Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889.

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The fund yesterday reached $2,059.86, and a fourth remittance was made of $575. Statement to date: t Received June 3 $470.25 Kecelved June 4 4f9.80 Received June 5 279.00 Received June G 47.50 Received June 7 lOO.OO-! Recel ved June 8 200.75 Received June 10...: 239.81 Yesterday $ Receipts. The Friends Church, Spiceland, Ind $52.60 Methodist Episcopal Church, Noblesville, Ind 135.80 Christian Church, Bloomfleld, Ind. 17.00 Citizens of North Vernon, Ind.. 31.35 A. r. Hover, Indiana polls 20.00 256.75 Total $2,059.80 June 4 Remitted to Wm. MoCreery, Chairman relief fund, Pittsburg, Pa $300.00 June 5 Remitted a above.... 300.00 June 8 Remitted as above 300.00 June 11 Remitted as above.. 575.001,975.00 Ealance for next remittance $84.80 "Goose" Eden's statement relative to a divide with Leon Bailey is decidedly interesting. "When rogues fall out," etc. To-day the State of Pennsylvania, through its accredited agents, will take entire charge of operations at Johnstown. An Eastern exchange asks "What becomes t of old sliOesf Why, they are thrown after new-married couples, of course. In view of the easo with which scientists prove that death by electricity does not hurt, thero is a surprising lack of candidate for the operation. Wiiat's in a name! One of the men who tried to murder farmer Lamay, at Corydon, is named Tennyson, and he has two brothers in the southern prison. There has never been a more remarkable illustration of American enterprise than that furnished by the managers of the Cambria Iron Company. Within twelve days after the great disaster it gives employment to three thousand men. This is simply grand. His Holiness the Pope seems to be very much exercised over the Bruno demonstration. An American Pope would not mind a little thing like that. Americans recoguize the fact that this 'orld is large; also, that it moves. The sun no longer rises and sets in the Vatican. It is said the United States will send Mataafa a whale-boat, as right and tight as a government navy -yard can make it, for his services in saving American sailors during the gi eat storm at Apia. Under the new government of Samoa Mataafa will probably become vice-King. With store clothes ami a plug hat ho would make a pretty good American. The captain of a vessel just arrived at Philadelphia says that, when 200 miles at sea, lie encountered hundreds of acres of floating lumber. "As far as the eye could reach," he says, "nothing was visible but miles of floating lumber. Where it came from was a mystery to me, and I climbed up in the rising to see the end of it, if possible, but there was nothing to be seen but a sea of yellow pine lumber.7It had como down'in the freshets of Pennsylvania rivers and gone to sea on its own account. The New York Sun says there is no instance in our century of popular elections iu which a man who has once filled a term of the presidency, and has then been renominated by his party and defeated for re-election, has for a third time been taken up as the standardbearer of that party. It concludes that Mr. Cleveland is an impossible candidate for 1692. The Sun forgets that Mr. Cleveland regards himself as a child of destiny, and not subject to rule or precedent. He is a statesman from Statesmanville. The Decatur Journal prints an interview with Mr. John D. Hale, a leading Democrat of that place, who is also department commander for Indiana of the Democratic Union Soldiers' and Sailors1 Veteran Association. We give consid erable space to the unabridged title of the organization in order not to detract from its importance. Department Commander Hale is frank enough to say that it "has for its purpose the promotion of the political interests of Democratic soldiers." To a question why such an organization was considered necessary, the department commander replied: "Well, it serves to keep Democratic soldiers together. We have uncompromising belief in the principles of Democracy as opposed to your party, and we are centralizing our energies to recover in 1803

the power wo lost in 1SSS." From this

wo infer, first, that a good many Democratic soldiers have been straying from the political fold, and second, that a de termined effort is to be made to bring them back. The organization here referred to is simply a political club, and one of the "good schemes" by which the Democrats hope to recover their lost ground in Indiana. THE SITUATION AT BRAZIL. Some recent accounts of the situation in Clay county have been so manifestly exaggerated that a member of the Journal staff was sent to Brazil to in vestigate and report. His truthful and intelligent statement, printed elsewhere, is an interesting contrast to the sensational and damaging accounts which have recently been circulated. These accounts, still further distorted in Eastern papers, have been injurious to the prosperous city of Brazil, to the good people of Clay county, and in some degree to tho entire State. It has been represented that nearly 10,000 people were at the point of starvation. This is utterly untrue. There is nothing approaching such a condition. The strike has deprived a large number of families of their ordinary means of support, and there is need for charity, but there is no justification for advertising to the world that thousands of Indiana's citizens are starving. The people of Brazil and Clay county would not permit that, and the fact that up to yesterday no public appeal had been made to them shows that the situation has been exaggerated to a reckless degree. The strike is an ordinary incident of labor troubles, and the present hardships of tho miners are an ordinary incident of every strike. They aro in hard lines, and many families need assistance and should have it; but the stories of wide-spread destitution are untrue. Our reporter furnishes some interesting facts relative to the coal business, and gives equal expression to the views of miners and operators. Tho picture would not be complete without the Democratic demagogues in the background. THE APPOINTING POWEE. The article in yesterday's Journal signed "Justice" was written by a lawyer who believes in a 6trict construction of the Constitution and of constitutional principles. It follows that he believes that Governor Hovey is right in his contention that all appointing power under the Constitution is vested in the Governor, unless by that instrument expressly divested, and that the Legislature has no right, to fill a statutory office of its own creation. This is the doctrine of tho Constitution and of all writers on constitutional law and government. Any departure from it is, pro tan fa, legislative usurpation and a dangerous precedent. Tho new authorities cited by "Justice" show how broad the question is and how widely and variously the true constitutional doctrine has been recognized. It is almost safe to say the courts have never distinctly recognized any other doctrine. The most they have done is to give a quasi-recognition to the binding force of vicious legislative precedent. The courts have not been slow to repel legislative aggression on the judicial department. Thus Judge Field, now of the Supreme Court, said: "No such power can exist in the legislative department or be sanctioned by any court which has the least respecj for its own dignity and independence;" and Chiefjustice Gibson, of Pennsylvania, in repelling a similar, aggression said: "It is idlo to say the authority of each branch is defined and limited in the Constitution, if there be not an independent power able and willing to enforce the limitations." The same power, the judiciary, should be equally as prompt and fearless in asserting- the independence of the executive department as that of their own. This is what constitutions and courts are for constitutions to be enforced and courts to expound them. Executive authority is derived from the same source as legislative and judicial authority, and its extent is defined by the same instrument. They all come from the people, and are distributed and defined by the Constitution, which nowhere recognizes the right of tho Legislature to create an office and fill it by appointment. .THE CAN N ELTON P03TOITIOE. The explanation in regard to tho Cannelton postofiice completely exonerates tho President in that matter, and should put a stop to all unfavorable criticism. This is the case of the soldier's widow, Mrs. De La Hunt, whose removal by President Cleveland was severely commented on by General Harrison in a speech made in the Senate in the summer of 1885. Being an applicant for reappointment under this administration, she and her friends naturally expected that President Harrison would restore her to tho position from which she had been unjustly removed. The appointment of another applicant, a Mr. Zimmerman, was a surprise to Mrs. De La Hunt and her friends, and has been made the cause of severe criticism of the President by Democratic papers. Upon its face, and in view of General Harrison's speech in the Senate, the failure to appoint Mrs. Do La Hunt did look strange, but the explanation now given to the public is perfectly frank and satisfactory. In order to understand the explanation the public should know that out of about 58,000 postofilces, about 3,000 are called presidential oflices, while the rest, some 55,000, are called fourth-class. The presidential oflices, being those where the compensation of the postmaster exceeds $1,000 a year, are rilled by the President, while all the others, as a rule, are filled by the Postmaster-general or his First Assistant. The President may, of course, appoint any fourth -class postmaster, but ho very seldom dots. The First Assistant Postmastergeneral makes those appointments by thousands without even consulting the President. The commissions of fourthclass postmasters are not even signed by the President. They are signed and forwarded by the Postmaster-general, and never come before the President at any stage of the proceeding, unless for

some special reason some particular case is brought before him. This being the case, the explanation of the Cannelton appointment is very plain. The President was under the impression that it was a presidential office, and after having made a memorandum that Mrs. De La Hunt should be appointed, was wait

ing for the case to como before him in its regular turn. But instead of being a presidential office Cannelton is a fourth-class office, and as such it fell into the grist that goes to the First Assistant Postmaster-general, and he, not knowing anything about the circumstances or the President's wishes in tho matter, appointed another person. The appointment of Mn Zimmerman was in all respects a good one, and, but for the peculiar circumstances of the case, could not have been criticised, even by Democrats. Their pretended inter est in a soldier's widow was made a pretext for attacking the President. ' The explanation shows very clearly how it happened that Mrs. De La Hunt was not appointed, and it is not unlikely that something may yet be done for her. A STAFF correspondent of the Medical News telegraphs that paper from Johnstown that "the mental condition of almost every former resident of Johnstown is one of the gravest character, and the reaction which will set in when the reality of the whole affair is fully comprehended can scarcely fail to produce many cases of peimanent and temporary insanity.." AEOUr PEOPLE AND THINGS. Jules Ferry is bent and gray, and has aged ten years in the last two. Edgar W.Nye (the "BUT? of fame) has set sail by the Elbe for the effete East. England and Ireland are overrun with Americans traveling in parties of from forty to four hundred. A portrait of General Butler is to bo placed in the rotunda of the New Hampshire Capitol opposite that of General Dix. Thomas Delwortii, who was once a slave in the South, is now president of the Builders' Laborers' Union, at St. Catherines, Canada. There are only two women living, it is said, who- have gowns embroidered with real pearls. They are Queen Margherita, of Italy, and Mrs. Bonanza Mackay. Adolpiius Andreas, the inventor of the American jack-screw, died in New York on Friday, aged ninety years. He was the' oldest Mason in the State, and one of the original founders of the Mechanics' Institute. Kev. David A. Day, missionary of the Baltimore Women's Home and Missionary Society, near Monrovia, Liberia, says in his last letter that he saw on a single Sabbath one missionary and 50,000 erases of gin landed on the African coast. A NEW industry has been invented by a clever English girl. She calls herself an accountant and auditor for large households. She finds plenty of employment in looking after the business of a lew families of large expenditure whose heads have no taste for the work. ; The remains of Mrs. Diana C. Ekin, wife of General Ekin, were buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, in a lot selected by the Secretary of War for General Ekin's family. This is said to be the first time that the remains of woman were laid, in a cemetery devoted to the soldier dead. D. P. Atkins, of Tyler, Tex., announces that a wealthy old genius, who had no direct heirs, died recently, and ordered that his property be equally divided among persons living in the Southern States who were born the same day he was, March 9, 1835. Mr. Atkins should give his name, as that would make his will a monument. Mr. Blaine's son-in-law, Colonel Coppinger, is an educated Irishman of the fine and gentlemanly type met in Dublin within the University walls. He was an officer in the Papal Zouaves in Home for some time, but resigned to come to this country tolive. Ho has an excellent record as a soldier, and a big saber cut across his neck tells of actual conflict of battle. V. Switzerland is paying distinguished homage to one of its most eminent sons, Dr. Arnold Guyot, the scientist, so long and so honorably connected with the chair of geology and physical geography of Princeton College. Owing to a great demand the famous French firm of Hachette & Co. have now published from the original French MS. Guyot's celebrated work on "Earth and Man," which thus appears for tho first lime as actually written. The house which has been built by Mrs. Edward F. Searles (formerly Mrs. Mark Hopkins) at Great Barrington, Mass., is a palace, and with its stables, etc., is estimated to have cost $2,500,000, It is built of blue dolomite, quarried in the vicinity; its roof is crowned with imposing towers and massive chimneys, and its inner finishings are of imported marbles and carved oak and other costly woods. Mr. and Mrs. Searles have recently returned from Europe, bringing with them valuable paintings and other adornments for their magnificent home. Boyesen, the novelist, tells of a flattering incident connected with one of his stories. He had written a tale founded on fact of a woman who came to this country with her five little ones seeking her husband, who had emigrated from Norway some years before. After traveling far West she found her husband with a new wife and family. Boyesen's story ended "with tho brokenhearted woman and her little ones standing in a rainy twilight by a roadside ditch near the home to which she was denied admission. The picture was s6 realistic, and the whole story was told with such an appearance of truth, that many readers accepted it as such. One man iu tho far West wrote offering to adopt one of tho mythical children, and others inquired where money could be sent in aid of the forsaken wife. COMMENT AND OPINION. If the mugwumps do not run the Democratic party in. 1W2, as they did in lbSS, it will not be for want of a bright and early start. Cleveland Leader. The whole secret-service system, secret political societies and private agencies of spies and informers are not only hnnecescary, but odious, intolerable and dangerous to free government. Philadelphia Record. We cannot circumvent calamities that spring out of the earth aud air upon us, but we can marvelously ofto and mitigato the su tie rings that follow in the wake. All nations have come nearer, together than they were lifty years ago. Philadelphia Kecord. It has been a dark season for Johnstown and surrounding villages; but between the generous gifts of humanity and the renewed industries of the great Cambria company, the silver lining will becomomore and more refulgent with each succeeding day. Philadelphia Times. Whatever profit is made in speculation is somebody else's loss; and the only people who have any fair chance of making money except by the honest methods of returning a fair value for it, are those who play at the great game of speculation with loaded dice. Pittsburg Dispatch. However patriotic their intentions, those who advocate secret means to violent ends would le better friends to Ireland if they abandoned this line of method and devoted their energies to a properly-organized campaign for the education of the English people as to the actual needs of lie land. New York Press. The Eoman Catholic Chnrch does not exist to promote, except ultimately, the gayety of nations, but that an election in which an American candidate is concerned wouM incidentally attain that object nobody who considers the American sources of the strength of the church can entertain the slightest doubt. New York Times.

THE DAM AT SOUTII FORK

Its Careless Construction and Weakness Pointed Out by Expert Authority. It Was Rebuilt Cheaply By Men Who Knew Nothing About Hydraulics, and Was Never Examined by Competent Engineers. The State to Take Control of Affairs ia the Conemaugh Valley To-Day. Citizens of Johnstown Regaining Their Senses and Preparing for Business How tho Relief Work Has Been Mapped Out. THE DAM DISSECTED. Its Weak Points and the Ignorance of the Constructors Criticised by an Expert NEW York. June 11. The Engineering News will publish in its forthcoming issue the following results of a survey and examination of the Johnstown dam, and of inquiries in Johnstown and Pittsburg, by which various facts, not yet made public, were ascertained: The first break in the dam occurred in July, 18tt., and was caused by a defect in the culvert through which two-feet discharge pipes were carried for letting ont water from tho bottom of the reservoir. This break did comparatively little damage, the discharge having been quite slow, wholly from the bottom, and choked from time to time by the fall of material from above. It carried out only about half as much material from the dam as the last break, or about 50,000 cubic yards. Enough of the dam remained to make a little pond about eight feet deep above tho dam, which stayed unused until in May, 1575, the property, consisting of somewhat over 500 acres, was sold to Congressman John Keilly. The lake itself was 400 acres in size, not TOO, as has been reported. After holding the property, unused, until 1879, Mr. Keilly offered it to tho late Col. B. F. Ruff, an old and successful railroad and .tunnel contractor, and the originator of the South Fork Fishing aud Hunting Club, for the sum of $,0u0. Colonel Knff interested two other Pittsburg gentlemen in the project, and stated to them that the dam conld be reconstructed for not over $1,500, and that ho would take a contract to do it for $1,700. We have this and tho following facts on the most unimpeachable authority. On this basis the club was organized, and for some time these three gentlemen wero the only persons in it. No one of them is now connected with it. Colonel Bull's idea had been to reconstruct the dam much lower, only forty feet high, but it soon appeared that to cut down the spill-way or waste weir, which is through rock, would cost more than to reconstruct the dam to its original height, and by the time this had been done the total expenditure as shown by the pay rolls had been slightly over $10,000, or about 20 cents per cubic yard. There still remained the work of rip-rapping the slopes and other miscellaneous work, as to which our information is less precise, being only that it "may" have cost $7,000, but not more, bringing the total cost up to -the very small figure of $17,000, which has been given on other authority in newspaper dispatches. This work was all done in tho summer of IStso. The original dam was estimated to cost $188,000, and actually cost nearly $240,000. Colonel Ruff engaged as foreman and superintendent for this work a Mr. Edward Pearson, a cousin of the present Mayor of Allegheny city. It is the general impression around Johnstown and Pittsburg, among those who know anything about it, that Mr. Pearson was the "engineer" of the repairs, but this is incorrect. He was never an engineer, but, after 1880, was employed in the local freight department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Pittsburg, until he formed his present connection, which is with the firm of Honey &, Co., general teamsters for the Pennsylvania railroad freight department. Wo were also told by some that Colonel Ruff was the "engineer," but this is also incorrect. So far as we can ascertain by diligent inquiry, he not only was never an engineer, but he had never been engaged before even as a contractor on water-works or dam construction. If he was ever so employed at all, it would appear that it must have been to an unimportant extent. In fact; oar' information is positive, direct and unimpeachable that at no time during the process of rebuilding the dam was any engineer whatever, young or old, good or bad, known or unknown, engaged in or consulted as to the work, a fact which will be hailed by engineers everywhere with great satisfaction, as relieving them as a body from a heavy burden of suspicion and reproach. The precautions taken against failure were only such as an old railroad contractor's knowledge of hydraulic engineering indicated were admissible without vf urther increasing a contemplated investriient of $3,500, which had to be increased by at least over 10,000. Information gathered for us by Mr. T. Smiier, mechanical engineer of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company, corresponds with that gathered by us from other reliable sources that the work of reconstruction was done with the slight care which these facts make probable. The old material which had caved in was left untouched. The ton of the dam was worked down on it. The old pipes and culvert, which still remained in a somewhat injured condition, were covered over with earth and permanently closed, a double row of hemlock plank sheet piling being driven across the old channel. There was no careful ramming in watered layers. Leaking during the process was great, and some tons of hay and 6traw were filled in stop it. The dam was finally made fairly tight, but always leaked at the bottom, and of late years the leakage had been increasing. The original crest height of the dam was decreased from one to three feet, and the spill-way was shortly after obstructed with gratingH to retain fish, and a trestle bridge built across the opening. The spill-way was obstructed first, by a 83llablo two inches high; second, 03 an iron fish-guard, eighteen inches high, composed of half -inch rods one and one-quarter inch apart, or three-quarters of an inch in the clear, or close enough to readily catch leaves and tine brush: third, by an 8x8 stick lioating comerwise, sliding vertically on a rod at each end, aud armed with closely-driven nails to keep fish from jumping over; fourth, by the posts of tho trestle bridge, closing about 6 per cent, at the opening, and five at the time of the break by a ragged piece of drift ten feet long and two feet in diameter. Had the bridge and all its obstructing attachments been cut away in time the disaster might possibly have been averted. We have investigated carefully the various specific repoits that the dam was periodically or accasioually inspected by engineers, but iind no evidence that it was ever inspected and approved, even once, by any engineer commissioned for that purpose who by any stretch of charity would be regarded as an expert. A few inspections by local or junior engineers have from time to time been made, some approving, some disapproving, but none of either kind came from sources which would command much weight in the profession. The report that certain Pennsylvania railroad engineers regularly inspected tho dam is denied by a number of officers, who should know, and is unquestionably without foundation. The, dam was a contractor's dam. Engineers had nothing to do either with its construction or its maintenance. Mr. J. S. Parke, it is true, who was in charge of the ellorts to save the dam, was an engineer by education, hut he is a very young man, only a year or two out of college, and did about all that could have been done, except to clear away the spill-way. To raise the whole area of the lake ten inches )r hour, which is the-reported rate before the Hood, required aa accumulation of only 4,023 feet per secondhand that much more spill-way capacity would have saved the break. Two feet more height of crest would have saved it. The sag in the crest was, therefore, the immediate destroying agency. Misstatements Corrected. Philadelphia Inquirer. "Tho newspaper reports of the Johnstown disaster," remarked the Hon. John Riley, who once owned the reservoir and Bold it to the fishing club which owns it at

present, "are both inaccurate and mislead- j mg. For example, a mornh.g paper in this city published a statement that the property was purchased with a view to converting it into a stock-farm. Now, a s a matter of fact, it would bo of no use for that purpose, ns the main portion of tho property consists of the slopes on each side of the valley, and they are nerfectlvnude of grass or verdure. W hat I wanted it for was to make a sort of a boom to market timber which lies above it. aud when the fishing club applied to me to purchase it 1 hesitated about selling, and ultimately disposed of it with the right to use the dam as a boom reserved. Another inaccuracy," ho added, 'is in the statement that the fishing club enlarged tho reservoir. The fact is that, from the beginning, it covered all the surface between the hills, and couldn't be enlarged in its dimensions, while to raise it higher would have been useless, for tho reason that it was then as hich as the level of the source of supply, and, except in a Hood, couldn't have been filled higher." Mr. liilov thinks the mistake was in not making better provision for emptying the water through the medium of spills. PREPARING FOR A CHANGE. State Authorities to Take Control of the Work To-Day Citizens Recovering Their Spirits. Johnstown, Pa., June 11. The impending change in the control of the town, the exodus of workmen and flood survivors and the steady rain have combined to make Johnstown more quiet to-day than at any time since the flood. At all the headquarters work has been narrowed down to the finest possible calibre, and a good many faithful men are getting rest they needed long ago. JaAes B. Scott throws down the reins of government with a breath of relief, and Adjutant-general Hastings undertakes the largest contract of his life. At least $100,000 will be paid out to workmen tomorrow, and the majority of it will leave the town with the men who earned it. The new leaders claim to have a number of plans to introduce by which tho work of clearing up the wreckage and caring for the survivors will be greatly systematized and simplified. The military will be retained. Booth Jb Flynn will retain a large number of men on the work at $1.50 per day. There will be very few Americans among them. - Dynamite has been used in the river below the bridge to-day. but General Hastings expects to dispense with it. Good progress was made in cleaning . out the channel of the Conemaugh above the bridge to-day, a number of stationary engines and long cables being used to pull out the heavy timbers. The morgues are about to be abandoned on account of the bad condition of bodies being recovered. Identification is almost impossible nnlcss by personal effect found upon the bodies. Thirty-eight bodies in all were recovered to-day, all of them being in an advanced state of decomposition. In one or two instances maggots were at work on them, and the llesh was so soft that extreme care was necessary lest the limbs be torn from the trunks. This afternoon the body of Miss C. A. Christman, the foreign missionary from New Orleans, who was on the fated day express when the flood swept it from the track, was found. On her person was found a draft for $275. She had in her purse $3.70 . in money, a gold watch, gold breastpin of unique design and a baggage check. Her body was embalmed and placed in a handsome casket by B. B. Goslin, superintendent of the Fourth-ward morgue, to await disposition by friends. Telegrams were sent to the cashier of the Nashville bank. She was a woman of fine presence: was dressed handsomely in a light brown dress, with braided front. The health bulletin issued to-day is, with few modifications, a repetition of yesterday's. There were no new cases admitted to the hospitals, and all patients are reported as convalescents. There are no contagions diseases except the two cases of diphtheria already reported. Simple sore throat, bronchial irritation and indigestion are the peculiar complaints requiring .the attention of the medical corps. The physicians explain the latter from tho injudicious eating and unusual fare all are obliged to eat, there being few vegetables, 'no fresh meat and no variety of fare. The sanitary committee are pushing their work with all possible expedition. Keports from the officials of the counties further down the river indicate that popular opinion has caused the various county officials to act promptly. The spirit of recovery took a firm hold on Johnstown's citizens to-day. Everywhere owners of property seemed to have regained their senses after this terrible disaster, and were hard at work cleaning out their cellars, drying carpets and bedding, and inaugurating a general renovation. The women labored bravely, and with water and brush soon began to see J their floors for tho first time in twelve days. The mud is caked all over the walls and furniture, and most of the carpet is utterly useless, but it will have to be used until something better can be secured. At the general office of the Cambria company every clerk and department manager were at work. The books, maps, deeds, eheep-skin land-patents, and other valuable papers, which were thoroughly soaked, were spread out on tables and lines, and fires built in the grates to aid in drying them. It will take about three weeks to finish this work, and then business in the oflices will go on as usual. The 6sociated Press removed, this afternoon, from their "office" in the dilapidated old tile-mill to the second story of the Cambria Company's office, where much more comfortable, although crowded, quarters are allotted them. The Western Union are directly under, and the operators are greatly pleased by their change from the stuffy twelve-by-titteen oil-house of the Pennsylvania railroad to their present quarters. Adjutant-general Hastings was the busiest man in Johnstown to-day, and even at the supper table he was interrupted not less than half a dozen times to read and reply to telegrams. He has takeu charge of the city, or, rather, will be in command to-morrow morning, and James B. Scott, the director since the disaster, will step out. A commission will be appointed by the Governor, as stated, to supervise matters. All the men have been discharged, and will bo paid to-morrow. This work will require the entire day, and it may be two or threo days before the work of clearing away tho ruius will bo resumed. General Hastings, in an interview this evening, said: "The work of cleaning up the city will be done by contract, and negotiations will be opened at once with leading contractors. Several may be employed, but I cannot say who will get tho work at this time. Booth fc Flynn, of Pittsburg, are large contractors, and will likelv get some of the work. There is also a large contractor at Altoona who will likely cut some of the work. I do not remember his name, and this matter has not been

definitely decided upon, and will not be until the Governor appoints tho commission. I have recommended to him the appointment of ex-Governor Kobert E. Pattison, James B. Scott, of Pittsburg: Col. Jennings, of Harrisbnrg, and Thos. Cochrane, of Philadelphia. Until the commission is appointed Mr. Scott has volunteered his services, andwill render me all the assistance in his power." There is a hungering for orphans here that cannot be satisfied. The city was thoroughly eanva.sed to-day. but without success. A number of letters, containing considerable money to defray expenses of the children, cannot be satisfactorily answered, as the orphans are not to be found. RELIEVING THE DESTITUTE. The Valley Divided Into Eleven Commissary Districts Unworthy Applicants. Johnstown, Jnne 11. After to-day all the commissary departments will be in charge of Col. J. L. Spangler, assistant quartermaster-general, with three assistants. Lieutenant lleani. United States army, and Quartermasters Brown and Albree, of the State militia. There will be two post commissaries, the first in charge of Major Horn, at the Pennsylvania railroad freight depot, where all goods coming over the Pennsylvania railroad will bo received and distributed; the second at the Baltimore it Ohio depot, in charge of Major Singer. There will be eleven district commissaries, as follows: The first at Morrellville and the second at Cambria, both in charge of

Major Mayer, with two sergeants ns assistants; the third at Kcmville. in charge of Major Curtin: the fourth in Johnstown borough, in chrtrgo of Lieutenant Raker; tho filth in Conemaugh borough, iu charge of Lieutenant Wilson; the sixth in East Conemaugh, in charge of Lieutenant Koors; the seventh at Franklin, in chargo of Lieutenant Zclden. tho ninth at Profect Hill, . in charge of Lieutenant iicliiirdson; the tenth at Cooperdale. in charge of Lieutenant Nichols, and the eleventh at South Fork, in charge of Lieutenant Cox. Each will be assisted by quartermaster and commissary sergeants. Their duty will bo to find out all the needy and make a list of them, and make requisitions on the quartermaster-general for provisionsand then distribute the same as fast as possible. It istheintentiontoeventually induce the citizens to take hold, and as soon as possible the entire commissary department will bo turned over to tho citizens. Colonel Spangler said to-day: "I havo figured on feeding the sufferers in this section. Five days' rations for 'JO.OOO people, the number we. will have to take care of, will cost $is,t. or about $n,5oo per day. That is, it would cost that much had we to pay for tho provisions. In about fifteen days, whep the Cambria ironworks get started in ful,we will be relieved of about one-third of this number. In this calculation I am not figuring on the laborers, but only the actual needy ones. Of course, as fast as busjness commences and oar 6tores open, tho number will bo reduced. The Cambria Iron Companv will have their company store ready in a few days, which will relievo us somewhat. Quartermaster Daker 6tarted out four men to-day to canvass Jo jnstqwji proper in order to classify thono needing provisions. To-night, the meu turned in 1,187 names, and the city was not nearly all visited. Quartermaster Baker savs a surprising amount ot need was unearthed. Clothing is needed very generally. A great many ladies were found whose fannies were really suffering who had failed through a sense of delicacy to apply for aid. Tho humility of seeking relief is removed by the system now being introduced. " The expectation is that the food and clothing which has been going in large lots to undeserving persons w ill now go to the more respectable aud retiring class. Chief Gagely was stationed at the commissary supplv-house near headquarters to-day. Ho found whole families in the line of applicants, each member bearing a capacious

oasKei. mere, js no uoubt but the prowsions have been greatly misapplied in this way. T. J. Oliver, of Philadelphia, represents the Pennsylvania Grocers' Association, and is in charge of the store-house estallished in the German Catholic Church. Twenty car-loads of provisions and clothing were unloaded there to-day. "Thero can be no further scarcity of supplies," ' said Mr. Oliver. "Enough clothing is arriving in Johnstown to supply tho city for twenty jears." The Philadelphia society of the Grocers' Association sent nine carloads cf provisions and contributed $2,800 in money. Notwithstanding this is the twelfth day 6ince tho Hood, most of the newspaper correspondents are still without sleeping accommodations of any kind, and, as on the first day, are sleeping in barns, brick-kilns and other places, without cots or blankets. Cots have been sent them, they are told, but as they are too busy to watch the incoming trains, eome one else gets them. The militia have cots and blankets, as have also tho laborers, Ifut the correspondents, who are doing the hardest kind of work for the outside world, are forced to endure the greatest hardships. The supply of provisions is improving some, and they now manage to get one and sometimes two fair meals a day. Tho provisions sent to this valley do not seem as yet to have reached the right place. A number of car-loads of all kinds of supplies have been sent to Morrellville, and as thero was no damage there, the stuff has been misapplied. A prominent citizen of Morrellville, said this morning: "There is a large class of people hero who have not lost a thing in this flood, yet every arriving train finds them iu line ready to receive their share. It is safe to say these people have secured enongh provisions to last them six months, and clothing enough for rive years." Destitution Among Canal Boatmen. Baltimore, June 11. Mayor Latrobe today received a letter from Dr. Butler, ot Shepherdstown, W. Va., stating that great destitution exists in that neighborhood among the canal boatmen on account of the recent flood. The writer expressed much regret that the relief committee which were last week at Point of Hocks and other places about Harper's Ferry did not extend their investigations further up tho PotomacTwo Bodies Recovered Near Cincinnati. Cincinnati, June 11. Two bodies, a man and woman, supposed to bo victims , of the Johnstown flood, were found in the river at Anderson's Ferry, 6ix miles below this city, yesterday. They were badly decoin- . posed, and there was nothing by which they could be identified. Contributions Still Rolling In. TnoitNTOWX, Ind., June 11. The amount of money raised for relief of the Johnstown sufferers at this place to date aggregates $2W.50. Of this amount $C0 was contrib-. uted b the Masons, Odd-fellows, K. of P. and P. E. O. Sisterhood, and $17.90 by an entertainment given last evening by the Young People's Christian Endeavor Society, and the remainder by popular sub scription. Danville. Ind., Juno 11. The Masonic, Odd-fellows', Grand Army and Sons of Veterans' orders of Danville have made organ- . ized and independent efforts to raise funds for the flood sWerers at Johnstown. The combined results of this work will foot up about $300, which will be sent to the proper authorities to-morrow. Fout Wayne; Ind., Juno 11. The business men's fund for the Johnstown suflerers to-night amounted to $2,000 in cash, and about a like amount in clothing and provisions. The entire contribution so far. ineluding society and church donations, al- ' readv forwarded, is about $5,000, with more to follow. Edinburg, Ind., Jnne 11. An entertainment was given last night at the Central Hotel for tho benefit of the Johnstown .suflerers. Popular subscription and the entertainment netted $274, and this was remitted by telegraph to Wm. McCrary, chairman of the relief committee at Pittsburg. IJedford, Ind., Juno 11. At a meeting here last Saturday committees were appointed, who collected 437.73, and three -large boxes of clothing, for the Johnstown suticrers. This amount, together with $7.-J. subscribed by the Masonic fraternity here, has been forwarded. London, Juno 11. Mr. Mapleson offers a performance by his company on June U4 for the benefit of the Johnstown suflerers. Ho has invited the American colon' here to appoint a committee for the purpose of selling the scats at auction. Champaign, 111., June 11. A concerted effort here to raise money for relief of tho Johnstown suflerers has resulted at this dat in raising over 0 in cash. Five hundred dollars was scut forward on Saturday. Valparaiso, Ind., Jnne 11. An entertainment to-nitfht lor the Johnstown sufferers yielded $200. National AsoclatIon of Millers. Milwaukee, June 11. The Millers' National Association convened in annual session, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, at the V. M. C. A. Hall. Tho business transacted thus far has been merely of a routine character. Tho visiting millers were g'ven b reception at tho Chamber of Commerco during tho noon hour. Acting President Greenleaf. of Minneapolis, responded to Mayor Urown's address of welcome. Thero are about on hundred millers iu attendance to-day, but it is expected that the number will bo doubled hy to-morrow. Traveling Man Shot. Clay Ckxtcr, Kan., Juno 11. J. B. Wellington, a traveling man. was shot, this morning, 03- Dr. J. P. Stewart, a practicing physician and an old and highly-rcspocteu citizen of this city. The shoo ring grow out of a personal altercation on the htreet, which had its rie in domestic wroncs of a particularly aggravating nature. Tho bullet struck the man iust above and a little in front of the right ear, passing almost through the head. Ho is now sinking, and will siireVy die. Sitting Hull Slowly Sink I tic:. B19MA..CK. Dak., June 11. It was learned from Standing Bock agency, yesterday, that Sitting Hull, tho venerable and famous Sioux chieftain, who has been dangerously ill with pneumonia for several wevks. was fclowlv sinking away, and iu a short time would pass into the happy huuUugfiiouud

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