The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-21
PICKERS.
Scenes in a Strawberry Patch-Girls Who
Pick One Hundred and Fifty Quarts a Day.

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Newark IN. ~ News.
Through low after row of annie near and
peach trees, loaded with fruit and fraorrance
over a stretch of meadows and a half acre of
woodland. a reporter of the News stood on +ba
top of a hill overlookino the stra,vharrv feids Of
Comptroller p r, Quinn =" n half mile from from fSe
boulevard rnnninc from Nausrk 70 FIi9aha+b
THIRTY bove and ohaTt forfw airIIS 81 ~anio+s
ages. sizes and conditions drsSsee9J il, evary on
ceivable kind of earh from a colorIase .gi1 cham
of many bleachings to a brilliant red grenadine.
along with hare footed ho,,e cootIess anJ hot,
less hant over ~ itt1o 100 - ubiab "N
tended in long regular lines across tbe field 70
the foot of the hin. where n ronahlv -built
wooden building stood filed With crates Of straw
berries ready for sbinmcnt and bore evidence of
the industry of the workers
d Won want 70 hire a nicker" asked the 20
porter approacbine the foreman at the wooden
building
The foreman looked critically at the renorter
and asked: know ANYTHING aboI,t s4rawbeilriesrr
''Onlv how to eat them &" W. tba rarlv
ssDon.t beliove We could 1so Won +Lon q
would stem all ovar tho v;nos. mt l. ra cnr,as AZ
Quinn. Won can ask him mavbe be1I Give Won ~. - ,
Job ' ~
siAhl" said that oap+1emon ~ he arrroaobed
''you have come for some strawhe rries have
voul Well eat with a ralieb for fhare'e lotS of
them. This is The brsv season and ,o a~a
working from mor.ino lin nigbt to keen tbe
patch clean We ha,e FROM, eeven+y 70 a I'm
dsed nickers ont tbeTo > rointinr ~ ~ ,ybera tba
long line of bovs and girfs Iyera etoorine yer
the ground: Init Sometimes old Sol cts the
best of us. and thew rinen faster than we can
gather them xvb;cI npeans q nacInia, '1 Ice
Since we commenned 70 nmnIov pTro mirIS ho21.
ever. we havabad M, vol, 49, NO. 60 al
"Do GIRLS nick fastar thar tha hoyelT osi:ed
the reporter.
ooh. no: NOT faster hn+ +bev mora ral;a-
BILE. The great objection tn GIRLS was tbair
dresses. T6cv ;nterferad with and hroLe off
the leaves from the delicate vines
Last week we tried an oxneriment. We nro-
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pants worn over the dresses Then there was
fun for the bovs. Every narticular how in the
match mada - bic 80 pII 49, 49, ~ ~ AZ az ny
life out of the girls nv ,e,ving, them and Ar
last the GIRLS became CO baeHfuI that tbev
wouldn' pick. and we had to rive nm the bloom
~ IN 80 ~ IL ~ It" W. w. - " ~ noUnd
though. these rnstics We Keen S %f} yfo w
constantly over them in the field 10 watch and
prevent them from PLAYING tricks on us
AS he smoke. a haif-orown how with p stock of
luminous hair stole mn TO a frame on which was
standing three baskets of berries, and. drawing
ont the 3eares+ one he substituted "n emnt one
in it's place Almost instantIv a e;rl With a
cranial adornnent Of the same color 33arted from
among the nickers. and catching fine how Inv the
coatless arm. whirled him snrawlino into n Gins
ter of vines. The berry nickers in a minute had
discontinued work and rushed to the spot, and
in spite to the objections of the foremen. the Urls
grabbed handsfniI of strawberries and nlastered
them in n ielIv on fine face Of the Infort,nata
thief showed them down his neck and into his
eyes. Ind only STONED whep the foremen com
peelled obedience nv tbreatnino IN DISCHARGE the
whole party,
They're certainly at war with each other
said the foreman. ever e:nce we introduced the
boomers, and when they are not plaving tricks
on each other thev are 1non ne wv d Ne viii taEe
a basket, half fiji It with grass and leaves, and
then cover the ton vim a few berrias and carry
it up to the stand as boldly as tbo1eh there was
not a half-dozen straws sticking throngb the
chinks in the box. which we are sI,re to see and
when we dunn the boxes and show Them
the straw. thew look as innocent as the bnrries
and declare that some one is niavino tricks on
Them
'.Do Won allow them to eat herrias2s asked tho
reporter as he looked over the shonIder of the
foreman at a little fellow, who was acting curl.
ousIv. we" o ~
mo we don't allow +bap n oo+. - +aLos nm
too mich Of their time > Tho it'll feI1ow Tborpp
the reporter was watcbino orinned at tba
answer of the foreman took - bnce henry
placed it on his thumb and shot itintoh his month
with a celebrity evidently ACQUIRED by considerable