St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-21
SAINT PAUL.
Additional CITY Views on Page 8.
TALKS WITH TOURISTS.

day was G. Walter Douen, one of the
largest manufacturing tailOrs in San
Francisco. MI Douen talks interest
ingIv of his observations in London.
from which city he has just returned
after several months spent in eXamln-
ing and purchasing the products OF
English looms. Regarding that useful
class of individuals of whom, according
TO an old saw, It takes nine TO make
man, MIR. Douen saws that the condition
of the tailorS of East London IS IN
finitely worse than was that of the
plantation slaves of South America De-
fore Uncle Toms Cabin" was written;
s'Whila | was in London" continued
the gentleman from Frisco, "5O,UGO OF
them turned out on strike, result or
the system of sweating in vogue among
their employers, which If attempted IN
this country would cause riot IN
short order. The WOrkmen on strike
are chiefly Poles. Russians and Aus
TRANS. Of which the east end OF the
worlds metropolis has large percent
age in its population. To them is lald
the crime of bringing wages down 10
starvation point for English W0rkmen,
and now even these despiSed classes
have turned, in the extremity OF tnelr
misery, upon the system that has neiu
them in an iron clutch for years. III Is
one of the mysteries Of the cheap cloth-
ing trade that work comes In at I'M
certain intervals, and that wheh IL
comes it has TO be rushed out at a rate
which allows the unfortunate knight OF
the needle no time even to get ms
meals decently. Then comes period
of. perhaps, twenty-four hours in when
there is absolutely nothing to do. but
the poor tailor must not absent himself,
on pain of losing the only means be has
of furnishing support for himself ana
babies. He does not get cent Tor the
time wasted. and what do you suppose
he gets for his work when he does
work? Fourteen shillingS a week,
equal to about four dollars of our
money. That is, SuppOsing he is work
ing regularly and does not take lay-ons
into account. When / hear the tailorS
here kicking On their pay, which hardly
ever amounts to less than from SO 10
$50 per week, l think to myself that
trip to East London and through It's
tailoring establishments would prove
beneficial to the kicker"
A well-knOwn conductor on the North
Arn Pacific was telling a queer story
Yesterday at the Merchants about the
compulsory immigration of hen Swal-
low. nest. egg and all. from ST. Paul to
Portland. Ur. The swallows. last
spring, evin ,ed a particular fondnesS
for the caves of a sleeping car in the
yards in St. Paul, and several nests
were built by the busy little workers
before the repairs on the interior of the
car were completed. and it was returned
to the service. When the car was pulled
out and attached to the WeStbOund train.
there was connection among the feath-
cred community; but the train pulled
out Just the same. and every one sup
posed that the swallows had concluded
to build new homes, and start new
families. When the first stop was
made, however, there emerged from one
of the nests badly scared hen swallow.
which flew around and about the car
until the train started, when she darted
into the hest again, reSumlng her eX-
hibition of beWilderment at each stop
ping place. The bird travelled all the
way to Portland in the same way, being
kept watch on by the sleeping-car
porter, who. when ordered to do so by
one of the road officials at Portland,
knocked down the nest, and the bird
mother, bereft of the home and pros
pectiYe progeny she had so zealOusly
guarded, few wildly about for time
and at last few away to seek, perhaps,
new mash and material for new
mansion.
II
At the convention last evening was
SOung man who prides himself, and not
without reason, on the progress he has
made in the WOrld;during the past ten
years His name is Howard Walsh,
and he is now cashier in the Merchants
bank at Coon Rapids. 10. Ten years
ago Mr.. Walsh ran about barefOoted IN
New York City selling papers for liv-
ing. and as he now remarks, "a deuced
slim living at that" About that time
philanthrOpiSts of Gotham were gather
ing up car loads of street waits and
shipping them to alleged comfortable
homes with the kind. generOuS-mInded
grangers of Iowa and Nebraska. Young
Walsh's lines didn't fall in very pleas
ant places for awhile, the farmer to
whom he was consigned being gifted
with distorted ideas as to how much
work a yOungster could accomplish in
given time. Seven years ago, after
good deal of knocking round, Walsh
was employed to sweep out the bank of
which he is now the cashier. He at
tended school regularly. and exhibited
natural ability for mathematics
which surprised his friends. Two years
ago he was made cashier, after having
been everything FROM sweeper up. In
addition to this, he is now a candidate
for county assessor in his adopted To-
cality. and stands every show in the
world of being elected.
ii
A guest at the Windsor yesterday was
S. d. Clough, of Quebec, Can. Mr..
Clough has been absent from home for
several weeks, and was probably more
surprised than Ally Sloper was when
his wife had tripletS, to read the &C
count in yesterdays GLOBE of the way
the foundation was falling out from
under his native city. Mr.. ClOugh is a
resident on Superior Terrace, but thinks
he lives far enough back to preclude
any possibility of his property being
damaged by the slide. 81 can't under
stand the thing at all, he said. "That
Cape Diamond cliff has always been re-
garded as a permanent thing, and |
should as soon have thought of an
earthquake in Iceland as of that cliff
falling down. l telegraphed my wife
to wire me If there was any danger, and
about an hour ago got my reply. 1t
cost me seven dollars, and was good
deal longer than the longest letter she
ever wrote me when we were counting.
Having analysed it, L conclude that
there is no danger to my property or
people, though she says over hundred
people are injured and that there are
sixteen ladies in the Champlain street
morgue. l leave on tO-nights train for