The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, DEC. 1854.
UNLICENSED LIQUOR DEALERS

city are UoIHS aSlIdteu uSt HOW ny uIiO
action of the Excise Commissioners, who
are hunting down those who sell the ar
dent without proper license. The Liq-
uor Dealers Protective Union resisted
the law; but in the test case the court
went against them, and widespread con-
sternation ensued, as well 1t might, as
not one in five of the thousands of sa-
looms in the city ever took out license.
The decision of the court makes 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 thous
and of them by this means.
EXTRAVAGANZA IN DRESS
has always been charged to the feminine
account; but this winter, it strikes me,
the steiner sex may fairly take their
share of condemnation. One rich young
man recently purchased two sea1-skin
coats, costing severally $500 and 900,
and two Ulster coats, the belt buckles
wrought in massive silver. What do
you think of that? One man paying
$4,000 for overcoats with thousands
about him wanting bread! True it is
that every rich young man IN New York
does not buy such eKtravagant articles !;
agantly rich clothing, has taken poss-
ession young of New York
To pay $50 for an overcoat is nothing
rare, and suit, from hat to boots, in
Guiding overcoats, 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 adornments,
and Charles Augustus manages to carry
about with him the best end of s., 600,
which has to be renewed very frequently.
But, nevertheless, they have cut down
the $3.50 salaries of the poor teachers z
per cent, and are standing out against
the 'longshore men, who want enough
to keep soul and body together. Speak
ing Of the
LONGSROREMEN,
Their strike is general, and embraces
the many thousands of men who find
their daily bread in loading and unload
ing ships. It would seem the heighth
of folly for any set of laborers to strike
at the beginning Of long winter, but
the longshorenen have, from the nature
of their employment, fair prospects of
success. Any man can roll barrel, but
every man cannot properly in the hold
of ship, or take it out without damage.
1t is trade. And when a vessel arrives,
the demand for the services of the long
shoremen is immediate and pressing.
The raw man cannot take his place.
There are 5000 of these men. They
have made the demand for forty cents
an hour for day work, and sixty cents
an hour for night work, and they are
well organized to hold out. The steam
ship companies are trying to get other
men, but the trouble is the skill. Nov
ices make bad work Of it. The
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, III most cases, how
ever, to prevent threatened reduction of
wages. There viii be inevitably great
deal of
TROUBLE AND SUFFERING
in the city this winter. Labor is very
scarce now, and as the cold weather puts
its veto on the little building that is
going on, more men will be thrown out
of employment, and the trouble will in
crease. The city is cruel place for q
man out of work; rent, food, fuel every
thing costs so much that when the daily
labor that supplies it stops, starvation
or the accepting of charity IS only few
weeks ahead. 1t costs labOrer all he
can earn to day to live to-day-he can
not 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 be supplied at a trihing
cost. A number of charitable ladies who
have time and money more than they
know what to do with, and some little
heart established, year ago, training
school,, to fit girls for service, on Tenth
street. They take raw girls, and teach
them to cook, wash, iron, sew, to wait
at table, and to do everything that comes
under the general head of homework
The work of preparation is done in no
slovenly way. Twice week French
cook goes into the kitchen with all the
girls, and delivers to them lecture on
the preparation of such dishes as he Sc
lects, illustrating by actually doing the
work before them and making them do
it. They run laundry, a resturant,an
q dressmakmg establishment in the house
to the end that it shall be, not only of
use to the girls by teaching them their
duties by actual practice, but that it
shall be self-sustaining, which it is. The
school has taken thousands of poor girls
who were starving 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 manageress o. this sensible charity
is Mrs. Julia Corson, and it is located at
Al East Tenth Street. A girl from this
school is always capable. Housekeepers
In want of good, trained servants will
do well to make a note of it.
HIGH BUILDINGS.
The mania now running among those
who build at al is altitude. Some years
ago the Equitable Life Insurance Com
pany ran up building that doomed
above everything else on lower Broadway,
and since tbat beIOht hos rim in tho