The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-07-17
STUDENT HARVESTERS.
Coliegians to Spend Vacations
on Kansas Wheat Farms.
Observation-Disclosures

Men From Cornell, Harvard and
Other seats Of learning to Earn
$3.50 Per Day BY the sweat Of
Their Brovs-Thousanda OF Hands
Needed to Gather the Crop.
Tuxedos, dancing pumps and dress
shirts laid aside for coarse suits Of
store clothes, overalls. rough dark
blouses or jumpers and wide trimmed
straw hats forty students OF Prince
ton, Harvard and Cornell recently
shipped from New York for the
southwestern wheat belt. says the New
York Times There, with the motley
gangs Of laborers, they will work in
the fields from sunup till dark, gar
nering the bumper crop. Then at
night they Will turn in at the roughly
improyised camps Ia the farmyards or
sleep out in che open. This Tor their
health and $3.50 day and board,
which they have been guaranteed.
The students who win turn farm
hands during their vacations, accord
ing to Superintendent Bealin of the
state free employment bureau, with
whom they were booked" are q husky
looking lot III fellows, nearly an Of
them DC Tie football type. large,
rawboned, broad shouldered. Some OF
them have never done any hard work,
but they have physiques, Mr. Bealin
says, that ought TO stand almost amy
amount Of strain. and seem to have
not only determination to work hard.
but uneoncealed enthusiasm over the
prospect of three months ia the har-
vest field
Since tie appeal Tor men came IL MI
Bealin from the Kansas farmers,
through the state labor bureau at TO
pelza be has received hundreds Of lat-
tiers from men, young and Old, asking
what work was offered, how long II
walld last what wages would be paid
and what IaNroad fare could pa se7
cured, With tho FIRST days batch came
Several letters written on excellent lin
en- stationery that bore the monograms
and names Of really .swell7 seaside
hotels.
Tie writer's said they were college
students who wanted to work during
vacation and modestly said that they
were ablebodied, possessed of some
strength and were willing I'd, work
hard. Superintendent Beali1's answers
that the farmers I'll Kansas would pay
Sc 80 day and board, that the season
would continue for 100 days from July
/ and that transportation could be had
for $2685, round trip, brought a NUM-
Der III responses Several young men
who were Living near New York went
/ personally to the free employment bu-
reau office In that city and waited their
turn III the long line Of poor men and
women who were seeking q place to
earn Il living.
/ Princeton has sent the largest gang
Dc hands Twenty students front
the New Jersey college have signed.
They have BY common consent placed
themselves under the leadership Of III.
/ j. Simpson and 9 n. Frentiss Of the
class of 06 smaller gangs arc made
up of Cornell and Harvard students,
/ while there have been three or four
from la sale Institute Of Technology
Of Troy, ". 4. Among recent additions
to the list were three medical students
who live iii Brooklyn
sLast year, said one Of the students,
/ d stocky. sunburned young man who
wore 4 light suit, low shoes, heiiotrope
i socks and d panama hat with colored
4 band, Il dallied away my entire vaea-
ton. had 4 lot of sport IN the same
old way. but it certainly did get tire.
some i want diversion ! have never
travelled much IN the west, and I'D like
| to learn about the country and the peo-
Pile A hundred days Of hard work
wouldn't hurt amy nan, would To-"
THE students ire not the only per
sons going from New York 70 help har-
u vest the Kansas crop Of wheat. A large
i number of men of all sorts and eondi
tions. from the unemployed mechanic
to the Bowery loafer, apply at the EN-.
ployment bureaus office for informa
ton al 70 what the job IS. The super.
intendent Is eircnmspect ID choosing
the men I'd send west The man who
does not strike Mr.. Bealin as d sober
well intentoned man gets turned
down Most az the applicants how
ever. Mr. Bealin says, are fine appear
ing workingmen, above the average
Many of them cannot go because
they say, they have not the money e
pay The fare. They had expected tha'
transportation would tie furnished fret
Of charge. Such a practice, Mr.. BealiI
| says, would be dangerous, as many mel
/, would get tickets To Topeka and theI
leave the train this side Of there, AMI
! the farmer would not be benefited bs
! his outlay. Other still less scrnpuloul
men might drop oif at Jersey city ant
sell their tickets
The demand is 50 urgent in Kansa
that no chances can BE taken. Thou
sands Of men are needed there to har
vest tile crop. and there is q possibilit,
That much grain viii be wasted or &c
str0yed because Of tile inability to gar
ner 1T before damaging weather sets in
The statement of needs sent 70 MI
Bealin shows that IA Russell county
Kan, $500 men must be had within
few days 1,500 il Pawnee county
1900 iii Reno county "a other coun
ties the situation Is similar.
class sand IT, Kansas.
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