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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-28
VAUDEVILLE AT THE JACQUES.


Enthusiasm waxed strong at the
jacques yesterday when two large an
dlences witnessed the fine show that
Manager Poll has arranged for this
week A double headline feature in
tne acts produced by Cushman. Hol-
COMB and Curtis and Howard and
Bland prof. most acceptable, both
acts comil in for lively applause
Inc nrst is a singing comedietta on
LiLied "A Winter Session. in which
MISS Cushman and Mr. Holcomh SIM
ply the singing, while Mr. Curtis pro-
Vldes the comedy. It is a very at
tractlye act, the singing being partic-
a1afly good, as might be expected
from Miss Cushman and Mr. Holcomb
who are graduates of the cratic
stage Howard and B1and,s act is
entitIed "A Strange Boy and is do
yoled to comedy entirely, although Mr.
towards wonderful trick piano NAV
ing might be regarded in a more nre-
tentlous light than mere comedy
Maddox and Wayne, s.the Messenger
and the Thespian," have a very funny
act, too, while others who have good
acts are Wills and Hassan. Van and
EgDert John Leclair. Georgia ORA
mey, and CASTOR and Stone. Prices
are TO, 20 and 80 cents; afternoons Ia
and 20Tcents, ladies' TO-
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-28
THEATRICAL.
FRATERNAL
MILDRED HOLLAND.
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Polls will be a popular place for
local theater-goers this evening when
Mildred Holland is announced to give
US her farewell appearance in 'sThe
Power Behind the Throne" Local in
terest in Miss Holland is very strong
ever since her first appearance here
IN this play, and there is pretty gem
eral desire to see her before she laws
the play aside for s.The Lily and the
Prince" at the close of her New Eng
land tour next month .sThe Power
Behind the Throne" as is well known,
has proved an extraordinary success
curing the past few seasons, and Miss
Holland has shared in its fame. The
military cast, thrilling sword-p1ay
and numerous chivalric deeds haze
combined to make this play one of the
strongest and most popular stage pro-
auctions of the decade. Everything
necessary to produce beautiful and
historically correct pictures is carried
Dy the company, including the furni
ture, which was modelled and built
from correct drawings. Prices are
20, 80, 80, 70 cents and 81.
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more. however, through the advantages
Of the climate. The mill men here tell
me that there is no place in the world
where the conditions are so favorable to
the making of cotton cloth. The air has
lust the right amount of moisture, the
water is excellent for dyeing and the coll
ors are fast AS a result he cotton in
dustry has steadily grown, and it is to-
day bigger than ever. The increase of
the trade Of 1900 over that of 1899 amount
ed to more than $50 100000 in value, and
new mills are still being built.
Where John Bull Beats Uncle Sam.
1t is in the cotton trade that john Bull
has the advantage of Uncle Sam. How
long he will hold it remains to be seen,
but so far his grip has not loosened. He
is now producing about $4,000 900 worth
Of cotton manufactures yearly, and more
than two-thirds of this product Is ex
ported. AS far as the worlds trade In
cotton manufactures is concerned we are
not in it, although we grow nine-tenths
Of the worlds cotton and are now put
ting up our factories right in the cotton
fields. England is thousands of miles
from any place where cotton is grown,
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the Chinese market. We are already
shipping the most of the cotton for North
China, and with a better class of goods
we might capture the trade of the Yang
e-Kiang and the south.
In a Big English Cotton Factory.
But let me tell you something about
the cotton mill of Richard Haworth and
Company which 1 have just visited. 1t is
one of the largest in England. 1t en-
ploys 5000 hands, pays out half million
dollars in wages every year and weaves
800 miles of cloth every week. 1t has 5000
looms and 10000 spindles and its floor
space Is more than twelve acres. The
mill is situated in Stafford within stones
throw of the great docks that Manches-
ter has built at the end of her mighty
ship canal, so that vessels from New Or
leans and Galveston can bring the raw
cotton almost from the plantation TO the
mill.
We started in at the boiler room. where
eleven great furnaces eat up nearly 800
tons Of coal per week, went by the en-
gines working away with po,yar tcraI
to that of 1000 horses ard >"
the yard where men were unloading great
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ers out in the open air buying and SELL
ing.

ers out in the open air buying and sell
ing.
The Flags of Liverpool.
1t used to be that all of the cotton bus
mess of Liverpool was done out of doors,
There is a court in the exchange known
as the Flags" and rhe bulk of the cot
ton is bought and sold on the Flags in
stead of under cover. l went through
the exchange with it's secretary. He in
formed me that Liverpool has little fear
of Manchester taking its cotton business
away from it, and that the natural land
ing place of American cotton is and al
ways will be at the Liverpool docks.
The cotton business of Liverpool Is very
great. 1t is. ! am told, the largest cotton
market of the world. 1 can easily believe
this from the business I saw going on at
the huge cotton warehouses, and from
the six and eight ton loads Of cotton
bales. each hauled by two of Liverpoofs
famous horses. which make steady pro-
cession along the wharves and through
the busiest streets leading up from the
docks.
The Biggest Exchange of the World.
Quite as interesting as the Liverpool
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bales of Texas cotton into the mills.
We next followed the bales and saw the
various processes by which they are turn
ed into, cloth. The work is done much as
in the United States, and a. description
of 1t would not be far different from that
of any of the great cotton mills Of Mas
sachusetts or the South. The cotton is
first broken up, the fiber being rolled
over and c.vir through blowing and clean
ing machines until 1t comes out at last
in ropes of white heecy yarn as soft as
wool and as thick as broom handle
This yarn is twisted by machinery until
1t is as slender as the finest thread that
ever went through the eye of a needle.
Other threads similarly made are twisted
with it until the strength and thickness
required for the thread of the cloth is OBJ
tanned. Then the threads are wound on
bobbins and by the mule spinner and
other wonderful machinery are made into
the most beautiful of cloths. l saw cot
tons of all patterns, shades and colors
being produced. SJTne looked like the
finest of outing fannels and others had
all the sheen and softness of silk.
shall not attempt description of the pro-
cesses only saying that 1 was impressed
with the newness and excellency of ma
Chnery. a part of which was American.
Some of the rooms seemed a vast thicket
of white moving threads. working their
way in and out among the iron wheels
and bands, others were maze of many
colored cloths and others so noisy with
the flying shuttles and the spinning reels
that it was impossible to speak to the
guide and be heard.
Among the English Spinning Girls
Most of the hands of the cotton mills
are women and it was wonder to me
how hundreds of girls could work togeth-
err In one room and not talk. l mentioned
this thought to the guide later on. He
replied: why, bless you. man! Those
girls are the greatest takers on earth
They were talking right along while We
were in the mill, but they listen with the
lips and not with the ears. They have
learned the lip language and they can
tell perfectly what anyone says by watch
ing the movement of his lips"
The factory girls impressed me as by no
means bad looking. They make fairly
good wages for England, and when you
see them out for a holiday you would
hardly know that they belonged to the
mills While at work they wear cos
tune which has been in use here for gen.
erations. 1t consists of a calico dress
with short sleeves and very short skirt
and of stockings and clogs. The clogs
are peculiar to this region. They have
leather uppers with soles of wood on
which bands of iron are tackled. This
makes a great clatter as they move about,
and when they ran out at meal time it
made me think Of the clatter which you
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hear in Japanese railroad stations when
the passengers in their wooden shoes run
over the platforms.
Most Of the factory girls pay much at
tention to their personal appearance.
They are bareheaded while at work and
1 saw hundreds who had their hair in
crimping pins so tight that the skins OF
their foreheads were stretched like so
many drum-heads. They keep their hair
in pins all the week and take 1t out only
for Saturdays and Sundays.
Wages and Work.
The Lancashire factory hands are bet
ter of than the laboring people Of some
of the other parts Of England. They
make fairly good wages. and as all the
members of family work the result is
that the aggregate income of home Of
ten amounts to $50 and upwards. Mr..
Joynson of the Manchester ship canal
told me of family of eight Of whom
seven were wage earnsrs. Said he:
THE family consists of man. his wife
and six children. The father is a skilled
workman, receiving about pounds
week. The mother stays at home and
tends the house. The four girls go to the
cotton factory, and one makes her 25
shilIings, while THE others each make
from Is to 2G shillings. Then there are
two boys, who each make IS, shillings per
week. 50 that on the whole the total in
come is high"
Saving for the Holidays.
The factory hands all save up for the
holidays. and every girl takes at least
one vacation a year to spend her accu-
mutation. The saving Is done in clubs,
in the treasury of which a part of each
weeks wages is deposited. At the end
of the year, usually about July, the saw
ings are drawn out, and a week or two
is spent at the seashore or in the coun-
try. In some families such savings
amount to several hundred dollars a year.
have heard of one where they annually
foot up about $500, and this all goes at
the end Of the year.
A Good Market for American Goods.
Indeed. the factory hands are good
spenders. They want the best they can
get, and as a rule spend all they make
outside the saving for the summer vaca-
ton on their clothes, food and drink.
saw crowds of them on Market Street in
Manchester last Saturday night There Is
no work Saturday afternoon in any part
of England. and on Saturday night the
hands come out for a stroll. These see
here look superior to the common people
of the other large cities I have visited.
and from the stories told I can. see there
might DE good dernand here for many
things that we make
Many of the shops advertise American
shoes, and some have the American faR
Continued on Page Twelve,)
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Copyright, 1902. by Frank G. Carpenter0
Manchester. England.
I have spent the greater part of today
in one of the largest cotton mills of Man
chester. This city is the center of the
cotton spinning of the world and the
place where more than half of all the
raw cotton we sell is handled. The pro-
duct is brought to Liverpool or up the
ship canal to Manchester and from there
distributed over this little cotton district
of west England. The district is only
seventy-six miles long and from ten to
forty miles wide. but it is SO spotted with
mills that it might be called one vast
cotton factory. Not only in Manchester,
but in the hundreds of villages and towns
nearby the spinning, dyeng and weaving
goes on. The very air is filled with the
smoke and the streams are so discolored
by the dyes that they seem to flow ink.
In the town of Oldham there is a point
where you can count 600 factory Chin
neys without moving. Blackburn, where
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WOMEN MAKE FUSS WHEN !
THEY LOSE THEIR MONEY
Wall Street to EndeayOr to Put an End to Females
Speculating--Lack of Business
knowledge.
View York Times.

View York Times.
There is a movement among brokers in
Few York to exclude women from their
business houses and to deny them the
privilege of specializing in stocks. Fem
lninity, they say, has been given a fair
chance to show its adaptability in 1.-The
]treet' and has failed miserably.
For long time many brokers have con-
sidered women undesirable patrons for a
multitude of reasons. During the past
fortnight the opposition has crystalized
and several prominent firms have taken
a bold. determined stand to ostracize
those members of the fair sex whose
gaming instinct and desire to get rich
quick prompt them to speculate on the
markets.
The following is a copy of a letter sent
out last week by a well known firm Of
stock brokers. 1t shows plainly the at
titude of brokers. and is not unlike let
tiers that have been sent out recently by
other firms:
New York, July Z. 1902.
you that in future we shall be unable to
afford you the privilege of calling at our
Office on Blank Street
I'VE find that some of our best
customers consider it undignified for
women to frequent brokers offices, and
for that reason beg to ask that in future
you will kindly communicate with us only
by letter or telephone.
I'm this matter we have used no dis
criminat ton. Every woman who has an
account or who has done business with
us will receive similar notice by the same
mail Yours very truly.
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but it supplies its own cotton goods and
has 66 per cent of the worlds exports
while we have only about per cent.
Great Britain pays us $50, 900, 600 and up
ward for our raw materials. but 1t sells
its product for at least three times the
amount 1t pays us, SO that it really makes
about twice as much out of that part Of
our crop as we do.
In the Cotton Exchanges.
The most of our cotton now comes to
Liverpool, although the shipments via the
Manchester canal are increasing and 1t is
at Liverpool where the bulk of the Amer
lean product is sold. The sales are in the
cotton exchange, where every day there
are hundreds of buyers and sellers. The
cotton is taken from the ships to the
warehouses of the various brokers. each
of whom has a sample room with exhibits
of the grades of cotton on hand. The
SAMPLES are rolled up in sheets OF brown
paper about a yard wide. so that they
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FRANK G. CARPENTER WRITES
of JOHN BULLS COTTON TRADE
In One Instance England Has the Bulge the United
States--A Congregation Of Women Without Con-
verSation One Of Mancherter's Re-
markable Sights. 49,

exchange is that of Manchester. which is
said to be the largest exchange building
of the world. 1t is a magnificent struc-
ture In the very heart of the city, built
in the classical style out of massive
stones, now blackened by the smoke OF
the cotton mills, of the region about. 1t
was yesterday that I entered the great
hall with one of the brokers and watched
the 5000 men who gather there from the
100 cotton towns nearby to buy and sell
all sorts of goods, every Tuesday and FRI
day.
The hall covers almost an acre and it is
crowned with dome ninety-six feet hlgh.
About it are hung the coats -of-arms OF
the various manufacturing towns and up
on a shield near the door / noticed the
coat-of-arms of the United States.
In the exchange not only raw cotton but
cotton cloths, machinery paper and all
sorts of goods are sold. The Manchester
manufacturers are so excellent that buy
ers come here from all parts of the world
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Hargreaves set up the first spinning jen-
ny, still makes cotton, calico and muslin,
and at Bolton, where Crompton invented
the spinning mule. there are enormous
cotton mills and bleaching and dye works.
The first cotton mill was put up at Roche
dale in 1895. and now there are 1900 looms
and 1.75O,OOO spindles at work there
This region was noted for its wooden
manufacturers before cotton making by
machinery began. and 1t got its start
through its natives being the inventors
of the foundation tools for cotton weaT-
ing and spinning. The business grew
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look for all the world like rolls OF cotton
batting. Each roll contains several
pounds of cotton taken from the various
bales. labeled according to the grades of
the market.
The cotton is bought and sold by sam
pies, the spinners sending their orders to
the brokers. saw scores of boys moving
about the streets of Liverpool with such
samples under their arms, and I stopped
one who was carrying two bundles from
one broker to anOthsr} and photographed
lin. This was on me- Gags q the .ex-,
change, where, .latgn on, 81 Sawt he Snrok-
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to collect goods. There are 800 resident
purchasing agents who represent every
civilized country on earth who spend
their time here looking into the products
of thistregion and buying them for their
customers. There are many Syrians and
East Indians, men from Australia and
South America and from the United
States and all parts Of Europe. The bus
mess with China is chiefly done through
the English firms, which have their direct
connection with Manchester. found the
brokers, however little apprehensive
that our cotton might crowd them out of
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The Florence daily tribune., 1902-06-14
South Dakota Commencement.

Vermiilion, S. d.. June l4-Com-
mencement week at South Dakota un-
iversity was inaugurated today with
reunion of alumni in east hall.
The program for the week is the most
interesting ever arranged by the uni
versity. Rev. W, W. Dawley of Min
neapolis delivers the baccalaureate
sermon tomorrow and other men of
note who are to be heard during the
week are DIR. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of
Chicago and Professor Thomas H.
MacBride of the university of Iowa.
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Spanish War Memorial.

Rochester, N. Y, June 14-Rear
Admiral Coghlan and other distin-
guished visitors took part today in the
unveiling and dedication of the Span
ish war memorial in Highland Park.
The memorial consists of Spanish
gun captured at the battle of Manila
bay, to which brass tablets suitably
inscribed have been affixed
The exercises took place this after
noon and an immense gathering was
in attendance. The dedication was
preceded by parade of grand army
veterans and other marching organiza-
itons. Mayor Rodenbeck accepted
the memorial on behalf of the city
and addresses were delivered by Rev.
Rob Roy Converse, ID. ID. and Others,
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The Otto Floto Show.

One of the cleverest little monkies
figuring in public life today is
Tucker Booth, n star performer with
the Otto Floto Shows, which are on
tour this season. Tucker Booth is the
leader of monkey Salvation army
band, and the way he canbeat Gym
balls and miniature bass drum would
make even an owl laugh.
The manner in which Tucker Booth
came to take up his musical educa-
tion is quite interesting. He was
owned by u Clark street bird fancier,
in Chicago, and every evening a Sal
yation army band held meetings in
front of the place. From his cage
in the show window the monkey
could see the Salvationists beating
their drum and by degrees he began
to initiate them. One evening his
owner found Mr.. Monk in one
corner of the cage pounding on a tin
plate used to hold his food. This
gave the tradesman an idea for IA
monkey band and when Mr.. Floto's
representative was in Chicago look
ing up features for the show it was
broached to him. He took it up
instantly, bought the monkey, named
him Tucker Booth and sent him ON to
the trainer with instructions to form
the monkey band, which is an anus
ing feature of the Otto Floto shows
At Florence June l9
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Presbyterian.

and Hindrances on Life's Journey of
a Day" Evening worship at s
O'Clock. Pulpit discourse Jesus of
Nazereth as an Exemplar of the Phi
lantrophy of Deed and Creed. This
service will be in honor of the
knights of Phythias and Rathbone
Sisters, which orders will attend in
a body. Friends and the general
public welcomed.
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The finest type of manhood is never
overwhelmed or entirely dismayed,
no matter what comes A man of
this best type may see his property
swept away from him, his hopes
blasted, his ambitions thwarted and
his plans demolished, but his spirit
remains undaunted; his courage, his
trust, and his self confidence are un-
diminished His success is beyond the
reach of mere accident of fire, of
panic, or of temporary disaster; the
foundation of his success is laid upon
the eternal rock of truth, of justice,
of probity, of high thinking, and of
square dealing, and no floods or mis-
fortunes or commercial devastations
can reach him. They do not touch
the real man, for his Investments are
in himself. 1t is only the more shall
low minds, men without reserve of
character, with no other resources
than money or property that go down
in financial failure. The man who
has learned to live in himself, and
not in his property; who does not put
his trust in riches, but in principle,
does not lose his greatest possessions
when he loses his money. Success
for June.
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The Chieftain says that gambling
joints are running wide open in Pu-
eblo. The Star Journal insists that
gambling in Pueblo is thing of the
dim and misty past, 1t might be a
good thing for Editor Hume Lewis
to shadow Brother Green some night
and see where he buys his chips.
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Baptist.

Sunday school 9:45 a. m, preach
ing a. m, subject; Profit and
Loss" Young peoples service at p.
IN. Preaching at p. IN. subject: !:
Gods Silence" Rev. Ceoohoefer
of Emerson, Iowa, will preach at
both services.
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Important Order by Russia.

st. Petersburg, June l4-In official
circles it is hoped that the prevailing
discomfort throughout the empire viii
be diminished perceptibly by the re-
mission of the arrears of taxes from
the peasantry. 1t has been decided
by the council of state to remit the
amount of Sl2, 800, 600 and the ukase
will be promulgated tomorrow, which
is the feast of the Trinity, by NJ. de
Ploehwe, mininster of the interior.
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Dainty cookies, cakes, pies and
tarts A complete line can always be
found at Hoffman Bros Buns for
sandwiches, Caterers to social func-
tions.
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A number>of Canon City citizens
are working on plan which if con
summated will give our neighbor up
the valley fine sanitarium. This is
most commendable for every town in
this district should have snch an in
stitution.
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Our store has just been repaired
1t looks beautiful. Come in and try
dish of home made ice cream.
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PHONE. 900 RED.

Our Ice Cream is of finer grade than
ever, We've put in an electric motor
and hereafter those who try dish
will want another. No more rough
pieces i'll it.
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With increased facilities and a bet
ter equipment, we can supply the trade
with bread that has no equal in Flor
ence. From now on. once Il customer
always a customer
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Methodist.

Subject of the morning service at
the Methodist church, mo More
Sea The evening theme, Search
ing for Man. Strangers in the
city are always welcome at this
church. Good music at each service.
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Christian.

Preaching at II O'Clock, Echo
From the Salida Convention. Sub
ject at 8 O'Clock, Behold the Man
Jesus. F"
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Base Ball

Pueblo, Sunday, June 10Th; c. f.
& /. Pueblo against Florence Eagles.
Fare round trip u, 80.
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Has it ever occurred to you that oul
candy is all home made?