The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-28
NEW ORLEANS BIRD MAN.
The Queer Way Hit gTpon by Mioton
 for Making a Living.

The Queer Way Hit Upon by Mioton
 for Making a. Living. | There are many odd ways of making
 living, and it is well known fact l that here in New Orleans hundreds of ! people exist by methods unknown out
 side the limits of this municipality Some of these persons who eke out nn
 existence in queer ways make more than scant living. In fact, some are
 growing rich as result of their inge-
 nuity in picking up scheme that ap peals to the masses, and in paying care full attention to the detail work.
 Every day of the year an intelligent looking man, about 40 years of age, dressed comfortably, but none too we'll, can be seen hurrying through the streets with a pretty yellow singing canary in a handsome gilt cage. At a certain hour every day he shows up at the City Hall, and his time does not vary quarter of an hour. He is al- ways in a hurry. In one hand he car ries huge notebook, while the bird cage, with it's singing tenant, is held by the other. Over his right ear Is a lOIls pSIlCllp WlllIb HIS PpthCtS Ddl5C odL with packages of papers and things He walks rapidly and is slightly bent forward, as if trying to walk more rap idly. At this season of the year he wears linen coat, and despite the heat and the rapidity of his movements he always looks cool
 He is the Bird Man
 Hundreds of people know him, and yet thousands of others wonder who he is and what is his business.
 For more than seven years George w. Mioton, member of one of the old est families in this part of the state, has made living with the assistance of canaries. He has not only made a living, but the living has been a good inc, and he has no business opposition. Every day in the year, with the excep- tion of Sundays, he disposes of two canaries-no more, no less-and since he went into the business he has got rid of more than 5000 singing birds. His method of sale is peculiar and that is the reason he is so successful His scheme is the outgrowth of a man be- ing set at wits end by lack of en- ployment. Seven years ago Mioton lost his position. He was passonately fond of singing birds. He possessed num- | Der of them, and he conceived the idea or railing them. He first got up a set of tickets, running from one to sixty, ] and he went around among the persons he knew and got them to take chances. The person drawing the first ticket would pay one cent for the chance in the ra1lie, while the man Who drew the sixtieth ticket put up 60 cents. This | worked verey well, but there were times when Mioton failed to dispose of | all of his tickets, and consequently won the canaries himself.
 This was unsatisfactory.
 He decided to issue as usual sixty | tickets, but to sell them at 10 cents each. One raff1e day did for some little time, but the demand for chances in the canary raffle increased, and then l, he held two. For every bird Mioton ! rallies he receives $6, or in event of all the tickets not being sold the blank chances run for him" in the drawing. To the fortunate winner Mioton gives not only singing bird, but he throws in gilt cage. and the whole outfit is worth $4, leaving him fair margin of