The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

to buy dollar bottle of some prepar-
alton warranted to grow a ache
IN SIX weeks. 1t may not come out at
am, and 1T may come out so trefnen-
aously long and heavy that he will
bounce next day. A mustache on a
young doctor is all right. 1t helps
folks TO believe that he knows a case
OF measles from chicken-pox, but the
elevator boy who coaxes one out is a.
goner
An elevator boy should be discreet
in his friendships among the tenants.
1t will not do to be chuck-a-luck with
tie stoneware man from Ohio and
pass the single man from Michigan
with cold bow. The boy who sneaks
up to room 12S to hobnob with the
broker will be noticed by the Pitts
burg glass man and ill-feeling surely
building all should be served alike.
If the boy is invited out after business
hours that his advice on certain mat
tiers may be asked that is all right.
What an elevator boy overhears in
his cage while carrying tenants UP
and down he is in honor bound to
keep to himself. He will hear law
yers discussing their cases; he will
hear doctors discussing their patients;
he will hear brokers giving each other
tins Those things must be sacred
with him. Several times while I was
an active member OF the profession
caught on to tips that l could have
used to make thousands of dollars
with hut l forbore. They were not
for me. To have made use of them
would have been to sacrifice my hon
or. An elevator boy may die IN the
poor house at last, but he should die
An elevator boy will frequently be
annea1ed to for advice. He cannot be
too chary about giving II. II asked
his opinion of the stock market or
civ
the same time have it understood tnal
no money should be invested on MS
opinfon I was once careless enough
in the presence of SPECTATOR 20 re-
crop would be short by two hunore1
million bushels. He took II as UP
and went out and bought wheat. me
crop turned out to be two hunoreu
million bushels extra, and ne LOST
fifty thousand dollars and has always
held me responsible.
1 have known elevator boys to feel
hurt and go around with an injured
of the sky-scraper did not take them
into his confidence in making changes
and improvements. They should NOT
let such a feeling take poss eSslon OF
them. Owner and boy are working
with one aim and end in view-to get
all the rent possible out of the tenants
The owner thinks the boy is doing
his full share when he runs his cage
and uses all proper QlpiOIldCy u hVCP
the tenants satisfied No owner would
think for moment of coming to an
elevator boy and attempting to show
him how to do his work. Neither
can he be expected to stop and shake
hands with the boys when he enters
the building. He is always in hur-
~, and is sometimes very absent
minded.
When I first began the profession [
had dreams of marrying the capital
lists daughter and thus becoming
rich son-in-law. Gradually those
dreams faded away, and 1t was
good thing for me that they did. She
was an old maid of 35, and the man
she did finally marry jumped into the
river within six months. Besides,
capitalists get queer ideas about those
things. If one discovered that an ele-
vator boy was counting his daughter,
and that it was a desperate case of
love- it would be just like him to drag
her off to Europe and imprison her
and break her heart. ..,-t--a+.s
The elevator boy and the agent Of
the building may clash at first. In
fact they are bound to. The agent
will try a bluff on the boy to get
him under his heel. The boy must
be respectful but stand firm. I have
many times faced an agent without
the culver of an eye-lash. 1 gave
him the Sir but I also gave
him to understand that one of my
ancestors signed the Declaration of
Independence. There are instances
where an elevator boy has gone to
the owner and convinced him that he
could run the agency better than the