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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20

The "Bourse du Travail" or Labor Ex-
change of Paris is now in its sixth year,
and is no longer considered by any one
a doubtful experiment. On the contrary,
its success is SO pronounced as to already
create the need of more extensive quar-
ters, Notwithstanding the immensity of
the present building Of the institution
Fully 300 unions or syndicates are at
tached, with membership of 800, ,000
This list includes most trades and pro-
fessions, from dramatists and musicians
to ragpickers.
The building is seven stories high and
contains 100 bureaus or offices of unions,
besides assembly halls, large and small
Each of the organizations conducts an
employment bureau in connection with
it's secretary's office, and employers gen
orally apply first at these bureaus when
seeking workmen. Women as well as
men enjoy the privileges of the "Bourse
du Travail"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
Tyranny In South Carolina.

Adjutant General Buchanan of South
Carolina has made a detailed report to
the governor of his findings in the inves-
tigation of the treatment of laborers in
the phosphate mines of the state His
report confirms all that was said in the
complaint of the French and Italian
consuls. The Italian complaint had not
been received when he left here; there
fore he had only the French complaint
to investigate. He says in his report
that he found six Frenchmen imprisoned
in the mines under guard. The only al
legged reason for their detention was that
they were in debt to the storekeeper.
Investigation showed that they were
forced to buy their supplies from the
Italian storekeepers, and at such prices
as they pleased to charge them; that
they are worked wholly by Italian boss
es, and are as helpless as though they
had no tongue at all to make their
abuses known to the world. The re-
port further states that at one time these
men were actually shot into by one of
the bosses with gun loaded with small
shot, and several of them wounded. The
Italian who did the shooting has in the
meantime run to New York. The con-
dition as described in the report is one
of thorough and complete slavery. The
report concludes with the opinion that
the remedy is beyond the power of the
state and should find its permanent re-
lief in the extension of the national law
on immigration.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
TURF TOPICS.

Out of 42 trotters that earned So, 900 or
better in 1892 90 were 4 years old or
under.
The earning capacity of PAGERS on the
turf is now said to be equal to that of
the trotters.
One hundred and seventy-fve declara-
tions have been made from the American
Derby leaving 100 in.
Among all the colts and fllies by
Rupee (2:11, pacing) there is not single
PAGER nor even a mixed gated one.
Trainer Bither says 2:O74 is not near
Kremlin's limit He will trot in 2:O5
this year as sure as preachin," says
Either.
The managers of the Trotting Club de
Paris are compelled by the government
of France to give no less than $1,000 in
purses at each of their meetings.
Hon. James White, one of Australia's
greatest breeders, used to say, 1--WE
breed race horses every day, but great
sire comes once in half a century"
Warren Carhart, aged IS years, is the
youngest trotting horse breeder in th'
United States. His 500-acre farm on tn,
Los Angeles river, California, is stocked
with over 40 trotters of Electioneer
Santa Claus and Wilkes blood.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
Working In Harmony.

Detroit in times past has had its share
of troubles between the employees and
managers of street car lines, but now it
appears there is complete peace The
present satisfactory state of affairs has
been brought about chiefly by the recog-
milton the companies have given the Or
ganization of the men. OF course the
employees organization has been intelli-
gently directed. The agreement which
was entered upon on May 12, 1891, had
been faithfully adhered to by both men
and managers. Wages have been ad-
vanced, and conditions have been i'm
proved. The companies give full recog-
milton to the officials of the mems organ
ization and confer with them for the set
tlement of every grievance, no matter
how small it may appear to be. The
union does not shelter negligent nor dis
honest employees, but requires and Sc
cures fair treatment for every worthy
man. The companies give full recogni-
ton to the walking delegate-called in
this case supervisor" in fact look
upon that gentleman as the main sup
port of order, discipline and good service
Here is an example of the good sense
of recognizing the right of workingmen
to organize and through efficient repre-
sentatiyes direct their side of an industry.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
RAILROAD JOTTlNGS.

The Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad
company has completed arrangements to
standard gauge the road.
1t is stated that train 20 over the Van
dalia line in 1899 paid the largest per
cent per mile run of any scheduled train
crossing Indiana in either direction.
The 10-wheel locomotives on the St.
Louis division of the Big -Four are de-
veloping high rate of speed. One Of
them, with unfavorable conditions of
weather and track, averaged a mile in 4S
seconds for distance of three miles.
A road six miles long, called the Nj
agara Junction, is being built at Niagara
Falls by the Cataract Construction COM
pany. The greater part of the line is
now under way and will connect with
the New York Centrars Lockport
branch.
An old project, that of building a rail
road along the summit of the Palisades,
has been revived. The scheme now is
to run the road from q connection with
the North Hudson County Elevated sys-
TEN at Guttenburg, N. j., to the north
end of Bergen county.
It is the intention of the New York,
Susquehanna and Western to establish a
coal storage yard at Little Ferry, N. j.,
SO that incoming coal trains can deliver
cars there for distribution instead of
turning them over to the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western at West End.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
Working Women In Columbus.

State Labor Commissioner Lewis of
Ohio has made special investigation of
womens work and wages in the principal
cities of the state. 1t appears that Colum-
bus makes a better showing than any of
the other cities, and this is attributed
chiefly to the fact that the sweating sys-
TEN does not exist there. 1t is shown that
women who work by the piece make bet
ter wages than those Who are employed
by the day or week.
OF the 500 women working by the piece
in Columbus it is shown that 81, or 8 per
cent, earn from 81 to 50 per week; 1875, or
81 per cent, earn So to $5 210, or "a per
cent, earn S5 to 81, and 100, or 26 per cent,
earn 81 to $40. Piecework is done chiefly
in cigar, coffee and spice, knit goods, pa
per box, printing and binding, Shirt shoe,
tailoring and watch industries. The best
average wages at piecework are made in
watch factories. None of them earns
under SO a week, and 66 per cent earn
from S. to 81.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20

not supposed to whisper outside any crit
icisms of the management; indeed we
are in disgrace if we do not laud to the
skies everything connected with the fair.
But to those who see beneath the surface,
who know of the "wheels within Wheels"
who understand thoroughly the workings
of the whole business, the coming exhi-
bition of industry's products seems a
mighty, terribly ironical piece of mock
cry.
The achievements of skill, ingenuity
and labor are to be displayed not for
what they are worth or to do credit
to the workers, but to magnify and
decorate the wealth and greatness of
powerful people. The workers them
selves are utterly ignored in every ar
rangement except in so far as they be-
come sightseers and victims.
Thousands of workingmen have been
lured here, that, competing with each 9TH
er, their labor might be bought cheaply.
Contractors, Fastening frantically to
complete structures by certain dates, so
that money and not human life Is con
sideration, leave scaffoldings, fastenings
and safeguards carelessly looked after,
and men are MANNED and killed at a rate
of from to 10 every day, yet these daily
sacrifices are not mentioned or mourned
in public. The workers were barred
outside the gates on the day their achieve
ments were dedicated" hollow cere-
mony that meant nothing after the bap-
tism of blood they themselves had given
it, The drudgery, endurance and suffer
ing that have made Worlds fair pos
sible are never remembered. Against
the wishes of the masses of workers the
exhibition is to be closed on their one
leisure day.
And, to cap all, real estate dealers,
hotel keepers, ETC., do not hesitate to say
they are Into this thing for all the
money there is in it." The manager of
certain important railway system de-
clared they would not reduce rates
rather they would raise them. Patriot
ism," he said, would do to talk to the
common people; we are after the money
there is in it."
This is the spirit of everything and
every body connected with the fair. And
SO, while apparently great and remark
able event which is to rebound to the
credit and ,lory of the country is going
smoothly forward, we know that more
injustice, corruption, crime, squalor and
want testers under the shadow of the
fair, white city, than can be atoned for
in another century, and we cannot be
enthusiastic or echo gladly Chicago's
proud Il will" LIZZIE M. HOLMES.
Chicapo.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
The landlords Iron Heel.

A Kentucky coal miner, in communi.
cation to the Louisville Courier-J ournal,
in which he discusses the wrongs done to
the poor, says: "Take the poor miners of
our state, for instance. Go to their homes
and you will see that they dwell in shan
ties that are not fit for COW stables. Yet
they pay most extortionate rents. l see
miners in this county living in houses
that did not cost more than $40 paying
rent at the rate of $42 per year. These
shanties afford no comforts from either
heat or cold. The thickness of 1-inch
board between your little ones and 20 de-
grees below zero does not inspire love of
government, but is more apt to generate
anarchy and hatred of laws and preju-
dice for classes"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
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MEN AND WOMEN.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox dances almost as
well as she writes.
Mrs. Samuel S. Colgate is considered
one of the best dressed women in New
York.
The decorations of Mrs. Potter Palm
er's music room are copied from the AL
hambra.
An Indian girl student at Haskell in
stitute, Kansas, is named Jenny One
Feather. She is bright, intelligent stu
dent and stands at the head of her class.
Lord Ashburnham is very rich and is
an intimate friend and firm adherent of
Don Carlos of Spain, having acted as the
latter's go between in the recent dispute
with the Comte de Paris.
Mrs. Lease, the famous Kansas woman
whose oratory aided the Populist party SO
materially during the campaign, is a
practicing attorney in the Kansas courts
and the wife of druggist in Wichita,
where they reside.
Professor Garner, the monkey talk
man, is in Africa inquiring and expert
menting concerning monkey speech. He
writes that he has gathered much valu-
able data and was about to begin his real
work. He expects to start homeward
about August of this year.
Gladstone has attained greater age
than any other prime minister of Eng
land. Lord Palmerston died at 49,,
Chatham at 70, Fox at 81, Pitt at Al,
Canning at 90, Sir Robert Peel at So.
Earl Russell attained the age of SO, but
did not hold Office after he was "a. Lord
'Beaconsfeld died at n. Gladstone has
completed his SD year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
FREELAND, PA, MARCH 20, 1898
The Andrews Wrong.

The house of representatives at Har-
risburg decided on Thursday by a vote
of III to II not to rectify the hagrant
wrong by which Mr.. Andrews holds the
seat from Crawford county to which the
majority of the voters elected Mr.
Highly.
Under the whip and spur of assumed
party action where no party lines and no
party summons had any rightful place,
the great body of the Republicans allow
ed themselves to be put in false posi-
ton which the honest judgment of a
large proportion would unhesitatingly
condemn.
Twelve Republican did themselves
the honor to vote right. They will not
need to wait for yindication. The i'm
mediate and unmistakable judgment of
the commonwealth will approve and
uphold their manly and independent re-
fusal to become the accomplices of a
grave public wrong.
But if there were any doubt now
time will justify their action. The bad
record of this unfortunate day will
return to plague the organization and
the managers who are responsible for it;
and in that period of discussion and
reckoning the wisdom of the small band
of Republicans who sought to save the
party from this wrong and this disaster
will be made clear.
We do not impeach the intelligence or
the understanding of the majority by
assuming that they do not appreciate
the character Of this wrong, or that they
personally wish to trample upon the
popular will. But they have suffered
themselves to be misled by the false
plea of party obligation to inflct dead
ly stab upon the party honor. 1t is easy
for them today to shield the individual
vote under the cover of great majority,
but they have made 1T hard for those
who will have to uphold the Republican
banner when they are lost in the dis
persion of their homes.
The Republican journals of the state
have been quick to understand what is
involved in this question. Their mission
must go on after legislatures are out of
the way. They must fight the Republi-
can battles and make the Republican
argument. With what force or effect
can they denounce Democratic outrages
upon the unmstakable will of the people
when the Republican house of Pennsyl-
vania sanctions and sustains the indie
fensible claims of a usurper who has
been twice rejected by people of his
county and who is seated now in spite of
the indisputable fact that majority of
the votes of the district was against him?
1t is a blunder and wrong which
arms the artillery of the opposition, and
which spikes many Republican gun.
For the honor of the Republican press of
the state we rejoice that it has been
practically unanimous in urgring that
justice should be done and that the plain
will of the people should be respected
and established 1t has been true to the
higher principles of Republicanism.
The responsibility for this reproach
belongs elsewhere, and there it must
rest.-PhiLd. Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20

Bills have been introduced in the legis,
latures of Illinois and Pennsylvania pro.
viding for the creation of boards of arbi-
tration' for the settlement Of labor trou-
bles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
The Coming of Hoopskirts.

The woman who today decries the re-
vival Of the IN miserable mode will tomor-
row be wearing one of those skeletons in
armor.-Indianapolis Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-20
MISERY IN CHICAGO.
STARVATION AND CRIME VERSUS
WORLDS FAIR SPl.ENDORS.

Thousands Drawn to the City Only to Find
Thousands of Others Out of work-vic-
Tins of Hunger and Cold-Can You Won
der at Crime Under the circumstances?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-19

How q Democrat Proposed to Save the
Treasury from Alleged Bankruptcy.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-An amusing ex-
ample of Democratic notions of economy
and of the plans to replenish the Golfers OF
the national treasury which may be ex-
pected from the next House. Is shown In q
proposed paragraph in the sundry civil
bill. This paragraph, which was seriorsly
proposed by q Democratic member OF the
appropriations committee. received solemn
discussion. but was not allowed to pass be-
yond the door OF the committeeman. The
paragraph in question proposed to offer at
auction all the animals now In possession
of the National Geological Garden and to
turn the proceeds into the national treas
ury. The live stock of the geological garden
here includes one elephant OF questionable
health and unQuesti0nable age, which was
presented by the agent of travelling cir
Gus. q few moth eaten monkey and various
animals undesirable as household pets.
which have been donated by army officers
and others. Even Mr.. Holman was finally
convinced that the sale OF this picturesque
collection of animal bric-a- brac would
not 20 far toward saving the National
Treasury from alleged bankruptcy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-19
Where They Have Real Snow Storms.

st Louis Globe Democrat.
when we have fall of six inches of
snow in this valley" said Thomas Milbnrn.
of Milwaukee, I'VE call IL a big storm, but
it isn't knee-bigh to q grasshopper COM
pared with the snow-storms they have In
the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Neva-
das. / have seen il snow SO hard In Neva-
da that a pillow with four monster engines
behind it would be completely imprisoned
by the beautiful before 1t had gone one
mile from a snow-shed. The down-tumb-
ling flakes, big almost as soda crackers,
would cover the cleared track SO fast that
once the pillow got stuck it couldn't back
out and would have to be dug out by snow
shovelers when the storm had ceased.
have seen two-story houses completely
covered by the snow and telegraph poles
buried out of sight. Often In the canyons
houses are reached through long tunnels In
the snow. One night o guide led me
through one of these. tunnels and l was
amazed to find myself suddenly transferred
from a waste of wearying Wilderness into q
brilliantly lighted bar-room filled with
men, which was the ante-rOOm to big
dining establishment and part of the lower
floor of large two-and-one-ha etory
boarding house. Not sign of 1t had been
visible from the outside. not even a curl OF
smoke. Snow ia snow in the Sierra Ne
vadas. There are canyons in the mount.
aims that have it eighty and one hundred
feet deep sometimes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-19

sion the Advocate general demanded severe
punishment for the men who IN order 20
attract capital. had resource to every kind
OF trick and fraud. hno would no. bo
snfiiclent punishment; Justice demanded
that such crimes should be severely re-
pressed.
The first witness before the parliament
airy commission of inquiry to-day was Nj.
Stephane q clerk in the service OF Baron
De Reinach's partner. NJ. Proper. He said
that Baron De Reinach had LETT him list
OF the persons COMPRISED In the distribu-
tion of Panama money. Among the names
on the list were Arnot. Deyes, Grevy,
Roche. Faucennerie. Ronvier. Elou.
and ThevDet. The whole list con tanned
the names of more than one hundred DeDu-
ties who had been beneficiaries of the Pam
ANA fund. The sums paid to these men
100000 francs each. NJ. Stepbane said that
he gave the list TO NJ. Clemenceau. who. he
thought. conld make the best use of il.
considerable questioning On tue part OF
Chairman Brisson elected many additional
facts which went To show that NJ. StephaDe
had had in his possession q list similar TO
the one photogra pied for NJ. Andrieux.
NJ. Stephane was requested to wait IN the
committee while Nj. Clemencesu was
being summoned from tho chamber. Five
minutes later Clemenceau arrived with the
messenger who had been sent to him with
q request that he appear immediately be-
fore the commission TO answer some testi-
mony just given concerning him. Chair
man Brisson repeated briefly what
NJ. Stepbano had said. NJ. Glenn
encoau denied emphatically that
he had ever received any list
of compromised deputies from anybody.
He had not even heard of such list. from
Baron do Reinach or any body connected
with him in business. NJ. Stephane was
then recalled. He repeated his former
testimony without variation. conrradicting
every thing that VI. Clemenceau had said.
II. Szeikey. the Austrian newspaper cor
respondent whose emulsion from France
was ordered by the government, was es-
corted TO the frontier by two policemen to-
day. Arriving there. he was told that be
must never return to France again. NJ.
Szelkey. it will DO recalled, was charged
with furnishing news to his paper that was
libelous. connecting. as Il did, the name
of Baron Mohrenheim, the Russian embae-
sador to France, with the names of men
known to be implicated in the Panama
scandal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-19
WINTER BECOMING PHENOMENAL.
Tho Unusual Weather Laid to the Magnetic
Action OF the Restless SUM-

Action OF the Restless Sun.
New York Herald.
If 1893 goes on as it has so promisingly
begun In making u record for severe cold it
will do much to dlspel the illusion that our
climate has greatly changed, and the old
grit New York presen tied yesterday morning
quite an Arctic aspect while the epproac es
to the harbor were ciOgged with ice-toss.
On the 23d of January. 1876. the East river
was bridxed with ice. resisting the assaults
of tugs and ferry boats. and. as the Herald
of the next day reported, twenty thon-
sand persons crossed over on the
crystal connection. So solid and con-
tlnuous a bridge has not yet been
built by the giant forces of the frost kin Z
this year. but what may happen before tho
sun regains his ascendancy in our latitude
remains TO be seen. With a temperature of
forty-six degrees below zero IN the cold
wave reported yesterday seven hundred
and fifty miles northwest of New York. and
the ides of February yet TO come, we may
look for further installments of boreal
weather.
Bnt interesting historically as is this
recrudescence of orr ancient knicker-
booker winter. the phenomenon deserves
special study from the stand point of the
climatologst. During the past autumn,
and before tho present season gave
the Herald published several fore
casts, pointing out that the winter
of 1898 would probably be exceptionally
severe. On Dec. = last one of these fore
casts gave another preenm2tive evidence
that the coming winter will be more severe
In the United States generally than any
winter we have had for several years. and
again. on the 10Th ult-. IL was said the
probabilities were that America WAS ION
the eve of severe winter On Nov. Il it
as predicted that temperature in the
winter and spring of 1895 would be more
generally below the average than in the cor
responding seasons of 1892. and III the two
preceding years."
The Importance attaching TO such prog
nostications would be exceedingly small
aud transient but for the physical theory
of the causation of abnormaily cold and hot
reasons upon which the forecasts are based.
In this case thefcold winter of Sy3, az we'll
the hot summer of 1902. were predicted
by che Herald npon the Lasis of The well
known periodical lncrease of solar activity