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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
One Phase of New York Life,

Perhaps New Yorker rarely notes certain
peculiar characteristics OF metropolitan life
that invariably strike the out-of-town man at
once. The other day one OF these innocents
was taken into Cafe Savarin about 4 o'clock
and was expected to admire the costly sur
roundings. He looked around in an absent
way as he leaned up against Manhattan cock
tail. "But where In thunder are the custom
ers?" he asked. 1t was fact that save the
walters barkeepers, cashiers, etc., we
were the only persons in all the big
place. The stranger had been loafng
around the Hoffman art gallery and been
piloted through Delmonico's earlier in the
day, and had made a similar observation up
town. Those places were also practically de-
serted. He couldn't understand it. Nor would
he fully believe the story poured into his ear of
how business New York led sort of dual life
until he visited the downtown places at mid.
day and almost lost rib or two fighting for a
sandwich. In no other city of the United
States can such conditions exist
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
SOME SUNDAY SMILES.

OF the heroine in one of the latest sensa-
tional novels it is said '1Her eye chained him 70
the spot. - She must have been links-eyed.-
Teras SVtings,
"Did hurt your finger last night, dar-
ling, when 1 squeezed your hand?'' he asked ten-
derly, bending over her to catch the fragrance OF
the rose that an hour before had cost MIN weeks
salary.
ut is of no consequence, dear" she answered
merrily. striving with her Jersey City choir ac-
cents to reassure him. ut Is somewhat dis
figured, but she added quickly, noting the
sharp look of pain that shot over her lovers face,
lit is still in the ring. .''-Ctodk Heu'ei0.
POLITICAL POETRY.
Jones is a man of weight
who ''pays the freight"
And to himself doth say:
eff only had the power,
would crush the Flower
That springs up in my way.n
ssDo you believe in the power of mind
over mattcrY''
~ do. remember in the battle OF Gettysburg
n comrade OF mine had his legs shot OFF and I'll
be hanged II the legs didn't run OF the field as
fast as they could go."-JEd0e.
She-I haven't seen you for five years,
Mr.. Barker. How's that little romance of yours
with Miss Henderson,
Barker Miss Henderson is NO more.
She-What? Dead?
Barker-No; married.
She -Ha! ha! You are still friends. though!
Blrker-No she married me.-LJe.
81 have just wun up against mind
weader. - said simlington.
'.Did you ask him to read your mind?''
Yes but he didn't give me any satisfaction at
all, don't you Know. All he did was TO Wecom-
mend me to lgnatius Donnelly, because he was the
greatest expertin ciphers. ~ Warrington Posr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
AN OBSERvANT DUKE.

The article of the Duke of Marlborough
in the Fortniqhtly Reuieo on American
railways has been widely and approvingly
referred to by a certain portion of the press
of this country. The declaration of our re-
cent ducal visitor that the railways carry
freight and passengers immense distances at
charges unheard of in England has been
widely quoted as an endorsement of our
railway system. The conclusion of the class
of papers who deem it their function to
swear by the corporate mel thods is that His
Grace is a man of much clearer judgment
than they took him for.
1t is somewhat surprising to find from the
article itself that the Duke INDUCED in
some very plain talk thatiby no means dis
credits his jud gment, but which our friends,
the organs of railway opinion, entirely
neglected to quote. He brings out the fact
that it has been common practice to build
railways entirely on bonds, and the shares
are only voting papers," "Not one penny
of the money paid for the latter" he says,
was ever spent on the railway" He en-
larges on the floating of such shares as
gambling counters in a way that confirms
the belief that the ducal mind was able to
appreciate the niceties OF stock manipula-
tion, whether be learned them by costly ex-
perience or not.
The article-a few sentences of which
have found so much acceptance-does not
stop there. 1t gives detailed description
of the manner in uhicn a cIidue of great
spectators proceed to annex o system or
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
A Pittsbureer in Opera,

people are preparing their lists of attraction to
draw the shekels from the pockets of the pu blic
next season. Among the new ones it behooves
your correspondent to notice a favorite and
promising young Pittsburger, Mr.. Charles s.
Clarke. who has three engagements for opera
king Calico" the new opera of MIR. Fred
Solomon, which opens at the Academy of
Music here in June. Mr.. Clarke has an un-
usually fine tenor voice. very sympathetic and
which William Castle delighted lovers of En-
glish opera 20 years ago. MIR. Clarke has been
studying with Prof Sweet. who prophesles
fine success for HIM. For the fall he has an
engagement with Lillian Russell in the Ga
Cigale." The management of king Calico"
is under Mr H. S. Moore, and both music and
hbretto are said to be bright and sparkling.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
MURRAYS MUSINGS.
Where the Sons of Italy Arrive-New York
ers Setting Their Time Pieces-A Brill
liant Tenor From Pittsburg-Responsi-

Where the Sons of Italy Arrive-New York.
ers Setting Their Time Pieces-A Brill
liant Tenor From >P,ttsburg-Responsi-
bility OF Directors.
The daily scenes enacted at the Barge Office
In the reception of emigrants have been fire.
queDtly depicted, but they never fail to impress
the casual observer as one of the most interest
ing novelties of the great metropolis. Few
people leave New York without having paid
the vicinity the honor of call. This sight,"
said Philadelphia gentleman. alluding to the
customary daily influx of our foreign relations,
'fs to me the most remarkable thing to be seen
in your CITY,"
The Barge Office was grinding out Italians
singly, in pairs and by the half dozen, while
their anxious friends who had undergone this
process SIX months or perhaps six years ago
awaited the newcomers from the respectful
distance outside enforced by the police. Every
time fresh batch of aliens was shot into the
country from the Barge Office door there was
general craning of necks among the crowd.
Amid deep silence the new party advanced ex-
pectantly along the line. Then all at once
glad shout from somebody in the crowd an
nounced that the new party was recognized
and way would be quickly made for both to
meet. Men grasp hands and kiss each other
with resoundng smack. Sometimes it Is on
both cheeks with respectful politeness. but 1t
is usually square on the lips, as youth might
kiss pretty girl. And talk? Well, never was
heard such delightful chatter. And the dark.
liquid eyes shine, the bronzed skin is full Of
happy wrinkles, and sometmes-not often
tears of honest joy course down rough cheeks
"Just imagine" remarked the Philadelphian.
Imagine yourself landing thus in strange
country among people of another language.
Your friends may possibly be numbered on the
fingers of one hand and these are at the dock
awaiting you. They may be dear relatives and
yet not know but that you have died on the
passage. or that you did not sail. On the other
hand, they, too. may have vanished from earth;
or, they may not have received your last letter
and would not be looking for you. A thousand
things may happen. And when the cloud OF
uncertainty is swept aside and you and they
meet-well, it is case for hugging and kissing
and mingled laughter and tears"
These Italians are for the most part active
and robust young men, decently clad in un-
patched garments, and are ready and willing TO
60 to work at anything to make a living the
very day after their arrival There are no
Italian loaters or beggars to be seen in the
streets Of New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
CoOPER,s SOUND VIEWS.

The DISPATCH is very glad to note the
practical agreement between itself and the
Hon. Thomas V. Cooper on the subjects of
ballot reform and the constitutional conven-
ton. 1t has often been compelled to differ
from that Republican leader on questions of
State policy. But when he supports our
conclusions for practically the same reasons
which THE DISPATCH and the auburn
haired and long-headed Cooper are agreed
is certain to be right.
The past and future Republican State
Chairman correctly says that the State does
not require any tinkering with the Consti-
tuition so urgently that it needs to hold a
convention to do it. Mr.. Cooper bases his
opposition to the convention on the fear of
eranks. The DISPATCH thinks that cor
porate advocates and jobbers are more to be
dreaded. But whether the danger comes
from crankishness or corporation influence,
it is certain that there is no need of expos
ing the State to the influence of either, in
muddling the present excellent Constitution.
1De view OF the DdllOt uumUcEluR SlausS
of the Constitution in connection with bal
lot-reform, taken by Senator Cooper, is e1-
actly what THE DISPATCH has maintained.
1t is a valuable protection against fraud
and is by no means irreconcilable with thor
ough ballot reform. The numbering of the
ballots can be made strictly secret by seal
ing the lists and folding over the numbered
ballots. until some judicial authority shall
call for the ballots to determine contest
In this way thorough safeguards can be pro-
vided both against fraud and undue infu-
ence; and political workers will, as Cooper
says, be restricted to the Legitimate work of
convincing voters by proper arguments.
Let the present Legislature give the State
practical ballot reform, and let US maintain
the present Constitution and enforce it If
ex-senator Cooper will join the movement
10 enforce the excellent provisions of the
present Constitution, we will gladly welcome
him to the ranks of reform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
PETTICOAT CAMARILLA,
Another Story to Explain Bismarck's Po-
Iitical Downfall.

New York SUM-
There died at Frankfort the other day a
local celebrity named Stolz who in his
younger days had made himself particularly
obno xious to the Prussian Government by
the sharpness of his pen and the pungent
favor OF his wit. or what he was pleased 10
think was wit. During the present week
a friend of the deceased writer has overhauled
the papers of the latter and has discovered
evidence which throws quite new light on
the relations OF the Emperor and his erst-
while chancellor. lt appears that toward
the close of the year 1885 Stolz got wind of an
order of Bismarck to the chiefs of police in
Prussia and the Prussian authorities in Schles-
vigil olstein, prohibiting the exhibition or sale
under any circumstances of portraits of the
Duke Of Augustenburg then candidate for
the throne OF SchleSwig on behalf of his
daughter, the hereditary Princess then a child
of T. Stolz made use of the information to
picture Bismarck as a prosecutor of babies and
an enemy of petticoats generally, and for
doing 80 was banished from bis native city,
when year. later Frankfort fell under Prus-
sian rule.
This hereditary Princess is now the German
Emperors wife. and although she is the most
amiable of women and never NEEDLES with pol
it1cs, 1t is more than likely that the persecu-
tions to which Bismarck subjected her in her
infancy, together with the rest of her family,
embittered her against the eX-Chancellor. The
incident, which has only just come to light.
evoked general comment. corroborating as 1t
does previous surmises rs to the hand the EN-
press had in Bismarck's downfall, coupled with
the Princes own remark that the ''petticoat
camarilla" was not yet extinct.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
EDITORIAL TREASON.

That it is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good is proven by the action of certain
Italian paper published in New York. Be-
fore the New Orleans affair this sheet was
unknown outside of limited circle, and its
editorial opinions were not quoted very
often. All this is now changed. The editor
has seized his opportunity, and displays
great zeal in making the most OF it. His
perspicacity and enterprise would be worthy
OF cornmendation were it not that his indus
try has evidently run away with his dis
cretion. In his desire to write editorials he
has neglected to keep within the bounds of
reason, and only succeeds in writing himself
down as a-hot-head.
His latest effusion is the most objection
able. Though the Misunderstanding be-
tween the two countries has been put in a
lair wsy to settlement by diplomacy, he is
unsatisfed and clamors loudly for war.
War of the most destructive kind and moth
ing else will satisfy this expatriated gentle
man, and from the tenor of his hysterical
remarks it is to be expected that, if fighting
should ensue, he will Immediately join
forces with Italy. This no doubt would
give Italy great advantage over this coun-
try. With such a redoubtable. .msn-not as
a fighter of course, but as director of the
plan of campaIgn-victory would be Italy's,
speedily and certainly.
We wonder il our Italian cotemporary is
8 naturalized citizen of the United States.
Ii he is, he should be informed by some of
his friends thai be is committing treason in
writing his stuff. OF course it has no weight,
either one way or the other; but treason is
q crime that can be committed in intention
even If the deed is not consummsted. For
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
NOTES ON N0TABILITIEs.

The KING OF CoREA is said to be con-
templating a trip around the world, but is
afraid if he leaves the country China will not
allow him to 60 back.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's admirers in Hastings
have made advances to his hair-dresser, offer
ing to buy as much hair as can be cut from the
grand old mars head at sixpence strand.
The SULTAN OF TURKEY is said to be
an expert at the great American game of draw
poker, though where or from whom he learned
it is not known. Our Ministers to his court are
not suspected.
SECRETARY BALFoUR'S sister is an ex-
pert photographer and has produced some very
clever work. She is now in Ireland taking
snap shots at localities made famous BY her
brothers administration.
MRS. ANNIE BEsANr's face would i'm
press even a casual observer with the con-
victlon that its owner was a woman thoroughly
in earnest and with an unwavering belief in
the justice of her own cause.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's presence at
the formal dedication of the Leland Stanford
University is SO much desired that an effort
will be made to arrange the date so as to Sc
euro him during his present tour.
THE Vanderbilts have given up posses
sion of the Herbert mansion. in which it was
expected they were going to give q yearly
series of entertainments 1t has been leased to
the Earl of Severn and Melville.
MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND is said to be
8 liberal purchaser of rare books. She has a
passion for unique bindings, and knows a
genuine article from an imitation. She has
very finely bound and complete collection.
THOMAS EDIsoN's house ut Orange, n.
J., is a beautiful and luxurious one. and is
about ive-minutes' walk from his laboratory.
His family consists of his wife, daughter
about Is years old, two boys and two babies.
REV. GEORGE HOWARD WILKINSON,
Bishop of Truro. is the thirty. first Anglican pre-
late to resign in the last 21 years; which, though
small proportion perhaps, shows that
it is not true Of this class of oice-hod ers that
few die and none resign"
PRINCE AND PRINCESS HENRY OF
BATTENBERG, who were with Queen Victoria
at Grasse recently, wished one day to enter the
hotel by private entrance leading into the
garden, but sentry of the Alpine Chasseurs.
not recognizing their Royal HIghnesses, re-
fused to let them pass. The Prince in vain ex-
planned his station, and it was not until one
of the officials had intervened that the Prince
and Princess were allowed TO enter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
FOR PURIFIcATIoN OF WATER.

One of the principal subjects under dis
cussion by the American Water Works As
ISOLATION during its session at Philadelphia
was the publication of the fluid for drink
ing and manufacturing purposes. DR.. Left
mann, a chemist of that city, read paper
on the "Purifeation of Water by Metallic
Ircn''-a method now used in Antwerp with
great success. He showed that the same or
somewhat similar plan could be used by
American cities. The method is to pass
water. through slowly revolving
cylinder containing metallic iron in
the form of cast iron borings or
steel pinchings, these by the motion
of the cylinder being continually showered
through the water. The estimated cost of
purifying million gallons of water in this
way is 81 A. Simplicity and cheapness
seem to be combined, making it worthy of
attention from those places where water is
impure. The great fault of many of the
plans proposed for the publication of water
is their cost and complications, but if the
Antwerp method is what it is claimed, it is
not open to these objections.
Allegheny and PIttsburg-especiaIly the
Southside-are vitality interested in any
thing that will tend to improve water, and
the Antwerp method might be tried with
good results. For the frst-named place,
with its new water works in contemplation,
the plan seems to be particularly opportune.
The Southside people, also, in their reach
ing out for better water, might with pro-
priety call the attention of their company to
it. Anything that will tend to give pure
water to the people should receive careful
thought.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
NEARLY AN EVEN RECORD,

The record of our political history with
regard to the public verdict upon wanton and
ext-avagant increase of government appro-
priations is quoted forcibly by the New York
Sun. That paper gives figures showing the
appropriations of Democratic Congress in
the decade before the last and the greater
appropriations Of Republican Congress.
The figures for similar showing in the last
decade are also given. In each case the
logical result is declared by the Sun as fol-
lows: "And the Democratic party elected
the next President"
The logic and the figures are equally i'm
pressive; but the Sun omits to point out one
impressive and instructive fact. That is
that the second total of appropriations which
by the grouping cited illustrated Democratic
outlay is found on examination to exceed
the total of extravaganza for which the Re-
publican party was previously defeated.
The disposition of Democratic Congresses
follow along as rather poor second in the
race Of public wastefulness is illustrated In
the most recent case. The appropriations
of the Fifty-frst Congress made sweeping
increase on those of the Fiftieth, and the
Republicans were overwhelmingly defeated
as result. But the Fiftieth Congress, in
its turn, distanced every preceding Congress
in the wildness of its appropriations, and
the Republicans elected the next President
OF late years the function of the two
seems to be wild competition as to which
can waste the public funds most recklessly.
Sometime it is to be hoped politicians will
prove capable of learning that the best way
to maintain party in power is to admins
ter its public trusts honestly and economi-
oollr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
ROBIN RED BREAST SINGS.

What does poor robin sing? What does he sing
''Ching-a-ling, ching.a-ling
Now is spring, now is spring
Trill up, troll up,
My mate I'll call up
Our next to the apple tree soon will cling"
What does poor robin say2 What does he say?
''Cheek-a-leek, cheek-a-leekl
Days were bleak, days were bleak
Clouds are gone, days are sunny;
Bees are out seeking honey,
And soon within our nest four eggs we'll lay"
What does poorrobin do? What does he do?
Still he's singing. still he's singing,
While sweet blossoms from earth are
springing:
''My mate is brooding. my mate Is broodiug;
No intruding, no intruding;
Then with ev'ry springtime we'll come and sing
to you." j. BUCHANAN sIDKBs.
DAYTON, q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19

The operations of the blasrer on the upper
west side of the city were never so extensive as
now, and the explosions of dynamite, accom-.
panied by showers of dislocated rock, re-
vertebrate from block to block throughout that
whole section. When the exposed tenants of
that aristocratic neighborhood see red flag
they do not charge it, like the traditional ami
NAL in a cornfield, but "lay low'' until the
shower is over. If an occasional fragment of
Manhattan Island is hurled through kitchen
window, the maid of all work simply gathers it
up and pitches IL out again. "Drat 'em ~ fully
covers the situation so far as she is concerned.
She ought to be frightened into spilling the
family soup, but she isn't 1t would be a mere
accident II single square of ground can be
found above Sixty-fifth street that is now being
untouched by the blaster. Most of these steam
drilers are boring foundations for expensive
private residences, though here and there along
the great boulevard are whole blocks of exca-
vations for the coming fats.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
THE POWER OF WATER,
What the Generally Manageable Fluid Can
Do Under Pressure.


Do Under Pressure.
New York SUM-
Mr.. Louis Glass. for 16 years the Superintend-
ent of the Spring Valley mine. California,
states that he has seen an 8-inch stream under
31I feet of vertical pressure. move In a sluggish
way a two-ton bowlder at a distance of ~ feet
from the nozzle, and that the same stream,
striking rock of 500 pounds. would throw it as
a man would throw 20-pound weight. mo
man that ever lived" adds Mr.. Glass.
could strike a bar through one OF these
streams within 20 feet of discharge, and
human being struck by such q stream would be
killed-pounded into a shapeless mass" MIR.
Augustus ]. Bowie, of San Francisco, the au-
thor of standard book on hydraulic mining,
estimates that the stream from 6-inch nozzle
under 450 feet vertical pressure delivers blow
of 5SS, 735 foot pounds every second, equivalent
to l,O7O horse power. 1T is absolutely I'M
possible" says Mr.. Bowie, ito cut such a
stream with an ak or to make an impression on
it with any other instrument" Mr.. Bowie adds
that, although never to his knowledge has a
man been struck by such a stream as it comes
from the pipe, several accidents have occurred
where miners were killed by very much smaller
streams at distances of 150 or 200 feet from the
noZzle
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

Colonel James Andrews and c. L. Magee
returned from the East yesterday.
County Commissioner Mercer and W. T.
Espey went to New York last evening.
H. R. Wilson, of Clarion, and E. b.
McDermott, OF Kane, are at the Duduesne.
w. Hickman, of Mt. Pleasant, and G.
w. He'll and wife. of Erie, are registered at the
Monongahela House.
Lew McQuestion, Butler lawyer, and
Barnard Abel, of Titusville, are stopping at
the Seventh Avenve Hotel.
W. W. Patrick, the banker, left last
evening for a short stay In Newport He has
not been well for sometime.
David G. Bryan, President of the Union
Iron and Steel Company, of indianapolis, was
after contract in Pittsburg yesterday.
Robert c. Adams, Esq, Of Scranton,
private secretary to Lieutenant Governor
Watres, Is spending day or two with friends
in the city.
Ex-Congressman James II. Hopkins, OF
Washington, was in the city yesterday. He
says he has decided to return TO Pittsburg to
practice law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19

ACCORDING to the testimony at the
Coroners inquest on the victims of the Mary
land Central disaster. the trestle that gave way
has been unsafe for two years. This puts the
railroad company in bad light. and a verdict
charging neglect on its part is quite proper.
The only thing to do now is to push the case
before the proper courts, and have justice
meted out. It is almost to be regretted that
the persons responsible can only be punished
once. for every time that they allowed train
to cross the trestle since it was first known to
be unsafe they committed crime.