The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1899, Page 21

1 THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1899. 2 ODD VOCATIONS FOLLOWED AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. < neipal source Stanford ew of which five men and en of the men method ht men oble, the and proba- campus or > Alte. Next in impor University Pres dents are employ work from 1 in the eveni according to their skill. New per work is quite a fattor in col- lege employment. Chronicle anc er ea 5 to shop bac [ p is a bicycle . who receives dc to the managed by r month ative are the univer- nd a fruit store in Palo d by studer campus 1 Untfon aph office and a Telephone ation. It requires two students to to the dutfes of the business, and y make about $15 & month aplece The Southern Pacific nig rator at the Palo Alto station is a student, the company has an agent on the c The former-receives $30 per month, the jatter a smaller salary and trans- portati the men’'s dormitory, ct as policem their room seldom need generally utation, in the 2 office. who receives $20 a month his room. our laundries have agencies in Encina 1 and one at Roble. The agencles are each worth about $6 a month. employed in 1t body are They are often an election fraud to tion 1s that It is worth Next Palo Alto & editor and are elected s once a year, pends on the business managers. are good rustlers the jobs are pers, the Daily Sequoia. Th s manager of the y nnually; of the weekly The val of the offices de- If they ch worth from $3) to $50 per month, the editors g ting two-fifths and the business ma s three-fifths of the net procecds. There is considerable honor and good experience attached to these offices. In connection with the newspapers there are six solicitors, three on each publication, who make about $10 each per month.. There are two carriers on the daily, who make $10, and on the weekly one mailer, who is paid $4. During the first three months of the fall semester there is a football manager, who is paid $70 a month. The expenses of the office are as high as its honors, so the chiaf remuneration is glory. In the departments of instruction a good many students find employment. First stands the lbrary, with five stu- dent assistants, each recelving $20 per month. This is considered one of the best tSeesos09e é’@”‘30*%000@“""\6'0’3‘0909’!‘@6009000‘90“000000.00000 CLEVER TRICK PLAYED AQN JOHN HOPE, BURGLAR R I Y the Jefferson | rorning the doings they have | ory that the ed to me 70 ‘Little | \ished | ever try, was walk- 1joying his pa ne. There wer T t iidn’ pened mu- that time. As| accosted by a | om he did not | ddressed him | ¢ * took the | to o cafe and asked him | first place, how did you know red of the stranger. red that ‘I ted out to the Johnny' | | ger by | o | of being | enjoy- What's your | {he stranger ‘up and told’ him 1 the cashier of a bank up In the said he to ‘Little Johnny' Hope. rectors don’t know anything about 1t I'm short In my accounts. There’s one way out of it. The bank'll have | matter of four hours before the gang, COPOOP000006060606666 to be robbed by professional cr: That will let me out, and in additi gct my rake-off from the robbery. I want you to rob the bank. You'll find $35,600 in cash in it on the night you arrange the job—I'll attend to that. Of course, my bit out of that—$10,000 at least. I've always heard that you are square In these divisions, and therefore I'll trust you to hand me my share after you've done the | for putting you onto it.’ his sounds good enough to eat,” re- plied ‘Little Johnny,’ who wasn't born next week and who could see a mantrap as far as a twelve-inch gun will shoot. act s, it's so sweet that it's almost cloying. Now, I've heard your proposi- t You give me tigate you, and then we’ll talk busi- | a couple of days to | “They appointed another meeting at the same place two days later, and in the meantime Hope looked into the job. He found that his man really was the cashier of a prominent bank In a town not more than half an hour's run from New York. So when the cashfer called upon him at he app.inted time he was ready to talk | busines You'll have a hard night's work,’ sald | the cash ‘for in order to avert suspi- | cion T'll have to leave the vaults and safe all locked up tightern a drum, as usual. You'll need several assistants.” *“You just pass those details up to me,” replied Hope. ‘Every man to his trade. | They don’t make 'em so strong that I can't get into 'em.’ “Then all of the details were arranged | and the robbery was fixed for a certain | night in the following week. The cashier was especially solicitous that he should | get his share of the proceeds of the crib- ing. Hope assured him that if there a5 §25,000 in the job $25,000 would Do enough for himself and his assistants and he cashier would get the rest. “On the night fixed ‘itttle Johnny' and three of his best men went up to the town and pulled off the job. It was a after overpowering and tying and gag- ging the night watchman, got into the main safe. They found it empty. They then tackled the smaller safes. These, too, were empty, ‘Little Johnny' was mad, as can be readily imagined. “ ‘It was the first and last time I ever played the part of a “good thing” In a job like that,’ he sald afterward, | and securities L X BB 24 ZXTEZEXEEIXEEEIX SR X ) “Now, that was pretty clever work on | the part of the cashier, wasn't it? He had simply looted the bank himself, and the robbery which he had.arranged was simply to cover up his trail. There have been ‘Napoleons of finance' without num- ber developed from the ranks of bank cashiers, but I never heard of a cleaner bit of work than that. It was, I think, a bit of absolute genfus. “Of course, ‘Little Johnny' and his as- sistants had only to pack thelir tools and get back to New York. They weren't in a position to say anything about how they had been fooled. ‘Little Johnny’ had to read in the afternoon papers the account of how the bank had Leen robbed of cash ‘approximating $100,000 in | amount,’” and grind his teeth. The bank’s faflure was announced a few days later. “Pwo months after that it fell to my lot to handcuff myself to ‘Little Johnny' and to take him up to Sing Sing on a New York Central train. One of the Indict- ments against him was pressed for some reason or other and he got a five-year stunt. The train we took for Bing Sing prison was a local affair, and it stopped at all the little stations. ‘Little Johnny,’ who sat next to the window, looked idly out at the loungers around the stations. At one of the stations not far from Sing Sing T noticed his face suddenly darken with rage, and I asked him what was up. He pointed out a slick-looking man who was sitting in a dogcart beside the sta- tion, and he cursed him in a blood-curd- ling way before he was able to tell me the story I've told you. The man in the dogcart was the cashier who had been | crafty enough to put it all over ‘Little Johnny' Hope, probably the most wily | criminal in his particular line who ever operated in this country. The faflure of the bank hadn’t hurt the cashier at all in the estimation of his townsmen—bank was robbed b cracksmen, y' see, and how could the cashier help it? Oh,. that cashier was good, all right. “Well, it wasn’t up to me to say any- thing about what ‘Little Johnny' had told me, although I frequently saw the cashier flying high in New York after that. 1 lost track of him after a couple of years, however, and concluded that he had struck out for the West or somewhere or another with his beautifully contrived rakedown from the bank. “He was the emaciated, palsied old I saw in Jefferson Market Police Cour[ last week,”—Washington Star, It is neat place: and ir to work on the campus. ructive 1 Mmpor the gymna- es fo! about tment gives six stu- s, of $20 a semester, he laboratories. In the zy_departments two for work done in physiology and zc udents make $ $15 per month each, the demonstration rooms. v _department has one stu- ing §15 to $20, caring for speci- he dent e mens. Both the geology and physiolog departments have a student instructor, who receive $20 a month in each case. In the hist department two stenograph- ers are employed, and advanced students make several dollars a month examining nd marking “ex.”” papers and making maps. The cconomics and education de- partments each empl stenographers, who are paid $15 a month apiece. A large number of students are em- ployed in coaching or tutoring. The work brings in about $10 or $15 a month while it lasts, but the employment is erratic. The German department has six regis- tered tutors, Romanic languages about 000 e the same number and Greek and Latin six. There is also considerable coaching done on the side, which the departments know nothing about. All this work is desirable and hence the competition is great. Especially is the university stocked with typewriters and stenographers and persons wishing to do clerical work. The employment outlined so far is only such as one would naturally- suppose was being done, but when we step out into the realm of odd jobs we find to what straits student ingenuity is taxed to make ends meet, frayed though the ends may be. | The work about to be considered is the }“real thing,” and it is the test as to how much a person is willing to put up with for the sake of an education. The situa- tion of Stanford is well adapted to ad- vance student employment, being distant from any city of any consequence, S0, as the institution grows, the opportunities for work will increase. The bane of student employment in the past has been incompetency, which gave student labor a bad name; but by the system at present in vogue of tabooing any incompetent person confidence is being restored. Last -year, under the direction of Pro- fessor M. R. Smith, an information office for student labor was established, and while the arrangement has not been so successful this year because of the ab- sence of Mrs. Smith, with her return next fall it will be readjusted. The aim of the office was to supersede the methods of assisting students by personal interven- tion on the part of the employers and solicitation on the part of the student, with a central office, where all who desire work can register and all who want ‘work- ers can apply, The students fill out the following blank, checking off each of the things he can do: GENERAL HOUSE- WORK. Cooking, Waiting on table, Washing dishes, Chamberwork, Care of children, Plain sewing, Read aloud GARDENING. Cut lawns, Plant flowers, Irrigate flowers, Trim hedges, Trim roses, etc., Mendins, Make walks, Dressmaking, Pick and shovel Assisting at pertles. work. CARPENTER WORK.| CLERICAL WORK. Making shelves, Bhorthand, Repalring woodwork,| Typewriting, Laying sidewalks, | Copying, Putting 1o window| Wrapping, s Clerk in store, HOUSECLEANING. | Bookkeeping, sk, wiodowe. MISCELLANBOUS. Beat carpets, Moving, Lay carpets, Hang paper, Paint and varnish, Yhitewash. Scrub floors. M WS, WORK. { _and tools, harpen scissors, etc. Instruct in Cutting wood, Janitor work Care of horses, Drive h The person in charge of the registering then marks an A or B or C after each | kind of work checked, indicating the ap- plicant’s proficiency as nearly can be ascertained by questioning. Then, when requests for student labor come in a sultable man is fou the el evenly as possible among being divided those registered. The rate paid for the work is 15 or 20 and it is a fact that the 50T not adequate for the 5 here is very little competi- tween the men and women. Of the three kinds of work in the list but re applicable to women and there nstant undersupply of women cents an h jority of the workers among the men reside in The Camps, a barrackslike row of frame buildings back of the “quad.” There are forty rooms which rent for $2 each a month. The majority of the men “batch” and so live on $12 or $15 a month. Other students club together and hire a student cook. This scheme costs little more and the food obtained {s more pal- atable.and healthy. Most of the work comes from the triple row of professors’ residences and fraternity houses ecast of The Camp. After a man has made a reputation he has all the work he can do. One student last year arrived in The Camp with just five cents In his pocket and returned home in the spring with $65. There are a number of instances where students have had only $10 or $15 a year outside assistance. The work that The | Camp boys generally do is included in the list under the headings: Carpenter work, gardening, house-cleaning and mis- cellaneous, and it is done principally in the afternoons or on Saturdays. But this is not by any means all the work carried on. One student makes con- siderable taking photographs and an- other by doing scientific drawing. Toward the close of each semester stu- dents organize transfer companies and vie with each other in getting contracts for taking trunks to Palo Alto. Onerstudent solicits jobs of pressing and mending for a tailor shop. Theve are a number doing cuores for their board, and one student cooks and does housework for a family of two. A couple of students were engaged for a while hauling and laying brick. At the beginning of each semester there are odd jobs at the University book store, in the president and the registrar’s offices and occasionally during the year in the library. The drawing department spends about $30 a'month for student employment. One man cares for the studios and several pose for the life and portrait classes. Here is where a good figure is more than a thing of beauty to the owner. Posing requires nerve and patience, but it pays well. Another unusual way of making money is seraping and mounting skeletons for the zoological department, and still an- g subjects for section logy and logy labora- in the torfes. Students go out and shoot or trap squir- rels, jackrabbits and birds and' catch or I 0 dogs and cats. They receive 25 cents aplece for each subject. Conse- quently there are few animals in the im- mediate vicinity of the campus, and pet dogs have to be tagged and closely guarded. Not infrequently frat brothers or sorority sisters are horrified to see their especial pet opened out before a sclence class to demonstrate the internal mechanism of the quadruped, and when- ever a pet anfmal is missing in Palo Alto the owner knows where to flnd—his re- mains. At least six students earn their entire way by collecting marine forms and zo- ological specimens for the Eastern col- leges. They receive $20 for every collec- tion. This method is open only to science students and upper classmen. So far little has been said about the employment of women. They work at occupations in the list under the heads of general housework and clerical work. Thers are several girls taking economics and soclology as their major study, with the idea of some day having charge of a publio institution. They are working their way through and doing house and other similar work from choice, because of the experience galned thereby. One young lady earns her way by mak- ing girls’ “gym” suits. Roble Hall fur- nishes employment for one girl as door- keeper. A favorite employment with the women 18 music-teaching of all kinds, and one young lady teaches a private school in Palo Alto. This work, after a class is started, is genteel and lucrative. Uni- sity girls have made considerable as sts for the various churcaes in the yns around about the campus, and h music for private parties. These, 1, are the schemes by which Stanford students work their way through college and earn in the aggregate $3300 per month. For a student to succeed in this life he must have a level head and a good constitution. He must veneer his Sensitiveness with good common-sense and be able to endure many hardships. There i no romance in working your way through col little pleasure, un- less you enjoy work and do mot allow little things to worry you. A stu- dent working his way has to compete in h es with students who have noth- to do but stu entific or engineering ir afternoons taken up 1d are still further ing studies that re- re long, per: ring application rather than especial genius. Besides, these courses are expensive, requiring labora- tory fees and instruments. In every case it is the best adapted who have best suc- After it is all through with and the stu- dent holds in his hand the d diploma. ask him if he worth the while, His answ upon_his_temperam but the chances are that he will e 1s glad, now that it is over, though he doubts if he would have the nerve to do it again, and he ad- vises others to earn at least a part of their expenses beforehand. It won't do for a pessimist youth to at- tempt the feat. He is sure to become “‘sauerballed,” as the saying is, and grad- uate with a disposition that eminently fits him for chief tester at an acetic acld fac- tory; but for the boy with plenty of pluck and good health and a cheery state of mind, why, come on and try. e — A rat's tall is a wonderful thing. The great naturalist, Cuvier, says that there are more muscles in this curlous append- age than are to be found in that part of the human anatomy which is most ad- mired for {ts ingenious structure—name- ly, the hand. To the rat, in fact, its tall serves a8 & sort of hand, by means of which the animal is enabled to crawl along narrow ledges or other difficult passages, usini it to balance with or to ain a hold. It is prehensile, like the ails of some monkeys. By means of it the little beast can jump up heights otherwise inaccessible, employing it as a projectile spring. h labo! 3 dicapped by b POPPOPPPIPIPPPCPVVVPVVPPVPOPPPOPPPOPPOCE VPPV PIPPPVEPIPCOCOPPSPIIOPPIOPIOIOGPOPIIOIEDSPDS RUNNING FISH FAIRLY PACK A CALIFORNIA STREAAM. Form a Solid Mass Over Three Feet Deep. A most remarkale ocou took pl to spawn during the last freshet of the season. The rains of week before last filied the creek banks full and the fish made their l.lmm‘l x}mmm but on cttmpunf éo return to the lake they were strand ons. 8y W ed by the water running beneath the gravel. They were piled up literally by the mill the unusual sight and !hst neighboring farmers hauled thein home by the wagoh loads and fed them to the hogs. ered gloveaal dncn‘. of np‘u:o. i £ undreds of people were attract The hitch are about the size and col:r’ of herring and ere piled over three fee en to twelve inches in I ace in Kelssy Creek, Lake County, last week. Hvery spring a specles of fish called the hitch run ap from Clear Lake eep by actual measurement and cow