New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-27
PATERSON.
GENERAL RELIEF OVER THE AvERTING
OF A STRIKE.
WILLIAM T. GoVRIEy TO GET OFT OF POLL
TICS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM THE

TICS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM THE
CITY OF SILK
Paterson - happy over having escaped general
strike of ribbon w.avers In the silk mills. Up 10
Thursday the situation looked ugly. The weavers
IN Two of the shops had asked for increase - Is
per In wages. and those OF on' establishment
hal oft their looms. Everything depended the
action Of the IN the employ OF the Augusta SILK
Company. II they had followed the example OF
Frank 4 Dugans wcavers and quit work until they
should receive a favorable answer their dems nj.
IL would have been the sigma ;or stampede. But.
after conference with the Manufacturers Associa-
tlcn. In which the employers emphasized the impos-
sibity Of paying any larger wages when the Penn
sylvania mills were getting labor for about half
what II costs IN Paterson. the weavers OF the Au-
gusta concern let reason prevail! and withdrew their
request Tor increase. This broke the ba rkbone OF
the sthke movement tina; agita,ors had started. and
the effort Of Frank & Dugans men TO induce those
OF the other shops TO join them in strike was
treated with codness The lessons - the long srug
gle ~ 1871 have not been wasted upon the working
people. Then after strike that .as'ei many weeks
during which ricous disorder ruled the weavers hal
to surrender and go back al the manufacturers
schedule
city Counsel Simonton IL preparing ordinance
requiring househoders to keep their backyarls AMI
CO lars free from rubbish THIS is at the suggestion
OF John Stage. chief engineer OF the Fire Depart
ment who attributes number Of recent fires TO ec-
cumulatlon OF innammabe stun on premises OF care
Less people.
William u. Gourley PLssalc County Prosecutor OF
the Peas. has gone 10 Europe leaving his resigna-
ton a member OF the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of the county. While there Is a general voice
that IL will not be accepted. those closest to the
brainy young leader say that there no string TO
It, and that Mr.. Gourey Is really DESTROYS OF leav-
ing political life least unit, his health shall have
been restored.
A committee OF the Aldermen has adopted plans
for city hospital for contagious diseases to
replace the present sheds where unfortunate pa
tents are sent. The buildings will cost s25 900
and VIII have all modern sanitary appliances for so
latlon comfort and treatment.
Garrett A. Hobart. State Senator member Of the
Republican National Executive Committee and one
OF Paterson's most prominent residents by reason
OF his connections with large business enterprises
sails for homo to-day by the 81. Louis with his
wife and little son. and Miss Martha S,vcrs They
leave behind them IN the Engrh churchyard a.
Bellago. Italy the body Of Mr Hobart's only
daughter. Fannie. who stricken with diphther,a
at that resort and died after few hours of great
suffering. The Italian health laws forbid the re-
moval OF the body for five years. The stay OF the
family In Europe was cut short by this af'iiction.
The drygoods store OF vandcrvoort 4 Singland.
which at the time OF the firms failure, was the
Oldest establishment of Its kind In the city, became
scene OF activity this week. Ex-Judge Francis
Scott the receiver. after soliciting bids In bulk nd
getting no satisfactory Offer threw open the stock
ut private sale by retail and there Is a prospect
that fair sum may yet be saved to the creditors
The 81 Regiment OF New-Jersey militia. which has
it's armory and three companies In Paterson the
others being In Eackensack. Leona and Engle-
wood. Bergen County; Passaic City. and Dover
Morris County. and Orange. departs for See Cir,
to-day TO 20 into camp for n week, succeeding the
ist Regiment and Essex Troop. OF Newark iLru-
tenant Colonel Hne Of Orange. IL In command OF
the "a Regiment. Colonel Muzzy being In Europe
The park which the wJersey Electric Rail
way Company II laying out near Little Falls on TIA
trolley line has been named IdlewilJ.
Rohirsons American Band will spend week dur
ing August at The Raunt. the Paterson Fishing
Clubs headquarters. at Canarsie. Long Island
The Rev David Stuart Hamilton, rector Of the
Episcopal Church. at Columbia. Lancaster County,