The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1902, Page 7

1, The storekeeper usually begins as an errand 2. He next becomes a boy, big department stores. Salary $2.50 per week. 7. Next he becomes a buyer, purchasing every- thing that Is sold In his department. can aim at. ary $4 per week. Th busy branch of big-store “carrier,” pushing trucks 7 rather cash boy, as he is known in the loaded with parcels from the different depart- goods as they arrive in his department. ments to the general delivery department. Another step forward is to the position of is one superintendent, the man who engages and dis- of the most responsible positions the cash boy charges employees and who has charge of this Sal- $8 per week. _—=e HOW TO BECOME A MODERN STOREKEEPER ——™ No. 2. Photographs by TONNELE & CO. By MR. SIG. HIRSCH. Head Buyer Clothing Department the Siegel Cooper Co. 3. Then he is made “stock boy,” checking off Salary 9, Or the cash boy may become assistant man- ager of a big store, his duty being to watch the market value of goods, and, as this illustration work. shows, to compel the buyers in different depart- ments to keep down expenses. ON OPPOSITE PAGE, ‘“‘How to Become a Milliner.’”* Lesson by MADAME WALLIIAN, Fifth Avenue Milliner, ed by Employees of the Stegel-Cooper Co, when he has completely mastered the ytment can he become a regular 4, If as a salesman he is intelligent and oblig-” ing, he becomes an assistant buyer and superin= sell a customer a complete suit of tends all sales in his department, seeing that cus- tomers are taken care of and no possible sales lost. / — His first sales are man, where, in the clothing department. stance, he would attend to special bargain sales sal of trousers, ds in his dep: 10, From assistant to general manager is the The general manager wanders quict- ly around the store on tours of inspection. steps through the crowds, unnoticed, taking notes; - Or he sits at his desk in his private office He reminisce he was an am- bitious little cash boy, to the days when THE PARTY’S” PLAYING. THE BOWERY GIRL’S MUSIC, {i CHER KIKBARE.. DESCRIBES Zsten! It is flerce when a big, h Ake me puts himself in d @ well-carned reputatlo: I have never been Party says there's qui ky fellow saint, and The a difference yet r of losing | ment Ah! and when the quavers and drones began to chant the song that will never die as jong as there's a shamrock green no Lakes of Killarney"—there was any a pipe teken out of mouths now between me and an angel !n #pite of all! used for more melodious purposes, many her trying, still I have never belleved much in lying and am considered a pretty square fellow, But lately I have lied enough to give Ananias cards and spades and beat hie, The other pight The Party and I went to a solree musicale in Cherry street, at Mrs, McBride's, three flights up, in the rear, having captured Jack McCord, the champion accordion player, for the oc-| easion , Now, as passionately fond of music J am, I have never been able to dis cover any music in those wind-Jjammin things and have fairly dreaded the sight of one. Dut my prejudices were dispelled, for McCord certainly could play the instru The ‘musicale was justified by them crowned by a gray-hatred head shame-faced refuge jn the comer of the shawl, and even we younger folk felt that drop of blood which gives us claim run faster through our veins and sing: “You, too; you, too." The melody had be enchanted. I grunted with the rest until my gaze fell on The Party, ne Was simply fascinated, watching move of the player, while the tears e dewing her cheeks. omehow, neither one of us spoke much when I took her home. The following night I went up to The Papty’s house and was startled by the pe the do an Party was pumping away at an dion, ullar nofses I heard before I reached | She was kind of ashamed at being caught in the act and feared 1 would chide her for her extravagance in pur- {chasing that thing, but at that time nothing was further from my mind, be- cause I saw sho was happy. Well, all that happened some time ago, and I am praying every day now that something might befall that wind-box, Every time I see ft in co of honor on the mantel plec whole my heart Of course, I didn't expeot her to mas- ter the instrument in a day—I was then and am now patiently waiting for the time when that shall come to pass—but I wish she wouldn't be so anxious to show me her progress in the art of muste or to ask me those embarrassing | questions, | Last night we had another seance with | » that thing, “What was that I played?” she asked me after squeezing a few yard horror out of it “Oh, that was an imitation of a man | lencore,” said 1, seeing b I answered truth- falling downstain fully, but not ¥ then I had to lie for about ten untinter- pted minutes before I succeeded in chasing the frown from the dearest Mitte phiz Then the musical clyil-service exam- tlon bogan once more and I, not wish to be found wanting again, was ltrying vainly to ascertain whether It | was a gallop, a ballad or two-step that |was supposed to be happening, when I |was saved the answer by tremendous [pounding on the walls and floor above us “Oh, they Mke that and want you to Play that over again to alve them an questioning glance. And now 1 really believe 1 |couldn't tell the truth !f I wanted to, 1 am haunted by fearful tears. Supposing should become faagin: ted by a trombone or bass fiddle, what then? Bull, they say he or she who loves music’ has much good in heart and soul, and T know my little Party loves music, even If sho doesnt make Mt. N KILDARE. ow PRUNES WERE THE LIMIT, The eminent’ politician sent for th newspaper correspondents, say's Baltimore American. They hurried to his residen fng full well that whatever he had to sey would be of much importance and pome interest. “Gentlemen,” he began, when they had sought comfortable chairs, “I wish to enter a vigorous denial of the rumors », know that have arisen since I commenced) serving hash breakfasts to my friends “{ should think that my oft-repeated disclaimers of contemplating a preslden tlal boom would have been sufficient to make it apparent that my display of an appetite for hash is not an effort to comtrol the boaniing-house vote.” Yet, when he served prunes for den- aert at the next hash breakfast the pub lo drew its own conclusions, in spite of his denials OM DUCHESSES’ DIAMONDS. ‘The Duchess of Sutherland has a his- torls erown of diamonés, which once be- Jonged to the beautiful and stately Har- ret, Duchess of Sutherland; the Duch- exs of Portland's new tiara is wonder- ful, with, in front, a bis stone, known the Portiand diamond; the Duchess of Devonshire has a splendid crown, and so has the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Carnarvon, Lady Spencer, Lady Bradley Martin | from the pu THE COAL TRUST The Public Pays the Cost, (From (he Dunkirk (N. ¥.) Advertiser.) The New York World places the re- sponsibility for the coal etrike upon the operators of the mines and says that Yie lonves up to tho present time are ea- {timated at trom $0,000,000 to $60,000,000, | divided in unequal proportions betwee: the Operators, the miners and the pub- lia * * * Those men (the vperators), every dollar of whose profits is drawn ic, and every dollar of whose strike losses, whether In the form of Jost sales or an Increased wage scale, will be drawn from the public, toe, surely owe some consideration to the paramount public interest. Industrial peace is an indispensable eondition of industrial prosperity. The coal operators sec to be bent on imperiliing both ‘This coal strike, which they could readily and profitably settle, Is the only cloud of any consequence in the bus! ness skies, Nothing else seriously men- ac the continuance of the country's splendid prosperity, Public opinion calls, therefore, more imperatively than ever for its settlement, A Nice Little Game, (Prom the Rochester (N. ¥.) Herald.) he New York BWveuing World yes- coal question, AND THE STRIKE. leged plan of the operators to work a "double twist" on their employees and the public by means of the present strike. Acoording to The World the profits of the Coal Trust for 182 are HP,000,0; but the operators are not satisfied, Tney propose to force up the price of coale-pleading as excuse its searcity caused by the surike—to a point soshigh that it will nover recede Telow a price thas will yleld the cons barons an annual profit far in exe s of previous returns * ¢ ¢ s of the scheme abso- lutely assured by the utter helplessness of the public. The consumers must have coal, cost what it may, ‘The ‘Trust owns the mines, fixes the output and practically determines the cost of transportation, ‘he consumer has no je but to pay the bill, while the Trust pockets the profits, It was well understood that the cost of the strike to the operators, as well as any mon- etary cone’ that might be ob- dained by the miners, would eventually come out of the pockets of the con- sumers; but & darefaced, deliberate echeme like this to mulct the public by wholegals and establish the coal trade upon & permanent basle of extortion is & new and startling reveletion of the rapscity of trust greed and of the prac: he tetday indulged in,eome plain talk on| tomlly unlimited power of @ well-ongun- Niaging bare en al-' ined trust to rob she consumer at will |THE HEIGHT OF IGNORANCE Lawyer Grover delighte in nothing more than In hearing a good story, and he can tell a few himself, says the |Hoston Record, He was telling me of a quaint old Yankee who had quar relled with his brother. ‘The old fel- low didn't like the brother a bit, and when the latter was summoned to ap pear in court his teatimony wi gub- jected to considerable critici#m. Be you had that brother of mine on the stand down to court yesterday,” he said, as he met Grover. Yes." “Have to be protty careful about what he tells you!" “Why, he is a man of more than or- dinary intelligence, is he not?’ “Intelligence, Why, Mr. Grover, you could Jose information talking with Mat man —-— CHEATING THE JEWELLER. A manufacturing Joweller recently re- marked that some of his employees had begun to wear thelr hair unusually long, says Pearson's Weekly, He watched them more closely and discovered that they freq’ rubbed them over with gold flings and diamond chips, and then carefully passed their hands through their halr, It was thelr custom at night to cleanse their hair with @ne combs and collect ‘and sell the gold particles and diamond dust stolen in the manner desertbed, Amusements. <a TO-MORROW 12. 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