Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-05
THAT CARNIVAL.
SOME STATEMENTS AT VARIANCE
WITH THE MANAGERS REPORT.
Mr.. Perkins Corrects an Assertion in the
Report About the Rate Of Pay of Car
penters-Some Other Statements by an
Exhibitor.

The interest caused by the tremen-
dous expenses of the orange carnival
at Chicago is not abated by the report
made by the managers of that affair.
One statement made in the report is
evidently wide of the mark, as shown
by the following communication re-
ceived by the HERALD yesterday:
EDITORS HERALD "A mistake has
been made, presume inadvertently, in
the report of the orange carnival, which
l think it to be my duty to correct.
Having had the entire control of that
department, ana in position to state
the facts. The report states that car
penters can only be had at $3.50 per day
of eight hours, and time and half for
overtime and 81 for Sunday.
Now sir, engaged all the carpenters
with one exception, at 35 cents per hour
for eight hour per day, time and a half
for overtime and double time for Sun
day.
Three OF the men were sent from a
contractor at the request OF one OF the
exhibitors, and when | laid them off l
o. X. ID their bills for SO cents per hour.
But some time after bill was sent in
by the boss charging so cents per hour.
When it was brought to me | refused
to O. X. it, as had not agreed to pay
them any more than was being paid to
| the other carpenters. The bill was
then taken to Mr.. Hanchette, who re-
turned it to me, saying, 1T is all
right" and requesting me to y. X. It,.
Those three men were paid the high
est wages for straight time paid to any
carpenters. One man paid as little as
So per day, he not being a first-class
man, but suitable for some of the work.
The booths were removed by the expo
sition building carpenter, who en-
ployed his own men.
The following are the names OF the
carpenters, with thes time made by
them and the bills o. X. d by me: G..
Swan, 81 hours, $29.45; ]. Shenback,
S91a hours, $31.32; j. Anderson, S51a
hours, $29.92; - Larson, 55 hours,
$27. 80; j. M. Walls, 80 hours, $11.20; /;
E. Dalrymple, 60 hours, $21; c. f.
Wright, Al hours, s14.3 35; j. H. Wilson,
So hours, $29. rs; H. Marsh, S71a hours,
$3O.62; c. Harris, S6la hours, $3027 !;
- Coulter, 40 hours, $12; ]. Hyan,
991s hours, $94.S2; G. Wilson, S41a
hours, $29.57; T. Meuth, 841a hours,
| $29.57; F. Haley, 1925 hours, $35. .62 !;
Z. Bates, 3411a hours, $1207; - Flynn,
1454 hours, $50.S3; - Reddin, 14514
hours, s5O.S3-total paid up to opening
of all exhibits.
(Signed) G. PERKINS.
Some other curious facts were learned
by a HERALD reporter yesterday. One
of the exhibitors stated that row
which occurred during the first few days
OF the show caused a great amount of
unfavorable talk. 1t appears that a
man named Cobb had been hired to
decorate the Redlands arch, at the mod
| est remuneration of $40 day for his
services and $3.50 for his assistants. He
put in his claim at about the fourth day
of the show, and there was kick about
it and payment was deferred. Mr..
| Cobb, however, rose to the emergency,
and got out an attachment for the box
office receipts, which were of course in
the hands of the exposition building
people, and the claim was of course at
once paid.
AT the headquarters, it is said, col
ored servant was employed to serve out
to visitors the ample supplies of Califor-
mia wines kept there. How much this
funkey cost the HERALD's informant
could not say, but as a rule they come
high.
After short time the individual ex-
hibitors began to object to the way
things were going, and demand was
made for an investigation OF the books.
A committee was appointed and an at
tempt was made to find out how they
stood. Young Dexter was the book
keeper, and one of the committee said
that he never saw accounts in such a
muss. A trial balance was struck and
it showed 81, 400 unaccounted for, but
this, one of the managers after his re-
turn said, had been Strengthened out.