ss. 8 he Po WT Le nd Ed against Mataafs hii commander of the an squadron” ied " —— A WA Pe— Mo co mes Ns go WE Vi HE SAMOAN TROUBLE. A Message From President Cleveland On the Subject, Prince Bismarck's Announcement of War Upon the Samoans, The President has sent to Congress addi tional correspondence relative to Samoa al fairs, accompanied by the following message: To rar CoNonEss: I had the honor on the 15th inst. to com- municate to your honorable body certain cor- respondence and documents in relation to af- fairs in the Samoan Islands, and having since received further dispatches from the Viee Consui at Apia and the commander of the United States naval vessal Nipsic in those waters, I lose no time in laying them before you. 1 also transmit herewith the full text of instructions from Prince von Bis- marck to the German Minister at this capital, which was communicated on the afternoon of the 20th inst. This appears to be an amplification of prior telegraphlo instruction on the same subject com- municated through the same channel, and which, being set forth in the note of the flecretary of State to Count Von Arco Val- ley. the German Minister, of the 12th inst, was duly latd before Congress, with my last mess in relation to Samoan affairs. It is also per to inform you that on Monday, the 25th instant, the occasion of the communication of the note of the Prince Chancellor, the Secretary of State was given to understand by the German Min- ister that a proposition from his Governmen$ to that of the United States for a conference on the Samoan subject was on its way by ‘mail, having left Berlin on the 20th inst. ; 80 that its arrival here, in due course mail, oan be looked for in a very short time, In reply to an inquiry from the Secretar of State whether the JFiupesition refe to was for a renswal of the joint conference between the United States, Germany and Great Dritain, which was sus- spended in July, 1837, or for the considera- tion of Samoan affairs ab novo, the German Minister stated his inability to answer until the proposition, which left Berlin on the 20th inst., should have been received. I shall hereafter communicate to the Con- gress all {nformation before me in relation to the Bamoan status. Grover CLEVELAND, Bismarck to Bayard. Accompanying the message was a dispatch | dated January 13, at Berlin, and addressed by Prince Bismarck to the German Minister in Washington, informing him that Germany was making war upon thas part oO the BSomoan people which | recognizes the leadership of Mataafa, and instructing the Minister to communicate that piece of interesting information to Secretary Bayard. Bismarck states distinctly that Germany | bas been transplanted from the state of | friendly masdiation between the rival | Samoan chief to a state of war ninst Matsafa and in support of the insurgent chief, Tamasese Con- | tioning, Bismarck says: “We shall carry on i the contest which bas been forced upon as by Mataafa and his the utmost consideration and American mterosts Our military | measures bava in view onl the punishment of the murderers of German soldiers and the protection of our country- men and their property. As they, on thelr | part, are at war with Tamasess our interfer | ence will necessarily assume the character of | assistance to Tamasesa” followers with | for English | Germany Moves on the Samoans. Despatches from Auckland, regarding af. fairs at the Samoa Islands, stats that the German naval officers have been notified to search all vessels in Samoan waters for con- traband articles. The Germans have sup wessed the Samoan Times, a paper pab- ished in the English language at Apia. A British subject who visited Mataafa was arrested, but was released in compliance with the demand of the British Consul. The police of Apia have been placed under Ger man control, and the town is at the mercy of the Iatter, Six thousand of Mataafa's followers have | entrenched themselves strongly, and are | ready to give battle to the Germans The | Samoans are rapidly joining the forces of | Mataalfa. The declaration of war against Mataafa, the King of Samoa. by the Germans is fully | confirmed by an official announcement from | Berlin. When the British steamer Richmond ar- | rived at Apia she was boarded and searched by the Germans. Friends of Samoa in the Senate. In the United States Senate. after an ex- citing debate in which Senators Frye, of Maine, and Reagan, of Texas, took stron ground in favor of protecting the independ. ence of Bamoa, the amendments relating to the establishment of a harbor at Pago Pago, ete, as reported from the Foraign Relations Committee, were agreed to, Mr. Saulsbury introduced the following resolution which was d to: "That the Committees on Foreign Helations be instruct- ed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the Samoan Islands and report at an early day what measures are necessary and proper to protect the interests of American citizens residing there, and to discharge any obliga- tions of the United States to the o of those islands in the maintenance of their own local government free from the exclu- sive interference of any foreign power, and to secure the just rights and interests of the United States in the future control and gov- ernment of said islands” Bismarck Backs Down. The German Minister at Washington has notified the State Department that Prince Bismarck had cabled the German officials in Samoa, modifying their recent objectionable proclamations and virtually restoring the status quo, so far as foreign residents of the islands are concerned, but the determination tosearch foreign vessels for comtraband of war has not yet been retracted. The President sent to Congress another message on the Samoan question, accom- panying it with copies of the correspondence which has passed between the State . ment and the German Government; fromthe Consul at Samoa. The The documents are: First, a dispa Consul Blacklock, which says that the Ger man Consul declared Germany at war with Mataafa and Samoa under martial foroes, The second isa from Secretary Bay- ard to the United Minister at Berlin, which the Minister is instructed to Inform the Government that the German Consul at Samoa declared Germany at war with under martial will be German ix iim OY trom. the n German Minister to Secretary Bayard, as thon over | The last Joan. the Mts of wa declared bop ong | ger appeared at the window, handed over to him, wien demand not being in conformity to our previous promises ro gardin the neutrality independ. ence of Mr Knappe, the German Consul at Samoa, has been ordered by telegraph to withdraw immediately his com: | The North German Gazelle (Bi k's there o ) denies that has ¥ formal dociaration of war in an Dog ps BOULANGER ON TOP. Paris Sends the French Agitator to the Chamber of Deputies. GENERAL BOULANGER, General Boulanger, the man now most | talked about in French politics, after an ex- ps citing election has been returned to the Chamber of Deputies from Paris, defeating M. Jacques, Government candidate, by 51,550 | votes, and securing a ma jority of over 54,000, The members of the French Government were astonished at the result, The complete vote was as follows: Boulanger, 244,070; Jacques, 162,520; Boule, 16,760; other candi- dates, 10,358, Great excitement prevailed on the boulevards of Paris during election | night. The police did not interfere. Ten thousand persons assembled outside the Cafe Durand, cheering and singing. They were especially demonstrative whenever Boulan- When Bou- ianger was leaving in his carriage after the announcement of the result he passed a res taurant opposite the Cafe Durand, where friends of the Government were assembled, The latter hissed loudly, and Boulanger's friends replied by throwing stones. The singing and cheers continual all night, The Boulangist organization was marvel ous. For the first time in the history of Paris earriages were largely employed to convey voters to the pools, Boulanger's car- riages were the first in the field, and hiscan- vassers were provided with the names and addresses of the Panama shareholders and other classes of electors, Members of the Pa | triotic League did spirited and gratuitous WOrkK a8 CRN vASSeTs, It is computed that 100,000 Conservatives | and as many Radicals and Socialists voted for General Boulanger MM. de Laweps claims the credit for the General's immense ma jority as the result of his telling hix clients the | Panama Canal shareholders) how to vole, and publicly dining Boulanger Since July, 18. General Boulanger has received in the different elections an aggre gate vote of 700,000, The Republicans, dur- ing the same period, claim 1,200,000, Sod quarter of Paris was enlivened on the night preceding the election by frequent street brawls between support rs and op ponents of Boulanger. The most violent en- counter took place in Montmartre, were a number of persons were wounded. The po- | lice interfered and arrested several of the ringleaders. Another serous collision oo curred in the Faubogrg du Temple, where several persons were injured. One enterprising morning newspaper en- gaged 250 special reporters, each of whom it rovided with a cab, and thirty bicyclists, to wring the results in each section with the greatest possible speed. The Prefect of 1 olice enlistad the services of a large number of householders to aid lice in maintaining order, Troops were pld in readiness at various points, and cavalry were orderad to patrol the strects and disperse all gatherings Municipal guards lined the boulevards, and in aver quarter the police and military were well prepared to suppress an outbreak In consequence of the victory of General Boulanger the French Ministry tendered their resignations on the morning after the election, but President Carnot declined to accept them. WORKING WOMEN, The Commissioner of Labor on the Industrial Condition of Females. | Carroll D, Wright, Commissioner of the Department of Labor, has submitted to the | Secretary of the Interi r his fourth annual | report, which deals exclusively with the sub | ject of "working women in great o.ties” Commissioner Wright says “A quarter of a century ago women wore allowed to enter but few occupations. Now there are hundreds of vocations in which | they can find employment The present re | port names 3482 of thems. Whenever any in- | dustrial operations are simplified to such an | extent that the weaker person can perform | what was done of old by the stronger one the | cheaper labor vines in and wages must of | necessity be lowered temporariiy, whether to the one formerly performing the labor or | to the new comer. Bo, as the adult man io | light occupations has given place to the | woman or to the young reson, wages in | specific employments have decreased as com- | pared with the former wages of the man, but | they have vastly increased as compared with | the former wages of the woman or the young person, “For an [nerease in wages women must de. pend upon industrial and economic condi. tions, and not upon legislative enactment, or even u concentrated actions of charitably and benevolently disposed.” THE PATENT OFFICE. Neport and Recommendations of the United States Commissioner. The Commissioner of Patents has trans mitted his annual report to Congress. He recommends that the law relating to trade marks be amendsd 80 as to specify what de- vices shall be registered as trade marks; that the patent system be amended by providin that patents sued hereafter be extingu Government at any time ] g il | A PRINCE'S SUICIDE. The Heir Apparent to Austria’s Throne Found Dead in Bed. Er ————— Shooting Himself in the Head With a Revolver, The sudden and somewhat mysterious death of Crown Frince Rudolph, the heir apparent to the throne of Austria, has created a shock among the crowned heads and nobility of Europe. The dead Prince was thirty-one years old. He died while on a shooting excursion at Meyerling, about twelve miles from Vienna, The ne per Fremdenblatt, of Vienna, says that on Tues. slay when Crown Prince Rudolph returned from shooting he complained of headache and retired to his room to write a letter, He awoke on Wednesday before seven o'clock, and at balf-past seven ordered his breakfast to be brought up to him. His valet, on en- tering the room with his breakfast, found the Prince dead in his bed, Count Hogas and Prince Philip, of Co- burg, who were Prince Rudolph's guests, rushed to the Prince's chamber when the valet told them the Prince was dead, Count Hogas, attired in his hunting costume, im- medintely went with all spood to Vienna and acquainted Emperor Francis Joseph with the sad news, “rhe Count was closeted for some time with His Majesty, who, directly after the inter- | view, hastened to inform the Empress, whose grief upon learing of her son's death was terrible. Both the Emperor and Empress then went to the apartments of Crown Princes Stephanie and told her of her hushaod's death. Princess Stephanie insisted upon go- immediately to Meyerling, where the Prince lay dead, and the united efforts of the Emperor and Empress were hardly able to Provan her. They were finally successful, wowever, and the Emperor then remal | alone until three o'clock in the afternoon, when be ordered the body of the Prinoe to be brought to Vienoa. The body of the Prince arrived in Vienna at one oclock A. M. ona special train. A large crowd had gathered at the depot to await its arrival but quietly left the station at the request of the guards. When the train arrived the body was placed on a bier and taken to a carriage which was drawn by six black horses As the bier passed through the crowd every hat was removed and deep respect shown by all The Court Chaplain, the Mayor of Vienna, Prince Hohenlohe and other dignitaries fol Jowed the carriage, while the guards walked on each side of it, Crowds awaited the ar rival of the procession at the Hofburg The body, upon arriving at the Imperial palace, was borne to the apartments lately occupied by the dead Prince, where it was left reposing in state, surrounded by guards An autopsy on the body of the Prince took pace, after which the remains were em. mimed., The court bas ordered three months’ national mourning Owing to the size of the copper coffin in which the body of the Prince was pisced, it was impossible to put it into an ordinary hearse in conveying it from Meyeriing to the railroad station, so a large hearse used in carrying the bodies of paupers to burial was brought into requisition Archduke Charles Louis, brother of the Emperor, is the heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, the succession passing to his sons, the Archdukes Otto and Ferdinand respectively The Crown Prince a Suicide It is officially announced that Crown Prince Rudolph shot himself in the head with a revolver. The Vienna Zeifung says: “Professor Wiedcrholer, who performed the sutopsy on the remains of Crown Prince tadoiph, found a large wound in the side of the bead, which must have caused instant death A revolver, with one chamber dis charged, was found on the bedside close to the right hand of the dead Prince tion in which it was found proves beyond doubt that be committed suicide The pericranium was torn and the skull bones were partly shattered “The report of the pistol was heard by no one, the Crown Prince's attendants baviag left the houss to make preparations for a hunting excursion. Several members of the Crown Prince's entourage say that during the last few weeks be had manifestsd sigus ¢ morbid nervous excitement, and therefore the view that the shooting was the result of temporary mental derangement must be ad- hered to. Some time previous 10 his death the Crown Prince complained of headaches, which were attricuted to an injury to the bead which be sustaived by a fall from a | horse last autumn.” | Theonly letter loft by the Crown Prince | was one addressed to his mother, : It is believed that the statement of the Vienna Zeitung with reference to the Crown Prince's feath, is the outcoms of a cabinet meeting | at which Prime Minister von Tiza ex simse fl as strongly in favor of stating the jetails p ainly, n concurred The Body Lying in State. The post-mortem medical report in the | case of Crown Prince Rudolph set at rest the rurnors of murder. The public was Jess agi tated, the theory of brain diseases being gen erally scospted Ihe office of the Crown Prince's Chamber lain was thronged with visitors signing oon do ence sheetd Countless wreaths reached the Hofburg from ail parts of the Empire, awd from France and Germany, A splendid garland, sent Ly Rudolph's coworkers in the preparation of “"Andtria Hungary in Word and Vieture,” bore the motto: "To our be loved and gifted loader.” The body lay in state in the private chaps! | of the Hofburg for two days, when it was ! | decided that it should be deposited in the vaults of the church, the heart in closed in a silver urn, placed in St Augustine's and the intestines, in a silver vase, in Bt Btephen's Cathe lrsl, The funeral procession, without pomp, it was de cided should go the shortest route, via Michaeler Platz, Augustineer Strasse and Lo kowitz Pate, The King and Queen of Belgium prayed! for along time beside the bier of the dad Crown Prince, The Crown Prince's will contains instruc. tions for the disposal of almost every small article in his No fi , servant or acquaintance is forgotton, The most important instructions refer to his daughter. He orders that she be brought up by the Emperor and Em and remain with them always, peorly Tn the event of Princess Btephanio remarrying. FRATRICIDAL JOKE. John Newcomb Milled by Hh Brother for a White Cap. When John Newcomb, who lived is Queen Anne's County, Md, reached his home on a recent night and rapped at the door, Casper, his brother, who was in tn iss: quired wh was there. John re “I am & White Cap, and bave come after Jucogntung bis brothers soichs who you are HS A a A ASS ASAT 1 NH OM A I Ahi The posi. | this view the Emperor | Sh. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. The Senate. , rH Dav.~The Senate spent the entire day upon a discussion of the question whether the present Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court of Bt James, Germany and HK sia and to the French } be raised to the rank of Ambassad consi . Plomatie and Consular Ap propriation bill, the question being on Mr. iibson's amendment to make the title of the ministers to France, Germany, Great Brit ain and Russia “ambassadors,” and it was finally adopted by a vote of 2 to 24....11 was decided to discuss Bamoan affairs with open door, and Mr. Sherman made a long speech on the controversy... Mr. Manderson reported a proposed amendment to the Sun | | preparation of a site and the erection of s jodostal for an equestrian statue of Genera | | Bheridan in the city of Washington, | 87rm Day.—The Benate resumed consider | ation of the Diplomatic and Consular Ap. | propriation bills, the question being t | amendments affectin the Samoan Isands. At the conclusion of Mr, Reagan's speech on | that subject the Senate went into executive | session on the British extradition treaty. The | executive session lasted until 6 o'clock 38rn DAY. ~The Senate resumed consider. | ation of the Diplomatic and Consular Ap | | propriation bill, the pending question being | The | | Samoan amendments reported by the For. | | on the amendment referring to Samoa | eign Affairs Committee were adopted, Mr, | Reagan withdrawing his amendment guaran. | | teeing neutrality to the islands. The amend. | ment to the Diplomatic bill, raising to the | rank of Ambassadors the Ministers to Eng- land, France, Germany and Rosia, was re- | | Jocted-—yens 25, nays and the bill was | passed... In executive session there was a general attack on the British Extradition treaty which lasted all the afternoon. A motion to have the treaty recommitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations was de | fented orn DAY. ~The Senate rejected by a vote { of 38 to 15 the British Extradition treaty A bill was introduced authorizing the Light house Hoard to completes the pedestal of the Bartholdi Status of Liberty, New York Harbor, at a cost not to exceed $350,000. and for the continuation of the construction of a sen wall and general lighthouses depot nt Tompxinsville, Staten Island, at a cost not to sxcesd $0000... A bill to place General W. BE Rosecrans on the retired lst of the army with the rank of Brigadier-General was reported favorab vy, The House. 38TH DAY. ~The Fenate concurrent resolu. tion was agreed to providing for the oint meeting of the two houses of Congress on Wednesday, February 13, for the purposes of counting the electoral vote... . The House considerad the Sundry Civil bill. The pend ing amendment appropriating $250.00 for investigating the best method of irrigating the arid jon was agreed to... Mr. McCo mas offered an amendment which was agreed to appropriating $50,000 for the education of children of school age in Alaska, without reference to race Mr Springer introduced his Omnibus bill providing for an enablin act for the admimon of the Territories of Arizona, Idaho and Wyoming as States of the Union. ... Mr. Stone introduced a resolu tion providing that Congress shall attend the Constitutional Celebration in New York city Sn Day. ~The House in Committee of the Whole discussed the Sundry Civil Ap propriation Lill. The appropriation of $5), - ad was made for the new library building Ihe House finally passed the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill Mr. Clardy reported favorably a bill for the establishment in the vicinity of the wreck of the steamer Oregon, at the entrance to New York barbor, of a lightship with a steam fog signa! at a cost not to exceed SOK, Mr, Cothran re ported favorably a resolution authorizing the President of the United States to take such measures as in his judgment may be Recessary to promptly obtain indemnity | from the Venerusian Government for the injuries, losses and damages suffered by the of New York Mr. Morrow introduced a joint resolution requesting the President to insist on the restoration of affairs on the Sa moan Islands as they existed at the time of the convention betwesn representatives of Germany, Great Britain and the United States, and to take necessary steps to pro- tect American rights there, | 401m DAY. The Oklahoma bill was brought to the attention of the House b gs. Springer, of Illinois, with a motion to go into Committees of the Whole for its consideration. The motion was agreed to, Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, being assigned to | preside over the committes, 4187 DAY. ~The House held a stormy sas | won over the Oklahoma bill without comin, to a final vote, The adoption of the Soldiers Homestead amendment was carried by twelve majority. The amendment was adopt- ed as follows: “It is expressly provided that the rights of honorably discharged [Union | soldiers and sailors in the late Civil War tw | make homes on the public lends un. | der the existing Homestead law shall not in any degree be impaired by the passage of | this BL" Upon the remainder of the | amendment a lively debate followed, and it | was rejected by a majority of thirty, The | substitute proposed by Mr. Payson, of ih | nois, for the “town site” section of the bill | was adopted ference report on the Nicaragua Canal bill, and in order to enable the members to examine its provisions it wasordered printed and laid over... . The House the bill organizing the Territory of Oklahoma by a vote of 148 to 102... Without a division the conferense on the bill “to create an Executive De ment to be a Agriculture,” was» .... The Senate bill granting a pension of | #25 per month to ail female nurses in the | lato war who served six months and whose services were approved by Mis D. LL. Din, the superintendent of women nurses, was reported. 5D DAY, ~The House resolved itsell in’. r. ppro- priation bill. The Naval Appropriation Sill was pamed, with an amendment devoting 100,000 for a coaling station at Pago 1 y Samoa. The Dall appropriates $10,573, a . n the amount a . | else, To see them on the street one would never | There are at least 200 of them, and they | dry Civil bill appropriating $40,000 for the | | the floor, ’ i | times $50 Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company | ¥ { until they have had an experience of that | sort, | our accidents always go in threes, If | we have one necident we watch with | anxiet | very {1 am not so much afraid of the large | 420 Dav. —Mr. Clardy presented the con. | ne Sach Sr A BOX FACTORY. SIGHTS SEEN IN A BIG CITY ESTABLISHMENT, Where They Make Receptacles for Hats, Candy, Neckties, Shoes, Eto. — Lights and Shadows of a Great Industry. They wear Psyche knots like any one ess what their work is, have their igtle airs and graces just as other youndNlomen do, It is only he who watche door of the great box factory on Mic g avenue atv o'clock at night who k Rat they are box. makers. Bix stories k soule—count work in it. rooms the light the busy girls—g talk or laugh or & by the piece and cd biles of boxes by fifties. The paste ry, and 500° men — long ds of usy to 0 work Dai Et ibe stone is over them all, the be 7 a | merry dance above thei il rumble of the cutting m the fingers (YE speed, and the great river carries the pasted papers flows | Tennyson's brook. rn | “Tolu” and every corner pasted there is a rotary sad emphatic — Sr A Oc sto AAS i of the monotony. rhe sat pasting tiny ilt strips of paper on the edge of some ainty wee boxes, They had eight sides to them and were decorated 4 Ince. These boxes are entirely of hand and bring a high price, thou they will hardly measure two inc across, There were slatternly girls, too, but they were in the minority. Ameri. can, Irish, German, Beotch, Bohemian and Swedish, all bore the marks ef their natjonality. A few looked ill, but most of seemed healthy, and all hit questioned agreed t! they | work. Most of them were pl t some of the smaller ones were irrita~ ble. They looked cross asd 4 as they sat feeding paper into the ma /ch'nss, But it is not the girls but the boxes that it is the intention to write about. All boxes ‘n common use sre msde of straw board, The straw board comes in large sheets, and the cheapest boxes are manufactured from the rough material, In making fine boxes the straw board is first run through s machine that neatly covers it with glazed paper. The sheets arc then cut into the desired sizes and subjected to a scoring machine, The scoring machine marks the places where the board will be sent to form the boxes. The corners are then cut out, and the corner-cutters are very rapid snd ine enious machines, Girls stand ready to d the straw board into shape, and re strength is required the corners e staid with heavy manilla paper. Boys generally run the corners. A curious machine pastes and cuts the | little strips of paper, so that the youths | who do the “cornering” have work that | is purely automat | mental strain, and free [from There must be something infectious in the constant whirl of the machinery, for every boy scems to have acquired a peculiar motion of the jaw--chewing- gum is free to all who deftly fashion “Yucatan” voxes—and for chew that is bewilderiog to one unaccustomed to such combinations | of submaxillary and mechanical powers, The girls look quite different here They have taken off the tidy street dresses and put on dark calico gowns The sides of the gowns show where the sticky fingers have been wiped. It is the most difficult thing imaginable to keep the fingers clean, There must not be a mark on the dainty boxes—if there is the wages are ‘‘docked” Saturday night. So the 3000 fingers in the factory are kept very clean indeed, and a piece of clean cloth is kept constantly in resch to wipe the moisture on. The loog benches run up and down the rooms, and the great piles of paper loom up in the center, conveying the in- formation, by the most effective of ob- ject lessons, that the work has not run out and that there will long be plenty s-doing. That is very pleasing intelli gence, Whether you earn $1.30 a week, as the little girls do, or £7, as some of the larger giris do, or £10, as the fore “ladies” do, it is a good and a comfort- able thing to know that the work is plenty and no one will be laid off. There are a great many reasons for this. A | large ratio of the girls have to aid in the | support of a mother or sister, or perhaps a family of little ones. There is a deal of friendliness among them all, If any one is sick, or if there is an accident or a death, the scant purses are promptly opened. Sometimes $10 is raised, some- It depends upon the need and upon the condition of the work. It is very easy to have an accident in a box factory. The knives that cut the strawboard-—what the uninitiated call cardboard —are deadly sharp and they come down relentlessly. Some- | times a few fingers are cut off with the strawboard, and sometimes an arm is carelessly tossed up and caught in the cogs of a cutting machine, “1 am always glad,” said the proprie- br, “when a boy or girl gets the kncukles | scraped enough to make the blood come. | Then there is much less like!thood of a finger being lost. A warning of that port is needed. The children w.ll never learn to be careful around machines We bave a superstition here that until we have had three, and are | ankfal indeed if they are slight. machines as of the little ones. Those ° small affairs look harmiess, und are there. fore all the more dangerous. The large | ones appear so formidable that they are | handed with caution.” ““The girls seem to be faithful workers,” | was observed, THE GLUING MACHINE, “They will bear watching hike # else. Girls Hike to fool’ Nisalwan work to keep them from tkng. 44 HET i i : i is i in ! finishing. The sides of the boxes are covered first. A machine cuts the glazed paper into ribbons, pastes or glues it wl cuts it of. When guided by skilled hands of the girl who understands ber work, and at the same time remembers some dependent one at home, hundreds of boxes pass under these machines every day. The newest and least ex- pert girls stand ready to turn down the side covering, enough of which has been allowed for & neat border around the top of the box, Long strips of canvas, re- volving upon rollers, form a part of the machines that glue the places of glaced paper intended for the lids and bottoms of boxes. Lines of girls stand at the smooth, wooden tables that are placed on both sides of the canvas, As the pieces of paper of varying sizes and shapes are carried along—with the glue. covered side up—each girl chooses what belongs to the box she happeas to be With a dexterous movement the paper is nicely fitted to the box, a the | brush is hastily passed over it, and it is | placed with the pile that awaits count- i ing. he finest boxes often receive a narrow | border of gilded paper along the ed rious These gilt trimings are put on in v | styles, and there are muchines that make this decorative process very rapid. Dex- trine, a clear glue, is used in the masu- facture of all fine boxes, as it does not | blister the paper nor warp the boxes. { There is a great demand for what are | calied paper cans—round boxes used im | the grocery trade. CUTTING AND STAMPING COVERS, Cloth-covered bosses are used for let- | ter-filing cases, and their manufacture is | similar to that of the glazed paper boxes. Tin and wood are used more or less in | combination with straw board, and now and then boxes with glass tops are de- manded for the display of some articles of merchandise. Toe d trade de- mauds an endless number of little boxes of fine make. The sale of cigarette boxes is enormous, and few men who smoke the little paper pipes realize that the box they carelessly throw away has passed through sixteen different hands in the process of Anuiacte. Nofitia boxes play no unimportant part in box trade, They demand oa fubut and only experienced hands can to cover and adjust the tiny wooden frames in the dainty boxes intended for the future display of dudes’ four-in- hands. The sale of men’s attire also de- mands collar and cull boxes, shirt boxes, hat boxes and suit boxes. The dry good trades demands the boxes. Dress sad cloak boxes intended for women is boxes. After all, there Is —_ Its an Il Wind, Ete, Ble, a “" w' oy
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