Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-06
MURRAY's MUSINGS.


OnicaSo 10 Like Man on Big drunk
VIII Suffer After the Fafr-A Crowd of
Jostlfn1 worn.r rre.ks of a Mixed
Drink ax.
STAFF coRRhsroNphN'
iohk, Dec 5.-"Tne advantages w
'he people OF any locality by the reason OF
some eAtraneous stfmulant like the "orius >
rair' salo General Hamilton, OF Chicago, on
recent visit here. "are in great measure
onse. oy the undeniable drawbacks fhlia-
:puia is out now fairly recovering from tne
great centennial show. Philadelphia didn't
want any Worlds Fair in hers These things
work a good deal like too ,uncn Hnuid stimu-
liant in a man He nav Tool 1i,,o , m;lIionaire
80 ah. ne may reel IKE niiiiionaito
anu PiAhce "hle ne is loading mp ana car
sohar;n,. Ms -, y"s .b "ei, ous "neh nc 1omes 70
hard. And usn.IIv t,er 49, s,in,uI,nt and
fun he had the night before the harder and
longer It takes him 70 vet over it
.'Yet stimulants to /. certain degree and in
certain cases are not ONLY beneficial TO
man, but to commercial affairs Chicago ia
feeling lust now like A 2-year.old colt Her
small tradesmen have advanced prices from
20 to 80 per cent You can't buy ANYTHING
great or small in Chicago as cheapIy as it
could have been purchased before the tair
boom started. As vet this operates almost
exclusively on her own people With in
creased rents and increased cost of every
article that enters into household consump-
tion it is manifest that the entire popula-
tion must make it up somewhere off of some
body. Those who cannot are already
sufferers. Unfortunately they are supple
mented by thousands of newcomers who
he ava ~ l. IL kl<,x - . =.
good time coming. AS the money spenders
have not come yet, and will not be there for
q year to come, money is scarce and will be
scarcer In tho n,eo tir,a we live y,ra ctical1v
on borrowed money and hone. When the
tide sets our way IL will have the effect of
an imitation of the circulating medium
When IL recedes IL will leave ms stuck and
for n long time stapnatino in the mud left bv
the Overflow
She "a. ths D,o
1t was on the Sixth Avenue Elevated,
and obont tho fosh;o,.hI. shon,;n, borr
- "De ..i
Laoies IN pretty street costumes) )osGeu eacn
other about on the Fourteenth street plat
form, and crowded the gates of the middle
cars in their usual brutal manner. They
alvev. ron,ind ,na &c . soIa,, ,,oh of snort
-. t,u iio VI go c. -
ing gentlemen at prize fight. Only II tney
were really men, instead OF the beSt-dresseo
ladies of New York the Fourteenth and
Twenty.tbird street nlatforms vould be the
dailu scano. of h1ooiro,od arss ond b1oodv
"
iioooo. "oheh, especiaiy "ehpIeu, ouiS
ured women have such an 1nsolent way
with each other. 1t makes me smile, in
wardly al least to see IL: but it is not rare
to 40. th.sa oha,r,,.,r ora.t trr.sIoo,, a 90 oh
" 'oo v"o'o oiAl niAS " . -ooN ~ 80.
otner IN manner tnat from mah u inan
would GU an3 9e al answered oy % olow. =.
w.re tIrad .nd.nantad 20 On hor,,e h., tbe
- "nu ~ "auu ~ ~ roIe W sno
nrss tr"in' IN sne same car anu oy one gate.
As there were some 40 of them to half
dozen of the other sex. and everybody had
from one to dozen parcels they made
very entertaining picture-for mar inside
the car. In the midst of the foremost group
didn't appear very attractive, being de-
cidedly beery and sweaty, but several ladies
in his vicinity looked as if they would like
to bite him. He was there, it is true, though
he probably wished he wasn't. He was
borne along by the feminine crowd toward
the gate quite helplessly, and brought up
chock-a-block between tall young tailor
made woman and somebody's grandmother
right in the narrow opening.
"Both gatesl' shouted the red-faced guard.
But the pressure behind was too great to
permit swapping horses now and after q
momentary m struggle the dress,i,mproyer Of
the slender owner was spurted in like the
cork from ginger bottle. The fat man fol-
lowed and both E,ade dive for the only
vacant seats next to me and behind the
door-the fat man smiling good naturedly,
the young woman mad as a hornet. She
counted her parcels, he placed his basket
under the seat. The aisle was crowded at
once the gntes were slammed in the faces OF
the remaining crowd and the train moved
on. A subdued whimper came from some
place in the near vicinity and motherly
woman hanging by strap declared In
loud voice that somebody was smothering
q baby. Everybody looked around ateverv-
body else irguiringly and smiled: All but
the taiior-made woman. She eyed me sus-
The fat man looked out OF the
nrnver More Wbimnsrs and half smoth.
cred cries. The people began to laugh at
me;
piesuise, = =. siI you an snix yoa az Iy Wy
sava ge,v at me
nIt's q ventriloouist," whispered another
lady to the alarmed matron. Then both
looked at me sharply and everybody else
lookea IN tne sane uirecslom; gent,eian d f,.n
being amnsad at other peonIe beoan n to feel
yery uncomfortable myself.
"1t's only a dog. madam" said the fat
man, apologerically.
~ ~ESioentiy, snaPPee tne tailor-Inaue M
The uiaole vas not subdued Neitber gas
the color in nv face. Everybody else
seemed to enjoy the thing immensely. By
,lls tlme we were az Iwentyel9ntn street.
was 20 get out at the next statlon anu was
ad OF H.
Ialnt hlm, maoam, puI IN the Iat man
umDrng under the seat as got mp, ITS my