Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
A Flash Bankers Fall.

A Flash Bankers Fall.
F vERYBoDY who knows Mr.. Charles E. Coon.
late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
is not only sorry that he is involved financially
| in the recent failure of Bateman & Co., but
wonders how it is that so good a fellow and
long-headed a business man should get caught
in such business connection. This Bateman
was never anything but flash banker. When
he kept small bucket shop in Washington he
made some money through an illicit connec-
tion with the Treasury Department, and this
furnished the groundwork for his subsequent
operations AS a member of the select poker
club there at one time Bateman figured in
scandal which would have ostracised any man
the same club that caused the downfall of a too
trusting Colonel of the United States Cavalry
"a man in every respect Batemans superior.
Another time, during the Garfield fair in the
Capitol, when handsome desk was put up for
the most popular newspaper correspondent,
and was likely to be voted to a man who hao
exposed the Bateman underground wire with
the treasury, the bucket-shop keeper put up
stool-pigeon against the popular young man
and the desk went to Bateman's wife. The
stool-pigeon is now in the Auburn penitentiary
for horse stealing.
"Commodore" Bateman is still at large, only
| half million short, but there are circum-
| stances connected with his failure which
appear to justify the opinion that his future
will be closely associated with a lock and key,
or prolonged residence in cold climate.
A curious feature of metropolitan life is the
prominence the bucket shop banker attained
through the local newspapers. They made him
Seem Wall street Napoleon of fin ance and, IN
spite of the warnings of those who were
thoroughly familiar with his record, boosted
him up where he could reach the pockets of
many honest people. In this connection 1t
should be said that but single newspaper of
this great city dared to print and fttingly
characterize the outrageous treatment OF Mrs.
Bateman's maid-the poor and friendless
French girl-by those contemplate parvenues.
Even the courts connived at that iniquity.
The Lungs and Adipose.
WHAT is ir that makes actors and actresses
incline to stoutness? The question is still
more pertinent concerning singers. sit requires
flesh to sing" said dramatic critic. But Is
flesh the cause or effect? According to the
latest experiments on physical treatment it is
possible to add this flesh by the simple and sys-
tematic expansion of the lungs in q pure
atmosphere. 1t has long been the custom of
some people to try this scheme of increasing
their weight by wind. but beyond their own sat
isfaction it has not until recently been suspect
ed of material benefit. Now, however, 1t is said
shat pure atmosphere and active and extreme
expansion of the lungs greatly assist in the
assimilation of food, and results in an increased
tendency to ieshiness. The people of the ros-
trum and tie stage must continually light flesh.
The War of the Sealskin Sacque.
7 ADY, on elevated train-Do you really and
truly think there will be war between this
country and Great Britainf
Escort-War! War about whatf
Lady-Why, about sealskin sacQues.
Escort-Nonsense!
Lady-l don't know about that There was a
five years war in our family over one sacque,
volved.
Quaker City Intelligence.
A PHILADELPHIA gentleman, writing me on
a pension matter, was requested to fur
nish the name of his Congressman. He writes:
'Since the receipt of your very kind letter of
the 18th inst. have been trying TO find where
live. A short time ago I moved into an ad-
joining ward. and since receiving your letter
have been endeavoring to ascertain the num-
ber of the ward. together with that Of the
| Congressional district, but inquiry among
numerous and otherwise intelligent neigh
| bors who have been living in the ward
| and voting regularly at each election,
failed to develop even one who knew any more
| for a member of Congress they could not tell
who it was. l called at one of our largest news
paper ofices-on the first foor-and the gentle
| man addressed told me, after inquiring of an
assistant, that he would have to give it up. !
| then told him what a time had had, upon
which he said, that .It was nothing because he
| himself did not know who his Congressman
| was, although he had voted for him number
| of times. AS a last resort 1 addressed the
| Times editor, and, after another weeks delay,
received the Information through the corre-
spondents column that lived in the Fourth
| Congressional district, which is represented in
| Congress by John B. Reyburn successor to the
| late Judge Kelley, and formerly State Sem
ator"
Philadelphia is known as great town to
| hide in. II is also easy city to represent in
| Congress. But when some particular one of Its
| citizens makes an attempt to break out or to
| find where he is, it turns the Quaker City up
| side down.
No Sympathy for the Soldiers.