The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-14
OUR PITTSBURGH LETTER.
Committee on Horaliiy - Pretty
waiter.Girls - Greenback Party
wheeling Glass Ahead-GIass Blow
era Sfrike-Rowiny Matters.
PITTSBURGH, March IL, 1878.

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the dads. A number OF the wealthy
residents have found "Lsw and Order
Society,"" 8 sort of self. constituted keeper
of the public conscience. 1t is composed
mainly of temperance reformers who
have been local optionists Prohibtionists
and crusaders, in their tImo. They have,
as it were, elevated themselves on their
suriculsr sppendsge, snd won't ask the
Legislature Tor prohibitory laws. Hence
they will insist on vigorous enforce
ment of existing laws respecting the
closing OF saloons on Sunday. Presuma-
bly,, the society takes cognizance Of all
offending against the laws, but to man
up spire, to hsrsss the liquor selling |
business is the object of the existence. |
The Superintendent, Squire Ross, is be-
lieved to be thorough sort OF fellow
and well meaning, as all fanatics are. He |
was formerly Chief Of Police of Ale
ghsny city, and distinguished himself
principally in lowering about the Sunday
entrances to saloons, and shooting st q
dangerous rutfian of newsboy who was
selling Sunday papers. Ross couldn't
make the "posish" under the present
Mayor, and therefore the pot of the new
organization will boil him his fat.
THE PRETTY WAITER GIRL.
For the first time, perhaps, the tenn
perance folks and the liquor men-or,
at least, the vast majority of them-sre
agreed. 1t is admitted by both that the
bar maid of doubtful virtue Is an insti-
tuition that merits extinction; but they
arrive at the conclusion from different
motives. 1t is scarcely necessary to
mention that the temperance people find
in the waiter girl saloons, dens of vice
and immortality that draw, like mael-
stroms, young men who would otherwise
remain respectable The liquor men, or,
it may be said specially, those who don't
keep lady walters, and thereby lose by the
attraction, and who are 100 to in the ma
iorty- are opposed to sturdy minded
beer jerkers, from interested motives. 80
it seems anomalous to See both factions
laboring together; the temperance peo-
pie rolling into the legislature, turlongs
of petitions, and their conductors for the
time rolling in nice, big, bright, shining
dol-no, promises. Mr.. Collins, of this
v,
Tuesday, while the necessary seeing" OF
legislators has been attended to by the
Gam brinusites. The bill providing for
the abolition OF the system has passed
q second reading in the House, and has
rosy prospects of becoming a law. After
this happy commingling OF contentious
spirits mo punl with such good results,
what man shall say the liquor lion and
temperance lamb shall lie down together
and little waiter girl shall lead them?
THE Y. G. L. p.
l notice that the party of the third
part, the Green back Lsborites, are moving
in your city. Here the Greenbsckers
have powerful organization, and
altough defeated last fall in the judicial
election, they have been sugmenting
their hosts steadily and expect TO elect a
Congressman TO succeed do-nothing Err
rett, the present representative, and the
majority OF the legislative delegation.
One OF the old parties is making gigantic
efforts to swallow the new Richmond, but
tho constant choking discerned, indicates
q failure. On the first Saturday CT April
q full county ticket will be put in nomi.
nation TO be voted on next November.
Nothing like being in time, you say
The three parties will be in time until
two of them are knocked out. On the
9th OF next month, three days after the
Greenbackers, the Democrats make their
nominations, while the Republicans will
ask just enough time to look around Tor
8 ticket that will discount both the others.
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.
Wheeling, | believe, contains some
glass factories, as l have been led to be.
lieve from the profsne observations Of
some Of our glass men when ventilsting
the subject OF competition. Time was
when Pittsburgers pstronizingly smiled
at the efforts of the Wheeling factories.
Time is when these same factories, not
only equal these of the Smoky City, but
excel them in some respects, and are sup.
planting many of our firms in the
western markets, and in the past few
years 1t has frequently been the
case that while Pittsburgh factories
could scarcely run one furnace, those in
Wheeling were running two, and even
three. This may seem tlattery, but 1t is
fact. And right sorry are our glass
men that it possesses the quality Of
truth. With one or two exceptions, the
spring trade with our manufacturers is
very blue. Indeed 1t cant be said that
they are having spring trade. No
more orders reflect from the books now
than is usual in the winter months. All
the drummers were out too, and that
early. They talked sweetly, persIstently
and long. Arguments ssnctifed with
the use OF generations und others newly
invented were used, but with no avail.
Profanity and prayers to the gods were
alike useless, so q disheartened band re-
turned home without getting enough or
ders 10 pay their car fare.
THE CHIMNEY Blowers STRIKE
In the history of glsssworkers strikes
that of the chimney blowers, at present
must have special chapter. Since July
last, these men have stood out from what |
they consider unjust oppression. The |
question at issue is whether machinery |
shall play part in the production OF |
chimnies, and allow q greater number 10 |
be turned out per Annum by the same |
amount Of hands as before. To guard |
against oyerproduction lie the self-imposed
mission Of the blowers, and they are
being sustained by other glass workers |
and rolling-mill men. Their number is
few, comparatively, as many Of them
have gone lnts business al one thing or
another; many have turned their hands
TO some other employment, while thirty
or forty have started the factory at
Ravenna, o. The manufacturers claim
they would rot start until Le1t fall even
If the men would give in and say they
are saving money by not running. So
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