Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-24

the other day, was, despite his compare
lively humble calling. q grsndee of Spain.
In the early thirtiss his father was forced
to flee from Spain for political ressons. All
his great estates were con6scated at the
time. With the little ready money which
he bad saved he purchased q email farm
near Werschetz, in South Hungary. He
lost even that, however, and his SOD, Juan,
remained without q friend In the world.
tailor of Temesvsr took pity on him,
tau sht him his trade and Enabled the boy
TO h.eome at least respected and honored
citizen. He tried to regain possession Of
the con6scated sstatee, but was unable to
do so, as he did not have sufficient money,
All the taitors and the ahoemakers of the
city followed him to the grave.
A good deal of fun mas been made
about the competition cf the cheap
sausage, but the jokers have not come up
to tho t. s.imopy that was given in Lon
don police court the other day. 1t ap-
pears that some sort of disagreement arose
between a baker and confectioner of the
Seven Sisters road and one of his appren-
tices, and the matter was taken before q
magistrate for settlement. Here is an ex-
tract from the testimony: odd you,
among other things, teach the boy to
make sausage rollsr the baker was asked,
and he replied In the affirmative. "Did
you teach him to make ssusage-rolls of
red ochre, pepper, and salt, and brown
bread soakeda" the counsel continued, and
''Yes," was again the reply. "But where
Is the sausage7' was the next question.
"You don't require it," the witness re-
sponded, as If pitying the lawyers ignor-
snce. THAT Is how the beef sausage is
made" he added by way of explanation.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York legislature providing for the organ
tzation of a company of leading residents
of New York city to lend money to the
poor on personal property at a small rate
of interest. The company is to be incor-
porated as the Provident Loan society and
proposes to establish pawnshops in con-
venient places. Among the incorporstors
are Otto T. Barnard, Charles G. Beamsp,
Henry r. Beskmsn, William L. Bull, Fred
eric R. Coudert, Charles F. Cox, John D.
Crimmins. R. Fulton Cutting, Robert W.
de Forest, William E Dodge. Charlss s.
Fairchild. David a. Greer, Abrsm 8.
Hewitt, James ]: Higginsop, Adrian Ise
lin, jr., D.Willis James, John 8. Kennedy,
~ Colou,ao r d
Victor Morawstz, ]. Pierpont Morgan, Os.
wald Ottendorfer, Jacob q. Schiif, Gustav
q. Schwab, Charles 8. Smith, James
Speyer, Walter Stanton, J. Kennedy Tod,
Abraham Wolff and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
One obstinate man can sometimes make
good deal of trouble. The owner of one
forty fifth interest in q lot of ground has
bsen instrumental in deprivipg Pittsburg
of fine new Union station, which the
people of the city have long wanted, and
which the Pennsylvania railroad has been
anxious to build. The present Union sta
tion Is six squares from the corner of Fifth
avenue and Smithfeld street, which may
be said to be the most central business
corner In the oity. When rapid transit
lines were built to the suburbs they at
trscte1 nearly all of the Pennsylvania
road people began to buy up property to
give them right of way to the point
named, with the idea of building a station
there, and competing with the rapid tran
sit lines ih lively way-cutting rates and
guaranteeing every passenger a seat.
TIE work of securing property went
on in g quiet way, through brok
ers who had the purchased prop
erty put in other names than those
of the railway people. to prevent the un-
due advancement of prices. Almost the
whole route was bought. Two pieces of
real estate only were re,ded to complete
the line. One was lot for which $50, 900
was asked, and the other was lot at the
corner of Fifth and Smtth6eld. The com
pany thought the $50, 900 an exorbitant
price, but had decided to pay 1t If the
latter lot could be secured. This belonged
to a large number cf heirs scattered all
over the country. They We're all hunted
up by laborious work, and all consented to
the ssle-all but one. The objeotor Is a
Philadslphian, who owns one-nin.h of
one-hfth of the property. All sorts of
offers were made to him, but he declared
he would not part with his interest for any
sum of money. Now the Pennsylvania
Railroad company has decided that 1t does
not want its downtown station, and is
trying to sell the large amount of real
estate it has accumulated in this effort to