The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-07-18
Philadelphia Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, July II, 18,


We are having an unusually hot spell,
and with the thermometer standing
among the nineties, you can easily i'm
agne that our city is not very inviting
place to visit, but Notwithstanding the
heat, hotels are pretty well filled, and
our retail stores are well patIonized. Our
people seem very much in favor of
EUROPEAN TRAVEL.
and the steamships of the American
Steamship Company are sailing with
full complement of passengers. This
exodus is in great measure caused, by
the exorbitant prices asked at our
watering places, and the poor accom-
modations afforded guests. Persons in
search of health or pleasure, find 1t less
expensive to take a trip to Europe than
to spend several months at any of our
fashionable Sumner resorts, and our
steamships are consequently well pat
ronized. The Illinois, which sailed on
Thursday last, carried with her 207
passengers and large cargo. The Ame-
rican Steamship Company have six
steamships on their line, which are fully
equal, in comfort and strength, to any
vessels that ply between this country
and Europe. New York has not single
steamer leaving her port for Europe
which sails under the American flag,
and is consequently not friendly dispos-
ed to our new enterprise which has had
It's success insured from. the start, from
the large capitalists which are back of
1t.
We have hada number Of strikes here
during the last few months which have
generally resulted dlsastrously to the
strikers, and 1t was thought we would
not have any more for some time, but
we had
ANOTHER STRIKE
on Thursday. The journeymen gold
beaters struck against a proposed reduc-
tion of their wages, and at meeting
held by them, adopted resolutions pledg-
ing themselves to remain firm In their
purpose. They stated that they were
only earning living wages at their trade,
which is very laborions, that there are
no good grounds for the decrease in
wages at the present time, and that in
asmuch as the proposition of the EN-
ployers provides for a very high stand
ard of workmanship at the reduced
rates, the latter are equivalent to a mucl
greater reduction than appears on thu
face of the proposition. This move
ment, which necessitates the idleness O
the gold leaf cutters and others inciden
TALLY employed in the manufacture o.
gold leaf, throws several hundred of per
sons out employment.
AS the places of the strikers canno
be easily filed, 1t seems, If some com
promise cannot be effected, that thi
branch of industry will be at stand
still.
The season of the year has arrived
for drowned bodies TO be found In ou
rivers, and the Coroner is kept bus
with
DROWNING CASES.
t The small boy, who slips away frol
} his parents, goes in bathing, and swim
( far from land, and is drowned, is a
numerous this season as ever, and th
Q youth who starts of with a sail boa
1 which he does not know how to man
Q age, and meets watery grave, has pl
!, in an appearance. Many accidents al
g caused at the ferries by persons attemp
IS ing to jump from the boat to Il
d wharves, and excursion parties on Il
r rivers frequently lose some of their nun
st Der, who have INDUCED too freely
N the 'ardent," and seat themselves {
q the railing of the boat and are throw
it overheard by sudden lurch of the We
sci. A young man died recently fro
70 consumption at our
g. CHERRY HILL PRISON,
N who had been committed there sever