Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-24
THE TOPICAL TALkER,

Aquatic Opportunities NegIected-A RemIp.
iscence of Great Divine plain Davis
Deserves success-why Chief Brown II
Plagued on Mondays.
Now that the Bellevue dam is up the stretch
Of water from the city to the wickets
| themselves makes about as good a rowing
course as could be desired. It is strange that
greater advantage of this is not taken. The
Ohio should have its banks lined with boat
houses from Jacks Run to Bellevue
1t is said that interest in aquatics is reviying
here, and it is certainly fact that more shells
may be seen on the Allegheny these summer
evenings than have been there for q long while
Sculling should lead the way to other forms of
boating.
GeTHE death of young Mr.. Wilson," said an
attorney yesterday, twas all the more of
a blow to me because I knew his father. the
Rev. s. j. Wilson so well, and loved and hon.
ored him SO highly. Dr. Wilson was pastor Of
the Sixth Presbyterian Church from 1862 to
1876, and many of us think that he was the best
spiritual teacher and preacher that Pittsburg
has produced. have the most vivid remem-
brance of some OF his sermons. he was a man
of intense piety and unusual eloquenee. used
to think OF the triumphs that would have come
to him had he entered the courts instead of the
church. Though he was liberal minded in the
best sense, student of the sciences and lover
of the arts, he never permitted his faith in the
religious principles he taught to waver for a
moment
~ must have been a small boy at the time.
but 1 remember very well hearing DR.. Wilson
make speech at a war meeting. in Allegheny,
along in the '60s. DR.. Wilson was one Of the
gentlest, kindest men have ever known, but
in that speech he did not mince words. He
v.nl-o T,,S1. Ksrlrn trfol Had A.
pretty fine address, and his stirring appeals to
their patriotism carried the people off their
feet. One expression of DR.. Wilson's has stuck
fast in my memory to this day: The Unlon,' he
said, must be preserved If the blood has to run
to our horses brides.' 1t was the sort of speech
that one never forgets entirely"
COMPANY G, of the Eighteenth Regiment is
fortunate in its Captain. and Captain w.
b. Davis appears to be fortunate in his COM
pany. The Eighteenth Regiment is lucky to
have both. Since the regiment went into camp
at Mt. Gretna Captain Davis and his company
have been picked out for commendation bv in
specting officers, and unusual marks of favor
have been showered upon them.
No doubt Company G contains good material,
but Captain Davis is only repeating with them
what he has done in the milder ways of the
newspaper business before. Billy Davis, as
those who have served under him are permitted
to call him, possesses the happy faculty of get
ting good work out of men, without fuss, with
cut friction, without show of force. Be Re SOL
dier or reporter the man who serves Captain or
Editor Davis feels impelled by some almost
mysterious influence to do his best II l
wanted a model disciplinarian-to manage 9TH
ers or myself-I should pitch upon the Captain
of Company @.
a LII the heads of the city departments are
constantly being lmportuned for office by
their faithful friends and followers and by
dickens of a lot of total strangers. Perhaps
Chief Brown, of the Department of Public
Safety, has the best reason to know that public
Office is trust to be administered in the inter-
est of the oficeless who want Offices.
Chief Brown said yesterday: "Td like some
body to explain to me why 1t is that am over
run with officeseekers on Mondays more than
any other day. Say ten mon come to me for jobs
on other days-which is away below the real
fgure-a hundred. which is less than
the reality again. swoop down upon
me on Monday. Why do they
choose Mondayf Pve been debating the
matter in my mind for months. Every time
come down to the City Hall on Monday find
mob awaiting me. OF course haven't work
for tithe of them. It's awful p
Chief Browns forehead was all puckered up
as he formulated this conundrum. but present.
ly his Napoeonc features dissolved into some
thing resembling smile, and he said some
what after the fashion of Archimedes: II have
found it. My friends and the other fellows
who would be friends of mine spend Sunday
contemplating the blissful prospect of drawing
a fat salary and doing nothing-of which they
wrongly suppose serving the city consists-and
as soon as Monday dawns they swarm around
the City Hall to obtain practical hulfment of
their irridescent dreams. The leisure of the
Sabbath works misery for me.'