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[IFLKI) ANI) SUFFOCATED
DW THE WORK PEOPLE SUFFER
IN THE HEATED TERM.
lleswonien Who Swelter In Hot and
[jl-Ventilated Basements Tailors
Who Roast Under the Hot Roofs and
Laundresses Who Steam and Sizzle-
How the White Slaves of New York
Pass the Summer—Sketches in the
Great Dry Goods Stores.
j; E w York, July SO.—One day
July 1 accepted the invitation
a great dry goods firm expressed in the
rm of a two column advertisement in one
the papers, to go and soothe “unexampled
trrains” in their great department of some
jug orother. This department was located
a basement, but the “bargains,” though
>ubt!ess very inviting, did not constitute
, t . most interesting or instructive part of
le exhibition. The sight of fifty girls work
g iu a long, low room at a temperature of
io unmodified by anything that could ho
(Ued a circulation of air, entirely took
ivuv my attention from the bargains. It
Bs too painfully apparent that these poor
Iris were driven to a very hard bargain
hen they were obliged to barter beauty,
nolth and comfort for $5 or SO a week, and
lc consciousness that they were earning an
Diiest living. Such necessary commodity
I an honest living ought not to be obtained
tso terrible a price. Henry George and
iveral others know how it could all ho
deviated, or think they do, but in tho
leantime, before the millennium conics,
line tens of thousands of honest and in-
Istrious people right here in New York
lifer during tho hot months of tho year
scomforts for which their existences,
leugli less tortured for the other nine
nntris, seem hardly an adequate compen-
If'aiiy or all the fifty young gills above
tferred to had fainted and fallen upon the
tier it would not have surprised me in the
ast. They all looked as if such an event
>ul<i not be much longer postponed. One
! them informed me that her own endur
tce of such conditions was a daily miracle
l herself.
“Especially in the afternoons,” she said,
It doesn’t seem to mo as if I could stand up
jy longer.”
“Why don’t you sit down?” I inquired.
“Oh, I don’t dare to do that,” she answer-
J. “It isn’t allowed: It’s against the rule,
should lose iny place.”
I called her attention to the fact that
Here was a law of the State which required
Hat girls employed as she was should have
chance to sit down when not actually at
rork.
AN EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE.
“I know it,” she saiil, “but what differ
ence does the law make? It can’t prevent
tny being discharged if I’m not wanted any
more, and that’s wliat would happen if 1
was seen to sit around much. I’ve seen girls
try it and 1 know. There's the floor walker
ol this department over there now. IShe's
got her eye on me."
I turned about after an interval dictated
by caution, and saw a tall, slender, severe
luoking woman standing not far off. She
was about So years old, and was unhealthy
to a degree eminently in keeping with her
surroundings, I learned that she had boon
a long time there and had worked up from
a counter to her prese-nt exalted position,
which pays her #l3 a week. This woman
was not likely to practice the virtue of clem
ency, having never seen any visible mani
festation of its existence.
Continuing my conversation I learned
that this woman promptly reported misde
meanors, which as promptly secured dis
charge, for there is no dearth of workers.
This information was not given with bitter
ness, and was qualified with the charitable
remark that if she didn’t she would herself
be discharged and would probably have to
begin at the bottom somewhere else, with
the reasonable prospect of dying before sho
got to be a floor walker agaiu. I also learn
fa that the girls got a chance to sit down for
about thirty-five minute* at lunch time, that
they frcipiently fainted away in the store;
‘“at almost none could honorably choose
except Itetween their present employment
and starvation; and that (hero was another
basement down alongside the furnaces
which was hotter than that one. Like Dante
in the infernal regions, 1 went on. The
hotter place was there, but it was inhabited
principally by men. From comparison with
“ 1 urkish bath I should say that its tem
perature was about 120'. The men worked
there eight bom's a day, net, and I was not
surprised to learn that one of them had been
permanently removed from his position the
previous day on a stretcher, lie was a man
ho was not strong enough to stand such
debilitating work und he knew it, but ho
had a family to support and an insurance
n his life, so, not finding any other placo to
H a living, he labored industriously
here he was. It was really a pity to kill
a man. ‘
ibis wus one of those great establishments
under heaven is sold. A
ini . .‘I s departments would make an
‘hdustrial dictionary. I walked out
i,’ 1 ’ "'Kirs with a feollng of relief, and
~ violently at the change of tempera
, tor it was only I*o ’in the shade on the
lavement. ,
i ~- , ,’ urod to me that there might lie even
, m 11 places in the city where people had
I,! .. M) I visited a number that gave
' 1 dionsof aggravated discomfort. There
„11 hotel luundry which was like the
’bi of a Turkish hath, and in which
like i “| w ' n * of womon with complexions
siei r 01 1 won. suffering the conver
v‘ 1 01 their vital energy into aqueous
sa ,P llr . In every °ne of tnoso the oonver
iii. ‘ tho inmates could bo condensed
n,i I b sentence, “I am made wretched.
wit 1 iy work, but don’t for goodness
a uything about it or I’ll loso my
.!,!?the hottest workrooms in the city
I 1 t * u, re are hundreds just like it—
nun ?,. over on Third avenue. It was iust
th eT . ro °f of a tall building, and on
arhu 'i i L ,nH c<JU ld have fried eggs without
ni k-lal h,. ttt . In tho attiPi £to speak,
Uicni U <l 2?*’ n n, en "bo were making gar
0f .i*. 'hey had dis]msed with nearly ail
loneHr °'I U ’ for the temperature was a
fa i.v t ' n l' “hove 100", ]t was an awful place
it'i t 1 a human being to exist in, but the
tuaii,. comparatively small, though ac
ti ■ * ar Ke, aud clothing could bo made
snvi i a , Ver } r low flgnro. But how can
V itli it? Tl:o question struck me
oil,. , , i greater force when I visited an-
Workin a< ? of the kind, where women were
hi u i l ’\ ut sewing mui'hmos. All day long
but „ " “t so fierce that, it suggested nothing
of tim "'''“these womon (unit the treadles
t mi,(j, ,na<? hhies flying up aud down. It is
in ll , lu ' h more exlmlisting than work
(ntc- U 1 wl,a t professional pedestrian would
jnonthj 1 ! COUa * live through—a thiee
ho -l5 g * oe under such condition*, with,
tfarpnxithan tho ordinKry starvation.'
A good reliable thermometer
actually registered 12U in one of the “sweat
shops, and yet no one perished in niv pres
ence. J 1
magm
WmBSSSk
UNDER A RBDHOT ROOT.
I asked an official of the Health Board
how many hundred men and women died
every day in such places and was astonished
to learn that only thirty-four deaths from
t.ie heat hail been reported in the city dur
nig the week, and licit those were of jier
sons working out of doom. At the hospitals
much the same report was given. The
deaths were among day laborers and es
pecially carpenters, bricklayers amt jsuiiters
who work near a wall. There are manv
patients in the hospitals who may or may
not recover, and those ineludt#a great num
ber who are overpowered without being
really sunstruck. The hospital liooks fre
quently contain the record “Alcoholism and
Sunstroke,” which is equivalent to saying
that the patient will die. In most case he
is some poor bricklayer or painter who
worked close beside a brick wall and who
drank Inter to keep him cool,
1 asked an old physician why the records
obi not show a greater adult mortality from
the heat, and his reply, stripped of the
sesquipedalian nomenclature of the profes
sion, was that the heat did not actually kill
the people, but aided and abetted certain
diseases and natural tendencies to cause their
demise. The death not only did not appear
a-s the result of hot weather, but in the ma
jority of cases did not even swell tho roll of
mortality for the heated term. A woman
employed in one of the “departments” of a
great drygoods store might lie so debilitated
by r the heat and bad ventilation that she
would be prostrated by some illness, but she
might not die until the next winter. At
any rate, the specific disease would get the
credit of it, though under proper conditions
the woman might have lived to be old.
TV omen especially', he said, were not suffi
ciently educated in the laws of health to
take tho proper precautions when working
under such conditions. Judicious bathing,
care in regard to clothing, scrupulous re
gularity of habits, and a reasonable diet
were good at any time, but become posi
tively essential if one liasto spend ten hours
a day in the infernal regions. They would
conduce both to health and comiort. In
conclusion he said: “Of course we can't
help it if tho thermometer wants to go to
W>° in the shade. We’ve got to bo be hot in
the summer. The blame in such case, as
you mention lies in the greed of men. These
confounded omnivorous dry goods stores
want to sell everything on tne face of the
earth in a building big enough for all ordi
nary purposes, but not for their enormous
requirements. So the owner subdivides and
spreads into the next building and the base
ment and every little ill-ventilated hole he
can find. He fills these dungeons with
cheap trash, and putsa lot of poor girls into
them to fry out their existence to the en
richment of somebody whose only valuable
quality is his tendency to grab everything
in his reach. This is not peculiar to New
York, but it reaches its highest development
here.” Henry James.
BOOTH’S AND BARRETT’S PLANS.
Uow Thoytamc to Join Tlieir Forces
and Make Money.
Few men are more often spoken of in the
atrical circles than Keene, the tragedian,
whose career was brought to an abrupt stop
about two years ago, by the entire loss of
his voice. It was an awful blow, coming at
the very height of fame and fortune. Most
men would have been floored by it. Keene
wasn’t. He is made of different stuff. Af
ter a short period of amazement and stupe
faction, during which he contemplated the
bafiled and eerie effect of playing tragedy
without speaking, Keene went after his
voice. The vocal chords were coaxed and
tutored and the general health of the actor
carefully' looked after. This season he
started out on a preliminary tour under the
guidance of Mr. Ariel N. Burney, the clev
erest of the y'ounger managers of tbo pro
fession. and the results are extraordinary.
All the tragedian’s powers have returned,
and his extrusive study during tho two
years of forced vacation has resulted in re
fining his methods ar.d giving a polish to his
work which it had formerly lacked. The
courage of the man in tho lace of the most
dismal predictions on the part of the doc
tors and the gloomy forebodings of his
friends was splendid. Keene is as popu
lar as Booth or Barrett throughout the
country, where his name is a household
word, out in New York the public has not
yet had a chance to become thoroughly ac
quainted with him. It is on the cards, Ibe
Have, to play Keene in New York for n
term this, season, surrounded by tho best
actors in town. It would create a _good
deal of talk, for the supporters of Keene
speak with unmitigated contempt of B -
rett, when that gentleman is compared with
the plucky actor who has just begun stage
life anew.
Speaking of Booth and Barrett reminds
me that I recently beard the true version of
the manner in which the former went under
the latter’s management last season. Booth
is notoriously' at sea in financial matters,
lie knows absolutely nothing about money.
Not long ago lie said that ho sat, down and
figured out his check book and found that
he had $13,000 on deposit iu the bank. Then
he went over the book again and made out
that he owed the bank $6,000. After this
he made n third trial, was wound up in an
awful snarl, gave it all up and went to bed.
He went to visit Barrett at tho latter’s nlace
in Cohasaot and in the course of a walk on
the beach. Booth said he envied Barrett his
skill in financial matters.
“I otve half my success to it,” said Barrett
' |l “'amV I owe all my failures to the lack of
it ” said Booth. "I would give a good deal
for some of your knowledge of business
lU “Whatever knowledge I have is always
at vour service,” said tho other. “I have
never agreed with the policy of your niana
irors.”
An agreement was struck up then and
there Not a scrap of paper was passed be
tween the two men. The receipts for the
first nine weeks amounted to #IOO,IOO, anil
when the season was over, it was( found tlmt
So earnings were $362,600. Of this Bar
rett’s share was about $60,000. It was by
long odds the most successful season that
Booth ever played. This trio of tragedians,
Keene Barrett and Booth, now have the
field to themselves. All the lesser lights
have lieeu put out. Henry Irving wUI lx:
over iu the fall, however, and then there
will be some lively competition.
Blakely Hall.
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• w .LUiiMM) MKWS: SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1887.
IVY.
Tbou art a friend for evil days, and show
Thyself most constant whoa the summer
crowd
That revels in the sun. dismayed and cowed,
Has shrunk away till softer breezes blow.
ExulUngly thou shakest off the snow.
Emerging boldly fmm thy cold white shroud.
With beauty unimpaired, a conqueror proud.
A daring climber thou, and yet the few
Unsightly things of earth thou seekest out
To weave thv graceful tendrils round about.
Brave, faithful ivy! I would learn from thee
Amid life's Ills invincible to be;
And in this tangled coil where ill 1 see
Be mine to veil it with sweet charity.
—Mary Bkiohton.
VACCINATION FOR YELLOW FEVER
A French View of the New Remedy
From the Journal dex Debate.
In IS, SO, when the value of the discovery
of M. Pasteur was beginning to he appreci
ated, M. Domingos Ereire, of Rio do Janeiro,
conceived the idea of trying inoculation
against yellow fevor.
Nevertheless, it was not until 1888 that he
received from the Brazilian government an
official commission for the study of the sub
ject. We have already noticed, at the time,
the researches of M. Freire (Causeries Sci
entifiques, 1884). Since that time the savant
has pursued his work.
For one reason or another the report was
circulated in France that the experiments
of M. Freire had completely failed, and had
been classed with the anti-cholera vaccina
tions of Dr. Ferran, of Tortosa. The re
port was false, and it is now required of us
to render complete and entire justice to the
science, to the ability and to the persover
unce of M. Domingos Freire.
The official documents show at once that
the inoculations undertaken by M. Freire
have produced results extremely remark
able.
Iu all the organs in tho blood, in all the
liquids of the subjects of yellow fever, there
exists a characteristic microbe tho eripto
coccusxan to genieus. This microbe is
(aerobic) like the red globule, and is engaged
with the latter in a fight for existence in
which the globule nearly always succumbs.
This microbe exists in diverse phases in
the blood.
M. Freire lias isolated them and ob
tained them by simple culture. Their
action has been tried upon the monkey and
the dog, upon chickens and pigeons, hut
none of these animals contracted the yellow
fever.
But upon the rabbit and tho cobaye (a
rodent) the result was very different; the
virus communicated the malady to them,
and they took the fever in an atmosphere
which simply held the microbes in suspen
sion.
Tho poison is transmissible by inoculation
direct, not only from the man subject to the
cobaye, but also from the cobaye to the co
baye. These facts established, M. Freire, in
view of obtaining a preservative vaccine,
searched for the means of obtaining a dimi
nution of the virulent force of the cultivated
microbes.
He ascertained that this result would be
obtained by a certain number of vacciua
tions from cobaye to cobaye.
This attenuated virus was tried upon ani
mals without causing death. M. Freire
tried it upon himself, then upon his assist
ant and upon other subjects who offered.
The first inoculation of the attenuated virus
was then made in Brazil, and the troubles
following the injection have uniformly Ixxri
insignificant—a little headache, lassitude
and febrile reaction
These were the preliminary studies; now
we will present the results:
In 1888-1884 an epidemic of yellow fever
broke out in Rio Janeiro. M. Freire vacci
nated ils persons before and during the epi
demic. The number of persons not vaccina
ted who died from it reached 850. Of the
418 vaccinated five died, and these five per
sons belonged to the laboring class living in
badly ventilated houses in the most insalu
brious quarter of Rio and in the streets Where
the mortality wi s eno-me us. Of the 650 not
vaccinated before mentioned, who died of
the fever, 577 were strangers recently from
Europe and seventy-three only were Brazil
ians. These figures clearly show the differ
ence in receptivity between the acclimated
and the unacclimuted.
Of the 418 vaccinated by M. Freire 007
were also strangers, the remainder coming
from the interior and in the same condition
of receptivity as the foreigners —ns the in
terior is rarely visited by the yellow fever.
The first inoculations were made with the
lancet; the folio wing year M. Freire adopted
the hypodermic method.
From January to August, 1835, the num
ber of deaths from yellow fever among per
sons not vaccinated was raised at Rio to *278,
of whom 200 were strangers and 78 were
natives (44 of the latter being born in tho
city). During tho same period M. Freire
vaccinated 3,051 persons; 2,186 natives and
805 strangers. Of these 2,186 natives 625
were infants belonging to strangers, and
consequently possessing two conditions of
receptivity which clearly placed them in
the rank of strangers.
On the date of Jun. 2, 1886, not a single
one had succumbed to the disease. The
immunity was absolute. Tho researches of
Al. Domingos Freire singularly confirm the
work of tho Freuch master. They richly
merit reception as anew victory in the fight
of man against disease.
The yellow fever is very deadly, and is
epidemic on both sides of the Atlantic in the
Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of Guinea.
In our colony of the Senegal it has at dif
ferent times found many victims who can
say that it will not soon be imported into
Europe by the numerous lines of steamers
established between our coasts and the
American by the vessels which arrive nearly
every day at our various ports.
In Spain, from 1800 to 1828, more than
140,000 persons died from yellow fever,
which was imported from Cuba.
In the same way it appeared in France in
1860 at St. Nazaire, brought hy the ship
Anne-Marie, coining from Stavana. Tho
yellow fever may then lie as malignant in
our climate as the Asiatic cholera and it fur
nishes the motive for calling public atten
tion the vaccinations of tho Brizilian savant.
Long Eels.
From the Neto York Evening Sun.
“Talking about eels,” said Nathan P.
Wells, of the Wagner Sleeping Car com
pany, at the i-afayette Hotel the other
night, “the largest ones in tho world grow
in bake Champlain.”
He was addressing his conversation to
Col. John Fowler, a down-town lawyer, and
a few years ago chief of stuff for Gen.
Shaler. The Colonel hail just told a story
about a big eel he had seen down at Nor
ton’s Point, on Coney Island. Ho said the
eel was considerably over two foot long.
Col. Fowler prides himself oil his accuracy,
lie is accurate especially as to statements.
For this reason tho most outlandish yarns
are told in his presence by his friends to
draw him intoan argument to prove the ac
curacy of the proposition.
“How big do eels grow in Lako Cham
plain?” the Colonel inquired.
“Oh, they grow all lengths and tho lake
is full of them,” Mr. Wells replied.
“What was the biggest, eel you over saw
there?” the Colonel asked.
“Well, the biggest one I saw there this
summer was eighty fret long, but I have
heard of them, when it was a good sea
son for eels, considerably over fOO feet
long."
“Eighty feet long, did you say?” said the
Colonel in astonishment.
“Yes, sir; and when 1 saw him he had his
head out of water thirty feet and some small
boys were whistling to him to come ashore
and get some brood erumlis.”
“I don’t believe that story," the Colonel
said nervously.
“I don’t care whether you believe it or
not. It’s true, and I can prove it if you will
give me time to get the Itttio boys down
here. pshaw! you don’t know anything
alxxit eels iu New York."
The Colonel folded hw arms and looked ut
Wi Ms u full minute, and then said: “Nate,
I know you an* n truthful man and wouldn't
tell a lie any quicker t.ivui George Washing
ton, hut you have got to bring those little
boys down hero before I will believe it. But
I tell you what Ido bollevo. It is my treat.
What will you take!”
THE 6UMMER GIRL AT THE BEACH.
Gossipy Notes About People and Their
Doings.
New York, July 85. —Anew spirit
animates the summer girl at the beach.
She lias taken a fresh departure and h< r
tactics add zest to life at Asbury
Park. In the big caravansaries of hotels
she is ns she was last summer and the sum
mer before that, and as she will be next
summer, and for aught one knows world
without end, amen. She wears her em
broidered muslins and her point d’ esprit
gowns; she is radiant in cream twilled flan
nel, and in all manner of delicate afternoon
tea effects. The colors of the rainbow are
in her parasol. She is charming, and if well
directed labor can accomplish it she will
continue charming.
The cottager is not hampered by hotel re
strictions. The cottage girl belongs to a
class that does as it pleases at home, and
accordingly it does as it pleases at the sea
shore. The summer girl of the cottage has
established anew set of August conventions.
She takes her idea from her brother, I sup
pose. What an incongruous couple young
man and timid have been in Augusts of past
veara. He in flannel shirt, chocked or per
haps blue, in battered looking knickerbock
ers, as if his bicycle had rolled him twice a
day in the dust, in cloth cap or rusty hel
met; she dainty, spic and span, just out of
the modiste’s Hands. This summer she lays
down the law that if she is not athletic she
must at least look as if she wore, and seem
to be getting the full value of her vacation
time. Ixices and soft figured French goods.
Not any for her this month, not by day
light at least. To be up with tho times she
must have some sort of a red or brown felt
hat without trimming, not too new. A
blouse waist is in regie, or a Norfolk jacket,
or, as the utmost latitude permitted,a belted
jersey with a rough and ready effect. A
short undraped skirt of some rendy-for-all
that-eomes, though not necessarily unpic
turesque, material and high boots made for
this especial service complete the new outfit
that one begins to see on the sands. This
year’s type of summer girl wears no gloves.
She likes to get her hands browned. She
doesn’t seem to object to a freckle, regard
ing it as a diploma of graduation from tho
best summer school. Taking it all in all,
the more unconventional her garb tiie better
it suits the new summer conventionalities.
Girls vie with each other in this as in all
other dress fancies they take up, and if they
don’t play tennis or pull a boat one whit
more energetically than they did last year,
they could if they liked, which in the inter
ests of out of door living is at least some
thing gained.
a brave little woman.
A daintily clad little woman— she was one
of the best operators as well as the prettiest
—whom I had noticed several times in a
down town typewriting office, was missing
from her desk the other day. The plump,
prosperous looking head of the establish
ment smoothed down some rebellious red
dish-brown locks, as she explained, to an ac
companying clatter and bang, as if the
whole alphabet were out on a spree. “I
didn’t expect to keep her long,” she said.
“She came to me a year a ago to learn the
business, and her mother—she wore dia
monds —came with her half apologizing for
the daughter’s whim. Tho two of them
wore gowns that turned the heads of the
whole office, and looked as if they had
money enough and to spare. It turned out
when I was in my new apprentice’s confi
dence a little that she was engaged to a law
student—an impecunious one—and they
wanted to marry ns soon ns ho was admit
ted to the bur. ‘Papa’ had a!ilutely re
fused his consent and ‘mamma’ frowned on
the whole thing. Bo what does my lady do
but get permission, without assigning any
reason for the freak, to learn ty|xiwriting—
she is studying shorthand toQ-dsavlug taken
the i lea into her head that if she and her
law student otiose to marry when the time
came, she could support the family until the
appearance of some fees. They had the knot
tied a couple of duys ago, the household
powers to tho contrary notwithstanding,
and are taking a week’s holiday somewhere
down on the shore. Bho told me she should
be ready for work when she came back, and
I think she will. She has been earning $7 u
week and is about expert enough to get #lO
now That will help them out for a while,
though I fancy her hushand won’t leave her
here long.” The next question in the matri
monial market, some folks say, will be,
“What is her salary?” or “has she had a
raise of late?”
caught in a storm.
The month just past has been one of ex
traordinary beat and has had more than the
usual allowance of tierce winds and thunder
storms—a combination calculated at once to
drive many people to the seashore and to
produce some comical complications nmong
them ufter they get there. One day, at one
of our big lx aches, a young la ly was in
lathing, when she noticed a black cioud ris
ing that seemed to promise wind and rain.
Bhe made a dash for the bathing home, got
inside, and was preparing to array herself,
having taken off her wet, bathing clothes ax
a preliminary, when bang come the wind
and knocked tho frail bath house clean over.
The girl gave a shriek, and hastily gather
ing such of her clothes about her as she
could collect ran through the rain for her
rooms, a very moist and mortified being, if
anybody hail had time in the blinding squall
that followed to notice her. The same day,
and at the same place, one woman got tie
idea that all the buildings were going to
blow over, so she threw herself fiat on tho
sand with the rain pelting full on her un
protected head till the storm was over.
There are graver aspects of the situation
than there. There has never been a month,
probably, when travel was more uncom
fortable and dangerous, the cars more
crowded, tempers more fragile, profanity
more common. A Coney Island train on u
sweltering hot Bundav at the rush hours
gives an observer a pixir opinion of Immun
ity if at all inclined to pessimism. In tho
history of the country there have been few
more sickly and fatal months. Babies have
died by tho thousands everywhere, and
older people much more rapidly than in
reasonable weather. Mothers have been
turned back from tho sick children’s float
ing hospital excursions with their babies in
their arms because tho little sufferers pore
so far gone that they would die before the
return. There has lieen a constant proces
sion of little white hearses to the ceme
teries, and bereavement rests on countless
squalid tenements throughout the city.
hnappeij up hy a professor.
Harvard professors seem to have a matri
monial eye on Wellesley. First Prof.
Whitney, of the biological chair, carried off
Miss Nunn, who was a most efficient pro
fessor of biology at Wellesley, and was the
first woman ever admitted by Huxley to
the privileges of his science school on the
Italian coast, and now President Alice Free
man is snapped up by another Harvard
man. If the trustees of Wellesley have any
appreciation of the start the college has
taken and the new standing it bus assumed
under Miss Freeman's regime, they can do
no less than appoint another woman iu her
stead.
A bachelor's idea of a comfortable house,
wlipn the bachelor has plenty of money, is
Must rated by the mansion which Justice
Gray is building in Washington. The entire
second floor- and it is a house of great size
—will lx; entirely devoted to theownoi’s
wunts, big lx.droom, big library and batli
room. Meek and rnild married men seldom
get such commodious quartets.
Mix Cleveland’s fondness for pond lilies
has greatly increased the number sold Ujxin
the streets this summer. Yet pond lilies
hove been no more beautiful this year than
last. K. P. H.
Our Progress.
As stages are quickly aliandoiiod with the
complffiion of railroads, so the huge drastic
cut hurtle pills, composed of crude and bulky
medicine!, are quickly abandoned with the
introduction of l)r. Fierce’s “Pleasant Pur
gative Pellets,” which are sugar-coated and
little larger t nan mustard seeds, but ootn
|knmxl of nighly concentrated vegetable ex
. tracts. By druggist*.
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENTA WORD.
ADVERTISEMENTS, 15 (lord, or
more , tii (his column inserted for ONK
CENT A WORD, Cash in Advance, each
insertion.
Everybody who has any want to supply,
anything to buy or sell, any business or
accommodations to secure; indeed,any wish
to gratify, should advertise in this column.
ii i.i.k' \> A N l Eli.
WANTED, an A1 woman t o cook and luuke
tt herself otherwise useful; peat and tidy;
pood wages puid; reference*. S. KKOUSKOFF,
Ilroughton street.
WANTED, five first class palmers. Apply to
M J. M. MrBRIDE, residence Mont
gomery street. Come prepared to go to work
Monday.
\I T ANTED, n wood turner; one who can work
y\ at bench, it iwessarv. Steady work
guaranteed. Apply to CHESTER RAY, Tampa.
FU.
V\ T ANTED, colored girl between 12 and 15 to
* * assist in light housekeeping. 130 Mont
gomcry this (Sunday) afternoon.
\.\rANTED, a cook and porter. For terms
apply M.TAMAIIA HOTEL, Jesup, Oft.
\\ r ANTED, a good, smart colored young man
t ▼ uk porter in store Apply OB Bull at reel.
\ GENTS WANTED “Hall" Type Writer,
pi ice S4O. Most saleable and nest wr.ter
made. References. G. W. RUBBLE, General
Agent, Macon, (la.
IF $lO btr s a llr.st c ass Type-Wrdvr. why pay
more? The “Hall” Is unexcello I, and scl k
at S4O. Agents wanted. Hefeivnoe®. G. W.
KIBBLE, Gene al Agent, Mac >o, Ga.
EM PLOYMENT WA N'Ti;i).
\BTEN( )GRAPIIER arid Tj pe writer, owning
his machine, wishes to secure an engage
ment, either permanent or for his evenings:
good reference given. Address E. M., career
this office.
\ITANTED, by a young man, position in a cot
U ton or wholesale grocery establishment,
Aug. ifltli or Kept. Ist: good reference given.
Address A. T.. care of News office.
\ 17ANTED, position as cook. Address X.,
▼ * cans of Morning News.
MLSC ELLA \ F.ous W ants.
It r ANTED, large furnished room, suitable for
yy two young men: southern exposure pre
fer*!. Addrei a H AC., this < fflee.
Yl7 ANTED, young ladies of ability to join an
yy amateur dramatic club of this city. AMA
TEURS, this office.
\\7 ANTED, one large horse. T years old and
yy acclimated. Apply 138 State street.
ROOMS TO RENT.
rpoß RENT, CHEAP, a flout of foui rooms.
1 furnished or unfurnished.with private batli
room arid closet on same Hour; suitable for light
housekeeping. Inquire No. 158 State street, near
Barnard.
17'OR RENT, a desirable flat containing tlirea
rooms; batli and closet on same Hour: <vn
trally located; rent low. Apply 128 Broughton
st reel
17'OR RENT, nioelv furnished south rooms,
with every convenience: rent very reattona
hie. Mrs. REARDON, 41 Broughton street.
17'OR RENT, small delightful south room;
cold and hot baths; reasonable hoard. sfi
Barnard street.
17'OR RENT, a nicely furnished front room. Ifil
York street, only §0 per mouth, fronting
relfair PUS.
Fnoß RENT, to suit a small family , with water
therein, Charlton street, next West Broad.
17'OR RENT, Rooms—furnished or unfur
nished, at 87 Abercorn street.
HOUSES AND STOKES FOR KENT.
VTOTICE FOR RENT, from Oet. let, the
ii large and commodtoua house lately occu
pied by Judge Emory Speer, fronting Pulaski
Monument, corner Bull and Taylor; the
choicest location in town. Also, an eight room
house in same location, with all the late im
provement® towards pleasure and comfort . For
particulars refer to JOHN LYNCH, Grocer,
Whitaker and Taylor.
17 OR RENT, from Oct. Ist, th t delightfully
located residence. Drayton street, facing
the Park Extension, nd now occupied by David
Weisteln. Eaq . having all modern Luprov
meats an l the handr.onie.*t rooms in the city
Only reß]x>risible partied need apply to b.
K ROUSKOFF, Broughton st reef
17'OR PENT, huge corner store and cellar in
Sorrel Building, now’ occupied by >1 Mend and
A Bro.; possession given mi November Ist For
terms apply to CHARLTON £i MACK ALL.
17'OR RENT, the most desirable residence on
Taylor street two doors west of Abereorii
street: pusses.* ion given from Ist. Oct. Apply
to WALTIIoITRA lUVER3, No. 88 May street.
I7OR RENT, from Oct. Ist, t wt-htory brick
1 house on basement, northeast corner of
Liliurty and Abercorn streets. Apply to WAL-
TiIOUK A RIVER'S, No. HJ Bay street.
I7OR RENT. I rick Store V.A Conan ss street;
I three stones ou oellar; posse,-n on given im
mediately. Apply to WALTIIOUR &it I VEILS,
No. 83 Bay st reet.
!X)R RENT, that very desirable residence on
1 Gordon stree , !w*t veeu Atereomand Dray
ton; full lot. beautiful :1 >v.*er garden, every con
v. iUence. Apply U i'Ei’KR KKJLLY.
iTOR RENT, that commodious dwelling, do
light fully situated, on South Bn a I street,
two doors east of Abercorn. Apply to I’ETLK
REILLY.
17OR RENT, house York street, between
1 Habersham and Price. Apply at office Me
Donougb A Ballantyne, or 58 Bryan street.
lIOBT. WARRICK. *
I7OR RENT, two houses on Ilall street, west
1 East Broad; large yards: seven rooms; have
modern improvements Inquire on promises.
)7<>R RENT, two story house 14 Jones street;
1 also flat of rooms 48 Liberty street. Apply
104*6 Habersham trout.
17O R RENT, from Oct. Ist. No. 137 Liberty
1 strict. TIIO.H. A KOLLIARD, We*t
Broad street.
I' 1 ' o: RENT, No. 319 ( I Foe
session given at once. THOS. A. FOL
LIARD.
I7OU RENT, from Ist October, hot so '
Taylor street. Apply at 101 Taylor street.
ST< )IIK r< *R KENT; stock for sab*. Apply to
K. POWER, 138 Congress struct.
IJ'OR RENT, two story brick on Imminent, 11V
Barnard street. Keys next door.
I7OR RENT. Oct. Ist. residence 101 Liberty
I street D \ LKS'I _______
17'OR RENT, that deturuble dwelling. 1 wo story
F and basement. No. M3 Perry street; |k>..-
scsKion Oct. 1,18*7. JNO. SULLIVAN, Agpnt,
114 Bay street.
(TOR RENT, the desirable three story and
I basement brick dwelling No. loh Taylor
street, lietween Bull and Dravtoii streets; pem
session immediately. JNO. HULLIVAN, Agent,
111 Bay street.
I TOR KENT, the two story and basement brick
dwelling situated on Taylor street, second
floor oust of Drayton; posse sion immediately.
JNo. HULLIVAN, Agent. 11l Bay street.
I NOR RENT, the office and warehouse on the
southeast corner of Bay and Absrcorn
streets; poapesMou f)ct. 1, 18*7. JNO. MULLI
VAN, Agent. Hi liny HtrM*t
170 R KENT, a two-story and has<mrnt dwell
ing sit mired on Perry street. Ijetwoun Hatwr
sham and Ui nxj; pussesdon Got. 1, IBH7. JNO.
HULLIVAN, Agent. IK Buy street.
17'OR RENT, the two-story dwelling situated
on the northeast corner of Barnard und
New Houston streets; |MM*cft*ion immediately.
: I
I TOR RENT, house on Tattnall, between Harris
and I jl*rty streets, with all modern ini
provements. (iEO. W. PARISH, No. lU3 Kt.
Julian street. ________________________
i: KENT. 1 t>l j 1 It ! 1 '1 im 1 , *.*. it L •
/ luiprovouwiitH; gas fixtures, ccs>klag ra*ures.
liot and water; rent moderate. SALOMON
OOHEN^
TToR H ENTHhreo story brick house on Macon,
I ts?tween Halsji*®ham atul Price streets. E. J.
KENNEDY, cvnwr Hull and York street*.
TTOR RENT, bilck store corner William and
I Farm streets Inquire of WM. SCUEIiI*
INU. Übcrty aoil Drayton.
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT.
I TOR RENT from Oct. Ist, three story brick
house, N< 3r> State struct J 1 K *U LAND.
ITOK RENT, 14t Hull, on northwest corner of
1 Whitaker. Apply to Dh. PURSE, 140 Liberty
street.
FOR I sjj£
Fur SALE,a pair of solitaire diamond ear
ringu, weight JI4 karat: very fine s|>arkles;
at a girat aacnflciN only $150; left for insjjei*-
tion at DESBOUILLON'S JEWELRY STORE,
21 Bull street.
F)|t B.UJC, a fiae dwlbiig. apd a
our stiV7 house; UiPge siiqci* and
improvemedts. ik.it the Toll Gate. Apply at
the Thunderbolt Toll Gate.
FOR SALE, a few nioi- young. Canary Birds:
good songsUTs. 'At RA DEUIUIi'S, 02 Hull
street.
dk \ A WILL buy a Utile Cabin Yacht. Apply
eptJU t No. Randolph street.
JTOR SALK, first rate river steamboat. 11*2
tons; good hull and boilers, etc; length 151
feet, hmauth 25 feet, depth 7 IWt; one dock and
one mast; passenger capacity about ad
mirably adapted for inland and coastwise navi
gation; will lie sol l very cheap foreash. Apply
to \V. P. DkHAUSSUUE, 1103 K. Main street,
Richmoud, Vu.
TTOR SALE ROSRDEW Lota, 00 feet on
1 Front street along the river and MX) feet
deep, at $125, ixivahlo $25 rash and sl2 M) every
six months.with Suteivst. FIVE-AtTiE Lots iu thu
TOWN OF ROSEDEW, witli river privileges, at
SIOO, payable s:>>cash and ssevery tlirce months,
with inteixwt. Apply to lu. FALLIUANT, I.M
South Broad street, 9tolo a m daily.
LIKE
IOST, ou July 14th, one Liver and White
j Pointer Bitch. Answers to name of “Lunin.”
Reward for delivery to H. W. PALMER.
M M MBR RESOHTC
PER DAY. Largo! elegantly furnished
mm rooms and unexceptionable table; central
location, fine surround lugs; Southern reference.
150 East Twenty-first street, Grumercy Park. U.
F. HUDSON.
Nr EW \ ()RK CITY VISIT! >RS can And cool,
i newly furnished rooms, with or without
hoard, nt 11 West Eighteenth street, between
Fifth and Sixth avenues; moderate prices.
Mas. E. MARKILLIE.
ffHE W< >NDERFUL KLE( TRIC WELL. Ths
1 llillkilu.ll House, lliliinan. Ga.. now open.
Georgia Railroad trains connect at Barnett for
Hillman.
PHOTOGR APH Y.
S PECIAL NOTICE PHOTOGRAPHY PrioM
miucinl Petitus $1 50, Cards $2, Cabinet
$3 |>er dozen, und larger work in tho same pro
i>ortiou.
J. N. WILSON.
21 Bull street.
|> KM EMBER, LAUNEY & GOEBEL make
1 V life-size crayons, handsomely framed, for
sls; other sues and kinds for a song, and If you
can t sing they sing for you. 11l Broughton
street, Savannah.
MISCELLANEOUS.
178 K Edson's Electric Com and Bunion Salve;
sure cure. We have used and recommend
It; S. ,1. Epstein, J. H. Werntz, August Krieger.
S. Binswanger. Louis G. Middleton, Claus Gerk
eii, Julius IVrlinsky, J D. Helmken, 11. Garwis,
and othei*s For sale by S. L. GICRST, Marshall
House Palace Hhavlug Saloon.
r every desorlpti<m rikpaired and
1 made to order, at the shortest possible
notice, by first class workmen, at S!OONE'S
THUNK FACTORY, Broughton and Lincoln
stive t*.
MATCH PONIES— Pair Red Bays, safe for
anyone to drive; style up and move well.
Price S2O *. Also, Pair Hteel Grays; only broke
to handle; large ponies. Price $100; at COX'B
STABLES.
( 'LGTHING cleaned. rt>pairod, braided, altered
J and dyed; new suits cut and made iu latent
styles; charges imslerute; Hatisfoction guaran-
A GETZ, tailor, Jelferson atreet
IF you want your Clothing renewed, cleaned,
reuuirod, bruided, dyed, rtsmodelrd, altered
to suit your taste go to S. WHITE S, corner Jef
ferson and State streets.
HICK PLANTER’S NOTICE.-Flm* lot Texas
Dorses and Mules at COX'S STABLES.
This stock bus been natliifactorily trifxl by sev
eral rice planters.
STOPPED, a lot of stolen carpenter tools,
which the owner can have by proving prop
erty. E MLTYLUERC, Pawnbroker.
MRS HOLLEE will comment*!* her BUMMER
S(*HO )Lon MONDAY, August Ist. at Chat
ham
bAVANNAH INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, 1 ffi
O Liberty at rent; reliable servant* on hand;
city and country supplied.
f>ORA(TNE,” a superior Toilet and Nursery
Powder; 25 cents a package. Sold by
druggists.
r PEXAS HORSES—largest and test lot Texus
I Horses ever brought here; 11 1 u and
haudi high; all gentle stock; at COX’S STA
BLEB.
r |''lllß WEEK I will sell thirty four-inch Bara*
I toga Trunks ut $5 50. ( tdl son and get
one. SAVANNAH TRUNK FACTORY.
r |TIK Aenjc Shoe Dressing, so well spoken of
1 by all who tine it can b** had at RKTI >T’B
ii earn <t Place in the S< >utb to buy a
I Trunk, 88 Whitaker strof t, corner Stab*.
Vim FROM TEXAS Fine lot tw./ and
three year old rnulesat COX S STABLES.
/ 1 0OD LUCK will follow to rwotnan
" I that usex Ib’ooks' Bosket Boap.
\l/ANTID, everybody to buy Babbitt's “1770"
▼ v Washing Powder, tecausc It is superior b>
all <*her bntnai.
***** "■ -■
LUDDKN A IIATKs s. M. 11.
L.&8.5.1.H.
The Longest Pole
Knocks the Persimmons
\\7E OFFER BETTER INSTRUMENTS,
y\ LOWER PRICES and EASIER TERMS
than cam te offemi by any otbar houne in our
line and in coDM*|ueooH wo are (linxled with
orders and correspondence requiring
Knights -of Labor
AND
Days of Toil
to keep up with the rush. Can it ho possible that
in this hot wouthar, with the tliermoniater
high as endanger it® Kiif*t v. that |s*<plo are
t rally purchasing Pianos and Organs ?
YKA. VERILY YEA!
If you h nve any doubts as to this, call in and
let ijm show you indisputable proofs of what we
say. mid convince you (but orders nt home and
from abroad an* ACTUALLY CROWDING UK.
We otter you a superb lino from which to
select.
Chickering,
Mason & Hamlin,
Mathushek,
Bent & Cos.,
and Arion Pianos.
Mason & Hamlin, Packard anil
Bay State Organs.
NEW
Organs $24, Pianos $2lO
Second Hand Pianos and Organs
Almost Given Away, to Make
Room for New Stock.
BIG. BARGAINS
—AT
Luddcii & Bales Southern Music House,
HSVASKAM, GA.
AUCTION SALKS FUTURE T)AYB.
A Desirable Residence and Store.
C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer,
Will offer at the Court. Houiie on 'rUESDAY,
August 2d, 1887, during the usual hours of sale,
The store and residence on tbe southeast cor
ner of Yorli and AlontKomery streets, having a
fr.uitoxe of sixty feet on York street and
twenty-two f.-et, on Montnoinery street.
The improvements consist of a two-story
wooden rtjsklence and store. The location is
very" desirable, tying convenient to the business
portion of the city and<to the Central Railroad
offices and shops.
JTKRMB CASH.
5 Shares Central Railroad Stock
AT AUCTION.
I.D.Laßoche's Sons,Auctioneers
On TUESDAY, the 2d day of August, in frontof
the Court House, we will sell,
Five shares of Central Railroad and Banking
Company’s stock.
Valuable Property at Auction.
I. D.Laßoche’s Sons. Auctioneers
On TUESDAY, the 2d day of August, we will
offer before the Court House, during the legal
hour* of sole.
That valuable property on the southwest cor
ner of South Broad and Arnold streets.
—IMPROVEMENTS—
-1 STORE AND DWELLING.
2 DWELLINGS.
This is a very fine stand for grocery
Newly Built Residence and Fine Size Lot
AT AUCTION.
I. D. Laßoche’s Sons, Auctioneers
On TUESDAY, the 2d day of AtiKUSt, 1887, we
will sell lti front of the Court House, during
the loal hours of sale,
A comfortable Residence, newly huilt and In
good condition. Water in yard. Same situated
on Anderson struct, between Abercorn aud Lin
coln streets. Convenieut to street railway.
Terms at sale, purchaser paying for pupors.
DRY GOODS.
CLEARING OUT SALE.
To Make Room for Fall Stock,
I will offer Special Inducement* in
MY ENTIRE STOCK,
With exception of my Empire State Shirt.
r |'liE following goods will l>e sold cheaper than
1 ever offered in Savannah:
Stuutuer and India Silks.
Cream, Whip; and Light Shades of AHmtross.
Colored and M irk nJI Wool Dress Goods.
Black Camel's Hair Grenadines at 86c.; 40-inch
wide.
Printed Linen law ns at lews than cost.
He.il Scotch Ginghams at Less than cost.
Muck Henriettas at $1 40 and jl 75; sold at
33 and *2 25.
Ladles' and Children's Silk and Lisle Thread
Hose iu black and colored.
Ladies and Children's Underveats; best good!
iu the market.
Linen Sheeting and Pillow-Oase Linen.
Cream and White Table Damask.
‘J 4 White Damask at $1; former price $1 sft.
Napkins mid Doylies in cream and white.
Linen Damusk Towels in white und colored
bordered.
Linen Iluck In white aud colored bordered.
Pantry Crush Roylkia at great reduction.
The above goods will lie offered at prices to
insure quick sale.
J. P. GERMAINE,
Next to Kurber's. 132 Broughton street.
ICE.
I GET
Now Is the time when every
body wants ICE, and we
want to sell it.
PRICES REASONABLE!
20 Tickets, good for 100 Pounds, 75c.
140 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5.
200 Tickets, good for Pounds, $7.
50 Pounds at one delivery 30c.
Lower prices to large buyers.
ICE
Packed for shipment at reduced rates, Carefti
and polite service, h ull and liberal weight.
KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO.
14:4 HA > ST.
KKU IT JABS.
WOODBURY, OEM, MASON'S, and ntheri
approved FRUIT JAKB, at JAS. S. SILVA A
SON'S.
LEGAL s VI.Ks.
CITY MARSHAL'S SALE.
T TNDEK n resolution passed In Council July
I. DHli. irwi, | W iil offer for dale, at public
outcry, lu front of tlio Court lloune. In the city
of Savannah, Chiu ham county. Georgia, ■<!
TUESDAY, the M day of August, iwr. Led
Number V! We.ley want. Minimum appraisee
value, nine hundred dollars iSWUI;. Conditions,
tint puivliaaer shall crest permanent improva
inentK tiiereoll within Dili 1 ,\enr from dnte nj
Male equal to one-balf of the purclutso price ol
said lot
Term* -One-third cash, the balance payahb
In one and Iwo year*, with Intercut at tire run
of mmvcn (7) uor cent. Imr annum. Purvbaiant
paying for tltW lIOBT. J. W IDE,
City x--rnp‘ ,
bAVANSAiv, July i*Ui, l!g£.
3
: JAS. S. SILr/ A & SON