Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
A LOOK AROUND.

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| together the better they understand each
other, and if they are good, conscientious
| players they will improve steadily as team.
! There have been many difficulties to over
come, but think by next season we will
have things in good shape. Our chief weak
ness has been our field manager, and we
have been trying to get nrst-rate man. To
show you how much effort we have made in
that direction let me tell you that we have
offered "a high as $4,000 to man to come
here and take charge of the team. We have
| not succeeded in getting him, but we will do
| the best We can in that direction. Our club
| stood better after the first half of the season
than it has stood for several years.
"WE have broken several ofthe club hoo
| doos For instance, for three years we did
not win a game on the Boston or Cleveland
| grounds, and this year we have done both
| In spite of bad weather we had within 900
! as many people at the first 42 games this
| year as we had all the season last year. We
| have done better than any club in the
League. We should have made $4,000 this
| year, but our salary list began at q $4,000
| rate instead Of SIS, 900 as it should have done,
and besides we have paid visiting clubs
s12,0O0 more on home games than they have
| paid us on games abroad, which is a good cri.
terion Of the average difference III attend
ance here and elsewhere
GAN important change will be made in
our contracts with players this fall" con-
tinued Mr.. Temple. "All our contracts will
be for twelve months instead of seven. The
reason for this is that number Of good men
are fmprovident and at the end Of the sea-
son don't have more than 500 coming to
them in pay and there are five months of
winter before them during which they must
hustle to make living. Many of them 20
to tending bar or doing something else
which has decidedly bad influence upon
them. Our new system will be based upon
monthly payments. Say man gets %. 400 q
year. For six or seven months he can
draw say a larger proportion of his pay than
the balance Of the year, but he will
get at least 500 q month during
the time be is not actually at work for MS.
Several of the other clubs will adopt the
same idea, but we do not care whether they
do or not. for it will 60 with us. think that
next season we will be in position to hold
our own and stand well up among the lead
ers right through. We Will have hustler
at the head OF things and the Pittsbure peo-
pie will see better average ball playing than
they ever have"
THERE is good deal of buncombe afloat
about this country being ruled by foreigners
who cannot vote. The difference between a
man who cannot vote and does not try and
one who can vote but does not is the answer
to any political conundrum which may arise
on this point. 1t is not bad idea that sug-
gested by Attorney General Miller to take
the franchise away from men who do not
use it after reasonable period of probation.
The street car manufacturers are SO busy
they cannot half I'LL their orders Brill, Of
Philadelphia, and the St. Louis Company
are both months Dehindhand. A number OF
cars were promised to the DuQuesne Com
pany by the st. Louis makers at the first of
June, but they have not arrived yet. The
Pittsburg Traction Company ordered nine
double deckers from Brill to arrive early in
the summer, but after long wait it was
found that the cars would not be ready until
the end of September. SO the maker was told
to hold them until next summer. Traffic
on leading lines in all the large cities has
grown enormously with the Introduction OF
electric rapid transit systems, which e1-
plains the piling up of orders for cars.
In few days the schenley property in
the Fourteenth ward, between Center and
Fifth avenues and Forbes street, will be
ready for the market on 50-year leases. 1t is
understood that the ground rents will aver
age about per cent on the valuation, and
that builders will at once take mp all the
available land which fronts paved streets
for rows Of new houses or houses in pairs.
Several new streets are to be opened SO as to
make the big tract between Center and Fifth
available.
Adjutant General Greenland, wearing a |
becoming soft soldierly hat and q smile |
(other things, OF course, alsol, left the city |
yesterday afternoon for his home in Clarion. |
"How much will this Homestead episode |
cost the State of Pennsylvania for troopsf" |
1 asked him. "About $S0o,O will cover |
everything rs near as can now TELL" was |
his reply. II made Colonel Norman Smith |
happy to-day by giving him the |
money to pay OF the Eighteenth Regiment. |
This money comes as you no doubt |
have seen stated from the general fund in |
the State Treasury, the law giving the Gov |
ernor power to draw on any funds in the |
treasury to pay troops under such circum- |
stances. A good deal of this will go to the |
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to pay for |
the transportation of the troops. Right |
here want to acknowledge the great aid |
given to US by the railroad authorities. Mr.. |
Pitcairn showed great military as we'll as
railroad ability by the manner in which he |
made the arrangements to gather |
up the troops in various parts OF the State |
and rendezvous them at Rodebaugh. 1t was |
at his suggestion that the change was made |
from Blatrsville to Rodebaugh as the gather
ing place. and 1t was a masterstroke as we |
We were able to mass the men there without |
the knowledge of anyone but myself and |
the railroad people. The engineers were
ordered to remain at the point |
of gathering. with fires lighted, steam uo
and engines headed toward Pittsburg in case
OF sudden need. 1t only took 81 hours to
mobilize over 5000 troops. and IL there had
been urgent need we could have done It in