Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-31

different ways. The burden Of evidence
seems to be that many are benefited, but 1t
doesn't grow out legs and bring new arms.
1t is town OF lighthouses, hotels and board
Ing houses. You como here to spend money,
and there are hundreds Of denizens Of the
town whose special duties are to see that you
spend It. First bathhouse springs up, then
omoes. Each % doctor or" has as in his
employ his men at the hotel, his attendant
runner to the trains. AS to their capacity
know nothing. How well they diagnose
case can best be inferred from their manner
Of doing business. As to their capacity for
diagnosing prices there can be no question.
Don'r understand by this that there are not
some reputable physicians here, men OF
character and ability who do not descend to
questionable methods, but they are the ex-
ception, and tile charlatans and Pharisees
are many.
There Is some amusement as WELL as dis
covered few days ago when jolly
party or Ptttsburgers invited me to Join
them in fishing excursion ON Lake Erie.
Everybody f1shed when the lake was
reached, although believe in a party of l6
there were only eight arms that were ft for
actual service. Rheumatism they all called it
and we will let it 20 at that
Red Hair and White Fishes.
Agood-natured German friend from Pitts
burg with red whiskers sat next me and
drove me crazy screeching out: IT have got
anuZzer one," while the fish passed by my
bait in idle scorn. He was in the bow of the
boat, and the girl in the rear cabin that did
all the fishing wore O red jacket. l don't
know whether there was any sympathy be-
tween the whiskers and the red jacket, but
the fish were white ii that means anything.
The town has another adjunct that seems
to be one OF its institutions in the shape of q
flock OF gamblers that seem to have beon
gathered with special fitness for their duties
from all over the country. The festive
"steerer," always gentlemanly in appear
ance and manner, hovers, ,vulture-like, about
the hotel bathhouses, selects his man, al
lures him into one of the several traps that
flourish, seemingly with full protection from
the authorities, pIucks the bird well and
turns him out to subsist and grow fat on the
foulsmelling mineral waters. One of these
gentry informed me the other day that it
had been hard season on the fraternity.
Wnile the cripples may remind you of
Carlsbad there is something else that brings
vivid recollections OF the Partisan "cocotte."
1t is the MI Clemens waiter" girl. She is
sometimes native and to the manner born,
but more often she is imported and she
blossoms in every hotel in tins mineral
blessed city. She is the pink of propriery
from 8 A. n. until sundown and then her
halcyon days, or rather nights, Degin. IL is
eithor ride to the lake shore or an all-nighr
dance ct one of what are termed "club-
houses" and then a hilarious ride home
somewhere in the small hours. The town
abounds with this product and in the morn
ing at breakfast it stands arrayed In i'm
maculate white. full of dignity, waits for
your order and manages to bring you pigs
ieet when you order potatoes as its mind
wanders away to that last sweet waltz
with Charley"
How q Pittsburger Got Cured.
believe that many who come here in
very bad shape 90 away thoroughly cured,
but must tell you Of 8 well-known Pitts