Connecticut western news., 1893-10-26

true one.
 There are varieties of door keepers in Congress- Some are polite and obliging; others surly, gruff and utterly devoid of good manners. making one wonder what kind of meat they feed, for they forget they are not masters but servants.
 Leaving Washington on Pittsbnrg night express a sweet-faced, white hair ed lady entered the car who was the widow of one of Americas s bravest sons, General John A. Logan. All seemed to know her and treated her with marked respect It was beautiful night; the heavy rain during the day washing everything clean, making tue historic beautiful. The Baltimore x Ohio pass es through large portion of the debat- able land of the Civil War. Harper's Ferry was charming; tho towering mountains, the winding river forming an ever changing and never wearying picture. The silvery moonlight made 1t yet more beautiful. After this match less outlook drew the drapery of my couch around me and lay down to sleep; and the next thing was an unearthly voice saying "rime to get up Sir, in twenty minutes we shall be in McKees- port" By the time my toilet was made we were in tho blackest, smokiest sec- ton of tho great State of Pennsylvania. At a. m. I was in McKeesport depot enquiring for good hotel, and in few moments was toasting myself before natural gas fire in the office of the Ma tional Hotel. From what I saw, natur- al gas Is the ideal fuel if it is only ob- talnable; no smoke, no odor, no dust, no dirt. The great trouble however is the supply is decreasing and many Of the iron works now manufacture their own gas which Is anything but odor- less. McKeesport has abont 25, 900 in- habitants, and is one of the iron centers of the country. The largest tube works in the world are located there, employ ing about 5000 hands and turning out finished iron tube every 10 seconds, be- tween 2500 and 5000 every ten honra. Its school buildings are very fine. It is a veritable city of churches, averaging a the fork formed by the junction of the Youghioughany and Monongahela riv- CTS, peculiarly fortunate location, giv- ing it not merely railroad facilities but water communication with the great river system of the center of the conn., try. The mountains round about are honeycombed with coal mines. The bituminous coal deposits of this section of Pennsylvania are almost priceless. The Carnegie Company is the great dominating power all through this To- cality. Duqhesne, about two miles from McKeesport, is large town of be- tween five and ten thousand inhabitants springing mp during the last six years as the result of Steel works established by that company ;and Braddock and Home stead, so widely advertised by its labor troubles, are only several miles nearer Pittsburgh. The men are sullen and revengeful over their defeat, and while the company have and are erecting fine gymnasiums, libraries and reading rooms for them it is not appreciated, the men claiming every new one erected is followed by reduction of wages. All through this iron section, for the first time in it's history, there are hard times. tile works being shut down from two to three months, and now re-opening 1t IS with reduced force and reduction of 10 per cent i'll wages in many cases, and in others reduction of 50 to 75 cents day. With winter staring them in the face it Is no small cause of concern.
 The Carnegie Company is erecting a sixteen story steel building, for offices, in Pittsburgh, forming the largest sir- gle business building ever saw. A man on the top looks like mite. The buildings in Pittsburg are equal to any city of its size, New York city having noth- ing surpassing it's post office and court house. The Roman Catholic cathedral is an immense brick structure but so black and dirty, by reason of tue smoky atmosphere. that 1t is anything but ex- ternally beautiful.
 In Western Pennsylvania "Undertak- CTS" are unknown but Funeral Direc- tors" are common. Places where liquor is illegally sold are called 'speak easies l" The name would hardly be appropriate in this locality.
 While attending a session of the Pitts bnrgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church heard an address by Dr. J. W. Hamilton, secretary of the Freedman's Aid society, in which he said 100000 colored young people had passed through the schools of that society, and that one half of the colored ministers, teachers and physicians who were graduates from any school of learn ing had graduated from the schools of the Freedman's Aid society of the M E. church.
 spent few hours in Johnstown, looking over the scene of the terrible food. It still bears. and will for many years, evidences of the great disaster About everything in the valley was swept away. From bluff 600 feet high, reached by an inclined plane rail- way $40 feet long, I was in some meas ure able to take i'll the scene. Through cut in the mountains the water rushcd d down one solid mass 40 feet high. sweep ing every thing before 1t, until 1t reach- ed the low stone bridge of the Penn. R.
 R. over the Conemaugh. Here the de- bris was piled mp 50 to 60 feet high and
 the water being thus damned spread
 the destruction wider than ever. Only two churches, parsonage and small store escaped the general ruin. Mort
 than 5000 d. ad were found, and of these in the beautiful cemetery on the top of
 the hill are SIG lying in sixteen curved rows each with an unmarked marble slab at the head, while in front is beautiful
 monument, surmounted by three female figures. In> the center, Faith, with q
 cross; on her right, Hope. with an
 anchor; ard on the left. Charity, with
 sleeping child in her arms; and below
 is the pathetic inscription:
 IN MEMORY OF
 THE UNIDENTIFIED DEAD
 FROM THE FLOOD MAY 3l, 1889. The chief of police told me the world | wide sympathy was marvellous: for weeks l th.y lived on the supplies sent in and
 m ,re than three million dollars wor
 contributed to tho Relief Fund. Witt
 an energy marvellous ill itself the city i.