Catoctin clarion., 1899-11-16

WIS cUoCtcu 6uu INC lONOWluB WcJo ClCCtcu
officers: Pres. Rev. G. A. Whitmore; Sec'y,
Rev. W. L. Orem; Treas Rev. NJ. F. Oerter.
Rev. Oerter was appointed q committee 10
draft set of resolutions to be presented at
next regular meeting Of the association. The
association accepted the kind invitation Of
ReY. Whitmore TO hold its next meeting at
the Reformed Church parsonage, E. Main.st,
December 4th, 1899. After spending a few
moments in pleasant and profitable conver.
sation the meeting adjourned with prayer
and benediction by Rev. Oerter. We shall
keep the readers of the CLARION posted from
time to time concerning any items Of interest
that may come before the association.
FORD'S GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
Week Noy. 20th---First time In this city OF
the great international success, the merriest
OF modern comedies THE CUCKOO" under
the management Of CHARLES Trohman.
The merry comedy 1.-THE Cuckoo" which
is announced at Ford's week of November
Goth is one of the greatest laughing successes
this country has known In many day. 1t
is presented under the auspices ofthe famous
manager Charles Frohman and by one Of
bis most brilliant comedy companies inelud.
ing such artists as Joseph Holland, Charles
Bowser, Eleanor Morretti, Amelia Bingham,
David Courtney, Clayton White. Fulton Rus
sell. Nora Dunblane and others.
The play is one Of decided ingenuity both
in story and situation and has the numerous
domestic complications and Intervening OF
love affairs which keeps the fun going at a
lively pace from the rise to the fall of the
curtain.
This play Is not to he confounded with the
burlesqne Of the same name which sustained
only brief career earlier in the season, the
present play was adapted from the French
by Charles Brookfield and has proved the
laughing sensation oftwo continents, crowd
ing the theatre during run Of two years In
Paris, six months at the Avenue Theatre
London, and eight merry weeks at Wallack's
Theatre New York.
Matinees-Wednesday and Saturday,
Admission IS and so cents.
Week November 27th.-The popular 70.
mantle actor JAMES O'NEILL in his su-
perb production of"THE MUSKETEERS."
TRUST INFLUENCES. eread great deal
about the crimes of the big aggregations Of
capital In manufacturing and other lines of
business and trade, known by the far from
proper name, trusts"
A large portion OF what is written con-
corning these trusts IS from political stand
point. having for Its object the advancement
of the interests Of q political party at the ex'
pense Of another. rather than for the benefit
of society at large and as such discussions
are always more or less biaeed, aiming less to
harm the trusts than the opposing political
party, the general reader does not secure the
character OF information best calculated to
give the most intelligent conception of the
matter Of trusts, as they relate TO the best In.
terests of the greatest number of people.
In our neighboring city Of Hagerstown
the past year has developed case of trust
influence for harm that will illustrate per-
fectly the working of the great combinations
of capital in manufacturing.
The Crawford Bicycle works had for some
years been giving employment to between
one aud two thousand hands: during the past
year it was incorporated into the great bi
cycle trus and now there are but several
hundred employees at these works. It was
adjudged to be one of the most perfectly
equipped bicycle factories in the world, by
a committee sent out by the trust to look in.
to such matters: 1t Is as favorably located In
the matter of railroad facilities, cheap labor.
taxes, &C., as any in the country, yet the out.
put of this factory, as based upon the reduc-
tion in employees, has probably been reduced
to one. fourth, or less Probably more than
one thousand operatives have been compelled
To look elsewhere for employment; the own.
ers Of the property built to house these ten
ants have q dead investment and every
branch Of trade in Hagerstown that predi-
Gated results upon the demand that these
thousand or more operatives would furnish,
has that miscalculation to deal with and an
enforced readjustmeut to make.
1t was reported at one time that tho two
great industrial firms, the Frick and Geiser
Manufacturing Companies of Waynesboro,
Pa, were about to be swallowed by the
trusts: it is easy to estimate the result to
Waynesboro, were these two concerns driven
to make any such reductions of their forces
as has the Crawford Bicycle works at
Hsgerstown: fortunately for the Pennsylva-
MIA town, the rumor proved, for the time at
least, to be without foundation.
1t is such disastrous effects upon the smaller
communities that this ogre OF the trusts holds
up before those who contemplate entering
upon some now line of trade or manufacturing,
and usually the effect Is to deter them from
taking the step-this to the great disadvan.
tage of the small capitalist and the small
communities.