Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-06
THE CANNERIES
ARE COMING TO THE FRONT AS
LEADING INDUSTRIES.
They Give Employment to Large
Numbers of Women and Children
Some Leading Features.

girls, and about 20 Chinese engaged in can
ming fruit. The establishment covers nearly
the entire block, B and C, Tenth and
Eleventh streets. The three brick build
ings on the west half of the block, form
erly used as United States bonded inter-
nal revenue warehouse, are now used for
the storage Of manufactured stock. The
packing or canning department is on the
east end of the block, and is frame build
ing of immense proportions. The hight
TO the ceiling in the center of the main
building is over forty feet. A ventilator
extends along the comb of the roof its en-
tire length, while other openings in the
roof, at intervals, give plenty of light and
ventilation.
AS you enter the building from the west
busy sight at once arrests your attention.
Over one hundred girls and women are
seated,
SIX At TABLE,
Pitting apricots. They are a good looking
Clearly and evidently happy
lot of individuals, for they laugh and talk
as they nimbly put the sharp knife around
the luscious fruit and it drops in golden
halves into the box and the pit is tossed to
one side. Here you find girls from II to
20 years OF age and women all the way
from 80 to 60. Just as you enter the main
room there is an opening 10 the left which
leads into what is called the ladies' recep-
tion.room. This is in charge of young
lady who does nothing but look after it.
Here all the female help deposit their hats,
cloaks and wraps, where they are entirely
safe. Here is also q long row of wash
rooms, supplied with numerous wash
basins, toweling, mirrors, etc Here are
also to be found comfortable settees for
those who become weary. Patent closets
are placed conveniently throughout the es-
Enlistment, and every convenience made
for the comfort ofa the employees. The
girls and women are superintendent by
women, and apparent, get along happily,
like one big family. They all work by the
piece, and those
WHO ARE INDUSTRIOUS AND EXPERT,
Can make as high as 81 so and 81 rs per
day. After the fruit is quartered it is trans
ferred to the tables, where it is put in cans
by expert hands. They are not put in care
lessly but carefully, by layers, the utmost
care being used to keep from bruising the
fruit. The cans thus filled are forwarded
to the syrup-room where they are filled
with the liquid, and then to the cook-room
where they are cooked and sealed. They
are then forwarded to the warehouses;
where, after cooling off they are labeled
and boxed, when they are ready for the
market The only place where Chinese are
employed is in the tin-shop and cook
room.
A thorough inspection of the premises
shows them to be well ventilated, well light
ed, the sewage all that could be desired and
the comfort of the employees looked after
with great care.
The salmon crop" this year was not a
- big one" the catch {" was light and the
packing company put up only a small
quantity. The apricot crop for this sec
ton Is about done for this season. The
fruit they were working upon yesterday
was apricots from Haywards. They were
large. line and highly colored. Mr.. Hick-
mott the Superintendent says they are
finer than any that were raised in this Sec
ton this season. They are of fine flavor,
not so golden as the Sacramento apricots
They have a red cheek and are not of so
fine favor as the Sacramento raised fruit,
Mr.. Hickmotts opinion to the contrary
Notwithstanding. There is no portion of
the State that raises finer apricots than the
farms along
THE AMERICAN RIVER VALLEY
Between this city and Folsom.
Next week the cannery will commence
work upon peaches, and they say they can
give employment 10 80 or 300 women and
girls. They even now cannot get enough
to handle apricots. What are we going TO
do for help is what bothers me-" said Mr.
Hickmott. Here is a city of over SO, 600
inhabitants, and we cannot get help enough
to run little cannery. Chico, with only
4 600 or 5000. has more help than we have
San Jose, with 1900, could double dis
count us. Do you know what is the rea-
son of it2 Well, I'll tell YOU 1t is simply
because this people has too much money
| mean il. Show me another city on this
coast where 5000 men average in wages
from S25 to $50 per week, SIS do our EN-
ployes at the railroad shops. Their sisters
don't work in canneries. Their children
are not expected to assist in the mainte-
nance of the family. They go to school,
and the girls dress we'll and go to all the
parties, while every boy is
GRADUATING IN BASE BALL NINE.
Now, in San francisco and the other
places / have mentioned it is entirely off
ferent. There are thousands of Door peo-
pie, and the canneries can get more help
than they can use. I'll tell you what is
fact, and it is boom card for Sacramento;
There is not a half dozen poor families in
town. and so far as any one being in desti-
tnte circumstances, such cases do not ex-
list"
THE NEW CAEEERY.
The new cannery at Sixth and G streets
will start up about the Goth, and will be in
full blast by the first of the month. Their
new boiler made by J. A. Cunningham,
was placed in position yesterday. II
weighs over five tons. A number of
changes have been made in the building
oV,1 NJ II,a1k ri et,,C i
when they get ready to start up they will
have the most complete and best arranged
packing house on the coast. They will
commence on the peach crop and run
through the season with full force of
white help.
Battery Cases.
Harry Joyce. an old man who works
around the Lafayette Hall saloon, last
night caused the arrest of Robert Dolan on
charge of battery. He stated that he was
at work cleaning up the place when he &C.
cidentally spattered some water on Dolan,
who assaulted and beat him severely.
Officer Campbell last nipht arrested Rich
ard Singleton on a complaint sworn to by
Mike Sullivan, a blacksmith from Rocklin,
who appeared at the station house in
claimed that Singleton had knocked him
down aud kicked him in the face, on the
sidewalk in front of the Pacific Hotel. His
face was feariully swollen, one of his eyes
being entirely closed Jailer Leayy ap-
piled leecbes to his face, bandaged up his
head and put him to bed.
John Curber was brought to the station
house about quarter before 10 CLOCK last
night by officers Mclaughlin aid Campbell
He was found engaged in a fight in the
Mascot Theater. where he had evidently
gotten the worst of it, as he was badly
bruised and cut. Soon afterwards Neal
McNeal made his appearance. his face cut
and bruised, and demanded a warrant for
the keeper of the Mascot, who, he said, had
assaulted him without provocation. He
said that he and Curber went into the place
to get drink, when they were set upon by
the proprietor and two other men. Neal
was in such condition that he was locked
up for safe keeping. The officers failed to
get any satisfactory explanation as to who
had beaten the two men.
Last Nights Fire.
Last evening at 7:30 O'Clock an alarm of
fire was sounded from box 50, Twentieth
and q SfreatS Tho darartp,ent raspopda "A