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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
PATHS TROUBLE WITH scALcH1
Due to a Little misunderstanding the Two
Had While in Mexico.

NEW YORK, March H.-[SpeciaI MADAME
Scalchi was not well this morning and could
not be seen. but Signor Lolli, her husband,
assured callers that no quarrel had ever oc-
Cured between his wife and Patti; that
Madame Scalchi had the most unbounded
admiration for Patti, and the last time they
sang together they parted the best of friends
and that Madame Scalhi was as greatly sur
prised as any one when Messrs. Abbey and
Grau offered to pay her for the supplement-
ary season without availing themselves of
her services for which q contra ct was signed.
"Nly wife," said Signor Lolli, "refused to
take her salary without singing. She feels
very badly that any misunderstanding
should exist. For the sake of Messrs. Abbey
terms. and out OF consideration for her
womanly dignity, she absolutely refuses to
tell the reason for her contract being
broken. Ii my wife felt that she had in any
way done thing to offend Patti she would
be the first to apologize.
The little affair which is the alleged reason
given by Patti for not wishing my wife to
then they have sung, and, as I said, parted
good friends and my wife was utterly ignor-
ant of the tact that Patti entertained any Ill
feeling toward her till l was told it by the
management last week. 1t seems the last
night they sang together in Mexico they
were called before the curtain several
times, and Madame Patti says that in hand
ing bouquet to her Madame Scalchi
scratched her arm. That is all there is
is about it.'
Senior Lolli said that Madame Scalchi had
several important concert engagements and
that they should remain in this country till
the middle OF May.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
FOOLISH REFORMFRS

When will the ofacious people, who set
themselves up as the reformers of the
world, realize that instead of the end
justifying the means the employment of
doubtful methods is hurtful to any good
cause, and tends strongly to hinder the
progress of true improvement? We ask
this question after perusal of the revela-
tion of the deceptive tactics of the people
in Philadelphia, as printed elsewhere, who
desire to restrict and lesson liquor-selling
facilities. Thoughtful citizens cannot fail
to be antagonized by systems of arithmetic
which are both fallacious and meretricious
The scheme is SO played out that it could
not fail of detection, and one is obliged to
suppose that folly rather than knavery
was the incentive of the performance
The people who couple the names of
Law and Order with such ridiculous and
fraudulent actions do more than anyone
else to retard the enlightenment and i'm
provement of the community. True re-
forms can only be secured by honest
means, and it is high time that this plati-
tude should form the basis of effort.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
A WEAK yINDICATIoN.

Our esteemed cotemporary, the Phila-
delphia Record, displays decided disposi-
ton to lean its advocacy of the Reading
deal on very frail foundation when it
refers to the late action of the New jersey
Legislature as vindication of that COM
bination. 1t might just as well have as
serted that the deal would be indicated
by the Pennsylvania Legislature-after
the right people had been seen.
New Jersey legislation has for several
years past been notoriously at the service
of every monopoly in need of it. 1t has
furnished broad gauge charters for the ex-
press purpose of offering haven for
Trusts that had been declared illegal by
courts where the public rights of the
people are held of some value, and has
furnished to order almost all kinds Of
special legislation called for by railway
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

evidence and the case will necessarily
proceed to the result, either of vindication
or conviction.
In this case, as in the others arising
from the Allegheny disclosures, THE DIS
PATCH can only repeat that the course of
bringing the charges under the action of
an authoritative court is the only proper
one. If the official has been guilty of the
offenses charged, the public welfare re-
quires his conviction and punishment. II
the charges are untrue, his own interest
will best be served by his vindication in a
court of justice.
Wherever charges of official misconduct
or corruption reach definite and f''ina
facie form, the courts are the proper place
for either their proof or disproof.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Smoke Nuisance Downtown.


To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The other day was waiting in an Office on
the eighth floor of a certain Building down.
town and idly looking out Of the window at
the roofs below. My attention was drawn
to smoke stack on a business block a
square away. The stack began emitting
black smoke, steadily increasing in volume
until it burst forth in great rolling clouds,
swelling and changing into grotesque, horri-
Bile forms and seemed like some great giant
menacing the buildings below. Fascinated,
five minutes, when the smoke began to
lessen in volume and gradually disappeared,
leaving the stack an innocent looking black
pipe. turned, and in the same square was
another stack going through the saue Oper-
alton, its great clouds Of smoke, inlky black,
settling down upon the buildings beneath.
1t subsidized In its turn. but upon the build
ing next to it was another ambitious stack
smoke in precisely the same manner.
These last two stacks seemed to have en-
tered into some arrangement, formed q
smoke trust perhaps, for during the houp
watched, which was, by the way, from II A.
n. to II, one or the other of them was emit
ting smoke in dense volumes all the time.
In the same square counted six or more
stacks and chimneys working in this inter
mittent manner all the time, having some
thing like ten minutes action and then ten
minutes of repose.
" hho Iuere may De grave ODJect1OnS TO
the use OF smoke consumers in the manu-
facture of iron, as was pointed out in the
meeting OF the Engineers Society last
month, there can scarcely be such objections
in the case of such fires as have been re-
ferrd to above, for the smoke was from the
boilers in large business blocks. 1t would
seem apparent to anyone that if all the
business blocks of the city were compelled
to use some smoke consuming device, not
only would there be great saving in fuel to
the consumers, but more than that, q great
stride in the abatement of the smoke
nuisance would be taken, for these stacks,
being In the heart of the city, are SO situated
that their smoke has full effect upon the at
mosphere and buildings, whereas the stacks
of iron mills are for the most part removed
to some outlying suburb, where the smoke
does not have the effect it would at close
quarters.
The Importance of having the stacks Of
all business blocks smokeless is hardly real
lied, because one naturally thinks the smoke
from them is comparatively trifling. But if
anyone doubts let him go to the top of some
high building, use his eyes and be con-
vinced. s.
PIrrsBURG, Pa, March "A.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

corporations. We believe that the revenue
derived by the State for thus playing the
valet to the combinations amounts to some
thousands of dollars per year; but what
the revenue to the politicians who run
the Legislature we would not undertake
to say. As the passage of this bill was
marked by the same vote of solid cohort
as in the big grabs recently passed in New
York, we may rest assured the owners of
the New Jersey Legislature are not op-
Grating their well disciplined forces in the
interest of the combinations merely for
the fun of the thing.
The combination should complete its
record by getting a judicial decision from
that light of the bench and New Jersey
politics, Hugg, of Gloucester, sanctioning
the combination. Hugg's Endorsement
would be just as convincing as the New
Jersey Legislatures, and might come con-
siderably cheaper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
MUNICIPAL EXPENSES CoMPARED.

The comparison of municipal expend-
itures of other cities with those of Pitts
burg, published in THE DISPATCH, con-
tanned one significant point not brought
out as prominently as it deserved. That is
the rate of public expenditure, or taxation,
in proportion to population in other cities
as compared to Pittsburg. The statistics
of but three cities were given in that
article on a basis which permits the COM
parison to total public expenditures with
those of Pittsburg. These were Buffalo,
Detroit and Cincinnati. 1t is interesting
to learn that the municipal expenditures
of Buffalo are $3.50 per capita; of Detroit
Sl6.4O, and of Cincinnati $3.50; while the
rate of expenditure fixed by the recently
enacted appropriation ordinance Of Pitts
burg is $50. 80 per capita
Returns from other cities do not permit
the comparison of total expenditures, but
give the basis for a comparison of the total
tax levy by millage. This leaves room for
variations which may make the comparison
ineXact; but as 40 per cent of the total ap-
preparations in Pittsburg comes from
sources outside the tax levy it is fair to
Otncl ClliCS VIII
not derive less proportion of their reve-
nue. from their milIage. The comparison
shows us that Chicago levies S.. 900 by
millage which on her population of ], ,1O0,-
900 is less than S. per capita; Philadelphia
levies by rate of S.5 mills on s735, ,00o, 900,
per capita of about $3.50; Milwaukee
levies s12. 35 per capita; Minneapolis $16. %,
and Newark SLIT. Two of these cities
exceed Pittsburg's levy of S12 per capita;
but the question whether their other forms
of taxation are equal to ours renders the
com parison doubtful. 1t is certainly
matter of interest to Pittsburgers that our
tax levy in proportion to population is
more than double that of either Philadel-
phia or Chicago.
These comparisons, together with those
previously made on present taxation with
that of previous years, sufficiently estab-
lish The DIsPATCH's position that city ex-
penditures have grown beyond reason
able limit. When the people appreciate
the fact sufficiently to correct it at the
polls, the rapid growth of appropriations
will be reversed-and not until then.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
GENERAL ALGER,S CASE

General R. A. Alger has given publica-
ton to the complete documents with re-
gard to his leaving his command in the
Shenandoah Valley, in the fall of 1864, about
which good deal Of comment has been
made. The facts are, first, that early in
August, 1864, General (then ColoneD
Alger sent in his resignation on account of
private reasons, which was ordered ac-
cepted by President Lincoln. Learning
of the probability of an active campaign
he did not present, the resignation at the
War Department, but went to the Shenan-
doah Valley with his regiment.
On August 2s he was pronounced by a
surgeon unfit for duty, and left the regi-
ment, sending in the application for leave
of absence by the surgeon. This applica-
tion was disapproved by General Custer,
but the notice of its disapproval did not
reach General 'Alger, who had gone to
Washington. The unfavorable reports of
Generals Custer, Merritt and Torbert, and
the recommendation that he be dismissed
for absence without leave, were forwarded
to Washington with the Endorsement by
General Sheridan: 81 have always con-
sidered Colonel Alger a good officer, but
cannot excuse his conduct or withhold
my approval Of the recommendation of
his immediate officers" But in the mean
time Alger had renewed his resignation,
and the papers were returned by the War
Department with the statement that
Colonel Alger had already been honor
ably discharged.
These are the full facts in the case.
They indicate that there was lack of
form in Colonel Alger's absence for the
period of three weeks, but explain how he
could have been under the misapprehen-
sion that his leave of absence had been
granted. While this irregularity may be
exaggerated by General Alger's enemies,
it is fully offset by the Endorsements and
testimonials of Generals Custer, Sheridan
and Meade for Colonel Algers promotion
on account of his services in the field By
reason of these recommendations ne was
brevetted Brigadier General and Major
General after the close of the war;
This gives full view of the entire mat
ter impartially stated. The general opin-
ion will be that those who unearthed it
have made the discovery of mares nest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
PITTSBURG. TUESDAY, MARCH Is.
TWELVE PAGES
T,XkTlON AND WORK.

Many of our readers may be inclined to
criticise some OF the details of Mr.. Edward
Atkinsons article on Taxation and
Work. " published elsewhere. The classi-
fication of the distribution of production
under the head of 'rents, profits, interest,
salaries, earnings, wages, StcalingS and
taxes" is quite liable to evoke dissent,
viewed in the light of scientific classifica-
tion. But Mr.. Atkinson's main position,
that taxation is an appropriation of por-
tion of the products of industry or work
for the use of the public, and that the
money raised by it is therefore trust
fund, is indisputable.
Mr.. Atkinson's computation in this issue
is that the %, ,000, 900 workers in this nation
produce an average of $500 each, meas
ured in money value, or a total of S13,-
500 600, ,OOO The division cf the pro-
ductive fierce in the various occupations
occupies considerable portion of his cur
rent article, while future one will show
the measure of nationa! taxes in terms of
work. As the national expenditures are
about one-twenty-sixth of the whole pro-
duction, it is possible to anticipate from
the figures Mr.. Atkinson has already given
that the national taxes appropriate an aver
age of eleven and half days work from
each worker in the year. This is, of course,
based on the supposition that his data are
correct
Add to this the proportion of State,
municipal and county taxation, which Mr.
Atkinson estimates to be about equal to
national taxation and it appears that the
average worker must labor nearly four
weeks out of the year to pay the total of
taxation which is drawn from industry.
There could hardly be a more forcible
way of showing the public duty of keep
ing down public expenditures to reasona-
BILE limits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

GATHER wisdom where We may, and
Judge it apart from the heresies held by
those who occasionally give utterance to it.
Cleveland is hopelessly astray on the tariff
question but lew truer words have been
written than some OF his to the Honorable
E. S. Bragg anens candidacy for the Presi-
dental office. Many men in whose bonnet
the bee is now loudly buzzing would do well
to realize that their candidacy for the place
is not something to be won by personal strife
and active self.assertion."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
FAVORITES OF FAME.

PROF. ARTHUR FAIRBANKS, who has
been called from Dartmouth to Yale, Is to be
an instructor in the Divinity School.
DIR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE is one of
these pamphlet collectors. He keeps them
in series of baskets suspended by rope and
pulley from the beams in the ceiling OF his
study.
THE late Henry Doyle, Director General
of the National Gallery of Ireland, was one
of those rare connoisseurs who know good
painting when they see it, regardless of the
name before the pinxit.
M. DE LEssEPs, though in comparatively
good physical health, has become so en-
feebled in mind that he hardly recognizes
his oldest friends, and is quite incapable of
sustaining q conversation.
G. P. A. HEALY. the portrait painter, is
passing his time while in Chicago at family
hotel. where he appears in the corridors
clad in a loose-ftting suit Of black, and
wearing steel-rimmed spectacles.
PRINCE CHIMAY, the well-known Belgian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, intends to re-
sign his place, it is said, at the enc of the
present session O: Parliament. He has been
at the head of the Belgian Ministry for many
years.
PROF. STORY, the Chicago spelling re-
former, whose cause Senator Cullom is cham
pioning, thinks that though it will be diff
cult for most people to acquire the new
system the next generation will have no
trouble about it.
The Rev. j. Sanders Reed, who went to
the Pacific coast in December, 1889. from
Trinity Church, Newark, N. j., to take
charge of Trinity, San Francisco, during the
first year of his incumbency, raised the in
come over $4,000.
SECRETARY NOBLE and Senator Hiscock
resemble each other to q marked degree.
Mr.. Noble holds himself very straight and is
prim to nicely in the matter Of dress, while
Mr.. ,Hiscock slouches about I'm istless
fashion, wears negligee neckties and . half.
btletoned vest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
LIGHT HUMOREsOUEs.

She (despairingly)-My family was al
ways economical, and am living example.
lie (sympathetic) c)-Indeed! How so?
She-I was born on Christmas day and my birth
day and Christmas presents have been always COM
bined.-Hdrper's Bdzdr.
buy.
And have 3 chance to pile up some wealth;
Since Christmas on the rent bam shy.
And to move would not agree with my health.
Somerset N.,os.
sMy fathers an Odd Fellowp' boosted a
little boy.
my fathers Free Masonr'' replied the other;
San that's higher, for the hod fellows wait on tho
masons. .'-Smith. Gray d Co. IS Monthly.
"Miss Bullion is very mercurial," re-
marked Harlow as she passed them by.
II should say so,'' answered Bingham. "A reg
uar thermometer. In the summer time she was as
pleasant to could be when / met her in the
mountains, and in the city she passes me by as
though she were frozen. .''-Harper's Bazar.
She loved him 'just little"-so she said
And with that little he well content;
Form her gently heaving breast he read
With quickened. lovers eye. how much she
meant
By '.just little.''
If Dido smiled to see Eneas 20;
Ifsweet Griselda was a scoding shrew:
II fJuliet hated her dear Romeo;
IfThisbe was a firt-ah. tnen, he knew
She loved him just little!
-P,cA.
She-Henry, you are q perfect bear to-
day.
Henry-No. you are mistaken. my dear. wass
bear all last week. but I've been bull ever since
the market took that turn on Monday.-Vdsnfn0-
ton Star.
"What do you think of your little sister,
Osgoodson2'' inquired his father.
'She may improve upon more e4tendeo as
quaintance, y replied the little Boston ooy, re-
garding the new infant critically, but at present
she seems absurdly crude and immature. -
Chicago Tribune.
1t is said that the meek shall inherit the
earth;
II they do IL will be at some far away timef
Mayhap by codicil they've been cut on,
And Of the legacy won't get dime
-Meso York Herald.
Literary Lodger Ito new servant)-Oh,
you are the new servant, and what might your
name be?
Servant-Anner, sir.
.Anna or Hannahs''
.Taint neither. sir: it's Amer with tive
matches. "-1szas SVttngss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

WHILE there is a strong demand for the
exclusion of the Chinese laborer, as the only
effective means of depriving selfish en-
ployers Of his cheap services, common
justice demands that a Chinaman who has
established commercial interests in this
country should be allowed to attend to them,
and not be deprived Of his right to go and
come at his pleasure. For this reason the
recent decision Of the United States Supreme
Court, in the case of Lew Ow Bew, cannot
fail to give the satisfaction which always at
tend its rulings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

CAPTAIN FELIX MCCURLEY and Lieu
tenant McKintosh will in future avoid break
waters in their anxiety to make short cuts.
The United States war ship Alliance IS not
particularly valuable, and if its back be
broken there will but be the more demand
for efficient cruisers. 1t is pleasant to hear
that there was no backwardness in the
timely help given by the British sailors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
sWIFTs NEWLY FOUND COMET.
1t Looks Much Like a Blurred Star Of the
Fifth Magnitude.

It Looks Much Like a Blurred Star Of the
Fifth Magnitude.
SAN FRANCISCO, March H.-E. E. Barnard,
of Lick Observatory, makes the following
report on Swift's new comet: 81 observed
the comet on the mornings of March g. and
TO- and have carefully measured its position
among the stars. To the naked eye it ap-
pears like q blurred star of fifth or sixth
magnitude without any tail. AS 1t is pass
ing now through a singularly bleak region
of sky, to the east of the milk dipper in
Sagittarius. it can be easily identified.
"Just now it is not known whether the
comet will become brighter or not. If it has
not yet reached its perihelion we may ex-
pect it to be a conspicuous object in the
morning sky after the withdrawal of the
moon in the latter part of the month. A
small telescope shows faint tail to it; with
q large telescope the comet is round and
bright, with q rather small, insignificant
nucleus of the eleventh magnitude. 1t is
visible to the naked eye more from its large
size than from any special brightness"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

THERE can be no doubt that American
citizenship has in the past been obtained
under circumstances disgraceful alike to the
persons applying for and the officials grant
ing the same. But while there is reason to
believe there is room for more restrictions
of a useful nature, the chief end to be sought
is the strict and unflinching administra tion
of law. rather than new legislation which
may be evaded in the same slipshod fashion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
NO WOMEN NEED APPLY.
The Philadelphia Methodist Conference
Saws They Cannot BE Delegates

The Philadelphia Methodist Conference
Says They Cannot Be Delegates.
PHILADELPHIA, March H-Avote was taken
without discussion on the question of ad-
hitting women to the general conference at
to-day's session of the Philadelphia Metho-
dist Episcopal Conference, which resulted
in the defeat of the proposition to admit
them by a vote of 1O1 yeas to los nays, many
of the ministers not voting.
Resolutions commenting the work of
Captain R. H. Pratt, of the Indian school at
Carlisle, were offered, with a protest against
unfair discrimination against him by Con-
gressional action as a great injustice to o
faithful public servant and we'll calculated
to excite alarm in the minds of all who hope
to see the principles of the Sc paration Of
Church and State maintained. The resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted by a rising
vote.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

"WHAT fools these mortals be!' The
paper which lays claim to the leadership of
the English press publishes a letter purport-
ing to convey the expression of American
feeling toward England in most belligerent
language, and its authorship is traced to the
precocity of youth Of Is years. The Times,
of London, has long lost its reputation for
reliability, and this should make it the
laughing stock of nations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15

THE Law and Order spies in Philadelphia
are worrying illegal liquor sellers instead Of
news agents. The exposure of their methods
elsewhere in this issue, however, will not
elevate them in public opinion above their
brethren here.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
THE LAST INFORMATION.

The much mooted question, as to
whether the Chief of the Depart
ment of Public Safety in Allegheny
was to be prosecuted under the
charges that have been made against him,
was settled yesterday by the filing of
formal informations. The charges will
therefore be subject to the test of legal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-15
A Pertinent Inquiry.

Toledo Blade.
A Judge in Pittsburg as decided that the
sale Of Sunday newspapers is not work of
necessity. The publishers do not intend to
give them away, and II it be not q necessity
to sell them how else can the readers get
themi An appeal to the Supreme Court will
be taken, as 1t should be.