The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-29

shrewd minds have been at work de-
signing new dresses, e combina-
tions, novel make ups, and there is
no reason for doubling that this will
be the greatest event of the social
season. The number of invited
guests amounts to several hundred,
but there are three disappointed peo-
pie who were not asked to one invit-
ed. The newspapers are making as
elaborate preparations to ''cover" as
if the affair were a political conven-
ton instead of a gathering of devo-
tees of Momus.- The female report
er will be here in all her glory, and
what she will not be able to gush
about the costumes will not be worth
knowing.
Decoration Day with US has sup
planted the Fourth of July entirely
in Importance, and the festivities in
honor of the day are growing in ex-
tent from year to year. This season
the occasion will be s~ignalized by
the opening of the East River Bridge
10 the public. The Memorial Com
mittee of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, opened its office and com
menced the work Of preparation yes
terday. They had a conference with
the Brooklyn Bridge Trustees and
it was decided that the participants
in the procession should be the first
to cross the structure which spans
the river, and which is now all but
complete, excepting the finishing
touches. The procession this year
will be larger and finer than ever,
and one good thing about it will be
the fact that no advertising carts
and vans will be allowed a place in
it
Not for a long time has the mo-
ney market been SO tight as it is at
present, and in consequence people
with loose cash have no end of OPP
portunities of making good and
quick turns on call loans. I was
told by the Secretary of leading
banking institution that the other
day when they needed q block of
money they had to pay ut less than
nineteen per cent. for if, and then he
had to skirmish high low to find it.
Before Spring has fairly settled on
US there will be hard times in many
lines of business. In spite of the
bouyant air which everybody tries to
maintain prosperity is anything but
assured. Much if not more of it is
only on the surface. There is no
money in any business. Competi-
ton shaves the margin of profit so
close that it requires millions of cap
ital to run a business in a way to
make money. One large dry goods
and fancy goods house which has
the reputation of making more mo-
ney than any other firm in the same
business, has had its employees in
the dress making and millinery de
partmenfs laid off since the first OF
January. They started q portion oil
them on the 18th instance, but the
! bulk will have to remain idle until
the first of April. So much for the
, good times We are said to have.
), And yet the laboring classes are
+ faring better than they have fol
some time, and as usual strikes fol
higher wages are on thetapis. There
is not a newspaper office in the city
where the printers r not holding
ominous gatherings, and where prep
arations are not being made by the
publishers to provide for any sud
den emergency. Now that building
is actively resumed, there will be thu
usual spring troubles with the car
penters and masons. The men ar,
j, earning better wages than they eve
. did, yet contractors are fearful O
strikes right along, and not one o
. them would be much surprised t
have his men make q sudden demand
o on him for more money. JOHN.