Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-15
ODD OCCUPATIONS.
Residents of New York Pursue Queer
Calling for a Livinq.


Calling for Living.
One Oh the New York census takers
on East Forty-ifth street found on
door that confronted him at the third
landing the name Professor Album
son. The professor had long whisk-
ers and considerable volubility, and
said in reply to the query as to his oc-
cupation that he was a professional
spanker. He showed business card
and an advertisement in German pa
per, which said: "Unruly and way
ward boys disciplined at parents resi-
donccs."
Il always see the culprit before l
decide upon the amount of punish
ment, said the professor. Sometimes
they see me first and then | lose a
job. As rule, inflict the punishment
in a room in which there is clock
| always insist that the parents tell
me how long l am to spank the re-
fractory boy. | never spank girls.
had call once from a man who said
he had very hayward son. called
and found a Yale graduate feet 10
inches in his hose, and he threatened
TO throw me out of the window I'M
less | Immediately left by the door.
| did not stand upon the order of my
going. Some parents find it hard to
chastise their boys. They call me in
and do the job"
One of the census takers discovered
close to Ford Greene Park in Brooklyn
a man named Bremen with sign
reading, "Cockroach miller to United
States Navy" The cockroach killer
made his reputation twenty-five years
ag' when he removed twenty-one bar
rels of reaches from the old wall-sided
Pensacola. He does it with a sort OF
paste, and is an expert, so much 50
that he was examined by the navy de-
partment when years ago Captain Nc
Gala, then on trial for cruelty to the
sailors of the Enterprise, said that the
reason he could not read the articles
OF war" as required, was that the cock
reaches had eaten this great docu
ment,
Another queer occupation discovered
is conducted by man who calls peo-
pie" His chief customers are those
who have to get up at unusually early
hours, such as bartenders, policemen,
motormen, and the like. Its not
very profitable, though" he said, land
sometimes it's dangerous. I've been
arrested several times Tor going into
Railways before daylight, and once /
got black eye from man who threw
an alarm clock at me when | called
him."
The woman whose business 1t is to
collect corks and who is said to make
$40 day, is another queer one on the
long list of oddities. She gathers all
the whisky, champagne and mineral
water corks through number of en-
ployes and sells them TO the firms that
originally cut them.
Still another odd business is that Of
an East Side firm which is down in the
books as an "ejectment company"
Tho firm does nothing except get rid
OF tenants. A member of tine company
says that the chief reasons for dispos.
sessing tenants are non-payment OF
rent, bad habits. and children. Said
he: I'VE had a case last month on
the West Side that cost us $29. An
aged womsn, half blind, had lived in
a house 80 years and was unable to
pay her rent. We had to treat her
with a great deal more consideration
thar is usual, for she cried great
deal. but she finally consented TO leave
v itbout legal action"
Up on Broadway, near Fifty-seventh
street, is man whose business 1t is
TO bite off dogs tails. He says the ami.
mails must be Of an age at which thei
tails will be tender. He doesn't be.
lleve In a knife, because every dogs
tail has worm in T. and the only