The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-09-14
IKEY VISITS A cANNERY.
Los Gatos, Cal. Aug. 81. A. @.

lkEY VISITS a CANNERY.
Los Gatos, Cal. Aug. 81, A. Q. !.
Dear Folks !,
Say! Have you ever been to Can
Can? No, mean Cannery. have.
You see it was just this way. AS 1 am
always looking for experience anyhow, 1
went up to Haywards where the big
Hunt Bros cannery is located. I chas-
ed myself into the Office and says to
young dude on high stool, "Say mis-
ter, do you care if 60 into the cannery
and rubber, if 1 promise not to fiirt with
the girlss" You'd ought to seen the icy
stare that dude turned on me. It
frosted the cheek had next to him and
the cold mitt he handed out was too big
for the catcher of the home team. Says
be, "I'm very sorry, young man, but
you see we are quite busy, and your
anatomy might be in the road of the
truckmen in the aisles. You'd better go
to the platform on the side and Just
look in the DOORS" Me skidoo! Nit,
thinks I. When there's beauty show
goin on it amt Ikey that's peekin' in
any doors or takin' in any side entran-
ces, SO l made up my mind to play a
trump on him. You see I knew this
was where the Home and Bengal brands
of goods were put up, SO I whips out
one of the Boss business cards and
says, "Well, I'm Ikey. Ne and the Boss
has sold your goods up next door to the
north pole for the last ten years and I
sort Of thought I'd like to see how
they're put up but maybe you don't
want folks to know. P'raps you can't
stand the X rays turned on yopr bust
ness SO it's all right" just then, the
man who,tips off this dudes salary to
him every week comes over and takes
my card and says he'd be pleased to
show me through and from that time
on, l was the real thing from Mizzoury.
When he couldn't stop with me any
longer, he gave me the freedom of the
cannery and said I could swap gum
with the Portugees girls il l wanted to.
I found out he was the Boss himself. II
you ever 60 to the Haywards cannery,
don't tackle the dude hunt for Hunt.
1t wasn't very busy day AFTER. all.
There were only about $50 hands work
ing when they have room for 800.
They were canning peaches, pears and
plums and the way some of those girls
made their fingers and knives fly was
certainly good for defective vision.
Was you ever inside of threshing ma
chine when it was going full tilt? Or
the central figure of q swarm of bees?
Well these girls had 'em both beat to a
whisper. And clean we'll, when the
smellings committee gets through with
the Beef Trust there won't be any job
for 'em at this cannery. It's clean from A
to lizard. No flies either. When the
cannery starts up every fly in the coun-
try packs his suitcase and goes to the
seashore for the season. Every body
moves but Father" is the California
summer song.
The reason they were working short
handed was because they couldn't get
any more help. Some Of these were
college girls spending their vacation
profitably. Cottages are provided for
them or they can bring their tents and
camp if they wish. There is restau-
rant and pavilion for entertainments
when work is slack. ss.z,i; a B. &.
4 Everything is done by piece-work and
to show you the difference in the way
folks work, I got to see the wage sheet
for the day before and it ranged from
50 cents to They have modest
little woman ''caged Mp where she can
see what going on, that has the whole
chang under her finger tips and they
amt 90 big either. She seems to know
every emplo by their front handle
and can tell you u six o'clock this
morning Whist the cannery did the day
before and what il cost - Do il. What
each girl did and what she made II it..
Take her Any ON ~ fruit without d Ia,
sbel and shs'll teil ~ lit u III III tho
grade of q and tbs getiifrs name that,
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