Morning Journal And Courier

The Italians at work on the New Haven and Northampton railroad extension in Franklin county, Mass., deposit no money in the local banks, but all wear belts, and carry their money with them. They are all numbered and tagged, so that when they are paid off or receive rations it is on presentation of a little tin check properly numbered. A little water boy, who had to give up boot blacking in Boston because he could not read or write, acts as interpreter for a large gang. They live very economically, and their bread is bought, several hundred loaves at a time, by the contractor, while they do their own cooking. Many of them say that they only propose to stay in the country long enough to earn $100 or so, when they will return to Italy.—New York Evening Post