The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-29

bert Seaman ana Andrew TAFT, OF Corn
| WALTON Hudson. On their heels journeyed
| a party OF twelve Harvard men, all foot
ball candidates, who are working their
way through the university, as well as
playing for the glory and renown Of
their alma mater.
I'VE could supply 1000 harvesters TO
Kansas" said Superintendent Bealin Il
have had inquiries from 200 college men
in person and as many more by letter
who want to know what the work is and
| what it pays. Anybody can get $3.50 a
day and board, but workers must pay
their transportation. Hundreds of college
men will go to Kansas this summer If the
railroads. make rates sufficiently low The
work will last all summer. at least until
college begins again in the fall
The advance guard Of the college con-
tingent is already at work out in the
golden grain fields. Brawny athletes
from a dozen institutions of learning
are bucking the center and tackling low
the long lines of wheat shocks fer more
downs than have ever before been made
under the sun
the foreman are plain to the ear The
athletes attack the field with all energy
of a championship game. Once it is van
ished they pass on to the next. There
are 100, ooo. 0eo bushels to be harvested in
one hundred days.
The garnering Of wheat" said young
Prentiss. beats physical culture or gym
nastic work all hollow if you want to
attune your muscles for football and get
yourself into training. When we get back
in the fall see what games Wen be able
TO play"
By T. E. Gerow, superintendent of the
state free employment bureau of Kan
sas: We need right away 1000 more men
to work in the harvest held-good husky
football players. They are the ones who
line up against the rows of wheat and
gather tin. The football players strug-
gle against the wheat as an antagonist
and not against time. Those Yaye boys
hustle for all they're worth, and at sun
down the Harvard youths are ready &c
begin all over again. AS for the Prince
ton fellows, they seem to work in the
Nassau colored wheat as though they
were at home on the campus. It's a great,
all-America team working together. Prep
arations for the battle begin at o'clock
in the morning and the men go on the
field shortly after. Upon receiving in
structions for their line of attack the
signal to begin is given by the foreman.
Faces are drawn, teeth clinched and
rush for the wheat is made By several
mass plays the boys plough their way
down the field, leaving nothing but their
fallen foe behind. Time is called for
dinner at noon. The last half is played
with even more vigor than the first.
Once in each half few moments are
taken out for a slight rest. During the
fray the goal on the other side of the
field is reached several times and then the
fierce attacks are repeated.
By A. r. Jameson, superintendent OF
the Missouri free employment bureau:
College men receive S225 to $3.50 a day
and board. They work ten hours and it's
hard work, too. They eat at the same
table with the other help and sleep in
the hayloft of the barn floor when the
farmers homes are overcrowded- Under
the scorching sun these young yeilows
from the colleges must labor, with the
mercury lowering around the 10 mark.
They seem TO like it, though. Their en-
ployers sy that the college athletes tire
the best performers of all the imported
labor in the wheat fields
II have never seen such a demand for
labor. The farmers appear to be frantic:
many of them have even come hundreds
Of miles in the hope that by personal in
fuence they can get enough men to har-
vest their crops.
There are 1 think, two main causes of
the great demand for labor. The great
food which devastated the entire valley
of the Kaw river a little over a month
ago and washed away nearly all the
houses and other improvements also de-
stroyed the crops and made replanting
necessary. The people living there were
thus unable 10 assist in the harvest as
they usually do, because they had to re-
build their homes. The cities which were
in the path of the food have also drawn
heavily on our source OF harvest hands.
Directly after the flood the residents OF
these cities and towns were paying COM
mon laborers as high as IS and so a day.
But the mammoth wheat crop this
ye .r is in itself enough TO create an ov-
erwhelming demand for labor. Kansas.
which has long held a record a wheat
state. has broken its own record and
100 600. 600 bushels is now considered a con-
sentative estimate of the yield. The eli
matte conditions prevailing over Kansas
this year have been about the same for
the northern as well as the southern part
OF the state and the harvest came all at
once. I have been anticipating falling
of in the demand for men, but it has not