The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-06
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An English gentleman gives Q Lon.
don paper an account Of the answers
he received In three days to an adyer'
tisement for q j~sn!torf for q school. The
advertisement stated that the position
would only be given to o person who
was sober, reliable and Of good char
acter; that a married person was pre-
ferred; that the wages amounted to ten
dollars per week, with free living
rooms, gas and coal. We received in
answer to this advertisement five hun.
dred and forty-eight applicants. Among
them were fifty-seven graduates from
English, Scotch and Irish universities,
two scions Of noble houses, fifty per-
sons who had been engaged in literary
pursuits, twenty men who had been
officers in the army, about the same
number of clergymen, medical men,
clerks and men who had been engaged
in business for themselves and sixty
three women. Many of them wrote
very pathetic letters, and some asked
the advertiser whether he would allow
them to live or permit them to die.
Several stated that they were not mar
ried, but would take to themselves
wives as Dol as the place was Sc
cured. One writer stated the adj
v~ertiser had it in his power to
make two persons happy, as they had
long loved each other and had been
waiting for such a place as he had to
bestow SO they could be married.
Over four hundred Of the applicants
stated that they were out Of employ
ment and that they would be thankful
for any position. Most Of them offered
to serve on trial one month for moth
ing. Several offered to take the place
for half the wages offered. The mill
tary men offered to drill the students
without extra pay. Others offered to
keep books, to work in the garden, or
to make themselves useful in any way
they were able. All desired a personal
interview, and quite a number insisted
on it. As a rule, the persons who
made the greatest boast of scholarly
attainments represented themselves as
the most destitute. Most of them had
been out of employment for a long
time. 1t was ascertained at the Office
of the newspaper in which the adver-
tisement was inserted that over a hun
dred, in bringing their letters, under
took to find out the residence of the
advertiser, that they might have a per-
sonal interview with him. The place
was given to a carpenter, who had a
fair common-school education, who did
not seek the place on account OF pow
erty or because he could not find any
thing to do.
The head Of this school, after CLASH |
tying the answers he received to his
advertisement, freely admitted that a
polished education did not appear to
be of any value in assisting one to OBJ
tain a living. Most Of the men edu-
Gated in universities represented that
were living in the most abject
poverty, and the absence Of stamps
from their letters showed that they
brought them to the newspaper office.
Several of them stated that they had
up all hope of v e obtaining
any remunerative employment, and
that they would be very grateful for
any position that would afford them
food and plain clothing. They
had reached a period in life when they
could not learn trades, and they were
to obtain work only by joining
the ranks Of unskilled laborers. The
concluded that he could OBJ
tain a thousand Of these men for
. nothing a year." providing they
we're allowed the cast-off clothes of a
gentleman, and had the privilege of
with his servants. - Chicago