Evening journal., 1898-12-31
RUNNING A MAKEUP ROUTE.
The vicissitudes OF the Bnsiness and
why the Protector Finally
Gave " pps

ohNo Lpt
''In the course of my hustiing, said
a man who has done many things for
living, II got up once in a western
town wake-up route, waking up peo-
! 'c that wanted to get up at some
cd hour in the morning. II ,.s
lively town, with a lot OF peo. ie il
that :nnde practice of siturg up
nights, and who found il hsrL work
10 get up in the morning, anG | had
no trouble Ia getting subscribers.
had hard work in serving EN- all. My
man had TO move sharp to get around
20 'em all in time. lie couldn't stay
and argue with n man that was stupid
and sleepy. II he wouldn't get upaftcr
fair warning he had TO let him 90.
and II was this that finally made trou-
BILE, because these men wanted 10 be
walked up with club, so 10 speak. II
necessary. and while my man was
punctuality itself and never failed 20
be there at the appointed hour and TO
wake the man up, yet he was a slight
and rather delicate eman and he couldn't
enforce his demands, quite aside from
the question Of having time to stay
Some big burly chap would say TO him;
"'You go way or I'll break you I'm
two and what could my man do2
hut in the morning these folks
would always be sorry they hadn't got
up and suppose that was natural
enough, but they used 20 come TO the
Office and kick because ! hadn't got
'em up. They said they'd contracted
20 be got up and they wanted to be
got up.
"Well, stood this sort Of nonsense
for awhile, and then l imported
waker-up from the east, powerful. up
to-date slugger who could wake up
anybody at any hour Of the 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. II was like this:
They'd 60 into the mans room. and
the little fellowd do the talking.
"'Come, now he'd say, it's time TO
get up
"'You go way says the sleeper
"'No,' says the little man, you want
TO get up right now, and II you don't
I'm going to get you up
"And in minute or less the big fell
low would tackle him. He'd wake him
up all right, and the sleeper realized
in a minute every time what had hap
pened. Then they'd go mt IL, right
there; but my man was q hummer with
loud hum. and he cleaned out his
man every time in short order. lie
licked IS subscribers that morning in
an hour and forty minutes.
"But / knew that while we could lick
'em easy in detail, we couldn't begin to
touch 'em in a bunch, and they were
sure to come; and so along in the morn
ing, before they'd got around, we
moved out.
1--WE started a wake-up route in an.
other town, and profting by our OK
perience we started in with the biz
( man at the beginning. We had every
subscriber take look at him, and hav,
little talk with him, and agree to b,
walked mp sure. Each man knew what
he was running up against and we had
very little trouble there. We never had
10 lick more'n one or two, and every
thing was going along slick and smooth
as could be, and we were just coming
money, when there was a man come
along and started an electrical wake
up exchange in the town. ny that
system they put gong on the head Of
q mans bed. with a wire connection to
central Office, where the subscribers
name and the hour he wanted TO get
up at were entered. When the time
came the man on duty there would just
= simply press a button and start the
gong over the mans head. The gong
was so adjusted that IL would keep on
, ringing till the man got up. His get
ting up, taking that weight of the bed
!. operated a cutoff that stopped IL.
There were some men that could
I sleep right through the gong. but not
many; and as n general proposition IN,
q system was a great success. Our meth
cd was effective enough in its way
! but we couldn't begin 20 compete witt
! Il, and in the course Of time we went
out Of business altogether. ~. Y Sun