Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-08-28

mt iuOIuIIlS JipSlSi OliC ElOIHlLS ldSI
week, afforded cheerful reading. There
was the circumsantial account Of the fune
raj of Mary POnerOy, the killing of rough
ty bartender, the beating of q wife's
brains out by drunken carman, three
children we're found starved, two bodies
were dragged out of the East River, besides
which were cuttings, stabbings, and shoot
ingS without number. Has the hot wea-
ther anything to do with crime Does it
irritate men and drive them to drink ?
Certain it is that crime is more fierce ill its
ant spring and autumn or the cold winter.
BUSINESS
is most decidedly looking up. The best
barometer is the hotels, and accordingly l
took a tour among them last night. The
corridors are full of strangers, and the
clerks report an enormous increase, so
great, indeed, that they have some little
trouble to accommodate, them. The cheap
hotels are swarming with Western and
Southern buyers, and the larger ones are
almost as full. This is a certain indiCa-
ton Of an immediate resumption of busi-
ness. The merchants tell me that the
buying will not commence until September,
some time being required to look around.
But all expect very large aad profitable
fall trade. 1t cannot be otherwise. There
has been but little done for year, and
stocks in the country are exhausted. The
people must eat, drink and wear. The
outlook is hopeful. l said the
CHEAP HOTELS
were full. They ought to be, for Of all the
sublime frauds ON the Continent, the first
class hotel is the most sublime. And the
people are finding i. out. There are thou
sands of nice, neat, comfortable hotels in
the city at which a man may live nicely on
81 80 to s. per day-better, in, fact, than
he does at the fashionable ones at IS to
$40. And then it is such comfort to
have landlord who really is pleased at
your patronage, to be in the hands of clerks
and walters who recognize the fact that
guests have some rights, and where, after
you have paid for your accommodations,
you are not expected to pay over again for
having them brought to you. Avoid ye
the big hotels 1t is not disreputable now
to pay only $3.50 per day for board, az it
was during the war. The wealthiest and
best men may be found at these cheap but
good caravansaries.
THE WEATHER
is once more frightful. The Thermometer
goes up to 1909 without any special effort,
and there is Il dull heayiness in the air that
is terrible 1902 in the shade means more
here than it does anywhere else. The high
buildings, the stone paved streets, the filth
that makes some quarters uncomfortable
all conspire to make hot weather 4 terror.
Heavens as l write, with hot blasts COM
ing in my window, how | sigh for green
fields and oabbling brooks. Anything but
a great city in summer. No wonder that
everybody gets away who can.
FREE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.
The vexed ''servant-gal' question is in
a fair way of being settled in our large
cities in the only way possible, by the ma
tural working of selfinterest on the part Of
employers and employed. Several women
of education and experience in the affairs,
finding themselves in want of an assured
position in the world, and the world very
much in want of clean collars and decent
dinners, determined to exert their skill in
this direction for the good of the public,
and to reap the benefit. Instead of haunt
ing the Congressman of their district for a
clerkship at Washington, or piling vile
manuscripts on the hands of patient edi-
.or, without thought even of giving read
ings in public, which the world very well
knows any graduate of grammer-schoOl
is competent to do, at $50 night for five
nights in a week, these ladies in question,
whose abilities IN other and more eligible
directions were well proved, in the quetest
way opened training school, for girls who
wanted work in good families.
When it started year and a half ago, it
was only to teach sewing in the incest way,
and occupied rooms over Wheeler 81 Will
sons Sewing Machine depot. In accordance
with the original idea, the scheme was ex-
tended, and last spring the school was re-
moved to a large house on Tenth street.
Where various departments are now in full
operation. There is nothing about the
place but the brightly lettered signs to dis
tinguish it from the residences in Brevoort
Place, as the dwellers like to call the long
block from University Place to Broadway.
The hall door stands open into n suite of
large parlors scrupulously kept, where 4
small lady at light desk receives visitors
looking for help and applicants for training,
as well as owners for work in various
branches filled by the house. Instead of
wearing the air of an intelligence office, it
is place acceptable for ladies to enter. \
large piano, pictures, and well-filled
bookcase are its resources for evening
when it is open as free reading-room for
women so that working girls of any class
may feel that they have place to spend
their evenings with as good right as men
have in club-rooms or saloons.
The basement has the large gilt sign,
"Women's Tea ROOMS" and the well-kept
entrance, the cool, spotless, shady interior,
the polished plate windows carefully
screened with muslin shades, the excellent
order of the bronze burners and globes in
the windows, give it precisely the inviting
air of the best private restaurants. Here
the visitor finds snowy table, with clear
glasses, and accurately cooked chop, and
cups of faultless coffee or charming tea.
Here, every morning from half-past six to
halEpast seven, working girls find a gener-
GUS cup of coffee and bread enough for
their breakfast at charge of five cents.
This food, of nice quality, is very great