Evening star., 1900-10-04
Tammany,s Collection Day

Tammany's Collection Day.
| Tammany Halls election Doodle will be
| collected tomorrow and Tuesday. 1t will be
received at the 14th street wigwam by Rich
| ard Croker who will give the matter his
| personal attention. All the city offcehold-
| ers will receive their salaries within the
| next two days, and the names of most OF
| them are on the list of those expected to
! come to the front The average campaign
| assessment is { per cent of the year s sal
ary but in some cases 1t is 10 per cent.
Officials who receive large salaries chip In
| from $500 to $500 each in an Important cam
paign. There is no telling the exact amount
| of The campaign fund which Mr.. Croker
| receives year by year and its disposition
| 1temized statements are not posted pup
! licly or privately, and no expert account
| ants go over the books. 1t is estimated that
| he will handle at least S3t0,ot0 this year,
| and perhaps 100000.
Unincorporated firms yesterday mad their
| last opportunity under the thirty daNs
grace allowance to comply with the new law
| of registration which went into effect Sep
| tember l. There a mighty rush of
! tardy merchants, and certificates were piled
| upon the county clerks desk as thlck as
| snowfiakes In a March blizzard
According to the deputy who was In
charge of the work of registration, about
| 1900 firms were in this last days rush to
avoid the penalty of fine and possible i'm
prisonment which now menaces those who
have failed to comply with the new law
This law is designed for the protection of
wholesale firms doing credit business.
Many Of them have suffered severe losses
through dealing with unincorporated firms,
In which it was impossible to locate the
responsible head. Under the new system
It will be impossible for a merchant to
dodge responsibility. Up-to-date small law
yers and shrewd confidence men posing as
lawyers have profited by the new law.
Armed with copies of the law-the penalty
clause for noncompliance heavily under
scored-they have invaded stores, restau-
rants, saloons and Chinese laundries, from
one end of Manhattan to the other, warning
the proprietors of their danger and con-
tracing to file the necessary papers at So
down to 81 per firm. Hundreds of petty
shopkeepers who do not buy on credit and
who do not come within the scope of the
new law have been victimized IN this way.
Studying the Sweating System.
Several philanthropists of this city, who
have plenty of money to carry out their
humanitarian plans, have been studying
the evils of what is known the Sweat
ing'' system among the workers in the
clothing trades. 1t was found that the ef-
forts to induce customers TO refuse TO pa
tronize dealers who handled the products OF
"sweat shops had been unavailing, and II
was decided that the workers must be aid
ed in q more direct manner. After study
ing the situation in this city these philan-
thropists have decided TO establish great
cooperative clothing factory. This enter
prise is to be founded in suburb OF the
city is to be on most extensive scale and
is to be conducted in accordance with the
most advanced and approved ideas.
One of the plans of the philanthropists Is
to have the stock of the cooperative fac
tory issued in very small denominations, SO
that the employees and workers may, ii they
see fit invest some of their wages in 1t and
SO take larger interest in the enterprise.
The Servant Girl Problem.
Considerable interest Is manifested here
regarding the convention of the National
Household Economic Association, (which
meets In annual session this week in Toron-
to- The great American servant girl prob
lem and other burning questions pertaining
to the household are to be aired. Begin
ming on Thursday morning and continuing
for three days, some of the brainiest wo-
men in the United States and Canada, who
have wrestled with the domestic puzzle,
will tell each other what they have learned
about 1t, and lay new plans for the further
solution The servant girls side Of the
matter will be presented, too, according to
the program but by only one representa-
tive while the mistresses have the rest of
the entire session. And the battle will In
all probability be to the strong.
The coming convention Is the eighth an
nual Three meetings will be held daily in
the auditorium of the educational depart
ment building in Toronto. Every woman