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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
THE NEW DANCES.

BILLY" Sunday, the remarkable evange-
list, was asked, after his successful
Philadelphia season. what he thought OF
the new dances.
What do l think OF the new dal.ces?"
said Mr.. Sunday with laugh. "well, let
me tell you a story.
"a young man and a girl IN evening
dress sat in conservatory. A fountain
trlckled and gurgled in the marble basin
before them. Palms dropped their long
leaves over them.
THE light was dim. Distant music
sounded softly.
suddenly the young man, overcome
by the girls beauty, seized her In his
arms and crushed her madly 10 his breast.
why, Mr.. Trevanlon, she saie, put
ting her white hand on his shirt bosom
and pushing him colby away, you forget
yourself. This sort of thing isn't proper
here.
80 saying, she took his arm. and they
went out on the ballroom floor and in
dulged in a maxixe."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

he has never had occasion to eXpel a
single man from the premises. What
private club can point to a similar rec
ord? Yet $4,000 of these cargo heav-
ers, coal beavers and chinangos use the
Rest yearly
1.-THE men who come in here" he said
the other day as he surveyed the honest
company from behind the little railing
which incloses his desk, ARE divided
into five classes-hold men, deck men,
dock men, coal beavers and chinSngOs.
The hold men are those who break out
the cargo when the vessel is unloading
or stow it away securely when she is
loading. They have to have a pretty
good training to know best how to load
a cargo so that it won't shift in a high
sea and TO unload it without damage to
itself, to themselves or the vessel after
it has been wedged in thus carefully.
1t takes two or three years, as a rule,
for a longshoreman to acquire knowl-
edge sufficient to permit of his working
in the hold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
FRANK 6LATTo, TlMEKEEPER
AND WISE.

Now. when the longshoremen shape
up for the boss steyedore and he calls
the gangs, Frank Blatto, the time
keeper, stands right at his elbow to
check off every man as he steps for
ward. Blatto knows every man in the
line. no matter how many hundred
there may be- And if a man shows
any liquor on him he can't get by,
that's all, and if he shapes up often in
that condition they'll bar the pier 10
him. Then he becomes a chinango, to
pick up what little money he cam"
At the other end of the scale is the
steady longshoreman, who has been
able to withstand the call of the red
eye for period Of years, long enough
to raise a family of bright children who
are now adding to the family income
very materially. Mr.. Nutchey cited
the case Of q longshoreman or his ac-
auaintanco who averaged between ST.
and $15 a week, four other members
of whose family were also wage earn
eTS, IntlT LANCAAAO oSoA
ing 500 a week. This man lives In an
apartment for which he pays at least
$40 a month rent, and on Sunday vent
ures abroad so disguised in his good
clothes that one might mistake MIN
easily for a director of a steamship
line.
Miss Graham said Old acquaintance
Of hers who frequented the Rest In
their working clothes with their bale
hooks struck through their belts and
their grimy faces streaked with per-
spiration often stopped to speak to her
Sundays 80 changed that she hardly
knew them. She had heard, she said,
of longshoreman one Of whose sons
was a priest and another a college
student.
Such men, IL is needless to-say, make
the very best kind of citizen, and it
is just because there is the possibility
Of such development among longshore-
men that close observers Of their hard
ships and temptations and terrible
struggles wish the more that their lot
were ameliorated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
Nv ". NJ. HoUGuToN.

TvERY little while society wakes
y, to q realization that something
it has been gazing on compla-
Gently from afar bears very different
complexion on closer inspection. The
longshoreman, for example, that great
hulking fellow the sweat of those brow
helps arrange the smut on his face into
bizarre diagrams-one has heard a
great deal of his tremendous endur-
ance and his Gargantuan appetite
His constant physical exertions above
the tapping waters OF the dock, his
urching gait as he parts the swinging
doors of a saloon, his corded muscles,
the very CRIME of him-all these things
help to persuade one that his is an
arduous and turbulent but withal a
primitive and healthy life. the life of
real man, in the physical sense at
least.
And vet what is the actual fact?
Why, simply that his hard life is not
toughening him so much as it is killing
him, wearing him out before his prime,
just as il would wear out you and me-
who belong to exactly the same species.
A longshoreman submits himself TO
heavy muscular strains in different
temperatures and during irregular
hours. and then he relaxes on tobacco
and cheap liquor and eats large guam
titles Of indigestible food. If, therefore,
he is not manned for life or crushed to
death in the course Of his dangerous
work he soon finds his constitution
breaking under him. And nothing
more pitiable or helpless than broken
longshoreman can well be imagined.
Daniel Sullivan, an officer of the
Longshoremen's Union. puts the av-
erage life of the longshoreman, after
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
BACK NUMeER

N. C. Goodwin. the actor. said at The
Players:
There is no call for the old-fashIoned.
Chesterfield type Of man to-day. To-day
Is the day OF the make. the slashed
skirt and the cigarette. With these the
Chesterfield type can't cope.
II overheard two pretty girls at
sherry's. They were taking tea, smok-
ing cigarettes In long amber tubes and
swinging their slim silken ankles IN and
out OF the slash In their skirts.
Fred, said the first girl. kissed me
solemnly on the forehead after ] &C
cepted him. Wasn't that funny?
aft man kissed me on the forehead
said the other girl, ia call him down.
Yes. sir. I'D call him down four inches ;"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
UNWILLING OF BRONZE TABLET
TO MATTHEW MAHER.

Makers grateful comrades have UNI
yelled a little bronze tablet to his mem
DRY, fastened to the inside wall Of the
Rest near the door as you enter. The
ceremony took place in the noon hour
on July % a year ago, presided over by
Bishop Courtney, president of the
Church Temperance Society. Mrs.
Catherine Maher herself unveiled the
memorial to her husband, while Mrs.
Helen Watson, their only child, and
several relatives of the couple looked
on, not to mention the members OF
the longshoremen's committee through
whom the funds for the memorial tab
let were Taised-James Nutchey, the
superintendent of the Rest, chairman;
S. Ketcham, e-chairman; II. A.
Lewis, secretary; J. Z. Riley, treas
urer; Daniel Carroll, J. Delaney. Q.
O'Neil, f. Smith, II. Ross, NJ. O'Brien,
]. Franklin, j. w. McGowan, S. Sirem-
incl, NJ. Walsh and J. Dimitry. The
rank and file of the men were well rep
resented, too. Superintendent Nutchey
made the presentation address.
In superintendent Nutchey the So
ciety has got hold of a man ideally
fitted TO inspire longshoremen with
confidence and respect. Mr.. Nutchey
was formerly skipper of a sailing YES
sell a big, clean-cut man of middle age,
who has looked into the heart and mind
of more than one rough looking GUS
toner in his life and found something
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
USED UP MEN WHO DON'T KNOW
ITOR WON'T ADMIT IT.

"A lot of men come in here who
used to follow that shape-up and try to
still. but they can no longer stand up
to a days WORK and they don't know
IL or won't admit it. But that's why
they are left on the sidewalk a large
part Of the time and get chance only
when the boss stevedore is taking on
G. lot Of extra gangs or when they
work as chinangos. They pick up 81
or IS a week, enough TO make both
ends meet
The Cedric was unloading at the Bull
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

Dock early last week. Thirteen gangs,
aggregating more than 800 men,
swarmed over her decks and on the
dock below; and if you cared to peep
over the edge into the abyss OF the
hatchway you could make them out
toiling also among the great casks and
bales Of cargo seven decks below in
the gloom of the hold. At a hatch
way forward Murtha Fortune header
for one Of the deck gangs, stood long
and straight, sun burned and good
natured, directing the hosting of casks
Of palm OIL The thunder Of the winches
drowned the spoken or shouted
word, but it seemed he need only hold
his left arm out at a given angle and
flip d finger or two to convey his direc-
tons while these giant casks swung
up out of the hatch and then down over
the side to the pier like toy balloons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

taking up the work, at fifteen years.
John f. Riley, general organizer Of the
International Longshoremen's Associa-
ton. told the Commission on Industrial
Relations that ten years of long
shoreman's existence would shatter the
strongest constitution. The social
problem involved assumes tremendous
proportions when il is realized that in
the Port of New York alone there are
forty thousand longshoremen, most Of
them with families dependent on them,
leading this very existence, feeding
their young manhood into this merci-
less mill of industry, TO be reduced in
decade into human wrecks, tubercular
and rheumatic. or more mercifully, per-
haps. to be crushed lifeless in a winch
or under a swinging ton of cargo.
But one has only 10 walk down
Eleventh av. or West st. with an eye
10 those burly chaps idling about with
bale hooks over their hips TO discover
that life has its compensations even
under such conditions. There is
great camaraderie among longshore-
men. due no doubt to the many idle
hours they are compelled TO spend to-
gether waiting for ships.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
THE DECK MAN MUST KNOW HOW
TO WORK WINCHES.

"The deck man has to know how TO
work the winches, how to rig tackle
and all the different technical details
connected with the hosting Of heavy
cargo over the side. His fellow worker
calls him a sailor. He, too, Is a skilled
workman, very slightly lower in i'm
portance, If any, to the hold man. He
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
,TIVITIEs ABOUT AN UNLOAD
ING STEAM Err.

Between the deck of the Cedric and
the lower story of the pier were
stretched great nets to catch a cask or
a bale should 1t slip it's tackle and seek
the centre of the earth by way of the
Hudson River. Under these nets and
between the liner and the pier coal
barges crept with coal black demons
aboard frantically shovelling the
barges' contents into travelling buck
cts. The place was alive.
But outside in the street in front OF
the pier entrance a gathering Of Chi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

has a better Job, in that it keeps him
out on deck instead Of in the sitting
hold
'The dock man receives the cargo on
the pier and stacks it there or picks it
out to be swung over the side, as the
case may be. His job requires much
less skill.
"The coal beavers and chinangos are
not longshoremen as that word is used
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

eminently worth while there. he
doesn't talk temperance or religion 10
such men. He simply asks them TO use
the spittoon instead Of the floor 10
conduct themselves quietly at their
games so every one can enjoy himself
and TO preserve the furniture.
And his floor remains inviolate' ne
hasa't had single chair broken IN the
seur years of the Rests existence and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
THE BULL DOCK, PIER 90, NORTH
RIVER.

THE best dock in the city from the
River, right across the street here,
where the White Star boats unload
their Liverpool cargoes. They call
that the Bull Dock, because In the old
days the Atlantic Transport cattle
boats used to tie up there. Here eight
gangs are almost steadily employed.
loading or unloading. These steady
gangs are numbered from ] to 5. and
a man keeps his job in one perma-
nently as long as he reports for duty
and can do the work satisfactorily.
But if he is absent at the shape-up-
when the boss stevedore blows his
whistle and the men line up in semi
circle outside the pier 10 be picked-an-
other man gets his place for the time
the ship entirely. II, however, he
shows up q little later and has a good
record he will probably be put on one
of the extra gangs almost always en-
plOyGu Mntll a us
docks. But the more shape-ups he
misses, or the more he attends in an
intoxicated condition, the worse his rec
ord becomes, until finally he is barred
from the pier and drifts into the CHI
mango class.
"The men regularly employed on this
pier sometimes make as high as $40 a
week, though the average is around
SIS. But the man who follows that
sLape-up long is likely to break down.
II he belongs TO one the regular
gangs he must RESPOND to the call
every time he hears it on pain of for
feiting his place. and that often means
two or three nights work a week in
addition TO the eleven hours Of day
work. The fullest week and the big
gest pay is this piers reputation, and
also the hardest work and the long
est hours.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

that does it. Why let one Of them get
job and in half an hour he'll let
pal spell him while he gets a drink,
and he'll repeat this at regular inter-
walls, all the time paying his pal in
Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

by the men themselves. The former
load the coal from barges into the
ships bunkers preparatory TO forth
coming voyage. The chinango is en-
ployed entirely in unloading cargo
from a lighter or barge on to the pier,
there TO be transferred TO the steam
ship by the regular longshoreman. His
is the lowest rung of the ladder. His
ranks are recruited from among TN,
dipsomaniacs and failures of the
waterfront TO a large extent. He works
to drink, gets paid at the end of the
day instead Of at the end OF the week
as i'm the case of the longshoremen,
and rarely belongs to the union. Some
thing of a gulf divides the hold man
and the chinango.
About eight men from each of the
three classes Of longshoremen consti-
tute a gang of twenty-four. one of
each eight gets five cents more an hour,
and acts in the capacity of foreman or
header These headers in turn are
under the orders of three foremen, one
for deck, one for hold and one for dock,
and in their turn the foremen must
obey the section foremen. Each ship
has five of the latter, two at each end
and one in the hold, and on the dock
there is another still. Then over all is
the head foreman for the ship. and
over him the boss stevedore, and over
him other dignitaries in an almost end
less hierarchy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
THE LoNGSHOREMAN IN HIS
HOURS OF WAITING.

You may see them seated along the
curb on d sunny day, if it is not too
hot smoking and chatting in rows
You will find them in boisterous con-
clave in the countless saloons dotting
the waterfront or you may run into
them quietly relaxing in the comfort
able chairs Of the Longshoremen's Rest,
between 22d and 23d SITS, on Eleventh
av., maintained by the Church Tenn
perance Society. Here. in their only
refuge from both the weather and de-
mon rum they may smoke and read or
lIay games, pretty secure in the knowl-
edge that no boss stevedore in the Chel-
sea section will blow his whistle for the
"shape-up" without their hearing it.
II is hard TO think of a charitable in
stitution more necessary and beneficial
than the Longshoremen's Rest, The
pity Of it is that every section Of the
waterfront does not possess one or more
such refugees for these hard working,
sorely tempted men. This one can
serve properly only the upper end Of
the Chelsea section, and yet II Is the
only institution Of it's kind I'm the world.
which is something of a commentary
on the indifference with which an In
dustrial civilization wastes its human
material The piers, Of course are
barred to the men as lounging places, II
for no other reason than that they can
not be allowed to smoke on them for
longshoreman is simply lost in leisure
moment without his pipe. He can't so
home, though he may live within
block OF the piers, because he must be
on hand to take advantage Of the first
whistle for volunteers.
Until the establishment OF the Rest
he had only the street and the saloon
10 choose from in any weather, and the
choice, .of course, was obvious. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
THE FLUcTUATINe DEMANDS FOR
WORKERS.

Then again the demand Of any one
steamship company for longshoremen
fiuctuates greatly from day to day and
from week to week. The steamship
companies could not begin TO pay the
same rate of wages which the men now
individually average IL each company
maintained its own large gang OF long
shoremen part OF the time in complete
idleness. The men themselves would
be the first ones to resent any such ar
rangement. Not until so many ships
come in that no sooner does one depart
than another takes her place at the
pier can longshoremen be marshalied
TO work like factory hands.
The only obvious reform is that OF
establishing more lounging places on
the type of the Longshoremen's Rest.
But here again it is necessary to make
haste slowly lest the men be led TO
suspect some Interior motive, For two
days after the present Rest was opened
they refused to enter it, under the i'm
preston that it was to be used TO
house strike breakers. II the steam
ship companies themselves should seek
directly to provide and maintain such
places for their :1en they would UNI
doubtedly waste their efforts, since the
men would refuse to make use Of shell
ters furnished by the enemy" And
even the. city's efforts have been re-
pulsed to a certain extent since the
men are afraid that municipal loung-
ing place would degenerate into what
they expressively term louise house,
and they are too fundamentally clean
and self-respecting to be herded with
the unclean.
! These obstacles, would SEEM
might be avoided should the city and
steamship companies share in the erec-
ton of shelters to be run by some such
disinterested agency as the Church
Temperance Society, whose care TO
maintain absolute neutrality in labor
disputes and not to obtrude denomina-
tionaI Christianity upon the men has
won their confidence. For IS per cent of
these men are Irish Catholics, 10 per
cent Of them are Italians and the re-
naming 10 per cent comprise Scandi-
navians, Germans and so on. Their
divergent traditions do not offer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
LIFE IS SHORT BUT SELDOM MERRY
The LongShoremen's
Rest Is the Bright
Spot in Their
Lives.

any boss, course which invariably
leads to deeper decentralization. They
would be better of as a class, 80 eX-
perts consider, with definite connec-
lions, permanent bosses and regular
hours and weekly wages.
But the problem permits Of no simple
remedy. In Liverpool the lot OF the
longshoreman is somewhat better, be-
cause Liverpool is locked port ana
ships tie up only at stated times. CIV
ing the men who load and unload them
more regular hours. New York Is an
open port; her ships come in at any old
time, because of her superior harbor'
and II is therefore necessary that the
New York longshoreman be on hand az
any old time. 1t is hardly reasonable
to suggest at this stage of the worlds
progress that New York forego her adj
vantages in this respect for the sake Of
her longshoremen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21

fertile field for religious propaganda.
and they will not sacrifice indepen-
ience either of thought or action for
Tombstone epitaph., 1914-08-30
THURSDAY Shelters Will
 Again Take Ore

FoiloWiug the announcement that the smelters at Fl Pa,o would again take custom ore. fr treatment, re- ceived here yesterday. the Bisbee Ore of yesterday has the following to say:l Good news for hundreds Of men in Cocbise county came today sith am nouncement by the Ei Paso sneiier
 ths, they would resume taking chip
 nenss of silver-gold.icad ores.
 The news wss given directly to
 lesssrs on the Tombstone Coo. prop
 critics Of the Copper Queen st Tomb
 s,one. It vas muuuicsted to shem lirom this city tbis morning.
 | "It i. learned from ) N Games, now
 in the city from Tombsone, that there
 were stont 50 leasors operating on the
 Tombs,cne Cor. grounds before the
 closing of Fl Psso smelter to ship menr.
 "Gsines said this noon that ths news would bring great rejoicing 't 2 Tom bstope and immediately put nes life in tha, camp. There is no doub thst among ths. D nemployed now her lthere will be leases sought ct ooce oI . rombstoue Consolidated and ths n some of shese will 6nd opportunitie 8 to go to work there for themselves - The Iessors operating on Tombston d Con. the last couple of yesrs have si with hardly sn excepti,p. made goo ,e mouey There is much of the groun re that is inviting and that is yet ope 'e to leasing.
 ,e Beside the effect ct Tombstone, tt
 re opening of El Paso smel'er to shis r. ments will doubtless mean the r' nt sumption of activities in mining III silver, lead and gold ores in mar ,d other localities in the county whe ic ttere are leasing and small minir IT, enterprises under way. some of whit lee iu the Johnson Pesrce and other di to tricts were oblig d to shut dosn vht nd Fl Paso smelter cut out receipt DE There are alec properties in the We nd ren district which will be efiects e chiefly those of lessers.
Tombstone epitaph., 1914-08-30
News of inc State In Condensed q Form
Visits Tucson

Visits Tucson
 Alter visiting 'or two days in Tuc- son, Senator Mark Smith lift Sunday night for Yuma, where he delivered bis fret c mpaign speech Tuesday night. From Yuma Senator Smith went to PboeDix, where he spoke Weds nesdsy night and be rendered . recep- ton. and then he will go for two or three speeches in northern Arizona. Returning t0 the south, it is his pur- pose to peak at Tucson Bisbee and Douglas, but whether he will bs able to reach Gils, Graham and Greenles is not yet csrtaio. He hopes to. bos his time is limited.
 Hold Bond Election
 The cleo ion for issuing $l2.0OO in bcnds in the Yuma Union High Scnool District wac held Saturday at the new high school buildiog. A very ligh, ute wac poll d, but the bonds carried 56 votes for to one against. All voters who csst their ballot inc spected the new building and were very much pleased with its appear
 ce.
 Three-cent Fare Up Again
 Tue three cent fare matter came nl
 for hearing again Wednesday before
 the corporation cou mission to sho~
 reasons why the proposed cut in rates
 should not be made oy that compa ny
Tombstone epitaph., 1914-08-30
WEDNESDAY Try to Destroy
 s. P. Passenger
A Tucson dispatch says:-

A Tucson dispatch sayt: =
 No clue as to tbe persons uho placed . tho ussnd pounds of mslapsi on the Southern Pacific tracks near Jsypss station last Thursdsy has been secured. Coming ss it did 60 coon after the st-- tempt Of t~o boys to wreck train by placing ties iron on the tEseks, and by breaking swiicbes and siRnsl fshfs, it has caused sn especially viRilani patrol of that section to be instituted by the rsilruad officials
 The mslspsis. consisting oi a5O pound houlders and smaller pieces xas placed st the end Of the Rillite bridge Freight No. PA struck il while going 30 miles sn hour. Hst s psssenger train been the first along there wodld hsys been . serious wreck A passenger which makes good tim at that point, would certainly hsv left the bridge.
 As it was the pilot and other part of the locomotive were d-mohshe' and the ar couplings oi more than dczen cars were broken: The rock were thrown 6 dis,apre of 75 feet. | line boys who placed the ties o' , the track were sen: 70 the rsfosr school. They did tine mischief vhil returning from . dance at Cortaro.
 The embodiment is riprspp>d ( shat point with the mslapsis.