Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-17
BEWARE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Ono who Has Tried 1t Says 1t Is No rlaco
For n Man in Necd CT Work.

Ono who Has Tried 1t Says 1t Is No Place
FOR Man in Seed CT Work.
sailed from London Jan. 20, 1898, for
Cape Town, returning the latter part OF
May, and was only too glad when L
reached the States again. Miners tmnk-
ing of going to Johannesburg would 40
better by staying at home, even II times
are very quiet here. The average OF
miners landing in Cape Town is aoont ~
weekly, and they are nearly all from
England. They nearly all branch out
for johannesburg, and naturally the en-
ployers prefer an Englishman before an
American, and you will find this IN all
branches of business, professional or
otherwise. The colored people do all
the laborlous work in the mines, and as
for the positions the white man would
take suppose there are about 90 wait
ing for one opening. \ good miner can
earn S25 week, and l think a good
miner can earn more here, and then
again he can live considerably cheaper
here. he would have to pay for board
in johannesburg about $40 weekly. Tins
is speaking of board alone.
When L left Cape Town last May, there
were hundreds of men i'll Cape Town
from all parts of South Africa looking
for emplovment. Lots of them manage
TO get down from the interior, and the
first chance they have of returning to
England, either working their passage or
otherwise, they accept. The boat l came
back in to London was the Tartar, and
II worked their passage home, and hay
ing so many applications the captain had
to refuse good many. A stowaway IS
q common occurrence.
Board in Cape Town is Sc week,
and if you wanted position as clerk,
bookkeeper, telegraph operator, etc.,
they would offer you what they call "a
start" That is TO say, it doesn't matter
how competent you may be, you have to
commence with IS or Sc week, and You
think yourself lucky if You can get that.
There are on an average hundred ap-
plications for each situation.
l took my brother-in-law from Eng
land with me. He was earning there
$40 a week, and he tramped around Cape
Town seven weeks and finally got po-
sition, and I have just heard from him,
and he is at present earning Sc aweell at
the same place.
AS many people are returning from
South Africa as there are going-that is,
between 400 and 500 weekly. Men that
do get positions, after they have saved, if
ever they do, $500 to $500, return to Eng
land for good.
Employers will not accept diploma
from the United States of any kind-it
doesn't matter how high the reputation
of the college may be-and any one head
ing there will only be too sorry he ever
left home, as it costs more to get from
there than it does to reach there. The
whole thing is there is too much Eng
lish about it all around, and after hay
ing the freedom of this country you will
find a great difference between South
Africa and here.
There are two or three prices on some
of the necessaries in Cape Colony, and
this is the cheapest place to live: House
rent, from S. weekly; -four, 6 cents per
pound; potatoes, 80 pounds for 81; but
ter, so cents to rs cents per pound; ba-
con, 35 cents per pound.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer.