The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1908, Page 5

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1908. Brass Checks Paid tor Ashokan Dam Work; 9 7" Investigator Who Exposes Conditions ASHOKAN WORKMEN AID BRASS Gri Ci INSTEAD Or GASH These Are Good Only at “Compan ny ; ~| ® Stores,” Where Victims Pay ae TAFT’ ° BROTHER | Prices—Men Herded Like Pig | in Pen on City Contract. | NOW TAKES IP TE | Bonwit, Harris & Co "Broadway and 5th Ave., Cor 21st St. Extraordinary Suit Purchase 1,009 Ladies’ and Misses’ Tailored Suits Will be Sold at Less Than Wholesale Prices JURY CENSURES = THE INTERBOROUGH Coroner Harburger Will Send Testimony Concerning Two Deaths. to Grand Jury, j When MacArthur Bros. Company, the favored contractors of the PANAMA PURCHASE McClellan administration, got the $12,500,000 contract for building the | Ashokan Dam, and John Pierce's vid, lower by $2,509,000, was rejected | By the Board of Water Supply, the reason given for the award to the | higher bidder was that the MacArthur Bros. Company was a more de- cat Scandal Story Absurd sirable contractor because they paid their labor so well. | ; ie The Evening World presents some evidence to-day of just how wen | and Agrees That Light Be MacArthur Bros, Company ts treating its labor through the installation Shed on Matter. | of a system of brass checks and the “company's store,” reminders of the | days of “Finyy" Conners and his chain of saloons on the shores of the | | Great Lakes and the riots of Homestead, Pa | CINCINNATI, | | —>—_ A coroner's jury before Coroner Har burger this afternoon returned verdicts censuring the Interborough Rapid Tran- c any inc ton with th Jeathe of two of the company's em- | yees. Coroner Harburger announced ention of sending the evidence in s to the Grand Jury in the be- that body will find it strong S.—The Cinein st BINUEL DSTODEL or, published to-day the | — Times-Star, of w Section 38}, 1, of the Penal Code compels the payinent of wages of \s employees on such work as the Aqueduct in cash. Any person, or cor- | Yrother of the President-« vided by Article 1 of the Labor law is guilty of a misdemeanor, “and | following reply to the article on the ioreigl upon conviction therefor shall be fined not less than $25 10r more than | Pana al, whi a red in th H} AFTER HI he cases were those of Carl Henretch, | thirty-five years old, who were killed at ) $50 for each offense. Yor "| nineteen years old, and I ‘y Batman, a train on the Here is the result of a careful investigation of the labor conditions \ Phirty-third. s y New York Ayer 4 ue pape DISCHARGE I IN COURT th avenue elevated road on Nov. 18 caries as responsible for moat of the on the Ashokan Dam contract k t 1 . The men belonged to the crew of a itruders out about ndal’ dur- +BY SAMUEL A. STODEL, )%!ven off by theo amps ae to force the] he recent vd qi con GHG king train the derrick on which Organizer for the Industrial Work-| Se ers of the World and an Investi- gator for the Brotherhood Welfare Relatives Fear Fancied Dis- grace May Have Caused New- man to Kill Himself. t over fif-| Association. S The good citizens of Nev ae law 1s openty | are to be bene | from the they are | greatly of drass by “Vin; Buffalo, | Btation, in Vister prietors of this pa system ar Winston & use who raigned lay aske t, where h® ho ss SENATOR CUMMINS SWORN IN. TON, Dec. &—In the Senate a brother of goods can be pur- |} yy large community ec ett tone cent each. |P: on presented the Sree por uunee si heentalinnttuns lentials of c lect Albert P. K steak brings 18 and 20 ny Of $290, camming, of Iowa, eletced to fill the a pound, Bn a very poor | ge Sasaihend (cbr e Senator Alli s sold mination x ten 5 cents a pound I ever tasted selis Sa pound, a grade wor -cent coffee sold on the te en-cent cotton socks bring ents a pa that they could furn ment at 20 cents an hour for lat Bixteen Hundred Herded Like Pigs. On Nov. 18 I arrived at B tion, which is a little settl them nts each S sells for $3, sell for $3 also. The 2rink of Our Forefathers, s Sta ent located wh Ulster and Delaware Ratlroa from about 1,0) wor he Asho- kan Dam in various capacities, includ- ing engineers, inspectors, &e., there are Negroes, 400, Ita probably forty families, old settlers, 9, and the remainder principally Irsih, etil! remaining tn that le Lenglish, Germans and Pe When an has w About two hundred of Tne sy ve c-Piece Broadcloth, sg 27.50 those men of Brains and Muscle, was BASS: ALE $ 3 $ 3 $ 3 3 : 2 ls Regular drinkers of ase’ Ale do =e Fy World is tryi It wants t € See ee oa acute cacsaatassui vauaatuiantacsevcabessavvtduinritaanwitittavvateemedtsauradarateeenreater Broadcloth, Wale Material, 25.00 25.00 Broadway and 5th Ave., Cor. 2ist St. PPDGLO DED DH OOS ODG 9400009004 PFO O0FOO0S 00 9S HOO FGO06 08900666000 9O00000000008 | etter paid tors’ board- the ‘con: cent, 1 ces. ‘they With of every pay ts alway'as “On Draught” ind “In Bottle” everywhere, Mve in very good condition at Brown's held bach Farm and Brooks's Kill Club. “Bootleggers” Are Allowed: | Phe remaining 1,00 are her Thus it will be f on the bill overlooking the which 1s more of a creek t else. These houses for the laborers are |s bullt upon piles, about three feet aboy the ground, and are of rough lun gheathed with inferior bul on the outside. They hundred and thirty feet deep and fourte side they are divided off j \ ments less than thirteen and in each of these com ss 2PO%O%OSOH 900929000 9020008 DPOOLIDOGD ISON FS GODS IOP OOS SS OOOO GOSH ODIE GOS OOH OOOH ODE SOOOOSOSO SH MOOS OOOO SDSS OOD OO OVS SPD OSE SES 00 SO99 0990 DOO PTS OOOO BASS & CO. Warren St. New York. Veveevaeetcossrseeeseseeeseenteateres. by ithe ¢ past forty-eight I anything 2 Janoeeeeseesestesseteteettteteee: weeny pipes Wit CTS ors & CL) O i Vy a FROM THE * Anns LDS OW: (i ¥, Conn. Stor his month's pay ending skey is not sold to the men t by the labor- who have the third any Tenth square, artments are | thers of bunks, with a f eight persons. These bi from rough lumber, There is nod t ventilation except trom such to my. knowledge Ree BYE A aa m such cold pints of this Whiskey, most of mir ae coinee through ‘cracks ine thei in the neisht nd of the bull. pen. for his Liquor with . which t rr one of the vend floors and side walls. pat cies In each room there 1s a small cooking yj stove, which completes the furnishings. | DRIVER FATALLY INJURED. f iol. wt tin For dishes and cooking utensils old cans = Hf or Elgin picked up in the vicinity of the railroad Unjonding Crank Reverse station are pressed Into use. The men an@ Struck samining. are charged $1 for cach blanket, most of which have previously been wo: out on horses. The rent charged for Itself Ralibam or Elgin Works. | John Samming, a sand cart ériver was probably fatally inju these wretehed quarters is $2 a man a | ‘month, or $35,500 rent a year from the workmen for premises that did not cost $1,600 to build, It was in regard to the condition of the plain laborers, thelr wages and thelr, when the unloading crank of rsed Itself under the pr two tons of sand the face on its first re ming was knocked unconscious. Hi) taken in an ambulance to the re struck him full ta What Ee ter Gift Than Reliable Watch? York Hos! method of living, that pntiinto, NF a the district by the B ood Wel-| aoe. en aIRaK pikee ave mors Reia l> Wat ‘es of Every Des-ription fare Association, ‘ny associates on the AYenue side of the new | if Ne from the In-sperstve to the Most Cist-y, H committee being John ©, Calhoun, the| the site of the old Fiith Avenue lotel, eal In buying a watch the sale yay is to dea! lished house, which 2s an honorable repy Rey. William H. Johnston and Alexan- | <a der Law. My instructions were to as- certain the true wages being paid to| Mrs. Carter Payne Out of Bankruptcy. ha long est ton to ma GENUINE DIAMOND the laborers, how these wages wero| Mrs. Caroline Lesile Carter Payne, the |) ff ' ihe Chip) Our watches are rel: every respect, have best hand-made | paid, and the general conditions prevail- | actress, was granted @ discharge from j $22.00 xeoia, cases and either Walthar OF Our Own movements. We in the district. bankruptey yesterday by Judge Holt in \ double Wa tham Instead of being paid in American the United States District Court. A pe- money for their labor, I found that these Ution In bankruptoy jas filed against 1,600 workmen, who are employed by the her on Noy. 19, 197, and her schedules City of New York through tts - showed Mabilities $194,418 and nominal tractors, are very seldom; if ever, paid | assets $5) yanything other than brass checks, which the contractors have justalled as | ‘a medium of exchange. _ No Cash Among Them. FOR ‘These bri checks can be exchanged lat a “company’s store,” similar to those | maintained at Homestead, Pa, before | the great’ strike, for such articles of wearing apparel or food as the poor, nfortunate laborer needs. During my jatay of eleven days in the locality, tray- felling all the way from Brown's Station . ito High Falls, a distance of twenty USE alles, 1 was unable to change a $1 bill mong.the laborers. In fact, 1 found ‘Mhat there was a premium on money— $1 11 money being worti $1.50 In brass. contains vil It Wan not until Thad visived tho store sisi which is one of the best fend priced the articles ofiered for sale Ka0Wn remedies for Rheumatism and \there that 1 vinderstood the cause) bumbago. RubtheOilinto the place vehind this premium. No peddiers are | that burts, and the pain will stop, ullowed to circulate among the men and | There is no case so Bad that Onegn pier their goods for sale, and any who| Oil won't at least give relief. | MMtamAEE-40 esl! Goode to he men axe bottle 10c, Large piney, 2c, and bic, SOLID GOLD Gus anwoa Movement, The constantly increasing demand for our goods has compelled us to enlarge our premises. \\ now have two of the LARGEST, MOST Cod +VENIENT and ATTRACTIVE JEWELRY STORES in New York, and cordially invite an inspection of our large assortment. NEXT SUND AY Wo ‘ORI MANUFACTURING AND REPAIRING DEPARTMENTS ON THE PREMISES. 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