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40. No. 3 Engine House. — A sample plant, four day firemen 

 at $2. Nine men in boiler room. Four men in engine room. 

 Three skilled men, others laborers. None in labor organizations. 

 Average wage for twelve hours, $2.25. Most all married. Some 

 few are house owners. 



41. Canvass Room. — This foreman has been in the house twent\' 

 years and has been in this room since '85. He has accumidated 

 quite a snug sum, having at the present time about $5,000 out on 

 interest, all of which he has made here. He is unmarried and has 

 the reputation of being the best dressed man in the bottoms. His 

 parents are members of the Lutheran church. Five girls work 

 here, earning 85 cents per eight hour day by da}^ work, averaging 

 90 cents per day on piece work (sewing hams at 2214 cents per 

 hundred). There is one widow hei^e; the others are unmaried 

 girls. All live at home. They are good, steady American girls, 

 some of whom have been here for nine years, three Protestant and 

 two Catholic church mend:)ers. They have the nicest work room 

 in the plant — they sew canvass and coarse bagging and are not. 

 therefore, necessarily good seamstresses — ham sewing is done at a 

 long table which has little tables projecting from it, behind each 

 one of which is a little stool on which a girl sits. These stools 

 give no support to the back of the one sewing. 



42. LoiAi, Shipping. — Four laborers, three teamsters, all out- 

 side work, wages, I7j4 cents per hour; two are married, one is a 

 house owner, men of average intelligence, some are lodge mem- 

 bers. 



43. Packing Rc^om. — For all sugar-cured meats. Forty men 

 with wages from Si. 50 to $2.50 per day, they are all married, are 

 fairl}' intelligent, some few are house owners. Four clerks and 

 weigh masters, earning from $2 to $2.50 per day. These are good 

 intelligent men. A skilled tester who sorts the meats into different 

 brands — "Gold Brand" ham is the best. 



44. Livery Stable. — Thirty different nationalities — no negroes. 

 Eight drive dump carts; others delivery and freight Avagons. Men 

 earn from ,Si.5o to $2 per day (ten hours). Some few own homes. 

 A few are in lodges. Each man cares for his own team; fifty-four 

 horses in the stable. Foreman has been here sixteen years. 



45. RousTABoui'S. — Thirty-seven men, six of whom are negroes, 

 no foreigners in this gang. These men have no fixed work, but go 

 to any department Avhich needs more labor temporarily, conse- 

 quently the gang is constantly changing. For ordinary work they 

 receive 15 cents per hour; for boiler room work, 17)^3 cents per 

 hour; for firing, 20 cents per hour. These men are mostly renters 



