The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-08

| 70 create morbid sensations IN the
public mind 60 please the discomfort
ed Crispins.
The factory IS fine large four story
/ brick building, located but few 70 IS
from the business center of the town.
| Numerous windows afford excellent
| light and ventilation. blue shades eff
fectually shielding off the hot sun.
/ The surroundings are very pleasant.
| A picket fence, newly painted. is the
only inclosure. and this is low enough
for me to leap by a handspring. A
vide lawn on three sides. and a -four
| ishing garden on the fourth, with
nicely graVelled walks, really eclipses
| the taste and neatuess around many
more pretentious family mansions. a
fountain. flower beds, etc., are to be
added. These are their play grounds,
over which the Coolies have free scope.
Last evening they were all out, enjoy
ing the cool twilight, merrily, but
without noise Nimble chasing,
| jumping games, and hearty. pleasant
| laughier-wiih DO trace of boisteTous-
ness-made the echoes chime with
| happy sounds. One Is struck with
the neatness and taste of their per
sons and attire.
Their light, smooth, olive complex
ion. Jet hair, twisted inevitably into
their national tails, set off by their
blue jean gowns and broad calico
/ trowsers, with their homo made cloth
and wood shoes, their smiling faces,
| lit up by elitteriOg eyes, always good
natured and ready to laugh, and their
white, regular teeth. put to shame
many of the American workmen,
| with their sl0uehy aud unkempt hab
its and dress. They are exceedingly
| partieula4 about their food, and never
eat rats nd puppies, as some of their
slandeTSfs may have unconsciously
done in partaking of the unknown in
gradients of boarding house hash.
| daintily done. A large range, built
made to order, are kept scrupulously
nice They sleep in hunks, newly
made, and covered with calico There
are five tiers of them, reached by
| ladders. Cool drafts of air are circu-
lated by windows and ventilators.
All these arrangements were made
under their own superintendence
Everything is kept clean, except the
floor; that is impossible, because of
| the many visitors who constantly
tramp over it. Thew take sll the curl
Gus looks of their Yankee neigh hbors
with evident good nature, and stare
back with pleasant twinkles of their
eyes. All Sing understands and reads
well. but cannot speak very huentlyin
the English dialect. He reads ell the
/ newspaper reports about his company,
and iuterpTets to them, but shFugs his
! shoulders with light giggle at an TO-
! troduofion TO a reporter.
! He has complete control, aud they
/ obey him as they would a mandarin
There are two highly educated coun
/ sellors, who are also judges among
them. They are by 70 means unedu-
Gated. and some of them are highly &C
com mplisbed; more so than many of Us.
They have quite an assortment of their
own printed books on various sub
jects.
It is not true, as has been stated.
that they are adopts in imitation. but
barren Of inventive genius. They
propose 10 show what they are ia the
kind Of shoe they will make. This is
the tenth day of their residence, and
some of them are now working iBde-
pendent Of Instructors, making as
good a shoe as the Crisp;ns can after
all their years of apprentice and
iourneyman experience. Three work
together in n team" One places on
the upper, the other lasts, the third
puts on the sole.
Mr.. Sampson refuses to make any
more statements to reporters, and
eharacterizes certain of them that
have been printed as altogether false.
He proposes to prove in a few days
before experts what these Asiaties
can DO 10 shoemaking He has large
number of American girls employed
in binding shoes. These did not go
with the Crispin movement, and re-
Gently, without their asking il, their
wages increased about fifteen per
cent. They make from pine to four
teen dollars per week.
A number of meu who stood to
their work througbout all the diff
Guilty. are now iDstructing the Celes-
tials. Mr.. Sampson claims that he is
paying them full prices-even FIVE
dollars per day-when he could get
the work done for dollar per day.
But he purposes to stand By these
men who stood by him. Their own
testimony indorses this claim. The
truth is, that the Crispin Society have
; acted the part of disconnected con
spirators, and their attitude is that OF
an enthusiast union or guild, deter
mined obstinately against every force
Of argument, to pitch in battle labor
against capital la this they inaugur-
ate among their craftsmen reign o1
terror, and many whose suffering fam.
lies urge them to work at reduced
rates dare not for personal safety
They even fear to speak tLeir minds
in the matter, and those that talked
/ with me did so under a pledge Of Sc
oracy on my part. Crispins in Other
t0wns who came here aud worked
awhile. we'll satisfied with the reduced
wages, which were more than they re
5 ceived elsewhere. were compelled b,
/, | fears of personal violence, to leav,
2 the town.
) Il may be we'll to state here tina
all the published contracts of Mr.
y Sampson with these Orientals are
! freaks Of reported ims sgination. Nom
. but himself and his chief clerk know
anything of the bargain. All Sins
t understands just what the Yankee
l.. shoemakers have been earning and j
G well cuntented with his peoples worl
l and wages. They are perfectly free
r and under no restraint, the ground
s being entirely open. They are KEEP
away from the village, for prudentia
o reasons, while the present excitemeu
2 among the unemployed Crispins con.
!. tipues. Occasionally they have gon
= out 10 make purchases of food an
4 garments: then they are properl
j Guarded from insult They Away
= 6nrcbase the best qualities of every
: FFk: o,d 5eSnise cbeaD and inferi0