The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30

her Alien ", street s~t pop6lation say Fosey,
wake up, ard come make this out for me;
Eosey, the unshorn Hebrew supervisor
for this table, was then calmly sleeping OH
a pile of mail bags.
-Rosey, I'd like your job. You've got
oinch.' ;,
Now, girls, you'd be sleepy, too, II
you'd been up oil night like ! was, ne
Checkers at S. a day wrestle with that
Say. you all got work enough I'LL slt BACK
I'm thirsty,
SO long. Rosey. take ore fol. me.
In time the eye becomes practised enCugn
to sweep across the wide space OF the yellow
book to pick up together the name and the
address Another glance would ge' tne
room" age" and time in the district, with
perhaps the ~. s." for nationality; IL
took another glance to get the last registry
address If all was plain sailing the work
became, in a sense, automatic But. work
ingunremttingly with fingers IRA actsea WIN
the pen, il took ten hours to FIJI 7to caros.
Under twelve hours' cor slant labor the best
worker could not write more than i,n9
cards. SO the conditions were naIuel anu any.
the pay poorer than that OF the street
sw'epes.
This Job was the making OF Governor
Chairman Odell's famous card index. III
was farmed out, and the prices paid were
those set by the contractors. AS tne woik
of each registration day mus. De nlii n ~
work all day and all night for this PERIOD:
oThat adj said good pay the laxative
oil e pr aGirs with car fare and a
ten cent lunch I'll make about 30 cents, ana
this draught is so cruel III spend 'hh' 'o'
medicine
aStay tonight and work." repeated an
other eirl. Not much Me motherd be
hunt. .Work me to ~lno wy guess not To-
morrow's Sunday. You nee dit be Jollylng
me boss, I'm not coming. lean earn more
"' As night came on the groans were louder,
No girl was allowed to. go until her book
Saw boss, let me take it home and finish
III bring it back to-mGIrf W ". T nnss ooa,ed
you finish this and then 80 get your supper
and come back and work. .,
will YOU furnish supper money!
-Ies,S sneered another, he'll urnlsf
supper money, and car fare IL " rams
Their backs we're half broken, their
sides ached, but their youthful spirits were
1t 8 O'Clock the tired girls were gone
but the ranks Of the men were , uhnToken
They had settled down with swiftly fAing
silent pens for as long as they could hoio
out. Their silence, the unceaslhG work
of their pens, told how great was the stress
that sent them there to work Tor such num-
beers OF hours in order to earn plttance.
W lille the work became in time almost
automatic 1t was curious to note now .ne
mind ran with it, making Its deductions'
In n CITY in " hich great part OF the popuh
ton tic o ia SUPPRESSED to have it's belonging,
going from house to house, 1t was worth
ebserving that by far the largest part OF
the voters remained suostantial uLne,
not only in the district, but in the pace
from which they last registered.
In the far eastern and far western
dist riots names distinctly foreign had re-
NAMED in the same place, fifteen and twenty
years. Not infrequently voters re9l su;,
nationality was signifed by the letter.
marked Irish" or Ger" Contrary to thu
common belief, in some districts there Noul :
Re sD, z su and mot one Frenehmaa.