The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-10-30
CHICAGO.
to the Tradesmen OF
Other Cities.
Thousands of Brick and Stone Ma.
sons, Carpenters, Plumbers,
GRS.FitteTS, and ATtiRCeTs
In Tin, Brass and COp-
mar WanfRd

GRSsFttteTSS and ATtihceTS
In Tin, Brass and COp-
per Wanted.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.-The Tribune thi:
morning, editorially announces that five
or six hundred additional brick and stone
masons can find employment in Chicago
through the winter, at from four to five
dollars per day; that two thousand car,
penters can find employment all through
the winter at high wages; that in March
there will be employment for twice as
many more Of both these trades; that in
addition that of workers OF wood, iron
plumbers, gas-ftters, workers in tin, brass
and copper, a whole army will be wanted
Thousands of laborers, il says, now starv-
ing in New York and other cities, can
find work at good wages, with cOmlorta.
Gle homes for their families and them
selves, on farms within one hundred miles
of Chicago.
FAST DAY.
In accordance with the proclamation
of Mayor Mason, tomorrow will be OBJ
served as q day OF fasting, humiliation
and prayer.
NEW INSURANCE RATES,
The Chicago underwriters held meet.
ing last evening, and unanimously agreed
upon the following schedule Of rates for
insurance On elevators, 0 per cent; on
buildings, per cent; on contents of brick
packing houses, 2t per cent; on the con.
tents Of frame packing houses, not stated;
lumber yards, 2f per cent; brick dwell
llngs, st per cent contents, % per cent;
frame dwellings, per cent, contents, !
per cent; frame commercial risks, when
built according to specifications, 81 per
cent, and on contents 81 per cent.
AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE-A NOBLE
GIRL.
Corporation Counsel Freley relates the
following incident connected with tho
great fire; II knew u sewing girl who
had, by years Of hard labor, saved little
While the fire was burning she
TO her brother In Indiana to
buy and send her a car load Of provisions.
tier brother did 80. So this girl took sick
families into her rented house, and in tho
first ten days after the ffO fed by one
meal or more six hundred persons. She
Is a pure, modest, retiring, Christian girl,
and my wife discovered IL, not from her.
self, but indirectly She has been my
wile's dressmaker for about five years.
NEW RAILROAD ROUTE TO THE WEST.
The Chicago & 81. Louis Railroad will
open their new route TO Kansas City vta
Jacksonville, Illinois, and Louisiana, Mis-.
souri,, on Monday next. This gives Chi.
cago now route to Kansas and the West.
A. q. 81 o, L. Badger, bankers, claim
that they have not suspended, but are
their business Us before the
fire.
In the Board of Supervisors yesterday,
a resolution was offered and referred TO the
Finance Committee, requesting the Gov.
eTnOr Of the State to recommend to the
Legislature to grant authority to Cook
county 10 issue 81 COO, 600 Of bonds to draw
not over 7 per cent interest and running for
twenty years, to apply to ward meeting
bonds and orders now outstanding and
approaching maturity interest on the
same, to rebuild public buildings and TO
meet deficiencies on tue receipts for the
next two years.
The action on the application to the
State Auditor to dissolve the Republic In.
suranCe Company and appoint receiver
has been postponed by the Circuit Court,
II being stated that the company had taken
action looking to the collection of unpaid
stock notes.
Tho State Auditor has filed bills In the
Circuit Court looking to the dissolution of
the Knickerbocker, Equitable, Garden
City and Commercial Insurance Compa.
nes, these companies being bankrupt
The aggregate assets Of the KniCkerbock.
er, including the capital stock not paid
up, are $4,000; losses, $75O,00O The
Equitable assets, not including the capital
but including the capital stock not paid
IN, are $33000O; losses, $3,0O0,000. The
Garden City assets, not including the capl.
tai stock, arc less than 100000; losses,
50 100000 The Commercial las risks to
the amount of $15,000,00O, with assets,
exclusive Of capital stock paid and unpaid,
ut 100000.
THE BMcKLAYERs TALKING ABOUT A
STRIKE
CHICAGO, October 20.-There wassome
talk yesterday and day before Of strike
for higher wages by the briCklayers, but
they finally concluded not 10 do so. A
strike among the boiCklayers would Of
course suspend all work In the burnt dis.
trict, except men clearing away the rub.
bish, and would throw out Of employment
not only the brlcklayers themselves, but
The carpenters, stone cutters, furniture
makers, gas filters, plumbers, iron work
ars, &c. The price now paid for good
is four dollars and fifty cents
per day, which Is one dollar per day more
Than they obtained previous to the fire.
The general impression Is that at this
price building will proceed steadily
through the winter. There are many ma.
sons and-carpenters coming 10 this city
from other points, especially from Canada,
where wages are low and business dull.
ANY reasonable number that come can't
fail to get all the work they want through
The winter
THE LOCATION OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT
BUiID1NGR.
Itis understood that the proper Govern.
ment officials will make recommendations
10 Congress to provide literally for Chi.
raFo in the way OF the erection Of Govern.
nent buildings The old custom house
and post office combined In one building
was insufficient in capacity for the Gov.
ernment business transacted there, and II
has been suggested that the Government
purchase the adjoining property directly
10 the west Of the present locality. This
suggestion seems TO have exalted the ideas
Of the owners Of the property wanted on
Monroe street, and they now ask all the
way from $4,000 TO $1,000 per front foot
for their lots, which Is largely In advance
Of the price asked previous to the fire.
The Governrnent will not feel Obliged TO