HIE LOWLY OF LIVERPOOL Wakeman Tells What He Saw in This Wonderful City. jSM.bibl® >'lctare °* th® tow,y *» Th»Jr Arf Se(,„ !,i Their Home* and How They Ilve-Tliere I* Plenty of Work, Hut the Pay I* Meager. (Copyrighted 1891.) Lit-FHSTM)!., All". 5.—With its outly ■„ l>,,roughs and suburbs, Liverpool hour’s ivt il nigh 1,000,000 souls. Its iritimo interests are enormous, and commercially it no doubt ranks as the ereoiul ei:v iu the empire. It isahard. rartieal city. Its business men and factors are grim, severe fellows, stern of decision as New York millionaires, ami restless, diligent and unconquera ble ;is the men who have set the killing' pace in Chicago. There is little room for pleasant tliin's in Liverpool. Its chief and almost sole gallery of paintings was given the city by a graduated rum seller, whom Victoria, out of surprise ami wonder, no doubt, made a baronet. Although one of the world’s greatest depots for the book collector, ic has but one library of note available to the public. Charities are done In a per functory. petulant manner, although the helpless were most ill-mannered in selecting busy Liverpool to starve in. And its hundreds of thousands of working men and women are treated with less consideration than cattde. With a few shining examples, it is a city of commercial Grad grinds on the one hand and public house devil-fish on the other. The lowly have a sad lot be tween them. Nobody here wants it that way. A few men, like Sir James I’oole, are endeavoring to help the masses to better tilings, and are finding a little time from business affairs to do something practical and good, but as a rule the men who own great fleets, who exchange half the English speaking world's raw and manufac tured products, push forward in their money grabbing career like automa tons of stone, and their fallow humans are counted as coal, iron, or cotton are computed in loss or gain. in stnuying mo nonunion oi me lowly of any great city, the demand tor labor, wages paid, and the cost of living, are the first things to be con sidered. These things'indicate how the people might live if possessed of ail prudence and sobriety. How they really live, and why, is another matter. There is seldom a dearth of labor in any great seaport. Liverpool lias always stood high in percentage of labor demand. The city has never been subject to the relentless over crowding of manufacturing towns like Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham, or the destructive greed of tremendous and endless immigration, as at New York. It is the greatest entrepot in Europe. The landing, handling and reshipment of nearly all North and South American products exported to Europe, and the reshipment to all quarters of the globe of the greater part of the stupendous quantities of British manufactures are done at this one port. Its warehouses and docks are almost inconceivably numerous and extensive. Fifty thousand men are alone constantly required in the various forms of dock labor. This fact will sufficiently indicate the almost measureless business ramifications re quiring uninterrupted service. Steady labor and plenty of it is the rule. The least possible wages upon which the workers may exist also pre-. vail. The best paid men among the 50,000 laborers employed upon the docks are the stevedorses who load and Unload the ships—“lumpers” they are called—who get 5 shillings per day. and the dock porters or “good” hand lers, who receive a 0 pence less. “Lor rytm'ii or cartmen with two horses tandem earn 00 shillings, and with one horse :.'0 shillings. The police are paid from 20 to 03 shillings, with corre sponding deductions to eventually pay for their own pensioning when too old for further service. A gateman at the 1.XI hange railway station told me e had been in the same service sixteen years ami had never received above 10 6 1 ’HR's per week; and no manner ol employee about these great stations is paid upwards of 20 shillings. •*“ gr.iaes of clerks, porters a es men and women about the mar* sets receive from 8 to 18 shillings, mm ear drivers get as high as 24 sliil , .F.s‘ n,t conductprs, never above 21 miimjrs. Jlarbers, caretakers or jan rs and watchmen, milkmen, bakers' n’ grocery and market trap drivers, ^ nKl railway package and gin collectors, receive only from 10 j ‘r , ee" shillings; while corporation t • jlllo,ers are paid from sixteen to U''n-V shillings per week. *Jrpi,oi cablU(tn are the most woi-i I "°°.ne °* their kind in the '• tab owners oecasionallv rent "'ort,nr broukrham to a “trust tin.,- '* “‘How at a stated sum, but tl,.„V.ll'U llot .flfty out of nearly .1,000 tin.;,. '‘'V- arrived at this dignity in i .dong. The remainder get from tn. , “o remainder g-et from On.. 'eighteen shillings per week. Jne I'dies these ~ lam,1‘"i‘7 l“*?e fello'vs. They are Pa\i.’. l • veinous-nosed and 1 ' "'thout suilieient snirit for genni. the II vieiousness. 1 had “thought set ‘ 0 time of life when no new career is possible, they are met by the stone wall of indifference on the part of their employers; helplessly see the posts of trust about and above them tilled by still cheaper imported help from tier many .and Holland; and come to be hopeless old men at 40. Clerics in re tail establishments, of whom the greater number are women, fare better in one respect. While their wages are even less than those in offices, a system is in vogue here which given them at least the m-.e cities of life. A large number of establish ments provide food and dormitories for their staffs. A regime of the utmost severity exists. Hut employers thus secure the advantage of absolute* sur veillance, of the miserable "truck" system in another form, where all they give is got back with profit, and the docile, unquestioning labor of their prison-kept white slaves, from 8 in the morning until 8 and sometimes 10 o’clock at night. Looking at the great army of more lowly toilers and house servants, the study is certainly not a pleasant one. There are large gangs of girls known as “cotton pickers," who may be seen at the noon hour wandering bare headed through the streets, their beg garly. garments covered with cotton lint. Those who are not barefooted wear heavy clogs without stookings, and they will kick shins with any rough in Liverpool for a pot of beer. Many cargoes of damaged cotton ar rive here. 11 is 'sold by auction to a class of dealers who dry it and prepare it a second time for the market. Two or three thousand of the hoodlum class of young women sort or "pick” this stuff in filthy noisome pens. The employment is not steady, and they get what the renovators have a mind to pay; all the way from 4 _ to 10 shillings per week. These girls and women are about as respect able as men would be under like cir-; cumstances; drink gallons of beer per day while at work, “clubbing ’ their pennies for its purchuse; ferociously beat those who do not "drink fair"; and live in any manner they may; there being absolutely no effort on the part of any person or soeiety to better, their condition. x xu,in wuks iu auuhL's, resurailb» and the oommon grade of inns, will earn eight shillings per week. A gen eral house servant receives six shil lings. A housemaid, nurse and wait ress combined, who is regarded as the highest grade of house servant, may receive eight shillings. Charwomen or scrubwomen receive three shillings per day and breakfast, that is, tea and bread and butter, and they may pos-. sibly secure two engagements per week. Washerwomen are very glad to earn altogether ten shillings per week, and perhaps their assistants may get from a shilling to one and four-pence a day, and “tea.” or “three ha’p’worth of bitter,” which translated means three cents' worth of bitter beer. Girls in tobacco, confectionery and stationers’ shops will receive from four to six shillings per week; and wait resses in restaurants, considering the severity and hours of their labor, are the poorest paid of all. Slany of these girls are required t^o serve meals in gentlemens' chambers and iu offices, at all hours, after the manner of the Havana coolie cantincros, and are sub ject to all manner of insult which they endure with a dogged bravery and cheery invulnerability entitling them to be regarded as real heroines in any other land. Hut what may be the amusements and diversions of the Liverpool lowly? is a natural inquiry. They are drink, drink, drink, and “ scamping ” the rents. Not all are drunkards. Most of them are regular drinkers. The horror of it all is women predominate. From Saturday noon until 11 at night, and again from Sunday noon until 10 at night, excepting closing hour be tween half past 2 and 0 o'clock, in the bar, smoking rooms, “snugs" and par lors of each of the about 2,000 licensed public houses of the city and environs, an average of fjfty persons may be found in all conditions of “cheeriness” and semi-consciousness. That will ac count for about 100,000 persons. I do not know how often these gatherings will wholly change their personel, but [ believe a quarter of a million people in Liverpool drink whenever they can get it, and that one-half of that num ber are confirmed tipplers and drunk ards. The homes of most of these are bare walls and squalid belongings. The public house is the only cheerful place they know in their lives. Rent collectors assert that over 10,000 of such families “scamp the rents,” that is, get possession of any sort of habit ation and remain rent free until warned out or thrown out by a bailiff. There is not in any ten leading Amerl can cities as much actual squalor anil beastly hopelessness as may be found in this one. And yet nearly every one of this class does something and earns something here. Whatever may be the “purchasing power” of money in Amer ica. it is a good thing to remember that American laborers are not yet the sub jects of such studies as these. Kikiau L. Wakemax. ]>onoini<*;M I'lea«urli»sp. City Cousin—I see tlie farm house next to this one is closed. Why is that,? Rural Relative—Mrs. Hayfork, who lives there, has fc'one to the sea-side for the summer. She says it's cheaoer than stayin’ on the farm and feediu’ city relations. No >i0.M|llit04. Summer Hoarder—Look at my face, Mrs. Starvem, it’s full of mosquito bites. Mrs. Starvem (of Mayfield Cross Roads)—That’s not mosquito f>ites. That’s high livin’. Not Hard to Do. She—Ho you think you will be thoughtfully bringing me boxes of candy after we are married just as you do now? He—Oil, yes, yes, indeed. Candy is getting cheaper every year. They Didn't Ohattpr. Doctor—Did you have a heavy chill? Fair Patient—it seemed so. Doctor—Did your teeth chatter? Fair Patient—No; they were in my dressing case. VIRGINIA AFTER THE WAR . ! - Judge Keatley Writes Another Sketch on This Subject. Some Pathetic and Humorotu Incident* ot Tbl* Period From the i|gd|e'i Per sonal Experience*—Ureat Change* Made In After Year*. ' Some time ago I gave to your readers a brief sketch of certain conditions that existed in southeastern Virginia in the summer which succeeded the close of the civil war. My observa tions were the result of a personal ex amination of that region, visiting al most every farm house in the five counties in that part of the state. The region had not been the scene of any battles and only a few minor skir mishes varied the monotony of the dis tressful life the people had been living. After visiting all that was left in tho> immediate vicinity of Dismal Swamp, it became necessary to visit with my cavalry escort the country toward the Bouth bank of the James river. Hero little destruction had occurred to dwellings, farm houses and other farm improvements, but portable property, such as horses, mules, cuttle and food, were carried off by raiding troops on both sides, and by bushwhackers act ing under the pretense of regular com missions. The first halting place of our expedition was at Isle of Wight Court House, a mere hamlet of less than half a dozen dwel lings, beside the court house, and rude county jtiil. Court had not been held since hostilities had commenced, and more than half the men liable to Jury duty, had gone into the confederate army, or into the Virginia militia, while all the lawyers in the country, had become confederate officers, and many of them never returned to their homes. All the negroes in that coun try were at work with such worn out farming implements as remained, and nearly all the farms were ^directed by the women whose husbands hail taken up arms for their state an<^ section. Most of these ladies too, were clad in faded and well worn weeds of mourn ing, indicating the sad losses they had suffered, and the great cost which in surrection had been to them. Our duties of inspection, however, were often enlivened .by incidents which were not entirely sad and pathe tic. After leaving Isle of Wight court house, we halted at a farm house on the high road to Smithtield, a larger hamlet then at the C. H. on one of th,e small inlets of the Jaruesriver. The officers and men of the cavalry escort found ' forage for their horses in a long shed which flanked the green space or lawn about the farm. 1 alone rode up to the perch, where sat a middle aged, matronly lady, and with her a beautiful young girl of about 18 years. I wore a small metal badge of an organization to which I belonged that had a member ship ih all the states of the union. This was partly concealed by the coat of my undress uniform, but the young est lady noticed it before I dismounted and remarked it in a playful manner, saying that her brother, who was dead, had belonged to the same society. She said, too, in the same good natured way, that she had a special attachment for persons of that order, on that aocount. While her aunt and the negro servants were preparing dinner from the slender means which war had left to them, she expressed herself very bitterly against northern men, find especially against northern sol diers, several regiments of which; as cavalrymen, had been quartered in that neighborhood, and had made quite free with the smoke houses anil the chicken roosts of the section. With much spirit she censured their vandal ism. Notwithstanding her ap parent hatred of northern sol diers, I made the remark several limes during the conversation, that when she married, if she ever did, it would be to a “hated Massa chusetts Yankee,” as she designated all northern men. To this statement she made reply that, if she ever married such a man, it would be for the pur pose of an opportunity to cut his throat some night. jjiuuer uvcr, we Murluu on our way to Smithfield. We soon overtook three young1 men in an old North Carolina cart. One of them, not over 20 years old, was dressed in a confederate uni form. Ilis first salutation was the in quiry whether I had stopped at the last fa^m house; and said that if I did so, I must have found quite a lively girl there. He said: “That is my sis ter, ,but I can’t stay at home; she is too lively for that. I was on General Lee's staff, as a signal officer for nearly four years. While I was gone to the war, both my parents died. My father made a will, giving me the forty ne grpes thiflt were slaves on the farm when I left home; while to my sister he gave the farm of a thousand aqres. Your ‘eussed Lincoln’ set all my nig gers free, and now I have nothing hut this uniform and that sorrel horse I am driving.” I advised him to go to work and help his sister raise a crop, but he insisted that it was impossible for him to live in the same house with her. 1 left the party and rode on. About a year afterward, when I had got home north, I received a letter post-mnrkea ‘‘Isle of Wight, C. II.,” and upon open ing it found a pair of wedding cards, on one of which was the young lady’s name, and that of a stranger. Down in one corner of onevof the cards was a pencil inscription: “Married to a Massachusetts Yankee.” Years after ward I had news of the fate and condi tion of this young lady, and found that she and her northern helpmate were living in the utmost prosperity and happiness. A journey made through the same section of Virginia in 1880 showed a wonderful change in the aspects of this once desolated region. The signs of the ravages of civil war had wholly disappeared, and peace and prosperity had again taken possession of one of the most interesting portions of *,he “Old Dominion.” Johjj II. Kbati.ey. —The Jeannette drifted through the Arctic ocean at the rat' of two miles a Uy. INTERESTING ITEMS. The only wotnnn who is a United States deputy marshal is Miss Olive Buohnnan, of St. Louis. AH the men like to be arrested by her. Justices Browu and Brewer are the only mombcrs of the Supreme court who do not own their own houses in Washington, but they will soon do so. Llttlo Willie Hawkins, while in swimming in the mill-pond near his homo at Burrowtou, Iowa, caught four minnows in his mouth and swam ashore without swallowlug or losiug them. The wife of the woll-known member of parliament, Thomns Power O'Con nor, is an American, the gramldnugh ter of the late Gov. Duvall, of Florida. Her fattier was Judge Pascal, of Texas. Tho manager of the Zoological Gar den at Frankfort and two of Iiis assist ants were nrrosted for manslaughter in refusing to kill the polar bear which was eating the woman who lately climbod into hisoago in ordor to com mit snicido. Mrs. Logan has left the general s library just as it was when he last oc cupied it, untouched, exoept by the dust brush, and unchanged. His arm chair still retains its customary posi tion, and hardly n paper has boon re moved from his desk. Mrs. Julia Averill, an aged Kansas City lady who writes poetry for amuse meut. sent a few congratulatory verses to Prinoe Bismarck on his 8‘id birth day. The ex-chancellor responded in a brief note expressing bis sincere thanks for the courtesy. Baron de Gondoritz, the Brasilian India rubbor merchant who is trying to corner the entire rubber ontput of the Amezon region, is an energetic man of Portuguese birth, 41 years eld. He le of short and very portly figure, with light complexion aud red hair. Since Cabanel, the French portrait painter has pronounced Miss Mattie Mitchell, the Oregon aenator’a daugh ter, the most beautiful woman ever seen in Paris, the claim of her admirers that sbe is the prettiest girl in Wash ington will probably bo no longer dis puted. An Arizona bqy who has a tame, harmless snake tied his little brother's rattle on its tail the other day, and when two tramps tried to break into the kitchen they were frightened near ly to death, supposing that Henderson —which is the snake’s name—was a rattlesnake. John D. Rockefeller, of the Stand ard Oil Company, is at his summer home, ucar Cleveland. He has com pletely lost his nerve and is afraid lie will nover get well again. The care of his vast wealth has used him up completely, aud yet'he is by no means an old man. Captain D. M. White, of tho Tonth Texas Dismounted Cavalry, who capt ured a sword belonging to GeD. Sill, who was killed on the first d«y of tho tight at Murfreesboro, Tenn„ in 1868, still has It and would be glad to return it to any of Gen. Sill's relatives who may care to claim it. An old table in the reading-room of the Philadelphia. Wilmington and Bal timore railroad depot atWilmington, .possesses a peculiar interest fer the people fond of relics. It is the table on wtaich the body Of President Lin coln rested while being conveyed to Springfield, 111., for burial. It at tracts but little attention, however, for I not one person in a hundred of those that use the depot is familiar with its history. Undertakers say that it is a common thing with the families of the poor in New York to send for th'em as soon as a member of the household is pro nounced to be dying. On a recent occasion an assistant in a west side funeral establishment waited four hours in the outer hall for the last breath to be drawn, and then ventured a mild suggestion to tjie family ,that they should wait in turn and send for him again ij the morning. The Mexican president, Poriirio Diaz, is a straight, dignified man of medium height, who. impresses the be holder with his strength of character. Thero is nothing ostentatious about him. He dresses as quietlv as a plain citizen of the republic, aud exhibits a contempt for the gaudy regimentals in yirhicb many Central American leaders array themselves. He has a striking face and figure, and is undoubtedly the greatest man of modern Mexico. A woman of Great Barrington puts a higher value upon her life than most women do. A year ago a man rescued her from under the wheels of a moving train, and she has been anxious ever since to do him some substantial favor. About a month ago he signified a de sire to go into the grocery business, whereupon the woman. Mrs. Hopkins Searle by name, bought him a house and furnished lt.fitted over the ground floor into a shop, liberally supplied it with stock, aud gave him a handsome sum of money for capital. Lqfcadio Hearn writes to a friend that lie lias become professor in a col lege fn the interior of Japan, married a fair Japanese, and renounced the white man’s world aud all that apper tains thereto. He is said to have vis ited Japkn in the interests of a firm of was to make a study of the Japanese religion. America has lost a brilliaut uud original writer in Mr. Hearn, if these reports are true. Still there’s nothing like marrying into a now civ ilization to get a thorough under standing of it! publishers, for whom he Don’t Feel Well, And yet you are not sick enough to consult a doctor, or you refrain from so doing for fear you will alarm yourself and friends—we will tell you Just what you need. 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