Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-18
or.esnnndenee Of The Desert News BY Frank Cnpenerl

working city, with more laborers,
perhaps, to It's population than any
other city of Europe. 1t IL the city OF
workshops and petty factories. II Is
estimated that there are $4,000 factories
and workshops In the city, and In add
ton there are thousands OF outsiders
who work at their homes, The usual
factories are very small the average
number of hands being six.
A great deal Of work IS done by
sweatsh0ps, who give the stuffs out and
take In the completed product at 50
much piece. This Is largely so as to
gowns and hats, upon which, II Is esti-
mated, 10000 girls are kept working for
about eight months Of the year The
girls receive very low prices and or
binary sewing girls can make less than
a dollar day while working, and some
not more than half that amount The
designers are, of course, paid well, but
the average wages are far below those
paid in the United States,
In the factories themselves the hours
are long, | have gone through the bus
lest parts OF this city at 7 o'clock in
the evening and have seen sewing girls
working in the cellars far below the
level Of the streets The stores here
close between Z and p. m, Many Of
them have women clerks, and one Of
the curious sights of Paris Is these
clerks leaving work Some Of the stores
have iron shutters which slide down
from the top, making a wall Of sheet
iron over the whole front This wall
Is let down before the clerks leave, ana
there is a little door about three feet
high and two feet wide which is left
tt
through this door at night and crawl
in in the morning, n long procession of
women and men. going in and out like
so many dogs They strengthen up
however, Immediately they get outside
and walk off 80 jauntly that you would
never imagine they had been working
all day
SOME THINGS PARIS DOES.
have spoken of Paris as a manufac-
turing city. II makes everything under
the sun, from pins to locomotives, from
buttons 10 balloons. and from gloves to
gowns. II has 1000 people who are en-
gagged in making only parts Of ladies'
dresses, IN contradistinction 10 the COM
plete gowns, and these turn out pro-
duct amounting TO Sl5,0O0,00O year Ii
sets, not only for Paris, but for all
parts of France and for shipment
abroad The French corset Is an eX-
pensive luxury, and good one from a
high-priced maker costs as much as $40
You can get Others shaped to your per-
son for as low as S., and II you are so
pebian as to buy ready made article
you viii find large variety of such
goods at still lower prices.
Paris manufactures a great deal OF
furniture. II has about 5000 workshops
of this kind, each employing three or
four hands. The furniture is costly, and
IL does not compare in quality with that
Of the United states made by machin-
cry. France has a high tariff on such
lmportations. however and at present
about the only American furniture sold
Is office chairs and roll -top desks.
There are 1000 shops here which make
watches, turning out a yearly product
worth about S50O0Q00, and there are
many thousand people engaged in max
ing articles of Paris, which means no.
lions and fancy goods of all sorts, in
Guiding jewelry, artificial flowers, but
tons, and other things in leather ivory,
horn and bone. Indeed, the French
make almost everything you can lmag-
inc, and they make everything well.
wELL.FED AND PROSPEROUS.
like these common people OF Paris.
They are more civilized than the lower
classes OF the English cities, They wear
better clothes, are better fed. and seem
to be happy and prosperous. There Is
drinking everywhere, but no intoxlca-
ton. Every one has wine with his
meals but have yet to see drunken
man in Paris, In London you meet
drunken men on almost every block in
the poorer parts Of the city. and a COM
mon sight Is a drunken woman dane
ing with her fellows while she holds a
baby at her breast
The average London laborer lives
from hand to mouth. The average
Frenchman patronizes the savings
banks. He lives within his means. and
there is no such thing as the regular
spending Of the surplus on drink, as in
England. II our treaties can be modi-
fed so that American goods can be
brought IN on an equal footing with