New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01
GETTING TOGETHER.
INTERESTING confession or 4 FOR,fER vAn
DRIVER-"PATIENCE AND ACCUMULATION
TIE WATCHWORD.

DRIVER-"PATIENCE AND ACCUMULATION"
TIE wATCHwORD
80 YOU n van-rnan and moved people :,
the spring." SAL the kindly visitor to the convict,
Yes. sir
But did YOU no, know that you would r., ca,,,.
sooner or later? Being a van-Ean Is such pubr,
cr!rlo--you MI. have been constantly ,,rder -.
eye Of the Police"
! know IT, answered the man. NY r,o,bs,
ctten plead with me TO stop Bat wosn't convicted
Tor that after all Indirectly waning brought ma
here Of course. bu' ,hat want the cha-ee"
lndeed|' returned the visitor Would Won mn,
telling mo some Of the secrets Of piano and fv-,,.
tnre moving and the collateral crime o. pack,,,
and Shipping ousohod roods?"
NO objection n al. I mean to reform. n,vhov
when git out an learning She trade CT piu,,ba,
while am In here
The visitor started. "I5 It possible that in our
very reformatory institutions that-but no matter
go on with your confession"
MI right" said the convict did You eyer wan.
der what becomes Of the little b,ace-bloc,,s f., t,-
niture when you move?"
Those little blocks IN inch r1uare and ,h-sa =.
four inches long which are always glued f., ey.-,
or-o-sight angle and corner OF all kinds OF furai.
ture?" ''''-
Thems the thing-'speciaIy in booroos ana
dresfing-cases and under the da.ng-roorn tables"
Yes, have often wondered what becomes n,
them particularly when have been paving n cab
iAe'-man for sticking others on after the furniture
begins to fall to Pieces"
They goes for the boss's kindl.cg wood an,
sNerei the man with grin. And being dry "a
bones and soaked with varn!sh and giue .,,s -Aa
not nTe they make. too. Us drivers and handler.
carry hammer specially TO knock 'e:r of VIII
i'ach man Is supposed 10 gather bushe. day. or
ne hears from headquarters Some bosses that
nave enough vans git more than they can use and
string 1t up into lunches and start woodward.
There are men that take knob OF each booroo but
It isn't considered hardly professional less yours
gittin' together"
What do you mean by getting together"
It's wot's called a technical term. Wen you're
gittin together you're just gttin together that's
all Gittin booroo together 'stenson table
together. or stove together Van-nen have TO
have things Ike other folks and It's cheaper and
handler to git EN- together than to buy EN-"
But how do you % it?"
chunk here and chunk thereof course Take
ccoA-stoye. i'r instance: very neat ard desirable
thing to sit together, not so easy as some thlnrs
but hard enough a van-man needn't be ASHAMED
of IT, Leg here leg there; hearth to-day oven door
to-morrer; griddle down town. griidle up town:
int O. pipe from Smith int O. pipe from Jones;
damper from party moving ont. lid-llfter from
party moving in Store 'em at home and wen RS
got together set up your stove and build your Ere
with your kindlingwood and the coal you've 'cunnu.
lated, while your wife sets the pots and kettles
that have fell 10 you similarly. Same with a
'stenson tabe-leSs. leafs. braces and such stuY;
or bedstead-casters Stats. sides end-boards.
mattress, sheets pliers and all them things
Everything IS made In little pieces whom YOU come
to look at 1t c'ose--a LAMP. chair Sc, OF Shakes.
peare's books, anything. Everything except a dog
If you want dog you've got to Just steal him
whole dog or none; but which 1 don't consider
hcncst."
But don't people you of-er-ge,tng to-
gether?
"Bluff EN-. 1oll 'em the thing was broke wen
you took IT. or all right wen you lett-or both.
Things will git lest in moving and folks know II.
Blum Is the word. Patience and 'cumuate and
take a whole thing IS the secret OF Waning"
Would you mind telling me what is the hardest
a palmer never got but one palmer together.
and indirectly ne the cause OF me being here. Tae
boss got II into his head he must have palmer
for his daughter. Git it together by May 10 say,
,eg :W,eres me nianpdr u' sa So re conan
'Wot leg? says l. The fourt leg says she YAH.
She kicked some more. bat got her bufTed at l2st
Then Toy three nays got leg each day AMI ina,
pulling teeth as we call it-three white ones ard
two two pa blacks from e2Sh pi3nner and in week
and sides and such things. and then I started on
the inside. That was hard work. mainly cause
, me crazy telling wot I'd got and wot hadn't,
prided myself o. not gittn any duplicates, anii
hammers ana PADS and things ron, each p,aansr;
ana handful OF the miscerlaneous hxngs ons ss
OF Nav walked into the boss's house ana
sets down a piaaner,stool and lamp and says
. Their YOU be- and lie was, too. he found gu.
wen he come 10 set IL up. No expense but a do.T
TO 81 L tuned. II was hard work. though. ana
wouldn't try IL again.
But how did 4; bring you here"
IL was telling my brother about H. He's a boss
car driver and don't understand wot they call ING
/ ethics OF the vannrs business. Sage ne: IL Want
honest SO brung him one on the Jaw. he beng
younger than and family dscerplin having 70
/ be maintained. iut somehow IL broke his jaw aaa
they give me two years for II. Wen git out l N
going into plut bling w're there won't be no shadiss
OF chance 70, nobody % pnt the finger or sc9 3
at me and say That man is guilty OF irreg8laTlus
B IN his business a"
NARELES LESS POPULAR THAN FORMERLY
From The San Francisco Call.
The playing marble trade Is not what II was
twenty years ago" said A. T. Holmes, an Eastern
chinaware man. n. the Palace yesterday. "Prons.
bly, the boys OF the present age don't take as kindv
10 this form of amusement they did IN thos.
days but however that may he. the demand IS no.
near large Most or the stone marbles used Az
made in Germany. Only the refuse OF the marDs
and agate quarrles II employed and this is treated
In such way that there Is practically no waste
Men and boys employed 10 break the stone nll my,
small cubes. which are then thrown into min
consisting OF n grooved bedstone and revolving
runner Water Is fed TO the mill and the runner ~
rapidly revoved. while the friction does the ress :