The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-29
AFniENDLY Strike.

AFhiENDLY Strike.
The strike in Richmond last week
should serve as an example to laboring
men and employers all over the country.
There was no rioting, no disorder. no
| bloodshed. or destruction of property by
| the strikers. At u clock on Wednes-
| day. the 10th, every car was turned IN,
together with the fares collected, In sooo
| order at the shops of the various roaos.
| Quietly, calmly and deliberately, ana pc,
| cause they felt that tnesr demands han
been refused, every employe quit WORK.
| In less than twenty-four hours thereafter
| the car company and employees had SUD
| raitted their contentious to aroltid.ioii
1 and the cars were running again. IL d.
spirit of reason and compromise the ar
| hitrators discussed the contending CLAIMS
| and the result was a decision WHEREBY the
| an,n,oves received at least fairly large
| proportion of what they had demanded
| We are proud that Virginia Workmen
| have acted in such a manner, and we ne
lieve that such a course is the true So
| luton of many OF the differences between
| capital and labor-Northern Neck News.
Richmond has won laurels for herself
and is indebted to the Passenger and
| Power Company and its employees for the
admirable manner in which the strike
was handled. We said at the time that
the conduct of the company and its men
would be a fine advertisement abroad for
Richmonds conservatism; and such is
the fact.
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The papers Of yesterday announced the
death by suicide OF DR.. Eugene Grissom.
once known throughout the South as
famous expert in the treatment OF In
sanity. DR.. Grissom was for twenty
one years superintendent of the North
Carolina Asylum for the Insane. at Raj
eigh. and wrote several works on that
subject He is especially remembered in
connection with the famous De Jarnette
trial. at Danville. De Jarnette was on
trial for his life for having slain his
the defence was insanity. DR.. Grissom
was very positive in his opinion that De
Jarnette was insane when the crime was
committed and the jury brought in a
taken, De Jarnette afterwards became
raving maniac. There are many who
believe that DR.. Grissom himself was in
sane.
Recently Mayor Ashbridge, of Fhiladel-
phia, vetoed a job ordinance. and all the
newspapers in the city commended him
for il. The Ledger says this action on the
part of the Philadelphia papers should
no.: only convince every public servant
that he need fear no adverse criticism of
an, official act of his which upholds and
safeguards the interests of the people,
but it should also convince him that the
newspapers love to praise rather than to
blame, and that when they do the latter
they do it reluctantly and with an ear
nest sense of their duty to the community,
whose opinion, wishes, will and power
they pronounce
Quite true Political organs and other
publications which have private ends to
serve may nag public officials for a pur-
pose, but the honest newspaper, whose
ain. is to serve the public and promote
good government delights to bestow praise
upon office-holders when they do any
thing worthy of commentator.
The Orange Observer advises the young
nan about town who is out Of job to
go to the farm, for q, year at least. 1t
observes that '.plowing behind a mule will
give him new constitution, take the
kinks out of his head, the frogs out OF
his throat. the weakness out of his legs,
the corns off his toes, and give him
good appetite, an honest living and sight
Of heaven
The Observer is a philosopher The
farm is a fine health resort and fine
school for a young man. We cannot I'M
derstand how an independent young man
can be content to exc cut a miserable eS-
istence in town, when the luxury and In
denendence OF the farm is his for the
asking.
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The little negro boy CT Louisville. who
ate a gallon of ice cream and went
GRAVY. is still being handled in the para
graph and news columns The last we
saw of him he appeared as 'one of the
leaders in Louisville society. who ate q
gallon of cream etc.
Texas takes the cake. A congressional
convention has failed to get out of a
deadlock, after $500 ballots did not nom
mate a candidate, but then Texas Dem
ocrats have let of spare time.
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With Texas boring new oil wells every
day and Georgia. Alabama and Missis-
sippi squeezing oil out of cotton seed,
the South will soon be greasing the uni
verse.
At forty years of age, when most men
consider themselves yet young the prize