New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-09

The death Of Calamity Jane" In Deadwood. s.
D, woman who was once famous as an
army scout in the days before the West was tanned
and as an aid to General Custer and General NJ les
in many famous Indian campaigns Calamity
James" real at the time OF her death was
Mrs Jane Burke. She had one daughter. 1t was In
1870 that she did her first work for the govern
ment. General Custer was then at Fort Russell.
Wyo, his way fight the Apaches. in Arizona
Clad cowboy. she went TO the fort and offered
ns seCe stsr scented her and she was uni
formed and enlisted SOLDIER After the deep
ton discovered, valuable was her knoVl-
edge of the plains, Jane was allowed to keep on.
In the campaign OF lS.3 ner seTylees %SIe Csta-
accepted In the campaign or 1870, Wheh Nus.sE
started his march to the Big Horn. she was en-
The career Of Calamity Jane after leaving the
army was scarcely less exciting than her eampalsIn
for the government between Deadwood and Custer
was SO expert a shot that few men dared modest
her, and was a member of the posse wien CO 95-
Aftervard she bought ranch and retired from
public life.
The work of the glassbiowers boys in the bottle
factories of NewJersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio, lndi-
ana and Illinois seems to be anything but the light
easy business the employers of such labor uni
formy make 1T out to be. According to Mrs. Flor
| Kelley, who graphically describes the condi-
lions under which thousands of young boys are
working IN these States the glassbower in bottle
from the mouider to the anneaiins oven me load
| of bottles which a boy carries at time is not
done. but the speed required and the overheated
| exhausting An hours steady trOttiag in pure air
tires healthy schoolboys OF from to fourteen
years; but these little lads trOt hour after hour.
dust
| In some factories the blowers are required to
furnish their own boys, and as they know too much
| to sacrifice their own sons, they continually
| searching for available sources of supply. For
years Mrs. Kelley the rumor refused 10 die out
that certain charitable institutions of Philadelphia
: Systematically furnished orphan boys who had
reached the twelfth birthday to glass works in
| w
mitted boys TO begin work at that tender
| blowers, whose slaves they became Within q year
applica tons have been made to a philanthrOpist in
| Jersey for young lads to be adopted" by
| glassblowers who were required to furnish more
| boys than they could obtain
Illinois last May enacted a law prohibiting night
work for children, but night work for children is
not yet prohibited I'm Indiana Pennsylvania. and
from the law which prohibits the employment OF
| women and minors under eighteen after o'clock
! at hlSnt: MIS- he4leN FOUND Wheh gong over me
for work at all-Often by means of perjured afi-
CaVt II parent OF guardlan-was used indinereHtly
| were found at work at ? o'clock in the morning
| on going out into the black. cold winter morning
1 from the neat and glare or the glass ovens, the
| boys went. the men did. the nearest saloons
| TO drink the cheap drinks sold just across the
! street from the works. All the boys used tobacco
| usually chewing it. They were stunted HIitera te
profane and Obscene-wrecked in body and mind be-
| fore entering upon the long adolescence known 10
happier children. The sharp contrast between the
heat of the glass ovens and the Of the winter
morning produces rheumatism and affections OF the
throat and lungs, that many of the boys die be-
fore reaching the of apprenticeship. from dis
eases due directly TO the circumstances attending
| their work.
! Hereafter it Will he a Tnisdemeanor in Georgia
for parent to live the toll of his children II
has been custom among Georgia parents Of the
| cracker" or poor white class to put their chill
dren out TO work in the cotton mills while they
| themselves lived lie of lazy leisure. supported