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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1919)
12 B THE OMAHV SUNDAY" BEE t NOVEMBER 9, 1919. HO W WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE- RETIRES -AT 9, . - RISES AT I A. M. He "Even Learns to Work in His Sleep on Occasions; U a Real Veteran. Perhaps you have never Setn htm. For there are many customers that he milkman has never seen, al though he has been leaving milk on their back doorsteps for many months. He comes around to many i: houses in the earliest hours of the morning, and if you are staid and middle-aged, nothing short of a death in the family would keep you pwake' until that hour. You may never see that man who places the milk there every morning, rain or shine, hot or cold. Do you know what it means to peddle milk? To peddle milk, to possess' a milk route all your own and to work it on the one-man plan v is the most heart breaking toil that can be imagined. Here is the pro gram followed by a man who did that vtry thing, did it for many years and now that he has stopped, often regrets that he is 'not still do ing it. Out of Bed at 1 A. M. Every morning the year round he was Out of bed at 1 o'clock. He would go out to feed his horse, and then prepare himself a breakfast while his faithful steed was eating. It is that happy season of the year that is not too hot or too cold, Ait mnn as he has eaten he can hitch the horse to the wagon and start away. If, on the other hand, it is in the hot weather, the milk must be kept on ice until the last moment. This means getting up even earlier, for the milk must be taken off the ice and the wagon loaded. This means at least an-r other half hour. The same thing holds true in the winter. The milk must be kept in a place that is suf ficiently warm to keep it from freezing until time to start out on 'lhe road, and this, too. means load ing the wiiaon in the bitter cold of the early morning. Even at that it may freeze and you may find three inches of frozen milk jutting from the top of your bottle. Then, after he has started, from the time the house of . his first us- " tomer is reached, he must start on the run and keep up his pace until the last. customeris supplied. This man had a milk route on which he sold about 250 quarts each day. That meaDt that if he got on the 'road by 2 o'clock, or 2:30 at the lat est, he would not be able to get back home until after 9 o'clock. Not Like Good Old Days. In the old days, wheiv everyone put a pail ,on ' the back pVh and the milkman poured milk into it from a can, the proposition of clear ing up after the day's business was comparatively easy, but nowadays, when everyone takes milk in bottles, it means that in addition to washing all the' cans and thoroughly steriliz ing them, all the bottles must be i "washed more than 300 of them a day on a route of fair size. A route of that size will not ' finance a machine for washing bot tles, so each one of them' must be washed painstakingly by hand, and sterilized the same way. By the time that is finished it is noon. After dinner there may be a short respite jn which the hard-pushed milkman can get about two hours' sleep. Then he is up and at it again. The milk to be sold the next day must be collected frt5m the farmers and bottled. This takes most of the afternoon; for again the size of the plant rs a handicap. A large bottling ma chine that is, one that will fill four or mote bottles at time, is usually beyond the reach of the small milk man, so that they must all be filled one at a time. Not long ago this The Milkman? :..:.-::. sstsisyM'siiMKitfr1- r Y-'S$ :- '''y'-i' '-Ja. tinis mmi 1 1 ii was done by pouring the milk from a can into the bottle, but now there is a small filler that will hold 10 quarts of milk, and fill the bottles much more, rapidly than the old method, anil with' no loss from spilled milk. - By the time that all the milk is bottled, collected and iced, it. is get ting well intd-the evening, and even though it is early, there are things to be done about every welf regula-' ted house that always fall to the men folks, and the milkman, ' al though he has little in common with the rest of his race, must do them. During the 11 years that he ped dled milk' this man says it was seldom earlier than 9. o'clock at night wheiv he was ready to retire. That means, between four and five hours of sleep before starting out again. Averaging an bour or two of sleep during the day. it makes a total of seven hours. How many of us would get along with five hours' - sleep for 11 years' at a stretch, -even though there was an opportunity for a nap during the day? v And There's the Weather. .There are too many kinds of weather to combat with, and a milk man takes a professional pride in getting his, .-customers supplied at the time that they have been ac customed to receive their milk. If they are relying on the fresh bottle of milk for their breakfast coffee, ir must be there, no matter what the difficulties may he. If it rains the milkman merely hunches his shoul ders together a bit, and clad in a raincoat and rubber boots fares forthto return a few hours later, wet to the skin. If a blizzard breaks over the country round he sticks his feet in felt boots, and if he lives in the country, ties a shovel on his wagon and digs his way into town. If there are" drifts to wade through pud rtaths to break, going is slow, and it means an earlier start. 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If some cold winter night you hear a few thumps and bangs, just arrive at the conclusion that your milk man has fallen down your stairs after having slipped on the ice that you neglected to remove. A light, sifting snowfall after a cold snap means a financial loss to the milkman besides sundry and numerous bruises. The patches of ice everywhere are-hidden, and he is constantly expecting to have his feet shoot skyward, and his"bottlesJ smash on the ground beside him, and what with the present price of milk and cream, and the cost of the glass bottles, a crash resulting in a few, broken bottles means quite a bit 'financially. Knows How You Keep House. A milkman knows more about how you keep house than anyone outside of your personal family, and often he knows a great deal about your personal characteristics. He takes a look at the empty bottles you leave out for him to take away, and he can almost tell from them the sort of housekeeper you ; are. There are the bottles that are frank ly dirty, that have not been washed at all with yesterday's milk,oured and hardened on them. That is per haps the worst sort of housekeeping from the milkman's standpoint. The next upward grade is the housewife who rinses her bottles in cold water and then sets them out. Rinsing in either hot or cold water will' never clean a milk bottle, be cause the fat in the milk causes the glass to become greasy, and it is harder 'than evei1 to clean when the milkman gets home, because the grease has become so hardened that it is -difficult to remove it. The good housekeepers thorough ly wash their bottles, boil them, and set them out. That brings joy to tht heart of the milkman," because, al though he washes and sterilizes all the bottles before I they - are used 'again, it is not nearly so difficultif JAMES L. HANSEN Clarinetist Empress Theater Orchestra. Teacher of Saxophone and Clarinet. Phone Walnut 4518-2. 607 Republic Bid;., Kansas City, Mo. 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Anyone will tell you that owning an oil lease is the safest s speculation in the oil game. ; I have divided Section 43 (640 acres) in Pecos County, Texas, into lots, each lot being a little larger than $ of an acre (105.6 feet square) , on which I am, for a short time, off er- ing the ; : : 'i, .c. :- , ' ' , ; Lease at Twenty-Five Dollars Perv Lot A block 21 1.2 feet square, larger than an acre, may be had for $100.00 THE DURATION OF THE LEASE IS FOR 5 YEARS It is a matter of record that leases on tracts of less size than acre in the Burkburnett district have sold as high as $9,000. Those same tracts sold a few months ago at less than $50. Acreage in the oil fields that could have been bought for a small sum, now command wonderful pres. ' ! Why Did These People Invest? ' Because , - - - '.' ;.' The large companies coming into the field, pioneered the way, and made their small parcels extremely , valuable. v . Owner, W. J. Suite 203, I. W. Hellman Bldg. Buy Before the Boom A drilling campaign is now on in Pecos County. Buy before the advance that is sure to come. A well will soon be started on Section 42. Prominent geologists say that Pecos County is under laid with the largest unbroken formation in Texas, also that the state has hardly been scratched. f Get in before the boom and higher prices. Develop ment will soon be going on all around Section 43. MAIL YOUR CHECK today for as many lots as you wish and assignment of lease will be sent you, ready for recording, by RETURN MAIL. Mail that check today. FURTHER DATA GLADLY GIVEN. STADLHAN Los Angeles, Calif. they are clean in- the first place. There are a few housekeepers on every milkman's route that are of the sort that are so- clean "that itJ hurts." This type thoroughly cleans and sterilizes the bottles and saving the old caps, puts them back on the bottle so that not the least bit of dust will collect in them. Even these bottles must be rewashed and sterilized. . ' - He Has "Blue Saturday. A housewife has her "blue Moni day," and the blue day in the milk- man's life is Saturday. There are many people who will not leave money out in the milk bottles for fear that it will be stolen, and there are others who will not mail .either the money or a check covering the amount of their milk bill unless rhey receive a voucher. The milk man is too busy to bother with ex tensive bookkeeping, so on Satur day he takes the little gray book in which he keeps a record of how much you owe him, and journeys around from customer to customer, collecting the week's milk money. This takes hours of 1 his precious tme, and means walking a few miles ach ' Saturday more than uoon the other ' days. And the average milkman, by the way, walks 7.. ' i- - f ia : i - j in me vitiniiy 01 iu nines a uay. This is the average milk dealer who owns aone-man plant, aid whose route ' is mostly in the rei dential district. Usually he has fe stairs to climb, scarcely ever more than one flight, and seldom that. So he misses the heart break. For is it not heartbreaking to climb four flights, of stairs to the top floor of an apartment block to give one of your customers a pint of milk and find a note in the bottle that they have gone.out of the city for the day and do not want any milk? There is nothing to do but to sigh philosophically and , tramp down again. . Now the Modern Big Route. The wagon man employed by the larger milk dealers, who operate several teams, is a different variety of milkman but his life is. by no means a bed of roses. . Although his hours are of the sort that would put an alley cat to shame, he is re lieved of much of the drudgery in cident to the conduct of a milk route. His business is to deliver the milk, keep up the business and the good will of the customers, and nothing more. .. It is not up to him to wash any bottles or collect the milk. In many cases, and indeed in most cases, he does not even have to load his wagon before starting out, All he has to do is arrive at the starting point at the designated time, har ness his horse and cast off. When he gets back to the barn there is really "nothing to do until tomor row, for his bottles and cans are washed for him by machinery and bis job is only to deliver the milk. Meefs All Sorts of Folks. Milkmen meet with all sorts and varieties of humans those few they da meet. Some sorfs of house wives are actually terrorizing to those usually cheery purveyors of milk, for, in the words of one of them, "You tan never tell what they are going to do next." He tells with a reminiscent grin of a certaingood housewife who woke up in the early' hours of one morning-and hearing the rattle of Lthe bottles on the back porch, sud denly decided that she wanted an other pint of milk. DoVvu the stairs she dashed madly and out on the street. ' 'When the milkman, whistl ing cheerfully, swung around the corner of a house next door he was greeted by-a sight for the gods. There she stood, panting, clad only in a nightie, ''Carpetv slippers and a Pomeranian dup, while her husband, 'with his touseled head stuck out the window was shouting at the top of his voice, and amid frenzied ges ticulations was admonishing his faithful spouse that she was mak ing a spectacle of herself. Nothing daunted, she asked for and received her pint of milk. Clutching it to her brest with one hand, and hold ing the shivering pup with the other, she carpet slippered her way back into her house. That is just an example of what one milkman saw, and every man who has ever worked on a wagon has many tales of the same sort to tell, and some that are more excit ing. In the dark hours of the early morning the lone milkman on a de serted road runs more or less danger from petty holdup men. One man tells of being stopped on a lonely street one morning by a gruff indi vidual who demanded his cash. The irgue, Out i front of milkman did not wait to a reaching into the rack in him grasped a quart bottle of milk and smashed.it over' the would be holdup man's head. Not waiting to see the result of his blow, he shout ed "Giddap, Napoleon," and, de parted the spot on the run. And Now About Profits. -' From a financial'standpoint milk dealing is a lucrative proposition, for the dealer makes an average of S cents on a quart of milk. On a 250-quart route, one of the one-man variety, this means a profit of $12.50 a da v. Out of this must come aU overhead expense. There are bot tles and caps to be purchased. There is a horse to feed and care for. a wagon to keep in repair, ice and bottle Caps to buy and many other expenses must be met. The "average upkeep of a 250-quart route taking everything into con sideration, is about $5 a day, accord ing to an old timer cm the job. The upkeep has increased in recent years, hut there has been a corresponding increase in the profits, so that it amounts to practically the same thing. It is a seven-day job, so that the day's profits may be multiplied by seven instead .of the usual six day week . Is This a Dog's Uf e. Probably by this time you have decided "you don't want to be the milkman, and that seems to be the consensus of opinions It not only means the drudgery of long hours, but it means the foregoing of all amusements. It means working seven days a week year in and year out. It means that all weather must be fair weather to the milkman. . It means hard work for every member of the milkman's family and some times unhappiness for his wife. If his wife wants to go anywhere, he is too sleepy to go with her, and if he does go, he falls asleep as soon as he gets into a comfortable chair. He must learn to be able to walk' in his sleep. 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