The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-05-26
be, but he las certain code of morals,
and he lives very close to it.

pe, out ne Las certain code of morals
and he lives very close to it.
Negro minstrels, as a rule, get from ST.
to S25 per week, except few very superio
singers and dancers, who sometimes 90 o
high as 800, but these are very rare
Acrobats, rope-walkers, India rubber men
common jig dancers, and all of that clas
OF performers, are glad to get SIS per weel
and 500 is to them a gorgeous living. AL
statements as to enormous salaries paid tc
these people, are lies from first to last
The managers make them as advertising
lodges, and the performers let them &c
unchailenged, for they like to be considered
as worth high prices. But they all live in
garrets, and eat at the cheapest restaurants
in the city, and when they die they never
have enough left to bury them.
1t is estimated that in the city alone there
are over 1000 people who perform on the
stage in some capacity, good, bad and in
different. AS rule they are miserably
paid, and the life is ona of incessant labor,
and of great privation. The work is un-
certain, the public taste eapricious, and
altogether the Snowman, except the very
rev at the head of the profession. has a
very hard time of it. If you have any
notion of entering the profession, take my
advice and DON'T
BUSINESS,
Business continues as dull as it can well
be, and say business at all, and there is no
prospect of an improvement. 1t is not the
hard times that is troubling New York.
the fact is, and it might as well be faced,
the city is losing its trade, and other cities
are getting it. The jobbing business is
gone, for the simple reason that Chicago,
Cincinnati, St. Louis and Toledo can do it
great deal better. Philadelphia is bet
ter manufacturing point, Baltimore is
better grain point, and Boston is taking
back its old New ENGLAND trade. There
are one hundred and forty stores to rent
between the Post-o Office and Fourteenth
street, and real estate has depreciated fifty
per cent at least. There were 146 failures
last week and there will be probably more
next. There is no rush of merchants to
the city and the hotels are empty. In the
meantime the Western cities and the inte-
rior cities In the East, while not prosperous.
are at least comparatively SO, and are at
least paying their way. They are not
losing, if they are not making. There
never will be any one great controlling
business center, as was fondly hoped by
those interested in New York, and it is
well that there should not be. Better have
dozen: There is no hope for any re-
vival here and New Workers acknowledge
it.
HOW MOODY LIVES,
There has been great deal of nonsense
talked about Moody and sankey making q |
big thing out of their religious work.
They do nothing of the sort. These men
never took cent, directly or indirectly,
for their labors, except in one way. Al |
most every day, some parent, brother,
sister or wife of some one converted under |
their ministrations send them gifts as a |
sort of thank offering, During their two |
m months stay in New York, they received
coming to them anonymously. OF this /
they use what is necessary for their ex-
penses, and the remainder they give to |
weak churches, missionary enterprises and |
other religious enterprises. Moody has !
house worth perhaps $4,000 in Chicago
5ankey has nothing. They are cared for
while they are at work by people who prize
their labors, and these gifts fill out the
balance of their support. Whatever may
be said of the effect Of their labors, NO one
oan say that they are making any money
out Of it, Or tina. their work is not entirely
disinterested. They are as honest and as
jealous men as the world ever saw.
PIETRo.