Show TELEGRAPH COMPANIES COMPLAIN OP Of SHORTAGE or Of BOYS Do you want a a. messenger boy So Sodo Sodo Sodo do the telegraph companies they companies they want several of them There Thore is a messenger boy shortage in Salt Lake City which is becoming almost as serious as is the operator problem Tho The shortage sho is general gen eral throughout the country and every effort to overcome it has so se far met with failure Bo Boys s cannot be he secure secured to take tho the positions said Donald manager manager man man- ager l er of the thc Postal com company pan Right night here herein in our office we want want four moro more boys hoys but hut wo we want in vain ain We have advertised advertised adver cr for months but can get et no results The fact is that there are only about in the whole of twenty messen messenger cr boys bos the city ih There is a certain cerbin class that docs doc's that kind of work and aud it vcr very seldom adds a new nm member These twenty eo from our compan company to the Western Union Umon and from thero there come hack back here herc a again 1 n. n We Wo t fire them because of somo some trouble thc they get et into and aud the they theo go o to the Western Union Once in a wh while le a new boy shows up and tries his hand at tho the business but it ii ver very seldom that he is competent to d do dothe the work An incompetent messenger bo boy in a telegraph company is worse than a balky horse on a narrow road We Wo can get ct along better without him and nine nino out ut of every ten of the beJ beginners arc are I incompetent n c o rn pe pet en t. t A Shortage Everywhere hero I The shortage c of messenger cr help exists not only onh here hore hut all through h the tho United States I don dont don't t believe that there are arc twenty good sized offices in the tho country that have o a full force of boys bOA The Thc rate of wages makes absolutely no noI I difference We now have the scale up upI hi high h enough h to make it possible for an I ambitious ho boy to make from 35 to 40 10 a month But still wo we cant can't get Jet them Another thing which adds to the seriousness of the tho situation is the fa mat fact t that none of the boys will vill deliver more moro titan than twenty tele telegrams in a da day I have ha been heen here for a lon long time and I have found that of all m my force of messengers messengers messen messen- gers there are arc mighty few who ho ever go o I above twenty telegrams rams in a day The They seem seeni to work just lust fast enough to make I the tho number delivered como come out even en That is is' is not enough Forty telegrams rams ramsin in in a 3 da day should be easy H I I have had to tako take the i job b myself on several occasions and do lel delivering erin I have found that by a little fast wal walking walk I ing jag I can deliver twenty telegrams in fort forty minutes The boys all have bicy- bicy cles cbs and be able to to work twice or three times as fast as I do on foot Patrons Become Angry Our HOur service is a great deal different different different differ differ- ent from that of other concerns Tako Take a n grocery store storo for instance A person person person per per- son calls in and wants a sack of floor or groceries of some kind If that thatus is delivered de do- l livered cred in iu a few hours the service is is called prompt In our case caso tho the person wants the messen messenger er almost as soon ashe as ashe he hc pushes the button We have so much work that it is not possible to get et abo aboy a aboy bo boy out ri right ht then and the person who has the thc message to deliver becomes an angry rr The fhe compulsory school law is one ono cause of the trouble However the companies com corn ranies panics are unable to secure any help from rom men men even elderly men who arc are without employment Most of them would rather remain idle than act as messenger messenger boys |