Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 20, 1902 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 5. MO. 15.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER, 20.1902.
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PROSPERITY OF GALVESTON
WAR ON TOBACCO TRUST.
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BRIGHT PROSPECTS OF COMING SEASON.
Situation as Business Men See It.
Home Labor League.
Show most Encouraging Developements.
The Executive Committee Meeting.
WARD CLUBS ORGANIZED.
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MRS. M. SCAPERLENDA, Proprietress.
PHONE 328.
2214 Market Street, (North Side.)
STRICTLY UNION HOUSE.
LABOR FORMS BIG COMBINE.
While Visiting the Auditorium
to
STOP AT
LITTLE GERMAN BAND.
Finest Drinks in the City;
Prescriptions Promptly Filled.
at Popular Prices.
Cold Soda and Delicious Drinks.
SOUTHEAST CORNER 27th STREET.
The Only Union Drugstore in the City
TO PASS ORDINANCE.
SMOKE
THE ORIGINAL
JAVA BLEND $? PALM BLEND
are the best, use no other.
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Phone No. 321.
Galveston, Texas.
Manager
SEA WALL TEA STORE
N. W. Gor, Tremont and Market.
WALL PAPER
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WOOLIAM’S LAKE,
Sunday, October 5th
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Admission 25c.
514 Center Sta
Phone 721.
The Platform and Objects of the
League for Greater ualveston.
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SOLE AGENTS,
2105 P. 0. ST.
Working Men’s Garments
Goods Made to Order.
Best io Cent Cigar in
the city.
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Stock Yards Workmen All Eligible
Packing Trades Council.
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2113 POSTOFFICE STREET.
PHONE 958.
Interfering with Home People faking
Jobs for Nothing.
South Side Union Seeks Return of Twen-
ty Discharged Repair-Shop Workers.
Will Present Evidence.
Musician Unio Petition City
Commissioners.
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GOVERNOR CAN NOT SETTLE
COAL STRIKE.
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The Greatest Bargain yet known
in the Piano Business.
You will find Polite Attention and Everything First-Class.
Also Private Entrance for Ladies.
WILL YOU BE THERE.
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H. P. HOYRUP’S Drug Store,
; (SUCCESSOR TO JNO. M. PARKER)
~_p. A- 21st and Market Street.
Frank Tiornan S 82100). A Full Line of Fresh Drugs.
John T. Wheeler. @
Te intreduce it, we will make the follow-
ing •ffer:
One Fine Upright Fiano and
the Wenderful Simplex Fiane
Flayer Attachment, ....
With twelve rolls ef Music. Only one
at the price.
McDonald & Wheeler,
LAWYERS,
Pickwick Restaurant,
Oldenburgs’
U n ion=Made
Cigars.
C. JANKE & CO.,
217 Market St.
SQUEAKLESSA
Adam Koch,
MILLERS’ UNION STORE,
2318 MARKET STREET.
A Full Line of
Metallic and Wooden Burial Cases and Caskets.
No. 2216, 2218, 2220 Church Street.
Between Tremont and 22d Streets.
J. I—. 7ULL©N & co.,
MERCHANT TAILORS, TAILORS MISFITS,
FURNISHING GOODS.
2321-2323 MARKET STREET.
the packers.”
E. L. Turley, the secretary-treasurer of
the Teamsters’ National Union, said:
“The Teamsters have not sought affili-
ation with the Packing Trades Council.
What they will do about it I am not pre-
, pared to say, but I am sure that the mat-
ter has never been brought before the
national organization.”
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WANT CAR MEN REINSTATED.
Oil Clothing and Rubber Boots and Shoes.
Give us a trial. AH our goods made by Local No. 102,
United Garment Workers', and bear the label.
Galveston Journal
Official Organ of the Labor Unions of Galveston.
Next to Opera House
Fine Lunch
And the Latest Drinks.
Henry Kaiser,
Dealer in Men’s,
Ladies’ and Children’s
SHOES
Of every description.
Repairing neatly done at lowest rates.
310 Center Street
Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited.
I Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 17.—The coal
operators have sent a letter to the Sher-
iff asking for protection in the working
of their mines. As the Sheriff has only
twenty-five deputies, he will be unable
to comply with their demands.
The coal companies will insit on his
calling on the Governor for troops to pro-
tect their property and preserve the
J
J. J. Schott—Business seems to be on a
more substantial basis than at any time
since the storm. I feel more like laying
in a stock to meet future demands and
altogether find the prospects in my line
of business entirely satisfactory. Many
of those who are coming back to Galves-
ton to work are coming in to pay old
bills which they have been owing since
that time, and this is a fact of no little
significance. As soon as tuey have an
opportunity to begin saving from their
earnings they will begin paying up these
old bills, which in the aggregate amount
to a gieat deal, and this is therefore a
subject of special interest to the retail
merchants. Mr. Schott has been selling
drugs in the same block on Market
dtreeet, between Twentieth and Twenty-
first Street, since 1859, and does not be-
lieve that there has ever been a time
when a better, feeling prevailed in Gal-
veston in regard to future prospects.
He spoke wotully of lost opportunities
when Galveston entered upon the period
of her rapid growth in the last years of
the Civil War, and immediately there-
after, and said that while business had
since been reduced to an exact science,
there were still opportunities here for
enterprising men which should not be
neglected.
Have you noticed how much your
walls need papering. The cost is
trifling.
My stock is complete with rich
and beautiful effects, suitable for
Halls, Parlors, Dining Rooms, etc.
No Trouble to Show Goods.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Ill., Sept 17.—By the recent-
revision of the Constitution of the Pack-
ing Trades Council, all of the union work-
men around the stock yards are eligible
to representation in the general council.
By this arrangement a combine of union
labor is provided which will rival the
gigantic combine of the packers as pro-
posed.
M. J. Donnelly, who organized the
Packing Trades Council over a year ago
with the principal idea of bettering ne
condition of the butcher workmen, initi-
ated the present movement. He said:
“I understand that the stock handlers
are preparing a scale for an advance in
wages which will soon be presented to
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I LADIES’ > GENTLEMEN’S DINING ROOM,
J. LEVY & BRO.
LIVERY AND SALE STABLES
AND UNDERTAKERS
Keeps for Sale a First-Class supply of
BUGGIES, PH /ETONS, ETC.
At Lowest Figures.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Ill., Sept. 17.—A special meet-
ing of the executive board of Division
No. 260, Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Employes, has been call-
ed for to-morrow afternoon to discuss
plans to secure the reinstatement of
twenty union employes of repair shops,
who were discharged last Saturday by
the Chicago City Railway Company.
At the meeting of the division Satur-
day night the matter was placed in the
hands of the executive board. It was
at first suggested that the board call
upon Manager McCullough and ask for
the reinstatement. Later the officials de-
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Ill., Sept. 18.—By expelling I
from membership Secretary Ralph Ham-
burger, the Chicago Cigar Dealers’ Asso-
ciation nas picked up the gauntlet thrown ;
down by the tobacco trust. In conse-
quence, down-town retailers of independ-
■ent brands of cigars and tobacco have
plunged into a bitter war with the United
Cigar Stores Company wing of the trust.
Mr. Hamburger was in good standing as a
member of the local association unt. the
Clayton and Hamburger stores were sold
out to the trust and consolidated under
one management with the stores of Ruh-
strat and Curlett. He not only failed to
resign, but did not attend a meeting of
the organization nor turn over his books.
Then the storm broke, and reports to-
day that verbal castigation was not
business in the city and depends largely
on the patronage of organized la. or .or
his support. He should recognize the tact
that this is not alone the concern of the
union musicians, but other labor organi-
zations as well. The whole labor move-
ment of Galveston is back of the musi-
sicians in this move, and it would be
well for Air. Adams to attend to his own
business and leave the union members
to take care of theirs.
THU ONLY
LAUNDRY
in town where you can
get your Clothes laun-
dried
A Trial will Convince you that it is the Best in the City.
Interviews with Business Men in Leading Lines of Trades,
Special to The Journal.
Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 17.—Governor
Stone will make no further effort to set-
tle the hard coal strike. He feels that he
has done everything in his power to bring
| it to an end and that there is nothing
1 more for him to do. The Governor still
: declines to disclose the result of his ne-
gotiations with the strike leaders.
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President Roosevelt administered a just
rebuke at Hartford, Conn., recently while
on his New England tour on the snobs
who thought to publicly snub their
Mayor
That worthy officeer, it will be remem-
bered, was a fireman, and was elected
against the protests of Hartford’s snob-
ocracy. When President Roosevelt vis-
ited the city the “best” people welcomed
him with open arms and he was escorted
to a seat in the carriage of the richest
manufacturer in the city, while the
Mayor was relegated to a less preten-
Lions equipage, three carriages back.
Roosevelt learned of the flimsy act and
sent word to the Mayor, inviting him to
a private audience at his hotel; and in
his speecn at the Coliseum the President
took especia’ pains to mention the Mayor
by name as the official representative of
the city, to whom he was indebted for the
splendid greeting accorled him.
It is reported that the Yankee codfish
aristocracy cf Hartford is now kicking
itself for having overdone the thing.
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Special to The Journal.
South Bend, Ind., Sept. 17.—Edward
J. Fogerty, a bricklayer of South Bend,
who; as superintendent of the big Single
brick plant, stood by the 1700 employes
during the strike, has assumed the office
of Mayor of this city, on the Democratic
ticket.
South Bend is a Republican city—or al-
ways has been heretofore, and Fogerty’s
opponent was ex-Mayor Schuler Colfax,
son of former Vice President Schuler
Colfax. Fogerty’s majority was 1150 in
a total of 8000 votes cast.
The new Mayor continued, after elec-
tion, to work at his tools until Septem-
ber 1 inaugural day, when he left the
scaffold to take up his new duties. He
has appointed fellow workmen of various
trades to positions on the Board of Pub-
lic Works, Public Safety, etc.
sormara cided to secure direct evidence to present
spared. “I look for radical action in
Chicago against the tobacco trust meth-
eds,” said President -Thaddeus Howe of
the local dealers’ association. “I have
thrown out every brand of trust cigars
and tobacco out from behind the coun-
ters of my two stores, and am selling
out the trust stock for anything I can
get. The methods of the trust are ruin-
ous.”
To secure the munitions of war, the
trust to-day, through the Continental
Tobaco Company, raised the price . of
manufactured tobaccos and cigars from 1
to 2 cents a pound. Close to $200,000
will thus be exacted from Chicago deal-
ers during the year.
"I do not believe Galveston ever had
brighter prospects before her than at
the present time,’ said Mr. J. P. Wirt's,
"ihe employment of a large number of
men here must bring satisfactory re-
sults all around. The Southern Pacific
will employ men all the year around, and
this means constant and steady growth.
Building operations will be begun on an
extensive scale later on, I believe. Peo-
ple have been saving their money and
will have money to put in buildings from
now on. The seawall will inspire confi-
dence and the people will go on building.
I expect to see great times here next
year.”
county liable for any damage that may
occur to their property.
MERITED REBUKE.
M. W. ShfW.
Diamonds, Watches
and Jewelry.
We carry a full line of Local But-
tons and Charms.
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3 That our 50c Tea is not good, and if our
. । 75c Tea is not as good as the Dollar Tea
Chicago Dealers Will Push Independent
Brands of Cigars.
peace. The operators will hold
Put up by the
Galveston Coffee & Spice Co
FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERIES.
SWISS
Watchmaker •° Jeweler,
HAS MOVED TO
2219 Market Street, Levy Building.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Carefully Re-
paired and Warranted.
.ROYAL
Robert I. Cohen has just returned from
New York, where he laid in the largest
stock of goods he has ever brought to
Galveston. He says that people in the
metropolis are all ready to extend the
glad hand to Galveston merchants, and
that there is universal confidence in the
future of the city. From recent conver-
sations with men who are well informed
in regard to the prospective development
of the shipping interests here, he says
there is no doubt but Galveston will have
additional lines of ocean steamers and
more railroads in the near future to han-
dle the rapidly increasing business of
this port. He sees in the employment
of a large number of men on the wharves
and in the construction of the seawall
the beginning of an era of general pros-
perity. Galveston workingmen whose
homes were washed away by the storm
are now earning money with which to
begin the rebuilding of their homes, and
if they have enough to start with and
show they are in earnest, they can bor-
row all the money they need to com-
plete necessary improvements. Capital-
ists show the greatest confidence in the
future of Galveston by their readiness to
make loans in this manner and invest-
ments of all kinds. “And this,” says
Mr. Cohen, “is the test of the condition
of Galveston from a strictly business
point of view.” This season’s prosperity
will, he thinks, continue on into next
summer. The prosperity of one class of
citizens will bring prosperity to others,
and as a tree spreads out and takes on
new life in its roots and branches, so
will grow and flourish the prosperity of
Greater Galveston.
The Journal this week sought inter-
views with a number of representative
business men, interrogating them as to
the present condition of business at the
opening of the fall season, and. the pros-
peels of the future. The result is grati-
tying in the extreme. A wide range of
subjects was touched, ail bearing on the
all-absorbing topic of the prosperity of
Galveston, present and prospective,
ihese hopeful expressions of Galveston’s
business men will find a ready response
irom all classes of citizens who felt as-
sured of continuous and ever increasing
prosperity, and will enter on a season oi
general upbuilding, full of confidence, in-
spired with the utmost hopefulness. The
interviews are as follows:
"ihis has been the most prosperous
Mi'. S. Miller said: “The prospects are
bright for an improvemeent in business.
We have not, perhaps, felt the effects of
the increased activity in the shipping
business here as much as would -ave
been the case had not many of those
who recently secured employment been
in debt. They are now discharging their
obligations to their creditors, and later
on will spend their money more freeiy
when we hope to see all lines of business
benefited. ’ I hope to see great prosperity
in Galveeston in the future, and with
the continuous employment of large
numbers of men in the city the general
conditions of business will continue to
improve. I believe we can look forward
with confidence to the future of Galves-
ton.”
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to the company. It is claimed that these
discharged employes have been in the
service from seventeen to twenty-five
years, and that their places are now
being filled with non-union men.
The company, when the men were dis-
charged, offered, as an excuse, that it
was necessary to reduce the force by
closing down the Twenty-second Street
Repair shops. Manager McCullough de-
clines to discuss the discharges.
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BRICKLAYER MAYOR.
The News and some of the citizens
seem to be very much worked up over
the resolution introduced into the City
Commissioners’ meeting by the Musi-
cians’ Union prohibiting the little Ger-
man band from playing on the public
streets. The Musicians’ Union is simply
protecting their own interests when they
ask the City Commissioners to pass the
law, anad I believe protecting the citi-
zens from a great deal of annoyance. It
is true that some of these musicians are
good musicians, perhaps all of them are,
but that is not the question at issue.
The musicians contend that they are citi-
zens, of Galveston; they have been citi-
zens for many years, they make their
homes here, their living here, and raise
their families here. If these traveling
musicians have been in this country nine
years, as they report, how is it that the
leader has to employ an interpreter to
make himself understood ? It seems to
me that if these people intended to be-
come citizens of our country that they
would at least try to learn our language
in nine years.
The musicians have only the law to
protect them in their interests. These
traveling bands will go for any one and
play a whole night’s engagement for a
dollar each, giving an orchestra of
eight or nine pieces for eight or nine
dollars. This is about four times lower
than the regular price for home people
who live here and pay out what they
make here. They do not live in one
room and huddle themselves together
in four to the bed and live on free lunch,
as is the habit of the raveng musi-
cian.
This is not the first time these bands
have been driven from the cities. here
are seevral of the Texas cities that have
this ordinance in force; in fact, this one
is a copy of the Houston ordinance. This
same band was driven from the streets
of Houston by this same ordinance when
it came to Galveston this last time. They
were driven from many other cities in
this State, and up to the presentation of
this ordinance Galveston has been a
dumping ground for them all, and our
home musicians have been made to suf-
fer.
While in conversation with Chief of
Police Rowan Thursday morning he said
that he had not given orders to the band
to leave town, but he had told them
that they must stop playing in saloons
and resorts, as they were doing, no mat-
ter what they say. They have gone and
taken the place of our Galveston musi-
cians in even these places. Upon this
statement of the Chief of Police they
immediately bought tickets for Beau-
mont.
The interview of Air. R. L. Adams in ,
the News is not a good position for that j
gentleman to take. He is running a i
H. S. Marx said: “The prospects are
good for business this season.” Follow-
ing this statement, he discussed the gen-
eral situation in Galveston in a careful
manner, and predicted a continuous
growth of the shipping business here,
which, he said, must continue to increase
because in the matter of shipping facili-
ties Galveston had no competition on the
Gulf coast. The town had always done
well in the shipping season, he said, and
would always continue to do well, lie
referred to the subject of factories, and
said that more general prosperity would
result from the establishment of such
institutions than anything else. He said
nothing was to be gained, however, by
being over-enthusiastic, and he was sat-
isfied to be able to make the statement
with confidence and sincerity that the
outlook for Galveston and all her people
was encouraging.
Have you tried our
Bend
“Well, we have general prosperity,”
said Air. Gus Levy, of E. S. Levy & Co.,
when interrogated in regard to the pros-
pects of Galveston for the opening sea-
son. ■•'Business was never better,” he
said, and when asked how the present
compared with the season immediately
preceding the storm said it was fully as
good and seemd to be improving rapiaiy.
"The prospects are good for a great
movement of business here this year,”
said Air. Joseph Lobit. Then he paused
and smiled as he added: “It would be
greater if we had more than one bridge
to bring it in over. Galveston will have
a great business this year,” he repeated,
"but one bridge is not more than half suf-
ficient to accommodate the business com-
ing one way, and as they have not yet
devised any means for running trains in
both directions on the bridge at the
same time, of course all the business can
not be cared for on that bridge. Yes, we
need another railroad bridge for the
growing trade of Galveston.”
Joe Matt’s
Saloon
I he Executive Committee of the Home
Labor League met in the Carpenters’
Hall Wednesday night. There was in
attendance eighteen members out of the
twenty-five on the board. The report of
the chairman of each ward committee was
made, showing the work was going on
in fine shape. There have been over 500
members placed on the roll books in the
last two weeks, showing that the people
of this city are going to support the
League candidates to a man.
In each of the wards there will be pre-
pared a ward committee, and every man
in Galveston who stands for home labor,
$2 a day and the consideration of the
whole people, on all public questions, are
entitled to become a member of the ward
committees. We do not ask you what
you intend to do. Come along with us
and help us place men in control of the
county government who will recognize
the will of the people on all public ques-
tions. .
In another column will be found the
ticket of the League and the platform on
which they stand. If the people of Gal-
veston can find anything better or more
conservative than the principles set forth
in this plaform, then, of course, the
League would be glad to have it. Honest
government by the consent of the gov-
erned and the careful consideration of
the petition of every citizen is what tne
League stands for. They contend that
there shall be no one-man rule in any
political party in Galveston; there shall
be no bossism, but the careful consider-
ation of the people on every public ques-
tion.
Every man who is a member of or-
ganized labor in the city of Galveston is
entitled to membership in the League.
Every citizen is entitled to the consider-
ation of his full grievances before me
public officers, and this is the platform of
the League.
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•Levy Building,
8 Phone 355.
September i have ever seen in Galves-
ton,” said Mr. F. E. Mistrot, discussing
the situation in a matter-of-fact way,
alter observing that the business of Gal-
veston depends on tne cotton crop, the
outcome of which can not be foreseen
until later in the season. “But business
is good in Galveston,” he added, "and
will continue good, and I am not paint-
ing any pictures on the clouds. It’s no
use booming a town unless there’s some-
thing to boom on. Galveston will have
a steady growth. There is more money
in bank in the city than for a long time,
for the reason that people have been
saving their earnings. The building of
the seawall will restore confidence com-
pletely and people will soon be building
homes again everywhere. I expect to
see much activity in this line in the
spring. The location of the Southern
Pacific wharves here assures us of hav-
ing at least as good business here this
year as we had last year. There is no
telling what the cotton crop will do, but
if it turns out well we will have a great
year in Galveston. A good deal of money
will come into Galveston by the general
employment of labor this year, and in
this connection I will mention the fact
that a great mistake was made by me
shipping brokers last year which will not
be repeated this year. In their enthu-
siasm at the general revival of business
they overestimated the tonnage to e
sent out from this port. As- a result
ships came here to load, and when they
did not find full cargoes, took what cot-
ton they could away without having it
screwed. As a result the Galveston
screwmen were knocked out of a great
deal of money last year. But this will
not occur again. The brokers have made
conservative and correct estimates tins
year, and cotton shipping, like a., the
other business of Galveston, is now down
to a safe, sound and substantial basis.”
Air. Mistrot said that while in New York
he observed the continued manifestation
of interest which the people have shown
toward Galveston always, and particu-
larly since the storm. Ine first gratified
surprise at the raplu recovery of Galves-
ton from the effects of the storm has
given away to growing confidence in the
future of the city.
Phone 65. 414-418 20th St.
WE--
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