The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-17
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With respects to THE GAZETTE
and its many readers, l close.
A FARMER LAD.
SEEKING WORK.
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men now looking for positions a
bookkeepers in the city," said tn,
manager of a well-established EN-
ployment company, which adver
tises almost daily for men to fill thi
or that position. "They are men o
all ages, but mostly between twenty
five and thirty-five. But / shoulC
say that fully ten per cent. of them
are men who are we'll on with or al
ready beyond the middle age. These
are the hardest to find places for
They are too much set in their own
notions of business TO adapt them
selves readily to others notions, and
then those who want boOkkeepers
prefer younger men who can grow
with the business. These elderly
applicants have, IS q general thing,
seen better times. Many of them
have been in business for them
selves and failed, or have been by
accident thrown out of good posi-
tions in which they failed to lay
something by for the rainy day.
Ny estimate of the number or
would be bookkeepers is a careful
one, and is based upon q long expe-
rience in this line OF business. There
are twenty three thousand book
keepers employed in the city, and
more than a quarter as many more
unemployed. You would be aston
ished 10 learn the number of able
bodied men who could work at
hundred different things if they had
a mind to, but who will persist in.
either keeping books or keeping
idle. Young men, with lifetime
ahead of them and the whole range
of ordinary vOcations to choose from,
will hang around town for months,
and run into debt, while waiting a
chance to keep books. The time
has gone by when good penman-
ship will necessarily secure q man
a living. There are too many good
penmen now, and 1 know for fact
that there are some business houses
where expert penmanship is DIS
and where one who is able
% write too well is suspected of in
in other respects. OF
course 1 don't pretend to indorse
his, but it is one of the factors
which prevent clever penmen from
It once securing employment And
What do you suppose a good book
leeper gets a week, anyhow
Twenty or twenty five dollars"
aid the reporter, at guess.
"Well, there are very few book
,eepers in New York who earn
dollars a week-very
ew. There are not many who
make twenty dollars. The average
,ay of an ordinary bookkeeper is
rom fifteen to eighteen dollars a
7eek. / will undertake to furnish
of good bookkeepers at
rom twelve TO fifteen dollars a
Teek." .ErE ETe
"Why, that is only two dollars
ay."
Precisely, and there are not
lany of the 5000 unemployed
who would not take it.
let it was only three months ago
hat i read in the public prints that
/ was not possible to secure compe-
ent policemen on the Brooklyn
ridge at two dollars a day"
"Mhat is the condition of things
n other lines Of employment" |
Il can't speak for the number Of
ordinary laborers, for we seldom
AYE applications for them. The
ther business men who want help |
end to US, and we have continually
IN our books a humber of applicants
yho say that they can do this thing
T the other thing, and if we cannot
Ill the bill from those we have on
Iand we advertise. Our fee comes
rom the man employed. The fact
) 3 man must pay fee before GO
ng on our books. He then has a
hance for a certain length of time
DR. getting employment through US.
lie may or he may not get it. 1t
oes not pay him to say he can do
ertain kind of work unless he real
= can do it. If he says he is bar
eeper and pays us fee for getting
i'm such a position, and is after
7ard discharged for incompeteney,
GU can see that he gains nothing
y the operation except experience,
nd he will paobably come to us
nd say thrt he is willing to go as
ssistart bar-keeper and learn the
usiness. We have a great many
pplicants and a great many places
} I'LL In the bar-keeping line. The
pplicants are mostly Germans, and
nd the employers generally prefer
iermans. A few years ago nearly
II the bar-tenders were Irish We
ct ''runs" on the different nation
lities at times. During the dyna-
lite season q few months ago we
'und it was a very hard thing to
nd q berth Of any kind tor an Irish
ian, though / am not sure that
ynamite had anything to do witr
. After book-keepers and bar
'uders we probably have most
pplicants for porters; yet there are
N times as many applicantstor the
laces, as there are porters wanted.
ldeed every line of employments
overcrowded and has been for
70 years" |
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