Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19
An Omaha Reporter Strikes Out For
a Job of Work.
HE WAS THE FATHER OF A FAMILY
But, In Most Places, IL Didn't Have
An ETect-Iwo situations on
the Ice Secured-One Good
Mar Met.
Out of n job.

~ AhO Slpl III Jul "Vth NSlS all uD-
portunity offered is u safe on. And,
when II man is idle and the cherubs are
ill with la grippe, while the wife of
ones bosom is vainly trying to explain
to the collectors of rent and sundry other
bills why her liege lord has not left
cash enough in the exchequer to liqui-
date, the situation is embarrassing in
the extreme.
a reporter has, for about three days,
circulated through the city Cooking for
work" He didn't care what kind of a
situation it was as long as there was a
little money in it. He had been every
where, had visited wholesale houses,
Offices, hotels, blacksmith shops, rail-
road Offices, saloons even, in fact every
place where u man could dream of get
ting u position. He has actually grown
cross-eyed in his mad plunge for en-
ployment.
The want columns Of the daily papers
were consulted prior to the search for a
situation. None of them we're very
satisfact ry, but work must be had.
A gentleman on east Farnam street
needed Il coachman, and to his office
repaired the applicant. He wasn't in,
but the office boy said he would be in
side OF half an hour. So the searcher for
a position and u wealthy mans daugh-
ter to elope with, sat down aud waited.
1t was almost like waiting for the letter
that had no postage stamp on the upper
leit-hand corner, but finally the sup
posed employer of n coachman arrived.
S you want a job as coachman, do
you?n
"Yes, sir.n
Ever had any experience with
horses?"
Yes, sir, handled horses all my
life" and the angelic bookkeeper
dropped u teal as he made another
large entry on the record of u reporters
life.
Then you think you would suit me,
dc your"
"What wage would you require?n
Wages are no object in ny present
position, sir. What are you willing to
pay?"
'If you suited me, I would give you
$40 per month and your board; but the
fact is, young man, l employed a fellow
yesterday, Sorry you weren't around
world, tloated the news gatherer to an
swer an q d for u young mai to take
charge of a set of books,
Sorry sir, but you are too late. En-
ployed a man today" Again was the
want column consulted. Gpachmen and
bookkeepers were too plentiful, some
thing else must be experimental with.
All, here it is! A young man wanted
who thoroughly understands repair
ing billiard and pool tables.
The reporter took the elevator and
/ wont m Tho ms ,poc ia In ~ "A ,l,,;ttol
having advertised that he wanted q man
who could repair billiard tables.
DO you thoroughly understand the
business?" queried the gentleman, aud
for The second time the recording SER
aph dropped a tear on the ledger as the
reply m
Never did anything else in my life"
well, l have partially promised the
place, but come around this afternoon
and L will see what | can do for you"
The reporter ''went around, - but the
other fellow had been secured and
again was the want column consulted.
A man in the meat business, not n
thousand miles from Hanscom park,
had paid the regular rate to declare
that he wanted a butcher, but when the
reporter arrived he found the place
taken.
There was another tear or so shed in
the upper regions over another sin COM
mitted on earth, for the locker for work
positively asserted that since the DAYS
of his happy boyhood he had lone moth
ing but saw off s~irloin, chop up soup
bones and mash tenderloins, but it
didn't go. All his years Of experience
were OF no avail because the proprietor
had said:
II done got a man."
OF course, that settled it. Then was
the want column cast aside and a differ
emit method was employed. All, an
other idea. What would be the matter
with striking for a position as a dry
goods clerks Capital thought. Any
thing was better than doing nothing.
So a start was made.
"Were you ever in the businesspn
"Since the time l was large enough
to do anything"
"Are you familiar with city trade, or
has your business been chiefly in the
country?"
always in the city,"
What lines are you most familiar
within"
Silks"
And at that statement, the stoker in
the regions below ordered more coal,
for the applicant knows no more of silks
than does an ordinary house cat.
1872 NfN J'So hc" I'm
is dull; but, if it opens up in the spring,
we may be able to do something for
you. Are you going to remain in the
city until April II" to which pointed
question the hunter for something to
do replied that he probably would If
nature could manage to hold her W
on n diet of good pure water
with an occasional SNOWFALL. He then
retired promising to look in again about
April l, il alive.
Two more of the same kind OF places
were vested with no further success
and the place hunter changed his voca-
tion and went into the grocery business
or rather decided that he had been
there for a long time.
AT the first store he entered, he asked
for a job as usual, but they needed no
one. Neither did the proprietor know
Of anybody who did. And thus 1T went
for a half dozen places.
The thing was getting ~monotonous by
this time and q change of policy was
decided upon. Hitherto, fair clothing
had been worn and all requests for en-
ployment were put in a straightforward
manner without any descriptiou of cir