Railroad articles

Source: Crawfordsville Review 27 July 1889 p 4

The Dagoes Supper – The Clover Leaf railroad is working several hundred Italians in spreading the gravel over the road. The largest colony are quartered in tens near New Richmond and it was the Review man’s pleasure to see them cooking and eating their supper Monday. Their principal dish and the one they seemed the most fond of was noodles, which was composed of a piece of soup bone boiled in water with slices of dough thrown in as a mixture. A large iron pot of this stuff consisted of all the supper a large party of them had. One big burly fellow seemed rather selfish and did not eat with the others, having for his supper a loaf of bread, two green apples and a cup of water. They cook on a small furnace dug in the ground near their tent and only eat because it is a necessity to do so and live. They treat anyone pleasant and are a race to be pitied.