German farmer
of Ottawa, ILL.,. asking for a wife. Registry
Clerk Silberstein announced to group of
matronly looking German immigrants that
there was husband waiting for any one OF
them who was not over 40 years of age and had
no children. The women crowded around Mr..
S1lberstein and demanded particulars.
Miller furnished a compete inventory of his
possessions. Some of them were farm of so
acres, a bank account, two horses and car
rage to take his wife to church
in. and house with six rooms
completely furnished. He - also wrote
that he was temperate, good-natured, did not
grumble and would provide good home for a
good woman. None of the women finally de-
cided that she wanted Farmer Miller, notwlth-
standing that he is childess widower with no
relatives.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

The jury had not quite finished struggling
to reach its compromise verdict on the Myers
case before another speak-easy murder was
committed to furnish occupation for a future
criminal jury. As illicit whisky furnished the
inspiration for the crime, it is permissible to
conclude that there is room for another police
attack on the illegal liquor sellers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
TWO KINDS OF LOANS.

The action of the directors of the Fourth
National Bank of New York, instructing
the officers of the bank to buy freely of COM
mercial paper, is generally hailed by the
New York papers as wise and timely; but,
with the explanation that is given, its more
salient characteristic is that of abandoning
q course which was extremely unwise for Q
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

PENNSYLVANIA Republican majority
on Congressman is 81, 81. Who was it that said
Pennsylvania had gone back on protection
inquiries the New York Press. Pennsylvania
will be the last State to go back on protection;
but the esteemed Press should be well-intormed
enough 10 know that a majority of only 600, in
a campaign where protection was the main
issue, is proof presumptive of an exceedingly
weak party management on other points.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Thomas MabOn, M. ID.

DIR. Thomas Mabon, one of the best known ply
scians of Allegheny, died yesterday at his home
on North avenue. He was 20 years of age but
still in the practice of his chosen profession.
The arrangements for the funeral have not been
aunounppd.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

THE work of the Road Commission in
preparing bill that shall lead to the improve.
ment of country roads is accentuated by the
report of almost impossible roads in various
parts of the State. The legislation that can
rescue the farming population from the mud
blockade will be an unqualified blessing.