The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-25
MUSIC WHILE THEY WORK.
And a Plate of Soup and Cup Of
Wine for Nothing.
New York SUM

Nearly all those strengthening black
cigars that you see in the mouths of Ital-
ian workingmen about town are made in
a large factory OF Mulberry Bend, which
is known thereabouts as the Jolly Work
shop. The sign over the three front win
dows is more prosaic. For something
more than year the factory has been
known by its cheerful nickname. which is
the outcome of the proprietors treatment
on his helpers. Three afternoons a week
music is played there as a means of rest
and enIivenment for the workers. and
every day at noon a thick soup is served
TO them. with bread and a cup of Ohio
wine II you want to see how toll may
be robbed of its dreariness, you should
look in there at noontime and remain
there at noontime and remain until the
music strikes up at o'clock.
About Seventy-hve persons are employ
ed there making the cigars that are
known as Nirgin1as. CavOurs and Tus-
device with a straw running through IL
which you must extract before il will
draw; a relatively high grade cigar; since
it sells at retail two for cents. A SORT
of Pittsburg stogy is the Cavour, but of
course not SO bad dreadful as II is, and il
sells at l cent. There is nothing similar
to the Tuscan in this or any other country
save the land of its origin Imagine the
purty-blowar of your schooiboy days with
it's hump of putty fashioned round the
middle. and you have the shape of this
be imagined The price is cents. These
limitations look for all the world like Ital-
ian cigars and they pass for such until
they are lighted: then you wonder if it
was any worse for those poor soldiers
who had to smoke oak leaves and coffee
grounds. Not very well put together are
these cigars. and IL is plain that making
them is not so much skilled trade as 10
is a handiwork 10 be picked up in a little
while OF the seventy-five persons EN-
ployed in the Jolly Workshop sixty are
frlc md xrh0 raClfveN in.
money, butch, the fun they havei There
are no piece hands. The pay is by the
month for all -strippers, binders, wrap
pers, packers and shippers. 1t ranges
from $40 month TO $50. with a plate Of
excellent soup. a liberal chunk Of bread
and cup of wine every day, and music
three times a week.
The business was started twelve years
ago on an humble scale by the present
owners father
Promptly at the stroke of IL a. door at
one end of the workroom is flung wide
open and a capped and aproned man sets
out little bench and lifts thereon a large
the Bend as minsstrone, or great soup. In
great soup there is scarcely any broth. so
thick is it with rice. cabbage, carrots,
beans turnips. celery and whatever other
vegetable matter it may strike the cooks
fancy to throw in. With equal prompt
ness the workers are on the spot armed
each with a tin plate and cup. Each
holds up a. plate and the cook fills it to
heaping with the steaming mass. On a
table near by stands a barrel of wine and
by its side a basket of half loaves. Each
picks up a piece of bread and puts it on
top of the soup. A boy is at the spigot
and turns the wine on and off as the cups
are placed and taken away. All observe
the same system, and there is no pushing
or unruly behavior. As a consequence all
are served in a few minutes and back at
their benches chatting and eating and
drinking in the happiest humor.
1t appears that some of the younger
girls have no taste for the wine and to
these substitute is given in the shape of
goats milk
whole hour is allowed for luncheon,
and the workers seem to spend every min
ute of it. one way or another, in having a
good time.