Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-05
THE MAN WHO is BROKE
One Resource He Can Depend Upon in
Great City.

Of The occupations by which men make
7 living ~ great city, that Of an adj
dresser offers apparently as easy an
oncnina as any, and pays as little, says
IN" New York Sun. 1t is adopted tenn
porarily at least, by thousands of men in
reduced circumstances, ana, it may be
aGGed, abandoned almost as quickly as
begun by nearly every one of them
Seated at a long table in Il dngy loft at
tiie Top OF some old building men write
l"r dear life to keep soul and body to-
aelnef DY copying addresses at usually
- cents thousand. \ fair average is
ln an hour, and the man who can 40
Zp an hour Is rare; more often the
acreage is 100 an hour than even $50
Ana, what is more, when the days
work IS done the average by the hour
multiplied by the number of hours does
not make the total by considerable for
there must be deducted all the minutes.
frequently hou1S. during which no work
was done, owing to delays in getting
new copy after finishing Il list. in wait
from many other causes unlocked for.
nut certain TO occur. As il is all piece
work these delays materially reduce the
possible earnings of a writer, SO that hv
the end of the week he finds his wages
asSresate but very small amount. The
most he has probably averaged on six
days work is 1.50o Il day. and many days
he will have done only from 80 to 1000:
so if ut the weeks end he has earned 81;
he is more than lucky. and the chances
are that his earnings will be considerably
less.
All work is paid for on Saturday night
bat owing 10 the needy condition of
these who work at the business, it is
customary in some. establishments TO
relieve the needs of the moment BY Il
system of loans to the employees made by
the manager at the close of work every
evening" Not more than p cents is doled
out to each man. and for the sum rc-
cciHed he gives his /. o. L.
1t happens. therefore. most frequently
than an adoresser has little or practically
nothing coming to him by the time Satur-
day gets neutrality-suspicious. Sl.5o. possibly
81. sometimes even as low as > cents AS
a get rich-ouick occupation addressing is
not Il success.
TO become an addresser is simple Ad-
vertisements inserted almost daily in the
newspapers show where the work is to be
had. Applicants are required merely to
write their name and address on a slip OF
paper, and if the penmanship is Satisfac-
tory the writer is Immediately accepted.
No questions are asked, no references re-
CURED.
Work begins at $50 or O'Clock in The
morning and lasts generally until or as
much later up to 10 O'Clock. as a man Is
willing to work. Frequently there is no
stop. even for luncheon at noon. A midday
meal, other than POSSIBLY glass Of beer
and free lunch. is q luxury many ad-
dreSSerS cannot afford.
II is optional with an addresser at what
hour he begins in the morning and quits
in the evening and how much or how
little he does during the day
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