The age-herald., 1898-09-29
WORKING THEIR WAY.
How Some Boys in Chicago University
 Pay for Tbe:r Education.

| From the Chicago Chronicle.
 It Is a prevalent though erron 2ous, idea that the days when one can work his way | through college" are over. Ways and means are just as plentiful today as they | were twenty-five years ago, and the earn | est student will find them. There is all | ways colony of such in Chicago, and a l sort of Masonry exists among them, wh ers- | by a newcomer is looked after till he finds l enough work to be independent young
 man has more opportunities than a woman l. but there are places for the earnest wo- man, too.
 The most coveted occupations are as cor | respondents of the city daily papers, but | as comparatively few can be thus en- ! ployed, the majority have to turn the'r hands to the next thing that comes to | them. From twelve to fifteen teach night school. Several teach in the public sch ools | in daytime and do their university work in | afternoons and evenings to secure their de- grees of D. D. and A. M. About a score | carry daily papers, which pays them from | $25O to $3.50 per week, but as this Is not sufficient to meet all their expenses, they
 must do something else beside and they do it. About dozen have lamp routes which occupation pays S20 and $25 a month. This is not as easy work some may m- agine 1t to be. Still the hours are easier
 than they were a few years ago. few are so fortunate as to find work in the evenings in the City Library. Some attend lawns in the summer and furnaces in the winter, earning as much as $5 and $10 a
 week by having several of each to care for. Some act as walters at clubs and restau- rants. Some soi icit advertisements ard some are book agents.
 The divinity students pay their way after the first year by preaching in small towns near Chicago. Several employ their leisure hours in tutoring less brilliant students than themselves, making a fine inc ome.
 Two young men made as high as s1,2)O Tn
 one year tutoring. One student is a mem-
 Der of city orchestra which paws him SIP
 a week. A few are employed in the univer-
 sity post office, which pays about 20 cents
 an hour messenger system employs a
 number about two hours each daily, and
 some do clerical work for our professors
 though here the ladies are given the pref erence.
 As has been said. avenues for women are
 not so plentiful, yet there are few. Sev- eral are teachers in the night schools of the
 city, and several are hnusekeepers for pro-
 fessors and small clubs of students. A
 rumher are doing clerical work and few
 do library work. Some work in the cty
 telephone exchanges from o'clock D. m.
 to 10 p. m. This last is extremely hard on the student, but with some it is that or do
 without the education. and So the former is chosen.
 These working students are the best. as
 rule. They stand highest in their classes, highest in all the athletic sports. conse- qucntly highest in the respect of their fel- low-students and the faculty. The first student to matriculate at the new univer- sity at Chicago was one of these earnest
 young men, who had his way to make. One of the associate professors, Dr. L., was student at the old university who gained his education by all kinds of work.
 He had lamp route" for eight years. One of the finest American actors. who is
 billed to play in Chicago this winter, was one of these students