Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-06-03

Metropolis;
THE WAY CLERKS ARE PAID.
In the great shipping and com
mcrcial houses no salary is paiC
for the first year, and sometimes
clerk may continue in service TO
several years at the same tate. TIL,
employers are oyerun with applica
tions from rich men who desir,
their sons to learn the shipping
and importing business, and hence
are willing to support them during
the slow progress of mercantile ed
ucation. The writer Of this, many
years ago, had the ambition to gsI
into a South street shipping house
and offered to serve n one Of then
without pay. This liberal Offer
was declined and he got into better
business. We met a noble looking
youth recently who had the favor
cf serving in one Of these houses
on the same terms. He spends
about 81, 900 per year, and his rel.
atives are "put to it, to raise the
funds, but such is their ambition
that they will strain every nerve to
maintain his position. If he is a very
bright fellow, he will, in course of
four or five years, be able to sup
port himself; but as to rising to
the dignity of a South street mer-
chant, not one in q hundred can do
that. In dry goods jobbing con
Germs 800 per year is paid to be-
ginners, and some cases 5000. BY
the term "beginners" we mean boys
who wish to learn the business
These must expect to work at star
vation prices, and take their slow
chances of promotion which few
have patience to wait for.
DIFFERENT GLASSES OF CLERKS,
These may be sumcd up as cash
poyS' q an" ?o9 . 3tL 1',I'llln Sp
"''NeIH' ca'n!ot', ~ U'Vol rI ,ii';,'",t ~; noto;i
@c, an VI !r, "ll'on ",0 io"io ;,tant ~ ,o' or
I,"ue' nc Iiio9o ,,l I"Poi Y,'',S a." ,',,,ot ~
I''ese 10 ''ie sup ""iNoi1 WV ina,,tI nl~9' -.
1e Vi n"e ITp'"i",,oI tJa '''l' ~ I'I tLe any on
Franco to orpet tbe customers with
gracious smiles, and to escort them
to the different departments they
may wish to examine. IF any enc
wirhes to note an example of over
done politeness, and good manners
running into eXtravagance, let HIM
look at some of the walkers in our
fashionable stores. 10 turn to the
wholesale trade, there are ehtry
clerks, shipping clerks correspond
ing clerks, custom house clerks
receiving clerks statesmen on com,
mission, salarled statesmen ana
book-keepers, 10 these are TO DC
added the various brancnes OF traoe
which we will not stop TO record
but which are so extensive thaC
we may estimate the nGmoer Oh
clerks in New York at aoout one
hundred thousand, ohe-tehth OF
whom may be fouhd on bfoaa"ay'
HOW CLERKS LIVE.
Some of the Broadway houses
have from one hundred to three
hnndred clerks. The salaries of
those youno men range from one
hundred to one thousand dollars
thouoh a few reach a f. ure ranging
from two TO four thousand dollars. .
Rnt on the moderate rates first
mentioned they are expected to
lross we'll and keen ND a GOOD ap-
neorance. They must be at their
host at eioht o'clock or fined, un-
Iess excused bv illness. They are
lLent on their feet all day, having
inst snare time at noon for n hasty /
Inncb. and bv seven in the evening
tbav are weary as a farm laborer, |
for rotoilino Goods and incessant
taIlsino Is hard work. In the busy (
season wholesale clerks are often .
I,ont at worl, until midnicbt with
ont allowances for extra services,
ond whan trade falls off are liable
to Immediate discharge. With the
oyconIion of crack statesmen who
IN Gnnncn trade no clerk is sure of
h;s situation for week ahead
mo mdrummors >, who hono around
hotels and brine in customers. have
! boftar chance than indoor men,
but drnmming is n killing business,
ond hence they are not eDvied.
Merchants care nothing for their
,IorEs oxcent as tools to make
O,onoy with and very unexpected
OUTLAY is met, if possible. by cut !
Iown tboir nav A merchant who
is r,okinr twenty. thousand dol |
lave nor voar and living in hand |
ooroa styIe viii olodlv reduce bis
olori, to tbo lowest ,ittancc The