, 1881-07-23
LowLY CAPITALISTS.
The Earnings Of colored Sleeping Car Portsrs
Men who Make Big Incomes
OF Douceur

The STATEsNAN's traveller aS oke, ya~ ned,
pull,d up the curtain and, as the train slid
into the Dale., pushed III. curtains asiie
and l-oksd our. Hali the sleeping car o.
cupan;s were Up and lie had 20 go throas /
s. NE skillTul evulu ions to keep number q,
pretty girls from sseirg his rel emNro'd- RED
socks. Fiaaliy he emerged, and with col
lar ami nee,ie il hand, made an urdignif.ec
rush fer the washfoom, where be sat down
and wsi'ed five minutes for several eminent
" respectable citizens 70 complete Their
toilets. In the esnJine he got IN his pIo
fessional work IN the rorter aud opened by
wing him cigar, which was perhaps the
worst tho reporter had ever received. The
port took it and slowed it away carefully.
The reporter knew that 1t woull eventually
iall iutl the clutches OF the CONDUCTOR, and
smil,d sa;,ly because he Knew the smoke,
would havr to lay off after consuming L,
which would be one step toward getting
even With the great monopoly. Then The r.
por.er asked the porter, casually:
How much are yOu paid by the com
pany:" TAe co!ored gentleman said moth
ing, ami then proceeded to beat
THE DEyIL's TATTOO
With a uh.sk broom on victim The III
quisitor awaited an opportunity, ard then.
by clp,e ques.i, ming. riicited the wonderful
TACT that Pullman portcrS rec, iyed Eothing
for their work from tie company. While
he was coglatlDg upon the strange fact, he
saw the gentleman who had just been brush
ed hand The porter fifty cents Soon after
ward another passenger gave him quarter
and the repo. ter a skcd:
Flow much do | owe you:'
Whatever you feel likegiving, sab, was
the reply.
TIL rel olter harded him ter cents for II
fe le The porter looked az it with lofty
scorn. COntemptnously, almost tierc'ly, he
handed il back with the crushing remark,
Keep IT sab, you might need 1t. The re-
,cr er than increased 1t TO twenty Gets, bnt
the colored emperor refused 1t again Final
ly he was offered a quarter which was taken
reluctantly, III ..tnanner that plainly impli~d
that he expected more. In urdsr to regain
his staining In the estimation OF the noble
genius, the reporter lncr,aSed the amount to
III cents anI ashel ''HoS much do you
generally receive tr III gentlemen!
''Some times ge. twenty five cents sab,
he replied, 'but generally de gemmen put
up a halt doiiah. You see the CONF any
doesn't piy me anything, and | makes my
living On what
De GEMMES GIVE Nj.
IT, de- east when was runnin' on the Bzltimo
Ohio. l used TO get ahout twenty-five cents
The eastern eemmen don pay so well as the
western gemmen. Since teen ON the O. Il.
& n, make more.
How many pass ng,rs do y"u have On an
average
From fifteen To TWEEN niy-tive." he replied,
but the remmen are de only ones that pay.
| get about fifteen men o. every cab.
The repcrte! figured ont frGm the po:t-r's
statement, that ne received On an average
at least thirty cents from each male pasSen-
ger. w.ich would bring him in ,h- seat Ii =
tie sum OF ~ 90 per trip from the male pas
srngers alone. The rep fter watched ciose-
ly aud came to the eonclusion that the por
Ter made no less than 81 from the car In
which lie was a pa-s-nsyr and saw thr' t
!aiirs pay the same as he men sleeping
car conductor an! porter make three round
THUS a week between The Dalies ani Wa,a
Wara and from this it will lie seen that a
por er makes not less than So ami perhaps
a5 high as $40 ier week. 0ut of this comes
bits for the conductor, but after every
thing is taken out, the conclusion Is reached
that the s'eeping car porter makes at leaS
So5 rer week.