Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-27
A LOOK AROUND.

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| THE ticket Office of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company was crowded yesterday with
people buying tickets or making inquiries
| about trains. There were SO many there IN
1 fact that it led me to inquire In regard to
the amount of the summer travel from
| Pittsburg. and put some questions to the
gentleman whose name Is in the certihcate
| of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which hangs in a glassed frame, and which
vouches for his right to sell tickets. "How
| much travel is there from here in the sum-
| merf" Il suppose by that you mean pleas
ure travel OF the sort that begins in April
| and lasts till October? Well, l should say
| that in dollars it would easily amount to
$4,000 That is a conservative estimate In
addition to this the Pullman charges for ac-
commodation for this travel would no doubt
reach $4,000, for the Pullman company does
business of at least $150,ooo a year out Of
Pittsburg. Then you take all the expenses
of travel, the meals on the trains, fees, cuts,
express charges and other things, exclusive
Of hotel bills, I don't think I overestimate
it when foot the pleasure travel bill up at
$500 900 year."
"WHEN you add the hotel bills to this,
he continued, 81 think the people of Pitts
burg and the county Of Allegheny spend at
| ASoSo P-,o"obovV uuu pIoDu0Ay hAuOu hloiO. ~
is wonderful town for travellers. Every
body who can raise enough money to take
trip of a week or two does So and those who
! cannot go for that length of time go for
less. Why. I suppose that the picnic busi-
ness to 1diewild alone amounts to $50 900,
although of that sum not all is out of Pitts
burg. Three-fourths OF the travel is east
ward to the mountain or seaside resorts
half of it at least being to three or four-sea-
side places"
The wisdom of the day after is the wis.,
dom of Solomon. remember, some wears
ago, not very many years either, I sang
song of Anarchists in Pittsburg. 1 told
some of their haunts, their methods, their
members, their characteristics and their
readiness to seize upon any good opportun-
1ty to do business. l was sat upon, laughed
at and derided. My own notion is that the
sooner such gentry are rooted out the better
for the American workman, the American
tradesman and the American capitalist
The quicker there are laws in operation to
throttle Anarchists, the less apt are we to
have Anarchy. As it is there is lack of
legal medicine for this disease that is ab-
surd.
Mr.. JOSEPH D. WEEKS is q remarkably
clever gentleman on figures. He is sort Of
Pig Iron Babbage. In his paper. the American
Manufacturer, in making an estimate of the
pig iron output for the past six months of
the year he put the total at 776,00 tons.
When the actual official returns came in the
output was 4,7990OO When you get that
close at something running up into millions
of tons it is first-class figuring.
CHIEF BIBELow will soon be on his way
to Europe. He will be in London for time
and some fine morning will ind him getting
of the train at the station nearest Hampton
Court, that loveliest of the old palaces of
England, more SO even than Windsor. He
will go through those marvellous stretches
of forest, will visit the gardens, marvel at
the big grapevine, admire the lily beds,
wonder what became of the beauty of the
beauties of wicked King Charley before
they were painted by Kueller and others
and then he will devote himself to the maze.
1t is still most interesting place. that relic
of Fair Rosamund, and when the place was
thickly planted in the earlier centuries it
must really have been easy to lose oneself
in the bower of the Rose of the World and I
have more than a little trouble in finding a
way out without guide.
1T is q trif1e shop-worn now, that maze
lalu out IN tne tWelICn century Dy the SeCOnu
Henry for Mistress Clifford, bnt it is we'll
worth copying yet and that is what the chief
thinks Of doing. 1t has been suggested TO
him that such a maze would be a unique
attra ction for the new park and one which
in few years would be worth going to see.
Formed of quick growing hedge rows, it |
would not be long before 1t became an anus |
ing puzzle. 1t may be that an exact copy of |
this combination OF circles and winding |
scale the original and If this is not done it |
is probable a smaller fac sin,iLe may be plant |
ed on the plateau in Highland Park. This |
old story of a jealous lover and love-sick |
king who built maze to vainly hide his |
lady love, together with her death by poison |
at the hands of the queer, is one of the |
things which has gone to meet the fable Of |
William Tell and countless others. The |
whole OF Henry's acquaintance with Rosa |
Clifford occurred during the Is years that |
Queen Eleanor was kept in close confne- |
ment. Still that does not hurt the maze |
for park purposes.
THE electric fan seems to have come to |
stay all summer and other summers. 1t is |
growing in public esteem as a means OF |
raising the wind in an unf1nanoiaI sense |
certain popular gentleman who is interested
in cooked coal monkeyed with his office fan
a few days ago and now carries his arm in q |
sling. He says q buzz-saw is easy compared |
with a fan.