The Arizona sentinel., 1888-02-11
MAKING A LIVING.
Queer Ways in Which Some Chicago Peo-
 pie Support Themselves.

cash carrier" used in place of cash boys. The patentee of that ingenius contrivance was a New England clergyman, who. broken in health. was obliged to relinquish his profes- sion, with no very well-defined means of livelihood to fall back on, and family to support. Accident threw him in the way of man who had about brought an invention of the cash carrier to perfection. The clergyman saw tbc merit of the scheme and he purchased the inventors rights. made some Improvements, and took out patent, or rather several patents. This was four or five years ago. A hand some fortune has already rewarded the shrewd Yankee clergyman.
 There is a firm in this city who make it a business to relieve newly married reople of their superfiuous wedding gifts. Sometimes bride will have half-dozen pair of opera classes. a basketful of napkin-rings, or fshknives, or sugar-spoOns, or other things selected by generous friends, each thoug htleSs of what other friends may select. The trader in wedding gifls keeps track of fashionable wed- dings, and as soon as the young coup | le have passed the honeymoon and got settled down he presents himself and offers to relieve them by purchase ot their superhuous goods. After some little dickering bargain is struck and the trader obtains the superfui- ties at price which affords him good profit and is at the same time all cash to them, for the presents have cost them nothing
 There are advertised places in this city and in every large city where both literate and illiterate aspirants can have their work done at fee which remunerates the "bureau" with q fair livelihood. For consideration which varies according to degree. an applicant can have letter written. a graduating essay, a sermon, lecture, an article for a magazine, or any kind of literary ware desired; or a person can have manuscript trimmed up or trimmed down and put in shape for publication. Speeches also are writ ten out for orators, and it is said that many Congressman and Legislator has obtained credit for an oration that he never had the brains to con- ceive originally.
 Some of thc.large manufactories af- ford instances of mysteriously-named workmen who seem always to be in demand. It takes battalion of peO- ple 10 make boot or shoe. though machinery does a great deal In that business there are cutters, lasters, paste filters. heelers, binders and finishers. In the tin trade there are bright hands, general hands. common hands, jobbing hands, box hands, case hands. colander hands, tea-kettle hands and bowl hands. be.ides a multitude of others. Among tailors there are basters, press CTS, cutters, coat hands, trouser hands. vest hands, jobbing hands and finish CTS If CT machines. In the making of neckties there is also great diversity, women being employed al- most exclusively in the industry. In this trade there are hands for fronts, for bands, for ends, for knots, for bows and for each of all the various diversilies of fneckwear that gentlemen most effect. In the millinery business there are almost numberlesS divisions
 in each of which a special workwom al
 is demanded Some women apply themselves 10 willow sewing, some tc chip, some to straw, some to manila, I some to silks and velvets, some to lace, some to paper, some tc braid, at all
 and each of which they make hum ble living. These are all in the line O. what may be called legitimate busi ness, though the ordinary citizen may
 not be familiar with them.
 Mkt. and perhaps most ingenious are those who live off other peoples leavings-on the refuse of the city
 Most noticeable among these are the
 rag-pickers, who. in the early morn ,, ing, prowl through the streets and all : leys of the city picking up the flotsan and jetsam of the night before. There
 are thousand rag-pickers in Chicag' T who by their industry support tel thousand people upon what has beel thrown away as useless. Pretty mucl every thing is fish that comes in thei ne':,papcr, rags, old iron or other . metal, rubber shoes, bottles, broker
 glass, wood, coal and bones. Tn bones they sell to the fertilizing fac
 tories; the wood and coal the,
 use themselves; the rags an'
 paper are sold to the rag merchants
 and the other articles to the junk mer [ .s chants. An industrious chiffonnie t with q good route can make from s; y 10 $4 q day between daylight an u noon ont of what other people hay z thrown away as valueless.
 . The industrious picker-up of ciga = ends has but little trouble in gainin:
 fair livelihood. for the product of hi :, labor finds a good market with cigar
 et-makers and smoking tobacco
 makers. The only competition he ha is with the street gamins. who rathe U look upon cigar ends as tfeir owl source of indulgence in the nicotia weed. Chicago Tribune.