Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
A LOOK AROUND.

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the situation to friend: you cannot
imagine how homelike it is here" she says.
cat the hotel with us is the man We buy our
groceries from and his family is with him.
At place across the street is our butcher
and his wife. The man who comes to US
with vegetables drove past this morning In
yellow dog cart The woman get chick
ems from in the market is at q hotel on the
next square, and Tom spoke to man this
morning who he says, is the policeman on.
our street down here on an excursion. MY
dressmaker is here taking hot baths, and
Tom declares his tailor Is making love to
her. A man went past the hotel singing last
night and Tom laughed and said: That's
the man who drives the wagon Of the man
get bottled beer FROM It's good thing our
bills are PAID or we would have time oft
THERE are some artists at work on
the lawns which slope down to Fifth
avenue, between Bellefield and Shady lane.
Within few years lawn gardening, bedding
effects and artfully contrived strawberries
have been made much of by people of means
who hitherto planted a few cannas or lilac
bushes and thought that was all there was
in 1t.
A FEW days ago took up the street car
conductor nuisance As result, one of the
chief owners in large city line said to me:
II wish such cases were always called to our
attention. People who ride on our lines, or
any other lines, are to be politely treated,
and if they are not it is their own fault. A
report as to any deliberate misconduct will
always be attended to promptly. We cannot
afford to have patrons ill-treated. You must
| remember, however, that conductors have
to meet all sorts o. trying people and they
are but human" In view Of this want to
| speak of the conductor of car No. 10, on the
| Pittsburg traction line. He seems to have
made a contract to go through life with his
| arms folded. Fat and helpless women, or
women with children, can go lurching
| through the door, or feeble old men can
tumble in somebody's lap for all that con-
| ductor cares. 1t seems to tire him out to
lift nickels into his pockets Several ladies
have spoken about this man, SO his COM
| plant seems chronic.
"WHY don't you ride bicycle?" asked
| a young lady who was talking about need
| ing exercise. eff had started in some
years ago it would have been all right, but
can't do it now that everybody else does it.
am waiting for something new to turn up
and then will get in early"
THE glass exhibit at the Worlds Fair
will be interesting in one way at least. The
famous Atterbury glass weaving process
will be in operation there. This is the
process by which glass is woven into cloth
like silk. Fanny Davenport had dress
made of this glass cloth for one of her plays
| two or three years ago. All sorts of articles
| OF dress have been made of this ma tertal,
but it does not seem to have become as pop
| ular as it was supposed 1t would. told a
| Frenchman about it once and his comment
| was chara cteristic, "Heavens, what a thing
| for opera cloaks and bonnet trimmings!'
| $50 g. Sos business is about run down, I"
remarked a man last night. "That's the
reason it is going to be wound up by an as
| signee," retorted a lawyer.
| SMOOTH streets are an economy which
| will lead to a city's wealth. There was a
| time when the rolls of cable for the traction
| roads had to be hauled over temporary
| tracks laid for that purpose. Now that the
streets to Shadyside station are asphalted,
! the horses pull the huge roll along to the
| power house without much trouble.
| THESE new cable outfits are expensive
things. i am told that an outfit of cable for
the Fifth avenue line costs about $l2,O
Is not hydrophoDla an accom- panlment OF
| dog daze?
THE City of Paris, which sails to-mor-
| row, will have no less than Al Pittsburge rs
| on board, and almost so others sail on other
| vessels within week.
FROM what is said of these concerts in
the Allegheny Park 1 should think it would
not be bad idea for some officers in plain
clothes to keep an eye on them, or rather on
| some of those who attend them.
| "WHAT kind of people come here for
| Dooks?" was asked OF an employe of the Car
negie Library. cat least IS per cent are peo-
| pie who could not afford to buy books" was
| the reply. "If you examined the vol
| umes you would find that text books and
aids to study are used to a very great extent
by young and middle-aged working people" :"
| Two systems of free baths are sadly
needed, and they should be operated col
lectively. In one they could wash the water
and in another the people who cannot afford
to pay for the privilege. WALTER.