The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-07-01
Occupation.
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New YORK SUM-
There are many odd ways Of earning
livelihood la "A great city like New
York, aud il is surprising Ia see how
many persons there are who readily
adapt themselves To new occupations
Type writing, for instance, was un-
known a few years ago, and now there
are thousands who support themselves
by Il. II has supplied a new and wide
field for the employment Of women, and
come into almost universal Use Tor le-
gal documents. The invention Of the
telephone has giving employment Ia
thousands in the construction Of the
apparatus and the attendance at tele-
phone offices, and the number thus en-
ployed already rivals the number en-
gagged in telegraphing.
The introduction Of electric lighting
has given employment to many per-
sons, as has also the comparatively re-
cent Use Of refined coal oil all over the
world for lighting and heating. IL i
only few years since the invention OF
the district messenger service and the
employment of street bootblacks gave
employment to an army of boys.
The successful manufacture of play
cards, which were largely made abroad
until within u few years, has recently
given employment to many American
workmen. The canned goods industry
has grown up since the war, and offers
an entirely new occupation.
Photo-lithography and many other
quick processes of picture prin ting
have furnished employment to many
within few years. There is an i'm.
mense business in ready. made clothing
for women aud children that is of COM
paratively recent growth.
There are, at a rough calculation,
about fifty men in the United States
who make their living by hardening
steel for various mechanical purposes.
There are three or four who earn liv-
ing by demagnetizing waite hes and per-
haps about rs many who adjust COM
passes on iron ships. There is an old
and somewhat intricate occupation in
the insurance business known as the
adjustment of averages, and the num-
Der of men engaged in it in a great city
may almost be counted on ones fing-
ers.
There are many men who earn a
living by tasting various articles of food
or judging of them by their appearance.
There are experts in handwriting, in
chemistry, in mechanics, and all sorts
of things, who turn up in the courts
and make litigation costly.
Civilization tends to division of Ia
Dor, so that in every profession there
are men who get a reputation for some
particular branch. Thus there are &C.
knowledged specialists in law, who
have almost monopoly Of certain
class of cases. Some lawyers know al
about patents, and others all about adj
mirality; Others all about landlords anC
tenants; others all about criminal law
and so on. In the same way the doctors
take each some portion of the human
body as special study, so that the old
family doctor, who undertook to doctor
all sorts of diseases, is comparatively
obsolete in crowded communities.
This division of labor leads to the
establishment in great cities of many
queer stores, or depots of supply for all
sorts of odd things of which the gener'
al public knows little or nothing. Their,
are, for instance, depOts for the suppl,
of peculiar food for the various nation
alities that center in the great city
The Cinnamon, the Italians, the Ger
man and the Scotchmen all know wher
they can go and buy things that ar,
specially suited only to their owl
taste.
A craze like roller,skating gives EN-
ployment to many persons. American
roller. skates are now known all owe
the world. There is an American rol
ler-skating rink over in India. TIL
progress of mechanical inventions
while it throws many persons out o
employment, also furnisher new occu
patiOns to many, and does away will
the apprehension that the machin
may supplant the man.