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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-12

to have it over and done with when
the hour for stopping work arrives.
A table, with the money is moved
about on the different floors, and there
is no confusion or trouble. The slips
that have been kept, showing the work
done by each girl are brought up, ana
the money handed to the worker, with
ing a few feet of her work table. There
are no envelopes, to cause dissatisfac-
ton, the money is counted out into
her hand. When the hour of 4:30 ar
rives the girls leave their tables and
in a few minutes are ready to go and
do their shaping or spend the after
noon in recreation.
Looking over the time slips of the
girls it was found that some of them
make probably as much money as
their big brothers in business, and
more than the average typewriter or
made last week by any girl was about
$3.50 and when it is considered that
she went into this business less than
four months ago, with absolutely no
idea of the work, it can be said that
she is doing very we'll indeed. OF the
average it would likely be fair to say
that they make a dollar a day, and
that is by no means bad pay In many
of the stores the girls get less than $25
harder and longer hours.
Every induoement and privilege is
offered by the manager to bring a
good class of young women to work
at cigar making, and so far he has
succeeded admirably. There seem to
be absolutely no Objectionable features
about the work. 1t is healthy, inter-
esting and cleanly. The building prom
ises to be one of the most comfortable
in the city during the summer, and
the attitude of the manager towards
his employees is very pleasing. Prizes
are offered for the bringing in of new
girls, and this has been the means Of
getting a great many good workers
Some young women are expected from
outside the city in a short time, for
the pleasant and profitable nature of
the work has been talked about and
it is likely that before long the fac
tory will be filing all the floor space
with machines and have several hun
bred additional workers. Just now
there is room for many more, and the
manager will be glad to explain the
work and the various features of the
industry to all who desire to work.
or wish to send others to assist in
bringing this industry forward.
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put into a mould. When the moulds
are filled, twenty in a block, a cover
fits down tightly and the shape is given
to the cigar. The bunchers fix up five
moulds, making 100, and then carry
them to a press, and leave them for
the wrappers. The fact that each girl
leaves her table for a minute or two
every time a set of five moulds are
filled gives the necessary exercise and
at no time are the girls kept in one
position for any great length of time.
The wrappers get the moulds full of
punches and seated before their tables,
pick up. a wrapper, give 1t a twist or
two and with the aid of a machine, cut
the leaf into the required shape, set the
bunch right and in a wink the wrap
per is on, and one more wink finds one
end clipped square and the other made
into a point, ready for the smokers
teeth, or the cigar cutter. The girls
are not restricted about talking, but
they do not let this interfere with the
work.
The packing department. on the up
per floor was an interesting place. Here
a number of young women were sort
ing the various colors in the finished
goods, and with deft fingers and keen
perception the Colorado" "Maduro"
and the other grades known to the
smoker, were placed in rows. and then
packed tightly into boxes, each con-
tanning fifty cigars. The packing and
color grading Of the cigars requires
much light, and the factory has the
largest skylight in the city, directly
over the workers table. In another
portion of this floor young girls are
engaged in putting the bands on the
cigars. THE Two Orphans" is the
brand now being made exclusively at
this factory. and into each of the deco
rated bands, two cigars are poked and
then the boxes that have been emptied,
/ are refilled and sent to receive the last
! labels and caution notices. Before be-
ing shipped they are again handled by
the men who put on the revenue
stamps.
A point that makes an impression is
| the cheerfulness, the comfort and
| pleasant surroundings in which the
| girls work. OF course it is not play.
| but there is time enough for that out
side. The girls work sixty hours each
week, If they wish to. BY that is
/ meant that many of them work by the
| piece, and If they choose to stay away
a day or two, ii is their own loss.
| The hours are from a. m. to p. m.
excepting Saturdays. when they get
off at 4:30.
The system of paying off is such as
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realizing what they are doing.
One big shop, noted for it's expedi-
tious delivery service, deVotes the en-
tire sub-basement to this department,
and here, during the dull season, two
hundred men are given regular en-
ployment. The number increases dur
ing the sharp rise in spring and fall
trade, and in holiday seasons as many
extra hands are secured as can work
without literally falling over one an
other. During the two local deliver
les at $50 a. M, and $3.50 p. M, each
day, between fifteen and twenty thou
sand small parcels are handled, and
so thoroughly is the work systemat-
lied that of the mistakes made only
thirty-five in ten thousand can be
traced to the delivery department
Handling the Small Packages.
The dizziness with which the small
parcel delivery is handled is one of
the entertaining sights of this teeming
department.
These packages are collected from
one end of the building to the other
in big hampers on wheels, by carriers
who wear blue uniforms with silver
buttons, so that the inspectors and
wrappers may not make the mistake
of giving up bundles to unauthorized
persons. When a carrier has cover
| ed MS route IN the store he makes for
the nearest freight elevator and is
| shot down to the SUBJ basement,
where he rolls his hamper to the dis
trbuting table.
This is an enormous structure Of
highly polished wood, built on an in
| cline. To the left of the man who is
unloading it runs about four or five
feet wide on a gentle tilt to the rout-
er, who has first sight of the address
on the parcel. This side is used for
paid packages or good accounts only.
| Overhead there is a large slide
built at a more pronounced angle.
Z Here the c. o. D. and unauthorized
packages are whirled along to the au-
thorization clerk. This employee not
only knows the name of almost every
man and woman carrying an account
with the firm, but he recognizes them
at glance. If there exists in his
mind any doubt regarding a name or
an account, he turns to a tube nearby
and calls up the department of ac-
counts to satisfy himself before pass
| ing the package on to the reuter-.
| The authorization clerk and the
| reuters occupy square holes at various
points in the big system of tables, and
| they look not unlike the bankers at a
| country fair or a Midway show. But
] they are the quiestest of men, and
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scarcely any conversation goes on
during the rush hours. The reuters
glance at the address, paying no at
tention whatever to the name, mark
the number of the route on which it
is to be delivered, and shoot it along
to the next clerk, who might be term
ed a distributor. He pays no atten-
ton to name or address, only to the
number stamped upon the package by
the reuter-. Having read that num-
Der, he sends the package spinning
down another table to the bin which
bears the number corresponding with
the route assigned by the reuter-.
Where Mistakes Are Discovered.
These tables, which tilt in one di-
rection or another, have a framework
of several inches around the edges to
keep the parcels from falling off, while
the partitions are of the same hight
To the uninitiated, the sight of these
hundreds of packages scampering,
slipping, sliding toward the various
bins seems confusion, but each run
way carries its own passengers, so to
speak, and it is seldom that the wagon
man, on emptying his bin and check
ing off his packages, finds anything
r1is-routed.
The bins look like small stalls di-
vided in half on line with the distri-
DuIlOn tables, with an iron netting on
the outside. The upper half holds the
packages; the lower half, a hamper on
wheels to carry goods to the wagons.
When the hour for their removal
to wagons arrives, the wagon men re-
ceive schedules or records, one mark
ed paid and o. K, the other c. o. D.
The bin is opened by the clerks on
the inside, the driver checks up his
packages with the schedules, and from
that moment the responsibility of the
package becomes his. The inside
clerks have done their part.
Right here many mistakes in ad-
, dress are discovered. In large cities,
| the districts covered by each wagon
are comparatively small, and the
| driver, having the same route day
after day, becomes thoroughly ac-
quainted with it, just as a postman
does 1t is no unusual thing for a
driver to hand back a package with
such a remark as: Mrs. John Henry
| Brown don't live at 1923. She's two
blocks beyond" The package goes
straightway back to the blunder clerk
who follows it's record, and the mis-
take is frequently corrected without
! troubling the purchaser.
AS a rule, it requires about fifteen
minutes for an expert wagon man to
check off the contents of his bin and
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rector presumably satisfies himself
that the request for special delivery is
warranted, but it is an unacknowi-
edged truth in many stores that spe-
cial delivery is much of a fad with
certain fussy shoppers and regular Gus
toners, who invent excuses that are
terribly and wonderfully put together.
me special is an accumulation
pure and simple, and a big store re-
cords between $4,000 and $4,000 of these
accommodations every year. Special de-
livery is made by boy or by wagons
reserved for that purpose.
Then, there is a corner devoted to
held packages" which have been or
dered for delivery on certain days.
They may be c. Q. D. bundles, or
paid packages. Each bin is labeled
with the day of the week on which
they go out.
The transfer department looks like
postoffice, with a thousand small
racks for holding the sale Slips at
tached to transfer cards. As each
slip is received, it is tucked into It's
little rack, and the package is tossed
into a bin which corresponds III num-
Der to the rack. When the clerk finds
that the entire transfer card has been
checked off, packages are gathered up
and turned over to the reuter- for dis
tribution.
This method of shopping is infinite
ly safer and quicker than to have pur-
chases sent Unfortunately and unat-
tached from all over the store. Men,
as rule, will not bother with a trans
fer card, no matter how large their
shopping list. but Women like the sys-
tenn and use it very generally
One Hundred Regular Wagons.
The mail order department. is run
on the same system as the transfer,
and the express department is on
somewhat similar lines. In the
special delivery department are kept
the records of the entire delivery sys-
tenn, and one large rack is so arranged
that it will hold a years record sheets,
ready for instantaneous investigation.
The express rooms and those devoted
to the packing of all large shipments
and deliveries, such as china, glass;
house furnishings, works of art, and
furniture, look like busy carpenter
shops. The china room is lined with
high tables where the inspectors stand
They not only inspect all breakable
goods, but stamp them with their num-
bers, and then pass them on to ex-
pert packers, who also stamp the pack
age. In this way responsibility for
brcakage can be traced.
The average big department store
employs 100 regular wagons and a
half-dozen electric vans. Three hun
dred and seventy-five horses are in
service, and fully that many men are
kept at work on wagons and around
the stables, which are in change of
skilled veterinary surgeon.
So important does the average firm
regard it's delivery system that, to per-
feet it and keep it working smooth
ly, it is willing to pay it's superintend-
ent salary which rivals that of
successful buyer or head of depart-
ment.
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load his wagon. Generally, too his
hours are not hard. He is supposed
to report at the stables by a. m,
and at the store with his wagon half
an hour later. If his last delivery is
at $3.50 p m, he should be ready to
leave the stable for home by in the
evening. But at holiday season all
rules fail, and the delivery men work
until they are ready to drop.
G. o. ID. Packages Source of Trouble.
Around the outside of the bins runs
an aisle, and on the other side of this
is a number of dens connected with
the parcel delivery. One of these is
the wrong address room, where every
thing missent must be turned in for
investigation. Sometimes this is ac-
complished by going back to the sales
people, or to the ledgers, in case of a
charge account. Here, too, come the
G. 0. D. packages which are not claim
ed when first delivered. A wagon
man must make at least three efforts
to deliver c. o. D. packages, each
time reporting to this wrong address
ROOM" to have his sheet signed and
turn in his goods to be held for an
other delivery.
1t requires thirty men in all to run
the den devoted to returned or re-
fused G. o. D. packages. Fully 10 per
cent. or all goods purchased this way
are refused on delivery, and there is
nothing to do except to bring them
back to the store. Wagon men say
that the majority of these refusals are
due not to the fickleness of feminine
taste, but to a tendency to extrava-
gance. On counting up the days
shopping women find that they have
overstepped the allowance, or their
husbands object to so large an expen-
diture, and the goods are fatty refused.
These refused goods are sorted
twice a day and returned to stock.
The wagon clerk, of course, has re-
| ceived a receipt for their return, and
the entire record of the goods from
wagon man to salesman must be kept
! clear. The cashier for the C. o. D.
! department has his Office in the de-
livery rooms.
$4,000 Special Deliveries a Year.
The den devoted to special deliver
les is a busy corner. Here come run
ners from all over the store with pack
ages which cannot await the regular
delivery. For example, if woman
is leaving town in haste in the even
ing and has just missed the. morning
delivery, her goods will BE sent to
her special, rather than take the
chance of their being late by the regu-
| lar afternoon delivery. The aisle d.
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BUSINESS LOCALS.

The Ryan Business College is now
open. New students are arriving daily.
Every young man and woman can't at
ford to miss the valuable instruction.
The Savannah District Messenger
Company will make you special rates
on drayage, messenger service, furnf-
ture and pianos moved and stored. 80
Montgomery street.
This weeks special at John Sulli-
vans, Is Congress street, west: Picked
salmon, 1213c pound; Potomac roe her
rings and Cromarty bloaterS, 25c GoZ-
en-; three-pound cans Boston baked
beans, with or without tomato sauce,
SC cans. We are closing out Ander-
sons soup at 5 cents can.
]. & C. N. Thomas, watch inspectors
for the Seaboard Air Line Railway
Leaders of low prices on watches,
clocks and jewelry; reliable opticians.
120 Whitaker street.
]. w. Teeple's great sale continues
on furniture, carpets and stoves. The
people say Teeple's prices are the low
est. This accounts for the large sales.
The largest and cheapest line of re-
frigerators and ice boxes in Savannah
w. T. Walker Furniture Co, corner
Broughton and Jefferson streets.
For Easter: Spring lamb, broilers,
lambs tongues, fresh and picked;
Florida celery, young and fat veal,
everything to delight the stomach of
an epicure. C. Winkler, City Market.
George Wagners Son, florist; never
before in the history of Savannah have
the people had the opportunity of get
ting such beautiful cut flowers. Bull
street.
Frank werm, jewelry store. ia Bull
street. is showing a beautiful line of
ladies' watches and chains at popular
prices. Save money by buying at
Werm's.
When you want a first-class trunk
that's made by a first-class trunk
maker, call on Chatham Trunk Facto-
ny, Broughton, corner Abercorn.
Chas. A. Cox. the practical tin-plate
and sheet iron worker; tin, slate, tar
gravel and tile roofing; best work:
lowest prices. 142 Barnard street.
]. C. Postell, IS Bryan, east, has for
rent nice seven-room house No. 1906
Abercorn street, newly done up; rent
SIS; key at 1902. Also small fiat 431
Barnard: rent $40: key at 427.
H. H. Peoples & Sons. 125 Congress
street, is a splendid place to buy your
hardware, stoves, implements fire.
arms, cutlery and builders supplies
guns and ammunition.
The Richmond Business College is
daily receiving pupils from North and
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and
from all over the state of Georgia
Thoroughness is our motto.
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HOW GIRLS MAKE CIGARS.
The Hum of Machinery Mingled With Sousa's
Marches
Marches.

Anybody at homer" inquired a
Morning News reporter, as he lightly
tapped on the door of the office of the
American Tobacco Company's factory
on Bay street. 1t was rather an ex-
ira question, ii must be admitted, be-
cause there was a sound of the hum
of machinery and also a sound that is
not often heard in work. day place
a piano playing one of Sousa's marches
at a lively and interesting pace. And
If close attention was given, even down
on the first floor it was apparent that
exchange of conversation was taking
place among a great many people.
The inquirer was pleasantly met by
the superintendent of the factory, and
he was invited to walk in. The visit
had been made, without notice or warn
ing, in order that the factory and its
workers might be seen in everyday
dress and occupation, and the scenes
presented were just such as go on
every day in the week.
It was a very pleasant tour, through
the rooms filled with bright-looking
iii 49, GIL do DooS oS DCCo anu 90 ~OAA7
tented as possible. The first floor OF
the big brick building was not as in
teresting as the others, but some very
important work was being done by men
and boys, sorting out the tobacco and
preparing it for the shippers. Then
on the next floor the activity really
became apparent. Here there We're
girls, ranging in ages from about Il
years upward and all working in the
airy, bright and clean room, active
yet not evidently rushed. The girls
are not all pretty, but there was a
great difference between them and the
common idea about the factory girl
They look well kept, neat, and there
are some very pretty girls.
over at one side of the floor a num-
Der Of women were stemming the big
leaves that go to make the wrappers.
Further on rows and rows of younger
girls were punching" This is clever
work and requires nimble fingers and
accurate judgment-but the work is not
laborious. The bunchers seize a lot of
"fller' tobacco in one hand and short
leaf in the other, the filler is put in
side and the inner wrapper twisted
around it. A little machine gives the
bunch a rolling, and it is taken and
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1903-01-16
IA eoRRIsPoIDIIl DI PuERTO RICO IS DI ENsRO DI 1903
NOtaS parlamentariaS

Aver, 81 st nor Rsmos, refiriendo
dose & Ii minosfs federal, diio que
con iespanto oye que ID mincrfA pids
10 nulidad de lss actas.de los Dele
gadoe. p lrque este es eli 1nico sitio
donde puede ell puertorriquef1o le-
vAbtsr On vtz. despa6s del desastvs.
Al replicAr Ell sefIor de Diego al
senior Faj ardc, pidi6 que ID Ckmara
abriera ma il formation para que
insissrA cu&les faercn los Notarios
de MAysgt z. que sascr. .bieron do
cumentos fAlsos para fscilitAr voto
6 a'gunos electores. segha sfirma-
Go b cha por Ell sef1or FAjardo.
AL cerrarsa "a estos debit a se
suscit6 IN incidenta dessgradable
entire loss sefiores Ramos y Nadal,
por incluir este Ell nombre del A.
calde de Mana tt, en- el & zero de los
fancionarios que hsbfan fAlses d , ell
voto electoral.
e sen n He 'nandez Lopez en- nm
extensfsimo discurso impug 8 uno
por uao los cargcs hsth por 10
MINORS.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1903-01-16
La tests uniOniSta"
PROCLAMADA
En- la Camara de DelegadOS

En- Ia session de aver, e. &c nor de
Diego diio:
--El pensam ieL to unionista es nm
valladar q ae trAtA de contsner para
bien do nuestra patria, estss mise
rias Y estAs mexquindades de par.
lido. -"
Y el sefIcr R'mos dijo t'mbi6n:
--Deseo oir ell seirsalna cordG. que
entonado por todos nos avise que ha
llegado ell momento de convert'rnos
en- uno solo para sacar & nuestrs
atria do 10 situaci6n en- q g se en-
cuentra."
Sea muy en- hora buens. Las
grandes verdades y Las ideas justas,
se abren paso alli donde hay cora
xones & gsnerosos y hombres discre'
tcs que quieran reconocerlas y pro
clAmarlas.
va sAbfamos nosotros que llegsria
este momento, asi como aabeme q 1e
nsgAran otros aun mas cate gorlcos
elocuentes. Vimos claro el asun-
to v claro le ~eguimos viendo, y,
puestos en- 10 reA dad, ase egurAmos
que las resistencias nj trAnsito de
las grandes eoluciones serAn In
titles.
SerA! El pueblo 10 quiere y serA.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1903-01-16
UNA SENORITA
PUERTORRIQUENA
COMO VISTA
Tn lugar en- una Academia
"a DE ARTES DE FILADELFIA

r1La seforita porcef1a Mercedes vi
yes, hija del dt ctor aon Carlos vi
YES. Dicha sen }. ita sale en- el pro.
ximo vapor, acomps d ada de su Sc
nor padre, para los EstAdos . -ides
Uaed nulo de circunstanciss C oncu-
rren en- 9 .ta hecho, las cualas cir.
cunstAnciAs ena.tesen altamenta 6 Ia
seflorita Wives y dan iisa de 10 que
[. persevsranciA, el amor al est1aio
Y 10 virtud puaden en- 10 uiar.
La seforitA Wives empez6 en- B Or
celona, con gean aprovsehAmie ato,
sus estu dos de pintura. FL cl6n
de San Ciriaco hizo retornar & sa
se nor padre 6 Paert1 Ri 0, obi
gAndole & ponerse al fren 9 de 50 S
inseres - meTmados, y vlvir en- Ia
fiacA de cafS que tiene en- la cArrt t
ra de Aajuntss.
Mereedes, que es una jovsn como
de di.z y nuave a1 %, y nm alma
grAnde unidA q una faerza de volun.
tad admiral 9, contra 10 opinion de
On padre, que no tenfa fe en- el exi o,
empe zo & hAeer gestiones para CON
tinuar gus Q. tudlos en- los EstaaOs
Unidos.
Moviose much ,, encontro muchaa
difisultades, y por httimo, hlz) que
su padre escribiera al Consajero 9
Executive SEM MAtisnzo Csnt: s J.,
O aien se pnso & 10 v, z con el doctor
Lindsay. e ste escribi6 6 la Fines
arAt Academy de PhilAdelphis,
que contest6 era un POGO diffoil Q.
asunto, pero q ae envlAran . ganos
trAbsjos do l~ solicitante para juz
gar sus dc tes.> Asi se hz3 inne.
diAtAmente contestaron una preciosa
carta nj Comisionado Lindsay ofre
ciendo racibir la alumna sin que u
viera que Abor ar nada por los estu.
dios, d pesar de ser algo subiia IL
pensloa, felici5kndose de que la
plimera puertorriQuef1A que il g :e'
sara en- 10 Academic tuviera las do
tes que indicaban los trAbajos artfs.
ticos recibidos.
In aludiAa Accidents es 10 mejor
de los E ,tados Unidos. Asisten &
ella solo genie muy escC gtda por 10
relAtivamsnte cara que 80 10 pen
sion; no son admitidos kiao alumnos
que lianen ciettos estuaiC3, J por
d.i no posee elementos de qae are
cen otros de los esta b sscl nientos
similares que existsn en- IL Union.
La ss d 11ita Mercedes Wives, que,
como hsnos dicho, reune atlas cua
lidades, pc ir& en- breve plazo alcan'
gar an brillante porvenir bajo ell
punto de vista no solo artf stlco 81
que tambl6a pecuniario.
AIentamos & tan intelligence com.
patriota & proseguir CON 10 misma
f6 entusiasmo que hasta ahora ku )
g t1dios, seguros de qas el triulf J
mas esp endlao le .ta reserv&do.