Show CAS CASH H FO BO SKiS BOY boyskin S pearl resa sl 0 LS THE CHANCES W HAVE IN THE BAT battat heat 1 A 1 thousands of these thee I 1 an in the dry goods good blouses ilard artiles to 1 be ie observed A vocation ras escaped capel the notice of Ke formers f rat EL tat tat I 1 I 1 I 1 the origin of this sound wis w the blunt blumit end ot of a lend lead pencil in the handi hand ot of a 0 young lady in an up town dry goods aspre afre she was a saleswoman or begging thi young persons per sores pardon a saleslady it if sho she vi till H consent to use the word sales gentleman nhen a peking of her malo male vis I 1 a vis who dinces attendance on customers on the side of the room tho taps on the the modern modem for the esc cash formerly or merly uttered to call tho the intention it tte nUon of ako tko the tales mans devil they were hardly given in in this case before several urchins materialized i from among the wildern eSil of skirts that filled the tho passageway aud and di touting outing certain talismanic numbers they stood before the conjuring witch what followed it wilt will bo be necessary to tell to no feminine who has seen been her money disappear over a dry goods counter there must bo be several thousands of these interesting children male and for female riele known under tho the generic name of Cash in the city ot of now york at this time reflecting on the number ot of dry goods houses house on broadway twenty third street sixta airence air avenue enbe fourteenth street and grand street and the number employed by all the leading firmi it is even possible to estimate tho the total at or they represent a great industry of which tho the object it is chiefly consume consumption they stand also on tho the lowest round ot of the mercantile tilo ladder and some are destined to mount until they become clerks superintendents and proprietors others again win will be fated to fall fail by the way or belonging to the gentler sex they will float off and perform matter of fact roles la in domestic dramas they are now leading lives of considerable sid erable hardship they look bright and cheerful in the morning ilea heaby V at noonday and sometimes jaded in the tha evening to persons familiar with the habits ot of children and who reflect on their ability to play fifteen hours on tho the stretch without any apparent sense benshoot of fatigue this dec declaration la ration may sound round like a waste of sympathy but somehow there is a world of difference between work and even the kind of recreation which taxes baies the muscles more severely than work cash girls and boys are usually tho the children of parents who are not able to livo live without turning all their resources into the market these children do not seek the situ aaion of their own free will willand and they often hold it very much against their will ask them how they like their employment and they will not always give a cheerful answer they speak of d 2 ra h ich they aro obliged to ob sorio and 4 ea which merchants think thin k it nac 4 as 7 ff impose to maintain discipline tao largest stores the pay of a cash girl gir L is aty 0 ily 1 7 Y looper lS Oper r week vir k a sum that may bo be I 1 n C t to 0 ra 5 0 per week by closer atten I 1 0 n an d 9 greatti reatar activity t r but oven even this small 1 amount aunt is liable to a considerable reduction 0 abr through rib tha infliction of penalties berha perhaps the cash girls exaggerate perhaps in the orenco of souls 0 inherent inherently Y truthful they betimes me tell ribs they are occasionally sent set n pome 0 ome in they say at theand the end of a week with th u more than fifty cents in their pockets th dears think too that they are often I 1 sed upon and even mado made the tha scapegoats goi t for or their elders who have ha vo reached tho the ago a agodt Z f I 1 feminine fe perfection fec tion and can do no wrong it is is convenient to have a cash girl at hand to charge with tho loss of articles which have hava disappeared from the coun counter terl 1 without having been sold f lf but these are only the girls the cash boy s a in moro oro demonstrative and awas aggressive sive creature than the cash airl and it isto is to bo be presumed that he be fares letter better tho the place to se see him at his best is at a S store where ho be ij paid according to tho the service rendered hero ho he is liko like a high officer cincer a deputy sheriff sheri fr for who draws his salary in fees and whose profits depend on Us his activity the tash cash boys in one storo store of hiis tiis sort eort number up to a maximum compa company Sot infantry strong and a champion club ot of football players could not be more active wo are told that at this store cash boys earn as much is as 7 a week and that none earns less than ta V a tact fact which speaks well for the liberality ot df tho the firm they make a boast too at this store ditora of tho the number of faithful boys who have been promoted to the various departments of the hautio some of tho the employed emp loyes iho he be began bean an in this humble sphere have been is as any lany L as thirteen years in service tho the qualifications demanded for the service are not necessarily of a very high order As for personal recommendations it is to be presumed that only sufficiently good looking boys and girls need apply looking at soze some of the tha dry goods warehouses fronting on several everal et streets reetz exits everywhere and packed with customers crie would suppose that it might bo be necessary to give bonds before being permitted to enter the service it looks entirely feasible tor for any discontented cash to indeman indemnity afy himself for unjust fines by slipping away with manoy enough in his bw hands to buy an outfit I 1 for or an indian hunting campaign at t tho ho west but mince since no attempt dt df the kind was over ever reported wo we have to DOl conclude lude that cash boys and girls all come i from tho the stock which is proverbially bially honest because it is poor this is ono one of the tow few vocations vi aich have not act yet attracted the attention of the social agitators neither has it come under the surveillance veil lance of the society for the prevention of cruelty to children yet it cannot be denied that it is capable of f furnishing topics for all sorts of reformers cash is exactly of theace the age when he be ou ought bt to bo be at sell school nine months in the year but in fit lieu lien of wel waiting ng in the paths dt 01 instruction ho he must run 0 ouy yin in the ways that lead front from the counter M tho the cashiers aask and thero there is ii not much of f knowledge to be gathered b by y the way hours before it the ile time when other rosy ahk checked d children are to be met in frolicsome groups wending their way to the school room he maybe may be discovered standing in line before the closed doors ot of the warehouse waiting for tho the opening and though he may look cheerful and contented enough in childish thoughtlessness wo we know that he Is preparing the way for future regret and humiliation true there is the night school but at tho the end of 0 a ion long day of intense activity at something which is not play but buit very hard work we are not to presume that he will take kindly to study or drink very deeply ot of the light draught chiefly composed ot df reading Iri enting ting and nth which will be offered for his mental nurture wo we all tho the old proverb about all work and no play and the consequences but cash liko like the messenger boy competes with no one and lie ho is therefore left unmolested lie ile fills a nicho which would bo be empty but for lit his a childish figure and so ho he is allowed to stand while his fellows of a corresponding age are expelled from the abo factories where they are thought to bo be in tho the way of persons of matu mature re years yeam now new york sun |