Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-25

or indolent, would demand too many at
tentions and require too great an outlay to
provide accommodations for them, and,
above all, would not prove equal workers
with the Chinese.
The gentlemen of the State Board of
Trade who projected the idea of putting
the boys and girls of the cities into the
fruit harvest were not discouraged by the
refusal TO accept the children, though
they were mortified. Sixty of the new
laborers were presently sent 20 Governor
stanford's vineyard at Vina, where decent
apartments were provided for them, and
good food prepared for their table Be-
fore the close of week the Superintend-
ent reported the experiment a complete
success, and presently second group of
juvenile workers was forwarded by his re-
quest. These have proved just as indus
trious and profitable as their predecessors.
They work with greater spirit than Chi
nese, do more and with greater celerity,
and give to the work a character il does
not possess where Chinese are employed.
In Alameda and in Placer counties large
groups of boys and girls, employed to the
displacement of Chinese, have also done
honor to American labor. In several
small orchards and vineyards these new
workers, who are being gradually received,
are proving eminently successful. In one
county the Chinese manifested their pro-
verbally selfish character by striking"
and demanding that all white boys and
girls employed in that section should at
once be discharged. Nothing could have
been more fortunate for white labor The
strike convinces the people that the Chi
nese fear the new element, and that is in
itself confession that the labor is as well
if not better done than formerly. A
Solano county fruit-grower is reported to
have spoken in response to inquiry
e have leo acres set out in apricots and
iraits for drying purposes. I use none of the
patent new-iangled drying apparatuses but de
pend upon the effulgent orb Of day for drying
my frults.h When asked how he was pIeSSe5
with the work performed by the girls az corr,
pared to the same number OF Cinnamon he re-
Piled: wouldn't give one girl for q whole
sheoiul OF Cinnamon, and have no objection
to stating the size of the shed to be one mile
square by two miles high ana four miles under
meath the ground"
:. What wages do you pay these girls, and how
many hours 90 you require Of them for q DAYS
work 2? pay the girls By the pound They
work eleven hours per day-irom 6 A. NJ to 10
noon and from P. NJ TO P. X. The slowest
cutters make 81 SO and the fastest cutters make
~ 50 per day. The girls are neat. clean and
tidy about their work; all OF them polite Quiet
and respectful-in a word, nice as new pins.
Lneir mel engagement began July 18th ard viii
employ white men TO do the heavier part
oi the work, which is handling boxes, trays.
etc an and d, pay them q per day and board.
can get all the belp want, and in the case of
these girls l fiud they suit much better than
either boys or Chinamen. They reside in our
nelghborhood, and enjoy their vacation. beside
earning considere ole money In the intariu
they attend the common schools, which are
hrst-class. The ages of these girls range from
u to Is years. There areeight or ten additional
oLrchardlsts IN that locality who employ girls in
the same manner. It occurs to me that we have
partially solved the problem OF what TO do with
our girls"
Every report from the orchards and
vineyards where the boys and girls have
been at work is now gratifying. The
children are, under reasonably firm and
kindly discipline, orderly, neat, rapid,
cleanly, and work as if they themselves
owned the fields and meant to make the
utmost profit out of them. Let the friends
of white labor continue IN their we'll
doing. 1t is probable that the question is
already and finally answered that was pro-
pounded with such alarm last year and the
year before and for several years, :" If you
exclude the Chinese, how are we to gather
our fruit crops?'