Courtesy Union Pacific System Pack up your troubleSj though the sun "Sure thing, ma'am," replied an easy­ the wonders on the auto stages, and may dodge, going cow-owner who had drifted in for 'sage-brushers' is high polite for folks And smile, smile, smile. the evening from his ranch house down who come in their own cars. The four Count yourself lucky you're at Zion the Mukuntuweap. "She and the pink young ladies who've been getting off Lodge; warbler next to her are heavers. The their low song on us are college girls— Smile, dudes, that's the style. third one is a sheet snatcher. The black- the diggingest kind of digs—in the fall, Give a look at the scenery, haired queen on the far end is a pearl winter, and spring; but when they're out 'Twill make you grin a mile— diver." So pack up your troubles, be a sport here for the summer, hustling their to-night. " 'Heaver'? 'Sheet snatcher'? 'Pearl heads off so as they can go on being col­ And smile, smile, smile. diver'? Why, what in heaven's name are lege girls, they are proud to be 'savages.' you saying about these young women? You've guessed it about those heavers; m ~^HI^ S lively parody of a war-time They must be worse even than their they're waitresses. That sheet snatcher song came from a quartet of girls crude song would indicate." will begin to caress your bed the minute swaggering in the light of a "Excuse me, ma'am," apologized the you're out of your cabin in the morning, camp-fire in the open-air theater in front cowman. "I hadn't noticed you were a and if you meander out to the kitchen of the stone lodge in , Uncle raw dude." after breakfast that pearl diver will show Sam's newest National Park in southern "I a dude?" The lady visitor's face you hoT/ fast she can fish dishes out of . and Mount was the color of when soapy water. By the way, if you're Majestic, rising sheer thirty-five hundred the morning sun is revealing all its coats waked by a bass voice hollering, 'Fire!' feet above the valley floor, sent the of red paint. you needn't get excited; it'll be one of words reverberating up the mighty gorge "Sorry, ma'am, if I guessed wrong. the pack rats who's out here on parole until they were banging against the You're a sage-brusher, you mean?" from Yell College. All he means is he Great White Throne and doubtless The lady's stare was colder than the wants to breeze in and put something in­ shocking any angels who chanced to be air in Refrigerator Canyon on the way flammable in your little tin stove." lingering on Angels' Landing. They also up to the West Rim. "I'm a school­ The lady from Boston was assisted in shocked a mature lady of highly proper teacher in the city of Boston!" she her return to normalcy by the fact that mien who sat with other guests before cried. the quartet broke into a new song that the camp-fire. "Well, of course!" The cowman was far from frivolous. It had a glorious "That girl on the end there!" she ex­ waved an understanding hand and smiled swing to it, and the singers showed that claimed, as she indicated one of the his tolerance. "I can speak Bostonese they were trained vocalists by the way singers. "Isn't she the waitress who too when I try. 'Dudes' is just polite they went after it—"Oh, Zion, dear served me my dinner?" National Park for folks who come to see Zion, home of the free." It was a song 56

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED The Outlook for May 12, 1926 57 the Mormons sang in the days when they season. In addition to those pictur­ while riding along and bumped her were struggling to bring Utah out of a esquely denominated as heavers, sheet head." wilderness and under cultivation. The snatchers, pearl divers, and pack rats, A besetting danger to the poor driver appealing thmg caught the ear and there were gear jammers (auto-stage is thus commemorated in a song which heart of thousands who visited Zion drivers), pill pushers (camp nurses), and the savages sometimes sing at the nightly Park during its first wide-open season, steam queens (laundry workers). They camp-fire show: and with a little remodeling of the lines were chosen by women agents who vis­ Keep your eye on the wheel, gear jam­ it may easily become a Nationally popu­ ited the colleges and made careful inves­ mer; lar sentimental song—sent on its way to tigation of the scholastic and personal Keep your eye on the .wheel, gear jam­ mer. fame by a sheet snatcher, a pearl diver, record of every student who made appli­ and two heavers. To be sure, the girl is fair. cation. To judge by the predominance But you need your eyes elsewhere; The opening of the new wonderland, of sweaters with a big "I" and other tell­ Keep your eye on the wheel, gear jam­ with its tourist lodges at Zion Canyon, tale-insignia all the way from Estes Park mer. Kaibab Forest, North Rim of the Grand to Grand Lake, the applicants from the Canyon, and_ Bryce Canyon, proved be­ Iowa institutions must have qualified in Have a heart, dude lady, have a heart! yond a doubt that the college youth, something like 100 per cent. Have a heart, dude -lady, have a heart! male and female, intend that as fast as Roads are narrow, mountains steep, National Parks come into existence the T every camp there is a Savage Alley, Gulches wide and canyons deep—• serving of the summer guest shall become A where the girls live in "the Dorm" Have a heart, dude lady, have a heart! a matter for.their own capable hands. In and the boys in "the Rats' Nest." De­ IV/TOST of the savages, in addition to several of the older parks—Rocky portment and discipline are as carefully •^ *-*• needing the money they will be Mountain, Yellowstone, and Yosemite, looked after as on any campus in the able to earn, have a very-genuine interest notably—the undergrads from many col­ land. in the parks where they accept service. leges regularly constitute the "help" in "There is just one thing to be said In their leisure hours they don hiking the camps and in many of the hotels. about the savages," declared A. K. clothes, and it is difficult to distinguish There are some hotels which, in spite of Holmes, wise manager of the Rocky them from the guests. They often learn the proved high efficiency of the savages, Mountain Parks Transportation Com­ more about the natural wonders than the still feel that a Ritz-Carlton training is pany, which operates about one hundred paying guest, since they have a smatter­ requisite to the proper unjacketing of a auto stages and cars and various chalets ing or a scientific understanding of geol­ pair of eggs. and hotels. "They fill the bill. They ogy, zoology, and forestry. At Zion The savages in all the parks have do their work better than any other class Lodge and the other camps on the Zion been hand-picked and im^pressively fore­ of help we've ever found. They are tour during last summer there were sav­ warned. They understand from the outset courteous and kind, and get a world of ages from practically every university that they are being taken to the hos- fun out of situations which to workers and college in Utah, as well as from sev­ telries, which, while under General Gov­ who lacked their spirit would prove very eral other States. These students showed ernment supervision, are under private trying. They get the guests' good will an intense interest in this newly opened management, to work, and to work-hard; by winning it. A lady eating her dinner region and carried on much exploration and they understand equally well that will discover that her waitress wears a on their own .account. They helped make most persons are skeptical about the-am­ pin of the fraternity to which she herself trails to peaks as yet unchristened, added bitions of young collegians to hustle belongs; there is an exclamation of to the available-pictures of majestic sce­ along an order of soup while -it is still amazement, arid in about a minute a nery with their cameras and sketching palatable or to 'fuss up a bed so that stanch friend has been made for our kits, and found and reported on primitive sleeping in it becomes less than an or­ company. They accept tips, but they cliff-dwellings in inaccessible ledges and deal. During every day of the .long sum­ are not tip-chasers, these collegians. canyons. It is only fair to say that the mer they are out to "show" both the They need the money, but they are ani­ girl savages, in their attractive outing management and the guests. Neither mated by the finest spirit in the world. costumes, increased, all unconsciously, does their service end with sundown. They desire to serve. We try to catch the guests' enjoyment of many a fasci­ Next in importance to feeding its guests them ui their freshman year; then, if they nating view. toe the mark, 'they are with us for four well, the average National Park camp In the Yellowstone camps the savage happy summers, their pay increasing finds that it must entertain them well. system has developed almost into a each time they come back. Every candidate for a billet among the science. Each camp is in charge of a savages is asked whether he or she can "The Rocky Mountain roads are won­ woman manager, who is given the title sing, dance, tell a story, or make a musi­ derful, but to drive them successfully of "Lady." Miss Beula:h Brown, man­ cal instrument perform classically or in there must be unrelaxing vigilance and ager at Mammoth Camp, has been the jazz. Artistic ability goes a long way in skill. To sit at the wheel for us the friend and confidant, as well as the direc­ landing a job. Thus when the evening young husky has to pass tests as severe tor, of many hundreds of girls during the meal is over and the complacent dude or as any he ever faces in college. He years of her devoted service in the Park. sage-brusher strolls over to sit by the must know the rule book forward and In fact, she has had a good deal to do camp-fire the fun begins. It is clean fun, backward' before he can take out a car. with developing the finished form of good fun, and- often the cleverest kind of Then he is put on his honor, and he nightly entertainment that has brought fun. A guest or two will break into an rarely ever falls d&wn. Our stages fame to the camps. As might be ex­ evening's program usually, but the swing carry personal liability insurance of pected, new songs and parodies are con- and burden of the nightly show move $85,000 each, our touring e^rs.of J5Qi,- .staotly emanating from the active minds along on the shoulders of the savages. 000 e^Ti,: ^ :ial«ending '5'56,900c p^-" • .of'.tbe savages, and "Lady Beu" has fre- Fifteen hundred savages from half a sengers'-dvtrfhe road's wiffitTlesV'dkf^i'^ ' "queritly been the judge of whether a new hundred colleges worked in the Rocky we have never paid JDlIt fetet f7S 5ji 'dam­ song should be perpetuated in the camp Mountain parks alone during the 1925 ages. A girl got:that'^]jd ••»eh. 'ibslee p anthology or go into the discard. The

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^. „^-*»'' "* ^'^r Courtesy Union Pacific System It isn't all work, by any means. " Savages " frequently turn explorers in this way in lady manager at Old Faithful Camp has guests around the camp-fire. It goes like which they attack it. They waste no likewise endeared herself and the place this: time in telling the new arrival who or to many, if one may judge from this what they are; but only the most obtuse We sling the hash and eggs and cheese, savage song, often heard there: Serve soup to nuts as well, visitor remains for long in ignorance of the quality that is under the garb they Gee, but it's -worth the world to be at And make the tea for families wear. They add enormously to the en­ Old Faithful Camp, Of eight and sometimes twelve. Where boys ^iid girls have fun galore, We don't even make a fuss joyment of the parks by administering to Be weather dry or damp. , When they crab and frown at us. the guests' comfort and peace of mind. Let's stay forever in this geyserland— But all the while we wear a smile. They work hard, play hard, and go home Let's stay forever at Lady Hi's com- What we think won't do to tell! with a precious little hoard to see them ihand— through the next year of school and a God bless her! The true nature of the savages is for­ philosophy that irons out everything that Gee, but it's worth the world to be at giving, and their sincere feeling for the may have irked or annoyed, such as is' Old Faithful Camp! visitor whota they serve is contained in finely expressed in the pleasant chant these lines, which have sent many a bus­ that rattles off to the tune of "I Ain' A s has been stated, the first thought of load rejoicing on its way: Goin' to Work No More:" •*^ the savage is courteous service under Oh, dudes, we love you so. any and all circumstances. Yet, however And we hate to se.e you go. The dudes they ride the Pullman, and perfect the outer mantle of service may Please don't forget ,, then they ride the bus, appear, Ihe savages are only human, and We'll remember you yet— But the savages push Old Mollie and it is not surprising if one is able to dis­ How we hate to see you go! never make a fuss. cover evidence that inwardly the savage The dudes they eat potatoes, soup, reacts to shabby treatment much'as other From mid-June until mid-September and bread and meat; humans do. The evidence is contained., these .thqusanc^ of youiig collegians la- The savages chew on corn-cobs and in a song set to the tune of "Annabelle'2^^ 'bo.r fijbm-Surtrls^ or. ^ailid- tatJL'aa hour consider it a treat. The dude girls use their cold cream, which the heavers sing more often wTien ' wKen'tKe rnosY'reWctant'wuesf is'about they are amusing themselves than when the sheet snatchers their lard, rea'dy' to:cq,A it:¥ ^ayj They dignify and The heavers use their axle grease, but doing a stunt for the enjoyment of the glorffy'memal sSmed hy the spirit with they rub it just as hard.

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED An East Side American The Autobiography of a Son of the City By CHARLES STELZLE XI Reactions andL Actions "XT 0 name has been coined for the job that Charles Stelzle pled part of the world—^New York's East Side—he has found ^ ^ has created for himself. Sociologist is what he is called in the relations of people to one another his chances to be in "Who's Who;" but he is not really an ologist of any kind— useful. He tells here some experiences that show how widely he is too much of a doer. Coining from the most densely peo­ he ranged to find some of the chances he has seized.

EFORE prohibition was enacted the main their needs are the same. found that it worked. As men told of there stretched across the conti­ There is something else which must their experiences in the renewal of B nent in the larger cities a chain quickly 'be said: they appreciate refine­ strength, others were encouraged to come of "rescue missions." They were crowded ment of speech and surroundings, even with their petitions, no matter how dis­ night after night by what appeared to be though they themselves may have fallen couraging their situations, and the leader the riffraff of the town. One of the far below the ideals of a former period would-take all to God, simply, devoutly, best-known was the Bowery Mission, in in their lives. Also, they resent a spirit with faith and confidence. lower New York, famous the world over. of patronage or paternalism. The leaders kept Close to the men who It was assumed even by New Yorkers When one thinks of the average "res­ started out in the Bowery Mission, to that every man on the Bowery was either cue mission," one's mind turns to a hall "begin all over again." For mutual help a thief or a bum. There was a day when noisy and naked, devoid of everything a Brotherhood was organized, so that the Bowery stood for everything that that is aesthetic and refined either in from the moment that a convert took the was corrupt, and: vile. The street was equipment or service. But that is not first step he had surrounding him a lined with dives and low-down saloons, true of the Bowery Mission. The walls group of men who had traveled the same and cheap "variety shows" abounded. of the main auditorium are dark-brown road. Tens of thousands of men had "The Way to Hell" was inscribed in stdne, and the mottoes on the walls—• become members of this Brotherhood. glaring letters over the entrance to va­ there must always be mottoes in missions For about fifty yea;fs this enterprise has rious halls. ' •—are done in red and gold, painted in stood on the Bowery, steering homeless, ," There is still much that is cheap and fine old-English letters. The sentiment shipwrecked men into a port of safety. tawdry on the Bowery. There are also of the mottoes is not cheap and flashy. some thieves and bums. Some of the They are .Scripture texts, full of deep T WAS city editor of the Seattle "Star" lodging-houses are often overcrowded meaning to the wandering men who are -*• for a day while Dr. J. Wilbur Chap­ and filthy. The restaurants are fre­ eager to hear the voice of authority. man and nearly a score of other evan­ quently forbidding and unsanitary. But Rafters and ceiling -and platform and gelists and singers were conducting meet­ the old-time Bowery no longer exists. pews are churchly, dignified, substantial, ings in that city. The enterprising The thing that staggers most of us to­ and strong. There is plenty of tiling editor of the "Star" thought that it would day is not its vice, but its poverty. about the smaller rooms—clean, white, be a good plan to have his paper pro­ Most solutions of the social problems and sanitary, like "Spotless Town" par­ duced just as a preacher thought a daily of to-day are based upon the assumption lors. These purely physical characteris­ newspaper should be printed. He turned that the average man is well-nigh ideal; tics are exceedingly important in an en­ over his entire staff to me to see what I that all he needs is a "system" to bring terprise part of whose task it is to instill would do with it. in the glad new day. One of the many in the minds of men a desire for better On the day before this experiment I arguments against that assumption is surroundings. called together the editors and the re­ that there will always be some men who But more important is the influence of porters and gave them their assignments. will fall by the wayside, beaten and dis­ music, particularly that of the great or­ At first some of the hard-boiled report­ couraged, no matter what our economic gan in the Mission. Every night for half ers on the paper thought the whole pro­ system may be nor how good the times an hour, as the men take their places— ceeding was a joke. But I had enough may be. The old Bowery Mission, in although most of them come early—the knowledge of newspaper practice to han­ company with the many others I have organist plays the great classics, and dle the situation intelligently, and they seen throughout the country, has a spe­ sometimes the best class of lighter music. entered into the job with enthusiasm cial function to meet the needs of those How the men applaud as their favorite when they found that it was to be an who are "down" but not yet "out." selections are played! Their apprecia­ honest-to-goodness experiment. Not one I have often gone down to speak to tion of the best kind of music proves that jot or tittle of the newspaper went to the this unusual audience on the Bowery. they possess qualities of heart and mind linotype men without my approval. The room is always crowded. Needless which are not usually attributed to Bow­ Everybody who came in to see the editor to say, nearly every man in the assem­ ery habitues. that day was sent to my office. blage has the word "tragedy" written But the thing which has seemed to me The make-up of the paper was much over his face. But, whatever may be to grip the audience is the simple testi­ the same as it had been—news items true of the blood and breed of those who mony of the men who, "once living in boiled down, with fairly prominent head­ patronize the Bowery Mission, their darkness, now see the light." They had lines. But the editorial page was as un­ hearts beat; just like other men's, and in tried out the thing for themselves, and like as it well could be. The sworn

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