VOL 27. in IN CARNEGIE'S MILL An Orchestra and a Preacher Enter tain Non-Union Stool Workers. Himtrel Shows to Follow, But a Ten Hotir Day will Bnle. NO MoKE SHORT HOURS OK LAH0R AT rOKT ERICK UNION MEN SAV CARNE OIE WOULD NEVER DARED TO HAVE ADDED TWO HOURS TO THE WORK ING DAY WITH HIS OLD MEN A THOUSAND "BLACK SHEEP" ARE NOW AT NEW YORK. Homestead, Pa., July 31st Echo ing through the big beam mill to day were the words of a preacher and the sounds of music. Never before has the Car negie Company been so solicitous for the welfare of its men. Never before did a few hundred workmen gather to gether in a mill and have a military preacher talk to them about a brave man who dared to raise his voice on all occasions. Largest of all the buildings of the Homestead Steel Works is the new heam mill, which has been silent since the lockout, more than a month ago. A' most in the centre of the mill is a little space which is not occupied with the massive machinery. This had been cleared away and carefully swept. On one side a little platform was built out of rough boards. On this sat the or chestra and the minister. There were 340 men in the congregation. The others were said to be sleeping and resting. The men did not look like men in church. They had on their working clothes. Some of them did not have ti.eir faces washed. Few of them had on their coats. They sat on little benches which had been made for the occasion and on iron beams. Many stood up because there was no place for them to sit down. All of them seemed ill at ease. .MELODY IN THE BLACKENED MILL. Bright new I yinn books which had been bought for the occasion, were distributed among them, together with a sheet of paper on which were written unfamiliar words. The orchestra took up a grand old hymn. It swept back and forth through the great mill The people of Homestead heard it just as they were starting for church dressed in their Sunday clothes and looking very fine and respectable. But the people of Homestead did not know the words that those whom they call black sheep were singing inside the mill. If they had they might have forgotten their Sunday calm and smiled. This was one stanza : May Thy rlrh grace Impart Htrfngth to my fulling heart. My zeal lntiplru. THE SERMON TO WORKWOMEN. The preacher a commonplace look ing young man with a brown mous tache and an important air, wore the military uniform, he was the Rev. Clarence A. Adams, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Franklin, Ta., He is also the chaplain of the Sixteenth Regiment. His text was : "I am ready to preach the gospel to you always, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.". lie began by saying that he would ireach no special sermon to working men, but he would preach precisely as he would to his regiment or in his own church at home, he believed that he was talking to workingmen of intelli gence, to workingmen of education, and he had no doubt that some ot them were scholarly men. Then he went on to talk about Saul of Tarsus and his heroism in rising up and speak ing the words of the text when Judea was under the dominion of Rome and when wickedkness was rampant, he said also that ever since the birth of Chris tianity there were men ready to rise up and speak the Gospel of Christ, men who knew no fear and whose splendid courage did much for the cause of religion. DR. POTTER'S SECRETARY LEADS THE SINGING. There was nothing really personal in what the Rev. Mr. Adams said but somehow or other it seemed to have a personal application for all that. After the sermon they sang more. Mr. Slo cum who is Superintendent Potter's private secretary, led the singing. That isn't exactly in Mr. Potter's line, and besides, Mr. Slocum has a good tenor voice. The German who led the or chestra, which consisted ol four violins, a cello and a cornet, seemed to have some difficulty with the music. He seemed to have a tendency to go off into dance music In the afternoon there was a concert. The orchestra flayed well and the music sounded swuetly through the big mill. The men wandered in and out, as they chose, and it was not until late in the after noon that there were many there at ny one time. The music seemed to have a marked attraction for the for eigners. They remained in the beam mill all the afternoon. KUN DURtNO THE SIEGE. 1 here was another concert given in the evening. This had the largest at tendance of the day The Sunday concerts and sermons will be continued. Hereafter a band or orchestra will be brought from Fittsburg on Saturday nights and it will remain within the mill till Monday morning. There will be a series of other en tertainments. The first will be a min strel show. The company officials have made up their minds that they will have to keep the men inside the mills for a long time. They have al ready begun to build temporary houses within the fence, to be accupied by a few of the men who will not remain unless they can have their families with them and who do not care to live at Homestead. There are others who say they will go to live in the company houses on the hill as soon as the com pany is ready to have them. NEARLY A THOUSAND MEN IN THE MILL. A few more men were received yesterday. There were 200 expected last night, but only 12 arrived. There arc now between 900 and 1,000 men in the mill. Superintendent Potter says that by the end o.: this week every one of the mills will be running. The superintendent told a World reporter to-day that there would be one important change made in the running of the mill. Hereafter there will be no eight hour turns. They will be done away with altogether. Heretofore all the mechanics and a few of the steelworkers of lower grades have worked twelve hours a day, but the really skilled workmen have worked but eight hours a day, that is, there were three turns or shifts of eight hours each. Sup erintendent Totter proposes to make, the men work at least ten hours a day, ami the number who work twelve will be increased. All the best steel workers will woik ten hours a day and there will be but two turns in the twenty-four, instead of three as has been the custom. PILING ON THE HOURS AGAIN. Had this been propose ! to the old men it would have caused no end of toubie. They say that a man cannot stand it to work ten hours a day in some of the departments, and that during summer a man cannot work more than six hours of the eight. This doing away with the eight-hours working days is likely to make a stir throughout the country. The labor men will use it as an argument that the Carnegie company forced the strike not to gain the points wdiich it has said it wanted, but to gain others which it has kept in the background, and this is one of them. The result of the ten-hour rule will of course increase the wages of the men or it would under ordinary cir cumstancesbut the old steel work ers say that little more can be ac complished in ten hours than in eight, for the reason that the men be come so exhausted that they cannot work. The locked-out men do not seem to worry at all. It is evident that a break among the mechanics would not surprise them, although they in sist that it is not so and that such a break would not aflect them in the least. The association men seem to grow more quiet every day, but not a whit less confident. One of the most earnest, and at the same time the most conservative of the as sociation men said to-day. HOW THE ASSOCIATION MEN KEEL. "I cannot see that there is much change in the situation. This very likely true that they have many men in the mill, probably as many as they claim, but what difference does that make? They can fill the mill up to the roof and it will not efl'ect us in the least. They say they have 900 men and that they are good men. Americans, and intelligent. Very likely they have, but how many of them do vou suppose are steel work ers! We' have kept tab on them petty close. We have watched the men work, for we can see exactly whit they are doing with glasses, and if they do not get in better men than they have at present we are satisfied if they (ill the place up with them. To be sure tbey have some really skilled steel workers among them, but this number is so few that they do not cut any figure. NO PROFIT AND NU GOOD WORK. "I do not doubt that the company can get men who will run the mill, but to run it at a profit and turn out good work is an entirely different matter. The Homestead mills aie said to be the finest in the country The company has always claimed that it had the finest workmen in the country. It has been selecting them for many years. Now it isn't reason able to suppose that they can replace BLOOMSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5. 1S92. them in a month or a year. The number of steel workers or the first class is limited. They cannot get them here in sufficient numbers to run the mills as they must be run in order to get out the best that is in them. They must have the old men back. I can see no way for them to get out of it. That is our strongest points." James Closser, one of the men who were arrested, came back to Home stead this morning. He said: "they tried to get me to make ad missions in jail by all sort of artifices, but I would not talk. If my attorney had not betrayed me I should have been liberated on Friday morning. The bail was ready, but they left me alone in jail." CALL TO SCHOOL CHILDREN. OCTOHER 21 IS TO BE OBSERVED AS A GENERAL HOLIDAY. TO ELY THE NATIONAL ELAfi. J'rettitleni Jfarrison, in His l'ro clamation Urges the Importance vf Making the Public School the Venter of the Festivities of the Day America's 400th Anni versary President Harrison, complying with the Act of congress of July 29th, has issued his proclamation making Fri day, October 21, a general holiday. This is the recognition of the move ment to put the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America into the hands of all the people by giving it to the institution closest to th people and most characteristic of the people the public school. The movement undertaken by the National ICducational Association, through an executive committee, which has so presented it as to gain the endorsement of the press and general popular acceptance in advance of this proclamation. The procla-' mation is as follows. Whereas, by a joint resolution ap proved June 29, 1892, it was resolv ed by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, "That the President of the United States be authorized and directed to issue a proclamation recommending to the people the observance in all their localities of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, on October 31, 1892, by public de monstration and by suitable exercises in their school and other places of assembly"; Now therefore, I, Benjamin Har rison, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the afore said joint resolution, do hereby ap point Friday, October 21, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States. On that day let the people so far as possible, cease from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer and their appreciation of the great achievements of the completed centuries of Ameri can life. Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of en lightenment, and it is peculiarly ap propriate that the school be made by the people the center of the day's de monstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizen ship. In the church and in the other places of assembly of the people let there be expressions of gratitude to Div'ne Providence for the devout faith of the discoverer and for the Divine care and guidance which has directed our history and so abund antly bfessed our people. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 21st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eignt hundred and ninety-two, and of the independ ence of the United States the one hun dred seventeenth. Benj. Harrison. By the President. John W. Foster, Secretary of State. The Lock Haven Democrat pub lished an industrial edition last Satur day, of twelve pages. It was hand somely illustrated and printed. During the severe storm last Friday evening a tree in front of the residence of Thomas Hickey was struck by lightning. WALLER Mr Samuel Hess and family ofBcr wii k I; v.e been spending a few weeks with Mr. H. II. Hirleman. Mrs. Mary Hower, returned to Bloomsburg last week, after a week's outing with relatives in thij vicinity. The farmers have been complaining a rcat deal of the extremely hot anct dry weather. The growing crops have been considerably damaged in this section. Mr. Samuel Badal, of Persia, who has been going to school for some time in New Jersey, preached at some of the appointments in this vicinity last Sunday for Rev. Mr. Hamlin. Hon. E. M. Tewksbury has kindly favored us, along with many others of his many friends in this part of the county, with some highly appreciated public documents for which he will please accept many thanks. A new post office has lately been es tablished between here and Central, near the Pine Grove school house called Divide. It has a tri weekly mail from Central. Master Scott and Miss Zoc Vander slice, of Bloomsburg, are spending a few weeks with their cousins at Divide. MILLVILLE- The Rev. (Jrwig of Watson town preached in the Free church last Sunday night. Stella Robbins of L'nityville who has been it, town for several days, went home the fore part of this week. Six ir-.'sh air children were brought to town last week from Philadelphia, Harriet Kck, A. P. Voting and Mor ris Masters taking two apiece. They are to remain about two weeks. The recent rain came very ac ceptable, and will be a decided ad vantage to the corn crop. Nearly all the farmers in this sect ion have their oats crop harvested. Sarah Rich who has been sick for some time, spent last Sunday at the home of S. Emily Eves. Perry Crasher one of the employees on the W. W. Ry. came near meet ing with an untimely death last Mon day at Eyersgrove. He was caught by the switch rope and drawn against the car cutting, a gash on the head and bruising him considerably about the body. He was brought to the Depot on the cars and carried from there to the Hotel where his wounds were dressed by Dr. Christ ian, He has been resting easy and will be about in a short time. A HARROW ESOAPE- Miss Mary Grimes of Catawissa, met with an accident that almost cost her life. The M. E. Sunday School of Espy had a canal boat excursion to Danville. While on their return and in passing through the guard lock at Catawissa, Miss Grimes attempted to jump on the moving boat so as to greet some of her friends. By a misstep she fell into the water, where it was about eight feet deep. A number of young men saw her fall, but seemed afraid to risk their lives. Alter the young lady had twice sank under the water, Mr. Samuel McKamay of Espy and about 62 years old, leaped in after her. Ashe jumped in the water the drowning wom an seized him by the whiskers, with some difficulty he released her hold, when a stick was handed him and by clinging to it, he together with the girl were drawn to the shore. Miss Grimes was soon restored and the excursion ists went 011 their way. Mr. McKamay certainly deserves great credit for sav ing her life, as a few moments longer would have been too late. On Sunday Miss Grimes called upon Mr. McKam ay to return thanks for her rescue. KNIGHTS OF MALTA EXCURSION. Tf. e excursion under the direction of the Knights of Malta at Central Park, Saturday last, July 30th, was a success. The excursionists were taken there by three sections, the first con tained six cars, and reached there about half past nine o'clock ; a little later the regular passenger train fol lowed ; and at half past ten the third section, containing six cars arrived. A slight accident is all that occurred to mar the pleasure of theday. While Dr. A- M. Wintcrsteen was cutting wood, a piece struck him across the forehead and right eye. He started across the grove and when near the creek, fell in a faint, his wife hurried with some water and after his forehead was bathed he recovered. A physician nearby said he thought the bruise over the eye had effected the nerves leading to the brain. Quite a number of small black snakes are being killed along the mountains west of Central. COLUMBIA COUNT! FAIR- The Bloomsburg Fair will open on Tuesday and continue five days. Entries will close on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Admission will be charged on Wednesday, when there win De some special attractions. Several radical chances have also been made in the races. The time in race 9 is changed from 2:25 to 2:22, and the nurse for the 2:20 class has been raised from $200 to $300. But the most radical change has been to reduce the entrance fee to five per cent ot the purse, with five per cent additional charged all purse winners. This action was taken in order to keep abreast of the times and in line with recent changes in the conditions governing the grand circuit ' it was decided to build twelve additional stables for trottinrr horses. The new track will be completed by tne middle ot this month and the Brand stand is to be finished hv thn 15th of September. BASEBALL AT BERWICK The fourth game of ball between the Berwick and Bloomsburg nines was played at Berwick last Saturday, and has engendered some very warm feeling on account of the treatment received by our team from some of the Berwick toughs. The actions of some of the Blooms burg hoodlums, for we have got some too, when the Berwick team played here, was not all that they should have been, but from all reports Berwick can double discount Bloomsburg when it comes to guying. The conduct of some was so loud and boisterous, and the language used was such, that some ladies left the ground. Threats were made that "if the Bloomsburg nine beats us, we'll lick 'em before they leave town." The game was a good one until Strohm got hurt. The score was 1 4 to 4 in favor of Berwick. IN A BARREL OF TAR- There was a strange coon in town last week, but he left suddenly on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday night at the house of Sam Stills he at tempted to assault Stills' little daugh ter 10 years old, and the screams of the child brought some other colored men to the spot. There was talk of hanging him, but on reflection they concluded not to do it. He was taken to the car shops and dipped in a bar rel of coal tar with his clothes on. Had they removed his clothes it would have killed him as the tar is of a kind that would have closed all his pores The fellow was then chased out of town, and has not been seen since. His recollections of Bloomsburg will not be pleasant ones. Knights of the Golden Eagle. The following are the Officers of Theta Castle, No 276 of Bloomsburg, Pa. for the ensuing six month's term : Past Chief, J. P. Woodring. Noble Chief, C. F. Hendershott. Vice Chief, R. D. Young. High Priest, Geo. Stineman. Venerable Hermit, J. W. Moyer. Master of Records, Guy Jacoby. Clerk of Exchequer, C. B. Lutz. Keeper of Exchequer, C. W. Funston Sir Herald, T. R. Bidleman. Worthy Bard, John Davis. Worthy Chamberlain, C. A. Pollock. Ensign, John Keifar. Esquire, John Fox. First Guardmian, O. W. Ent. Second Guardsman, Jos. Hazledine. Trustee, for 1 8 months, Geo. C. Roan Representative to the Grand Cas tle, Geo. C. Roan. New Orders for Brakemen- The Reading system has issued an other circular of instructions to its pass enger conductors and brakemen. At all stations where a passenger train stops, the name of the station must be twice announced loudly, slowly and distinctly, after the train has come toa full stop, inside of each car, and if convenient inside each end of each car. Immediately after leaving the station the following announcement must be made in each car and in each end of each car; "The next station will be -" (giving its name.) If the next station will be a signal station, an nounce, "the next Nation will be stop on signal." If the train passes (without stopping) any signal station which has been announced, another announcement must then be made for the next station. At all stations where passengers are notified to move from one car to another, and at all stations where passengers are notified to change cars, and at all terminal stations, these words must be added as a part ot the announcement "do not overlook your baggage." There will be an Ice Cream festival held Aug. 13, at Kitchen's church. NO. 32 PERSONAL. Miss Lillie Potts of 'larrisburg is visiting the family of R. H. Ringler. Mrs. W. If. I ousel has gone to Picture Rocks on a visit. Mrs. G. W. Bertsch is visiting friends at Mauch Chunk and Beth lehem. Frank Davis, the ardent democrat of Canby was in town on business .uonuay. Mrs. T. G. Wells is snendintr a - couple of weeks with her sister-in-law, Mrs. S. B. Henderson, at Mont gomery Station. Dr. and Mrs. Schuvler returned home last Friday after an absence of three months in the west. William Wilson has imnroved suffic. ientlv to Dermit him to walk out. H tried his crutches on the street for the first time on Monday. T. 11. Mercer and fAmilv retiirnfvl home Thursday of last week from a lour week s vacation among friends in Ohio. William Dentler is spending a cou ple of weeks at Atlantic City. Ray Doak is assisting m the store during his absence. Mrs. C. E. Smith started for her home in Wisconsin on Wednesday. She was accompanied by Mrs. Geo. E. Dwell and son, who will spend some weeks in the west. Misses Emma Townssnd and Stella Lowenburi leave to diy for a trip that will include the Hudson, Albany, Saratoga, Lake George, G!c.as Falls, and other points. White N. Hosier has resigned his position as deputy sheriff. He renew ed the acquaintance of many old friends, and made many new ones while in Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Harman and C, F. Knapp started on Monday for Den ver to attend the triennial cor clave of the Knights Templar. They will stop on the way at Detroit, Toledo, St. Louis, Kansas. City, Colorado Springs, Manitou, Omaha, Council Bluffs, Chicago, Niagara Falls, and other points. At the opening of the Sunday School Room in the new Parish House of St. Paul's church in the evening of July 22, alter a brief service, with re marks from the Rector and music by the choir, Col. J. G. Freeze gave a succinct and gratifying statement as to the amount of money expended in im provements of the church property during the past year. He showed that upwards of thirteen thousand dollars had been spent, and in a most satisfactory way, upon tower, bells, parish-building, including the furni ture, and the pavement which encloses the entire property as in a beautiful frame. While the personal gifts of those well known in the community make up one half of the sum expended the ladies of the congregation by their efforts in the past years and their re cent contributions have the credit of adding the other half thus happily placed in the church property. Col. treeze well said "this result conclus ively shows what can be done by St. I'auls congregation, when all take hold in a united, earnest way, with a mind to work." These improvements are entirely paid for, there is not a cent of debt. John Reice, brother of C. E. Reice, the butcher, came up from Philadel phia last Saturday evening. He- says tnat tne reports in the city papers of the deaths from the extreme heat last week, ,vere not at all exaggerated, and that it was even worse than stated. You could not walk a square in the city without seeing a horse dead or dy ing. Men were stationed at every 8 squares to throw water from the hy drants upon the horses in the streets. Mothers with babes and children in their arms, from tenement houses would wander about seeking for shade and were frequently found with the dead in their arms. During the week about one thousand deaths occurred. That was more than at any time dur the prevalence of the Lagrippe. A rattlesnake was killed near the residence of Mr. Tubbs at Elk Grove, last Thursday afternoon. The snake was coming towards the house anil being disturbed by some chickens, coiled itself and began to rattle. Mrs. Tubbs gave the alarm and Mr. Yeag er ran to her help. A stone was hurled at the snake, when it uncoiled and ran in the direction of Mr. Yeaget, who, having a large stick soon dispatched, it. The snake measured three feet, and was one of the black spotted species. Mr. Harry Fornwald is putting a new roof on his property on East steet. I 1! J' i ' 1 4 ' I 1) ! ,i i v v 1: ni m ? ii '4
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