The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-08-31
FIGHT FOR WEALTH
Odd Occupations Resorted to by Men
and Women to Gain Live
Iihood.

| IN tne strenuous scramble lot Weditn
and a living In the great competitive
game of life in New York, many men
and women are driven to odd occupa-
tions for a livelihood, says the New
York Herald. Some of these are de-
scribed in the following
George Therma makes a living by
being hanged 16 times week for
$50 a month and his cakes" as the
contract reads.
Therma is a Mexican, and as the
star performer in the horse-thief act
in the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show is
neck speed, and is dragged at the end
of the lasso a distance of several hun
dred feet to tree, where he is strung
up in true Judge Lynch style.
He has a piece of stiff linen fixed
around his neck, and the rope does
him little damage, though the Mexican
Rurales, who come along to take h1s
body, save him from a most uncom-
Portable position. On several occa
tsions since he has been doing the
work the cowboys who hang him have
grown careless, and Therma has been
cut down more nearly like a dead
man he is supposed to be than tho
live man he wants to be.
John Mahn gets $25 week for
breaking eggs. He works in a big
e-baking plant in the city, and has
the job of breaking the eggs that are
used in the manufacture of pie. He
breaks 25 dozen eggs day, separates
the yolks from the whites, and beats
up some of them. Besides this, he has
to inspect each egg to see that none
of them contains an embryo broiler
or the odor of formaldehyde.
One is apt to wonder at the sum
of S25 a week for such work, but it
is explained that Main earns 1t by
the economical way In which he
handles the eggs, and it is pointed
out that cheap man might be very
expensive. 1t is said also that the
monotony of the job gets on most
mems nerves, and few can be found
who will stay tit any length of
time.
The man who furnishes funny
stories and anecdotes for would-be
wits, pacanteurs and after-dinner
speakers is another man who has
picked out an odd occupation. He is
Charles Hoppe, and has no particular
place of business, but If he calls on
you you can well afford to give him
an audience, for he is most interest
ing little man.
He will furnish you for twenty-five
of fifty cents a week a typewriter
sheet containing the. latest quips OF
the day, and funny stories, that you
can tell at home, or, for a larger
consideration, he will furnish you with
speeches to be made at public gath.
erings which are guaranteed to make
YOU fame of the burning brand
He does not say how many SUD-
story service, but he will make spe-
cial service for you that he guaran-
tees not to be duplicated by any
one else.
Another odd occupation is that of an
auction clincher. In this case, it is a
beautiful young woman, who. until a
few years ago, was one of the best
known show girls" at tie casino
Now she is making her living more
easily.
She is employed by big Fifth ave-
nue. auction company which makes a
speciality of rugs. She met the man
ager of the concern through her
knowledge of rugs, and one day he
asked her if she didn't want to help
him in little matter that might be
profitable to both. His plan was this
In all auctions certain lots go for
much less than their value if some
one does not stimulate the bidding.
With rugs this is especially SO, for
often the true value of q rug does
pie give them at sales. He suggested
that this girl go to the auctions. hav.
ing been told the minimum price at
which every rug is to go, and If the
bidding should not reach that figure
bid it up and apparently buy the rug,
thus saving it for the company.
She tried it, land the plan worked
so well that now she is in the employ
of this company permanently, and at
tends every auction sale, taking a re
mote seat, and bidding only when II
looks as though the. rug were going
too cheap.
There is a man who does nothint
in the season but test watermelont
and cantaloupes for the Waldorf AS
toria. The watermelons come from
Georgia. The loss in cutting unrip'
fruit would be considerable, and the
old-fashioned method of plugging II
obsolete. So this fan earned his
salary.
Another odd occupation is that o
the woman who adyertises to call a
bachelors lodging to do all necessar,