The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
SANTA Busy NOW
Corporations Give Employees
Substantial Gifts.
Many Turkeys Are Being Dis
tributed Today.
ONEGIVES REALMONEY
Continental Creamery Company
Employees Get So Each.
Few Who Are Not Remembered
in Same Way.

Kris Kringle, head of the corpora
lions of Topeka one day each year our
ing the past half century, never was SO
beneficent nor smiled so broadly at MS
well doing as he did today in the
Christmas cheer to his employees: he
intends to raise the salaries of all MS
workers a week hence no doubt, Du-
his remembrances for faithful services
today is the finest touch of apprecia-
ton.
Money and turkeys, geese and goods
from stock, bonus concessions and ser
vice rewards all figure in the various
methods of Magnate Kringle.
Perhaps the greatest gift a state
Journal reporter could locate was that
of the Continental Creamery company
to its employees. I'VE are giving each
and every one of. our employees 50 in
cash. said Kris down there. What is
that five dollars each-to how many
people?" why we're working 100
lust now, was the answer. That's $500,
which could have been plncheds bnI
Kris is a good fellow &-
The Topeka street railway company
in the role of Santa is no crouch,
either Every one of the married men
working on it's lines gets a fine dressed
turkey and every single man gets
pair of kid gloves. There are lot of
happy smiles in that Christmas greet
ing. zFF~
The Edison company Claus is just as
kluu DIS ever. ne IDS d ~ oLSlAA ~ lis
holiday remembrance. To the man
who has been in service one year, he
gives per cent of a months wage, to
those who have been with him two
years, 10 per cent; three years, Is per
cent; four years, 30 per cent; five
years, % per cent. He has done that
for II years. and has so employees.
The Southwestern Furniture COM
pany st. Nick, who has 40 employees,
thinks geese are fine meat for his
A-fo n n
gives a dressed goose and to each I'M
married man gives furnishing goods
intended to help his chances-fine
neckwear for instance is one of the ar
ticles included in these packages.
Turkeys or their equivalent in mon
ey, if the turks can not be procured,
IS the generosity at the Shawnee Mills.
1t seems the last holiday pulled down
q lot of the birds.
At the Mid-Continent Mills. there
will be no work, but double pay for
the employees on Monday. How could
a tired laborers be better pleased-if he
isn't hog?
Twenty-seven employees of the To-
peka Pure Milk company will be asked
this evening to take home enough
brick ice cream for the Christmas feast
at their houses tomorrow. That comes
very near to taking care of the dessert
question.
The wholesale and retail grocery
houses conduct about the same system
of Christmas giving to employees.
They all open up their stock of can
dies nuts and like Christmas goodies
and let their workers take home the
holiday supply free of charge. Since
they all do it, that must be the finest
thing in their line and most appre-
ciated.
Among the dry goods stores. certificates
of employers rights for a day are dis
tributed and the busy RIBBON girls and the
glove filters and the floor walkers and
the needle sharpeners walk around, see
what they want, check it out and it Is
theirs for Christmas. Certain things like
mink furs are not subject to selection
perhaps, but that is the system in a nut
shell.
The clothing houses have a similar sys
tenn of playing His Nobs Frosty Whis
kers. In the gentlemen's furnishing goods
houses, certificates are given subject Il
filling by the clerks from the stock o.
goods. Lady cashiers. hookkeepers anC
the like are given cash instead of gents
wearing apparel and the system is wide
~ approved.
Nearly every company called upon wa.
doing something in the way of brighten
ing their employees holiday. Nearly every
employer tipped it off that something
was being done for their boss" Every
where the humdrum cares of the bushes;
seemed to have been forgotten in the clos
ing busy days of a successful year anC
tired bodies and tired nerves were rushed
along with the tonic of Christmas goot
cheer and expectation.