The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-01-05
RUNNING A WAKE-UP ROUTE
The Nicissitudes Of the Business and
Why the Protector Finally
Gave 1t Up.


"In the course of my hustling,' said
a man who has done many things for
living, Il got up once in western
town Il wake-up route, waking up peo-
PIE that wanted to get up at some
fixed hour in the morning. 1t was a
lively town, with a lot of people in it
that made Il practice of sitting up
nights. and who found it hard work
to get up in the morning, aud | had
no trouble in getting subscribers. |
had hard work in serving 'cm all. My
man had to move sharp to get around
20 'eu all in time. He couldn't stay
and argue with a man that was stupid
and sleepy. If lie wouldn't get up after
fair warning he had to let him go,
and it was his that finally made trou
bic, because these men wanted to be
walked up with club, so to speak, If
necessary, and while my man was
runctuality itself and never failed to
be there at the appointed hour and to
wake the man up, yet he was slight
and rather delicate man 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 60 way or III break you in
two and what could my man do?
But in the morning these folks
would always be sorry they hadn't got
up and l suppose that was natural
enough, but they used to come to the
office and kick because l hadn't got
'em up. They said they'd contracted
to be got up and they wanted to be
got up.
well. I stood this sort of nonsense
for awhile. and then | imported a
| waker-up from the east, a 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
cut one night with my little man for a
pilot. 1t was like this:
They'd so into the mans room, and
the little felIow'd do the talking.
"'Come, now,' he'd say, its time to
get up
"'Iou go way says the sleeper.
"'No,' says the little man, 'yon want
to get up right now, and if 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 tine sleeper realized
| in Il minute every time what had hap
pened. Then they'd go at it, right
| there; but my man was hummer with
| a loud hum, and he cleaned out his
man every time in short order. He
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 'ern in bunch, and they were
sure to come; and SO along in the morn
ing, before they'd got around, we
| moved ont.
I'VE started wake-up route in an
ether town, and profiting by our on
| perience we started in with the big
| man at the beginning. We had every
| subscriber take look at him. and have
| ? little talk with him, and agree to be
walked up sure. Each man knew what
| he was running up against, and we had
| very little trouble there. We never had
| to 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 man come
| along and started an electrical wake
| up exchange in the town. BY thai
| system they put gong on the head O.
a mans bed. with wire connection tt
a central Office. where the subscriber
name and the hour he wanted to ge
| I'D at were entered. When the TIM
came the man on duty there would jus
simply press a button and start tn
gong over the mans head. The gons
was so adjusted that It would keep oil
ringing till the man got up. His get
ting up, taking that weight off the bed
operated a cutoff that stopped it.
There were some men that coul
sleep right through the gong. but no
many; and as general proposition tn
system was a great success. Our meth
od was effective enough in its way
hut we couldn't begin to compete wit
it, and in the course of time we wen
| out of business altogether. ~. \. SUI
What Alaska Owes to the Candle Fisl
When the Alaskan is showed in an
is without light he inserts the tai
Of candle fish into a crack in tn
table and o,ches & match to its ros'
1t gives clear three-cardie rowe
light. The i,ackbone IS largely forme
of phosphorus. which fully account
for the strength Of the flame and tn
heat developed. The substitute for coo
liver oil retards rapid burning, as ia
low acts in an Ordinary candle. III
fish is valuable as cod. 1t may ais
be used as a substitute for cod
| oil ,.hich n:dinr The II tI1ral heat I