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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
A PAIR OF sPECTACLEs.
A Very Clever Play Well Done By the Madi-
son Square Company.

A Very Clever Play Well Done By the Madi-
son Square Company.
Sydney Grundy's charming comedy, "a Pair
of Spectacles," was acted with wonderful art
by the Madison Square Theater last night
The play is not perfect, perhaps, but it is far
and away the most graceful of the lighter COM
edies that the last decade has given us. 1t tells
the story of benevolent old man who is for a
time persuaded by an ill-conditioned brother
to doubt his fellow and stihe the
instincts of a generous heart. The change
is cleverly outlined and sketched in,
and its results are superbly humorous.
Mr.. J. H. Stoddart played the benevolent
hero with the delicacy and truth of a
Jefferson. The chief charm of the play was
Mr.. Stoddart's work. Very slightly less artis-
tic was the work of Mr. Holland IN the role of
the hard close-1sted brother from Sheffield.
The work is to great extent in the hands of
these two men, and to their efforts alone
almost was due the continuous laughter and
applause which marked the progress of the
play. In saying this we do not wish to depre-
ciate the performance of the rest of the COM
pany tor every character was filed capably
and SO as to produce perfectly harmonious
picture.
Maurice Barrymore played the rather preachy
title role in the little curtain-raiser, "a Man Of
the World" which preceded the comedy, with
a good deal Of manly grace. This afternoon
Captain Swift'' will bc given at the regular
family matinee. Tonight "Saints and Sim
ners."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
DIsoRpERLY CORPORATIONS.

The row which took place in Braddock
late Monday night over the possession of a
street by rival street railway companies is a
typical illustration OF one of the evils of the
time. Fortunately, no lives were lost. as
has been the case in some of the petty wars
carried on in the past between railways and
natural gas companies.
Two street railways claimed the right to
occupy certain portion of the street, on
which one had already laid its track. It
ought not to be difficult to have the question
of law decided by peaceable and legal
methods. Indeed, our enlightened system
of law ought to be able to perceive that no
property right could be granted to one cor
poration in public street. But either the
settlement of the question by law or the
recognition of equal rights in streets did not
consort with corporate policy. The regular
corporate method was for one of the dis
putants to go out with force of men and
tear up the others tracks. Of course, the
other side interfered. In this case the Of
fcers of the law ordered the cessation of
hostilities; but obedience to the law is
ure.
There is nothing unusual in the Brad
dock illustration of this method of carrying
the corporate will vi ct drnais. Indeed it was
rather mild case of the not uncommon cor
porate warfare. But wha. reason have the
men who control the corporations to expect
that laboring men will conduct their dis
putes with strict respect for order, when the
corporate favorites of legislation deliberately
take the law in their hands? How can the
law punish ignorant Poles for attacking and
injuring coke works when organized capital
does practically the same thing by tearing
up the property of their rivals, and 60 en-
tirely unpunished?
IF this is to be government by law, it
should be made plain that whoever takes
the law into his own hands will be sent to
prison. The men who commit such acts of
disorder as representatives of capital should
be made the first examples.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
Obituary Notes.


SENIOR MIANIAGA, the Mexican Minister to
Rome, is dead.
JUDGE NJ H owsLEY. Kentucky lawyer and
iurist, died of pneumonia at Lancaster, KY. Mon
day morning.
CHIEF ENGINEER JOHN f. BINGHAM died at
Nagasaki Japan. May g. according to a telegram
received Monday at the Navy Department.
GEORGE W. HULL. Grand Chief OF Records of
the Independent Order of Red Men in virginis
died Monday in petersburg of blood poisoning,
aged 81 years.
DIR. w. H. BOILING, one of the most promfu-
ent physicians in the South, ard Dean of the Uni
yersity of Louisville. died yesterday morning. He
was 81 years OF age.
MRS. ELIZABETH REID. the mother of Opie z.
Reid, of the Arkdnsa,o Traueter, died Monday,
after long illness, at her home in Portland,
Tenn. She was 70 years of age.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM r. ADAMS died Monday
morning at his late home in Harrisonville, Balti-
more county, Md, in his S7th year. In early life
he followed the sea and entered nearly every port
on the globe.
MISS ANNIE DEAN, daughter Of ex-Sherif Ed
ward Dean of Connellsville, died yesterday after
noon, after an illness Of several months. The de-
cal charms The funeral win take place at o
O'clocS Friday morning next.
EDWARD ID. BUCKINGHAM, for many years
piano manufacturer and dealer well known
throughout Central and orthern New York, was
room. room New York, saturday night last. He was
70 years of age and lived in Utica.
HON. JAMES L. ANGLE, late Justice of the
Supreme Court Of the Seventh judicial district,
New York. died at his summer residence in Char
lotte. near Rochester, Monday afternoon. He
dropped dead while working in his garden.
Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause.
DIR. EDWARD MAYNARD, dental surgeon and
inventor, died in Washington Monday evening II
Bright's disease. He had invented many instru-
ments used in his profession, and many of them
have become well known and generally adopted.
He was at one time employed in the imperial
family at st. Petersburg as court dentist. DIR.
Maynard patented the breeciiloxding Maynard
rifle and also method of converting muzzle-
6aded arms into breechloaders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
Social Chatter.

MISS JANE HOLMES is spending few days
in New York and Atlantic City.
THE last OF the series Of euchre parties will
be given ar the Linden Club House Friday
evening.
MISS FINLEY, very pleasing young lady of
ST. Paul MInn., is visiting with her aunt, Mrs.
Mccullough.
A MAY concert and festival was held last
evening in the Grace Memorial Presby yterian
Church. on Arthur street.
THE Bethesda Home directors held their
regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon
on the day of their first anniversary.
MRS. C.LwADE yesterday extended to the
Woman's Club an invitation to hold its last
June meeting at her lovely Edgewood home.
THE Christian Endeavor Society of the Sec-
opd Presbyterian Church dined at the church
last evening, and combined business with
sociabllity.
B. c. CHRIsTY gave the License Court re-
porters the daily press banquet at the
Duouesnc last evening. About six Of the boys
were present. and they enjoyed it.
Mrs. MAX BECKER and daughter, Miss Min
ME, will leave thIs morning for Steubenville
where they will spend the day with Baroness
Iagerfelt, returning this evening with Miss
Hettie johnson, Of Cincinnati. young lady Of
decided beauty and engaging manners, who
will visit at the Becker home, on Ellsworth ave-
nue., for some days.
THE woman's Club, of Orange, requests the
pleasure OF your company at the residence OF
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. Llewellyn Park.
Orange, Wednesday, May 20, 1891, at O'Clock" /"
is the text of a prettily-engraved invitation re-
ceiyed Yesterday by Mrs, Z. I. Wade, who will
represenr the Womsn's Club, OF this city, IN
the convention Of clubs at Orange.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

THERE was great to-do few years ago
about the possession of the Caroline Islands,
and when Pope Leo awarded them to Spain it
was considered victory for that Government
But subsequent events justify doubt whether
Spain did not capture white elephant The
islands have been in state Of chronic rebel
lion The natives have killed the Spanish Gov
ernor at one time, defeated the troops sent to
subdue them at another, and the last news is
the repulse Of Spanish landing party with
heavy loss. Our European friends are in q fair
way to learn that the policy of gobbling uncon-
sidered trihes OF territory wherever they are
found may prove rather expensive.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
PITTsBURG's BILLS PASSED.

Three of the bills framed to get Pittsburg
out of its dilemma passed the Senate yester-
day. We understand them to be the cura-
tive street act, the general street bill and
the amendment to the city charter.
The first two measures have been care
fully framed, and with few exceptions
represent the wishes of the citizens and hold
out the best hope for the future avoidance
of recent complications. The same could
be said, in the main, Tor the charter amend
ment, if it did not include that indiscreet,
unexplained and unconstitutional provision
for issuing certificates of Indebtedness with
out a vote OF the people.
The bills now 60 to the Governor. If they
run that gauntlet they should be promptly
subjected to a test before the courts. When
they have undergone both Pittsburg may
know where she stands better than she does
now,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

the tendency to let the Judges appoint
boards or commissions goes much further, it
will end in placing all government in the
hands of the courts, and plunge the bench
into politics with all the functions that they
control. As to the differences between
wards, it is question whether the extreme
degree of local selfgovernment established
in this case does not exert a beneficial inau-
ence, in giving the ward that takes care to
elect good men and spend money on its
schools better results than those which will
not.
However, the Philadelphia opinion is
very strongly to the effect that the schools
will be improved by centralizing their con-
troll. But if that is so in Philadelphia why
should it not be true In Pittsburg? What
is the logic of enacting one sort Of school
law for one city and leaving another under
a regime practically condemned by the new
policy?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
PROHIBITION THAT PROHIBITS,
A Most Stringent Liquor Law Now in
Force In Maine.

A Most Stringent Liquor Law Now in
Force in Maine.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAToH.i
AUGUSTA. May 6-The rum traffic in the
State of Maine passed this week from a con-
dition of thrift under prohibition that didn't
prohibit into the jurisdiction of law with more
fangs in it for the yiolator than even Neal Dow
in his most sanguine moments could have ex-
pected. The last Legislature passed a law
which contained measures so drastic that the
lawmakers themselves did not realize what
they had done. Under it, the rumseller, be he
druggist or pocket.seller, is almost sure of
conviction, and no discretion as to punishment
is left with the court. Anyone convicted OF
selling liquor for the first ofense will have to
go TO 1ail for go days and in addition pay fine
of SIOO. Holding United States license and
having liquor on the premises will be evidence
sufficient for conviction. Habitual drinkers
will not be allowed to sit on the jury. Even
the most skilled lawyers in the State are unable
to find loopholes in the statute.
The effect was most apparent all over the
State on Monday, the day on which the law
went into effect. Men who have successfully
defied the law heretofore closed their places.
Express companies have issued rigorous in
structions to their agents. as under the new
the penalty prescribed for knowingly bringing
liquor into the State for illegal sale, and the
knowledge of any employe is taken as knowl-
edge of the company. The drugstores have re-
moved their stock of liquor. Hotels have
closed their bars and are forming com binations
to raise their rates. much to the disgust of the
travelling public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

"a MANUFACTURER at Locust Point OF
Curtis Bay who should find out that he was
burning so per cent more fuel in his boilers
than would be necessary under other condi-
tions to produce the desired power would make
any change and run the risk of large expense
to save the single increment of fuel in the cost
of manufacture" remarks Baltimore cotem-
porary. 1t does seem as If that would be
the self-evident policy. Yet there is large
number of people owning coal-burning plants
in Pittsburg who keep on wasting their thirty
to fifty per cent of fuel apparently for the
pleasure of pouring oursmoke upon the vicin-
age.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
PITTsBURe, WEDNESDAY. MAY. 6. Is
THE ROAD BILLS PASSAGE.

The passage of the road bill Yesterday was
a peculiar illustration of the influences
which control legislation. The bill had been
passed by the House with amendments
which it was believed would necessitate a
conference. The idea having got abroad
that the Senate might accept them, an at
tempt was made by the House to recall the
bill. While the squabble was going on
over this in the House the Senate heard of
it and made haste to pass the bill, which
now goes to the Governor.
With the political and personal divisions
of opinion concerning this measure it is
proftless to concern ourselves There was
a very plain criterion to govern action on
the road question, which seems to have been
entirely ignored. The appropriation of
State money to aid road improvement with
provisions that guarantee improved methods
in road construction, would be public
benefit. Without such guarantees the bill
would be an utter waste of public money
The general impression is that the bill as
passed contains no such provisions. 1t will
be an unexpected stroke of good fortune if
the assertion of ew believers In road re-
form, that it will accomplish its purpose,
should turn out true.
At all events, if the bill does not contain
provisions that will require better methods
OF construction where State funds are ex-
pended, it will give the Governor an oppor-
tunity to use the veto power that he is not
likely to overlook. A measure which
guarantees good roads will commend itself
to Mr.. Pattison's judgment; but one which
proposes simply to dump $1,000 600 into
permanent mud-holes is very eligible sub
ject for ore of the Governors Incisive veto
messages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

AN old sweetheart of John G. Calhoun is
living at the age of 81 in the home for aged
gentlewomen at Washington.
Ex-PREs1DENT CLEVELAND will visit
Buffalo, his old home. next Sunday. He IS
booked for several speeches before gatherings
there.
PROF. EIssENwELLER, of Geissen,
claims to have discovered the bacteria which
produces badness by destroying the roots of
the hair.
MRS. CLEVELAND, while attending to
the arrangement of her summer home at
Buzzard's Bay. will be the guest of Mrs. Joseph
Jefferson.
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD is the Abra-
ham Lincoln of Canada. The stories attributal
to him smack of the Lincolnisms SO dear to
Americans.
The Hon. Cecil j. Rhodes, the Premier
of Cape Colony, has the face of Caesar, the
ambition of Loyola, and the wealth of a
Crasus. He is American in his idea.
EX-GOVERNOR THOMAS CRITTENDEN,
who was stricken with an attack of apoplexy
at Kansas City. is reported to be much better,
and strong hopes of his recovery are enter
tanned.
IT is said that Minister Blair went out of
the United States Senate poorer than when be
entered it. He was offered a Federal judge
ship in the New Hampshire circuit, but re-
fused to accept it because he was in debt.
Ex-MINIsTER TAFT, who is i'll in Cali
fornia, rested easier Monday night and par
took of some nourishment in the early part of
the evening. His chances are more favorable
for recovery, as the hemorrhage has been
stopped
SENATOR STANFORD, it is said; hes de-
cided to undertake to manufacture cham
pagne on his big vineyard in Tehama county,
He has hired French champagne expert
from Lyons, who will have charge of all ex-
periments.
FOLLOWING upon the death of the Arch
bishop of York from influenza comes the an.
nouncement that three members of the family
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most
Rev. Edmund White Benson, d. D., are pros
trated with the disease.
A DAUGHTER of Congressman Breckin-
ridge, of Kentucky, who graduated with
honors at Wellesley several years ago. has now
taken up the study of law in her fathers
office, having in the meantime taught geometry
and algebra in Washington school.
HORACE A. Chiffon who, by appoint
ment succeeds Senator Reagan. Of Texas, in
tho United States Senate, is a very successful
young lawyer, now in his 8yth year. At the
Democratic State Convention last summer he
nominated General Hogg for Governor. He is
the first native born Texan to wear the toga.
IT is positively stated at Washington
that Associate Justices Field and Bradley,
both Of whom have passed the age which en-
titles them TO retire on full pay, will resign in
October. when the Supreme Court will resume
the hearing of oral arguments. Mr.. Edmunds,
1t is believed, will succeed Justice Bradley,
and some Western jurist will be chosen to sue
ceed Justice Field.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
AN Easteru farmer writes to the New 70,

AN Eastern farmer writes to the New York
Sun antagonizng the choice of the golden.rod
as q national flower. because it is a noxious
weed. choking out grass and invading cultivated
fields. II the choice was made from the utllita-
rian standpoint this argument might be effec-
tive, but the contrary is the case. The farmer
who hates the golden-rod as q weed should,
however. find compensation in the choice
from the expectation that the plant may thus
attain popularity that will give it actual value
as a product.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
DEMAND POLITICAL RECOGNITION.
The Colored Equal Rights Association
HoIdS Tts H;pcIDnafi Maotfnp

The Colored Equal Rights Association
Holds Its Cincinnati Meeting.
CINCINNATI May 5-The American Citizens
Equal Rights Association, composed of colored
men, had convention appointed for this city
yesterday, but the President, p. B. s. Pinch
back, was not here, other delegates were
absent and the meeting was postponed until
to-day. Still Mr.. Pinchback did not appear,
and conference of those present was held and
1t was decided to elect officers. They also
adopted series of resolutions affirming their
purpose to secure the full and free exercise of
every right given them by the Constitution.
They entered protest against the efforts of
few of the s0-called leaders of the race
to induce the administration to rec
ognize them to the exclusion of the more
progressive class, whose aim it is to work in the
interest of the whole people. They also called
the attention of the administration to the fact
that colored men were appointed to office
mainly in the South, where the only political
service colored men can render is to send dele
gates to National conventions, and are denied
to those in the Northern States, whose votes
are necessary to the success Of either party.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

IT is related that McHale, the author of
the anti-tights bill in Minnesota. has had his
life made miserable lately by the receipt of
anonymous missives, presents bearing the
shapes which he attacked and chromos and
Autographs without number. This is alluded
to as joke upon McHale. but it is rather an
indictment of the people who do that sort Of
thing. A man may be a good deal Of a fool,
but those who persecute him anonymously
are not only fools, but very discreditable spe-
cies of coward and sneak as well.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

THE failure of Mr.. Jesse Il. Lippincott,
whose long business career in this city ranks
him as still more than half Pittsburger, was a
surprise to his many friends. 1t is made clear
by explanations that the unfortunate result is
due to Mr.. Lippincott's faith in the future of
the photograph and graphophone and to his
ill-health, which prevented him from properly
pushing those inventions. Citizens generally
will join in hoping for recovery Of Mr.. Lippin-
colts health, in which case his energy and tai.
ents will ensure the full retrieval of his for
times
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
THE TICKETS FOR 1891.
Ex-Congressman CIunie Thinks Gorman
Would Run Like Race Horse.
rrRnM A or AER capREsPoNpENT.l


Would Run Like q Race Horse.
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, May Sex. Representative
Clunie, Democrat, of California and Farquhar,
Republican, of New York, were In conversa-
ton with number of friends at an uptown
hotel this morning. The tariff, the Italian
question and other matters of national and in
ternational Importance were talked about.
'Tt is my opinion" said Mr. Clunie, that the
Democratic candidate in 1892 will win without
much trouble. The Pacific coast Will fall into
line this time for the party of reform and re-
trenchment." "Thats your opinion" said Mr..
Farquhar "but let me tell you that our party
the party that believes in protecting American
industries and floating the American nag on
the high seas-wil come out victorious, 20
matter who they nominate"
One of the gentlemen present chimed IN and
said: 1.-THE tickets will be the same In loS2 as
In 1855 Cleveland and Harrison" Il don't be-
lieve Cleveland will be nominated" replied Mr..
Farquhar. 'because don't believe the Dem
ocrals want to run man on consolation stake
He's been tried once"
by the way put in Mr.. Clunie, arthur Z.
German is developing great strength through
out the country. While am for the candidate
of the party, no matter who be may be. sim
cerely believe that German is the strongest
man we have. have no reason to think tha'
he is in any sense candidate for the nomina-
tion, but if thought he was would go to
work at once for him. as would other good
Democrats. German would get every Dem
ocratic vote in the country and thousands Of
Independent votes. People like manly,
modest man like Senator German. He would
run like a race horse"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

THERE is reported overflow of horror in
the afistocra,ic circles of England over the
fact that Tennyson is earning money by selling
the milk from his Isle of Wight estate. The
horror is increased by the statement that he has
his name blazoned on the side of his milk carts
Sensible people see nothing more honorable or
useful than selling good milk to the people who
need it. As to the fitness of things. what can
be more in harmony with the reputation of the
retired poet than the pastoral occupation OF
furnishing to humanity the production of the
rural herdsf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06
The Nav Festival.

The sale of seats for the May Music Festival
is getting more rapid every day. The public is
beginning to understand that the way to make
sure of good seats is to procure them now, and
that next week the choice will not be as extern
sive as 1t is now. A number of people have
been down to Mechanical Hall to look at the
auditorium, and the result is that seats are be-
ing purchased faster than ever. Many people
who went to the festival in 1889 have unpleas-
ant recOllections of the curved hall, in which a
good view of the stage was impossible from
many Of the seats. This year there is no such
objection. The hall is perfectly straight, and
there is actually not one undesirable seat
among the whole 1000 1t is a significant fact
that the advance sale for the Wagner night
friday is twice as large as for any other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-06

THE adjournment of that election of a
Workhouse Superintendent has had the un-
usual result of producing dearth Of candi-
dates. One of them has got a position else
where. and another has declared himself out of
the race. If the present political mortality
keeps on the final choice will be Hobson's.