The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-02-22
VERSATILE B0STONIANS.
MEN AND WOMEN WHO EARN
DOUBLE INCOMES.


MEN AND WOMEN WHO EARN
DOUBLE INCOMES.
Folks Who Have More Than Worh
Enough Work While Others stsrvs-A
Young senstor-An Armies Msssachu.
sets Hero.
(From Our Special Correspondent,
Boston, Feb. 20.
One OF the great difficulties which stand In
the way Of the earnest social reformer Is the
almost impossibility of calmly reasoning with
the man or woman who is out of work and
threatened with starvation. And ! under
stand that the one great argument used by
the advocates of an eight-hour law is that by
reduction of the hours Of labor each day
there will be given opportunities for employ
ment to the millions who may be unemployed.
There seems much in the thought.
It seems to be one Of the peculiarities of
life in Boston, and presume in all the great
cities of the United States, that all should be
divided up into great camps, the army OF the
wholly unemployed and the other army, quite
rs numerous, of those who are doubly, trebly,
or more numerously employed. Let one by
any chance of ill-fortune be thrown out of
Job and at once every avenue of employment
seems to be closed against him. But let him
once get fairly on his feet, financially, and he
finds all kinds Of unheard-of schemes and
plans for earning extra cash. do not try
to analyze the subject, to philosophize upon
It, or to study out the reason. merely state
the fact Many of those making so much ex-
ira money find that the additions to their in
comes are the result of hobbies pursued, per-
haps thanklessly and extensively, for many
years in gaining the skill and reputation
among acquaintance which would cause the
cash to roll in.
I was set on this train Of thought few
nights ago as l passed poor fellow begging
q few cents off myself and others who
streamed into and out of j. M. Hills new res
taurant OH Boylston and Washington streets.
What contrast between the poor fellow and
The surprisingly versatile Hill, who seems to
And it almost impossible to use up all his en-
srgies, notwithstanding that he has the larg-
EST restaurants in Boston and Chicago, three
Of the best dramatic stars in the theatrical
armament, great wholesale and retail cloth
ng house, railroad, gold mine. marble
Iuarry, and nobody can tell how many other
lQUeTpTlSeS I'LL running SltuuAUduCouo4y uhNCA
his management, and the marvel Of it all is
that they are running successfully. THEATRE
raj men. however. seem to be nearly always
versatile geniuses. John Stetson Of the Globe
theatre probably could not tell off all his en-
terprises on his fingers even if he had two
pairs of hands, His theatre is remarkable
success, his banking business is ditto, and as
for his newspaper that is one of Boston's per-
;,,ct Pioh IF thu HOI.
lis Street theatre, and Ed. Rice, whose name
Is a synonym for success, seem to find it i'm
possible to use up all their executive qualities.
In other lines of thought also there are men
who are conspicuous by their all-round-ness.
Henry NJ Whitney, the president of the
gigantic West End street railway system,
finds time to Conduct one or two other sue
cessful enterprises of which he is the head.
Talking with Boston lawyer about Gen.
Butler a short time ago, the matter Of his
versatility was referred to. "There has
hardly been successful enterprise in Massa-
ehusetts in the last quarter of a century that
he has not been in. He's wonderful man."
was my friends comment.
~ is no Uncommon thing for thu minister
4 q breaches to you Sundays ana makes his
pastoral calls at your house week days to exc
out his income by contributions to the news
paper or the magazine press. And this compe-
tition comes not entirely from poorly paid
clergymen. The high salaried ones are quite
as much addicted to it in fact, more, for the
reason that the preacher who is famous or
notorious lit is immaterial which, so long as
he is known to the reading public will be
sought after by the publisher, while others
will have to seek out opportunities to sell
their intellectual fruits. Joseph Cook, Ed
ward Everett Hale, Phillips Brooks, Justin
d. Fulton and such men are sought after I'M
til their names appended to magazine articles,
reviews, prefaces and introductions to books
and the like are almost as well known, yes
even better advertised, than their clerical la
bors.
Even judges, it is said, are sometimes not
above making a slight addition to their
judicial salaries by turning their legal knowl-
edge to account. have heard of large fees
being paid eminent judges for advice as to
the best methods of forming business arrange
ments, and for disentangling knotty legal con-
undrums which thus were kept out of court and
controversy. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes
of the supreme court is a well-known and
successful author of law books
Many of the odds and ends OF work fall
luUO tu0 uduuS OI men VINO nave other r0Gu-
lar employments, for the very natural reason
that they have an abiding place and a regu-
lar address, whereas the man or the woman
who is in search of work may not be SO steady
in his or her postoface address.
***
Another thought, also, which does not per-
haps reflect much credit on humanity in
general. is that the man or the woman who is
not entirely dependent upon certain line of
odd jobs of work, but is getting living more
or less comfortable out of some other regular
occupation, can afford to and does underbid
the individual whose daily bread is only to be
had from securing such work at fair rates of
remuneration.
Barber shops, restaurants, saloons and
stores of all kinds which keep open late at
night offer splendid opportunities for earning
extra money, particularly during the holiday
season. They draw their extra help from the
down town and wholesale places which close
early, and it is a common thing to find tho
young man or woman who served you early
in the day at Jordan, Marsh & Co. g or at r.
II. Whites, attending to your wants in some
retail store at 10 or IL o'clock on Saturday
night All the wholesale shoe stores close at