The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-10-31
ODD CITY TRADES
Sawdust Wholesaler Who
Handles Refuse Of Mills.
Men Make a Speciality Of Putting New
Faces on Old Stores and Dwelling
Houses-Role of Chimney
. Expert.

VI ANcW IOIh Sity many Va oh eA
usual nature, which could not exist
elsewhere than in a center OF vast
population. Specialized occupations
these are, which demand a huge pop
ulation from which to draw their pat
ronage. New York is the city OF spe-
cialized trades. Innumerable articles
which in smaller cities could be but
by-product of some more general bust.
ness find here a sufficient market to
make their separate existence pos
sible.,
There is the sawdust man, for in
stance, who in New York is very i'm
portant business man. The wholesale
sawdust dealer advertises all kinds
of sawdust and requests that you will
telephone your needs so that there
may be an early delivery.
1t used to be that anyone who want
ed sawdust went to the sawmill and
asked for as much as he wanted. There
was only one kind Of sawdust In the
good old days and that was an unim-
portant product which anybody could
have for the asking. Now the saw
dust wholesaler will tell you that saw
dust Is q very valuable product and
that the sawdust business Is offering
greater opportunities every day.
There are about sixty kinds Of saw
dust on the market, so says the saw
dust expert. and all Of them have their
stated uses In the realm Of trade.
Mahogany sawdust Is just as aristo-
cratic and elegant product as ma
hogany furniture. II Is useful for
smoking-not as tobacco. Mahogany
sawdust Is employed because Of the
good. clear kind of work that 1t does
In smoking hams. fish. etc.
All the way from the preparation Of
food to the polishing OF precious met
ais, ranges the usefulness of sawdust
The hardwood dusts are used for pol
ishing in some jewelers. shops and
cheaper sawdusts are used for polish
ing less valuable metal work. In pack.
ing and making cushions. for the COW
ering of floors and In the fur business
sawdust Is useful.
There are several firms In New York
who have no other care In this world
than to discover the dark secrets of
why chimneys smoke. They don't
bother to attend to the big buildings.
either. They are almost entirely de-
voted to solving the secrets Of the do
nestle hearth. Business is plentiful,
too. for nowadays everybody who
builds new house In the country or
the suburbs of New York wants at
least one open fire In It. and, strange
to say. there are more new chimneys
that smoke than there are new chin
neys that don't smoke. So there you
are with an excellent opportunity for
the smoking chimney doctor-and all
directly In the New York zone. In
less closely populated regions the new
householder with a smoking chimney
Is obliged to consult an architect,
mason or an oldest inhabitant-usual-
ly with results much more doubtful
than when the chimney specialist is
called in.
In line with the chimney expert is
the man who devotes his life to defec-
tive hot water pipes. He calls him
self domestic engineer, but hastily
asserts. on being interviewed, that he |
isn't intending any interference with |
the domestic relations court and that /
his domestic engineering ceases when |
the hot water pipes are in perfect or
der and there are no general heating |
repairs to be made In the fiat. He is |
specialist in these two kinds of work |
and he Is on tap for emergency serv-
i've all the time.
Useful in the world of business as
well as that of the home is the firm
which takes care Of floors.
Making over store fronts Is an in
dustry which has found SO many pat
rons in New York that a number of
firms have found 1t profitable to set
aside all other forms of building and
devote themselves wholly to helping
New York merchants improve the ap-
pearance OF their establishments by
putting a new face on the matter. All
classes of merchants, from the small
dealer in the suburb to the great dry
goods firms which do millions OF dol
lars worth Of business In q year, in
dulge In the luxury of a new kind OF
front to their business homes every
once in SO often. The new store front
builder is also an architect and his art
demands all the taste. discretion and
sense of appropriateness which are
required for the erection Of an entire
new building, with perhaps a greater
degree OF Ingenuity. In line with the
new store front enterprises there are
certain firms of architects which have
made a reputation for their ability in
the making over OF house fronts in
city houses, SO that, while the remod-
eled residences At perfectly into their
place In the city block. they at the
same time are greatly improved In ap-
pearance and are given an originality
of aspect which enables the occupants
OF the mansion and the friends OF the
family to recognize a residence with
out referring to the number on the
transom.