The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
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| ious thought, but he thought he saw
| his way clear. For two years he had
been BILLY to everybody. He was
| Soing home and put plan in opera
| ton He would arrange with the own
| er of the sky-scraper to hang around
| the corridor for few days, and when
/ ever the cage was about to. ascend
with full load to step forward and
address him as Mr.. Smith. The public
! would soon: catch on and respect his
| dignity. If any particular Individual
/ insisted on undue familiarity he was to
! be got into the cage alone some day
and be stuck between two floors un-
| til he was scared half to death.
Delegate Cook of New Haven said
/ that his greatest Source of humiliation
| lay with the typists, stenographers and
| other girls employed about the build
| ing. When being taken up in his car
they Uttered. They giggled. They
pulled his hair and patted him on the
/ back. They expected to be flirted with.
! They expected chocolates and bou-
| quets and to be escorted to lunch. He
| had even been asked outright to take
! them to the circus or the theater He
| had put on all the dignity possible, but
! they persisted in regarding him as a
kid. He would like to ask if there
was any remedy for such a state of
affairs.
The president replied that he and all
other passenger elevator boys were
! laboring under the same difficulty and
| had lost much sleep while puzzling to
! find a panacea. He had come to the
conclusion that if a cold glare had no
effect on a young lady, her employer
should be appealed to for future pro-
lection. The young lady would forever
after make faces at the scorner when
ever she had opportunity, but she
would have to haul off his trail and
ffrt' with the car-starter or engineer.
Delegate Nevins of Hartford asked
If elevator boys should marry young
! or wait until past the age of twenty
i've He was only sixteen years of
age yet. but had been in love three
times and engaged twice. Would mar
rage destroy his future prospects or
benefit them? Would the fact that
be had a wife at home stop the gig
Cling and titterir- of giddy maidens in
his cage. or add to the dfstrac tion ?
Would an elevator boys wife be in
c!fned to be any more Jealous of her
husband than the wife of an actor?
Several other delegates replied to
those inquiries and the consensus of
opinion was that an elevator boy who
married before he was of age would
probably regret it. He could not help
fall nS in love every week or two but
things should go no further until he
bad reached the head of his profess
sion and was ready to settle down
Love could be cured at any time by
getting the engineer of the building
to sandpaper the boys head.
Delegate Fletcher of Elmira then in
troduced the following resolution
which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the only difference
between the owner of a sky-scraper
and his elevator boy is that one rents
the offices to the tenants and the other
carries the tenants up and down"
Delegate Green of Syracuse intro
duced the following:
Resolved, That the engineer or
car-Starter of a SkyscraDer is not
called upon to exercise paternal
vigilance over the action of the eleva-
tor boys, and if the said bows permit
such a state of affairs it is only be-
cause of their dissemination to raise
a row and disturb the equanimity of
the, tenants"
The above resolution provoked con-
siderable discussion, but was at
lent tn adopted. Instances were cited
whcre engineers had forbidden eleva-
tor Boys to play poker or bet on the
races. and had acted in a high-handed
manner, regarding other matters guar
anteed to every free-born American
bv the great and sacred constitution.
1t was even questioned whether the
oV neT himself had the legal right to
prevent the pursuit of human happi-
ness.
The following resolution was then
offered and adopted:
Resolved, That in the future no
member of this association in good
standing solicits Christmas gifts in any
manner whatsoever. it being consid-
ers.d that the same detracts from his
dignity and leads the public generally
to class our profession along with the
peanut business. The idea to be con-
veyed at all times is that we are mill
ionaires with thousands TO lend. =
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