The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-14

now, which is most humanitarian and
profitable. He gives all tine boys of the
public schools of San Francisco. who will
take advantage of his offer, a chance to
come out and pick fruit Or his farm. He
taxes thousand OF THESE boys every year,
takes them TO his farm and keeps them
there q month, paving them dollar day
for their labor. He has an immense bar
racks built in which they sleep and he sees
that they are we'll fed and we'll cared for.
His superintendent have them divided
into gangs and they are carefully watched
over as to morals. No money is
paid until the end of their job. when
each boy carries home with him $50. He
also takes about peck of English walnuts,
and the senator has bags made of . fixed
size which he fills and gives one to each
boy upon his departure. As to payment,
when he first brought the boys out on the
farm he began to pay them their wages as
they earned them. He found, however,
that a lot of pool sellers and gamblers sur
rounded the farm and got the boys money
away from them by inducing them to bet
on wheels of fortune, baseball and policy
games. He stopped this by not paying I'M
til the end Of the month, and he now paws
at The close OF the engagement. The sena-
tor employs Chinese cooks upon the farm,
and these cooks do all he cooking for The
boys. Sometimes Governor Stanford goes
out to see the boys and he always eats din
ner with them. At such times the Chinese
cooks prepare special feast for the gov
ernor and it has been their custom to
make q little corner where he
is to sit and at which there are to
be some special deicacies put. In some
way or other the Chinese cooks always got
wind of the fact that the governor was
coming some days beforehand, and they
would have this nice little feast prepared
for him. He always circumvented them,
however, by sitting down somewhere else
along the table and eating with the boys.
He would say, Johnnie. pass me those
pickles." or Sam. what do you think of
that meatP LET me have little piece of
that bread" or something OF that kind,
and all the while the feast at the other end
of the table would go untasted. After try
ing this method several times, and not
succeeding, the Chinese cooks gave better
dinners to the whole party whenever the
governor was there. and in this way gave
him very good dinner, and the boys
much better one than they cared to give.
Everyone has heard OF Senator Stanfords
great farm at Palo Alto, which contains
his country residence, the great university
and some of his best ranches. In this
farm, which by the way has ali been given
to the university, he has some land which
is worth 81 900 an acre, and he has patch
OF forty acres in grapes which has pro-
duced as high as $500 year, and which
has never produced less than So, 200 year
since they have been planted. On one of
his tracts of fruit land there is little piece
OF ten acres for which man pays him
s., 500 year for the privilege of picking the
fruit.
He makes equally as well out of his cat
tie. He has ali kinds of fine bree DIS of cat
tie, Jerseys, Holsteins and others. He
was very much delighted this past year to
get the highest prize for butter making and
lar gold piece, which he got at the Cali
fornia state fair. In this case the COW was
brought to the fair and left there for
week, its milkings being registered every
day and the milk being churned into but
Ter. HIS cows took the prem um both for
the production of milk and as to the quail
ity of their milk and the pfoduc Ion OF
butter. l am told one of his cows gave
the cream in one week which produced
twenty-four pounds of butter.
/ see that Senator Hearst has horse
which has at last been successful. He is
as proud as a turkey gobbler in a new
flock and struts around blowing about his
fine horses. The fact is. Hearst knows