52 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. 



No employee is allowed to loan or borrow money while in the plant, 

 under penalt}' of discharge. This is simply a measure of protec- 

 tion for the employees. The paying is done by each man calling 

 out his number and receiving his check. It sometimes happens, 

 though very rarely, that a man comes into the office and says that 

 someone has called his number and received his money. He is 

 therefore minus his week's wages. 



The company's restaurant has two cooks, a dish washer and 

 head waiter, and here are served 15 cent and 20 cent meals to fore- 

 men and office employees. The common working people either 

 sit down in their work-room and munch a cold lunch or go to a 

 restaurant for a 10 cent or a 15 cent dinner or to a beer saloon 

 where they can get a free lunch with a 5 cent glass of beer. In 

 the winter of 1893-94 a long, gloomy room was fitted up on the 

 dock. Its gloom was partially dispelled by electric lights and it 

 was well heated and provided with pigeon holes in which dinner 

 pails might be put. For some unknown reason this room is not 

 run this year. 



On Thursday, January 3rd, the " K. C." restaurant sold two 

 hundred and fifty dinners while the three saloons in the immediate 

 vicinity fed an equal number from their free lunch counters. This 

 lunch in one saloon consisted of hot stew, onions, cheese and rye 

 bread. At O'Brien's across the way they had sardines, bologna 

 sausage and rye bread. This saloon draws the color line very 

 sharply, having a sign above the counter which reads, " No blacks 

 allowed to help themselves." 



A large number of policy shops were in full blast a little farther 

 up the street. Their drawings are held at 12:00 and 5:00. It 

 is said that a person has one chance in one hundred to make any 

 money on his drawing. 



The packing house provides scantily for anything in the cloak- 

 room line for the working people. There are no pleasant lunch 

 rooms or rest rooms for the girls, some two hundred of whom 

 work in the house. Half of this number are under sixteen. In 

 the summer a large number of girls are employed whose ages range 

 from eight to twelve. The girls are released from work ten 

 minutes before the men, and they pass out and have their time 

 taken by the time-keeper at the gateway, and are well on their way 

 home before the men come out. Employees buy their working 

 linen from the house. This is washed free of charge in the com- 

 pany's laundry. Armour makes no gifts to his employees. The 

 sanitary arrangements throughout the plant are fairly good — more 

 serviceable than elegant. The company has no system of profit- 



