Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-17
ALOOK AROUND.

for the Pittsburg and Western Railroad. II
appears that the most important of the
changes will not be made until next year
On the day before Christmas work will be
stopped on such improvements as are now
IN progress The work of the present year
consists of 26 miles of new double track, and
the strengthening of many OF the curves and
cutting OF number of grades. At present
the line is double tracked to Bryant, point
six miles from Allegheny. A single track
then runs over the heavy grade, and then
at Donneyville the double track begins
again and runs for 26 miles; then there are
miles of single and then miles OF
double into New Castle The heavy work OF
next year will be the cutting of a tunnel
halfa mile long through the mountain be-
yord Bryant The bulk of the Northwest
ern business of the Baltimore and Ohio will
now go over the Pittsburg and Western.
THERE is a story adoat from one of the
clubs-one of the newer ones, in fact-whick
Is worth the telling. Grumpy is tall and
stout, and has stiff, iron-gray hair and fair
daughter. Humpy is tall and stout and has
curly brown hair, and loves the daughter
aforesaid. Both belong to the same club,
and have had casual chatting acquaint-
ance for some time. Grumpy is rich.
humpy draws good salary and has ex-
| pectat1ons. Both men go to the same tailor,
and both, as luck would have it, got dark
! Dlue overcoatS from the same firm in New
York. One night not long ago these two
left their club about the same time and
by different directions reached the same
corner and got on the sume car. They
nodded to each other and sat down on
| opposite sides. Grumpy lapsed into a brown
study and Humpy into an evening paper.
Humpy found the paper stupid and went
into musng fit. Grumpy reused himself,
thrust his hand into his overcoat pocket,
| drew forth a letter without an envelope,
| stared at it in surprise and then, with grow
ing astonlshment, proceeded to read it. lie
| became very red in the face and his eyes
equaled forty-candle power lamps on
| dark night. He read the letter again and
| grew redder as he read. Then he reached
| into the pocket whence the letter came and
| fished out an envelope and. reading the ad-
| dress, he reached his highest possible degree
/ of redness and bubbling indignation.
| Humpy, in the meantime. all unconscious
| of what was going on across the car, seemed
| given over to pleasant fancies and finally
| put on a beattf1c smile. Then he, toe, reached
| into his pocket, drew iorth q letter, glanced
at it and put on a redness like unto that of
his ris-a-Uis, except that its background was
horror instead of anger. He groped around
| in the coat pockets. drew forth several
| articles, which were evidently stranger to
| him, and then, for the first time, glanced
I across the car and caught Grumpy's glance
| full upon him. "Tum Tum street," shouted
| the conductor. Grumpy arose and, bending
down, remarked: "I guess I've got your coat.
Get off here and we'll change if that is mine
you have on" That is all 1 know, except
that they go out in the car together now ana
seem to be warm friends, and sometimes
Miss Grumpy is with them, so 1 suppose
Humpy made good argument that night.
A FEW davs ago fine-looking, well-built
man surprised me by stopping me on the
street. We exchanged greetings and then
went and had lunch together. 1 wondered
what the Smartest detective on the pay roll
OF the corporation of London was doing
here and he explained that he had a cousin
in Allegheny whom he had stopped over to
visit. He was over here after some evil
dence, he said, and we had q laugh over an
experience of which we were both wit
nesses. Last summer, as that queen of
the ocean, the City of Paris, was going east
ward, this detective was on board. He had
as a companion rather nice-looking, merry,
young Hebrew. Nobody knew anything of
either man and they both picked up the
usual acquaintapces common to an ocean
voyage. The detective proved an interest
ing talker in a quiet way and the high
spirits OF the other served him in good
stead with several young women with whom
he played quoits and paced the deck. Some
body leaked the day before we landed and
there was much horror among the ladies.
That nice looking man a detective? Good
gracious! And that other man under ar
rest for getting away with a stock of
jewelry he had bought on credit2 Awful
And the air was chilly indeed after that.
WHILE my whilom fellow voyager is
member OF the city of London police and
entirely under the control of the Lord
Mayor and aldermen, with nothing to do
with theS Scotland Yard folks, ne was
naturally in position to know
something of that shadowy ana
highly disagreeable parsonage who
wrote himself "Jack the Ripper in
letters of carmine, and asked him if there
was anything new in police circles about
the case. "No," said e,with a gloomy look,
"the fellow has succeeded in hiding from the
hundreds of men who have been looking for
him all these months. 1 do not think it was
Deeming, the Australian chap who was
hanged, although some OF the men ON the
force do hold that theory. The man who
did that work was a crazy butcher, feel
sure of it. 1t is not generally known, but it
is fact that one of the stupid old fellows
on the police force saw Jack running away
from the woman he killed in Mitre court,
and it is fact that some words he wrote on
the wall in chalk were rubbed out under
instructions from Sir Charles Warren, Com
of Police without haiuo nbOt0.