The sun., 1903-08-30
STUDENTS AT WORK AT CONEY
coo or THEM EMPLOYED IN ONE
BaTHING PAVILION.

BEST Help Ever Seen at the Beach
Emergency Work by Young Doctor,
Many Employed at the nig Shows.
Part Of Coney Islands help is supplied
this season by college students Some ~
the students are freshmen, while others
will have to study only one more term
before they are admitted to practise an
physicians. dentists, lawyers and even
clergymen.
Some future doctors are life guards.
hotel clerks and ticket sellers. Freshmen
from all the principal colleges are acting an
check gatherers, towel dispensers and
cashiers in the big bathing pavilions.
In one Coney Island pavilion, which is on.
Of the largest and best equipped bathing
establishments this side Of San Francisco.
and is owned by young graduate of Prince.
ton. there are employed more than zoo
college students The manager is a young
doctor who will be graduated next spring.
He has selected freshmen as ticket takers.
attendants and life guards and declares
that his establishment runs like clocLwork.
Il have been the manager for two sea-
sons, he said recently. The first season
brought three or four fellows along who
were in need OF employment to carry them
through. They did good work and de-
termined to try a season with all my help
from the colleges.
Among the crowd are the sons Of rich
men from the West and far away cities.
who have come along for the lark, and
whose friends think they are spending
their summer vacation among friends or 40
out-of-the-way places They work well
and are becoming strong and healthy
and will be all the better mentally for
their hard work and strenuous fife 40
the beach.
To the fellows who need the money and
are digging for exams, on the side have
given the work best suited to their pocket.
books and their needs"
Does the proprietor consider that he 10
getting the worst Of the deal in view Of the
fact that he has inexperienced men and
will probably not have the same men ncys
season." was asked.
Not at ALL" was the answer "Hs
knows that every man is fit to occupy anv
position in the pavilion. He is not posing
as a philanthropist. He knows that he ia
getting more for his money than he could
possibly expect from the ordinary bath
house attendant, ticket seller or life guard.
He knows this and appreciates it.
Then there are the life guards They
are considered tho luckiest of the crowd.
Every man who asks for employment wants
to DO a life guard.
"All the boys are good swimmers. or be-
come such before they have been here long.
To be in the water, outdoors all day long
wandering about and simply putting On
muscle and storing away gray matter for
winter consumption, seems to them to bs
the ideal life, And who can say that it is
not SO?
We seldom have an accident, but when
one does occur we have the promptest kind
of help at hand and every inferno a nd future
M. D. is eager to and and capable of giving
valuable assistance. Our hospital room
is fitted up with everything needed in an
emergency hospital and the first aid given
by the life guard Is supplemented by tho
careful attention Of a competent physician.
when a bathsr swallowed his false teeth
one day last week and was carried from the
water in an unconscious condition, having
fallen while choking, the efficacy Of our
plan in giving employment to students
was manifest.
THE man was almost dead when laid
out on the operating table. Kan ambulance
had been summoned and the man removed
to distant place for care death would
have surely resulted
AS it was il took more than an hour,
after the teeth had been removed, to get
the water out of the mans lungs and get
him into shape The boys did good work
and have received a letter of thanks that
will have a tendency to enlarge the chest
of each for months TO come!'
What about the menial work such az
the cleaning of bathhouses and the wipng
up of foors-do the college boys get in and
do this kind Of work with the same enthusi-
asm that is displayed in the rescue Of pretty
madens?' was asked.
Il cannot he ungallant. No man could
perform the menial duties of life with tho
same gisto he should display when helping
a woman. But, nevertheless, the boys
attend to their work and each man gets his
mite. No drones are permitted and none
has yet been detected. The work is TO their
liking and decidedly congenial
Other places at Coney Island that employ
help from the colleges and the professions
are the big amusement concerns AT the
West End. Actors young doctors, lawyers
and students on vacation are working
twelve hours day, selling tickets, lecturing
in front of shows and in several instances
waiting on tables. All are either earning
{ heir daily bread or the wherewithal to con-
tinue the college course in the fall
The proprietors Of all these places agrrs
that the new style Of help now obtainabS
al Coney Island s the best they ever had.