The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-26
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York Times have caused their special CORE /
spondents to make a full and careful inyes-
tjeation into the state and condition OF |
those who were employed by the Carnegie /
Company in their Homestead mills before /
the recent strike and disorder there, and wo |
shall present 10 our readers this morning |
some of the facts that they ascertained
The Carnegie Company at the outset de-
termined on the policy of encouraging their
employees to become permanent employees
and TO this end il has steadily pursued
policy designed TO aid the men IN acquiring
homes that should belong to them. It's aid
and assistance in this direction 10 the men IS
fully described and has been most pro
ductiye Of results. The town Of workmen
which had been built up altogether through
the fostering care of the Carnegie Company
is q thing that amounts TO one OF the won
ders of the world. The Tribuues CORE
spondent thus describes a rollers house:
Il had the pleasure Of visiting some of the
fine cottages owned by rollers, heaters and
screwmeu. One of the twelve houses. built
and owned by a roller and occupied by his
family. will serve az tair illustration OF tho
class of houses owned and occupied by the
higher priced workmen. This house cost
% 700 and was paid for within three years.
The owner said that his earnings had aver
aged about Sl75 q month year IN and year
out, and including the periods when he
was forced 10 remain idle while repairs were
being made Ii IS three-story, Man
sard roof house. with wide We
randa on two sides. Large double
doors open into the main hail. from
which a stairway winds % the upper rooms.
On the left of the entrance IS the parlor.
which occupies the whole of the main 'front.'
Tapestry carpet which cost $l.lo yard
covers the paror floor and the hall. Inc
parlor is furnished with furniture uphOi-
stored in plush and sik with oak or black
walnut frames. A grand piano occupies
one corner of the room, about which are
tastefuily placed number of easy and or
namentsl chairs. Near the marble mantel
stands an easel on which IS an unframed
oil painting There are half q dozen me-
diminished works in oil on the walls and as
many more really good etchlngs ana en-
cravings.
The rear of the house forms double /,
in one end OF which IS the kitchen and pan
try. aud in the other the dining-room. The
kitchen floor is OF pine scrubbed until 1t Is
AS white as the hoiy-stoned deck of yacht.
The room contains range. set tubs and the
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nary apartment The dining-room Is very
/ large and is library as well as dining
room On one hand is q gOodly-6ized ma
| hogany sideboard, and on the other a case
| well filed with standard books. An extern
| sion table in the centre OF the
| room is covered with a heavy cloth.
| The carpet is Of Brussels and under the
| table is a heavy drugget. The master Of
! the house has for his own nee large escre-
! toire standing by the side Ot his bookcase.
! The bedrooms are large. well lighted and
| airy. The furniture Is OF maple, antique
! oak and ash. The rooms and upper halls
are carpeted withA good pattern Of ingram"
The home of a heaters helper Is thus de-
scribed by him:
An eight-room house owned and occu-
| pied by heaters helpsr. whose wages aver
| aged 80 a day, was another good specimen
of It's kind. The house. including the lot,
cost q. 800, and was built with money ad-
vanced by the company. The parlor floor
| is covered with good quality OF MOQuette
| carpet which could not have cost much
less than e. a yard and the parlor furnl-
ture is upholstered with plush. The halls
/ and stairways are covered with neatly
woven and very heavy rag carpet. The car
! pet in the sitting and dinng-room IS Brus-
sells of frst-rAte quality. and all OF the fur
| niture in those rooms is or oak The owner
was $500, exclusive of the pictures and or
naments. He carried he said sn insurance
of $4,000 on the house and its contents.
His provisions and grocery bills be said
amounted TO about s35 month"
The Times correspondent makes the fol-
lowing statement:
"One day in Pittsburg the Times repre-
sentative saw an open victoria. drawn by
two well-matched horses and driven by ID
coachmau IN livery draw up 10 the Office en-
trance to one of the extensive iron and steel
mills on the South side. A prosperous
looking man of middle age, attired expen-
sively. climbed out, pulled out gold watch
| and glanced At the time and strOled
leisurely inside the Office. A half hour later
the reporter saw the same man dressed IN
ordinary working clothes standing 10 one Of
the mills experimenting the operation of
rolling the Steel lie was the boss roller
and earned $4,000 year by the sweat Of
his brow He occupied large house with
grounds on Duquesne Heights, In the fash
ionabie suburb OF Pittsburg."
When the Times reporter reached Home
stead be could get no accommodations in
the hotels. The proprietor Of one told him.
however. be thought he could get him
ouartered in the house of one of the mill
] uhuuS.. ilb Suhll brll NAIb ADlADHols
There was no other alternative and the
reporter agreed 10 the proposition. though
not without misgivings. which were founded
on the stories at that time IN circulation as
10 the desperate character of the men.
Gross the railroad tracks" said the hotel
proprietor and go down two blocks to-
ward the river The house is on the second
rght-hand corner" On the second right
hand corner stood large. handsome cot
tsge, in the Queen Anne style, eayiy painted
and bearing IN appearance OF comfortable
prosperity which took the reporters breath
away at first sight. The house was appar-
emily new, aud was surrounded by pleasant
grounds. The mill hand and his wife were
sitting on the front porch, but arose and
looked with an air of mild and benevolent
interest at the reporter as he opened the
gate and stepped inside. On learning that
he had been directed there by the hote
keeper the couple invited the reporter in
side and agreed 10 let him have the use o.
the pATlor bedroom.
My son occupies the room" said the mil
hands wife. a plump. good-lookipg litti,
woman attired in black silk dress. but
guess We can put him on the floor above ans
make room for YOU"
On entering the hall the reporter :founc
| himself In house furnished alAoAt luxuri