Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-03-24

even greater among the applicants for
help than is generally supposed.
Each man is allowed TO saw a quarter
Of cord OF wood day. and for that
amount of work he receives fifty cents
I in cash or. if the laborer wishes it. an
order for food and lodging at the Indus
] trial home. on Catherine street. but this
/ institution is not connected with the
wood yard in any way. DIR. Jeferis
says the managers do not intend TO fur
nish steady work at the ward for the
men vino are sent there The object is
to select the deserving from the unde-
serving cases, and allow the former to
make enough to live until the managers
| find them permanent situations. Good
I situations have already been found for
five of the fifteen men who went TO
work earnestly. and efforts are now be-
ing made TO place the other ten in regu-
lar positions. The wood. after being
sawed and split, is packed in boxes hold
Ing a thirteenth of a cord each, and one
OF these boxes retails at thirty-three
cents. Over 1000 of these boxes have
been sold and 1,500 more are ready to
supply the demand, which is increasing
daily. The Lafayette and Colonnade
Hotels receive all their kindling wood
from this yard, and good trade among
private families is being gradually built
up. W. ii. Mayilton. tie manager OF
the yard, keeps a list of all men sent
there. together with an account of the
date of each man : application, his trade
or business. the length of time the APP
plicant worked for his last employer,
his habits and whether he appeared to
deserve help or not.
These books show that W. II. Brown
worked fourteen years for one railroad
company, got tired, quit. idled a year;
concluding TO resume work, visited the
wood pile, when he changed his mind
and resolved not 10 do anything until
he finds Il position where labor Will be
light and the remuneration handsome.
John Day worked thirty years for one
man and then spirit of idleness came
over him and for two or three years he
has done almost nothing. He drinks
and doesn't Ike to push a saw through
pine wood even if he does make an
honest living by it, 1t took Lewis
Nevin twenty-one years to ind ont that
wages as shoemaker would not allow
him to live like Rothschild. After
idling some months he viewed the wood
ricks, examined the saw buck, borrow
ed a chew of tobacco and has been gone :
two weeks in search of a bacon rind to
grease his saw with. james Mooney,
after working for seventeen years for
Camden contractor, discovered that
sione-cutting is poor trade. He pre-
ferred the free and independent life of
a vagrant; but. alter summering in the
Berks County Jail. being perforated by
bird-shot in Jersey hen-roost. and
spending thirty DAYS in the House OF
Correction, he went down and
had a talk with Mr.. Mag,lton about
the Utopian happiness a wood-sawyer
enjoys. He promised to begin work in
the yard as soon rs he "got rested
The scales fell from Thomas j. Jones
eyes after he painted houses and signs
eleven years in Paterson, New Jersey. |
He tramped four years and turned up
at the woodward one day last week |
to work like steam saw
mill He slashed through two small (
sticks and then made his escape by /
clambering over back fence 4 few |
mornings ago one fellow begged Mr. /
Magilton TO allow him TO earn fifty cents ]
in order that he might have money /
enough to go on a fishing expedition. I
In pressing his ease he said: IL don't /
care TIC work more than a day, but 1
must do that. for | met the fellows last
night, who told me trout were biting
! f,,,. =, \ 4
Mss good days fishing for all the
work in the world" His request was
granted, and after receiving the money
md buying few hooks and line. and
pending the remainder for provender,
he started TO walk 10 Bethlehem, near
where, 10 use his own language. he
: knows the boss trout pond of the
state. These cases are fair samples