Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-19


New YORK. April 1S
This century has been Of all others the CEN
fury of man Perhaps the twentieth century
will belong to woman. 1t was the glory of the
last few years of the eighteenth century that
they opened to men their true powers and OPP
portunities. In like manner il is the preroga-
tive of our time that it sees woman opening her
eyes to what life offers to the free exercise of
her nature Happily the new epoch is not
ushered in by such bloody scenes as those amid
which modern democracy was born, but the
era may be as strongly marked in its origin
and as glorious in its development. This
week, for example. has seen most unique and
suggestive convention of working girls. Solo
mon to the contrary Notwithstanding il was a
new thing under the sun. this gathering of a
representative body of working women. In
the most fashionable auditorium in the coun-
try and with dignity and bnlliancy Of be-
havlor that made the surroundings seem only
an appropriate frame, this congress of shop
girls, type writers and clerks met day after day
TO listen to addresses and participate in debates
anectlng their business and social interests.
At this rate we shall need another Emerson TO
write another Boston HYMN. The old version
you know reads:
81 will have never a noble
ri 30 rh .,,S counted great;
ShaH constitute a state"
1t now looks certainly as If the revised YER
sion would include cash girls and type writer's
To speak in all seriousness the present move
ment is OF incalculable importance aud IL must
have the best effect and that immediately
Rarely have the newspapers given n social
episode such large treatment
THE STOKE HOLE HORRORS.
To any one who has ever made the excursion
down into the stoke hole of one of the big At
lantic steamships the fate of poor Patrick
Kelly is no surprise. He started to take the
voyage from Liverpool as a stowaway on the
new steamer Majestic. and. as is usual in such
cases, when discovered was made to work his
passage as a stoker. When the vessel reached
this end OF her journey he was a maniac. so
violent as to require several men TO remove
him from the ship. Curious passengers on the
steamers who penetrate TO these gruesome
lower regions are usually satisfied with one
glimpse at them. The fierce fires, the half
naked men streaming with Precipitation, tho
suffocating consciousness of being so far below
the level OF the water, and above all the lntol-
cradle, scorching heat make a lurid and haunt
ing picture, rather too wildly suggestive of
the internal regions. When a man has to stay
In that atmosphere day after dav with the
mercury III the thermometer at unknown
heights il would be little wonder if his brain
were fairly burned up. There is an old man in
one of the asyums of New York who WAS n
fireman on one OF these steamers and who woke
one morning TO find himself stone blind from
the uncomfortable heat. The only wonder is
that men can be got to do il and that the COM
panles do not have TO pay larger salaries for
stokers than for captains. III the gay crowd of
passengers who start out upon every one of
the fashionable steamers realized the horrors
that went on beneath them il would embitter
for many of them the llazy delight of living in
steamer chair and watching the sparkling blue
water and even give an added pang as they
x1-r-nfh snA h.nar - H.
sickness.
LIBERAL HEBREW CHARITY.
The Hebrews in New York are force. not
only for their numbers. their great wealth and
vast business enterprises but for their wide
reaching, discriminating and judicious chari-
ties. to the management of which they bring
the same business ability that makes them SO
successful III trade. 1t seems as if there was
no form OF misfortune in which an Israelite
could not md help from his own race. Their
latest beneyolence Is the purchase tor Sl0i000
OF ground at the corner of East Broadway and
Jefferson street, on which will be erected an
immense eight-story building. TO be used en-
tirely for educational purposes in the training
OF the vast numbers of Jewish children who
swarm in the east side tenements.
FERDINAND WARD LOSES JOB.
The few visitors who are shown the inner
workings of the great townof criminals at Sing
when
warden confidentially points out to them among
the sights of the place Jaehne, the Doodle ex-
alderman, sorting and wrapping tobacco and
Ferdinand Ward busily at work in the printing
office, assisting in the production of Christmas
and business cards and other such work He
never raises his eyes from his work and seems
to find in it refuge from who knows what
gloomy memories and anticipations Since he
has been at Sing Sing his devoted wife, who
visited him regularly, has died, and now his
work is taken away from him by the passage of
the bill prohibiting printing in prisons. There
were only five or six convicts employed in the
printing Office OF the prison, and an assignment
there was generally thought ''soft snap" The
printers of the state, however, thought that a
stigma was put upon their craft by making il a
convict employment, and through their agents
they made such a strong representation at Al
baDy that the legislature has interfered-
THE CRIME OF LIVING IN SUBURBS.
1t has long been known that of the hundreds
of thousands of wage-earners who work in New
York comparatively very few could afford to
live in the big city, which is, by its geographic
cal limitations, contracted that only so many
people can get III TO stay and they have TO pay
pretty well for the privilege. IL strikes one.
therefore, as a rather unreasonable complaint
when We hear that the board OF education is
nndlng fault because SO many school teachers
here are drawing salaries from the. city and
living In New Jersey, Connecticut, BROOKLYN,
Staten Island and other outlying suburbs. 1t
Is claimed that this is unfair to the taxpayers
OF the city. but it might seem TO the casual
observer that the injured taxpayers had only
themselves to thank for it. Certainly il cannot
be supposed that the school teachers brave
summers suns and winters winds on the big
bridge, the ferries and railroads simply for
healthful exercise, but a rule solely because
they can live cheaper in the suburbs The
board would hardly claim that the teachers ill.,
comes would justify them in boarding at the
brunswick, but if the VIGOROUSLY meager sala-
ries they receive could be soaewha: increased
no doubt the ma jority of them would gladly
take up their residence in town.
THE REALISTIC IN ART.
The most infinitely Photographic OF the mod
ern realistic school OF art might get some valu-
able points by frequenting the enterprising
wax work exhibition. The latest addition TO
the attractions is a remarkably graphic scene
IN wax entitled Execution by Electricity"
and introducing an exact copy of the appara-
tus by which kemmler, the Buffalo murderer
will be executed. by this educational exhibit
all may readily familiarize themselves with the
process OF execution and perhaps even learn to