The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 21, April 1, 1897 | Page 7

of Labor to another to follow Curran, and prevent his getting work.
From being a prosperous, well-to-do man, he became very poor, and finally suffered for food.
Then he went to the courts and asked for help.
His case has been before different judges for seven years, but at last it has been decided in his favor.
The Court of Appeals, the highest court in the State, has decided that it was not lawful for the brewers of Rochester to make a contract with the Knights of Labor, agreeing only to employ members of the society in their works. Further, that it was not lawful for this contract to be used as a means of depriving a man of the opportunity to earn a living.
The Court ordered that Curran should be given money for the damage he had sustained through the loss of his work, that the Knights of Labor should pay him this money, and should besides pay all the expenses of the trial.
This Labor Trust has been one of the most dangerous of all the Trusts, because the members of it have made it a practice to force every workman to join it, or else treats them as it treated Curran.
Up to the present time men have been afraid to disobey the orders of the Knights, but now that this very important case has been settled in favor of a man who is not a member of the Trust, it is to be hoped that workingmen will have the courage to seek the aid of the law against the Labor Union, when it treats them unjustly.
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President McKinley has chosen the various gentlemen who are to be his advisers for the next four years, and his Cabinet is now complete.
On Wednesday, March 5th, the day after his inauguration, President McKinley sent word to the Senate that he had a message for it, and almost immediately after word was brought that he had chosen the men whom he would like to have for his Cabinet officers, and would be glad if the Senate would confirm his appointments.
The names of the Cabinet officers are as follows:
Secretary of State, John Sherman.
Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman Gage.
Secretary of War, Gen. Russell A. Alger.
Attorney-General, Joseph McKenna.
Postmaster-General, James A. Gary.
Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long.
Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius N. Bliss.
Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson.
The Senate confirmed the President's nominations, and the matter of the Cabinet was settled.
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A very exciting account of a trip down a lumber flume comes from Pomona, California.
It seems that in the lumber regions on the Pacific Coast, flumes are built for the purpose of carrying the lumber from the camps in the mountains to the sawmills in the valleys below.
These flumes are a kind of V-shaped trough, about three feet deep, and are built on trestles after the manner of the elevated roads. The height of the flume from the ground ranges from twenty to one hundred and twenty feet, and they are fifty to sixty-five miles long.
The logs are floated down on water that is turned into the flume from the mountain streams. The time taken to make the trip is from two to three hours.
A party of three men was invited to go up to a lumber camp and take a trip down into the valley by one of these flumes.
All three of them were accustomed to tobogganing, and thinking it would be only a toboggan slide on a huge scale, they decided to go.
They spent the night at the lumber camp, and were roused up very early in the morning, so that they might get down to their business in the valley betimes. After a hearty breakfast, they wrapped themselves up as warmly as they could, and prepared for their trip.
They had left warm weather in the valley, but here in the mountains the snow lay thick, and it was bitter cold.
They shivered (not altogether with cold) when they caught sight of the little boat that was to take them their fifty miles.
The boat was a very rough-looking thing, nailed together without much care, and did not look over-strong.
However, as none of the three was willing to be the first man to give in, they stepped into the little craft, and gripping the seats firmly, in obedience to the orders of the lumbermen, were pushed off.
For the first few minutes their experience was something terrible. They were going at such a frightful rate of speed that they could hardly catch breath; they seemed to be falling down the side of the mountain, and every moment the speed of their fall increased.
They flew past snowy mountains and ice-bound rivers, and had no time to see anything.
Each man remembered all the dreadful stories he had heard about accidents in flumes, and at every curve