Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05
A PIrTSBURG sHEAF.

Short Stories Harveated in Tawn-The Blue
Cloud Over the Bleachers-Dr. Hollands
ssmmsr Work and Play-This City Is 2
| Diamond Market.
| On any fairly calm day If you look ever
the ball field from the boxes above the
| grand stand at Exposition Park, you will see
cloud OF blue smoke hanging over the
bleachers. At first. especially II the Pitts
burg team Is playing yellow game. you
may be inclined to believe that profanity
| has made the air blue above the bleaehers,
but a closer examination will reYeal the fact
that the smoke proceeds from q forest OF
tobies and cigars 1t is true that when the
game is going against our home heroes the
| cloud becomes denser. You know how
| furiously most smokers puff when per-
| turbed in mind.
There is another thing about the bleachers
which cannot he so easily explained. On
| ordinary days, as any regular attendant at
the ball games must have noticed, the right
field bleachers, and also the right-hsnd wing
OF the grand stand, are preferred. On holi-
days, for some unsorutable reason, the left
feld bleachers I'LL up first. This was no
ticeable at the morning game on Decoration
Day. At both games on that day 1t was also
noticeable that nobody seemed to care about
going into the triangular pen in center field.
Having paid 5ocents they apparently pre-
ferred standing upon the field to sitting in
the seats of the lowly Is ceuters, which were
therefore given up to a few small boys with
less pride.
Why He Frefers Coal to Gas
"A Pittsburg manufacturer who has had
for some years moro or less regular sup
ply of natural gas at his mills, from his own
wells, said to me yesterday: II am not pre-
pared exactly to say that have lost money
by using gas. but when think Of the
anxiety as we'll as the costiness of drilling
wells I'm not sorry that circumstances are
compelling me to return to coal. Granting
the convenience. and divers advantages, of
gas supply drawn from yorr own wells,
really think that 1t isn't worth the bother Of
getting, II it were only the money, though
- 600 or "a, 600 is quite sum, that one lost In
q dry hole, IT would be bad enough, but
there's time and peace of mind as well.
Now / order my coal, 1t comes in carloads
in my works, and know what my fuel is
going to cost me for year ahead WITH
urer who goes into the gas producing bust
ness becomes gambler and for this reason
If for no other the return of Pittsburg's in
dustries to coal basis will be blessing.
rr. Hollands Well-Earned Holiday.
The work which Dr. Holland has done
since he became President of the Western
University no one outside can properly ap-
preciate. In the University itself the results
of that work are very plainly apparent, and
hear on all sides, from professors as we'll
as young men who are being licked into
shape there, nothing but praise for Dr.
Holland. It is no easy task to carry out the
programme which DR.. Holland has undsr-
taken, and it is telling upon him. This
summer he wisely proposes to try an entire
change of scene, but he will not cease
work-he couldn't-but will merely vary 1t.
Meeting him the other night in the lobby of
the Duquesne Theater-for DR.. Holland was
one of the many clergymen noticed in the
audience which saw the Tuesday Night
Club give q capital performance Of "Diplo-
macy"-he told me that this summer he in
tended crossing over to London in order
Sington Museum.
II wish to compare my collection Of Afri-
can butterflies with the one in the Kensing-
ton Museum" said Dr.. Holland, "and to re-
wise my classification of the little known
lepidoptera OF the Dark Continent, by the
light Of the latest discoveries"
man, even when it is no longer than the
transatlantic steamers now make the trip
from New York to Liverpool, is that
on board ship it is next to impossible for the
in the smoke room may be said to keep their
mentality uppermost, but the majority of
passengers find that the stomach rules-tf
they are seasick by means that need not be
dwelt upon, ii they are good sailors by keep
ing them on the qui vive for the gong which
sounds the tocsfn for meals.
Diamond-Studded Labor.
-'fPittsburg is the best market for dia-
monds at retail in the United States" said
man who is q broker in precious stones to
me yesterday. "It has been for some time.
The reason for this is the large number of
people of the middle class-I mean tho mid.
die class in regard to vealth-who are locat-
ed hare. So many men get big wages in the
mills and manufactures, and it is to them
that sell most of my diamonds. They buy
diamonds in preference to other things of
large value, take it, because they know
they can easily get their money back for
them. Diamonds do not fuctuate, and they
sell for what they are worth. They cannot
get soiled or worn. and if You buy good
diamond to-day for $500, for instance, you
have reasonable assurance that you can
sell it again five years hence for as much as
trade selling diamonds on the condition that
II ever the purchaser wants his money back
he can get it by paying only per cent in
terest per annum to the man from whom he
bought them"
By chance the other day I encountered a |
salesman Tor a wholesale house, |
and was shown his method Of carrying |
bIOCk. lESt Vi MI, tuc suicSuioH
his vest and drew from it q large pocket |
book something like the satchel used by |
bank messengers. In this receptacle were |
the gems, each wrapped securely in its en- |
velope of soft tissue paper. There were |
jewels worth S250. 900 there. At night If he |
stopped at hotel the pockethook, securely |
wrapped and sealed. went into the safe.
you do not often hear of diamond rob- |
berries, that Is, from travelling men," he |
said, "because, in the first place, the men
chosen for this work are exceptionally re- |
liable and steady in their habits; and, Sec |
ondly, because they never take out their |
goods from their strong vault inside the |
vest, and thirdly, because it is generally |
known that they carry revolvers and know |
how to use them."
Literature and Liquor.
cit is curious" said wholesale liquor |
dealer on the southside "what variety of |
come around the bottles jugs and |
demijohns that customers bring to be filed |
at our store. There are newspapers in all |
LANGUAGES and from almost all civilized |
countries: French, German, English, Irish !
and Polish as well as American. Now and |
then we get an Anarchist sheet, and by way
weekly. The other day was astonished to
recognize the Declaration of Independence
ls unrolled quart bottle which was to be
illed with good old Monongahela. The
precious document had evidently been torn
rom oller, upon which it had hung rs an
to some patriots parlor. I was
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