Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-01-25
A New Festu-s Of S0eiaI and Business
Life IN The on RegIOnE.

The Titusville Herald gives circular
OF A h Bronson, aprDminent oil opera
tor, who employs about ons hundred
men, that is ereditsble % the practicable
wisdom Of that gentleman. He an
nounces that, beginning with January I,
lsfl, payday viii be on the 18th OF each
month, when each man will be paid FOR
the previous month, half a months pay
being withheld. Zach and every man
Is to be held responsible for al tools and
machinery under his especial charge,
and will pay any and all damages result
ing from cArelessn5ss or culpability on
bis part. 1t is announced that there be-
ing no comfortable places Of resort other
than crowded boarding houses, stores
and bar-rOOms, there is provided suita-
ble building for the purpose on the Clark
farm, and to establish therein a reading
room where such daily, weekly and
monthly papers and periodicals as are
most popular and instructive viii be
kept constantly on hle, and where all
may spend their leisure hours OF day or
evening in quiet and comfort. A eireu-
lating library viii also be added as soon
As it may be deemed exPedient 30 to do.
To assist in furnishing, warming and
lighting the room, and providing ths
reading matter, a tax at the rate OF one
dollar per month viii be levied on each
Individual and viii constituts him q
member Of the Reading Room Associa-
ton, and entitle him to the enjoyment of
its privileges. The use OF intoxicating
liquors is positively forbidden, and upon
satisfactory proof that any nan is per
Sistently addicted to their use, or has
been under the influence thereof while
in Mr. Bronson's employ he shall forfeit
70 the Reading Room Association the
one-half months pay Withheld as pro-
vided above, and shall be suspended
from the payroll or preemptOrially dis
charged, according 70 the fagranCy OF
the Ofense. Still no man wiz be refused
work because he is known TO have q
passion for strong drink, as il Is hoped
that with the above restrictions and q
formation may be effected.
The Herald says that the Workmen
gladly avail themselves OF these priTi-
leges, and recommends that other en-
pIOyess in the Oil regions follow this
excellent example. 1t says that out Of
the Eve thousand men engaged upon
pumping wells in the Pennsylvania oil
regions, the majority are single men,
aud live in hotels and boarding houses.
They are mostly Americans, and large
proportion Of them have been soldiers,
are young men OF superior intelligence,
with capabilities Of rising in the world,
and standing high among men. From
this class have sprung many Of our most
successful men. Earning in their work
ing tour Of twelve houra a day, from
two and q half to three and a half a day
and paying but one dollar day for their
board, il IS yet undeniabls that the end
OF the year hnds most Of them as poor
as az the beginning. And forthe reason,
that being naturally free handed, and OF
a social turn, with no home ties, with no
moral restraints except such as are self
imposed, and with no place TO 60 for re-
taxation, they contract habits OF expense
and indulgence, fatal to self-improve-
ment, to acquisition, and after years OF
discouraging trial they fall out Of the
ranks and DRIFT away, no one knows
WHITTIER"