The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-16

Hill, New York and Brooklyn, have re-
solved to work eight hours from May
and will strike If the bosses do not agree
to the demand. Carpenters Unions 3d.
$40, 464. SEQ and SIS are expected to join tine
trainers in this light.
Trunk makers in Newark are suffering
from the competition of Massachusetts,
prison-made goods.
1t is reported that the shirtmakers of
halfway Carmel and other places in this
State have agreed not to take any work
sent them from New York while the
trouble in that city continues. Mean
while the striking shirtmakers of the
metropolis are bringing the contractors
to terms at rapid rate.
Bakers Union No. 20, of Jersey City, is
making renewed efforts at organizing the
trade hereabonts,
Bakers Union No. 81 has succeeded In
the three months OF its existence in re-
ducing the hours of labor to ten per day
and fixing the scale of wages at 81 per
week.
All bakers connected with the National
Union must in the future become Ameri-
can citizens.
The Brooklyn Cooperative Bakery is
pronounced success. Twenty grocery
stores were added TO the list of patrons
in one week.
Painters Union No. has gained eight
hours with 81. 70 per day.
The delegates OF the German Painters
Union will with draw from the Painters
Council If that body decides not to de-
mand eight hours on May 1.
Paterson weayers employed by the
Paragon Silk Company lost their strike.
A joint meeting of the Silk Ribbon
Weavers unions of New York and
vicinity was called for last night.
The Workingwomen's Society will hold
a mass meeting in Cooper Institute, New
York. on Wednesday night. in support of
the Fassett bill calling for women
factory inspectors. Colonel Robert In
gersoll, Thaddeus b. Wakeman. Samuel
Gompers and several ladies are expected
to speak
How We Named the New York DAILY
News"
The political campaign Of the year 1854
resulted most disastrously for the guoer
material candidate of that faction of the
Democratic party then represented by the
Albany argus newspaper That candi-
date, Judge Bronson. had written and
published no less than nine letters, detln-
Ing his views on the subject OF a prohibi-
tory liquor law. These letters were all
excellent, but they killed the worthy old
judge. My partners in the Albany Argus
were discouraged and wanted to sell.
So we sold the Argu rs 10 Calvert Com
stock.
With my share of the proceeds came
to New York was under thirty, and
ambitious. / went in. with others TO es-
tablish new newspaper here We pur-
chased q concern called the National
Democrat. which had been published by
Z. Chauncey Burr.
There was saloon in those days on
Broadway, just below Houston. called the
Florence. The parties in interest in the
new paper met there one evening in
March, 1855, 20 sup together and TO give
the bantling a name. Seven of us sat
down. but as no one of them but myself is
living will mention no names. Inc sup
per was good, the wine better, aud the
spirits OF the company mounted TO the
superlatiye degree. 1t was late before we
got TO the business of the evening Every
body then had his little suggestions as to
the name of the child to be born.
Suppose" said one, THAT it he called
the Globe We used to have an excellent
Democratic paper of that name, which
Casper G. Childs founded and Samuel j.
Bayard afterwards ealted.
II move it be named the New York
Argus" said another. There is an
Argus in Albany; why not have one in
New Yorkry
"A better name" remarked a third.
'.would be the PlebeiaR. There was a
PlebeidR once published in he city by
Levi ID. Slamm, the very best Democratic
paper we ever had.
i propose The subterranean for its
name, Suggested fourth s'Our friend,
the congressman, Mike Walsh, has en-
deared that name to the democratic
masses, and would like to see it revived
and perpetuated.
Said fifth:--s1 propose the Morning
Chr0ntcle. That was, yon remember.sthe
lame OF the organ Of Aaron Burr and the
Tammany democracy at the beginning of
This century, and 1t achieved repnte
such as should wish to our new enter
prise.
why not dub it the Staadnrds'' asked
sixth. "our old friend. Colonel John