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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
AMONG BUSINESS MEN.

The Scarcity of Coal Tar Now Noticeable
Feature Rural Visitors Have Some
Trouble About Prices-The Need of a
Really Big Hotel.
Anyone who has handled tar in the
last year has noticed remarkable variation
in price, as well as scarcity of the COM
modify at times. A year or so ago a number
of big houses in the tar trade, controlling
the product of coal tar in New York, Phila-
delphia, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore Pitts
burg and other large cities formed a COM
bination or trust-of course, with view 20
elevating prices. For time they succeeded
and prices might have been kept up for an
indefinite time, if a New York firm, doing
very large business, had not taken advan-
tage of the fact that the Mckinley law
which put tar upon the free list,
and imported enough coal tar and pitch
from England to break the combination's
market to flinders. The English coal tar is
said to have been inferior in quality. but it
served to help the consumer to escape from
the clutches of the combination. In fact as
result of the wholesale importations the
prices of the manufactures into which tar
enters largely, such as roofing paper which
is the most important, were for many months
so low that profits were actually wiped out.
For instance roofing paper sold for So off
list price-a ruinous reduction. OF course
the astute members of the, combination
were not slow to find out that
they were whipped, and they have
been laboring for some time to bring about
larger combination, one that shall include
every American house of Importance. 1t
looks now as if such a combination would be
completed and in operation by January l,
1892, and in the meanwhile prices are slowly
recovering.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Facts About Class Making.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Noticing IL communication in a recent is-
sue of THE DISPATCH concerning the estab-
lishment of the first glass works in Pitts
burg, inclose an extract from the "Pitts-
burg Magazine Almanac" for 1909, which
may throw some light on the matter:
"Pittsburg, about six years ago contained
2,4CO inhabitants: it now contains 900 dwell
ing houses, and, averaging to house, $500
inhabitants. There are five brick buildings
for public worship, beside other houses in
which divine service is performed. a
spacious court house, market house, jail,
etc. In addition to the manufactures, etc,
enumerated last year there is one white glass
works, established by MeSsrs. Robinson and
Eurcll, III which is manufactured All KINDS
OF glassware of Il good quality: belemetaI
button factory, by Thomas Neal: the buttons
well made and all as manutactured-6O cents
per gross; he gives the highest price for old
pewter, nrass and copper; l pipe mauutac-
tory, by MIR. Price; | cotton mandatory. Dy
Mr. Scott; violin maker: patent boot anu
shoemaker. The heel and sOal is tackled
without stitch-and are strong. Abel
Smith is the patentee"
The Almanac for 1872 enumerates the in
dustrial establishments of Pittsburr, and
gives the amount or value of the output 1t
says:
,Three glass works, one green and two
white glass, $G3 OOO.''
The Almanac for 1918 contains the follow
ing:
:'Glass houses-There are two new glass
works now erecting, one on the opposite
side of the MonOngahela by TrevOrs &
Ensell, and one in the new town of Brming-
ham, q little above Pittsburg, and on the
south side OF the MOnongahela. under the
hrm of BeltzhOover, Wendt & Co. These,
with the three former, viz, O'Hara's, Robin
sons and Balewell's, will be enabled 60
manufacture flint and green glass to the
amount of about SlG0,G0O worth annually"
The Almanac for lSl5 has the following
concerning
"Glass-This article is made to great per-
lection, both flint and green. Messrs. Bake
well, Page & Bakewell have lately built
another flint glass house i'll addition TO their
former one. There is now in the town and
opposite, four white and three green glass
houses. Glass cutting is likewise hand
somely executed in this place. no way in
ferior to the best cut glass in Europe"
These extracts are copied verbatum ct
literatum, and may be valuable to those in
terested in this subject.
Z. +. ACHEsoN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
A VIEW OF MEXICO.
Ihere Is No Revolutionary Feeling There at
| the Present Time.
Chicago Inter Ocean.


"Mexlco," said Senior Leon, of Pueblo, "is
IN Il more prosperous condition at present
than it has been before in 10 years, and there
Is saDsolutely no revolutionary feeling in the
country, the malicious dispatches from san
francesca to the contrary Notwithstanding
MEXICO Is republic built upon the same
principles upon which your own great re-
public is founded. There are p States and
two Territories and 1 can truthfully say
that fueblo is one of the most prosperous of
our states. With us, however, depression
Is quicker felt than in many other States. SO
II there was any truth in the dispatches
Whlcn are periodically sent out from San
Francisco we would certainly know it.
Ihese dispatches to which refer state that
the crops have failed with us, that our credit
IS low and that there is strong feeling
against President DiaZ because of his mar
riage to an American Protestant. Never be-
fore since 1877 has Mexico been so bounti-
fully blessed with good crops as this year.
Fourteen years ago our Government could
not borrow dollar in any European money
market. Since then our stocks have Deen
constantly rising. and to-day they are gilt
edged i'll any market.
Ien years ago there was nota mile of rail-
road in Mexico. Now we stand next in the
two Americas to the United States i'll miles
OF railroad in operation. As to the feeling
against President Diaz, that is the merest
nonsense. The President recently married
the daughter of Senior Romero Rubio Min
lister of the Interior. The lady is q devout
Catholic and is very popular with the
masses. Last Tuesday. September ID, was
President DiaZ's anniversary, and it was
made general holiday by the people. Com
missions were sent from each of the 20
states and Territories to present the con-
gratulatlons of the people. All of which
goes to show that our Government is not
distressed by dissensions. There is dispo-
sition displayed by some correspondents to
create the impression that Americans are
not popular i'll Mexico That is Il great mis-
take, too. The Americans are we'll liked by
our people, and obtain more concessions
from the Government than the representa-
tives of any other nationality. Minister
Ryan is immensely popular and stands very
close to President DiaZ. At Il reception he
gave short time ago there were l,500 guests
and the street in front of his residence was
crowded by the common people, who kept
the air filled with cheers for hours. The
Fourth of July is always celebrated in the
City OF Mexico"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
A Rural Runnnus.

"A lady in highly excited state, indig-
nantly stating grievance, disturbed the
calm of fashionable downtown barber
shop yesterday. She had left her boy at the
shop some time previous to have his fame
hued locks trimmed. This had been done
when she returned, laden with parcels and
evidently somewhat disturbed in soul by a
season of shopping. The boy handed the
barber quarter. The barber said: Thirty
five cents, if you please!''
Then the boys mother broke in with: "Do
you mean to say you charge 35 cents for cut
ting boys hair?"
The barber mildly replied that that was
the figure.
"Then all can say is that it's robbery,
sheer robbery she said, and having paid
the additional dime founced out of the
shop.
One of the tonsorial artists remarked after
she had gone: of country people would in
quire as to prices before buying they would
save themselves and city store>eepers-as
well as barbers-a heap of annoyance. Now
that woman could have had her sons hair
cut for % cents, as low as 10 cents, if she
had chosen a humber Shop
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

! EX-PRESIDENT GREvY of France was
thrifty. He died worth 30 600, 900 francs.
GEORGE ELIOT, Florence Nightingale,
Mrs. and Miss Fawett were mentioned by
| Sir Henry Parkes in moving his female suff-
rage resolution in New South Wales, recent
| ly, as fine specimens of intellectual women.
MICHAEL DAvITT has left Chicago for
| Ireland, and will, therefore, not be seen in
| the Irish National League Convention. A
National League officer is authority for the
| statement that Alexander Sullivan also will
| not be present.
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON has engaged
| II. NJ. Cottrell, Assistant Superintendent of
the Kansas State Farm and n graduate of
the Kansas State College, as superintendent
of "Ellerslie,' Mr.. NIorton's country resi-
dence ut Rhinebeck-on-the-IIud
THE health of Prince Bismarck is now
said to be excellent. A German who visited
him recently said that the ex-Chancellor
spent more than two hours in the saddle on
one day, and more than four hours in riding
over his estate in q carriage on the follow
ing day.
TIE King of Wurtemberg has been sick
for some time, but it is believed that he will
recover. Baron Mason Jackson, the Amer
lean favorite of tho King, who was born in
Steubenville, O., still retains the friendship
of His Majesty, despite the intrigues of en-
vious courtiers.
SIR HENRY WOOD and James Dredge,
the English ENJOYS to the Columbian ExDo-
siton, have left Chicago for Washington.
Herr Wermuth. the Imperial German Com
missioner, and DIR. Meyer, the Royal Com
missioner from Denmark, will leave there
to-day and go to Washington together. The
foreign ENJOYS will all sail from New York
for Liverpool on October7
Mr. HENRY BACON, the well-known Bos-
ton artist, % years a resident of Paris, has
been summering with his mother, Mrs. f.
Lathrop, in the beautiful valley of the Titi-
Gus Mr. Bacon will retup to the Old World
this fall taking with him as his bride Miss
Louisa Lee andrews, daughter of General r,
Snowden Andrews, of Baltimore. Miss An
drews is q sister of Mrs. Gibson Fahnstock.
of this city.
THE young King of Spain bade farewell to
his nurse Maxinina Palazuela, short time
ago. For five years and q half she was with
his youthful Majesty day and night. The
little fellow was so strongly attached to her
that it was feared it would endanger his
health To make the parting easier, the
nurse left Madrid on the day that the court
departed for San Sebastian. She is to receive
q comfortable pension from the royal treas
ury. A considerable sum of money was also
given to the woman's husband, who is car
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
SHALLOW STUMP ASSERTIONS

We regret that Governor Campbell has
adopted tone in the discussion of the
tariff question that not only trenches
closely on the domain of demagoguery, but
is the kind that really exposes itself
Thus in his speech the other day he was
quoted as saying, in connection with the
removal of the sugar duties, that "sugar
is not really any cheaper than it was be-
fore" Every housewife in Ohio knows
better and the only effect of such an as
sertiOn is TO convince the people that the
Governor is not telling the truth. 1t is a
charitable suppOsitiOn that the statement
had reference to a supposed balancing of
the reduction in the price of sugar with
payment Of sugar bOunties. But the
amount of duties abolished on sugar was
over 500, 200, 900 annually, while the high
est estimates of the amount TO be paid out
in bounty do not much if any exceed
S1O.OO0O 600. The saving Of Sc, ,OOO,O to
the consumers Of sugar is too big fact to
be blown away by the fiat of the GubeTna-
tOTial breath
There is a great deal of the current as
sertions about the tariff which will as little
bear examination. The claim that every
thing is taxed by the Mckinley bill
is abundantly ventilated by the fact
that since it went into complete
operation a full half of the imports
has been free of duty-a thing which was
never known before. That this policy has
met the purpose for which President
Cleveland started out on his tariff reform
crusade is shown by the fact that the
cEist0mS revenues for the five months are
$50. SO. 600 less than for the same months
last year. This indicates a reduction in
the year Of SS4, ,OOO, ,OOO-certainly ma
terial relief from unnecessary taxation.
We fear there is an equal shallowness in
the Governors statistics from the assess
ment lists, by which he is telling the
farmers Of Northern Ohio that a great part
of the value of their farms has been taken
away from them If he had asked the
farmers Of Mahoning county, for example,
TO whom he made the astonishing disclose
that they had lost one-third the value of
their farms since 1880, if they would sell
at that reduction he might have got new
light on the subject The tax appraise-
ment of farming lands in Ohio is the
poorest guide to their actual value.
OF course. Governor Campbell takes ad-
vantage on the stump of everything he
thinks will cash the fancy of his hearers
But it would be no more than discretion
on his part to uSe arguments and assertions
that are not so easily exposed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
PICKINGS FROM PUCK.

The Prince (dictating)-'To American
Scientists. Texas, U. 5. A. got that? "Come at
once. with so tons ofdynamite.''
StenOgrapher-Isn't { the amount excessive, Your
Royal Hlghness?
The Prince-Put it down: you haven't waited, as
/ have, 80 years for n reign.
Mrs de Vout-He looks like Greek god,
as you say. Angeline; but he is no man for you-he
is n perfect heather.
Angeline-WeIl aunt. ism t that all the more res-
son for my going Us missionary to him?
Upson Downes-Last evening L was in
troduced to a girl worth three millions
Rowne de BOut-G Great Caesar! What did You do?
Upson DOwnes-I asked her II she believed in
'loye at first sight,
A packing-box dawned on his sight;
The tramp exclaimed in great delight,
81 see where I'm TO slee Tonight
ExcesiOr.''
Railway Controller (to applicant But
what has been your special line of wOrk-passenger
freight or expense accounts?
Clerk-Oh, I'm good all-around railroad man;
can turn my hand TO most anything.
Railway COntroler-H'm! I'm afraid you re al-
together too versatile for anything but my position
and that isn't vacant!
Her Father-So, young man, you want to
marry my daughter?
Young Man-Yes sir.
Her Fathcr-Well, what are your expectations?
Young Naa-That you will not give your con-
sent and that we will have to get married without
il.
VisitOr-Ah, Johnny, am pleased to see
that you gave your sister the larger share OF that
apple.
JOhnny-Ihad ter. 1t 1 hadn't, she'd "a told
on me for hooking the apple.
Casper Griggs-That's pretty loud pair
OF trousers, Howell
Howell GibOOn-Ah, -ya-as: il is n wather pro-
nOunced pattern.
shouted?
$50 Bunkum, is dead is h e? What were
his last words?''
''IIe didn't have any. He died before he could
say em!''
DIR. Pundit-What did you think CT edu-
cation as promoter of mortality?
Mr.. o. B. Server-welL it turns out some mighty
intelligent criminals,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
James Rattigan.

James Rattigan, one of the oldest news
paper wrtcr5 in Pittsburg, died yesterday at the
home of his brOther-in-aw, Colonel W. j. Dick,
at 'Hara and Ellsworth avenues. He was 81 years
old and was born in Pittsburg. After receiving
thorough public school education he entered the
printing business. He graduated from The Dis
PATCH composing room over 20 years ago, and
served creditaby on the statf OF HE DISPATCH.
,ter in life he wrote for other PittsburG papers
and rose rapidly TO the position of special cor
rasnondent at Washington, ID. 9: In that city he be-
% 90 widely acquainted that his Pittsburg friends
strIed him the ''Capito Guide" About len years
AGO James Rattigan received an appointment in
~ Custom Bureau in the Treasury Department at
Washington. Several weeks ago his health so
,r"tnn that he abandoned his work ana came back
WIFI his wife to CressOn The change produced
Good results, and he finally brought TO his
SSotive city to die Death due to paralysis the
4Tsf attack of which came a dozen years ago. He
Leaves a wife and daughter. The funeral will take
Mace mt w. J. Dicks residence Tomorrow after
NJ iclOck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
A Too-CoNvINCING STATEMENT.

1t is interesting to learn from the COM
ments Of the New York papers that the
statement which the Missouri Pacific
directors issued the other day proves that
Mr.. Jay Gould was correct in stating that
the earnings of the road did not warrant
the payment of the recently passed divi-
dend but it proves great deal more.
The result is that Mr. Gould is vindicated
altogether too much.
The statement shows that for the nine
months of its fiscal year up to date the
company fell short of earning enough to
pay its interest and fixed charges. Dur
ing the same time two quarterly dividends
to the amount of nearly a million dollars
have been paid. In other words, the
failure to fully earn a dividend, which
Mr.. Gould in sudden access of virtue de-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
The Best Way TO Advertise.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
1 was glad to read YOUR short article upon
the use of Autographs for purposes of
theater advertising and the necessary issu-
ing of n large number of passes and "dcad
head'' tickets. The money that is wasted in
'1ithos" and the amount lost by both local
and travelling managers through issuing
passes and thus educating a large per cent
age of amusement goers to become "free
pass fiends," is very serions item, and one
that is telling its tale in the box office of all
the theaters which encourage this system
particularly so, where theater accommoda-
public
Fifty per cent of the money so unwisely
disbursed, if used in wspaper advertising,
would be productive of far more desfra BILE
results. W. L. CARLETON.
PITTSBURG, October2
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.

| John Morgan, who has been Pittsburg
! salesman for the p Lorillard Tobac co Com.
| pany for several years. has been returned to
| his old district in Northeastern Ohio, with
! headquarters in Canton He lett Tor his new
| territory yesterday.
United States District Attorney Walter
| A. LYON left for Clearfield last night He
! went there on instructions from the AttOT-
| ney General to De present on investigations
| following the Cook difficulties there.
II. L. Doty, a lawyer of Steubenville;
John Archerst and Howard Evans, of Phila-
delphia and II. E. Deadv, n lumber man of
Portland, are Duquesne guests.
Oscar J. Smith and wife, of Mazatlan,
Mex. we're at the Monongahela yesterday.
Mr. Smith is mine owner and has been
visiting i'll the East.
Vice President James McCrea and his
the funeral OF a near relative in the East.
John T. Hawley, in advance of the
"Straight Tip which appears at the Alvin
next week, is in town.
Fathers Cosgrave, of ST. James Church.
and Tobin of Lawrenceyille, have returned
from Western trip.
r. c. Cunning, a member of the City
Council of Chicago, was at the Duquesne
yesterday.
Rev. Fathers NJ ]. Cain and F. J. Sulli-
van, of Hornersville, were at the Duquesne
yesterday.
Charles H. Morgan, tool manufacturer
of Worcester, Mass, was at the Duquesne
yesterday.
Mrs. Tatum, Mrs. Trew and Miss Clark,
of Wheeling, spent yesterday visiting in the
city.
State Senator Robert L. Carr, of Charles
ton, W. Va, was at the Duquesne yesterday.
Colonel w. P. Rend, the coal operator,
rpt tn LOG nj.
Representative Loerch, of Lancaster, was
at the Anderson yesterday.
Thomas j. Mobiles, of New Orleans, is
visiting William Kerr, Jr.
Charles jain went to Chicago last night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
ROYAL INCOMES.
The Maintenance of the Queens Family Is
Rather Costly.

The Forum
"The amount of the Queens civil list
LESS, ,0OO)," says Labouchere, editor of the
London Truth, sin no way represents the cost
of royalty. The maintenance of palaces is q
most costly item, for it includes not only the
palaces inhabited by the sovereign, but a
vast number of houses in which she lodges
her relatives and friends. One of these
houses has actually been given to the Due
de Nemours, a son of Louis Philippe, and
one of the wealthiest of the Orleans family.
Beside this, there is the building and keep
ing in repair of royal yachts, and various
other such costly items. Incomes, too, are
voted to the sons and daughters of the SOW
ereiSn and to other of her relatives.
In addition to the revenues of the Duchy
OF Cornwall, amounting to about 100000 per
annum, an income of ESQ, 900 per annum mas
been voted to the Prince of Wales, and fl0,-
600 per annum to the Princess of Wales. The
younger sons of the Queen have been voted
incomes of $25, 600 per annum, a portion of
which devolves upon their wives if they
survive them. The daughters of Her Ma
jesty have each an income of f6.O0o per an
mum, and in addition to this the Empress
Frederick of Germany received a sum of
flOO 900 on her marriage The Duke OF Cam
bridge, as a cousin of the Queen, has f12, 900
per annum, and his two sisters have sever
ally an income OF So 900 and $1,000 per an
num-"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
WASHINGTON, October 1.


To the Editor of The Dispatch:
1t is hopeful sign of the times when a
newspaper of the caliber of THE DISPATCH
consents to discuss the money question
even in meager way. Though it
must be confessed that THE Dis
PATCH mostly asserts and does not dis
cuss q doctrine. In answering its CORES
pondent "N.'' regarding silver it states that
silver was demonetized in 1878 because ''nO
one wanted silver dollars coined" How did
you find that out, and if so why was the act
sneaked through Congress without debate?
Is the Bankers Magazine reliable? \ re-
form paper claims that the Bankers OI0gG-
zine of August. 1873, editorially said: ain
1878 q fund of $500.000 was raised in London
and n London banker by name of Ernst
Seyd sent to this country with this fund as
the agent of foreign bondholders TO effect
the decentralization of silver" Please state
whether there is any foundation for this? If
so was not silver demOnetiZed at the in
stance of f,reign bondhOlders? INQUIRER.
RENFREw, October l.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
OUR TRADE WITH CHILE.
1t Can Only Be Increased by Taking More
Chilean Products.
San Francisco Chronicle

san Francisco JnrOnlcIc.I
Our Consul at Valparaiso. discussing the
question of trade between this country and
Chile, intimates that our exports can only
be increased by our taking more Chilean
products. lie explains, however, that there
are very few things which Chile raises sur
plus of which We do not also produce in
large quantities, but he points out that the
development of the beet sugar industry in
the United States may create great de-
mand for Chilean nitrates, which form the
best possible fertilizer, fact long since
learned by the Germans and French, who
already are large consumers of this partic-
ular product.
As the beet sugar industry is sure to be-
come important it is possible that it may re-
suit in IL large trade with Chile. But there
is an obstacle which must be overcome be-
fore that can come to pass, and that is our
lack of direct shipping connection with
Chile Until that is remedied we may use Il
great deal of nitrate, but it will appear in
our custom house reports as an import from
Great Britain, just as numerous other
articles which are not of British production,
but are transhipped through through that
country, do ut present.