The Oregon daily journal., April 09, 1905, Image 29

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HERE haa been juat a little toe much
hero-with-hls-hsnd on the - throttle
tuff written About the railway looo-
' motive engineer. H haa been called
,. J ,th "aristocrat o labor,", which he
r comta near to being, but he should pot be
called It, and the clamour of romance haa been
v thrown over hie work until he comes near to
being aaonstant hero in the ejrea of the read
' Ing public. The writing men who have ridden
' with engineers on fast trains have done their
' work well, so now the people who rd news
paper and magasinea know how the trusty
engineer sit ever with his hand on the throt
tle, his eyes glued on the track, alert, waU?h-.
. ful, ready for instant and serious danger,
. ready to tell bis nreioan to Jump; ready to
abut off the steam; throw on the air, and stay
by his angina through the crash and death of
:a wreck. -.' ... ..- . , . '
It Is a pretty picture that the special writer ,
, builds out of words about the heroic engineer.
; It la too bad that It la pot true. But the fact
' Is the engineer " lumps."' Ha Jumps just as
i quick,' fast, and far aa circumstances will
permit, and if he does not do it hla comrades
' reckon him a fool. When you speak to old
; engine runners' about staying with the
engine when a wreck oceuri you are greet-'
. ed with hoots, ,' As one grluled fellow, who
.has Tiad three or four engines under his,
charge reduced to twisted Iron and steel,
puts It: f The fnan who doesn't jump when
he's got a show la a fool, and there aren't
many fools in thla business." ; , .
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Men of Sens and Family Jump.
Considering the matter calmly, there U
little reason and. little basis for the many
Stories that have been circulated conoemlng
engineers who had died in their cabs, pr who
staid on their engines through wrecks and
scaped with their lives, and tha romance
that la In tha engineer's Ufa. The engineer
Is generally a man of sense. Usually he Is a
man of family, and tha family Is always de
pendent upon his work for support. . v-
He looks at tha matter In a sensible light.
If ha eatj stay In tha cab long enough to ahut
off the steam and put on the air (and In Jus
tice to him it must be said that ha generally,
does this) before be dumps be does so. But
he .Jumps . every time unless tha accident
comes too suddenly for him and leaves bin
ao chanoe. lie la no hero glorying In the
prospect of sticking to -the poet of duty and
dying when he might escape. He is a 'first '
class, high type worklngman. and working
men do not throw their Uvea away la useless -heroics.
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When 4be engineer la called a workingmaa,
It describee him In Short. He is not an arts
toerat of aa eJaka. ha hi a worker, and there
T
J Mi la little enough romance in hla eareer." He la
paid lor running an engine over a' giveu
number of milea of steel rails. ' Thla la the
prime consideration with him. - Tha wrecks, '
u I the aocldeata, ths change of scenes and placea
In 4 lh,t n experiences and sees, are only incl-
mm dents, part of tha day' work, andtbere la
If I nothing romantic about them to tha work-
T m I'ng engineer. According to the men who rua
III Jngines-and they surely should know-there , v aad Englnoar Earns Nothing. -rlla
po particular Joy In the feel of a monster ,v . d,att ginmt can earn little to support
yi I locomotive throbbing under one's bands after - Md attend to pie bringing np ot a family, aaft
a man oaa oesn nwwna nie utuh npenano- moct engineers are family man. Therefore
tug the throb tor a few years. There le noth- thty m Jump However It must not be eup
Ing o antraneing U th vista ot country, pod that tha engineer goes to his work
town, and city,' flying past one In the daily,
work; and,- last or all llraalons to be ahat
tered. there Is nothing particularly romantic
or exhilarating In the constant proapect of
serious danger. . There is even not hlhg excit
ing In knowing that you may be killed around
the next curve, after you. have ridden with
the ettWioa on your ahouldera tor a while.
"Tou get Into the cab and pull, to the
B as eb al 1. P.
B
e"V ASEBaLL as a business la on Into
which I would never advise a young
man to go unless be can afford to
from hie life career ana ue xnem in
Mmnliitifir hla workllv education. . -
-e 7hr " hX:.i":- Amarican v
leagues are alluring to thousands of young
men. skilled players at school, or an the
nratriea. but I say to them, play the game
for eport irybu must, but never enter It a
1a profeaelon.- ' 1 l
-The average professional baseball players
career as an earning player, commanding
I big aalary. la less than three year. He
tarta perhaps on the prairies and develop
.lent. He then Join a eeml-profosalonal
I w,.. mnA iwimmindi nerhana to a game, or
Kto am nor league drawing perhaps $125
. .w - mnnh l twa vearaha
1 a month for Ave months. In two years he
may become a etar in hla league and get Into
the National or American. His salary at
the atart will not be er i,ow a year-in
spite ot the. figures given out by magnates.
: Small Chw.no bl Sucooaw.
At that time he hss been playing ball
steadily four, years and earned ia,M-nn
average ot $681 a year, and this caicuiaiea on
the baals of one year In a major league. ;
Th chances ars aU agalnat hla " making
good " ths first year In ths big league, for
not one In thirty whd are tried out during
the spring training trips of ths big clubs .
holds his place on July 1. He goes, back to
the minors or another tear, perhaps getting r
i mn to 11.200 a year aa a star, and trlea s
again the next year. or. more probably,,
never Is heard, ot again.--. ' '' i
After a man la tried, accepted, and given a
regular place on a major league , team he
does not average three years before he Is.
sent back to the minors ss a back number.
He may,: It a wonder, command a aalary of
u 000 one or two years, but I will wager :
that the average young man who starts out
to make baaebail his profession does not,,
average ao much during his baseball career ,
aa a well paid clerk in any dry goods store.
, Th. Miieae man who, during his four years
at soma big Inatltution. ha. developed won- J
derful talent a K"VlZ
blamed for trying the big leagues for a year
or two. Ususlly bis parenta nave money ana
he can afford tq Joee a short time In gather-.
Ins experience and seeing the country. It
he would better start at his
Ufa work as soon as he ge his degree.
It he does not, he may play baaebail fire,
perhaps ten years longer and then begin at
"the bottom of tha ladder, unskilled In any
special line., and look for a poaltlon which
j,ay utfBmeD salary V--;'..';
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; Loarn Eitravag.nt Habits.
' - The worst fault of the baaebail bualntu '
' t that it teaches young men the habit of
extravagance and high living. Naturally the
Mayers on each-great team are landed as
' heroea by their admirers; the newspapers are
full of accounts of thttr doings; they meet
'hundreds of " good fellows "who want them
'By J. Elo'vvard.
and of your run, , that's all there la to It,"'
said an engineer who laat week scraped
away three cars and a caboose of a local
freight which had neglected to drag Us
full length on to the siding. " If you get into
the ditch you don't get there, tbat'a ait.
. Worry about getting wrecked? Never think
Of it O, yes, there's danger, all right, but
; Dot if you jump qutok enough Aa to the ro
mance ot tha business, you'll have to see
. some one who knows more about that than
' I do. I only run an engine." ,
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The wreak la whicb this man was, con
cerned waaone of the peculiar accidents tfiat
. happen in railroading, and which prevent the
life from becoming monotonous at least. The '
west bound freight. In going on to a aiding
, which was "rua at a slightly down grade, .
, " buckled up " In the center. One car left the .
. trucka, and in some mysterious fashion, at
the sudden stopping of tho angina, snapped '
up Into the air agalnat the forward car. This
, prematura atop left tho eabooae and three
; cars projecting slightly over the right of way
of a faat stock train cast bound. . It was a
scraping blow, tha worst kind In railroading, '
that the engine of -the stock train struck,
and locomotive, tender, and. fourteen stock '
cars want rambling off into tha neighboring -
; fields. But tho engineer and firemen were
picking tha gravel out ot their eyes en the
..'-'safe side of tha track. - . ; ,
We jumped, that's all," said tho engineer,
getting ready to take the'same train out
' again. .:':
" Would you have iumnod If tom had had
a passenger train behind your waa asked
Mm., f . ';.;..-'.';..'
' " Tee, sir, was the emphatlo reply.' Tou :
bet. I shut eft tho steam and got tha air on.
, A man waa ot no use In the oab after that ?
' " Would yon have Jumped if you hadn't the
time to get tho ateam ahut off and the air on,
' with passenger coaches behind youT" . , ;
Generta.IIy Have Tim to Jump.
. The engineer' squirmed. " We .generally
; have tha time." be eald, and beyond that
thera waa no questloplng. 80 it would seem
that there la a suggestion of heroism Inthls
man'a professional retlcenca, , -f-But
other locomotive engineer are not ao
; averse to speaking out on this subject.; Thera
' Is the inevitable preface of; "I've always
had time to alow her up, so far," but there la
also often the flat statement that no man In
tho cab will give up his own life that thooe
behind him may rive. All ot them avow that
they pray that they'll have enough time. If it
cornea that they, art to bo wrecked, but If.
they do not have time they will Jump first.
- Knglneera have Jumped without shutting
, her off and throwing on tho air, and the peo
pie behind them have lived." la a doctrine
with, many old engine ce. " Besides, thera
are the wife and family
ytith this resolve firmly fixed la Ala mind.
The ' chances are that ha never thinks of
" ti-e possibility of a wrecfc If he does It la
probably only because he haa been to one
recently and the experience haa borne hard
upon him usually In the way of lost time or
mileage.. When the time cornea for him to
, decide upon a oouree ot oonduct for a few
strenuous aeconda he acta nearly snbcoo-
1 ay e
By James
to drink, smoke, or carouse with thetnT.hey
ports" of , wealth. ap4jaytiTto
Imitate theee " aporu." They spend their
OUmonda, an usuaUy when they are
suddenly confronted with a ten days' notion
of release the diamonds are about ail that .
they have left to snow for tha earnings of "
year. .The old. timers were more reckless
la this regard than the new generation ot
bau players, but there are enough young-"
sters now wasting money. ' A
To me It Is a aad commentary on the game ,'
to see the great Mars of ether days tolling aa
day laborers. .The greatest pitcher of them '
U Is digging ditches In Indianapolis; per-
know. ?
week. ' I have Seen him spend 300 In One -
night. I find them In cheap saloons, on po
lice forces, In city jobs, but few In any estab
lished business and still fewer accumulating '
wealth. They wasted their years of time on
the ball fieid and wasted tha money that they '
earned. . , . . ; ':; i.
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Taw Realat TamptsxHona, '.. U:
' .Thera Is opportunity, I admit, for a young
plsyer who will work, hard and save his
money, and devote himself entirely to hie
; business, to lay up enough to start him In
, some small, respectable buslnesa when hla
.arm gives out, or his muscles stiffen up.
'But the temptations that, are thrown In the
way of a bail player are extremely liable to
hake blm In hla purpoaes of saving. I have ,
known only one ball player who consistently ,
followed thla plan, and he was bitterly dis
liked by hla fellows. He now owns one of the
best grocery buslnesaes In New England. He
went Into the business to use his talents, and
get money enough to start bis business and -he
stuck to It and succeeded.. : : ' '".
' One of the best known- pitchers In the ;
United States was In the game eight years ,
ago. Unable 16 stand" the" temptations he
went to pieces, and was relegated to the
minor .leagues. .He went downward again
and dropped' out Of the minora. He went
home, cured a position In an express office
week. He steadied down and was In-
flit a week.- He pitched on Bun-
days and holidays.. A manager saw him and
realised that he was himself again. He was
offered $3,600 to pitch the next season
Hia-
wife pleaded with bjm to refuse and kefi
out of ths bualnesa. He reentered the busi
ness, vowing that he. would make It pay back
what he had lost e,nd that ha would behave
' himself. Thus far he has done fairly well,
although not so well a be pledged himself
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!'J Suddan End to Lofty Draama. '
At ths end of a baseball career the player Is
usually left stranded in tha bualneas world.
He gains a false Idea of hla own Importance
from the cheera of the crowd and the crowd
f orgeta him almost soon aa he geta out of
hla uniform. He dependa upon aome of hla
powerful " friends ? to get htm a position
sclovsir. but the point is that he does act and
in the way before mentioned. -.
While the element ot danger In the work
may bring a tinge of romance to It thla sooa '
wears off- It Is the day" a work, and While '
it la leaa monotonous than many a worker" a
round of dally labor. It la still "working for
wages." There are regular hours to be
worked, moat of them on tha run. and the
average engineer la usually glad when " the'
whistle blows." Perhaps he works a little '
longer hours than the average worker and '
he makes a little more money. But. he le
pot a figure in the mldat ot romance. - - .
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Nothing Irr "Strtalnod Egle Eye."
He does not sit ' strained.' watching tha
track with eagle aye."1 aa aome men would
have the reading publlo believe. He watohea
tha track, but he watches aa a pcaas feeder
watches the sheets . that fly from his hand
Into tha press. There la nothing strained In
the watching, nothing to suggest that a mo
.ment'a relaxation may.cauae catastrophe.
He knows the track; there are so many sloi
places, so many stretches where be can
" bit It up." He runs accordingly, and goes
from one end ot hla run to tha other, unites -the
untoward flgurea. ' The . " engineer! '
magto. which somehow manages to make the ' ,
wheels stick to the ralla," exists only Jn tha ,
Imagination of the man who wrote It. Every
engine haa ita eeeeAtricIUos, and the en-";
glneer knowa how to humor them by run
ning faat or alow. That Is all. .
That the track before a rushing locomotive
is not always under the scrutiny of a pair of
harp eyea Is shown by-a wreck which hap-,
pened soma time age 1 wsaterff Kansas, and
which' helped to further spread the hero-at- ;
hls-post sort of stories relaUve to engineers. .
Haroaw Mevda by CaraleMnaaa. -
A thin 3 year old ateer wandered eare
Jeaaly In front of a faat mall. It waa In bread,
daylight. In tha open country, but the en
..' glneer and fireman both had their eyea off tha
track for a moment.. A tough ateer earcaaa
1 make excellent material for throwing a fast
.train eft the track. . Before the men In the
' cab ever saw the cause oC the trouble their
. engine waa headed down the bank, towards '
the wire fencea along the right of way.
. Neither of theae men jumped. Here are the
reasons: . The fireman waa stooping over to
--throw coal Into tho firebox when the wheels
left the track. The ahock threw him head
first against the cab side, laying open hla
head and skinning hla face. The engineer.
t waa up on Ms eat, lags crossed, lever at bis
' side, penned in aa completely aa If abarri-
cade bad been built around him. Afterwarda
, he admitted that he could not have got out
If he had tried. He eat right there at the
throttle, the noble fellow, while hla engine
; went down the bank and lay on Ita aide..
' When the passengers rushed forth ho was '
. sitting right there at tho window, with hla
wad of " floe out " In Ita proper place. The
fireman ' waa also jn the cab, a properly
wounded hero. . The engineer got f200 out
of the puree that waa made up and the flre
: man got $90. but both of them also got the
-reputation among their fellow workmen of
" being mighty careleaa," . ' ; ,
The "trained watching." which la popu
. larly supposed to bring faat engineers toawr
t iwrjl must aise Day
labeled a. fallacy. ; The writer enca rode la-Y
.ir.r.. ZT- , IT P J, :
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" lnat no
would tee the faat eoglnser of the Action
Wt"lL.tK bet. Jl dld- Bnt " w r-
not what he expected. The rua to the north,
1 wa made la daylight, and In many stretches
the miles raa backward at the rata of oaa a
minute. The engineer did not. alt and
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E; R:yah;
when he geta through. The end usually
comes with startling suddenneTha.
friends that be relied upon are not ao friendly
to a back number aa to a brilliant player.
He drifts to the minors, drops out of sight.
and seldom rises again. ..'.-.
There are brilliant exceptions to this rule
but moat of these exceptions are men who
uit baseball while still " good " and seised
other bualnass chances. A. O. Spalding
made an Immense fortune out of the business,
quitting playing to become a club owner and
manufacturer ot at h let to goods.- Harry
Wright died poor. Uncle Nick " Young la
toiling away In a department at Washington.
Artie Irwin Is hustling . promoting: shows.
Amos Rusle Is
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By Ba.rl
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N the great mining regions of the Rocky
and Sierra Nevada mouotalne there la
a field for ambitious young men, no mat
ter how boundless that ambition may be.
v i Here and there, scattered over untold ,
thousands of acres, lie possibilities of for
tunes as generous as any ever, dug from
earth, and the only qualifications necessary
to win some share of this wealth ot nature's
storehouse are ambition, energy, and a fair
tats of bodily health. ,' : : "' ',:;
' In no other occupation known to the writer!
re there' such opportunities for a man
equipped simply with hla oitlsenahlp and a
"grub stake" to compete In the race for
honestwaalih. - In no other occupation, per
hape, car. a man so quickly lay the founda
tion for a fortune with the labor of bis banda
A few Instances may serve to Illustrate this
point! ; The writer saw W.' 0. Btratton. the
carpenter, some years ago .working at hla
bench In Colorado Springs, earning the
money with Which to pursue his hobby that
of prospecting for the precious metal.
i-ater
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a rmm biiu in cripple um, vim IM IMt'
pendenc. had yWMefl up to h.m Its golden
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.' V.aat Area Still Vntouohad.
' Charles D. Lane, that Intrepid gold huivte'r
ef Alaska, whose fortune now ranges some
where up In seven flgurea, only a few years
ago was working by the day In California, at
a time of life when most men begin making
' arrangements to retire. .. Pedro Alvarado,
: the multi-millionaire of Parrai, Mexico, roes
. to the heights of fortune from an obscure
;.' walk of Ufa. ' ;.. - : , " . j .
To those who have not traveled the mining
'. regions of the west. It may be of interest to
know that there are vast unprotected areas
of mineral beartpg territory in Idaho, Hon.
, tana, Utah, Nevada, and Ariaona, to
ssy
r t-.:4 'x Wsll Mr :
JkM ATI
Mch tenaely." He turned In his seat 00
eaalonaUy and .even chattad a little,. and"
never waa there the suggestion of a strain in
his expression. '
Down a WUconsin grade ten milea long
ha i.t her out." Hera the wHmi atn.n.
earned to be. running on air, so great waa
the speed, but during this run the engineer
had time to ask two trivial questions regard-
digging ditches. Jocko Menefee owns factories
and land, but. he entered the business early
and worked It up while still playing basebait. i
Ihere-ar4housaudgtf Am Wean boys who
this spring are playing the greatestgame
' on earth on Iota, commons, or in parks whose
, great ambition la to break Into the profes
sional baseball field. The beat advice their
fathers or friends can give thera Is to stay .
out of K and they can base their advice both
on Unsocial and moral grounds. , As a wide
- general principle no American boy oan af
ford to throw away any time between 20 and .
29 years of age during which time he should
be getting a foothold and a fair start in some
permanent business. . Baaebail Is not a per- ,
maneht business. Look In the newspapers
and you will see that a baseball player S3 '
years of age la considered an old man.
of Miners.
C. Dart.
nothing of some portions of Colorado, Call
foraia, and Oregon, that have been run over
, In a ; superficial way. but not thoroughly
prospected. . ' . . J.'; .,:.,
. It seems to be a law ot the economic distrl-
, button of mineral wealth that one generation
of men cannot find It all. and each succeeding
' one has Its share of the opportunities. ; '
There are thousands of acres of mineral
land In these new western states where the.
prospector may set his stake upon a dlaoovery ,
and obtain government title to It by simply
complying with the mining. reguiaUonl!;
which? briefly.' ars tbs erecting of corner
monument ef reck or posts to designate the
era of the claim, the digging ot a ten foot ',
at- the discovery point, and recording
corners
hole
same with the district recorder within ninety
days from the posting of discovery notice.
Luck of Tondarfooi Provarbial.
Experience In prospecting for the precious
met s la . does not count for so much ar ii
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HUfl lU.OUU.UlHr4Uf.H p, .
K.t ih. "tenderfoot"
lucu RlfiLZSZlS
envyA Tha tenderfoot will looa tor minwai
' i In places where the solona of mining would
not deign to look, and. henoe, often makes'
" valuable discoveries In places where selentlflo
men say Its occurrence Is a geologloal Im
possibility. k - . -. '.'".-r- '-;.)
In the development of mines and treatment
of ores,' however, experience and. skill are
prlme requisites, and In tew lines of human
endeavor are skin and knowledge so smply
rewarded as In the metallurgical field. . " ,
With few exceptions the lot of the average
mine worker is better than that ot the aver
age, skilled mechanic elsewhere, so If -the
prospector needs more money with which to
prosecute, his research In tha hills, he has
but to go to, some mine and work a few
months, when he Is In possession ot the funds
-AaJaV-'W f-I-lii J I
,to try his luck again. . . . .' , i -
'. Ing the price of farms In another part of.
the atate. When the grade ran Into the
level h looked Inquiringly at his fireman. ' the roundhouse, then one aa wiper and hoa
" Eight."-said he wltb his watch In hla tier, three aa a fireman, then the awttoh
hand. The ten milea had been run in eight
minutes, yet it waa rmnoaslble to conjure
the commonplace worker on the seat Into
a romantic hero of any sort. He was simply
wage earner, and circumstances only ad
made ntm a railroad man. ne.aamuieQ
. that he would do hla beat to jump If trouble
. loomed, up before him, 'but he would try to
but her off " first. He also intimated tha t
Many Chances to Writers
By Clarence Vredenburg.'
M
ANT a 'writer And to hla sorrow
that strictly . literary positions are
rare and that, no matter bow un
congenial It may be to hla finely
wMiirtt l.i.i n.p.m.iil m muit
eorn, -,oUn,,r practical and seek work in
that of the ennweu; neM where hla
.kin,i.. -m . .. hm
the highest rewards.. 'As he easts about be
notes how utterly unappreclatlve business
men are of the capabilities ot the expert
' litterateur. . and, though he may point to
years ot training with newspapera, maga
sines, and . publishing houses, he realises '
that like experience as a bookkeeper or a
credit man would get bim a better hearing.
Still, thera are business pursuits In which
ths literary man can qualify with a ven--geance
and In. which hla peculiar abilities
are calculated to succeed more effectually
, than- any mere 'experience that Is purely .
commercial, v ' '
Sometimes,' ths applicant for a job Is able
to effect a compromise and get work on the
staff of a trade -paper. In as far as things
literary are concerned, he usually gets ths
worst of the deal, because the average bust-'
ness journal Is a mass of glaring advertise
ments,! salted and peppered by editorial
eulogies, ot the advertisers.' However, he
con"'""'" ""o""1 sensimnuen witn tns
wcl xn" "ow l .
J PJ:, " B1PS?? . fpslr or
w -a o paste,
? wh4t h htM WrUUn Wrtl
Xyv? 0
V" - C.tDoe Well aa S
Secretary. .
The opportunity to eompromiaa on trade .
paper work sometimes disappoints the writer,
and he falls farther from grace and ofneces-
mnr micra Business,' xiis snowieoge oi aie-
biography and of the English language helps
"-ju uiiiurniiTOr-Tm
retary, and be undertakes to handle.the or- v
reapondencs of some prominent man.
From a financial standpoint a tactful man. .
. can make a stepping stone to advancement
ot a private secretaryship; because he be-"
comes the ahadow of hla employer, the con
, fldant upon whom devolves trust and respon
sibility. He develops a sort of Indispensable
fund ef knowledge. Typewriting may bore
him. but he will remember that Onoto Waun-
spent four years at it In a Chicago de-
i pertinent store-while she waa making her
debut aa a writer of Japanese stories. -,
Closely related to the work of the private
secretary la that of the man who recently
; came Into business life and vto is known aa
. the-norrespondent. It Is Vi r -rl'sular v - t
to handle the mall of ftnr-s liin!
correspondence buslneit. I it
and mall, order eoncfr- if
ench a man tod t
he would like to quit working on the road.
."First, there was a year aa call boy
angina, and Anally thla big compound.
want to get out ot It now just as soon aa 1
can, but there'
more before
. " Then what
- Then the
your railroading
don't think
JiiheJIfe oft be railroader.
forceful, tact tut letters, that will " get ths
.business." He Is expected to 'doths his
thought In fluent English and to make hla
statements with authority. '
. The mall order correspondent sometimes
becomes a writer and compiler of booklets,
. catalogues, sad prospectuses. Such compi-
., latlons usually require the technical knowl
edge the writer baa absorbed in bts corre- -
spondence experience and are designed to
set forth In striking style the were, the
history, and ths things of Interest connected
with his house aad to Include special deaciip
. live, matter that will engage the attention
of prospective purchasers. Patent medicine
' houses mska a feature of this method of se
! curing publicity for their drugs and many
.wholesale firms follow suit tn advertising
merchandise. ' ."-"'
v-'t- '"';'''.''.','.;' v--.:.'';,.
' " Advartlsing Good Flald. '-
Ths catalogues ot rich corporations are
got up In exclusive taste and require care
ful treatment by first class editors. Msnr
' railroad guides contain descriptive matter
which la written in excellent English and
' which explains Interesting conditions In cer
tain cities and states. Ths Innovations In
commercial advertising are opening a wide
; field to "the descriptive writer, and tha ex
Igencles In his work ars equal to his genius.
' - The foregoing teads logically into ths do
main or advertising. Thera was a time when ,
, this waa a field for ths Immature or the cast
off writer. Now It la a dlatlnot tine of work,
, grown so complicated and selentlflo that ths
writer, uninitiated In Ita watam n ft-
nlcalltleSk Jnust besln at th KnttAm rt
ladder and serve an apDrentlceahln. Iln.
ever, there ere branches wherein bs can
adapt himself quickly and w6rk Into the
groove ana aally routine, , ,
Advertising demands a knowledge ef Eng.
mi awn sense or The striking. A
writer of great ability may feel that he 4
wasting hie time In such work, but he will do
well to remember that It la a txrtini,t
and -well in point that aome department
atoree pay their employes for the discovery
or an error
In
ins Kngiisn er their adver-
tlsements.
, Miscellaneous endeavor Is the lot of the
writer, who goes sstrsy In trying to find .
work suited to-hla' taste. He may collect
data or statistics In the libraries for seme
.commercial house. He msy write original
Inscriptions in veree and proee for ear--.
decorative plaques, sJ tv ?" i.
ertlils ten "er ver i r
It, r i rn f '1 1 't
' t f ' t:. i J f
11 have to be a couple ot yean f ' rt
I can do IL" . ..... - v, : ,
little farm for me; no more of I
in mine..' No, no, sir. v-
I'll miss the ' romance ' that's x
: t -ew-ir '
eld Of f ersf J
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