The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-03-19
.uosLEr.s- LErsER vBon NEW
YORK.

ruorLEr.s- hErsER vBoM NEW
Y0RK.
BY Our Special Correspondent.
NEW York, Feb. 81, 1879.
,ttE NEXT UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION
The next great international Ex-
aasitivo comes here Judge Hilton
says so. and while everybody will not
that as conclusive prophecy.
enough otker citizens say likewise TO
assure IA of the fact. The richest
and most influential men in the me-
tropois are on the committee, ana
have fixed the time for the Exposition
al 1885.
NO SMALL CONTRAST.
Two little midgets are exhibiting
themselves at Masonic Hall, who are
really the tiniest people over found
by a Snowman General Mite" is
fourteen years old. weighs 9 pounds,
and is truly "a bigger" Divert than
old Tom Thumb. His mate is . little
Mexican girl of fifteen, weighing four
and three-quarter pounds, so they
claim.
Her hand is not large enough to
span the managers foreinger, aud
she stands in a silk hat, rests her
hands on the rim, and converses
pleasantly with Der admirers While
this four FOUNDER exhibits in q sec-
ton of the city, q Bowery museum
mourns the loss of It's fat girl weigh
ing 5l4 pounds.
The Bowery lass would make just
los girls like the other, aud have
nearly a pound to spare. Filthy
lucre is not the only article that Is
unequslly distributed in this little
world!
A NEW FIELD FOL WOMAN.
Among the wholesale houses Cd
! Church street. down in q neat little
basement barber shop, two trim and
tidy Young women from Boston are
shaving the face of masculine New
York at ten cent? q besd-or face.
They are demure, we'll bred, lady-lke,
neither fast Lor coarse 10 manner, but
carry a quiet, womaDly dignity and
grace sbout their work which dissrm
criticism. and shame frivoiity ioto TO-
spectful silence.
One Of them wbisked off your cor
respondents grizzly beard with a
lightCess of TOUGH most charming by
contrast With the average masculine
biped, who mistakes your face for a
hav neld.
Her work was done delicately and
well, except that, being woman,
she must look around ct some geatle-
men talking behind the stove, and
scratch my face with the razor-but
women can't change their nstores.
even when they become BARRIERS
The girls draw immensely, and the
proprietor has been obliged TO put on
several male BARRIERS TO accommodate
the rush.
The experiment Is u grand success,
and as | looked into The brown eyes
of the brave little woman giving the
finishing touches TO my grey NOUS
taehe, | wondered how many strug-
Cling women, hungry for honorable
employment, but drifting past the few
overlooked of voman's in
dustry towards shame, will get tbank
these plucky Yankee girls for pion.
eering another path through the tan
gled wilderness that frowns before
every poor girls life. Success to the
Barberess! May her name be LIE
|, gion!
: Send your big burly fellow out 10
swing u scythe, and let his delicate
sister WELD scissors, comb and razor
Too long, far too long, q thousand
avenues of honorable industry have
been closed against her. Make way
for women 10 the new field! Run ar
the flag of "Woman's Rights-tc
shave" and il any man shall attempt
to haul it down, shoot him on The
spot!
PIE TENEMENT HOUSE MoLocH-
| The tenement house contains forty
: per cent. of New York's inhabitants
} and furnishes serenity per cent. O
her funerals. Nine-teathe Of all th'
E children born in these houses die DE
: fore reaching the age of Eve years
!. Moloch is outdone, Herod is out Her
f oded 10 the richest city of the New
World. Human kiVes-in all but in
S dustry and swsetness-covering
8 single city lot 25xl00 feet hold oveI
a hundred people /; fifty to seventy
q children are often found in a hous'
+ City feet front; four families occup,
I q single DON with but q chalk mari
!. on the bare and dirty aoor TO divide
: their spaces; ventilation aud light ir
I the balls and inner rooms are IN
known.
|, Sixteen meb, women ana children
$ are found eating, cooking and sleep
s ing in a single room. Seclusion ii
: impossible virtue q fable rising dim
:. ly out of the mists of the Past reiig
, ion and cleanliness are smothered IL
t rags end despair and shame-snd q
population 0uiBHmbering hotof Cha.
: cago, lives, moves and bas its being
; 10 this fearful way Do you wonael
t it takes an army of police half as large
, as Burgoyne surrendered, backed by
as msnv more citizen soldiery, to
keep Baxter Street from cutting Fifth
Avenues throat And dou't you
wonder that no awful ~pestilencei
starting in these plague spots. ha.
: swept Five Points and Murray Hill
to a common gbss.iy dead? TbaLl
God for 9 narrow island between
broad, swift, salt rivers and toe
ocean breezes that roar up our bay
from the Nsrrows for immunity frou
thats
| But the feneEeat House has no,
foregone all revenge. 1t can vote
1t gave us Tweed, and Tweedism sen;
coal and shoes and luminosity run
black to the Tenement House 10
payment Tor its vote, stealing Fifty
millions 10 ten yea-l 70 do it with
The Tenement House wards did
! Tweed's bidding a: the polls long af
ter the whole city vssin arms against
bim.
!, rhey sre mighty o c a year, and