Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-12-05
DIR NEW YORK LETTER.
The UnlIeensediLiquOrB BusIness-Ex
travaganee-The sLOngshOremen-
Strikes Trouble and Sunertng-Ser-
vants-HIgh BuildIngs-ThanksgI
Iu9-BusIness-W Gather.
uNLICENsEp LIouoR pRALERs.

Dealers Protective Union resisted the |
law /; but in the test case the court went |
against them, and wide spread conslor-
nation ensued, as well 1t might, as not
one in five of the thousands, of saloons
in the city ever took out license. The
decision of the court makes every one
of them liable-to heavy penalties, and the
police are determined TO bring them to
the score, no matter at what cost They
hope to be able to close about thousand
of them by this means.
ExTRAvAGANCE IN DRESS
has always been charged TO the feminine
account but this winter. il strikes me,
the sterner sex may fairly take their
share of condemnation. One rich man
recently purchased two seal-skin COATS
costing severally $500 and $500
and two Ulster coats, the belt buckles
wrought in massive gold and equally
massive silver. What do you think of
that Z? One man paying $4,000 for over
coats with thousands about him wanting
bread True il is that every rich young
maniin New York does not buy such eX-
travagant articles but the mania for rich
clothing, e1traYagantly rich clothing, has
taken possession OF young New York
To pay $3.50 for an oVercoat is nothing
rare. and a suit, from hat to boots, inclu-
ding overcoat, that does not go long
way into $500 Is not much of suit Add
TO this the diamond studs, the ring.
the watch, and the other adorn-
ments, and Charles Augustus manages TO
carry about him the best end of two thou
sand dollars, which has to be renewed
very frequently. But, nevertheless, they
have cut down the $3.50 salaries of the
poor teachers seven pei cent. and are
standing out against the longshoremen.
who want enough wages to keep soul
and body together. Speaking OF the
'LoNGsHoREAIEN,
Their strike is general, and embraces
many thousands of men who find their
daily bread in loading and unloading
ships. 1t would seem the height of fol-
ly for any set of laborers to strike at the
beginning of a long winter, but the
'longshoremen have, from the nature of
their employment, fair prospects of sue
cess. Any man can roll barrel, but eV
cry man cannot put a package properly
in the hold of vessel, or take it out
without damage. II is trade. And
when vessel arrives, the demand for
the services of the 'longshoremen isim-
mediate and pressing. The raw man
cannot take his place. There are 5000 of
these men. They. have made the de-
mand for forty cents an hour for day
work, and sixty for night work. and
they are well organized to hold out. The
steamship companies are trying to get
other men, but the trouble is the skill,
NoVices make bad work oft The
CooPERs
are still holding out, and are organizing
cooperative shops, that enough employ
ment may be had to keep the strike from
being a failure. Other occupations are
banding together, in most cases, however,
to prevent threatened reduction of wa
ges. There will be inevitably a great
deal of
TROUBLE AND SUFFERING
in the city this winter. Labor. is very
scarce now, and the cold weather puts
its veto on the little building that is 60
ing on, more men will be thrown out of
employment, and the trouble will in
crease. The city is a cruel place for a
man out of work rent, food, fuel, every
thing costs so much that when the daily
work that supplies it stops, starvation or
the accepting OF charity is only a few
weeks ahead. 1t costs Iaborer all he can
earn to-day to live to-day---he cannot
provide for the morrow when work
stops. Heaven help the poor this sea-
son
SERVANTS.
One of the great troubles in the small
towns and cities of the country is to get
properly trained and educated servants.
This want can now be supplied at trl-
fling cost. A number ofcharitable ladies
VIII ohave more time and money than they
know what to do with, and some little
heart, established a year or so ago, a
training school, to fit cir Is for service, on
Tenth street. They take raw girls, and
teach them TO cook, wash, iron, sew, to
wait at table, and do everything that
comes under the general head of house
work. The work OF preparation is done
in no sloven way. Twice a week
French cook goes into the kitchen with
all the girls, and delivers to them a
lecture on the preparation of such
dishes as he selects, illustrating by actu-
ually doing the work before them, ard
making them do it. They run laundry
restaurant, and dressmaking establish
ment in the house, to the end that it
Shall be, not only of use TO the girls by
teaching them their dut les by actual
practice, but that it shall be selfsustain-
ing, which tits. The school has taken
thousands of poor girls who were starry
ing because they did not know how TO
work, and has turned them out capable
and intelligent and worthy of good work
and good wages anywhere. The man
ager of this sensible charity is Mrs. Ju-
liza Croson, and is located at AZ East
Tenth Street. A girl from this school is
almost certain to be honest and capable.
Housekeepers in want of good, trained
servants will do well to make noteof
this.
HIGH BUILDINGS.
The mania now running among those
who build at all is altitude. Some years
ago the Equitable Life Insurance Compa-
nylso ran up building that loomed above
anything else on lower Broadway, and
since that height, has run IN the minds
OF everybody. The new Tribune build
ing is nine'immense stories high, with a
tower almost touching the sky; the new
building of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company is almost as high the
Domestic Sewing Machine is eight the
new pOst-off1ce cannot be counted in sto.
rles' but it is an enormous building, and
80 on The view of the city from the
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