The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-14

dred customers His rates are IS cents rer
month for two shaves a week and a nair
out once month. This moaey is paid
out each month by the paymaster. and
taken from the account of the customer
The barber is kept pretty busy, of course,
but be keeps an assistant, paying him
about s. a month. There is also about 50
per month received from each customer
a mong the officers, 50 that a barber 81
the average man-of-war receives from SIS
to $lCO per month to be added to his Of
f1ciai salary Of s16. II Is safe to say that
few, If any. BARRIERS In civll life recei ye
such pay
Another lucrative business which is
sometimes, but not always, added 10 that
of the tailor is capmaking AS in the case
of the clothing served out by the govern
ment the ready made caps are but poor
affairs, indeed, in the eyes of the we'll
trimmed sailor, and nearly all the caps,
especially those intended to be worn On
shore leave, are made by the makers of
caps on board. These men will make
cap, including the fanciful embroideriug
about the top and band, for 81. so and can
easily complete one or, at a pinch, two in
a day. This work simply requires a ape
cial skill in embroidering. and is taken
up by men in various ratings. A popular
capmaker adds $50 or $50 per month to
his regular pay.
Then there is the lanyard knitter. His
work requires a special gift, and he gives
more value for the money. than any other
member of the "sheenying" fraternity. He
Will weave lanyard containing fifteen or
twenty strands of thread for S. a work
that costs him several days of spare time.
But the representative of this ancient and
honorable craft is usually plodding, saw
ing fellow, and can add several dollars
per month to his pay.
OF course, there is on every vessel one
or more "tattooing artists" and as the
fashion of genealogical adornment is
rot extinct by any means on board ship,
the tattooing man earns many an honest
dollar.
The carpenters mates, or shipwrights,
as they are officially known, receive from
SIS to $35 per month. Many of these men
add $40 or SIS to their monthly salaries by
making ditty boxes, which are small boxes
in which the sailor keeps his trinkets of
various kinds.
Somewhere about the vessel can be
found in the long afternoons and evenings
the maker and member of shoes, and there
is always good business for one or more
shops" as the corner in which the shoe
maker sits is termed.
To the thrifty souls who have no partic-
ular trade to rely upon, a dozen different
avenues are opened for earning extra
money. One profitable business for man
of energy and muscle is the scrubbing of
hammocks. Once a month regularly ev-
cry canvass hammock in the vessel must
be washed. Two hours of a certain day
are given over to this vast work Every
available inch of the decks are flooded,
and in this time every man is expected to
scrub his hammock. 1t happens that at
that time many men are on duty and are
compelled to hife their work done There
are besides many of the chief petty Off
GERS who hire the work done. The inva-
riable price paid for scrubbing a ham
mock is 81, and there are always a dozen
or more quick, active fellows ready 10
undertake this work. These men can and
do scrub from fifteen to twenty extra
hammocks on every washing day. and
thereby earn as many dollars in two
hours. During long trips at sea and in
outlandlsh foreign ports these same men
and others not so strong embark in a gem
eral laundry business and a man who is
fairly proficient in this work need never
have an Improbable spare hour
The officers cooks during the sea trips
do land office business in cakes and res
which they dispose of at an outrageous
price to the apprentices and to many of
the men.
The stewards and others who have
charge of the storerooms traffic in cigar
ettes tobacco, jellies jams, pickles and
fancy canned goods, on which they make
enormous profits. There are many other
strictly legitimate ways of adding to ones
income aboard a man-ofwar which are
taken advantage of. The. man who tries
cameasily leave the service at the end Of
three years with 81 600, and hundreds go
out with twice that much.
There are many other ways of making
money, and some of them not so straight
forward as those enumerated.