Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
FAIR CITY CHATTER.
A Budget of Gossip That Will Inter-
est Pittsburgers.
PRESBYTERIANS AFTER REFORMS.
Our Exhibits at the Big Show Far Below
the General Average.
A GREAT ADVANTAGE is IGNORED

CH1CAGO, NOV. OO-4ne aSSHSesANChSss
characteristic of Chicago has caused the
Chicago Presbytery of the Presbyterian
Church to lead off in Disappearing the milk
and-water changes which were made in the
creed of that church by the recent General
Assembly. The great majority by which
the changes proposed were disapproved-3S
to 15-indicates that the class of ministers
are in the fight to stay and that nothing
will satisfy them but . radical revision of
the present statement of the church's belief.
Unlike Pittsburg, the conservatives
here are in a minority, and are
compelled to fight hard for every inch
of ground which they retain. The reason
of this probsbly is that the church here has
to win its recruits from the body OF the
people. 1t does not receive its member
ship from Inheritance, so to speak, as do
the churches in Pittsburg and other older
communities OF the East. The conditions
prevailing in Chicago are identical with
those of many parts of the West, and there
is scarcely any doubt that the demand of
the Presbvterians for a short, crisp creed
which shall be more easily capable OF de-
tense will be seconded by other Western
Presbyteries which are yet to be heard
from.
A Lost Opportunity.
A recent editorial in THE DISPATCH
called attention to a Pittsburg mans regret
that Pittsburg would have nothing with
which to match the cheap power which
Buffalo would secure by utilizing power
of Niagara Falls and by which she hoped
to attract manufacturers to locate there.
As an expert at borrowing trouble that
particular Pittsburger deserves medal.
The power has not yet been realized by
Buffalo; it is at best only hoped for, and
NAV never come, and when it does come, If
it ever does, it may end probably
will be so expensive as to be unavailable for
the ordinary manufacturer.
But there is one thing in which Pittsburg
manufacturers are voluntarily depriving
themselves nj a great advantage and per-
uniting their business rivals to get far
ahead OF them-and that is in failing to ex-
hibit at the Columbian Exposition. One of
the Chicago papers recently published
complete list of the applicants for space
in all departments, together with
their residences, and another one
published separately lists of applicants
iron Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and
other Eastern cities The New Yorkers
who propose to exhibit are so numerous that
it took column and half nonpareil solid
to contain their names. Philadelphia was
put in q column and quarter, Chicago had a
larger showing than either, but the names
of the Pittsburg exhibitors could all be
printed within the compass oft ''sticks. "
PittsburG Away in the Rear.
The State of Pennsylvania will have
very large representation among the ex-
hibits at the Fair. There is scarcely town
which will not show something, but in the
h Ill
Erie, for instance, which go ahead of Pitts
burg.
1t has been pointed out by THE DIS
PATCH, both by correspondence and edi-
iorially, that Pittsburg business men by do
ing this are cutting their own throats. 1t is
not the merchant who has the best goods
who gets the trade. 1t is the one who
makes the most brilliant and attractive
uisplay in his show windows and who
excels In calling attention to what he
has the man who advertises is the man
who gets along. In the Chicago Fair there
is an unrivaled opportunity for cheap and
effective ad advertising. Every other city in
the Union is wide awake and eager to take
advantage of it No city of its size has so
few exhibitors as Pittsburg. The space has
not yet been fully allotted, and it Is not too
late yet to get in.
An Important Test Case.
In the midst of the rush of dedication
week the waters at the large cafe of the
Grand Palace Hotel heard that girls were
10 be employed in their places and ab-
ruptly stopped work and gave notice to
their head waiter, Mike Driscoll, formerly
of the Pittsburg Club Cafe, that they would
not be on hand on the following day. The
receiver refused to pay them their wages
up to the time of the strike
aud threatened to have the whole force ar
raigned Tor contempt of court in quitting
without further notice. One of the men
brought suit for his wages, as a test case,
and this afternoon recovered Judgment for
the full amount, together with costs and
attorneys fee. The receiver gave notice
that he would appeal the case and declared
that the waiter should not succeed in col
lecting his money without first going to the
Supreme Court.
Among the marriage licenses taken out
to-day at the County Clerks Office was that
OF \. Koffier, of Pittsburg, who propose S
to marry Miss V. Dreidenger, of the same
1lace. Mr. Koffier did not explain to the
CLERK why he had brought his bride West to
have the ceremony performed, but merely
added, in compliance with the requirements
OF the law, that he was % years OF age and
his 6ance 81
ChicaSo's Natural Gas Supply.
Following close upon the introduction of
natural gas in this city come reports from
the source of supply in Indiana that the
wells are giving out and that the most
industrious boring of new wells cannot
keep up the supply as it was when the
fields were first opened. Many of the COM
J anies have ceased supplying factories and
large consumers, and have made as many of
ha1r nafr 10 fhaI nof
through the meter.
TO their patrons the propriety of putting in
a supply OF coal to cover a probable de-
fciency in the supply of gas One of such
circulars is issued by the Salimonic
Mining and Gas Company, of Fort Wayne.
1t announces that the directors have author
lied an expenditure of S12O, 900 to increase
the supply of gas and says that in view of
the experience of other cities the invest
ment is a very hazardous one. "Lima, O. -
it says, three years ago had rock pressure
in her line OF $40 pounds, being much above
the Indiana field; to-day it has fallen to
20 pounds, and pumps are being put in to
help iorce the gas to consumers All her
churches, school houses and public build
ings have been shut off entirely. and not
q boiler is supplied at any d rice"
The officers of the Economic Fuel Gas
company, which has Just laid its pipes in
this city, say that notwithstanding these
reports from Indiana there will be no embar-
rassment in Chicago from a shortage in the
supply, but they are taking in advance
all the precautions which the Indiana COM
panies are taking now that the shortage is
actually upon them. The Economic sup
plies gas only to private consumers, and in
all cases prefers patrons who use the gas