The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-01

heirs got fighting among themselves, each
one bent on running the other; the property |
got tied up with mandamuses, injunctions,
writs of certiorari and other legal dynamite
bombs on which lawy ers fatten and clients
are blown slts-high. When they were all
nearly ruined and thoroughly sxausted,
Pulitzer of 1.-The World" stopped in and
gobbled the whole thing for SS00,0 and
he proposes to rear on its foundation such
newspaper Office us you may possibly
have read about in story books, but certain
ly never have seen in granite, marble, brick
and iron In this country before.
The site is historic ground. Forty-eight
years ago a celebrated rough and tumblel
fighter named Billy Harrington kept
saloon called 'The Cosey," and here most
of the noted prize-fghters of the day could
be seen. Fighting was the fashion then.
Soap-locked "Fire laddies' travelled about
the city looking for "muss," and to the
honor of the city be it recorded they did
not have to travel far to get accommodated.
There were nearly fifty fire companies, and
all of them were schools for suggers; the
fellow who couldn't slug had no business
being freman, so as a consequence the
Fire Department took in most of the roughs
and toughs of the city. Tammany Hall,
now ''The Sun" office, was on the opposite
corner from French's and this was the
headquarters of the Empire Club, of which
the late Captain Isaiah Rynders was the
chief. To say that this crowd was terror,
but family describes what they were; bad
as we are now, thank fortune we have no
organized gang of the proportions and
toughness of the Empire Club Their
members varied from 1,200 to 1000, and
they were so thoroughly organized and
drilled that no police could cope with
them.
Next adjoining Tammany Hall. and
right under the northeast corner of "The
Tribune" Office was "The Pewter Mug"
the resort of thieves and low ruffians, some
of whom died in the cellar with their boots
on. Right back of Freneh's was old st.
Johns Hall, which was the Oldest Masonic
Lodge in the city, and 1t was here that
Henry G. Atwood and some other masons
started st. Johns Grand Lodge in opposi-
tion to the Grand Lodge of the State of
New YoIk-a breach that was fortunately
healed almost forty years ago by a grand
reunion at Tripler Hall. But as said,
French's is being torn down, and in few
months 1.-THE World" Office will look down
in silent contempt upon the Office of "The
Sum-" ] can almost hear Pulitzer, as he
sits in his magnificent quarters looking
down on Dana's dingy sanctnn, too-whoo-
ing the owl in the fable who sat above the
gallows of the murderer who had put her
little ones eyes out, "Revepge is sweet !
Revenge is sweetr'
The revelation before the Committee
now engaged in investigating emigration
matters haYe been somewhat startling.
First we went for the Cinnamon, but a
stict investigation proved that there was
not comparatively acorporal's guard of them
in the United States. Then we gave the
Italians shake up, but bad as they are
| evidently not the worst. Now the immi-
grant deluge that threatens us is from
Russia, Poland, Hungary and Bohemia.
The Italian does not enter into competi-
tion with our labor element except in its
lowest forms of street cleaning, digging and
railroad work; but these miserable races
arc driving American men and American
women from many forms of skilled labor.
Ten years ago in one CLOTH ing mandatory
girls were exclusively employed, and they
made from eight to fifteen dollars a week.
Since the advent of the Russians, Bohem-
ians, Hungarians and Poles, men have
taken the place of American women aud
girls and the wages have fallen one half.
Aside from every other consideration the
men are brutal in their habits and disgust
lngly filthy in their persons and altogether
offensive for civilized women to mingle
with. II is among this class of immigrants
that you find your anarchists. dynamiters
and other desperate characters. Few of
them can speak our language and they
don't want to speakit. They want to be-
coiue citizens because they find that the
franchise has market value ON election
day. just think of nine Thousand of such
beings poured down on us in a single dayl
We are confronted with terrible problem
in this labor matter, and the further we 60
with the investigation the worse it looks
Gradually and quietly these unsaYory ele-
ments haYe undermined the labor market,
till IL has come to be choice for thousands
of women and girls between degradation
and starvation. Notwithstanding our strin-
gent laws against the importation of these
miserable wretches, thousandsare unloaded
every week, their passages and all their ex-
penses being paid by their American en-
ployers, and afterward deducted from their
wages with two hundred per cent. interest.
| We have also law which compels the cap
tain and officers of all sea-going vessels be-
longing to the Uunited STATES to be citizens
of the United States. But here we have
bands of perjurers who in consideration of
ten dollar bill will swear captains
papers through the Custom House though
he only auiyed in the country yesterday.
A handsome young girl who swore 10 She
condition of herself and associates, said
that she and eight others slept in a room
six by nine. in one of those tenement hells
that disgrace New York. The mere thought
of the horror of such thing these swelter-
ing nights is dreadful No wonder the poor
creatures seek the sidewalks and the roofs;
even the cold hagstones must be paradise
in comparison with this.
One night this week the police raided the
tramps who make a business of sleeping In
the parks. They got about $50 of them,
and when they were brought up before the
sitting magistrate next morning he dis
charged them all, as he considered it per.
fectly justitiable to get a nap anywhere this
weather, and the fact of a man being
asleep in a park was no evidence of his be-
| Inc n warrant or n tramn