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- a cup of tea
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- 1 from each adult employe of the company
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The Helping Hand Club
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WORKING-MEN'S WIVES
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The Helping Hand Club
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NEW ALMADEN
VY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1888.
A Miners' Club-House.
A social organization known as the " Help- ing Hand " was organized a few years ago at the New Almaden quicksilver mines, Santa Clara county. The company supplied a build- ing for the club-house, and this is well fur- nished and arranged for social purposes. Mr. Randol, the manager of the company, con- ceived the idea of fitting up a comfortable hall,
with reading-room and kitchen attached, and this was carried out successfully. All who pay $1 a month to the " Miners' Fund " are entitled to the privileges and can come to the hall when open, play games, read, or take a cup of tea, chocolate or coffee, with cake. No gambling or drinking of spirituous liquors is allowed. Smok. ing is permitted in the main hall, also games, and in the reading-room no smoking or talking is allowed. There is a good library, and all the magazines and daily and weekly papers are kept on file.
The attendance is good, the rooms being very generally frequented in the evenings. There is a cook-room where light refreshments are serv- ed at moderate cost. Entertainments of vari- ous kinds are given in the hall. Most of the amusements are arranged by the residents and are free. There are sometimes dramatic enter- tainments given by outsiders at which an ad- misBion is charged, the main hall or auditorium being fitted with a stage and scenery, so that it is possible for small companies to render plays there.
The Helping Hand Society is almost wholly oonducted by the mine management. The '•Miners' Fund," by which it is maintained, is made up by monthly contributions of $1 from each adult employe of the company. The build- ing of the society is shown in the accom- panying engraving, which was made direct
' from a photograph taken by Mr. Bulmore, one of the officers of the mine, who is a skillful amateur photographer.
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