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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

DIR. MoGLYNN Is critically i'll in Chicago,
and was unable to fulfill his engagement to
lecture Friday evening.
Mr.. JAMES STUART, member of Parliament
and professor of mechanism and applied
mathematics in the University of Cambridge.
has resigned his protessorship.
JULES FERRY has returned to Paris from the
south of France very much changed for the
worse. His whiskers are snow white, and his
face is marked by lines of age and care.
FRANK NJ. WALLACE, cashier of the Bank
Of Claremont, S. Dak., is visiting his friends in
Allegheny. He is very enthusiastic over the
prospects of the Dakotas. and emphatically
denies the reports of distress and starvation, as
printed in many Eastern papers,
BILL NYE and James Wbitcomb Riley, the
famous combination of wit and dialect poetry,
have separated, and will appear in public
together no more. The cause assigned is
Rileys love for the bottle, his appetite for
strong drink, it is said, having completely mas
tered him.
The Qaeen Regent of Spain shows the re-
suits Of her recent excitement at the bedside
of her sick son. Her pale complexion is whittier
than ever. The Queen Regent is a very intel
lectual woman. She can converse in Spanish
French, German and English. She is very fond
of music and literature.
IT is said that the memoirs of NJ Hyrvoix
the chief of the private police of Napoleon Ill,
will soon be published, unless his executors are
prevailed upon BY members of the Bonaparte
family not to reveal the inner life of the Tuler-
les during the lifetime of several of the people
referred to in the memoirs.
GENERAL BoULANGER is slowly recovering
on the Isle Of Jersey from the injury his head
recently received from contact with chan
delieI. HIS skull was not fractured. but an
ugly scalp wound resulted, and he was much
prostrated by the sight of his own blood. The
braT' General Is very sensitive as regards
gore.
THE Czarowitz has been appointed COM
mander of q squadron of the Imperial Guard,
the Grand Duke Paul, brother of the Gar, to
command of q regiment of hussars, and the
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaevitch, cousin Of
the Gar, to the command Of brigade of ar
tillery.
MANAGER ]. NJ. HILL has concluded an
arrangement with Nellie BLY, for series of
lectures on her recent record-breaking tour
round the world. She will give three lectures
in New York, and will then be heard in Boston,
Philadelphia. Chicago, St. Louis and other
large cities. She wants to lecture in Pittsburg,
and will probably arrange TO do so.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
THREADBARE TRUST PLEAS.

The series of opinions on trusts which are
published elsewhere, is principally valua-
BILE as showing the persistence with which
the interested advocates of those combina-
tions insist on the Misrepresentation with
which they have been clouding the subject
ever since it has been up for public discus
sion. 1t is nothing new or nothing remark
able for Messrs. Dodd, Parsons, Dos Passos
and the rest of the combination school to
indulge in the old fables about the purpose
of the trusts being to secure economic pro-
duction and their effect being to cheaper
prices; but it is rather significant that they
should display such concerted disposition
to insist on them, after every investigation
which has probed the subject has proved the
contrary.
No better proof of the falsity of these con-
tentions is found than in the history of the
trusts, or in their methods. 1t is not econ
mic production to make the public pay the
cost on idle plants which every successful
trust has done; nor is the perfection oforgan-
ization attained by paying immense sala-
ries to trustees, who when called before
ignorance of the important details of the
business under their charge. The utterly
fictitious nature of the claim that trusts
cheaper prices is shown by the fact that
whenever trust fails to raise prices, its de-
feat is acknowledged, and it eventually goes
to pieces. The chorus of the trust advo-
Gates, that the Standard Trust has cheapened
the price of petroleum is an old plea and
has often been answered. The price of the
crude petroleum has fallen, but the proper
ton of the price which the Standard Oil
Trust takes for refining and distributing
petroleum to consumers, has always been
larger than it would have been under COM
petition. The concluslv proof of this is
found in the well-known fact that when
competing refneries have ever had any
thing like an even chance in the matter of
transportation, the independent refining
interest has been prosperous and the margin
between the price of crude and that of re-
fined petroleum has fallen.
Mr.. Carnegie is quite right in declaring
that the general resort to trusts is like that
to quack medicines. and where there is
freedom of competition combinations and
trusts write the charter OF their own defeat"
In that case the wrong of the trust lies only
in the disturbance of business caused by their
temporary supremacy, until competition
has defeated them. But where the effect is
successful to shut of competition, then they
are able to create privileged class in
commerce, and exact undue profits from the
mass of industry which must obtain its
living subject to the action of competition.
All the sophistry of the trust advocates is
intended to conceal the one pivotal fact.
The purpose of the trusts is to prevent COM
petition and thus enhance the profits of
transferring products from the producer to
the consumer. If they succeed in this they
oppress the public by means which have
been denounced by the law, ever since the
law took account OF the popular welfare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
A BUSINESS MYSTERY.

Result of n Visit TO the Oil Exchange A
Puzzle TO the Uninlliated-How Prison.
ers In the Steel Ring Are Punished-A
Remarkable OuIbur.t With No Apparent
Cause-Gsreat Interest Aroused by a Boy,
Piece of ChaIk and Blackboard.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.I
HUEN-LoNG, of Pittsburg, to the Most
Worthy Mandarin, Single, Secretary of
State to His Imperial Transparency Greet
ing:
According to your esteemed commands
have gone forth into the busy places of this
city, and noting accurately what have seen,
am prepared to transmit the same unto Your
Highness. One of the first spots that
visited was that called the Oil Exchange.
Oil, most worthy sir, or more correctly
speaking, petroleum, is produced in this part
of our monarch's realms in great quantities,
and it is in the Oil Exchange of Pittsburg that
the most important business, in connection
with this petroleum, is transacted. Learning
this from your ignorant slave, Wah-Jung, the
catalambaniseT, in whose reeking hovel l am
soJourning, / hastily donned certain European
garments lately purchased by me- and hastened
in the direction of tn 10 Exchange. An i'm
pertinent minion stopped me as passed up the
stairway leading to the Exchange: but remem-
bering the advice that MIR. Hop Sing. of Wash
ington, gave me, promptly said that 1 was a
newspaper reporter. Instantly his domineer-
ing expression changed to one of humble
apology and was allowed to pass on my way.
Hence, oh Single, be wary lest any news
paper reporters ever enter our masters en-
ptre. They will become a naughty pampered
class, and make afraid even the Brother of the
Sun himself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
THAT CONGRESSIONAL CIRCUS.

WASHINGTON Star: Secret sessions in the
| House at this time would rebound greatly to
its credit.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: The Republicans of
the National House are now all ready to turn
out Is elected Democrats. No rules.
PHILADELPHIA Record: What good would
It be If the House had rules. A Speaker like
Reed would be higher law unto himself las a
matter of IegisIative:necessity."
NEW YORK World: Speaker Reed is neither
Cromwell nor Bismarck. He is simply q
preposterously inflated and unprincipled poll
tician who is digging with his gaYel the grave
of his party.
CINCINNATI Commercial Gazette: Bully for
Reedl He is the sort of usurper we rejoice in.
His tyranny delights us. His despotism fills US
with joyful emotions. 1t was a proud day for
the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representa-
tives when Reed adopted his 9th of January
ruling.
PHILADELPHIA Times: When Speaker Reed
refused recognition to a member of the body
when he rose to question of the highest priv
lege-that of correcting the Journal as to his
own public action-he was guilty Of the most
insolent abuse of the privileges Of the Chair
ever witnessed in any reputable deliberate
body.
PHILADELPHIA PTess: The Speaker of the
House of Commons has counted the members
to find if there is quorum present for two
centuries 1t is nonsense to suppose that there
can be any risk in intrusting the right to count
members to Speaker acting under the watch
of the minority and before the eyes of the
country.
CHICAGO Mat: A great outcry has been
made about the cutrageousness of overturning
a aprecedent century old. The point Is point
less. If a precedent is founded on error It
ought to be reversed, and the fact that no
Speaker has had the courage to do so is q re-
Election on the Speakers Of the past, not on the
present one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
A GOOD RECORD.

The transfer of the postoffce management
from Mr.. Larkin to Mr.. Mexican, during
the past week, warrants a few words con-
cerning the record of the retiring postmas-
ter. The four years Of Mr.. Larkln's in
cumbency of the Office have, as was shown
by the statistics published yesterday, been a
period of remarkable expansion in the postal
business of Pittsburg; and it is because of that
gentleman's business-like method of admin
istering the place that the enlarged traffic
has been so well handled. While Mr.. Lar.
kin's antecedents on assuming the Office
were political, he has conducted the post
Office strictly on the principle of securing
the highest efficiency, and has made a very
satisfactory and convincing example of what
can be done with the civil service when op-
Grated solely to get the best work done.
This record is one of which Mr.. Larkin has
3 right to be proud, and which his successor
may proftably emulate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
A TumuIt. But No BusIness.

a LII this time had been on the lookout for
business, but had failed to discover anything
approaching thereto. The messages from the
telegraph room indeed might have considered
as such, save for the carelessness with which
gen tlemen thrust them into their pockets after
perusal. Just as was about to leave the hall,
some further detail Of the prisoners crime
must have arrived, for some twenty persons
rushed madly towards the center of the hall
and began to roar furiouslY at him. Twas actu-
ally terrified by the Vehemence of these gentle
men. Their faces flushed their eyes cleaned,
few even shook their fists, to such pitch
of indignation had they been raised. Their
bodies swayed to and fro, till feared they
would topple over and fall from the narrow
platform. 1t was fortunate for the prisoner
that the bar protected him from their on
slaught. could not understand why they did
not pelt him, as Chinese mobs do, with every
available missile. Perhaps the very eccentric
laws of the land prohibit such course.
AS soon as they had quite spent their force
they again left the platform and adjourned in
groups to their seats. Were they merely re-
tirIng in order to gather force for a new attack
on the writhIng eulprit within the ring? l was
very desirous of ascertaining how much they
are paid by the Government Tor this regular
abuse of prisoners but remembering the
former rebuff had received, desisted. After
waiting little while and seeing no further
storm of words 1 arose and left the so-called
Exchange. My visit had left me ignorant of
what desired to learn-the methods of tEade
here-but it gave me deeper insight into the
manner of Furnishing offenders. Brennan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
Studying Bulls and Bears.

a the lower end of the hall was railed-off
space, in which were chairs and benches.
1 took my seat and watched the movements of
the throng Around the walls were rows of
chairs and in these sat gentlemen not engaged
in reviling the criminal. Mastering up the
best English at my command asked person
sitting near me what was the crime of the man
who sat with downcast looks within the steel
ring. But the man whom l addressed either
did not understand my question or did not de-
sire to answer it, for he shook his head and
gradually shifted himself away from me. Sub
sequently / noticed him talking to another
gentleman near where the prisoner sat He
forehead. l am altogether at loss to divine
his meaning. My national pride prevented me
from repeating the question, and contented
myself with watching the scene before me.
After a while the gentlemen surrounding the
ring ceased to upbraid the prisoner, and
descended from the platform. Then a boy
began to make in chalk various marks upon
blackboard close to the entrance. As he wrote
catch the meaning. Great interest was mani
Tested in his work by many Of those present,
and quite little crowd collected round the
board The coming and going Of boys with
papers from the telegraph office became more
frequent The boy first shouted out a name,
and on the gentleman SO named making sign
carried the paper to him. A little by-play went
on in some seats close to the railing behind
which sat. A few gentlemen there were play
fully struggling over newspaper and ad-
ministering sundry good humored blows and
buffetings in the process Meanwhile the
prisoner within his ring was enjoying compare
tive peace. Some few would occasionally lean
over the bar and taunt him, but the crowd for the
moment had tired of tormenting him. If we
had been in China, we would have fired him
in a cage and fettered him hand and foot, but
here they are contended with placing him in
public position and leaving him to the scorn Of
the mob.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02

interview in which he declares that Presi-
dent Harrison ought to respect the will of
the people, is peculiarly Farwellian in its
implication that Senator Farwen is the
Voz popuk.
On the other hand Senator FarwelI
makes stab close to the vitals of the
question when he points out the revenge
which the President appears to be taking on
those Republicans who had the hardihood
to support Gresham for the Republican
nomination when a Republican Senator
makes that charge and couples it with the
prediction that this course will disrupt the
party, it is sufficient to create a doubt
whether political wisdom and harmony are
reigning supreme in the councils of the
nation.
With regard to the Senator's gloomy pre-
diction, when the party is divided between
those who use patronage for personal re-
venge and those who rebel because they can
not control it for personal advantage, the
question is likely to be asked, if it deserves
any better fate than disruption?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
PUBLIC AND PRIvATE BUsIEEss

1t is a significant and remarkable fact
that the entire squabble in the House for the
past few days could have been entirely
avoided, except for the vice of absenteeism.
If all the Democrats had been in their seats
during the past three days they would have
had majority, and could have adopted fair
rules for the government of business. If all
the Republicans had been present they
would have had a quorum and could have
gone on with their business, without getting
into fghtover the quorum question. But,
as neither party could command its full
force, the fight has gone on, and the business
of the country has stood still. Partisan
control is OF such Importance as to cause the
neglect of public business; but it does not
weigh enough to induce all the members to
neglect their private business for the duties
which they have undertaken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
WAsHINGTON's WORLDS FAIR BILL.
An Appropriation OF S15.OOO.OOO to be
Asked for the Capital City.

An Appropriation of S15,OOO.OOO to be
Asked for the Capital City.
WASHINGTON. February 1.-The special
House Committee on the Worlds Fair held a
meeting to-day, and spent two hours in going
over the draft Of the bill prepared by the sub.
committee, correcting the phraseology and
making slight amendments. When the point
of adjournment was reached. the committee
had gotten as far as section 10 in the bill. The
Chicago men were not satisfied at the
rate of progress, and endeavored to
procure another meeting of the COM
mIttee this afternoon. but failed. There
was the usual exchange of sarcastic
remarks between the representatives of COM
peting cities. When Mr.. Hit pressed speedy
action Mr.. Hatch, the st. Louis representative,
insisted that the bill should have the most ma
ture consideration, and when Mr.. Hit pointed
out that delay in the committee endangered
the success of the bill, Mr.. Hatch was opposed
to having any bill presented to the House
during the present state of affairs. Mr.. Hit
said that he might be willing to allow the st.
Louis bill to be reported, but Mr.. Hatch re-
piled that he would not make an exception,
even in the case Of report favorable to st.
Louis.
Mr.. Wilson presented the draft of the bill
prepared by the local Washington committee,
and gave notice that it would be presented to
the House as a substitute for the special COM
mittee's bill. This measure proposes an appro-
priatIon by the Government of SIS O00, 600 to de-
fray the expenses Of holding the fair in Wash
ingtOn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02

tion for the whites who are subject to 1t, but
is it not exactly what the statesmen of the
United States have perfected as the acme OF
political wisdom? 1t is proposed that we
shall levy per capita tax on the laborers
who come to us from abroad. Why should
not the Chickasaws protect themselves in like
manner from the competition of the pauper
Anglo-Saxon immigrants who pour into
their territory from the effete and over
crowded East?
The aboriginal method of demonstrating
its idea that what is sauce for the Caucasian
goose is sauce for the Chickasaw gander,
has the merit of being forcible illustration
at least.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
NONE MORE HIGHLY VALUED.
The Dispatch Among the Best Of the Lead
ing American Newspapers.

The Dispatch Among the Best Of the Lead"
ing American Newspapers.
From the York DaiIy.l
Among all our exchanges, and we receive
many good ones, there is none that we value
more highly than The PITTsBURe DISPATCH.
1t is attractive in makeup, its news is clothed
in chaste language and written in attractive
style. The daily edition for 1880 will continue
to offer the best things going in the news line.
Its reliable market reports, vast news-getting
machinery Gncluding leased wires to all the
principal points, with bureaus in the chief
cities). and its earnest progressive and inde-
pendent policy, has earned for it a national
reputation and made it a household word in
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.
With the new year the already large facilities
enjoyed by THE DISPATCH for producing a
progressive nineteenth century newspaper will
be added to. The rapidly growing circulation
of both the daily and Sunday issues has neces-
STATED the building of another marvellous
double perfecting press for its already we'll
equipped pressroom. Hoe & Co. will soon
place this wonderful machine alongside the
other swift presses, thereby giving THE Dis
PATCH publishing facilities only enjoyed by
few of the metropolitan plants. The improve
ments in other departments will be on scale
in keeping with this extraordinary addition to
the advantages enjoyed by THE DISPATCH.
The Sunday edition has attained wonderful
growth and popularity, Its bona ide circulation
reaching considerably over $1,000. The matter
selected for the literary columns Of the NAM
moth 20-page Sunday issue is supplied by scores
of contributors Of the highest merit and repu-
tion. Each number is a monster magazine OF
choicest pen productions, as well as an aecu-
rate and exhaustive chronicle of current news
The special cable letters and the sporting and
business reviews are also attractive features OF
the Sunday issue. 1t is newspaper for the
people and the home circle. With the new
year come new features.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02
A YOuTaFuL PICTuRE.MAKER.
A 6.Year Old Boy Possessed of WOuderfu
Skill as an Artist.

n
Skill as an Artist.
PORTSMOUTH. O., February This city has
a young artist whose natural talent amounts to
phenomenon. Little Freddie McAleer, the g.
year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. X. McAleer,
produces without apparent effort work which
would be a credit to artists of maturer years.
When asked for the reproduction of picture,
however difficult, the little fellow seizes the
crayon in his lett hand, follows intently with
his eye the lines of his copy, and the hand,
without any attention, reproduces them ex-
aotly.
The writer tested the little fellow thoroughly
on animal pictures landscapes. ETC., which
seem to delight him most The results were
rapid and true to nature. But we expected to
dIscomft the curly-head when we offered
him map of the United States. Not
the least disconnected he went at it as
q matter of course, and in a short
time had the map complete, wonder
fully accurate in outline and detail, every
river and State in proper position. He was
then given map of the State of Ohio. This
was executed with equal promptness and ex-
cellence, with counties. rivers and cities cor
rect y located, and even the names, which he
could not read, were reproduced without an
error. But Freddie is not simply mechanical
copyist. He will produce a bouquet or other
intricate design, filling in the colors with exact
truth to nature. All this is the more remarka-
bic since he has never had the least attention
or instruction in drawing, and his knowledge
seems to be intuitive. The little fellow is mod
est and objects to an exhibition of his marvel
Gus powers. If he discovers anyone watching
him down goes the crayon or brush, and no
amount of coaxing can induce him to proceed.
Freddie McAleer is a wonder and those who
know him and have seen his work do not be-
lieve his equal can be found elsewhere. He
revels in pictures, and every new card or
chrome that comes into the house is eagerly
selzed and copied at once. He has made a few
efforts at portraits, copied from photographs,
and, while his work in this line is good, being
generally recognizable, the fine work of facial
expression seems little too difficult for his
baby hand.