Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A LOOK AROUND.

In the way of turning out crowds on due
notice Pfttsburg is a marvel. The number
| OF people who bring children with them
| from outlying districts, from Woods Run
or Williamsburg to lower Fifth avenue, IL
surprisingly large when there is to be toot
ing and marching and something to see A
| goodly parade. such as that Of yesterday
with plenty of music and uniforms. Is 8
| sure thing on packed pavements in the nat
! believe a greater number turn out on such
occasions here than in any city OF approx-
| innate size in the country.
THAT Is an amusing announcement which
Is made on behalf of the "ossified man" "
The advertisements declares that he has
made will directing his skeleton to be
used as monument of bone "above his last
resting place." What will they put IN the
resting place"-his souls
II WONDER Whist attraction Western
Pennsylvania will next offer u.s." remarked
New York newspaper man on his way
home from Homestead. "You are sure to
turn mp with something big next spring.
You have tried riots and floods and fires.
and am anxious to see what will turn up
here next"
THERE Is good deal of inquiry into the
values Of Fifth avenue property for two or
three squares above the Court House. find
many people who believe the hump will
come down shortly, and then there will be q
boom in property on the main street OF the
city. Air ady the new Government build
ing has shown how the center Of interest
can be shifted by tho movement of public
business When the Carnegie building goes
up on Fifth avenue below Grant, it will DO
much to shift attention to part Of the city
which has slumbered for years.
PEOPLE must have recently taken to por-
traits. Have you noticed the number of
places run in the names Of companies or Of
individuals where you can get lot of pic
ture and Bristol board for a remarkably
small amount Of money! They have been
springing up along upper Fifth avenue until
they rival the barber shops, grocery stores
and saloons. In some of these places really
clever crayon work Is shown in the windows
-bettert indeed, than one usually sees ex-
hibited in oils in the more pretentious down.
town stores.
SPEAKING of paintings, why Is 1t that
such things as the Christ Before Pilate'
and the Holy Family, which are now in
windows on Wood street, are displayed to
the public? Does anybody claim they are
worth even a casual examination In these
days OF exquisite reproductions in colors OF
really good pictures, when so many CATCH
ing processes are in operation for the max
ing of artistic and effective cheap colored
prints and when good water colors painted
must be something worth mentioning in oils
which will find a market in the average
household.
WHY Is 1t that the young men with
biceps well developed so utterly ignore the
rivers as a place of recreation and sport?
Rowing seems to be dead so far as Pittsburg
goes and all the old traditions of profess
sional and amateur glory appear to have de-
parted forever. Washington, Philadelphia
Boston and smaller cities have their anna
teur navies, handsome clubhouses, pairs,
four oars, eightoared barges and innumer-
able skiffs, shells, launches and other kinds
of pleasure craft. We have two rivers
which are exceptionally adapted to rowing,
and yet they seldom are rippled by an oar.
unless it be in a crude way on SUM-
day. Why don't the two leading amateur
athletic associations do something for oars
men?
STATE TREASURER MORRISON Is In the
city, looking well and CHEEKY as usual. He
says the talk from the back counties is that
there will be big tariff majority for Har-
rison this fall. He thinks. all the breaches
will be healed, and that Pennsylvania lead
ers, as we'll as those of other States, will be
found hard at work soon.
THE talk of Republican politicians seems
to indicate that Commissioner Mercer will
not De a candidate for Mayor, and that ex-
Sheriff McCandless will have more or less of