Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-10-14

X Mk ~ know any more about 1t
&WMK than that when he takes
-sExsle the receiver off the hook
and soft voice from
some far-away place says: Mum
Der, please" and in few sec
onds he is talking with the per-
son he asked for If questioned about
the employees and the chances for his
boy to get a job with the telephone
company and through it develop into
prominent and wealthy citizen, he
would probably shrug his shoulders
and say: ooh, there is no chance; for
all the people they use are a few
men to string wires and an army of
Hello Girls"
But there are numerous chances for
boys in telephony and as promising
an outlook as in any big business in
the United States.
When it is considered that the first
| telephone was established in New
| York in 1878, and that now there are
| 100000 in use in the country, and
| that the conversation over the 13,000,-
| 900 miles of wire number eight to ten
| thousand million annually; that the
| total revenues of the telephone COM
| panies are $185,000,000 a year, and
| that this business gives employment
| to a hundred and twenty thousand
! persons, as compared with a paltry
| twenty-four thousand employees In tel
| egraphy-when the father is told all
! this, he Is apt to think some and to
| wonder if, after all, it wouldn't be a
| good thing for his boy to go into the
| phone business.
He would be right And another
| thing: The multitude of jobs that
are possible to the boy are by no
means all technical, though the bust
ness itself may seem at first flush to
require great deal of technical
knowledge
1t is a fact that the boy, without
| knowing in the beginning telephone
from a foghorn, may start and work
| up to be general manager of one of
! the big telephone companies, and it
is even possible for him to become
| president ultimately.
| Well, father and son have been read
| ing about the colossal business and
earnings of telephone enterprises and
their growth to all parts of the coun-
try, and decide to take the plunge.
| This boy knows no more than the
| average, and has no more than the
usual common schooling; but he
wishes to get out into the world and
| be a man.
He finds at once that telephoning is
divided into three great branches, the
| commercial, or contract branch, the
plant, and the traffic. The first COW
ers all relations of the company with
| it's real or prospective subscribers.
| Inc plant includes the technical peo-
| pie who Install the phones and fix
| them when they get out Of order.
| The traffic department makes the
connections with the people you
wish to talk to and includes the Cen
| trail girls.
Our boy doesn't care for ma chin
| cry, or the technic of anything, as he
| thinks he is better fitted naturally
| for straight business life. SO he gets
| into touch with the commercial, or con-
tract, department and asks for JOB.
! Knowing nothing in particular, he
! will get nothing in particular-prob-
ably he will be given a job as messen-
| ger and his duties will be to run
| arrands, answer the telephone, carry
| messages and do such work as gen.
! orally falls to the lot Of Office boys.
| His pay will be about five dollars a
week.
! But the boy is determined to get out
I of this position as rapidly as he can,
and looks toward the clerks longing
! w. studies their methods of figuring
and bookkeeping, and improves his
penmanship. OF course here, as else
where, his employer-in this instance
the chief clerks watching his efforts
to make progress and as soon as the
Joy is worthy of it, will put him on as
! one of the junior clerks at a slight In
crease in salary, probably paying him
eight dollars a week at first.
( The boy attends strictly to business,
being more anxious to improve him.
self than to join too much in the so
cial chances that may come up, and
gradually gets into a little better grade
of Junior clerk, finally, after couple
Of years, earning probably as much
as SIS a week.
Then the chief clerk of this particu-
lar office is promoted or goes away,
and your boy, being the most compe-
I tent of the juniors. gets the place at,
say. SIS a week, with the Office boy
| and several lesser clerks working I'M
der him. The logical promotion from