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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
A RUMoRED STREET EXCHANGE.

Report has it that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, in its policy of increasing
its terminal facilities here, will propose to
the city to exchange its tracks for the
present location of Second avenue, max
ing the street run along the base of the
hill. and permitting it to use the thorough
fare, with the property acquired by it be-
tween the Tenth street bridge and Lock
No. l, for tracks and freight yards.
But this transfer would be possible only
after the railway has acquired all the
property between the street and the river,
over the section named. Any private
owner could, if we mistake not, interpose
q valid objection to having his street
privileges taken away. If, as is reported
the railway has acquired by purchase all
private property to be affected by the
change, the sole question remaining is
whether good municipal policy will ac-
quiesce in the exchange.
1t is for the interest of Pittsburg to
encourage, by reasonable measures, the
improvement of the facilities for this
corporation in competing for our vast
transportation business. But in an eX-
change so manifestly for the pecuniary
benefit of the company it is clear propo-
sition that the trade should leave the city
in as good position as at first. This, in the
exchange Of the two rights of way, may
be difficult though not impossible. The
fact that the street in its new position would
be subject to land-slides would require
that the railroad make the necessary pro-
vision against such danger. The change
would require a considerable amount of
new grading and paving, which it is no
more than justice that the corporation
shall do In short, the proper decision of
the question will depend on what the rail-
road will do in the way Of furnishing a
good avenue in the place of the one it
wishes to occupy.
If the proposition guarantees as safe
and good street as the city now has there,
the exchange seems feasible. If it falls
short either in the requisites of safety or
desirability it must be refused.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
KNOWN TO FAME.

KING GEORGE, of Greece, is suffering
from an attack of chicken pox.
WILLIAM BAYNE, who was the first to
propose the name of Wade Hampton for
Governor is now destitute.
EDMUND YATES laughs cheerfully over
the report that he is dying. He says he ex-
poets live many day to come.
In private diagnosis of his own case,
General Butler says he is "incarierated
with an intercurricular abscess.'
GEORGE w. DELAMATER, late candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, has opened
a law Office at Tacoma, Wash.
DR. SToRRs, who has preached in Brook
lyn for 45 years, is called the most brilliant
pulpit rhetorician of modern times.
Mr.. SPRINGER, of Illinois, hung a pict-
ure Of. Alexander Stephens in his head
quarters at Washington, but it did not cap
ture the Southern vote.
RUSSELL SAGE has the reputation of be-
ing a most abstemious man. He smoked
only once in his life, and a pint of sherry
lasts him for three months.
THE friends of Hon. Joseph Allison,
President Judge of the Common Pless
Court of Philadelphia, yesterday celebrat ted
the fortieth anniversary of his advent to
the bench.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
wAsHINGT0E's OLD QUARTERS
Arnold Tavern to Be Turned Into an Hos
pitaI for the Sick and Poor.

Arnold Tavern to Be Turned Into an Hos
pital for the Sick and Poor.
NEW YORK, Dec. s.-The old Arnold Tavern,
removed some years ago from the square to
its present site, on Mount Kemble avenue,
Morristown, and occupied by General Wash
ington in l777, will be converted into an hos
pitaL Rev. Dean Flynn, rector of st. Mary's
Parish, and Rev. Father Brady. of Sussex
county. have bought the property and a
number OF "Gray Nuns will manage the
new institution. The price paid was 50, 800.
Dean Flynn's parishioners promptly sub
scribed $l,94 toward the purchasing price.
1t will be hospital for the sick and poor of
all races and creeds. The adjoining county
of Sussex is embraced in the territory COW
cred.
A dispatch from Patterson, N J.. says the
Hogencamp farm, at Lower Preakness con-
sisting of Sc acres and q homestead was
among the property disposed of at Sheriff's
sale last week. The house was General
Washington's headquarters when he passed
through this neighborhood on his march
from New York to Morristown. It is known
as the Old Washington Headquarters, and
the only change made in it since the time of
the Revolution was the removal of large
veranda. The property was sold to Henry
HerSeman for So 700.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
SENATOR-GOVERNOR HILL.

THE political flea, David B. Hill, has lighted
at last where the people can put finger on
him.-Syracuse Standard.
GOVERNOR HILL has not only entered the
Presidential ring, but he is jumping through
the hoops at a very lively Washing ton
Post. .I..l. e
GROVER CLEVELAND may or may not be bet
ter than his party, but if Governor Hill is
not worse than hts party the party is to be
pitied.-Rochester Democrat.
WHEN Governor Hill takes his seat in the
Senate he will vote with the free coiners.
He is for anything that will embarrass
Grover Cleveland.-Cg Cleveland Leader
GOVERNOR D. B. HILL may not have heard
of the man who bit off more than he could
chew, but he stands a fair chance of learning
the lesson from experience.-Ch Chicago Inter-
Ocean,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
WILL THEY THINK FOR THEMSELVES!

Now that some of the active spirits OF
the local Democracy are making new
start with lot of fresh ideas and pro
fessed determination as to the expression
of the will of the party, would not the
occasion be eminently suspicious for In
quiry upon their part as to why there
should be any difference between Penn
sylvania Democrats and Pennsylvania
Democrats on the question of protective
tariff?
It is only of late years that the Penn
sylvania Democracy has been put by its
leaders in silly antagonism to the policy
which fosters Pennsylvania industries.
During Samuel J. Randall's time the party
in PENNSYLVANIA was couservatively pro-
tective in its attitude. When the allure
ments of Federal Office came to the
leaders. with Cleveland's administration,
there was facile accommodation OF views
to suit the tariff reform vagary in the
White House. Since then the chance OF
capturing loaves and fishes anew in case
of Cleveland'S return to power, has always
been the ruling consideration. Thus it
was that the party at its last State conven-
ton was reduced to the pitiable plight of
being afraid to face the people with its
record on the very question which of all
questions was and is most vital to Penn
sylvania 1t had to beg off in the most
humiliatiag way; and the people at the
polls thrust it aside contemptuously.
The election of Crisp, notwithstanding
his professions, is sign that the Demo-
Gratis in Congress are sick of the radical
free trade ideas of Mills; and it will sur
prise no one if it prove the first step
toward ''hedging'' on the disastrous anti
tariff policy which has deservedly brought
the party to defeat whenever tried. Why
should not the Democratic reformers of
Allegheny county take the hint and m AXE
a meritorious bid for local support by dis
avowing the humbug anti-protection doc
trines of all shades, with which they cam
not, if they consider their own interests,
have any real sympathy.
If the movers of the new Democracy
want to cast over the local leaders with
whom they profess to be dissatisfied, and
to act for themselves they should begin
by thinking for themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
CRISP IN THE CHAIR,

THE Mugwumps have lost Mills, but they
have free trade Speaker and will cheer up
after a day or two.-M Y Press.
If there is any significance in the seIec-
tion by the Democratic caucus of Crisp for
Speaker, it is all with the anti-Cleveland
Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE Speakership muddle is over at last
On the thirtieth ballot Mr.. Crisp received 1I9
votes, and therefore becomes the candidate
of his party. All right.-M Y. Herald.
Mr.. CRISP is generally regarded by the
considerate men of both parties in the
House as the best all-around equipped man
for the Speakership. and above all the safest
man for his party.-Philddelphi Times.
JUDGE CRISP will make an ideal Speaker
clear-headed, even-tempered and courteous.
He will command the respect of the entire
House, and it will be useless for the minor
ity to try to rattle him.-Cleretd,,d Plui,,
DeQIey.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09

case where the attempt at assassination
has succeeded the only result was to re-
place the mild and humane Alexander IL,
of Russia, with the bigoted and fanatic
Alexander III.
Revolutions prosecuted by the agencies
of civilized warfare, with bold readiness
to accept the responsibility of reform by
constitutional and reasonable agitation,
have a chance of success. But the at
tempt to reform society or destroy Obnox-
ious civilization by secret murder arrays
civilization against the conspirators or
lunatics, and dooms them, from Guy
Fawkes down to the unknown lunatic OF
last Fridays explosion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
THE QUESTION OF VALIDITY,

The assertion of Councilman who SUD-
ported the bond issue that exist by
which any objecting citizen can prevent
that issue, does not give the ground on
which it can be contested. Nor does he
propose to contest the matter, though ad-
vised of grounds on which anyone else
could do so.
This seems an erroneous attitude. The
city certainly does not wish to put out an
issue of invalid bonds, as that would only
bring the present muddle into confusion
worse confounded. If any citizen has
reason to believe the issue of bonds would
be unconstitutional it is his plain public
duty to bring the matter up and have it
settled before the city can aggravate its
unfortunate position by issuing bonds for
which there is not legal authority.
The only point on which there seems to
be possible ground for disputing the is
sue, is in the question whether bonds held
by the city in its sinking fund can be de-
Quoted from the total debt or not. II they
must be reckoned as part of the debt
the seven per cent limit is nearly if not
quite reached. If they can be deducted
from the debt, the margin would permit
the 50. 600, 900 issue. Common sense would
indicate that the city debt means only the
bonds held by the city's creditors, and
that bonds in the sinking fund occupy the
same position as bonds in the possession Of
the city, authorized but not issued. Even
if they were held to be part of the debt,
could not the city make its position good
by canceIling all of its own bonds in its
possession, as retired?
But if this or any other question raises
reasonable doubt as to the validity of the
bonds, it is for the public interest to have
the matter settled before they are issued.
ANY citizen who doubts the validity of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
Social Chatter.

SEVERAL young Allegheny people were
missed at the Monday social dance at the
Linden Club House. being detained at a din
ner party given by Miss Stella Hayes, of
Sherman avenue.
MRS. JOSEPH s. BROWN, of Stockton avenue,
will give dance Christmas night for her
little schoolgirl daughter, Miss Mary which
will lie one of the holiday dances for the
young people home from school.
DIR. CHARLES III. CLIFFORD, prominent
Braddock physician, was married last night
to Miss Laura Baldrige, daughter of John
Baldrige, OF North Braddock. Rev. j. B.
Dickey, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church there performed the ceremony at
Mr.. Baldrige's residence, occupied by the
family for many years. and which was beau
tifully prepared with flowers for the occasion.
Mr. E. g. Hays, of Pittsburg, was one OF the
groomsmen. After a wedding tour, Dr. Cliff
ford and his wife will reside in Braddock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
LUNATIC OR CoNsPIRAroR.

While any indications of possible con-
spiracy in the New York dynamite at
tempt are to be thoroughly investigated
the characteristics of the catastrophe are
those of lunacy. The demand for black
mail was made in manner which doomed
the crank to death. The sum named was
an amount which not even the wealthiest
man could produce on a moments notice
or even draw by check without previous
arrangement with the banks. As the
Philadelphia Ledger says: "There was no
method in this mans madness There
was no semblance of even the craziest
form of cunning in the manner Of his de-
mand for million and a quarter of money
under the circumstances.
OF course, upon the hypothesis of lunacy
the suggestion Of the act to his crazed
brain must be charged to the talk and
example of the hardly less crazy Anar-
chists. In this connection, the impression
is to look at the disposition Of lunatics and
cranks who resort to explosives as re-
venge upon society as novel develop
ment of our modern civilization. 1t is a
decidedly uncomfortable importation of
old-world ideas; but, as regards the prog
ress of the world, it is nothing new.
England annually celebrates the discov-
cry of plot nearly three centuries ago to
blow up King and Parliament in one
grand explosion, and the outbreak of sim
liar plots occurs all through history. A
bomb of that sort was used in the at
tempt to destroy the first Napoleon, and
Orsini's bomb completed what parallel
there was between the first and third of
that name. While dynamite is a more
deadly explosive than powder, both are
sufficiently fatal for the uses of conspir-
ators.
But one other fact profitable to note in
connection with these attempts either to
destroy tyrants or overturn society is that
they have always failed. In the vast ma
jority of cases the conspirators have
either died from their own petards or suf-
fered punishment. Even in the solitary
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
RHYNKLED RHYMELETTS,

Bulfnch-Say, Wooden, how about that
great scheme you had? Did you ever put is
through?
wooden-No. I didn't need to.
Bulhnch-How is that?
Wooden-It fell through.-BoS'o1 Courier.
The weather's mild and the air is sweet,
There's genial warmth in the solar ray.
And you not asked you walk the street.
..Is it cold enough for you to-day"
" z Press.
Observation-Disclosures calls silver slave,
..pae common drudge tween man and man.
Jenkins-Then that Is probably why so many
people want it made free.-N. I. Herald.
"Maud is timid girl," said George.
YES said Estelle. 'she'd even jump at .
proposal. christmas Puck.
The turkey sat OIL his lofty roosts
On dear Thanksgiving eve;
And gloomy and sad perturbing thoughts
Appeared the bird to grieve.
..This Thanksgiving day is all very nice.
For You white folks, - said he,
"But really think you'll have to admit
It's horrible roast on me.
Boston Courier
Mrs. Newman-That stupid grocer is
always making mistakes. got some bread this
afternoon and he charged 1t on the bill as wood.
Mr.. Newman vigorously saving at the loaf -
Well, he wasn't So far wrong, after all.
Harpsr's Bdzar
Travers (sighing)-I must get me new
overcoat
Miss Summit-why, that one looks as good as
new. Have you had it long?.
Travers-Well, should say so. Why, 1 Just
paid for it.-Ciothter and FurRisher.
"Why does the mother so sadly weep
As she bids her son farewe?''
Because he plays on the college team
And his fate no power can tell
". Y. Her1ld.
Smythe-I dropped a cent in front of
blind begger to-day to see if he'd pick up.
Tompkins-Well, did he?
Smythe-No; he said, MAKE 1t a dollar. boss
and T. forget myself. Colorado Sur.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
zsohAur1cA1 WAR MATERIAL
Light on the Subject From Prof. Carl
lMyers-Europe Ahead.


AAsn' On Ine SupoecI Hlon
Myers-Europe Ahead.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In your issue of November 90 1 note
quotation from the Chicago Tribune
reporting an interview with me in which
represent European powers as being
equipped with superior eronautical appar-
atus for offense and defence, while we are
in this respect mt their mercy.
The circumst,ncs that this is not "gen-
erallv known, ia No orgument against it,
and I can readily a ford Combination of it il
doeired Jtiso Soo- ,hot Enoland France
ItaIv Rnss;a Corn,.nv snain. Portugal.
Holland ReIy;um and 1hina are we'll sun-
nlied with valnah,a aronaut;cal apparatus
and many of these notions nossess we'll or
ganized constrnction ond school depayt.
ments comhinino eye,-n recent feature in
tbn orr nron,rt;o
Tbese incJnde tho con,,v. balloon for OBJ
servation a., recognaissonce. balloon signal
ino with t1osh 1;.,nt ord c,nber with the
Morse code If dots and dashes or long and
sbort flashes. the eIectricoI "searcb light"
for REVEALING the nresence ofan enemy while
unseen. and the hest develonments of air
current NAVIGATION With free balloons and
steerabla oirsI,;ns Iooded With tho most
post nowerfnI e,nlosives fnot dynamite,
and IN nf1.,,atIo .,s,,onnds
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
PARAGRAPHlC POINTS.

THE man who is tarred and feathered is
apt to feel down in the mouth.-Chicago
Times.
MANY a statesman owes more of his sue
cess to advertising than to ability.-7kedo
Commercial
AS Christmas approaches the pressure on
the pocket becomes more pronounced
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE Democrats in the Fifty-second Con-
gress appear to have remarkable staying
power.-Bostoe Herald.
IT is a wise Presidential boom that knows
when to come in out of the Speakership
dampness.-W Washington Post.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
GRAIN BLOCKED UP,
The Canadian Pacific Refuses to Receive
Any More for Shipment

The Canadian Pacific Refuses to Receive
Any More for Shipment
WINNIPEG. Dec. 8. -[SpeciaL freight
Agent Kerr, of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road, to-day notified the Manitoba Grain
Exchange that there is a tremendous wheat
blockade in New York caused by heavy
northwestern shipments, and that the West
Shore Railroad would refuse to receive
shipments after tho 17th- Grain dealers and
brokers were not a little surprised when the
notice was posted. 4
Some of the dealers were so eager to rush
wheat forward that they purchased large
where they were going to dispose of it,
hoping to peddle it off while in transit. This
caused the trouble on the West Shore road
1t is said there is a large blockade in the
elevators in Buffalo from the same cause,
Some Manitoba dealers who have been buy
ing and shipping since the season opened
have not yet sold bushel Of their wheat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
1nducement. offered sugar Maker,.

New YORK, Dec. s-A plan is now being
matured whereby large parent organiza-
tion will be established in this city which
will aid these enterprises for making sugar
with machinery, funds and experienced
workmen to engage successfully in this new
industry. This country consumed about
1000, ,O0O,O 900 pounds of sugar last year. Only
a little over 500, coo, 600 pounds were produced
in this country. There are untold millions
OF acres of land within our borders well
adapted TO the culture of the sugar beet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
issue can go to the courts to have his OBJ
jections passed upon.

THE trouble with the New York Grant
Monument is declared by the Advertiser to
be altogether due to a member who bought
his way into the association and now, among
other ridiculous performances plasters
Grants tomb with advertisements of q
comic newspaper" We fear that another
trouble will have to be added of equal i'm
portance, though not so obstreperous as
COL Elliott F. Shepard. That is the chronic
indisposition of New York wealth to put up
the money for anything except their own
fashionable Injuries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09

The results of the English bye-elections,
the Philadelphia Times thinks. should not be
given too much significance, because as the
general elections are coming shortly few
persons will care "to plank down heavy
checks for brief terms of service" But
does it not occnr to the Times that these are
the circumstances under which a clear view
of the tendency of unbiased popular opin-
ion can be gained?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
AN Eastern cotemporar

AN Eastern cotemporary commenting on
Dom Pedro's death says that he twas a very
nice man, but if he had possessed more OF
the virility of the young German Emperor
he would have saved his crown and Brazil a
world of trouble" From which we gain that
if Dom Pedro had expressed the conciliatory
opinion to his troops that they would have
to shoot down their fathers and mothers at
his order he would have bound them to him
with hooks of steel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09

The Illustration of imperial policy pre-
sented by sentencing a Berlin artist 10
eight months imprisonment for a jest about
the nine-year-old Crown Princes fondness
for wearing sword, presents an interesting
question whethet German liberty or German
absolutism will be first wiped out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09

THE New York Herald has succeeded in
deciding by its jerky style of interlarded
editorials that neither Mills nor Crisp would
do just in time to accentuate the victory of
Crisp. 1t is not at all unpleasant to note
that the rickety style of editorial policy
generally manages to get itself set exactly
wrong just before the decisive event.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
a SOUTHERN OUTLET FOB KANSAS.
Surveyors for the Rock Island Win Run 9
. Line to q Gulf Port

. TOPEKA, Dec. s.-[Specidl IA newly organ
lied engineer corps, consisting of 80 men,
will leave here tomorrow morning to survey
a line for tine extension of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad from Reno, the
present terminus of the road in Oklahoma,
southwark through the Indian Territory
and Texas, to the Gulf 1t was learned that
the Rock Island people had determined to
make connection with a deep water port
in Texas. To what point the line will be
run is, as yet, not even known to the
engineers.
The present line from this city to Reno
was completed almost two years ago when
the general depression stopped further CON
struction. The surveying party will spend
the winter in running a line to the Gulf.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09

1T is understood, according to advices
from Philadelphia, that the only Edwin H.
Filter is to be a delegate-atlarge to the Re-
publican national convention. Whether
Mr.. Filter will support Blaine or Harrison is
not stated; but there should be decided in
struction that he shall not further prosecute
the once famous Filter boom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09
stco,-runAUorA hos a N

'SoUTH DAKOTA has we'll that spouts
soft coal. What is really wanted is a we'll
that will throw up a ready-made fire." re-
marks a cotemporary. The soft coal spouted
out of we'll must be almost as soft as the
genius who accepts that gauzy yarn. But
as for wells that throw up ready-made fire,
Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana have
had them for years. The only improvement
on them that is desired is that they shall
last longer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-09

Gov. HILLS speech at Elmira is &C.
cepted by some people as political mani
festo on his departure for Washington. But
as he has made it clear that he will hold on
at Albany for four weeks longer there is
time for him to pronounce several more
manifessoes and thus thoroughly explode
the pretensions to craftsmanship of one
David Bennett Hill.