The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-02
NORkNEN IN GREAT DEMAND
STREET CAR COMPANY CANNOT
SCARE UP ONE HUNDRED
IDLE MEN
Reports From Chicago Are to the
Effect That There Is Perfect
Hegira of Men Bound for the
Grain Fields of the Northwest.

Reports FROM CnIcaSO are 10 the
Effect That There Is Perfect
Hegira of Men Bound for the
Grain Fields of the Northwest.
LabOrers and other workmen, judging
from an effort being made by the city
railway company to secure 100 men to
repair the Ramsey street barns appear
to be unusually scarce. The company has
advertised for fifty labOrers and fifty car
penters. Up to last evening only eight
laborers and seven carpenters applied for
work. 1t is expected that more men will
seek employment today, but the foreman
in charge of the repairing says the
chances are that the full quota of men
will not be secured before the end of the
week
The reasons assigned for the scarcity of
worlzmen is that many laborers are now
leaving for the harvest fields, while in the
case Of the carpenters, there is said to be
considerable activity in building, which
leaves the supply short. Not long ago
the advertisement for fifty men in any
branch of trade, it is said, would have
found many times the applicants that
there were positions. This being the case
it is claimed, plainly shows the fact that
st. Paul wOrkingmen are finding plenty
of employment during the summer and
will be in comfortable circumstances for
the approaching winter, when work is
slack.
The demand for harvest hands in the
West still continues heavy, though rail-
road men state that at present the indi-
cations are that there will be enough men
to supply the demand. Unusual efforts
have been made to secure laborers for the
harvest season by all the roads entering
the Western wheat country, and the
movement west is beginning. The St.
Paul employment agencies have orders
for more men than they can furnish, and
are sending them out as fast as they can
be secured. 1t is thought that as soon as
the conditions prevailing in the West
become known that there will be enough
men willing to work to supply the imme-
date demand. It is thought, however,
that at the present rate there will not be
enough men to meet requirements for at
least six weeks. Wages are going up, and
every man who goes will find employment
at once.
From Chicago come reports of a grand
rush for the harvest fields Of the North
west. 1t is reported that ticket agents
have been obliged to call in extra help to
handle the sudden influx of business. In
that city every Northwestern local ticket
office swarmed with harvest hands yester-
day Farmers in the great Northwest
have sent out the cry, More help need
ed" and some of the roads are increasing
their facilities to handle the rush that
followed.
The Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul. Great Western,
Wisconsin Central Burlington, Mnneap-
oils & st. Louis and Rock Island all did a
rushing business out of Chicago for the
Northwest, and the Santa Fe took it's
share for Kansas, which Is no better off
for help
This evidence Of the prosperity of the
farmer Is coming early, and, with the
railroads and the farmers prospecting, the
already bright season looks glorious to
railroad men for the fall business. And
not only are harvest hands travelling to
the grain regions to prepare for the great
shipments in the fall. The summer outing,
vacation and tourist business does not
fall off. It increases, and there seems to
be no end to it this summer, though by
former recent years passenger men have
come to look upon the bulk Of this bust
ness as over by July 1.