Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11
WORLD OF LABOR.

Chicago women bookkeepers will de-
mand the eight hour day.
A man who recently visited pie
factory in Chicago thus describes 1t:
"The day we were there a special
run was being made on pumpkin pies,
and | looked in vain for any signs of
pumpkin rinds. One of the foremen
grinned and told me, in strict conf
dence, that real pumpkin was never
used in pumpkin pies at present, except
possibly in a few remote and very
primitive New England villages. The
substitute was a mixture of sweet pota-
toes, apples and cheap flour, favored
with a chemical extract l tasted some
of the stuff and was satisfied he was
telling me the truth. Cranberry pie
contains only enough cranberries to
make a showing, after the manner
of the oyster in the church fair stew.
The rest is apple jelly, colored red and
favored. | have forgotten the other
substitutes employed, but these will
give you a general idea of the morality
of the business. The average output
of the foundry was one a second, or
about thirty-six thousand pies for a
working day. The manager told me
they were shipped all over the pie belt,
in specially prepared crates"
Bootblacks may not do business in
Boston on Sunday.
"We veterinary surgeons in New
York are in hard luck" said one of
them With the cable cars, the troll
ley cars and now the automobiles, our
business has gone to the dogs, meta
phorically speaking. Soon there will
be as many surgeons as there are
horses"
New Orleans negro ''roustabouts'
demand S120 month.
Toledo has 200 union sewer diggers.
The Journeymen Plumbers Union
and the employing plumbers of Homo
lulu, Hawaiian Islands, have joined
forces for the mutual advancement of
the craft. By the combination dealers
in plumbing supplies will not sell
plumbing material to any one not a
plumber unless the purchaser agrees
to employ a master plumber of a menu
Der of the journeymen's union. In adj
dition to this, plumbing materials to
any but members OF the combine have
gone up from 80 to so per cent, and
the cost of plumbing from 60 to 100
per cent.
One-fourth of the laboring popula-
ton of Colorado is said to belong 20
labor organizations. The State Fed
Grafton of Labor claims that Colorado
is the best organized State in the
Union.
Russia absolutely forbids the en-
ployment OF children under II years
of age in industrial establishments,
whether conducted by the State or pri-
vate individuals.
The Bohemian bakers of Cleveland,
o., who have been on strike since early
in this year for recognition of their
union. the establishment of ten-hour
day and an increase in wages, have at
last been victorious. The scale of the
union was signed by the boss bakers
last week and all the members of the
union are at work again.
Natural gas has been in use in Pitts
burg since 1880 To-day the combfn-
ed capital of the companies operating
in the Pittsburg district aggregates $40
100000. operating $500 miles of lines
and 1850 wells, employing nearly 5000
men, and holding under lease over 40
900 acres Of land, for which they pay
half million dollars annually in roy.
atty and rent. The daily consumption
of gas is now nearly 120,000,000 cubic
feet. equal to 5000 tons of COAL Over
| 800 new wells are drilled each year tc
maintain the SUPPLY. The supply j.
used by 500 mills and over 10000 fam.
lilies.
Pittsburg produced half the pig iroT
output of Pennsylvania, over a fourth
of the total production Of the United
States, and an amount equal to over i