Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-04-30
QUEER WAYS TO GET MONEY
Here Arc Some of the Strange Ways b,
Which Coin is Made.

/ IN the WhOle history OF the world
there has never been a country where
: 1t is 81 easy to make money as in the
United States. That there are many
ways of making a living besides be-
ing life insurance president, prize
/ fighter or a hod-carrier is shown by
the following collection of unusual
occupations, says the Kansas CITY
| .JonrnnI.
or the list of unique callings none
is more peculiar than the business of
DR.. Cockroach" of Louisville. For
stipulated annual consideration the
doctor contracts to keep ones
premises rid of cockroaches. At req
ular intervals he comes around with
queer looking tools and mysterious
powders, by means of which he per-
suades the cockroaches to go.
Bird Doctor and Specialist" is the
sign on the shingle which hangs in
front of an establishment on Broad
way in New York. The proprietor is
a young woman who takes mammas $
pet canary to board while the family
is away at the soashOre or absent
from home at other times. She also
has hospital for sick birds, and
teaches backward SongstprS their
mission in the world, and is able to
make i competence from her work.
An Englishman possessed of
small annuity and in bad health went
to FL PaSo, Texas. The expenses of
living were so great in the southwest
ern city that he soor found his in
come inadequate. He invested all
the ready money he had in eight
gilt and gaudy popcorn stands, with
little engines to run the peppers.
The idea worked. and before long he
branched out to San Antonio. He
soon worked up a baby trust which
brought him an income of $1,000
year.
A woman in Boston makes bust
ness of taking inventories of houses
which are rented furnished. She
comes to the house and makes com
plete lists in triplicate of every ar
ticle, with a description of its con-
ditiOn. When the house is given up
she comes again and checks over the
household goods and appraises the
loss or damage. She has been so
successful in this kind of work that
her services are much in demand.
An Italian in New York takes over
the rubbish from the garbage col
lectiUns of the great eastern metropo-
lis at stated annual price and makes
from $1,000 to $50. 900 a year from
the business. He employs hundreds
of sOrterS and pickers, who go over
the rubbish to get out old bottles,
rags, and rubber, leather and other
junk. 1t is said that he realized from
$4,000 to 81, 600 year on old rubber
shoes alone.
Several years ago shoe buyer for
one of the Chicago department stores
conceived the idea of buying up
slightly damaged or blemiShed shoes
from the manufacturers and retailing
the same at a sacrifice price lie
opened up with one clerk in a single
room near the roof OF a SkyScraper
office building. To get a good pair
50 of shoes with nothing more than Il
little scratch on them for 81, was
such a bargain that customers came
fast. The business increased so rapid
ly that the original store has been
enlarged to ID rooms, and 40 clerks
are employed instead of one. The
capital earned from one original store
has been reinveSted until now the
concern owns eight large stores in
other places.
A new Jersey girl, broke down by
teaching and office work, was ordered
by her doctor to get some occupation
which would keep her out of doors.
She followed the physicians advice
by acquiring a boggy farm in New
Jersey, where she begun the culture of
bullfrOgs. Persons who heard of the
new venture smiled until they learned
that she was making lots of money
selling frogs legs at big prices to
New York hotels and restaurants.
In order to get the fresh air she does
her own killing. Attired in rubber
boots. she trampS about the marshes
and shoots the frogs with a small rifle.
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