Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
A Look AROUND.

A GREAT deal of sympathy is felt here
among business men for Mr.. Orlando Met
calfe, formerly of this city, but recently oi
| Colorado because of the business troubles
in which he has become involved. He re-
Gently resigned the Presidency of the Colo
rado Midland Railroad Company and sew
cred his connection with Pittsburg con-
| Germs. 1t is understood that unfortunate
mining ventures are responsible for his
troubles and there is said to be reason to
think he will in time be able to resume his
business activity.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON, of the
| Allegheny Parks, has a fine "red show" on
at present in one of his hothouses. All
sorts of plants with red and pink blossoms
or leaves are massed together with superb
effect, the long central and side tables being
agIow. Superintendent Hamilton is greatly
interested in the horticultural and floral
portion of the Worlds Fair, in which he
will doubtless take an active part. There is
to be q splendid show OF primroses at the
Fair in January and 20 of the best-known
foreign florists who make a specially of
these plants will compete with the Ameri-
cans.
HEARD story of bright boy who
the other day went to New York with his
parents. He was taken, among other
places, to the Eden Musee, where he feasted
his young soul on horrors and wax works
until he became skeptical about everything
new he encountered. He was deceived so
often by wax figures and wax effects and
tricks that when at last he came upon a
bright green bench bearing the notice,
Fresh Paint" he exclaimed: "Oh, you
can't fool me any longer. You may be
fresh, but 1 am not,r and down he sat
promptly. 1t was not a fake and a new suit
was necessary.
"I DO not we'll see how it could be made
possible TO follow out the suggestion of
general technical school which you make in
THE DISPATCH" remarked Mr.. William Met
calfe, the well-known engineer and manu-
facturer yesterday. "but it is quite possible
and very practical to carry out the idea in
modified form. A training school somewhat
to that of the Cooper Institute would be
most beneficial to Pittsburg. Here young
people could be trained in the rudiments OF
the mechanical arts in the evening and a
very great deal of good accomplished.
Young men and young women could be put
IN the way OF bettering themselves and
made proficient in their callings at small
cost / do not think it would require more
than 500 600 to establish and conduct such
a school as speak of and it has been an
evident necessity here for many years. Or
course an assured income would have to be
provided for by endowment. remember
well, away back in the SOS the Episcopal
Guild OF this city took up the matter Of
teaching arts and sciences to young people
of both sexes in the city and they were very
successful. For several years these classes
grew and did much good. Then the other
denominations opened schools and the pub
lie schools were opened at night and the
bulk of our scholars were drawn from US.
Although this was a comparatively limited
experiment, l know of many successful
business men who we're first trained for
their occupations in these Guild classes. By
all means let US have training school here
No city needs it more and none would sup
port it more cordially"
SOMEBODY wrote me yesterday asking
for some specific information in regard to
the grant of the Penns to the First Presby-
terian and Trinity Churches of the property
they now occupy, and spent some time
Yesterday among the records in the Court
House and elsewhere looking the matter up.
The deed registers show that on the 4th OF
September, l7s7, John Penn, Jr., and John
Penn, decided to "the trustees of
the Presbyterian congregation of Pitts
burg and the vicinity" the property in
question. 1t was given Gin consideration
of the laudable inclination which they have
for encouraging and promoting morality.
piety and religion in general, and especially
in the town nof- Pittsburg and in further con-
sideration of shillings. The grant conveys
lots 439, 43S and half of 47 Sin Colonel
Woods plan," and the trustees are to have
81,
intent and meaning" of an act of Assembly
the congregation under the
pastoral care of the Rev. Samuel Barr ''and
to and for no other use, intent or purpose
whatsoever"
In 1877 the whole question of this title
was brought out in the memorable contest
over the building of a chapel and Sunday
school rooms on portion of what had been
the burying ground of the church. The
action was decided upon. and was con-
tested by Isaac Craig and John B. Guthrie,
two of the members of the congregation.
The portion which was to beused land on
which the buildings now stand) was where
q great many notable people were buried.
Among them were the Dennys. Darraghs,
Stewards, Mountains. Stevensons, Alex
anders, Prides, McNiels, the wife of Judge
OF the Supreme Court: Hugh
Ross, John wilkins, Sr., General Wilkins,
Colonel Hutchins, Major Ashton and Cap
tain Easton, of the Revolutionary Army,
and others. 1t seems that the church
in 1902 bought lot No. AO and sold
those portions owned by the Bissells, ut the
corner of Sixth. and the Third National
Bank, at the corner of Vigin alley. Before
the Penns conveyed the lots the land was
the public burying ground, it having been
used for that for IS years before the deed
from the Penns. 1t WAS used as cemetery
by the French during all of the time that
they held Fort Duquesne, and it was here
they are thought to have buried the Sieur de
Beaujeaux who commanded the French and
Indians when Braddock was defeated. Later
the English and Colonial troops used these
for the same purpose.
WHILE looking for this information 1
found an old deed or patent from the Penns
to John Mckee for 200 acres and ''six acres
allowance for roads" on the Monongahela |
river, next to the lands of Ross. The price |
was sl3 los. The deed am told covers the |
site of McKeesport. 1t was not placed on |
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