Show LIVELY BASKET MAKIKO MAKING 1 ai I 1 7 two men turn out oat over in I 1 I 1 one months mouths vork work jamestown Tama town sun I 1 the manufacture of grape baskets 1 baa grown to bo be an ind industry astry second to the a 1 absing of tho the grape in ma many py towns along the shore 0 lake erie A grape basket is constructed of bags bass wood and is made up of eight dis lanct pieces minus minus the handle the are not put on at tb e lic gonei but by the growers when used A awa basket maker can ean turnout tarn out about fifty baskets an hour if be moves lively formerly what was wag known aa as the splint basket was used li 4 wag Is a cheaper grade and not riot hearly aa as strong or durable and tonta containing ining but four pieces was of course more easily made blany people while in the grapa grape country might be curious to know ov juat just how mall many y of these splint basIt babeta baseta ets could be joad wide by one man working a month abill A tilt that perry bigelow now at north east tast and charles bennett of f portland once bad between them illustrates loa lu strates the possibilities of splint basket making each man differed somewhat as to I 1 the capabilities of the other in that direction and to settle the matter they started a thirty day dav match without gloves catch aa as catch hcan h can no particular rules to govern and each to work as many hours as be chose so it was not evly a hustion expertness of ei pertness butof but of endurance both worked in a abal tame jime shop what a pounding I 1 up and down like ai ar flash moved th the Is hammers hammers in ill the bands of the two men like a JU ALthe splints were bent into place and the nails sent flying into their bides sides with the speed of so many bor nets rits and baskets rained on the floor in ia a shower did ditl the boys begin to pet get tired in toe course of a week or two atwol I 1 well wel if it they show it the longer they kept at it the faster they i worked their movements were a almost automatic and as regular as clockwork clot kwork and so evenly mat matched clied were the men that on the of tha the month h there a difference dil Terence in their piles vales of twenty ever and anon charley would stop to wipe his face and ferry verry would gain on him then perry mayhap would have to brush a A lly by away and then it was that charley charlay got in his fine work the plight the last day ferry went to a dance returning at 3 OClO CIr the race was about even up and he thought that by slipping into the factory at that hour and working until break breakfast foat at a good lively jog be would have bennett demoralized and beaten lie ile had bad just picked up his hammer and spat on his hands when the door opened and lol there ther ewas was bennett 1 four hours till breakfast five till flanner I 1 and then till godlock Co Go clock tap tap tap it was better than a bear dance dance and enough to stir the most a citizen neighbors gathered in a crowd around the shop and watched be fan p at exactly 6 perry threw his ls hammer li ammer oat out of the window lie ife iv aas k j just a st five ba baskets taets behind PC score 9 F 4 bannett bennett bigelow I 1 W 91 15 |