The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-14
OTHER HALF 3 LIVING
Census Taker Alone Knows
How 1t Is Made.
SOME QUEER OCCUPATIONS
As Spanker, Cockroach-k iIler,
and Canine De-tailer.

There can be no better illustration Of the
| truth of the moss-grown expression that
| 'one-half the world does not know how
the other half lives" than is found in
the discoveries made by number Of
| census agents this week, says the New
York Mail and Express Occupations that
earthed by these questioners and have
given the students of odd jobs and unique
livelihoods food for much thought.
For instance. who ever had heard OF
man in Greater New York whose sole
business, improbable as it may seem, is
the making of monstrosities? This dis
tinguished individual lives on Seventh
avenue and turns out sea-serpents and
mermaids as readily as the tailor cuts a
pair Of trousers.
One of the census-takers dropped into
East Forty-ffth street yesterday and he
found on the door that confronted him
at the third landing the name "Profes-
scr Abunson." The professor had long
whiskers and considerable voIubility, and
patton that he was professional spanker
He showed business card and an adver-
tisement in a German paper which said:
"Unruly and hayward boys disciplined
at parents residences"
Usually a census taker does not ask any
unnecessary questions, but this one was
so interested in the strange vocation OF
the long-haired professor that he spoke
quite feelingly of what a pleasant occu-
patton it must be. The census taker has
seven boys who are said to be experts
in the art of devilish annoyances 'I
always see the culprit before 1 decide
upon the amount of punishment" said
the professor. Some times they see me
first, and then L lose job. AS a rule
infict the punishment in room in which
there is a clock. 1 always insist that the
parents tell me how long 1 am to spank
the refractory boy. Girls? Oh, no,
never spank girls. 1 had call once from
a man who said he had very hayward
son. I called and found a Yale graduate
flve-ten in his hose, and as he threatened
to throw me out of the window unless l
Immediately left by the door, I did not
stand upon the order of my going |
Some parents find it hard to chastise |
their boys. They call me in and I do |
the Job"
close to Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn a /
man named Bremen with a sign reading: |
'Cockroach Killer to United States Navy |
Bootmakers to her majesty the queen |
and candlestick makers to his royal |
highness the Prince of Wales, are eclipsed |
II:
killer made his reputation" twenty-five |
years ago, when he removed twenty-one |
barrels of reaches from the old walI-sided |
Pensacola. He does it with a sort of |
paste, and is an expert, so much so that |
he was examined by the navy department
when years ago Captain McCalla, then |
On trial for cruelty to the sailors of the
Enterprise, said that the reason he could
not read ''the articles or war" as re-
1uired, was that the cockroaches had
eaten this great document.
Another queer occupation discovered is
conducted by a man who calls people"
His chief customers are those who have
70 get up at unusually early hours, such
as bartenders, policemen, motormen and
he like. IT'S not very profitable |
-AOUSHs ITO Sdlu, anu sometimes IL s
dangerous. I've been arrested several
lines for going into Railways before day
light, and once 1 got a black eye from q
nan who threw an alarm clock at me
when 1 called him"
The woman whose business II is to col
ect corks, and who is said to make $40
l day, is another queer one on the long
list of oddities. She gathers all the whis-
Key, champagne and mineral water corks
trough a number of employees and sells
hem.
Close to Bellevue hospitl IS a woman
Who sells bottles. Big-hearted TON"
Brennan gave her the idea, and also a
tand close to the dispensary. and she has
'een in business outside the gloomy walls
or twenty-five years. She has four bar
els of bottles in the shed-like structure.
which IS about half the size of an ordi-
larry newspaper booth. The poor who go
0 the dispensary for medicines usually
all to take bottles along. The dispensary
Ices not furnish bottles. nor are they
old inside its gates. The bottle WON
4" as she Is called, sells for / or cents
ach glass bottles OF all sizes, ranging
rom the half-ounce vial TO the one big