The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-03-04

| and ROckland.
The steamer Bel fast which left here last
Thursday afternoon for Boston found it rough
outside and put back to Rockand. She also
had trouble with her starboard engine and the
Camden has taken her place on the route
There was washout on the Belfast branch
of the M. c. R. R. last Thursday, discovered
after the evening train for Belfast had passed.
A wrecking train was at once sent over from
Waterville and the crew worked all night re-
pairing the damage and the morning trains
we're not delayed.
Miss Nellie Hanson returned to her home in
Maiden Mass. last Saturday afternoon after a
few days visit in Belfast the guest of Mrs.
Harriet P. Adams at the home of Mr.. Charles
B. Eaton, Court street. Miss Hanson is at
torney for Fred S. Thompson of Chicago in the
contested will case of the late Mrs. Henrietta
P. Nichols of Searsport. which will be argued
at the June session of the Law Court in Port
land, and came to Belfast for research work in
the Office of the Waldo County Registry of
Deeds.
The meeting of the Ladies Social Aid
of the Universalist church that was to have
been held with Mrs. Eugene L. Cock, Feb
18th postponed on account of the heavy
rain that afternoon to Friday afternoon, when
they were guests of Mrs. A. A. Blair The
Mems Forum recently presented the Aid with
gas range for use in the church kitchen and
in return the Aid furnished a supper March
End for 60 men when the Forum entertained
the North Church Club Mrs, John A. Fopp
and Miss Edith Southworth we're made COM
mittee to examine the utensils of the kitchen
and ascertain what is needed, the articles to
be contributed later at social
CHAIN WHIST PARTIES. Mrs. Charles Brad
bury was the hostess last Friday evening of
the first of series of chain whist parties as
benefit to the Universalist church. under the
auspices of the social committee of the So
clal Aid Each guest present obligates her
self to give one party of at least one table Con-
fectionery is served and each player pays rs
cents. At the close of the chain prize will
be given for the largest single evenings score
The parties will be kept among the members
of the Universalist society as far as possible
Those present Friday evening were Mrs
Charles H. Crosby, Mrs. Essie P. Garlic Mrs
John A. Fogg, Mrs Samuel H. Lord, Misses
Grace A. Lord, Carrie E Gilmore and Kath.
I crime E. Brier. Mrs. Bradbury substituted for
Miss Maude M Mjiken who was unable to be
present.
| COUNTY NURSES. Miss Nellie Marshall.
Special Field Agent of the Maine Anti-Tuber-
cuosis Society. is the guest of Mrs o. S. Wick
cry and other Belfast friends Miss Marshall
was superintendent of the Waldo County Hos
pital from December, 1908, to 1910, and made
many friends here who are glad to meet her
again. For the past two years she has been
in Michigan and Illinois. Last December she
spent in Aroostook county working for the
county nurse movement and Jan LIST nurse
was engaged and is doing good work. The
larger towns in the county mace appropria-
tions which 60 toward the nurses salary. Miss
Marshall was in Piscataquis county in January
and that county 10 planning to follow Aroos-
looks example. Washington county has en-
tered upon Its third year in the work, which
has been highly successful, and Oxford county
plans to take 1t up. Miss Marshall will visit
the towns Of Waldo county with a view to es-
tablshing . nurse here.
THE CHILD LABOR PROBLEM. The Women's
Alliance Of the Unitarian church met with Mrs.
James e. Durham last Friday. The meeting
was postponed from Thursday account of
the storm. Mrs. James S. Hartman read the
religious intelligence in the absence of Mrs
John R. Waterman. Mrs. Arthur Richie read
a well-written and very interesting paper on
The Child Labor Problem. She spoke particu-
larly of child labor in the south, where the
labor laws are more easily evaded In this
section the conditions of child labor in the
cotton and silk mills and in the shrimp and
oyster canneries said to be appalling The
sweat shop work in the tenement districts of
the crowded cities was wildly described Some
of the highest priced garments worn by the
wealthy are said to be made as custom work
| by inv Aids in tenements that are infected with
disease germs. In the coal mines of Pennsyl-
vania boys are largely employed under fright
full conditions, and the child labor in the glass
works of Virginia and West Virginia is said to
be most degrading. Their physical health is
impaired, their morals suffer, and almost as a
rule they use intoxicants. In one factory it is
alleged that small boy who worked nights in
q glass factory was required to fairly run from
one stand to another and by actual measure-
ment was said to run 70 miles in the eight
hours he worked each night. The children
who work on flowers, Easter novelties and
candies are usually delicate and many suffer
with tuberculosis. The little girls who run
machines in many cases suffer from curvature
of the spine and like troubles. Other EN-.
pigments in which many bright boys are
ruined are selling newspapers in large cities.
backing boots and in the messenger service.
In the latter service those on night duty are in
great danger as they are called upon to enter
4 dives, ETC. As direct result Of this paper
the Alliance voted to take membership in the
National Charity Association, from which Mrs.
Richie obtained some of the statistics and
material for her paper.