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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
THE WORK OF PURFICATIoN.

The proposition for a local committee
man, selected from the citizens of each
ward, to cooperate with the city author.
ties in prosecuting sanitary work is good
one An energetic citizen should be Sc
lected in every ward, conversant with all
the slums and sinkholes and inspired by
the determination to bring his district into
a condition of perfect cleanliness
With such an organization the work of
publication should be thoroughly done,
and done quickly. The ability to bring
Pittsburg into condition of unexception-
able sanitation is only matter of how
the work shall be done. If the determina-
tion is so thorough that not spot of filth
shall be left in streets, alleys, courts,
yards or cesspools, the means Of actually
doing it will not be found wanting.
Let Pittsburg and Allegheny do this
work as it should be done, and they need
not fear cholera, typhoid fever, diph-
liberia or smallpox.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
FERD WARD BETR0THED.
He Finds q Second Affinity in the Person
of Miss Tallman.

He Finds q Second Affinity in the Person
of Miss Tallman.
WORCESTER, MASS, Sept. 2-lSpecfaL1 1.-The
report of the engagement of Ferdinand
Ward, the New York flnancter recently re-
leased from State prison, aud Miss Frances
Tallman, of Thompson, Conn.,, has furnished
food for gossips in that quiet country town.
Ward came to Thompson last spring to visit
his brother-in-law, MIR. Green, who is super
intendent of the Sunday school. His de-
ceased wife was a sister of Mr.. Green, and
was q worthy and devout woman. She left
one child, q boy, born soon after Ward was
committed to prison. Ward has continued
to make his home at Thompson with his lit
tie son, boarding at the hotel. There he met
Miss Tallman. q handsome brunette, who is
an acknowledged belle In the somewhat Sc
lect society of the town. She Is daughter
of the late Rev. Thomas Tallnan, an emf
nent Congregational preacher. She lives
with her mother in a fine home on one of
the elm-shaded streets Of the pretty village.
Ward takes long and frequent drives be.
hind spanking pair of trotters, which, it is
said. were once the property of W. K. Van
derbilt. Miss Thompson is often his COM
panion. While the young lady's friends will
neither affirm nor deny the report of the en-
gagement. the village gossips set It down as
q sure thing, and say the marriage will take
place before many months
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
WORSE BUGBEARs THAN CHOLERA,
Keep Clean, Boil Your Water and Food and
You Will BE Safe.

You Will BE Safe.
The American Druggist
A great many people are giving themselves
unnecessary trouble about cholera. The
disease is only formidable when inadequate
means exists for graphing with it, and in
this country we are fully prepared for it.
Deficient and impure water supply is the
primary cause of its origin in Asia. Dirt,
ignorance and warm weather are the prin-
cipal transmitters of the disease. In Madris
and Calcutta the writer has seen large
mortality from cholera among the poorer
classes where unsanitary conditions pre-
vailed, while Immediately around them
Europeans and natives who observed or
dinary precautions in food and drink were
wholly free from the disease.
Boiling kills all cholera germs, and hence
It is well during a cholera epidemic to boil
all water and milk. Canned goods are, also,
safe diet at such time, If used at once on
opening, owing to the boiling that they
receive In process of canning, which effect
ually sterilizes the contents.
While it may be well enough to quarantine
reaching US from the infected districts in
Russia ana Germany, or shut them out alto
gether for a time. there is no sense in people
being panic stricken here any more than
they have been in France and Spain, where
the cholera has prevailed more or less for
several years. The visitation is likely to be
less serious from the fact we are just enter
ing the cooler months OF the year, when
cholera germs naturally are comparatively
harmless. CONSUMPTION, diphtheria and
typhoid fever are all likely to slay thou
sands while cholera is Staying hundreds; but
because we are familiar with these diseases
we are not afraid of them. Hundreds of
children die in this city every week from
cholera infantum superinduced by bad milk,
but little thought If given SO 1t. No person
need fear the cholera is he exercises ordinary
care in diet, cleanliness and sanitary sur
roundings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITT-FCRG SATURDAY, SEPT. q. 1892.
FOURTEEN PAGES.
NOT EXCLUSIVE ENOUGH.

hanks rather to good fortune than to
cheney Of quarantine, no cholera cases
-e made their appearance on the main
1 Of America at present But each day
lgs some fresh example Of the laxity
ich unavoldably attends any attempted
pection at crowded ports, and emphasizes
necessity for the prohibition ofimmigra-
a. There is a marked contrast between
dilatoriness of the national admins
ton in enforcing proper restrictions at
ports and along the Canadian frontier,
/ the promptness with which inland
inequalities have appreciated the dan
and the energy with which they have
about preparations to resist disease.
"he one sure way to exclude the plague
ists in a total embargo on immigration,
le twenty days of quarantine, or any
eh half way measure, is practically use
s. There is greater pusiIlanimity ex-
essed in abstentiOn from the adoption
effective exclusion than in any other
Irse of action. British authorities do
hesitate to exceed their strict legal
in a case of emergency such as this,
he American Executive should at
make full use of his undisputed
yers. A voluntary undertaking by the
antic transportation companies is not a
icient guarantee Of safety, and nothing
o but a peremptory and stringently
forced order prohibiting immigration.
hat is wanted is prompt realization Of
2 obvious fact that total exclusion now
both easier of accomplishment and more
fective in result than partial quarantine
d the best of treatment if the disease
1uld secure landing.
The measures so far taken are made
ate Such as they are, they meet with
approval of those countries upon which
Y impose most hardship, and there is
D. reason to believe that an increase in
cir stringency to the point of efficiency
lid arouse any foreign opposition. But
risk of arousing foreign displeasure is
rly insignificant as compared with the
ssity of refusing an entrance to
n disease.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03

pany to hire it not to compete In order
that the railroads may be left free to i'm
pose on transcontinental traffic all that the
freight will bear.
The quarrel between these corporate
bands is mainly one over the division of
the booty. Yet it is interesting and salts
factory to learn that the force of compe-
tition on the free ocean makes itself felt
Although the railroads pay the Pacific
Mail a round sum in order to buy it off
from competition they are not able to
choke off other competition. They have
to meet the competition of the merchants
vessel line around Cape Horn, and that
fact leads to the dispute about the division
of the spoils obtained from rates not SUBJ
ject to that competition.
1t is quite possible, though not likely,
that the quarrel may break out into rate
war. If 1T does the transcontinental lines
will cut each others throats for the sole
purpose each of forcing the other to accept
its claims with regard to the distribution of
the plunder. After they have by this
means succeeded in establishing the COM
petition they will 60 to the next Congress
sional or legislative committee and hold
up this method Of suppressing it as an
example of the awful effects of competi-
ton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
THE CHOLERA MENACE.
Does Not Go Far Enough.


Pittsburg Evening Leader.]
The Presidents order tnstitutfng 20-day
quarant inc is well enough as far as it goes.
but the trouble is that it does not go far
enough. 1t does not extend to vessels now
on their way across the ocean, even though
they be known to carry infection; and 1t
does not extend to cabin passengers, the
only real distinction between whom and
the steerage passengers, is that the former
are rich enough to pay for superior accom-
modations. There is no excuse for discrim-
mating between rich and poor in this
fashion. The cholera makes no distinction
of perso ms, and there should manifestly be
no distinction in adopting measures to guard
against the plague. Furthermore it is only
too plain that quarantining is not an ade-
quate provision, since the separate States
are permitted to control its operation inde-
pendently of the Federal Government. If
President Harrison has the courage for
which he receives credit, he will not stop
short with acting on,the Attorney Generals
milk-and-water opinion, but will take the
bull by the horns Immediately and issue a
proclamation prohibiting the landing Of any
passengers, rich or poor, from infected
countries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03

OUIDA has said that every pretty woman
should be f1irt and every clever woman a
politician.
Mrs. A E. n. ROBERTSON, of Muscogee,
I. T., has lately finished translating the New
Testament into the language of the Creek
Indians, from the original Greek.
The sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, is
said to be an excellent pianist, and part of
his daily routine consists IN giving a couple
OF hours instruction to his daughters.
PHILIP G. WRIGHT, of Medford, Mass,
has accepted the Professorship of Mathemats
ics in the Lombard University, Galesburg,
ILL.,, to which place he has moved with his
family.
PART of the money earned by Mrs Custer
last winter and spring in giving parlor lee
lures is devoted to the education of the
daughter of a soldier killed on the same
battlefield with General Custer.
SARAH BERNHARDT yesterday in an in
terview in Brussels expressed her belief that
there was no such malady as cholera, and
further added that she was willing to 60 to
any plague-stricken town and give benefit
performances in aid OF the victims.
THE Hon. Andrew Dickson White, ex-
Minister to Germany, and recently appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, left New
York for his diplomatic post yesterday on
the Hamburg-American packet steamer Au-
gusta Victoria, accompanied by wife and
daughter.
PAUL B. DU CHAILLU says that he has
always loved the young people because
they are the only readers Of his books of
travel who believe the tales OF adventure
told in them. He has many friendships with
small boys and insists on their calling him
Paul Mr.. Du Chaillu is completing novel
of life in the Viking age, to be published
late this fall
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
FREE TRADE wILDNESs.


The vicissitudes of free trade CAM
paign have led the Philadelphia Record to
the srduous task of denying that the reci-
procity policy has increased the sale of
American products In Cuba. This is its
singular way of arguing: "Does the Press
imagine that the Cubans have in the past
ten months consumed 252, 800 barrels more
Of wheat -four and S59, $40 bushels more
Of corn than In the ten months preceding
reciprocity Is it likely that the Cubans
consumed 15,00O, 900 more pounds of lard
or bacon in the last ten months than in the
preceding ten months7"
No one imagines any such thing; but
every well informed person knows that
the former Spanish duties on Cuban i'm
ports subjected these American products
to heavy discriminating duties as COM
pared with the Spanish millers and trad
ers. When American -four had to pay a
duty of nearly S. per barrel it is not
strange that the Spanish millers had nearly
monopoly of the market The reel
procity policy secured a heavy re-
duction of these duties, and Ameri-
can products have been largely
sold in the Cuban markets 1t is probably
true that the cheapness resulting from the
enlarged supply has considerably increased
the total consumption of these staples in
Cuba. But every one not phenomenally
ignorant knows that the great cause of the
increase of this trade was the reduction
of the heavy duties obtained under the
reciprocity provisions of the Mckinley act.
In asserting that "not bushelof wheat
or barrel of -four more has been exported
from the United States by virtue of the
peddling policy of reciprocity" the Record
displays either gross ignorance or deliber-
ate untr1ltb.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
Putting Up the Bars,

THERE is one way in which cholera can be
stopped-all immigration prohibited would
keep the Asiatic pest away.-Ioledo Blade
THERE never was q better time than the
present to stop the immigration of paupers
and convicts sick or well.-Brooklyn Eagle.
WE think that President Harrison should
at once issue a proclamation closing every
port in the country against the landing of
immigrants. That is the only way to keep
the disease out OF the country.-Hdrrisbro
Telegraph.
So far as the Inconvenience to commerce
and immigrants is concerned, Is will be very
great but the first law Of nature is self.
preservation, and the public health during
a cholera epidemic. comes under that head.
-Wheet,ng Register.
To the Government must be intrusted the
duty Of. sedulously guarding the approaches
to the country. Everything that either
science or art can suggest should be re-
sorted to in order to shut the door against
the enemy.-Toronto Mall
IF necessary let the officials burst the
bonds of red tape which hamper them, for
common sense demands that the public well
fare be considered, even at the expense of
disregarding some of the petty technicalities
of the law.-Bdltimore Ne,os
IL the only adequate measure OF prot &C.
tfon be the closing of all our seaports to i'm
migration, let the ports be closed. Ifit be
necessary to guard the northern and south
western frontiers, let that be done promptly
and Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
WE have the immigration abuse on the
run just now. Let us keep it SO until we
have locked the national door against any
governments or steamship management
using our shores for Botany Bay.-cntcaoo
Mdl.
IT has been suggested that Congress be
called together to enact law suspending
immigration in view Of the danger from
cholera. This seems to be case where i'm
migration might well be prohibited first and
Congressional action obtained afterward.-
Cincinnati Times Star
THERE is but one way of protecting our
selves from the threatening scourge And
that one way is total non-intercourse with
those ports ard regions of Europe affected
by it. And this non-intercourse can be
brought about only by the active interven.
tion of the President.-Ne,O York Advertiser
AMERICANS are hurrying home from
cholera-smitten Europe, and wealthy for
eigners now visiting here are making pre-
parations for a prolonged stay, or at least
until the scare is over. The land OF the free
is regarded as a pretty good health resort.
And the way to keep it SO is to bar out the
unclean and diseased immigrants, who
bring contagion with them.-7Toy Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
THE DRAWBACK OF THE FAIRS.

With the fall the season of agricultural
fairs comes in. These exhibitions of ag-
rlcultural successes and the reunions of
agricultural societies serve a distinct and
important purpose. They furnish the
means both for agricultural progress and
rural enjoyment at the season when the
farmers work being well finished he is
entitled to take period of ease and recre-
alton. Yet there is one feature of them
so liable to abuse that all concerned in
them should be on their guard against it.
1t is hardly necessary to say that this is
the feature which has produced the old
appellation agricultural horse trots The
exhibition Of speedy and welltrained
horses is necessary part of every agri-
cultural fair; but the ease with which this
is turned into horse races of the
distinctly gambling type is the one
case above all others that has
damaged the usefulness of the
exhibitions. Ringers, professional jock
eys, pooLselling and set-up races are bad
enough on the race-tracks operated pro-
fessedly for the purposes of racing.
Where they are made part and parcel of
exhibitions of agricultural skill and given
free field for swindling the unwary they
are ten times worse.
Agricultural exhibitions should take
pains to exclude gambling features. This
can easily be done by conining the trials
of speed to animals owned by farmers
within the limits Of the district for which
the fair is held, and rigidly excluding pro-
fessional jockeys and all gambling prac-
tices from their grounds. With the pro-
fessional horse race, the wheel of fortune
and the thimble-rigger all excluded from
the autumn fairs the usefulness of these
gatherings will be unalloyed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
FREE TRADE TROUBLES.

Democratic organs have caught
breath long enough to indulge in very
abuse of Labor Commissioner Peck,
York, for the publication of his
les showing the prosperity of labor
the year 1891. They produce in re-
of bis statistical facts a letter
by him some months ago saying
information was the opposite to
ich be now produces.
eek has prepared for this by stat
he commenced this investigation
belief that the Mckinley act was
us TO the workingmen, and that he
been convinced to the contrary
by the returns to his bureau The
cratic organs must accept one or two
of Peck. Either he is an honest
giving the figures as he finds them
a sense Of official integrity, or the
machinery of the Hill State govern
is manipulated to wreck Mr.. Cleve-
S fortunes. Either conclusion leaves
nocracy in a cleft stick.
erhaps the Cleveland organs will be
,ngthened in taking the latter view by
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
Obituary NoteA

ANNIE JOHNSON. a vocalist and dancer, COM
mitted suicide In st. Louis several days ago. She
was only II years old.
WILLIAM RosENrHAL. . well-known Western
stage manager Is dead in Chicago. aged 49, He
was brother of j. J. Rosenthal, the comic opera
manager.
MRS. McGUFFEY, mother ofthe publishers of the
famous McGufey school readers, died yesterday at
her home in Bethel Pa near Sharon. She was
the Oldest person in Mercer county. being In her
Tooth year.
REV. WILLIAM II. W1rHrNGToN, the Oldest
Harvard graduate. died in jackson. Mich,
Wednesday evening. Mr.. wilmington was o. years
Of age and was classmate Of Ralph Wado Emer-
son. The greater part of his life ne devoted 70
Episcopal ministry in Massachusetts
HON. ARTHUR GAsTINEr died in New Orleans
Wednesday, aged "a years. He was Recorder and
Assistant Recorder of the city for several years be-
fore the war. He was q criminal lawyer Of extern
sive practice and was one Of the leading lawyers
in the defense Of the ltalisns who were acquitteo
hnd subsequently shot to death in Parish prison
last yesr.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
SUGAR GETTING SCARCE,
The Twenty Days Quarantine win Great
Restrict the supply Of Raws.

The Twenty Days Quarantine VIII Greatly
Restrict the supply OF Raws.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.-While the sugar
market generally was much upset to-day, on
account of the proclamation of 20 days quar-
antine for vessels from cholera ports, those
well informed on the subject did not be-
lieve that famine was imminent. There
will, of course, be long delay in the fmpor-
tasion of raw sugar from Hamburg, but the
effect of the shortage will be apparent
chiefly in the increased sale of lower grades
than granulated, which has been staple for
all uses for several years past. The ref1ners
VINO can work in the most beet sugars make
the most money. II Hamburg beet sugars
be shut out-as they are-nothing remains
but Cuba sugars. Sugars from New Orleans
are always taken early in the season; they
were used up long ago. This years Cuba
sugars are nearly exhausted; the few that
remain are held by parties who have with
drawn them from the market The large
MEETINGS at this season have about exhausted
the stocks Of the reflners. The last sale of
raw sugars made public was 1000 packages
at " OF q cent advance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03

the appearance of another report, this
time from the New York Superintendent
of Banking. He produces report show
ing that savings bank deposits in New
York have increased $50, 5,o0o, 900 within a
year. We have yet to learn whether the
Cleveland Democrats will insist on de-
nouncinq this as lie, conceived in politi-
cal corruption and brought forth in party
traacharv
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
ENGLISH CHURcHMEN AGiTArED.

Some Go So Far as to Predict Disruption in
Case OF establishment.
LONDON, Sept. 2-The agitation among En-
glisn churchmen over the effects OF the judg-
ment in the case of the ritualistic bishop Of
Lincoln grows apace. At a demonstration
of representatives of the evangelical section
of the Church, at which the decision OF the
Privy Council was denounced, the speakers
even predicted the disruption of the Church.
The Bishop of Liverpool writes as follows:
doubt that the church will split into two
district bodies. The principal one conceded
that things not mentioned in the prayer
book ought to be tolerated, and 1t will be
impossible to say how far we may CO."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
VICTORIA AND ROsEBERRY.
The Queen Did Not Ask My Lord to Accept
the Foreign Portfolio.


the Foreign Portfolio.
LONDON, Sept. a-As Mr.. Labouchere has
brought Lord Rosebery into his discussion
with Mr.. Gladstone to support his a1lega-
tions that the Queen interfered with Cab
met appointments, Lord Rosebery was
asked to confirm or deny the truth of the
reports. He declined to grant formal in
terview on the subject but the Associated
Press is authorized to state that the report
that the Queen wrote to Lord Rosebery,
urging him to accept the foreign ON ce, is
utterly unfounded, as no communication,
direct or indirect, passed between the Queen
and Lord Rosebery prior to his receiving the
seals of office.
This explicit denial settles the worst in
situation against the Queen-that blaming
her for overruling Mr.. Gladstone's foreign
policy. Mr.. Labouchere himself has gone
to Italy, but, nevertheless, his clique at the
National Liberal Club proclaim their de-
termination to raise in Parliament the ques-
tion of the Queens right to influence the
selection Of Ministers, but they seem likely
to be deprived all ground for protest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
A COMBINATION QUARREL.

The transcontinental combination is in
hot water again. That organization of
railway managers has been in hot water
at intervals for years; and yet it has man.
aged to present as egregious an example
of the prevalent methods for levying ex-
tortion on the public as can well be imag-
ined Ithas for years been paying sub
sidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Rev. James NJ. Swan, Alliance.

Rev. James M. Swan, a Methodist minis
ter, well known in the P1ttsburg Conference, was
buried at Bellevue. His death occurred at ALL
ance. Wednesday. In 1851 he offered his services to
his country by enlisting in Company F, Thirteenth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served faithfully
three years and about one month, and when hon
orably discharged was orderly sergeant in his
regiment. He came home from the South with his
health much impaired and his right arm pierced by
o rebel ball-a memento Of Atlanta. After teach
the Christian ministry. and was admitted to the
Pittsburg Conference. His service In this warfare
was as faithful as that In '8l, hundreds OF
verts all over the territory under the Conference
will testify. In 1888 his voice became impaired,
and for two years he was unable TO speak above
whisper. His death was due to stomach trouble.