The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-16

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Louis. Cincinnati, Toledo and the
other great cenyes are importing on
their own account from Europe, and
are handling domesties as well as
New York. Consequently. the
mourners 20 about the streets of the
metropolis. Ard al this because
the city has depended upon her mat
uraI advantages and forgotten that
enterprise can do away with disad-
vantages. aud remedy what nature
has left uDdone. New York has got
to do something 10 hold her snprema-
cy-
STRIKES
The strikes are virtually over.
The 'longshoremen bad the best
chance OF all the trades for success,
Tor while a factory may shut down
and do without operatives a newly
arrived ship must be unloaded at
once. and it lakes skilled labor To do
ii. but they, with this advantage,
were forced to succumb TO hard times,
and they h~ave>gone TO work again.
The ceopers have resumed, not as a
body, but in squads, and, in short,
the strikes are at end. The strikes
discovered what they ought TO have
known all along, that with 10000 IN
employed men in the city, they are at
the mercy of their employers, aud
will be till labor is in demand again.
1t is the old story over again, capital
can lay still, labor cannot. Bat for
heavens sake, do your best to keep
m%pecunious young men from coming
TO New York Ibis winter. say 1t,
and / know there are $4,000 men
out of employment here to-day, and
the number will be doubled in two
months. And they embrace I'll elias
.ses of people. There are clerks, sales
men. book-keepers, everybody. For
instance. the Grand Opera House
advertised for 200 young ladies for
the ballet in the revived Black Crook,
and the morning brought 500, all
eager for positions at $500 per week.
These we're not bad girls-they were
girls who wanted something TO do to
Keep soul and body together till there
was work at something else. 200
were taken-600 were left out in the
cold crying from disappointment.
advertisement Of two lines in the
Herald for q clerk waited will bring
a thousand applicants by nine the
next morning. My young friend, if
YOU have got anything under heaven
to do keep out of the big cities.
SCORE ANOTHER FOR BERGH.
Henry Bergb, the friend Of dumb
animals. has achieved another TIL
umph. Heretofore he has only been
able to convict the drivers of stages
and Icars who Eave overworked
horses: but last week be got the iron
claw Of the law on a proprietor and
brought him up with u round turn.
This is as it should be, for the pro-
prietors compel the drivers to over
load the stages. Now let him get af-
ter the ~street-car companies. 1t Is
nothing uncommon to see a pair OF
horses going up q steep grade with a
heavy a loaded with 80 or 80 pas
sengers-the poor beasts %straining
every nerve and a brutal driver lash
ing them as though his heavy whip
could add to their muscular force.
Bergh has only commenced his work
in this city. But it does do mi good
to see a 1.-the, active man dart out Of a
crowd and jerk u brutal cartman, who
is beating bis horses, off bis cart and
march him before a magistrate. 1t
is a sight calculated to restore ones
confidence in human nature. Bergh's
police are all dressed in plain citizens
clothes, but when y holds back the
lapel Of his coat and displays his
badge, the brute who is abusing 9th
or brutes, knows who he is aud be be.
comes as meek as a lamb. ! shall
one of these days, write a full ac-
count Of Bergh and his mission, ho-
ping to stimulate other men to be.
come Berghs.