Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-31

when the colored COM met. and the
Mayor was invited to o'en he exercises.
He had been up all nigh sr ing veto mes
sages and dealing with % thing but re-
ligious subjects, but he VIZ, there, hat In
hand, to encourage the weak brother, to in
fuse new hope and give q new impetus to
the cause of Christianity and to commend
the colored brother for clinging, through all
adversities, to the fundamental truths; to
the great landmarks of religion, even when
the clouds of atheism seemed darkest. As
he bowed in prayer my eyes followed him,
and I inwardly ruminated over the loss
theology sustained when he was induced to
enter politics.
81 heard him welcome to the city the
Scotch-Irish of America, and until that
time I had supposed the Scotch and Irish
were distinct races of people with habits,
ideas, mannerisms and dispositions so at
variance with each other as to prevent any
sort OF relations. t. was mistaken, and be-
fore the Mayor had talked 20 minutes
made up my mind that nearly all the Cork
men whom knew were really born in Glas-
gov, and that my Belfast and Marrafelt
friends, with many from Dungannon, had
at one time or other left Scotland for visit,
/ and finding Ireland a pleasant sort of place,
loitered there and grew up with the coun-
try. 1 was SO impressed with his history
L
Caseys, NcDonoughs, O'Learys and Bur-
goynes, whom most of us have regarded as
Irishmen or the sons of Irishmen, have
been alternating between Cork and Glas-
Cow, and Belfast and Edinburgh until they
and their people were regarded as Scotch
Irish, and that the strength, power and
brilliancy of the two original races might
be found in the blending.
An Exposition of Versatility.
sWhen the Prison Congress met Mayor
Gourley's public spirit again made him
master of the situation, and after rendering
its members the hospitality of our great big
city he pleaded with them to do something
for the amelioration of the poor deluded
people whom circumstances had committed
to their care and keeping. With heart as
large as the dial on City Hall clock and full
of human sympathy and milk OF kindness
he begged them to remember the return Of
the prodigal, and to so shape the penalties
and infections visited upon the transgress-
ors as to give new hope and new incentive
to the fallen.
''His tongue had barely time to rest before
the National Convention of street railway
magnates wanted to hear him and they
were repaid. On that occasion the Mayor
said: Gentlemen, 1 extend you cordial
welcome to this citv and feel honored in the
invitation to address you. own no stock
in either of the various lines covering the
streets of this city, and am not at liberty to
invite you over them for inspection, but
may say to you that if you can secure streets
in the cities of the country as these have
been secured you may have abiding faith
in your Investments I thought I had
couple OF thousand dollars invested in
the stock of an electric line in this
city, at one time, and deluded myself
with the hope that its earning power might
keep the wolf from my door during the
delusion. Those intrusted with the invest
ment concluded to water the stock and sell
it at its new value and return my money.
Were it not for the other hearts that might
ache could tell you some.wonderfuI stories
about the transition from horse to cable and
electric power and amaze you with the
gilded progress of the few who own and
control the network of railways in this
city,"
The Squire Talks Rapid Transit.
The Squire then talked for an hour on
the new conditions, the new demands made
upon public agencies and the strides made
in the. transportation of people, and ven-
tured the opinion that early inahe next
century every electric wire would be under
ground and every street railway would be
overhead and the cars would be shot along
over the zigzag routes now held by tele-
phone wires.
''To tell you of the work of Pittsburg's
Mayor is to tell you of the work of your own
respected Mayor, Mr.. Handel went on. 81
mean only to compliment the head of your
municipality by comparison. In addition to
those 1 have spoke OF heard Mayor Gourley
address the following associations: The
National Convention of Street Railways,
National Convention of Locomotive En-
gineers, National Convention of Machin-