Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-06

two meals taken in New York. The
concern Is so liberal as to give the
two policemen on the New York beat
near their store and to the street.
, cleaners along the block a locker
each in the basement, with washing
up privileges, and these men and the
letter-carricrs going to the store re-
ceive a good-sized Christmas-box of
money every year.
The mercantile establishment in
town which was visited by the afore-
said committee and writer hereof,
represents the last word in the
sciences applied to the construction
of a very large store. The air is
washed in pure water before being
distributed in air ducts; the heating
and lighting systems are perfect. The
sanitary arrangements are much bet
ter and cost more money than those
put in for the Congress and the SUI
preme Court at Washington.
Food is daintily served at cost, and
as to some products, less than cost,
to the employees; the rest and
recreation rooms reflect the highly
cultivated taste and the liberality of
the owners of the establishment, who
are notable figures in the art and
public welfare life of our State. The
high-bred courtesy and innate good
feeling of the heads of this concern
are also exhibited by the managers,
buyers, salesfolk, shippers and driv-
crs of the delivery vehicles.
Such, in brief, are the main points
as to W local concerns In the uplift
movement for wage-earners that
conditions thousands of establish
ments in u State. 1 had my prac-
teal training as a scientific engineer
under an eminent citizen of New Jer-
sey, now deceased, who was pro-
foundly learned in the classics and
in the modern sciences.
He was a multi-millionaire, who
lived a cody life and never held nor
attended a function of the four hun
dred. He was an orator of world
wide fame; the worlds first authority
on all that related to iron, steel and
manufactures therefrom. His plants
in New Jersey were truly schools for
the instruction Of the hands. Under
his will 5000 young men and women
are, every secular day, receiving a
free education in trades and profess
sions. from which the average income
is large.
A few years ago this great man
was called on to be the only orator
at the dedication of one of the won
ders of the world, a vast engineering
work hal cost SIS, 900, 900, and which
was fourteen years in construction.
The designers and the builders were
all sons of New Jersey.
The day for the Grafton came; the
President of the United States and
his cabinet and the governors OF
many States and their staffs were
there; salutes were fired by nava.
vessels and by regular army and Ma
tional Guard batteries. A multitude
of men and women faced the orator
a vast procession of troops and so,
cieties passed by-last Of all 1900
mechanics and laborers, who at one
time or another had worked on the
great work.
The banner of a body of iron work
ers from Trenton caught the orators
eyes-it was inscribed, Labor Con
quors All Things" The illustrious
son of New Jersey had spent weeks
in preparing his speech, intending tc
read it from manuscript, which, care.
fully typewriter in large type, LAY
before him. He took the manuscript
and tore 1t in bits and began ar ex-
temporaneous grafton hal is q
classic.