Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24

and again. Oh, it is gleeful contemplation
this steady inflow of gold, but the outflow,
well, that's different However, "alls well
that ends WELL and this season is going to
be a success despite its slow start.
There are any number of amusements to
choose from. The Academy of Music has
he zen rebuilt and is turning away hundreds
nightly: Sardanapoos sends up frry bat
talions of pyrotechnics nightly, while there
'reI hundreds of concerts and other amuse-
ments.
Captain Andrews has dsparted on his dar,
WednesIi.7 .tfferroon ehA. little 1O-foot dory
was swung from the end OF Young & Nc
Shea's ocean pier, and when she touched the
water Captain Andrews spilled little jar
of milk on her bow and christened her, after
the biblical style. The name he called her
had previously been given to brand of
soap, SO the Captain will make no attempt
30 prove originality so far as the
nomenclature is concerned. But the start
was hinge success so far as crowds can be
rated as such, for the pier was fairly packed
with q curious mass sofhumsnity. The wind
was not favorable to the project, for after
an attempt of two three hours the little
midget was nut about and run into the port
at Brirantine Beach. She will not go to sea
again until the wind changes.
Andrews. the Bod Sailor.
Andrews was born in Pittsburg, in an old
house owned by the late Captain Barriu, To-
Gated on the upper end of Wylie avenue.
lie doesn't remember very much about the
Gas City, but he loves to tell people that he
WAS born there. The boat is a canvas-cov-
cred one. During his former trips he found
that his wood bottom crafts had become
heavily weighted with baInacles and sea-
weed, which greatly bampered the progress
of the boats, and he claims that the canvas
will avert this trouble. The deck is on the
whaleboat pa ttern. There is an opening, or
cockpit in nautical vernacular, 2x7 1eet,
ln which there is just room enough
ior person to sit comfortably:
e1E N1,S,
weather. Under the decks are compart-
ments in which the provisions stored.
The mast rises feet above the deck and is
j feet long. Tie gaf is 10 feet, and the
total amount of sail carried is less than Is
square yards. Three hundred pounQs of
lead are securely fastened to the bottom
and il will he practically impossible for the
boat o capsize. Should an accident hap
pen, she will need no assistan ce to right her.
self. There are no waterproof or alright
commitments, but everything will be open.
The Pittsburg colony has succumbed to
the unity pc mania which is epidemic here
every season This year the bacteria is
more prevalent and more virulent than
ever. After arriving at the beach the first
idea that assaults the Pittsburg brain is to
put on the bathing suit. The ene1t is to have
"a tintype taken to be sent to the folk at
home.
The girls and young men make up parties
and descend in a body on the boardwalk
photographers, who regard the craze as q
special act of providence The victims are
v,
in couples and in groups OF three, four
or any number. There is Pittsburg
maiden at Congress Hall who has
been tintyped in no less than TWENTY-FIVE
different positions, and one of her male
friends boasts record nearly as great. The
pictures are exchanged between friends
and in this way the young people accumu-
late large collections to be sent home as
souvenirs. But visitors with the tintype
mania should take a lesson from the Pitts.
burg maiden already re lerred to and label
opla Tnf n 4ln al.
Collecting Tin Types q Fad.
Last season this girl collected over 800 of
the little portraits. She slowed them away
in trunk and did not disturb them until
last week, when on looking at them she was
panied to discover that she had forgotten
the names of three-fourths of the originals.
There is a merry war in progress between
the summer girl and her troublesome ad-
mirers. You see the summer girl likes to
ride on the toboggan in spite of the long,
dark tunnel through which she must shoot
at the risk of being kissed by a daring es.
cort. Not that she objects to the principle of
kissing, but there are times when she can
dispense with that kind of enjoyment. One
girl went so far as to wear a baseball catch
ers mask while tobogganing, but the scheme
was too cumbersome to become popular
So something else had to be DONE
IL wasn't long before the crafty dam.
sci hit upon an idea, and now
when any designing youth asks her to go
tobogganing she consents only on the con-
dition that as soon as the car strikes the |
dreaded tunnel he will begin to whistle and |
keep it up until daylight appears. 1t was a |
good game while it lasted, but the canny
youth has found the way to beat it. He |
cheerfully pledges himself TO keep a-whist- |
ling and then has a friend on the seat back |
to perform the kissing operation for him. |
Seats are exchanged for the next girl, SO |
that each youth has a turn at WI whistling and /
a turn at the more enjoyable performance |
Surprisign as the assertion is, the women |
who bathe at Atlantic City are better swim. /
mers than the men. This is not meant in an /
sense bnt as a class. An old life |
guard, explanation, attributed ir to the |
TACT that the women outnumbered the men /
fully ten to one, and as rule go into the |
surf with greater regularity. The same old /
life guard also declared that women are
more daring than men, take more naturally /