Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-04
AN ASSURED FACT.


The Stern Sex Prevails Where the Ladies'
Efforts Were Unavailing, and at Last
There win Be q New Church Home
Gossip or Hand.
THE hot wave of last week brought In on
its swell q bit of news Of interest, particular
ly to the friends Of the Church. Home. and
generally to the Pittsburg public. After
watching the managers for some time the
trustees decided themselves to come to the
rescue. The sum OF $4,000 was required to
add to Mr.. Shoenberger's bequest of $685.
600 before an attempt could be made
to erect now building. This the trustees,
Mr. Reuben Miller, Mr.. William Metcalfe,
MI. Hill Burgwin and Colonel A s. M. Nor
gan, have pledged themselves for; but. as to
whether 1t comes out OF their own pockets
or those of modest friends, is an uncracked
nut of news that they decline to open. Suf-
flee to say that the money is at hand and
the building ordered to be put in process of
Erection at once.
The plans are almost identical with those
published in THE DISPATCH already, only q
few alterations having been suggested and
accepted. The architect and contractor
promise to have the building ready for occu-
pancy by June OF next year, which, Judging
Dy past architects and contractors is more
likely to mean q date nearer the following
year. The work will be begun in week
ana very handsome DrlcK DullQlng nav
ing trimmings of stone will grow up to the
front of the present home. The new home
will stand back from Penn avenue 80 feet.
There will be frontage OF 1GS feet, and the
dimensions from front to rear along For
tieth street are not expected to be less than
lbs or 130 feet. The annex to the old Brown
mansion, the present Church Home, will be
removed and Joined to the new building. 1t
is very commodious part and of recent CON-
struction.
The energy of the managers, who haye been
nj In dale
difficulties, is picking up flesh wonderfully,
since hearing the good news. They expect
the utmost good nature OF all their friends,
and desire help in the most practical way.
The furnishing of the house will be no small
matter. and little in that direction can come
from the present establishment; for tits sad
fact that all of Its rooms are exceedingly out
of elbows and can't hold life and limb to-
gether for u much longer while.
Long ago It ceased to be matter of sur
| prise when the wind and the weather came
| into the home without going through the
ceremony of ringing the hall door bell and
asking permission; and the small world that
moves on the Church Home axis has in the
meantime become pretty well Injured to a
| great many dIscomforts.
Accommodations for old women has
always of a necessity been an after thought
at the Church Home, but will be so no
| longer, as 10 rooms in the new building will
be arranged with view to the comfort OF
| lciaries of the church.
Nearly all the managers are at their coun-
try or seaside homes, but once the season
| closes work will be theoretically begun,
and the hope is that 1894 will see home
busily fulfilling its mission in an orna-
mental as well as practical manner.
Probably Mr. George /. Whitney, more
than any other eligible Pfttsburger, is ha-
rassed by well-meaning, ,over-zealous friends,
who insist on disposing of his heart to every
pretty girl that comes along. MI. Whitney
will sail to-day from New York. but even on
the deck of the Kaiser William he is still to
be the victim OF innocent plotting. The
latest summer day story is that Mr.. Whitney
/, is to become a bridegroom on his way across
the Atlantic Ocean. but rumor has been very
indefinite concerning the young lady to
whom he is to occupy that interesting rela-
tionship. So far as one can speak positively
Of futurity the Kaiser William will not be
the scene of q marriage in which Mr.. Whit
ney will play a part, unless that gentleman
changes his mind between Now York and
Hamburg
In the party with Mr.. Whitney is his
mother, Mrs. William Whitney, her guest,
Miss Babb, Of Philadelphia, and Miss Sutton,
of Indiana, Pa, who is sister of DR.. Sutton,
OF Pittsburg. Miss Sutton is q very hand
some young woman, whose startling re-
semDlance to Mrs. Grover Cleveland has
been commented upon frequently.
Some weeks ago Miss Sutton invited Mrs.
Whitney to take run over to England.
Mrs. Whitney instead decided that the
included Miss Grubb, a visitor from Phila-
delphia, and very clever young artist She
has been busily engaged for some time on q
portrait OF Mrs Whitney, who is very much
attached to her.
Peregrinations would probably describe
better than any other word their travels in
the Old World; for nothing has been
planned beforehand, and each day will look
out for its own salvation. From the Conti-
nent they will proceed to England, and
probably not return to America very much
before winter.
Among those who will spend their vaca-
tion in Western Pennsylvania is Rev. D. K.
Nesbit, formerly pastor of the Hazelwood
Presbyterian Church, and now of Peoria,
Ill. He arrived in the city yesterday and
will spend some time visiting friends, and
OH Sunday, August "A, will preach in the
First Presbyterian Church. Mr.. Nesbit
will receive warm welcome here where
most of his friends recall his eloquent ad-
dress on Some Objections to Infidelfty,"
delivered in Library Hall some years ago,
when hundreds were unable to find seats.
Mr.. Ralph Bagaley is one of the most
agreeable entertainers of the male sort be-
longing 10 Pittsburg. He II at present at
Bedford Springs, and has not been home
long from the lakes, where Miss Grange, the
young daughter of the Rev. Mr.. Grange,
rector of the Church of the Ascension, and
her brother, were the guests, respectively,
OI MI DdSdloy anu his son, MI. hODln Dd2a-
ley. Young Mr.. Bagaley came home from
the North resorts on Tuesday, and immedi-
ately Joined his father at Bedford.
Mr. Edward Houses domestic establish
ment will be temporarily broken up by next
week, when the family will take their re-
spective ways until the winter season. Mrs.
House, Miss Blanche House and Master
Edward expect to sail from New York next
week. 1t Is scarcely year since the family
returned from a foreign trip of considerable
length, taken partly for pleasure and in part
to complete Miss Houses educa ton. Mr.. |
House will summer this year at Cape May.
Social Chatter.
Mr. AND MRS. d. HERBERT HosTErrHR are |
now comfortably ensconced at Shelter |
Island, a swell resort near Newport. They |
have a suite of apartments in the new hotel |
there which, by the way, Is said to have a
most admirable cuisine. This is more than |
explained by the fact that the summer hotel |
is con trolled by the management in charge |
of the Murray Hill Hotel in New York.
Mr. SMITH of the riding school, asserts the
people waiting for the rush to subside
among the ranks OF students of norseman- |
ship have created an uncommon crush" of |
their own, and certainly there seems to be |
no diminishing force at work among the |
ranks of the riders in the East End.
AN interesting acquisition to midsummer |
society circles is the young guest OF the |
family of Mrs. j. j. Gillespie, Miss Minnie |
Jenkins, of New York. Miss Jenkins Is q |
charming girl, and a daughter of former |
member OF the famous Cook firm, of eX- |
cursion fame.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WALTER L. MCCLINToCK and |
Mr.. Oliver McClintock have gone to Nom |
quit, Mass, to join Mr. McClintock's grand |
father, Mr.. Abraham Garrison, who is occu- |
pying q cottage there near the cottage OF |