The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-18

Do not let them distract your attention
Resist their Establishments. Hold your
self prepared for any sudden emergen-
CT
~Millfonaires viii occasionally be
among your passengers. Do not try
to be familiar with them. 1 lost the
first Job had as an elevator boy by
asking a millionaire if his wife and
he had won anything lately at shaking
dice.
Telegraph and messenger boys will
/ take your car and attempt to chin with
understand that there is great social
gulf between you and them Freeze
\ their vitals with a look.
DO not allow a typewriter girl to call
you by your first name and feed you
4 gun-drops. Her motives may be of
/ the best. but your dignity must suffer.
Promptly repeI her advances at the
start.
There are always certain tenants of
/ building who do not wish to meet
/ their creditors It would give them a
/ pain to do soss They naturally depend
on you to say that they. have gone to-
4 Baltimore or Cincinnati for couple of
weeks. AS soon as they discover that
/ gous are a sprize-packagei in this direc-
| tiDn many azhalf dollar will be slipped
1 Into your hind pocket If a creditor
/ Insists on going up. tell him that the
/ elevator fell and killed two men only
an hour before.
settle things right off the reel with
the car starter. Don't delay a day. Let
1 him understand that he has all the
! dignity, but YOU won't divide the tips
! with him. Buster right UP to him and
let him know that your uncle is an
alderman and you have pull.
should the elevator fall from the
4 fourteenth floor. to the basement. don
lose your presence of mind. Call to
4 your passengers to stand firm and not
81 be dismayed. Assure them that there
is not the slightest danger. and whistle
or sing to show your own Indifference
Few business men care to nave
| their wives call at their office during
business hours. Especially is this true
of men employing several typeWriters-
If a woman who arouses your suspl-
cions takes your car carry her clear up
to the garret where the divorce lawyer
has his office, and do your best to flus-
trate and discourage her. Her hus-
band may not thank you in words, but
when you feel coin slipped into your
hand on the sly you may know that ne
is SAYING to himself: Here is a youth
who has no flies on him.
ut may happen that the agent Of
the new electric light desires to make
the acquaintance of the lady stenog-
rapher on the tenth floor When you
are assured of this fact bring their
fond hearts together by an introduc-
! ton and before they have been out tc
lunch five times together two dollar
bill will have found its way into your
pocket.
ssThere will be many opportunities
for YOU to fall in love, but steel your
heart against it. An elevator boy in
love runs a wobbly elevator. He VIII
pass the eighth floor four times out OF
five. and he will stop his car ten inches
above or below the tenth. He IS also
untitled for watching over the interests
of the nanystenants. Let 1t stop at re-
turning her smile.
There will come to every elevator
boy a chance to make a hero of him.
self It is generally because of a fire
. in the building Be ready for the
alarm. When It comes continue tc
run your elevator until the last tenant
has been taken down. If there is not
: smoke enough. then set some rags or
fire in the cage. Assure and reassure
, the panic stricken people going down
with you. When all is over and the re-
porters come around. have your lurlo
description ready. Also. present them
, with your photograph. The papers
will speak of Your nerve and eoolness
and courage. but YOU youfself sFnusl
make light of IT, and convey the I'M
preston that YOU have been through
, the same thing a dozen times before
Nothing creates more unpleasant
. ness in a skyscraDer than to have the
stenogra pl1er on the seven floor receive
! the bouquet intended for the fypeEvTlt-
, er ON the eighth When intrusted witt
the flowers make no mistake Also
, saw wood and say nothing.
1T has happened. and will happer
again, that an elevator boy whose Gags
Z has been unavofdabIy detained by
man with a wooden leg getting in a
the tenth floor Is addressed by the cal
starter on the ground floor with: Now
then you cub. where have YOU beer
Ioafng to- Pay no attention to ths
remark. Assume an icy demeanor
and preserve it until all your passen.
gers are out Of the cage. You car
then sass back
7 have known an elevator boy te
have a boil and to tell all his passen-
gers so. and try to make out that he
vas ef different clay from other folks
He didn't last long. People who go uT
! or down IN elevators don't care whethe