The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-24
CENSUS WILL DISCLOSE
UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS
Snake Merchant, TeaSers and TOOthpiCkS
from WaluS MuStdChe

vidual has been put inro the proper
class, it will be the most exhaustive
classification ever made by the census
bureau. For instance, while machln-
lists will of course be placed under one
general heading, each of them will be
classified according to the particular
work he is doing, and so with other
trades and industries. Some of the
sub-classes will contain but single
name. This will bring to light num-
Der OF queer ways in which some peo-
pie are engaged in earning livelihood.
AS far as the work has progressed
there is only one man classed as
snake merchant. This man has a
snake ranch in Texas, and has for
more than seven years made business
of handling snakes. During the year
1910 he sold over $50, 900 rattlesnakes
and blacksnakes, the prices ranging
from 25 cents to 50 each. They are
sold to ZOOS, side shows of circuses,
medical colleges and scientists.
Under the shoe industry one would
hardly expect to find persons sub
classed judgers, takers, blowers, slug
gers, busters-out, cripple chasers and
pancake makers, but there they are.
Another man who will be all in class
by himself when the work is finished is
resident of Kansas City. His sole
business is to bottle smoke of burning
hickory logs. He claims that when
this smoke is let loose in an alright
compartment where meat has been
hung it will produce the same results
upon the meat as though it had been
smoked in an old fashioned smoke
house. Such titles as whittier" in
straw hat factory, "tobies," a maker Of
stogies, dock walloper," longshores-
man, "pouncer," in hat making es-
Enlistment, vibrator in a clock fac
tory, "tonger" in connection with oys-
tiers, "teaser" in a glass factory, are
some of the other queer designations
used by the census bureau.
Indeed, there are as many women as
there are men who pursue odd ways
OF earning money, one class of which
would be designated as goats" were
common expression of the times
used, for it is their business to be
discharged from the department
stores in which they are employed"
number of times each day, or as Of
ten as necessity might demand. When
grouchy or naughty customer makes
complaint of discourteous treatment, or
what not, against a clerk, one of the
goats" is summoned to the Office as
the person in charge of that particular
department. There she is given a
good talking to before the angry Gus
toner and summarily dismissed, and
the complainant goes away rejoicing.
Women policemen are becoming
rather commonplace. We have a
woman chief of police in Kansas; a
town in Pennsylvania boasts fair dep
uty sheriff who is a college graduate,
and Los Angeles was the first city to
appoint a woman on its police force.
One woman in Pennsylvania earns
her daily bread by raising Persian cats
and selling them for from SIS to 500
each. She not infrequently makes
large sales to wealthy cat fanciers.
Still another woman in Maryland de-
votes her time to pigeon raising, claim
ing her income from the industry to be
about $500 year.
One OF the most unique trades of the
entire list, however is that carried on
by man in Seattle. His business,
and profitable one too, is to secure
the mustaches from Walrus killed in
Bering Straits and selling them to the
Chinese for toothpicks. These stout
bristles are plucked from the nose of
the walrus by Indians, tied into small
bundles and sold by him on the Pa
cific coast to agents who ship them to
China, where they are in great de-
mand. In an aged bull walrus the
bristles are about foot long and near
ly as thick as a lead pencil. Besides
being extremely tough, they can,
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