Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-02-16

the eight hour law, assert that the mechanics
under the workings OF the present law, aud in
view OF this fact ask that the law be repealed,
and the employees OF the government required
TO perform ten hours labor for q days work.
The charge OF demoraliz alton being the result
OF the eight hour law Is a weak invention,
emaDating from the brains OF a class of men
wh0 have no sympathy IN common with the
laboring men of this country. III these gentle
men had taken as much trouble to examine into
the true cause of decentralization among the
they appear to have done to fslsify the truth In
their petition, they would have learned that the
unequal division of the hours of labor, recrea-
ton, and rest have been productive OF great evil,
morally physically and intellectually, to the
lsboriDg class. As one OF the fraternity OF
working men, who has made TIE workings of
the eight hour law q subject Of close study and
observation, / can truthfully bear testimony
that the effect has been. quite the reverse of
what these enemies TO progress and reform in
the condition of the working men have set forth.
If the improvement of oar morals is to be based
upon the number of hours we shall work out of
the twenty four these would-be philauthropists
this petition so as to make it ead fourteen hours
instead Oh teh' DiEU Er MoS DROIT.
GIRLS REFORM SCHooL,-In the argument
before the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds on Friday, Mrs. Spencer said:-The
other day was sent for to come home in haste.
In little room at the foot of the stairs, upon
the floor, Law a little figure with a white, child
IKE face bearing traces of mortal agony. We
placed her upon cot, gave her some nourish-
in, LOT sue WAS nearly starved, sent for
lady physician, a member of our beard and be-
lore the evening was over learned her history,
which has since been confirmed by those who
knew her She had been year "on the town."
having been at first lured into a den aud
locked up for three weeks. The night be-
fore she was brought TO me she hal been
turned out of a little room because she could
not pay her rent. She walked up and down the
street, with tiny bundle in her hand, penni-
less, hungry and cold. Late at night she earned
a dollar at her usual trade. Fifty cents OF this
she was obliged to pay to a woman for the use of
room, and she was upon the street again, with
fifty cents in her hand, nd sickness coming on.
She asked woman to LEI her stay all night and
TO give her piece of bread and butter for her
fifty cents, which she did. Pain would not let
her sleep, and at five O'Clock in the morning she
was frightened at her condition and started for
the station house. She was too late. The NOR
tai agony of motherhood had come and she lost
the child upon the street, and not daring to look
behind her, least, as she said, "pliceman
the station house, and asked an officer IL he
would take her to the poor house. She said he
told her she didn't take none o. them there no
more; she'd better 60 to the Woman's Christian
Association" This was two miles away and she
had not a penny. So she dragged her suffer-
ing body TO their door. They asked her if
she had letter from any body. ''N0, no, hing
at all but the directions from the Police
station" Then she must go to some one
whom they named and get letter.
Another mile and back. II was now late in the
way out, and she had eaten nothing since she
bought the piece of bread and butter the night
before. She walked half mile further, and
then dropped upon a dOor-step where a man
was smoking pipe. She asked him how far il
was to the lady to whom she had been sent. He
told her, and she said, Il can't get there then,
for done give out" He told her "she had bet.
ter go to Mrs. SPencer's; that was2't far off,
She does not know how she came 10 be living on
my floor: This was two weeks ago. When,
even within few days, my heart has grown
faint with the long, weary struggle to secure
Of that suffering little girl dragging
and have now grown strong again
At the close of the war there was a public debt
amounting TO $500 ,0O0, 900. The interest upon
I n 1eDy was over $50 goo GOO in gold per an;
States purchased Alaska of Russia, paving for
IL - 200 900 in gold, and considered the bleak
if they had banshed thither all men who seduce
and destroy Children For the centennial ex-
position in Philadelphia they are building a
tower thousand feet high. They propose to
ask Congress for the modera ate sum of - 0OO 600,
and you will grant il for the honor and glory of
the nation. How will il look upon the pages of
history that at this time, with all the magnih-
cent resources OF this country at command, the
Congress of the United States, being in a pen
itent vein of retrenchment, could not afford to
rear on the soil over which IL has exclusive ju-
rls0Iction building wherein the wretched VIC
ums OF mans own vices may be saved from a
life that Is worse than death, and developed
into useful members of the community.
L do not believe the 43d Congress, with the
facts put clearly before them, will deliberately
present the argument OF retrenchment as rea-
son for not performing one of the most solemn
duties eyer laid upon this body.
real ESTATE TRAEsPERs.-C. G. Burr,
trustee, to Connecticut General Life Insurance
company, lot 60, T.. +. Mayhew's subd vision
square 2G4, II, 1871; TheO. f. GatchelI, trus-
tee, TO DO, lot No. 63, Mayhew's subdivision of
square 2O4. Sc 1924; Neanns Marshall TO Mary
vRnh nN a1 La
Lewis l.. Beach to otis Bigelow, part lot Il,
square Il2, Il 900; Pierce Shoemaker to Rich.
l.. Jones, New Seat" situate in county, II ,215;
John ). Slater and wife to A. Bradshaw ct al
lot s, Van Hooks subdivision of square 9lI,
$50; Andrew Langdon to Jane l.. McGnl, lot
:, block II, A. L. Barb er & Co.'S subdivision of
NJ. Myrick, lot 145, square SOS, $1,000; John NJ.
Brown ct TX to s. W. Dunbar, lots 26, q and
IS, square 305, "a, 600, Wa. II. Ward, trustee,
to NJ. NJ, Yznsga, lot 2lG, Gilbert's subdivision
OF square 6I6, 81 05o; JAS. G.. Meem to Eliz. j.
Meem ct al, lot No. 100 and 10l, Beall's addi-
ton TO Georgetown, S1.50; II. q. Swain, trustee
70 1s H.. Grittendsn, part Of lot 6; square ESQ.,
ct al, trustees, part of lots H. II and l5 square
~, 90; ID. Kennedy ct al, trustees, 70 II.
Rathhone, lots Il, Il and Is, square 22I; Dennis
Burns to b. Cahill, lot IS, square /, $40.
EXTENSION OF THE POLICE TRLKGRAPH.-
During the past few months the Board OF Police
Commissioners have had under consideration
the subject of extending the telegraph lines
connected with the central station, and their
deliberations have resulted In the selection of
stations fer telegraph instruments, as follows
Al TennallytowD, at Brightwood, at the reform
school, and at Benning's. Arrangements have
been made by the board for setting the poles
and stretching the wire in the spring. The in
stIuments are all ready, and some sixty miles of
wire is now in possession OF the board. Sho aid
Congress pass the bill now before IL providing
for the increase of the force in this District,
several new precincts will be formed in III Q
county. The subject of locating one of these
stations at Rosslyn, on the Virginia side OF the
river, has also been discussed, but no definite
conclusion arrived at. The convenience, not to
say the necessity for a station there, all admit
but the question OF Jurisdiction seems to be in
the way.
THE PLATE PRINTERS BALL at the Masonic
Temple this evening will, it is said, surpass all
their previous efforts and that is certainly saw
ing great deal, for no more pleasant entertain
ments are given than those of the Treasury force
OF plate printers. The ADMISSION cards and
ladies' invitations are, as usual, maryels of the
geographic art, tasteful in design and beauti-
ful IL execution.
ORGAN GENERALIZATION is directed To
The notlce IN another column OF the organ CON
cert to be given at the Church OF the Incarna-
tOn To- morrow evening. In addition to the
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