Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-03-10

sulting with more experienced men:
in short, making himself capable to fill
any position in the department So 1t
will be a matter of course that in a
year or so more, a vacancy occurring,
he will be made assistant foreman, at
$50 weekly. OF course, this is in d.
rect line to the foremanship, the direct
head Of the entire press department
OF the establishment, who has some
times 100 men and boys under him,
a position that, conditions being IA
vorable, he will reach by the time he
Is thirty or soon afterward. AS fore
man he might have charge of as many
as Is cylinder presses and 20 Job
presses, and in the beginning will be
paid $40 a week. This pay will be
ultimately increased up to as much as
$50, which is about the pay Of the best
foreman.
Your son will have learned long
since that further advancement must
include other departments, and will be
picking up general knowledge of the
composing room, all phases of print
ing, binding, ETC., so as to make HIM
self capable to take the next higher
position, that of assistant superintend-
ent on the entire mechanical de-
partment His salary this time will
be somewhere around $4,000 a year.
Of course this leads directly to the
position of superintendent, the execu-
tive and controlling boss OF all me-
chanical work of the institution. SUI
perintendents are paid anywhere from
SIS, 600 year up, according to the mag
nitude of the business of the company
they work for, and in all likelihood
your son will soon be made member
of the firm, or will be called by large
establishment to take the general
management Some superintendent
are paid as much as $4,000 a year.
The line of progress in newspaper
Office is somewhat different. Your
boy starts in at sixteen as apprentice,
which he must follow for four or five
years. The pay at first will be "a to
So weekly and he will work up from
the drudgery part, which Is the same
as in the other case, then In year
or so become brakeman, the man that
starts and stops presses on order Of
the regular pressman. About this time
he will join the union, and then will
work up through various steps, in
general similar to those followed In
regular printing houses, until he be-
comes assistant and finally regular
pressman at $50 a week. Large news
paper presses are generally attended
by two pressmen and four or five as
sistants. The next promotion is to be
assistant foreman of the press room,
who is paid $50 week; and finally to
foreman at anywhere from $65 to 500,
according to the magnitude OF the
business.
1t is likely that after becoming fore
man your son will be offered an ad-
vanced position in a general printing
establishment, in which case his prog
ress will be much as narrated before.
This is one of the most lucrative
definite lines Of work connected with
the publishing business, and offers
fine opportunities for getting on, as
has been seen. In these days man
who can take charge Of the machin-
cry used in printing a large dictionary
or of fine photographic work, in which
the excellence Of the output depends
so directly upon the presswork, has
accomplished much.
The figures used in this article are
based on those paid in New York city.
Copyright. 1910, by the Associated Lit
erary Press,)