Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1886 — Page 10

SCOTCH CHARACTERS

SKETCHED IN AND ABOUT GLA8GOW AND EDINBURGH.

The, Police and Their Duties—Sharp Bootblacks and Pretty Girls—Scottish Business Women—The Highland Solr dier—Washing In Scotland.

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EDINBURGH. Sopt. 15.—One of the first sign us wat met my eyes in walking through the busy streets of Glasgow was a sign held up by a "sandwich" man and warning the people to beware of mock auctions. This sign was displayed all over business Glasgow, end it was signed, "By order of the police."

The police of Great Britain, and of Scotland especially, are very efficient, and it is their business to keep the law rather than to tyink at its breaking, as in some of our Amercan cities. Politics has little to do with the ippointment of policemen here, and the poice as a class are excellent officials. They we all big men, and their size alone is enough to terrify a criminal. They wear helmets and carry clubs, and have great black belts strapped about their waists. They are polite and very kind to strangers. There are 1,700 of them in Glasgow, and in Ireland you find them everywhere. The Irish police carry clubs, sworcLs and guns. They think themselves great swells and look like walking arsenals.

AN EDINBURGH POLICEMAN.

Glasgow looks much like Chicago, except on Sunday. It is larger than Chicago, and is* built in much the same way. Saturday night in Glasgow is the night fpr a general drunk •on the part of hundreds of the working classes,'and I have never seen anything like the drunken scenes I beheld on Argyle street at that time. Imagine a street much like that of Broadway, with a hurrying throng fully as large as that in the busiest part of the week day along by and above Trinity -church. Make this throng of all ages, sizes "and sexes, and let there be a score or more of drunken people to every block. Let many of the most drunken of its members be women, and you have some idea of the drunkenness of Glasgow on a Saturday night.

Leave this scene and go to bed. The next morning walk out upon the streets. What a •change! It is Sunday, and the city is as quiet as the long-time dead city of Pompeii. All the stores which blazed with light last night •are now closed with great shutters, so that no goods are seen. You walk through two blank walls as you go along the busy streets of last night, and at 9 or 10 o'clock you may not meet a dozen people in a mile's walk.

Everything is closed. The great city is observing Sunday as no other great city outside -of Scotland observes it and if one were to work to-day the police would arrest him, where they left him unmolested in his -drunken orgies of last night. There are 1,S00 saloons in Glasgow. They are known as wine and spirit stores, or public houses, and both men and women of the lower classes drink at them. The drunkenness of Saturday night comes somewhat from the custom of giving the workmen a half holiday on Saturday, and the police hero do not arrest a man for drunkenness unless he lies in the gutter or is especially disorderly.

Reeling and maudlin drunkenness is no crime, and Scotch whisky flows like water.

A HZ3HLANP POLDEBS.

Great Britain is very fond of drink, and tt consumes in round numbers 36,000,000 gal» Ions of spirits and 14,000,000 gallons of win* every year. The newspapers of Glasgow, and indeed of nearly all the cities of Great Britain, are sold by bareheaded girls and women as well as boys. The lower classes of women as a rule do not wear hats upon the streets, and I often see a full-grown woman walking the dirty streets in her bare feet. The newsboys and most of the other boys of the lower classes are barefooted. The bootblacks in Glasgow are as sharp little urchins as you will find in New York. They have little boxes not much larger than cigar boxes for you to set your foot ftpon, and do not have chairs in the streets. They do not cany blacking boxes, but spread a daub of blacking on the end of their boxes and this does for all day. They charge two cents a shine, and know Americans at a glanca Two of than stopped me in Glasgow when I asked for a shine, and when I selected one the other yelled back as he started to go: "Oh, he's a Yank!"

I bad not. uttered a word, and how he knew

me I don't know. I found Edinburgh tiled with tens of thousands of strangers, who are here to visit tin exposition at the advent of the queen's visit. The old lady had a triumphal procession I through the city, and kept bobbing her head like a Chinese doll in response to their faint cheers. The enthusiasm was not nearly so great as that we can get up in America on the occasion of the visit of the president to any of our great cities and though the Scotch reverence their queen, they look upon her as rather a fancy ornament, and dont go wild over her,

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NEW HAVEN FISH WIVES.

Edinburgh is one of the finest cities of Europe, and its size and beauty was a revelation to me. The castle where Queen Mary lived is now filled with the Scotch soldiers of the queen, and the red coats of England are comparatively few. These soldiers dress in the Highland costume, and they look very picturesque. They dress in different colored plaids, and wear kilted skirts falling in plaits from the waist to about four or five inches above the knee. Several inches below this their plaid stockings begin, so that about one foot of white, naked leg shows out. Some of them have good, strong legs and fair skins, and the' legs of others are lean, red and hairy. They wear different kinds of Scotch military caps, according to their rank, and their shoes are bound around with white canvas leggings. They carry swords and muskets, and stalk along with an independent air while guarding the great castle or while walking the streets. To the front of their belts they have fastened a fur pouch, and in the stocking of one leg some of them carry a knife.

The ordinary Scotchman, however, has long discarded the Highland costume, and you see but few of them worn here. As a rule there are none in this part of Scotland. The Scotch knitted cap is worn a great deal, and you see it on both men and women, and now and then an old Highlander turns up in the full costume of Rob Roy.

SCOTCH WASHING.

By the way, there is a fine statue of Rob Roy at the exposition, and the Scotch show their appreciation of Sir Walter Scott's novels at every turn.

The dress of the Scotch women of the lowlands is not very characteristic. I see many plaid shawls worn, and the poorer classes are very poorly clad indeed. Bare feet are very common and bare heads the rule. Here at Edinburgh you see the New Haven fish wives whom Charles Reade has immortalized in his tale of "Christie Johnstone." They bring fish to Edinburgh to sell in great baskets, which they carry on their backs with a strap about their forehead to hold them on. In the city they squat down on the sides of the street and sell their wares. They may some of them have been pretty once, but those I saw were old and coarse. They wore white caps in some instances, but oftener looked dirty and hard. They are very strong, and might stand as models to the fish women of the French revolution.

Another of the strange sights of Scotland, and a much prettier one, is the Scotch washing. It is often done by very pretty girls, and the sight is often equal to one of Kiralfy's ballets. They wash the heavy clothing with their feet instead of their hands, and tuck their cheap bright colored dresses up to the knee while doing so. In this way they tread the dirt out. They are not ashamed of it, either, and one of them looked at me with a vasrnidi dance as I watched her

DRYIH0 CLOTHES

The washing of a great part of old Edinburgh is dried from the windows. The old buildings are many stories high, and they are inhabited by many poor families in flats of two or three rooms each. Thore are no yaftis

ior ciocnes drying, ana all over tms pare oi Edinburgh you may see long sticks sticking out of windows with across piece nailed across the end of them and clothes lines tied to this and stretched from the cross piece parallel with the central stick to the window.

There are thousands of such clothes frames in Edinburgh, and the clothes drip down upon you as you pass beneath them. This is in the old part of the city, a part that looks as though it might have been copied out of some old Dutch picture, it looks so quaint. Its buildings are many stories high, with towers and gables. They are all of stone or

stucco and tiny have little pahed windows, out of which you may see looking down at you many a bonnio Scotch lassie, such as Burns loved to paint, as you pass by.

Speaking of Burns, this region of Scotland was his home. I mean here and about Glasgow He spent much time in both cities as well as in Ayrshire, and I doubt not he often reeled along these streets in some of his drunken frolics.

The Scotch girls are as a rule pretty, though I don't believe they are equal in this respect to the Irish. They have fresh complexions, and their accent is delicious. Those of the better classes dress well, and I am surprised to see so many pretty and intelligent women in business. A woman presides over nearly every one of the hotels, and they are the clerks and cashiers of many of the stores. The pretty Scotch barmaid is a reality, and I saw two girls drawing beer at the exposition who had faces as refined and as pretty as I have ever seen at the president's receptions. The tobacco stores are here often managed by girls, and many other stores I have gone into in Scotland have women at their head. The exposition has an unusually fine-looking set of women acting as exhibitors, and these in their pretty Scotch dress are the most refreshing part of it. They wear the plaids of their clans, and I noted especially one who presided' over a collection of pottery made at Dunmore.

FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER,

WOES OF WOMEN WORKERS.

The Mere Existence of tlie Boston Working Girls. [Special Correspondence.]

BOSTON, Sept. 27.—What are girls and women in and around Boston doing for a living! They make shirts at thirty-six cents per dozen (finishing, buttonholes included), chemises trimmed and plaited at $1.28 each, plain chemises at ninety-six cents per dozen, flannel coats of an inferior quality at fifteen cents each, slipper bows at

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dozen and pommon caps at ten cents per dozen. For making quilts, eleven hours per day labor, they receive $4.50 per week, for paper box making $5.86 per week and for book folding $3 per week.

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dustries pay similar wages. This may be called labor's lowest grade. It is easily and quickly learned. Hence, the more learners the more workers and more supply than demand.

How do they live for Such pay? Those who rely entirely on their pay do not live. It is for such merely an endured existence in a tenement attic. Their staple food is a loaf of bread and a cup of tea. The tramp who depends for his meals on basement door collections is better fed.

Girls and women here stain and enamel glass, dress dolls, burnish jewelry, make buttons, paint clock.cases and broom handles, weave twine into netting, cut ivory, pearl and tortoise shell, make willow ware and cane chairs, set type, feed printing presses, pack candles, assist in the manufacture of chemicals, manufacture straw hats and hoop skirts, spool cotton, weave hair cloth, make shoe uppers, artificial flowers, and gild buttons. These may in cases earn $1 or $2 per week more than those stated above. It is safe to say that $5 per week is a little above the average wages of this class of female workers. In the shoe factories, at "piece work," some girls make $S and $10 per week.

Can a girl support herself on such amount decently! A decent room cannot be hired here short of $3 per week, let alone food and clpthing. But in many cases the girl "lives at home." Her wages we regarded as a great help in meeting family expenses. In such case the family unconsciously co-operate against the girl or woman who must make a home for herself. The poorer the family the greater the tendency to herd and crowd together. If merely keeping body and soul together be regarded a "decent support" then $o a week will grant it.

MiU hands may make $1 per day. Some make more some less. American girls have almost deserted this occupation. Their place is supplied by foreigners and, to a large extent, Canadian French.

If you would know some of the results of factory life and labor on manners, speech and what we will call verbal morality, post yourself near the mill doors when the "operatives" swarm out, and hear the current phraseology and sentiment A little may go a great way, for you. Or go on one of their summer excursions. It may cause you to wonder if anyone has charge of the morals of the masses. Do our philosophers ever really go among them! A few family visits, even with kindly intent, won't reveal them to you.

Girls and children can be bought in Boston for commercial purposes as low as $2 per week. The mammoth and pigmy bazaars for the sale of everything under the sun under one roof buy the nerve, muscle, strength, skill and intelligence of young girls for nine hours, per day at such price. Unlike the black slavery of former days, the buyer is at no expense for housing, feeding, clothing or otherwise caring for the body of the child he purchases. He buys, in fact, all the strength the child has to give without any risk. If the child dies or becomes crippled or diseased it is not his lookout It is that of the parents or possibly of the child itself. To buy a girl outright, say for $500 or $700, and be then at the expense of her keeping would be a most extravagant outlay in Boston. From a business standpoint Boston always could see further ahead than Charleston,

Recently a philanthropic committee here visited some of the mercantile mammoths here and requested them not to hire any child labor at less than $3 per week for children of 15 years of age and under, nor less than $4.50 per week for young women. Two of the largest mammoths positively refused. One complained of the trouble caused him

»'s poking about and stirring up pub) attrition to these matters. He said the "one thing ior each (me to^do was to mind his or her own business." He wanted, the committee inferred, to be let alone, just as any intelligent. painstaking bursrlar w*nts to be let

aione wnen ne is as midnight sampling some other family's silver. The nouses that pay $S per week for children spend from 150,000 to 1100,000 per year in advertising what the child helps themto sell.

Girls are universally employed here in the second-class restaurants. Their average pay is 94 per week. The occupation of continually coming in contact and waiting upon a low grade of men in a hungry and, consequently savage and irritable condition demoralises them. They become hardened aba to the enormities daily perpetrated in a ctoap restaurant kitchen. A smile is rarely seas on their faces. They become fagged out with their continual morning-till-nignt rash with full, empty and half cleared plates. Frequently they take an order with disdain, leave you before it is half given, slap your plate before you with an air which says: "Take that ana be ," and when you tell them that what they have brought is not what you ordered, there comes the final surging over of contempt for the whole masculine race.

PRENTICE

The third Episcopal bishop of Illinois, now styled Chicago, is a native of Geneva, N. Y., and 55 years of ^1?|^J[$!age. He was or-

REV. w. E. M'IARENH Illinois in 1775. In 1883 he was made president of the newly organized Western Theological seminary of Chicago. :Under the vigorous administration of the present Bishop McLaren the Episcopal church in Chicago has made rapid strides. Bishop McLaren's "Catholic Dogmas the Antidote of Doubt" is best known among his writings.

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EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONVENTION.

Chicago to be Honored This Tear for the First Time. The general convention of the Episcopal church in the United States will take place on Oct 6 at St James church, Chicago. The delegates will number 500, and its sessions will continue for several weeks.

ST. JAMES CHURCH. CHICAGO. The general convention is composed of two houses—the house of bishops, which includes the total number of diocesan, assistant, and missionary bishops and the house of deputies, composed of four clergymen and four laymen from each diocese throughout the country, and one clergyman and one layman from each missionary jurisdiction. The house of bishops and the house of deputies meet separately, the former with closed doors, the latter open to the public. Either house may inaugurate proceedings, but before legislation is effected the consent of both must be had. In case the bishops propose an act, it must be concurred in by the deputies before it can become a law. Any proposed act which the deputies may have passed is subject to a negative on the part of the bishops. In case the bishops are silent such an act becomes a law. In the house of deputies the clergy and laity vote together, except upon important points, when they vote separately, in which case, before a decision can be had, there must be a majority of either, order. A vote by dioceses may be called for, in which case each order (that is to say, each representation of four persons, whether clerical or lay) has one vote—not four. The vote of a diocese consequently, since it is composed of four parts, may be divided.

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