The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-10-28
JIMMY ATHLETIC.
Fire Him? Not Much Resigned
When He Liked, and Well
Recommended.

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street establishment late Saturday
afternoon looked around the deserted
Office, carefully inspected the inside
of his hat putting it on, called for
the porter to make doors and shutters
secure, and, accompanied by a be-
lated customer, started for Park Row.
''Well, he's resigned" he remarked,
with sigh OF relief
''Who?" inquired the customer,
having in mind the junior partner,
'The third assistant office boy" re-
piled the general manager, a note of
Joy in his voice. 'tHe's gone at last,
and I don't think he'll come back"
IF you didn't want him why did
MT \you fire him?" querjsd the GUS
toner.
Il did-three tines-but he would
MT stay fired. It the limit. We got
him six weeks ago, and the office has
been in a turmoil ever since. He has
name, of course, but no one ex-
cept the paymaster knows it. He
looks like a prizehghter in miniature
and the first hour he was with US one
of the clerks called him Jimmy
Athletic' That Rattered the young
wretch. and the man that nicknamed
him was the only one that ever was
able to induce him to wor! except on
the day after one of the frings. Then
he'd bully all the other boys and
keep them out of the way, and when
I called for youngster' to hurry
he'd present himself.
II knew, of course, that Id fired
him, but I'm kept too busy to wait,
so I could use him. and there he'd
-re-established.
His first break was two days af
ter he was hired. A messenger boy
brought an important telegram, and
Jimmy didn't like his face. He beat
that boy to whisper, and the kid
went home to have his injuries re-
paired.
'tIt wasn't until the next day tha,
we heard of the telegram, and then
all the good it did us was to give us
the idea of how much money we had
lost by its non-receipt. Jimmy was
fired then for the first time.
"a week later I was at my desk,
when long steel rod from a bill
file dropped deside my hand and
stuck quivering in my desk. Up above
there was hole in the ceiling, and
at that I saw Jirnmy's grinning face.
He was doing the William Tell act
on me. He was fred again for that.
Jimmy had an ambition to run an
elevator. Not regularly-just once
but the colored man that tends to
ours would not let him touch the
wheel. So Jimmy went to him and
told him that the boss was giving
orders that he be dismissed. The
man told Jimmy to watch the eleva-
tor while he ran to square matters,
and Jimmy had his chance.
'Just at this moment an old wo-
man stepped aboard, and Jimmy had
a passenger to experiment on. He
nearly ran her through the roof.
mo, he wasn't fired for that. The
passenger was the boss mother-in-
law from Sunbury, c1d the shock so
affected her that she decided at once
to go home. If she'd been hurt so
that she couldn't have travelled Jim
my would have lost his job then for
good.
"The next time he got fired was
for putting up target on the boiler
in the cellar and shooting at it with
a revolver.
"Today he came to me and said
he was going to resign. I asked
him if he wanted bonus, but he said
he didn't. He's only about as big
as a pint of peanuts, but he sat all
afternoon smoking big cigars and
making the other boys envious. He
told one of the clerks that if I didn't