New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

The floor of the Baptist Church in Sharps-
burg was five feet under water on Sunday morn
ing. The Lutheran Church was similarly flooded
and one Pittsburg found who
mean enough to say that the Baptists had the
best Of the century old controversy at last.
immersion had been accepted by the Lutherans
At McKees Rocks the brewers delivered beer
from slliffs One OF the boatmen said no amount
of water would be permitted to prevent the de-
livery Of beer on Prince Henry day. He de-
clared that the Prince would have been mortally
affrOnted at Pittsburg if the German national
beverage had given way to water on the day Of
his visit. A who had been busy celebrating
the Princes visit said amid paroxysms of hic-
coughs that whiskey goes down rapidly while
the water is coming up. Nobody who saw him
doubted mis- word.
In SiXth-st, Pittsburg Saturday evening
truckmcn and drivers of high bodied delivery
wagons reapcd a harvest hauling Allegheny peo-
pie across the deep pool that had formed at
Penn-aVe. and extended more than a block each
way. There was a similar pool at Robinson and
Federal sts Allegheny, just beyond the Sixth-st.
bridge. At first the rate was 10 cents for cross
ing the Penn-ave. pool only, and the luckless
AlIeghenians had to pay another dime after
walking across the bridge to get to high ground
in their own city AS news Of the gold mine
spread among the drivers Of the two cities they
hocked to the point in increased numbers, and
were soon yelling and almost hghtnS Tor patron
age The rate rapidly fell to five cents and at
last tn that figure for transportation across both
pools and the bridge BY 10 o'clock on Sunday
the Penn-ave pool had disappeared. and all the
trucks were concentrated at the Robinson-st.
nooI in Allegheny. At / o'clock the water there
had become so shallow that people could walk
across after boards were placed at the curbs'
and the trucks rapidly disappeared. The driver
of the last, with a single fare on the seat,
mournfully shouted, "Positively the last load
over the hoodl' and after long wait added,
IT'S all over" ana drove away.
In Penn-ave all the cellars and Easements
were nearly fun all day Sunday. In basement
restaurant the tables, chairs ana other NOV
a bIes all anoat within two feet of tho ceiling.
attracted a great deal Of attention. as they could
he easily seen through the windows. In a pail
floating in position that all but dipped water
a large, rat was lying with his chin on his paws,
patiently waiting for the flood to subside. Hun
dreds of boys and many men tried to shoe
him out of his ark but he was too foxy to go.
Late in the afternoon ne was still in the pail,
and appeared not to have moved all day
The baseball ground at the foot of Robinson
St. Allegheny, flooded almost its whole
length The water at its highest was almost
over the fence. What anybody wanted 10 go
there for was not quite clear but half a dozen
boatmen were busy taking passengers to the
ball ground for - cents apiece the greater part
of Sunday afternoon.
Several young men of Rcbecca- st, Allegheny.
built RATS to convey members of their families
and their sweethearts TO dry ground for a Sun
day outing. The water at its highest covered
the ground floors and stoop of the tenements
in Rebecca-st., near SchoOl-st. Boys from the
neighborhood of Monument Hill gathered in
large numbers in School-st., and, without ex-
ception. offered liberal inducements to the RATS