Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-23
people runs across well-known faces at every
turn.
Pittsburgers Thick in Chicago.


Over on Lake street Louis Marks, who
used to hold forth at Tunnel street and
Wylie avenue, Pittsburg, has opened place
which runs all night, and accommodates the
fair sex as well as the boys.
''What difference there is between this
place and Pittsburg,'' he said the other day.
There you wouldn't dare to let woman
aSme into your saloon. Here it's all right.
TIL ere you wouldn't dare to sell bottle of
pop on Sunday: here we do business on
Sunday the same as the rest of the week.
They're entirely too straight-laced back
there
The incoming Republican Mayor, by the
way, has begun a policy with reference to
saloons which is the very opposite to that
which prevails at Pittsburg. Henceforth
every applicant for license whose character
for peace and order is vouched for by the
Police Department, gets his license, no
matter whether his saloon is in the residence
district or not. Mayor Washburne takes
the position that he has no discretion in the
matter, and hence that all rsmonstrances
will be mavailing. In thisi respect he
differs from his Democratic predecessor,
who, on being satisfied that proposed saloon
in a residence district would be a nuisance,
refused the license. Sooner or later Mr.
Washburne's course is bound to create
great uproar among the most orderly ele-
ment Of the community.
Plenty of Coke in Prospect.
The coke famine from which the manu-
facturers of Chicago have been suffering for
the last few weeks is about to end. To-day
the first shipment of Connellsville coke
came in. That is, the first shipment for this
general market, for the Illinois Steel Com
pany, which is large stOckholdcr in Con-
nellsviIle coke works, has been receiving
small shipments right along ever since the
first resumption of work.
The Inconvenience caused bv the lack of
fuel has been considerable. The Calumet
furnaces in South Chicago have been obliged
to shut down, but business was dull any
how, and the loss has not been great from
their. idleness. The Illinois Steel Com
pany has been running a part of its furnaces
right along, drawing on the large supply of
coke which it always carries and filling it
up from what shipments it has been able to
obtain. Numerous smaller establishments
have been obliged to resort to West Vir-
glnia for coke, and some of the POcahontas
coke from Southwestern Virginia has come
in, but not enough to cut any figure.
Whether the West Virginia coke workers
will be able to hold on to the new patrons
they have obtained during the strike, re-
mains to be seen. The opinions of coke men
on thai point vary considerably. If the
broker with whom you happen to be talk
ing is interested in West Virginia coke, he
will say that that article has made great and
permanent gains. From Connellsville man
he very opposite statement will be OBJ
.ained. James w. Ellsworth, who deals
more largely in Connellsville coke, per-
laps, than any other broker, said this after
noon that the strike could have no perma-
lent effect on its hold on the Chicago mar
let
What Might Have Happened.
'FWest Virginia coke has been resorted to
'nly as a makeshift. 1t would be different
t the workmen had succeeded. If the cost
# producing Connellsville coke had been
increased by an increase in miners wages
md an eight-hour day, it would, be doubtful |
whether it could hold its own in this mar
let against the competition of West Vir-
,inia coke.
81 was in Pittsburg last Thursday and |
he outlook then was very encouraging. |
)n that day they had shipped 800 cars to |
POINTS west of Pittsburg, most of which /
anne to this market. A shipment of coke |
as come to Chicago to-day, the first for the |
eneral market since the strike began. The |
hipmepts will keep on increasing grad
ally until things will be as they were be-
1re the strike"
The price of Connellsville coke is So per
on to furnacemen, and 81 80 to dealers.