St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-24


the crowd of young fellows eager to
"ripg stick" had broken down the
rope on the other side and were rushing
in on the sharp-featured Hebrew who
kept the cane rack, and actually drop
ping the rings directly over the most
desirable canes until he too was forced
to pack up and leave amid the jeers and
Jibes of the youngsters who had sue
ceeded in doing him up. It's so seldom
that fakir gets the worst of it, and
they are so quick to lido" an unsuspect
ing citizen that the two fellows got very
little sympathy from the crowds.
TOO MUCH FOR HIS WHISTLE.
A Young Englishnan Complains
of the Style of an English
Agency.
1t is not generally known that
America, and that particularly favored
portion of America called Minnesota,
has gone pretty extensively into the in
dustry of teaching young Englishmen
the art of farming. There is established
in the city of Westminster. England,
colonial land and estate agency"
whose object is the placing of gentle
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to learn the business or trade.
apolis in the firm of Stryker & Camp
bell, having Offices in the Lumber ex-
change. and through them large num-
Der of English youths have been placed
as pupils on Minnesota farms. The
business Of the agency. so far as has
been generally known, gives satisfac-
ton to all concerned, and has the APP
pearance of being open and above board,
but a complaint was made lately
by some of the so-called gentlemen's
sons that the agency is not all it should
be. One came to the GLOBE from a
young Englishman, &. j. Jones by
name, few days ago. Jones, who is
not gentleman's son, though he has
all the appearance of being a gentle
man in the American sense, entered
into contract a few months ago
with the English concern to be
transferred to America and placed
on a farm to learn the American
methods of tilling the soil. He passed
through the usual formulas at agencies
which evolved themselves into compact
of this nature. He paid the agency ESQ.
$3.50. The agency bound itself to locate
him on Minnesota farm as a pupil"
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steamer and rail tickets from Liverpool
to Minneapolis. to secure him a
place on farm and to furnish
him work for one year for
which he would receive his board and
clothes. Jones accepted the contract,
came to America and Minneapolis, and
was placed, through the Minneapolis
agent and through another local agent
at Fergus Falls, namely one J. A.
Brown, on farm near Battle Lake,
Ottertail county, which happened to
be the farm of Hon. Ebenezer Corliss,
a famous politician in those parts, who
is also good zeal OF a farmer. Jones
is short, stocky Individual. who, ac
cOrding to his own story, has done hard
work in the diamond fields in South
Africa. Of course his services were ap-
preciated and his first lessons in the art
of American farming was digging
bitches. He worked several weeks for
81 week and his board and
then quit in disgust. The gouge of such
a contract in this case appears very
plainly. The equivalent of the sum of
$3.50 is paid by a strong hearty man to
get work Oh an American farm. labor
very similar to what employment agen-
cies do every day at a much lower fig
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water would cost S7S. The agency.
therefore, makes clean SIT to start on
on the pupil" But everybody knows
that strong man can generally get
work on farm at wages much over 81
per week. With ESQ in his pocket the
young man was in position to wait
for the place he wanted, and need not
expend all his efforts ana capital in OBJ
tanning the opening. The case of Jones
may he exceptional, as the sons of gen
tlemen are not usually very valuable on
farm during their first year. A great
many are placed in positions where
they are satisfied, as Stryker & Camp
bells letters from pupils show. Mr..
Jones' case is that of a man who paid
$3.50 for the privilege of doing SIP or SIS
worth of work month for 81.
The complaint serves to call attention
to the fact that Minnesota's agricultural
methods are appreciated in the old
world when such agencies are found
necessary to supply the demand for
places on American farms.
THOSE SWITCHING CHARGES.
The Lawing Over Them Will Not
Down.
Judge Springer has filed an answer to
the state railway commissioners alter
native writ of mandamus in the trans
fer and St. Louis railway charges cases.
The commission some time ago fixed
switching charges at not to exceed
81 per car considerably less than
the companies had been charging.
Judge Young declared this order void,
and the commission carried it up to the
supre me court, which decided. as mat
ter of law, that the appeal to the district
court was untenable. The commission
then applied for the mandamus to en-
force its orders, and it is to this Judge
Springer files the answer. In it he
holds that the commissions orders are
contrary to the state and federal con-
situations, in that they take private
property without due compensation, I'M
paired the obligation of contracts, etc.
The "A. q. HI. Convention.
About 800 delegates to the convention
of the insurance branches of the An
cient Order of Hibernians met at Win
dom hall yesterday afternoon. After
the report of the committee on Gre
dentialS. debate arose as TO certain
changes suggested on the plan of in
surance, Finally adjournment was
taken to 9 O'Clock, as it was decided
that no action that would be binding
could be taken on Sunday.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.
The court house commission meets this
morning.
Cars begin running to-day upon the Penn
avenue extension.
Miss Florence Sewrs read a paper upon
" Physical Science before sthe Secular So
ciety yesterday.
The Ladies' Protective association will