The Detroit times., 1910-08-12

sl' <>r,~>,rxxx, r-,,r men or paterson
\ N A'OfseIHf DALE began to look
along the valley. They saw poor
homes and little girls by the hundreds
s4in them. That meant cheap labor.
The coal fields at hand OF course
meant cheap fuel. 80
30 mining town by mining town
now has it's mill for its mine.
Col Roosevelt on his trip didn't
overlook the little silk girls and the
mills they work In IS hours week.
One afternoon he stopped his auto
( ia front of the silk mill at Jessup, IL
miles from Scranton. He went in and
\ asked the manager, W. +. Jacobs, II
be might go through.
only with permission from valen-
(. tine Bliss, the owner said Manager
Jacobs.
Col. Roosevelt telephoned and OBJ
tanned the desired permission
How He Draws the Line.
also asked Mr.. Bliss for permits
\ sion to 60 through the mill He re-
fused
people come and want to go
IthrOugh who don't know anything
about silk mills he said. Only the
people who understand mill life ought
TO say anything about 1t or they give
the wrong impression"
6upt- Robt w. Souter, OF the Hale
don Throwing Co., Scranton, took me
through his mill later. The girls who
have worked in several of the mills
4 ray they are much the same.
While Col Roosevelt was In the
4. Jeesup mill he stopped to talk here
and there with the girls. went to
q Annie Gavala, fourteen, one with
\ whom he talked and who would know
something OF mill life, as Mr.. Bliss
\ nUggested. since she has worked in
one long enough to become an ex-
X pert.
II WIS standing lacing when he
come mp" said Annie.
He. meant only one person TO her
He said, How much do you make
= week. told him 81 II was work
Ing every day.
Then he said after minute,
You're . good little girl, Annie 7"
Annie isn't very big for her age.
Hor face didn't have the soft look
oS most girls OF fourteen. The skin
locked firm and set like that on her
hands Her shoulders dropped.
II was after a days work that she
talked. A days work means stand
\ ing from In the morning till noon,
xend then standing again from 12:45
till 5:45, with the hands flying in and
out OF spread skeins of silk, tying In
tie cotton thread that keeps the silk
flbers from tangiing.
Annie lis Polish, but she speaks
kcod English. She Is bright look
ing little girl. asked her TO tell me
all about her work in the mill
Began Work When II.
81 Il guess I was eeven when I first
4 worked she said. Il had to stop
and walk TO school when the law
tonne on us. till Feb. 5. Then Twas
\ flurteen.'
f7f1c law went into effect Jan. of
3 this year,
Il used 20 get IS in two weeks she
8 vent on. Then got IS In two
weeks. Then 81 In two weeks. Now
I'm on piece work, and l make some
times $12 In two weeks, sometimes
Il 1l4. Why, make almost as much as
Z anyone could The most could ever
get would be s1.20 day
what do you do with your money!"
i asked.
Annie looked surprised and waved
one hand toward her mother. Her
& father, Mike Gavala, clean, good
1.aturcd man, stood in the doorway
and laughed the kind OF laugh that
says. You don't know much about
y I'll"
Sure To her mother he said.
what you think, with all these?"
K And his pipe circied toward the Ave
Il other little Gavalas standing around.
Mike Gavala makes s1.35 day as
section hand ON the railroad that runs
1,ast the Gavala door. The Gavala
\ door IL one In row OF little straight
up-and-down beard houses opening
onto the cinder street.
There were four rooms. Every inch
\. behind the little shed-like house was
rade into garden.
my money and Annas money not
much for so many" he said Rent
Is, potatoes 80 cents bushel -four
sam 4 100-lb. sack, and meat to boil
10 cents pound.
asked Anna what she did for fun.
"Oh. walk up the street." she said.
One Of her little shoulders went up
end one down. And the shoulder that
went down seemed to try to meet the
& hlp on that side that was high
bunch .a,,,4,s. 81. {. s, ts&
That comes from shifting the weight
onto one foot TO rest.
A neighbor woman who lives near
. A&nn on Second-st., Scranton, heard
3 >he question about what Anna did for
e8he goes TO dances in the dance
In1l ~ the saloon, and sometimes she
dc<en't ret home till ~ o'clock, now,
6on't you, Anna?r she said.
well. what's anybody going TO dor
,a|d the little girl.
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John p. Griffin. Dead.
n BOSTON, AuG. liza telegram from
Is )ro4i6ence announces the death ia
1900 cIfy q John d. Grimm, one OF the