Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-21
WHAT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORKER HAS TO
 DO WITH RESULTS

Cwritten Specially for The Bullettn.)
 Talking about farmers who have succeeded, there's one out in Sioux City, Iowa. who has got me guessing.
 His name is Peter Reard; and 1 don't know whether to hold him up as & model for others to admire, or as a horrible example for the rest of us to shrink from.
 Suppose pass along the facts first sC you can know as much about him Gs l do, and then we'll talk 1t over oa sort of even terms,
 He's of German birth. He struck Sioux City twenty nine years ago, when he was twenty one years old. The reason he stopped there was be- cause his money wouldn't take him any further. He had gone vest just aS far as his last dollar would carry him. That last dollar was used up at Sioux City. So he got off there.
 Sioux City was young and growing and very big-headed and very trust ing. It confidently expected to be- come the metropolis of the entire west in a very short time. It was a boom town with a vengeance. Everybody expected everybody else to get rich and so everyone was willing to trust anyone Though he hadn't a dollar of his own left, young Reard managed to find some one willing to lend him S117. With this he paid in advance the rent on a patch of seven acres in the suburb known as Greeneville.
 Just at that time. more people were selling real estate in Sioux City than were working it. There were more city lots in the market than cabbages or radishes or onions or tomatoes. So Peter ReaEd went into the business that was least crowded, and showed at once the loudest demand and the smallest supply. He proceeded to raise the radishes and onions, etc, which the real estate boomers wanted, but either were too busy or didn't know how to raise for themselves. He's been at it, ever since; is at it now.
 He has made money,-much money. Just how much he doesn't tell, but it Is known that he has 450 acres of land worth perhaps $500 an acre, and col lects monthly rents varying from S10 to $25 each from fifty seven houses which he owns in the city. He admits that he has at least $250, 900, which is regarded as a decidedly conservative estimate.
 That first year, after paying back the S117 of borrowed money he made thousand dollars clear profit. Next year he married and his Wife,-WhO manifestly wasn't New York girl pitched right in with him and helped about his hot-beds and his truck pat ches. The two of them earned $1,500 the second year, and $2,O00 the third Then they bought an eighty acre farm tor a hundred dollars an acre They paid Cnly a thousand dollars down be- tause they wanted all the money they could get to put into more hot-beds. Also into greenhouse,--the first greenhouse ever erected in Sioux City. From that time on the money came E, hand over fist.
 That first year on the farm he hired Rne man and put up one greenhouse end put up more greenhouses. He had a monopoly of the trade in his line and he made the most of it. AS fast as the money came in he in vested it. either in improvements on his farm, or in city property on growing streets. He is doing exactly that now.
 Nov, then; as to the question whether Peter Reard is really a howling success or not. Let's look at his own story from two sides. He says:
 T worked from twenty to twenty two hours day in those times. I could afford to, for I was cleaning up S125 d day in the boom times. l was on the market with produce at 4:30 o'clock in the morning and I was marketing second load at l o'clock at night at stores that kept open late.
 When did you sleep?"
 Why. on the market wagon to and from town. and then a little snooze at home. Sure, it was hard but l did 1t for ten years, and Pm hale and hearty and eating three square meals day yet. Is anybody doing any better? I still work sixteen to eigh- teen hours a day and no layoffs for picn4cs or parties"
 That's the first side Of it. He worked from four o'clock in the morn ing to one o'clock the next morning because he was cleaning up $125 a day" Now S125 day is big pay for farmer man. But don't you think he earned it? How many of us would bs willing to work from four o'clock In the morning to one o'clock the next mernin. day after day and week after week and year after year. get ting our rest by little "snoeZes" on the market wagon while going to and from toWn.-how many of us would be willing to do that for $125 day?
 l think I'd be willing to do it for