The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-09-15
PACKING s 95IOOL
A BIG SUCCESS
OTHER DISTRICTS SEND STUDENTS
Over 100 NOviceS Learning of the IntriCa-
cleS Of the Fancy Pack at the
Union Warehouses.

and women the packing school of the
Apple Growers Union was opened Mon
day and is proving big success. Many
beginners anxious to learn were turned
away because of lack of accommoda-
tion and another big class will be
taken on next week. Everybody is
learning to pack. Wealthy orchardists.
their wives and their Jap boy laborers
are all becoming adept at putting up
the, Hood River pack. College men
and school girls, real estate dealers
and candidates for political office,
university professors and common
tramps are all working together under
the supervision of Prof. Jack Robinson
and his able faculty, who are showing
the different methods of making the
worlds best apples ready for the
market.
1t is interesting to note the enthus-
iasm with which all the students get
busy and the school maintains long
hours from seven in the morning to six
in the evening. The first thing which
the instructors do after the students
have been assigned their places at the
long packing tables is to give them a
list of the different packs and have
them read the instructions which have
been printed. The culls from the early
apples are used by the students and
packed over and over again until they
become familiar with the arrange.
ment of each individual pack and able
to put it up in proper fashion. After
they have reached that stage they are
given the apples which are now coming
to the union for shipment, most being
the Wealthy and King varieties. With
these apples they are instructed how
to grade and put UP strictly fancy
pack after they have mastered the
sizes.
The students working on the fancy
pack are under very close supervision
by the instructors and they get ex~
perence IN putting up a commercial
pack. Next week the students who
will make good will be divided into
crews and sent to the orchards in
charge of an experienced packer to
work on the regular commercial pack.
The Kings and small scattering lots of
other varieties are now coming in and
in another ten days the big packing
rush will be CONNIE ED which will
keep the packers tusy probably until
the first of the yeat
The universal desire 10 know how To
put up proper lack among the
growers as well IS among the persons
who expect TO become professional
packers is gratifying to the Union,
Many ladies' have entered the school
and it is expected that next week
there will be an even larger proportion
of women and girls learning. Miss
Lizzie Mohr is the instructor who has
particular charge of the women
students and some of them are becom-
ing the best packers Of the school.
The other instructors who are assist
ing Prof. Robinson are Ralph Ordway,
| w. E. Dabney, c. l.. Davis, A, M.
Lockman, Ashley Miller, Fay Dins-
moore and John Lindsay. Each teacher
has 10 to IL students in charge.
The other districts have all come to
look to Hood River as the place where
the apple packing business has been
perfected in its highest state and
many of the other sections Of the
| Northwest have representatives here
to learn the Hood River methods.
There are nearly dozen students
| from distance who are here especially
to attend the school and go back to in
struct the people of their own country
in the proper handling of apples.
These students of the packing art pay
tuition to the Union for the privi-
leges of the school but there is no
charge to persons who agree to pack
for the Union this season in return for
being taught free. Among the
students from other sections are J. h.
| Glade DF I EYanly nf Dull
man, Wash, M. Pelver, of Albany, l..
f. Mcdonald, of Forest Grove, and
Robert Russell, Of Portland.
The local students who have regis
tered so far in the school are Harold
M. Horton. Mrs. Joe Hunt. Bertha
f. Hunt, F. j. Low, James II. Lem
mon, Mrs. f. j. Sinex, Mrs. Marian
MacRae, Mrs. G. M. Weaver, Iva
Malone, A. l.. Crocker, +. c. Scott,
II. Cooper, w. l.. Lantes, Steve Davis,
W. J. Hsson, W. P. Kemp, W. Il,
Cauller, H. A. Furrow, Clint Wood, +.
S. Wiggin, &C. L. Mowreader, John
Brake, Louis Il. Ireland, William p.
Channon, Irma Miller, Silvia Johnson,
Gertrude 0. Crosby, M. G. Carter,
Henry Steed, Louis Pregge, &. =.
Ellis, Fred Carnes, Carl Nobs, Ellis
worth d. Opie, Raymond l.. Boorman,
Carl Koehler, Stanley Walters, 5. ).
Kelley, F. H. Irwin, u. l.. Mason, j.
W. Carter Rae Il. Babson, W. l.
Slutz, Henry Schnarr, Fordham b.
, Kimball. Clarence Z. Coffin. William
McKeown, II. w. Cauller, Kohei
Dana, V. A. Reed, A. j. Crookspark,
ID. M. Hastin, Fred h. Bradley, M.
C. Hunter. Everett Service, A. j.
: Gossett, Fred r. Louth, W. A. Foor,
d. d. Brewster,l j. X. Johnson and
, wife, r. l.. Clark, John S. Shields, f.
| A. Hentz, John W. Weaver, William
X. Warner, Sd, Joseph 0. Harris,
: Walter and Archie RadliH, Gerald l..
Massey, William Baker, j.. }. Down
= ing. Victor Brevoort, A. V. Cazenaye9,
II. C. Elder, A. M. Carter, d. b., w.
W. and B. II. Stokely, G. H. Lehn,
: Fred Curtis, Newell Fording, Albert
7 Brunquist, Earl Slutz, Bruce Mcln-
4 tosh, Robert A. Buck, II. l.. Capelle,
! Ray A. Hall, G. d. Hoyt, Jack Batch
E eler, W. {. Duncan, o. A. Ensmnger,
. Howard .Isenberg, Bert Edwards, Bert
Lowry, Roy Blagg, V. walker, G. P.
Candee, Mrs. J. H. Suthof.
Mr.. and MRS. w. >. montgomery
went to Portland Monday, and she
went on the to her home in Greenfield,
r Ind, after a months visit here with
s her son, James Il. Montgomery. Mr..
k Montgomery, Sr., will remain in Ore
d pon as the State Manager for the
: American Central Life Insurance Com
n pany. of indianapolis, making his
: headquarters in Hood River. Mrs
h Montgomery will probably return tC
8 Hood River with her daughters il
Y the spring to reside here permanently
e Cordwood for sale at 81 a cord on th'
ground. Phone. Earl Bartmess, s2'