Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Volume 1901, Number 8, 8 November 1901 — WORKING IN PUBLIC. [ARTICLE]

WORKING IN PUBLIC.

Show Window Artisans Can Com.

maud Good Hemnncration.

A Broadway shoe manufacturer was asked what method of advertising he found most profitable. "Placing my men near the window," he said, "so they can work in view of the public. I don't know of anything that catches the attention of the passerby more quickly than the sight of a demonstrator sitting close to the window running a machine for dear life. "Manufacturers of all kinds of goods have adopted this plan. Waistmakers put their most skilled workers on exhibition to show how the finest garments are cut and sewed. Cigar manufacturers take the public Into their confidence and let them see the process of rolling as performed by the cleverest bands. Men who deal in mechanical contrivances have found that it pays to have at least one machine set up near a window so the crowd outside may observe the ln?rl£acy of its parts and the rapidity of its auloa. Jewelers have stationed their most expert lapidaries within view of the street that possible customers may see how precious stones are cut and polished and set ■]*"•; ■ "It isn't everybody who can work in public. It takes a person with* good strong nerves and concentration of thought to do difficult work in a show window. I have men in my employ who are excellent workers, but they get mistered when subjected to unusual surveillance and ruin everything they put their hands to. I have tried some of them as window operators, but they can't get used to it "A man who can run a machine at full tilt or paint a picture or fry pancakes or iron a shirt in the full gaze of the public eye and not lose his head is an artist and worth several dollars more a wrok to his employer, than the more mod. J-. i'.:.:'vidual. And he gets it too."— New York Sun.