The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-08

New York CashierS A''"
FAR .,udes AN Increase OF salary
when - nj a Young Actor and
al, brilliant "''e'
o.. toir metropolitan cashier has add
the i~ factor to her growing valua-
ed l nIC will not prove SO desirable a
ton VIM. ~ owes of her employer as the
vile IL ' and efficiency which have won
hOOg ~, almost monopoly in the Ousi-
for DC, i the result of the microbe
peSS' % nothing less than washing
I "a ne money she handles ana chars'ns
o.. employer overtime too.
her einl s;scoverer of this new way 10 en-
Inc s u,r usefulness and cost is Annie
nance ns' the money taker of big down
Nesln' so,sl Miss Nesmyth serves at
t D3vht mostly, and, while less money
p Dies in then than III the Day sne Is
cO ouSrally kept busy enough. Inc money
g ens. very dirty and to the last degree
oi,e ;no 20 handle. Now, the cashier is
repui'd nnrse resting" from her ar
la,n confessional labors. After sick
uu ~, from handling the soiled currency
sPen aoncluded to resign. She was per-
$40 e "a not 70 by an increase OF salary
suaD commission to wash the money. 80
anu n;oht sees soup plate OF am
eve; water at her elbow, into which
mOn "ote as it arrives, is dropped. 1t
e o"ts mick bath and is then laid out on
se n;oco Of flannel to dry as tenderly as II
:. pore were her best piece of jewelry. The
wv. has 70 be changed two or three
times in night.
' The cashier recently had an offer OF
.rother similar job. Being asked what
salarv she wanted, she mentioned her
" e" 6oure. with the proviso that it
'~~st he SO much more "if there's money
"Money to wash?" said the aston
;.hod would be employer. "Why, /
haven't enough for my hides Che is a
leather and tallow dealer), much less to
wash. F" -.
lyon see," she said calmly, your
business is dirty, and it's likely the
money will be. won't wash another
fellow's money in ammonia water-lt's
had for the hands and head-without a
consideration in my salary. Different II
il were my money!" She says She s
"passing the tip along" and soon all
merchants in business that calls for
an unusual fortitude in the olfactory
and perceptive nerves will have to pay
extra salaries if they wish to retain
steady and efficient help.
A money washing episode which con
yerted Charlie Bigelow, the actor, anc
his wife to belief in banks is worth
recording. BY dint of great saving ant
denial the young couple got together
$500 in the first year of their marriage
The money was kept in chamois bag
which the wife strung around her walls
under her corset, and as the fund was
great secret which both tried hard t.
forget, so that the we'll known borrow
ing propensities of their professiol
might not be excited, it was neve
touched or even looked at for months
But a run of bad luck finally drove tn
young folks to draw ON the chamol
bag, when to their intense dismay
was found tho money had become pei
fectly illegible. One by one the elgf
500 bills were laid on the bed, all
the same condition of greasy, unifori
black green no color. Husband and vii
took turns at trying to restore the a
tractive greenness of the filthy lucre, bl
in vain. The young wife wept; the sa'
ing husband raved. Then together the
went to the bank which had given thel
the bills. The bank refused to recogni'
the money, nor could Manager Baker
Endorsement make the cashier chanl
his mind. The manager then took $l(
bill off their hands for friendships sal
and got a managerial friend to do lik
wise, trusting to their prominence
pass the notes. That was doing go'
bit for the young folks, who had su
mitted to being called stingy many
time to gather the fund together.
The actor then left his wife at hor
weeping over the remaining 5000, viii
he went down ON the Rialto to sell 1t
any speculator at 80 cents for the dolls
But the wife was mo SLOUGH" at ext
dents. As soon as he was gone she dr'
her tears and declared to the girl thi
as the money was no good anyway, tn
would just experiment with it. The &
made strong ammonia water, and
mistress took some washing soap a
soaked and soaped and washed those
bills as industriously behind lock
doors as il she were perpetrating
regular handkerchief and hose wash
fourth story room of a hotel VIII
Laundry work in the rooms" was I
hidden. Patience was rewarded. Kid
their Shiny coating, the half dozen b
at last shone feebly out in wan sort
alive greenness, touched up with brow
as If under the rays of dying suns
They looked like autumn leaves afte
big gale.
When her husband came home W
the news that he had sold our bills at
cents ON the dollar, and would thu
the other two in for fear the specula'
an actor friend, would be bitten
badly, she said radiantly, "Guess no
and led him IN tho tahla where the