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'.’s HiE om $4011,000 , STOCK OF Mv Fall Oi? Oaols J l “ w Of all kinds, n ow open and on sale a t prices wliicli only o.'s F R H A R IlLG Can affoid to sell them at. Every thing desirable in Staple and Fancy I'lry Goods suitable for the present season can now be found in profusiun at 111 addition to which will be given Brs hSt., 'S ter 7 N.Y. re t T K a , at E S t. Dd tbeir lutie to >e firm lj oan end under it not see Ultimate deposits ’ cannot ciroolate olonrely that is treaan r j U within lOn than pocketed lelon the k national oal bank* 1 then or to get all the inter* I C labiom l i t Free at the flrand Special Saturday Bargain Sale Commeuciog at 9 a. m. aad ocdiog at 10 p. m., Saturday, September 11th, will bo throw n in with all purchases, amount one dollar or over, the elegant set of yacht cards ju i t oat giving accurate likenesses of each of the four great yachts. MAY FLO W E R , GALATEA, P U R I TAN, PRISCILLA , under fuU sail. Frear’s Bazaar. Ambrose Kelly. 299 R iver S t ., C ob . F dlton , Sella the Best 50c. Tea in Troy. IT CAKNOT BE HATCHED AT rac. RAYIONB’S 189 AND 191 R iver S t ., below S tate S t . ,T rov , N. Y. TTnion Folding Bed, Which is Bold only by Raymond,save* the rent of one room, and therefore will soon pay (or itself. Raymond manu* fac'tares and sells the Trojan Fnrnitnre Polish, Warranted to be the beat in the market or money refunded. It makes old furniture lookas good as new. Raymond also keeps a large assortment of all kinds of FURNITURE I Guarantee Satisfaction, T H E C L A R IO N . TROY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER H, 19«. CITY AND VICINITY. The woolen mill of Roy & Co. is very busy getting out fall goods. At Burden's on the fiats there are five horse trains tunning to their full capacity. The heat of the past week has been al* most unbearable in the iron mills. At Burden’s water mill the two horse shoe trams and rivet train ate rnuning. The steel works, are running full, last month's output numbering 11,300 tons. They ran five cutting machinee at Bur den's this week, an increase of two over last week. Burden's puddle forge is running 61 puddling furnaces this week, leaving 23 furnaces remaining idle. Frank Le Hay had his 1% broken at the Albiuy Iron Works while working between two piles of iron. Christopher Flynn while working Mon day afternoon had a hot rod coming from the rolls run through the calf of his leg. The rail mill is being run to its fall ca. pacity, there being a little delay in the early part of the week while waiting for the rolls to be planed. The city has finished building the dock at the foot of Monroe street and is filling in the street from the railroad track to the river. The merchant mill of the Troy Iron and Btee' company is being ruu to its full capacity. It includes the 16, 18 and 9 inch trains and sheet mill. At the Jones car works in Port Schuy ler business is very brisk. They are turniug out some very handsome looking and substantial cars for the 8 ‘. Paul City BaUway Company of St. Paul., Mian, Coming’s Albany Iron Works are working fuT handed getting out iron for the water mill preparatory to its s'arting. They expect to have the writer mill run ning full before the week is out. The McLeod Fire-brick works have received a barge load of flie clay to be manufaoiured into bricks. They are very busy filling orders. The works present u nice appearance, being newly poibted. Burdett, Smith i Co. and the Co*op- perative Stove Works are being tun to their full capacity to supply the fall orders for sloves. In the ingot depart ment of the Empire they are,turning out five ingots a day beside other work. In the stove plate department of the Empire there is not room enough for molding the work and lu consequence the mounters are always waiting for castings. They are getting stoves made at Skinner .k Mack’s loundry on Vail avenue. Hereafter the ears on the Troy 4 Lan- singburgh road will stop only at street corners and in the middle of a block. Additional men will be engaged at the bams 10 assist in changing the horses. These new regulations are made in e rder to save time on (he trip A ^ e s to shorten the hours o f ccnductore and drivers. Labor questions are invading the sa cred precincts of the law. On Wednes day evening the iaw students met in the anpervisors' room at the court bouse, and debated the question: “Resolved, That eight,hours shall constitute a legal day's labor in all trades.’’ After t^edebate the questiou was decided in the affirmative. The Empire car*wheel works' have fin ished unloading a luge schooner load of old car wheels brought from South Bos ton. They are to be rcmelted and made into new wheels. They are some 2,000 more old wheels there. They expect to get their shop in Alston tunning by the first of October. The works here are being rqn to their full capacity. They are busy shlppiug wheels to the B,, H. T. & W. R. R. Co. and the N. Y. C. at East Rochester. The Brothers of the Catholic male or phan asylum are building a large gymna sium on the north of the asylum. It has a frontage on Fourth street of 180 feet, and on the front proper, facing the asy lum, 60 feet. It will be a story and a half high surmouDled by a peaked roof, on the centre of which will be a tower for a bell. The foundation is be ing built of blue aqueduct stone; it will be raised fonr faet above groand. On the front proper there will be two large dormer windows, one ou each side of the main entrance door, the transom ot which will be of stained glass. On the Fourth street side are to be eight dormer windows, » u r on each side of a large entrance iultbe centre o f the building. When fioianed the gymnasium will be second to none in the State, in the line of srehiteotnre and equipments. GREEN ISLAND. Gilbert’s oar works paid on Saturday The Delaware and Hudson pay car is expected to arrive on Monday. Work is not very brisk at Gilbert’s car works just at present A number of blacksmiths and painters have been laid off. COHOES. Williams i Powers' mill has received its knitting frames from Germany. The water was let into the Cohoes company’s canals at 18 o’clock on Sun day night, and the mills began opera tions ou Monday morning after a week’s idleneas. Mr. Thomas O’Dea of Cohoes, N. Y , Secretary of the luternationa! Mason’s Uuion, paid a visit to Providence, R. 1., recently to try to effect a settlement be tween the master builders and the lodced- out masons of that place. In answer to a correspondeut, th e ' Standard gives the inlurmatiou that No. i Harmony mill in Oohoee is the largest mill in the world, being 1,160 feet in length, with a wing on the east 120 feet, long, 75 feet wide and five stories high. The next largest mill is in Russia, one story high, and built iu the form of a Oscar Warreu, the boss weaver, and the delegate selected by the Harmony mills to visit FsU River and other points in the east, to inquire as to the wages paid in the various eastern mills, re turned early this week, and reports that the Cohoes mills pay as good, and, in some cases, better wages than are paid elsewhere in the United States. There fore the request of the5,000 operatives of of Cohoes for an advance of 10 per cent, will bo refused. When we remember that the average wages of a cotton operative In this country, taking all classes and for the entire year, is b u t <32 cents a day, it certainly does seem as though there was something wrong somewhere. ALBANY. Twenty bricklayers and laborers quit work Thursday in the eapltol boiler- house yard at Albany, because a load of boycotted bricks, made by Thomas Mc Carty, was dumped in the yard. The strikers sent word.to other bricklayers and six meu quit work in the cellar of the Capitol and civht men at Amsdell Brothers’ brewery, when they heard the news. Sullivan Sc Ehlere, the cootraclora for the three job?, belong to the Builders’ Excliange, The members ot the ex change have agreed that in the event of a strike of the men employed by one firm, that ali the firms would discharge any men who;beloDgeI to the same or ganization as the strikers. In the shops of Bathbone, Bird & Co. of Albany there were-notices posted to the effect that the shops would close down on Labor day, September 8. The firm undertook to run a scab excursion down the river to t-y and cripple the picnio of D, A. 148 which was held ou that day. The excursion was to be free to any of the firm's employees who wanted to go on it. They went around to their apprentices, some ninety in number, and only three ont of the ninety volunteered to go. When they went to make ar rangements for a steamer to haul them they could not procure one for the pur pose, and in consequence they had to abandon the excursion. SPECIAL C h u r During' the Month of Au soil TO make room tor our beavr F*U ixponatlocs Co-spicaous amo’g the msDy DreM liood.? at- tr?cUoDR IS coe “ini'll V MlUer,' of wtnchwe nave (old this season upwards otune Ilundr.d PlfCfS. It Is strtcttr aU'WooV plumb ST incaes wide, at only as cents a yard, poMUreir worm so ceuts. We havo but a tew pUces remaining,! we have a limited q u m itr Iftt ot tUow popu lar Cmvaai Clotosln allco)ora,(tiat80id eorsp- idir earir m tbs summer at ti as per yard, now goicE a t 49 cebts. Tuired Roobtlx Sultltg, all-wool fllung. retr dfflrabl?i wtU OeclOSM »I iSovsfs, formM-pries l.adles lb Bsarcb ot anjtblDg lb LIGHT DRESS C H U R C Leading, Largest. Rel THE CABLE MILL ONCE MORE. ScHAoHXicoKE, N. Y’., 8ept9,1886. EnnOB C larion : Mr. E . A. Hartshorn n replying to y our challenge to produce a flax mill paying loss wages than the Cable Flax mill, refers to the Kentucky River mill, Frankfort. Is not Mr. Harts horn aware that there is not one fibre of flax worked in Frankfort? It is nothing but hemp tow made into gunnv and bal ing ropes. The wages ot 9c per 100 lbs for balling is snffleieut to prove the kind of goods made. 'Why does Mr. Hartshorn go down south for h:s illustration, where igrdhelpis so plentiful and cheap? 'Why doesn’t he go direct to Africa, where ?nts' worth of calico makes a suit of clothes? Seriously, why does not Mr. Hartshorn refer you to Hart 4 Butler, New York. Barber Bros., Paterson, Smyth 4 Dore, Andover, Mass „ or any other flax mill in the state ? Or, if be wishes to refer you to jute mills, take the Chelsea jute mills: New Y'ork, the Planet mills or Tucker's mills, Brooklyn. Mr. Hartshorn denies yonr statement that doffers of a legal age were presented to the company. I send you the names of fourteen persona who made appHoation but they were told they would get only 50 cents per day. Three dollars per week, to pay board, buy clothing, pay doctor’s bills; and, as Mr. Hartahom says, lay by something for a rainy day. This puts us in mind of Solomon Selime, the religious attorney, who wanted his servant maid to give her virtue away to him so that afterwards she conld repent: as tnere was more joy m heaven tor one sinner doing penanoe than for ninety- nine just persons. Mr Hartshorn gives us this advice: Let the people stand true to each other, protect, patronize and defend each other, and the result of honest labor wfiU be ac- cummulated wealth for every individnal.” Mr. Hartshorn we intend to take your advice. Yours truly. T. P h . 'W orkii^^en subscribe for the O labioh it is your paper. It is devoted to your Interest, and yon sbonld support it. EonoB C laeioh :— Y'our p a p er tu s spoken ou t w ith powlft on behalf o t the laborer, and especially In favor of a two-week pay day instead o f a m o n thly or five week one. As an objection to more frequent pay-days,, it has been a sserted th a t the men of South Troy would have two d runks a m o n th ib - ste a d o f one. Are you n o t aware tUnt . poverty cauxB many a good and h o n ^ '| man to drink? L if t the burden of debt and worry which is caused by infrequent pay days, and w o rkm en will drink less^ n o t more. Yfe have enough and more th a n enough of this tru c k business or pluck me stores. W e want our money as workmen in other trades have theirs, Atch week as it is earned, then we can lay i t out to the best advantage, know just how much we can spend, just bow much we c an lay away, pay cash for all our purchase?, and get rid of debt a lto gether. I f some foolish workmen should spend their spare money for whisky, it will be very foolish of them unioubteilly: but after all th a t is not their em ployers' business anv more than it is the business of th e employe to dictate how their em ployers’ profits shall be spent. L e t e very m a n o what is right and m ind his own business, would be a very good m o tto for both Bides. Charleston was shaken by an earth quake last week, and if justice is not done us there may be a n earthquake in the neighborhood of Troy, or rather at A lbany, w h en the Legislature m eets. If a sense of justice will not cause an e m ployer to do w h at is right, law may pos sibly comjiel bim. a . b . THE COTTON OPERATIVES. A great labor meeting was held in the Academy of Music, Fall River, Moss., Thursday evening, Aug. 27, at which an immense audience, composed of opera tives and busineis men were present. Senator Robert Howard made an ad Iress, from which wc take the following ex- Fot the post twelve years there has been a constant reduction in wages. In 1870 there were 134,000 people in the cotton mills of this country, and they received an average wage of $288.10 for a year’s labor, and in return gave a pro duction of 2,580 pounds of cloth each year, lu 1880 the number employed was 172,000, whose average yearly earnings was S244.65, and the average production was 3,500 pounds, and there has been in the short space of ten years a reduction in the average eatnmgs of $40 per head, while there has been au increase of 40 per cent, in the producing capacity of each operative. Thesumof $44 has been taken from the hand of each Operative, and their purjliasing power has been re duced, whUe by the increase in the speed of machinery 40 per cent, more goods have been placed on the market. Now, my friends, Ut us see what this $244 per year give for the daily earnings of each operative. Remember that this sum is n ot the average wages of tue rank and file, but includes the salaries of the tressure/A fbe superintendentA overseers and second hands. Dividing this amount by 313, the number of working days in the year, it gives just 77 cents. Dividing by 365, the number of days in the year in which we live and most be provided for, and we get 69 cents. It is admitted that in this period wages have been reduced until now they are 10 per c ent less and therefore only 62 cents daily, a sum which is insuflicient to sup port them in. the civilization which we are living m. Take the case of the man whose wages are reduced 10 per cent., where can he curtail expenses? He can can give bis family lees to eat. Is it in clothing? That means 10 per cent, less purchases from the retailers, 10 per cent, teas from the whoiesaiera, 10 per cent, from the manufacturers. What is the result? Wbe wholesale stopping of mills, such as we have seen. “I never knew a reduction which was not followed by another reduction. In 1883 there was a reduction of 10 per cent. The efforts of the spinners to shorten time was refused. In 1384 there was another reduction, and in 1885 they had to 'work and stop sixteen weeks alter nately. Now, my friendA the Knights ANNOUN CEMENT ! c h & P h a gust we intend to .’Clear ER SILKS AND DRESS C GOODS ihould tri unlae oar stoaE bdora mstlne purcKsrs. iry Uttie muney Pin striped Snmmw Silks tm t sold Ireelr a t ts CFn'au-iuoffbatagietoat ativeents. weareoflerlngasupetb fine of ColoridSatlts at 49 cents, regawr Ts cent qaatl ty. » piecvs Bl«k Trlcitlne, u i sUt, good dourr quiUty, willbjclaeed »t \9 camsp?r yard. Tb* ' fst qaiuty of Sitta Rtudsmes enn be bOBgbt Of US n isi ts p»r yard aarUie tbs montn oiAugustonly. H & P H iable Dry G-oods Deal (A Labgr.firopose to defend tbeir mcm- Ibers ag dost any such encroachment on their wages. They have watched the im provements made in machinery, and say the time has come to make improvements in the people. The time has come to reduce the hours of labor, to reduce this constant glutting of tlie market. I am not snprised at this glutting of the markets. If some of your grandmothers could look down and see the rapidity with which cloth is produced to-d«y, they would think th(t the won ders of AUadin's lamp bad really come to Two generations ago the product of a spinniM wheel was eight ounces of yarn daily, of.three pounds of wool per week. To-day the product of a single spinner is 8,000 pounds daily. Three men can do as mucli to day as 3,000 conld do two generations ago. A girl working on a ring frame will spin a thread each d.<y that will reach from the AU^ntic to tbi; Pacific. A spinner 03 a mule wi I prO’ duce in one da; a thread which would encircle the world. Two generations ago the prodnet of a hand loom was 46 yards weekly, to-day a girl can weave ou power looms 25,000 yards in a single week. It is this great increase in prodnetion that causes the glut in the market. If you would relieve it, carry out the platform of ibe Knigbis of Labor, “eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for study and play.” It will be good for the manufacturera as well as the opera tives. It will increase the quality of the A CLERGYMAN’S VIEIVS. The Rev. Mason W. Pressly, D. D., a Presbylerim clergyman, in a rtcent sermon, expressed the following views upon the labor question: “The present appears to le a crirical time iu tUe history of labor. A labor probl\m filled with threatenlngs of the greatest peril, is presented before us de manding instant solution, and the man who by any prescription, human ot di- viue, can solve this mighty issue and all at once restore haruioby a nd happiness would be pre-emiuently a Chrbtian phil osopher and a patriotic statesman. “Competition, as the regiil 'ting prin ciple of oar Industrie', has broken down and combinatiao has taken its place. It began by the establishment of those great financial and industrial corporations in which capital was encouraged by the State, and thus organized was exempted from certain babilities and given advan tages which the individual does not pos sesf. And these great irresponsible cor porations have learned the art of com bining among themselves, so that in all branches of in liistr; and commerce oom- petition is greatly crippled and prices as lUCCs, syi :-**Onr various industries a re oombintng ■to fotce down productioB— that means ‘th a t workingmen are throw n outut of lhat workingmen are thrown o of em ployment—or to force up prices, which means increased cost of living. There fee lumber, ooal, cok^ oil, brick, nail, screw, steel, rope, gl^A wall-paper, school book, hardware, stock, cotton sod scores of other combinations, all made in the interest of capitalists. Small dealers mu.st enter the pool or be crushed, and onoe in they must submit to the dictation of the moneyed men. And these are the p-irasitea ot in d u s ^ , who have attached themselves to o ar industrial system and are sucking Its very life blood. These are absorbing the wealth of the country by gambling and speculation. 'With fnmcliiBes, legislative favors and judicial decisions obtained by bribery of city councils, oonrts and Congress, they have robbed the public for their own benefit, and their plunder is simply eaormoaa. This country has grown immensely rich in the past few years, and signs of in creasing opulence are last multiplying. Men are becoming millionaires every by combination, the wa r ^ s t the tendencies that are down, and can assert and share of the glowing wealth, then let them combine, and let the people say ‘Amen.’ This is no encoungement of lawlessness snd anarchy. It is no ooun- tenance of the rapine, asMsaiaation and savagery that are perpetrated in our midst and falMly charged by some to the la boring classes, whose combinations are law-abiding, legitimate and bound to be sttocsBrfal.” len. Out our Entire Stock of ODDS e Good? r?duc(d to ciom tbs w w tbiz l-Soeuis. AU Wblce Dr a A L E N A S TROY. N. Y. ffi I CleaiT, Dealer in Coal, 153 River Street^ DAILY EXCURSION'S. O n TSE Hcnsoit—A lbany , AND 1' boy Line—Cominebc-ing Satnr-lav, M-.iy 8th, Steamers Whitney and Sannders will leave foot of Maiden Laa^ Albany, and foot of State Street, Troy, hourly from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m , ioelusire. Fere 10 cents. Ruaml trip tickets, for week days only, 15 cents. M. K E N 1 ^ ^ ^ (Socceaor to Sgan £ Ecnceor,) PRACTICAL PLUMBER, GAS t STEAM FITTER sWotkynUBlockiCoagreeBSt., TROY.N. T. Geo. W. Shepard & Co., Blank Book M anuf’s Printers, Book-Binders, 251 mver Street, ________ TROY, N. Y. For Genmne K. of L. Badges CHOICi BMHllS Or'^SksAlID TOBACCOS CALL ON WM. SCULLY, STRPHKSS HAXL, TROY, N.Y. TheoDlf AuCborU'd Aeentfor oenutae E. or I. Badges inD. a . SB. M. flMPANE, 3 M useum B uilding , Wbolraale and R»t»tl Deder In FINK GOLD aaasiLvaR aatchbb ' , diamonds , jew b l r t and SILVERWARB. L owest P rices in the C ity . - ^ _ ________________________M»y;rt;6niO. CRE.1T CLE.tRL\(; OIT SiLE TO MAKC BOOM FOR FALL OOOD3 AT The Gp-Town Cash Store. Oi Bf D esrochers , 735 River Street, T bot , N. T. FOR YOUR PRUTTING H U R L H 7 HARMONY HALL, TROY, tworgADUaUoB Pricung and Badges at Uiort DOtlcn And LOW RATB*._________ Meher’s loe Cream Parlors HOMEMADE BAKERY. C hoice S team C onfectionery , 12 Jacob Street, Tro^. Mrs. Rich’s la the place where you want to get good home-made BREAD, CAKES AND PIES. 19 JACOB STREET, TROY, N. Y. WM. H. REIB FANCY BAKER, 15 JACOB STREET, TROY, N.CT. W edding C n ia A S pecialty . A beautiful large imported card on aa eaael given to purchaacs amounting t* 5$ — ‘a and over.
