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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25
HUNDRED POUND RAILS.
The Latest Phase of Pennsylvania Rail-
ways Rage FOR Improvement.

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Special to the jersey Ctr Neos.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25, 1892 The old
standard ninety-pound steel rail, which
has been in use by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, is to be gradually done
away with, and in the future GU the track
of the nam lines The >tandard will be 100
pounds.
On Saturday a me ting of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Maintenance aud Way
Engineering Association will be held in
this city, at which the question of adopt
ing the lew 106-pound rail us a standard
Of the Pennsylvania Company will be the
subject for discussion. This association
consists Of eleven members of the Engi-
neers OF Maintenance Of Way on the four
grand divisions OF the company, che as
sistant engineers of the main line divi-
Sions between JERSEY City and Pittsburg
aud Washington, ana the West Jersey
and Camden d Atlantic railroads. with
the Assistant Chief Engineer OF the
Pennsylvania railroad Company as chair
man.
This association meets at Broad Street
Station. at least once n mouth, to discus
the standard plans and the improvements
Ghought best TO be made on all track
work aad permanent roadway.
The meeting on Saturday will he more
tnan OF usual Importance, as the question
OF adopting everything pertinent to a
change III the weight of the rails will he
thoroughly gone through with. While
only 1000 tons of the 100-pound rails were
ordered. it Is generally believed that here
after all rails for the passenger tracks
Will he of this new weight, which Is TO be
the Lew standard of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. This size rail-. while
pot being necessary at the present tiule,
1t ~ not known how soon it will be, as the
rolling stock and motive power of the
company is rapidly increasing in size and
weight, aud this, coupled with better
facilities in the time made, it is thought
best to adopt such q rail as this for the
standard.
This new rail will be put in use, as soon
as 1t Is delivered to the company GU
several sections of the main line. 1t will
be the business Uf this association to take
up the actual expense of the use, wear
aud tear OF the track and the material for
The road bed. The association, while at
tending TO matters of this description,
also complies valuable information and
standard plans, and recommends the
same 10 the chief engineer for his ap-
prevail. In this way the actual operating
aud the official plans aud standards are
brought in close relationship, and the
value of all can be at once understood by
any one versed in railroad management,
The association was put into effect by the
general manager some few years ago, aud
1t Is practically the only one of its kind In
the United States.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25
MODERN DRESS UF MEN.

A Hideous Combination to Which Wo-
men Yield the Palm of Ugliness.
Il think the ancients exercised vastly
more judgment i'll the manner of wearing
apparel than do the moderns," SAID
Thomas B. Lindsay at the Southern.
Compare the dress of a Roman Senator
with the haberdashery of a member of the
American house of millionaires. The for
uher was graceful, comfortable. pictur-
esque; the latter is the reverse Of all
these. We do not realize how ~incongru-
Gus and 1narJisJic the modern male cos
tune is because we have become accus-
toned to it. A high silk hat. spike-tailed
coat and buggy trousers constitute our
IDEAL OF fauitless attire, yet it is suf-
hc1ent to give an artist an acute
attack of the mulligrubs. Sculptors
avoid it as they would the plague; artists
frequently resort to gross ananchronisms
TO get around a combination which
makes a man resemble nothing created
by the Almighty and destitute OF a single
line of beauty We are ontinu allv lee
turing The ladies GU the subject of dress:
yet they have preserved some of the beau
Ties and comforts of ancient costumes,
while We have sacrificed them all and
are as proud of it as an Indians
Squaw who has traded a buffalo robe
Tor a secondhand pair of soldier pants.
Even the extravaguuces of male cos
during the Middle Ages were in.
hnitely preferable to the stupid garments
or the present. We will probably never
return to the toga Of The Romans or the
gaudy colors OF the crusaders, but the
Daggy trousers, the sDike-tailed coat and
the ldlotlc plug cannot last forever.
Some genius will yet lead us out of the
wilderness of absurdities into which we
have iallen."-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25

ManaGers-John Boyd, Philip Muldoou,
c. P. Smith, Chas. j. Somers. Floor
Conmittee-Thomas K. Wheian. John II.
E Connolly, j. Braden, William Heller,
VI. Day, Joha D. German. William Cook,
James Ellington, p. II. Murphy.
Jonn Ryan, p. II. O'Neill. ID. Rinaldo.
John Heating. Jno. j. McPhiIips, Philip
e. Marin, Jay E German. Thns. Jordan.
Rece ption Committee. Patrick Malone,
naughty, Dauiel Tierpey, Thos. Moran,
NJ. Laverty, Stephen Egan, Johu Smith.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25
THREE STRUCK BY A LOCOMOTIVE.

Carl Upkie, tw~enty-one years old, of No.
1S8 Essex street; Otto Frey. forty-six
years old. of No. 116 Railroad avenue.
and Elistus Braumwald, twenty-seven
years old, OF No. 107 Morris street. had q
narrow escape with their lives this morn
ing. The men are employed as laborers
on the Pennsylvania Railroad. This
morning about half past eight while
working ut East Newark they were stl
10y "a freight engine. Upkie aud Frey es-
capped with but slight injuries notwith-
Standing the fact that they were thrown
about ten feet. b. aumwal1 sustained a
compound fracture of the skull and will
probably die.
The injured men were brought to this
city. Upk'e and Frey were taken home
in the patrol z Braun valid was
removed to the City Hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25
Cause and ER.ct.

He is the most profane man in one of
the biggest insurance Offices. saws the
Hartford Post. Never mind his name:
some of you know him. When a piece OF
paper blows off mis- desk he swear, in a
way that must make the recording angel
Weep. When you near the windows Ia
tie with his profanity you may assume
that his pen is spluttering or that his pen
cl has broken its point. The other day
the fellows in the office heard him say
"Goodnessr' They couldn't imag ne any.
thing small enough 10 Justify 80 mild a
comment, and they all went to ~investi-
gate the trouble. They found that an
immense inkstand on his desk had upset
and utterly ruined his new white flannel
trousers. His ordinary vocabulary had
Jailed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25
Office 10 CREDITORS

Estate OF James Mcdonald, deceased, joseph W
Stroller. adpinistrator Of James Mcdonald,
deceased. Dy order OF the Surrogate OF
HUDSON County, dated june II, 1855. here
by, gives NOTICE to the creditors OF said decedent TO
bring In their debts, demands and claims against
the Astate,of said decedent. under oath or AMIR ma,
ton Within nine, months from the date OF said
therefor against said adm illustrator.
W, sTRoBER
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25

"Pitv a poor orphan. Eirln
"Have YOU no father or mother?"
"No, sir; they was divorced last year."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
THEY ALSO WANT A RECEIVER.
Bay State Lodges of the Iron Hall Appeal
to the Courts.

BosToN, August 27.-The courts of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are to
be asked to appoint receiver for the or
der of the Iron Hall or that part of the
order within the jurisdiction of the
Massachusetts courts. The application
is to be made in the Supreme Judicial
Court, and it is probable the papers will
be presented in behalf of Hyde Park
branch early next week. The petition
for the injunction will be in the name OF
the HYDE Park branch, but will also con-
tain a clause to enable any branch in
the state to come in and be Joined as
party and save the expense Of bringing
additional petitions. One OF the grounds
on which the request for receiver will
be based will be an allegation OF fraud
on the part of the supreme officers in the
management of the funds. There is IN
the hands of the officers of the Massa-
chusetts branches probably from $780,,
900 to 100000.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
A CONDUCTOR NEARLY KILLED.
Dangers of Travel on Rockland's New
Railroad.
Especial to the Press.l

RocKLAND. Me-, Aug. 26.-Lucius E.
Colby, newly appointed conductor on
the Thomaston, Rockland and Camden
Electric Street Railway, met with we'll
nigh fatal accident late this afternoon.
He was standing on the running board of
an up-bound car, in the act of drawing
curtain when his head struck pole with
such force that the shock threw him in
sensible from the car. He was taken into
a house near by and medical assistance
from this city summoned, He recovered
consciousness in about two hours, and
though terribly injured about the head,
will live. The majority of the poles on
which the wires are strung are in danger
GUS proximity to the cars, and despite
every care taken to the contrary, a num-
ber of accidents have occurred. through
Rockport passengers are not allowed TO
stand on the running boards, owing to
the nearness of lodges, poles, etc; An at at
tempt will be made to remedy the dlffl-
Guilty.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
8 A. M. P. M.
Weather Dissertations.

The following are the observations OF
the Agricultural Department Weather
Bureau for yesterday, August 26, taken
at 8 D. M. 10Th meridian time, the OBJ
servations for each station being given in
this order: Temperature. direction OF
the wind, state Of the weather:
Boston, missing; New York, 640, N,
cloudy; Philadelphia, 640, N, cloudy;
Washington, 70o, NE, cloudy; Albany,
62o, N, rain; Buffalo, 64o, NE, rain; De
7Oo. NE, cloudless; St. Paul, 7so, Sc,
elondless; St. Vincent, 72o, W, cloudy:
Huron, OAK, rs, S, partly cloudy
vile, sOo, S, partly cloudy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
rur Wm. 3. SLATER wrecked.

BosroN, August 26..- Tug VIM. S.
Slater, Crosby, Boston, for Fort Point,
Me-, struck onDevirs Back at o'clock
last night and sank. The captain and
crew Of eight men rowed to this city in
their boat The Slater, a two-masted
iron tug, owned by the Boston Towboat
Company, was en- route to take tow OF
barges from Fort Point to New York. 1t
was low water when the vessel struck
and she soon careened and filed. The
men saved theft personal effects. There
was heavy sea on this morning and the
company's wreckers were unable to get
near the tug which is breaking up.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
a YACHT THE BOTTOM.

Seven Drowned, mot Including Those Of
the Crew Who May Have Perished.
DETROIT, Mich, August 26.-It is re-
ported here that the steam yacht Wahpit
went down in Georgian Bay this after
noon. Hiram B. Salty of New York, his
wife and two daughters, Isaac Bearinger,
the millionaire lumberman, and two
ladies whose names are unknown, are
said to have been drowned. 1t is said
the cook and one other person were saved.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
IMPRISONED BY FLAMES.
Welsh Miners POWerIess to Aid Their
Unfortunate Fellows.
A DEATH LIST OF ONE HUNDRED
AND FORTY -ONE.

Fire Followed an Explosion Which Shook
the Ground for Ten Miles Around
Brave Rescuing Parties Unable to
Reach Many of the Imprisoned Men
Two of the Victims Brought Up to
Die.
LONDON, August s6.-An explosion oc-
Cured this morning in the Park Slip coal
pit near Bridyend, Glamorganshire,
Wales, while $50 men were in the mine.
Att this evening rescuing party as
cended to the surface bearing two men
whom they had found near the bottom of
the pit. Both were badly burned and
unconscious. The men were carefully
attended by the physicians, who held out
little hope of their recovery. The doc
tors say the men had evidently inhaled
fire and death must surely follow. Short
ly after the men were brought up the
flames from the burning pit assembled
and set fire to the structures at the pit
head. When the flames issued from the
pit all hope was abandoned. Those who
escaped death in the explosion must GER
tainly have been suffocated or burned to
death. The disaster is one of the worst
that has occurred in the mining district
for many years.
Hopes of Rescue.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-Large numbers of
rescuers are working in the Park slip pit.
Many have been hoisted up exhausted.
Seven miners were found dead who have
not yet been brought to the surface. The
explosion was felt ten miles and caused
tremendous falls of earth, which COM
pletely wrecked the galleries. As the
workings extended 700 yards. it is hoped
some of The miners may be alive.
Death List of 141.
LONDON, August 27.-There is little
doubt the 141 miners perished in the
Park Slip mine. Nearly all were mar
ried.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
WORST IN MANY YEARS.
Seafaring Mems Opinion of the Surf on
the Coast.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., August 26.-A
heavy northeasterly storm commenced
early this morning and has rapidly in
creased. At the present time the wind
is blowing gale. All day long heavy
sea has been on and the harbor was filled
with craft that sought shelter from the
storm. Steamer Baltimore, which plies
between this city and the Isles of Shoals,
made but two trips, remaining at her
wharf in this city tonight. The steamer
Hercules, towing two barges for the Ken
nebec, proceeded as far as Kennebunk-
port, when she was obliged to return to
this port. Seafaring men say that today's
sea along the coast has been the worst
experienced for many years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
Work for six Hundred.

UN1oNTowN, Pa, Aug. 26.-The Co
lumbia Steel Company and its employees,
members of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, reached an agreement as to wages
last night and the scale was signed by
the men, who will resume work at once.
Six hundred men ale affected by the set
tlement.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
A Receiver in Pennsylvania.
ANTl-sNAPPERs ON HAND.
They Do Not Trust the Tiger Which Makes
Tammany Mad.

BUFFALO, August 26.-The following
circular, written on the letterheads OF
Franklin D. Locke, Provisional State
Committeeman and chairman Of the
s'bolters' convention at Albany, has been
sent to the anti-machine leaders in Erie
county:
ERIE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC HEADouAR-
No. 484 Main street, August II.
ing of our county committee next Friday even
ing. August 10. 1892, at 8 O'Clock, when the
committee will be requested to pass upon ques-
meeting at an earlier day than was contemplate
ed is done for the reason that the situation IN
our party throughout the country and state mas
become very serious. -
Cleveland's friends to pursue, and that IS 70
organize thoroughly in every town, Wafd anu
election district, independently OF me so-caiiea
regulars and see to it that our national tlckeC
receives the support to which it is entitled-a
support it certainly will not receive # the cam
pafgn is left entirely in the hands OF MI. Cleve-
lands enemies. Make 1t your business 10 dI-
tend the meeting Friday night.
Yours, etc.,
On the inspiring influence of a tele-
gram from Lieutenant Governor Shee-
han Irregular State Committeeman Au-
gustus +. Scheu gave an extended inter
view. in which among other things he
said: s'It is well known fact that an
understanding was reached and word
was passed along all the lines that all the
differences prior to the Chicago conven-
ton should be buried.
s'The party organization regularly elect.
ed last fall were to have active charge OF
the campaign, and all other active work
ers should fall in line with them. This
was the plain understanding arrived at
under the inspiration and advice OF
Chairman Harrity, ex-Secretary Whit
ney and the various leaders prominent IN
national and state affairs"
Mr.. Scheu declares that the circular
has s'imperilled the success of the Dem
ocracy in the state.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
Great steamer,s Peril.

VANCOUVER, B. c., August 26.-The
Canadian Pacific steamer Empress OF
Japan arrived last evening with 65 saloon
and 165 steerage passengers. On August
10 when 800 miles from Yokohoma lire
broke out in the hold and for some time
the ship was in great danger but the
good Steamship of Capt. Lee and the DIS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27

did not do her any good saw the advertise
ment of CUTIcURA REMEDIES in the paper, and
/ said to my wife, "I am going, to try them"
Mind what say, she was SO thick with sores
Itch! there was no end to it. She had it all
over her body, back, legs, arms. in between her
fingers. She did not have it on her head. But
after taking your CUTIcURA REMEDIES for
two weeks the itch stopped. and in. four weeks
the sores were all gone. enclose her portrait
I am more than pleased with your CuTICURA
REMEDIEs, as they speedily cured my daughter,
and if anybody asks me about your remedies,
will uphold them wherever go.
CHARLES M. CRONEL,
Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
ESTABLISHED JUNE %, 1s62--voL. 81. PoRTL
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.


Page L.
General Telegraphic news
Weather indications.
Page 2.
Saving the Captain.
Sunday Services.
General Sporting News.
Page 3.
Pastimes and Songs That Delight the Children.
Temporary Hobbies.
On Old Battlefields.
Editorials.
Poem; Zion.
Personal and Peculiar.
Page 5.
The Lincoln Club Dine at Diamond Island
Commotion On Elephant Avenue, Peaks Island
Local Aspects of the Iron Hall Affair.
The Coach Parade at North Conway,
Death of Edwin R. Starbird.
Music and Drama.
Deaths and marriages.
Maine Towns.
Story; A Fair Blockade Breaker.
Poem; The Song of Peace.
Adding to Carlton Cottage.
The Vermont Fifth Not Drilled to Run.
Wit and Wisdom.
Page z.
Financial and Commercial.
Marine News.
The Home.
Page s.
A Swindler Wanted.
Results of the Storm.
Harbor Notes.
Reed and Mckinley to Speak at Old Orchard.
Particulars of the Harpswell Suicide.
Sail Boat Capsizes in the Harbor.
Brief Jottings.
Personal.
Page 8.
Senator AIdrichs Speech in the o. S. Senate.
Page 10.
The Great Strikes.
Fashions for Fall.
Consideration for the Help.
Money in Rabbits.
Page IL.
Story; Emelyan's Wife.
Mails at Dog Trot.
Page IL.
All Have Sinned; Rev. Dr. Talmage.
Two Girls Take Drive
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27

The Lancet Urges Them to Keep Cool and
WelI-It Also Wants a Force of Nurses
Especially Trained to Combat the Dis
ease-Quacks and Charlatans Increase
thePopuIar Dread by Their Adver-
tisements of Their Bogus Remedies.
LONDON, August 26.-Everybody is
talking about the cholera and the chances
of the scourge invading Great Britain.
The newspapers are beginning to publish
so-called remedies, every fad being given
full publicity. These, and the dispatches
contained in the news columns of the pa
pers, have tendency to create public
alarm, and neutralize any effect which
might otherwise be produced by the calm
tone of the editorials of the leading jour
nails, in which the advoidance of worry
and apprehension is urged, while the
taking of all reasonable precaution is al
so advised. The Lancet takes a pessi-
mistic view of the situation. This is re-
garded by many as significant fact, as
the Lancet is recognized as a very
weighty authority on all matters of this
kind. It must be admitted, too, that the
Lancet has constantly predicted just
what has occurred in connection with
the present march of cholera. 1t
Uttered Its First Warnings
when the epidemic had hardly reached
sufficient proportions in the East to at
tract general attention. These warnings
have been reiterated at every step of the
disease westward. The true nature of
the disease from which Paris suffered for
a time was also exposed by the Lancet,
and it was largely due to this exposure
that the French Government awoke to
action and succeeded in stamping out the
plague before it had reached a formid-
able stage in the French capital. The
paper now takes the ground that there is
every reason to expect the advent of the
cholera in England. The duty of the
hour is to prepare for the invasion as if
it's coming were assured. For this rea-
son the Lancet advises the immediate
opening of training schools for cholera
nurses. Sunless this training is begun
at once" it says, ''we are likely to find
ourselves in the grasp of the epidemic,
without Staff of Nurses
capable of attending the sick.'' The pa
der declares that the ordinary nurses
cannot deal properly with cholera pa
tients, special training is required.
In giving its reasons for predicting the
entrance of the disease into England, the
Lancet argues that the rapidity with
which the infection has travelled by the
aid of German railways carrying Russian
emigrants to the North Sea, has brought
us face to face with type of the disease
having all the virulence of the Asiatic
form. In former years the situation was
different. The present state Of things is
far more serious than if the disease had
reached point as near England as Ham
burg after longer period of travel and
over longer route. In the latter circum-
stances the malady would lose some of
it's violent characteristics en- route. Now
we are apt to find persons leaving Ham
burg apparently well, and arriving well
in England, insuring their passage of
quarantine, and yet falling i'll immediate
ly afterward.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
ouarrymen Give in.

MILFORD, Mass, Aug. 26.-The Milford
branch of the Quarrymen's Union last
night voted to abandon the existing
strike and to allow the individual mem
bers to secure employment where they
can. This action does not affect the
Stone Cutters Union, which still holds
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
Butter, 3oc. per pound ,
Sugar, sc. i" "
Flour, sc. i" 4"
Eggs, 3oc. /" dozen,

all wasted, if by the use of some
cheap, inferior baking powder the
cake is spoiled. Always use the
"Royal," and good luck will at
tend every baking, with light,
sweet, wholesome and delicious
cake and pastry, and no good
materials wasted in spoiled, un-
eatable food. @
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
Cheers for Mr.. Reed.

DOVER, Me-, August 26.-Fully 5000
people attended the political meeting
here today addressed by Hon. Thomas
B. Reed. Cheer upon cheer greeted
him as he appeared upon the platform.
Senator Dawes Not a Candidate.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, August 26.-The
Republican will publish tomorrow morn
ing letter from Senator Dawes, dated
Pittsfield, August 26, in which he an
no;unces his determination not to be
candidate for reelection as United
States Senator.
Gardiner Republicans Hear Good Speeches
GARDINER, August 26.-The Repub-
licans opened the campaign mere tonlgn1
by throwing to the breeze handsome
flag bearing the names OF Harrison ana
Reid and holding a rally in the opera
House. A large audience was addressed
by Senator Eugene Hale OF Ellsworth
and General Henry B. Cleaves OF Fort
land, candidate for governor. Both gen
tlemen made able speeches, frequently
interrupted by enthusiastic applause.
johnson and Shepard at Bangor.
BANGOR, August 26.-The Democrats
held rally at Norombega Hall tonight.
The speakers were Charles f. johnson
of Waterville, candidate for Governor,
and Henry M. Shepard OF Boston. A
procession of the Cleveland Cadets and
Bangor Band escorted the speakers to
the hall. A big crowd at the hall lis
tened to the issues of the campaign as
presented by the speakers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Jay Eye See paced mile in 2.o64 at
Independence, Ia, yesterday.
All the New York militia, except the
Fourth Brigade, numbering 1000 men,
have left Buffalo, :