The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-25
Review Of the Week---Wh Peo-
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imposition to take such a book in addi-
lon to y.'ur paper.
EDIToR-Thanks. sir but il is all
right. [ get the books in exchange Tor
advertisin. and my object is to adver-
tise the paper. II you are TO d., me ii
favor in return for the present, you can
square the account by mentioning TO
some ut your friends that they can get
t..c paper for six months aI.u lic book
i'll the bargain, by sending II doiiaI
| have about 1900 copies now in my
Office 50 that every sab r.oer od!-
have a copy, if he hose. - cali ior y.
lsT CALLER-You do not send THEM
by mail.
EDIToR-Ye-, if the subscriber en-
closes postage. | am Wiling 10 lncui
the trouble and expense vi wrapping
aud mailing the pamphlets; luI You
can see that the postage. while only )
cents TO each subscriber, would take
nearly slO0 out 81 my pocket.-and that
| cannot afford.
EDIToR-What news do you brin-
from Yaukeedon?
2ND CALLER-Well It has been a pref
" lively week up that way. The wealth
er IN New York City was simply melting.
You could see men dropping on the
sidewalks almost anywhere your eyes
turned. | saw one fellow keel ov,r
right in front of a street car. The
horses stepped OIL his arm, but the cal
was checked before the wheels ran over
him. Another fellow raised a commo-
lion on Wall street. He was a siA-
tooter who travels up aad down the
street all day. enclosed i'll d big beer
bottle for an advertis ement. 1t is OF
course made out of p~astrboard. and has
holes at the bottom for his legs ~ stick
out but it LOOKS just ii &C Il biz glass
bottle, 10 feet high and 3 lect thick,
moving along the pavement The old
fellow inside got so stifled for lack of
air that he tainted, and they had a time
pulling him out OF the bottle. He died
next dag. Lots of children die every
night in the crowded tenement houses.
where hundreds of families eat. sleep.
and work, all in one room. Many OF
the cigars YOU see brought down from
New York are made by polish Jews.
Germans, Irish, Chinese. and that
class, in nasty little cuddy-holes OF
rooms that no Southern dog would stay
in. Sometimes you will see the father
and four or five children rolling clga.
%rettes, while the mother is sick in bed
II girl washing clothes. and another
cooking, all in the same room, with on.
~ a single window, and it blocked BY
the walls of the next house, AT six feet
distant. How such people keep from
robbery. suicide. or other crimes. is a
mystery to me.
EDIIoR-Iet they will not leave the
city. no matter how they suffer.
CALLER-Some would go if they had
means. and knew where to 90. But
you know it is not easy to pull w
stakes,-and then they are of an igno.
rant class who do not know much about
other localities. New York. though,
has a magnetic effect Over people who
have once lived there. 1t is a grand
place; full of public parks, libraries,
picture gallerys, theatres, and all kinds
of amusements. You can see some
thing new every hour Of the day and
night. 1t was a wonderful sight to
stand On Brooklyn Bridge and watch
the excursion steamers going out last
Sunday morning. More than COO, 600
people left the city before nine O'Clock,
to spend the day at the various resorts.
And, by the by, there IA another WON
dertul spectacle on Wednesday night
when Horsbeck's warehouses burned.
on the Brooklyn wharves. They were
immense 6 and s story buildings, and
the flames soon caught to three large
ships,-tail as chlrch steeples! The
loss was over a million dollars.
EDIToR-I suppose the strike" of
the telegraphers is all the talk?
CALLER-You have not an idea of
the excitement over it! The South has
not begun to use the telegraph as yet !;
but in YanKeedom the whole atnos-
phere is full OF electricity. Some streets
ia New York, Philadelphia, and Chica-
60, have four or five hundred wires at
each side. Nearly all the leading bust
ness men now have wires to prominent
points. About 600 wires run into the
Western Union Office alone. Then
there are the Mutual, the Rapid. the
American, and other companies. SO
you can see hat a strike which stops
the ticking of all these ''tlckers" means
IA general disturbance of business.
EDTToR-But L see the public seems
to ~sympathize witt. the Strikers?
CALLER Yes, there is Il feeling that
they have real grounds for complaint.
They claim that for ten years the Wes-
tern Union, CONTROLLED by the Two
Observation-Disclosures, Jay Could has
been steadily cutting down salaries, and
Worthwhile the profits are
enormous, notwithstanding the water
ed stock. Y III know that when these
gigantic Railroad and Telegraph Mon
opoles find that they are making too
much money that is, hat tie div
dend will look too large. the, pretend
increase the capital, and by increas-
inc the number OF shares. lessen the
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