Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-24
HAVEN CONN. MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 24

ago, was enlarged to admit steel-workers in l 1876, and now includes all skilled workers about iron and steel mills. The association 1 includes mills in Portland, Maine, and in Oakland, California, in Alabama and Wis consin, and has membership of about 30, GOO. Hence it controls the work of 75,000 or 100, 900, including the laborers and others directly thrown out of employment when the members strike. The society is strong est in the region from Pittsburg to Chicago and weakest in the East, although, taking the whole country together, great majority of the large mills are worked by it's members.
 It has its territory divided into eight dis tricts, which act independently, subject to 6 common head, and it's power has been de-
 monstrated many times by strikes, the most important and generally the most successful
 in the country. It is the best organized and largest society of tho kind in America
 It is expected that the whisky lobby will
 be very active at Washington this winter.
 From every quarter comes the sad intelli-
 gence that unless the tax is immediately ex-
 tended on 35, ,000, ,000 or 40, ,000, ,000 gallons of whisky in bond there will be universal crash.
 The same story was told last winter, when it
 was represented that all the banks in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Penn sylvania and New York would go up the Hume unless the whisky bonded period was extend ed on 95, 900, 600 gallons of the fluid destroyer of happy hours. It was claimed that the banks
 had advanced $50, ,000, GOO or $60, ,OOO, ,OOO on this whisky, and that if the property should be forced upon the market it would shrink in value to nothingness and leave the banks in gaping hole of enormous depth. The extension bill was defeated and no banks of any account have been broken in eonse-
 quenee thereof, though about one-half of the whisky then in bond has been taken out and the tax on it paid. Nevertheless, the whisky
 lobby will be more vociferous and industri- ous next session than ever before, judging
 from the indications at this moment, and
 congress may expect to be deafened by the
 clamer for relief for the poor oppressed
 banks and distillers that will assail the pa
 tient walls of the capitol.
 The popularity of the bicycle has stimu-
 lated the ingenuity of inventors to contriye a
 road motor, light carriage for common
 roads, driven by small steam engine. It
 ought not to be very troublesome problem
 to construct such a vehicle, with an engine
 easily managed, safe and consuming but lit
 tie fuel, and to make it so cheap that it
 would cost less than the price of good horse
 and buggy. A reporter of the Boston Tray
 e1er found the other day 8 mechanic who
 told him that several persons were working
 upon this problem with excellent prospects
 of success, and would probably bring their
 inventions upon the market next spring.
 Former experim ents in this line have been
 clumsy, costly, expensive in the matter of
 fuel, and requiring an engineer to manage them. But mechanics are export enough
 now to avoid those objections. Bicycle con-
 struction has taught the art of making light, staunch and smoothly running vehicles. Steam engines can be made much more light and compact than formerly. They can use pc troleum for fuel, and can be so arranged as to avoid all danger of explosion. And SC this mechanic thinks it likely we may sec next season very general introduction o1 fO-1 o15