The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-03
RETROSPECT OF THE
WEEK N CHICAGO.

Y ~ are pfoVfE& very pOPubAf WIN
seekers for work and with
prospective employers OF labor
with everyone. In fact. except those pri-
vate employment agents and keepers OF
Intelligence Offices who formerly made
fat livings out Of the necessities OF the
poor and unemployed. Three agencies have
been established IN Chicago. one IN each
OF the three great natural divisions OF the
city. and an army OF clerks employed in
keeping the registers and answering out OF
town applications for help. As an instance
OF how quickly the news travels. the Of
nces had hardy opened for business when
applications for help began 10 pour In from
railway contractors. ievee builders. hotel
keepers. and from employers Of labor Of all
kinds-in fact, from all parts OF the middle
West. and, indeed. one application from
British Columbia
Our creates; difYiculsy has been in the
matter Of domestics" said superintendent
f. Erickson, of the West Side agency
This class of empioye seems TO be very
small. The tendency OK the girIhood OF
America seems 10 be running more toward
ONCE positions. They want PAGES as Ste
nosraphers. bookkeepers. clerks. and 10
hold positions as saleswomen In the de-
partment stores. Those who are seeking
employment as domestics demand 81. s and
Is week. and want ali the LIBERTIES that
Il see that the North Side once hes been
asked to furnish wives for farmers
nave had the same experience here. few
days ago l received a letter from q man
up In Minnesota. IL was written IN Nor
wegian and had % have it translated. I
suppose before we are many months older.
that sort of request wiz be coming In in
considerable number"
NVATHAN BRANCH. Evanston's oldest
nm coIored resident, has a happy vaca-
ton In store for him. He started
this week for Atlanta. Ga. where he ex-
poets 10 spend two weeks with a twin
brother. from whom he was separated
nearly Atty years ago. The meeting OF
the two coiored men will be full Of pathos
for when they last each other they
were standing hand In hand in the slave
pen OF a Tennessee trader. When the ham
mer OF the auc;ioneer fell father. mother
and brothers were taken to different states.
Until few weeks ago Nathan Branch
had never heard from the brother. who
went from Tennessee to serve In the rice
and cotton fields Of Georgia An Evanston
business man was recently making q VISIT
In Atlanta. Walking down the street one
morning. he saw ahead Of him . colored
man whom he took TO be Nathan Branch.
He stepped up to him and asked him what
NC Whs boiHB 80 iAI ITOm his WOfk a. the
postonce at Evanston. The colored man
turned around and then the Evanstonian
discovered his mistake. but the stranger
looked so much Ike Branch that the two
fell INTO conversation. In which the story
Of Nathan and his brother was learned.
ooHREE laborers paused before the
III dorado Taft group Just south Of
the Art institute the other after
noon and critically eyed the plas-
tered figures that have made the eyes Of
the rural visitor pop out for several
weeks past. One OF the men drew out of
a wheeibarrow an az. He looked at the
implement. then at the figures. then he
expecforated literally on his right palm.
The fall OF Babylon wasn't a marker"
he said. ito the fall these ninnps are
agoin' e take" and he smote the girl
with her hands on her knees a mighty
smote. There was a shivering OF plas-
ter, q splintering Of wood, and a curved
arm fell into the basin.
n fine sthroke" said another Iaborsr
'1ll just take a smash At Maggie here"
A spade came down a;hwart another ns-
ures neck. and the stan head tumbied In
10 the water
II was the end 81 the Lake Front park
nymphs. The iconoclasts chopped and
gouged and dug and shoveled fragments
the grass 10 be trampled down over half
the park lay wrecked and broken ana
ready TO make filing for the lake
The wagon rumbied away over the via
duct toward the dumping ground But
dorado Taft, who returned from his vaca-
ton spent In Seattle and other WASH
inston cities Just IN time 10 witness the
destruction OF his classic group. was not
disposed 10 mourn.
'TEsv had that
say, outiived their usefulness" he .sif
10 the Post~rntelIgencer man IT am
more than pleased with the exp~rf1,ere
The group was constructed 70 give rhs
sculpture class Definite object for which
10 work The result was gratifying for
aNhouTh The rroup was not worthy Of
production IN permanent form ~ p,ads
2 creditahle exhibit Of the work 81 the
7urils The notoriefy :, has attained.
elieve. has done more good than harm,
testing public sentiment upon the sub
81 Of nude figures 7 am 50 well ng~ases
i'h the experiment that ~ VIII be re-
Gated annually already have a plan
or group newt year. The figures will
30 irapef. not because 7 Fear r,,h1g~ .e,
'inert IN that respect the criticism, On
that point has been SURPRISINGLY rfxh.
bat because 7 wi~h The pupils 20 nav.
practice In draperies !"
PIP HE attempt Of Joseph Brfcku4r. .as
View YORK travelling man. 20 commit
suicif" AZ the Palmer hou~r q few
days ago, recalls The suicide OF a Chicaxs
drummer u INC sane room ~ 1871
The man. who<s name IL row farxos.~n
BY the hotel attaches, left a note saying n.
intended % Kill himself IN such a novel
way AZ never to De forgotten he fully
succeeded
lie stood on the edge % ne bathtub with
rope about his neck Tire bathfuh va
hlff fv To bTm WITH water The ssisc dc
saturated his clothes win kerosene Re
attached 20 als vest a string The other er,d
~ shich vas connected with the trigger
~ revolver. me weapon being pointed a.
fsctiy ~ ire travelling mans heart n.
wss liked IN such q weg fhar az scor n.
The string wss broken The weapon -n4tId
60 ~ fuse was atfacss-s 20 ~ ss,f-
eides cIoth'1g Al vas ready and he raox
dose q morphine
lie then lighted the ftI@. TIE s,sse. burn
iag up % the oii-~oaksd clothlnx. ses sc