Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-02

imagine. The laborunions are strongin num-
bers and well organized, and rather restiFe.
They allude a great deal to the fact tlat
everything is being pooled 70 make the pu ,lII
pay high prices, and the nrst lhlns q - ~
does after organizing is to advance the sOOus:
the second almost invariably 10 req July, %
wages of the WOrkmeD. The famous = - ~, ~
be id" remark OF Vanderbilt may s OoIeI "
later be used as pretext for mob violence.
I saw it oPce here. and the cause Was Uno
which Is now going ahead again. Ia
Gates 10 ADVANCE cost u 1--WE ,lee,,nd ~
common fresh meat costs l212 10 % ce11s,
steak. nice. Is to 20 cents pound, anu auy
amount OF clerical labor to be had from men "a
for So to s. a week, boys and women y ~ 70 =
a week. This amt calculated 70 prohote
peace and happiness. It is no use TO smut ohe
eyes to the facts that exist. At present tHe
building boom here is giving hlgn Wages ~
all labor IN any way connected Win pulIuLns,
but railroads, telegraphs and other interests
are steadily cutting down wages anu lne
moment building halts down VIII go the rest.
Bricklayers got 81 % to 81 80 per day tWhen
at work. when the house l live IN was DulIt
(but three or four years ago.. A year mort
may bring 1t around again. Amount OF DulII
ing now going on is immense, but there IS al
ready some show that production IS reaching
fully up to consumption. Our moving DAY IS
May | and now to-day, April ~, only zen Yen
days from May !, the papers nave page aIter
page Of Ito rent advertisements never pc
fore saw so much building. moved into TINS
house last week in last August, ana nine new
| live in, and the block Is not long one elther.
As there are only three or four more
lots to build on they VIII have TO quit TINS
block.
THE POSSIBILITIES OF WEATHER
here are boundless. 1t has been showing steadi-
~ about all day. and shows no signs OF quitting.
Amt that a condition for April 2Og WIND Is
blowing strong. l do hope II won't turn INTO
hard freezing tonight. IL 1t does, away VIII
go our fruit, as the buds are beginning to burst
open, and in a few days the trees ought to be
leaved out. We had very little fruit last year.
Fruit goes through so many hands before II
reaches Chicago consumer that, unless very
plenty, the cost puts quality out OF reach OF
any one not possessing gold mine. l go on
Change two or three times week unless
have special business there, and then L 90
often and spend good deal OF time there.
am on the Call Board most OF the business
hours every day, where we have nice easy
chairs and Jolly crowd to talk with, and two
boys to post the quotations of stocks, grain
and provisions all over all creation on the bull
letin boards in front of us, as fast as changes
occur, and be free Of the deafening noise and
excitement on the Upper Board. may take
desk room in office of a packer, who does
mostly foreign trade now, and handle a
Southern trade for him, with which he
Is not familiar. He puts up fine goods and is
straight as a string in his business. l may
also add the future for the South to it. l
have not decided yet. l am making money
now pretty literally, and don't want to draw
my mind of from my own schemes at present.
One feature incident to the stimulus Of high
prices on production of hogs abroad is a
couple of packers left here a short time ago to
60 to Germany to look into the feasibility Of
starting a packing house there. They are
first class packers, and have been packing for
the fancy English trade, which has fallen Off
enormously. They select Germany as in
crease of hog raising is so enormous there.
Corn is not indispensable to hog raising. l
packed hogs a whole fall in Prince Edwards
Island, and none of the hogs ever had any
corn, and they were splendid-heavy and fat.
| shipped the product to Georgia too. The
Northwest of America may yet find that the
world won't starve for hog meat, whether the
Illinois corn crop fails or not. As to lard be-
tween cotton seed oil, greasy clay, other ami
NAL fats, ETC., ten pounds Of original lard as a
basis goes long way to forming basis for a
barrel of lard. Yours,
A. d. WILLIAMS.