Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 6

FREAKS OF FREE WOOL

A MANUFACTURER PREDICTS THE CLOSING OF FACTORIES. i ■ ■ Report from England that Indicates His Aatatenesa—British Goods Sold Here Below the Coat of Stock-Large Increase in Foreign Exports. Labor Bears the Loss. As an illustration of the manner In Which American woolen manufacturers are faring 1 with free wool, sAys the American Economist, we hare beei\ advised by a manufacturer at Franklin, Mass., that “had I thought Grover would have allowed such a bill (the Gorman tariff) to become a law, I would have stopped and retired. There is nothing in the business to-day for a worsted maker.” This manufacturer was in receipt, July 22, of a letter from Bradford, accompanied by samples of serge and fancy worsteds. The serge is sold in grease from the loom by the manufacturer at 28 cents per yard. It is woven, burled and sewn and ready to dye. It is 64 Inches wide. The American manufacturer cannot buy yarn, or stock, necessary to make similar goods and place it in his 1 loom at the same price, 28 cents per yard, at which the Bradford serge is sold, the stock alone costing here 35 cents; jet the Bradford manufacturer can buy his yarn, weave it, sell it at 28 cents iipr yard and figure v>ut~a profit. The same is the case with fancy worsteds, selling at 51 cents by the Bradford maker. As wO have free wool and the English manufacturers have free wool, the mills In both countries can start upon nearly the same footing as far as® their raw material is concerned. What, then, is the difference? It is, as was clearly phown in the Economist of last week, in the labor of spinning and manufacturing, which in weaving is 112 per cent —higher in the United States than in ... Bradford. , This simply confirms the argument of protectionists that the hulk of the cost, in this case fully 90 per cent, of a manufactured article is the labor employed in making it Free wool affords no protection to American labor in the woolen ! mills. 7" Our Franklin correspondent states that one importing house has sold for a Bradford.firm, this season, to the extent of 10.000 pieces of fine worsted cloth at $1 per yard, and he anticipates that “in less than eighteen months there will be more machinery stopped than in 1593, unless the tariff is advanced." Confirming this opinion of the manufacturer at Franklin, we append, without any comment, a letter received from a correspondent at Bradford, England: Bradford, July 13, 1895. The great manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, but more especially Bradford, ppp full steam ahead. Work is plentiful, competition is keen, wages low. That . may seem to'be a paradox to some readers of the Economist,, but it nevertheless is. bo and must continued On every hand our merchant princes and the press claim, as one of our leading daily papers said last week, that our manufacturers have taken your market by storm. Whether that be so or not I will leave your readers to settle, but it does appear to me that when 1 consider the amount of exports that are leaving these shores destined to your market, the English operators must be receiving a fair share of patronage, which patronage your own operators and employed have a just right to demand. The few returns which I have hurriedly gathered and put together, showing what we sent across to your side in June only, is indeed a splendid object lesson to all truehearted Americans.- It should promote

"FOREIGN IMPORTS ABE RAPIDLY RISING."

thought and reflection in all those wno have the power to think, and especially among your own responsible parties. The following are the increased shipments when compared with the corresponding month of June, 1894: Bradford ~ £203,531 12 7 Glasgow 3G.5G8 3 10 Sheffield 41,910 G 2 Leeds 40,109 6 9 Manchester 85,737 13 G Total £497,923 2 10 The exports from Bradford alone during the half year reached £2,1G9,2G5 12s. 9d. more than during the same period in 1894. Further remarks just now are needless. Consider these figures soberly , and rationally. My sketch speaks loudly the fact that foreign imports are rapidly rising. How long is this to continue? YANKEE. Failures and Liabilities. With about 355,000 manufacturing concern in the country, the failures for the'first half of 1895 were 1,254, or 3.5 1q every thousand. In 1894, with substantially the same number of concerns, the failures In the first half were 1,501, or about i-2 In every thousand. But with about 838,000 traders the ratio of failures was 6.4 per thousand In both half years. The risk of failure, the death rate, so to speak, Is nearly twice as great in trading os in manufacturing. But when magnitude of liabilities of firms falling as defaults.

the amount for every firm in manufac? faring averaged In the first half of 1895 sll3 and sll7 in the first half of 1894. But the trading defaults averaged only $54 for every trading firm In the first half of 1895 and $62 in the first half of 1894, the average not being half the average In manufacturing. Substantially the same fact Is brought out if avclas3 are noticed, as follows: Average liabilities. 1895. 1894. In manufacturing... .$32,139 $27,500 In trading 8,560 : |9,§90 —Dun's Review.

: —Where Labor Is Idle, We have in our town a good large nuim ber of laboring people who are without employment fully one-half, and possibly two-thirds, the year. They are mostly women and children and quite a number of men. I employ 50 to 150 hands of this class in my fruit business for a few weeks or mouths each season. lam anxious to find employment for them for the most of the year. Can you suggest something that we can make that will use this labor? It is not skilled labor and can be obtained at low figures. I,have means to engage in any work of moderate proportions, but do not care to engage in, an extensive work or to use much, if any, machinery. I prefer to employ this labor at piece work, letting each earn in proportion to the work done. It is only raw labor, but willing and anxious to work. We are located on Mo. River and C., B. & Q. Railroad. WM. 11. THOMAS. La Grange, Mo. We gladly publish the foregoing letter and trust that some of our readers may be enabled to suggest to Mr. Thomas how the Idle labor of which he speaks can be employed to the best advantagse of all interested. There Is a great deal of this class of labor throughout the country for which employment can only be found at certain periods of the year, such as at fruit picking time. If farmers were to grow sugar beets, and sugar factories were gcnerally established throughout the country, this labor would, later In the season, find employment In thinning and weedfEe ,youngT)eeF _ plants. We haveS been assured by a gentleman of experience that no State in the Union has soil, in one locality at least, that is better adapted for the successful cultivation of sugar beets than the State of Missouri. Time to Begin Business. Business men ought to take a greater interest in politics. The reason is obvious; political parties affect the business of the country—especially tariff and currency legislation. The experience of the past few years has certainly taught the country that its best Interests are best served by serving ourselves. Tariff legislation that has contributed to the promotion of our own business Interests, agricultural and manufacturing, has invariably advanced the welfare and prosperity of the American people as individuals and as a whole. On the other hand, tariff legislation that has been enacted with the direct purpose of promoting prosperity among manufacturing producing interests of other countries, has "verynaturally served to depress POT" American interests. This fact should urge business men to give more attention to legislation. The late Congress afforded a depressing example of detrimental legislation, and that Congress was sadly lacking in business experience. But a small number of Its members were business men who understood business affairs or appreciated business methods. It is not wise to leave in the hands of such men the national legislation in which the prosperity of the people in America, is at stake. Our experience has taught us that It is the business men of the country, as a rule, who are standing by Its best interests; hence, a large number of business men should be in Congress to held shape legislation.—Burlington Hawkeye.

Home Industries Protected. The Manufacturers and Producers’ Association secured two great victories that entitle them to the thanks of every loyal Californian. The committee on fireworks of the Fourth of July celebration were released from their contract with an agent of an Eastern firm, and the order given to the California Fireworks Company. The Police Commissioners, after examining the sample of cloth offered for their inspection by the Golden Gate Woolen Mill Company, gave an order for 100 police uniforms, and Police Commissioner Alvord, struck with the magnificent appearance and undoubted quality of the cloth, gave instructions to his tailor to make him an overcoat out of the material. This is a record for one day that the association may well feel proud of. The Golden Gate Woolen Mill Company are to furnish the cloth at $5.50 per yard. The police have formerly been paying $7.25 per yard for a foreign cloth of poorer quality than the home manufactured article. The Police Commissioners instructed the representatives of the mills to put on a large extra force of men if need be, to have the cloth ready in time.—Journal of Commerce, San Francisco, Cal.

Free Trude in Eggs, J Free eggs are of great assistance to the British fanners: The Imports of eggs into » United Kingdom (luring 1894 were worth $18,426,118. With a protective tariff upon eggs most of this money would have been retained in the British Isles instead of being sent to France, Germany, Belgium, JJenmark and Russia. Tbe Same Old Issue. There will be no new Issue until a Republican protective tariff has taken the place of this Democratic tariff of debt and destruction. There will be no new issue until American industry stands where It stood in 1892 and American wages hare been restored to the high standard that then prevailed.— Tbe Press. New York.

DIGGING FOR DEAD.

BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE DENVER HOTEL RUINS. Engineer Pierce, Whose Negligence —Cansed the Horror, Himself a Victim" Of His Own Carelessness—Fire in Milwaukee -Outrages by the Chinese. . .. . Twenty-flve-the Death RoH. A portion of the Gumry Hotel, Denver, the seene of the frightful disaster, is still standing, gaunt and sinister, constantly threatening to crash down at any moment . upon -those delving in the ruins The search for victims has been carried on With the utmost energy constantly, with the aid of twenty arc lights. The list of dead and missing now numbers twentyfive, making the disaster the worst that ever occurred in the city. It ig clearly proved that the tragedy was due to the carelessness of the engineer, who turned water into the boilers which had become overheated Pierce, the Engineer, it is said, was intoxicated. Some of the victims were instantly killed; others were buried In the ruins where they slowly burned to death, the building having taken fire after the explosion; others were rescued after suffering horrible tortures only to die in hospital or on the way to it, while others still suffered injuries that will seriously affect thorn during life. For several hours after the disaster the ■cenes amid the ruins of the hotel were such that men turned pale and stood help-

THE RUSSIAN THISTLE FOUND IN INDIANA.

less with sorrow and horror. Several persons were seen slowly burning to death, but they were so weighted down with debris and encompassed by flame that no aid-could be given them. Some of them begged piteously to be killed, that they might not be forced to endure the torture of fire, while others, needing only the chopping off of a limb to be free, implored the firemen to cut off a leg or an arm. Most of the victims were persons prom!nent in She affairs of the State. * - The total loss caused by the explosion and fire,is $75,000. The Gumry Hotel was worth about $25,000 and had SB,OOO

HOTEL THAT PROVED A DEATH-TRAP.

worth of jjirniture. It is a total wreck, but was insured for $25,000. The McMaun Block, which stands next to the Gumry, was also heavily damaged. It is owned by Colonel E: A. Bishop and was built in 1890. It is a four-story pressed brick and is occupied throughout by the A. Lilliblade-Furniture Company. The whole rear end of this block was ruined. The loss on the building is about $25,000, as the building will have to be torn down. This block is insured for $15,000. The stock of A. Lilliblade, valued at $30,000, is only partly lost..

FIRE IN MILWAUKEE.

Valuable Railroad aid Steamboat Property Swept Away. Fire burned over a dozen blocks m Milwaukee Thursday and destroyed property worth S3B2,(XX). It started on the river front at the Water street bridge and before it was stopped it had burned a swath from one to three blocks wide to Sixth street. A stiff breeze served to fan the flames and sent them traveling west over the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company with startling rapidity, destroying in their path the freight warehouses of railroad and steamship companies, valuable freight in storage and railway ears. For four hours n>l the fire apparatus, firemen and employes of the railroad company in the city fought the progress of the flames before they were under control. When the fighters finished work two companies of firemen were left to guard half

MISS GORDON, Speared and killed.

Names of the Men and Women Who Are -in Daagsr at Poo Gfeswv — The riots at Foo Chow, reported in the latest dispatches, are much more serious than those in the interior and give the friends of the missionaries and missionary work more concern. Foo Chow is near the coast, and is a city of importance. A j dispatch to the London Times from Hong Kong confirms the dispatch announcing -the attack upbn the American mission near Foo Chow and a dangerous state of the populace of that city. Foo Chow is an important station of the Methodist Episcopal church’s missionary work. The mission was begun In 1847, and is now under the general supervision of Bishop Goodsell, assisted by the following missionaries and their wives: N. J. Plumb, G. B. Smyth, M. C. Wilcox, W. H. Lacy, J. J. Gregory, M. D.; J. 11. Worley, W. N. Brewster, G. S. Miner, and Miss Sarah M. BcswcTrth. There arc also a number of women missionaries sent out by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, who work in conjunction with the bishop and his aids. These missionaries are located In various towns and villages near Foo Chow, and of course, in case of such an uprising, as reported, might be murdered before assistance could be sent to them or they could assemble at the American school, near the gates of Foo Chow.

Patients Permitted to Mangle and Maim Each Other. The investigation of the Cook County (Ill.) Commissioners into the management of the Dunning Insane Asylum began Tuesday. Thirty thousand words of testimony were taken at the first sitting. Toward the end of the day’s sitting came a horrible story, that in detail was more barbarous than the story of the Fucik murder. It was told by Dr. McGrew, resident physician of Dunning Asylum. It concerned a battle between two mad men, who had fought in the corridor of ward 2 while Anderson, accessory to the murder of Pucik, was on watch. These two patients quarreled over some silly, childish difference. They came to blows. They tore at each other’s faces and rolled about the floor. One of them, in the frenzy of a raving maniac, set his teeth into the face of the other He bit off his nose and spat it out on the stone floor of the corridor. The maniac with whom this patient was battling sprang away from the death grip, fell bleeding nnd screaming to the floor, saw the flesh torn from his own face,, stuffed it into his mouth and cheWed his own nose t£ a pulp and swal lowed it lie said thtit’ Would make i! grow again, and Anderson, the attendant

VICTIMS OF THE OUTRAGE ON MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.

MRS. STEWART, Burned in the Mission House at Whasang.

a square mile of glowing embers. During the exciting scenes incident* to fire-fight-ing a boy was run over by a fire engine and killed. The losses are divided as follows: Buildings in the freight yard, all owned by the C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co SIOO,OOO Union Steamboat Company..... 40,000 Anchor line (Pennsylvania C 0.).. 40,000 Sixty freight cars (C., M. & St. P: • i £Co.) ........ ....... 50,000 Wisconsin Central, freight..... 30,000 (J., M. & St. P, Co. freight 70,000 Franklin refiners of Philadelphia. 37,000 Delaney warehouse, damaged... 5,000 Pritzlaff warehouse, damaged ~ , 2,000 P. F. Doyne’s factory. 2,000 Twelve frame houses, damaged.. 6,000 T0ta1.... .. . ; ~.. .$382,000 insurance companies, however, will stand the greater portion of the loss. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, by far the heaviest loser, is fully' protected by insurance, as are the steamship and manufacturing concerns. The dozen frame cottages that stand on the north edge of the burned district, and were all more or less damaged by the blaze, are owned by workingmen, who must stand their own losses. They suffered not only by damage done to their homes by the fire, but iu the excitement the house furnishings were thrown into the street and nearly destroyed. Ashes from the pipe of a careless longshoreman at Work on the docks of the Union Steamboat Company are believed to have caused the expensive blaze. No one knows just how it started. When first seen it was burning on'the planking of the dock close to the south end of the building at a point where there is a bend

in the river, several hundred feet west of the West Water street bridge. A southwest gale blowing over the city at a thirty-mile-fln-hour gait fanned it, and in less time than it takes to tell the story the flames were licking up 1,500 feet of valuable river front property.

LIST OF THE MISSIONARIES.

INSANE ASYLUM HORRORS.

REV. R. W. STEWART, Burned in the Mission House at Whasang.

looked on. This was the sworn testimony of Dr. McGrew, resident physician at Dunning Asylum. While it was being given one of the commissioners turned sick and pale. Julia Addams, one of the committee, covered her face with her hands and clutched iat the arm of her

HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT DUNNING.

chair. Although the inquiry was only begun, enough was drawn out to show that great abuses have been practiced in the asylum. U

THE CROOK OF THE CENTURY.

An Unsnrpasßed Counterfeiter Captured at Last. It was very efficient work on the part of the New York secret service men which succeeded in breaking up a gang of counterfeiters, seizing their plant at Hoboken, N. J., and capturing their head, William E. Brockway. It was long known that counterfeit gold certificates for SSOO and SIOO were being issued, but it was hard to track up the criminals. Valuable plates were taken and Canadian notes, half printed, for $200,000, together with fibre paper and many United States notes. No plant of such magnitude and so complete in every feature ,has t secured by secret service men for years? ' r'v Besides Brockway. who is regarded as the most expert counterfeiter in the country. and who" is 73 years old, O. E. Bradford, Libbie and Sidney Smith and William E. Wagner were also taken. These others are comparatively little known, bat Brockway has lived a life filled with deeds of, crime and adventure. In many respects ho is one of the most notorious criminals of this class this country has produced, —QnJy._Qae-Cro.ok overshadowed him in point of skillful work as a counterfeiter, and he .was Torn Ballard, who, it was said, possessed a better formula for making paper for greenbacks than the Government. Only one man may be said to have been his peer as a forger, and he also bore tho name of Brockway. Brockway started on his career in New Haven about.lß4s—He was a Connect!- - cut boy, and found employment as a printer. Later ho learned engraving and, becoming an expert, he made good wages and saved sufficient money to pay for a special course in electro-chemistry in Yale. This technical knowledge he applied to the production of electrotypes. From almost the day he left Yale his career as a counterfeiter and forger dates. His first trick, so far as any record goes, was to take an impression in soft metal of a plate which two directors of a bank had brought into the shop in which he worked to have certificates struck from. Really his first important crime was committed soon after the war broke out. When the Government began to issue bonds Brockwav thought he saw his opportunity. On the 7-30 bond his. work of , such .exceptional-.cleverness that $90,000 of the issue got into the Government vaults before any suspicion was aroused. Brockway was arrested, but was permitted to go on surrendering the

WILLIAM E. BROCKWAY.

plates. Broekway was arrested in 1880 for counterfeiting and fhrging SI,OOO G per cent. United States coupon bonds. Two crooks, Smith and Doyle, were also arrested at the same time for complicity. The finished bonds and plates were all seized. Brockway was sentenced for thirty years and Doyle for twelve. Broekway did not serve a day of this sentence. He managed to arrange a compromise with the Government. By consent of Judge Benedict the sentence was suspended on condition that other platet be surrendered. It was said at the time that, if ho wore again enught tampering with the United States securities, the sentence would stand. He was caughtjigain, but for some reason best known to the authorities the sentence of thirty years was not Broekway was arrested this time in New York, in November, 1883, for forging Morris & Essex Railroad bonds. Two others were taken into custody at the same time. Ho pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to Sing Sing for five years hy Recorder Smyth. He was discharged on Aug. 4, 1887. Since then he has gone free until just now. The Finance Committee of the New York Board of Aldermen has prepared the report on the tax rate for the year fixing it at 1.92, an increase of 13 points over the rate last year. The total amount of money to be raised is $38,470,000.

MISS CODRINGTON, Seriously wounded.

MISS HESSIE NEWCOMER Speared and thrown down a precipice.

BITS FOR BOOK WORMS

Rudyard Kipling, who is said to Mvt postponed his contemplated visit to India, Will bring out what he calls “The Other Jungle Book” in autumn. Charles Kingsley’s daughter, Mrs. Harrison (“Lucas Malet”), has written a new novel with the queer title of “The Power of the Dog.” The hero believes himself haunted by a dog. There are said to be quite a number of unpublished manuscripts of Nathaniel Hawthorne In the market They; are held at high prices, but are of interest only to the autograph collector, v Walter H. Page has resigned the editorship of the Forum. Mr. Page haa been in the service of this review for more than seven years, and has had exclusive control for more than four years. /.' The work of the Spanish dramatist, Jose Echegaray, has begun to attract attention outside of his own land. Two of his plays have been translated into English, “Mariana” and “The Son of Don Juan.” J. M. Barrie, after finishing his forthcoming novel, “Sentimental Tommy,” labored over It a whole year until he became satisfied that he had done his best “And how much do you think you have Improved or altered it during that time V” he was asked. “About pne per cent,” was the reply. f ** * .*-•■ • Iu a recent chat with an American pewspaper man Alphonse Daudet said: “I cannot tell you how I admire your people. But I can say that we should all admire them hi ore if they were a little more honest aboutrpaylug Freneh authors royalties on books which they have written and Which have been translated into Engllsh_,foi~ .the_bencfit of the United _ States.” Mrs. Humphry Ward left three years —or was It four?—between “Robert Elsmere” and “David Grieve,” and as much between the latter and “Marcella,” but between "Marcella” and “Bessie Costrell” there Is less than a year, and In January she will have a long novel ready, to be begun in a magazine. As each story adds some $40,000 to her bank account, she is In a fair way of getting rich.

Charlotte Corday.

A memorable woman stands upon the scaffold, not t£is time in white, but in the red smock of a murderess. It la Charlotte Oorday, born & Armans; and she has killed Marat. If ever murder was justifiable, It was this assassination. The' sternest moralist cannot refrain from admiring this hlgh-souled, undaunted girl; for the murder that sho committed is elevated far above an ordinary crime. She Whs impelled neither by lust of gain, nor by jealousy, nor by ordinary! hate; and she only slew a monster ini order to save unhappy France from wholesale slaughter. Shortly before his end, Marat had screeched a demand for twenty-five hundred victims alj Lyons, for three thousand at Marseilles, for twenty-eight thousand at Paris, and for even three handred thousand la Brittainy and In Calvados. No wonder that Danton, Camille Desmoulins and Robespierre went to see this extraordinary and most resolute young woman, whose motive had drugged her conscience, and who neither denied her act nor to escape ita consequences. She was beheaded atj half-past 7 in the July summer evening. Calm-eyed and composed she went tci death, but she turned pale when first! she caught sight of the guillotine. “I killed one man to save a hundred thousand, a villain to save Innocents, a savage wild beast, to give repose to my country.” j Never has murder found so noble an excuse; and she was only 25.

A Curious Point of Philology.

It has been found in the case of prim, itive river names in the Old World that a syllable meaning water occurs once at least, and in many Instances several times, In the same name. From this philologists have been able to trace successive conquests as each conquer, lug tribe added its own name for water or river to the syllables already forming the names of streams within the conquered district The same thing has happened in this country, as the whites have tacked the word river to many Indian names already including the word

Wet Boots.

When boots are tvet through, do not dry them by the fire. As soon as they are taken off, fill them quite full with dry oats. This grain will rapidly absorb every vestige of damp from wet leather. As it takes up the moisture, it swells and fills the boot like a tightly fitting last keeping its form good, and drying the leather without hardening it In the morning shake out th« oats and hang them In a bag near the fire to dry, ready for use on another occasion.

Ground Glass.

To half an ounce of white hardvar nlsh add two ounces of methylated spirit. Shake up well, and allow It to settle for an hour or td’fc. Clean very carefully a plate of glass, and coat with the varnish. When dry, a seml-opaqua film of exquisite fineness will be left on the glass, which answers well as a substitute for grinding the glass.

Immense Gold Fields.

The Coolgardlo and Murchison gold fields of Western Australia cover an auriferous area of 100,000 square miles, or four times the size of Ireland. Over these fields about 20,000 men are scattered, and something like £13,000,000 of British capital is Invested In the minea^