St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12

| dOn, IL. N. Trull, l.. K. Quimby, Hen
ry Chase, G. M. Chase and B. f. Lin
coin were reelected directors. The
officers will be elected next Saturday
In 1887 the bank earned over nine pei
cent. net.
MAKING SCALES.
The Workmen Who are Great Travellers
as Well Good Artisans.
Some one has said that one-h half the
world has no idea how the other half
live. If our readers who are not early
rlsers will get up some cold morning
and go out upon the street between
Fairbanks village and st. Johnsbury
Centre between six and seven O'Clock
they wils--seUs enlightened as to how
some folks live. There are GA teams
which bring laborers to the scale shops
daily. Fifty-four of these teams are
put up for the day in barns near the
works, and ten are driven home again
by some one who returns ut six o'clock
for the wOrkmen. These teams will
average about two wOrkmen each
some carrying three and others but
one. OF the teams which remain at
the works during the day, "a put up in
the new barn near the scale office, IL
in a barn opposite the machine shop,
village where stalls can be obtained.
The standard price for "entertaining"
a team during the day is one dollar a
month, the owner of the horse furnish
ing the wherewith to entertain and APP
plying the same.
OF these Ga teams Charles Smith
drives from Lyndon, z miles Black
smith Morrison from West Concord. 8
miles; Tinman Farnham from Water
ford, 6 miles; Geo. Morrill, from the
Dea. Ranney place, g miles Mr.. Col
Inns from an equal distance across the
river; n. p. Hollis from ST. Johusbury
East, 5 miles. In this list of teams, Is
above, six from the town of Danville
and quite Il number from Summerville
A. A. Miles has driven in from "Four
Corners" three and a half miles, for
10 years /; his brother, E. w. Miles, has
driven from the Centre, 3 miles, for %
years another brother, Frank H.
Miles, has also driven from the Centre
l6 years; III. j. Kelley, brother-in-
law, also from the Centre, has worked
here I9 years and driven in II years
Sidney Leonard and brother have driv-
en- from the Centre over Is years, and
N. p. Hollis from the East village over
20 years.
Does the hasty reader of these lines
appreciate what this record meansP 1t
means rising at or ) o'clock every
morning, and for large share of the
year doing the chores, eating breakfast
1t means ut the end of each days work
in the shops, harnessing up, driving
home, doing chores and eating supper
after dark. And this has to be done
when the mercury is 30 below zero,
when blizzard is raging, or when the
mud is deep or frozen stiff; when there
is moon or when there is darkness
that can be felt. In his endeavor to
get living, to feed and clothe his fam
lily, besides working diligently ten
hours day many of these men rise at
4.3O every weekday morning and drive
over 1000 miles Il year in all kinds
of weather.
This article has spoken only of the
more than 100 scale makers who ride
to their work. There is an army of
four times that number who walk
some of them long distances. If some
of our readers who seldom rise before
seven o'clock, will make an extra eff
fort some morning when the mercury is
25 or 80 degrees below zero and go out
on the street from six to seven and
meet these workmen coming in to their
daily toll, they will probably make up
their minds that even in making scales
'life is real, life is earnest"
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