Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-20
NEWS OF new YORK.
Business Being Dull, Religion is to
be Attended to.


NEW ttnN Siihs wv lr.-tClVNio.I
The sutumnal meetings Of various chart
table organizations. and especially the
three days session this week Of the New
England conference OF charities and cor
rections. have excited anew the public in
terest in aud discussion Of the puzzle Of
poverty. II is indeed puzzle that over
abundance and phenomenally low prices
usually so along with loud complaints OF
want and moving appeals for charity, At
such time certain economists have much
to say of overproiuetion. which is log
ically the same rs TO SAY that we are cold
and hungry because there Is too much food
and cloi hing.
The rusAle OF Poverty.
In this city the greatest proportion Of the
unemployed is among the makers of cloth
ing. especially Of cloaks AMI the finer
kinds Of dress goods, and the workers In
tobacco, During September some $1,000
were idle out OF the i0,n0 ordinarily en-
ployed in the clothing trades, and since the
cool weather set in there has been great
increase of employment for these, though
they fear il is but temporary. OF the
l5.ooo ordinarily employed In making
cigars, including the korters. strippers and
other assistants. nearly oue-half are now
idle, and the chances for renewed employ
ment do not seem good. Popular opinion
attributes the extreme depression In these
two lines to the sweating system" rs IL IL
IN these that that system is most In vogue,
and also to the enormous influx OF Russian
Jewsi
At this season there are seldom less than
10000 unemployed men and women IN this
city, and this does not include the habitu-
ally idle, but those ordinarily at work and
always willing To work. At present the
unemployed of this class are at least l0o,-
600 and increasing as the summer Jobs ex
pire. During the past summer the I'M
usual amount of paving, dock building.
sewer construction and other municipal
work reduced the number Of unemployed
to number even below the average, but
with the approach Of winter most of such
work ceases.
1t is singular fact that, despite this in
crease of the unemployed, the surface indi-
cations OF want are II anything less than
usual There is apparently less street beg
gary than usual. and in some sections Of
the city housekeepers testify that applica-
tions for food are no more than usual.
Either the unemployed have not yet ex-
hausted their savings, or organized charity
has made relief less ostentatious,
A Cause of Religious Revival.
1t il almost an axiom among evangelists
that commercial panics and depressions are
followed by renewed interest in religion.
and the great awakening of 1873 is with
them an oft cited precedent for encourage
ment That class is therefore unusually
active, as are the organizations for Bible
study. The American Institute of Sacred
Literature in its current session In this
city has discussed many plans for system
atizing Bible study for the numerous or
CARNATIONS devoted thereto.
The plan which meets with much favor
Is one providing for a uniform course of 10
minutes each day Of the year for four years
This will cost, for the needed literature
only, but 50 cents a year for each student,
and the course will cover the entire Bible
1t will he divided under four great heads.
which will be studied in the following
order: "The Life of Christ, Founding and
Early History of the Christian Church, :"
"Old Testament History and Prophecy"
and "Old Testament Legislation and Poet
ry."
The many advantages Of this plan are
self evident II concentrates the Christian
intellect of the country week by week on
specific points, and the various young
peoples societies and Bible classes will have
each week the very latest conclusions Of
the best minds on all obscure or contro-
verified points. Among the many recent
gatherings of interest in the religious line
are the ministers conference of the Massa-
cbusetts Association of Free Baptists at
Amesbury, the Gibbons jubilee at Bnlti-
more, where Archbishop Satolli and l6
other archbishops were present on one day,
and the celebration at LenoX, in the Indian
Territory, of the seventy-ifth anniversary
of the beginning of mission work among
the Choctaw Indians.
Another Triumph For Chicago.
From the far east comes information Of
another triumph for Chicago and for the
United States in general. The contract
for building the railroad from Haiia. in
Syria, to Damascus has been awarded To n
Chicago firm, and the engines, cars, tanks
and general equipments are to be Of the
latest and best American pattern In y
months, it ia announced the road Is to be
ready for travel, and then one can ride
from Jafra, the ancient Joppa, to that noted
city which is believed to be the Oldest in
the world.
The plan is to extend the road through
Persia, if permission can be secured, and
into northern India, ultimately connecting
with the British system III the southern
part of that country. 1t is an interesting
fact that just at the time railroad extension
IN our far west appears to have come to II
dead standstill, when the first Pacific rail
ways managers have given up the fight
and that road has gone into the hands Of a
receiver, there should he something like a
boom in the far east.
Maynard and Morals.
Politics we have always with us, and ey-
cry year there is new and strange cOmpli-
cation This year it is Judge Maynard,
Democratic candidate for n place in the
highest state court. whom the independ-
ents Of various kinds are trying to slaugh-
ter because of his smart practice in dealing
with tine Dutchess county returns in 1891.
Governor Flower boldly came to Judge
Maynard's support few days ago with a
little anecdo,e about "A little boy who stole
back a silver dollar which another boy had
stolen from him. The moral intended Is
that Democrats were justified In sharp
pEtflltt ttthhS' iA'phph'hho hoA h'e "ph'
them Justice in the apportionment. The
moral may not be obvious to every one, but
the effect Of Governor Flowers remarks
has certainly been favorable to Judge May
nartl.
The business situation Is indeed phenom-
email. especially in produce lines. Meats
command good price. Almost every
thing else il at or near the lowest price
known for 81 century. Wall street is ton
dull for comment. In such condition the
average American can't, help feeling re-
signed to the prospect Of trouble in Europe.
OF course we don't want France and Rus
sia to fight all the rest but If they do
well. we've got the stuff TO feed 'em, at
good prices.
An Undisputsd Test Of Merit.
A medicine that has been household