According to the agency, the response would have been greater had the advertisement read "Three squares a day, warm bunkers and reasonable hours."
"Many of the lumberjacks are foreigners and cannot yet read the English language, largely," said the agent, who declared only a part of the men reading the advertisement understood what "choice cuisine, spring beds and private rooms" meant.
"While many were stumped through inability to understand the meaning of the unusual notice, others," said the agent, "refused to be 'kidded' by such 'bunk.'
Despite the fact that not a few timber workers dropped in at the office to assure the agent that they "wouldn't fall for any such bait," many took the notice seriously and filed applications for positions with the company.
Whether the old-time lumber camps, with their assembly bunkhouses, kerosene-lamp lights, wood-stove heat, straw-mattress beds, old-fashioned cooking, "do it yourself when you need it" laundry, are to be replaced by the modern camps with private rooms, spring beds, choice cuisine, etc., could not be ascertained by the agent. However, he was of the opinion that few camps in the north woods this winter would be equipped with electric lights, steam heat, bath and showers and electrically operated laundries.
The agent admitted that "It is possible for this particular camp to have the described equipment."
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