The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-19
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ONLY ONE MEMBER OF WOODEN
INDIANS IN NEW YORK
P1ee1sg Together Dime Novels to
Make . Confinuoas StOry-@0ne
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Here In New York there are men
who work at occupations In which no
one else - engaged. Their cailings are
unique In the strict sense of the word
Each person so employed enjoys the
distraction of making his living In a
pursuit. followed by no one but him
self. j.
one Of them 10 an old man who re-
pairs the few remaining cigar store
Indians In use by old fashioned deal
ers In side streets. At one time he
owned q wood carver's shop where
these figures were turned out In large
numbers. He also did thriving bust
ness In making ecclesiastical figures
for churches and carved f1gureheads
for the prows of ships. Part of his
work consisted In carving decorations
for circus wagons. At one time he
had 12o men working for several
months on designs to I'LL n contract
with q celebrated Snowman. s
This man. who 10 probably the last
Of the old-time wood carvers making
q speciality of efhgies for tobaccon-
lists, churches. and yacht owners,
can still be seen In his Brooklyn shop
rounding out so years of expert work.
manship. But he has not carved
wooden figure for q decade or more
He only repairs images made by him
self years ago which find their way
back to his bench for an dverhauiing
The reason for the. falling or OF this
occupation t. that today such figures
are all cast In metal.
In the Grotesaue Line.
Then there Is an artist employed by
Brooklyn's only manufacturer Of comic
valentines. For twenty years he has
put in all his time drawing the gro
tesque caricatures received by thou
sands on February IL from friends
who do not lose the opportunity to
remind them Of their frailtiss an de-
fects. And In the employ of the same
Arm is versifier whose vitriclic lam
poems appear under the pictures drawn
by other men and help them to make
the recording angel work overtime on
st. Valentines day. These twn are
kept busy the year round. and have
the field to themselves. f
In certain New York publishing
house man sits at his desk from
In the morning until In the after
noon piecing together sets OF three
dime novels for the purpose of MAX
Ing one continuous story for publica-
ton in book form. Not alone is he
the only man In New York who works
~ thAS pcCulidE LOTm OF literary en-
deavor. but probably he is the only
man in the world earning his living
In this manner.
In another publishing house 10 a
| man who does nothing but make leg
ible the handwriting Of a corps OF re-
gular authors on Its stan. These men
for dfteen years have been contribut-
ing q weekly story for boys. measur-
ing about 10000 words, and either
n n warat
| typewriter Such a enormous output
means rapid writing. even on a
machine. and the great speed requir-
| ed to get so much out on time by
longhand results in bad copy.
The compositors were Obliged to
work slowly, and; It became q question
of getting new tpyesetters or new
authors. The latter course would
| hardly do. as authors with desirable
| sustaining powers and dynamic force
cannot be picked up on every literar y
bush. and there was no use OF firing
the suffering compositors. There
| fore the publisheds hit upon the
scheme of having a man familiar
with the scrawl OF these high pressure
word singers go over each manu-
script to round out incomplete o's
detective fs. and perform other nee
essary surgical operations in chiro-
u
throwing mt at every other word.
| Only ONE In the World.
The only girl operator OF wireless
teiegraphy in New York and possible
In the world at present sits on the
roof OF Fifth avenue hotel in a little
| office sending messages through the
air to ships at sea, She IL only twenty
one and her employers say she is sup
erior to many men telegraphers.
While the majority Of the mess res
coming and going through her hands
are commercial some are of n tender
| nature. And some OF these are adj
dressed to her. as she IL reported to
have a wireless romance. Her fiance
Is said to be an operator on one of
the big steamers and when his ship
gets within talking distance greet
ings are exchanged between them
TWO coopers make a speciality of
packing money for shipment for New
York banks. and have no competitors.
For twenty years these men have been
putting gold and silver coin In cashs
for their customers to send abroad.
They also pack precious metal in
three-gallon kegs for the subtresury
every time 1t wants to ship money
to interior points. ~
During the twenty years the two
coopers have handled something like
$4,000. 100000, and in single year
nave made shipments for their clients
amounting to 5000, 700. 900. Probably
no other two men in New York have
ever packed so much money to be
sent away In kegs and casks as IL the
coin were just ordinary shipments of
pickles or breakfast food
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