The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-23

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fake reference; 1t gave you your
pick of the Jobs. No one in New
York ever investigates an out of
town reference, he told me. Give an
out of town firm. Try II and see.
Suppose you don't know how to do
the work-they1l not fire you for a
week and you're that much ahead
He was right.
When my cash ran out, answered
want ad for an accountant and
gave the name of Cincinnati house
knew a little bookkeeping, and of
course It took me the better part of
two weeks to get acquainted with
the work. The pay was twenty-one
dollars a week. | was there nine
days before they fred me, and paid
me up to the next Saturday night.
That forty-two dollars made me rich
You needn't think | reished do
ing tricks like this; but II was get
work or starve, and It takes such a
horribly long time to starve!
Oh, sure, | have tried the Y. NJ.
IC. AS. belonged to one for ten
Years in the home town. But at the
New York Twenty-third street branch
the secretary gave me blank to
sign which traced me back three
generations. asked me for dollar,
the cost OF registration, and said he
would look me up and to come back
in week. Leave your name and
we'll do what we can.
Man, | dashed at him, don't tell me
to leave my name-Id rather leave
my carcass. I haven't anything to
put inside it-nor any place to rest
1t tonight. Nor anything to do with
1t tomorrow. assure you-the car
cass is not so valuable as the name,
II continued, I don't simply want a
Job. I have to have one.
This brought him out of his medi-
tation on the religious life-and soon
he found in his file box a job for, me.
Wanted Statistic clerk, hospital
thirty dollars a month, board and
laundry. .f
sat near the front door, met in
coming patients, listed their com
plants, escorted them to the proper
wards. 1t was in this hospital took
my first tip. A man died and later
when his brother came the body had
been taken to the hospital morgue.
II was my duty to escort the broth.
err to the morgue in the basement,
and to unpin the white sheet from
the dead mans head and face For
this service gratefully received a
quarter before we left the room!
Hard luck followed me here. One
, morning, in turning corner up
stairs, | had headon collision with
the superintendent. One of the doc
tors mad sent me on hurry up err
rand. But that did not excuse me
The superintendent said I was toe
energetic and fired me on the spot
had been there five weeks.
Knocking about secured many
, | EOVu DoSlliNhS VI u hihu put 'hN
hard luck hoodoo took them away
from me. | worked behind the coun
, ter for the United Cigar Stores Com
: pany. But, unusual for them they
, decided to withdraw the store where
worked. Another time | was cash
, Ter in one of Child's downtown plac
, es-but the head waitress took @
fancy to me, and as she was more
= valuable. was let out
And yet another time | was hired
, by New York City hotel man tc
take charge Of the accounts of his W
J.. State Inn at fifteen dollars a week
!, The first week passed and no pay
, was Forthcoming. The next week
a was called down to New York to rem
n der some statement. While there
. mentioned to the purple jowled gen
q tleman that needed some money
I didn't have enough to pay my re
: turn car fare. He discharged me II
: fury because I had been hired b.
q the month.
A You'll admit one of two things
a Either that the city doesn't give {
A young fellow square deal or tina
o I'm a hard luck artist.
a Once, when I was lower than
h ever want to be again, I accepted ;
Job in laundry to sort dirty clothes
n and help feed the mangle. hell
that for three days and then with m,
+, arms full Of clothes stepped into ,
. stream OF hot water. II was only
trlckle from a tub, but It found III
q way in through the hole in the soil
a Of my shoe and raised white bliste
@ the size OF that dollar I'm going t
A get.
say-have told enough or do yol
want some more?
For Gawd's sake. give him a dol
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