The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-23


woman. who seemed to be all alone In her
great house, was indignant when Iasked her
whether she had any acute or chronic dis
ease, and asked me sharply IL | meant to
insult her because she had two false front
teeth / could not find it in my heart to
put the question whether or not they had
ever been in jail. l quickly learned TO de-
tect divorced people. The women would
hesitate and say: We'll, put me down
single; l suppose that will do. But you
have been married, have you notP per
sisted. When such woman glared at me
and asked what the next question was on
the list, she went down as divorced.
found the test infallible.n
There is a terrible hutter among the
anglomaniacs and bowling swels lust now
over the heart-breaking disclosures of snug
Cling Londou-made clothes through the
custom house in defiance of Uncle Sans
revenue laws. So extensive has the prac-
tice become of late that the merchant tailors
who formerly supplied swelldom with it's
clothes have been In despair over the traffic
that was running their business.
But the girls do these things in much
oleverer way than the menl For all tue
oceans Of lace, the mountains of silks, and
the rivers Of diamonds that are brought
over the blue sea every fall with the back
flowing tide of summer tourists, there is a
mere fraction Of revenue paid to the govern
ment Nobody suspects tho demure- look
ing girl, with the soft peaches Of maiden
hood still hanging on her cheeks, of
defrauding the customs; but she does,
the sly pussl Once in awhile a clumsy
matron who has loaded herself down with
enough goods to stock Broadway dry
goods or millinery counter gets caught and
stripped Of her contraband belongings by
the sharp-eyed and deft-hngered women
searchers; but not per cent. of the women
who make smuggling a merry adventure
every time they cross the ocean is ever de-
tected.
None are more astonished than the labor
leaders themselves at the progress made by
the eight-hour movement since May |, the
day of the great parade. At the outset
very few trades were disposed TO embark
wholly upon the recommendation of the
Federation OF Labor; but the success of the
few emboldened the rest, and the prospect
now is that in the near future there viii be
an avalanche of strikes such as
the Oldest labor agitator In the
country cannot remember. Success liz
making the trades restive under restrain {,
and they will hardly wait for the pro-
gramme of the federation, which con-
templates the strike of one trade
at a time, hacked by all the ma
ohinery, moral support and money
influence of the confederated trades to
help it to win a victory. The eight-hour
idea, which only year ago was discussed
among labor men at their councils and
decided to be impracticable, il infectious
and threatens to seize all the trades not
already "in the movement" as President
Gompers expresses it, long before the
summer Is ended. Hardly SUM
mer passes without half a
dozen or more strikes taking place, 80 this
is nothing new but there are already five
big strikes In actual lrogress, involving
thousands Of operatives, and partially
stagnating the building industries that hav o
their harvest in the hot season. There are
sympathetic strikes under way in Maine,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts,, District of
Columbia, Connecticut, Tennessee, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Oregon.
Wisconsin and Ohio. The four
weeks of strike have already cost the
trades very nearly $4,000 but there Is
a constant influx Of funds to an extent that
does not lessen the quarter million Of dollars
in the treasures of the trades involved
Before the eight hour day can be said to be
an accomplished fact-even supposing that
all the trades win as easily as those that
have already struck-it will have cost the
unions over a million dollars, as the move
ment cannot run its course earlier than
September. The ability to conduct strike
movement demanding so large an outlay is
something unheard of in labor organiza-
tions.
IL the scheme for consolidating New
York, Brooklyn and the suburbs Of both
cities into one great metropolis should ever
be carried through, Gotham will then rank
In m al ~
the world. There are in round numbers
1900, 600 souls In Manhattan Island 800, 900
In Brooklyn, possibly 200, 900 more on Long
Island and 100000 In the yet unannexed
portion of Westchester beyond the city
limits. This would bring the total
population to something very near
100000. But the plan, which
is an old one, though very attractive and
not without its advantages, will probably
fail for the reason that has blocked 1t In
the past. The rurals have no liking for the
tax rate Of the great cities II is for them
at least a positive advantage TO be con-
tiguous 10 the big cities and yet not sharer
of their burdens, although fair participant
in their benefits. The half hundred or more
suburbs that have lived and fattened OFF
New York are contented to be let alone.
Incorporation means to them an in
crease Of taxation proportionate with
tile increase IN values. In0y are
not at all dazzled by the prospect OF being
citizens of the greatest metropolis of the
future. The annexation scheme is an old
acquaintance, having been first mooted by
Andrew II. Green, formerly controller of
New York some twenty-five years ago
From time to time it came to the surface,
only to be driven down again by the un-
yielding opposition Of those who very
sensibly believed that the time hadn't yet
arrived for the city to gobble up its en-
virons, as LONDON is gradually doing. But
Gotham must always have some pretty idea
to toy with. and since it could not have the
worlds fair, it has apparently decided
to take up the consolidation fad as a mid
summer consolation--a pleasant way OF
dreaming, during the dog days, of sea-
washed wards and precincts and mountain
girt boundaries, with an unrivaled vista of
speculative possibilities for the capitalist,
and no end Of fun. right in town, for the
pleasure-denyiug stay-at-homes. But the
ghost of quadrupled taxes will probably
frighten Off annexation for another decade
at least Yet 1t is probably fair predic-
tion that the New York of 1900 will have
$500, 900 souls 100 aldermen, dozen East
and North river bridges and a chance for
official boodlers unequaled In two hemis-
pheres
Thomas County Candidates.
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