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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1891
Page
2
City lawmakers resumed sessions to address a slate of issues. Chief Elliot urged choosing a suitable farm for a new poor farm, while debates over a smoke nuisance and electrification for the West End Street Railway dominated the meeting.
The Select and Common Councils authorize the Pittsburg Junction Railroad and its successors to run locomotives with bituminous coal if smoke consumers are installed and approved by the Department of Public Safety. Critics note heavy smoke on Southside from multiple railroads and urge broader use of smoke controls.
Common Council examines long batch of ordinances covering sewers on Spring alley Mulberry street Erin street Mahon street Kent alley Cedar street Winslow street Homewood avenue Lambert street Armstrong alley Julias street Renfrew street and more opening Finance street Aurelia street and Bellefield avenue grading Keat alley Woodlawn avenue and Keystone street vacating Junula street Atomsed alley plus sewers on Forbes street to Brady Lincoln avenue to Fifth Larimer avenue Thintyllind street Mulberry alley Ella street Howe Nalnima streets Mampton Street Hamilton avenue Albion street Shakespeare street Benitez alley Anne Ha street and Old mm grading paving and curbing work. Committee on Public Works presents items including Mulberry alley Ella street Howe Nalnima streets and other streets. Fourteenth word referenced.
The record lists petitions and ordinances before Select Council covering vacating portions of Morningside road and adjacent streets, grading and paving Wallingford Lawn streets, Coward and Cooper sewers, opening Iowa street, water pipes on Charlotte and 34th streets, sewers on Sapphire alley Matilda Orwell Elmer Filbert St Clair Hays Gem and Dauphin streets, and various alleys and avenues with openings and ramps.
An ordinance presented in Select Council grants the Pittsburg and West End Passenger Railway Company right of way along Fifth avenue Liberty street Market street and other routes to the city line. It authorizes leasing franchise rights and operation of other lines and the use of an overhead electric system with power to erect maintenance. The measure was referred to the Corporation Committee.
Controller Morrow presented several small vouchers for city department purchases not properly advertised. Council considers a resolution to pay the bills while critics warn against loose contracting. Keating notes emergencies like Schenley Park bridge extras and health bureau fire drive urgent purchases.
In Select Council Mr. Perry offered a resolution to end the city contract for street lighting in six months. The Chief of Public Works would report every 60 days on total lights in use and annual costs, plus the probable cost of a city electric plant and what peer cities pay annually for electric light. The resolution was adopted.
Mr Magee of the Finance Committee presented the ordinance in Common Council to submit the city debt increase to a popular vote. He noted previous drafting faults and said a new bill should be offered. The ordinance was referred to the Finance Committee for potential amendments.
The Philadelphia Company bill for 25 602 24 for gas until coal use was sent to a special committee on motion by Mr Wright. Finance Chair Magee warned that delaying payment could add court costs. Controller Morrow reported sinking fund status with securities totaling 2 671 552 5 deposited, plus 157 50 in un deposited securities since July 4. City bonds comprise all holdings. a Grandview avenue wall payment of 25 000 to Sloan and McElswaine was authorized.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Marshall announced a sale of 1900 shares of Chambers & McKee Plate Glass Co stock in Jeannette. Mrs Chambers' representative J Ferguson placed a bid and claimed a lien, with bids rising from two cents to a dollar, before adjournment to tomorrow. The stock par value is 100 dollars, and Knox later said the claim would not exceed 164000 dollars.
Accounts show a 1890 shortage of 1573.20 in garden track receipts. Hastings denies wrongdoing as auditors seek suspension, embezzlement and perjury charges, and bondsmen sued. The Auditing Committee demands vehicle and amusement license books and access to city records.
A freight wreck on the Panhandle near the city limits delayed train No 6 by about forty five minutes as it approached Union Station. Another collision at Bend's Run on the Pennsylvania Railroad caused a pileup of several freight trains, disrupting service across lines.
Emerson and Medgley of Beaver Falls test a steel torpedo netting section against English nets. Commander Converse noted the Beaver Falls sample shows higher tensile strength and greater fighter quality, with both nets galvanized for salt water. Government plans parallel tests with an Erickson gun to decide on future material use. Torpedo nets are deployed 20 feet below water to shield ships.
General Manager T B Everson denied a strike at Continental Tube Works and invited a reporter to inspect the shop. Foremen and workers stated no strike and full staffing, with new furnaces, a conveyer, and high output of three quarter and two inch tubes. Experts reportedly called the mill the best heat shaped tube mill in the world.
Printers met to reject the Typographical Union No.7 scale, citing sharp competition in surrounding cities. A binding resolution was adopted not to yield, with many firms endorsing the stance and a committee organized to secure wider adhesion from other job offices.
The Pittsburg Glass Company's new factory began operation yesterday, adding to the nation’s flint glass production except at Corning where issues persist. President Smith of the Flint industry travels to Corning and will later tour Eastern plants.
The Committee of Eleven held a meeting at 4L Fifth Avenue to organize a new trades body in Western Pennsylvania. The likely name is the Central Trades Assembly of Western Pennsylvania. Daisy Conn CurF claims immediate relief and cure for 15 cents at local druggists. Ads promote footwear and boys clothing at Simon's and Capp Bentt Dick with a variety of patterns and low prices.
Prof Henri Rollin Parker of Paris, instructor at Western University Pack and Bowman Institutes and Pitburg Female Colleges, issues his season prospectus. He brings wide knowledge of French literature to his selections for beginner and advanced classes, and his system is likely to succeed.
Miles Humphreys yesterday assumed duties as Chief Engineer of the Bureau of Fire. Samuel N. Evans resigned from the post. Humphreys was delayed due to his wife’s illness which is improved. He will base his headquarters at Engine House on Smithfield Street.
Congressman Dalzell reports his meeting with President Harrison at Cape May was strictly social and did not discuss politics. He states Hastings is not a compromise candidate and Blaine holds the Eastern presidential nomination prospects.
An advertisement offers framed pictures by Hendricks & Co at 68 Federal Street Allegheny with cabinet pictures at $1 per dozen and no extra charge for family groups. The ad highlights dress goods and novelties from Jos. Horse & Co. Penn Avenue Stores and Bocks & Bunn for jackets wraps furs and mantles.
The article notes Blaine has superior natural advantages and a prime location for home sites, predicting rapid population growth and development into a large town. It markets Iron City Brewing Co. Pilsner as superior, widely available through best dealers, with contact numbers.
Brevan Koopman of 26 Fremont street Allegheny a Kaufmanns clerk was arrested by Detective Bendel on larceny charges after store workers say they caught him with stolen goods. He is held at Central station. A placeholder note mentions pending funeral and other unrelated local incidents including labor dispute arrests and a stabbing on June avenue.
Advertisement notes a free express train at 8 o’clock Wednesday from West Penn depot Federal to Allegheny for Avonmore land sale. Includes seed bills and free tickets via Jas. W. Drart & Co. 313 Wood Street. Also mentions lounges and Berger’s location Liberty and Sixth Avenue. Describes Angostura Bitters promotion with water impurity remark.
A Mt. Pleasant jeweler and First Lieutenant John C. Berryhill says miners and cokers in the coke region are preparing for a strike likely within the year. He notes $25,000 paid last Saturday but merchants saw little business, as workers save money for a future stoppage. He urges caution over alleged relief-money claims and says officers benefited little.
At the Pittsburg Combination Clothing Company corner Grant and Diamond streets a sale offers first class suits for 1000 with regular prices at 1800 and options in cassimere worsted cheviots and diagonals 31000. Boys short pants suits priced 150 and 250. Exposition visitors urged to buy to save enough money to cover travel expenses.
Free special express train Wednesday morning from West Penn depot to Avonmore for a large Avonmore lot sale. Hand bills offer free tickets from Jas W Drape & Co. Pittsburg. Weather not a factor. sale proceeds rain or shine. Includes Fall dress goods and numerous novelty suits from Jos Hors & Co Exposition Visitors Lies. Photographer Lies will offer cabinet photos at 150 per day near Sixth Street. Breweries Iron City Brewery touts brews. Limekin's cleans or dyes jackets.
About 6000 children from Allegheny public schools attended the exposition yesterday from morning until dusk. They enjoyed exhibits and found it easy to lose and retrieve pocketbooks with car fare, as the management supplied nickels and dimes. Officials announced tickets expire at 4 pm and today the venue shifts to veteran activities with martial music and patriotic display for Grand Army Day.
El Paso postal clerk W L Messner reports Uncle Jerry's rainmakers as successful after observing experiments in Texas. He recounts a 38 hour desert delay caused by a bridge washout while returning from a postal clerks convention in Buffalo.
A Blaine Company event promises a free excursion next Saturday September 19 with steamboat and rail transport to Pittsburg area. The trip aims to draw thousands to promote lot sales while Elizabeth neighbors plan to feed visitors.
Mellor and Hoene at 77 Fifth Avenue report booming trade in selling and renting pianos organs and mollias. The shop ships instruments nationwide with favorable terms and quick delivery, praising Hardman and Krakauer as top brands while highlighting their own judgment in choice instruments.
The Stevens display at the west end of the Main Floor presents the widest Western Pennsylvania range of desks and office furniture. It features adjustable invalid backs rests and bodies, a versatile five in one chair with 30 positions, rolling chairs for invalids, and physicians operating chairs favored by medical professionals.
Fine cassimere worsted mixed cheviots and diagonals for 1000 choices. Boys short pants suits in new styles priced at 150 and 4250. Call at Extron to save enough to cover expenses. Corner Grant and Diamond streets Pittsburg.
Ea vee a fine-At 200, 300 and 3350 shoe lines advertised. Not old stock, latest fashions await inspection at Simon's, 78 Ohio street, Allegheny, Pa. Kreth Breer promoted as unrivaled. Iron City Brewing Co. Pilsner brand noted. dealers urged to keep it. Telephone 1188.
Exposition Church Organs at Kieber and Bro. 506 Wood Street offers private exposition. View church organs at 06 Wood Street and discover Vocalion organ priced lower than the exposition. Kiebers also showcase pianos and small goods, claiming lower prices than the downtown exhibit.
The piece notes that every day feels like popcorn day since September 2 as popcorn wins affection of men women and children. Lemonade from fresh lemons sugar and filtered water aids thirst after unlimited candies that are freshly made.
Taylor and Dean advertise protective fire safeguards at 201 203 205 Market St. The notice urges study of fire escapes iron staircases solid iron shutters and related measures for life and property protection, noting their proven value and presence in prominent centers. Leave orders with Taylor and Dean for these safeguards.
The display features Mogul and Innis engines, drilling rigs and tools, fishing tools for recovering test implements, piping supplies and attachments, steam and water gauges, Barrett jacks for moving heavy machinery, hydraniufe jacks for drawing casings, chime whistles, and related oil field equipment.
An 8 o'clock event at West Penn depot offers ban bills and free tickets via James W. Drape & Co. Readers visit 315 Wood Street Pittsburg to view latest ladies shoes with bold claims and special stock at Simon's 78 Ohio Street Allegheny for fall fashions and patterns.
An advertisement urges readers to visit the Monongahela area and the booming new town, inviting inspection of ground equipment and cheap lands at Blaine. It promotes transport maps and contact with Charles Somers & Co. at 129 Fourth Avenue and notes millinery exhibits at Jos Horner & Co.'s Penn Avenue stores with bargains on shoes and bankrupt stock.
A sweeping note announces extensive additions to the store with unmatched cash prices. Bedford Cord Crepons, Rayé Ladine Cord, French diagonals, Broche Eclipse Suitings, Jacquard La Fougere, and various tweeds are offered from $1.35 to $3.75 a yard. The ad urges customers to see the expansive selection in one section and claims all wool dress goods drop to 2.50 a yard.
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