Show BOUNCED BY BRICKLAYERS Good Prospects for their Union Caving In All dops not appear to be pace and harmony among tha bricklayers For several months past they have been I I vainly endeavoring to form a union andif one can judgs frm a short glimpse hal of the proceedings last evening will probably arrive at the i goal of their hopes a few hundred years after the first tru rp Lass than onesixteenth of the total number of bricklayers of this city were present at the Pythian Cistle last evening when a public open meeting was announced A HERALD reporter sought Mr Newton who has been at the head j I and front of the affair and the scribe was assured that he would be welcome that they would be gad to have him present and give THE HERALD readers an account of the attair A president and secretary being elected Mr Newton began to read an address when he was interrupted inter-rupted by a man named Worthen who desired to know whether if the address was intended for the benefit of bricklayers brick-layers and masons alone other people nOL reputed to bs bricklayers or masons ma-sons hadnt better be asked to withdraw with-draw Mr Newton did not think there was I any thing in the document that would cause the blush of shame to lise to the cheek of the gentleman present who I was so unfortunate as to have had the accomplishment bricklaying omitted I from his early education He saw no reason why the scribe could not stand I it He had invite several ladies to be present but they had failed to accept the invitation Mr Worthen however insisted that the reporter be bounced and after a debate of about half an hour which was almost aa humorous as the Republican Repub-lican how in another part of the building build-ing the motion to bounce was carried and the representative of THE HERALD went at once For this reason we are unable to tell our readers this moraine just what happened at last nights meeting A grapevine dispatch from the Pythian Hall however at a late hour last night was to the effct that the union was in a precttiious state of existence The stumbling block so it I was stated seems to be on the nine hours proposition Q ite a number of our bricklayers seem to be alraid of it while others are sanguine that it can be enforced The charter ha arrival but under the rules of the mother union it cannot be surrendered until the members mem-bers of the subordinate union have nt tIed the ninehoar question This will probably never be aone |