The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10
Unique Ways OF
Making Money
Bp FREDERIC j. HASKIN

full address and pleasing personality, who
is employed by the big stores to inquire
into complaints made by rich custom
| ers, and set to rights quarrels with heavy
! buyers. The first one was in New York,
but the idea proved so successful and
! profitable that it has been introduced
/ in number of cities Up to this time
/ the new calling seems to have been con-
/ fined altogether to women, which is not
small compliment to their tact and
business sense.
1t is interesting TO know that after
all the tarantula has its uses, Just now
1t is source OF profit TO enterprislng
men and boys in the tourist infested
districts of the southwest The collect
ors look for the holes in The ground
where the big spiders live. and pour
cold water in their haunts. Tarantulas
hate cold water, so they make an i'm
mediate rush for the upper air. As
soon as they appear they are seized with
a pair of pinchers and killed with a
bath of gasoline or turpentine. Then
they are lgnominiously thrust through
with pins, mounted on cards and sold
as souvenirs at dollar apiece.
The young woman in a public library
IN the West who dcvotes her time TO
running hospital for slightly disor-
dcred books that are not torn or soiled
enough to go to n bindery, has a match
in The cnterDrlslng Young girl who has
turned her library into a circulating
one. She had to make money, there
was nothing TO do IN her small town,
and as there was no library she decided
that her own collection of books might
make small income for her She rents
the books out, and as she is continually
adding to her collection she is making
IT both popular and remunerative.
Virginia has man who has earned
his living for fifty wears making the
astronomical observations for use in
almanacs, He has almost a monopoly
OF the business in the United States
Astronomy is his sole diversion, and ont
of his diversion comes his livelihood
Cook county, Illinois, has very at
tractlve woman who is making her liv.
ing as public guardian, - having nn-
der her care, the children who have come
under the jurisdiction of the court. 4
Boston man has the rather wearvinp
but often rcmuncrativc Job of looking
Tor lost Jewels. He walks along the
principal thoroughfares all day long,
Keeping hls eyes always ON the side
walks and the cutters TO find any loose
stones or pieces of jewelrv that care
less person may have lost. Some DAYS
he makes enough to last quite awhile
either from rewards offered, or from
the sale of unclaimed stones. but much
of his time is spent without remunera-
tion,
\ kcntGcv colonel has forever up.
sci all traditions regarding Kentuc-
khan 5 dislike for water He has set
up trade in Jordan river water The
sacred. fluid is sealed in casks in far
away Jerusalem, shipped by devious
ways over the mountains to ,Jaifa, and
from that port il comes TO America on
steamers, In this country the water
is sold for baptismal purposes, at an
established rate of dollar gallon
The manufacture of wooden shoes. once
pretty good business in the United
States, has almost sunk into oblivion.
There arc so few people working at
the trade now that it is really in the
class of novelties.
Violin making, too. is not general
work. though an Indiana farmer is turn
ing out "A few most excellent ones with
his own hands, and a pretty dark .eycd
Denver girl of eighteen has made sew
cral that have taken high rank for their
excellence.
4 clever New York mendicant has
made "A living since 1889 by being n
professional starver. He puts card in
the papers announcing that he is starv-
ing with all his family. The charity
organizations 90 post-haste TO the res
cue. and finding him III an annotated
condition, help comes Immediately from
all quarters. A letter from him to Miss
Gould brought one of her agents TO in
vestigatc the needs of the family The
agent arrived unexpectedly, and was
Just in time to see bottles of beer and
packages of food being slowed under
the bed. Through the investigation fol
lowed and it developed that the starver
was slick professional. who had made
neat little sum of money by priva-
tIons
The opening and closing of city
and county houses for wealthy patrons
is a profitable business followed by
few women in large communities. They
put in order the house that is being
closed for few months, pack away
linen. china and curtains, dismiss the
servants and have The doors boarded
up, Then when the family wishes TO
return the horsepower sees that all
the things are uupacked, the house thor
oughly cleaned. the servants re engaged.
etc. Other women make a very good
living by packing trunks for women
going away for the summer, listing all
articles i'll each trunk and putting them
down in a small book TO which the
owner may refer. Still other women
arc professional movers. They send
the lady of the house OF on visit of
three or four days, and when finished
notify her to come home to dinner in
her new quarters.
Tomorrow-Pe Personal stories will be
the subject of the story bY MIR. Has.