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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Welsh visitors and Tin Plate.

To the Editor of The DISPATCH:
Your article, "More Tariff on Tin Plate" in
a recent edition. gives the opinions expressed
by the Welsh tin plate makers now visiting
your city on the impracticability of success
full manufacture of tin plate in this country,
and Judging from Pitfsburg's facilities, with a
tariff of 2210 cents per pound. The ostensi-
BILE purpose of these gentlemen in coming
here at this time was to attend the proceedings
of the Iron and Steel Institutes; their yeritable
one was to decry our proposed tin plate max
ing project, and to endeavor to block its wheels
of progress. However, their cackinatory as
sertions of inability to manufacture in compe-
tition with themselves are not likely toproduce
any prejudiclal effect upon sensible persons,
when the motive attending their utterances is
SO palpably an interested and personal one.
IL is one thing to make q sweeping statement;
it is another to proveit. Your report attributes
be made in America under less protective
tariff than cents per pound;' also that from
compiled local data they had carefully figured
out costs of production, enabling them of
course to arrive at this conclusion. Now #
they are correct we Americans have proved
ourselves incapable of perfecting any such
costs, and all the information in this direction
upon which the amended tariff has been based
so that we may proceed with the industry has
been abortive, afording only to display our
consummate ignorance of the subject.
Well, If we are to don the cap and bells it is
but fair that the gentlemen presenting us with
the insignia of folly give us perfect fit to do
SO, let them place their figuring before the peo-
pie of Pittsburg, who they say cannot make tin
plate with less protection than cents pound
to compete with them in our market. 1t will
both verify their statement and also convince
Pittsburgers that their assertions are more than
the vaporings of prejudiced men.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
PITTsBURG, October Is, 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
FUN AND FANCY.

The weight that has been hanging on the
front gate all summer will now be transferred to
the sofa in the parlor. Maryland Gazette.
Smithers-Wonder why they don't have
A pork syndicate? Blimbers Country bred, con-
temptuously)-Did you ever try to corner pigy-
Boston Post.
Landladv-That new boarder needn't try
to make me think he is a bachelor. He's either
married or is a widower.
MiIIings-How can you tell?
Landlady-He always turns his back to me when
he opens his pocket book to pay his board.-Spars
Moments.
sIoye me little" began the dwarf.
..Love me long. -" concluded the giant-Tszas
SVtfngs.
A verdant gentleman whose correspond
ence is limited received letter upon the envelope
Of which the conventional business card:
''After five days, return To- The epistls
was carefully perused and preserved until the ex-
piration of the allotted five days, when it was re-
turned to the writer.-IsTTe Haute Express.
The need of the hour is hotel which is
good for sleeping purposes.
"Come here, Johnny, and tell me what
the four seasons are.'' Young prodigy-Pepper,
salt mustard and vinegar.-Nel0cdstLe EUsRfng
ChrontcLe.
Said the haxen-haired maiden TO the dap
per young man behind the counter-Have you
any nice, soft muslin that Will suit my complex
ion and hair? Shopman- Bleached or unbleached'
-Ne10cdstte EUentng Chronicte.
Physician (with ear to patient's chest)-
There is curious swelling over the region Of the
heart, sir, which must be reduced at once. Pa
tient (anxiously) That swelling is my pocket
book, doctor. Please don't reduce it too much
English Exchange.
There was a convention Of champagne
dealers in New York the other day, but the pro-
ceedings were not reported; they were extra-dry.
-Teras Strings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
READY WITH ITS PROGRAMME.

Entertainments Arranged for the Winter
Season of the Y. Nj. C. A.
The Young Mems Christian Association has
completed its arrangements for the winter
course of entertainments. The programme is
as follows: The Ideal Concert Sextet, of New
York, with Miss Carrie Louise Ray, reader, in
IAN Evening With Thomas Moore" November
25; Rev. p. S. Henson, d. D., of Chicago, in
new lecture. December 26; Boston Ideal Banjo,
Mandolin and Guitar Club, with vocal quar-
tet, January 49, Mrs. Scott Siddons, dramatic
and miscellaneous readings. February 27;
Swedish Male Quartet. with Miss Lura Barden.
reader March 81: Bill Nye with Miss Ollie Tor
bet violnist: Gustave Tholberg, the Swedish
tenor. and Frank Downey, the pianist.
In order to accommodate the large audieaces
that always attend the association entertain
ments Old City Hall has been secured for thase
performances. Only life or sustaining men-
bership tickets will be received for admissi4n.
These tickets will be recognized only when pre-
sented by the owner in person, and will a<mit
the owner and one lady. Members desiring to
bring more than one lady or a gentleman can
procure extra tickets at SO cents each. The en-
tertainments are in charge of a committee con-
sisting of Charles E. Orr. Thomas Nicely, Grant
Hubley, Charles S. Shoemaker, Harry j. Her
ron and General Secretary !. B. Griggs.
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An INDICATION OF USADEOUACy.

A point which goes iar toward discredit-
ing the adequacy of the census as a whole,
is brought out by the New York Nation in
a very forcible manner. The point has
had some attention in these columns before,
but the Nation gives the figures in form
that seems to be unanswerable. The per-
centage of natural increase Of population
or excess of births over deaths has been
slowly diminishing throughout the century;
but the rate oil decrease is steady. In the
first decade it was 35 per cent; in the decade
before the war it had gotten down to "a per
cent The census of 1870 covered the war
decade in which this percentage would
naturally be reduced. and besides that the
census of that year was VIGOROUSLY made
quate. This explains why the percentage
Of natural increase was put bv it at Is per
cent. In 1880 the percentage was shown to
lie nearly 23 per cent. But when we take
Mr.. Porter's total, and deduct the gain by
immigration, we find that the increase, by
the excess of births over deaths is reduced,
to 1917 per cent, or actually less than during
the war decade. As it is impossible to
believe that such a violent drop in the
vitality of the nation has actually occurred,
it is necessary for the census authorities to
show some reason why this does not discredit
the entire census.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
FUTIRE STEEL CENTERS.

The visit of the British iron and steel
visitors to the iron manufacturing district
of Birmingham, Alabama, was an interest
ing one, not only to that section, but to
Pittsburg, which has kept kindly watch
on that district, not so much as present
rival as an infant which NAV in time be-
come one. The reports state that all the
speakers united in declaring that good basic
steel could be made there as cheaply as in
any district in the world, and Sir Lowthian
Bell repeated his prediction of 1874 that
Birmingham would become the point of
cheapest iron production in the Union,
which he considers already realized.
These assertions, made by authorities of
such standing, are, of course, extremely en-
couraging to the Alabama interests, and
must be taken to indicate the direction OF
their greatest growth. Heretofore the COM
plete success of the Alabama iron industry
has been hampered by the unsatisfactory re-
suits of their efforts to produce iron fit for
the Bessemer process. The declarations
quoted are to be taken as corroboration of
wha: has been intimated before, that the
basic process affords the Alabama region
the most available method of converting her
mineral deposits into steel, and that with
the adoption of that process the future
erection of a great steel manufacturing
center there is to be taken as a settled
thing.
Pittsburg can recognize this fact frankly
and without jealousy. The experience, skill
L. xrhi off hoS IN fhot
district has been no mean contribution to its
growth in that direction. But because We
recognize that our Southern neighbors have
before them the brilliant prospect of becom-
ing competitors to Pittsburg's steel products,
that is no reason why we must concede that
even at some distant point in the future the
supremacy will be transferred. On the con-
trary the recognition of tine import
ant part which basic steel is to
play in creating a competitor, only points
out to Pittsburg the way In which she
must fortify her position by enlarging her
plants for that class Of manufacture as ener-
getically as she has done with the Bessemer
and open-hearth processes. Pittsburg has
within easy reach immense supplies of ores
suitable for the basic process, and by taking
the steps necessary to make them tributary
to her works she can maintain her leadership
in the manufacture of steel in the future as
decidedly as in the past.
Our city need not depreciate or refuse to
recognize the progress of possible rival in
the domestic production of steel. But when
the factors which promise to create that rival
can also be made to strengthen the indus
attention.
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the fact that they are below the average.
But if the Call had paid more attention to
its decimal point, it would have found that
the result of dividing s34, 900. 600 by $50, 900
Is only S61.S1 as the average earnings,
which is ridiculous A further knowledge
of the subject would have disclosed the fact
that by the census of 1880, the wage
workers whose earnings are reported BY the
manufacturing census, are less than one In
seven. This, if the Calls figures had been
correct, would have made an average IN
come of 1900 annually, but, by the pro-
cess of correct division and multiplication,
amounts to $3.50 annually.
The presumption is that the statement of
wages paid in this county last year at S34, ,OOO,-
600 is obtained from the census authorities,al-
though we have not seen the official report.
If so, it is another evidence of the imperiec-
tion of the census. 1t indicates an average
rate of wages lower than the rate shown by
the census of 1880, while wages have ad-
vanced; and it places the average for all the
labor in our manufacturing industries, of
which a large portion is skilled labor, at
less thapS1 so per day. or below the bottom
rate for unskilled labor. 1t shows an in
crease of only S12,000,0oo on the total
shown by the census of 1880; while the in
creased wages, in the iron and steel indus
tries alone, indicated by the enlargement of
output, is 25 per cent greater than that
sum.
If the official report shall show this total
to refer to the iron and steel industries of
Allegheny county alone. the amount OF S34,-
600, 900 may be very nearly correct. Ii it
includes all the manufacturing establish
ments of the county it will be almost as
erroneous as the esteemed Calls well-meant
but mistaken dallying with the processes of
long division.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
DUNNING ENVELOPES.
A Recent Decision Upon What Words vio-
late the Protective Law.

A Recent Decision Upon What Words vio-
late the Protective Law.
From the New York Tribune.f
Judge Wheeler. of the United States District
Court of Vermont, has gone further than
other judges in constituting the law pro-
hibiting the mailing of envelopes having on the
outside words calculated to reflect injuriously
upon the character of anyone. Under this law
persons have been fined or imprisoned for
sending dunning letters on the envelopes con-
tanning which were written words indicating
doubt whether the debt would be paid
Judge Wheeler has just decided that the law
was violated by sending through the mails
letters contained in envelopes bearing the
words. Excelsior Collection Agency" printed
in large letters across the upper half of the
envelope. The judge says that the printed
words are separate from the directions to re-
turn to the respondent if not called for, in the
lower left hand corner; and were obviously
placed so as to attract attention. and reflect
delinquency in payment upon the person sent
to. The object probably was to make the
person pay up to avoid repetition of the re-
Election" The protection of individual against
annoyances is much more nearly perfect than
before the passage of the amendments of 1888,
under which Judge Wheeler's decision was
rendered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. MONDAY. OCT. %, 1890.
THE VERDICT OF OUR VISITORS.

1t is gratifying to our local pride to learn
from the final frankness of one of the En-
CIish iron and steel men who is on his way
home, that our recent visitors were good
deal more impressed with the magnitude
and progress of our industries than they ex-
pressed in their utterances while here. The
British tendency to impsssiyeness and re-
serve, combined with the fact that our
guests were inspecting establishments that
are rivals of their own. made their utter
ances rather cool and placed check upon
their admiration. But it is now stated that
the actual effect of Pittsburg's mills,
furnaces, glass works, oil and gas wells,
coke works and coal mines, upon the visit
ing foreigners, was one of surprise if not of
amazement.
While it is very pleasant to know that our
industries impressed the expert foreigners
even more than was indicated by their kind,
though guarded, expressions of approval, it
is worth while to bear in mind the fact that
Pittsburg has really more to gain from the
criticisms of its visitors than from their ad-
miration. Whatever we have accomplished
is a fixed fact. whether it is recognized or
not; but by studying the criticisms of expert
rivals, our manufacturers may obtain val
liable suggestions as to the means bv which
the results can be enlarged or made more
certain.
1t was a wise remark of the late John
Mccullough that no criticism of his acting
was so shallow that he could not find in it
some suggestion that he could make val
liable The wisdom of that rule of action
is far more cogent when it leads to careful
study of whatever the iron and steel masters
OF the Old World found in our industries
that is susceptible of improvement.
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THE REMAINS OF LINCoLNs SON
Will be Deposited in Crypt in the Nom
ment at Springfield.

Will be Deposited in a Crypt in the Monu-
ment at Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, October l9.-Robert T.
Lincoln has decided to bring the remains of his
only son. Abraham Lincoln. to Springfield and
deposit the body in crypt in the Lincoln mon
ument. At a meeting of the Lincoln Monu-
ment Association yesterday, the following let
ter from Mr.. Lincoln was read:
CROMWELL HOUSE. S. W., LONDON, I
September TO- 1890.
The Hon o. NJ. Hatch:
My DE 'R SIR-I beg to thank you for your letter
communicating to me the resolution of the Lin
coin Monument Association. inviting a CORES
pondence with me as to the prOpriety of deposit
ing the remains of my son In crypt in the monu-
ment erected in memory of his grandfather. In
reply 1 beg to say to you that when upon
the death ofmy son foresaw the extinction upon
my death of my descendants bearing his name,
of every member of the monument association.
arrangements might be made for the burial in the
monument Of y my son; SON and thereafter & Of myself
unless they should marry. This is the arrange
ment / would make under the peculiar
were, as would usually be the case, in my
care. but trust that it may be understood that
know that the monument was not erected or ar
ranged Tor such purpose and that l would
each member of the association that the arrange
ment should be entered upon. L need not say
would be borne bv myself will be highly graft
fed by the kind consideration of NV wishes. Be-
lieve me, very sincerely ROBERT T. LINCOLN.
The association passed resolutions instruct
ing the Executive Committee to carry out the
wishes of Mr.. Lincoln. 1t is expected that the
within the ensuing month and placed in a crypt
in the monument. Mr.. Lincoln, at any rate,
has written a letter announcing that he will be
here during November.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN.

THE Pope is an enthusiastic amateur gar
dener.
GEORGE VANDERBILT's ambition is to col.
lect the finest library in America.
COLLECTOR ERHARDT, of New York, has
been sued 1000 times since he took office.
SENATOR GoRMAN has leased Perry Bel
monts Washington house for term OF years.
JIMMY WHISTLER is very much like one of
his own etchings-picturesque, interesting and
quaint
JULIAN STURGIS, who has written the lib
retto for Sir Arthur Sullivan's new opera, is a
distinguished Oxford man and the author of
several interesting books.
JUSTICE MILLER had never studied or even
thought of the law until he was 30 years old,
and when Lincoln found him an active lawyer
and politician in Iowa in 1862 he had never
presided over a court.
ARCHBISHOP EYRE, of Glasgow who is
about to be raised by the Pope to the Sacred
College, is one of the most popular prelates in
Great Britain, and his promotion will be
hailed in Scotland by all classes with en-
thusiasm.
PROF. JAMES BRYCE, the distinguished
author of "The American Commonwealth"
will deliver the only lecture during his present
visit in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The
SuOJcCG Will pc AL ASC VI bhSSobsChsS Va
Some Characteristics of the Age We Live in..' ,
OUIDA writes as follows in the Animal
Guardian: In all ages animals have been
cruelty. wantonly treacherously sacrificed to
the desires, greeds or pleasures of men; but
never perhaps. with more cynical and cold
blooded deliberation than in these latter years
of this century.
PRINCE MESHTsHERsKY. editor and pro-
prietor of Grashdinin the official journal of
Russia, makes serious proposal to his Govern
ment to forbid the publication of all newspa-
pers in RussiA-excepting his own. He would
spare his own for the reason that it is the
official organ. The Gar is considering the
matter.
MRS M. EDITH HowCoTT, of New Orleans.
probably owns more real estate than any other
Southern woman She has IN her own right
over 81, 600 acres of selected timber lands in
Louisiana and Mississippi, and is still buying.
She has Just completed a purchase of $500
acres OF hardwood and cypress timber land in
Louisiana and 900 acres of pine in Texas.
MR.. WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR possesses
two books which have no duplicates. These are
his own historic novels. Valentino and Sforza,
interleaved and illustrated with water-coIor
drawings, pen and ink sketches, and illumina-
rions in gold and silver all done at his own sug-
gestion, and expressing his own IDEAS The
artist is Major David E. Cronin, who is one of
the best living illustrators, and the beautiful
volumes are said to have cost nearly e., ,000
each.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
EVARRA AND HIS GODS.

Kudyard Kipliug's Latest.]
Read here.
This is the story Of EudrrG-1ndn.
Maker Of gods tn lands beyond the sea.
Because the city gave him of her gold.
Because the caravans brought turquoises,
Because his life was sheltered by the King,
So that no man should main him, nvne should
steal
Or break his rest with babble in the streets
When he was weary after toll, he made
An image of his god in gold and pearl,
With turquoise diadem and emerald eyes:
A wonder in the sunshine, known afar
And worshipped by the King; but drunk with
pride.
Because the city bowed to him for God,
He wrote above the shrine-"ThuS gods are
made,
A7ad aohoSo makes them otherwise shall dte.n
And all the city praised him. Then he died.
Read here The story Of EUarra-uan.
Maker of gods in lands beyond The sea.
Because his city had no wealth to give,
Because the caravans were spoiled afar,
Because his life was threatened by the King,
So that all men despised him in streets.
He hacked the living rock. with sweat and tears,
And reared a god against the morning gold;
terror in the sunshine seen afar
And worshlpped by the KING; but, drunk with
pride,
Because the city fawned to bring him back.
made,
A7ad soho so makes them otherwise shall de-"
And all the people praised him. Then he died.
Read here tte story Of Euarra-man.
Maker Of gods in lands beyond the sea.
Because he lived among a simple folk.
Because his village was between the hills,
Because he smeared his cheeks with blood of
ewes,
He cut an idol from q fallen pine,
Smeared blood upon its cheeks and wedged a
shell
Above its brows for eye and gave it hair
OF trailing moss and plated straw for crown;
And all the village praised him for this craft,
And brought him butter. honey, milk and curds;
Wherefore, because the shoutings drove him
mad.
He scratched upon that log:-"I'hus gods are
made,
And ,ohoso makes them other,oise shall die.,,
Read here the story Of Evarra-rnan,
Maker Of gods in tandS beyond the sea.
Because his god decresd one clot of blood
Should swerve a hair 's-breadth from the pulses
path
And chafe his brain, Evara moved alone,
Rag wrapped, among the cattle In the fields,
Counting his fingers, jesting with the trees
And mocklng at the mist, until his god
Drove him to labor. Out of dung and horns
Dropped in the mire he made monstrous god
Abhorrent, shapeless, crowned with plaintain
tufts;
And when .he cattle lowed at twilight time
He dreamed it was the clamor of lost crowds,
And howled among the beasts: "Ihus gods are
made,
And iohoso makes them other,oiss shall die.'
Thereat the cattle beloved. Then he died.
Yet at the last he came to Paradise
And found his own four gods. TheIeat he
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The Names of the Streets,

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
One who has had considerable experience in
travelling through the United States and
Europe. and who has often felt the want of a
bureau of information" would suggest the
placing of the names of the streets on the
lamps at the street corners throughout the
and night, as the greatest "bureau of informa-
tion'' the City of Pittsburg could give the
stranger public" consisting OF majority Of
her own citizens, all visitors from other cities
and the thousands of country people who
annually visit the Exposition and other at
fractions of the city. The few names of streets
now tackled up on the corners of buildings are
often covered by sign or awning and cannot
be found in The daytime and cannot be seen at
night at all. With the spirit OF progress now
prevailing Pittsburg in the way of public parks
and other improvements, the placing of the
names of the streets as suggested is crying
need. STRANGER.
PITTsBURG, October II, 1890.
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OUR WAGES TOTAL.

Our esteemed cotemporary, the Harris
burg Call, has made a rather amusing
blunder which illustrates the importance of
the decimal point. 1t states that the total
wages paid in Allegheny last year was s34,-
COO, 900, and as the population was 55O, 600,
this gives az average of S619 10 wages for
every man, woman end child in the county.
1t proceeds to calculate that only one per-
son in three of the total population is
wage-earner, which gives the remarkably
fat income to the average worker of Allie
gheny county of little over 81, $50.
1t would be pleasant to believe that the
Calls figures are correct, although they
would disclose to a good many people in
Allegheny county who believed themselves
t9 be earning more than the average income