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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
THE coMBIN ALTON PLAN.

The action of the Central Traffic Asso-
citation in arbitrarily advancing the classi-
ficatior of bottles in less than carload
lots is an example of the methods now pre-
vailing in the establishment of railway
rates.
The old classification of this freight
must have been based on justice and rea-
son, for that has been the assertion on
which this association has based its right
to exist for five years past 1t has claimed
credit for its careful and equitable adjust
ment of rates, in force with satisfactory
results for a number of years. But now
that classification is changed without
warning. and, so far, without even a pre-
tense of assigning valid reason. The re-
suit is that trade from the factories in less
than carload lots is in neril of extinction.
OF course it does not take much shrewd-
ness to guess that the change was inspired
by some interest which seeks to make the
buyers of less than carloads pay tribute to
the large purchasers who get the benefit
of the carload rate instead of ordering di-
rect from factories. But whatever the eX-
PLANTATION, it is fresh commentary on the
system of fixing rates by combination Or
der instead of by the officials of the rail-
roads interested in the development of
the traffic
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY,. DEC. o. 1921.
TWELVE PAGES
EASE BUYS A SEAT.

The mortality returns have not yet
begun to come in from the insufficient ac-
commodations upon our traction cars, both
caGle and electric. but all signs fail if they
do not show up in alarming proportion be-
fore the winter is over One might sup
pose that cars run every five minutes or
so would do for Pittsburg traffic; yet SO
far from such being the case it is now
true that during the buster parts of the
day as many people have to hang from the
straps as find seats. All the time during
the long ride from the Old City to the resi-
dence suburbs, the passengers are either
toasted by hot stove in front. or chilled
by breezes through the invariable open
door in the rear, or, as is often the case,
both processes 90 on simultaneously.
We are not inclined to Judge the traction
companies teo harshly for all this up to
the present. They are new institution.
The demands upon them have suddenly
sprung into such enormous proportions as
could not have readily been foreseen.
But henceforth the public will hold them
to much stricter responsibility for their
service. They have enormously valuable
franchises, as their great excess of profta-
BILE capitalization above cost sufficiently
shows, and the first requisite of tolerable
service is that they furnish seats for all
passengers The convenient straps may
answer fo- an emergency season; but as
regular accommodation, the best natured
people in the world would quickly sour on
them. There must be more frequent cars
during the rush. Passengers cannot be
packed in together like sardines for three.
four, five or six-mile ride. The simple
device of hanging out a placard
when full, and allowing the car
to go straight on its journey,
will prevent overcrowding The other
and dangerous nuisance of keeping the
doors of the cars open on passengers, under
the pretense that conductors have to call
the streets, can be readily obviated by a
simple device which, worked by the con-
ductor from the rear platform, can exhibit
within the car the name of each street as
the street is approached
IT is none too early to enforce attention
to the matters The traction companies
must have regard to the comfort and health
of their patrons. 1t will cost them a little
money-perhaps also some trouble at the
start-but in the end it will work to their
benefit, as the better their service the more
thickly and proftably will be settled the
territory through which they run.
If the traction companies Go not them
selves take the matter in hand, public
opinion will soon compel Councils to estab-
lish by ordinance the necessary provisions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
THE QUESTION ON OUR SIDE.

Andrew Carnegie has given new flip
to familiar subject by writing to Cana
dian who tried to interest him in manu-
featuring project that "when the foreign
colony of Canada recognizes its destiny
and becomes a part of the American
Union, it will be time enough to consider
the investment of capital there by Ameri-
cans. This natural union of the English
speaking people of the American CONT
nent would double the value of everything
in Canada, including the men of Canada. -
This radical expression was to be
expected from the author of "Triumph-
ant Democracy" Possibly, too, the opin-
ion will find an echo in the private con-
viction of large element of the Canadian
people. Many thinking men in Canada,
while not ready to take the attitude
of annexationists, are wont in private to
state their belief that the union of Canada
to the United States will come when this
country wishes it, But the question is
still live one whether the United States
really wishes Canada under the circum-
stances which must prevail in the union.
Everyone recognizes that Canada pre-
annexation than any other acquisition
the United States could make. The addi-
ton to our territory of countries to the
south peopled by an alien race hardly to
be assimilated with our institutions has
little attraction for thoughtful citizens.
But Canada is mainly peopled by race
closely akin to ours. Her institutions
trace their origin to the same source, and
the majority of her population speak the
same language. There would be better
hope of real assimilation in the Canadian
acquisition than in any other project of
territorial expansion. But nevertheless
there are aspects of the case which, if the
United States Government were offered
the free possession of Canada, call for
careful consideration before acceptance.
One has been suggested by Canadian
commentators which, while seemingly of
slight value in such a connection, NAV
have great weight in determining the ac
ton of this Government. Are the poll
ticians of either party in the United States
willing to take the chances of add
ing an enormous vote to our suf-
frage without the slightest knowledge
of how that vote will be cast?
If the bulk of the Canadian vote went to
one party or the other, the supremacy of
that party would be overwhelming. 1t is
history that the effect on national politics
of the creation of new States has for MANY
years been the controlling motive in the
admission of the territories. But in this
case neither the divisions of Canadian
politics nor the expressions of Canadian
opinion afford any basis for judgment as
to which side the Canadian people would
take in our politics. When actually con-
fronted with this great leap in the dark
will either party have the courage to take
it? If it should be taken, what a competi.
ton there would BE among the highest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
RESULTS OF RECIPROCITY.

The efforts of the opposition to belittle
the policy of reciprocity are reduced to the
value of burned gunpowder by the statistics
of trade between this country and those
with which reciprocity has been nego-
tiated. Official returns show that during
the five months following the negotiation
of the agreement with Brazil the exports
of tine United States to that country in
creased 81, 169, ,592 over the same period
last year, or at the rate of nearly S., ,0O0, 900
per annum. In two months the exports
of seventeen classes of merchandise af-
fected by the Spanish treaty governing
Cuba and Puerto Rico increased $500, ,s76,
or at the rate of $500, 900 per annum.
This is exclusive of flour, on which the re-
duction of duties does not go into effect
until January 1. The magnitude of that
change may be Judged from the facts that
it will decrease the cost of American -four
in Havana nearly 81 75 per barrel, and
that orders have been placed in Baltimore
for the expectation of 100000 barrels to
the Spanish West Indies Immediately after
January 1.
By these figures it is shown that, while
the effects of the reciprocity policy
are only just beginning to make them
selves felt, a material increase in our
trade with Southern and Central America
has already made itself apparent The
showing leaves no doubt that the policy of
encouraging the exchange of our products
with those of the Southern countries that
we cannot produce, will result in a mag
nificent enlargement of American CON-
merre
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23

the past few years 9o.65 per cent. So long
as the system can show results like this it
affords the best justification for those in
favor of extending its life and providing
other securities to continue its circulation.
But 1t is to be remembered, in view OF
the presence of an element that desires its
abolition, that the strength of the national
banking cause lies in the integrity Of the
supervision maintained by the Government
and the honesty of the management
OF the banks themselves. If politi-
cal comptrollers and examiners make
the supervision lax or partial, or one
man control of the banks brings them to
wreck, the argument for the maintenance
of the system is destroyed. This fact has
great weight in view of the disclosures of
the past year, in which managers of ma
tional banks have wiped out their assets,
while the process could have been arrested
much earlier by an energetic and vigilant
Comptroller of the Currency. Unless this
fault is sharply amended supporters of the
national banks will have little to say in
reply to their assaiants.
In short, the most dangerous enemies of
the national banking system are not the
PETERS and Simpsons, who openly attack
it, but the Marshes, Lucases, and, there is
too much reason to believe, the Laceys,
who undermine by rascality within and
negligence in supervision over it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

A highly sensational libel case wss yes
terday finished in the London courts by
Sir Charles Russell, counsel for the plain
tiff, publicly withdrawing upon being pri-
vately convinced that his client was press
ing bogus claim. To those who permit
themselves to doubt as to the duty of a
lawyer when he is certain his clients
claims are false or unjust, the example of
Sir Charles should be instructive 1t is
not much the custom of our lawyers to
withdraw from cases once undertaken, vet
that method has its advantages for the
lawyer who occasionally adopts it. 1t i'm
presses jurors and the public with belief
in the honesty of the advocate who will
abandon rather than press groundless
suit
Of course the skeptical will say that Sir
Charles felt pretty sure of defeat when he
abandoned his clients cause, but that is
merely imputing an unworthy motive
The idea should rather be promulgated as
the true standard of professional ethics
that every lawyer. respecting himself and
the court, should do as Sir Charles did
when he discovers he has been led into
unworthy and discreditable litigation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
Social Chatter.

THE second Of the Pittsburg cotillon series
| at the club theater on Monday evening.
Mr. Forsyth. Mr.. Frank Wilcox and Mr..
Singer,and the patronesses are: Mrs. George
Jones, Mrs, Alexander Laughlin. Jr., Mrs.
John $. Dickson, Mrs. W. R. sewell, Mrs.
William Walter Wilcox, Mrs. Frank p.
Sproul, Mrs. 3. +. Jones, Mrs. A. 2. w.
Painter. Mrs. Mark W: Watson. Mrs. Henry
W. Oliver. Jr, Mrs. William H. Singer, Mrs.
Park Painter. Mrs. George T. Robinson. Mrs
ALERT II. Childs. Mrs. william H. Forsyth,
Mrs. Walter l.. McClintock. Mrs. John II.
Ricketson, Mrs James B. Oliver; Mrs. James
William Ross Proctor, Mrs. George Edward
Painter and Mrs James Wood.
The second of the three dances ut the Lin
den Club is on Friday evening New Years
mighty, with these society women as patron
esses: Mrs j. Ernest Schwartz. Mrs Henry
NJ Bailey. Mrs. Joseph r. Woodwell. Mrs.
Georce W. Dilworth. Mrs. James W. Brown,
Mrs. William n Frew, Mrs William Scott;
Ntmick Mrs. James NJ. Schoonmaker. 1t
will be the holiday cotillon and likely to
be the largest and most brilliant OF the
series.
JUDGING from the demand for tickets at
Mellor & Hoene's music store yesterday, it
is evident that Old City Hall will De well
patronized ut the presentation of "Messiah'
next Thursday evening. The concert prom
ises to be a success and the occasion augurs
another laurel in the wreath of the Mozart
Club
A PARTY of young ladies and men who
were Miss Stella Hav's guests. ut dinner
given by her at the Pittsburg Club for Miss
Julia Watson afterward attended the ball
at the Duquesne Club.
THE third dance of the Orinda Cotillon at
the Linden, Clubhouse on next Tuesday
night The dates of the remaining dances
will be declared on that evening.
MASTER ASHLEY CHALFANr of Moorewood
street has issued invitations for an even
ing party, in honor of his birthday, on De-
cember 81.
MISS LOUISE FREDERICK. of Chicora, will te
the guest OF Miss Annie Fielding during the
holidays.
THE AIhambra Club dances at the Monon-
gahela House on Christmas night.
BOWLING match comes OFF at the Linden
Club on Monday evening next.
THE Allegheny Club dances this week at
the Monongahela House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
Obituary Notes.

BISHOP FREPPEL, the noted clerical leader in
the French Chamber of Deputies, is dead.
MATTHIAS SCHUCK, one of the Oldest residents of
Mifain township, died last night in his list year
MRS. CAPTAIN WILLIAM NJ. JORDAN died at her
home in Mt. Pleasant yesterday evening. Funeral
Tomorrow.
MITCHELL LAPAILLA, seteran of two wars
and an old steamboat mate. died at the Louisville
City Hospital yesterday morning. He was well
known in the South.
DISTRICT FOREMAN d. II. PEW, of the South
western Pennsylvania pipe lines at Washington
Pa, died very unexpectedly of pneumonia yester-
day morning. Mr.. Pew was well known through
out all the oil fields.
REV. WILLIAM ADDY, ID. D.. pastor Of the Pres
byerian Church at Marietta. o.. for % years past
and one of the most eminent divines of the denom-
nation in the State. died last night from the effects
of the grip aged 55 years.
JOHN G. WEST, one of the best known G. A. r.
men in Untontown, died there Monday night of
nervous prostration, aged GO years. The deceased
was member of the ambulance corps of the Army
OF the Potomac and was its second lieutenant.
DIR. HENRY SCHoENE died at his home in Zanes-
Vile, Sunday, aged s.. He was learned man in
every sense, but made his fortune as manufact-
urer of patent medicines. He made two dying re-
quests-that no obituary be printed and shat his
funeral should be strictly private and without re-
hgious ceremony. 80
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
FOES OF NATIONAL RaNKS

The meeting of Congress produces from
ultra-Democratic and Farmers Alliance
statesmen the usual grist of measures to
abolish national banks. At present these
measures are decidedly supererogatory. If
there is no further legislation that feature
of the national bank system objected to
by this class-namely, the issue of circu-
lating notes on the security of Govern
ment bonds-will gradually abolish itself
by the retirement of Government bonds.
The national bank circulation is now
about one-third of its volume decade and
half ago, and the same process will ex-
tinguish the circulation entirely if kept up.
A large class of people know the effect
of the national banking system on COM
merce at large and wish to retain it or its
equivalent. The system was established
to help float the Government in the time of
war Experience in the 25 years of peace,
however, has proved that its value as a
mainstay to business is greater than its
aid to the finances of struggling Govern
ment The great strength of the national
banking system is: first, to its demo-
cratic organization, for while the ignorant
represent it as centralized organization,
one bank is really as independent OF an
other as drygoods merchant of his COM
petitor; second, the solvency and stability
secured by the national banking law and
the supervision established under it
Statistics show that under this system for
twenty-nine years not more than 81 per
cent of the national banks have become
insolvent, while the loss to creditors of the
entire system has averaged only one
twentieth of one per cent of the total liza
bilities. The banks which have failed
during the existence of the system have
paid 20 creditors "a IL per cent, and during
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
PEOPLE EVERYBODY KNOWS.

Mr. JAMES GORDON BENNETT is a
guest of Prince Bismarck at Freiderichs-
ruhe.
COLONEL DAVID B. SIcKLEs, late
United States Minister to Siam, is going
about this country on lecture tour.
EX-SENATOR EDNIUNDs, who is making
a short stay in Washington, says he has been
promoted from politics to private life.
THE three men most sought in Washing
ton are said to be Catchings, Montgomery
and oFerrall who engineered Crisp's cam
patgn.
FANNY DAVENPORT, the actress, is con-
fined TO her room, in Detroit, with rheuma-
tism and her company went on without her
to Buffalo.
PROF. SIMON tNEwCoNfB is making ar
rangements tor the publication of a forecast
of the positions of the planets in the heav-
ems for the next century.
THE venerable Archbishop Kenrick
is seriously ill. He has been suffering ever
since the celebrating of his jubilee several
weeks ago and seems to be growing worse.
LYMAN J. GAGE, President of the First
National Bank, of Chicago, and the first
President of the Board of Directors OF the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, is seriously
ill.
THE Duke Of Devonshire, who died at
Holker Hall, Milnethorpe, Monday night,
owned l93, 600 acres of land, lying in fourteen
counties. The rent roll of his estate amounts
to over 10000 pounds per year. f Y
SECRETARY ELKINs, who is in New
York City, was informed of his confirmation
by the Senate, yesterday afternoon, by a
telegram from the President. As he has ar
ranged to spend the Christmas holidays with
his family, at Elkins, West Virginia, it Is
supposed he will not assume his new duties
until New Years Day. or soon after.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
bidders in American politicians for the

bidders in American politicians for the
Canadian vote!
If Canada should ever offer herself to
the United States there are other points of
the acquisition calculated to make us
pause. The Dominion has a debt, not
created like ours by a struggle for national
unity, but which has steadily grown in
times of peace by lavish subsidies to
favored corporations to total greater in
proportion to population than the debt of
the United States. AS an adjunct
to that feature Canadian politics
present a picture of the appar-
emily invincible rule of corporate
control which casts in the shade our palm
lest efforts in that line. Equally serious is
the fact that the most difficult problem in
Canadian politics for the past half century
has been the control of one of its chief
provinces by race which, from the ear
liest settlement of the country, has main
tanned stubborn and invincible loyalty to
the French language and customs of the
eighteenth century; whose sympathies are
not with the New World but with the
France of the Old, and whose political
aims are the maintenance of French lam
guage and forms in the law and the union
of Church and State. Do the United
States wish to assume that debt, to add
that element of corporate supremacy to
its already great burden of that class, and
to undertake the fusion of race which
has resisted Anglo-Saxon assimilation for
a century and half?
This is a grave question. While enthu-
Siastic believers in manifest destiny like
Mr.. Carnegie may deem it insufficient to
arrest the march of the Republic to Cont
mental control, it is not indiscreet to init
mate to Canada that she must work out
the solution of these problems for herself
before she can be adjudged worthy of
matriculation into the Union.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
ONE WAY TO zvADE THE LAW.
A Railroad Company, to Avoid Litigation,
Retires From q Lucrative Field.

A Railroad Company, to Avoid Litigation,
Retires From a Lucrative Field.
TOLEDO, Dec. 22.-[SpeciaL 1.-The recent dis.
sster on the Lake Shore in this city, by
which 10 persons were fatally cooked, is the
cause of bitter feud between the Lake
Shore and Flint and Pere Marquette roads.
The accident was caused by an F. and P. NJ.
engine crashing into the rear of an east
bound Lake Shore passenger. Beside the
dead 30 were badly scaldei and MANNED. The
+. and P. MS southern terminus was Toledo.
1t ran into the city from Monroe, Mich, on
the Lake Shore tracks, under that COM
pany's running orders. There is tunnel
half a mile from the depot, and after passing
through it the Lake Shore train stopped
The tunnel was full of smoke so the engin-
eer could not see through it, and his engine
dashed into the rear coach before it could
be stopped.
Although the Coroner has not vet rendered
his decision, four suits, agcregating 100000
nave been commenced. naming both the
roads as defendants Service was gotten by
the Sheriff last night upon the Lake Shore
but when he came to summon the F. and P.
NJ. to-day not an official or employe could be
found in the city, or even the State. Every
one who was even remotely connected with
the road was summarily discharged last
night. Not an F. and P. Nj. ticket can be
bought at any OF the offices. In thus aban-
Shore loses 1000 carloads of freight per year,
beside the passenger traffic of the Saginaw
valley and Northern Michigan. The F. and
T. Nj. 8 future terminals will be Monroe and
Detroit and its business will be turned over
to the Lake Shore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE,
Mrs. DR.. John Andrews.

Word was received at Steubenville Mon,
day morning of the death of Mrs. DIR. John Ans
drews at her home near Columbus. aged 81 years
Her mother Mrs. Lord. was remarkable woman,
and her daughter largely inherited her qualities.
Over go years ago she was married to DIR. John An
drews. President of the jefferson branch of the
Bank of Ohio. He afterward became President of
the State Bank of Ohio. and as such removed to
Columbus. Salmon P. Chase. Secretary of War;
of the Currency. and both Chase and Stanton
turned to MIR. Andrews for financial advice, as do
members of the Cabinet to John Sherman to-
day. Seven children were born to the couple, but
only three survive. One is Abner l.. Andrews
formerly Secretary to Governor. then President
HayeS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
MIR. STANFORD, having been sworn in,

Mr.. STANFORD, having been sworn in,
proceeds to introduce q bill "to provide the
Govern ment with means sufficient to supply
the want of "a sound circulating medium" !"
This indicates the many millioned Senator's
belief that the Governments does not now
supply a sound circulating medium; in
which case it is pertinent to say that if there
is any unsoundness it is because Senator
niord and his friends have loaded the
Treasury with stacks of silver. It will be
interesting to wait for the full text of the
bill and see what the Stanford idea of a
sound circulating medium is-when he is
hunting Presidential nomination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-23
John Davies, Mining Expert

John Davies, one of the best known min
ing experts in the West. died in Chicago Monday
night of pneumonia. Mr.. Davies had made and
lost several fortunes in Colorado and California,
and died almost penniless. He the original
owner of the Little Chief mine. near Leadville
which he sold some ten years ago for $500 900. 1t
was afterward sold again for 8, 600, 0OO There is
not a miner in the West who has not heard of the
great poker game at Leadville in which Davies got
up from the table s3 600 loser. The next night he
sat down and not only recovered his losses bui won
$40. 0O0 on top of it. He gave large of money
charitable societies.