The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-19
THE ,TRUGo,IyG roU,a AUTHOR.
Making n Little Money now out of Small
Enterprise on the Side.


Good fortune said the struggling young
author. sometimes comes TO us from the mos,
unexpected sources; as witness this illustration
out OF my own experience:
i had observed that while the manuscripts I
sent out 10 publishers all came back som. came
more promptly than others: from some publish.
ing housrs got them in q day or two and from
some they didn't come for week or two Now
II seemed to me- that the delay in these last me n.
TONED cases might be due TO the difficulty OF keep
ing up with the matter sent in: they receive thous-
ands OF manuscripts, and merely TO take them
out OF the envelopes In which they Mt and
put mem INTO the stamped and addressed en-
velop"s enclosed for their return II not used n
wolves time and labor, and costs SOMETHING. too:
and II SEEMED 10 me that II could invent prac,-
cable machine that would do all this work in less
time and a, less expense ! should b, producing
something that would " not only boon 10 the
publisher, but also a source Of profit 10 myself
So SET about the construction Of a machine TO
tuIn envelope insrr' me nlanuscrip. in the en-,
yclop-, and seal II ready for sending to the =, st
0iilce In The Gou[se q time ! got such a ma
chin" into practicable SHAPE and induced u pub
Usher 10 try H. knew perfectly that II ever
go, him to try II the machine would nd
Itself thereafter: and IL did.
"In a general way Il looked a. much like a
grist mill a. ANYTHING else II had a hopper on
top, into which the letters were shovellrd, and
ton more or less complicated. and perhaps too
tina, in this hopper the letters w,rr scraratcIy
sif,"d down TO fall through an OPENING into tho
Interior q the machin. whore one IJlisncc slis
uscript contained therein and Ikrwis- the env,l.
on" Will" still another op"ncd this envelope and
inserted IN" manuscript nioit and passed IL within
reach Of another ambulance that sealed II and
shot II out through delivery spout
And i worked BEAUTIFULLY. win two men,
would do the work that before had Gel ed Tor tho
services n ten men, and so i was, Of course, n
right TO use them, 20 n number OF publishing
houses receiving enormous numbers Of manu-.
menus one d,W a. one o. Inc .nc
and bring personally no more taken for an author
than, thus far, my manuscripts have been taken
for the work OF one, saw In use one of my renal
ing machines AMI hcarl II warm commended
On thi' occasion, IA with mixed emotions viewed
valuable im1rovcment, which wondered hadn't
thought Of before, but which applied to all ma
chimes made after that
up puleys and belt 80 arranged as to carry the
letters from the spout Of the remailrr TO spout
man all the time picking up the letters and bag
ging them; with the new attachment the letters
simply fall on the belt and are carried on this TO
lying across the belt This lip lifts tho edge Of
the letter, and the continued motion Of the belt
over the liz TO fall inside Of Il into the spout down
which slides into the mail chute, ond 80 on down
sS box Sh the Is "Eon by h
attend to the machine easily. and this was its
crownlug economy
"Out Of this small enterprise on the side, some
thing purely incidental and foreign TO my real
desire am now making something--enough. In
fact, TO nay for the stamps uso in sending out
my manuscripts to publishers. and some thing
over From this you will understand that am
really making consi lerable In fact, doing rather
well at H. You will, OF course, understand also
from the use | am making OF some Of my money,
that Is Tor postage on manuscripts, that am still
SEND ng things to the publishers myself. am,
aIga at
fully as ever never doubling The final result send
Ing out manuscripts Just the same, except that
l do not now send 10 houses In which. In my ca
pacity OF inventor have installed Struggling o
Automatic Rotating RemaileI.'