Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-10-22
GLlMPSES OF SCOTLAND.

land Leader tells some interesting things
about Scotland in recent letter, from
which we quote the following:
"The Clyde forms Glasgow's entrance
to the sea, and Glasgow has made it one
of the fine harbor views of the world.
Originally it was a sluggish and unnav-
igable stream, but by the dredging of
forty years it now admits the largest
ocean vessels, and at the wharves of Glas-
gov you will find ships from all parts of
the world. The harbor of Glasgow is
two and one half miles long, and below it
shp-building yards line the Clyde for
many miles on its way to the sea. Glas-
gov is the ship-building center for the
world, and she builds ships for every
nation of note. Great Britain has % per
cent of the carrying trade of the world
and her steam vessels have increased in
tonnage over 200 per cent within the past
ten years. She pays her seamen less
than half the wages of the sailors of the
United States, and gets more out of them.
The average wages of English sailors are
Sl95 per annum; those of American sail
ors $40 per annum. So that the Amer
lean sailor gets $500 more year than
his British brother.
81 find wages low all over Ireland and
Scotland, and haye visited many facto-
ries and talked with both managers and
laborers. The hours are longer, the
work in many cases very hard, and the
wages very low. Rents are high in com
parison with the accommodations, and
the only thing find cheaper than with
us is clothes. Good food costs the same
and meats are fully as high. The labor
ing classes live on a cheaper kind of food
than our working men do and they have
less of it. Whole families often live i'm
one or two rooms, and these cost all the
way from S25 to S50per year. They live in
the cities in flats, and their conveniences
are very few. The wages of mechanics
and skilled labor run from 81 day to 81
"A day and it is very good man indeed
who gets the latter. \ newspaper pro-
prietOr in Dublin told me that he could
get good reporters for from 81 to 81 per
week and they would be shorthand men
} and well educated. The managing
editor of the largest paper in Ireland. in
Dublin city, place as large as Cncin-
natl, gets only $4,000 Il year, and his
. salary is considered large one.
II saw men working on the road in
Ireland breaking stone at twenty-five
cents day. and many of the women in
the factories of Belfast get no more and
work from "a. IN. to 6 p. IN.
"lIere laborers get from $3.50 to s.
] per week and board themselves. Car
penters. printers, cOOpers and masonS
earn about $3.50 per week and shoemak-
er> the same. The plumbers receive only
$50 per week in Glasgow. and tailors
only S1.25. Many boys and little girls
! are employed in the factories. and the
whole family works to keep the wolf
: from the door. Still, under all of these
? disadvantages, the Scotch blood makes
, fortunes land there are numerous instances
of poor boys becoming wealthy right
, here amid such surroundings.
These Scotch people are very fine
looking, and their faces have great
strength of feature and at the same time
= much refinement. The Scotch girls are
exceptionally fine looking, and even
among the lower classes you see very
many refined faces. In the stores there
are lady clerks who would pass muster
| As well-bred girls anywhere, and many
: of the barmaids in the whisky shops arr
beauties. The women of Scotland do Il
great deal of work. \ white-capped
middle-aged. rosy-cheeked lady usually
presides over each of the largest hotels
and nearly all of the railway restaurants
|. are managed by women. Both sexes ii
Scotland have, as rule, good healthy
physiques. There are more tall men and
. women than in America. They have bet
# ter compilations, more active walk. anC
are, as a rule, stronger and healthier.
e This is the great shooting season fol
t Great Britain, and the highlands are full
of gentlemen hunting. | have seel
hundreds of men on their way to theil
estates for this purpose, and the boats
and cars are full of men dressed for tn,
moors. There is more individuality ol
dress in England and Scotland than il
T, America. Every man has his suit cut tt
II please himself, and IA favorite costume i,
1t short sack coat, pantaloOns rather full
above the knee and fastened tight arounC
}. the leg just above the calf. Then pail
of long thick WOODEN stockings come W
- to where the knee breeches end, and the
feet are clad in strong shoes. This make,
/. a very stylish costume, if the wearer i,
I. tall and has good legs. 1t is worn every
where, and even gentlemen going about
with ladies on the street are so clad. Ado
to this helmet cap or Derby, and yol
a have pretty fair idea of one class OF
Scotch or English dress. Many of the