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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
A SMALL BEGINNING,

The Inauguration of Mayor Kennedy to-
morrow may be traced directly to the re-
form movement in Allegheny. And as
will be seen from an article in our local
columns the reform movement itself is al
most entirely due to the action of one
man. The small beginning of the agita-
ton against maladministration In the
transporting city and the practical results
already evident are Indicative of the
strength of popular feeling when once it
can be stirred up to take an interest in
such matters. The Reform Association
has done good deal already, but it is wise
enough to realize that much yet remains
to be accomplished. 1t is worthy the sup
port of every good citizen and care should
be taken that the movement be maintained,
for spasmodic efforts in this direction have
no permanent results What is needed is
simply the proper attention of voters to
their own self-government This atten-
ton once secured and kept alive Alle-
gheny should enjoy one Of the best NUM-
cipal governments of the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
THE USUAL ILLUSTRATION.

A very interesting illustration OF the
relation of corporate services with
municipal administration is afforded by
experience of Cincinnati with electric
lights. Three years ago, when number
Of electric light companies were com,
peting for business, a bid was accepted
from one of them to light the city at the
rate of seventeen cents lamp. One OF
the other companies bought up all Its
rivals, and proceeded to exhibit the we'll
known tendency of that sort of combine
tions to reduce prices by refusing to carry
out the contract and charging the city
forty cents per lamp.
/ OF course, the authorities permitted
them to do this, that is what city authorl-
ties are there form the logic of practical
politics. They also demonstrated the
purpose of existence of municipal politics
by refusing franchises in the streets TO
new company, which succeeded in getting
there, however, by mandamus from the
Probate Court. When the last bids were
opened it was found that the old company
hal reduced its charges to 80 cents per
lamp, but the new one bid only % cents,
which represents saving to the city OF
Cincinnati of Sis, 200 per annum.
Two points impress themselves on the
observer of these facts. The firstls that
it makes a difference of about 100 per cent
in the charges, whether there is competl-
ton in the electric lighting business or
not The second is that a monopoly does
not find it difficult to get the support OF
the representatives of the city, even when
the latter is being cheated The latter
phase of the case is sufficient answer to
the Socialist idea, that the millennium
would be introduced by giving these same
politicians the direct management OF the
electric lighting, street cars, gas business,
telephone service and other works OF mu-
nicipal service. The other points out the
old truth obscured by current misrepre-
sentation, that the one sure way to secure
reasonable charges for the people for such
service is to create and maintain full COM
petition in each enterprise for serving the
public.
Side by side with this place the energy
with which the electric light combination
tried to charge the Worlds Fair $780,
900 for services worth $500, 200; and the
economic tendency of the policy OF COM
bination needs no further comment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

The Grand Duke of Hessei is about to dis
patch his uncle, Prince william of Hesse,
to Berlin to bear to the Kaiser the news Of
his fathers death and his own succession
THE Duke and Duchess of Fife have been
in London all week. They take a horseback
ride daily in Rotten Row. appearing on that
fashionable thoroughfare before 9 O'Clock in
the morning.
The artist, Whistler, is SO we'll pleased a.
the treatment accorded his art by the
French Government and the French people
that he has decided to abandon London and
make Paris his home.
PIERRE LOTT, the new French Academ-
ician, is a naval officer by profession, and be-
sides being a literary Immortal is reported
to be fine pianist, a melodious composer
and an admirable draughtsman.
DR.. BLUDEN, the African author of q
well-known work on Islamism, is on his way
to England as Minister Plenipotentiary Of
the Republic of Liberia. He will also act
as Liberian Minister to the United States.
Mr.. O'FERRALL, Chairman of the House
Committee on Elections, who led the recent
fight against Mr.. Hills protege, Rockwell, of
the ElInira district, is a tall vigorous man,
with an erect figure, youthful face, and a
frank. fearless look.
RUMoRs are current that the Prince of
Wales will give up sandringham Hall. his
country seat, where the Duke of Clarence
and Avondale died, and will ia ke possession
of Welcombe House, situated on a splendid
piece of ground, two miles from the town Of
Stratford.
SAMUEL LANE, of Gardner, Me-, ought
to know something about rural justice, for
he has been Justice of the peace and quo
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
DIDN'T BEAT GOULD.

1t is noticeable by the way that the t.
nancial gentlemen, who undertook to turn
Jay Gould out of the Union Pacific man.
agement, are now busy explaining what it
was that struck them. The usual expla-
nation might be given, that the Gould
party controlled the biggest vote; but an
other detail is also to be added that the
next party which attempts to beat Gould
at his own game should not initiate the
example of MI. Tracy Tupman, and an
nounce in a loud tone of voice that they
are going to begin while taking off their
coats.
From time immemorial people have gone
out shearing and come back shorn; men
have at intervals sold the lions skin and
been killed hunting the lion in order to
deliver the goods, and in the latter day
sundry ambitious Wall street fnanciers
have tackled the job of beating Gould in
the manipulation of corporate elections
all with similar returns. In this case the
scale was turned by an unconsidered trile of
26, 900 shares of Union Pacific stock, placed
with a firm of brokers to vote against
Gould. The brokers had authority to
to vote the shares without restriction; and
the Gould arguments proved irresistible
to the brokers. Hence the party that was
to turn Gould out remain on the outside
themselves.
All of which, as illustrating the influ-
ences that control corporate management,
and in this case the management of a cor
poration that is debtor to the Govern
ment for its full value, is extremely inter-
esting to the public. 1t may be suggested
to the anti-Gould financiers that he who
putteth on his armor should not boast
himself like him who putteth it off.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
THE AIMS OF THE AGE

An echo of that famous billion or half
dinner in New York the
y, appears in the letter elsewhere
,tng mOnOlogue by Mr. Chauncey NJ.
Depew on the direction of activity taken
by genius nowadays. He starts with the
paucity of literary genius, in this age.
There is little great literature written now
adays as compared with the middle of the
century, because, as Mr. Depew saws,
genius is directing itself into other chan
nels. 1t is bringing out new and revolu-
tionary inventions like those of Tesla and
Edison. 1t is planning great corporate re-
organizations, as Mr.. F. P. Olcott has done,
or mapping out municipal combinations
such as Mr.. Andrew II. Green wishes New
York to effect 1t is "building great
bridges, constructing superb artificial
waterways, conquering prairies and
mountains, mastering the ocean and send
ing steamships to Europe in five DAYS
time"
The DIsPATCH has heretofore in these
columns presented theory of the intel
lectual activities of the day. But there
is room for difference of opinion as to
whether it is as Nh. Depew makes it a SUBJ
ject for eulogium. The most charitable
i statement of it is that the activity of the
age is turned toward material rather than
mental progress. 1t is great thing to
cross the ocean in five days; but is it so
great thing as to abolish the importance
of mental elevation as by an essay of
Emerson's, or poem of Longfellow's?
The inventions of Edison and Tesla are
wonderful, but do they entirely compen-
safe US for the absence of Dickens,
Thackeray and Balzac?
Beyond that, the fact that the age has
accomplished great things in invention
and industry does not fully explain an ab-
sence of great literature. The explana-
ton is given in Mr.. Depew's talk, but it
requires amplifcation. Great things in
invention were accomplished in the first
half of the century. Wonderful as are the
achievements of the present day, none of
them have revolutioDized trade and COM
merce as much as the inventions of Whit
ney. Watt and Stephenson. Great as has
been the work of building up the country
from the Missouri to the Pacific, it was
not so great in comparison to the means
for the work as that Of the first half of the
century in building up the country from
the Alleghenies to the Missouri In other
words, in what is presented by this theory
as the especial field of this age, the first
half of the century more than rivals it;
and yet with all that material achievement
the earlier generation produced the great
literary minds of the Victorian age, and
the cotemporary genius on this side of
the ocean, of Bryant Irving, Cooper,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
DISCIPLINE FOR pIPIoMAr1srs

Lord Dufferin, the English Ambassador
at Paris, took unique method at public
dinner the other day to convey to the
French people his assurance of the main
tenance of pacific relations. In his speech
he said: "Should Great Britain and France
come to loggerheads, instead of declaring
war they should erect a vast gallows in
sight of the opposing armies and hang
there, first the Ambassadors and then the
foreign Ministers of the two countries"
This is picturesque statement of the
national necessity for peace between two
nations allied by three-quarters of GEN.
tury of close commercial ties, more reas-
suring to the people than to the diplomat
lists. But as statement of the popular
interest it has good deal of force. For
England and France to fight each other;
or for the United States to engage in war
with either of them, would be crime
against humanity, and must imply GRIM
1nal policy on one side or the other, and
perhaps on both. II it should be under
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
PLENTY MORE THEM.

The fact that tract of 100 to 300 acres
has been offered to the city for Poor
Farm at s225per acre is important as bear
ing on that fear that the city might be
squeezed But it is not such chance
that the city need jump at it for fear that
it will not get another one.
The fact is the bargain is neither ex-
ceptionally advantageous nor exception
ally cheap for Poor Farm purposes.
When it is determined that the city will
take 100 to $50 acres of good agricultural
land with live water supply, the city will
have abundance of cheaper bargains than
this. The agricultural districts of Allie
gheny county are full of them.
There is every reason to expect that the
city can buy Poor Farm of 100 to 15O
acres for from $4,000 to $4,000. Any
thing above the latter sum will be luxury
not for the paupers, but for the precon-
eeived notions of the Department of
Charities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson

Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson
and Lowell.
This difference can only be adequately
accounted for by the hypothesis that the
aim is lowered. 1t is not alone that intel
lectual activity is directed to material
achievements, for we have seen that the
earlier age did that without intellectual
deterioration. But it Is that in place of
the earlier ambition to win renown and
confer benefits by either mental or
material results, men have come to direct
their efforts for the sordid purpose Of
amassing great wealth. 1t is of piece
with the recent announcement that great
lawyers could not afford to serve the
public as judges or legislators because
they can make so much more aS-corpora-
ton lawyers. The object Of samassing a
fortune entirely overslaughs the honor Of
a moderately comfortable income for
building up and maintaining great sys-
TEN Of law. When this venial motive
sways the brightest legal minds what
wonder that itconquers the rest of society
to the extent of dwarfng literature and
binding ambitious minds to the honor of
inspiring the soul of a nation with great
thoughts.
There could hardly be any severer COM
mentary on this tendency, that when its
theory results in holding up as among the
functions of fin de steele genius, the work
of reorganizing and combining corpora
tions already staggering under the burden
of fictitious capitalization, so that they
can carry sundry millions more of water.
THE DISPATCH is fully in harmony with
real industrial progress; but when it comes
to the point of passing off the sham for the
real as an acceptable substitute for men,
tai elevation, it is necessary to say that
tried in the crucible of the impartial
future, one page of Emerson will out
weigh all such dross.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
A REColLIsG yINDICATIoN.

As bearing on the disputed parliament
ary practice of permitting the Speaker to
count quorum, it is cited that the Lieu
tenant Governor of the State of New York,
in forcing through that remarkable extra
session this week, the still more remark
able legislative apportionment bill, made
this most remarkable ruling: Blowing to
the highest judicial tribune of the country,
the Supreme Court of the United States,
the Chair directs the Clerk to record as
present and not voting the fourteen Re-
publican Senator's" and the Clerk did as
he was directed.
As vindication of Reed, this precedent
is more dangerous in the recoil than in
the discharge. In the first place, it rests
parliamentary decision on the implica-
tion that the United States Supreme Court
has declared it always competent for the
Speaker to count quorum. The fact is,
that the Court only decided it to be COM
petent for legislative body to pass rule
authorizing the Speaker to count a
quorum; and any mention of such rule
of the New York Senate is conspicuously
absent from the proceedings.
oup tlO 1nOoO oCNOlO lCCOl1 1IOm tlllS VIII
dication is the Illustration that the prac-
tice, which in the abstract is not obiec-
tionable, is one resorted to by unscrupu-
iously partisan presiding officers to force
the passage of partisan measures In the
New York case the bill as passed was so
gross that even fair-minded Democratic
newspapers are unable to stomach it; and
the Speakers partisanship is sufficiently
illustrated by the fact that he did not take
the trouble to count the Republican Sena-
tors individually, but simply directed the
Clerk to record "the fourteen Republican
Senators" as present. An example of
such an abuse of the Speakers power is a
precedent to be honored in the breach
rather than the observance.
1t is also claimed on behalf of the re-
nowned David Bennett Hill that he set the
first example of counting quorum when
he presided as Lieutenant Governor over
the New York Senate. When Mr.. Reed
finds himself in the company of Hill and
Sheehan on the use OF the Speakers
power, he may well exclaim with Pyrrhus:
Zone more such vindication and 1 am
lostp'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
CURES FOR CONSUMPTION.
Some Things That Can Be Done by the Aid
OF Common Sense.


of Common Sense.
Philadelphia Bulietin.i
The subject of consumption and its treat
ment has recently received general agita-
tion with view to determining upon meas
ures which should tend to stay the increase
of that disease Various projects have been
urged from time to time. ono plan which re-
ceived considerable attention being the
framing of snch legislation as would enforce
the more rigid observance OF the primary
laws of health and induce more careful and
skilllul treatment of the disease when once
it had been developed. 1t cannot be said
that any of the plans proposed satisfy the
mind of one who views the question from
practical sta ndpoint. There is something
lacking, not in the purpose of the IDEAS
which is excellent, but in their application
The plan which contemplated legislation in
respect to the treatment Of the disease fails
ical science is agreed that tuberculosis in its
various forms Is the greatest enemy with
which man has to contend and also that pre-
ventive measures would operate to no small
but the problem is: What form are those
preventive measures to takef
There have been various plans suggested,
as we have stated: but all of them have been
found wanting to no small degree. Common
sense urges. first of all, strict observance of
the laws of cleanliness and complete protec-
tion from sudden changes of temperature, as
well as an avoidance of undue excess of any
kind. To these rules, which are rational
and practical, medical investigation and ex-
pertinent have added certain others, which
are founded upon a careful and detailed
study of the disease and which are closely
identified with tuberculosis and its develop
ment. In a very broad way ID may be said
that by following these rules consumption
may be avoided to a great extent, except
where inherited, and that even then the
chances of development may be greatly less
ened. 1t may be contended that these meth
ods are too general and that they do not
extend to n detailed study OF each particular
case of consumption, and therefore are not
the best. 1t is self-evident, however, that
such minute investigation and treatment as
this would be impossible. We have the dis
ease of a world to deal with, and our meth
DDS must be correspondingly general.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
BAZAAR BUZZINGS

Mr.. Dolley-Now, 1 don't believe In
Miss Flypp-wen, do. Now. fOrinstance, there
| Is one believe in.
| twas an ice cream sign, and the young IhinRr
| belief cost Dolley so cents.
Miss Gasket, 1 love you dearly" con-
| fessed young Mr.. Smithers.
I'm SO glad, ~ replied Miss Gasket ferventiy.
| You make me intensely happy" replied the
| young man.
your stepmother."
81 wonder why there is rule against
children in many hats?''
probably because there isn't room for them TO
| grow."
iLet's see-Ta-ta-ta-ta-how would you
| pitch this song OF mine'''
''Out of the window"
"My barber is hustler. Hes got out .
new sign now"
''What Is it?''
..Bald heads polished to look like nsw."
Lives of failures oft remind rs
Into fame perchance wen strut,
If the gravest crises ind us
I With our mouths kept tightly shur-
Alice (aged 7 years)-Papa. were there
.ov live rebels after the battle of Bull Run?
Father-Why. of course, my child. Why do you
ask that?
night, and thought he had killed them all.
Willie wangle-I aimed that shotgun Of
yours at mammals dressmaker to-day, and she wss
so scared that she ran away.
Mr. wangIe-You did eh? Well. you're . good
bow Come out In the back yard and 1 will show
you how to use that gun.
"What has come over Johnny? He keeps
his face clean.''
eyes He hates so to have it washed
"why, my DEAR" said Mr.. Mawbid to
Mrs Mawbid, ''you simply briste with pins That
hatpin of yours will put somebody's eye out"
81 think not ~ said Mrs. MI hope not; out
must wear it this way, because this is bargain day
At Lacy & Jones', and don't know how else can
get through the crowd to the counter"
Miss Oldgirl (gushingly)-So this Is
susie's babyp 1 can't reaIize it! just hear the
dear little feiiow-''Mam. nam, nam" Iwonder
If he thinks 1 am his mother?
Colored nurse (uncompromisingly veracious)-
Man, mam's what he calls his gran'ma.
"Hbw late the spring is this yearf'
Yes indeed. Everything will be put back, }
/ suppose. dare say the Fourth Of July wou'tb
| along much before August"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

stood that war must be preceded by the
capital punishment Of the Ambassadors,
ministers of foreign affairs and preniers
on both sides, it would afford sure guar
antee Of continued pacific relations. Pos
sibly in view of the sporadic outbursts of
belligerent talk, it might be well to follow
the example of the Duke of Wellington
with the contractors, and hang an Am
bassador or two as warning to the
others
The penalty is really provided in an
other form. Although the jingoes cannot
comprehend it, the statesman who gets up
q war will sooner or later undergo the
political death penalty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
STORMS SET DOWN FOR MAY.
A St. Louis Weather Prophet Predicts q
Lively Tempestuous Period.

A St. Louis Weather Prophet Predicts q
Lively Tempestuous Period
ST. LOUIS, April 3o.-Rev. Irl R. Hicks, the
St. Louis weather prophet thus predicts
MAY weather.: Cool, clear weather will ad-
vance from west to eastern part of our con-
tinent during the first doys OF May. By the
3rd warm wave will appear in the West, at
tended bya low barometer and storm de-
velopments Of marked intensity Within 4S
hours of P. NJ, on the 4th-the center of the
period-storms of marked cyclonic possi-
bflities, attended by hail, rain and thunder,
will visit most parts of the country. As far
as may be practicable, preparations against
heavy hailstorms should be made at this, as
we'll as all the storm periods OF the month.
BE prepared for phenomenal areas of cold
and hot in close proximity to each other,
with sudden and extreme drops Of temper
ature. Frosts are almost sure to follow in
the rear Of storms ABOUT the night Of the 4th
or 9th, in the North ana West, reaching tho
eastern sections a day or two later. Watch
and see. Centering on the 10th and 1Ith, re-
actionary conditions of temperature and
baronetric pressure ending in storms may
be counted on. Keep a cautious eye on all
storm clouds about these dates, and do not
be unprepared for frost, in many northern
and central sections on the nights fmmedi-
ately following the storms.
uIe next storm period is central on the
l6tH. bringing it's eliminating stages, es-
pecially in eastern parts of the country, ex-
actly on the 1Sth-the central day OF Venus
disturbance. Remember that Venus brings
rapid and extreme alterations of heat and
cold cloud-bursts. hailstorms and startling
manifestations of lightning and thunder.
Re on the watch for such results at this
time The period runs from the 4th to 10Th.
A series OF heavy storms, recurring in cycles
of q hours-say each afternoon and evening
will most likely result for several days
about this time. The wind falling OBJ
stinateiy back to the south alter the passage
of storm paroxysms. will be good evidence
that the storm will repeat itself about or
little in advance of the same hour on the
succeeding day. A cold, steady wind from
west and north will indicate the cessation of
the storms heavy frosts will be heard from
to the northward between the 18th and 21st
On and about the ed look for Il return OF
very warm days, with reactionary storms
greatly intensified by the Venus equinox.
The last storm period for the month is from
the 25th to the 30th-a period calling for con-
staat carefulness, in the event OF hot
days. south winds and the formation Of
active storm clouds. On the 25th falls the
new moon, equinox of Mercury on the 79th,
Venus still in force-all combine with reg
ular "Vulcan" period, central on the 27th.
Putting all these causes together and adding
the fact that we are fully within the Saturn-
ian period, we may almost surely expect dis
turbances Of great violence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

THE many descriptions which have been
given OF vanderbilt's new $4,000 bronze
doors do not state that they are bomb proof.
but their use as resistants to explosives was
no doubt considered along with more
aesthetic requirements