Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-04

Three to Ihirty-two shfIings Per Week.
Drink and ''soamPing the Rents the
Chief Diversions
Copyright. 1921 by Edgar L. Wakeman.l
LIVERPOOL, July 2L-With its outlying
boroughs aud suburbs Liverpool houses
well nigh a million souls. It's maritime in
terests are enormous. and commercially
il no doubt ranks as the second city in the
empire. Il is hard, practical city. It's
business ma and factors are grim. severe
fellows, stern Of decision as New York
millionaires. and restless, diligent and un-
c0nquerable a. the men who have set the
killing pace IN Chicago.
There is little room for pleasant things
in Liverpool. Its chief and almost sole
gallery Of paintings was given the city by
a graduated rumseller, whom Victoria, out
Of surprise and wonder no doubt, made
baronet Although one Of the worlds
greatest depots for the book collector it
has but one library OF note available TO the
public Charities are done in a perfume
tory. petulant manner-although the help
less were most i'll hammered in selecting
busy Liverpool to starve inland its hun
dreds Of thousands Of working men and
women are treated with less consideration
than cattle.
With a few shining examples IL is city
Of commercial Gradgrinds on the one hand
and public house devilfsh on the other.
The lowly have a sad lot between them.
Nobody here wants it that way. Nobody
here believes il is that way. A few men
| like Sir James Poole are endeavoring TO
help the masses TO better things, and are
| finding a little time from business affairs
| 70 do something practical and good. But
as a rule the men who own great fleets,
| who exchange half the English speaking
i worlds raw and manufactured products,
/ push forward in their money grabbing ca
reer like automatons Of stone. and their
fellow humans are counted as coal, iron or
cotton are computed In loss or gain.
In studying the condition Of the lOwly OF
any great city the demand for labor, wages
paid aud the cost Of living are the first
things 70 be considered These things in
I dicate how the people might live II pos
sessed Of all prudence and sobriety.
How they really live, and why, is another
matter.
There is seldom a dearth Of labor in any
great seaport Liverpool has always stood
high in percentage Of labor demand The
city has never been subject 70 the relent-
less overcrowding Of manufacturing towns
like Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham,
or the destructive greed Of tremendous and
/ endless immigration, as at New York. II
Is the greatest entrepot in Europe. The
landing, handling and reshipment Of near
Iy all North and South American products
exported TO Europe, and the reshipment tc
ali quarters Of the globe Of the greater part
OF the stupendOus quantities OF British
manufactures are done at thisaOne port
It's warehouses and docks are almost iLcon
ceivably numerous and extensive. Fiftl
thousand men are alone constantly re
ouired in the various forms Of dock labor
This fact will sufficiently indicate the al
most measu7eless business ramihcationl
requiring uninterrupted service
Steady labor and plenty Of IL is the rule
The least possible wages upon which tn
workers may exist also prevail. The bes
paid men among the 5000 laborers EN-
ployed upon the docks are the stevedore
who load aud unload the eships-"lumpers
they are caIled-whO get five shillings pc
day. and the dock porters or goods" han
dIers, who receive a sixpence less "LorrJ
men," OF cartmen with two horses tandem
earn thirty shillings. and with one hors
twenty-six shillings. The police are pai
. from twenty 10 thirty-two shillings' wit
u corresponding deductions 20 eventuall
Y nav for their own pensioning when too oil
/
q change railway station told me be ha
d been ia the same service sixteen years an
had never received above nineteen shilling
b per week. and no manner Of employe aboC
these great stations is paid upward {
twenty shillings.
All grades Of clerks. porters and sale
men aud women about the markets recei'
from eight to eighteen shillings- Tram c.
drivers get as high as twenty-four shilling
but conductors never above twenty-on
BARRIERS, caretakers or ianitors and watc
men. milkmen. bakers' men, grocery an
market trap drivers. express and railwi
package and freight collectors receive on
from ten TO eighteen shillings; while ca
poration day laborers are paid from sixte'
20 twenty shiliings per week
Liverpool cabmen are the most woet
gone lot of their kind Ia the world q
owners occasionally rent hanson
brougham to a trustworthy fellow at
stated sum, but there are not fifty out
nearly 1900 that have arrived az this di
uity in their calling. The remainder G
from twelve to eighteen shillings per wee
One pities these fellows They are Ian
halt. blind, veinous nosed and palsis
without sufficient spirit for genuine
ciousness. I had thought the Hava
cocheros the most beggarly set Of tn.
fellows on earth, but II you wish TO I
serve at one study all that could Be seen
ali the British workh0uses, refornator
and hospitals for incurables station yol
self anywhere on Crosshail street. oppos
the municipal buildings, near s.. Georg
hall, or at the landings on any steamer
rival day, and cast a glance down alonl
line Of waiting Liverpool cabmen- l hi
asked several cab owners why, in the ma
OF human existence. such mockery
wages Is paid
ivy, blow their bloody h'eyesi They
"a iuss 50 much hany'ow." " Is the univer
rejoinder
'Couldn't you book them for each
and faref
"Oh. aye. some hon us dOoes that we
thing. Then they rob the fare usss
ger) al th' hend o. the journey. AZ pi'
oop q back fare hon us beside They
passel O. pirates Is they
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