The Tramp at HomeAuthor was deputed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to examine into the condition of working-women in large American cities. Areas visited include New York, New England, New Orleans, Texas, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Hawaii. |
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Page 91 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 91 - June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, that established the same, which especially charged it "to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including...
Page 7 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Page 91 - Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital; the hours of labor; the earnings of laboring men and women; and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 91 - ... manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices...
Page 7 - No one can say that I do not give my family the best of flour, the finest of sugar, the very best quality of meat." He paid $156 a year for the nicest cuts of meat, which his wife had to cook before six in the morning or after half past six at night, because she worked all day in a factory.
Page 145 - How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day. By LEE MERIWETHER. With Portrait, pp. 276. 12mo, Ornamental Cloth, $1 25. " In the garb of a working-man Mr. Meriwether spent a year on a tramp trip from Gibraltar to the Bosporus. His book overflows with entertaining incidents and amusing descriptions, and it is of particular value in its hints and suggestions to would-be pedestrians, and to others who wish to travel wisely and economically.
Page 145 - To do this was worth all the trials and hardships of the plucky explorer, who seems to have enjoyed his uncomfortable days with a light heart. — Nation, NY There is not a dull page in the whole book ; the style is simple and perspicuous, the portrayal of character keen and incisive, the deductions from facts clear and logical, and no one who reads it can help envying a man who succeeded in seeing so much that many travellers have passed by without notice, and who has been able to give us such graphic...
Page 146 - NOTE. A vivid picture of life on shipboard, and a stirring narrative of personal experience. . . . Bishop Potter well says that the book has not a dull line in it. The captain has the art of telling a story in high perfection. — NY Tribune. The story is full of interest and excitement. ... It is a charming book. — NY Commercial Advertiser. The book is one of great interest. ... It is the story of a famous and able sailor, told by himself in his own way, and has incident enough to fix the attention...
Page 145 - ... in their homes, to learn how they earned their daily bread and how they ate it, and to get at their views of life. With sharp eyes and a ready wit and a robust digestion, he saw many things which the ordinary traveller would never notice or indeed care to see, and he has written about them in a guy and jovial vein.