Hornellsville Weekly Tribune (Newspaper) - January 27, 1888, Hornellsville, New York VOLUME 36. N 188S. NO. 14 1 TO FEED STARVING THE TASK SET FOR HIMSELF JOHN H. CY There Are Thousands of Them In the City ot Xew York and the Charitable Have No Means of NLY a man with a very charitable turn of mind and a will strong to dare try over- coming tho mountable would attempt the task John H. of New has set for Tho experiment is not a novel one in point of object si but Mr. Keyser's plan is a somewhat novel His operations are carried on at 128 West Fourth nnd the result has beeti such as to most people der why a sensible man should try such an experiment at He simply proposed to give two meals a day to all who chose to the bread and soup and coffee one nnd not a cent to We need not wonder that though but teen applied the first the number ally increased till one day 2.800 and Mr. Keyser put up his after a piteous peal to tho public to come forward and help It was much the same as it u housewife should splash milk and sugar over the kitchen floor in June and then wonder why the flies were for is it not ono of the best proved facts in nature that every organization multiplies in the exact ratio of the increase of its food and the decrease of its and that as careless giving in- creases careless paupers increase faster and so the net result is an increase of To put it double the food for tramps and the number of tramps will nearly so there is twice as ery as The General Charity Organization of the City of New by Mr. Charles D. its Mr. A. F. Schauffler and others published a protest against Mr. which really was not men nre not going to port such things as hut it almost broke Mr. Keyser's Once he was and little wonder that he is not rich now when one hears his own He is a odd but kindly faced old looking wonderfully like a Santa Speaking fully of the hard lines his charity had be observing could detect tbe peculiar aimless look in every third or fourth tbo the slouching the lack luster eye and generally out nt tbe elbow and down at the heel look which marks the professional Mr. Keyser has builded better than he knew in one be has stirred up tho regular charities to adopt and set many thousand people to studying how they can aid the deserving poor without ing Arid by tho is the great and ever present of charitable people in a big fear that they are ing A noted and benevolent who gare once tho worst woman in New I did harm before I learned how to And the vice president of the New York City Mission deplores Mr. Keyser tion as one likely to add to the fascinations of city life for the groat army of He backs up his views with the story of a woman who was living in squalid want in New A good home and work were provided for her in But she was soon in New York again as poor as People were company than she That explains it. And the same feeling explains a good deal of this congestion of cities which is such a momentous fact in recent American of rich cultural counties in tho eastern and middle states havo actually lost population since while the Atlantic cities have grown a a rate never before recorded in 1873-74 free soup house's were established and the main result was that the city u as won crowded with tramps and The tickets for wrought great Somo of the oldest workers in if all their work in New York has not done as much harm as All these facts and statements havo been drawn out by Mr. Keyser's ill advised BUILT HIS OWN THOMAS A. THE READING nf HI Prince The remains of Napoleon III and the prince or Napoleon as Bonapartists prefer to call the were recently re- moved from in to the mausoleum prepared for them by the Em- press on Farnborough The widow and mother desired that the should bo erected at but an Englishman who owned the only treasuring a hereditary for and especially for lloman despite the intercession of the queen and the Prince of refused to and it was to select another i The Stranse Character of Louis rier Who Recently on Louis who built his own and was onco a candidate for the of yew died recently at the age of 85, at his home at L. I. Ee resided there for nearly fifty Forty years ago he was the center of a group of land His idea was to divide the earth into equal allotting a part to each carrying his scheme to such minute detail that the divisions of the the site of each building upon them and the plan of the house was The house in which Masquerier lived is such as was ordinarily built half a century and is now hemmed in by brick In a room upstairs the old man used MEMORIAL Since the late found a retreat in among the people who dethroned his the Kreat has attractive point for and the name of 1 he place has become a familiar word glum t the civilized The of an English lord of the manor has deprived it of a portion of its in- terest in the and it is said that its in- habitants are greatly and at the On the fifteenth anniversary of tho death of tho and on a typical English a sky and falling the coiling containing tho imperial dead transferred to their later resting to it is till perchance another branch of the Napoleonic dynasty shall sit on tho throne of in which the bodies will again bo re- to rest with those of the founder of the in Hotel des at on the hanks of the Of those who remained faithful to the im- exiles but two wero present nt the re- the and the son of the Tho church is cruciform in with a dome over the is vaulted in stone throughout and has a under the It is by an English paper as being a favorable specimen of tbe transition the flamboyant Renaissance which is so popular in rural It is of white Portland and has neither spire nor tower and is very ich in Behind the high altar there is semi- circular to he used as a with an entrance to the vaulted chamber under the in which the bodies have been KEYSER'S FREE trouble is that the Charity tion society deals with humanity in a I deal with it in They want to put charity on a machine get for the My plan is to feed those now go The best way for them i o stop my work is to successfully accomplish their But while they are about what's to be done for those who are right I havo lived in this city fifty years and made tion of the poor n special and I know that never since the starvation winter of 1873-74 have there been so many thousands of men idle through necessity as To let them suffer would be a There are in this city at least men and women working only occasionally or not at and this through In 18G8 I started the on Pearl where men could get food and It furnished lodgings and meals a cost a year and ran five In the winter of 1S73 I fed men a day in my back Charitable people backed me after I lost my own to cook and lie would be- come so on- grossd in his work as to for- get his and to be re- minded of them by a kindly furnished him with most of his ind took care of his He himself in curious devices in wood and illustrating reforms of all sorts and drawing plans in red and bine pei Masquerier was one of the workers who in were photographed in n Of these five were present at his One living to so great an would ally bridge far remote His were prominent during the last In a short sketch read at the funeral they were referred to as the lost of his was of Huguenot descent on his father's and on his mother's of a hero of the wur of who commanded a compare and fought through the whole of it up to the surrender of Lord Speaker Carlisle is a srandson of Ins uncle George of Wood for J brother to his Thomas his was received two wounds the war of and at the close he declined pay or saying that he did not right for hut for liberty and His father's John James made a colossal sketch of Napoleon and his army during a grand review nt iu which the commanding form of tne Rreat general was majestically draped in a military which appeared on all portraits of Napoleon by artists of distinction in after Tins picture was exhibited in London and and brought in to the painter over The rise in the value of his property should havo him He was erous to the poor but niggardly to For some years he busied himself most of tho time attending to the erection of his stone in Cypress Hills It was completed on Juno and dedicated by the man it wis to The is surmounted by a bronze figure of Liberty enlightening tho He said it would be a living witness of the truth long after he was N THE the mausoleum there is a red brick reside tain of the order of Canons of St. a portion of the j cast out of France by the decrees ol 18SO.. These once a very numerous have found a friend and protector in the Duke of Norfolk and a generous factor in the 1 A SQUARE The rather dingy little room on Fourth street now shows in the window a big sign in- Closed on account of tho place being far too small for the constantly increasing But tho current was too strong to bo denly and a few hundreds were fed daily for sonic time after tho nominal For tho last two weeks of the rush began at iu tho morning nnd con- tinned till tho latest hour to which tho ager would keep for tho restaurant was but twelve feet wide and fifteen feet and though thickly set tables and chairs tho service was by but one person at a Each got a largo mug of hot nnd strong with sugar mid as much tered bread as he could and Who dropped in from curiosity pronounced the articles very Our artist writes in- dorsing of a Tobacco want a chew of whispered a ruau in a. crowded court room to u. wonder who I'll His friend looked around from one to an- his glance rested on a little man with a big mustache only half concealing his mouth ho your Ho got tho coveted then with some curiosity did you know he had m. lie keeps his mouth That shows that ho is an inveterate A great many chow and keep their mouths but you can depend upon it that nine times ten tho man who keeps with his under jaw hanging down as if weighted with a load of some foreign sub- uses Iho A BROKEN The Ruin It Worked On and Maine Only a broken Only a slight imperceptible to the human But that that break in tho flange meant torn and bleeding a large number of human death to nine and agonizing death to This ono of the earliest of the year and tho worst so took place at Hav on the Boston and a railroad that has heretofore been singularly free from dis- The broken flange threw the smoker from tho and instantly the cars were in hopeless A noteworthy escape from personal injury was that of the engineer of the unlucky train He bears a charmed life During his experience as a railroad man he has met death face to face several bui never been harmed and has never been personally at He Stands Very High Among of the Far Rev. Thomas A. is one of tho best known of the camp preachers of tho far His work has led him among tho wildest and most depraved inhabitants o' and like nnd his has invariably been such as to insure even from the most Often after a in which somo reckless creature had fallen before the oft used the son would be called in to perform the last for the Then would the strange gathering stand in the presence of one who told them of tho error of their while sympathizing with their weakness as a brother This singular so well fitted for t lie singular Held in which ho is a native of Forty years ago ho was a wild young fellow Ho was a bler and a horse and it is said that he attended camp meetings for the purpose of pelting the worshipers with corn and At 21 he He could then neither read nor in life ho went to being graduated nt bury in The next year ho was ordained by Bishop REV. THOMAS A. and sent to In 1878, he struct when the place was a mere mining of 500 The morning after his arrival ho started m a tour among tho saloons and gambling The inmates laughed at him and in- him to take a drink or at began at by his im cabin at evening and com- to raise money with which to build i He first tried tho but not getting all he wanted he extended his to the gamblers and tho women of From these reckless people ho net with a universal One saloon offered him the proceeds of a keg of which Uzzell refused taken quite a collection in tho remarking that they had done tho fair thing by tho insisted on his aking a It appeared that Uzzell must either drink or so ho pulled off us whereupon the stalwart who was something of n fighter leaped over the bar and declared that he proposed to take a and Uzzell needn't irink if he didn't want This restored Mr. Uzzell tells a number of good stories anent queer weddings and funerals he has officiated Here is one concerning a have just been let out of said the man who wished to be rowed a saw and buck and went in search of When I asked this woman here by my side for a she said she had no money to a being a poor widow I t Lcr T would saw the wood and take her for an I sbc said and here we are now to I haint got no to pay che Mr. Uzzell performed tho ceremony and paid tho There was then a great deal of what was called lot jumping in Mr. Uzzell some lots for his One day he found n jumper unloading logs for the pose of building a cabin on these Uzzell took off his coat and prepared to resist the who was beginning to unload a fresh lot of you get off that wagon I will thrash said tho you wouldn't would replied tho don't want to but if you put another log on this lot I will thrash or you will what do you want away with tho load of logs you now have and then haul off tho others already on the The jumper concluded that Methodist erty was not good pr to AV. H. of tho Iron was a great friend of on ono occasion Stevens authorized somo ladies to give a saying that he would pay for the re- and suggesting that they sell tickets at 81 the proceeds to given to Uzzell for his During the evening the parson stood at tho door taking Suddenly he was called up There ho found that Stevens had been smuggling champagne in the was too says Mr. stop the but I put an end to an intended As I en- tered the room some ono jumped on a chair and shouted your partners for the first That was Dick of The one oi iho old newspapers in the 13 IT THE BEGINNING OF A YEAR OF LABOR I I I Tlint 1'ictt mini million of Corhin nine more man naif what WTO twenty years and retail prices of products are greatly associated labor is able to maintain a rato of wages hut a trifle bo- low that of the most flush period in this country's Iu union there is and wherever the laborers aro thoroughly they prove this in a way capitalists i; Tho first thoroughly iii wor nnd Now in the organized Jabor noted in New York nnd an In- States con- be that the ial tion year is to be a of strikes in tho United In the closing days of reports in the daily papers of trouble in tho j region of j on the day of wo wero j positively assured I that the trouble was but on Jan. the great strike formally be- Jt soon ex- tended j involving tons of thousands of workers in no way competed with the original The dispute has The Philadelphia and Reading its lino ning from t lie former city to the and sending branches through all that section of t ho anthracite coal is j n verv prosperous of Mr. j Austin is Its gross ings in 1S.S7 wero increase over t 1SSO of tho elear profit over expenses being reported at Hut j connected with p irt of the same I tho Reading Coal and Iron which had gross earnings last j of and a clear .is reported of iiut m is claimed there was a clear loss of It is obvious that the managers would seek a road just of the of tho hut it is needless to detail tho ex- cept to state that the usual course was reduce In tho summer of average ings of a miner in the valley were per Tho company then H greed to give an S per and in addition 1 per for each cents per ton in the of coal at Haven over the As coal has been or more at that tho who earned a day in August would be per day il the i ate was the company claims the ex- cf that and so there is a margin of thirty or forty runts n day for tho average miner between the Tho company asserts that it contracted specifically with the men for tho limited time and stood the and that tho now violate the agreement and refuse to take their share of the Of the minors understood the agreement and so men quit work at tbo of John K. 1.00. of the Reading the pad being also Mr. Cor- biu was able to supply the of tho ers on the railroad sufficiently to keep up a of but bo made no serious attempt to do so in tho Tbe coal ments rapidly ono by one the manufactories in all that region began ing for cf each stoppage out off an increasing number of closely related and so at least workers soon be- came idle and stagnation set in through all the All the usual phenomena of strikes have been tho who took the places on wore boycotted and they wero turned of hotels and boarding tho Knights of Labor began at once organizing all the industries to re- sist any undue on the the usual brood of nsen and tives were put on at tho usual sions of hatred and defiance and tho usual contributions from elsewhere were also soon tho order of tbo Cor- bin's attitude has been that there is nothing to an agreement to The business men of Reading nnd many in Philadelphia early in the appealed to him to and suggested George of The Philadelphia ns but Mr. It seems but yesterday with te the fact there wore no m the United and v vened in Now York Oct. 1-3, 1S4.V, but ns as so few the Organizations to the mass of the outside a few the phrase union had no ing or convoked only a vague Now it would difficult to name an in- dustry employing persons the purely agricultural or tho has not its complete with a code as rigid as an ex- energy in its sphere to that of tho Tho first men who strikes wero indicted for conspiracy and some of them As late as 1777 the selectmen of some towns established legal rates of find almost down to tho civil war a strike was regarded as a sort of The first strike big enough to noticed in the occurred in Now York city in strikers wero dispersed by the and the leader to prison fora short The imported laborers on tho Chesapeake and mnal struck m and were arrested en bur the court ruled that their action was not a under tho In the ten ears there wore several strikes for a working day often and on April President Van Huron nn order making 1 that the limit mall government It j was that year as an thing l thaK there some twenty unions I in the Tinted besides a i in the May j 1M5, the Now I association a eon vent ion in and among the participants was I A. now editor of Tho New I York Sun. .In is IT there wore several in as and in movement i for an eight hour law national i j Then tbo lorn organizations began and I have us they in- chide almost every of A list bv titles merely of the acts have and would till bo a list of strikes for one especially or would as Tho great begun with a to a 10 per Ci reduction of wages on the moru Ohio and in three involved till tho main lines north of tho mac and west of tho A moderate estimate puts tho lives loss at 400 and the total losses at It was almost a civil Since then tho reader of the daily paper become so familiar with that the very narcos of and like suggest a and the Or THE The telegraph has already told tho story In It only remains to say that tho cut given is from a Retell on tho spoU Missouri's New Hon. A. P. tho new governor of vice was born in Delaware July 11, 1835. Ho received only such schooling as naturally falls to terminating his studies he was 20 years of ho made tho best of whatever ad- vantages ho and became a teacher in Mo. Soon after ho removed to away where he occupied ever time was not devoted to teaching to studying and was admitted to practice the in Governor house has always A. P. been a and for more than fivo years has been actively identified with the Democratic party of his Ho was a delegate to the national Democratic tions of 1872 and 187G. Ho also served in tho Twenty-ninth and Thirty-first general being tho presiding officer of tho senate for two terms and a member of tbo Democratic state central committee of 1882 house mild nnd Ho is an ardent The Australian market gardeners aro being ruined by Chinese cheap ORDERING THE autumnal month in soino governor does somewhere may be a white All this time the labor wr ro coming closer got her and learning to work more in and v the Knights of Labor attained such strength as to promise absorption of all minor Of tho order appears to bo while the new con- federation of of is Thu summitry of this tedious detail may bo in one suggestive Tho laborers of the United States learned how to organize and to win tories by All tho of the for a century has been by their organized and without deciding upon tho rights or wrongs present it may be said with that labor in America IKIS accomplished ft vast of at tho cost of some ous MRS. GARFIELD'S strikes 1 a n thousand Fourth AUSTIN of Juliars fanned the heated air with fervid oratory on the country's complete exemption from labor Yet sinco tho civil war there have regular besides minor troubles too many to be In three months of one year there were more strikes and labor troubles and militia calls to suppress more fighting and de- struction of property about work and than in all tho years from to In tho first edition of Dictionary tho word as a substantive with its present meaning was not as tho thing did not exist in the lexicographer did not think lit worth while to import the English slang Yet a close observer could sec oven then that America's exemption was not solely duo to her rulers or but largely to tho immense area of cheap and fertile and when the civil war and foreign gration assumed a magnitude never dreamed of forty years tho premonitory were onco Since with the Hour each successive movement has had a The Assassinated president's Mother Laid by the Side of Her i 0., Jan. The funeral of in Mrs occurred Mentor w h i 1 e a. i afternoon at 3 dale and laborers inside tho unions I that which every theoretical mist had pronounced an they havo held up wages in the face of a steadily declining and tho average profits of capital Tho remains rested black bat the only trimming being the Ivor and plate her and B. affed 89 Tho ceremony was brief and remains were removed to this city and in the vault at Lake View those of her tbo dead
