Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
A LOOK AROUND.

THAT the Western Union Telegraph
Company is big thing is about as fully
realized as that the Pennsylvania Railroad
company Is another Of the same flk. have
had pretty fair opportunity to learn some.
thing of telegraph company's business,
| but must confess was surprised to notice
the number "1460" on a message which
came to me recently. 1t meant that fourteen
hundred and sixty messages had been re-
cefved that day by the Western Union Com
pany at the Pittsburg office. made some
inquiries at the main office day or two
| later and was told that the average business
utgoing-amountedt to about J, 800 messages
daily, while the messages received numbered
on an average !, 800
| In addition to this there is the tele-
graphic money order division of the W. u.
which in this city does business Of
nearly $5oo.0o0 year. The clerks say
that about $4,000 is sent out monthly
In telegraphic money orders and about the
| same amount is received. This $4,000
month Is divided usually into about 800
| orders. If you ever have suddenly found
yourself dead broke many hundreds of miles
from home you can appreciate the beauty of
a telegraphic money order, but otherwise
you can form no just idea
WHILE in the way OF talking OF telegraph
business, it is quite fitting to call the atten-
ton of the company to the wretched accom-
modatfons afforded to the public by the
western Union in the East End. The main
office in East Liberty is in the stocl1yards,
where lady naturally does not care to
venture. There is another office somewhere
In loft on Penn avenue, but it is not worth
considering. At the stockyards office there
are four messenger boys If a frst-cass
Office should be opened on one of the chief
East Liberty streets, where good mes
senger service could be had, it would be an
Improvement which would be highly
appreciated and literally patronized.
FAT man in his shirt sleeves sat on a
stool which he tilted so he could lean
against the wall near the entrance to an
alley. At his right was a two-story building
with front made up of big glass doors ana
windows on the lower floor 1t looked as
though it had been barber shop or perhaps
saloon in the time OF low licenses A
wagon was driven within fifty feet of the
man on the stool and halted. On the wagon
were dozen or more beer kegs. The driver
OF the wagon looked not at the man on the
stool nor did that parsonage look at the
driver. He merely looked at COW grazing
on the hillside opposite and nodded. The
driver at once began to carry the beer kegs
into the mouth Of the alley and then disap-
peared for few moments. All the kegs
were thus unloaded. The lounger arose as
the last key went by and sauntered into the
alley behind the driver, who came out pres
emily with his hand in his right vreeches
pocket. In five minutes, he Of the stool re-
appesred and wiping his mouth with his
sleeve, reiapsed into a reverie. 1t was early
on Saturday morning. The speak-easy was
loaded for Sunday. The policeman on the
beat soon after walked by. He saw nothing
not even the COW on the hillside which had
been nodded unto.
AMERICANS abroad just now who have
expected to lay in a stock of London clothes
Will have an annoying experience through
the lockout of 5000 ;ourneymen tailors in
the English metropolis. 1t seems funny to
read the high tone of some English papers
on American labor troubles at a time when
they have so much unrest among their own
workmen.
'MoNEYp exclaimed banker who was
asked about loan yesterday, ''why, there is
more idle money at this time in Pittsburg
than ever before in its history
CHICAGO real estate has great attraction
for PittsburC capitalists. Among those who |
are neaVy investors IN the windy City in |
business and residence properties are John |
Walker and Henry Phipps. Their pnr- |
chases within the past ten years have |
amounted to hundreds of thousands of |
dollars Several other Pittsburgers are |
heavy holders of real estate in Minneapolis |
and st. Paul.
IT may be paradoxical, but hard-work-
ing clergyman should hold sinnercure
THERE is a mint OF money to be made BY
some man who will build cheap, but safe
and substantial tenement flats in the lower
part of Pfttsburg or out Penn avenue SOME
where between Tenth and Twentieth |
streets. The property which is now used
for somewhat similar purposes, is usually OF |
a tumbledown description, but it pays from
15 to 20 per cent, the real estate agents say,
and is held largely by sharp Spectators,
who constantly watch for such opportuni-