New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-25
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Respectfully yours.
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Each of the men signed, some for q
| quarter, some for more, and Peter left the
Office after a high. flown speech of thanks
in which he expressed his gratitude for the
compliment they had seen tit to bestOw
upon him, and his lively sense of his own
deserving qualities. The performance was
repeated in all the other offices with equal
success.
Did Peter leave' Not he. Instead, he at
once proceeded to guZzle all the liquor hle
money would buy; and in two days there
after. the same document, freshly written,
was circulated without ellciting single
response. Then, indeed, he did set his face
toward the place where the sun goes down.
Three months afterward an east bound
printer reported his safe arrival in Denver,
very much reduced and lamentably sober.
1t was amusing to see Theodore Savage
work with his solitary arm. Placing the
stick on the ledge of the case before him he
would deposit the type therein at an aston
ishingly rapid rate, dumping" when the
stick became full, with q dexterity that was
simply marvellous.
These men are representatives OF the
| floating part of the trade IN Its lowest branch.
They always walk.
The next grade above them consists of
men who walk when they must, but ride
| when they can. "A good story ia told OF
| one of the riding class who desired not long
since to go from this city to Buffalo with
out expenditure of wealth. He boarded .
train at Twenty second street, and rode
| some little distance before the conductor
| reached him. II want you to get OFT at the
next station" was the way his conference
with that functionary closed, the function
| airy being the speaker. He got off at the
| next station, went around the rear OF the
train, idled away q few minutes until "all
aboard was heard, and then he got on
again.
] said the man Of tickets on his next round;
"but if l find you here after we pass the
| next station I'll kick you through the train"
The persistent traveller left the car at the
| next station only to re enter as soon as it
started on. When the next station was
| reached the conductor proved himself quite
as good as his word. He kicked him
| through two cars and off the platform.
| Imagine his rage when, on his next trip, he
found the printer roasted on the wood-box,
| carefully balancing over the edge as
much as possible OF the part of him which
had been kicked, his face wearing doleful
expression OF resigned suffering.
"See here. my friend,' queried the con-
ductOr in calm desperation, where are you
golngs"
well" was the answer, given with the
utmost seriousness, I'm going to Buffalo
if my pants hold Out!''
He was allowed to ride
They tell that on another man out West,
but this is the true story.
Titusville, Pennsylvania, is or used
to be a grand rallying place for "old
timers Frequently there are more
subs congregated there than stationary,
regularly employed compositors. "Flagging
it, that is to say, sleeping on the sidewalks,
under stairs, in dry goods boxes, or any
other places where sleep can be had is the
hdbitual mode of life among these trans-
ents Keepers of cheap boarding houses
have become SO averse to them that no &C
commodatiOns can be had without previous
deposit OF collateral security, and this is sell
dom possible. ''Driven from home" is
the way they describe their condition. Men
who are reduced to this style OF shifting
along proudly term themselves "banner-
ties. make jest of their privatiOns, and
stay drunk as much as they can. 1t is an
odd circumstance, but fellows who wear
linen coats all winter and heavy clothes all
summer. who are ever hungry and never
clean. find means to get liquor, and keep
telicitously full eight days in the week. /
once knew Pete Oberly (who always wore
shirt until, as he said, it was 'colOred
like meerschaum'') and Old Hibbard to
organize picnic in the suburbs of Kansas
City, when neither of them had done a
stroke OF work in a month. The weather
was beautifully warm, and, as Hibbard
observed, all nature called them forth into
the fields" BY some occult device they
procured a large bottle of villainous
whisky, and sauntered out to the suburbs,
where they sat them down in the shade Of
high board fence, and drank their bottle
dry, being treated incidentally to the ex-
citing spectacle of furious and protracted
fight between two pigs in q pen near at
hand. They described this jaunt afterward
as pleasant Excursion, beautifully enliv-
ened by the play OF nature on every side.
The Herald in Titusville is, or used to be,
an old theatre. The job room is where the
gallery was formerly located, and the
clustering overhead is extremely frail ST.
Charles had upon one occasion been
"fagging it' during space of about six
brothers OF the banner, he crawled up one
night into the garnet over the job-room
tfacetlously denOminated the boedoir, be-
cause OF its constant use by these gentry as
chamber Of rest) and went to sleep. The
others happened to stretch out upon solid
places. but st. Charles succeeded in finding
repOse upon one of the beams. Between
ten and eleven o'clock the next morning he
awoke, rubbed his eyes, yawned, rolled
over, and fell off his beam upon the thin
lathwork, through which he crashed in a |
shower of dust, lime and splinters, alight. |
ing upon form which two of the lob
hands below were taking from a stone to
carry to press. ''They saved the RIM" said |
he, in describing his accident to friend |
mat afternoon. but there wasn't two type |
left together" The jobbers were fright. |
ened out OF their wits for moment, but !
directly they got the dust out of their optics |
they new at the unfortunate like cats upon |
a dog and drove him ignominiously and |
with much pedal exercise our into the |
street.
Inc highest grade of tramps rather eniov
the respect of the trade than otherwise,
hey travel in Pullman cars, put up at |
hrst class boardlDghouses. dress in the
latest style, and altogether live by far better
than the average mechanic. These are the |
,'hghtnlng comps" such as Ahrensberg and
Looms. They are the most rapid and accu-
rate compositurs in the country, are ALWAYS
sure OF wOrE, and are favored with the
OF the fraternity. Once in a
while they will develop trit1ing eccen-
triclty, such as leaving unpaid board or
tailors' bills behind them. but ordinarily
they are no worse--in fact little better.
than most travelling journeymen. Looms
occasionally shifts his talents in TO the re.
portoTiai line. He served upon tba c;+r
staff of the Inter. Ocean last fall with credit
and the Louisville and Cincinnati papers
nave been favored by his labors quite fire.
luently.
l would like to have it understood that
The men l have tried to describe are not
[alr samples of those who follow the Dript
ng trade: they are merely samples of a
class OF printers. The steady compassion
nan of family and responsibilities is a fel.
low OF infinite merit compared with work