Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-09

M fhe IASt meetfug UI CTegs
- ,.,s at New Haven, says the Bos
eul'IC Numerical Bulletin, the ques
ton apprentices and indenturcs
aon orssped in business-ilke way
sno orrnose of systenatizing the IN
ne d,;op of new hands in the trade
Gu, W. wears it has been we'll nigh
Ola'ossible to obtain an intelligent
lu if;ve born apprentice. Carriage
.;iders. like other manufacturers
Que su suffered from the strange aver
ns.' ~ the Yankee boy To a trade
s.cu class that have offered them
luz 1res are largely the worthless scum
CIV aoats about the streets OF 6
.r city. Even when once linden
g Ie have been entered into, it i:
!o,nun,ained that they are continually
CUE co"Een and consequently manuiac
!m.ars have been compelled to place
. w. reliance either upon foreign
: !n or to employ half-trained
me- Each ensuing day makes more
am;nent the fact that we have
Pna mon the times when The me
Gun ;c is master. We have crowded
e, n"sess;ons and ill-filled trades. A
p ph.nce to fill the position OF SUB as,
s;s,sn, clerk in wholesale mouse IL
s sscerlv arasped at by a hundred ap,,
e s,;canis though the wages received
pilcan''' nore than "a chance to
learn the business N oh
. .si. % offered the clerk, and his APP
I nI;csn,s will be poor alike ID quaa!.'
any trade need never want 10. hun hro
he is eagerly sought after ny q a nun
dred ON Movers, and his strong saxon
s.wacesb are twice as robust as the
mas CsIlic salary" OF the clerk or
weak t "s of an equal sge or expe-
He is Independent OF the condition
ofthe market; the skill and cunning
ofbis hand and eye are to valuable
~ lose and must be paid whether the
nroduc,s are slowly or rapidly con
sumed II q reduction in force IL
necessary some clerk or typewriter
takes his departure. If business
ceases the master-hand is eagerly seiz.
Cd by some rival house which knows
and values the productions OF his
skill.
It is not as if this country were
hound by the supcrstitions OF the Old
World A bright workman does not
here rise to the level of "A mAste''me-
cbanic and there stop. There are
avenues leading higher yet. The
manager of the Willamette Linen
Company, who is reported as about
10 scccpta position in the Pullman
Car Company. at "a salary Of sec, 600
a wear was but a few years ago a
macbinist in the Lowell Machine
shop; and this magnificent advance
in position is not due 10 any sudden
rise in "A neglected stock, or lucky
venture al an enormous risk, or sud
den windfall from distant relative.
Il is the natural outcome OF a vigor-
Gus brain, joined to cunning hand.
He who crushes down the obstacles
TO success in our own days must have,
As well as wit 10 see the crcvlce, the
strength TO deal the blow. This is
an age of the steam engine, and it is
the engineer, not the conductor, who
Is master.
And if after a year of continued
success, misfortune does come, com
mercial panic. or flood, or fire,
there comes from that man never a
cry OF What shall | do for my
bread?" The brain may have sought
TO 20 beyond its power, but the hand
cannot lose its cunning. 1.-The runner
may have fallen short in his leap, but
he is as tireless Il runner as he ever
was.