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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27
DUTIES OF A BUSINESS MAN.
The Exposition Manager Drops Easily Int
q Little HOmiIy

The Exposition Manager Drops Easily Into
Little HomiIy.
Talking about the patronage of and in
terest in the Pittsburg Exposition, Manager
Johnston said yesterday: sThe way in
which the people support their Exposition
is gratifying to the Board of Managers, of
course, but sometimes think that there is
not as much interest shown in it by busy
men of the CITY as the Importance of the in
stitution deserves. Citizens should remem-
ber that they are responsible for the success
of the Exposition. 1t is their duty to see
that it is properly supported. When man
is in business, be he merchant, manu-
facturer, lawyer, or what not he is to some
extent public character. He cannot do as
he pleases altogether. He cannot say,
This is my way of doing things If the
public do not like it, they need not.
'If he persists in this sort of behavior he
will be a failure, ultimately, unless he is q
millionaire and is not conducting his bust
ness for profit. He must regard the wishes
of his customers, and he must either please
them or go out of business"
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the Postmaster room leads to toilet rooms
below. The architecture of these rooms is
the same as the opposite corner. The walls
and ceilings are plain white.
Next to these rooms is passenger ele-
vator, and beyond, the staircase. This is a
handsomely designed structure of iron with
wide marble steps. The soffits of the stairs
are nodded and painted in three shades of
green. Beyond is the Third avenue en-
trance Three doors of similar design and
finish to these of the main entrance open
into wide yestibule. The ceiling of the
vestibule is handsomely wrought in stucco
and the manner in which the jambs, sofits
and architecture of the arches, all in ma
hoganv, are wrought is very creditable. 1t
may here be noted that the general design
of, the architecture of the offices, and for the
doors, freplaces, tiling, etc, throughout
the postoffice floor is similar to that of the
Postmaster's room.
DIMENSIONS OF THE WORKSHOP.
Bevond the Third avenue entrance is the
inquiry room, next to it private room
with vaults and store closets, and beyond it,
on the Cherry alley corner, is the Registry
division. This is "a feet by 30 feet. A sec
tion about II feet square, entered from the
corridor, forms the public Office. The screen
is similar in design to that in the Money
Order division. In the opposite corner is
smaller inclosure where mail men receive
their letters for delivery. The furnishing
and architecture are as already described.
The Cashiers department is the same size
as the Registry Office, the public portion
being cut off by mahogany and brass
finished screen, similar to the others. As
before, the appointments ofthis division are
similar to the others. Next in order is
private room, and adjoining is the Superin-
tendent OF the City Division, Colonel T. J.
Hudson's room. Washbowls are provided
in these rooms with the necessary closets
and vaults. The office furniture is the same
all through, and is sufficient. The Fourth
avenue entrance, elevation, ETC., are
counterparts Of those on the Third avenue
side. This completes the enumeration and
description of the offices, 10 in number, on
this floor.
The screen inclosing the working Dom Is
ofeery handsome design. The material Is
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ladies that s are out shopping he every day snd
know bargain when they see it. This is
the class of trade that we cater for Our
competitors are looking after customers not
quite so well posted; you will find their
advertisements in all the country papers.
They have long since ceased to be COM
petitors of ours We have monopolized the
cash trade of the city without spending 81
for advertising where they spend thousands.
If you want to avoid paying for the adver-
tisement in the county paper you have
been reading the past year come to the
cash drygoods store.
q THORNTON Bros,
1913 Federal street, Allegheny.
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Visitors to the Exposition,

When you come to 1913 Federal street,
Allegheny, stop and examine the goods on
exhibition in front of store It's the Cash
Store, and oil regular prices made elsewhere
are cut here. Tickets in plain figures tell
the tale of the continual rush of, trade.
When you see how cheap goods are sold you
will join the crowd inside. A complete
line of dry goods, notions, hosiery, gloves,
laces, curtains, upholstery, cloaks, rugs,
ETC., at the popular Cash Store.
THORNTON BROS.
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Do You Eat?

Consumer, if you do not save money from
now on you never will. With an over
abundant crop of fruit, vegetables and
grain, and the duty off sugar, why shouldn't
groceries be cheap?
ARE YOU ALIVE g..
to the fact that in paying high prices for
your goods you are Systematically robbed to
pay the bad debts of others who never pay
for anything? Send for price list and COM
pare prices. Send in your order and you
can't be deceived, as every article must be
frst-class. If not, your money will be re-
funded.
1 will give with all orders of ten dollars
(S10) and upward the benefit of the follow
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Any city lady will tell you that if you
have drygoods to buy go to the Cash Store
and get posted, and the plain figures on
merchandise in front of the store will con-
vince you we have no competitors. Where
can you find store in either city that will
cut black dress goods and silks at margins
that satisfy us? They don't exist. You
read lots of advertisements on silks every
day, but you don't see any that offer 24-inch
black surah at 35c, or 21 inches at 25c, or
24-inch black failles at Soc, or black and
colored all silk rhadames at 49c, or plaid
surahs at 49c, wash plushes CSC, China
silks 25c, Washington mills dress goods
at 9sc, English suitings Csc, silk warp
Henrietta at 69c, the 81 90 one elsewhere
Plaid dress goods Sc inches at 914c, indigo
blue prints 4Ac, and silver grey morning
prints 434c. There is nothing new in the
phraseology of the above ad, but the
prices will strike our competitors as being
decidedly 'fresh." THORNTON BROS.
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Returns to n Rule.

Attorneys George G. Wilson and W. S.
Pier yesterday filed their returns in the
rule taken by the Sheriff requiring Will
lam Loeffler, preferred creditor, and the
Eastern creditors of W. E. Schmertz to
show cause why the proceeds of the Sher-
ifs sac should not be paid into court on
the one hand or to Loeffler on the other.
The arguments were postponed till to-mor-
row afternoon at 8 O'Clock, when they will
be heard before Judge White
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BEAUTIES OF THE ARCHITECTURE.

SlOilO SoA fhiS Ndt
only be made appar-
ent by a close inspec-
tion. In point of
architectural beauty
the new postofnce
ill undoubtedly
compare more than
favorably with any
other in the country,
and Postmaster Nc
Kean's opinion of the
work ing facilities
is that the Pitts
burg Office will
surpass any other. The
fittings have been
generally m o d e ] e d
on the New York
type, but the ener-
getic Postmaster has
himself devised and
suggested improve
ments which will be
noted in detail at an
other opportunity.
Mr.. NIcKea has been
an untiring worker
around the floor dur
ing the week, and
Mr.. Palmer and
Colonel Hudson ably
seconded him. Sup
erintendent Joseph
\. Pattison has had
charge of the con-
struction and has
-. .1.A Al H.
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RACING WITH LAWYERS.
railroad Claim Agents Hustle to Get
Ahead of the Legal Talent.

railroad Claim Agents Hustle to Get
Ahead of the Legal Talent.
Daniel McJilton, Claims Agent for the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad, was busy yes
terday in looking after the wounded in the
accident at Linden station. Asked II he
experienced much difficulty in settling
claims for accidents, he said:
We'll, it takes some hustling The main
point isto see the people before they engage a
lawyer, or the lawyer engages himself to
them. Often it is race which of us shall
get there first, and frequently, hustle as
We may, we find a lawyer has been before
us. Then the real work begins, for lawyers
like nothing more than a good accident case
with fat railroad corporation as defen-
dants. The main point is to get hold of
people who may have claims right at the
start, and before the lawyers get in
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Half Rates to Firemen's Tournament at
Atlantic CITY Via b. & o. RR

For the fremen's tournament at Atlantic
City, September 29-October 2, inclusive,
the B. & o. R. r. will sell round trip tick
cts from Pittsburg at one fare for the round
trip. Tickets will be sold from September
% to October 9, inclusive, and will be valid
for return passage until October 6, inclusive.
This low rate is not restricted to iremen,
but is open to the public, and presents the
last opportunity of the season to enjoy a
cheap trip to the seashore. The B. & o. R
P. provides fast limited express trains via
Washington, with Pullman service.
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since that the fiOor BedM11es Of the Arc''es.
kept the promise made some months
would be ready for the de-
partment by the first of October.
The rest of the building is still in the
hands of the plasterers, and the carpenters
are preparing to fix the woodwork. The
cost of fitting the postofice department can
not yet be obtained. The building has been
ten years under construction, and will, when
finished, have cost ovef $40, ,OOO, 900.
The owners of lock boxes in the old build
ing were yesterday morning notified to call
at the box window in the old office for KEYS
for their boxes in the new building. A
deposit of 25 cents was required for each
key. The keys for the present boxes will
be redeemed as soon as possible after Thurs
day morning.
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ne had ever been treated for lameness by a
Southside female doctor, as the latter
claims. He also said that the reports OF
people who come to see him being stranded
here for want of funds, and obliged to call
on the city to get transportation home, are
greatly exaggerated. Father MoilingeTs
reputation for iberality, his friends think,
should protect him from some of such talk.
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features o + t h e
Postmaster's, but
they are different
ly arranged. The
principal room is
divided in two by
a screen, consist
ing of a counter
with a panelei
mahogany fro mt
surmounted by a
screen. This j S
pierced by three
windows wit h
brass grills and is
divided by plate
glass panels. carry
ing handsome brass
scroll work. The
public portion of
the room is tiled.
The smaller room
adjoining contains
the vaults and
store closet, and is
fitted with a wash
hand stand. This
is a private room
for the clerks of
StairUav m that in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27
IRISH TAKE THE LEAD.
Points Picked Up by Charles F.
McKenna on the Emerald Isle.
AMERICAN SCHOOLS SURPASSED.
Recollections Of Libby Prison and Some
Attempts to Escape.
OTHER TALKS GATHERED AND RECORDED

Attorney Charles f. McKenna returned
last week from trip through England and
ireland. He is close observer and in an
interview Yesterday recounted some of his
experiences.
''Whilst in Liverpool, one morning in
court" he said, 'T witnessed a practical
enforcement of the compulsory education
law in operation in England. The authori-
ties take accurate and frequent census of the
children of school age in each district, and
of the school attendance, and are liable to
learn the truants. The parents in the case
in question were arrested and given hear
ing, and being all very poor people were
not fined, or even subjected to costs, by the
Judge. He heard their excuses and admin
istered to each either a warning or sugges-
tions, as the case warranted. The parents
took the reprimands and suggestions in
good part, and no doubt increased school
attendance will follow, In our cities we
should have a census taken of the number
of children of school age, who attend no
schools.
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ner is 10 the r1gEb on entering from oIhlIn-
| field street and at the Third avenue corner.
Two bays face the front corridor. One bay
has two windows for retailing stamps, and
the other has the special delivery, ''city,"
foreign East" and "West" drops
legibly inscribed on brass plates.s -.
STAMP WINDOWS IN PLENTY.
The stamp windows are 80 inches high
by 10 inches wide and are flanked by plate
surmounts each window. Around the
corner are the north" and "south, ''''cir-
culars' and paper" drops. This side of
the screen has three bays of lock boxes
numbered from 1850 to 1920, the numbering
commencing on the Fourth avenue side, on
the end of the corridor with the newspaper
exchange boxes, of which there are 35.
-Four bays on this side are given up to
boxes.
To the left on entering from Smithfeld
street are the general delivery windows
The ladies' general delivery is at the side,
while the mems faces the front. Also on
the front corridor are the advertised letters
and wholesale stamp windows. On the
side corridor, in the order named from the
ladies general delivery, are the windows of
the superintendent of boxes, the superin-
tendent of carriers, and 1.-THE box window,
taking up four bays.
LoTsloF ROOM FOR ALL
The interior of the working room is am
ply commodious for the greatest stress of
business the department may have in many
years to come. 1t extends right through
from the front corridor to Cherry alley
where receiving and shipping annex has
been constructed As Superintendent of
Mails Palmer remarked in showing a DIS
PATCH reporter through the offices, "the
mails come in at one end and are rushed
through the various hands down the length
of the room onto the wagons at the other
end" Each department. is rallied IN to it.
self The general delivery and advertised,
letters section is enclosed by railing, and
the adjacent department, the wholesale
stamps, is likewise fenced in bv railing
eight feet high. From the latter
department access is had to extensive
vaults situated in the basement of the
tower in the rear of the vestibule to the
main entrance. On the other, or Third
avenue side of the tower are the retail
stamp windows, also raiied IN. The clerks
in this section also have vaults in which TO
secure their stock The corner is occupied
by the drop letter tables and tables for COL
lecting. The latter are inside, and the
space is ample for convenient working,
EXCELLENT FURNITURE EVERYWHERE
The furniture in all these Offices is of
the best kind, and the clerks will NOT
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have any occasion
10 find fault with
Uncle Sam for not
seeing to their COM
fort The desks
of Supt. Of Special
Delivery, A. j.
Brush; of the Su-
perintend mt of
Carriers George B.
Young; and Of Su-
perinten d e mt of
Boxes Tn omas W.
U la m, extend
along the Sixth
avenue side from
the general deliv-
cry corner, are
raised above the
general floor and
each is rallied in.
The carriers desks
are ranged in four
rows from front to
rear of the room
and are so in num-
Der. Immediately
In rear Of them
AGAIN are the oity
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IHORNTON BROS. !,
1913 Federal street, Alleghen
Opening

Opening
Wednesday and Thursday, September 80
and October l.
Our new department for misses and chill
dren; choice and exclusive styles in party
and dancing dresses.
PARCELS & JONES,
30 Fifth avenue.
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RAILINGs, counters and shelving.
HAUGH & KEENAN,,
Su 33 and "a Water street.
81 oo-Untn November Lss 80.

II fine cabinets 81, or life-size crayon
for S3 30. Bring the little ones; use ele-
vator AT Aufrecht & Co.'S Gallery, SIG
Market street.
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Every store can and does offer some goods
cheap to bait customers, but there is only
one store that offers everything at bargain.
It's Thornton Bros Cash Store, Allegheny.
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Visitors to the Exposition.

If you want to see crowd of buyers visit
the popular cash dry goods store.
THORNTON BROS,
128 Federal street, Allegheny.
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HarHest Excursions

To principal points in the West, Northwest
and Southwest via the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at very low rates on September
90 Tickets good for return 30 days from
date of sale.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

To go for photographs is Lies gallery, good
cabinets 81 80 per doz; reliable work. 10
and IL Sixth street, directly opposite new
Alvin Theater TTsu
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Your picture free, and handsomely
framed, given away during the Exposition,
by Hendricks & Co., No. IS Federal street,
Allegheny, with every dozen. Cabinets, 81.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

Spanish mahog-
any and plate
glass is freely
used. The pillars
supporting the
upper floors di-
vide the screen
into 2Obays. Each
bay has a purted
transom for light
and ventilation.
The pillars are
encased in richly
wrought W 0Od-
work with square
finished nodded
base, huted pilast-
ers and richly
carved and mDld-
ed capitals. The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

distribution tables three being for papers and
ten for letters. These are constructed so as
to range octagonally around the pillars.
The distributing clerks work inside OF the
octagon, and the carriers take their mail
from the pigeon holes from the outside:
Each pigeon hole is numbered inside and
out, to correspond with the number of the
carriers table. Close by is the observatory,
entirely enclosed and reached from the
basement, from which an inspector can at
any time see what is going on without him
self being seen.
The Superintendent of Mails, l.. E.
Palmer, has a neatly furnished office en-
closed by railing on a platform on the
Third, avenue side. Communication with
the public is had through window. Mr..
Palmer has had his ideas carried out in the
design of his Office fixtures and some of the
cabinets for filing away records, etc, are
extremely ingenious and convenient In
deed, in selecting the equipments for the
various Offices the judgments and opinions
ot the heads thereof have been consulted so
that the machinery for conducting the bust
ness should work as smoothly as possible.
From the drop letter corner right through
to the mailing shed is an uninterrupted
space for the passage of the trucks laden
with mail matter
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25 lbs white coffee sugar. 800. 81 90
241l lbs granulated sugar. ............. 90
30 cans sardines in oil ...... 90
4 sacks good grade family -four. ...... 4 80
4 sacks best Minnesota flour. ..... 3 80
cans California apric0ts .. 90
lbs tea Gin all varIeties). ........... 1 90
3 lbs 5Oc tea (all varieties). ........... 90
s lbs best California pr1nes. .......... 1 90
Is lbs good raisins ......... 1 90
lbs roasted coffee (fresh ground)..... 1 90
lbs chewing tobacco o............ 1 90
lbs Weyman's tobacco. l 90
lbs white clover honey y(strained). 1 90
90 bars family soap. p................... 1 90
Weigh your goods-family scales. 1 95
80 bars soap g cents size) ............. 1 90
lbs dessicated cocoanut. l 90
10-lb kit lake herring. g............... 50
3 cans table peaches (yellow). ......". 25
6-foot step ladder, complete. ......... SO
clothes horse a wings, 6 feet)....... So
gallon New Orleans molasses. .... 80
2-lb can best baking powder in United
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Fall Suitings,
ExpositiOn OFFERING

Trouserings and overcoatings now ready
at Pitcairn's, 434 Wood street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

w: M Greenlee has removed his Adjust
able Truss business from 230 Second avenue
to 2O4 Second avenue, city.
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moulded and finished in three shades of
green. Entrance to the working room is OBJ
tanned through a small door on each side of
the corridor These doors are for private
use only. The basement is reached rom the
working room by stairway. Here are store
closets for supplies, extensive lavatories and
the heating arrangements. The building
will be steam heated, and the artificial light.
ing will be by gas The gas fixtures, all OF
which are brass, are also arranged for cleo
trio lighting but no arrangements for
plant have vet been made. The system OF
ventilation is the same as employed in the
Court House. The air is sucked in, driven
into the air chambers, thence into the rooms
and forced out through the ventilators.
BEAUTIES OF THE ARCHITECTURE.
The real beauty of the architecture and of
the details of the woodwork, stucco and
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VIII De Vacated, ana
before the 1st of 0c-
tober is five minutes
old, e mel e Sans
mail business will be
in full swing in the
new offices. Post
master Mexican said
yesterday that there
would be no ceSsa-
tion of business.
Work will cease at
u o'clock, midnight,
in the old offices,
only to be carried on
at l2:1 o'clock A. NJ,
n few blocks away.
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Removal.

GREAT sale of moquette carpets at Ed
ward Groetzinger's this week,
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GREAT sale of moquette carpets at Ed
ward Groetzinger's this week
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Do You Want to Bu

Do You Want to Buy n Carpet?
Remember our low prices continue. New
patterns just added.
j. H. KUNKEL & BRO,