New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21
MANY GIRLS FROM SIDE CIGAR FACTORIES HAVE FOUND MORE
pFASANT WORK IN CONNECHCUTS TENTED TOBACCO FIELDS

enter and drive through the long roads to gather
tobacco barns for curing the green leaves Here
the work of the girls is seen at its height
rows, in cool she'd, which is open at both erds,
that Girls were Used to sew the leaves but their
aptitude for the work made them so desirable that
they in great demand at the opening Of the
season this year The men bring the Zig
baskets fss of carefully picked leaves Just Tucked
f ss9 and with needle and wax string sew the
attached to a ath and the lath is hen hung Up In
the tobacco shed.
as beneficial to them as going to the mountains or
doors from morning till night. and there are no
most eaprs anour the he umIin up of
tneir hands from the sap in the leaves when sew
ing them on the string. But this gum washes off
There was such a demand for girls on the tobacco
plantations this that there were not enough
native girls go around, so Mr. Nicholson
went to NewYork. where ne hired half a hun
ored and brought them back with him to the to-
s oacco plantation. They were set 10 work and
picnic which no DOUBT it was compared to What
some or them had been accustomed to IN New
CATION Some had been soubrettes. others school
sfachers but most of them were factory girls and
store clerks, The work is light and the pay good.
from WORK is done BY the Psse and 5h me g make IKE
bacco girls i % nay me fb nome s of those who
come come from New-York They are housed in
They pay So week for their board, and there are
no soda fountains and ice cream saloons where
they can spend their money. In the evening all
the talent that the group possesses is brought out
mere are many good singers. eocutionists
cancers and sketch artists in the crowd: Perhaps
me most striking entertainer is Miss ida Staker
stalker oldtime circus man. Every of the
sLIS spoken to by the reporter spoke OF the Ire on
.ie topacco plantation as being more IKE pig
picnic than work, ard they were regretti1g the
DAY when they would have to return to the big
city II the girls are of an industrious turn they
the Warehouse at night, where they can earn 10
cents an hour sorting the tobacco leaves;
connecticut the tobacco picked by the stalk,
ana men did all the harvesting The stalk was
nung up In the barn and the whole thing cured at
once once There was no sewing and no double sort
Inelt upon mans sphere 1t is new and suitable
work for girls.
managed tent tobacco plantations. Even the
stripped stalks ground up and used for fer
tilzer on the ground where they grew The
broken leaves used for bulk covers sent to
Germany for the German army. Connecticut to-
bacco is used for binders and wrappers Previous
to the use of tents the leaves were treated to a
dose OF potash and glucose to give the desired Su-
| matra leaf sDeckle
On the Connecticut Tobacco Corporation girls of
1t is one of them. not over twenty-five years old.
who is the forewoman of the hundred and more
sewers on the big plantation.
Inc great demand for sewers recently settled a
strike in Hartford. The Capewell Horseshoe Nail
Company had some misunderstanding with its girls.
The girls struck. and two days later they all
from thelr work each morning and night ana the
! railroad company attached special car to the
! train to carry them. That settled the strike so
| far as the girls concerned.
The officers of the Connecticut Tobacco Corpora
| ton are President, William J. Hazewood; vice
! president ]. H. Lane, both of New-York; secre-
| ager Marcus L. Floyd of Tarffvile. Mr.. Floyd
| was formerly a government expert on tobacco