The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1900, Page 14

14 Some Stores Have Established Schools and Restaurants for Thcir ’Bous. set a move on you! w wry 1, - o Y e of the same kind fl as b nit hera ple In other lines. There is the good boy he bad boy, the aggressive boy of the the obedient ¥, the boy who shirks, the boy who overwork 1 kinds of boys; but whatever specles the casl 3 ngs ¥ worth his wa d wage being never in ex- cess of $13 per mon “Who is Cash question of a sma s*general * 1 asked this bright boy in Weln- stock & L nd he replied that Cash is usually from 10 to 14 years old,” who works to support a family or to help *0 do 1t, “en buy groceries an’ things.” ““Coming, Sir!” “And they don’t work for pin money?” “Course not. Why, do you s'pose a fel- ler is goin’ to run his heels off jes' fur nothin’? He works cause he's got to do it to help s'port his family and buy things to eat fur the little kids.” Little kids, presumably, are the mem- bers of the famlly under 10 years of age, THE SUNDAY CALL Poor ““Cash” Is Very Il and therefors unable to maintain them- selves or their familles. “They’s two little fellers down stairs,” coatinued my informant, “that’s got their hands full. hey're both cashboys, an’ their father's dead. They got a mother what sews, and some little kids to look after.” As to his own responsibilities, my in- formant shrugge his oulder: and put- ing his thumbs in his armholes in a busi- nesslike manner remarked that he “wasn’t a-kicking.” He and older brother looked after a grow he has a sister t and could earn her sald he, ““thi ke us work, and all that, ar Y ought to be in school; but I'd jes' like to know what 'u become of the folks if we didn't. Tell you what, we boys are glad enough of the chance to work, an’ peoy don’ know what* they are talking about t to be took out when they say we ougl an’ put Mr. Davis, the ool." manager, was walking « Mo the m Sidefiahts of Cashbou Life e et There Are Many Hard-Worfing Littfe oan Franciscans Who Help Support Fam- ies With Their Weeklu Pittance toward us. “What sort of employers do you have?’ I inquired. “Do they treat you pretty well?” “D’ye see that man there?”’ he replied. *“Does he look like he'd be hard on a fel- low? Not much; s an all right boss; he's always good-natured and knows how to treat the kids white. All you got to do in this store Is to tend to your own busl and work hard, and you'll get a nce to get ahead and advar , if you're worth a cent. An’ I tell your- continued, emph to trea ly, how ht in the ea- ve free hot coffee to the kids out in the lunch room, and if there's much extra work there's some ex- tra p: Evidently this was not so with some of the stor e were dubious tales of overwor erpay and scant time for a lunch, that had to be paid out of the cash- boy's own slender pocket; and there were more t of a pitiful $13 a month being reduced a very insignificant sum indeed by fines for the breaking of jell 3 the overturning of a jug of syrup, the spilling of a bottle of wine, the damaging of a bolt of dry goods and other unfortu- nate happenings. “Why, what d've think 1d one Indig- nant little fellow from another big store. “One d Bill and me run together. We wuz both rushin’ for our lives, and wuz both in department. Bill wuz luggin’ a sack of flour to a truck, an’ I wuz carryin’ some wine, and the bottle shed an’ all over th Didn't hurt the fiour, but it stained the sack, and Bill hed to pay for it. I hed to pay four bits fur the wine, an’ the wurst of it wuz n Bill hed paid his $1 10 fur t ir it to ‘take it it ez damaged sack uyv ced home to his mot wouldn't to him. They oo ' DOW, Wuze Bill's flour, t it? s no denyin There w perhaps the person ir that way, and that > §3 a week & port of of the E an ord orit ck an as he str accompanying pl _ you know: I chase : out with the boy to a Work hard? Well, I ves; it'll keep a feller a-jumpin’ all right to be a speci or any other Kind of a worst about bein’ a spec that you tear your s in and out'en the wag to keep.buyin' 'bout a dc th. That don't only gettin’ thirtee though, some d near a year, an AR’ besides 1 out climbi in, and y'u en pairs o’ s, and the ttle fell heay r who is ke often has to w w ta patient his trou sieep when he be cels not getting delivered on t ing to be careful of somebody le of par- me, of hav- ew §30 A Quiet Little Nap After a Hard Day. hat, or a mistake in the delivery of a bundle of coffee. “Well, ma,” cries he, rushing in to his lunch, “what d'ye think. Sugar's twenty- one pounds for a dollar to-day, and I or- dered two dollars’ worth, so's you could put up some fruit for the winter, some berries and jam an’ things. An’ tea's goin® to be twenty cents a pound, good tea, next week, ma—guess we'll have to get some, huh?” Harry has an eye open for bargains, and the outlay of his $13 per month is made very judiciously. Some day he hopes to be something more than a cash- boy. “Why, don’t you know,” he asks Ir. Dernham, one of the bosses, 19 The greatest trouble of the cashboy is his schooling. The managers of the White House have undertaken to set the matter right. They have established an evening school for cash boys and furnish tuition and all expenses free. At pres- ent the school is not running, as it opens up.with the regular opening of the public schools. Cashboys are allow=d to come from other stores also, and the school was establish'd by Mr. Well for the reason that the regular night schools had made a rule exc g boys under fourteen. Be- sides the usual course of practical study, there is a special gymnasium nigk weqk, when suits are provided and athletic rooms thrown open to the ren the school season clo: fellows. the out fifty in regular a ance anxious little labor busied themselves all day witt errand to the “Cash ry eve over books and m is in the Yo ation butldin, those w reat thelr coffee stove provided for the purpose. a Is the £ joy a Ins t they work, and as t icken short legs begin eyes begin to droop, and if the floor-walkers are known to be in- Qulgent tired little forms begin to drop down on boxes and barrels, there to rest a moment, and perhaps fall asleep, until the call of *“Cas brings them to their feet with a stretch and a yawn, followed a run. by a jump Out in the Mission in a humble home there is a little boy very sick. His is Larry, and he is a cashboy. One eve ing he came home 1l and was put to bed. Next day there was a flush on h nd a whirl in his head. The whirl st ed in his head a long he spoke savored o ild j the covers Here, Ned, I didn't bre t. Mr. ime, a of busin leap from v I'm co got at cake dish, I didn’t break ts? Golly, I didn’t break it, Mister Nelson, it fell off the tabl a derstand that he is not still on d there has been no dish broke starts up ¢ “Say come on ¥ —they’'re awful heav make the piles of books s to have some help, sure I ha aches; oh, it you come an’ he doctor looks get very serious for talks to him a voice is hy! and doesn’t wa the jelly. which he i he is we It is pretty hard. Lots of things are. So says troubles of our we ain’ pERE one of them, policeman to Kick We're can take a string stick, wherewith they How man brier root p one of those uable rep the Con Repe r mation on the sut no doubt, be read with Vice Consul writes; the Tuscan Ma ed Calabria in t ent its most flour| has always been t} stry came 1 brian root 1 for sele How the brie explained all the root it is export centers, wh as reg which are sometimes > of two fe or more, not been discove process the blocks sooner or later. Brier root blocks are twenty-five different cipal shapes. The sha laise,” “releve “B two are the more 1 “Marseillaise” bloc! ve bowl a don News. e While As the wor eral of the below the could flow into to the brim. T of them water ne seas. Others T Among these is in Central Asia Tillo writes, Ru places it s sea level. the largest of th markable for its meteor the yearly amplitu t being greater than are recorded else on earth. In summer the tempera- ture rises to Saharan heat, a record of degrees Fahrenkeit has been obtainea in July, while the air is of desert dryness, an