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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
HOW THEY LIVE.
The Ups and Downs of q Professional Va
grants Existence.

grants Existence.
Butte City Miner.1
Probably in no city Of the same proper
tions in America can be noticed as many
different phases and traits of character
among its residents as in Leadville. One
may see persons in all positions in life
from the highest to the most degraded A
reporter walking down Harrison avenue
early Friday morning, saw a curious speci-
men of the human race resting on an iron
railing protecting saloon window, and
staring vacantly at the persons passing
along the street as if he had no other ambi-
tion in life than to hang around the bar
rooms and exc out a precarious existence at
the numerous free lunch counters. When
accosted by the reporter, he turned quickly,
like a hunted criminal, and asked in gruR
voice what was wanted. When asked to an
swer q few questions, he stated that he was
in better business than talking to every
body who came along, and it was only after
a great deal of pressing that he finally con-
sented to afford the reporter an interview,
such as it was
81 have not always been a beggar," he
said, "and did not become one through any
fault of mine. You see, circumstances often
alter cases. My father was New England
farmer in comfortable circumstances, but,
like many another young man, became dis
satisfied with the quiet life of Il farmers son,
and late one nlgnt arose from my Ded aSd
silently stole away from the old homestead.
My worldly possessions consisted of the suit
of clothes which was then wearing and %
in money. 1 was determined to see the
world and started at once for New York,
where, aftermany hardships, arrived three
weeks later. You can imagine the rest bet
ter than can describe it. Looking for work,
my capital exhausted. 1 led o weary exist
ence. Becoming accustomed to my lot, 1
wandered among the saloons and picked up
few scanty morsels of food whenever
opportunity offered. Stealing rides in empty
box cars, and 'hobolng' my way, as you may
and for the last several years have not
done an honest days work Why don't re-
form? Well, you can't straighten crooked
old tree can you S1r, am you got the price
of q bowl about your" The old man was
given a silver quarter, muttered "thankee"
and shambled off to the nearest saloon to
slake his thirst with schooner of the foam
ing beverage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
SOME PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL.

Miss Estella G.. Jones and Miss Edna
Jones, and Mrs. Seibert, Miss Stella and Mr..
Will Seibert, of Oakland, left Yesterday for
the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Seibert goes to join
her husband, who has located at San Diego,
Cal.
James P. Anderson, General Passenger
Agent of the Allegheny Valley Railroad
Company, and Mr.. Adams, of the freight de-
partment, went to New York last night on
business connected with the road.
w, H. Parsons, Sr, and w. III. Parsons,
JY., are guests at the Duquesne. MI. Par
sons is multi-millionaire and extensively
engaged in the manufacture of paper. de
is here on a business mission.
Judge Porter left on the limited last
night for Colorado He said he was going
there on a three weeks vacation trip, and
that Judges McClung and Kennedy would
sit on No. in his absence.
Ex-Mayor Roach, of Chicago, was a pas
senger on the limited, eastbound, yesterday
morning. He was en- route for New York.
Mrs. S. j. Marsh and Miss Mamie Callan
have returned to their home on Cliff street
after a months stay at Atlantic City.
Miss Mary Swan, Of Norristown, is visit
ing at the house of Sergeant McCurry, of
Wabash avenue, West End.
Prof E. P. Russell, of. Boston, Murray
Werner and C. L. Magee were Eastward trav-
elers last night.
G. w. Robinson, Andrew Caster and
Joseph d. Weeks returned from the East
yesterday.
General Passenger Agent Ford, of the
Pennsylvania lines, returned from Chicago
yesterday.
Miss Ximay Godfrey will leave Monday
for a trip to Washington, Philadelphia and
Cape May.
Jefferson Middleton, of the Survey De-
partment, Washington, is a Duquesne guest.
Chief j. o. Brown and Detective Fitz-
gerald went West yesterday morning.
Brainard Rorison, an electrician of .Ft.
Wayne, is at the Anderson.
L. E. Cochran and wife, of Youngstown,
are at the Duquesne.
c. L. Magee returned from the East on
the Western expresa
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
SIXTEEN PAGES
DICTATOR BALMAcEDA DowNED.

The defeat of Dictator Balmaceda' s
army and the capture of Valparaiso, Chile,
by the Insurgents is announced officially
by the United States Consul at that city,
and his statement is confirmed by tele-
grams from other sources. The eXtraor-
binary feature of the case is that Balma-
ceda's telegram on Thursday announcing
the surrender of the Insurgent army,
should have obtained belief among those
who were familiar with the situation; be-
sides, it stood alone, without confirmation.
Valparaiso was in the hands of the Die
tator's army. 1t was admirably situated
for a defensive campaign, being sur
rounded by hilly crescent which forms a
precipitous escarpment; from which the
city is impervious to attacks from the sea.
The accounts previously received showed
that the insurgents took the only road by
which the city could have been attacked.
They were met by Balmaceda's army near
the mouth of the Aconcagua, at the prin-
cipal seaside resort. There was no way
for their opponents to surround them, and
that they could have been forced to sur
render was improbable.
The effect of the victory of the Congress
sionalists can hardly be determined upon
at the present time. 1t has generally been
conceded, however, that the defeat of one
Of the parties would end the war and it
is probable that Dictator Balmaceda and
his Cabinet will now be forced to seek Sc
clusion. 1t is doubtful whether, even if
he desired, he could keep together the
remnants of his army. In Chile as in all
South American countries, the soldiers
prefer to be connected with the party in
power At the commencement of the
struggle the army decided to support Bal
maceda, considering the Insurgent party
the weaker of the two. In this, the Sc
quel shows, they were mistaken, and it is
improbable that any inducement could be
offered to force them in the field again
under the Dictator's flag
Americans generally will regard the
outcome of the protra cted struggle with
satisfaction. Their sympathies have been
with the insurgents from the beginning.
The principles for which they fought
were such as were to be approved, and
the attempt of Balmaceda to override the
established form of Republican govern
ment was obnoxious to citizens of the
United States. The resumption of trade,
which has been suspended since January
last, will also be not the least of the good
results of the victory. 1t is true that the
trade with the United States was not
large as compared with that of other
countries, but it was of Importance to the
Pacific Coast merchants, who are more
closely connected with Chilean affairs than
others in this country. The cessation of
war, therefore, is for the best interests of
all concerned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
DOGS AS MESSENGERS.
The Germans Training Them to Act in the
Military Service.

The Germans Training Them to Act in the
Military Service.
Pail Mall Gazette.l
The successful experiments which have
been made abroad with dogs as military
messengers have caused the German authoFi-
ties to employ them in yet another capacity
on the field of glory. There are, at the
present moment, number of shepherds
dogs in training for finding the wounded on
the battlefield, as formerly the st. Bernards
were trained to find the frozen wanderers
on the lonely paths of the st. Gotthard.
The regiment eff lancers stationed at Huel-
ben possesses dozen of these shaggy-coated
members of the ambulance corps, which
have been taught to hunt up any soldier
hidden in the woods and fields in the neigh
borhood of the garrison. On finding q SOL
dier, they run back and bark till the am
bulance wagon arrives, when they return
with it to the very door of the hospital.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
sNoBszRY IN NEW YORK.
The Metropolis Is the Paradise of the Par.
venue Nowadays.

/ venue Nowadays.
| Arena.l
To be great leader is to be great feeder.
| You must dispense terrapin and canvas back
ducks and rare brands of champagne, in
lordly dining halls. or your place is certain
! to be secondary. You may if o man, have
| the manners of o Chesterfield and The wit Of
Balzac; you may, If woman be beautiful
| as Mary Stuart and brilliant as Mme De
stael, and yet powerless to "entertain," you
can Ill no lofty pedestal. "Position in New
York means corpulent purse whose strings
work as fiexibly as the dorsal muscles of a
professional toady." And this kind of toady
has an exquisite regard for your greatness
and your dignity the moment he becomes
quite sure of your pecuniary Willingness to
back both. New York is at present the par
adise of parvenus, and these occasionally
commit grotesQue mistakes i'll the distribu-
tion of civilities Because you chose to
"stay in" for season or two they will take
for granted, if suddenly brought in contact
with you, that you have never "been out''
and could not go If you tried.
OF course, to feel hurt by such cheap
hauteur proves that you are in manner
worthy of it: but even though you are not
in the least hurt you cannot refrain from
thrill of annoyance that a country which
has boasted in so loud-mouthed way to
Europe of having begun its national life by
wholesome scorn of all class distinction
should contain citizens cursed by q spirit of
such tawdry pride. At least the aristocracies
of other lands vicious and reprehensible as
they have always been, are yet an evil with
certain malign consistency for their sup
port. Like those monarchies OF which they
have formed a piteous adjunct they have
always been the outgrowths OF perfectly
natural ignorance. Though distinct clogs
to civilization, their existence remains
pathetically legitimate. Nuisances, they are
still nuisances with hereditary hold on
history. Their CHIEF modern claim for con-
tinuance is the fact that they we're once
authorized by that very "divine right"
which is now the scorn and jest of philoso-
ply, and that the communities which they
still infest are yet unprepared for the shock
of their extirpation. 1t is clear that they
will one day be sloughed off like a mass of
dead animal tissue, even if they are not
amputated like living limb that has grown
hopelessly deceased. They are as surely
doomed by the slow threat of evolution as
is the failure to establish trial by jury in
Russia. They are tolerated by progress for
the simple reason that progress Is not yet
ready to destroy them. Hence are all fmita-
tions of their permitted and perpetuated
folly in wofully bad taste. They are more;
they are an insult, when practiced in such
land as ours, to republican energies,
motives and ideals Heaven knows, we are
country with sorry enough substantially
behind her vaunts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
AN ANCIENT COLUMN.
It Is Discovered While Digging at Rome
Near the Tiber.

Near the Tiber.
Brooklyn Eagle.l
An interesting discovery has just been
made at Rome in the process of excavation
for the Tiber embankment This is fiat
tened oblong column, or very thick slab, on
which is inscribed the official record of the
public games celebrated by Augustus in the
year II b. c. The decree of the Senate and
the regulations enforced by the Executive
Committee are followed by q list of the
necessary prayers and sacrifices and the
order of the contests.
Then comes the announcements that choir
Of q youths and as many maidens will sing
the Carmen Seculare," written by Quintius
Horatius Flaccus. In the same locality the
workmen have discovered 25 additional
fragments of the great map of the old city
which formerly stood in the Forum of Au-
gustus. When this map was destroyed by
fire or earthquake, many of the pieces were
thrown into heap of broken building ma
terials, and finally fopnd their may into the
walls of the old Alfieri Palace. which have
just been unearthed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

SEVERAL American and Engligh papers
have been discussing the treatment of
horses in the two countries, with the gen.
eral conclusion that greater kindness is
shown to the horse here than in England
In both countries, however, it is observed
that most of the cruelty shown to horses is
in connection with street car and omnibus
hauling. Happily the inhumanity incidental
to street traffic is bound to disappear with
the horse itself before electricity and the
cable. The day when the vast majority of
horses will have a fair' chance to enjoy life
is almost here
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

NOTHING can stop the whilom Jonahs,
but now invincible Pirates in their headlong
course Teams from Cincinnati, from Bos-
ton, and from New York have fallen in the
dust before the ball-splitting Goliaths OF the
Iron City. The local fanatics are as deep in
delirious joy as they were in sackcloth
and ashes but yesterday. How will it endf
Ours not to say, but apparently Manager
McGunnigle is strictly in the saddle, and
his hand and whip and spur may work
more wonders yet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

oording to the figures of the State
Bureau of Labor statistics. In the re-
port Just issued it is shown that in 1889, 29S,-
s2l persons were employed in manufactures,
the value of goods made and work done was
s674, ,6S4 s69. as compared with totals of 3Oo227
persons and $s7l, ,06l, 1853 for 1890, the year in
which the Mckinley bill went into effect.
The average yearly earnings of workmen
also showed q substantial increase.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
Social Chatter.

SELECT basket picnic and reunion will be
held to-day by the Pittsburg Commercial
Travellers at Ross Park, West Penn Railroad
SUCCESSFUL picnic was held by the Sun
day school of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church at Idlewild yesterday.
THE Pittsburg Conference of the NJ. E.
Church will commence next Wednesday at
Wellsburg, W. Va.
KNOXVILLE COUNCIL No. 691, Jr. o. q. A. NJ,
will hold its first annual picnic to-day at
Grove Station.
THE Knoxville NJ. P. Sunday school will
picnic September at Boyce station.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

To the Editor of The Dispatch
Can young lady travel alone on an ex-
cursion train to Niagara Falls and Toronto
without escort? Would it be proper? Are
young ladies travelling alone received at the
best hotels? Where can she best inquire for
hotel accommodations? Alb.
PrTTsBURG, Aug. %.
lit is not improper for a young lady to
travel alone, but it is not best that she should
do SO. Hotels will receive young ladies as
well as any one else. Police officers are sup
posed to be prepared to direct strangers to
proper places.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
Foreign Born Population.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch;
Win you be kind enough to give us the
foreign born population of the following
counties: Allegheny, Fayette and Westmore-
land? W.
GREENsBURG Aug. %.
There is no publication of census returns
yet by counties and the only means of arriv-
ing at an estimate is to make a compilation
from the Great Registers, which is too long
task for us TO undertakel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
A CURIOUS TREE.
1t Produces a Wax From Which Candles
Are Made.

are Md0es
San Francisco Chronicle.1
Japan wax as it is called, is obtained
from tree, the rhus succedanea, which
grows in Japan, China and the East Indies.
The Japanese call it haze, or haze. The tree
commences to bear fruit when 3 or years
old, and increases its product every year till
at the age of 80 years single tree will pro-
duce from $50 to 400 pounds of berries, from
which 20 to 80 pounds of wax can be OBJ
tanned. The wax is formed in the middle of
the berry, between the skin and the seed,
like the pulp of grape.
1t is extracted by boiling the berries in
water and allowing 1t to cool, when the wax
separates from the skin and seed, sinking to
the bottom of the vessel in solid cake. The
specific gravity of this wax Is 0.970, and its
melting point 1870 Fahrenheit. 1t is largely
used, either alone or mixed with tallow, by
the Chinese in the manufacture of candles.
This tree should not be confounded with
the "tallow tree of China, which has a
pitch of solid tallow in all trees that have
fully mstured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Obituary Notes.

WILLIAM LEE, of Rochester, n. Y. a promi-
nent building contractor and interested In many
business Institutions of his city, died Thursday,
aged so years.
CAPTAIN G. G. WAYNE, an oid-time Cincinnati
and New Orleans steamboat man, for 10 years past
agentfor Ohio river steamers,at New Orleans. died
Yesterday. aged 70 years.
SAMUEL r. RAYMOND, brother of the late Henry
j. Raym, n J. of the New York Times, died in
Rochester N. Y, Thursday evening. He had
been engaged in the insurance business for many
years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

THE various methods employed by people
to make themselves notorious are wender-
full as well as curious. Not long ago West
ern New York preacher opposed the use of
bicycles by ladies and therby arrived at the
desired end, and now an educational writer
in the Forum advises the encouraging OF
cricket at schools instead of the American
game of baseball.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

As usual the beauties of city government
by an INSCRIPTIONS gang of politicians are
prominent in the management of the recov-
cry of the bodies from the Park Place ruins
in New York. After one hundred hours i'll
directed and worse executed work many
bodies remained under the debris.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
THE scores made bv the Second Brigade

THE scores made by the Second Brigade
shoot yesterday were very satisfactory con-
siderfng the weather. The Sixteenth Regi-
ment again carried of the honors and the
trophy will now remain in its possession.
Good craftsmanship has now become neces-
sary in case of war and the records made by
the military boys indicate that they will be
able to make many blanks in the ranks of
the enemy if they are ever called upon to
fight
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
Let Out q Link.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:

TO the EuItOr OF Tue DISpaUcH!
In an account of the speed of the Teutonic
published in THE DIsF AroH it was said that
the captain cried: "Let out another link" so
that she would run faster. To settle dis
cussion will you inform me whether he
meant to move some part Of the machinery
or whether he meant to get up more steam.
MULLAN, Aug. %. C. r.
1.-THE expression used was f1gurative, and
meant that more speed should be given by
the engines if it was possiblel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

IT is fortunate that the possibilities of
the Chilean war are exhausted SO far as the
claiming of victories is concerned. Balma-
ceda and the Congressional party having
both claimed the victory, that ends it. No
body else can claim it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

THE cold feet of the August blizzard that
has been soaring Iowa farmers made them
selves distinctly felt here yesterday. Sum-
mer shuddered and put on her wraps to go.
II the trees do not hang out their red danger
signals earlier than usual all signs are mis-
leading.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

TwENTY-sIx lives were sacrificed yester-
day morning in a collision at sea. The night
was clear and the water calm, and the only
reason given was that a proper lookout was
not kept A day that passes without dis
aster of some kind, involving great loss of
life, is indeed a rarity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

EMPEROR WILLIAM is celebrating the
formation of the Dreibund by growing q
brand new crop of whiskers. 1t was, in olden
times. supposed to be unsafe to beard q
monarch in his den. No wonder his physi-
clans have been anxious for his health.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

ANOTHER field has been opened for the
young ladies. There are more men in Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Wyoming than women, and
great cry Is being raised for wives. Some
of the natives there say they would even
take American girls if they could get them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
A Tin Panic In Wales.

DprIHBHeIu 1SepuUIiC'!
There's a panic, sure enough; but it's a
tin panic, and it's confined entirely to the
manufacturers in Wales and the Democrats
in the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

THE disaster in New York may result in
| the wedding out of Pittsburg's rickety
buildings. The building inspectors and oc-
cupants OF suspected structures ought to CO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
A Groundless statement.

Indianapolis Journal
The complaint that the Mckinley law will
curtail the market of the American farmer
is not soundly based.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

THE time of tennis wanes apace, the
players back to work have gone-yet
nature, rather out of place. in Fall doth put
her blazer on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

THE assurance of stability which the pas
sage of the Mckinley bill gave has pro-
NOTED all Massachusetts industries, ac-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

SOME of the pictures in the New York
papers of the Park Place ruins are as fright
full as the disaster ITSELF
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29

AUTUMN looked in yesterday and said
Sunderland people who wore summer
clothes did.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-29
A Lady Can Travel Alone.

JEANNETrE, Aug. %.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-18

LIVE WIRES Electric light and telegraph
wires became crossed on Merrimaek street,
Lowell, Mass. Saturday afternoon. A line
man cut the telegraph wire In two places
and let IL fall to the street. The wire fell
on horse belonging to Frank Moody. kill
iug the animal. Toe street car tracks be-
came charged with the current. Frank
Burns, while crossing the street. got two
shocks FROM the tracks and fell helpless on
the street. All along the street fire flashed
from tina track and several horses almost
fell from shocks. Intense excitement pre-
vailed