Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-17
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE

Du1 times, Trade Stasuant, and Every
body GrowiinG-fron Fifteen to Twen-
ty Thousand Persons out of employ
ment-Thc Eject of DUH Times upon
Crime-kee Away from Great Cities
\ Suggestion for Observation-Disclosures
kimball-i Bold Daylight Robbery.
To say that business is dull in Chi.
eago, would be expressing a fact in
the language of apology. 1t is aot
dull exactly, but stagnant. 1t is a
long time since we have seen a pe-
riod of such general prostration, and
though no crash has interviewed
and the number of failures is NOT
greater than usual, our business men
look forward with fear and forebod-
ing. 1t is to be hoped that good
weather, (Which must come some
time,) and favorable advices from
the country, will soon dispel this
feeling OF uneasiness, and all NAV
look forward to the fail trade with
hope, If 1t is impossible TO figure up
satisfactory profits from the season
just passed.
1t IS said there are fifteen thousand
men, women and children in Chica-
GO now out of employment. This
number does not, of course, include
those who are able TO live without
labor, or do nothing but the domes-
TIC duties deyolv,ng upon most wo.
men and children, but those only who
are compelled to toll from day to day
III WORKSHOPS, manufactures and
stores Tor the bare neccSsaries of life
Large as the number is, it is proba.
bly, underestimate and twenty
tho' ,and would be much nearer the
truth. With these people, work is q
positive requisite to comfort, and q
months idleness necessitates debt
dishonesty or actual crime. Very
few OF those who can lay up anything
for a rainy day, and those with large
and growing families find it impossi
bic. so want follows in the wake o.
dull times, and those unable TO resist
the Thousand and one temptations O.
a great city, soon become the dupes
and victims of their elders in crime
and go to recruit the ranks of sin
FROM the rum-shop and gaming
room to the Jail is but shot dis.
tance, in city like this, and a ma
Jorlty of the idle ones whose educa
tlon and moral training is insufficient
10 keep them from the former places
soon bring up in the latter. Will
young and unprotected girls, whc
trtH have all the finery and enjoy al
the amAsements that others have
and enjoy, whether able to pay fol
them or not, the downward path il
more pleasant, but not longer, and il
usually leads to lower depth. St
you see II AZ not only the loss of EN-
ployment and consequent want, but
the misery and crime which follows
that render hard times SO terrible il
large cities.
Mechantcs,-notb botches, but able
educated WOrkmen,-cana ALWAYS fine
little To do in the dullest of times
anu If sober need not suffer from act
uai want, yet they are Il great dea
better on IN the country, and viii
| eventually make more money there
But Ii Is worse than folly for those
without trades or a thorough knowl
edge OF business to rush to great
Gilties. ip, 1beo ohQRes &, Wakjipg. :, for
| the State Prison, twenty fill drum
kards's graves, forty or fifty becom.
"Wilkins Macaw bers," always wait
ing for something to turn up,n an,
| the balance ofthe hundred are divid
ed among those who succeed in max
ing a comfortable living, and th'
| few, very few, who acquire a com
/ potency.
When shipments are light an,
| business is dull, it is a good time 70
country dealers TO look around an,
| select factors for future consignmemts
| And to your merchants thus inclin
ed / would suggest the names o
Messrs. Hoaglan Il Kimball, No
Dearborn street, for the reason tha
/ know them to be gentlemen o
means, energy, capacity and integ
rity, and believe they will give a
general satisfaction as any firm il
the city. They are an old and well
| established house, and their person
al and commercial reputation i
above reproach. They are know
to very many merchants through
out the West and Southwest, and
venture to assert that no one eve
found them wanting in any of tn
requisites of tirst-clasS merchants
Liberal advances and prompt re
turns are standing rules of thei
house. They do general commits
sion business, andmake a specialt
of fruits and vegetables, and / ca
cheerfully recommend them to you
readers. Parties wishing a Chicag
Price Current can have it furnishe
regularly on application to Messrs
Hoaglan d Kim ball, as above.
One of those bold, daylight rol
berries, which startle people becaus
of the audacity requisite to the.
conception and execution, took plaC
here yesterday. a well-dresse
young man went into a store o
Lake street and commenced examir
ing some of the goods, and finall
selected an elegant clock, which h
proposed to purchase. just then
boy came in with small bill, an
the proprietor went to the safe /
get money to pay him, leaving tn
door ajaras he came back to hand hiI
the same. This presented an oppoi
tunity which the clock purchase
di d not let slip, but going to the saf
!. he.quietly took the money drawe
stuck it under his coat, passed tt
proprietor with nod, saying /
would call again soon, and wake
off. He has not come back yet, liz
has he returned the drawer, with tt
money contained therein. Perhal
he will, after he has counted it ov'
carefully.
Twelve thousand children are a
nually admitted 20 the foundliI
hoGpifuIS of Moscow