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Show X BABES OF TJ1E MILLS. SHOCKING CONDITION IN FACTORIES. COTTON Where Childhood Eailind That Vouiplro May Poitou and Dtockhuldwa Grow Rich ,u That Crlaa to lloavon. lluuiaa la presence of Gov. Voorhecs, the goverand several other high officials. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland also accepted an invitation to attend. Excursion trains were run to Elizabeth from all parts of New Vjcre. y. and the town of Freehold, whin- - the battle was fought, sent special delegation of its citizens. either In force or Inevitable In the near future. Tbewhlte man, to whom the teat la not applied, haa not the stlmu-lu- a that the net;: o haa to learn to read. Thla aspect of the question would lift It out of the region cf iin of business coat iderutien to a plane of the widest public concern. "In Alabama the proportion of young children to grown workers is between 6 and 7 per cent In Augusta, Ga., a count was made in June, 1900, through eight mills and 556 children under 12 were found working. Statistics bearing on the subject are hard to obtain, but that child labor is a factor in the industrial situation appears evident from the fact that thirty mill presidents appeared before the Georgia legislature in opposition to a measure regulating such labor. nor-elect, Mlfc (Special letter.) Doea it aurpriae the reader to be told that In the cotton millu of the country children of G and 7 years are working 11 houra a day; that in order to perform their tasks with greater ease, for which they are paid as high aa 10 cents n day, they call upon younger brothers or sisters to help them, and that when weary and sieepy with their tasks the din of the machinery uml TREASURES OF MARCIANA. the heavy atmosphere they are r- Ived by having cold water dashed into their Tlia Suusovluo Fatal'S to Its Their II rulfaces? ing l'l'ice. I .overs of Venice will remember, These are the facts brought out by Irene M. Ashby, who luvesiigu'iid the 01110 tim ago, a cry in the press, parcondition of the cotton mills of Ala- ticularly in England, about the Doges t'iiluce going more or less to ruin, and bama. Often the whole family, except the that the great Marciuua library, kusas baby actually in the cradle, is in the in it, was much too heavy to be safe. mill, suyB the writer. "Two or three It is not my intention here to reupen of 8 years or older nil'tht be oil the pay the question, which was never really roll, hut the youngest paid worker i an cleared up, but to chronicle that at get through her work at 10 coats a last the library is about to be removed day with more ease if she bus her lit- to its rightful- - resting place, the Santle brother of 6 to help her. I have sovino palace, erected on purpose to seen a boy under 4 beginning his life hold it. In 1812 it was removed from of drudgery by pulling the yarn oil there to the Doges palace by a decree bobbins to make bands. A manager of Napoleon, but bus always seemed courteously conducting me through the out of its element, as it were, the mill .would often explain: These lit- rooms not being adapted for such a tle ones are not working; they are purpose. The collection is one of the helping their brothers and sisters.' I most precious of rich Italy, there beaccepted the explanation until it ing 300,000 volumes, 100,000 pamphlets dawned on me how numerous were and 11,000 manuscripts, most of them these wee unpaid assistants. It is a of Inestimable value. Tradition states biting comment on the dehumanising that the nucleus of the library of St. nature of competition that generally Marks was a present made by Petkind-heartand humane men should rarch of some of his own works to the be willing to profit by the labor of lit- city; but history has it that the betle children without even a wage re- ginning was when Cardinal Bessarione turned over his collection, nearly 800 turn for their work. "At one place I heard of children, volumes, to Venice, in 1408, the latest additions being from suppressed monworking on the night shift, turned out asteries in the provinces. Among the for some fault at 2 oclock in the most ancient MS3. are the Greek allowed a compassionate morning, by clerk to go to sleep on a bench in the Evangelii of the eighth century, and an Old Testament of the ninth. Peroffice, as they were afraid to go home. Ladles told me of a common sight in haps more Interesting are the secular the mill cottages; children lying face MSS. of the thirteenth and later cendownward on the bed sleeping from turies, illustrated by odd little figures of horsemen and saints. There is a exhaustion, Just as they had come in "Divina with Commedia, grotesque from the night shift, too utterly weary figures, of the first half of the foureven to remove their clothes. "A friend of mine in Atlanta, Ga., teenth century. There is a notable code of Hamed, of the thirteenth centhinking of giving some of these little tury, with Turks depicted In full coschildren a treat, asked a number out to her place in the country and turned tume, and a fragment of a Persian them into the woods to play. What poem of the fifteenth century. The was her dlstess anl amazement to find autographs are precious to a degree. There is one of Cardinal Bessarione, they did not know what the wood or the Dialogues of Tasso, writings of from dividends meant And the thing these mills are used probably for phi- Galileo, Sarpi and, more recent, of to meution only one or two. lanthropy, temperance and missions. I Goldoni, even heard of one mill Sunday school Of books, which can I choose to menwhere the children were told that God tion? Epistles of Cicero, printed in had put it into the hearts of good men 1469; "Poems, Songs and Triumphs of Petrarch, dated 1470; the first sample of printing of Nicola Janson, and so on. Space forbids me to mention more, but I have given an idea of what treasures the library contains. Roman correspondence of the Pall Mall Gazette. - ed WIMOX'S LATT. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is to the fore again with another very clever vaudeville hketeli eonicily. this time. Miss Manic Keene, for whom the sketch was written, has just finished rehearsals for en early production. A dress rehearsal the other day revealed Miss Kei no In the principal role, that of a woman lawyer, und one carrying many witty and limzy lines, which Miss Kemc, wLose own personality is nothing if not breezy, reads with unction and naturalness. Miss Wilcoxs clever and ronvincing ways of putting truths, a style all her own, is splendidly cxempliiied in this, her must recent sketch. Miss Keene, with her usua- l- and at the same time unusual, by comparison with many others versatility makes her self over into the character itself. Her versatile powers ought to ba valuable to some manager of a stock company. Instead of touring in a vaudeville sketch in one role only. ONKII.L AMI FOB BUST. James Controversies concerning O'Neill's alleged criticism on drama of today, brings to mind an incident which happened when he was a beginner, or at least during the early Yirginius, the title role of which was played by Edwin Forrest. O'Neill had the part of Icilius, and being a good actor, even then, did some splendid work in the character, which the star duly appreciated. As be passed Forrest's dressing room one night after the end of the play, he heard the star expressing dissatisfaction at something, in gniinidiug tones, and caught the sound of bis own name. The next few minutes were very anxious ones to the young aetor. Hearing Forrest's dresser passing bis door, he waylaid the man, and dragging him into his own room, asked in worried accents: "What did the old man say about me a little while ago? I heard him speak my name in no gentle voice." The answer which dispelled his TIIK JOl'KNAI.IST'g KATIKK. vague fears, was; A newspaper nun's satirical defini"O, he waB saying that if young tion of a 'gentleman (possibly havO'Neill gets rid of that damn Irish in mind some certain one whom ing brogue of his, he'll make a goud actor he had met) was: sometime." "A gentleman is a man who has no employment, and who has plenty of HIHLICAL FLAYS. money to spend. While in London he met an actor If all the plans of the moment are he had known in America. After whom be filled with will perfected, the stage Biblical character! In another years greetings were over, during which ho time. Stephen Phillips has stated noted that the erstwhile actor's apdefinitely that the play he Is writing pearance and surroundings indicated for Edward S. Willard, Is based upon the possession of wealth, and that his the David and Bathsheba Incident, and manner was that of one in high social that the one he la preparing for Julia position, he said: Marlowe la to have Mary Magdalene "Well, what are you doing nowafor its central figure. More Imminent days? I'm doing nothing Im a gentlestill la a play Mrs. Fiske says she will produce before the year is out with man," laughed his old acquaintance. the same Mary as its dominating per-Taking in the situation somewhat. Fine bath room in connection: Antl-Smokl- ' AFTER THE DAYS WORK. (Too tired to undress, the little ones throw themselves on their beds and fall asleep.) to open a cotton mill that they might earn money so as to be able to put a nickel into the missionary box! The Horth Is Culpable. Nor does the culpability belong wholly to the South. In 1887 a law wpj passed in Alabama limiting the hours of children's work in factories to eight a day. At the instigation of Massachusetts mill owners the law was repealed in December, 1894, on their promise to establish a factory In Alabama. Today the mills thus established are working at least fifty children under 12 years old for 11 hours a day. This is not an isolated Instance. Much of the opposition to the passage of a protective law through the Southern legislatures Is made by representatives of Northern corporations, who are taking full advantage of the possibility of child labor. When a bill regulating child labor was before the Alabama legislature the mill owners opposition to the measure in the senate was represented by a lawyer, who was also the president of a cotton mill, the owners of which are phllanthorp-i- c Northern people a corporation of clergymen and a railway attorney! "In eleven mills I visited, owned by Northern capital, says the writer, "there were twice as many children under 12 as In thirteen mills owned by Southern capital. The total number of children under 12 In the mills of Alabama, including the unpaid helpers. I computed to be 1.200. This number is not stationary or diminishing; on the contrary, it is steadily increasing and the experience of other Southern states proves that It is. Tlio Color Feature. "The question lias u graver complication In Alabama and throughout the South than It has in. any other part of the world. It is inseparab:y connected with the color problem. The rapidly growing mill population is entirely composed of white people. The illiterate negro sends his child to school; the illiterate white sends bis to the cotton mill. In most of the Southern states an educational test for voting is Yankee In An American company has received a franchise to construct a street railway line in St Petersburg which involves building an enormous bridge over the River Neva. The whole cost of the enterprise is estimated at rubles. The franchise has already received the sanction of M. In Witte, the minister of finance. financial rircles it is believed that this will have a powerful political and economical effect on the future of Russia and the United c;..tes. M. Witte certainly Is anxious to develop a connection between the two countries and will have no hesitation in doing so even at the expense of France, though two strings to his bow will be better. 00 at the Hank of England. The liunk of England is a pretty healthy Institution, with a capital of a little over 172.000.000 and a surplus of about fl.O00.Oo0. yet the governor receives a salary nf only $10,000 a year. Our smallest city hanks pay as much as that to their presidents. The pay of its 24 directors is $2,500 each per annum. The bank is a vast building, one story high, and perfectly isolated. There is not a window to be seen In its walls. Its offices are lighted from the roof or from the nine inner courts and garden. 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(She Is soon to appear In the character of Mary Magdalene.) sonage, and with Judas Iscariot aa an the newspaper man, with a quizzical Important individual in the action. twinkle in his eye, asked: And how long have you been a gen8udermann Is believed to be the author of the play. In England a pair of play- tleman? Just three years, was the answer. wrights, Rudolph de Cardova and Mrs. Alicia Ramsay, are writing a play of the title, Mordecal. the Jew. TACK WHISPERS. More than 3(H) new plays by French KIIMIKK AS CAPT. MOI.LT. authors will be produced before June 1 The first performance of Molly Kidder and her next Pitcher, by Kathryn Charles Henry Meltzcr's play The company in Elizabeth, N. J., the First Duchess is of Marlborough," other evening proved a notable occa- meeting with much success on the road. The late Robert Buchanan left behind him some finished plays, one of which, The Good Old Times, may bo produced in London next spring. Robert Emmett, an IrlBh play, woven around the love and patriotism of that young Irish hero, and written by Brandon Tynan, la now In preparation for production. Cecil Raleigh Is writing a melodrama for Mrs. Langtry, it is said to deal with certain incidents In the life of the aetress, and will be called A Woman's Tragedy. Calve According to her own say-sreturns thinner, in better health and voice, thanks to last year's rest, and a better Christian, a closer acquaintance with Turks and Egyptians having cured her of her tendencies toward Pantheism, Theosophy and other things. Theodore Burt Sayre, author of "Tom Moore, In which Andrew Mack is starring at the Herald Square, has KATHRYN KIDDER. ion. The state of New Jersey, which started to write a new play for Mr. enjoys the distinction of posressing the Mack's use a year from now. 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