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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
ANOTHER SHIP RAILROAD.
1t Is Proposed to Carry Ships Between
Lakes Huron and Ontario

1t Is Proposed to Carry Ships Between
Lakes Huron and Ontario.
MONTREAL, May SO.-A great scheme has
been launched by a number of prominent
Canadian capitalists to connect the Georgian
Bay and Lake Ontario by mammoth ship
railway. Mr.. E. L. Corthell, an en-
gineer of Chicago, who was asso-
ciated with Captain Eads in the
construction of the Tehuantepec ship
railway across the Isthmus of Panama, has
been consulted by the promoters, and has
given his opinion that the scheme is thor
oughly practical. Mr.. Corthell has just re-
turned from a thorough inspection of the
proposed route along the small divide be-
tween the two bodies of water from near
Collingwood, on Georgian Bay and the
neighborhood of Toronto, on Lake Ontario,
opinion that there could not be found any
where strip of country better ada pied in
easy grades for q natural route.
The roadbed will be 50 feet wide and will
have six parallel steel tracks. The original
estimate of cost of the work was SIS, SEQ 600.
The engineers inspection has convinced him
that the sum will be ample to construct and
put in operation a side railway between these
Two points to carry vessels up to 5000 tons
burden. The building OF the road he is con-
vinced would compel the enlargement
of the lower canals. 1t is utterly
impossible he says, to provide for the
sible enlargement of the Erie canal, and the
best and cheapest route to the seaboard is
by the St. Lawrence river route, of which
the ship railway will be an essential part.
supported by the Northwest and the West
ern States. A company known as the HUI
rontario Ship Railway Company has been
organized to undertake the project, and
several of the promoters will shortly leave
tor England to interest English capitalists
in it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. TUESDAY. MAY 81. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
THE Lesson OF YESTERDAY.

Decoration Day was well observed. The
men who some thirty years ago sacrificed
everything at their country's time of need
were gratefully remembered and honored
by old and young. The speeches and GER
emonies at the graves of those who for
sock home and every personal interest to
rally to the national flag were fitting
tokens of debt that can never be repaid.
Nature had done her share in Frightening
the last resting places of the departed
brave, and loving hearts and willing hands
eked out the work of the season. But
these outward tributes, beautiful and ap-
propriate though they be, should be ac-
companied by permanent and never
failing continuance of that patriotic spirit
to which the country owes its present
greatness.
Never again will the nation be torn by
civil strife. Never in all probability
such is Americas increasing strength
will the citizens of this land be called up
on to bear arms against a foreign power.
Yet there are duties of patriotism which
have as strong a claim upon every Amer
ican to-day as ever had those which were
answered with enthusiasm in the past
The spirit of patriotism is for all times.
1t is as useful in an era of peace and pros
perity as in the crisis of war and trouble.
Let this be constantly borne in mind by
citizens of every sort and condition, and
the vast progress hitherto experienced
will sink into comparative insigniicance
beside the glories of the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
WIT AND WISDOM.

Patient-I guess m ABOUT well, ain 1t
Doctor-Almost.
Patient-What's my bill!
Docror-You-re re not quite strong enough for that
yet-Detroh Free Press.
wife-What did you do to that miser-
able clerk when he told you he had more of the
cloth?
Husband-I bought him drink.-Cloak Rev:ea0.
He gazed in wonder at the stars
The mighty telescopes reveal.
But later he saw many more
By stepping on banana peel.
Chicago Inter-Oc.
wiggsy-Why is this called Decoration
Day?
Biggsy-Don't know, unless it's because so many
take advantage of the holiday to paint the town.
Brooklyn Eagle.
81 am at your service, ma'am, as the
burglar said when the lady of the house caught
him stealing her silver.-Tsnrs Stftings.
To take her out that night he did expect,
But she sent him telegram (coect.
That, when he paid. his pocket was SO low
That after all-wel, he couldn't go.
-NeIo York Herald
The Deacon-Biblets has acted quserly
since he took the bi-chloride Of gold cure.
The Elder-In what way?
The Deacon-When the plate Is passed to him IN
church now he just breathes on it:-BroOkLyn Eagle
LIE Grand Stanned-Why is the crowd
being kept back so rorcibly?
Kirby Stone-So as to give the police 4 chancet 10
see the procession, fancy.-Puck.
Barber-Will you have a little bay rum?
Old Soak-Thanks; after you. -Neao York Herald
1t was funny idea of Seumbles to paint
a pile of wood for the exhibition.
Snapps-Yes, and It was so natural the hanging
committee put it in the fre,-Chicago Hter-oesaa
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
SOME SOuND MAXIMS

Ex-President Hayes delivered a me-
mortal speech at Columbus yesterday
which was "as full of valor as of kind
ness" And it was as full of sound sense
as of elegant expression. He points out
two main things for the nation to remem-
Der: With regard to international affairs
we need fear no nation and it is our duty
to use our influence to enlarge the sphere
of arbitration. For internal matters we
must prize those much-abused words,
equality and fraternity, at their true
value.
If these maxims be borne in mind in all
cases of disputes with others, and in
framing and executing legislation for our
selves, we shall do more than can be fore
told for the furtherance Of social progress
to that stage at which the brotherhood of
man is more than mere empty phrase.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
OPINIONS ON DR.. RAINSFORD.

THE Rev. DR.. Rainsford has startled the
public and set 1t a thinking by announcing
that the churches provide substitutes for
saloons.-7ioy Budget.
If church people are ready to agree with
Dr. Rainsford that the way to check the
liquor evil is to start lot of respectable
saloons run by the religious element, then
we had better enlarge our lunatic asylums.-
Atlanta Constitution.
A SALOON honestly conducted after DR..
Rainsford's plan would not have ten custo-
mers a day in the very heart of New York
City. 1t would teach DR.. Rainsford and other
theorists that there is something deeper IN
the liquor question than the place of sale.-
KGnsds City Times.
The one way in which intemperance can
be decreased continuously is the way Dr.
Rainsford will have nothing to do wfth-the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
NOTES ABOUT NO1ABLES.

MRS EDISON prefers candles to any other
form of household illumination.
BUzzARD's BAY will be the summer re-
sort of Mr.. and Mrs Grover Cleveland.
HON. T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, the new
United States Minister to France, sailed
from New York Saturday on the La Tour
aine.
THE King and Queen of Denmark and the
Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday took
lunch with the Car on board the imperial
yacht Polar STAR
BARON HIRsCH, the well-known philan-
thropist, is suffering from an attack of intiu-
enza and congestion of the lungs. His con-
dition is said to be serious.
THE Frenden B1dtt says that Baron Emb-
den has sent to Hamburg for publication a
hitherto unpublished collection OF Heniz's s
letters to his mother and sister,
RIDER HAGGARD has turned farmer and
while delighted with his bucolic experiences
is puzzled to understand why milk that has
he'd all the butter taken out of it should be
called buttermilk.
LIEUTENANT and Mrs. James B. Hether-
ington arrived ut Wilmington, Del, yes
terday from San Francisco and were at onco
driven to the home of EmIen Hewes, the
father of Mrs. Hetherington.
Miss CATHERINE WEED BARNES, who
iswidely known among amateur photogra-
pliers as a fellow craftsman, expects to e1-
nose 1000 plans during her present visit to
Europe. She will probably read paper be-
fore a convention in Edinburgh.
GENERAL ISAAC JONES WIsTAR has
given the University of Pennsylvania sl35,-
0Oo wherewith to build and maintain a mu-
scum containing his fathers collection OF
musical objects. He is President of the
Philade1phia Academy of Science, and is an
enthusiastic yachtsman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
WILL HELP HOME TAILORS.
Tho Passage of the Bill Concerning Euro
pean Clothing Is Recommended.

pean Clotnfng is recommended.
WASHINGTON May 80. - Representative
Whiting, of Michigan, has prepared the
report of the Committee on Ways and
Means. recommending the passage of the
bill to limit the amount of wearing apparel
and personal effects which may be
admitted to the United States free of
duty. The report says:
VERY few of the thousands who cross the
Atlantic return to our shores without being
fully equipped in foreign-made apparel.
The clothing of men, women and children
is, by rea son of our high and severe tariff
laws, very much cheaper in Europe than
in the United States. To import such
goods in the ordinary course of trade
would increase their cost to the con-
sumer by the amount of the tariff
tax paid upon them. The American
who remains at home pays this tax. But by
pa cking the goods in his trunks and bring
ing them with him as baggage, the Amer
lean tourist escapes the tax altogether 1t
is doubtless true that many wealthy Amer
leans save much more than the cost OF the
trip by going abroad and purchasing there
their supply of wearing apparel and other
personal goods. The Board of General APP
praisers, rs late us March 8, 1892 gave the
following construction of the existing law:
In determining what apparel is necessary and
appropriate for ones journey. and especially for
ones present comfort and convenience, regard
must of course be had 10 the social status, cOnd-
tion in life, and financial resources of the person
IN question. including the reasonable customs as
TO dress of the social circles in which such person
ordinarily moves.
"Under this construction of the law, the
correctness of which is not here gaiusaid it
is evident that the wealthier the person is
the greater in quantity and value is the
amount of goods which he can import free
from taxation increases in proportion to his
ability to pay the taxes"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
ONE ECONOMICAL ASPECT.

The present aspect of the political field
promises fortune for the provident soul
who saves up old campaign banners, mot
toes, regalia and the other parapherualla
whereby political conviction is carried to
the popular heart. Perhaps this is the
tribute paid by the political forces to the
need for retrenchment and reform There
has been no recognition of that need in
Congress on the part of either party; but
when we reflect on the quadrennial ex-
penditure for banners bearing the names
OF the candidates, for campaign rhymes
and calls of new and dreadful character,
and all the other things constructed to the
names of the candidate, a course which
will save all these expenditures ought to
be extremely grateful to the people who
put up the campaign funds.
All this can be done by the nomination
of the candidates of 1884 The Blaine
and Cleveland flags, notices, banners and
armor will come into play now as well as
then, as good as new for their eight wears
retirement The people who have
afforded them storage room can realize a
good return on their original small invest
ment and yet make them cheaper than
new stuff. The campaign managers can
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
a NAME AND NO MORE.

A practice of somewhat long standing
in the Old World, but more infrequent in
this country, is that of loaning prominent
names to corporations with no other pur-
pose than that of floating the shares. A
Florida land and investment company
took this mode of commencing itself to
public attention by parading General
Buffers name as its vice president in its
widely disseminated advertisements. The
company has now gone to pot; the stock
holders are wondering what has become of
their money, and General Butler calmly
disclaims all connection with the manage
ment or responsibility for it.
The astute old lawyer is probably very
thoroughly posted as to his legal response
bility, but there is question of moral
responsibility in connection with it. Is it
right for mah to permit his name to be
used in way liable to attract peoples
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

savings without the slightest care whether
the enterprise is solvent one or bare
faced swindle? General Butler can hard
ly have been aware that his name was
widely advertised as Vice President OF
this company. If he was really Vice Pres
ident it was not business honesty to neg
lect taking part in the management-at
least to the extent of satisfying himself
that it was a solvent concern. If he was
not an officer he should have stopped the
use of his name
We believe it is the case that under the
law people who permit the use of their
names in that way incur no liability. But
that is simply because the law does not
cover the case. There should be definite
liability in every instance where the name
is used by its owners consent, either dl-
rectly or tacitly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
AN IMPORTANT FACTOR.

There is sign of progress on the road
question in the law recently enacted in
Michigan that the users of broad wagon
tires-the width being regulated according
to the weight of the wagon-shall be en-
titled to a rebate of half the road tax.
The arrangement is alike advantageous to
the farmer, the taxpayer and the general
public. 1t is most timely when some prog
ress has been made in the actual con-
struction of improved roads; but as pre-
paratory measure it is judicious.
1t is self evident that when a road is
macadamized or graveled, the passage of
heavy loads supported on narrow tires
wears it out in ruts But the same load on
tires eight inches broad, the hind wheels
projecting beyond the front, in effect is
exactly the same as if roller had passed
over two feet eight inches of surface. The
same thing is true to less degree of pave
ments; and it is sign of the superior care
for pavements in European cities that the
strength of tire necessary to carry given
weights over pavements there is the sub
ject of strict regulation.
The justice of such a provision as that
adopted in Michigan is plain when we
consider the effect if all the heavy loads
transported over an improved roadway
were carried on wheels of such breadth as
roll instead of cut up the road. The cost
Of repairing the roads would be reduced
more than half. Every such load would
tend to improve the road by compacting
and hardening the surface; and the liabil-
itv of the road IN uat ont of rapoir would
be reduced to minimum.
The broad tire for heavily loaded
wagons is one of the important factors of
preserving good roadways when they are
made. 1t should not be neglected in any
comprehensive scheme for road improve
ment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

PERHAPS the day will come when a pa
triotic holiday is looked upon as an occasion
for bestial indulgence Decoration Day was
apparently regarded by some as an oppor-
tunity Tor painting themselves as brutes
with the help of alcoholic liquors But the
times are progressive, and an era is to be
hoped for wherein knowledge shall super
sede ignorance and virtue shall utterly OBJ
literate vice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
Higher Things Than Money.

FhlIadeIpnla Inqulrer.l
Pittsburg blew its horn Justify at trade
banquet on Saturday evening. PittsburS
is hustling city. The world knows that
pretty well already. But it is just as well
not to let the fact be forgotten. With its
new libraries and parks Pittsburs promises
to be something more than money-mak-
ing place, and out of its prosperity will
come the higher things which it does not
lose sight. of in the presence of more imme-
diate interests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

even salt down liberal percentage for
their economy, and still let up somewhat
easier on the long-suffering fat-fryee.
The campaign of 1884 repeated-with
emendations and variations let us hope
ought to be an economical one. 1t will
save wear and tear on the gray matter
OF the political brain, and permit a reha-
bilitation of the campaign funds, so that
they can even pay up the high prices for
oratory which the managers promise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

PITTsBURG won two ball games yester-
day. The team could hardly do less on the
home ground when they received about
thirteen. thousand visitors during the day.
But oh, my Maryland! how much less the
Baltimore players must feel than they did
before coming.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

To learn that cholera has started on
another little journey through tho world,
with the Vale of Cashmere as its breeding
place, takes away the poetical conception
of that alleged lovely spot As cholera is
born of filth and decay, the rest of the
world will do wisely to avoid the beauties
of Cashmere's valley.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

WHEN holiday people crowd railroad
stations so much that the scenes are sug-
gestive of riots, one is tempted to believe
that after all the country must be superior
to Pittsburg with its cleanliness, fresh air
and greenery
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

THE First Regiment of the Ohio National
Guard engaged in a sham fight on Sunday
and several men were more or less seriou ,ly
injured by sabers and gun wads. At this
rate sham fights will soon become far more
popular than football from the larger ele-
ment of danger they contain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

SECRETARY FOSTER will do as little to
secure success for his patron Harrison by
defying Blaine to accept the nomination if
it be offered to him as Russell did by sug-
gesting that the present Secretary of State
is a mental and physical wreck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
Obituary Notes.

CENTRAL JOHN ULRICH KREIDLER, aged 60
years, Commander in Chief of the Catholic Knights
of ST. John of Ohio. died at Dayton Sunday night
after four weeks illness.
CAPTAIN JOHN WHEELER, well-known hotel
man. politician. dstiler and member of the One
Hundred and Fifty eighth Regiment, died yester-
day at MELVILLE. Pa, aged SO years.
MRS. DIR. HOPKINS, mother OF W. j. Hopkins,
foreman of the Pittsburg Post, died at Chicora
early yesterday morning. The funeral takes place
in Cooperstown, Venango county, the home Of
Mrs. Hopkins childhood, Wednesday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
Then We'd Feel Asham ed.

New York Herald.l
Perhaps it would be just as we'll if Edison
would delay that aerial telephone for
while. If it should turn out that the in
habitants of Mercury or Mars have reached
a high stage of civilization and have been
dwelling in gentle unity for untold ages,
we'd feel dreadfully ashamed of ourselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

BAsEBALLs were as much thought of as
cannon balls yesterday. And the batteries
which attracted most attention were not
those of Gettysburg, but those of the Pitts
burp nine
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
A Natural inclination.

New York World.l
DR.. Parkhurst says he is going abroad this
week to follow his usual summer pro-
graEme of Notwithstanding in the Alps"
That he should wish to get among the clouds
is natural enough and furnishes a very
pretty example of the law of reactionary
energy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

DEPEw's little boom interview for Har-
rison is all spoilt by the sentence at the end :.
which says: Indeed. L will not absolutely
know what am going to do myself until get
there" "There" being Minneapolis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

IT is about time for anti-Harrison men to
be called Blaine forces, while the Generals
supporters should be stigmatized as the op-
position and be known as the anti Blaine
sectinn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
A Real Ruben,s Painting in Newark.

NEW YORK, May 3o-Prof. Josef We'll, an
artist OF Newark, N. j., last Tuesday pur-
chased picture for Sl0Q which he says is a
real Rubens,a compan nion to one now in the
Royal Academy. Munich, which is valued at
sl250O0. Mr.. We'll said Peter Paul Ruben
executed the picture in the sixteenth
century.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

DIR. RAINSFoRD preached a sermon in
New York on Sunday defending the saloon
and the liquor traffic generally. Yet ono
might expect him to be a teetotaler from
tn watery sound of his name.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

THAT tidal wave which threatens to carry
Blaine to the White House is assuming pro-
portions so vast as to indicate that Har-
risonians had better take hold OF the life
saving apparatus before making the final
plunge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
I he Monetary Conference Is a Go.

WASHINGTON, May So.-This Government
has received notice that France and Ger
many will send delegates to the Interna-
tonal Monetary Conference, which assures
its assembling. 1t is understood that the
correspondence on the subject will be sent
to the Senate during the present week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

HUNTERS, whether they be Nimrods,
Ramrods or Fishingrods, are generally too
much absorbed by the pursuit of game to
find the truth. Any way they seldom report
fQuud
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

IT is now several days since Tomhicken
asked Pattison to resign. As the Governor
has taken no notice of the request, it may be
presumed that he is waiting to hear from
Dick and Harry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
BIsine the Most Popular Citiz IN.

New York Press.l
Whether he is q candidate or not, the fact
remains that James Gillespie Blaine is still
the most conspicuous and the most popular
citizen Of the Republic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Prof Anton HaIfli, NihiIist Author.

Pr0f Anton HaItl, WeII-knOVH IItterd-
teur, author of several notable works on nihilism,
found in 4 dying condition In his room this
morning. and ten minutes later nreaihed MS last;
with suicidal intent for medical purpose cannot
be learned. Deceased was a native of zurich.
Switzerland, aged 45 years. and Il aves wlfe and
five children in destitute circumstances.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
Good Reason for Revision,

Washington Star.I
If women as preachers are to rule the
Methodist Protestant Church there is q cer-
tain appropriateness in the General Confer
ence striking out the word "obey" in the
BRIDES responses of the marriage service.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

TALES of woe will be heard ere long, for
the fruit crop is rapidly reaching tho stage
of unripeness provocative of indiscreet in
diligence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

HowLING BEAR is highly appropriate
name for an old Indian chief who prophesies
a serious visitation of plague, pestilence and
famine within two years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
A Question Eas lily Answered,

Detroit Free Press.1
Which will appear as the Republican EN-
blem, the waving white plume OF grand.
fathers bell-crowned hat?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31

To the credit of America, be it said that
the only prize fight yesterday occurred in
England