The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-03

h"iiDpLtbOhf TRADE cCHOOL.-lfcll
l of honor for tall term:
No. 1.-Miss OLeary-Aileen Dun.
can, Dora Hammond, Mary Paro, Der.
| tic Farnsworth, Louis Mccormick
Henry Rooney, Genie Vanclettc, Geor.
gia Lavoncher.
No. 2-Miss Brainerd-Eddie Gar.
lick, Hal Seely, Allen Smith, Willie
Rooney, Howard Dorsey, Freddie
Hayden, BERTHE Severance, Wallie
Swiney, Fannie Williamson, Lena
Tracy, Carrie Swiney, Mamie McCue,
Della Paro, Ada Youtt, Bertha Brain
erd, Aurelia Manor, Maud Comstock.
No. 3-Miss Bcll-Florence Batchet
er, Minnie Bell, Ellen Cadv, Aggie
Duncan, Jessie Eddy, Tessie Kingsley,
Rebe Russell, Maud Wilcox, George
Dickson, Willie Dwire, Eddie Fuller,
Willie Hammond, Eddie Mccormick,
Charlie Rich.
NOD Miss Hawley-Ella Eaton,
Nellie Parker, Ina Stowe, Aggie Vain
wright, Gardie Allen, Robbie Eells,
Willie Foote, John Hammond, Sher-
man Hemenway, George Beatty, Chris
topher Hamlin.
No. 5-Miss Ward-Ransom Bene-
dict, Merlin Morrison, Willie Parkhill,
Abbie Williamson, BERTHE Alden, AL
lie Bird, Genie Bird, Bell Eells, Clara
Latimer, Hattie Parker, Stella
Sprague, Grace Scely.
Grammar School-Mise Oakes-Wil-
lie Alden, Albert Marvin, Edith Howe,
May Ross, Fannie Dorsey, Emma Dor
sey, Annie O'Connor, Abbie Rose,
Flora Hare, May Hawlcy, Clara
Jacobs, Amber Carr.
High school-Miss Geer-Ernest AL
bee, Bates Farr, Helen Chadwick,
Clara Stowe, Carleton Severance, Wal
ace Bristol, Jennie Farnsworth, Susie
James, Wilbur P~ettibone, Nathan
Kingsley, Clara Town, May Bolton.
There has been co considerable talk in
some quarters as to the pay and treat
ment of the employees of the Cotton mill
which If true would be hardly credita-
BILE to the proprietors. With the view
of ascertaining il any foundation exist
ed for this our reporter lately visited the
mill and conversed with a considerable
number OF the employees on the subject.
From all that can be learned from them
there would seem to be nc foundation
for any of these stories. A few of the
hands, who have been only recently |
employed complained that no definite
understanding was had as to their wa
ges. In reference to this the foreman
says that their custom is to pay the
hands according to their capabilities,
and that after they have learned their
work the amount of wages has been
settled and after the first pay day, which
comes monthly, each hand has known
what to expect. All the older employees,
both girls and boys, agreed in express
ing themselves satisfied with their
their pay and treatment. The foreman,
Mr., John Ellis, is somewhat bluff and
outspoken, and doubtless capable of ex-
pressing himself vigorously over spoil
ed work or %inattention TO business, but
nearly all tile employees spoke we'll of
him. The working day is twelve hours
long, except Saturdays, when it ends at
four O'Clock. Mr.. Ellis says that there
is not another cotton mill in the state
which requires the hands to work o less
number of hours,o or which pays morewa-
ges. Most Of the employees on beginning
work are required to sign an agreement
to give ten days, notice of an Intention
to leave, which is a usual and necessary
requirement. The exaggerated stories
which have been circulated were claim
to originate with young men who,
entering the mill and finding twelve
hours daily labor less pleasant than
the streets and picking up odd
Jobs, left without giving the required
notice, and then in accordance with the
agreement which they had signed, were
payment of the wages they !
claimed. We are happy to be able to
make this statement, for Middlebury is
interested in seeing an important indus.
try progress successfully and prosper
ously in our midst, and no reason seems ,
exist for making it unpleasant for the
men who have newly engaged in it by ,
credence and circulation to un- ,
rumors d~iscreditable to their
management. They are business men :
and propose to manage on business
principles. So long as their employees :
ire treated honorably, though held :
to agreement, there would sec
70 b. no reason why outsiders should
,~riticise them.