Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 29, 188sI—TWENTY PAGES. Cannot Be Found on Clark nor Madison-sts., Even’ with the Aid of Electric Lights. Men’s Clothing. Fine Garments of the better class at correct prices. Summer Season. White Vests, long, Shite ve ng, stout, and regular sizes, from... ‘Alpaca Goi Drap d'Ete Shepard Plaid T Ehepard Plaid Vests ---- ongce S: ets: ats, Ve Beene nin Conte oats, Vest and Ties... Glerical Conis..:.. Re he pannel Suite—Erery quality, style, and price, Cheviot Suit: Boys’ Clothing (Long Pants). Onur Cheap Suit of Dark Gray Cassimere—our price, $376; else- where, $5. A better one, Dark Cassimere—our price uy . Bive Fiannei ana Ajl-Wool Canlaeee bale gue ace fis; elsewhere, £3. Dark Mixed Cassimere Suits, all-wool American goods—our elsewhere, $10.50. price. & Fine Fiannels and Cheviots—our price, $10; elsewhere, $11./. Fine Serges, Worsted and ences, Cassimeres—our price, £ Al-Wool Indigo Tricot Suits, £12; other firms adveruise these as great bargains at £13, ‘The reputable Harris Cassimere Suits—our price, £15; cjse- where, $16. English and French Cassimeres, all colors, warranted to bo imported : 0ods—our price. $i: ch Finer oner—" YES, THE FINEST Shan ‘for other firms to sell. Summer Season. grinted Coate-our price. 25c: elsewhere Dusters—our price, $1.4; elsewhere... White Duck Pants—our price, #1.75; els Black Alpaca Coats—our price, $1.25 Boss’ White Vests—our price, here. We have ascertained and know all prices quoted above as being from other houses to be Correct---no articles will be cheerfully shown upon inquiry. INES "#15 tu £0; too fine Kverybody Does Know. Our Prices We Want Everybody to Know. Child’s Suits. (Short Pants). Sailor Suits—All Woo!—our price, $1. Sattor Suits—better on: oyun price, where, &. Cassimere Suits—better ones—our price, $4.12; Reputable Marris & Eddy Cassimeres—our prico, 5.16; ‘else- ‘where, Scotch Cass eres—our price, $7. fain ciaimed by competitors at $12, ‘keep nor can't soll them, #10 upwards. White Duck Arzyle Si Dusterg—our price, $1. Linen Suits—our price, ‘anovelty. where, $2, ewher Child’s Kilt Suits (All One Piece). G full lines reduced to $1.95; 7 full lines reduced to 2 32 full lines reduced to i § full lines reduced to 29 full tInes reduced t Wfull lines reduced to 5 13 full Hnes reduced to 4 full lines reduced to elsewhere. Isewhere..... 387 one-piece Suits (actual count) in stock. 2 full Iines reduced to #2. 6 full Ines reduced to 86; ?full lines reduced 10 4.5%; 9 full lines reduced to 7 full nes reduced to U1 full lines reduced to 6.33 21 tull fines reduced to Gtull lines reduced to $12 5 full tines reduced to 5.2 3 full nes reduced to 1112} 355 two-piece Suits (actual count) in stock. consequently void of perfection. Sond fur Price-List & Measurement Chart elsewiicrey $2.75, Cussimere Suits—All-Wool Chssiniere—our price. St 5 elsewhere, $10, Indigo Blue ‘Tricot Dress Suits— uF prtees Wie this is big bar- Finest Cussimeres from European looms, as other firms don't Summer Season. Blue Seersucker Sailor Suits—our price, §; elsewhere, H. Blue ‘Scerweter und ‘Creole Pauis-our price, i White Duck Suits, beauties—our price, §; elsewhere, $1.50. # [too tine for other firms to sell. (Two-Piece Kilts.) too fine for other houses to sell. Furnishing Underwear. India Gauze Undershirts..,.... India Gauze, Undershitt, alike front Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers. 7; else~ Isewbere, $6. und Drawers, own Importation Fancy mix Shirts und Fat Men's W: "Gauze Shi . ys’ Gauze Shirts, ONCr........06-. Hore Jean Drawers. toys’ Penang Drawers, grotesque Boys’ Lambs Wool Shirts und ‘Drom AWTS ...00 ‘elec- Full regular Uritish, double heels and toes..$ 16 x Polkn Not, double heels & toes. Full regular Solid Searlet, double hues and Fall regular ‘Siri Fall resular La: mos" ‘Woot: Finer than the above. 100 patterns Balbriggan. all colors, makers, special thing .. Ft wearer 100 styles 4-ply Linen Collars, 2 for 25c; el: as iBstyles Linen Cully, lve; ‘elsewhere... ce Better one: ‘Better ones, Isewhere. 4 elsewhere. All Kilt Suits sold by us ave made especially for us, The same patterus. sold. elsewhere are eye copies, and Men's and Bors’ Gossamer Coa! Ladies’ Cireular Lisle Thread Shirts and Drawers, slik froat, Jean Drawers, patent anklet, best makes ... Lisle Thread Undersbirt, sitk frontvers tine 123 Lambs" Wool Shirts und Drawers, extri fine. 1.22 Fine English fauey-stripe Balbriggan Shirts ppers, button down fron atte: Drawers. Hosiery. Very tine Balbriggan und Engiish Stripes., 1W doz. silk-stripe Lalf-Lose, W. Collars and Cuffs. wanes? Suspenders. Woven Silk End Suspendor—our price, Sc; clsewbore Rubbber Goods. Goods. Elsewhere, ‘ f Our price. £5 i afen’s Flannel § y Hass" Flannel Mon's Rowing ‘Men's rg (1 135 our own tden 1.00 i We are Uniformers to the Mississippi Valley Row- ing assvctations also to the Farragut Bout Clube Our price, Elsewhere. $5 xy a6 5 2 All colors—our price, All colors—our pric All colors—gur pric All colors—our price, Wamsutta body, where. # Extra fing make, Colored French Penan: $1.30; elsewhere. #1 Colored French Pennns irts, all colors... ‘Men's Flannel Sailor Shi i Men's Flunne rts, all colors jaced-front Shirts, ail colors. 2 shirts, wi] colors 1 Sallor'shirts, all Flunue! Walsts, all color: iris, inced, ull x ts, all colors. Men's Rowing Manta, all colors. Bathing Trunks. Men’s Shirts. all-linen bosom, laundrled—our prico, 7c: “all-lincn, 200 Gne—our price, Sc; else- undried—anr price, $1.50; elsewhere, $1.75. $1.43; elsowhere, #175. Inundried. Colored Penang, 3 French Penang, Our price. Elsewhere, | Real English Ci Sete aes Boys’ Shirts. All-linen bosom, Wamsutta body, laundried.& All-linen bosom, 220 tine, Wamsutta body. x coifars. suitable French Penang. special desiens. French Penans, special designs, special destins, Polka Do mtr Special Alsace Cloth, own designs Fiace Pluin bi CO. bow! 40 doz, White Ties hite Bows. Bai by us. collars, cuffs aitached—our price, collars, cuffs detached—our price, Our price. Elsewhere. $1.00 m. 2-putton, embroiaered back, Fisk, Clark & 2-button, pinin back, ‘button, embroidered back, Dent's. 2-button, plain back, Dent's ‘button, embroidered back, ‘button, plain back, white and black. Plain black Liste Gloves .. 1 k Liste Gloves, two elastics. Emb, black Lisle Glov izhi to close senson. B doz. funcy end-<tring ‘ties. ts, by abuve make! doz. Punjabs....: oz, Flat Scarfs, cambri¢ String ‘Ties, fancy ends... + All of our Jewelry is best Rolled Plate, guaranteed 10 dae. Seart Pins, new lor—our price, 19¢; elsewhere, 7c to Be ‘The above are sold cheap, as they arc.a little out of style. Separable Collar Buttons, best qual, Linen H’dk’fs. Our price. Elsewhere. Eoote o Fy # Bo nen Gents’ Fl’dk’fs, full size. nts? H’dkf's, fult size... nits! Idk'fs, full siz All-Linen Gents’ H'dke'fs. cull siz 100 doz. Embroldered, in colors, Ini 100 doz. Colored Border. 100 doz. Irish Hand-Woven Border. 100 doz, Hemstitehed, fancy burders « In stock and to order at short notiee, see 100 doz. Fint Scarfs, manufactured by F Allprices: [eta aR OR aE ONL OR | 50 doz, French, grotesque tizures ‘CONSEQUENTLY PLEASE READ THE BELOW: Flannel Shirts, Boating ' and Ball Suits. Gloves. Uur price. Elsewhere. sic, Clarie gual Lwo elastics. Neckwear. .Ourprice, Eisowhere. Jewelry. Our price. Elsewhere. $35 3 1.00 1.00 Jersey: Bitiee. 3, full size, Suoz. Brocade und Pisin Good Percale Waist, laundried.... French Penan All-Linen White, h French Penangs, “man Seersuckel French Penang, m: ‘Men's Wamsutta, laundried Men's extra heavy 3 Hogs’ Wamsutta, Boys’ Fancy Penan Scotch Heather Yarn Tam, Scotch Cups, Glenzarry and M: manufuctuced fur us i White Duck Satlor P Our Quality Silk H’dk’fs. Our price. Elsewhere, 25 doz. All-Silk Brocade +4 sa Silk Brocade 10 doz. Krocade azd Fiat ry doz. Brocade und Pitin ¥ Ls 35 doz. Brocade und Plain 22 Zdoz. rocade and Plain 2 a 15 doz. Lirueade and Plain ti 33. W doz. Brocade and Pain ane Waists. Our price. Elsewh: bi Inudried and pinited undried und plaited “heviots, and 116, 135 for UN Spe- |) Too Bae, for sand a) . Let] other firms edlework Fronts. : oot to sal. So, th Night Shirts. Our price. Elsewhere, rnd > jae 3 20 Men’ extra tne, rafied . an undried. 3 Novelties. anter Caps.. lor Sailor Jackets. hi Stockings. Guess-Work. Any and all above mentioned THE EVENING EXODUS. ‘The Army of Toilers That Uses the Bridges and Tun- nels. Fifty-four Thousand Persons Going North and West Between 5 and 7. An Admirable Reason Why the Bridges Should Be Kept Closed Then. Wonderfal Concentration of Life on the South Side—The Useless Tunnels. Itis provided by the revised: ordinances re- cently adopted by the Council that, during the season of navigation, the bridges shall be closed for an tour in the morning, and also from balf- pastS to half-past 6 in theevening. The object of this is, of course, to accommodate the army of people who are seeking the South Side in the forenoon, and also aro leaving it in the after- noon. The provision in the old ordinance that a bridge sball not remain open for more than ten minutes is also continued in force. So that dur- ing the daytime no person need be delayed more than ten minutes, and during the rushing hours of morning ana eveulng he need. notbedelayedatall. The volume of ordinances, which includes this one, will probably be issued in book form early this week, and all will be in force next week. Then the bridge-tenders w ill be instructed to enforce this ordinance about morning and evening closing, and very probably THERE WILL BE WAR. ‘The tugmen and the vessclmen say that they will not put up with such an ordinance. They suy that, to begin with, the Council bas uo busi- ness to order tne closing of bridges across a navigable steam, and that, even if it bad, the Ume selected is the must Inconvenient one for them. ‘They say that it is the custom of the bouts which ty across the lake to Teach here in the morning. unload during the day, and leave in the evening so us to rua across the lake during the night, and be ready to take ona fresh load the next day. They say. in short, that to close the bridges from balf- past 5 to balf-past 6 is to fly in the face of Con- gressional legislation and to seriously interfere ‘with their businsss.. So they talk gloomily about rushing into the bridges, smashing them down, and forcing their way through. despite the ordinance, bridge-tenders, and everyboay Itis interesting, therefore, to find out about HOW MANY PEOPLE USE THE BRIDGES during the evening. The morning travel to the Southside is epread over morc time than tho Tetlex tide at night. Nearly everbody leaves tne South Side between sand 7. straggling down into it uti the time in the morn- . ing from 5tolL Tae Tarnuse bas, therefore, in order to get some information on the subject, which is interesting not merely in connection with the bridge business, but as showing the Concentration of luborin the business quarter Of the South Side, mude an accurate count of -the number of persons going north and west over the ‘bridges from Van Buren to Rush inclusive, and through the totunnels. from 5 to 7 o'clock. Luke-street bridge having hecn closed at the time the count Was imade, is; of course, omitted trom the table. e only eifect of its closure was to xreatly in- trease the traffic over Randulph street, making itthe most frequented of ail the bridges, and to Add, perbaps, in some slignt measure, to the tavel over Wells street, many’ persons crossing - that bridge and contiouing westward ove: Kigy Hestreet. None of these ligures were guthe! Saturday, so they represent, therefore, only, the ordinary travel, not the extraordinary rush of people down-town to do shopping- TYE FIGURES. "q00f 14)! . Bridge or tunnel. : Pages| ygsst ev 54 Itmay be stated as, : age OF THESE FIG TEES @ statistics of the number of Pe ‘Dassing on foot are absolutelyaccurate,—thatis. ‘They come ¢ In her hunting excu! within a dozen or so; that the number of those passing on cars is estimated, but that Jow esti- mates have beeu nude, falling below the true number. On Randolph street, for instance, tho number per car during those hours fs put, down at forty, although every one would be inclined to judge, by seemg their crowded condition, that the average should be above that number, The nuraber of persons on teams, which includes, of course, drivers und chance passengers, is also substantially accurate. TLappenrs, then, that here are 54.612 crossivx the bridzes, gome north and west—that is, going home—between the hours of 5and 7. ‘The num- ber going south and eust is comparatively in- considerable, and is therefore not included. It will amount in round numbers, perhaps, to 12,000. THIS MAKES OVET 90 PEOPLE. and about 4,500 teams traveling over tho bridyes and through the tunnels between 5 and % o'clock. Three-t{tps of this number cross be- tween balf-pust 5 and balf-past’ 6, the hour specified in the ordinunce. It would seem, at the first glance, that the comfort and convenience of this vast army of toilers. mainly working men and women, is of more importance than the convenience of twenty or thirty vessels which may pass in or out during that time. These workers, who make the city what it is, have their rights, which ought to be considered quite as much as those of a few vessels and thelr crews that wunt to pass in or out. THE EXACT MEASURE OF DELAY isa difficult thing to get at, varying, of course, day by day. One of the worst instances was Rush street bridge. There. during the two hours twenty ¥ passed, occupying in doing so fifty minutes. ‘The bridge was turned ten times. The lonzest delay was eight and one- half minutes, the shortest two. No fault could be found with the bridgetender, who did his work with zreut rapidity. But it represented total delay of fifty minutes for the large number of passengers going oyer that bridge. Ln addition to the deluys incident to bridge-turn- ing. which will average from thirty to fifty minutes during the two hours, are the posstbill- ties of a jam, which, as unfortunate Chicazoans know, are not infrequent. A jam a2 o'clock is an insignificant utfnir, causing comparatively little inconvenience: ‘but vessels huve been stuck in the draw at Clark street bridge and have delayed 5.000 people for an hour. ‘To measure tho value of the time lost by 65.000 wearied, home-secking people is impossible, but itmust far excced the measure of tho loss to which the vesscl-owners are subjected by reason of the slight delay in the movement of thelr craft. The above table, in addition to its pearing on the bridze question, contains some otber in- formation of value.” It is the first time that any approximation bas been mude of the number of peuple who SPEND THE DAY IN THE BU OF THE CITY Nobody had au idea that over one-tenth of the entire population of Chicago could be found right in the elt artat Sovcloes. Of course to the figures gi ove sbould be added a Jarge nunber fo represent the persons living on Side who are employed at the S QUARTER the South d hortbern end of that district. That umber, however, is not a5 great probably as of those xoing into the North Divis ath Side. It is probable. hove bver, that about 2,00 people puss south of Vin Buren on Clark, State and ‘Wabash avenue b tween Sind 7, which would mike the total ng- gregation in’ the central part of the city at Brekclock about 74,000 people, irrespective of those domiciled there. ‘A glince ut this tible shows also what COSTLY AND USELESS HUMBUGS trafic purposes the tunnels are. Out of a feaad Total of 3,00 only 130 went thro Bien. Out of a total of 3,800 teams only ent through them. It is evident that the peo” pie will not use the tunnels, and that there 1s no pigson therefore—none based on public con- revence at least—why they should not be utile ized for some other purpuse, If tho cable access on tne South Side, the ion trom the scheme proves a su scheme Piads will be eager to adopt it. Then these. tunnels will come into play furnishing both the North and 5 Bae Companies a convenicnt means of getting Meter and we South Branch, und of Fereing themselves of the intolerable. incon~ tree tiee of bride deluys. ‘There isno difficulty othe way of their use by the cable system! Pro” in TY uae tho results of tho trial on the South Side this winter show tbat the climate is not too qucb for it. ‘It appears also that those, ChossING THE. BRIDGE ON FOOT cidediy in excess of those who 0 in cars, orewaed ‘bough those cars may Grow a great. fs tho number, | too. going north and west that it would be absolutely finpossible to put ou curs enough to uccommo- imrethem.. If un elfort were made now to put on Randolph street borse-cars enough to carey Sit the people crossing that bridge, It would all ge a coutinuous stream of cars strotebing al the way from the eastern end of the track to a point far west of the bridge. and any obstrugtion in bridge travel would throw things into suck Re tolerable confusion that it would be impossible for the Company to extricate itself. —— The Reason Why- tof the Empress of Austria: They tel ing exe sions her Majesty is always surrounded by gentlemen, and by gentlemen only. “Why do you always have men about you, and never a single woman?” asked one of her’ friends, a lady old enough to be pardoned the liberty. * Madame,” replied the Empress, “Tenjoy having these gentlemen with me, not becnuse they are men, but because they are not women!" MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL ‘Their Great and Numerous Advantages Polnted Out znd Dilated Upon. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cuicaco, May 28.—I have read with great pleasure your many articles upon the sub- ject of manual training, and as I have re- peatedly visited the school in St. Louis, which we must reproduce here when we be- gin this method of training, I desire to add niy testimony on the subject. Isay “when” we begin this method of training here; I ao not y “if we begin it, because itis a method so full of good sense that its adoption here and elsewhere is only a question of time. Whenever a suflicient number of peu- ple shall have found out about it, it will be adopted everywhere. The parent who sees this school in opera- tion sees solved before his eyes the problem how his boy may be sure to make a sod liv- ing in the world. ‘The boy may not become rich. Wealth is always a thing possible only for the few. But a graduate of a manual training school need never fall below an ex- istence of a good, comfortable support, and his chances for acquiring wealth will be far greater than they would be without this training. "The St. Louis Manual Training School has only been in existence since last September. ‘Ihe boys who attend it are over 14 years old. They devote two hours each day, ten hours 4 week, to manual labor, and follow b sides a regular course of school studi They make quite rapid progress intel- lectually as if they devoted all their time to study. ‘The manual labor serve: a recrea- tion, and the boys love it. Many of them are already skilled draughtsmen, skilled patt inakers, masters ot tools. ‘They are gaining a thorough knowledge of materials and processes. They are fearning to mold and cast, and to pkine, bore and drill castings by special machine tools. Wrought iron and steel are worked at the forge previously to being used in the machine shop. ‘Temper- ing, brazing, and soldering is thoroughly learned by the bovs, and all this is learned in addition to what is usually taught in schools, and by this course the health of, the boys is notimpaired, put improved. The St. Louis school has demonstrated the truth of the fol- lowing proposition, contained in one, of your articles upon “ Practical Education”: Itis possible and practicable to let every child of fair capacity start in Hite from bis schoot, a skilled worker witb the principal tools of all mechanical employments, an athlete with the muximum of nealth possible to bim, and thor- oughly ut home in science and ilterature. The child $0 trained would, when grown, be to the ordinary man of to-day what itarus is to an ordinary plow-horse. : Shall we have such a school in Chicago? What would it cost? ‘For convenience of access it should be lo- cated suuth of Ohio, cast of Halsted, and north of Monroe streets. ‘The land for it would cost $12,000; the building, $18,000; the machinery, tools. and furniture, £20,000; and it would need, an endowment of $100.00. ‘The whole establishment would cost $150,000. ‘The men to manage it could pe found. Prof. Woodward, the originator, promoter, and efficient manazer of the school in St Louis, would help us to get the right men. What good would it do? ‘To the extent of the number of graduates of that school the city, State, and Nation would be sure of in- telligent and valuable citizens. Sucha school would make every one ot its graduates a ¢: pable man who would never be “ waiting for something to turn up,” because he would be able to turn up something for himself. 1 would show us what might ‘be done for all children by training, and there is no raw material capable of greater improvement than human raw material. Changing iron ore into wateh-springs is only a feeble com- parison as an iliustravon of tho possibilities of education. If taken early enough, Longtellow's children could easily enough bave been brought fap among the Indians to appear substantiuily like Indian squaws. On the other hand, if taken in band early enough, and if sutticient pains bad been taken with them, Sitting-Bull’s children could have been brought up to becultivated Jad! id gentlemen. agree were to-day to take outof log buts in ‘Tennessee 500 male children whose destiny when grown is rated high at a doliar a da them the bighest and. best scientific and me- chanical training the world affords, what would be the result? 1. With such training they would carn when own, in the present stute of things, a0 aver- ge of Saday each. The training would iin- prove their money-getting capucity 400 per cent. 2. Not one of them would live in a hovel, and, by living in good houses, they would increase the value of property, and an increase of the vatue of property isan increase of tho School Fund. 3. The chances are that one or more of them would invent something that would be of serv~ igo to mankind. ‘4. They would be good. citizens instead of being members of a dangerous cliss as at pres- ent. Without the ignorance of the poor whites the War could not even have been as much us begua, They are dangerous material to-day— social dynamite. Js there any other raw material that would yield un equul percentage of prot in being worked up into 2 finished condition? Mankind huve acquired sense enough to know that the protit in industry is notin growing raw material, but rather in putting it into the most finished Condition in which it can be used. This is Just as true of human raw material as of any other. The %000,0u0 of people in New England earn more money than the 18,00v,000 of people in Spain. New Englund trains ber people; Spain does not. That is the reason. In England itis calculated that one-tenth of the population is to be supported at public ex pense in prison or in the poor-house. Fort nately for us we are not at that point, and we shall not get there simply because we know what to do to prevent it, and we spall take measures to prevent We bave an abundance of tacts before us which urge us to take such measures now. Tho riots of 1877 admonish us that our people prefer to help themselves rather than go to the poor-house or to prison. ‘Taoat experience should tench us that it is much wiger to spend our money in training good citizens thao in shooting bad ones. Is it n clear case, then, that if all humanity were trained a3 Prof. Woodward trains the boys in bis school, we Should no lonver uave uny bad eltizens?’ ‘Lo: answer that question alirma- tively would no doubt be gowns greatly tuo far. But there is a great deat to be suid on che atfirm- ative side of it. During our recent hurd time: it was rarely the capnble and skillful mechani that became a tramp. In bard times it is always the least skillful) workman wbo is di churged first. Seven-eighths of the -in- mutes of our prisons ure men who bave never been taught any skilled labor. Men are inclined to yet their living ulong the lines of the least resistance, and the men in prison, tinding the struggle hurd, have selected erime ns their easiest way. It ts only a fair pre- sumpdon in the case of many criminals that if they had been taught any bunest way of their living they would “have followed it Jobn Lubbock says, in Prebistoric Tine ot the 130,00) persons committed to prison in England and Wales during the year I $137 could read and write well. In fuct, our criminal population are mere savages, und most of their crimesare but injudiciousund desperuie attempts to live as a savise in tho mudst and at the expense of a civilized communit: Our criminals are wore intelligent. But hear whav the Hon. Willinm K, Sullivan says of them in Bis report as President of our Board of Educa- tion tor 18;3: “Warden McLaughry, of the Illinois State Penitentiary, states, chat of 1,167 convicts In bis charge Inst’ September, 80 per cent could read and write; but only J2 per cent knew anything about any useful branch of lubor. A system of education which confers the power of kuowledge for guod or for evil, but nezlects to direct that kuowledge into some useful channel, is incoim- plete: because it falls to accumplish one of the prime objects of instruction.” If uilour people hud been educated as the boys are educated in the St, Louis Munual ‘Train- ing School there would be fewer criminals In tho lund. Hud alt our people been so truined there would have been no riots In 1877, becuuse such training would have multiplied and diversiticd occupations to such an extent that there would have been abundance of. employments for ull. and not two men anxious for work where there was only work for one. If all our people were so trained, we should multiply and diversify o cupations to such an extent that we need bave no riots in the future. Itis knowledge and skill that diversity employments. Arabs, ludiuns, Spaniards invent nothing. They live a3 they bave lived fur centuries. “‘Thev do not diversify their employments, simply because their know edge is too limited, Stupidity breeds stupidity. Knowledge and skitl breed’ knowledge, skill, and wealth, The Anglo-Saxon race sturted a bundred years ago with ‘the steam-engine, and now the steamn-enzine feeds half of us. directly and indirectly, by the diversity of employments it bas produc : ‘What duty can be more urgent than to adopt the best training we can find? The expense of manual training will be a-mere tritle to what it would save, leaving out of view entirely the wealth it would produce. As things stund now when bard times come again we may be sure of riots, bloodshed, and {acendiarism. to which by comparison the affairs:of 15+7 will be mere trities. All the great questions of mankind, aifecting society and property, ure tobe fought out onour sul: This we could not prevent if we would: and I for one-would not prevent it it Lcould, ‘This is the only.country favorably sit- x a y, and give” 1 uated forthe ficht, and the fight is coming. With an inteltigent, well-trained, and capable population we. have nothing to fear from any agitation whatever. All we desire is that good sense shall prevail. We may safely welcome all agitanons if we-are sure that our population 1s sowing in intellience and capability. But we must be sure of that. Whoever values pence and free institutions should do his utmost to bave the rising generation taught the highest and best there is, and above all how to eurn their duily bread. Let us say that thls manual training-school is an experiment. It isan experiment well worth tryiug. Asa matter of fact it is not an experi- ment. Your columns have heen full of the suc- cess which bas attended similar schools in_ Ru: ia, France, Germany, und elsewbere. Never- thel it willhave to be established bere us if it were nn experiment, and therefore it will buve to be estabtished by private enterprise. Nopub- lie school board will feel warranted in establish- ing manual training-schools. until their success shull have been established before the cyes of the txpayers. Of course, ultimately, only the public schools can adequniely carry on this training. But first of ull we must show its advantuges. There are gentlemen in Chicago who would giudly do something to benefit the city in which they bave acquired their wealta. Let them go to St, Louis and witness the operation of the Manual Training-School, and I reel sure they will be In no doubt as to what they sball do with their money. They will return here and build au Institution pregnant with an improved fut- ure for all mel AuGustus JACOMSON. od PROGRESS, Among the many evidences of growing prosperity of our favored city none evince the rapia strides we are making more than the development of our retail thoroughfares. State street within a comparatively few years has been improved to a degree that puts it on a par with the favorite streets of New York and the boulevards of Paris. The magnificent palaces of our leading dry-goods merchants have been a matter of frequent congratulation, and te which we point with pride. The latest addition in this direction isso notable that it deserves more than a passing comment. Within the last few years anew peculiar method has be eet fully introduced and enthusiastically in- dorsed by the ladies of our leading cities. The colossal retail houses of Sixth avenue, Fourteenth street, and ‘Twenty-third street, of New York, modeled as their famous pro- totypes of Paris, have olutionized, the retail trade. Chicago until now has been without a store of U character,—a store where volume of business will explode the old methods of exacting large profits on so- called faney goods, :. A. Coutant & Co. will open at 145 State street a business modeled on the plan_al- juded to, ‘The old fairy tale of Aladdin’s palace has been realized—on the Istof March two unsightly frame structures disfigured the site where now stands the most ele gant and ornate establishment in Chicago. ‘The house announces to-day the character ‘of business intended. Free, liberal treat- ment, goods with character. Taste, experl- ence, capital, enterprise, afl used to their largest extent. “The building is the work of Mr. Jonathan Clark, and was designed and superintended by Mr. J. J. Flanders. The Toby Furniture Company have been the successful bidders for the interior fixtures and decorations, which are exceptionally elegant, being all in hard wood. Mr. Wilmarth had special de- sins made for, the ‘gas-littings, which are lignt and tasteful. ‘The building isa credit to the city. We congratulate Chicago on the advent of so agreeable an addition to its attractions. and Messrs. Coutant & Co. ona yenture that will Win the popularity which will bring success. a $$ IN VERY HARD LUCK. ‘The good looking young German who docs the “general utility” in the orchestra of Hooley’s Theatre, is well known to the theatre-goer, and his vigorous treatment of the kettle-drums and performances on that barbarous wooden Instru- mentof torture called the xylophone have often called forth appluuse from tbe audience. One night not long ago he was engaged by un or chestra leader to manipulate bis xylophone at a swell reception on the South Side, andon the evening in question he was on band at the house. The host of the occasion was opening sparkling chumpagne without limit, and the foung musician's fourness to the back room where the exbilarating beverage was dealt out became very frequent. He managed, however, to wander through bis xylophone solo all right, and at its conclusion he resumed his attention to the wine room. About 1 o'clock heap- proached his leader and asked if be might be allowed to retire. He was told he could, and he gathered up bis parapherpalla end started out for down-town. Being slightly befuddled be managed to board a Cottage Grove avenue car bound fur the city limits, and, after an hour's ride, be was landed nt ‘Thirty-ninth street. A beer salvon wus bis objective point, and here he proceeded to dispose of severul glasses of “white cap.” ‘The story goes that be was drugged by some loafers in the saloon and was robbed of bis watch. About mi night be icft the place. and, after a lons walk, be found himself ' out on the prairie. The fellows whom he had met in tne saloon had followed him, and on discovering this be drew his knife and’ awaited thelr ap- proach. ‘Che Umely appesrance of a blue- coated guardian of the peace averted an en- counter, und the policeman, anxious to arrest some one. collured the ‘German musician, marched bim to the nearest police-station, and locked him up for the night. ‘The next morning he was assessed $13 by Justice Wallace tor being drunk and disorderly, and now he says tho wine he had was the most éxpensive he bud ever met. THE MEMORIAL HALL. Mr. # K. Pearsons? Conditional Gift of fen Thousand Dollars. It was stated the other day that Mr. D. K. Pearsons bad given $10,000 to the Memorial Building Fund, but inquiry of him resutted in learning that the announcement was premature. ‘Che matter being left opeu, a reporter asked bis sterday wnat he bad concluded to do. When the $10.00 und the $25,000 subscrip- trons are in,” suid he, “und the Committee the little fellows, Lam ready to give $10,- You favor the project? “Ido. 1 consider the movement one of the best that has ever been started here, and I have contidence that the commerciul ca and others will notallow it to fall tureush.”” “The building will be erected?” “Certainly. If the project is abandoned this year it will be revived next year. Chicago is bound to have & Memorial Hall tor the library, There isn't a laboring man in the city but is willing to contribute his mite towards it, T donot give $10,000 out of benevolence, but simply ns a matter of equity to Chicago, having made my money here.” “There aro other organizations identified with the ity that wouldn't object to receiving some of it? “That's true,—the Historical Society, for in- stance. They ought to have a fine, substantial building, with fire-proof vaults, on their lot, and when they get ready to put it up, I propose to give them something.” Having said this much, Mr. Pearsons ran off, telling the reporter that be was going to leave tor Vermont Monday, to spend three months, and had to moke bis preparations. —_——<$————$—— IT SHOULD BE STOPPED. Complaint is made by peopte who profess to know from uctual observittion that persons cou- uected with Lynch’s distillery on the North Branch, just abuve Chicago avenue, arein the habit of disposing of the munure, of which there ig constant accummutation there owing to the lurge number of cattle kept on the premises, vy torowing it into the river. Persons working on the right bank of the strexm say. that they have seen this done aguin and again; thut when a vessel Hes at the dock there, men will quietly shove large quantities of the stuf! into the water between the dock and. the vessel, and thut the result of this unlawful dis- posal of refuse had been to interfere to some extent with navigation in the stream,—to muke bar there, so that one or more vessels have been stuck. Auytning of this sort is an olfense ngainst the law, punishable by a pretty heavy fine, and it {5 the duty, therefore, of all who see nny such violation to report ft promptly to the city authorities.—to the Comamisstuner of Public Works or the Commissioner of Heaith,—either or both of whown will doubtless tyke prompt steps to bring the offenders to justicé, especially when they huve # trustworthy witness who can testify intelligently to what be eaw. So if any one of the people ulong the North Branch see uny of these misdeeds, let them report them promptly to the city authorities, and the cases will doubtless be at once attended to. A TICKET-SCALPER’S WOES. J. A. Webb, the Clark street ticket-scalper. Is in trouble again. Day before yesterday be sola to James Picher a round-trip ticket from Chi- cago to Port Huron, Mich., charming him $13 for it. Picher started for Port Huron yesterday morning, but the train be was on bad gone only a short distance trom the city when the con- ductor discovered that the ticket purchased from Webb hud expired the night before. tt was datea April 27, and was good for thirty days. Picbher, who bad his wife with him, posted back to the city, and went to Webb foran explanation. The Intter declared that tne conductor hud made o mistake,—that the ticket was good until May 2. However, he took the ticket back and returned Picher the 213. But Picher remembered tbat he had been piloted to Webb's place by George Cripin. a runner tor the European Hotel, where he (Picher) had been stopping. So he went before Justice Wallace and swore out a warrant agoiust Webb and Cripin, charging them with obtaining money by false pretense; On 2 change of venue the uecused pair, who had been promptly ar- rested, were tuken before Justice Summerfield foraheuring. ‘The ticket was uot produced, Webb claiming to huve sold it back to the rail- road company, so that the date it bore could not be positively ascertained. ‘The sculper insisted, thoush, that the conductor hud made a mistake. ‘Tho defense also claimed Picher had offered not to prosecute Webb provided be would pay the extra hotel bills incurred by the former's return to the city, and would ap- pear against’ Cripin.’ ‘The Court _ held Webb in the sum of $20 to the Criminal Court, but discbarged Cripin, there being no certain proof that he “stvod in” with the scaiper. The matter did not rest here. After Webb bad given bond he und Cripin went before Justice Brayton and swore out 4 warrant against: Picber, cbars- ing. him with perjury. The complaint’ simply alleged that he had sworn falsely before Sum- mertield, but did not specify a8 to what par- tieulur part of bis testimony was irregular. At past, necounts a Constable was searching for Pitcher. THE HIBERNIANS. The annual State Convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians for this State will convene tn the Palmer House club-room Wednesday at 2m. Itwillbe an important gathering, inas- mucb us nearly every county in the State will be represented. At the last State Convention of the Order held in La Salle, the membership in this State was reported at between 9,000 and 10,00) members, which bus since greatly in- creused. They also have a large amount in their treasury. The object of the Order is to care for their sick, bury their dead, and assist the families of deceased members. They bare also ao insurance fund, which provides for the puyment of 31,0) on the death of a member. In Irish uffairs they are national in the extreme. At the National Convention of the Order, held in St. Louis on the 10tm Inst., 1t was ordered that 5 per cent of ull the cash in the different divis- ions in the United Stutes.be at once forwarded- to the Lund League. It is supposed thore 13 nearly $1,000,000 in thoir various treasuries. ‘This would give the Land League $50,000. The members of the Oruer in Cook County have ap- pointed Messrs. Patrick O'Neill, MH. Lyons, the Hon. Jumes E. Murray, Joon Prendergast, the Hon. J. Rt. Cook, Stephen Carmody, Capt. Me G. Flood, A. J. Sullivan, und M. G. Hnegerty o mittee to provide for the entertamment of ting delegates. ‘This Coumpittee bave ar- Vi ringed to show the Visitors the city and suburbs Wednesday afternoon. Carringes will leave the Putiner House at 1 p.m. ‘Tbursday and Friday will be devoted to the business of the Conven- dion, and Friday evening a reception ball and banquet will be given we ’Twelfth Street Turner Hull, ut which most uti the members of the A. 0. HL in Chicazo, ug also their military regi- ment, the Hibernian Iites, will be present, tho oticers for {Minors for the past year are: P. W. Gaitugher, Peorin, State Delegate: Joho ¥. J. Shununan, Springticid, Stute Secretary; and Fruucis Cassiday, Joliet, State Secretary. oo GEORGE-I. YEAGER’S REMAINS, Some months ago the first wife of tho late. George I. Yeager filed bill in tho Superior Court toget possession of her husbaud’s remuins,claim- ing that the Benevoleat Protective Order of Elks had possession of the corpse, and refused togive Itup,but were intending to bury itin their portion of KosehilL Saturday an appilca- tion was made to Judge Jameson ou the part of tho Elks tu have the remains buried. They have been’ lying in the vault at Kosehill since bis death, but the cemetery authorities bave given notice they must be reinoved by Monday. The compluinant’s solicitor was present, but made no objection, and the Judge gave permission ta bury the body, out without prejudice to the rigétof the complainant to establish ber right to the remuins. A single State solid fora candidate passes- inthe judzment of the political world as a significant indorsement. For example, when public opinion becomes so nearly universal in support of a particular name as to unite all the States of the Union in a solid vote, electing the renowned piano of Hallet, Davis & Co. to absolute sov- ereignty over all the instruments of music known to mankind in tone, form, coastrucs tion, durability, and_every practical point of excellence, it is a final verdict sustaining their claim to be the best plano ever made. In this inventive age how much of our solids comfort is Increased by simple yet effectual im- provements. The window-cleaning of three years ago Involved cloths, slops, change of water, and general discomfort. To-day all this can be avoided by using the neat, useful, and convenient implement made by the Perfection ‘Window-Cleaner Company, 167 Madison streets_ Chicago. z