Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1886 — Page 1

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MODEL FAIL HATS! We are having an immense trade in our Hat Department. A saving of 25c to $1 on every Hat brings the people in crowds to the MODEL We are showing an exceptionally large line of Children’s Fancy Caps in cloth, velvet, plush, corduroy, astrachan, etc. MODEL mmtammmasmmiamtmmmmammmmmmammmmKammmmam ITsTTOI^LISr-A. ANNUAL MEETING Friday Evening, Oct. 8, AT 8 O’CLOCK, AT PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE PUBLIC INVITED. The work of the Association during the past year will be reviewed In the annual address of the president, W.D. FOULKE Embracing the investigations made by the Association into the management of the Insane Hospital and into the federal civil service of the State. IJgP’Business meeting at 2p. m. Ail members of the Association, and all who desire to become members, are invited to this meeting.

COAL AND RAILWAY POOLS. The Pennsylvania Is In No Combination to Restrict the Output of Anthracite. Interview with President Roberts. Mr. Roberta read Governor Pattison’s letter carefully, and then said: “1 don’t think I have any opinion to express about Governor Pattiaon’s administration. This looks rather like a campaign document, doesn't ilf’ Then he continued: "The document, so far as it relates to the coal pool, or the ‘anthracite combination,’ as the Governor calls it, has no interest for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. We do not, and never have, belonged toany such uool or combination. We have steadily and consistently refused to joiu tho pool or to be bound by its actions.” “Tho Governor in his letter says that your allotment for this year by the pool is 3,500,000 tons,” "It is not so,” said Mr. Roberts. “We have always refused, as 1 said before, to join any combination to restrict production. Looked at simply from a selfish point of view, our interests are all in the other direction. Tho Pennsylvania Company owns a controlling interest in some coal-ininingcompnnies, but our interests as miners are insignificant in comparison with our interests as carriers. The more coal there is mined the better it is for us. Our policy is, and always Ims been, to stimulate, not to retard, production. Some time ago while rail-makers were considering the policy of restriction we advised them to adopt it, and told them that if they did we would get our rail 6 from abroad. The coke-producers undertook to restrict their output by banking their ovens three days in the Week, but we told them that if they only gave us business three days In the week we would not carry their products at all. It would cost practically as much for cars, locomotives, and men to carry coke three days in tho week as six days. Whon we refused to enter into any combination to restrict the production of coal, some of tho companies said that they would not haul our coal cars except on days that companies in. the combination were at work. Our answer to that was: ‘lf you won’t haul our C3rs wo will lay tracks by the side of yours and haul our own curs. \\ e wiil not do business with a company that will haul our cars only three days in the week.’ I don't know whether the coal combination is illegal or not. I have always thought it a mistake to restrict production by a combination, even for those companies which are large miners, but I do not wish to criticise my neighbors. I only wish to speak for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.” “What about, the trunk line pool?” "There is no restriction on tonnage. Each company has the privilege of getting all the business it can. There is really no passenger pool, or, if there is, the Baltimore & Ohio is not in it. I believe there is a passenger pool among the other companies. As I said, there is no restriction on tonnage, but there is an agree- • ineni among the companies about rates. It is an attempt to maintain fair and equitable rates. There wouid be no pool if the public did not want it.” "When you say the public, do you mean the Stockholders of the companies or the shippers?” “No; I mean the public generally. The people think that a pool among trunk lines is the only way to give any stability to business. I don't know whether the trunk-line pool is illegal er not. If it is, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is perfectly willing to draw out of it. 1 thßk we could get along without the pool as well as if not better than the other companies, and, as I said, the only reason that the pool exists is because the public want it. I have been very much dissatisfied with the pooling rangement as it was adjusted in New York. have thought the Pennsylvania Company *ouid do better out of the pool than in it, and b*ve thought seriously of withdrawing from t, but to withdraw would have such a widespread effect on the business of the country that I hesitated to take the responsibility of such a grave step on myself. I laid the matter before directors of the company, and they agreed With me that while it might be better for the

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Thursday — Fair weather , stationary temperature in southern portion , slightly cooler in northern. All Except Ws and Hals. Men in all vocations can be suited and fitted in Cheap or Fancy Underwear, Fancy or White Shirts, Hose, Collars, Cuffs, Ties, Cheap Business Suits or Fine Dress Suits, Rough and Ready Overcoats or Fine Dress Overcoats, BELOW ALL COMPETITION. WHEN CLOTHING STORE. THE-PEQPLE AREWITH US, Our Hats are Popular. Our Prices are Low. Our Styles are New. BOYS’ AND CHILDRENS’ HATS A SPECIALTY. BAMBERGER HATTER AND FURRIER, No. 16 East Washington Street. company to withdraw, the effect upon business might bo so disastrous that they did not want to take the responsibility. If State legislatures and Congress would pass proper laws for the protection of railroads, no pools would be necessary. We are common carriers, and it is proper enough that the government should exercise supervision over us; but it should at the same time protect us by proper laws. Under the general railroad law of Pennsylvania. and its recent amendments, the railroads of the State are at the mercy of speculators. Under the law any one can build a railroad, and issue stocks and bonds to an unlimeted extent, and at any rate to the amount of four or five time3 the cost of the road. The securities are sold. The road cannot earn the interest on its securities, and goes into bankruptcy. No responsible company can compete with an irresponsible company. No company managed by its owrter3 can compete with one managed by a receiver. It makes no difference to the receiver, whether the road he manages earns 5 cents or $5.”

A Talk with Mr. F. 1). Go wen. To the Western Associated Kress. Philadelphia, Oct. <x — In an interview, today, relative to Governor Pattison’s letter to Attorney-general Cassiday regarding railroad combination?, ex President Gowen, of tho Reading road, said: “I cannot understand it. The Governor seems to think that Pennsylvania products should not bring good prices. We mine every year about 55,000,000 tons of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania, of which threequarters is sent to other parts of the country. The commercial prosperity of Pennsylvania depends übon her ability to find steady markets at good prices for all her products. But the Governor seems to \hink that it is better for Pennsylvania to dig out its valuable coal and give it to the other States for nothing. This confounds nil my idoas of political economy. Again, there are probably 100,000 men engaged in the coal traffic. The better the price of coal tho more we get for wages, and it is now too late to deny that good wages and prosperity go hand in hand. If tho Governor and the Attorney general get after these 100,000 men with their quo warranto? to reduce wages, there will be a pretty kettle of fish about election time m the coal regions. I hope Lieutenant-governor Black will be able to see that the row is not laid to his door.” “But can the Attorney general do anything to the Reading Railroad Company?” "You must ask him that question. But one thing appears incongruous in the whole matter.” "What is that?’ “The combination this year has been under the control of the receivers, and everybody knows that the result of their combination has been to reduce prices, and their balance-sheets show it. You can see their idea of managing the trade was to restrict production and reduce prices. Thev have a cloud of lawyers advising them, and I suppose they had a legal opinion that combinations to advance prices were illegal. But they had heard that a combination in the coal trade was important, and so in order to be on the safe side, they determined that their combination should reduce prices, and when the Attorneygeneral gets after them, they can prove an alibi.” Result of an Explosion of Hydrogen Gas. Lewiston, Me., Oct. 6. —A most shocking accident occurred here at the residence of the Rev. Dr. Twort. pastor of the Pine-street Freewill Baptist Church. Dr. Twort had prepared a quantity of hydrogen gas for U3e in a magiclantern entertainment, for the amusement of his four young daughters. Suddenly the gas exploded. All were in the room at the time, and were hurled violently against the furniture, and two of them through a door. The room was destroyed, the plastering being torn from tho walls and ceilings, and windows and plants were thrown twenty feet from the house. The stove was overturned, the furniture demolished and the door shattered. The Doctor received severe bruises abou* the bead and face. One of the girls had her hearing destroyed, another a leg broken, and the two remaining had arms broken. Medical aid came at once. It is feared that some of the children are injured so seriously that they will die. Professor Barnard’s Seventh Comet. Nashville, Tenn..Oct. 6.—At twelve minutes past 5 o’clock, on the morning of the sth, Prof. E. E. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt Observatory, discovered a comet about fifteen degrees southeast of the bright 6tar Regulus, in the constellation of Leo Major. At four minutes past 5 a m Oct. 6, he had another view of it ihe observation has been verified by Prof. Smith, of the Warner Observatory. This is the seventh comet that Prof. Bernard has discovered. Death of One of Jeff Davis’s Captors, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 6. Robert L. Reynolds, forty-three years of ape, who was a *® r P oral the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and one of the special detail under Lieutenant Colonel Pritchard, which captured Jeff Davis, on May 30, 1860, died at his residence on Monday night De ceased waa a member of Farquhar post, G. A. K. {lalfobd Sauce la palatable and healthy.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1886.

THE RICHMOND COLOR LIKE. The City Greatly Excited Over the Presence of a Black Knight in aTheater. Defenders of the Lost Cause Ready to Precipitate a Bloody Collision in Behalf of Their Antiquated Social Customs. Trouble Averted by Colored Delegates Remaining Away from Theaters. • The General Assembly Still Wrangling Over Credentials, and the Body Not Yet Organized—Powderly and the Home Club.

THE COLOR LINE. A Tremendous Fuss Because a Colored Man Was Given a Seat in a Theater. Special to the lndianapollß Journal. Richmond, Va., Oct. 6. —There has been a fear here all day, and it i3 entertained by many to-night, that the race question will overslaugh everything else in connection with the Knights of Labor convention. The procedure of the delegates of District 49, last night, in goiog to the theater, purchasing a seat for their colored delegate along with those of the whites, and taking him in with them, would then have resulted in a conflict under ordinary circumstances, but the white citizens waived their displeasure for the time, in the hope that tho thing would not be repeated. This morning, however, it was announced that the same procedure would be followed to-night, and indignation began to rise For many years it has been the custom to confine the blacks to the balcony, or “upper circle,” at the theaters in Richmond, and so strict has it been followed that no trouble has arisen from the rights of colored people at public entertainments. Theater managers or lessees are required, on assuming control of play-houses here, to enter into a written agreement to the effect that colored persons shall not be allowed seats in the body of the house. So this afternoon Manager E. M. Gastine, of the Mozart Academy, received a letter from Col. S. B. Paul, chairman of the finance committee of the Mozart Association, calling attention to the fact that last night the contract under which the academy was managed had been violated, inasmuch as a colored man had been permitted to sit in the main portion of the house. Colonel Paul said: “The contract provides that persons of the Caucasian race shall alone be admitted to any part of the house except the gallery, and that is qlearlv defined in said contract to be what your advertisements called the balcony. Under the circumstances which so unexpectedly arose last night, and in which you took the advice of the hall committees. I think your action was judicious: but as they forewarn you of a systematic effort to force you to a course which would prejudice the interest you represent, in violation of the contract of lease, I shall be compelled to report any recurrence of an infringement of the the lease.”

With this contract drawn upon him, and the announcement that to-night there would be a repetition of last night’s proceedings by the delegates of No. 49, staring him in the face, Manager Castine was in a dilemma. His only alternative was to call upon the chief of police for assistance, which he did, and then assured his patrons that he would enforce the spirit of-his lease. Major Poe, the chief, diagnosed the forebodings as serious, and during the afternoon colled at the armory, where the Knights of Labor convention is in session, to see Mr. Powderly for the purpose of inducing him to persuade the delegates to desist in their determination to attend the theater to-night and take their colored delegate, Farrell, with them. The writer saw Major Poe immediately after his mission was finished. “I did not see Mr. Powderly,”said Major Poe, who is a far-seeing officer, “but Mr. Hayes, of the executive board, was deputized to consult with me. I was assured that all efforts possible would be made by the officers of the organization to prevent the delegates from New York visiting either of the theaters. I can’t see how a collision car. be prevented if that colored delegate, or any colored man, is taken into the theater. The white citizens do not propose to be dictated to in the matter of their social rights, and especially by strangers. Our people have extended every courtesy to the visitors, and it is not right, they think, for strangers to demand that this or that be done in social life. It is not the proper thing to ask that all customs and ueages in this regard be set aside to please any class or whim. 1 have advised the theater managors to close their houses if it is known, this evening, that colored men are to demand admission, and, if it becomes necessary to avert trouble, the theaters will be closed by an order. I find in seventeen years’ experience as chief of police here, that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of c"tre, and that the best way to avoid trouble is to remove tbe cause. Our white citizens never have trouble with the negroes abbut social matters, because the negroes know and keep their places. We have our own ideas and tastes about this thing, and it is proper that we should not be interfered with, especially since the colored people themselves do not object” Major Poe very patiently and lucidly explained the customs of the people in Richmond in social matters, showing that the blacks are treated as they should be, in accordance with universal custom, and the necessity, from a local view, of maintaining that custom, and concluded by saying that tbe best educated, the most cultured and wealthy citizens were the ones that intended to maintain these customs, and to maintain them to tbe last; that they would be at the theaters to-night to challenge the right of the colored delegates to occupy seats with the whites, and that instead of a riot it would be a revolution —an uprising to maintain a popular principle. The leaders of 49 learned very soon after the convention adjourned that extra precautions would be taken by the police authorities to check them, and they held a consultation. Their reasonings and determinations are not known. It was ascertained, however, that all thought of visiting the Mozart Academy of Music was abandoned, and no police precautions were taken there. A large squad of officers were sent to the 1 Richmond Theater early in the evening. This

is tbe oldest play-house in Richmond—a place where Booth, honiface, Raymond and other renowned actors have won fame —and is attended by the highest class of citizens. “The Stranglers of Paris’’ was on the boards. H. H. Mortimer, a South Carolinian by birth, is the manager, while Frank A. Tannehill, who was an aide to Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston, is a star of tbe company. As soon as these gentlemen learned that the disturbance was being transferred to their house they at once proclaimed their determination to co-operate with the whites in suppressing the execution of any design to seat colored men in the house. When Major Poe informed Manager Mortimer that the house had best be closed for the night, the latter said: "No; there is no use of that. Let the people come in, and, if a colored.man enters the auditorium, I will ring down the curtain, announce that there will be no performance, and tell the people inside to go to the box-office and get their money. ” At 7 o’clock several hundred people wore crowded in front of the theater. At 8 o’clock the streets and sidewalks were blockaded with men, there being few ladies in sight, and excitement ran high. There were earnest inquiries for the "Forty-niners” and the colored delegate. A more earnest concourse of people never assembled anywhere than that on the outside of the Richmond Theater. They belonged to the best families of the city, and it is presumed most of them were armed, and came to defeud their social principles. When the curtain was run up not seventy-five persona were in the house. The excitement had ruined the business of tho night Fifteen private policemen, headed by Major Poe and three captains, occupied seats in the orchestra circle, while a number of privates and officers patrolled the sidewalks on the outside and kept back the excited populace. A rattle brained white man, warmed by liquor, mounted a box in front of tbe theater and called to the black men to assert their riehts and enter the theater. He was promptly arrested and marched off to the station-house, hundreds of people hooting at him as he was carried away. Excitement was at fever heat, and the slightest disturbance would have set fire to the tinder box of popular indignation and precipitated bloodshed. But the delegates of 49, with tho colored member. Farrell, did not put in an appearance, and gradually the threatening aspect of affairs died out. it is believed at this writing (10 o’clock) that the very firm stand taken by the citizens will prevent further trouble during the time of the convention, and that this is the end of it. The local newspapers comment very generally upon the color-line affair and deprecate its existence. The "Whig, one of the roost able and conservative newspapers in the South, will say to morrow morning: The color-line i*sue is one of the most important ones to be considered, and is one which will stir up more feeling than any other, and may, perhaps, lead to trouble. Public sentiment is strong against the action the New York assembly in pushing the negro into the Mozart Academy, and many Kniehts living here are strong in their denunciation of the proceedings. The State this evening expresses itself in this firm language: Thos3 Knights of Labor delegates who attempted to interfere with the social customs of Richmond are making a most unpardonable mistake, to say the least. The presence of a colored delegate in the auditorium of the Mozart Academy of Music, last night, during a dramatic performance, was an outrage on a large majority of our citizens which cannot be too severely condemned. We have nothing to say concerning the custom that obtains in Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and other Northern cities. In Richmond the usages touching the social-equality question must be observed, and this we say most emphatically. Colored Delegate Farrell, of District 49, called on Mr. Powderly at his hotel this evening. and had an interview. It is stated that no further attempts will be made by colored delegates to enter the theaters in unauthorized portions of the auditorium while tbe convention remains in session. _

THE CONVENTION. The Fight Over Credentials Stiil Raging and the Organization Uncompleted. I .tiiMosD, Va., Oct. 6.—Although Mr. Powderly and the members of the executive board of the Knights of Labor were up until a late hour last night, completing necessary work in connection with the propositions which they intend submitting to the convention, they were all up early this morning, and a majority of them on their way to Armory Hall before 9 o’clock, the hour fixed for the beginning of the session. Although it was the third day of the convention, its members were not yet readv to begin the actual work they had come to do. There still remained to be settled tbe question of seating eight or ten delegates, whose cases the committee on credentials had referred to the convention. Mr. Powderly and all the leading members refused to say whether these eight or ten men are delegates from Brooklyn Moutauk Protective Association or not, but it is generally understood that they are. The strong feeling excited by the efforts of the Brooklyn men to obtain recognition made tbe committee on credentials hesitate, it is believed, to assume the responsibility of deciding the matter, and they threw the burden upon the convention itself. They were further prompted to such action, it is said, by the assertions made by some that the committee was prejudiced against tho Brooklyn men. At noon a recess was taken until 2 o’clock. Mr. Powderly announced to the representatives of the press that he had nothing to communicate to them. Some secret business had been transacted, but, of course, he could not say as to its nature. The morning session was mainly devoted, he said, to consideration of the reports of the committee on credentials, which has not been finally acted upon. Delegates are unusually reticent, and such statements as can be elicited by inquiry are contradictory. It seems safa, however, to say that whatever action has been taken by the credentials committee in the case of District 49 and the Brooklyn delegates is unfavorable to the latter. The feeling of a majority of the delegates, outside of New York, is in favor of Brooklyn. The afternoon session, beginning at 2 o’clock, lasted nearly an hour beyond tbe regular time for adjournment—6 o'clock. Matters then stood about where they were this morning. Mr. Powderly, through whom all official news of the proceedings is given to the press, told the reporters he had nothing in the way of news to give them. I'he convention, he said, was still considering the report of the committee on credentials, and bad not yet acted on it. This means that the fight over the admission of eight or ten delegates, which the committee referred to the convention, is still in progress. Who these delegates are Mr. Powderly and other leading Knights still refuse to say. The burden of ru mor, however, seems to favor statements that they are three Brooklyn delegates—Brown, Dobb and Miller, of the Brooklyn Montauk Association; Morrison, of District Assembly 126, of New York, and six St. Louis delegates, claiming ’#> be elected, instead of six said to be Turner men. The delegates from District 49, according to tbe same unofficial reports, are fighting Morrison and the Brooklyn men tooth and nail, but the long continuance of the battle shows that the opposition is as fully determined as they. Thera can be no doubt of the fact that the battle is a bitter one. T'his afternoon tbe voices of opposing delegates could be heard in the street without Armory Hall, as they argued the question at bisue. Until this discussion is ended, the convention is at a standstill, and no work can be done. Meanwhile many delegates here are growing impatient at the prolongation of the contest, and aro anxious to get to the work they came here to accomplish. The contest will be resumed to-morrow morning, and no one seems even able to guess how long it will be before tbe convention will organize and begin business. It was stated officially to night to an Associated Press reporter by a member of the executive board, that the report of tho committee

on credentials has been accepted in all contested seat cases, excepting those of Morrison, of New York, and the St* Louis delegation. The Brooklyn Montank Protective Association’s delegates were refused admission on the constitutional ground that where there is a mixed district, another district cannot be formed without the consent of the existing dis trict, unless it has obtained a charter. The Brooklyn seceding district has neither such consent nor charter. A man who was, until recently, secretary of the N. Y., district, and who was expelled, created a sensation among the delegates to-day by issuing a secret circular making some alleged disclosures reflecting upon the Knights of Labor as an organization. His object is retaliation. Ho alleges in tho circular that he was sent to Troy, N. Y., in 1833, to blow up a stove foundry, but that his designs were betrayed and he did not execute them. He makes other statements of similar character, among them that there was a Knights of Labor scheme to introduce smallpox at Albany, so as to throw out of employment certain non-union men. He declared that there "were numerous schemes not generally sanctioned by labor organizations.” Mr. Powderly cautioned tho delegates against circulating this matter, saying that any one who did so would be expelled. Powderly and the Home Clnb. New York, Oct 6.—An evening paper says the opponents of the Home Club in this city severely criticise the action of General Master Workman Powderly in appointing such a notoriously partisan committee as the committee on credentials at the Richmond General Assembly, and the belief is quite general here among leading Knights, that there wiii be a split in the order. It is predicted that many independent unions now attached to the Knights will withdraw. Conservative union men say they are tired and discouraged in their attempts to ere ate reforms in a body where a clique ha, schemed until it has obtained absolute control and seeks to drive out its honest opponents for fear its schemes will be thwarted. Some wondered why Mr. Powderly was so blind to the movements of the Home Club, but now they declare that ho has deliberately favored the Home Club men right in the very face of the expose made at Cleveland, and also in the face of the blunders made by the Home Club in this city. Mr. Powderly’s hint-about the trades-unionists and tbe subordination of the Knights of Labor to any other organization is looked upon as an indication of his feeling regarding the tradesunions and as a quasi indorsement of the break-up-the-open-unions polioy which No. 49attempted to inaugurate by crushing out the Progressive Cigar-makers Union and forcing its members to recognize the order of the Knights of Labor only. If the Home Club succeeds in keeping John Morrison out, it will have gained a great point, for he is prepared to make a very hot battle against his opponents, and will stir up things in the liveliest manner if he is allowed to retain his seat. Mr. Morrison is said to be prepared with facts and figures to make a telling argument against the present management of the order and-the conduct of the executive officers of No. 49 of this city. If he is not admitted, the matter will be placed in the hands of competent men, and speeches will be made that will shake the order’s very foundations. The fight will bo kept up until the convention adjourns, and those who are posted believe that it will boa very bitter one. The Home Club leaders are not willing to relax their grip on the management of affairs in the order, but if it insists on carrying out the policy of subordinating tbe open unions to the order and the breaking of them wherever practicable, withdrawals will be numerous, aud in time none of tho skilled tradesmen will be left in the order.

OTHER LABOR NEWS. Freight Business on the N. Y., P. &O. Blockaded by a Strike of Brakemen. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 6. —To-day was the day set by tbe New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio brakemen and the officials of the road for the final adjustment of the differences which have arisen concerning tho rate of pay and other matters on which they disagreed. Word was received this morning by superintendent O’Brien from the directors in New York that the company would not accede to the demands of the brakemen. He met a delegation of brakemen at the shops and notified them of the decision of tho directors. They decided to quit work at once, and abandoned the freight trains on the line of tho road. The passenger trains will run as usual. Thd brakemen are very close mouthed as to what is to be done in tho matter. Strong hints are made that the strike may extend to the entire Erie system. All freight is blocked. The men demand an increase of 25 cents a day in wages. No Strike In tlie Coal Region. Hazelton, Pa., Oct. 6. —The cloud of unccr tainiy regarding a strike of the miners and laborers that has hung over the whole of the Lehigh region for some days past was entirely dispelled when the men in every colliery in the region went to work as usual, at 1 o’clock (his afternoon. Noon was the hour at which it had ’ been given out the strike would take place, but when that hour arrived, there was not the slightest evidence to be discovered that such a thing as a strike had ever been thought of by the workingmen of tho district Notices were posted at various collieries last evening, stating that as tbe price of coal had advanced for the month of October, the men’s wagos would be advanced 2 per cent. This advance seems to give general satisfaction. Packers to Return to the Ten-Hour System. Chicago, Oct. 6.—At a meeting of Chicago packers it was unanimously agreed by representatives of every house at tbe yards, aud by representatives of the Union Stockyards Company, to change to the Ten hour system on Mouday, Oct. 11. The men will probably bo notified to-day at the yards. Labor and Industrial Notes. Philadelpnia Record. A brass rolling-mill is being erected at Kenosha, Wis. The Providence, R. 1., locomotive shops employ 1,300 men against 500 a year ago. A punch has just been made that will punch six holes at one time through one-inch thick splices. The Pullman Palace-car Company is turning out $35,000 worth of cars per day. Tbe demand for palace cars is unprecedented. At Charleston, brick layers are paid $0; carpenters, $2 to $2.50; plumbers, $2, and common laborers, $1.50. It is a hard place to work. American plow-makers will watch with interest the endeavor to introduce American plows into Mexico. Three hundred were recently introduced. Over one hundred new York plumbers are working under the co-operative plan. The United Order of Carpenters has sent them $3,000, and other trades are helping. Some European employers have undertaken to abolish “blue Monday” by dividing their workmen into four groups, and paying each one on a separate day. The experiment has been satisfactory. Anew process of making steel pipe has been introduced into Germany. As soon as the steel is cast into tho round mold a core is thrust into the steel, so that a tube is formed between it and the walls of the mold. There are in New York Assembly, No. 49, 400 assemblies and 65,000 members. No. 64 has 7,000 pressmen, printers and other workmen connected with printing. Assembly No. 75 has twenty local assemblies and 15,000 members; No 91 has 5,U00 shoemakers. The textile workers are in district. No. 126, and represent 5,000. Tho Plumbers’ Assembly, No. 85, has 2,500 members. New York sends 100 delegates to Richmond. Sake, Speedy, Sure—Red Star Cough Cure. So say boards of health. Twenty-five cente.

PRICJE FIVE CENTS.

CHURCHMEN IN CONVENTION Opening Session of the General Convention oi the Episcopal Church. ,The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dii Chosen as President of the House of Deputies, and Rev. Mr. Hutchins Re-Elecftd Secretary. The Noisy Reception of a Protest Against Demonstrations of Applause. Second Day’s Proceedings of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions—Missionary Meeting at Kokomo. THE EPISCOPALIANS. Opening Session of the Triennial Convention of the Church in the United States. Chicago, Oct. 6.—At 9 o'clock this morning the steps of St. James Church, where the opening services of the triennial convention of th Episcopalian Church were to be held, were crowded with ticket holders, and when tho doors were opened the vast building was speedily filled from choir to vestibule. The altar was gay with flowers and the sanctuary hung with white, the festal color. The choir stalls had been removed to the extreme epistle side of the chatcel, and the choristers were stationed there and in the organ gallery, formerly occupied by the quartet choir. In the chancel were set large numbers of arm-chairs, in which the episcopal fullness of lawn could be accommodated. Tho city clergy were present to a man, and occupied the pews in the nave of the church. At 10:40 the organist etruck a few chords on the mighty instrument, leading into the processional hymn, “The Church’s One Foundation,” and the throng of white-robed choristers came up the main aisle chanting the hymn, preceded by the cross-bearer. They were followed by the bishops in couples, vested in rochet and chasuble. .Some of them wore their doctors hoods, brilliant with scarlet and purple. Tho immense congregation took up the familiar hymn with good will. Dr. Yibbert, rector of St. James, read the opening sentence and the long exhortation, and the great congregation followed in the confession. The response* were hearty. The “Venite” was chanted to an Anglican chant, and the Psalter of the day read alternately by Dr. Yibbert and the con gregation.

Dr. Henry Anstice, of western New York, one of the secretaries of tho last general convention, read the first lesson, after which the surp heed choir sang Smart’s “Te Deutn” in F. This is the first time a general convention has had s boy choir at the opening service. Dr. Anstioe also read tlie second lesson. The ‘'Bonedietu*" was then chanted to Barnaby’s “Deus Miserar tur,” after which the Nicene Creed was recited. The collects and prayers followed. Dr. Beardsley then descended to the litany desk and read the Litany with marvelous effect. Hymn 281 wau 3ung as an introit, and tho communion service followed. Bishop Garrett, of Texas, read the opening collects and the Commandments. The epistoler was Bishop Sweatman, of Toronto, and Bishop Binney, of Nova Scotia, tho gospeler. The offering was devoted to the restoration of the churches in Charleston devastated by the earthquake. Dr. Tatlock made the announcement of the meetings this afternoon of both bouses of the convention in their respective rooms, at 3:30 o’clock. Hymn 277, to the familiar “Old Hundred,” was then sung, after which Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, preached or the text, “The House oi J God Which is the Church of God. the Pillar and the Ground of Troth.” His theme was the continuity of the church in this country and throughout all ages. During the offertory, Steggall’s “I Was Glad," was sung by the choir. Only the “Sanctus” and “Gloria in Excelsis” were sung, that being the wish of Bishop Lee, the celebrant. A large number of communions were made, and the services lasted till nearly 2 o’clock. After their conclusion, luncheon for the bishops and delegates was served in the basement of the church. Both houses met at 3:30 o’clock—the House of Deputies in the auditorium of Central Music Hall, and the House of Bishops in the room of the Apollo Club, on the fifth floor, and perfected their respective organizations. The delegates began to arrive in Central Music Hall at 2:30 p. m., and by 3:30 the great convention was assembled ready for business. There was a large number of ladie3 and a considerable number of gentlemen in the galleries, who watched the proceedings with the keenest interest. No great political convention was ever arranged more admirably, the delegates being seated in bodies by dioceses. At 3:30 o’clock the Rev. Charles Hutchins, of Massachusetts, secretary of the House of Deputies, called the meeting to order. The first order of business was the calling of tho roll, embracing about 207 clerical and the same number of lay delegates. Nearly all tho clergymen re>sponded to their names, but n considerable nura* her of the lay delegates were absent. After tho calling of the roll, it was that the body proceed to elect a presiding officer. Dr. Gold, of the Western Thoological Seminary of Chicago, nominated the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of New York. The Rev. J. Ilelliott, of Maryland; Dr. John H. Hail, of Long Island; Dr. Samuel Benedict, of Ohio; Dr. E. A. Bradley, of Indiana, and I)r. Huntington, of New York, were also put in nomination. Drs. Benedict and Huntington withdrew their names, and the ballot proceeded on the names of the other nominees. The Rev. Dr. Vibbert asked whether the votes should proceed by dioceses or individuals, and the Chair decided in favor of the latter. It was decided, however, that the delegates from missionary districts were not entitled to vote. Dr. Dix was elected on the first ballot, the following being the vote: Clerical —Dr. Dix. 99: Elliott. 27; Neall, 28; Bradley, 2G. Lay—Dix, G 8: Hall. 21; Elliott. 21; Bradley, 27. The first resolution presented to the convention, offered by Mr. Briggs, of New Mexico, waa unanimously adopted, tendered S. Corning Judd, of Chicago, who is a pronnuent delegate, and is very ill, any seat that he could occupy with the least physical discomfort After the announcement of the secretary that the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix had been elected president of the House of Deputies, a committee consisting of Dr. Baldwin, of Michigan, and Dr. Perkins, of Kentucky, escorted Dr. Dix to the platform. After the applauso which greeted him had subsided. Dr. Dix made an informal address, warmly thanking tho delegates for the honor they had conferred on him, incidentally alluding, in a graceful mauner, to the worthiness of his predecessor from the Diocese of Connecticut It was then moved that the ballot be dispensed with, and that tho Rev. Mr. Hutchins be unanimously re-elected secretary. An objection was made, and the name of Dr. Henry A. Anstice was also put in nomination. Judge Sheffney, of Virginia, made a warn speech in favor of the old secretary, saving that they needed an experienced man on this present ocoasion: The vote was as follows: Hutchins —Clerical* 138; lay, 105. Anstice—Clerical, 20; lay, 9. Mr Hutchins was declared elected. The eloction of president and secretary callee