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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
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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. It
means wallowing, slipping and- slid
ing, and worst of all it means, fall1
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ing down, only to pick one's self up
and trudging on, no matter what
the accident may have been.
Ice is the milkman's worst enemy.
During the hours of the morning
when he is abroad, it is so dark that
it is difficult to pick a" footing, es
pecially when he is in a hurry.
During the winter months almost
every customer holds the welfare of
his milkman on his 'back steps. 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
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It is a matter of record that leases on tracts of less size
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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
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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. He is always sleepy, and
after a little practice it is perfectly
possible to walk along in a sound
slumber until he meets up with a
tree.
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