The Portland daily press., 1884-10-16

ner. The Remington rifles are known the
world over for the excellence Of their work
manship, their long range aud the accuracy Of
their fire. Our American "teams" use them
ia their contests with the sharpshootsrs OF
other nations.
The enormous establishment Of the Fair
banks Brothers at st. Johnsbury, Vermont,
also began In very small way; the father,
with his own hands, Supplying the small local
demand for scales to weigh accurately in the
small trade OF country villages. Nov the
scales of the Fairbanks brothers are the stan
dsrd the world over. There is a vast bleach
cry and printing establishment in Rhode Island
employing steam engines of the power Of many
hundreds of horses, which began work many
Years ago with one horse turning a wheel. A
visit to st. Johnsbury is a great pleasure, being
situated a"ong sone Of the finest scenery Of
the green mountain State. The hand of the
Fairbanks brothers is seen everywhere. Their
fortune has been acquired in that little coun-
try village, and their fellow citizens share lib
orally in it.
What is this beautiful building?
Az Atheneum aud Public LiOr ary built by
the Fairbanks with very large and excep-
tionally good collection of books, given to the
village.
And those large, very fine buildiDgs-two of
them?
They are educational establishments bui t by
the Fairbanks and given to the public.
What grand church is that; it would be an
ornament to the fiuest street Of any city in the
countryf
Tnas also is by the Fairbankses; it replaces
an old shabby wooden house. Il is given to
the society
1t is very grand, aud must have cost great
sum; do you know how much?
Mo- nobody knows but the Fairbanks and
probably they do not.
Here is large aud very handsome building
going up; what is Il?
IL is for public hall and lecture room, much
needed here; built By the Fairbanks.
And just around the corner-I saw it coming
from the statioL-is a very large, handsome
buildng going up; what is it?
The Fairbanks are building that for the
Young Mems Christian Association and the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Ali see; you have prohibition here?
Yes; We have schools, stheneums, public
looms, consequently we have prosperous, thrift
ty, happy homes.
Yes, ses; Consequently" is the fitting word.
Without protection to our own work people
against the excessively cheap labor Of Europe,
all our great industries would be impossible,
and to this day We should be dependent upon
foreign factories and workshops
Now to come back to Brockton. MY host
gave me drive for an hour or two about
town. There we're very large, veil built, we'll
kept buildings-shoe factories many OF the m
the best machinery is in them. The owners Of
many Of them grew up from shop boys and
inurnevmen to be masters and owners on
large SCALE
Here is q very large and fne establishment,
whose is il9 1t is Mr.. Blanks; he aud his wife
IN their younger days, before they we're mar
ried, worked together in a shoe factory ss COM
mon hands. BY Industry, prudence and good
judgment and sobriety they have come to be
owners of this establishment.
The drive al first was through the business
streets and among tbs many shoe factories,
all OF them large and kept in perfect condition,
With pleasant Surroundings Tnen mS host
drove me about among the dwellings OF the
peoDle-the residences" as fue houses are
now called. The houses were very good-all
OF thsm-many OF them exceptionally good and
handsome, surrounded by large, well kept
grounds and lawns. These are the houses Of
tho owners of the shoe factories. -
Here is particularly handsome house; whose
is it7
1t is the home Of an Irishman, a shoe manu-
facturer. He came here few years sgo,
poor boy, but now he has very large and pros
porous business, and lives in the best house in
town.
All! I see, he didn't get it by drinking
beer and whiskeyI
No, he does neither, he's one Of u.s.
Now I'D like to see the houses where the
work people live, 1 feel more interest in
them.
We've passed many of them; there are three
of them on tie left.
What those large, handsome two storied
houses, in such nice condition, with closely
shavsn grass and flowers all about them?
Yes, workngmen live there, aud they own
theif houses.
You surprise me; how can they do it? TIE
houses are large. in handsome ct, le of ar
chiteelure, nicely painted and beautifully kept.
How can your work people ogn such houses?
They must earn very large wages
They earn good wages, such as good work
men can earn elsewhere. This is the way they
doit. We have no grogs hops here to absorb the
wages in exchange for hunger and rags. We
vote the grog shops down, aud in our fight
with them the Catholic temperance men are
oh win of
have grcg-shops Oar people understand that
they waste wages, disincliue people from work
and very soon uA6t them for it, so that they
become burden and a charge to the COM
muuity. We all nnderssa nd that wages saved
and wisely employed, maks people prosperous,
contented and happy aud build up a town and
enlarge and stimulae business. We all know
that grog shops antagonize all this. and so we
vote them down, we'll have none of them.
What isn't there any liquor sold here?
Yes, on small scale and on the sly, and you
will see the effect OF this in the shabby houses
where the customers live. But as to the large
fine houses of the workingmen who are not
customers" this is the way of it. These men
save their money; soon they have a coDsdera-
BILE sum laid by. Many OF their wives and
sons and daughters are employed also in the
factories, at machine work. The father will
buy a lot of land with the family earnings,
and then he finds no difficulty in borrowing
money enough to build Lis house. This is
arranged for two families, one above and one
below, but the house externally shows only one
tenement. Que of these tenements is let al
most always for sum large enough to pay the
interest on the debt, and the continued savings
soon pay off the principal. Ali these fine look
ing houses you see here, are built, occupied
and owned in that way. Now all this would
be impossible, if we should allow grog shops
here to entics our work people aud rob them OF
their wages, health and good name.
Yes, see; We are trying down in Maine to
do something in that direction. We shall suc-
coed in it by and by, with G ld's blessing.