The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-28
Continued on Sixth Page.)
HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE.
Queer Ways of Fixing Out insufficient
Regular Incomes

Queer Ways of Fixing Out insufficient
Regular Incomes.
In the struggle for life, which. is so
keen at this end Of the century, some
people resort to strange expedients to
get bread and cheese or to increase a
pittance to comfortable income. In
spector Livingstone, WHO was formerly
in charge of the police at the law
courts, tells tragic story Of poor
and briefless barrister who fought a
long and grim battle with fate, and
was beaten in the end. In the early
hours of the morning he worked as a
market porter at Covent Garden, and
then at 10 o'clock adjourned to his
chambers in the temple, donned wig
and gown, and attended the courts,
waiting day after day to grasp the
skirts of happy chance. Others as I'M
known to the world and friendless as he
had their opportunity, but none pre-
sented itself to him, and in hope ever
deferred his race was run.
A Somerset house clerk who rushed
into matrimony before he had properly
counted the cost, and found it difficult
to run even a modest household on s150
little stranger, got over the embarrass-
ment by starting a coffee stall near
Smithfield market in the early morning.
He kept his truck in the neighborhood,
but brought down his stock of comesti-
bles from his home in Camden Town.
Fortunately his wife, VINO did her best
to help on the enterprise, was capital
plain cook, and his mutton pies and
buns had a great reputation in the
market. He was generally cleared out
by 8 O'Clock, and no one would have
thought Of Identifying him with the
smart young man, silk-hatted and top
| coated, who two. hours later crossed the
| Strand to Somerset house.
! A rising author who is now sought
| by the publishers, but had particu
larly hard struggle to find acceptance
tided over the worst period by acting
as brokers' man. Taken as a whole
he found it most unpleasant expert
ence, but he declares that he wouldn't
have missed it for the world, for it has
supplied him with material for numbers
Of sketches and short stories A Christ
mas story which brought him a lot OF
praise, for instance, was a chapter from
that experience, and well deserved the
encomium of very realistic from the
critics.
A friend of the writer, who rejoices
in what the police reports call "a. very
aristocratic appearance" and has ii
addition excellent manners, adds enough
to a slender income to pay for the sum
mer holiday for himself and family, his
tailor's and bootmaker's bills, aridleve
his rent, by acting as a private detec
tive at balls and receptions in Belgra
via and Mayfair. Chance threw him il
contact with the manager of detective
agency which does a great deal of bus
mess of this kind, and his first job was
in fact. simply as a nights diversion al
i the invitation of the manager aforesaid
| But SO pleased was the lady of tn,
house with his appearance and obligine
courtesy that she made special mention
of it to the manager who accordingl,
proposed to my friend that he shoulC
accept regular paid employment. H
was nothing loath, and now has en-
! gagements almost every night during
the season.
| Another curious case is that of a Non