Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-22
FLOUR FROM KANSAS.
Aid Coming to the Homestead Work.
: ers From Many Places.
SERVICES IN THE MILL AND CAMP.
The Company Said to Lose $1S0,OOO Each
Day the Mill Runs.
COLONEL HULINGS AS A DISCIPLINARIAN

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Homestead vas dull and quiet yesterday
The locked-out men made no move and
nothing transpired out of the usual routine
In the morning DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts, o.
Allegheny, held services in the mill
Some 700 or 800 men listened to his talk
and colored orchestra from Pittsburg fur
nished the music He talked along the
line that Christian faith rests upon reason
| He tried to prove the existence of Goo
through the manifestation in nature. No
| where in his remarks did he make an allu.
sion to the present Homestead troubles.
Last evening Chaplain Hayes, of the
Fifteenth Regiment, held services in camp,
and the Sixteenth Joined with them. The
Chaplain's subject was "What Shall Man
Give in Exchange for His Soul?" "What is
the soul?". he asked. ''That is not easily
answered. We believe we are immortal,
and in this trust we live. Christ came not
only to discover to US our own Immortality,
but to reveal the process of the souls
redemption. The materialsts refer to the
formations of matter. The answer of the
realists is that the universal principle of
humanity is manifested in physical organ
isms. The common doctrine of the Holy
Scripture and of the church is that the soul
is distinct individual substance, having
personality and immortality"
Mills to Start on Double Turn.
Manager Potter had little to give out yes
terday. He said that the greater part of
the mills would be started on double turn
this week. A large boarding house is to be
built on the City Farm ground, 'front.'
ing on Eighth avenue. 1t is not
known how soon the work will CON-
mence. 1t is also the intention of
the company to build number
of houses upon the hill. Mr. Potter tn inks
men will be allowed to live on the outside
The barber shop opened for business on
SATURDAY. night There is considerable
sickness among the men. The cases are
not serious and many OF them do not even
need to go to the hospital
Chairman Crawford, of the Advisory
Committee, last night said: "An official of
the company in recent interview said they
had not sent out any letters to the old men
asking them to come back to work since the
time thev sent the general notification.
This is untrue. I have on file number
of letters they have written to our men.
We will show them later. The company
also claims that none of its Government
work has been rejected. This cannot be-
lieve, for when we were working there was
a certain amount of it rejected, and think
we understood the work better than the
present employee
Kansas Farmers Send Flour.
81 have it on good authority that no
union workmen will work on any of the
company's new houses. Last night re-
ceived letter from a number of Kansas
farmers telling me that they would ship US
two carloads of -four if would tell them
who to send it to. We will take
the fonr. The theaters of Pitts
burg, Chicago and Cleveland have
written the Advisory Board asking us to
name date and they Will give us a benefit.
They promised to turn over the receipts of
both matinee and evening performance.
We will take their offers. have been
figuring it up and the company is losing in
These were about the gross re-
ceipts of day when the old
men were at work, estimating each mans
wages at 50 per day. The company's ad-
dtional loss is something over $4,000 day.
This is the daily expense of feeding and
keeping the non-union men. The Advisory
Board wishes to thank the Great Eastern
Italian Band and its prompter, Colonel
Moore, for the music at the picnic at Ross
Grove Friday"
Rev. DR.. Barnard of Tonawanda, N. Y,
preached in the Episcopal Church yester-
day. Many of the soldiers attended. He
is guest of the Fifteenth Regiment.
Colonel Hulirgs a Disc plinarian.
Yesterday General Wiley spent the after
noon in visiting the camps. He first in
spected Camp Sam Black, and then went
across the river TO the provisional guard.
Later in the day he was taken down on the
Little Bill to see the guard at Duquesne.
The General said he had found everything
IN good shape.
Colonel Hulings, of the Sixteenth, is
strict disciplinarian. Saturday night one
of his pickets left his post and went to the
Colonel's kitchen and stole two water
melons. Il was discovered in the morning
and the Colonel set out to find the
offender. 1t was hard work and the
clew led him into the Fifteenth Regi-
ment, but he could not find his man.
Finally he found he was on the wrong
scent. He came back to his own regiment,
and after considerable detective work ap-
pretended the culprit. 1t turned out to be
the Youngest boy in his regiment.
The boy confessed, as did an older men,
Der of the Guard who had plannd the raid
and helped to eat the melons. Colonel
Hulings reprimanded the men, but
thought this punishment not severe
enough for the offense. Both of
the guards were ordered to carry a rail for
four hours and have placards put on them.
The lettering on the sign of the younger
boy was 81 left my post" The other
man followed him bearing this inscrip-
tion, "And knew he did it.'
Captain A. j. Davis, of Company D,
Fifteenth Regiment, leaves tomorrow tor
Clarion, on q two weeks furlough. He