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here, where shaving consists not only In
taking the hair from the face, but from the
Wnoie OF the head, except the spot on the
crown where the pig tails sprouts out The
BARRIERS go about from place to place car
ryirg their tools with them During the
summer the most Of the work Ia done I'm the
open air, the barber usually CARRYING his
stool along with him.
The trade is considered a menal one. and
Tor long time, according to custom, no
barbers son was admitted to the literary
examinations through which alone offices
are obtained. The BARRIERS unions demand
ed that this be changed. They were refused
In many places. but they carried their ap-
peal higher and higher, with the threat OF
striking, until they at last got what they
wanted. Had they struck they could easily
have brought the province and empire to
time.
The BARRIERS unions regulate wages in Diff
ferent districts. In the Ningpo district they
charge 81 week. and In certain other
places they also regulate the prices Of
shaving. The Wenchow BARRIERS Union re-
Gently passed a law forbiding their MEM
bers to shampoo their customers, and they
have also an absolute rule that no barber
shall clean ears during the last six days OF
the year. A part of every ordinary shave
In China Is the cleaning and scraping the
ears. The barber has special tools for-the
purpose, and the operation takes time. At
the last of the year all BARRIERS are busy,
for then everybody must be shaved. and
the time saved through the omission Of the
ear cleaning adds considerably to the
profits.
The laborins men are much excited % to
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the foreign invasion. They fear that the
introduction of modern machinery will de-
crease work. and the officials are afraid
Of an uprising on this account. The work
men have already destroyed much modern
machinery. Chinese from America start
ed a shoe factory not long ago. He import
cobblers broke in and smashed them.
They reduced the shoe-sewing machine to
scrap iron. The Shoemakers' Union de-
nounced the employer, and he had to quit
business. Some of the modern silk mills or
Canton were similarly treated years ago. as
were also cotton mills In different parts OF
the empire.
Nevertheless. the Chinese quickly learn
how to handle the most complicated mod
ern machinery. They can do anything. and
in the government workshops at Shanghaf
they have made steel rails and locomotives
as well as all sorts Of cannon and rines:
In opening up railroads our capitalists
will have the opposition of the Cartmens
Union the Boatmen's Union and the Wheel
barrow Union. II seems strange to speak
of q wheelbarrow union, but there are
thousands Of such organizations here, COW
erfng all parts of the country. The wheel
barrows are the drays Of the cities. and
they are to large extent the freight cars
Of the country. They are used to carry
passengers as well as freight, ana the
unions will oppose the Introduction OF cleo
trio cars on the claim that they will inJure
their business. There are in Shanghai alone
almost 5000 passenger and cargo wheel
barrows, each Of which pays license OF
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approximated a million dollars a year.
These boatmen each made fifty cents or
less per day. but combined they brought
the great viceroy to terms.
Slop Carriers and the Magistrates.
Another instance Of the power Of such
unions happened shortly before I visited
Nankine. That city has a population of
half million. It Is noted for its rich
men, its dandies and its extravagant off,
cials. There Is q magistrate there who has
an income which runs high into the tens of
thousands Of dollars a year. and he nat
urally feels his importance, for he stands at
the top of the heap
AT the very bottom Of the Chinese social
pile Is the slop carrier. The cities here
nave no modern conveniences, and all the
garbage. dish washings and slops Of every
description are carried out of each house
every day by men who have the special
trade or slop carriers. These men carry
the slops out through the city in great
wooden buckets, each man having two
buckets hung to the ends OF a long pole
which rests on one shoulder. They are
OFTEN bare to the waist, and the buckets
bob up and down as they swing along
through the streets. Outside of the natural
courtesy shown to the burden carrier by
getting out of his way every sensible one
steps aside for the slop man.
Not long ago one of these fellows was
trotting along, grunting as he went through
one of the busiest streets of Marking. when
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we'll be disobeyed. but this workman cut
off his right hand and came with the bleed
ing stump before the magistrate and de-
nounced him. After that the union prob
ably had no further trouble.
China as the Workingman's Country.
We are accustomed to look upon China
as the hell of the laboring man. There are,
in fact. few places where such men have
more rights and where their unions have
more weight. 1t is true that hours are
long and wages are low, but these are con-
ditions brought about by other things than
the oppression of capital. AS far as / can
see the officials are all afraid of the work
ingman, and public sentiment has as much
weight here at home. In building rail-
roads and establishing factories the unions
will have to be fought. Even the emperor
Is afraid of them, and LII Hung Chang.
great as he was, did not dare to fight
Them. A monument of the power OF the
boatmens union can be seen in the river
just opposite the great city Of Tien Tsin.
1t consists OF number of stone piers,
upon which the railroad from the seaport
ard that from the coal mines were to cross
into the city. The boatmen wanted the
business of transferring passengers and
freight across the river; they objected to
this bridge and said the station should be
on the bank of the Peiho. Ii Hung Chang
held out for time. but the union was so
strong that he at last put his station on
the side of the river opposite the city, and
there 1t Is TO this day. Ii Hung Chang
had an income which is supposed to have
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less. Apprenttces-receive no wages what
ever. In many Of the trades they have to
work Ave years caring which they receive
only food andyodging. In other trades they
work three yeArs'ffA premium Of money Is
often demanded fer taking on an appren-
tice. and the parents frequently furnish the
ship. According 70 one union law no master
can employ an apprentice who has not
served out his fuH time. and no one can
prentices at the Isame time. Employers
who violate suchs rules are liable to be
fined by the unions, and manufacturers who
entice apprentices away from other fac
tories can be fined. Any apprentice who
wants to give up trade before the end OF
his term may do 80, but in that case he
cannot go back. Every union has a copy
of it's regulations printed on red paper, and
this Is posted up IN the various stores and
workshops 50 that there Is no excuse for
either employers or men not knowing what
the rules Of the unions are
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Eighteenth Century Curates.

From the London Chronicle.
When one learns that curates are increas>
ing so much more rapidly than benefces.
wonder is excited as to the condition of af-
fairs in the eighteenth century, when enter
prising women offered livings to clergy
men willing to marry them. An advertise
ment to this effect appeared in the London
Chronicle in March, 175S. The woman was
rather particular. too; the curate was to be
young. have a small fortune. be well recon-
mended as to morals and good temper. land
be firmly attached to the present happy es-
tabishment." The living was not rich-be-
low G1O a year-but the fair one was
young and agreeable. There seems a touch
of humility in the direction that answers
may be left at the bar of the Union Coffee
House. Strand. directed to H. H." Conf
dence was created by the assurance that
1.-The utmost secrecy and honor may be do.
pended upon
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Chinese Suicides.
rom the Philadelphia Record.

FROM me FhlIadtIphla NtcOTd.
While the Chinaman is usually looked
upon as non-inventive he certainly seems TO
show picturesque originality when it comes
to making away with himself by request.
The suicide details of several of the princes
and officials who We're told some months
ago they had better take their lives have
come out. and do not by any means lack
pictorial features. One compassed his end
by swallowing gold leaf, which he washed
down with opium. Another took the silk
cord his imperial master sent him and ar
tistically hanged himself in a neighboring
temple. while third showed he had unique
ideas on the subject by eating earth till it
choked him. This latter method is very
unusual and may have proceeded from a
misty notion that the more of his native
soil he absorbed the less there would be
for the foreigner to confiscate.
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magistrate strutted around corner and
was jostled by him. One of the buckets
was spilled, and part of the slop flew
over the magistrates gown Of lavender
satin. His eXcellency became very angry.
He ordered the slop man to be taken to
jail and told him he would punish him Sc
verely. The next day there was no slop
carried out Of Marking for the slop men
had struck; they refused to lift bucket
or permit any one else to do so. 1t was
the same the next day. and in a short time
the conditions were far worse than they
would be in Boston or st. Louis If all the
sewers were plugged and the garbage men
prevented from working. The city stank
50 that even the Chinese could stand it no
longer. They rose en- masse and the mag
istrate had to give in.
Similar strikes have recently occurred at
Shanghai from the contractors increasing
the weight of the buckets in which the
Slops are carried.
How the BARRIERS Bulldozed Officials.
The BARRIERS Union is one of the strong
est in China. In our country many shave
themselves, but this is almost impossible
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Ina Local Court.
From the Chicago News.

from the Chicago News.
The wise judge frowned sterHly on the
prisoner.
Il suppose you are ready to confess that
you are a confidence mani" said his honor.
.'Oh. no." has4ened Bunko Billy. with an
injured look, t..I4 am merely an ornitholo-
gist.''s =
AN ornithologist. indeed! What kind Of
birds do you handler"
Jays" -
And then only the clanking doors dis
turbed the court
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Affections Tribute.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Girl with the Gibson Girl Neck-'You
can't make me believe all that mop Of hair
on Kate Huckleberry's head is her own.
She wears a switch. Some day I'm going
to ask her hairdre sser If it isn't so.'
Girl with the Julia Marlowe Dimple-
You'd better ask her dentist"
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There was a time when the town of Bla-
densburg, at the head of navigation on the
Anacostia, disputed with Georgetown and
Baltimore for pre-eminence a shipping
port of tobacco. In 1885 a portion of Brad
docks army was quartered on it's peo-
pie and thence marched to death on the
banks of the Monongahela. There too.
was the famous dueling ground which
tins. And in Bladensburg streets was
fought disastrous battle of the war of
1912, after which the British marched un-
opposed to burn the Capitol and the Presi-
dents house. For General Ross, who COM
mitted the vandalism of destroying the pub
lie buildings of a nation, a place in West
minister Abbey was prepared, and his fam
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in process of construction.
The Rock Creek Parks.
Two miles of parkway bring one to the
Geological Park, well-developed tract Of
40 acres, where the Smithsonian Institution
aims to preserve specimens of those ami
mails which advancing civilization threatens
with destruction. Adjoining the Geological
Park is the Rock Creek Park, throughout
the length of which a single road winds
along one bank Of the stream to the boun-
Diary Of the District Across the park run i
few country roads; and on it's wooded knolls
stand a few ancient stone houses, among
them the Klingle place. one Of the owners
Of which, on his wedding night, returned to
town on an errand, and, within sight of
the lights and hearing of the voices of the
merrymakers, was drowned in the torrent
into which a sudden storm had turned the
creek. Tumbling over bouiders. darting
around corners, spreading itself over shall
lows, Rock creek Is q picturesque stream;
and no matter how thickly populated the
District may become, Congress has provided
for isolation and quiet within the long, cool
valley.
Valley Tempting to the Commission.
The region between Rock creek and the
northwestern line of the District has SO
many natural beauties that the commission
found difficulty in restraining their desires
to acquire a very considerable portion OF It
for park purposes. Washington, following
the rule with cities, Is growing most rapidly
toward the northwest: and already the pick
and shovel of the real estate specu1ator are
at work tearing u0wn wooded hiliS to fill
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
NORTH JERSEYS PETITION
Request for Street Franchises
to Be Acted on Tomorrow
by the Bayonne Common
Council.

A report upon the petition of the
North Jersey Street Railway Company,
who desire two street franchises through
Bayonne to form direct connections with
Jersey City lines, is expected by the
citizens during the regular meeting Of
The Bayonne Common Council tomorrow
evening.
Under the State law governing.
should the committee report favorahly,
the Council will then advertise and hold
public meeting where citizens and
taxpayers will have abundant opportu-
nifty to express their views upon the pro-
posed legislation or action upon the pc
tition. Then. the Council will be in a
position to take such action as it may de-
sire. Only two regular meetings are held
monthly. but adjourned or special meet
ings may be held any time upon short
notice The next regular meeting after
tomorrow night, would fall on Tuesday
evening, August 5.
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
SHOUTING CONTEST.
George Keiss to Exert His Lung
Powers at Columbia Hall
Outing.

The sixth annual outing and coaching
party of Columbia Hall Club, at the cor
ner of Ocean and Gator avenues, Greeh-
vile, will he held on Sunday, July 81.
The destination is New Dorp Beach Ho-
tel.
The club has sent in an order for a
number Of special soft white felt hats
for the occasion. A great time is anti
cipated by the members, as their former
outings have always met with success.
There will be racing, jumping, swim
ming and baseball.
Mr. George Keiss, who won the
shouting contest last year, has challenged
anyone to beat him in this years con
test. which will be IN interesting feature
Of the outing A banquet viii be
served at the hotel during the day, and
it is expected that many prominent
politicians will make speeches.
Carriages will be furnished to convey
the party to New Dorp Beach Hotel.
They will leave Columbia Hall at 8 A.
NJ. The tickets are three dollars each.
The committee in charge of the ont
ing consists of:-Edward Barr, Chair
man; w G. Collins, Secretary: Joseph
Kaiser Treasurer Thomas Kelly. L.
Adams, +. Bennett, J. Hovenden. Chas.
II. Chavaht, Lewis Duesing. P. Lignot.
NJ. Foster, William Heiber, Henry Lutz,
George Cabell, William Davis, George
Keiss, T.. a.. Graef,1P. Dillon and Peter
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14

TO ESTHER AvERILL. INFANT; MAR
garet c. Averill, infant; Edward Averills
Augustus Zabriskie, surviving executor OF
Abraham O.. zabriskie, decd, surviving trus-
tee under the will Of John Tonnele. dec q,
and Albert Kumpa tenant.
You are hereby notified that at a public sale
made by the City Collector of Jersey City, on
the Sth day of August, 1893. The Mayor and
sum of twenty-eight dollars and nineteen
cents ALL the land and real estate situate N
Jersey City. in the County OF Hudson ana
state OF New Jersey, fronting on ELM street s5
which Is laid down and designated as lot II,
IN block number 957 shown upon L. ID.
Fowlers Official Assessment Map of Jersey
City, n. j., 1884, said sale being made pur-
suant to the provisions of an act of the Legis-
ature Of New Jersey. passed March soth 1885,
entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and coll
lection of arrearages of unpaid taxes. as
sessments and water rates or water rents
in cities of this State. and imposing and
levying a tax. assessment and lien in lieu
and instead of such arrearages and to en-
force the. payment thereof, and to provide
for the sale Of lands subjected to future
taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you appear
to have estate or interest in said land and
real estate and unless the said land and real
acts within one year from the date Of sale and
before the expiration OF six months from and
after the service hereof. a deed for the same
VIII be given conveying to The Mayor and and
land and real estate according to the pro-
visions of the said acts
Dated Jersey City, q May 9Th 1902
M Is. FAGAN
Att.st:- NJ. y. o,DoNNEILf. ELL
fsaie No. $500
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
sT. JosEpA's PARISH OUTING
Committees Appointed Yesterday for
Care of the Gu-s:s.

St. Joseph's Parish will go to Rich
mond Beach July so on its annual excur-
sion on the steamer Isabelle and the
barge empire They viii start at nine
o'clock from the Morris street dock.
Great preparations are being made for
the entertainment and amusement of the
guests. The following committee were
appointed at meeting Of the Young
Mems Lyceum at Pavonia Hall yester-
day
Floor Committee--Mr. John F. O'Neill,
chairman. Assistants-M Messrs. Alfred
Burke and Thomas Reilly
Reception Committee Mr.. Joseph
Cutley, chairman.
Tickets and Cash-Mr. John Kiernan,
chairman. Messrs. James Wheelahan,
Christian Storzinger. Matthew Kelly,
John Cullom, Thomas Hardiman, Mi-
chael keading.
Committee on Ice-Messrs. Tuoley
and Storzinger.
Check Rooms-Daniel Sullivan, HUI
bert Gartley.
Police-Messrs.. Tuohey and storz-
niger.
Refreshments and Cigars Messrs.
James Harmondy. Frank Evans.
Trolley cars-Messrs. bernard Kelly,
Eugene ,Kinkead.
St Josepli's Lyceum.-Re Com
nittee Messrs. Joseph Guilty, William
Clossey, Joseph =. Evans, Thomas Kin
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
ARCANUM RIVALRY.
Sherman Council Beat Unique
in Baseball BY Twenty
one to Nine.

Sherman Council of the Royal Ar
canum and Unique Council played a
lively game Of baseball Saturday after
noon on the grounds near the Steel
Works in West Bergen. A large and en-
thusiastic crowd witnessed the game.
Most of the Uniques' runs We're
brought in in the ninth inning, when
Wright. the Shermans' pitcher, went up
in the air as a result of the jollying of
the Unioue's crowd. He made num-
Der Of wild throws and for while it
looked as though the Unique players
would pull down the big lead and come
out victors, but Wright. after six runs
had been scored, got back to his regular
form and soon struck out three men.
Contractor Charles Parkins brought
many good natured laugh by his strenu-
Gus efforts at sprinting around the bases
Some objections were made about Miller,
as he had not fully become member OF
sherman Council, and only members
were supposed to play.
Stowel pitched the first few innings
for the Uniques, but Devine was found
to be much better. Many of the menu
bers of Sherman Council will enjoy good
cigars and dinners for some time. to
come at the expense of the members OF
Unique Council as a result of the game.
Tile teams lined up as follows
Unique Council Team - Devine,
pitcher; Bailey, catcher; e. Poole, first
base: Robbins. second base; Cook, third
base; Broskabank, short stop: Stowel,
right field; Dale, centre field; Hellerman,
left field.
Sherman Council Team--Fred Wright,
pitcher: E. Hull, catcher; w. Miller,
first base; Charles Parkins, second base;
+. H. Porter. short stop; J. H. Ruddick,
third base; W. X De Wolf, left field;
G.. .Bunzing, centre field;sW Berger; right
field.
The game ended with score of q to
8 in favor of Sherman Council. Coun-
selor Marcus Higginbotham. Ir., and
Archie Miller were the umpires.
The different Royal Areanum councils
have formed teams and it is contemplate
ed rolling out the grounds at the Steel
Works for a permanent baseball field.
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14

PURSUANT TO AND BY VIRTUE OF AN
order Of Vhe Orphans Court OF Hudson
County, New Jersey. made on the ninth day Of
May. nineteen hundred and two, the under
signed, administrator of the estate of John
Pringle, deceased. will sell at public vendue
to the highest bidder on
WEDNESDAY. the sixth day of August A D.
nineteen hundred and two,
at the hour OF two o'clock in the afternoon
on the premises. all that certain lot piece
or parcel Of land, situate. lying and being in
the City Of Jersey City, in the County of
Hudson and State OF New Jersey, bounded and
described as follows. to wit:-Beginning at q
point on the westerly side of Summit avenue
distant one hundred and ten feet and eighty
seven hundredths Q10.SD northerly from New
kirk street; thence running westerly on a line
forming right angle with Summit avenue
one hundred t100) feet: thence northerly aNd
parallel with Summit avenue twenty-five (25)
feet, thence easterly and parallel with the firsr
course. one hundred tloo) feet to the westerly
line of summit avenue; thence southerly aisne
said westerly line of Summit avenue twenty.
five (25) feet to the point place Of begin
ming. Being lot numbered twenty-eight In
Block seventy.three t73. map of property
OF Garret G.. Newkirk. Jersey City, N j..
filed in the office Of Register OF Hudson County
aforesaid.
Being same premises conveyed to said John
Pringie now deceased, by Henry A. Beier
and wife. by deed dated July I, 1900, reed in
Liber f55, page 14s
Dated June "a. 1902.
FRANK G.. PRINGLE
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
NEW CHARTERS.
Paciiic-Alaska Transportation and
Coal Company In corporated.


The Paeifc-Alaska Transportation
and Coal Company, capitalized at So
100000, of which 10000 shares of a par
value of S100 each are s per cent. non
cumulative preferred stock, filed articles
of Incorporation at the County Clerk $
Office this morning. The registered office
0 fthe company is at No. 10 Exchange
Place, Jersey City, and the incorporators
are:-Louis s. Posner, David NJ. Barnes
and Louis B. Daley.
The North American Loan and Secu-
rites Company, capital stock $250,0O0,
also filed articles to-day. The registered
Office is No. 10 Exchange Place, Jersey
City, and the incorporators are:-John
s. Bordeaux, John l. Billings and Ray
mond Newman.
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
IN cHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.

TO George Frankenstein.
BY virtue OF an order OF the Court OF Chan
Gerry of New Jersey made on the day OF the
date hereof, in cause wherein Annie Kun IS
Complainant and you and others are defen-
dants you are required TO appear, and plead,
demur or answer to the complainants bill on
or before the fourteenth day Of August next.
or the said bill will be taken confessed
against you
The said bill is filed to foreclose mortgage
given by Fred Bailey and wife to George n.
Kanenbley. dated July 2lst. 1900 on lands IN
Jersey City, in the County of Hudson and
State Of New Jersey. registered in the once
of the Register of said County, in Book 456 or
Mortgages, page 293. And you are made de-
fendant because you own said lands.
Dated June 1S. 1902.
JAMES A. GORDON.
Solicitor of Complainant,
P. o. Address, 5S6 Newark avenue, Jersey
City, N. ].
The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
FOUND In A SHOP.
Distracted Bayonne Mother Dis
covers Runaway Son.

Rayonne's Sunday School boy. Will
liam LockIey, Of Fifty-irst street, whom
the police of Bayonne, Jersey City and
New York have been trying to locate
about six weeks. mas been recovered and
restored, to his pareurs.
< The boy startal for Sunday School
one Sunday six weeks ago, but dkap-
pe:ured without attending church. A gen
eral alarm was sent out by the police.
Mrs Loclley has been almost distracted.
Yesterday she found her thirteen-year-
old son working in a bicycle store on Sta
ten Island. Willie win sojourn at home
for some time to come