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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-22
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Leander ID. McCandless.

Leander d. McCandless, a former we'll
known resident of the First ward, Allegheny
City, for many years, but who lately moved to
Schenley, Armstrong county, Pa, died very sud-
denly on Friday evening at his late residence. He
was a mem Der of the Historical Society and furn-
ished this paper with many old time "reminiscences
of Pittsburg and Allegheny City, which made
very interesting reading matter, as he was well
versed on this topic, having spent the best
part of his days in this vicinity. He was one of
the first pupils in the South Ward School under
Prof. j. B. D. Mead. and took a
deep interest in the reunion held by the old
boys of this school, when was held Mt Lafayette
Hall year ago. He was the first superin-
tendent OF the Allegheny fire alarm. being well
versed in electricity and all that pertalncd to it.
He was General Superintendent of the Govern
menJ telegraph lines and had full charge of their
construction during the war and had several close
calls during battle. He carried the first paper
route in Pittsburg and was known then as Bur
ford, s Jackn In his younger days he carried
telegraph messages and was associated with many
who are prominent business men to-day. His
funeral takes place tomorrow morning from the
residence of ID. II. Campbell, No. 81 Palo Alto
street, Allegheny City, with whom his mother and
sister reside.
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A Great Fruit Tree.

The largest apple tree in New England is in
the northwestern part Of Cheshire, Conn.,, and
1t stands in the dooryard of Delos Hotchkiss,
says the Boston Transcript Its age can be
traced by family tradition to l40 years ar
least, and it may be 20 or rs years older. 1t is
now Of symmetrical shape; the trunk is nearly
round, without scar or blemish; there are
eight large branches; five of them have been
in the habit of bearing one year, and the re-
naming three the next. Mr.. Hotchkiss has
gathered in one year from the five branches IS
bushels of fruit. and his predecessor has har-
vested ITO bushels from the same five branches.
BY careful measurement the circumference of
the trunk one foot above the ground above all
enlargements of the roots, is 13 feet inches.
The girth of the largest single limb is feet
inches. The height of the tree is so feet, and
the spread Of the branches as the apples fall is
100 feet. The fruit is rather small, sweet and
of moderate excellence.
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Trium phs of Human Ingenuity.

The impro vements in mechanical appliances
always have great fascination for me. The
other day in going through an institution that
manufactures all sorts of mechanical appli-
ances 1 saw a machine turning out little
metallic cups from solid rod. Not only one,
but so of these machines were working auto
matically in steel and in brass. The cups were
about the size of an ordinary shot gun cart
ridge, perhaps trife deeper, perhaps tri1e
smaller in diameter. solid. rough rod some
10 feet long is fitted into one of these machines
and the machine does the rest. One attendant
can mind dozen machines or SO. and the work
turned out is solid metallic cup finely bored
and polished, with sides and bottom about the
we're considerably smaller. and ali were
dropped in trough beautifully polished inside
and out, requiring no additional touches of
hand work. Automatic screw machines stood
rank upon rank turning ont from solid steel
and brass rods the same class of work. Such
machines are triumphs of human ingenuity.
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preliminary injunction by no means decides
the case, as it will be carried step by step
through the higher courts, it would Indicate
that there were merits in the claims of the
Mergenthaler people.
remember some 20 years ago, in the city of
Washington, calling upon bright young man
named CIephane, who had devoted consider
able attention to a mechanical process of set
ting and casting metal bars, or linotypes as
they are now called. from MATRICES Days and
months and years were spent upon experiments
by Mr.. Clephane and others, and hundreds End
thousands of dollars have vanished in these ex-
perlments. The result of this and their early
labors Is the Mergenrhaler machine, with which
Mr.. Clephane. 1 believe, Is still identified. We
must have a great deal of admiration for men
of ideas who sacrifice money and give the
labor of a lifetime in carrying out those ideas
in embodiment in practical and indestructible
metal 1t Is highly probable that the present
printing machines. as illustrated by the Mer-
genthaler and Rogers inventions, is but be-
ginning of what will one day revolutionIze the
printing business.
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UNDER THE H'ARTHSTANE.

''Brother, you bear your sorrow
With patience that passeth praise,
The loss of worldly possessions
Just ut your later days!
How do you bear it?'' the neighbor prayed.
'.There's love meath the h'arthstane" the
old man said.
''Oh, love is good, grant you,
When seasoned enough with gold,
But love in n cottage''-he shook his head
lis rhyming that will not hold.
Love only can never lift your load
Ofsorrow and labor on llfe's late road"
'Ay, ay!" the Old man answered,
His white head sturdily raised;
'sWhen ye haze lived a. my lifetame,
Yen cry the Lord be praisedp
Whether o. good or Ill shall fa'
II Love meath the h'zrthstane surviveth app
"Butyou and your wife. " urged the neighbor-
''Your children under the sod
'Nae underline sod, - the old man cried,
.'Good neighbor-gane to God!
An what haze we to DO WI pain
When Love still glories the auld n'arthstanc2''
"Your faith Is past my knowing"
The neighbor murmured low.
spirit OF awe and wonder
On his face, as he rose to go.
s.Ah, friend, I" the old man answer made,
''Lote meath the h'arthstsne ID nSught
afraidl''
Jean Kate Ludlum, IN Esv Yors Ledger.
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An Opinion From q Johnny Bull.

An English actor Iaughingly commenting
upon the prohibition OF tights by the Minne-
sofa Legislature said to me the other evening:
Your people over here you know. are wonder
full people, don't you know. Now we over
there would consider such question the most
ridiculous thing, don't you know. The matter
OF tights on the stage seem like very small
thing and was settled hundreds OF years ago,
you know. So it seems funny to me that one of
your Territorial Legislatures or Common Coun-
ellis should thus attempt to overturn the ira
dltions of centuries, don't you know. What
bloody fools they must be up there anyhow,
don't you know. Why, we would not play any
Shakesperean dramas without tights. And just
to think my dear boy, that these very primi-
tive people living with the Indians should lay
down rules for the dramatic profession and
lines of demarcation to what constitutes
morals and immorals in point of stage attire.
beats anything ever heard Of don't you knowi
Why would be afraid to play in such bloody
country, don't you know, IwOuld indeed The
ideal" CHARLES T. MURRAY
NEW YORK, March 81.
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Levi G, Wade.

Levi c. Wade, President of the Mexican
Central Railroad, is dead. Mr.. Wade lived in
Newton Center, nine miles out of Boston. His
death was due to a complication of diseases, from
which he has been suffering for several years. Mr..
Wade was born in Allegheny In 1874, and was ~
years old last January. When II years old he en-
tered Yale College, and graduated In the class of
of 1866. He settled in Boston, where he read law
with Ivory W. Richardson. After a few years Of
successful practice he formed partnership with
Hon. O. A. Brocxett, who was afterwards elected
Lieutenant Governor of massachusetts,. The
partnership continued until 1880 when it was dis
solved in order that Mr. Wade might devote his
entire attention to railroad business, into which
prominent In politics in Massachusetts. He was
member OF the General Court in 1866 IT. '7s '79.
he occupied the Supreme chair the last year. In
1850 he declined reelection. Mr.. Wade's father,
Levi Wade, lives at the corner of Sandusky street
and North avenue, Allegheny. He and his son,
Dr, Frank II. Wade, will leave for Boston ON
An nday to attend the funeral,
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MURRAY'S MUSINGS.

Big Brewers Gobble the Profits of New
York's Retail Liquor BusIness-wonders
in Machinery-An English Opinion of
Tights-Booth and His Art.
The extraordinary profits Of the retail liquor
business have been frequently dwelt upon. At
glance it would appear that the ownership of
a saloon of ordinary prominence would be a
certain road to fortune. This is especially so
in New York, where the retail liquor business
fourishes to an extent unparalleled by any
other city of the Union. As a matter of fact,
however, out of the 1000 saloons in New York
not more than 1000 make more than a decent
living for their imme diate proprietors, and
those which make big money will come within
few hundred. The reason for this is that
almost the entire liquor interest of New York
is owned by the big brewers and other capital
lists who absorb the greater share of the profits
The imme diare saloon owners are merely mid
dlemen who get what there is over after paying
for their heavy licenses and other special priv
ileges.
1t has been estimated that out of 1000 saloons
at least 5000 are actually owned by the big
brewers alone. The sharp competition between
these brewers in the putting upon the market
of their products, necessitares their control of
the saloons. Every saloon under such individ-
ual control makes a speciality of the par
tlcular Drew or that drm. Very often
they are required in their contracts
with the brewer to sell no other beer
but his. You can see the brewers sign con-
spicuously displayed above the doors of these
saloons. To insure this the wealthy brewer not
only furnishes the entire outfit for the saloon
in the way of fixtures, bar. etc., but puts up the
stock of liquors and secures the license for the
mlddleman who Is to keep the place. All of
this is plastered with mortgages. / he brewer
capitalist owns the place and the saloonkeeper
body and SOUL When one goes into a hand
some barroom in New Y ork and sees 1t crowded
with customers. it by no means follows that
the proprietor is getting rich. 1t means that
the man who put all that money in the
place is getting richer.
In place of this kind representing SIS, 900 to
$4,000 the osJensible proprietors probably own
but very little. Like the man who falls into
the hands of note shaver or pawn broker
these small proprietors are compelled to fork
over TO their hackers the MAJOR portion of the
earnings of the place. The liquor interests"
of New York, therefore. doesn't mean some
10000 saloonkeepers but means couple of
hundred wealthy people who stand back of
them and absorb the profits of the business.
These latter are the people who figure in the
lobby at Albany and who, in a measure, have
long controlled the municipal government of
New York.
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THE TIcKLER's THOUGHTS.
JocuDd Spring.

The iocund spring will soon be here
For most men-not for all,
For to the merry bicyclist
month will bring the fall.
-FsSo York Herald.
Gr;ndstone-"Here comes Rivers, Bet
vou dollar he can't answer the simplest question
Won can ask him without telling a tremendous
whopper.
Neutrality-suspicious.. Hello Riversl You are
looking as fresh a peach. By the way, who is
your bsrber?''
RIyers-"Haven't any. Shave myself Have
done it all my life. ''-Chica1o Tribune.
After the present excitement has calmed
down it will probably be found tnat Italy's best
stand in this matter will continue to be that Of
the peanut. philadelphia Times.
Complainant-"Your honor, she struck
me In the face with her clenched hst. That cash
was cut by her ring"
The Court-''Where did she get the ring?''
ComplainanL-'I gave 1t to her. 1t was our en-
gagement ring.''
The Court-'The prisoner is DISCHARGED This
is clearly case or contribntory negisenee."-
Js,ceters' Weekly.
The young man who can write "a good
hand" hasn't half the chance in life with the
youth who can hold one Washington Post.
"Dear mep said old Mr.. Boggs, hesita-
tingly; II know I've forgotten something, but.
for the life Of me, can't remember what it Is"
-Harper's Bazoay.
''You should stick to the dramatic pro-
fession."
'Ido-Tm bill poster. r.-Drats's hagdstss.
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An End to a Reformation.

1t is feared that the people of New York are
Iapsing again into the wicked ways. Two or
three years ago an extraordinary effort was
made, under the Hewitt administration, TO
close the various dives about town and enforce
by law morality which did not come by nature
and training The method by which they
hoped to arrive at this result was the closing Of
all places where the selling of liquors and beers
was accompanied by the incidental amusement
OF singing and dancing. This shut down at
once over 1000 concert rooms of various grades
OF morality. 1t is to be observed recently that
good many of these small proprietors of beer
gardens and concert rooms are creeping grad
ually from under the legal programme.
At Harry Miners the other night noticed
that beer and cigars were sent around the house
and served in the boxes during the performance
lust the same as it used to be in the halycon
days of the Tweed regime. Almost every beer
garden now has its singers and music. The
spasmodic virtue of our city authorities seems
end.
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Nicotine Outlawed.

That it isn't easy for habitual smoker TO
give up the weed most men will admit, re-
calling the hardships of that brief period they
have probable experienced following New
Years abjuration Of tobacco. Here the pain
is intensified by the Indictment to smoke that
every moment in the day offers. When you
are not taking bath or resting from it in bed,
or eating or sleeping, every circumstance
seems to copspire that you should smoke. The
warm air, the lassitude induced by constant
hot baths, the enforced idleness and the con-
gregatIon of men in the hotel lobbies,
all conspire to make the smoker long
tor a cigar as the one thing most to bo desired
on earth. The temptations TO smoke are SO
many and strong that good many men fall.
and the perfume of their cigars is another
stumbling block to their brethren who are try
ing to obey the doctors orders. 1t Is fact
that more men break the anti-tobacco COM
mandment than that against liquor. The sin
seems less, and probably 1t is.
Said a companion in misery this very morn
ing: II had battle royal with my wife when 1
insisted on her finding room tor two boxes of
cigars in a crowded trunk, and she had her re-
venge to-day when the doctor said the very
first thing, Mind! no cigarsr"
HEPBURN JOHNS.
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A Gathering of Deaf Mutes.

Every Sunday afternoon a number of well
dressed young gentlemen may be seen in the
lobbies and reading room of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. conversing in the active but silent Ian.
guage of the hands. They are a number of
deaf mutes, who are-in the habit of congregat-
ing there after church for the purpose of social
intercourse. From 10 to % of these young
gentlemen can be seen there every Sunday.
Necessarily they attract great deal of atten-
tion on the part of travellers and others. In
such a gathering they all can talk at once with
out disturbing others in the room and without
any danger Of being overheard or understood
by those not Immediately interested in the SUBJ
ject of conversation. 1t lis curious sight, and
one which leaves distinct impression on the
mind Of everyone who happens to witness it.
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'o"ch @AooAt 20 ohu Se<sbo SCioofAtAcos
1.-THE infatuation of women and young girls
for any kind of stage celebrity fairly passes
my comprehension" said prominent the
atrical manager the other day. 'It is popular
impression" he continued "that only men
known to the profession as stage beauties were
the objects of these misplaced affections,
1t is by no means true. There are plenty Of
instances within my knowledge where women
have fairly gone crazy over the most insignif-
cant specimens of humanity that ever walked
the boards. Their silly exhibitions of senti-
mentalities are usually made the sport of these
worthless, who compare notes in self fiattery.
There is scarcely a freak in dime museum
anywhere in the country who is not the object
of alteration of some woman or dozens of
women.
"This sounds funny, but it is true. There is
no excess of physical or moral deformity which
will frighten these charmers away. Take those
two graduates of Sing Sing travelling with the
Stowaway Company and who, before they
adopted the stage as profession, were behind
the bars of all the principal prisons in the coun
try. These men have more attentions paid
them by nawkish females than the finest look
ing fellow in the company. spike Hennessey
is not man distnguishedIfor good looks, but
this notorious safe breaker has about as great
success in breaking into the female heart as he
has in getting into the stage safe every night
The worse a man has been the more some
women seem to like him and the uglier a man
is physically the more he attracts them"
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Mrs. B. McGraw,

Mrs. B. McGraw, who died on Thursday,
at her residence. South avenue Allegheny. aged
nearly so years, was born in County Roscommon,
Ireland and came to Pittsburg with her husband,
the late Hugh McGraw, over so years ago. Mrs.
McGraw's family was very prominent, both in
Ireland and Canada. Her neDhew, Hon. Bernard
Deylin was M. z. for Montreal. and close friend
of President Lincoln. when Mrs. McGraw went
to Washington during the war. she received many
favors of the President. During the cholera
for her charity and kindness the sufferers
nil district. She was the mother OF ten children,
six of whom survive. Among the number were
Robert once well known a merchant on Dia-
mond street: hugh, one of tie .'Argonauts, ~ and
now resident of Silver City. Idaho John, formerly
OF The DISPATCH; Mrs. Nj. Munhall, of North
avenue, Allegheny; Mrs. John Huckestein, OF
Allegheny: and Miss Mary McGraw. The de-
ceased IS relatives are numerous and prominent,
both In Pittsburg and Allegheny.
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Water is the Beverage,

One of the foundation stones of Hot Springs'
fame as health resort is the strict temper
ance which every physician breaches, and
nearly everyone who comes here practices
The doctor after he has thumped you bit.
listened to your hearts action and put your
lungs to the test, says blandly: ITO begin with
no whisky, no cigars! If you want to get
some benefit out of the water you must give it
a fair field, and forbid drinking and smok.
ing"
And as you have probably not travelled from
the nethermost corner of the land for nothing.
and as everybody. from the robber who drives
the stage Co the hotel, short block, and
charges you quarter, to the almost divine be-
ing who hands you receipted bill once week
at your hostelry, does his or her best to make
you feel that it IS a costly privilege to breathe
IN Hot springs, 1t is dollars to dimes that you
put aside the wine cup and the fragrant ha-
vana. as you are hidden. and take
to the water as if 1t were your
native element. Beyond a doubt to
80 per cent of the pen who come here to be
boiled the denial of alcoholic stimulants and
tobacco is in itself a great aid to health. One
of the most eloquent champions of this place,
Mr.. Busch-you may nave seen his name in
connection with Anheuser on certain bottles
that come from ST. LOuis-said to a friend Of
mine the other day: "A week at Hot springs
makes a new man of me, a month makes two
new men of me-" and this is the testimony OF
hundreds of others who drink beer all the year
round except during their stay at Hot Springs.
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A Scene That Touches the Heart.

On Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street, is
a dancing school, the main floor of which abuts
upon the level of the elevated road. Every
evening IN the week, excepting Sundays the
private or public dancing classes may be seen
gong through the various gyrations by those
In the passing trains. Sometimes It is ball
that has possession, but always from early
evening till II or IL o'clock the hall is in blaze
of light and gliding, skimming and prancing
about the shining floor are some scores of
happy young people. Sometimes when il is a
ball the late travellers in the elevated cars look
upon the brilliant scene at or o'clock in the
morning, and even later.
1t comes like fash upon the vision and dis
appears, leaving always pleasant reminiscent
train of thoughts behind. Within that single
second are awakened the memories of youth
of successive nights of pleasure, of sweet
hearts, of lovers, of all the bright dreams of
early girlhood and manhood. of all the varied
scenes which can be witnessed at night from the
elevated trains in New York. know Of none
which strikes SO deeply aud pleasantly into the
heart
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Booths Glory Is Fading.

Those who have seen Booth and Barrett in
Shakespearean dramas at the Broadway during
the last week have gone away regretting that
the greatest actor of his time had not per-
manently retired while in the full vigor of his
manhood and at the acme of his dramatic fame
Mr.. Booth is very much broken in health, and
those who see him now for the first time may
possibly wonder at the reputation he has made
during a long and interesting dramatic career.
There is, to be sure a fair glowing of the old
dramatic fire in MIR. Booths performance, but
the great change which has come over him
physically renders such performances painful
to those who have seen him in the heyday of
his tragic glory.
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P1rrsBURa will. this week. have an Z

PITTsBURG will, this week, have an op-
portunity to show its appreciation of genius
and worth, and also do honor to one of her
sons. The reception to be rendered MI. Charles
Stanley Reinhart by the Art Society, details of
which are given elsewhere, will surely be SO.
cial and artistic success. As an artist Mr.,
Re1nhart has now worldwide reputation, and
as the fame he has attained has been coupled
with the name of his native city, 1t owes him a
debt, and will undoubtedly pa, it next Thurs
day evening at Carnegie Hall.
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Litigation About Type Settlers.

Speaking of mechanical triumphs reminds
me of the recent decision of the New York
courts in the case of the Mergenthaer Printing
Company versus the Rogers. This is of great
interest to not only the employing printers but
to the public at large, who receive the ultimate
benefits of evory improvement in the typo
graphical art. The application was for pre-
liminary injunction on the part of the Mergen-
thaler people to prevent the manufacture of
the Rogers machines without the consent OF
the former. One of the difficulties in the way
chimes of this character has been the uncer-
tainty of title in the patents which enter into
the mechanism. While the granting Of the
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Tho Mother of Senators.

New York Continent.1
A New Yorker has been elected United States
Senator from California. With Hill, Hiscock,
Brice and Fenton in the Senate, the State Of
New York ought TO De well represented, and
amply compensated for the two mythical Con-
gressmen she is said, by those who do not know
what they are talking about to have lost.