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Show On the Manchester ship canal there are 5000 men employed. A notable feature of the work is that coffee and reading rooms have been established in connection with the settlements in which th c-iuon live. The fact suggests thatF.ngland is ahead of tho United Btates in its interest in tho welfare of this class of laborers. On our great works where largo forces are employed the men are left to live like animals, and our philanthropists could not engage en-gage in a bettor work than that of ameliorating their condition. The great majority of them would no doubt continue to patronie tho camp saloons, but the establishment of coffee houses and reading rooms wherever such an army of men should be gathered together to-gether could not fail to have groat influence in-fluence for good. |