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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
The Colonel Was Excused.

The Confederate soldier had his fun, with
his short rations and pay in inflated cur
rency, says the Chattanooga Times, and the
"Yank" was not always the subject The
writer Of -Four Years in Rebel Capitals" 1"
graphically illustrates the point:
Refreshed inwardly and outwardly, the
men would march down the street, answer
ing the waving handkerchiefs at every win
dow with wild cheers. Nor did they spare
any amount of chaff to those luckless sta y
at-homes encountered on the streets.
"Come out'r that black coatI" II know
ye're conscripv Don't you want'er go for
a sojer7n "Yere's yer chance to git yer sub
tertoot!'
These and similar shouts, leveled at the
head of some unlucky wight, brought roars
of oflaughter from the soldiers, and from the
victims unsympathetic friends.
At one house pale, boyish-lOoling youth
was noted at window with lady. Both
energetically waved handkerchiefs, and the
men answered with a yell; but the oppor-
tunity was too good to lose.
"Come right along, sonny!" was the cry.
''The lady'n spare yer! Here's little mus
kit fur vel"
"All right boys!" cheerily responded the
youth, rising from his seat. "Have yOu got
"a leg for:me, too?" and Colonel F. struck
the shortest of stumps on the window seat
With one impulse the battalion halted,
faced to the window, and came to present"
as their cheers ratified the windows of that
block. That chord had been touched by
which the toughest soldier is ever moved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
THE TREASURY STATEMENT.

The new form of Treasury statement
produces the usual amount of discussion
in political organs. The Democratic news
papers represent it in alarmist colors, the
Republican papers speak of it in the high
est terms, and that portion of the public
which has learned to estimate the utter
ances of organs at their true worth will
understand that the truth lies somewhere
between the two.
A specimen Democratic attack says
with regard to the indiscreet claim of
Republican organ that there was "a big
Treasury balance" "This balance was
s14s, ,974, sos, including gold reserve, frac-
tional silver and deposits in national
banks. As these items, none of which
are properly included in a cash balance,
aggregate S145, 1886, PA, the actual balance
was just So, 5S9, ,564, which can hardly be
considered very big even by the warm
est admirers of the administration.
This is not very bad case Of exaggera-
ton for an opposition organ, but it is
somewhat exaggerated. The fractional
silver and deposits in national banks
properly belong to the cash balance. They
were excluded by Secretary Manning for
the express purpose of making the surplus
appear small; but every bank in the coun-
try would treat such items as available
cash. As to the gold reserve, that is un-
questionably cash; but the theory that it
should be held separate is given much
force by the absurd discrimination of the
law which makes the Treasury store dol
lar for dollar of the coin certificate, while
it retains only about 30 per cent of re-
serve for the legal tenders
A Republican view appears in the claim
of an organ that the new form of state
ment is virtually that of ex-Secretary
McCulloch and of all the heads of the
Treasury Department previous to Secre-
tary Manning;" that ''the new departure
was devised for Democratic partisan pur-
poses and gave no better knowledge of
the Treasury's condition than did the old
system" This is pure partisan dogmatism.
The older form of statement was adopted
when the Treasury had no surplus or gold
reserve; and it is not wholly without sug-
gestion of an approach to similar condi-
ton that the form of statement is re-
turned to. Secretary Manning's form
tried to minimize the showing of the
surplus not for partisan purposes, but in
the interest of Wall street. In other re-
spects it gave a clearer analysis of the
condition of the Treasury than the old
statement ever did.
The truth is the Republican organs are
endeayoring to cover up the fact that the
change is due to desire to conceal the
immense diminution of cash resources to
be shown by comparison under the re-
cent form. And in their anxiety to en-
large on this result of the extravaganza of
the late Congress, Democratic organs are
representing the condition of the Treas
ury much worse than it really is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
RICH MEMS QUEER FANCIEs.
A Wealthy New Yorker Who Captures Dis
carded Newspapers in the Hotels.
No,u vorb TaIa0rar,

A Wealthy New Yorker Who Captures Dis
carded Newspapers in the Hotels.
New York Telegram.l
"Do you see that man?" asked Detective
Phillips, of the Fifth Avenue Hotel last
night as tall, well-dressed man, with full
grayish beard, entered the reading room and
took a seat near a man who sat reading a
newspaper. "He's after that paper; just
watch him." A few moments later the man
who was reading tossed his newspaper upon
the table and sauntered out of the room.
He was hardly out of sight when the tall man
seized the paper, folded it carefully and
placed it in his pocket, which was already
stuffed with other papers, and then moved
over to the other side of the room, where
another man also sat reading q newspaper.
"He'n get that other paper before he
goes" said the detective, laughing.
"Who is he," asked the reporter.
"I don't know, but he's a gentleman and
appears to be q man OF some means; at least
he always dresses we'll and is very quiet in
his ways. But that Is just hobby of his.
He has been coming in here for long time,
generally about 10 o'clock in the morning
and again in the evening. He never says
anything but just hangs around the read
ing room and picks up all the papers he can
get his hands on. He won't take n paper Off
the file and never buys one or takes one OF
the stand, but as soon as anybody lays pa
per down he grabs it and generally goes
away with his pockets full.
Another crank who comes around here"
went on Mr.. Phillips, "just marches up and
down in front of the house watching for
cigar stubs. He's there every morning and
watches the smokers closely. 1 have seen
him when his pockets were full of stubs.
What he does with them don't know. His
name is O'Brien and he lives over on Second
avenue somewhere and has O barrel of
money, am told. Strange, what curious
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
ENFORCEMENT THE NECESSITY.

Touching comment of the Boston
journal that if the Illinois Legislators have
been able to draft an effective statute
against trusts, they have done more than
any legislative body before them has been
able to accomplish, the New York Times
sarcastically remarks: HAS the Journal
forgotten the great antitrust law passed
by the Fifty-frst Congress? Or does it
wish to admit that this law is worthless?"
All laws will be equally Ineffective if no
attempt is made to enforce them against
powerful and wealthy viOlators. In this
respect the Illinois and the United States
statutes stand on the same footing. If no
one tries TO enforce them they will be dead
letter legislation. 1t is also pertinent that
If a sincere and vigorous attempt is made
to enforce both they will be found ade-
quate to drive nine-tenthS of the monopo-
lStic combinations out of existence.
This necessity of honest enforcement is
universal. The Times need not go SO far
as either Washington or Illinois to find an
example of a great trust declared illegal
by the highest authority Of the State, after
which all the steps of the legal authorities
have been carefully timed to suit the con-
venience Of the combination in evading
the law,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
THE PArr1soN POSSIBILITY.

The questions presented by the frequent
mention of Governor Pattison as a Presi-
dental possibility are beginning to agitate
the Democratic mind of the State. Out
side the State the idea of Pattison is only
taken as a not wholly unsatisfactory
deT'pter resort; but to Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis the thought has more immediate i'm
portance, both pro ct con.
Mr.. Harrity's declaration on the subject
the other day no doubt expressed the
official Pattison attitude. That is, to rec
ognize and support Cleveland with mod
erately well defined hope Of coming in as
residuary legatee of the Cleveland boom.
This is clearly the proper course for Patti
son, if his ambition were imperative and
controlling. 1t is an essential part of the
way to realize whatever Presidential posi-
bilities may be in store for him to maintain
the Cleveland cause until it is evident that
the quarrel with bill makes that an i'm
possibility and then to administer on the
estate.
But the Erie Herald will not be content
with any such contingent abjuration of
Presidential hopes by Governor Pattison.
II L
with having thrown away its weight in
national conventions by supporting the
wrong candidate, and gives us the aston
ishing information that, if Pennsylvania
had supported Hancock in 1868 he could
have been nominated and elected. The
moral Of this remarkable piece of history,
if true, would seem to be what Pennsyl-
vania Democrats might do if they sup
ported their own man for President; but
after triumphing over the crushing elec-
ton returns of that year with an off, the
Herald proceeds to real argument by say
ing that if Governor Pattison should be
elected to the Presidency, he would have
to turn over the Governorship of Pennsyl-
vania to q Republican Lieutenant Gov
ernor. Furthermore the Herald alleges
that the Pattison boom is being worked up
for trading purposes.
All of which indicates that there is
wide variety of opinion within the Demo-
cratic ranks. 1t is true that Governor
Pattison, if elected President, would have
to turn over the Governorship of Pennsyl-
vania to Republican But possibly the
Democracy, and especially the Democracy
of Pennsylvania, may conclude that the
Presidency is. more important than the
Governorship, and if he should appear to
be the most available man, would put him
into the race 1t is pertinent that even if
nominated he would not be required to
surrender the Governorship unless he was
elected President
As to the assertion that the Pattison
movement is intended for trading purposes,
the Harrity declaration leaves nothing of
that theory. A candidate who will per-
NIT his name to be used only as a second
choice is not available for trading. Not
withstanding the arguments of the Erie
Herald the Governor remains Presidential
possibility a possibility it is true,
but by no means unpleasant one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY, JULY IA. 1881.
ASSESS 1T DIRECTLY.

The theory that the officers stationed al
the crossings of traction lines should be
appointees of the police authorities and
subject to their control is an eminently
correct one. But the proposition that the
city shall pay their salaries and assess the
companies license tax of $50 per car to
meet the expense contains several grave
defects.
The two principal objections to this
method have been already stated. They
are, first, that the plan affords no guaran-
tee that the license tax will equal the ex-
pense. The assertion has been made that
it will yield about half the cost Next, it
evidently bears inequitably upon the COM
panieS. To assess companies whose lines
have been so laid out as to require only
three or four cornermen the same license
per car as those which have been located
seemingly with view to multiplying the
number of dangerous crossings, is obvious
injustice.
These objections can be met consistently
with the fundamental purpose of the
license proposition by the simple course of
assessing the cost of the policemen d.
rectly upon the companies. Let the city
provide by ordinance for stationing officers
at every crossing where traction lines in
terseCt each other; let these officers be ap-
pointed, paid and covered by the city;
and let the salaries of each be collected by
dividing the amount among the companies
using the crossing where he is stationed in
proportion TO the average number of cars
each takes past that point This will give
the city full control of the officers and
make the companies pay the cost in exact
proportion as they have created the dan
GerOus points.
The question of a license tax on cars as
a source of revenue in return for the fran
chises granted traction companies may be
taken up and settled by itself. But in
meeting the expense of providing safe
guards rendered necessary by the creation
Of the lines, the common sense way is to
levy the cost directly on the companies in
exactly the amount that the case requires.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14

rivers was furnished by the dominion of
the slave-traders from Stanley Falls up
the river. If the Arabs have been con-
clusively defeated so that they are forced
to contine themselves to civilized trade,
the area over which the Kongo Free State
extends its civilizing influences will be
vastly enlarged. Such an extension will
not only afford the cheapest transportation
from the central lake region of Africa, but
it will permit trade to pass through a
country that has been opened up on the
principle of unselfish civilization rather
than through the regions of East Africa
that have been seized simply for the pur-
poses of.territorial aggrandizement.
If the Arab attack has led to this result
it will be the most fortunate thing for
civilization in Africa that has happened
since Stanley's exploration of that great
river
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

S. w. Bowles, manager of the Beillin
Iron Bridge Company OF Chicago, n. Mon
sonat President of the Columbus, Akron
and Cleveland road, and Joseph seep, the
Standard Oil man from Tttusville, are
stopping at the Duquesne. Mr.. Monsonat
said he was in the city on private business.
He lives in Columbus.
Ex-Manager Mcdonald, of the Pittsburg
and Western road, returned from Indiana
last evening. He is son of ex-senator
Mcdonald, who died a short time ago. He
was called home by the illness and death of
his father.
Rev. DIR. A. D. Corcoran, of Louisville,
q relative of Father Ryan, the poet-priest of
through the city last evening bound for
New York.
Miss Ripper, Miss Atwater, Mrs. Scott
and Howard Smith, employees IN the offlces
of the Lake Erie road, returned yesterday
from trip to Star Island.
HW. Cole, of Akron, and E. G. Wright,
superintendent of the American Pipe Line
Company ut Washington, are registered at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Miss Emma Bingham, daughter of Hon.
John A. Bingham, ex-Minister to Japan, is
visiting Miss Minnie Sharon, on North ave-
nue, Allegheny.
j. C. White and daughter, of Morgan
town, and j. X. P. Hall, prominent poll
tician from Ridgeway, are at the Mononga-
hela House.
George R. Riddle, Robert S. Riddle and
Hiss Mary A. Riddle, of Denver, are visiting
George d. Riddle, of North avenue, Allie
gheny.
John W. Linck, of Cincinnati, special
agent of the United States Treasury, was in
the city yesterday.
Collector Warmcastle and Immigrant In
spector r. d. Layton returned from Wash
inyton yesterday.
Prof Maloney, of Allegheny, went to
Toronto yesterday to attend the Teachers
Convention.
General Superintendent Frank Sheppard
inspected branch of the p. V. G. road
yesterday.
Colonel Willis J. Hulings, Of Oil City,
took breakfast at the Monongahela House
yesterday.
Budd Doble, the noted jockey, will be at
the seventh Avenue Hotcl this morning.
Miss Scott, daughter Of James B. Scott,
left tor New York last night
Charles Horste and family left for Niagara
Falls yesterday.
]. P. witherow went to Chicago last
evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
FORTUNATE FOR CIVILIZATION.

Students of the African situation will be
glad to learn that the petty war which the
Arabs on the upper Kongo have been
waging on the Kongo Free State has re-
suited disastrouslyto them. 1t is now evi-
dent that the mistake which Stanley made
was in supposing that Tippu Tib could be
changed into a friend of civilization by
making him Governor of Stanley Falls.
Having proved the contrary by his own
acts he left for the coast to prosecute his
suit against Stanley, and his subordinate
chiefs commenced hostilities against the
Free State, with the gratifying result that
they have been driven from Stanley Falls
and compelled to sue for peace.
This is gratifying news. 1t has long
been apparent that the firm establishment
Of civilized stations on the upper Kongo
would enable communication to be opened
with the UyanZas by the Aruwimi and
with the Tanganyika by the Lualaba. The
obstacle to this extension of trade by those
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
FAME'S FAVORED FEW.

MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., has settled
down resignedly to the conviction that rheu-
matism has made her a cripple for life, it is
said.
LYMAN BRYANT, the old sexton of the
quaint town of Holden, Mass, now dying at
the age of 91 had during his 40 years of office
inferred 999 persons.
EX-GOVERNOR AMEs is one of the richest
men in Massachusetts,, and likewise one of
the plainest in attire and manner. He wears
an inconspicuous business suit of quiet col
oring and his head is covered by O broad
brimmed, Quaker-like straw hat.
Mr.. CLINTON SCoLLARD, an aspiring
poet, has been getting himself into very hot
water by venturing to assert in one of his
poemlets that "dandelions dot the ground in
June" The critics say they don't, and he
had no business to assume that they did.
PETER REICHENSPERGER, the senior
member of the Center party in Germany
recently celebrated the eighty-frst anniyer-
sary of his birth. For many years Reichen-
sperger was almost as powerful in the coun-
ellis of his faction as the late DR.. Windthorst.
He has been 43 years in parliamentary life.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, poet, editor and
Orientalist, is q rather short, well-built man
of GO, with smooth gray hair, carefully
parted, strong nose and high forehead.
His beard is thin and gray, his complexion
fiorid and his eyes aro blue. He has been
for 80 years in the service of the London
Telegraph.
THE Marquis de Leuville is defendant in
an odd suit. He arranged with Henry Rem
ton in 1859 to manage his establishment
known as the Institute of Heraldry and Art,
and then, says the latter, wrongfully dis
missed him. Renton claims fS00, and the
Marquis counter claims for damages to his
business through the plaintiffs gross mis-
conduct and neglect of duty"
SEBASTIAN BRUNO, whom one authority
calls the greatest humorist of modern Ger
man literature" was q conspicuous Austrian
journalist, who made so many enemies in de-
fense of the freedom of the church that he
sank into poverty. A Dominican monk OBJ
tanned for him q small pension, and he has
just retired to end his days in the hyspice
for the aged at Weinhaus.
SIR WILLIAM GoRDoN-CUMMING is not
the first intimate associate of the Prince of
Wales who has come to grief at the card
table. Some time ago another pal of the
Prince, Walter Harbord, was caught cheat
ing at cards. Though brother OF Lord Suf-
field and a Major in the Seventh Hussars, his
family influence could not save him. He
was cashiered from the army, expelled from
the clubs and universally cut.
JULES VERNE published his first novel
when he was S6 years old. Since then he has
written an average of two books a year, and
is now the author of 90 volumes of more or
less fascinating interest. Writing a book
with Verne is a work of prodigious toll. Be-
fore putting a single line to paper he men,
tally prepares all his material, makes his
maps, lays out his routes and reflects upon
his work for months. Then when the story
has been written, he corrects it at least ten
times before giving the final proofs to the
RrinteE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
THE PRESIDENT DECLINED
An Invitation to Visit Atlantic City Some
Time During the Season.

Time During the Season.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CAPE MAY, N. j., July 13.-This morning
delegation of residents and visitors of At
lantic City arrived here to invite the Presi-
dent to visit that place at time this season
when it is most convenient The committee
was headed by Mayor Hoffman, Postmaster
Albertson, Postmaster johnson, of Balti-
more; General Daniel Hastings, of Pennsyl-
vania; Marshal William r. Leeds, of Phila-
delphia, and others. Mayor Hoffman and
General Hastings were the speakers for At
lantic City. The President replied that he
could not accept their kind invitation owing
to the numerous invitations which he was
daily receiving and declining to visit other
cities. His time, he said, was taken up for
several hours each day, and he came for
rest. He said he was not in any way q sick
man, but, nevertheless, needed the rest,
having worked very hard since his journey
West.
Secretary Halford to-day opened his office
at Congress Hall. The President was busy
most of the day dispatching business and
examining applications for pardons for
offenses against postal and polygamous
laws. Warren F. Edstrom, of New York
sentenced March "A, 1890, to two years i'm
prisonment in Erie county for embezzle-
ment of letters, had his sentence commuted
to one year and four months The Presi-
dent took no action on the Easton, Pa, post
office matter, as he did not see d reason for
change at present. Postmaster General
Wanamaker and Russell B. Harrison left
to-day,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14

IT is interesting to find out that our
friends, the Philadelphia editors, who were
a short time ago calling for all the fnforma-
tion obtainable about the keystone Bank
plunder-which, Of course, meant that the
information should be got from Bardsley or
Marsh-are now pitching into that unfortu-
nate Ledger man who got Bardsley to talk,
and then had the interview suppressed until
the investigation brought it. The Times &C.
cuses him of letting an unreliable criminal
vent his spite on different people, while the
Press arraigns him for a violation of the con-
fidential conversation with which Bardsley
favored him. The two accusations do not
agree very well; but the editors are united
in abstaining from any more calls for the
bottom facts.