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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
THE BOULEVARD PROPOSITION.

The contemplated ordinance locating
the Fifth avenue boulevard from the Al
legheny river to Frankstown avenue is
stated to be the first step for driveway
from Schenley Park to the northeast cor
ner of the city. The purpose is to estab-
lish wide street which shall be especially
devoted to driving, and will be kept clear
of traction lines. Such an avenue will
add greatly to the enjoyable features of
the East End, and will be duly appre-
ciated by the residents of that section.
The natural supposition is that the cost
of opening and improving this boulevard
will be, under the street act of last year,
assessed on the properties benefited. If
it were to be paid for out of general tax
alton there might be grave objections
from other parts of the city, which would
gain little benefit from such an ornament,
and which have already manifested some
jealousy at the large park improvements
accorded the district east of Oakland and
Lawrenceville. But under the street act
there is little danger of any large expend-
iture being made without the concur
renee of the majority in interest and num-
ber of the people who will have to pay
for it. If the abutting property owners
support the project they will obtain full
returns in the improved value of their
property by the creation of so attractive a
feature for their section.
This work properly carried on will add
another to the projects by which Mr..
Bigelow has signalized his management of
the Department of Public Works. At
present it looks as if he would establish
the record of having found Pittsburg
without parks and with abnormally paved
avenues, and have 1t converted into city
of parks, well-paved streets and attrac-
tive driveways
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
TUESDAY, MAY 10. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
A MUNICIPAL DILEMMA.

The question whether contracts must be
submitted to the Mayor for approval be-
fore they can be made valid was brought
up with new force by Controller Morrow's
communication to Councils yesterday. So
long as this issue was presented merely as
a claim of the Mayors it might be ignored
or denied by Councils. But when the
Controller publicly takes the stand that 81
will not consider myself sufficiently en-
powered to pay any bills under those con-
tracts until the power of the Councils to
bind the city in that manner is established
beyond reasonable doubt" he presents
the alternative to Councils of either ac-
knowledging the authority of the Mayor
or procuring from court a decision against
it.
The logic of the case presented by the
Controller comprises an interesting dilem-
ma. Either the making of contracts is an
executive function-in which case the
Mayor as the chief executive has the pow
er-or it is a legislative act which requires
the approval of the Mayor to perfect
which latter the Controller points out to
be the real case This is indisputable in
theory, but the question whether the city
charter does not discard theory in some
respects is one that the courts will have to
decide. Experience has taught the city
not to anticipate any given decision by the
courts.
Unprejudiced minds will have no diff
Guilty in recognizing that to accept the
power of approval of contracts by the
Mayor will erect an additional check on
contracts at excessive prices. The pres
ent situation points to ruling on the ques-
ton by the courts, which alone will fur
nish an authoritative settlement
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
A SUGAR TRUST JEREMIAD.

J. o. Donner, one of the gentlemen who
received from the Sugar Trust an amount
of stock supposed to be double the valua-
ton of his refinery, turns himself loose in
an interview in the New York Tribune on
the proposition to repeal the half cent
duty on refined sugar. After saying that
the repeal would only mean reduction of
4 cent per pound, Mr.. Donner lifts the
voice of lamentation to the following
effect:
And for this small amount, which means
to the people OF the United States with an
average yearly consumption of 80 pounds OF
sugar per capita) only l215 cents per annum,
or a fraction more than l cent per
month, it is proposed to overthrow the e1-
istimg tariff laws and ruin an industry with
about $4,000 600 of investment, employing
900 of cash capital in its business.
1t will not fail to occur to the reader of
the exclamation that Donner is weak in
his arithmetic as well as his logic. One
quarter of sixty is fifteen and not twelve
and half Now the postulate that Is cents
per annum from each inhabitant of the
United States, or over 100000 in the
total, is such trivial sum that no one should
object to having it squeezed from the
people by criminal combination might
do if the Sugar Trust would confine itself
to that squeeze. But inasmuch as the ad-
vance on account of the consolidation is
already fifty per cent greater than the
margin named, the public have right to
object 1t will also occur to the public
that if the sum to be saved is so trivial as
Donner represents, why should it bank
rupt the Sugar Trust? A mere seven and
one-half millions, which is the sum that
gentleman states, ought not to burst up
corporation which can swell its capital to
S75,oO0,OOO bya simple resolution.
.SupposiDg that the prophecy of disaster
INDUCED in by Dopner is realized-which
no one believes-it should be understood
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
SCIENCE TO THE RESCUE.
It Ascertains That Dog Was Not Mad and
Relieves a Mans Mind

PHILADELPHIA, May 8. On Sunday,
March 20, the serenity of Weldon was dis
turbed by the transit of a homeless yellow
cur, which ran through the main street,
scattering the few pedestrians and biting
several other dogs in his light. Michael
Hoolahan came along in the midst of the
excitement. The dog sprang upon him
and bit him on the left thumb. Hoolahan
quickly recovered himself and shot the ami
NAL, badly wounding it. The dog escaped
to the neighboring woods. Early in the
evening, however, Hoolahan and two COM
panions armed themselves and tracked the
wounded brute to the woods by the bloody
trail in the snow. Several loads of heavy
shot ended its career.
The local physician cauterized Hoolahan's
woundand advised him to secure the head of
the supposed mad dog and take it to the Uni
versity Hospital for examination. Acting
on this advice, Hoolahan chopped off the
head, wrapped it in newspa per and carried
it to the University. DR.. Abbott cut out the
brain and dissolved it, securing liquor
with which he subsequently inoculated
several rabbits. Two rabbits inoculated
several weeks ago, have as vet failed to
develop any symptoms of rabies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
Minor Social Gossip.

. ONE of the social events of last week was
the marriage of John Holmes Dorrington,
chief electrician of the county Court House.
to Miss Sophia Elizabeth Cook, of this city,
on Tuesday. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. G. Z. Locke, Dinwlddie street, after
which they proceeded to the residence of
the groOms sister, Mrs. w. /. Muslin, Craig
street. Shadyside. The couple have gone to
Housekeeping on Forbes street.
HOWARD EVANS, of Mt. Oliver street,
Thrty-first ward, is making Il tour of the
South and West with MI. Enoch j. Adams,
general salesman of Thomas Evans u Co.,
glass manufacturers, SOuthside, as his
cicerone. They were in Nashville, Tenn, on
the occasion OF the recent lynchings there.
THERE will be meeting of the Microscop-
ical Society this evening at the Academy of
Art and Science. As everyone knows, the
NEE etings of this society are always remarka-
bly, interesting and instructive.
THE marriage of Miss Henrietta Happier
to Mr. William Maisch. both OF Allegheny, is
to take place this evening in st. Jonn's
Evangelican Lutheran Church, Madison
avenue. Allegheny.
The marriage of Mr.. j. NJ. Dennfston, son
of w H. Denniston, of Ellsworth avenue, to
Miss Estella Durand, of Lake Forest, ILL.,, is
to take place in that city tomorrow.
THE first "at home" of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
G. Paulson will be held Thursday of this
week at their residence, 81 Arch street, Alle-
gheny.
THE annual dinner OF the Junta Club is to
take place at the Duquesne Club this even
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Locomotives Driven by Compressed Air.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:

Locomotives Driven by Compressed Air.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The experience of n rail way engine man
in running locomotive by compressed air
was antedated many years ago by Alexander
Holly, the famous engineer. When an ap-
prentice at locomotive shop, near Jersey
City, he had given the matter secret study,
and finally wngered workman that he
could drive a locomotive one mile on the
Meadows without steam, fire. water or fuel.
Permission to make the experiment. was
obtained from the proper source, and q
new locomotive was attached to another
and hauled out the line to the point where
the test was to be made, Mr.. Holly riding
unaccompanied upon it, this being one of
the provisions of the wager. He then cut
loose and drove his engine over the pre-
scrfbed distance in triumph and won his
wager.
He h ad placed the reverse lever, while be-
ing hauled, in a position which caused the
valves to move as when running in the op-
posite direction to that in which he was be-
ing drawn, and thus converted the cylinders
into air pumps or compressors. and through
an open throttle filled his boiler with air,
which he utilized as power to drive the en-
g1ne oyer the strip of line designated.
one or the great European tunnels, the
st. Gotherd 1 believe, was during its con-
struction the field in which & locomotive
NV notes in regard to this engine are mis-
laid, but If my memory is not incorrect the
engineSwas very like any other, except that
the boiler was huge cylinder without fire.
the tunnel huge compressors furnished a
supply of air at 4s5 pounds pressure. This
usually sufficed to run the engine to the
headings and back: but when extra work
was to be done fresh supply of air could
be taken from pipes leading into the tunnel.
Although no mention was made of the iact
suppose this air was fed to the cylinders
through special regulator to approach
working uniformity.
l have been informed, but cannot state
with certainty, that Mr. Brown, the Mnnon-
gahela coal operator, used q similar locomo-
tive in one of his mines, and / know that
compressed air drives pumps and coal min
ing machinery for the Westmoreland Coal
Company ut Irwin, Pa; and also for the
Southwest and the H. c. Frick coke COM
panies at and nearMt Pleasant, Pa.
PrTrsBURG, May 9. C.. II. CARUrHERs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
A sign OF PROGRESS

Out of the East there came a request to
the Methodist Episcopal General Confer.
ence at Omaha yesterday, which is likely
to be the subject of good deal of discus.
sion. The Troy conference sends peti-
tion that The discipline sectien relating to
amusements be either expunged OF
amended to make dancing permissible
The memorial has been signed among
others by three Doctors of Divinity, and
has the official sanction and support OF
Bishop Foster, of Boston. This present
ment is one of the many signs of increas.
ing liberality among the religious bodies
of to-day. To fulfil their mission of USE
fulness the churches must keep in touch
with the social changes of the times, and
they must be progressive to exercise their
maximum influence in an age of progress.
There is a general tendency observable
toward proper recognition of the right
eousness of innocent recreation, which is
q hopeful indication that religious leaders
are alive to the basis on which such ques-
tions as these should be settled.
There is no single occupation of the
human race, whether in its hours of devo-
ton, of toll or of pleasure, which is not
open to abuse The value, therefore, of
all pursuits must be judged from their
intrinsic qualities and not from the Incl
dental evils to which they may be per-
verted. Dancing is in itself an agreeable
and healthy form of recreation, and to
forbid it entirely savors as much of intol-
erance as an excessive indulgence therein
does of worldliness.
The Conference will be wise to remem-
Der that temperance is a Christian virtue
highly commendable, and that rigid pro-
hibition of harmless amusements is con-
trary to its spirit For one youth or
maiden saved from sin by the Church S
ban on such things it is safe to say that
there are several kept without the fold by
adherence for so narrow a spirit More
over there is danger that members of a
church who formally subscribe to such
rigid rules frequently give way to the
temptation to forget or disobey them
when they can do so with impunity. This
is fruitful source of a duplicity than
which there is nothing more disastrous to
life whose goodness is above all depend
ent on its sincerity. Discussed on its
merits, and aside from any prejudiced bias
to hold to that which is for no other
reason than that it has been, there should
be little doubt that the decision at Omaha
will be in favor of the innovators.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
CRAZED BY A TOY.
Tho Queer Freaks of Imagination Of 6
Farmer and His Wife.

HAMILTON, O., May 9-At Liberty, Ind, a
few miles from here, Joseph Chapman and
wife, aged IS and IS, were arrested at their
residence and found to be raving maniacs.
About three weeks ago what is known as the
"Oiye," pronounced "weige," spiritualistic
craze struck Liberty. 1t consisted of a
board formed in a semi-circle, with numbers
on, and was said by the spiritualists who in
troduced it to possess the power, by aid Of Il
mechanical arrangement, of calling up de-
parted spirits.
For fourteen days and nights Mr.. and Mrs.
Chapman have been calling up spirits by
means of the board and their infatuation re-
suited in making both insane At 10 o'clock
this morning a great noise was heard in the
house and officers found Mrs. Chap nan in an
upstairs room, naked, with the boa rd in her
hand. Her husband, also wildly insane, was
in the cellar with an old scythe blade in his
hands His wife would count /, 2, 8, on the
board and her husband in the cellar, who
could hear her, would slash about with the
scythe under the delusion that he was kill
ing evil spirits. When arrested the husband
said he had worked with the "Oige" and had
received a communication from Horace
Greeley ordering him to kill his eldest son
after he had killed the spirits. Tne officers
arrived just in time to prevent this cruel
murder.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
IDYLL1C HUMOREsQUEs.
T,and1ady-What

Landlady-What do you think OF this
spring chicken?
starboarder-I think its spring must have been
as long as that of Waterbury watch.-P~ck.
Smash the cymbals! wake the thunder
OF the booming big bass drums!
Blow the brass trombones asunder;
Lol the summer maiden comes.
" z. Herald
Triyyet-Isn't Mrs. Chinner q handsome
woman?
Dicer-Yes but she isn't as handsome IS she 10
painted.-Jud9e.
Gasket-I have decided to marry and
settle up.
Dolley-Most people marry and settle down.
Gasket-But 1 am going to marry the rich Miss
Roxy and pay my debts--Detrot Free Press.
The wild flowers deck the vale and mount
tain side.
The ambient air perfuming;
And new spring hats. arrayed in beauty's pride,
Are all around US blooming
The terraced lawn and meadows emerald floor
The dandelion speckes,
And pretty maidens soon will seek the shore
To gather crops of treckles.
" 7. Pr.ss.
Jiblets-What do you think of the scheme
for building up the navy; will 1t last2
Joblots-No. think not; tits but aeeting idea
Brooklyn Eagle.
Herkimerst-That was sad about Charley
Marcyave, who died from over exertion wbtl,
tying his cravat few days ago. Do Won know
what his last words were?
Tomkin-Sparke-No: what were they?
Herkimerst-I'm going home to tie no more
Smith, Gray rs Monthly.
Old King Coal
Was merry old soul
And he thought 1t a jolly stroke
To raise more dust
BY nice neat trust;
But the public can't see the Joke.
-Wdshfnoton Star.
"Friends and fellow-citizensr cried the
agitator- Lend me your ears,
Mot much, " retorted a minion Of the opposl-
ton. IF we did, we'd never get them back
again. ."-Hdrper's Buzcr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
Promotions in the Armv.

WASHINGTON May 9.-The President to-day
sent to the Senate the following nomina-
tions: Majors W. H. Powell, Twenty-second
Infantry, and Curwen B. Mcclellan. Tenth
Cavalry, to be Lieutenant Colonels; Ca aptains
Z. L. Liscum, Ninteenth Infantry, ana Theo-
First Lieutenants Alex. H. NJ. Taylor, Nine
teenth Infsntry, +. w. Kingsburg, Second
Cavalry, and Abel L. Smith, Fourth Cavalry,
Captains; Second Lieutenants B. B. Buck,
Sixteenth Infantry, and Sedgewick Rice, Sew
enth Cavalry. First ,Lieutenants. Captain
Richard W. Meade to be Commodore in the
Navy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
Yesterdays supreme Court Decisions,

PHILADELPHIA, May 9.-The Supreme Court
to-day handed down the following decisions
in the Western district: Affirmed, Wills ap-
peal, Greene county: Sicardi VS. Keystone
Company; Kerstetter's appeal; appeal of the
Imperial Refining Company, Linited; ap-
peal of the Manufacturers Gas Company;
Sicardi VS. Keystone Oil Company, from
Venango county; Crothers VS. Crothers,
Washington county. Reversed, Richie VS.
Hathaway, Greene county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10

giving the 21-foot waterway project on the
lakes so much prominence, before any
tangible progress is made in supplying so
much more necessary works as the con-
Meeting canals. Until the IL or 10 feet
routes are provided to complete the in
ternal navigation system the people al
ready provided with such means of trans
portation should be content to wait for
the superabundance implied in the 21-foot
channel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
HoNORs FOR PENNsYLvANIANs

Several of Them on Military and Naval
Academy Visiting Boards.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The President to-
day appointed the following Board of Visi-
tors to the United States Military Academy:
General Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin: A.
j. Cassatt of Pennsylvania; General Felix
Agnus, of Maryland: General Samuel Dalton.
of Massachusetts,; a. G. Hovey, OF Oregon
Alfred NJ Ogle, OF Indiana; John W. Lind
sey, of Georgia.
fIe also appointed the following named
persons visitors to the Naval Academy; E:
r. Boutelle, of Maine: Bishop Quintard, of
Tennessee: Thomas Dolan, of Pennsylvania;
Levi d. Miller. of New York: ]. Albert
Walker. of New Hampshire; John Russell
Young. of Pennsylvania, and Edward Vale,
of Kansas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10

THE military spirit of Russia is shown by
the fact that an army officer has been placed
in charge of all the railroads in the Empire.
If there are such things as stockholders con-
nected with Russian railroads they must
have IN enjoyable time of it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10

that the responsibility for it rests on the
sugar corporation No one objected to
the half-cent duty on sugar which the
companies were satisfied with as legiti-
mate method Of business. But the North
American Company was not satisfied with
that. 1t was bound to have the profits Of
a monopoly, and so it set itself in defiance
of the law and lin antagonism to the pro-
tective policy. For whatever follows its
own greed and lawlessness it is wholly re-
cpoocihla
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10

THE great annual attack on home indus
tries will soon be in full swing, thanks to the
marriageable American maidens who insist
on obtaining either clothing or a husban d,
or both, while visiting the haunts of fashion
in Europe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10

THE funeral service to precede the ordi-
nance arranging for the burial OF the wires
has been postponed until next Saturday.
The city should take q firm stand on the
two years limit for interments, as that
length of time is more than enough for the
purpose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10

ANY business man may adopt in his own
affairs whatever system of bookkeeping he
has a mind to, no matter how stupid 1t
seems. But on the part of a City Controller,
an absence of clear methods of accounting
for public funds very easily degenerates
into criminal maladministration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
SHE WAS LINCOLN'S NURSE.
Death OF Aunt Epsy Smith Who Had an
Eventful History

Eventful History.
CHICAGO. May 9.-"Aunt" Epsy Smith an
old neyress who died in this city yesterday,
had an eventful history. In 1927 she was a
protege of Ninian Edwards at that time
Governor of Illinois. She was present ut
the wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary
Todd, and after the wedding was a servant
in Lincoln's home. She nursed Robert T.
Lincoln, the present Minister to the Court
OF st. James.
Her death was caused by the grip, from
which she had been suffering since last
March. Her exact age is not known, but as
near as could be told, she was about p years
old. She was married at the house of
Governor Edwards, by the minister who
performed the ceremony for Lincoln him.
self, and the dress she wore on the occasion
was present from Mr. and Mrs Lincoln.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
A Judge Without an Occupation.

GREENvILLE, PA, May 9-[SpecidL IA very
singular occurrence took place to-day in
the Mercer County Court of Common Pleas.
Quite a long list of cases had been put down
Tor this term, but when the list was called
all we're either continued or settled, and the
Jurors were DISCHARGED.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Joseph Van Kirk.

Joseph Van Kirk, died Sunday in Eliza
beth in the 9Oth year of his age. Mr.. Van Kirk was
the oldest resident of that locality. He was born
in West Newton. and resided there 40 wears. after
which he moved to Westm"reland county. then to
Elizabeth. He was probably the best known of all
old residents. He was the iather OF DR.. T. X. and
W. K. Van Kirk, of McKccsport besides several
other children The remains will be buried in
Round Hill Cemetery at 2 P. N. Wednesday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
The Political Paul of Illinois.


Shelby NJ. Cullom is the political Paul of
Illinois. On his way to Tarsus to persecute
Harrison he saw a light whose name was
Tanner, and the result was q change of
heart that bears ali the outward marks and
signs OF a complete somersault.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
ONLY AFTER BIG GAME.

Chicago Baptist Ministers Refuse to Tackle
a Little Reform There.
CHICAGO, May 9-The Chicago Baptist
Ministers Conference to-day declined to
take any action on an appeal from 5000 re-
tail clerks for help in securing shorter hours
of labor and no Sunday work.
1t was decided that so long as open sa-
looms on Sunday were allowed and the OPEN
ing of the Worlds Fair on Sundays is
threatened the Baptist ministers ought not
to waste energy upon lesser reforms.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
OBsTRUCTING NAVIGATION.

A Lumberman Under Arrest for Blocking
Up the Little Kanawha.
PARKERsBURG. w. VA, May 9.-[Special.I-
An important case is in progress here of in
terest to steamboat and lumber men. Cap
tain William Barringer, n prominent lumber
man, is under arrest for dropping rats of
logs in the Little Kanawha in such way
as to obstruct navigation.
This charge is made against a number
of lumber men. The case is being bitterly
fought. Barringer gave bond in the sum of
ment in the United States Court.