The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-23
PASSING THE HAT AROUND.
UNION HILLS FAIR WEAYERS RE-
CRUIT tHE STRiKERS, TREASURY.

The Town Tradesiaen Put In Their Lit
lie Mite, 40 Keep THE BAH A Rolling
"A Feelings However, that the Strike
is Nearing Iss End-@ft4citfng Episodg
The $500 strikers in Union Hill are talk
ing about the manner in which Foreman
Harker lost his position at Henry Feesler's
silk factory. Tie facts in the case came
but with the arrest of Mr.. Fessler's hand
some Daughter, Louisa, on Justice Franz
bach's warrant yesterday. She is very
attractive, about TWEEN y-fve years of age,
tall. and with harSso ne olive compl, x
ion that gives her the appearance of
Cuban, and qucenly in her bearing Wi h
the airs of fascinating Goqu tie 81 y
mas encouraged the suit of many Young
men of the section. The town talked about
her latest cor quest, verdant youth of
Sghteen Summers. She learned that Fore,
man Harker had joined In the gossip and
vowed vengeance. She met Foreman Har-
ker the other day near the factory and
went for him with stick. He defended
himself as best he could, but she grabbed
him by the nape of his neck and dragged
him three blocks, while he vaiuly strug-
Cling in hsr firm hold like q child. When
they arrived in front of her house she
called for her father and finished up her
dressing of Harker. He fought her off
with poor success. and the parents of the
irate damsel went to her aid He finally,
with a supreme effort, got away and made
q dash for liberty amid the. jeers of the
crowd. He Went to Justice frambach and
secured warrant for the arr st of tie fair
Louisa and her parents. Sergeant Fred.
Seller, Of the West Hohokeh police, made
the arrests yesterday. All three were bailed
in the sum of $500 each.
care we ready to give in yet ?" asked
coquettish little girl, one of the stri
king silk hands in West Hoboken. to a
TATrLER, repeating his question to her
yesterday afternoon. "Ready to give ia
Do look Is if / was starved yet Guess
not, Johnny, and if / was, | could get
plenty o. money. The town people have
made us rich lately. We sent our sub
scliption prpers around, and every store
keeper Clipped in something. The average
was 80 apiece. Some went as high as SIS,
and Peters, the brewer, sent us $50"
81 Did you contribute to the strikers
fund.-" asked the TAITLEE of one store
keeper.
Yes, did," was the answer. 81 was
afraid 10 refuse. The least they could do
would be to take their custom away fro u
us, and they might do worse, tn ugh that
weuld be bad enough"
The young men among the strikers all
had clean shaver cLins. This was due to
the cffer of a Uuion Hill bfrber to give all
who applied free shave on Friday.
The girls were disposed to poke fun at
the innocent reporter. They wanted to
know if he could see straight through his
binoculars. and when be asked, with verdi
ant ignorance, if they were not at work yet,
they said, in melodious chorus, sob,
yes but we knock off early on Saturday,
you know"
"You didn't hear" exclaimed pinched
faced girl, full of life in spite of her evil
dent penury, " the latest about the nosing
reporters. One of them asked girl for
an interview. She didn't hook on to his
meaning, thought he was insulting her,
and slapped his face. Take warning, young
m u !"
In spite of ell the levity of the pretty
maidens, there is an evident feeling on
the part of the strikers that the strike is
near its end. The mill workers have beeu
provident enough. but their earnings have
been so small that they have had nothing
to save from, and many, especially men
and women with families, ard young girls
and fellows with mothers and sisters de-
pendent upon them, are reduced to want.
The storekeepers say that they have been
o5lis ed to chang up" SO many accounts,
ror the specially needy, that business is no
good any longer. The reopening of Giger-
naud's mills tomorrow morning is so
k senly anticipated that general sentiment
prevails that, if the mills are open to- NOR
morning, large proportion of the
hands will be at the doors to resume work