ALLEGED "ARMY" SWEATING.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10333, 29 April 1899, Page 9

ALLEGED "ARMY" SWEATING.

Mr Andrew Collins has made a statement to a "New Zealand Times" reporter on.the subject of t*u interview with regard to the charge of sweating in the Solvation Army homes. He reiterated the statement that the Salvation Army only paid Id to the women for . washing, ironing and searching a, - shirt, adding that he - Itnew . , nothing of the price the Army- ! charged- its customers,- If the work was done oyhand, as stated by Adjutant Hutchison,. i_^-Collin's ■ remarked, "All the-harder for tbe poor ■ unfortunate women," and if . they were broken down in health all the more reason why the Army should hot take advantage of them. . Further, if the Army insisted • that' the 'women and 'girls sent out should " , receive the OTdinary rate of wages, Mr Col- ' lins urged that the Army should be consistent and pay the oidinary rate of wages" to the - inmates of the homes, 'Finally, he wanted to know if people who paid 3_d for a bed at the shelters in Sydney -were compelled to work for an hour for a breakfast, which, if they had the money, would cost them lj-d. A. CHINESE IDOL DISGRACED. Because he turned a deaf ear to the sup* plication {of pig-tailed adorers, the»god of Anacortes Chinatown, Toco ma, has, been , dethroned and thrown by .the wayside (says a'Tacoma despatch to the San Francisco " Call" on March 21at.) Several weeks ago things did not go well-witb , the Chinese colony at Anacortes, They went" into their . ; joss house and prayed fervently. Dozens of. „' candles were burned, but still salmon' did not commence running, and neither did springtime come, enabling the Chinese ..to '.., get employment at good wages.' In a fib of ,; '. frenzy Chinese leaders pulled the idol down and threw him' into, the brush outride of the joss liquse. ' For several weeks his pedestal Ims been vacant, but by to-morrow a new one will be installed in his place. When things go '.wrong ,with tho devout but heathen Chines 9 they discharge their '; i their idol and get a new one. In this in- - * stance they sent to Portland, where a, supply of the particular Chinese wood used 'in Joss making is kept on .hand. Several ■ I Chinese artists were employed to carve out a hideous new idol. To-day it'was sent to Anacortes 'tween decks of the steamer - , North Pacific, along with seventy chattering Chinamen going to that town to begintheir season's salmon fishing. This -week ~ it will bo set up, and Anacortes will again be able to worship according to*' the dictates of their consciences. -» —___——__—--———-■—»■