Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-03-01
THE LABOR WORLD,

AMERICAN railways have 100000 employees.
The new Labor Commissioner of Kansas.
W. J. Bird. was newsbow but a few years
ago.
IN British Columbia and Pacific coast
waters 1850 men are employed in the fur
seal industry.
GREAT distress exists among the unem-
ployed in London. and relief measures on a
large scale are being planned,
REV. JOHN A. B. WILSON, of New York
City, denounced the Charities Organization
Society in sermon on the unemployed.
IT has been voted by the local lodges of the
International Association Of Machinists to
hold a convention in Cincinnati on May 6.
LABOR COMMISSIONER WRIGHT has submit
ted report outlining plans for providing
homes for the working people OF easy terms.
EX-SENATOR HENRY G. DAVIS. of West Vir-
gina, offers to his State $4,000 in cash and
n site for the proposed industrial school for
girls.
AN expert oculist has been appointed to
test the eyesight of all conductors, engineers.
tiremen and braEemen on the Canadian
Pacific lines.
THE celebrated Society for Employees of
Commerce. of Hamburg. since its foundation
in 1858. has placed gratuitously $4,000 appli-
cants for work.
THERE is no European country in which
women are more employed than in France.
1t is rare TO enter French shop and find a
man serving as accountant.
REPORT comes from Glasgow, Scotland,
that the cotton trade there and in the sur
rounding district has probably never been in
a more distressed condition than at present.
CAPTAIN W. G.. KIDD has been conductor of
the accommodation train on the Nashville
and Pulaski (Tenn.) Railroad since 1857, and
has never missed trip. He is seventy-two
years old.
FROM three to four thousand women in
Chicago are employed as cloak and coat
makers Their hours of labor are from a.
IN. to $50 p. M; and the schedule of wages
runs from 45 to $25a week.
RECENT enumeration of London indus
tries shows that the British metropolis has
40 pianoforte factories. Over 1900 shops and
factories in the city are devoted to the sup
ply of musical goods of all kinds
DISTRESS in the mining regions of Ohio in
creases, and hundreds of people-men, wo-
men and children-are threatened with star
| walton, which Is only averted by contributions
of charity from other parts of the State.
THE French Academy has just assumed a
novel function. 1t has accepted a legacy
that provides two annual prizes of 800 each
to be awarded to such mertorious domestic
servants as may show the most satisfactory
proofs of devotion and fidelity to their en-
| ployers.
vAGRANTs in Somersetshire, England, have
increased from 10000 to 10000 during the
past two years. Much the same state OF
things prevails in Worcestershire and Here
fordshire, where tramps are so numerous as
| tO bp n distinct Of alarm The m aiOr-
ity are genuine workingmen who are unable
to find work.
IT was decided to call off the Brooklyn troll.
ley line strike. The old men will be taken
back as vacancies occur. Attorney-G Genera
Hancock, of New York, has handed down a
decision denying the application for permis
sion to bring action to vacate the charter o.
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company fol
failing to operate its lines during the strike