Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-23

INTEREST ON4PER CENT. .BoNDs.-Treasurer
Gifiiilan. Assistant Treasurer Wyman, and a
score of clerks are ke pt very busy just now in
PREPARING the checks to be sent to the holders
OF lnl'ed states Per cent registered bonds,
The quarterly interest on which falls due
October 1st., They have between sixteen and
seventeen thousand checks in all to prepare,
but over halt the number have already been
signed. The largest checks are for 500, which
Is the quarterly interest on fifty thousand
aoiiar Dond. Inc smallest checks in value are
Tor fllty cents, which is the quarterly interest
on a bond of the fifty dollar denomination. 1
viii require the treasurer and his assistant to
day for the balance OF the month to reach the
bondholderS by the mail of October 1st. Mex
month the quarterly interest on the per
cents. is due, when the same tedious process
will have to be gone through With.
THE EIGHT HOUR LAW IN OPERATION IN
THIS DIsTR1CT.-Last Saturday afternoon
Acting Secretary of the Navy Schufe,dt sent
instructions to the commandantS of all the
navy yards, DIRECTING that on aud after today
eight eight hours h M shall be considered full days
navy-yards, and that such men as choose to
work ten hours a day shall receive extra pay
Tor 1or the two additional hours This oyerrales
which fixed ten hours as a days work, and
places the men on the same footing that they
were last winter. As Colonel Casey regulates
inglnen in his department by the Navy
department the following was posted up
IN conspicuous place in the new
state, War and Navy department building:
On ard after Sept. 23rd, 1878, the rates OF
wages upon the bnilding will be based upon
eight hours as the length of q working day, at
lie Same rates as are at present paid fer ten
honrs lator." The hours of labor each day
vii! continue as at present until further no.
tice, namely: From a. m to L M, aud from
to p. n, for all men eecting to labor
more than eight hours, but closing at ; y. III
for all o!helS. Foremen will. however. 0e re
qUirCd 10 continue cn duty throughout the
longer day. For example: eight hours lao)r
DAY, at present rate OF wages. BY dlrec,i01
amt III the ab ence of Lieutenant Colonel
Casey. BERNARD L. GREEN,
Assistant Engineer.
Last April the order was issued making ten
hours q days work The labor leaders pre-
tes,ed against il ana the Attorney G General de
CiGeG that the order OF Secretary Thompson
was legal and ten hours was a days work.
Now the Government declares eight hours q
days Work with extra pay for extra labor.
The reason that extra pay for two additional
houls work is now given is stated to be tla5
Ii IS necessary to hurry up work. The men a
work on the new State, War and Navy build
ing and at The Navy yard have decided to
quit work at four O'Clock to day-tne ex-
piTatiOn of the eight hourS-and not to
work beyond that. They say if it is necessary
that work should go on rapidly there are
plenty of idle men in the city who Will be will
Ing to work Tor two hoers in the afternoon in
order to get bread It will be remembered
that a bill explaining the eight hour law passed
the House at its last .esSiOn, but was no. acted
On by the Senate. 1t re enacted the law in the
most positive terms.
TIE GETTYsBuRG.-A cable dispatch to the
Navy department announces that the Gettys
burg would leave Glbralter to-day for Sue2, to
continue her survey.