Immigration Journal

1903

Today I went to go and see The Great Train Robbery with my friends from the tenement to get my mind off of things. It wasn't cheap though, cost us all about twenty-eight perfectly sewn buttons to earn enough pocket money to buy the tickets.

The story was so exciting and scary! I actually screamed a few times when the robbers were shooting their guns at people!

It's so amazing that we can make pictures move now! I'll bet that in the future when everyone's riding about in their hover boards and things that they'll have this amazing technology (the pictures might even talk then).

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After seeing the movie we all went back to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, still sewing buttons but on shirtwaists instead of waistcoats.

Thread the needle, tie the thread, pull the needle up through the fabric and through the button, pull the needle down through other hole of the button, pull the needle up through the hole, pull the needle down through the other, pull the needle up through the hole, pull the needle down through the other, now pull the needle up through the fabric right below the button (but not through one of the button's holes), wrap the thread around the stem of the button once, twice, three times, and pull the needle through the fabric and create a loop, pull the needle through the loop and pull it tight, cut off excess and have it checked by the supervisor. First button's finished.

Thread the needle, tie the thread, pull the needle up through the fabric and through the button, pull the needle down through other hole of the button, pull the needle up through the hole, pull the needle down through the other, pull the needle up through the hole, pull the needle down through the other, now pull the needle up through the fabric right below the button (but not through one of the button's holes), wrap the thread around the stem of the button once, twice, three times, and pull the needle through the fabric and create a loop, pull the needle through the loop and pull it tight, cut off excess and have it checked by the supervisor. Second button's finished.

Thread the needle, tie the thread, pull the needle up through the fabric and through the button, pull the needle down through other hole of the button, pull the needle up through the hole, pull the needle down through the other, pull the needle up through the hole, pull the needle down through the other, now pull the needle up through the fabric right below the button (but not through one of the button's holes), wrap the thread around the stem of the button once, twice, three times, and pull the needle through the fabric and create a loop, pull the needle through the loop and pull it tight, cut off excess and have it checked by the supervisor. Third button's finished.

I repeat the pattern for the rest of the eleven hours that I work, still working the same amount of hours though some of us took three hours off this morning.

Work's finished for me, and those of us who went to see the movie, at eight at night and I still have to get dinner to Calvin. I quickly whip together a stew and poor it into a canister and sneak out to the mining camp and come back eleven, way past the set curfew. It's not easy, but Calvin distracts the guard with a snipe-chase while I sneak into my tenement and go fast to sleep.