Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-09-22
no W PEA CHES ARE PHI UCKED

The following narrative from the
Press is told ia too simple manner tc
mean sensation. And we reproduce
il simply to show, by single instance,
how easy il is to impose upon an in
experienced working class:
A description was given few days
ago in The Press Of the scenes around
certain offices which had advertised
for girls to 60 to Round Top and to
Georgetown Kent country, both places
being in the State of Maryland, to pull
peaches. As stated in our columns, q
very large number Of girls applied and
obtained situations from the advertisers.
The following extract from the Balti-
more Sun tells a touching tale of the
suffering experienced by the young wo-
men who were deceived by the repre-
sentations Of the advertisers
"rhere arrived in this city on Satur-
day eleven girls, who had gone from
Philadelphia TO Round Top, in Kent
county, about three miles from Ches-
tertown, in answer to an advertisement
in a Philadelphia paper for girls to
gather peaches, who gave a pitiful ac-
count of the hardships experienced by
many Of the girls there. The girls
were on their way home, and We're en-
tirely destitute of funds, and had moth
ing scarcely TO eat for couple of days.
In their dilemma they found their way
to the office Of Mayor Vansant, who
was deeply interested in their story,
and after giving them money to buy
something to eat, also furnished them
all with tickets to reach their homes.
The girls state that an advertisement
appeared in Philadelphia paper some
days ago for one hundred girls to go to
Round Top to pull peaches, and upon
application being made to the person
who advertised, IL was represented that
girls could make from $3.50 to SO per
day, and that they would only have to
pay So per week for board, and that
transportationwould be furnished them.
Accordingly about forty girls were en-
gagged, and on Thurday they were sent
on steamer to Baltimore, where they
were transferred on Friday morning
to another vessel and taken TO Round
Top. The girls say that on the way
over from Philadelphia on Thursday
night they were obliged to sleep on
deck, and suffered greatly from the
cold. Upon arriving at Round Top
the girls found, upon inquiry made Of
other girls, (about seven hundred of
whom they state are in that neighbor-
hood, that they could only make fif
teen to twenty cents per day, and that
they had to sleep on the floor, with
hay for bed, and that the food given
them was not fit 10 eat. They found
the girls there crying and desiring to
return home, but could not do so on
account of want of funds. One girl
down there stated that she had writ
ten two or three letters home, but that
they had been torn up by some one IN
authority on the ground, and she went
to the engineer Of the vessel on which
the girls who returned Saturday went
down, and implored him to take let
ter TO Baltimore and mail il for her.
About thirty of the girls who went
down Friday remained and eleven re-
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getting back to Philadelphia When
seated around room in the City Hall
ON Saturday, the girls, some of whom
were prepossessing in appearance, pre-
sented a pitiful sight, but when In
formed by the Mayor that he would
send them to their homes they bright s
ened up, and conversed freely about {
their trip TO Round Top. The Mayor I
advised them not to leave their homes
again under snch circumstances, and
the girls took his advice kindly and |
assured the Mayor that if they only {
once got back home again they never I
could be caught going on such trip [
again The girls said they had moth
ing to eat from Thursday until Satur-
day, except few cakes which they
had taken with them, and they were
very glad to accept the hospitality of l
the Mayor About 2 o'clock, Beverly !
Diggs, the Mayors detective, took the |
girls in charge and went with them to ,
the President street depot and saw ,
them on board the cars, first furnishing {
them with lunch About fifty more {
girls went down to Round Top on Sat
urday, having come over from Phia-
delphia, but it is not known what their {
has been. OnFriday Mayor
Vansant sent seven other girls to Phil [