Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
TALK OF THE TOWN.
A Clean Monument-How to Scour Sand
stone-Realism in Berlin-In Defense Of
Certain Shoppers-The JUDICIAL Derby

A Clean Recommendation to Scour Sand
stone-Realism in Berlin-In Defense of
Certain shoppers-The judicial Derby
Town Gossip of the Topical Talker.
THE Soldiers Monument on Seminary Hill
is actually white again, and the sunshine
finds it in a reflective mood. They have been
literally digging away at 1t Tor weeks and
now the only point in the renovation to be
completed is the re-cutting Of the extract
from LincoIn's Gettysburg Grafton which
ornaments the north panel of the pedestal
The monument will present clean face to
the old soldiers who visit it on Decoration
Day. If the reign of smoke Is to be resumed
for good in this valley the monument will be
as black as ever in less than i've years. On
this point Mr.. r. Mcdonald, a very canny old
Scot whom found overseeing the single
stonecutter at work on Lincoln's famous
words, said yesterday: "We have had
to cut Off the surface of the entire
monument to give it clean appearance,
and then, of course, the inscriptions have
had to be deepened. The only way to keep
win be to have it scrubbed with water and
steel brushes every two years.,
"a little soap with the water?"
Heavens, no! man. You can't use soap on
sandstone; ,d II you do you'll o,aess never get 1t
housewife down In the city using soap when
she scrubs her sandstone doorsteps OF win
dow ledges, and wondering no doubt why
the more she scrubs the blacker the stone
stone that will take q hard polish like mar
BILE or granite. THE fault I have to find
with this monument is its mottled appear
ance now that we've cleaned it. That is be-
uniform nuaIitv of sandstone. You see that
panel is dark and this block light, the one
Of what we call biue sandstone and the other
could not have besn verv nrond of his work.
for he hasnit nnt his name or the date of its
erection on the monuments
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cit is well enough to sneer at shoppers of
my sex,n said a lady Yesterday. "who pull a
store inside out to buy spool Of thread,
but let me tell you that in some stores
woman can't expect to get glimpse of the
best stock the new goods and the most
desirable unless she asks for things that are
not in sight, and, as men put it, look at
hundred dresses before she buys one.' Now,
for example, went into o first-class dry
goods store to-day to buy q dress. First of
all, was shown score of dresses that had
been paved over and spread on the
counter for days and days. The
dresses were GOOD enonob. hnt I saw
that thew were shoneworn. and
declined tt, buy, told tfe saieswoman I
wanted to see some other dresses. and INV
husband, whom had persuaded to accom-
pany me this far. therennon declared that he
would not stand BY and torture hardwork-
8 conrsca sn ~ Juss Ii .
cuse the expression-and after INV lord had
gone the safeswoman, who by the way was
just as good natured as she should have been,
seeing tnat sne unaerstooa my purpose,
boTas wSiob bad not hsen n handiaS .nd ~ aI1
and soon made INV choice The nr;ce of
the dress was the same as that of the first
shown to me, and the saleswoman said:
Those dresses you looked at first will be
buy one. For the economy thus effected I
know INV husband will not give me credit
but IL is real as vou,ii admit
p.,,- a. D-,,
On Wednesday night crowd of men who
had been to the May Festival were talking
about the nerformonca IN tbe Hotol Ander,
SON lobby gentleman of German birth
who had been especially valiant in defense
of Wagner and German art and artists, got
into a rather heated controversy with O
over the merits of the rendering
of Saint-Saens' ''The Deluge" that evening.
'You must confess" said the Pittsburger,
tically produced tonight"
Ouslv answered the Gnrman- SWhv in Ber-
lin, when THE Deluge' was given the audi
ence were up to their necks in water for
tnree nours!
A Coign for Sight-Seers.
THE new road which ia being cut from
Ridoa ovenne 10 tha brouv of snn,,norr Mn
Iii ~ e. ~ a., 80 , 49, s..,.-.,.-.
" Min De nhisneu III week or TWO, JuuslnS
from the progress so lar made, ana 1t Will
add O very picturesque drive to the large
number Alleeheny already possesses The
road starts from the corner above the Pres.
byterian Seminary and winds in M, elongated
5 to the base of the Soldiers Monument,
aDout Wnlch II Will clTcle presumably; AS
soon ~ ~ y ~ no 1ouDst VIII pc
strangers the two cities for ~ in "" snite of tbe
great cInnd of smoke Witch oVerben9s u pitts,
6urg the view To he obta from fhe hill
ton comnrehenfIs the most interestin0 mart
of the two cities and a general prospect of
the Ohio Valley and the surrounding hills of
rare Deauty'
A Gratuitous Gibe.
WHEN you are fighting for room enough to
breathe in one of the oyercrowded Pleasant
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