The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-07

of sordid treachery for them to wait
till their employers have made con-
tracts and then strike, so as to wipe
out every possible margin for the
men whose brains and business tact
have secured work that supports them
in luxury unknown to the artisans of
other lands, and which enables them
easily to accumulate comfortable bank
accounts.
The values of real estate have in
most parts Of the city, and in less
degree everywhere in the vicinity,
been going up fast, and but for the
uncertainty as to the attitude Of the
various workmen required for the
complicated building operations of
the present day, when multitude
of what may be almost called new
trades come into requisition, there
would be boom in building unprece.
dented since the labors of the He
brews in Egypt; but people are afraid
of strikes, and capitalists button up
their pockets when they consider the
prices they may have to pay. 1t is
quite possible that within a month
hod carriers who can't read or write
may get S. day, but if they get 100
days year at that rate it will be the
very outside. Wouldn't it be better
if they worked 800 days at S. day.
The Trades Union demagogues say
not, but even small boy in the pri
mary class can figure out that 5000
is more than $500, and there isn't so
much time for the man who works
900 days to get drunk and squander
his money as for the man who works
100 and loafs the rest of the year.
Mr.. Dwight H. Olmstead has start
ed a grand question which really
seems as if it might practically double
the wealth of the country at stroke.
1t is to simplify the transfer of titles
to real estate, SO as to make them
as negotiable as United States bonds,
instead of spending months over the
conveyance of a shingle-roofed stable
in the back slums Of Squeedunk, with
a small fortune for searches, fees, &C.,
&c. BY simple adaptation of plan
already adopted in New Zealand,
owners could transfer the wealth of
Vanderbilt or Astor in less than
an hour, and the seller could walk
off with the cash. This would make
things hum. 1t would be good for
everybody, except, at first, for the
class of lawyers who profess to Carry
out searches and who don't do it,
simply because in many cases it takes
a full months labor, and perhaps
several hundred dollars to clerks who
compile private indices to official
books, which are unintelligible with
out them, even to themselves, to con-
duct one search properly, The Real
Estate Chronicle, which l have before
alluded to as an able, live and relia-
BILE paper, has taken the lead in this
matter, and is hammering away at
the subject in way that will start
the rest Of the press before long, and
then we shall hear music.
Easter will soon be here, and be-
ing luckily rather late, the lingering
of winter in the lap of spring will
not affect the budding out of beauty
and fashion in gorge Gus style on
that great field-day offrivolity, Easter
Day. Never were our stores more
magnifcently supplied, and never
were our people better furnished with
the means to possess themselves of
the bewildering variety of charming
goods exposed for sale. All the in
dications are Of an immense trade
this spring in all departments of
business. New York is worth seeing
just now, and stroll down Broadway
beats going to the Centennial all to
fits, to say nothing of such avenues as
Fifth avenue, with its new palaces,
I4th street, Sixth avenue, ect., with
their gorgeous stores. If we keep
on, Paris and London rolled together
in lump will be nowhere in COM
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