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This ..court'' was horseshoe pattern
and contained 8 houses-18 dwellings
- on one side and on the other, and
these three closets were all there was
for this whole court.
Board and Lodging.
These novels are inspected by the pc.
lice. found a certificate in the hall Of
one Of them dated March o, 1893, and
signed "a. T.. Wood, chief police super;
iEendent" These certificates are signed
at his office, and probably he never vis 'i
its the places.
One man told me he had for his break
fast bread and butter and tea--no meat
and for his dinner bread and bacon,
but meat was luxury he could not at
ford. The tenants focked around me BY
the dozen in .Miller's court. would
have been glad to have taken some pho.
tographs of these scenes and courts, :"
but the weather was too cloudy for any
satisfactory results.
I passed from this court to another,
and, going to a door, | asked, What
do you do for liying?" The man there
answered, II take in dodgers"
What do you charge" 'Fourpence
g cents) per! night or sevenpence IA
cents) "a couple" (The man, saw there
were two of us.) Ri
Passing on. we came to the largest Of
its kind. containing 395 beds. On the
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England for each person (taken from
$3.50, q difference in favor of America
of sos per capita. Now there are thou
sands of people in England who do not
receive one-half this $3.50. We pay our
angle iron smiths So per cent. more than
they are paid in England; our black
smiths, 1O2 per cent. more; our boiler
makers, ~ per cent. more; our brick
layers, 125 per cent. more; our boiler
shop helpers. 95 per cent. more; our
carpenters, 165 per cent. more; our con-
ductors ION express trains), $40 per cent.
more; our locomotive engineers, 191 per
cent. more; our police, 26O per cent.
more; our telegraph operators, 1O3 per
cent. more; our train dispatchers, 316
per cent. more, and our common ,1 !. labor
ers, 15S per cent. more. The difference
in all classes of labor is the same as
these examples I mention.
The engineers who run the fastest ex-
press trains on the road in England get
but $1,000 per week for ten hours per
day. The 6remen get $5.92 per week or
SO cents per day. The guards (who
correspond with our conductors) get
from $3.50 to $6.72 per week. The por-
tiers 1--WE coll them brakemen) get $4.56
per week. This is sample of the pay
of English labor. Our engineers in
America on the express trains receive
$31.5O per week, our conductors $26
and our brakeman $l3. We pay more
than double the wages paid in England,
where railroad fare is higher and the
coal cheaper than in America.
The following table of wages answers
all the free-trade fallacies of the Demo-
cratic party and cannot be disputed:
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ground floor of this clearinghouse is a
large room for the men to sit in. The
kitchen below contained large closed
cooking range, which was red hot, and
the odor of the cooking going on made it
anything but enviable to be in. The lodg-
ers all cook for themselves and have Il
variety of things to cook and they are
not very particular as to how many diff
ferent things are cooked together in the
same pot. We went upstairs and saw
395 beds, which are let at three differ
ent prices---6. s and - cents per night.
The 12-cent ledger has a place boarded
off to himself-no water. no towel.
Wealth and Poverty Mixed.
Manchester. with her 100000 popula-
ton, boasts Of her wealth and manuflc-
turing resources and one would suppose
that all of the people alike lived in pal
aces; but to examine into the exact CON
: dit1on ma quite tlro- reveI. s. The.-
sands Of these people live on alcohol.
When they earn any money, it goes for
alcohol chiefly.
Coming back to my hotel, the Queens
facing one of the finest streets in Man.
chester. is the Royal infrmary, all along
the front of which there are seats which
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70 manufacture your goods and supply

Your 70 oWn eeopie yonr goods ana supply
His answer was: We want the Amer
lean market. It is the greatest market
IN the world and during the time the
turers We're quite paraiyzed."
& There was exported from Bradford
during the last nine months Of the ex-
slstence OF the Mckinley law $4,478,OOO
worth OF goods. This was from January
], 1884, to September 80, 1894. During
the corresponding period Of the following
year e Sfrom MI January |, 1895, to Septem-
Der 80, 1850, under the Wilson bill,
the exports from Bradford amounted to-
S;2l,l1l .; Five times as much under
tn 9, WILSON "a bill as under the Mckinley
Dill. lhe total exports for the year 1895
from bradford amounted to- $27,745, 600
These exports include thirty-seyen items,
put consist chiefly Of card clothing, cot
hosiery, stuffed goods, worsted goods,
yarns, silks, etc. 5ss - '.5s5, Is
Mr.. Meeker, United States consul at
Bradford, furnished me these statistics.
which We're taken from his reports to the
state department.. .s
We manufacture similar goods in
America, but on account Of the w ilson
tarlh Pill we have been deprived Of the
chance to manufacture them, and the
money which should have been paid to
our own working people. has been paid
to the laboring people Of Great Britain
Our chimneys have ceased smoking,
while theirs are in full blast. Our
working people are idle and deprived Of
living on account of this Ubiquitous,
free trade, Wilson tariff
Business Thrives In Birmingham.
I left Bradford on August "a for 5Bir-
mingham, passing through Leeds and
ShoA Sof1 @yyb0 nd or
il full blast. Not only in these places.
but all over England, this line of in
dustry is prospecting. And the factories
are running full time, and the greater
part of their product is shipped to the
United States. And while their works
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at the expiration Of which time they are

at the expiration Of which time they are
discharged.
Nobody is allowed to come to these.
places more than once month: and ne
zscribed. The ward l visited accom-
modated- fifty-five men and thirty7two
women. The beds consist of a narrow
strip Of canvas stretched like a hammock
between two iron rods about a foot from
the floor. The applicants. are admitted
after 6 p. m. in the summer time and
after p. m. in the@winter time. As
bath in one Of the six baths in the
ward and their clothes are fumigated.
and disinfected. After the bath they
have their supper of six ounces Of bread
and pint of Cruel. For their bed they
are given three blankets. For breakfast
they receive the same food as for sup
per. For dinner, in addition to the bread
cheese. The total cost for caring for
these people, during the period of their
confinement, including the five meals, is
cents each.
Is Advice to Americans.
NV advice to every American working
nan IS. as / have said before, to pro-
Z tect his own rights and the rights and
/. privileges of his family and not to. fol
low the whims, cries and falsehoods OF
the free-trade politician who seeks to
have goods imported into the United
states which are made by cheap pauper
nor because he thinks the goods can be
sold cheaper than If they were made
n heswages Of the American working
men snre not reduced to the standard of
those IN England, and the goods IRE not
made In America. he has no money
f, rnurclnse these chenp goods with. Be.
Ing deprived Of work, where are they to
Get their money to make their purchases
/ with !. .sss H Il;
s . Labor IN London. Il
rho following statistics are taken from
Rnnth's Life and Labor of the People
- ITO, london = showing the nuaber: Of peo-s
Ma employed in the various lines in the
city 81 London: ), ,e-e
railnra =. ..,.... Ol,Sto
root and shoe,nak ers 968 VI
.Hhaaees sirs and mllIiners. 43,704
SSItrtG,nkprs. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1885
sSaanh;nists. Observation-Disclosures. 6,7l5
I1raners and 3hosiers. 49,. ..S..... 34,377
GIort,s 5, ...s............. 1Sl, $50
Gahmen.F coachmen, busmen. etc.. 2G1. 496
si,ailWay service, labor, etc y. SIS
; iann Service. labor, coal heavers,
sl'0 ocnte sv.' Eas'worksrs. etc. ss,2o1
.,enpral labor factory la Dor. 213, 465
Tnnine drivers and artisans. q. 1890
Total. !. !. !. I. y. /. 5. 4. .2ol, 24l
npt1ed above .,,.,.. al, e49
crona total IN London. . J. s, o12 400
q
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men. His name is Wildemouth. He
lodges 391 persons in his house every
night His rooms are by feet and he
receives II cents per night for each of
these rooms.
l went from there to Commercial street
lin WhitechapeD where / saw place
called the Victoria home (kept in the
same manner as the one on Osborne
street), where the roomers pay from 6
to IL cents per night Then I went
through the thickest part of Whitechapel
-an alley called Petticoat lane. The
meat hanging in the stores and on the
sidewalks was so filthy that it sickened
me and | could not tarry long enough to
even ask the price of it. asked the
price of herrings-1 cent each. Bread
was l cent loaf, and it was hard look
ing bread; potatoes one-half cent
pound; onions one-half cent q pound;
pounds of carrots for cents, Such
filthy trading market would disgust
stole. They live in filth, breed in filth
and die in filth. knowing nothing else.
The .'Casual Ward.''
Then l went to public institution
known as a casual ward, the same one
/ visited eight years ago. found it
just as it was in 1883. The keeper, or
guardian, told me this ward had been
in existence for more than thirty years
and that there were thirty such places
in London at present. These Institutions
are kept as public places and are really
poorhouses. If man has no money, he
can go there and apply for admittance,
which heIgets if the place is not already
filled. When received. they are kept in
confinement for two nights and one day,
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two) and he told me it was his wife,,
who iwns very sick. All around were
signs of poverty. It was not fit for hui
man beings. It made me chill with
pity as i looked on this terrible scene.
Going through a little court about s1Ox,
10 feet, ia the rear of this house, II came
to the shop where one Of his daughters
asked her name and she told me Clara
.Boxley. Her age is % years.
She has been making chain for five
years and receives from $1.75 to Silt
a week for her work. She makes three
leighths inch chain and is paid $l.O2 for.
LIZ pounds. For breakfast she has
bread and butter and tea and sometimes
"a piece of bacon. She told me she
worked from o'clock in the morning
son she staid there was because she
could not save enough money to pay her
fare away from the town.
The buildings look as if they had stood
for centuries, and as l passed through
3 the little, court leading into the house
and which is walled on every side by
houses / counted fifteen little children
gether in all the filth that could sur
round a blacksmith shop in this district.
Across the alley was another shop where
another daughter was making chain.
She is married, has one child and makes
$2.16 per week.
FL She has been making chain for twenty
years, having commenced when she was
IL years old Her husband, chain
maker also, earns from So to $3.50 a
week.
Mrs. Polly Fowkes has four daugh-
tiers making chain She is "a years old
and has made chain since she was Z
years Of age, but is now too old to work
at it any more. Each of the daughters
makes from $l.2O3lto $1.5O per week.
They live in a little old house, with
and live in the same room all huddled
together. The girls are very smart at
the forge. l set five girls to work in
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the working people and comparing their
wages with those of Americans. Four
years ago made second visit for the
same purpose and on August IL, 1896, l
left New York, for the third time, to
make another investigation. / arrived
in Manchester on August 20 and there
began my investigation, where found
more restitution than had ever seen
in any other city.
The '.Cesspool" of Manchester.
Standing, looking up Angel meadow,
q graveyard OH the left and behind one
of the worst courts" in Great Britain.
public houses of course, and all around
a population struggling in the ocean of
moral and social degradation, it has
been called the ''cesspool Of Manches-
ter" Its history is history of dirt,
vile crime, drunkenness, riot, cruelty
and robbery. The houses are low and
-dilopidatea,- and -raany4 t,ro---.,iua ;.aa.ao
holes, unventilated, undrained, corrupt,
reeking with smells, utterly infamous
and sickening both to body and mind
all this, within few minutes walk of
the Queens hotel, the Exchange and
railway stations.
There are scores of rooms furnished
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the blacksmith shop. They worked 80
minutes and made me IA pounds Of
three-eighths chain. Each piece was
over two feet long, and they worked like
beavers to see who%cOuld mike the long,
est piece. They work ten hours day.
- gave them a shilling apiece when they
all came into the room, and asked
that at amount. They replied, 1t would
take more than day. Ito earn 25
cents. thought. Miserable England!'
Women Coal Miners.
I did not visit Wigan this time las i
change in labor there; the poorhonses
which l described and reproduced in 1892
still stand. 1t is pitiful sight to wit
ness the poor women there, half staryed
and half clad. wheeling coal on the top
Of the pits for the small pittance Of.
40 to 50 cents for ten hours work. 1
reproduce here cut of the shoes that
tricts, heavy clogs with big nails in the
bottom.
The situation has not changed yet. AS
long as there is coal in the Dit there will
be women to wheel it. At one time this
class lived and had their families N the
coal mines, but Parliament prohibited
this, and now they do the wheeling on
the TOP. OF the PITS. With this cheap
labor no wonder coal is cheap in this
country. This coal is used on the very
steamers and vessels which carry Eng
lands free trade labor product to .Ameri-l
ca to compete with our labor and manu-
features.
Charles 3 L. Snowden of Brownsville
Pa. writes me: "Weapay our miners 20
cents per ton, or $3.50 per 100 bushels
60 pounds to the busheD. One man can
put from $50 to 200 bushels per day
and can earn from So to 81 daily There
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There are $40 friendly societies Of
trades unions in Great Britain with a
port Of House of Commons Several
of these societies are located, in London
and include some Of the trades enumer-
.ated in the Booth table. The societies
control the wages Of their various trades,
and were it not for the stand they take
their wages would be reduced by the
manufacturer to lower standard than
they are at present, which is less than
one half of what is paid in America.
Higher Wages In America.
Our last census report of 1890 gave
US 4,712,622 people employed in manu-
each person being $4S8. The average in
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bed and a few pots. These rooms are
sublet for Is cents a night for two
size IL by 1O-wherc people eat, cook
and sleep. entered some of these
houses-if such a name could be given
to the novels saw--and in one 1 asked
tDu you rent this eyes, was the
what do you pay for it?'' "Four and
six (S1.OS) week"
''Elave you. the whole houset?' mo,
sir: only this room." (Size - by 1OD
do you sleep in here?' "Yes. Sir:
we sleeps, eats, cooks and everything
here"
''You have. room above--up the
stairs?" no, sir; that's another par-
TVS" af,.,
"Can I go up?' Eyes, ! dare say he
will let you"
Before i go up l would like to ask,
What do you do for aigliving?'' My
husband sells sandstone, sand and blue
mole, or he gives the stone and gets
rags, bottles, bones or old iron for
"What does he earn in week %
At this question the woman smiled
|sWel, it depends more,
sometimes less One day perhaps shil-
ling "a cents), another day / and 6
l36 cents)l and SO on.
/ should say here that the agent finds
the pots, pans, bed and fire, such as
they are, for I will not attempt to de-
scribe them. This / will say-no dog
of mine should ever be allowed to sleep
on what is called a bed in those places
The whole outfit was not worth 10
cents.
..Have you back yard ??'' s'No, SIR Is
. where is your closet, then?"
There, SIR pointing to three closets
in the street.
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are occupied by poor people from the
Sums. | was informed, that many SAT
there the whole night, so II arose early
the next morning and went across to the
seats and found that &c., - Of whom
t We're women e one with a child, had SAT
theresa1l night beca use they had not the
necessary 6 cents for a bed.
The trade Of Manchester is very mrch
depressed at present awaiting the pres.
ldential election IN the United Statas
The merchants Of the United States are
making very small purchases now. be-
cause they fear Il new tariff bill and
because American consumption Is Less
and their inability to buy. The manu-.
facturers and shippers here do not want
any change in the present American
tariff But: they say they would rather
have Mckinley for President than 7Bry.
an, for II Bryan is elected and q silver.
standard declared in the United States
they cannot sell their goods At ali Is
America. & Yet they despise McE;nlev
for. as the London Times stated : fa,y
DAYS ago his Infamous tariff Bill. ''
Trade Paralysis In bradford.
Leaving Manchester, 1 visited Rroa.
ford, which is the largest wonlnn o ND
shoddy manufacturing district jn Tia tha
Wor Mn;ts draae Is paIralyzed there as far
eerned /: At p; present The manufacturers
a are aWaltlhg the electen of the Pres
whether he will besa free trader or ! nn nuo.
tectionist! The merchants are very + n1 IN Il
agitated on this account-for they con
get but few orders from the iInitad
States. 1 said to one Of them: "Y ouf
have now the whole British empire I'm In
cludlng = l ndG with d population of all
most 800 100000 controlled by her ma ies.5
ty, to supply; why are you not satisfied
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- -.
One panper to every g persons. Twenty
eight pahpefs to every 1000 persons.
Cost to, maintain these paupers
, annually. .$57 ,s25, Ats
! the royal family ]. s -. s2,sos,77o
and his secretaries. 4. . :. =. $4,000
The population of the British empire,
INCLUDING India and the colonies, is 3346.-
OUO,OOO. There are SO colonies and 40
distinct governments.
Life In London.
arrived in London August %, and
made visit to Whitechapel. / visited
lodging house on Osborne street.
asked for the proprietor and was intro
ernor" to distinguish him from other
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arrr running full. time our people are idle.
Today the goods that are being made in
for the Wilson bill, be made in the
United States.
spent q day in Birmingham. which
is another thriving and prosperous manu-
featuring center. Here also the people
are very DESTROYS that no, change be
made in the present. American tariff
schedule which would result in depriying
them Of our market for their goods.
The British Chain Gang.
After leaving here I went to Cradley
Heath-among the women chainmakers
and women blacksmiths- witness the
misery there which / had visited in
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1883 and in 1892. There arc women
there by the thousands who make chain
ing their houses.
One man, William Boxley, said he.
was Sc years old and earned 60 cents d
day as laborer. when he could work.
He has FIVE daughters and FIVE sons.
Three. of this ,daug hters are chainmakers
and one works in q briekyard, carrying
brick. L went into his. house. On the
lower floor was a room with stone
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these working people in the face. They.
make from six to eight times the wages
of the poor people at Wigan. and there
are no women at WoAk wheeling coal ~
the United States. .s.si
Paupers in the Brittsl, Empire.
Population Of Great Britain and -, 5, q:
Paupers. !. !. s, !. Z. 1900. 1,01S,0ss
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with ovens on each side and a place for
coal in the middle. Back of this was a
little space for Mushroom where there
is room for only one person. In the front.
room all the cooking is done and it is
also used for 4 living room and dining
room. Upstairs is a room Sx12 feet.
As 4 entered here noticed woman
lying on one Of the beds (there were
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
New Feed Store.

Tho Equity Milling Company
have opened general Food Storo
in connection with their down town
office, in their new brick building
opposite tho Court House.
Flour, meal and feed of all kinds
will be kept constantly on hand in
quantities to sui purchasers, and
will BIO sold at tho lowest wholesale
and retail prices. All orders left
with Mr.. j. Nj. Burdctt, tho Com
pany's book keeper, whohas charge
of tho store, will receive careful and
prompt attention.
EQUITY MILLING co.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
a Correction.

MIR. EDIToR: Mr.. Sol III. Reel, in
the State Gazette OF the 21st, inst,
undertakes to correct the Hender-
son correspondent, and declares
that there was not colored man
present ut the meeting referred to.
The meeting referred to was the one
at which the Rev. Griffith, (who is
troubled with some throat election
disqualifying him to preach) made
his .famowS speech.
Now Mr.. Reel is either mistaken
about the meeting, or is wilful
pcrvaricator. 1t comes in bad
grace for Sunday School Super
intendent to declare that there
was not n colored man present,
when the writer saw six negroes
occupying the front seat at said
meeting.
But what is the use of all this
talk about the colorcd man? We
know the Republicans love him;
yea, as they love their riding horse,
for which purpose they use him.
S. V. PULLIN,
uon,lorcou w YIN
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q seriona Accidenr.

New HAVEN, August 21st, 1896
Lewis Juhling of Hartford, met
with a very serious accident yes
terday while out hunting on the
hills back of Hartford. For some
reason he had climbed a tree, while
Mr.. Freeds who was along, was
crossing a fence, the gun in his
hands was discharged, number OF
the shot taking effect in Mr.. Juhl-
ings face and neck. DIR. Sayre
was called, but was unable to locate
any of the shot.
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Wnfer1nn.

Special correspondence, Aug. oath.
The infant daughter of Mr.. Will
Knapp is quite sick.
Miss Mary j. Thomas, of Flat
Rock, who has been staying with
her brother, Allen Thomas, return
ed home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Thornton, of
Dolby, were visiting relatives here
Friday.
The recent rains have greatly
helped the appearance of crops.
The free silver speech at Leon
Saturday night, was we'll attended,
the weather not being very fayora-
BILE
We learned last evening that the
K, & NJ. Railway Co. has sent let
ters to its employees requesting
them to vote for Mckinley. Farm
ers and also many of the employees
are Justly indignant at the high
handed game, and say that they are
going to do as they please about
voting; that it is nobody's business
how they vote. When it comes to
gigantic corporations debating for
people it is certainly time to revolt.
Asa Condee's house was destroy
ed by fire Sunday night at Leon.
He saved most of his furniture.
Hill, of Raymond City, visi-
ted his father Sunday.