Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-10
The Brickmakers Demand Higher


AT the presen, time there is but small supply
OF brick on hand In the brckyards Of the District,
aud as the question OF wages Is unsettled the
manufacture has not been commenced for the sea-
son. Mr.. Alfred Richards Is about the only brick
maker now having anything like stock on hand.
ma IL Is reported that the brick machine com.
pany have orders already Sufficient 10 Keep
their force running two or three months.
are $50 per thousand, and for pressed brick
S2aS2 per thousand. There are employed
IN the yards OF the District men and boys
numbering in all probably soc, and most OF them
belong 20 what is known as the "BricAmaker's
Union" Last season those employed as "setters"
received 81 10 SLIGO per day, and under the regu-
laions OF the union they now ask g. 80 per day;
mouderS who last year received s.. 10 "a 81 30
ask s. -: wheeiers who were last year paid 81 now
ask $3.50; boys who last year received 20 s5 cents
now ask slaSl 12k. The union fixed the new rates
TO 60 into operation on the 10th OF March last,
stated above. Few OF the yards other than the
machine yards have as yet commenced work The
Washington Brick Machine Co MAS notified by
the "setters" there Saturday that they would stop
unless their demand for advanced wages Is grant
Ell. The bosses are not inclined Co pay the rates
asked, but are willing to pay an advance on the
wages or last year. A number ~ them on Satur-
day signed paper fixing the following SCHEDULED:
Settlers 81: moulders sl.50dS2; wheelers, sls5 and
boys 80 cents TO 81.
DEEDS IN FER have Ieen recorded as follows:
John sherman. trustee, 10 ThoS. J. Murphy, lot n,
sub. 1. Columbia heights: s9s3. Maria Fitzhugh &C
al. al to W Brown east part = 81 5se. Quit claim;
Mases east half So ai ss hs Ed i% % 60 "
ss,isas7. a. j. Marsh 20 P. Campbell parts 10 and
lot 2i sub. 81. a0i: $780, Victoria A. Burr to w H.
burr, li.k acres, In the county; $4,000 w II.
Lns s to 1T %ssrd TG sa sar Pnr SUB 70
same property: ss.Ooo. J. a. Stephenson 70 Agnes
Mrsser, part 2; So ss; sieoS J. b Linton to $ >.
ct al. trustees, to John Lynch, lot Ia, 50. iSs,
sl,45665; w. r Graham to Ada b. Tysowski, sub.
5000. ~ W
TEMPERANCE WoRKERs-The women's Christian
Temperance Union held meeting yesterday af-
L. Roach. Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Luther Ben
son, OF Indiana, delivered temperance lecture at
Lincoln Han The Dashaway's meeting at Lin
coin Hall last evening, was addressed by Mr.. Ben
son and Mr. Nye. the president OF the organlza-
ton
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs-Prince Gortschakoff
has been relieved by the Car, OF the functions OF
minister OF foreign affairs, and NJ. de Giers APP
ical Garden elephant. purchased by Barnum, was
landed In New York yesterday. Two more
bodies OF victims or the Golden City disaster were
recovered yesterday. The corner stone OF New
English church was laid in Rome yesterday, by
the British ambassador, DIR. Nevln, rector or the
American Episcopal church, assisting in the
services Because OF the activity OF the Nihi-
lists of Moscow, the question OF holding the coro-
nation OF the Car elsewhere, is being seriously
discussed. . Thomas Prater, a deputy II. a mar
shall, shot and killed his assistant Stephen STAN
fer, at Riverton, Ky, yesterday, having quarreled
win hlm about dog. :. Casper w. Early, ediUor
OF the JohnstOwn (Pa.l Tribune. died yesterday.
dennis Florence Mccarthy the Irish poet is
dead. The sensation in legislative circles In
Richmond Saturday was the speech OF senator
Diggs, democrat. OF Lynchburg, In which he ar
ralgned Riddleberger, the Malone leader in that
body. Mrs. Gray ana Mrs, Jones OF Surrey Co..
Va, died last Friday from arsenic put In their
coffee by a servant girl -. Eiw lrd Newman.
pubiic school teacher IN Jersey yile, N j. has be-
consequence Id
with virus from the arm OF slightly insane man
.-..AG Augusta, Ca, Saturday evening, Daniel
Belts, hon-tamCr In COup'S circus, while about
to enter the lions cage for street procession fell
dead from heart disease