Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-04

taken possession of the young of New York
To pay $50 for an oyercOat is nothing
rare, and Il suit, from hat to boots, ;nclud-
ing Overcoat, that does not go long way
into $500 is not much OF a suit. Add to
this the diamond studs, the ring, the watch,
and the other adornmen.s, and Charles
Augustus manages to carry about with him
the best end of 81 600, which has to be re-
ncwed very frequently. But, nevertheless,
they have cut down the $3.50 salaries of the
poor teachers seven per cent, and are
standing out against the 'longshoremen,
who want enough wages to keep soul and
body together. Speaking OF the
LONGSHOREMEN.
Their strike is general, and embraces the
many thousands of men who find their daily
bread i'll loading and unloading ships. 1t
would seem the heighth Of folly for any set
of labOrers to strike at the beginning of
long winter. but the 'lOngshoremen have,
from the nature Of their employment, fair
prospects of success. Any man can roll
barrel, but every man cannot put a pack
age properly in the hold of a vessel, or take
it out without damage. 1t is trade. And
when a vessel arrives, the demand for the
services Of the 'longshOrcman 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
AZ hour for day work, and sixty for night
work, and they arc well organized to hold
out. The steamship companies are trying
to Get other men, but the trouble is the
skill. Novices make bad work Of it. The
COOPEEs
arc still holding out. are organizing CO.
operative shops, that enough employment
may be had TO keep the strike from being
Il failure. Other occupations are banding
( tog gether, in most cases, however, TO pre-
vent threatened reduction of wages. There
will 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
| OH, more men will be thrown out of employ
ment, and the trouble will increase. The
/ city is a cruel place for a man out Of work !;
rent, food, fuel, everything costs 50 much
, that when the daily labor that supplies it
| stops, starvation or the accepting Of charity
! is only few weeks ahead. 1t costs Il Ia
/ bOrer all he can earn to-day to live today
he cannot provide for the morrow when
work stops. Heaven help the poor this
season,
SERVANTS.
/ One of the great troubles in the small
/ towns and cities Of the country is to get pro-
/ perly trained and educated servants. This
want can now be supplied at a tritling cost.
y number of charitable ladies who have
| time and money more than they know
what to do with, and some little heart, es-
tabllshed, year or 80 ago, Il 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 I'M
der tie general head of hOusewOrk The
| work Of preparation is done in no sloyenly
| way. Twice Il week Il French cook goes
into the kitchen with all the girls, and de-
livers to them a lecture on the preparation
of such dishes as she selects. illustrating by
actually doing the work before them, and
making them do ii. They run 4 laundry,
Il 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 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 wares anywhere. The manageress
Of this sensible charity is Mrs. Julia Cor
son, and it is located at AZ East Tenth
Street \ Girl from this school is almost
certain to be honest and capable. House /
keepers in want of good, trained servants /.
will do well to make note Of it.
HIGH BUILDINGS. /
The mania now running among those |
who build at all is altitude. Some years .
ago the Equitable Life Insurance Company
ran up Il building that lOOmed above any,
thing else on lower Broadway, and since
that height has run in the minds of every
body. The new Tribune building is nine
immense stories high, with tower almost
touching the sky; the new building of the
Western Union Telegraph Company IS al
most as high ; the Domestic Sewing Ma
chine Company is eight the new post
office cannot be counted III stories, but il is
an enormous building, and so on. The
view of the city from the Jersey City Ferry
is becoming peculiarly pleasant. These
buildings, with the scores of others, tower
up above their surroundings, relieving Won
icrfully the monOtOnous uniformity which
formerly wearied the eye. Those tall =,
do MT pay-in fact, every one of Il
hem is dead loss above the fourth story y
but, nevertheless, l hope the building of !
hem will go on. They beautify the city,
md the public get benefit whether the
by or not. 1t is 4 fact that b
none of these buildings pay three per cent. :
III the cost of construction and present price a
If ground but the prOprietors all live in !,
rope Of the future. Hope springs eternal i
II the human breast:
THAMES GIVING a
vas more generally observed in the city this u, a
ear then ever before. All business, ex-
ept the saloons and restaurants, was sus- Q
ended, and the day was devoted to iollity,