The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-12-20

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.hefe were no lights of any kind n
was 9 common thing 10 see ! or,,,,n
o men and women under the GAS
lient 10 listen to some one who had
r paper and was reading aloud the
events OF the day, particularly after
Ia Dattle. Lovers read their lerters
under the gas light; contracts were
signed, engagements made. in fact
al KIND OF business was done under
the gas light. There were no cleo
trio lights then. no automobiles M
ailsmps, no electric cars, no rapid.
nrlng guns, no ironclad WarshiDs ex-
Icept the little Monitor and she looked
IKE a big toy. The writer was
ABOARD OF her at the Brooklyn nayy
yard and it certainly did not Look
very formidable, but it was the in
splratlon that led~to the ironclad
navy OF today. both at home ami
ABROAD Ericsson drew his first sketch
OF his lronclad under the GAS light
Mark Twain jotted down a good
many inspired Thoughts under the
gas light. Horace Greeley would get
an idea while ON the street and start
Tor the nearest lamp post, jot it down
under the gas light and the next
day it would be a head iner in the
New York Tribune, but the whole
thing was done under the gas light
On summer night during and even
after the war it was not an uncom.
mon thing to see a lot of women
cOngFegated together in one of the
city parks, each having a bundle.
and would all sit down under the
gas light and do. the family sewing
Many patches were put on and |
many little dresses made under the
gas light, not from choice but from
necessity The city saw to it that
these lamps were kept burning at
Its expense, even kept clean and
protection was provided for them,
but they were never disturbed, and
woe to the fellow who started any,
thing funny under the gas light
There was very little real money
IN circulation, postage stamps, shin
plasters, tickets and even little metal
discs with the face value stamped
on them; the merchants had little
tickets printed with the location of
their place OF business and the face
value of the ticket printed on it, like
this: Good for Csc at John Smiths"
When you bought anything at John
Smiths and gave him real money
he would give you 10 change a lot
of his tickets and you were obliged
to 90 back to him to use them Some
times stores in other lines would ac-
cept them in trade but at no time
could you get them cashed, not even
where you got them; you were
obliged to trade them out Postage
stamps were the only things that
were good for their face value any,
where, and the trade Of people who
received real money was eagerly
sought, and merchants would g. so
far as make a house to- house can
vas to solicit their business While
was very high in pice
wages was low. A good mechanic
got good wages when he received
So SO for ten hours work. LaboreIs
received 81 to 81 Is for ten hours
work. Every one worked ten hours
and there was no complaint Flour
sold at S18 per barrel, coal S12 per
ton, meat of any kind soc Id. sugar I
25c TO-, butter ST h., potatoes So SO
per bushel. coal oil Csc gallon and so :
On all through the line There was !
no credit, to get anything you must s
have the money. ;
1t was a hard: row to hoe. 1t is /
easy sailing today as compared with
what the North went through dur !
Ing the Civil War and a long time
Don't get the idea that
the North had any easy time-they
were up against it good and hard,
and they knew it. The fact is, the
present generation has no concep-
ion of the hard times brought on
ov the Civil War in the North, to
say nothing of the AFFECT misery and
want that prevailed in the South,
out everybody must take his share
IN the discomforts which will >inev
tabIy arise from time to time AMI
everybody must share in the COM
mon risk and we shall have to ac
custom ourselves voluntarily to a
change of habit.
Ali the principal newspapers are
printed in Newspaper Row in New
York City, which is about two city
blocks long and located at Broadway
and Ann street. The Sun, Herald,
fines. Tribune and World are all
nrintt d here. There was during the