Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03

AkllAI-tA
passengers in their wooden shoes run over
the platforms.
Most of the factory girls pay much atten-
ton to their personal appearance. They
are bareheaded while at work and l saw
hundreds who had their hair in crimplng
pins so tight hat the skins Of their fore
heads were stretched like an MANY drum
heads. They keep their hair in pins all the
week and take it out only for Saturdays
and Sundays.
Wages and Work.
The Lancashire factory hands are better
of than the laboring people of some Of the
other parts Of England. They make fairly
good wages, and as all the members Of a
family work the result is that the aggre-
gate income Of a home often amounts to
$50 and upward. Mr.. ~Joynson OF the Man
chester ship canal told me Of a family Of
eight Of whom seven were wage earners.
Said he:
THE family consists Of a man, his wife
and six children. The father is a skilled
workman, receiving about a2 a week. The
mother stays at home and tends the house.
The four girls go to the factory and one
makes her 25 shillings, while the others
each make from Is to 20 shillings. Then
there are two boys. who each make rs shiIl-
ings per week, SO that on the Who'll the
total income is high"
The factory hands all save up for the
holidays, and every girl takes at least one
vacation a year to spend heI accumulation.
The saving is done In clubs, in the treasury
OF which a part Of each weeks wages Is de-
posted. At the end of the year, usually
about July, the savings are drawn out, and
n Wapk or tU0 Ia ananf NJ tho aaaahora - In
the country. 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.
Good Market for American Goods.
Indeed, the factory hands are good spend
ers. They want the best they can get, and
as a rule spend all they make outside TIE
saving for the summer vacation on their
clothes, food and drink. l saw crowds Of
them on Market street in Manchester last
Saturday night. There is no WORK Satur-
day afternoon in any part of England, and
on Saturday night the hands come out for a
stroll. Those / see here look superior to
the common people Of the other large cities
l have visited, and from the stories told !
3 can see there might be good demand here
3 for many things that we make.
y Many OF the shops advertise Americas
9 shoes. and some have the AmeracaR Aal
o painted on their windows, and below Il ~
statement that the shoes therein were ae
.ually made in America. This is probahl,
because the English are now making shOei
. from American lasts and selling them al
" American. They are importing our machin-
y cry and trying TO capture the new taste o
> the public, which seems to be decidedly II
favor Of our footwear. The American sho
g is far easier on the feet and more stylish
!, than the English shoe, but l hear II doubtet
- whether II will wear as we'll or whether 1
u will Withstand the wet as the English boo
! does. The people here will not wear rub
bers, and they must have a shoe that wi
Is keep out the water.
American Goods I'm Manchester.
"a see about the same American good
- here that / have described as sold in Ii
stores Of London, Liverpool and oth'
" cities. There seems to be no antipathy
- goods made In America, although many
- the British products are advertised as mat
v by British workmen and backed by Brltii
capital. The English, however, will n
81 patronize their own goods IL they are n
- equal In quality aud in price with al
others on the market. What Americ
lS manufacturer should do Is to send nothi
". but the best and to keep the prices as Il
u as possible. They should send their OF
CONTINUED on Eighth Page.)