The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-30
RUNNING A WAKE-Up ROUTE.
The vicissitudes of tho business and Why
the Protector Finally Gave II Up.

Tho vicissitudes of the business and Why
the Protector Finally Gave IL Up.
I'm the course OF my hustllng." said q man
who hos done many things for n living. " Rot
up once in n Western town a wakc-up route,
waking up people that wanted to get up at
some liked hour In the morning. II was q lively
town. with n lot Of people In Il that made q
practice OF sitting IN nights. and who found II
hard work to get up In the morning. and
/ had no trouble in getting subscribers,
] had hard work in serving 'em all. Ely
man had to movc sharp to get around
to 'em all in time. Ho couldn't stay
and arene with n man that was stupid and
sleepy. lfh wouldn't get up aftor fair warm
Ing he had to let him go. and Il was this that
finally made trouble. because these men want
ed to be walked up with n club. so to speak. IL
necessary. and while my mar was punctuality
itself and never failed 10 he there at the
appointed hour and to wake the man up. yet
he was n slight and rather delicate man and he
the question of having time to stay. some big
burly chap would say to him:
You go way or I'll break you In two and
what could my man dor
But in the morning these folks would al
Ways be sorry they hadn't got up and / suppose
that was natural enough: but they used to come
up, They said they'd contracted to be got up
and they wanted to be got up.
while, and then imported q waker-up from
the East, a powerful. up-to-date %slugger. who
night. no matter how. sound asleep he might
be and Keep him awake. / sent this man out
one night with my little man for a pilot. It was
They'd &c, into the mans room. and the
little iellow'd do the talking.
You go way says The sleeper. Re' up
Ma SAYS tie little man, you want to get
up right now. and IL you don't I'm going to get
wo nA9d i.d II a minute or less the big fellow
and tho sleeper realized in. a minute every
time, what had happened. Then they'd 60 at
IT. right there: but my man was a hummer
every time In short order. He licked fifteen
subscribers that morning in an hour and forty
But I knew that, while we could lick 'em
easy In detail. we couldn't begin, to touch EN-
so along In the morning, before they'd got
to I've st started T xaEszup route in another
We had every subscriber take a look at him.
walked up sure. Each man knew what he was
running up against. and we, had, very, little
ortwo, and everything was going along slick and
smooth as could be. and we were Just coming
Started avn Mne Electrical Sf | was Ma E man s come along e and &c
neao OF q man. bed, with a wire connection to
q centra! office. where the subscribers name
and the hour he wanted to get up at were en-
tered. When the time came the man on duty
start the gong over the mans head. The gong
VA 80 adjusted that It would keep on ringing
that weight il OF Tie e" Bed. ops oper Eassdps 3 c aR. 5aafthln aFt
stopped It.
There were. some men that could sleep
right through the gong, but not many; and as
a general proposition. the system was q great
success. Our method was effective enough
in It's way; but. we couldn't begin to compete
With It. and IN the course of time we went out