The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-12-16
CHICAGO NEWS LETTER.

who believe in starvation bargains and
sweatsf op labor for women and girls
will be with the employers" Mrs.
Pay nond Robins has declared. of the
Chicago garment makers strike,
which has involved one hundred thou
sand men, women and children. ION
the other hand" she continued, "the
people who believe in civilized indus
try through the trade agreement will
be with the strikers. The great need
of the moment is money money for
food and coal. Every dollar received
is accounted for publicly and it buvs a
dollars worth of provisions at whole
sale rates. We need the help of the
people to save these women and girls
from a hunger bargaIn-a bargain
which means the surrender of civi.iza.
tion to the barbaric sweatshops in one
of the great trades in our city. In
my opinion the present strike of the
garment workers is the most wide
spread and remarkable exhibition from
sociological view point of any which
ever occurred IN any city. Of nearly
one hundred thousand persons involv-
ed, thousands are limo Gently bearing
the brunt of the suffering. They are
dren of the workers. The families are
large. From eight to eleven children
is the rule in a family rather than the
exception. Four members to family
is conservative estimate. For this
reason it cannot be compared to the
bitter trouble of the shirtwaist makers
in New York recently"
The hot air furnace. which nova
days in Chicago has its back against
the wall. is fighting the steady on
slaughts OF steam and hot water heat
ing with a new weapon. expert advice.
Twenty years ago the hot air furnace
was So far in the lead that the efforts
of steam heating concerns were look
ed uon with comlacency. One manu-
featuring company in Chicago which
finally has accumulated a surplus of
millions of dollars from steam and hot
water heating equipment at that time
had rough road to sell any stock at
any price. Conditions have SO changed
in recentkyears that even for domestic
heatidg plants hot air furnace men
found themselves losing ground They
have not even yet begun to fight
ouOuIOSI " SuOutOCIs bul nave dIlCo
what promises to be a battle royal
over the subject of fuel economy. pu,i-
ty of air, cleanliness and the other
factors that enter into the heating
problem. Most of the ills which are
attributed 10 bad air the not air fur
mace makers lay at the door of the
steam coil. To pack up this claim they
assert that hereas an incre ase in bad
air diseases" is reported there is no
other reason for il than less lpure air
circulating. The tendency toward
tighter building constr auction has gone
hand in hand with an improvement in
sanitary plumbing, while at the same
time the old-time kerosene lamp has
largely been discarded for the incan-
descent electric light, which does not
containmate the air at all. Therefore
on the whole there seems to be les
SEEMING of the amount of communicating
material thrown into the air of home
in given time," declares one of thier
authorities. This being the case,
there must lave been a lessening of
the amount or fresh lair brought into
the building to dilute the cOntaminat.
ing materials, that is, an actual de-
crease in ventilation. Otherwise there
would be distinct improvement in the
condition of INDOOR air and a decrease,
instead of an increase, in the number
of cases of bad air diseases.