The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-08
SOME FREAK WAYS OF
 GETTING A LIVING Official Extinguishers in the New York East
 Side.
SOME RENT A BABY
Singing Teacher for Can. aries, Child Exterminator
 and Other CurioSities.

<ah Olu SSL OL ldlSG t66lH duCLlOneQ off as part of the effects of an eccen- tric poet who recently died on Long Island caused spirited bidding and fin- ally was knocked down to a man who gave hls business as a dealer in sec ond-hand molars and incisors in New York. This started some of the by islanders discussing queer ways of making living in the metropolis.
 A newspaper man in the group who had made a study of the East Side ghetto said that the queerest way of meeting the rent he had ever run across was the job of turning out light for orthodox Jews on Friday Accord ing to the Talmud, no faithful Jew may either strike a match or extin- guish any kind of fire or light on Fri day night. Even the electric incandes- cent lamp must not be extingulshed As a consequence the orthodox Jews hire Gentiles to light their fires and lamps and to put them out at bed time. There are number of Gentile women who continue to live near Hes ter street just to make extra money in this way, One woman will have. sew eral families for whom she is official eXtinguisher, and each pays her 10 or 25 cents, or even more, each week, so that they can go to bed in comfort able darkness.
 A second man said thaG the strang- est job he knew of was that of man who was retained by big contracting company principally because of the beautiful way in which he broke the news of an accident to the widow and then attended to the family--with re- sultant saving in claims for damages.
 Renting a baby to professional beggar is to my mind the oldest form of making cash" hazarded third. we just looked up a case where a mother rented winning though sick ly looking baby to another woman, who held 1t on her lap and silently held out q hand for aims. She got in- to trouble, however, for pinchlng the baby to make 1t cry when a particu- larly prosperous looking pedestrian approached.
 How about singing teacher for canary birds ?' asked another. There's one in Brooklyn. Or, for that matter. if you want a queer one, what's wrong with the snake diet man at the zoo, whoihas to know just when to give the boa-constrictor live rab- bit or a dozen raw eggs?"
 They'll do,H was the reply But add to the list the man who paints the tall flag poles, the chap who keeps the Central Park obelisk from wearing away, the gem doctor down in Maiden Lane who can make a sick pearl or ruby as good as new by some sort of hocus- pocus. Yes. and keep place for the man who paints black eyes in- to q normal appearance and the oth- CT man who can color and bandage up panhandler until he looks as If he had the most painful diseases"
 And just include the man over at the hospital who is lucky enough to have some rare disease. He charges so much an hour for exhibiting himself at clinics and medical society meet lngs," put in a medical student.
 There is also 8 child exterminator for hotels and apartments and homes of the rich. He doesn't kill the chill dren, but he does keep them out of the way of society mad mothers for a certain number of hours each day. He calls himself privately, of course expert playmate to poor little million aire boys. He got the idea that there was money in giving the children of the rich a chance to be children in- stead of little drawing room prigs or governess tormentors, So he went to New York university, which is giving special courses for teachers In man. l aging playgrounds and clubs for chill dren, and physical training and child hygiene, and learned the trick of keeping little chaps happy and well by systematic play.
 In a short time he got all the sons of the rich he could handle, He hired vacant piece of property, and start ed In to teach them to play ball and ! to do gymnasium stunts every after noon instead of loaflng about hotel corridors and learning deyiltry from bellboys. On Saturdays he takes the children to the country somewhere, or to the navy yard or to a public mu- scum. The first year he cleaned up $3,O00, and now women drive up in their carriages and beg him to take their boys. In summer he runs a high class boys camp on 8 lake, charging 1 Saratoga rates.--New York Tribune.