Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-22
A LOOK AROUND.

A wELL-KNowN Pittsburg broker and
banker, who is in New York, has written to
an associate in this city. saying: cit now
turns ont that the big street railway deal in
Brooklyn which was closed last week In
spite of the Brooklyn papers protests, was
engineered to success by H. Sellers Mckee
and Thomas H. Bakewell. They have
secured one OF tho finest street railway
properties in the United States. Through
their purchase OF the Atlantic Avenue Rail-
way from Deacon Richardson they have OBJ
tanned between fifty and sixty miles OF well
patronized railway and it is said that they
Will before long obtain considerable more.
They now control the Atlantic avenue.
Bergen street. Fifth, Seventh and Ninth
avenues, Fifteenth street, Sackett street,
and Concord street lines. 1t is said that
they paid something over $4,000, 900 for the
plant and will spend $3.O00000 or $4,000, ,o6O
in equipment and new electrical facilities
Tor rapid transit. The newspapers In Brook
lyn and especially the Eagle, have been
loud in denouncing the sale to foreign capt.
talists and have done all they could to pre-
vent the contamination of the transaction,
but they have not had any success. 1t is
understood that the pool which has made
the purchase consists of Vermilyea & Co.,
and Seligman & Co., OF New York, E. W.
Kee and Thomas n. Bakewell. They have
made fine thing OF it and will no doubt
turn O very handsome profit out of the deal.
The sale was concluded on the 10Th of this
month and the new owners are to take hold
at once. This means that all the street
railways of Brooklyn have been absorbed
but one outside of the Brooklyn elevated
SYSTEM"
with D., y,I
other cities rs well as the, Birmingham line,
gives the McKee-Clark party a very hand
some amount of street car property. 1t is
more than suspected that there have been
overtures to combine the Mckee outfit with
the greater holding of the Widener-Elkins
party, but there is scarcely any prospect Of
their coming together.
THAT is an odd story which comes BY
telegraph from Boise City, Iowa, and which
appeared in The DISPATCH of yesterday con-
cerning Nellie Logan lost on the plains in
snowstorm with her dog. She was searched
for during two days and finally was found in
a sheep pen where she had been kept warm
and alive by the warmth of the sheep. "How
did she git thar? Angels?' Is this not
Little Breeches'' over again with venge-
ance7
"DID you ever see pair of eyes that
would lift your hat Off" said a very prosaic
Pittsburg man yesterday in the course of n
talk about works of art "Well, 1 did last
summer. You fellows know don't go much
on art and pictures and that sort of thing. l
don't mind confessing that 1 have always
thought pictures were little bit better
than wall paper, but not much unless they
were very good. I knocked around in
Europe some last summer, but 1 didn't
bother about the picture galleries except
the war things in Versailles. One day in
Dresden was feeling bored and went to
the picture gallery to the Sistine Ma
donna 1 had heard so much about.
l didn't know where I was and
didn't ask, and presently 1 came
across the picture in q room all by ITSELF I
didn't know what it was, but I soon saw
about dozen people were looking at it, and
all had their hats of and were talking in
whispers. First 1 noticed the two little
chaps leaning on the window sill and then
the old man. Then / caught sight
of the Madopna's eyes, and how it happened
can't say. but of came my hat and num-
bled Il beg your pardon Why those eyes
look right into your soul and there's some
thing so pure and so religious
about them that that room beats any
church l ever was IN for making you
feel mean and like turning over a new leaf.
must have stood there about quarter of
an hour without making move and then
an old woman, think she was the oldest
woman in the world from her looks, came
up on her way out. Sine looked at my face
and then at the picture and then she said
something in German. 1 couldn't under
stand, but a young man said in English:
She says Mein Herr will carry those eyes in
his heart forever and nodded and 'pon
my word think she was right"
IF you want to get an idea of the number
OF people who are going East to the football
game, just try to get berth for New York.
A CERTAIN young gentleman gave pre-
nuptial supper to dozen male friends the
other night. At a given signal a dozen mes
senger boys appeared with a dozen huge
bouquets, and boy asked each guest for the
address of the lady to whom he desired to
send the flowers. That sort of a dinner
should be sort of consolation affair to the
uninvited ladies. WALTER.
MACUNE GIVEN The LIE.