The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-07

"Oh," replied the architect, "they don't
work all the time. They have two hours
of at noon"
Still this gave the men fourteen hours
of work, and as [ looked at them digging
and wheeling, while the sweat rolled down
their faces. cheerfully putting in this time
at less than cents an hour | could not
help thinking OF our workmen who are
hardly satisfied with 50 for eight hours of
similar work. Still - cents is good wages
here, and you car nire men in good times
for this sum.
RUSSIAN CONTRACTORS KITCHEN.
1 was at the works at the time the S
O'Clock bells rang and the men stopped
work. 1t was as light as midday in Amer
lea and l could see these thousands of
workmen in red shirts and caps and calico
pantaloons, troopiug down from the hill
side with their picks and shovels in their
hands. Each man had to take care of
mis- own tools, and those who used wheel
barrows had to take the iron wheels of
these in their hands, not daring to leave
them, for fear they would be stolen. AS
each man stopped work be crossed himself
and muttered prayer, and as they came
up to where l stood many of them we're
still praying. | wondered at this and an
English friend who was with me said:
Yes, they are praying now. They are
thanking God that the day is done. To
morrow morning they will again thank
him when they begin WORK, and they will
pray again when they stop for dinner.
They pray and thank God all the time, and
when they have chance to steal anything
they even thank God for giving them the
chance This is rather hard on the Rus
sian peasant, but there is grain Of truth
in il Notwithstanding. The people pray SO
much that they dc 1t automatically, and
though there is a great deal of religion
among the people there is moro superstl-
ton and form than real plety
BOARD AT 9 CENTS DAY.
Just before the men stopped work Wis
! tied the Kitchen of the contractor, where
ABOUT seven hundred men were boarded by
him ut 9 cents day. This board was vol
untary on their part and they only patron
lied him because he had better feed for
! the money than anyone else. Imagine q
room about thirty feet square taking up
| the whole of a shed of logs and boards, and
| in this put q great oven about four feet
! high and so made that IL forms q square
! box, filing nearly the whole of the room.
| This oven box is made of bricks and IN it's
top are great holes, in which are sunk six
! kettles, which will each hold about hogs
head of fluid, and in which were boiling the
evening ration of soup for the men. Some
OF this soup was of beans and another ket-
tie was of cabbage while in third hogs
| head buckWheaJ mush was steaming away.
| tasted all Of these, eating bit with a
wooden spoon out of the great ladies'
handed me by the COOKS. ana l did not md
them at all bad In another part OF the
kitchen were stacks of the great loaves of
the black bread which the peasants eat,
and as we looked at this 1 asked for the
bill of fare of this 9-cent eating house.
The reply was that each man got four
meals for this sum. two of which consisted
of cold bread and water and the other two
of which were hot. Each man received
four pounds of bread day, and the meals
were taken in the following order: Attn
the morning, after working three hours on
an empty stomach, the men eat breakfast
of bread and water. At IL they knock Of
for dinner, and aUFthis time they sit down
al long tables aud have some of this hot
soup aud bread. At p. m. they take an
other lunch OF bread ana water, and at s,
after they are through with their day.
| work, they have more soup, with little
of this buckwheat mush. In this soup each
man gets three quarters of a pound OF
meat, and the rations all told for the sur
Of 9 cents are better than can be gotten