The Washington times., 1901-12-08
JUST FOR MONEY.
Strange Occupations People Adopt
to Avoid Hard work.


How to get money without working for
It is certainly question OF devourinz in
terest with many people in this as well as
other cities. Easy money" was always
something sweet and far way with those
who never mixed it up to any considerable
extent with honorable toll. and the way a
| few go about this thing of picking it up Is
| amusing.
"AL these fellows have to do to get easy
money" remarked Architect Harry Hake,
as a couple Of window washers came into
/ his Office on the fourteenth floor. "is to
/ take chance OF losing their lives every
hfteen minutes every day. but the work is
easy. watch them; they get IS a week.
Then began the performance OF getting
at the windows Each of the two wore
metal belts about six inches wide about
his waist, and to these belts was attached
| nearly enough rope TO rig a ship. Clamps.
| screws, and other devices wrought OF
! steel cIanked about them as they walked
| After washing the inside of the windows
/ they fastened the rope to the top OF the
| upper sash and wheeled into space with
! the abandon OF bats. and there they hung
| dangling in midair. The city below look
! ed like a weather map. and a slip of a
clamp would mean just one small greasy
| spot In the distance below.
Inc conversation naturally drtfted to
the subject of getting little easy mon
ey' as time passed and the washers turn
ed in their Matterhorn harness and stood
on their heads. in order to reach down
trife further, or went slipping around an
abutting cornice.
There was fellow who certainly got
his money easy" rung In a contractor who
happened to be in. II mean that rummy
who held Job down at the museum few
years ago. There was fellow who hadn't
the gall to face the cashier. All he did
wts to allow curious people to drive wire
nails through his hands and feet every
afternoon until the Humane Society got
after him. He figured around until he found
a subtertuge by which he could escape the
vigilance of the society, and what do you
think he did? Came back in a few weeks
and drove avis into his skull. They say
he kept this up until he died some months
ago In Chicago This was all because he
abhorred work and wanted easy money
which he must have needed, or else had 1t
in for himself.
There is another set OF gentlemen who
need the money" remarked MFR. Hake.
and. of course. they get it easy. l re-
fer to the fellows who sweep out smoke
stacks. Did you ever see q little. active
black speck lRshed to the top OK the Edi
son stack? All he has to do is cut the
SOOl anu CiuttTS lEOW tue llIOUl OF lnll
mountain Of masonry and lock death in |
the face until the sun goes down. IL he |
fell he would drop about 20O feet and land |
in a pleasant bed Of Goals. Talk about |
taking header into a coke oven. But |
is one way OF getting money without /
doing a great deal OF work for it,
THE gentleman who put the finishing
touches to the spire Of st. Peters Cathe-
dral. Rome" said Architect Gustave
Drach, was also in need OF easy money.
no doubt To stand below and look up at
that immense height II seems unthinkahle
that n man would take q chance on ap-
the top OF that spire. How
many were sacrificed in the erection of
the upper portions Of that splendid edi-
fc. is no doubt matter OF record and
the record which extends over several
centuries. is probably a long one. but to
think OF a human being. without wings.
sealing that fearful height, and rigging
,ut on the topmast pinnacle for much
a weel is about the most trying PROPOSE
uld present itself. .'-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.