Year: 1874




are hunting down those who sell the
ardent without proper license. The I.io-
uor Dealers Protective Union resisted
the law; but in the test case the court
went against them. and widespread con-
sternation ensued- as well it might, as
not one IN five OF the thousands of sa-
looms in the city ever took out license.
The decision of the court makes every
one of them liable to heavy penalties.
and the police are determined to bring
them to the score, no matter at what
cost. They hope to be able to close
about thousand of them by this means.


EXTRAyAGANCE N DRESS


mas always been charged to the feminine
account; but this winter, it strikes me,
the steIner sex NAV fairly take their
share of condemnation. One rich young
man recently purchased two seal skin
coats, costing severally $500 and 5000,
and two Ulster coats, the belt buckles
wrought in massive gold and equally
massive silver, What do you think of
that3 One man paying g. 00o for over
coats with thousands about him wanting
bread! True it is that every rich young
man in New York does not buy such
extrayagant articles; but the mania for
rich clothing, extravagantly rich cloth
ing, has taken possession of young New
York.


To pay $50 for an overcoat is nothing
rare, and suit, from hat to boots. in
cluding overcoat, that does not 90 a
long way into $500, is not much of a suit.
Add to this the diamond studs. the ring.
the watch, and the other adornments.
and Charles Augustus manages to carry
about with him the best end of g, 900.
which has to be renewed very frequent
ly. But, nevertheless, they have cut
down the $3.50 salaries of the poor teach
ers seven per cent, and are standing out
against the 1ongshoremen, who want
enough wages to keep soul and body to-
gether. Speaking of the


'LoNGSHORESIEN,


Their strike is general, and embraces
the many thousands of men who find
their daily bread in loading and unload
ing ships. 1t would seem the heighth
of folly for any set of laborers to strike
at the beginning of long winter, but
the longshOremen have, from the ma
ture of their employment, fair prospects
of success. Any man can roll barrel.
but every man cannot put a package
properly in the hold of a vessel. or
take 1t out without damage. 1t is a
trade. And when a vessel arrives. the
demand for the services of the long
shoreDan is immediate and pressing.
The raw man cannot take his place.
There are 5000 of these men. They
have made the demand for forty cents
an hour for day work, and sixty for
night work, and they are well organized
to hold out. The steamship companies
are trying TO get other men. but the
trouble is the skill. Noyices make bad
work of it, The


COOPERS


are still holding out, and are organizing
cooperative shops, that enough employ
ment hay be had to keep the strike
from being failure. Other occupations
are banding together, in most cases.
however, to prevent threatened reduc-
tioL OF wages. There will be inevitably
a great deal of


TROUBLE AND SUFFERING
in the city this winter. Labor is very
scarce now, and as the cold weather
puts its veto on the little building that
Is going on, more men will be thrown
out of employment, and the trouble will
Increase. The city is cruel place for a
man out of work; rent, food, fuel,
everything. costs so much that when the
daily labor that supplies it stops, starva-
ton or the accepting of charity is only
few weeks ahead. 1t costs laborer all
he can earn to-day TO live to-day-he
cannot provide for the morrow when
work stops. Heaven help the poor this
season,


SERVANTS.


One of the great troubles in the small
towns and cities of the country is to get
properly trained and educated servants.
This want can now be supplied at tri-
fling cost. A number of charitable ladies
who have time and money more than
they know what to do with, and some lit
lte heart, established, a year or so ago, q
trainingschool, to fit girls for service,
on Tenth street. They take raw girls
and teach them to cook, wash, iron, sew,
to wait at table, and to do everything
that comes under the general head of
housework. The work of preparation
is done in no slovenly way. Twice a
week French cook goes into the kitch-
en- with all the girls, and delivers to
them a lecture on the preparation of
such dishes as he selects, illustrat 'ng by
doing the work before them,
and making them do it. They run "A
laundry, a restaurant, and a dressmak-
ing establishment in the house, to the
end that it shall be, not only of use to
the girls by teaching them their duties
by actual practice, but that it shall be |
which it is. The school |
has taken thousands of poor girls who |
were starving because they did not know |
how TO work, and has turned them out /
capable and intelligent and worthy of 1
good work and good wages anywhere 4
The manageyess of this sensible charity 1
IS Mrs Julia Corson, and it is located at |
i7 East Tenth Street. A girl from this |
school is almost certain to be honest and
capable. Housekeepers in want of good.
trained servants will do well TO make "A
note of it.


HIGH BUILDINGS.


The mania now running among those
TIO build at all Is altitude. Some years
lgo the Equitable Life Insurance Com
1any ran up a building that doomed
lbove anything else on lower Broadway.
md since that height has run in tie
minds of everybody The new Tribune
building is nine immense stories high,
With tower almost touching the sky:
.he new building of the Western Union
Telegraph Company is almost as high:
he Domestic Sewing Machine Company
; eight; the new pOst-Office cannot be
counted in stories, but it Is an enormous
and so on. The view of the
.ity from the Jersey City Ferry is
becoming peculiarly pleasant. These
buildings, with the scores of others,
over up above their surroundings, re-
ieving wonderfully the mOnotonous uni
orInity. which formerly wearied the eye.
Those tall buildings do not pay-in fact,
very one them is a dead loss above the
ourth story; but, nevertheless, / hope
he building of them will 90 on. They
)eautify the city, and the public get a
,enefit whether the proprietors do or
rot. 1t is fact that none of these build
ngs pay three per cent. on the cost
# construction and present price of
round; but the proprietors all live in
rope of the future. Hope springs eter-
lal in the human breast"


THANKSGIVING


vas more generally observed in the city
his year than ever before. All business.
xcept the saloons and restaurants, was
and the day was devoted to
ollity, hilarity, and what was better.
harity. The various charitable institu-
ions of the city were supplied with more
han usual liberality, and every deserv-
Dg poor person in the city got one good
quare meal. At the three mission
louses in the Five Points over 5000
'eople were fed The persons all gave
he inmates q special dinner and all