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THE PITTSBUIIG POST. APRIL 5, 1896. 7 OflE TOMi BRIDGE WAS PDE REE. Like an In-Comins: Tide Our Our Spring Catalogue, Spring PITTSBtTia TAKES POSSESSION OP THE OLD STRICTURE AT so it ii mc-TH street. Catalogue, This Spring's business has rolled right in on us during the month just closed.

April is here, and brings with it on our part showers of bargains, and on yours a shower of patronage. You'll find us alive and alert, making prices and giving values that competition can't touch. Furniture is cheap; good furniture, we mean. It's a splendid time to fit up the house. It's a wonderful collection we have ready to show you and embraces everything needed to completely furnish cottage or mansion.

A large and handsomely Illustrated book, SENT FREE To any out-of-town address. A large and handsomely Hlns-trated book, SENT FREE To any out-of-town address. LOTS OF PENNIES REFUSED. QnUlc TVorlt toy City Officials ti Closing- the Transaction. SUNDAY D1SCTSSED TR 1CTIOX ORDCTAXCES.

Some Matchless argains in Furniture for the Sleeping Roomi. ah. fTir-. gjp jl This fine three-piece Bedroom Set of solid ash, 20x24 beveled mirror in dresser, combination washstand with splasher rail on back, This Solid Antique Ash Set, with oval French plate mirror, 24x30in. dresser, handsomely carved, gloss finish.

Old timers who crossed the South Tenth street bridge yesterday afternoon finally saw realized one of the promises that were mads to the Southside more than 20 years ago. Though pleased that passage over the bridge was free and that the usual penny was not required, their satisfaction was tempered with other as more than one of them exclaimed: "Why wasn't the bridge free long ago?" The city took possession of the old structure at 2:30 p. and from that Instant on no more money was taken In at the toll house. Negotiations that concluded the free bridge transaction were conducted In a fsw hours. At 9:30 a.

m. Mayor Mc-Kenna signed the bridge ordinances, and his messenger immediately notified Director Bigelow. of the department of public works. Director Bigelow told Controller Gourley, and word was sent to T. Hart Given, secretary of the company, and George B.

Motheral, its attorney. The two gentlemen soon appeared in the office of the controller, whither City Attorney Burleigh followed them. Mr. Burleigh had prepared two bonds, one for $10,000 and the other for the first to indemnify the city against loss by reason of the litigation now in the courts with reference to the building of a channel pier; the other bond to reimburse the city for any increase over the estimated cost of for a new steel span. The officials of the company signed both bonds.

After this matter had been attended io the party repaired to the office of Mayor MtKenna. Captain Morgan, the mayor's clerk, filled out a warrant and Controller Gourley countersigned it. the mount of the warrant being for Then a bill of sale for the stock sf the bridge company was handed over t5 the controller, the warrr? -t passed Jitc the hands of T. H. Given, and the transaction was complete.

The bridge Belonged to the city, and all that regained was to take possession of it. Director Bigelow and Superintendent Paisley, of the bureau of highways and eewers. immediately went over to the toll hous on the south end of the bridge and here they found the company's superintendent. J. J.

Thomas, and Donnelly. Director Bigelow stuck his head in at the window. "Come to take have you?" asked Mr, Thomas. "Yes. Close the window." replied the Sirectr.

"This bridge is free to tne people. Xti charge, gentlemen." he added, turning to several working-men who Jjsre about to throw their pennies on uie window ledge. A faint cheer was given, as the party of citizens sped on, one of them throwing in the remark: "You ought to have done this long ago." Superintendent Thomas and Mr. Don Solid Ash, 22x28 beveled mirror in dresser, carved; gloss finish, splasher rail on washstand. $20.00.

$16.50. BABY CARRIAGES. This fine Sideboard, quarter sawed oak, top CHIN AWARE. A Magnificent Display of TOILET SETS. CH1NAWARE A Matchless Showing of 50x20, and 6 tt .11 feet 4 inches E'tgrj: VWJ high, with 18x 40 French (not German) beveled plate mirror, large linen drawer, two small drawers, one lined for silver.

We have only 50 of them. Time again here to give the baby the beneft of the Spring air and Sunshine. We have a grand line of little Buggies here to show you, new and elegant styles, with a price range of from Elegant Royal hnglish Porcelain Osborn Toilet Set, 10 pieces, finely decorated under the glaze, Handsome English Porcelain pieces.decoratedin flow- This Solid Antique Ash Set, polish finish, 22x28 1 ers and the glaze, While They beveled mirror in Dresser, rubbed and polished, Only $2.50 Last Only $7.50 ON TIME. fftffSS1" 8 Cash op They Go 3t" 20o00. $5.50 to $40.00.

TTINGS! Credits. CARPETS nelly sj.ent the rest of toe day in the Jttie toll house, counting the stacks of pennies that had accumulated during the earlier hours of the day. A good 9art of their work the remainder of the lay lay in restraining the passengers rom paying toll. Many a time Mr. rhomas pulled the window open to yeil to someone, to pick up the money he 3ad deposited on the ledge before the tolltaker could stop him.

Some foreign-trs could hardly be made to understand ihat their passage cost them nothing, sut the. Americans quickly realized the rhanga in circumstances, pocketed their uoney, smiled and passed on. One man when the superintendent refused his money: "Free at last, is it? Well, It ought to have been free long ago." Alexander Ros3 was the last man to pay his toil, and J. J. McGuire and Thomas Moorhouse.

who accompanied Director Bigelow to the toll house, almost fought for the coin, which was finally secured by one of them. Superintendent Thomas gave to a "Post" reporter the last ticket that was taken In. Ex-Controller E. S. Morrow, at present assistant controller, says.

the warrant for $305,000 is the largest single warrant drawn on the city treasury in the history of the city. The Point bridge will be taken possession of by the city to-morrow, perhaps, but the hitch In the Smithfield street bridge proceedings wil! delay the transfer of that structure, the present owners having said that they will not accept the offered by the city. NATURE is outdone in the colors and combination of colors shown in our matchless exhibition of Spring Carpets. It's a stock that can't be matched in Pittsburg for size ahd variety, nor are our prices equaled by any. See this week: A fine line of New Style Spring Tapestry Carpets, worth fully 75c a yd.

sm OUR PRICE 55c AND 60c ALL CARPETS MADE, LAID AND LINED FREE IS A GOOD THING TO HAVE WHEN YOU WANT IT. YOURS IS GOOD At our store. And this fact enables you to get immediate possession of all the things ycu may need for the home. DON'T WAIT Another minute. If you are moved and know just what you want, get it Our Credit System is used by thousands.

It's free to you. We Import Direct FROM JAPANj The taste and ingenuity of the little Japs in making this ideal Summer floor covering is something wonderful. Buying direct from makers we get choice of patterns and very lowest cost. The ships are in now with this season's purchases and we have a splendid assortment to show you. 923, 925, 927, 929 and 931 Penn Avenue.

Attorney John Scott Ferguson and a number of residents of Shady and North Highland avenues, called on the mayor at 11 o'clock yesterday, and conferred with him an hour, showing him reasons why. according to their opinion, he ought not to sign the new traction ordinances, authorizing the Consolidated traction company to lay double tracks on the streets on which the ob-lectors reside. C. L. Magee.

the presi-lent of the company, was also present, nd answered the objections to the best of his ability. Later in the day Mayor McKenna was asked he had signed the traction ordinances, and he replied In his words of the dnv before in "The Post:" "No. not yet." He was asked If he would Soanything with the ordinances between then and Monday, and he answered that he wouldn't whether he would or not. He was also quoted, however, as saying that he would not sign the measures until Monday. NEARLY AVOnE OCT THE BIBLE.

SIGNAL LIGnTS CHANGED. top of our tent something like that, only there was 10 times as much of it and it broadened out into a great white cloud; and up through the center of this cloud, below it, and through it, and above it, the size of the opening in the tent, rose That seemed to be a solid column of flies; If I hadn't seen flies since I should think that ail the flies in the world must have been blown up In that explosion." TAWED DURING HIS OWN SPEECH. however, the champion sleeper of the house is Sir Richard Temple, who goes to sleep at ail times and under all sorts of conditions at times he appears to be anxious to ward off the feeling of somnolency which is obviusly obtaining the mastery over him. But the effort is all in vain, and his head will insist upon falling upon his breast. How his hat ever remains upon his head, seeing the dislocatory swerve and strange movements the latter assumes from time to time, is a matter of wonderment.

night at the table he returned to the charge. "Ma," he said, "you didn't put any $5 in my bible, did you?" "No. dear." "I kind of thought you would; to try me, you know. I'd just like to have showed you how quick I'd have found It. I read the bible every night.

And I shook the covers most off looking for one. Why didn't you?" "Didn't you find any bill, dear. I wrapped one up with your toothbrush." He is a ycuth of great duplicity, but he did not simulate chagrin. GOT RID OF THE FLIES. whenever one of them wants to leava his store for any purpose he notifle the schnorrer beforehand.

"Fully 100 Eastside storekeepers are his friends, and he visits each one of them regularly every day or so. Some' Umea each one of them gives him 1 cents, sometimes 35 cents, and when business is extra good they often give hin more. "Tills fellow you just saw has made on an average $10 a day for the past flva years, and in all that time he hasn't done one good day's work. shop keepers give him enough within a month to employ a good clerk, but as they eiva it a little at a time it is never missed. LOUISE MICHELJS PRISON PETS.

WHAT A SCHXORRER IS. Albert Sehwlter Slay Have Canaed His Father's Death. Informations were made yesterday afternoon before Alderman James Madden, of the West End. against John Du-binger and Albert Schwftzer, each about 13 years of age, of McKees Rocks, charging them with malicious mischief. The informations were made by Arthur Fee, an officer of the Coraopolis railroad company, who alleges that the boys are guilty of having changed the signal lights at the railroad switches, thereby causing several disastrous wrecks.

Mr. Fee says the railroai employes have been troubled considerably for the past year by the signal lights being changed and that the two boys named are believed to have been guilty of changing them. The Schwltzer boy's father waa killed about a month ago on this road, and it i.s thought by the railroad men that the changing of the signal lights caused him to be struck by the train which caused his death, as he was standing on the track at the time waiting for the train to pass. The boys will be given a hearing Monday evening. Institute at Manhall.

A successful teachers Institute was heid yesterday In the Munhall school, at Munhall. in Mifflin township. The deliberations of the body lasted over two sessions, one in the forenoon and one in the RIGHTS OF CANTEEN. Cla.br 4 as to State and Federal Jurist lotion 0-rear Armr Post Ei-ehangei Stbraaka and York. WASHINGTON.

April 4. The closing ot the post exchange at Fort Robinson. is only temporary, pending a legal decision on the right of state officials to Interfere in the internal administration or the affairs of army posts. The matter Is givin? much concern to army ofiieers, for a judicial decision adverse to the post exchange in most Instances would wipe out this institution, which is of the greatest vtCue in army administration, as tending to promote morality, sobriety and habits of thrift amor.t the enlisted men. The question has aNo arisen in the case of tae pest at Plattsburg.

N. T. This differs from the Fort Robinson case in that there is lacking a specific act of cession of jurisdiction by the state of New York to the national government, end the issue then must be decided there utoh the basis of the general act relative to the administration of the affairs of the army establishment. At Fort Robinson the act of cession is said to be clear, and there is no question of the fact that the original act passed exclusive Jurisdiction over the reservatton to the United States. It is true that an attempt was made later to recover some of 'his jurisdiction, but inasmuch as this was confined to a state act.

without the acquiesenee cf the national government, the other party to the original contract, it is hell to be invalid by the officials here. At Fort Robinson the license sought to be levied by the local authorities upon the post for the operation of its exchange amounts to SX. a. tax that would be prohibitive, and some army officials are la favor of the evacuation of the post, in ease of a persistence In the tax matter by the local The new city councils will meet Monday f.t 10 a. and will elect their respective presidents.

President George L. Holiiday Fill be re-elected to preside over the common branch, and S. D. Warmcastle will be chosen president of select council. John S.

Lambie will swear Mr. "Warmcastle in. and W. A. Mge will administer the oath to Mr.

Holiiday. Then the two presidents will swear in the newly elected members of At noon both branches will In Joint session. Mayor-eect Ford will be inaugurated, and then administer the oath of ofce to Controller Gourley. The city treasurer. Major J.

F. Penniston, will not retire from ofhVe until June. Revival at Doqnniir. The five Protestant churches of Du-quesne will to-morrow evening bejln a two-weeks revival, which has been arranged for the purpose of snaking that wicked town to Its very foundations. The churches will hold no services during its duration.

Evangelist -Ferd Sehivera will conduct the revival. Bnt Did Not Find the Money Around Hia Tooth Brash. There Is a family residing not far from Lincoln park which of late, the Chicago "Tribune" says, has passed throught all the throes of sending a youthful son away to school. Including thosa attendant upon three homecomings in the course of twice as many months. It was about Christmas that the second of these homecomings took place.

The first one had been marked by a surprising joy and an obliging spirit which showed the ravages of homesickness. The second was the return of a conqueror. He was condescending to a painful degree and he "talked down" to his parents. It was the dinner before his return to school, his last meal at home. Every one had been helped and a silence had fallen over the company.

"Ma," said the hero, "you'd ought to see how I read my, bible." "Upside down?" queried an unimpressed brother. The boy vouchsafed no reply. He was eyeing his mother expectantly. He was a youth of the deepest duplicity and cunning. These are traits which he has developed at school.

"Do you. dear?" said the unsuspecting mother. "Ves'm. Every night." There was a pause. "Ma.

I heard the funniest story before I came home. Jonesy told It to me." "Did you, dear?" said the mother. "Yes'm. It's about a boy that went away to school, like I do. And his mother she thought maybe he didn't read his She'd told him to lots of times, but she thought maybe he didn't." "Surprising." remarked the elder brother.

Elder brothers are meaner than dirt. "Aud then what do you Buppos she did?" "What did she do. dear?" "She put a five-dollar bill In his bible, and when he wrote home for money, she knew he hadn't been reading it." He watched hia mother closely. "Ma. don't you think that was a good plan?" As remarked before, he is a youth of great duplicity.

Then he wtnt back to school. He has returned for th third tlma, Th first Lord Hartlngjton's Slngnlar Behavior and How Disraeli Remarked It. The occasion of making one's maiden speech Is hardly the time one would expect a legislator to select for giving vent to a yawn; it is nevertheless on record, says "Pearson's Weekly," that some SO years ago, when the present Duke of Devonshire, then Lord Hartington, was making his maiden speech in the house of commons he visibly yawned, and Mr. Disraeli, whose keen-eye noted the occurrence, is accredited with having made the remark that "a ma who can yawu in the midst of his maiden speech is capable of rising to the highest position in this house." Since his transference to the upper house the noble duke has probably found even more facilities than existed In the commons for dozing. Mr.

Gladstone used to be a frequent offender in the same direction. The grand old man was often lost to all consciousness of what was going oa around him, and yet, marvelous to relate, after quietly nodding away through a portion- of a debate, he would wake up. deliver himself of a bir. long yawn and then make a speech which, for lucidity and power of argument, would seem to impiy that he had heard every word that h-id been spoken throughout the debate. Mr.

Chamberlain and Sir William Harcourt often appear to be fast asleep, but it is doubtful if either of them ever loses touch with what is going on around them. The habit of tilting the hat well over the eye3 and sitting with bowed head and less crosse done over the other is one which appears to find much favor with a large number of members in each succeeding house of commons, but it will always be a moot point whether they really go to sleep or merely "make believe to." as children say. At all events, it Is noticeable that they never seem at a loss for a word or sentence when the time comes for them to rise up In their places. Putting Ji ethtin ojU Ux auMtloa. Easy and Remunerative Occupation of a Few Gothajtnites.

In an Eastside drugstore on several occasions I had noticed a well-dressed, gentlemanly-looking, elderly man, of Hebraic features. He- always bade me a pleasant good evening when he entered, passed oa to the proprietor, received from him a coin and then left the place. The first time I saw him I thought he was probaibly a collector of some sort, but his visits after business hours made that almost impossible, says the New York "Herald." I was in another little store on the Eastside the other evening when the same fellow entered and repeated the drugstore performance. "Who Is that fellow anyway?" I asked the proprietor. "Who is he?" he repeated.

"Why. he's a professional schnorrer." "A professional what?" I asked. "Oh. you don't know what that means?" he said, and then he explained the matter. "Schnorrer," he continued, "is a Hebrew word.

A schnorrer, translated into English, Is a man who knows it all a kind of an all around, Kood, entertaining fellow, but one, by the way, who is opposed to work. This fellow you just saw is a professional schnorrer. He dresses finely, is well thought of, and enjoys life to the fullest extent, but to my knowledge he hasn't worked steadily in eight years. "He ia a thoroughly honest and well educated man, and that Is the reason for his success. "There are many small shopkeepers on the Eastside whose profits will not enable them to employ clerks.

This schnorrer la well acauaintidi with these pBl. and An Incident or Army Life Recalled by a Veteran. "Whenever I see a housewife swishing the flies out of a room with a dust cloth, and maybe following up one solitary fly until she gets rid of it, and then closing the slats of the blind to keep the room nice and cool," said an old soldier to a New York "Sun" writer, "it makes me think of a little Incident of my life in the armv. "We had at one time Sibley tents. They were the big tents, you remember, circular on the ground, each mads to hold about IS men, and supported by a center pole, and, having a circular opening at the top for ventilation.

"This opening was perhaps 10 or 12 Inches In diameter. It had a cover of some sort for bad weather, but the one that belonged to our tent we lost right awav, and we never got another. "One dav in Virginia our tent was full of flies. I think I never saw so many flies before. I shcuid say there must have bfen about 17.0uu.Ort of them.

I don't know what brought so many of them, into our tent, maybe somebody had a piece of meat mere, but one of the men was inclined to be a little disturbed by them. He thought there was of them, and I said I thougnt he might be right. 'Well, by he said, 'I'm going to get rid of "He git some powder, I don't know how much, but something less than a ton, and spread it round in the tent and led a train outside. Then when we'd get everything out of the way he fired the train. "You've seen the steam come out of the smokestack of a locomotive when the engine was exhausting, a quick puff straight up and then the cloud of expanding steam.

Well, that puff of powder moke wat up out of tha opening la the By Them She Proved the Rat Is Easy to Tench. Louise Michel called attention after long period of imprisonment to the sociable and other good qualities of rats, says the London "News." She taught her three cats to live amicably with trpops of rata that visited her at regular hours twice a day. The cats began by attacking the rats and killing; one and breaking the leg of another. Mile. Michel tended the Injured rat and thus won- the confidence of its fellows.

One of their virtues was respect for the aged, another was family feeling, another compassion for unfortunate brethren. The governor of the prison used to send the brokea bread from his table for the prisoner's four-footed visitor, and often came himself to witness the visits. Armand Lieyritz has been bitten with Louise Michel's friendship for rats. He agrees from personal experience with her ia thinking that there is no four-footed" creaturt: more susceptible of education. The Russia n-Duroff took up a few days ago the Louise Michel idea of bringing out the human qualities of the rat, and Is now making money with a company of tamed rats.

They, saiior-like, climb the ropes of a mimic ship and behave ia most ways like the industrious rats which were one cf the shows of London in the reign of William IV. DuToff had much less trouble la teaching rat3 than dogs. He discovered in them a retentive ear for language and greater adaptability than he (ha i found ia acut other aaeciea' afternoon. Over 00 teachers were pres-l to the- Ton Gold Ore. SAX FRAXCISCO.

April 4. The greatest strike made in a. gold mine in California for years is reported from the Itaw-hide mine in Tuolumne county. A pocket Is said to have ben found at the SMVfoot level, the extent of which is not known, which contains nearly free gold. The samples assay from $15,000 to X.0 a ton The following- executions were Issued yesterday: Jacob John and George MarlsofT, for use.

against T. H. Wilson, 15: Joseph Whitesides against A. K. aad Robert A.

Whitesides. $3,271 fi. ont. Lunch was served in the school. The visitors were from Braddock, Homestead, McKeesport and smaller towns.

Will Itrrak Ground Monday. The new St. Michael's Slavonic congregation, of Homestead, which recently seceded from St. Michael's congregation, of Homestead, will this week begin the erection of their new church, at Fourth avenue and Dickson street. It will be 85x45 feet, and will boast of a 95-foot tower.

A pastor has not yet 'been Prof. Oxdrn'i Experiments. Prof. J. G.

Ogden, of the Central high school, who Is experimenting with rays, believes there are more powerful rays than those found by Roentgen, "i he is trying' to discover them..