Show I Wh S I I J JI I PRESSMAN Here Is a trade which will give any ny boy of average Intelligence Intel Intel- and a fair common school education the opportunIty Ity to reach a position which m may y yield him a a salary equal to that of first class men in any other trade or profession profession-It It may even put him In the millionaire millionaire mil mit- class If If his mechanical ability should should prove prove to be of superior quality quality quality-In In ln any event It Is certain to provide a com corn living By Sy C. C W W. JENNINGS 12 t D Sw A AVE VE you ou ever stood In In the I J I basement of a big building belonging to a a great I J paper and watched the hl i 4 I tremendous whirring pi press pres ess esses es pulling paper off an endless endless end end- less roll so fast that your eye could scarcely follow It and delivering at atthe at atthe atthe the other end of the machine countless countless count count- less printed and folded newspapers so rapidly that the indicators on some of I the modern rp electric presses record as many a as page eight papers papers' papers papers' an hour Or have e you watched watched one cl one v atthe of at the tremendous multi lit hi 1 presses that pull pul out a r r uc I and deliver at the other j jI simIlarly pictures picture that pick up six nd nd colored ors of ink In passing and col eel fast that no human buman come out so them j could count nd it a tha t nc of occurred cur red to you u then J. J t. t f f for r yo your r start in without eil v on than the common est st of oV co ommo could give him when he hew w was so only ly sixteen and learn all r bout these Innumerable whirling rQn rollers rs and cogwheels and other wheels and Interrelated moving things and finally be a at the head of the m multitude of men that stand around and touch levers now and then and put in new rolls of paper to take the place of the exhausted on owes ones s and in short know lenow everything about it all and still while he be was a young a-young man Well your boy can do this very thing and furthermore h he can rise to a of the biggest printing establishment In the theland land land and nd and all based on his humble beginning beginning be be- ginning when he was sixteen And when he he her r reaches U tIe the e to top which top which Is Ls within the ambitious ambi ambi- c or of your ious lious energetic son son son-he he will occupy a place quite as as high In development with a sal ry that will enable him to own an automobile if it he wishes to sooner sooner than If he took tool toola a job in the tho first pla place e that let him wear a white whito shirt and cr creased ased trousers Let me me say eay emphatically that the best bost positions po po- po- po sWon's In the land are generally won by men men who started In In wearing over over- alls aIls All l he e needs Is the desire for fora a job is always awaiting an ambitious I boy who is willing to work ork The best opportunities are arc probably found round in the large laige printing houses that get out lithographic and aud job work b books and aDd and aId perhaps print magazines for or the work worle is more diversified di dl- versified and of pf larger character and there are openings to be filled by men inca who have made good Your boy applies to the foreman and If It there is an opening he lie will start in as an apprentice at about 4 a week There will be four tour or five years of work ahead of him beto before e he will reach what h he will consider a real areal real I position but the drudgery will pass in Ia about a year ear At first he will keep things in order around the pi press ess help wash the ink off ort the rollers when one Job joh is finished and prepare them for forthe forthe or orthe the next but all this time he will be learning the details of presswork and the tho mysterious machinery will become become be be- come familiar to him Pretty soon say a year e r or two after aft art er r he began if h he is bright and ambitiouS ambitiouS' ambitious ambitious ambitious' ambi ambi- he will be set to feeding a Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don press pres one of the small Job press pres presses es that print cards letterheads envelopes envelopes en en- etc i and while doing this his pay will vIll be bA gradually Increased to 9 a week His next advancement will be feeding a pony small cylinder cylinder cylinder der press press when he will be paid as high as 12 then a larger cylinder I press receiving 14 weekly and finally he will be competent to feed the tho largest sheets of paper properly Into one of ot the tho biggest cylinders at atI I 16 I 6 a week At this time which Is after about bout four Cour years of apprenticeship he will willbe willbe willbe be admitted to the labor union as a full fledged feeder The days day's work will In last t for eight hours After continuing con con- feeding for months h lid he lidwill will attract the attention of the lie foreman foreman fore fore- man by his application and industry I and will be put on as apprentice pressman at 18 8 a week to equip himself him self Belf to operate all nil kinds of presses until until un un- til after a years year's training he will get geta a B. union card announcing that he lie is a qualified pressman and entitled to the full ull scale scab of at wages of ot 21 24 a week Then he ho will vill be given direct c charge arg or DI a 1 couple of cylinder pres pres s with with the feeders under him f S All this time ho he will be bo reading and studying eV everything he lie can j find that that'S that I S 'S f n pressman's and cont con con- dUller t I S suiting with more experienced m mm men n in short making himself capable to fill lilt any position In the department So 11 ii will be a matter of course course that In 0 o I year or so more a vacancy occurring he will be made assistant foreman at 30 30 weekly Of or course this Is In direct direct di dl line to the foremanship the tIle direct head of the entire press of the establishment who has some som sometimes times men and nd boys under him a Il position that conditions being favorable fa ma he will reach by the time heis ho he hoIs hois Is thirty or soon afterward afterwards As foreman foreman fore tore man he be might have charge of as as many manyas as 15 cylinder presses and 20 job presses ses and in the beginning will be bo paid 40 10 a week This pay will ill bo be ultimately t ly Increased up to as much as s 60 GO which Is about the pay of the best besl foreman Your son will have learned long since that further advancement must include other ther departments an and i will be picking up a general knowledge of tho the composing room all phases of printing print lug ing binding etc so as to make himself himself him him- self capable to to take the next higher higher position that of assistant superintend superintendent ent on the entire mechanical al de de- de His salary this time Ume will willbe willbe willbe be somewhere around rY Of course this leads O e position of superintendent tl th o controlling boss of m V x 1 i. i t L on Su S are paid anywhere fr from a year up according to the mag of the business of ot the company they work for and In all likelihood your son will soon be made a member of or the firm or will be called by a large large establishment to take the general management Some superintendents superintendent are paid as much as a a year The line of progress In a newspaper office is somewhat different Your boy starts in at sixteen as apprentice which he must f follow for four or five years The p pay y at first will be 4 to 6 weekly and he Will wUl lIl work up from the drudgery part which Is Js the same sarno as In the other case case then In a year or so so become brakeman the the mail man that starts and stops presses on order of ot the regular pressman pressman About this thili time h he will join the union and then will work up through various steps In general similar to those followed in regular printing houses until he becomes becomes be be- comes assistant and fi finally regular pressman at 30 a week Large newspaper newspaper news news- paper presses are generally attended by two pressmen and four or five as as- The next promotion is is' to be bo assistant foreman of the press room who is paid 55 a we week lc and finally to foreman at a from 65 to o according to the magnitude de of the business It n Is likely that after becoming foreman foreman foreman fore fore- man your son son will be offered an an ad nil advanced position in a a general printing establishment in w which case his progress progress progress ress ress will be much as narrated before This Is one the most definite lines of work work connected connected with the the publishing business and arid offers fine opportunities for getting on as has been seen In these days a man who who can take charge of ot the machinery machin machIn- ery cry used in printing a large dictionary ry or 01 of ot fine lithographic work worl worlIn in which the excellence of the output depends so directly upon the presswork has bas accomplished shed much The figures used In this article are based on those paid in New York Cop Cop Copyright right 1910 1010 by the Associated Literary Literary Lit Lit- Press 1 |