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Among the passengers by the JReydel are a party of wood polishers, who have been working j heretofore in France. Speaking of their craft in that country, just now, one of the most intelligent of iheir number remarked, ‘'Wood-polishing is like everything else nowadays : you have no idea how hard we have to work for little pay. The trade was in the height of prosperity ten j years ago. Nearly all the best kinds of furniture prior to 1370 was made of first-class woods, like mahogany, walnut, c., but since that time much ! commoner material is used, and everything gets cheaper, and our trade but keeps pace with the times. The best workmen now cannot earn morethan 50 francs a week/* A company of nine lapidaries came by the Italy, Their foreman said : “ We have been in the fancy stone-cutting business a number of years. We lived at the principal seaport resorts in England, and have come here purely on speculation. We have seenmauv valuable stones said to have been found in New Jersey and around New York ; we intend to investigate, and if we can make more money here than at home, of course we shall remain. In England a good lapidary can earn from 10s. j to 12*. a day.” The great majority of these later arrivals aro well provided with ready cash, and the Exchrnge in the rotunda was kept busy changing their foreign coins, drafts, c., into currency. One man, by the Amerique, who saidhe was going west “ to buy a farm,” exchanged twelve thousand francs. The smallest amount exchanged was an English threepenny piece, and of this a poor Irish labourer was the happy proprietor. Within a very few days 91 men, 14 women and 41 ^ildren had been consigned to the care of the Eussian^fewish Aid Society. During the same period th^re have been forwarded toCleveland. Ohio, ^men ; to Baltic, Connecticut, 20 ; to San Francisco, 4 ; to Cincinnati, 5, and the remainder to Rochester, Chicago, Syracuse, Pittsburg and Montreal. The delightful weather prevailing had greatly facilitated the labours of the officials at the Garden ; enabling them to land the passengers as soon as the ships make their docks, and to avoid all vexatious delays.
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American Settler
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 10, 1882
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