Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1891, Page 15

NEED OF ORGANIZED CHARITY Ohurches Will Unite In Relieving the Wants of the Oity's Poor. PLANS OF PROMINENT MINISTERS, All Saints’ Choir—-New Church For Iev. Savidge—The Week's Work In Omaha Churches— Pulpit and Pew. Itis gencrally expected in nearly every community where Christianity prevails that the true followers of the meek and lowly Nazarene will be the leaders in works of charity. When the poor are in distress, the usual cry is:**Where are the church peoplet ‘What are the Christians doing that poverty and destitution should go uncared for?" Skeptics and the scoffers and infidels—men of no creed or betiof or doctrine, do not pause to ask thomselves why Christian poople should be held accountable for the raliof of the poor and needy any more than they. Iiverybody seems to ba convincod that church people should fly to the reliet of that for which they are least responsible ~the poverty and des- titution of the community. The reason for this is not, far off, Christ was the friend of the poor and it is natural to expect that true Christians will follow in his footsteps. A great many people who are not professed Christinns assist the poor in a very liberal and generous manner, but it is customary to 86 tho churches lead’ the charity movement, and in Omaha let it be said to the credit of the church people generally that they have done and aro doing this work of loveina ‘way altogether worthy of the religion they The question of thorough organization is again being agitated by the leading charity workers. A letter from Mr. Robert Kil- atrick, published last week in Tne Bee, as had the effect of arousing the directors of tho old Board of Chari ties, and the prospects for a more thorough orvanization for charitable work than has ever beon known in Omaha are very flattering. A meoting was held at the Commercial National bank last Tuesday at which the field was thoroughly canvassed aud it wus decided to organize at once. Kev. W. J. Harsha, Mr. A. P. Hopkins, Rev. C. » ore present and an- other meeting will be held this woek. Speaking of the work 1n view Roev. Ha said yesterday to the religious editor of Tt Bee: ‘“There is money enough paid out by the people of Omahia every year to reliove all the poverty in the city and ‘do it well, but the troublo is in its distribution. Some poor people suffer whilo others who are undesery- iug have an abundance and to soare, There are people in Omaha who make money by begging from door to door or by working the churches for help. What we need to do now Is to organizo our Board of Charities, employ a secretary, keep an office open where tho poor may apply for help and kvop a record of every case. In this way we shall bo enabled to protect the philanthropic people of Omaha against frauds, and render t0 the deserving poor much botter assistanco. This practice of promiscuous almsgving is a very bad thine. It encourages ignorant and vicious people to become beggars, and it squanders the means that should be directed mto proper coanrels. I dow't take much stock in this modern fad of ‘slumming’ that has rocently becomo the rago in larger cities. 1t is doing more harm than good m the awgrogato, because the weaithy and fashion- able people who o into the slums for the al- 1eged purposo of helptog the poor are likely to meet the undeserving frauds and squander their money upon them while the real cases of need are passed by. “Itis fashionable now in the largor cities to ‘g0 slumming’ as thoy call it, but I hope it will not become tho faa i Omahs. Peoplo should learn to be businesslike aud sys- tomatic in almsgiving not only for their own vrotection, but for tho wellfure of the very peovle they wish to relieve.” Dg, Daryea of the First Congrogational chufh, 1s'a man of ripo experience in the work of caring for the poor. Kor several years during bis early manhood he spent his summer vacations 1 helping to organize and manage tho Bourd of Associated Charities in of the city Brooklyn, the first or- gauization of the kind 1 the United States, He is thoroughly in harmony with the movement now on foot 1n Omabha. “The time hos come,” said Dr. Duryea yesterday to Tite Bee man, “when the char- itablo work in Omaha shouid be thoroughly organized. 1 bave seen enough during my years of experienco in this particular line to make a volume upon the subject. In New York and Brooklyn, where 1 heiped to or- pranizo the Board ot Associated Charities and place the work 1 systomatic order, 1 saw people do things that were almost beyond De- 1ef, and to me about the most ludicrous per- formances that I ever heard of in my life. Wo found men wuo were following the busi- ness of being ‘sick husands’ for half a dozen women. In this way they assisted the women iu getting all sorts of good things to eat, in gelting money and other valuables from tho well meaning but victimized people who went about through the shuns giving alms. As soon as we got thor- oughly organized we began to detect all man- mer of frauds und protenses upon tho part of these professional beggars, and we sent some of thom to juii for obtailiug money under falso protenses. 1t was no uncommon thing to find o man in bed in the forenoon in a cer- taiu quarter of the city wi.h his head all tied up and looking like the most miseravle being on earth, und playing the rolo of *'sick hus- band" for a dejected looking woman with a dozen hungry, balf-naked chiidren; and m tho afternoon of the same day to fina the deotical man with a differ- ent cloth on his bead 1 some other woman's bed a milo or two distant from his foreuoon engagement,groaning and agonizing in the real ‘sick husband’ style forhis share of the ulms that might drift in. ‘Ihat sort of business we s00u broke up and we furnished more genuine reliet 10 1he poor und deserving than ever had been furnished vefors. We had a wood yard where able bodied men were put to work aud a laundry where women could earn something, We openod a separate lodgiug house for women who could find no place to spend the night and we didn't call it ‘Magdalene’s Retreat or anything of the sort. To name a place like lwiys compromises every woman who enters there to k for assistance and mauy or, honest girl has gove out from such retreat with her head bowed in shame be: causo sho had by ontering there acknowledge a trespass that she haa never committed. We callod our lodging house tho *Strangers! Rest, for Women Only,” and wo nevor asked the poor creatures who came there about their past. We simply took them in and did the best we could for them that could be dono. Hundreds of them were furnished with employment and many were taken back to their parents and their homes from which they bad wandered in hours of thoughtless- noss and folly. 1 am glud that the work of organization has bogun or is about to bogin in Omaha, [t will, if proverly couducted, result in great good to tho ety by belping the deserving poor and frustrating the contemptiblo plans of fraudulent beggars who prey upon the credulity and philanthropy of the people.” All Saints Church Choir, Tho choir was orgaumzed in August, 1536, about six mouth before the completion of tho chureh edifice located on Twenty-sixth und Howard streets, ‘Through the kiudness and liberality of Mr. J. ML Woolworth and to give the choir its Impetus in the right airection, Mr. Caryl Florro, one of the foromost of America musi- clans and a purticular friend of the cnoir- mastor, was iuduced to come to Omeha from nis howe in New York ity and give the choristors a month's trawning, This choir was organized with the 1dea in view that only boys should be used for treble parts and bas since been maintained on that basis. It was the first choir in the city to demonstrate the fuct that boys can sing and not scream, if they are properly trained and that good choir singiug can be had without the assistance of women's voices in the trobie parts. This choir has also proven that the best cluss of music, uo watter how diffcult it may o, can be satisfactorily rendered by tho boys wione and unalded by women siogers. The services ut ALl Saints' have always THE OMAHA DAILY BEE beon dignified and worshipful—the musicis selooted to bo a part of the worship of the | church, Music of a frivolous nature, ar rangements of secular music to sacred words or light and trashy airs are never used here, but the service is meant to patiorn after the | Visitors traditions of the English church. who know what good music is speak in high praise of the singing of this choir and com- | pare the work dono favorably with that of the best work of similar choirs in Chnicago, New York and othor large citie: " Thomas J. Penneil, president of the Avollo club, is the choir master. Mr. Pon nell was for a short timo connected with the choir of the First Presyterian church, and was for four years in charge of the chorus choir of Trinity cathodral Mr. W. S. Marshall, the organist, is a musician of more than ordinary ability, and his work is of great value in the services of the church. All Saints’ is hapoily possessed of one of the most beautiful organs in the city, made by Roosevelt of wew York and presented to the church by Mrs. J. M. Wool- worth as & memorial to her son, Rovert Harper Clarkson Woolworth. T'he choir from time to time has rendered a number of the celebrated sacrod cantatas at special services, namely, Mendelssohn's Thirteenth and Ninety-fifth psalms, Arme “St. John 1ist,"” parts of Gaul's “‘Holy City'’ and ths *“Ten Virgins," etc. ‘I'ic membership ot the choir when up to 1ts standard is about as follow Sopranos, sixtoen; altos, four; tenors, four; bassos, six. Total, thirty, The 4 o'clock afternoon servico on Sunday is perhaps the best service of the kind in the city, full choral, Iasting avout three-quartors of “an Lour, the pure, sweet voices of tho boys blending with the fuil rich voices of tho men and rising in sweetest harmony in chants ana anthems. If the peoplo only kuew of the beauty of this service it would perhaps be moro fully attendad, To Build a People’s Church, ‘Lot mo tell you about a scheme,” said a well known philanthropist last nightto a Bee reporter. “I know that there are cer tain parties in Owmaha who have plenty of means and who are just now figuring upon building a large new church for Rev. Charles W. Suvidee on the lots where his little church stands near the corner of Eightoenth and Cass. The plan of the building uuder contemplation will be something different from aoy other church building i Omaba, It will 1nclude a large room on the ground floor to be used as a read- ing room and lunch counter for poor people. Writing meterial, books, papersaud harmless games will be supplied on the tables in the reading room and at the lunch counter every body who registers his name can get a bowl of soup for nothing. It 1s probable that coffes will also be given away in winter and milk in summer to all who visit the church. This 13 & pet scheme with one of the wealthiest men in Omaha and he believes that Rev. Savidve is the right man to put at the front in this movement. He believes i saving men by making them comfortable phvsically as well as mentally and spiritually, and you need not be surprised to see a £50,000 churen with a reading room and a soup coun- tor built where the Peoplo’s church row stands within the next year." Iteligious Work and Workers. The Presbyterian nospital, located at 1626 Wirt street, has met with merited success during the first year of ilts existence. Tho hospital was opened just about one year ago and Dr. W. O. Henry was placed in charge, An average of about half a dozen patients have been cared for ut this hospital almost con- stantly since it was opened. It is supported by the Presbyterian churches of Omuna and there appears to ve a wide field of usefulness before the institu- tion. Tho hospital is supplied with all modern conveniences and the very bost of care is guaranteed tho patients taken there. ‘There are threo charity beds where peoplo without means may = be treated without money and without price. Several of the leading poysicians of tho city send their patients to this hospital when it is necessary for them to have hospital cave. The spirit of mission work among the churches of Omaha should be encouraged. Those churches that have planted missions in the poor part of the city where church facilities have not been provided are doiug a great deal to benefit poor aud negiected children. A notable example of this £ood work 1s the lit- tle Baptist mission down at near Tenth and Bancroft. This mission was opened thero by a few earnest workers from tae First Bap- tist choren about one year ago. The children from the surrounding neighborhood who had no place to attend Sunday school or church were gathered in. They were a motley con- grogation of untidy and ignorant urchins, but. the missionaries were determined to awaken in them a spiritof self resvect. Some of the lurger and more ill-mannered boys of the neighborhood had to be threatoned with arrest at first on account of their bad be- havior in throwing stones and other manifes- tations of hoodlumism. Gradually and surely the neighborhood has undergone a trans- formution and at presout there1s one of the best behaved and brightest little congrega- tions of children assembled at that littlo mission Suuday school every Sunday that can be found auywhere i’ the city. The people who undértook that mission work would rather miss thewr dioner ou Sunday than to miss vhat Sunday school. At Thanks- giving ana Christmas the littlo folks are gen- orously provided with the good things that gladden the hearts of children and they come every Sunday dressed 1n their neatest and cleanest clothes to meetand be instrucied by their teachers. No spocial effort has been mude to make it a denomiuutional mission, out it is novertheless a great credit to the Baptist church, from which the workers went. ‘The noxt entertainmont in the regular course of the Youngz Men's Christian associa- tion is an evening of readings by Prof, R. L. Cumnock of the Northwestern univerity at Bvanston, 1l Prof. Cumnock 15 unques- tionably one of the most successful elocution- ists in tho country, both as teacber and reader. He has long held a front rank among the vest readers in America. He will read for the Omaha association on the eveuing of December 23, Bishop Newman will be bome next weok. The fair_ana_milkmaids convention given by the ladies of the First Universalist churen last F'riday night was a decided svccess in overy particular. Kev. A. W. Lamar has returned from the south and will flll the pulpitatthe First Bap- tist church both morning and evening. There is quite a revival in progress at the First ptist church, although there seoms to have 1 no special effort in that divection, Dr. xpects to preach his furewell sermon Sunda Notes It 15 said that all the Protestant of Boston are supported by about 2 families. Bishops Wilmer of Alabama, Peterkin of Wost Virginia, Dudley of IKentucky and Williams of Japan are all Virginian: Dr. Storrs, who has been a popular Br Iyu pastor for forty-ive years, is styled niost brilliant pulpit rhetoriclan of modern umes." A Chicago company, which makes a specialty of mauufacturing sermons, claims 10 have on its rolls the names of 1,000 clergy- men whom it regularly auvplies. St Louls Repubtic: The sermon should be a kiss with which to saluto saints; a meai- cine with which to bind up wounds; a text book out of which to instruct ignorance, but o thunderbolt to smite sin. churches 0,000 In Chieago the Congregationalists have $4 churches and 114 Sunday schools; churches and 74 Sunday schools within the ‘I'he aggregate Congregational city limits. mombership of the city and suburbs church 18 11,504, 1n the United States the Lutheran church is doing Christian work in twelve different jangusges. It bas 4,530 ministers, S,601 churches, 1,111,053 communicants, forty-uine colleges sud semiuaries and fifty-seven or- phans' homes and hospitals. At tho gathering of Catholio clorgy in St. Louis to colobrate the jubilee of Archbishop Kourick it was observed that the predominat- ing number of bishops and priests present were graduates of Maynooth, one of the greatest Catholic colleges in tho world, Rev. E. G. Wheeler, general superintend- et of tho Pacific const Sunaay school worlk and financial agent for the coast of the American Bapust Publication soclety, his received through the society & beautiful’ pal- aco car for missionary work. The ear is the gift of John D. Rookefeller, Colgate Hoyt aud others. 1tis called tho "Evangel.” A late census bulletin furnishes the follow- ing statistics: Tho African Methodist ¥pis- copal church has 452,735 members and _prop orty worth #,405330; Reorganized (burch of Josus Christ of Latter Day Saiuts, 21,778 members, property worth §320,255; Hrother- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 1891-TWENTY PAGES | 1,101 mombers worth 81,121,541 ; Chureh of God | bors and property worth #543,155, | ‘The Bostoa stenographers do not like to report the sermons of Bishop Brooks. Ho started off a rocent sermon atthe rattling rate of 200 words a minute, and he surpassed | this gait s ho got warmed up with his sub- ject. Four of the stenographers who had | been sont by aifterent papers to report the sermon wero knocked out in a_fow minutos, | and the others had to rest content with tak- ing down such passages as they could ecatch. The American Sunday School union makes | the following report of its worle during the threo yoars ondiug last March: Tt has in this timo estaplished 5,261 new Sunday schools in noedy or destitute communities, into which were gattiored 22,87 teachers and 186,017 scholars, Tho results in convorsions nd tho dovelonment of churchos from thoso chools is 14,051 conversions and the organ- izing of 335 churches, This work costs about £)0,000 & year and reaches those who are not provided for by any other agency. ————— 11 mem- Witt's Littlo Small pill. Safe pill. arly Risors aro takon, Best pill. itz e PR Glasses fitted. Dr, Cullimore, B bldg. phet et e NEWS OF 11K ARMY, Fort Sidney. The news of the death of our post and reg- imental commander, ColonelJoseph 5. Conrad, Twenty-first infantry, who diod at Fort Rau- dall, S. D,, whero be had zono to inspect tho companies of his regiment there stationed, was & shock to tho post. Colonel Contad was born at [thaca, N. Y., August 23, 1833, and graduated from the military academy in 1557 He servea through the various lower commis- sioned grades until Frobruary 24, 1801, when ho was promoted to the colonecy of the Twenty-first infantry, He assumed command of this post on April 6 of this year, being the tho third colonel that the Twen- ty-first infantry had had since Janu- ary. Colonel Conrad was throughly military; striet, just, reversed, dignified temperate, a wide reader, n good friend, a cultivated gontieman, & born soldior. Ho was quick to dotect favits, and instantly —cor- rected them; as quick to obsorve merit, and by a word show his pleasure, fora word from inm meant volumes. His heart was in his military work, his rogiment was his homo. The death Lioutenant Colonel ‘onrad promotes Horace Jewett, Third infantry, tothe colonoley of the Twenty- first infantry. Colonel Jewett 18 now sta- tioned at Fort Snelling, Minn. He wus born 1n Maino atarch 31, 1534, and was appointed from civil lifo a first licutenant, Fifteenth infantry, May 14, 1501, Firo cali was sounded on Friday of last weelk, the cause being a fire in the post can- teen, owing to a defectivo chimuey. The flames wers extinguished in sbout twonty of Colonel C minutes, thauks to our well organized fire de partmen’ Artificer Patrick Timhn, company A, Twenty-fiest infantry, was dishonorably dis- charged on the Hth inst. by a sentence of a goneral court-martial. The following members of this post re- turned from detached service at Fort Omaha thi: week : Hospital Steward Zoland, Corporal Kelly and Private Maloney, com” pany C, Twenty-first infantry. Private Herman Schroder, company E, Twenty-first nfantry, returned from his two months’ furlough and reported for duty on the 5th. Surgeon L. S. Tesson, U. S. A., returned from Fort Omaha on the Sth inst. Major D, N. Zash, paymaster, U.S. A., arrived here from Deaver on the evening of tho St iuat. and paid this command on the 9th. Fort Robinson. Last Saturday evening tho play of “*Betey Baker' was given by somo of the officers and ladies with Mrs. Captain Garrard in the title roie. The cast was: Mr, Mouser, Licutenant Batson: Mr. Crummey, Licutenaat Fuller; Mrs. Mouser, Mrs, Captain Olmsted; Betsy Baker, Mrs. Captain Garrard. Betsy is, of course, the part, and it certainly did not loso anything in Mrs. Garrard’s hands. She is just as much at home on tho stage as in her own parlor. irst Lieutonant Alfred B. Jackson, Ninth cavulry, after a four years' tour of duty at West Point as professor of mathematics, has returned to duty with his regiment and was assigned to troop £, Olmsted. Colonel James Biddle, Ninth cavalry, will commence bis four mouths’ leave of absenco noxt Tuasday, the 15th inst. We would take great pleasure in announcing his return. The new guard houso is entirely enclosed and the carpenter work is progrossing fairly well, This caunot be said of the ivon work, as the contractor has been unfortunate in broaking three lever punches used for mak- ing holes in ivon and atecl plates for cells. Captain John S. Sond, Ninth cavalry, has left for Philadelphia on’ 4 month's leave of absence, orggeant Major Jeromiah Jones, Ninth cav- alry, has taken the initiatory steps toward forming & non-commissioued ofticers’ club at this post, with every prospect of success, having the cordial support of the post com mander. This 15 & move in the right direc- tion. Company C, Eighth 1nfantry, has a young recruit with o “marshal’s baton in his cie,” and if wo may judge by external I the requisites (except his two years the ranks) to make an officor and a good one. His name is _IKoebler, and he is a brother of Lioutenant Lewis M. Koshler, Sixth cav- alry. Flioutenant Colonel Georgo B. Sauford, Ninth cavalry, 18 expected o arrive this weel to assumé _commana of the Ninth cav- alry and Fort Robiason upon the departure of Colonel Biddle. Your reporter bhad the nonor of serving with Colonel Sanford in the old Rirst cavalry during the late war, and looks forward with pleasure to meeting him again after so many years, Tue past few days bave been the most dis- agroeable of tho soason, the wind almost ap- proaching o gale and carrying with it through our post a goodly portivn of Wyo- ming. Every ono here wears a pair of the “lamb eye shield,”” and while tney ao not add to one's personal appearance, thoy cor- tainly are a great boon in a dust storm. The Fort Niobrara minstrels ¢ave a per- formance on Wednesday, December 2, and although they wded house ' they could improve hoy say that their next show will be better, Daugherty is good, and is in some ways original, and we are always ¢lad to seo him appear. Flynn is a wood singer and female impersonater, and it is astonishing where the strong voice is to bo found in so smail a body. Prof. Frauz's baud is immense, not only wusically but also persounlly. Polermo U. Briano takes his part well and wimics the man from the home of the maccaroni in fine stylo besides. Hall's Jig i3 good, likowise Burns' clog dance, and we udvise Burns who takes the part of a policeman so well, 10 go beforo an examining bourd in Washing- ton, New Yori or some other large eastern city, as he will bo sure to become *one of tho finost.” Private Leach, better known as “ack tho Waistler,” has loft snd we wish him suczess in his new career. Corporals Dorian and Steed, troop L, Sixth_cavalry, were promoted to sergeant, and Privates Baglo Feather and Sunpson ro appointed corporals. ) 5. Dravo of the Sixth cay- alry deserves great oredit for the success he has made out of hie troop, and nobody but himself knows what he had to contend with, but his succoss is incompurable, Heinrich Romer, & veteran of the Sixth cavalry from Arizons, has re-cnlisted for the Sixth cayalry band, and although Heiurich came not alone, ho i3 welcome. Sergeant John Kellar was discharged from the service after five yours on December 3, aud when he left he” went to Valentine, where ho was united to Mrs. Dunbar by Rey Dr. Batos, and started the samo duy for the L. form. fivates Lenioke and Biddleman were dis- 1 chargod por sentence of goneral court-martial order. First Sergeant Hugh Thomason aad nine wore meu left for Omuha on Decomber 5 to appear as witnesses in the murder case of Clinton K, Dixon. Lance Corporal MoCartby, troop G, Sixth cavairy, bus boen appointed corporal 1 the place of Bruce, reduced. Captain W. H. Clapp, Sixteenth infantry, arrived here with nine men of the Sixteenth infantry from Sait Lake for the purpose of recruiting Indians from the Rosebud agency for company I, Sixteonth infantry. ‘Tho men expect to retura with some Hifth re- cruits toSalt Lake in a month. property | No gripping, no nausen, no _pain when De- | e . 1 Dr. Cullimore, oculist, Bee building. | IN THE DOMALY,DF TOILERS. A Oomprehensive Revieh of Labor Stnkes During the' Year. ANALYSIS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, Annual Report of Now York's Labor Commissioner — ki Prog- Among thé jarners ~Klectrival 0 eighth annual report of Fon, Charles Peck, commissioner of the bureau of sta- tistics of labor of Now York, is the most complete, exhaustive and interosting oMcial work on the numerous and complex questions comprised in it ever presented to the public. A large numboer of valuablo suggestions in the direction of laws and reforms, made by labor organizations or their official represent- atives, appear in the report. Various stato Isws relating to the bours of labor are quoted. ‘The hours of labor and the legal age for work for minors in various states oxhibit some di- versity. Employment of quite young persons 18 generally prohibited. In some states laws are passed to protuct women, (Georgia has a law that makes a legal day from sunrise to sunset. Many of the acts quoted permit con- teacts outalde the law excopt for young chil- ren, ‘Thieinvestigations of tho strikes of the yoar are very thorough ana comprehensive in their scope. They necessarily imply an fn- quiry into causes, which include all cond| tions of tho wage-carnor's luboring lifo, hours, wages, shop rules, all business ma ters, in short, which affect the the workmen'’s actions or well-being from atrado standpoint. The strikes investizated include 6,233 estab- nishments, for which 6,338 lottors of inquiry were sent out by the bureau, to ba followed np where needed by personal visitation. The strikes iv the building trades aro, as usual, tho most important, because the trades act in concert and for common purnoses, Their movements may botaken as affecting eeneral privciples and wero moro than the sporadic outbreak of a single shop or a few dividuals, Of tie (,158 strikes of che year, 5,433 were settled by conciliation with labor’ organizations and 164 were aban- doned. Of the establishments affected 1,941 port an increase of wagos after the strikes, , 740 10 chanyze and 441 a decrease. A reduce tion in the hours of labor was obtained by the strikers in 2,085 instances. The number of persons engaged in sympa- thetic strikes during the past year wero 8§54, Number who lost positions, 114. Amount lost _in 593,04, Cost to employers, $2 . Successful strikes, 644, Compromised, eight. Unsuccessful, eighty. The sympathetic strike is ono in which the strikers, having no grievance of their own, take action out of beliof that an— other body of workers 1s not treated fai and so take up their cause. There were failures on the part of employers to fill con- tracts, and 611 firms have voported diversion of trade inconsequence of strikes, the loss being set down by those who gave estimates at $204, 36 The loss from injury to goods or machinery from strikes 1s set down at the comparatively low figuro of $i1,422.93. the vast army of strikers there were but 2 cases of action against law and ordes, a small proportion of violent methods of agita- tion. No more convincing argnment could be offered of the conservative and wise policy governing organized labor at the present day. The summary of tho strikes during the last official vear shows that there were 6,258 in 170 trades. Of thesg 5,560 were success- ful, 169 were compromisad, 405 were unsdc- cessful, fifty-eight are pending. Number of porsons engaged in strikes, 4. Number rofused work after strike, 049. Amount lost in wages, $1,350,164.32. Amouut expended for relief of strikers, $131,518.05. Estimated gain in whges for one year, 8,1 10. Loss to employers from all causes, $481,524,43 The most important strike’ of ' the year was that on the New York .{outral railroad. ‘The number of boycotts reported this year is 175, some of them having been continued from former years. In tho statistical record of all labor disturbances duriug the vear,a most valuable and instructive mass of data, bear- g upon every phase of the labor quéstion, is obtainea, aod in this mavner the state having placed in its possession the founda- tion of an_absolutely correct wago table, The multitude of subjects covered in thi: report and the absolute correctuess aud thor- oughness sougnt after in such annual review of the world of labor, lends it an importance second to no public paper ever issued on the subject. Industrial Progress. China has forty miles of railroad. France has a mine 4,000 feet deep. Kansas uses sunflower stalks as fuel. a A whaleback is to do the Atlantic in five ay Alexandria, ., i3 to have a plate glass mill to employ 2,000 men. A French ofticer in Buisson bas invented a hipometer which will register the paces and ground covered by o horse. Mr. Albert Edelmann, anative of Warsaw, Poland, claims to have discovered a process whereby coal can be supplied at a price not exceeding 81 per ton, A smoke consumer was rezently reported in use on about twenty-tive Baitimore & Onio locomotives, and it was said to be an invention of Superintendent of Motive Power Hazlehurst. An investigation discloses the fact that about thirty locomotives running 1nto Chicago have been equipped with the Hutchinson smoke cousumer, The action of the Newecastle-on. as compauy in redu ne local ing the price of pas to cents per 1,000 foet probably makes this the lowest priced zas to bo found anywhere. In addition to this consumers are to coutinue 10 enjoy the usual ailowance of 10 per cent in their bills for prompt payient. The first ingot of nickel stecl to be used in the manufacturo of armor plate for the United States navy was cast in tha open hearth department of the Bethlehew iron works on tho 5th inst. The weight of the ingot is 90,000 pounds. It is fori n inches thick'and pinety inches wide, Tho mould in which it was ‘cast weghs fifty-six tons. This armor plate will oo used on the Maine, now building ai the Brooklyn nayy vard, ' Its casting 1 the result of the recent tests at Indian Heaa. It is a mistake o suppose that women lack inventive genius. Last week one of them obtained a patent for a portable electric il- luminating advertissment. Another woman has patented an improvement in umbrellas, a third has an improved guide for the wrists'of pianoforte playors. Another hus improved corsets. Stiil ancther :hus patented a new way of sharpening peneis, or rather a new apparatus for sharpening them, A woman wiio has no doubt o faucy for fiuger rings has got out an_uspplianee for kecping thom from slipping off, and thé list wiuds up with # strong brained woman who has patented a aew and improved means for inducing and increasing up-draft apd preventing down draft in fireplaces. ‘The Wage 'Workers, sw York has 500 tea'Yastors, There 15 & National Waiters’ union, Vienna has 6,000 idle shoemakers. Boston union waiters gat §25 per mouth, “Frisco borse-collar m#kers have a union. Sacramento has an agbilration committee. Denver expressmen will join the federation Washington printers/ will build a $30,000 hall. »! Brooklyn has a worknmn’s genoral benefit uniou with four braochies Boston manufacturers are using ment Workers' union label, “The International Bricklayers and Masons union will meet at Indianapolis on Jan- uary 4. The Southern Pacific is compelling tele- graphers to take oath that they ars not union men. ‘The Massachusotts law probibiting the fin- g of weavers hus been declared unconsti- tutional. Oliyer & Roberts, wire manufacturers at Pittsburg, have announced & cut of 20 per cent in wages. The Barbers' International union has re- solved to momorialize the #tate legislatures 10 pass laws probibiting shaving on Sunday. Au Indianapolis clerk sued a firm for the time he workea over eight hours. He got #1253, but the case will be appealed. San Francwsco delegates to the Federation the Gar- | conveutiou favor goverament ownership of AMUSEMENTS. BOYD'S i, SEVENTEENTH AND HARNEY STREETS. SUN M . G. Stone & Co. take pleasnure in prosonting MIS8 LILLIAN LEWIS, Supported hy a capable company of playors (n- cluding Edmuind Colilor, Loutss Pomeroy, Arthur Elllott, Walter Kytinge, Bell and others of note Sun lay, Dec, 13, Asin a Looking Glass, Monday, 'ec. 14, Credit Lorraine. Tuesday, Dec. 15, Article 47, Box Sheets open Saturday morn. Kalph Pricos a8 usual g at ok BOYD'S e | 2iicrosine Seventeonth and Haraoy Streets Yon Yonson is Coming to Town. Children Cry for “Yon Yonson.’ Only one World and Two Big Shows in it WOrld's Falr In Chicago and “Yon vonson T Omaha, FIRST TIME IN OMAHA. Sunday and Monday, Dec. 20th and 2fst YONYONSON neing the romar k- Comy e ANNIE LEWIS BENEFIT——= Open Door, The clover sonbrotte, —BOYD’'S.— DI @R -] Prices $1.00, 75¢, 50c and 25c. Seats on sale Dec. 17th at Boyd’s theatre. THE TALENT: RY F. OLIV ASFOLO CLUR SUTORIOUS Mandolin QUINTETTE OMAHA BANJO CLUB CTHE 0 PROF. RUTLER, Ac Bollman, Na . Russell, n Pinance Committon ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. %, Soprano ompanist, Wednestay fye., Doc. 23! SIR EOWIN ARNOLD, The Great English Authar-Pogt WIll glve an (nteresting programme from his world renowned work, “Tho Light of Asia” and “Light of tho World,”” The subseription 1ist 18 now open a Max Meyer Bros. store. ‘Tlckets by substiption up to Saturday, the 19th, § RIS THIAS LPocket Knives We have veceived our fall im- portations of Wostenholms, Jos- eph Rodgers, also a large line of American manufacture, in Sterling Silver, Pearl and Stag Handles, suitable for Holiday Presents, also Scissors and | Knives for Ladies. Carvers Without doubt ae have the largest ussortment of English and Amevienn Carvers in the city; in pai and cas with Pearl, Ivory, Stug and Walrus Handles, Raszors Wade & Butcher’s, Jas, ers & Sons, Wostenholm’; ‘ngstrom's Swedish, in from 50¢ to $3. Rog- and prico ClSSOVS For ladies—a complete line of luce and embroidery Shears of all kinds, Sci in fancy cg A completo line for ladies, ntlemen and boys. Jas. Morton, Son Co. 1511 Dodge St. saloous as a means of abolishing the liguor ovil. John Burns lately said at a labor demoa- stration that the trades unions' effort to obtain an eignt-hour day was a failure. The trades themselves cannot and will not anforce it, s0 the only hope i3 through legal enuot- went. AMUSE FARNAM -7, THEAT Four Nights, Commencing with SUNDAY MATINEE, DEC. 13TH. The Private Secretary BY WILLIAM ETTR MISNTS. | Popular Prices. | Farnam Stret Theafre, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, GRAND MATINEE SATURD December 17,18 and 19 THE NEW YORK AND PARIS SENSATION Mr, Fleron’s Original Version of THR Clemenceau Case. irod Ity ow With the same erand cast that charact groat suceess at the Standard Thea tre, York, Including the beautitul SYBIL JOHNSTONE AS - “IZA.” 8:15 [ZA THE PAGE. |PON'T FAIL 8:30 IZA THE ARTLESS| TO SER 9:20 14 THE MODEL. | _ ™9 10:00 120 THE WIFE, | "oy 10:25 124 THE SIREY. | sosnm. NEXT SUNDAY -RECEPTION BY MR. McALLISTER OF NEW YORK. One of the 4.00. port” and all the girls on hand. [ vening iAttire. $30 to $60 TO ORDER Inverness Top Coats $25 to $40. Our Large Assortment Long Experience —AND= Little Profit Taking Enables us to make fine attire $30,—ordinarily commanding $50. AMUSEMENTS, INTERNATIONAL UG OF W Bezins Tomorrow Night S R EL I SS— COLISEUM Hon. Mayor Cushing —WILL MAK The Opening Addr DIME EDEN MUSEE. Corner 1ith and Farnam Stroets. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, DECEMBEIR Lith Clarenco Dale, Bie [eaded Boy Demetrus Kolopakl. Siherian Exile. L itoy, Denticua Nail Driver Cupenti, Hindoo Ju Geo, Shidy ruin_ Childro W Bleyolls ) Swingor. Lowl< Paul, 1 Madaline, Artls 0P, cuicacs AR sriouis NEWYORK | || MaNsascITY OMAHA < §ioqcs - OENVER STPAUL CINCINNATY MINNEABOLIS | INDIANAPOLIS SANFRANCISCO L0 ANGELOS POATLAND OREGON. 207 80U L Stieoty Omaha. for Ours at 60 and ¢55 costa elsewhere 880 to $100. ‘We make business suits $20 to We make We make We make Cutaway and Albert bel a We make—we conlidently in the world at prices MANY, ISS THAN (We do not compete with shodd, SAMPLES MAILED. #35. Suits $25 to g50. Overcoats $18 to $65. trousers at §5 to $15. ‘eve we make the b {5 clothing little less than axveoby, mucil [ — y. believing it dear : any price.) Nicoll the Tailor. 207 Sourn 1gri, OMAHA, Solid Gold Watches, hunt- ing cases, stem- wind, for ladies, Ssolid Gold Vatches, stems wind, for tadies, #$10. 00, Solid Gold 4 Watch, raised i ornamented ms2, sot with diamonds, I movement, s wind, for ladics, #2600, Gents’ gold illed case,stems Al Alled paseiom | THISARL with Elgin or Waltham movements, 5. 50, Solid nickel stem-wind wateh, ware- od, n stem-wind and set Eigin or Waltham watches, $4 Gold filled Elgin and Waltham stom- winding watches for gents, warrantec for 15 years, $10. 14 K. Solid ¢ 1d Watehes for ladies, with full jeweled Elgin or Waltham stem-wind movements, $21.85. or 14 K. gold filled stem- watches, w Boss and Du wind Elgin or Waltham ranted for 20 years, fol iies, $15. Gold filled Elgin or Waltham watches for ladies, warranted for 15 years, $10. Solid coin silver stem-wind watches for Iadies, gents or boys, Nickel Alarm Clocks, Gic Solid gold, raised initial ring, #4, Diamonds, clocks, jewelry and silver- ware at half price . BANK, The Entire Stock of JEWELRYSMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS At Cost. This nent instru. can ba plaged by any person. A dés tghtiul present and a nusical treat for any houso, The lut- est design _in musical art. - It plays 500 differ- ent pleces Just re e'ved, wge impoyta- of Mus‘eil a tion oxes, and will for Il them log 500, WORTH $10. Guitar, wareanted, Solid mahogony American Gu tar, $6, ine roseweod finish Guitare, 37, ine mahogany finish Gui‘ar. $3, Solid rosewood Banary Guitar, ¥8, Fine Bunjo, 83,50, A good Vielin and Bow, $1.25, Auerican Zithors, #1 l\lrun assortment of Canes and Ums ellas, wocd Amecican Solid iron Mantet Clocks, $4.50. ck Walnut Mantel Clocks, $2.75. an Gui @rs, warranted, $6, Acromatic Opera Glassos $1.25, worth #5. Latest Sheet Music to 75¢, only 10c. All worth the BANJOS, $1.25. 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