The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-03-04

MT. hooper presented the petltlon OF hugh
Bone and VIM. Gibson, asking that the sale of
liquor be prohibited within three fourths of a
mile OF Gray's factory. Referred to Baltimore
county delegation.
Mr. Hooper called up bill to limit kqars9 81 la
Dor Of children under l6years in factories, to o
hours. Passed. R.
Letter from Neac York.
New YORK, February 10th, 1876
HOW THE POOP LIVE.
friend lately had delinquent washerwoman,
aHd net finding excuses as satisfactory as shirts,
set out with me to hunt her up, not more out of
curiosity to find the clothes, than to see for our
selves how the poor live. Her address was a
narrow street of dozen blocks, in the heart of
| down town, and there was not decent building
| ia it. The pavemenis were strewn with garbage,
and the houses stained with Stops thrown from
| the windows. The woman was in a crazy old
| woedeR tenement in the rear of the enc fronting
on the street, and in consequence had just as lit
tie air and light as it would do to live. We
found her in a room ten by twelve, with bed,
wash-tub, cook stove and boiler in the corners,
leaving just room 10 worm ones way between
them. Her grown son and little girl sat on the
bed there was no chair, and a string OF wet
| clothes hung above their heads. For this room
and closet for the boy to sleep in, she paid
| eight dollars a month rent, her whole means OF
living being her sons wages as boy in grocery
store, at four dollars week, the washing from
enc family, and triie OF help from her daugh-
ter, who got two dollars and fifty cents week as
| waitress in an uptown house. Instead OF making
way with the Clothes as we supposed, we found
her husband had been sick with fever, and the
doctor had forbidden to send any cfo<6ss eet OF
| the house. The air could not get through the
house, the drains out of order, and the
stencil in the entries was so sickening that we
were not surprised to hear that there was diphthe-
| ria and small-p in the block. The man had
been sent to the hospital to die, and the house
cleaned and dsinfeced by the Board of Health,
but it could hardly be kept clean by mortal
hands, and never healthy. Comfort These peo-
pie never expect that All they can hope for is
the barest possible ife-so bare and naked that
a full meal is something to be dated frem, and
the possession Of dollar a matter to be remem-
bered And the end of that life ? TIE hospital
first, and Potter's field afterward. That's all
| there is about it.
THE PROFITS OF TENEMENT PROPERTY.
Passing block of ruinous building! on street
by the river, asked the owner why he didn't
tear it down and build something decent. He
| told me, laughing the notion 10 scorn that such
property was the most profitable in the city. 1t
cost nothing to keep it in repair, fof he never
made any repairs, and il was divided into lodg-
ings, twelve feet square, or, few, twelve by
eighteen, and they were always full. There was
no loss of rent, for the money was always de-
manded in advance, and if by the next month
the tenant was unable TO pay, the agent bundled
him out in the street, and there were always
plenty to take his place. There are families on
Fifth avenue who have incomes sixty thousand a
year, from just sucn properly, aud tbeT want no
better. What horrid contrast between The las-
| tdious member OF a fashionable club who rolls
| down 10 his office in his coupe of morning
from his luxurious, picture hung home in the
bright, wide up-tow street, and the fever.scened
dens where poverty stricken wretches toll their
lives away, TO earn the price of his luxures-
When will Moody and Sanksy labor that mems
| hearts may be softened toward their kind and
take for their text, your gold is corrupted and
your riches are moth-eaten."
JAY GOULD AND THE TRIBUNE
That Jay Gould did get a controlling interest
in the New York Tribune, everybody believes,
and that be is sick of his bargain every body also
believes. Jay Gould is tremendous man, but
he is not altogether Invaluable He wanted big
! paper in his cOAtro that he might manipulate
| the stock market and he look advantage of the
trouble that followed the death OF Mr. Greeley TO
gcbble the Tribune, or eaough of its stock to
have an influence in it, the idea being that be
could have this stock written up, or that one
written down, and thereby put money in his |
! N. T..
did not yield to the behess of the stock king
and the Tribune did not become mere insru-
ment in his hands. And now Gould wants to
get out. The speculation did not pay as well as
Wall street-in fact it did not pay al all for him.
he did not want newspaper stock unless he could |
use it to help other stocks, and when the Tribune |
FHHd net f de- 9 gss hi ria 81 las
Tribune, freed from the odium that attaches to |
the very name of Gould will get back its place
in the hearts OF the people. The Tribune was a |
great power, and now that it is 10 be freed from
the reputation Of Gouldism, it will be again
RELIGIOUS.
The Moody and Sankey meetings are no more
success in New York than they were in Brook
lyn. The numbers in attendance are as great as
ever, but the effect produced is nothing. And
the really religious people Of the city-theSe who
were instrumental in bringing them here, re-
penting Of their bargain. Moody is coarse
man, though earnest and heuest-and his man
ner and methed repel rather than attract. He
has trick of familiarity when he speaks of the
Deity that shocks the sense OF any devout person,
and he has a bullying, staggering way with him
that is anything but pleasant lie is very
short, crusiy and dctatoria in his dealings with
the clergy, lacking entirely that meekness that is
so important an item in the Christian make up.
Sankey's singing ia delightful for a time, but
Inc luluR tudl ldChS tue pTIUCpltS Oh true |
art, it gets fearfully tresome in lttle while 1t
is a lalnentable fact that niusty-niue hundredths
Of the people in attendance are religious people
the sinners stay carefully away and never go.
BUSINESS
during the week has been exceptionally dull, and
it will doubtless stay so till the spring opens
The merchants are puzzled 10 Know why it is so.
One jobber who is doing nothing, slowed me a
letter from banker 10 Western city complain
ing that the institution had \ $40, 900 lying
idle, and he said that that WIS the case
everywhere. So it can't be the SCI ,rty of money
that makes the duness OF trade A he fact is no
one has confidence in anything, al 1 nothing is
being engaged in. New York is utt going to re-
cover from the present stsguation Ill confidence
is restored, and when thet will be tie wisest man
can't tell.
FOR THE GIRLS.
The boAnets for spring will be largely Of straw
trimmed with velvet and the shapes curve pro-
tectlingly round the head. The 6rA importa,
tions OF dress goods are merely last hlls styles,
lighter in shade and fabric, to suit The changes
OF March. The long square overskiTts open in
the back, trimmed all round with fine side plest-
ings, and drawn into easy folds acroes the front
by plea's at the side, and held together with
large bows behind the seam on the new SUITS
The long polopaise with long sides caught to-
geber in the back, is the latest and avorte style,
very becoming and economical too For the
house, nothing is so much in style rs the gored
dress with full skirt in the back, aud the least
trimming that the fabric demands PIETRo
The New STATE NORMAL School. The new
State Normal School building was occupied yes
terday morning for the first time, the class rooms
in the basement being so far completed that
part Of them are fit for service. The building
standa at the oaraer Of Garrotnn avenue and
Townsend street, and is one Of the fuest struc-
lures in the city. The exterior has been finished
for several months, and werkmen have been busy
since then working ou the interior. The four
rooms occupied yesterday by the five CLASSES are {
neatly furnished and wainscoted in hard wood
fifth room 10 be used for The present as an as
fnr Liz l.