One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

by Harold Morse Dunphy

Salaries

The salary range for men commercial teachers may be stated as from $1,200 to $8,000, depending upon experience, general and special education, and personal qualifications.

PLAN No. 1100. PLANS AND SUCCESSES OF DISABLED MEN AND WOMEN

Chart summarizing data relating to 133 cases of disabled persons who have taken commercial courses—Tabulation of replies to questionnaires sent out to schools.[34]

[34] All salaries are on a pre-war basis.

School, case number, and disability.		Cause of disability.	Previous education.	Course taken.	Special arrangements.	Time required.	Present status.	Remarks.
PIERCE BUSINESS SCHOOL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
1.	Deaf and dumb.	Natural.	Mount Airy.	Business administration.	Individual help, written instructions.	Not longer than usually required.	Shares equally in profits of firm.	Rendering excellent service. Results in the case of this young man were satisfactory beyond expectation.
2.	Loss of left arm.	Accident while employed.	Eighth grade.	Specia. in banking, arithmetic, penmanship, English.	Arrangement for holding papers, etc., individual help.	Succeeded as well as students of like ability.	$15 per week.	Her progress met all expectations.
3.	Infantile paralysis.	Disease.	Private tuition.	Business administration.	Careful seating; personal interest, and help.	Doing as well as others of similar education.	Is still a student at this school.	This young man’s affliction is such that his parents must bring him to and take him from school every day.
4.	Paralysis.	Paralyzed.	Common school.	do.	Special arrangementfor seating, individual help.	Somewhat longer than average.	Doing satisfactory work.
5.	War wounds.	7 wounds, gas and shell shock.	Grammar school.	do.	Correct seating; special and individual help.	Did not finish, but was making average progress.	Is a minister now; average minister’s compensation.	Decided as his physical condition improved to prepare for the ministry.
STONE BUSINESS COLLEGE, NEW HAVEN, CONN.
6.	Loss of leg.	Accident (factory worker).	Grammar school.	Banking and business.	None.	No report.	Salary $2,500 a year, general manager New Haven Bridge Crucible Steel Co.
7.	Short leg.	No report.	do.	Shorthand and typewriting.	do.	2 or 3 months longer than average.	Doing satisfactory work; salary, $90 per month.
8.	Paralysis.	Born with disability (no occupation).	do.	Business and stenography.	do.	Not longer than usually required.	Satisfactory progress; $2,500 or $3,000 a year.
BOWLING GREEN BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, BOWLING GREEN, KY.
9.	Paralysis of legs.	Illness in infancy (no occupation).	Grammar school.	Telegraphy and railroad accounting.	None.	Not longer than usually required.	Employed Postal Telegraph Co., $1,700 a year.
10.	Paralysis of legs.	No report.	do.	Shorthand and typewriting.	do.	do.	Making satisfactory progress; salary, $1,500 a year.
11.	Loss of leg.	Accident (student).	Graded school.	Banking, typewriting, stenography, penmanship.	None.	No longer than usually required.	Salary, $1,800 a year.
12.	Deformed legs and feet.	Deformed from birth.	Eighth grade.	Banking, stenography, typewriting.	do.	do.	Progress satisfactory; salary, $2,100 a year.
13.	Loss of arm.	Unknown (farmer boy).	High school.	Banking and penmanship.	Metal ruler and paper weight combined.	do.	Progress satisfactory; salary, $1,080 a year.
PIERCE SCHOOL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
14.	Hand and arm crippled.	Accident.	Grammar school.	Shorthand and typewriting.	Special seating; extra individual attention and help.	Longer than usual to change from right to left hand.	Progress satisfactory; $32 per week.	Is happy and contented, according to his own statement. The course selected has given him a better opportunity thanany other line he could have followed.
15.	Loss of leg.	Railroad accident.	do.	Business administration, stenography, typewriting.	Special seating.	Average time.	Progress satisfactory.	The very marked success of this man is due to the type of his business training.
16.	Three fingers right hand.	Accident.	do.	Business administration.	None.	do.	do.	He was right handed and by training in pen holding and in penmanship it was not necessary to change to left hand. Worksfor father.
17.	Left side paralysis.	From birth.	Parochial school, about 8th grade.	do.	Special seating; individual instruction.	Somewhat longer.	Progress satisfactory; present salary $12 a week.	Paralysis affected his right hand so that it was necessary to change to left hand. Acquired fair degree of speed inwriting.
18.	Dislocated hip.	Accident.	No report.	do.	Special seating; individual attention.	Less than average.	Progress satisfactory.
NORTHWESTERN BUSINESS COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILL.
19.	Loss of both feet.	Accident.	Grammar school.	Combined business and stenography.	None.	Longer than average.	Progress satisfactory; present salary $25 a week.
20.	Amputation of left hand.	do.	do.	Business course.	do.	Shorter by 2 months than average.	Favorable reports.	“It is our opinion that the business public will be more considerate of the application of the crippled soldier,and he needs only a chance to dispel any doubt of his ability to adapt himself to requirements.”
21.	Deaf.	Illness.	Eighth grade.	Typewriting.	do.	Longer by about 2 months than usual.	Satisfactory; $14 per week.
22.	Partial paralysis.	Illness (farmer).	3 years high school.	Business.	do.	Shorter by 11⁄2 months than usual.	Satisfactory; $15 per week.
23.	Little use of lower limbs.	Infantile paralysis.	Some high school.	6 months business.	do.	Finished on time.	Most satisfactory; cashier in bank.
RIDER-MOORE AND STEWART SCHOOL, TRENTON, N. J.
24.	Hand maimed.	While playing ball.	Grammar school.	Commercial.	None.	Regular.	No report.
25.	Both legs maimed.	Unknown.	do.	Shorthand.	Arranged classes so he would not have to change much.	do.	Doing well.
26.	Loss of leg.	do.	Partial high school.	Shorthand and typewriting.	Reduced climbing of stairs.	do.	do.
27.	Loss of hand.	Thrashing machine.	Grammar school.	Commercial.	None.	do.	No report.
28.	Loss of hand and part of arm.	Unknown.	do.	do.	do.	do.	Satisfactory.
DUFF’S COLLEGE, PITTSBURGH, PA.
29.	Right leg off near hip.	Railroad accident (clerk).	Grammar school.	Banking, stenography, and typewriting.	Increased space at desks.	Average time.	Satisfactory; $75 per month.
30.	Right arm off at shoulder.	Accident, millwork (millworker).	do.	Banking and stenography.	Heavy paper weight and heavy ruler.	One-half longer than usual.	Most satisfactory; $100 a month.
31.	Loss of left hand at wrist.	Street-car accident (pupil).	Eighth grade.	Bookkeeping.	None.	No longer than usual.	Satisfactory; $50 per month.
32.	Right hand stiff, fingers straight.	Gunshot wound.	High school.	Bookkeeping.	do.	Less than the average time.	Satisfactory, $100 a month.
THE CEDAR RAPIDS BUSINESS COLLEGE, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.
33.	No use of lower limbs.	Unknown.	Grammar school.	Commercial and stenography.	None.	No longer than others of same education.	Satisfactory; $30 per week.
34.	Both legs off.	Unknown (farmer).	No report.	Unknown.	do.	Regular.	Satisfactory; $21 per week.
35.	One leg off.	Mowing machine (farmer).	Only fair.	Banking and stenography.	do.	do.	Satisfactory; $90 a month.
36.	Both legs off below knees.	No report.	No report.	Business and stenography.	do.	do.	Probably satisfactory; $1,200 per year.
BURDETT COLLEGE, BOSTON,MASS.
37.	Hip trouble.	Childhood disease.	Average.	Business and bookkeeping.	do.	do.	Probably satisfactory; $10 per week at start.	This student was lame to the extent that he had to rely upon a cane, yet this did not interfere with his progressin business life.
38.	Short limb, paralyzed hip.	Unknown.	About 1 year in high school.	Banking, stenography, and typewriting.	do.	do.	Probably satisfactory; salary unknown.	Case 38 found it difficult to walk on account of short limb and stiff hip, yet ordinary facilities were adequate forhis comfort.
39.	One hand off.	Unknown.	Some high school training.	Business and bookkeeping.	None.	Regular.	In business with his father.
40.	Twisted neck.	Injured in childhood.	High school graduate.	Secretarial.	do.	Longer by about 2 months than usual.	Probably satisfactory; started in with $8 a week.
41.	Loss of left arm.	Mill machinery accident.	Average.	Business and bookkeeping.	do.	Regular.	Salary unknown.
42.	Two fingers missing.	No report.	No report.	Shorthand.	No report.	Progress a little slower than average.	Probably satisfactory; salary $12 per week.
43.	Hand burned.	Accident.	do.	Stenographer and typewriting.	do.	Slightly longer.	Satisfactorily employed; $15 per week.
44.	Hip trouble.	Childhood illness.	do.	Business course and bookkeeping.	None.	The same as other students.	Satisfactorily employed; $8 a week to start.
45.	Right arm off.	Machine accident.	do.	Business course.	do.	Did not complete course.	No report.
46.	Lame.	No report.	do.	No report.	do.	Regular.	Satisfactory; $25 per week.	Was very lame and had to use cane constantly. Completed course.
47.	Very lame.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.	No report.	Uses crutch. Handicap does not interfere with his progress.
48.	Very deaf.	do.	do.	Business administration.	do.	Less than average.	do.	Completed course but underwent an operation and died before taking place.
49.	Short leg.	Unknown.	do.	No report.	do.	Regular.	Doing excellent work; $12 to start.	Walked with cane.
50.	Lame.	do.	do.	do.	do.	Has not completed course.	No report.	Excellent student and mentally qualified to take any business course.
UTICA SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, UTICA, N. Y.
51.	Loss of left hand.	Accident (was a mill hand in cotton mill before accident).	Eighth grade.	Bookkeeping.	do.	“Not much longer.”	Doing very well; present salary $18 per week.
WATERBURY BUSINESS COLLEGE, WATERBURY,CONN.
52.	Loss of right leg.	Railroad injury.	Grammar school.	Banking and stenographic.	do.	Regular.	Holds responsible position; $30 a week.
53.	Right arm off (student).	No report.	2 years’ high school.	Bookkeeping.	do.	do.	Salary $40 a week.
54.	Deaf and dumb.	Unknown (student).	Equivalent to grammar school.	do.	Special instruction.	About 3 months longer than average.	No report.	“I believe typewriting would be better as they could make fine copyists; easier to place.”
FERRIS INSTITUTE, BIG RAPIDS, MICH.
55.	Leg off.	Accident (was a farmer prior to accident).	High school.	Banking.	None.	Regular.	“Doing well,” $1,200 a year.
MEEKER’S BUSINESS INSTITUTE, ELMIRA, N. Y.
56.	Left arm off.	Mine accident (was a mule driver in coal mine).	Eighth grade.	Banking and stenographic.	Individual instruction.	2 months longer.	Most successful.	This man is now a millionaire.
57.	Hunchback.	Fall.	High school.	Banking, stenography and typewriting.	An adjustable screw chair.	Regular.	Salary $100 a month.	Now in Government in Washington; doing excellent work.
58.	“Club feet”.	From birth.	High school graduate.	Shorthand and typewriting.	None.	do.	Satisfactory; salary $150 a month.
59.	Left arm off; legs paralyzed.	From birth and accident.	1 year high school.	Banking, stenography and typewriting.	Special attachment on typewriter.	Regular.	Most successful; salary $175 a month.
60.	Left hand off.	Unknown.	High school.	Bookkeeping.	None.	2 months longer.	Not much of a success; salary $60 a month.	Did not apply herself to her work while at school.
SPENCERIAN COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, LOUISVILLE, KY.
61.	Leg off.	Accident (was newsboy).	Eighth grade.	Business and shorthand.	do.	Regular.	In Government, Washington (present salary about $150 per month).
62.	Right arm.	“Do not remember;” was a railroad man.	Country school.	Bookkeeping.	Heavy paper weight.	do.	“Very successful” salary $120 a month.
63.	Right arm.	Machine accident (factory girl prior to accident).	Eighth grade.	Business and shorthand.	Heavy paper weight; shift for typewriter.	do.	“Quite successful” salary $70 a month at time of marriage.
MORSE BUSINESS COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONN.
64.	Leg off.	Accident.	Grammar school.	Shorthand and typewriting.	None.	Regular.	Satisfactory; salary about $75 per month.
65.	Left arm off.	Accident (was a tool maker prior to accident).	do.	Bookkeeping.	Weighted ruler and paper weights.	do.	Satisfactory; salary $30 a week.	The Morse College has educated a number of one-armed people.
66.	Deformed.	Accident.	do.	Shorthand.	No report.	do.	Satisfactory; salary $35 a week.
67.	Deaf.	Illness (was engraver and newsdealer prior to illness).	do.	Bookkeeping.	do.	do.	Satisfactory; salary was $2,000 (now deceased).
68.	Helpless from waist down.	Illness (was farmer prior to illness).	do.	Banking and typewriting.	Revolving desk for holding books, special typewriting table.	Completed work in much less than average time.	He was exceptionally successful; salary $2,500 a year; cashier in country bank.	Since the instruction in the Morse Business College is so largely individual, special arrangements for these casesare reduced to a minimum.
WORCESTER BUSINESS INSTITUTE, WORCESTER, MASS.
69.	Right arm off.	Caught in machine (student).	High school.	Shorthand and bookkeeping.	None.	Average.	Very satisfactory; $1,200 to $1,500 per year.	“He was so enthusiastic he did better than some students with both hands.”
70.	Loss of one leg.	Accident (worker in a grocery store).	Ninth grade.	Bookkeeping.	None.	Average.	Salary $1,000 per year.	Had difficulty at first in placing him, but after securing artificial limb it was much easier.
GOLDEY COLLEGE, WILMINGTON, DEL.
71.	Right arm amputated.	Gunshot wound.	High school.	Shorthand and typewriting.	A paper weight.	Average.	Unknown.	His handicap seemed to spur him on to unusual efforts.
THE DRAUGHON BUSINESS COLLEGE, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
72.	Index finger off left hand.	Accident (worked in bottling works).	College.	Banking, shorthand and typewriting.	None.	Average.	He is an excellent bank man; $2,000 per year.
73.	Right arm off.	Blood poisoning (school boy).	High school.	Banking and stenography.	do.	do.	Very satisfactory; $1,500 a year.	Now in employ of the Quaker Oats Co.
74.	Left arm off.	Accident (farm hand).	Common school.	Bookkeeping.	do.	do.	$1,200 per year.	A man with left arm off gets along all right as bookkeeper, etc.
75.	Left arm off.	Gun accident (farm hand).	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.	It is one of the best lines for a man who has lost left arm to follow.
76.	Middle finger, right hand off.	Shotgun accident (farmhand).	High school. 2 years in college.	Banking, shorthand and typewriting.	do.	Completed 4 months ahead of schedule.	Has been very successful; $960 per year.	This man is a valuable asset to the bank where employed, and has certainly “made good.”
BANK’S BUSINESS COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
77.	Loss of right hand.	Caught in circular saw (mechanic).	Grammar school.	Commercial.	None.	About a month longer than average.	Doing well, $80 per month.	Case 77 is 18 years of age, has pleasing personality and good health; these are very much in his favor.
78.	Loss of right arm below elbow.	Born without arm.	3 years high school, 3 summers normal school.	Combined.	None; teachers told to be attentive.	About a month or two longer than average.	Is teaching commercial subjects, $90 per month.	Consider this case a most remarkable one. She did everything so well. Teaching high school, State College,Pennsylvania.
79.	Loss of left arm.	Caught in machinery (mechanic).	Grammar school.	Commercial.	None.	do.	Now very successful, $100 per month.	Took much pains in writing, therefore developed into a very fine penman.
80.	Withered arm (left).	Birth (student).	do.	do.	do.	Several months longer than average.	Successful; $70 per month.
81.	Loss of both legs.	Railroad accident (railroader).	do.	Shorthand, typewriting, English and spelling.	do.	Average.	Successful; $45 to $50 per week.	This case has artificial legs and has very little difficulty in moving about.
GREGG SCHOOL, CHICAGO, ILL.
82.	Right hand off.	Accident (student).	High school.	Shorthand and typewriting.	Rearranged fingering on keyboard chart.	Longer than average.	About $200 per month.	Although colored, this person had no difficulty securing position.
83.	Sprained wrist.	Fall on ice (student).	do.	do.	None.	No report.	Reporting meetings of War Industries Board.
GEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, QUINCY, ILL.
84.	Third and fourth fingers off right hand.	Accident.	High school.	Shorthand and typewriting.	Readjustment of fingering on typewriter keyboard.	Longer by possibly two months than average.	Unknown.
85.	Left arm off.	Circular saw.	Common school.	Business course.	Heavy paper weights.	Twice as long as average.	Is employed.
86.	Left arm off.	Unknown.	High school graduate.	Business and penmanship.	None.	Average.	do.
87.	Badly crippled in hips.	do.	Eighth grade.	Business.	do.	About average time.	Is employed in Rock Island Arsenal.
88.	Right arm off.	Thrashing machine.	Eighth grade, country school.	Business and penmanship.	Heavy paper weights.	Not much longer than average.	Automobile salesman.
89.	Paralyzed from waist down.	Unknown.	Unknown.	Business and shorthand.	A chair a little higher than used by other students.	About a fourth longer, but his grades were above average.	He is assistant cashier of a bank.
GRIFFIN’S SPRINGFIELD BUSINESS SCHOOL, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
90.	One-armed.	No report.	High school.	Business.	None.	Average.	Is a lawyer.
91.	One-armed.	Probably in a mill.	Grammar school (?).	Banking and stenography.	do.	do.	Prosperous; leading man in his company.	Is now treasurer of the Chester Granite Co., Chester, Mass.
PALMER METHOD SCHOOL OF PENMANSHIP, NEW YORK CITY.
92.	Crippled.	No report.	No report.	Banking and stenography.	No report.	No report.	Successful; $5 per day.
BRYANT & STRATTON COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, PROVIDENCE, R. I.
93.	Loss of both legs.	Accident in childhood (farmer).	1 or 2 years High school.	Business.	None.	Average.	$1,300 per year.	“He is active in business every day and is still employed by the same firm. Has entire confidence of hisemployers and now has charge of the office.”
94.	Blind.	From birth.	Graduate Perkins Institute for Blind.	Typewriting and stenography.	Individual instruction.	Little more than regular.	Satisfactory; $12 per week.	It seems to me that typewriting would be the only course blind persons could undertake satisfactorily.
95.	Both legs off.	Unknown.	High school.	Shorthand.	None.	Average.	No report.	Is working at present and seems to be improving all the time.
96.	Withered arm and hand.	From birth.	2 years in convent.	Bookkeeping.	do.	Still studying.	Still studying in school.
97.	Deaf and dumb.	Illness.	Equivalent to High school.	Bookkeeping.	None.	Average.	“Doing nicely.”	Some difficulty in placing him on account of inability to answer phone.
98.	Fingers off on right hand.	Injury.	Educated in Ireland.	Commercial.	do.	do.	“Doing nicely as bookkeeper.”
99.	St. Vitus dance.	Nervous trouble.	Graduate Mount Holyoke, 1906.	Shorthand.	do.	Possibly 10 weeks longer than average.	“Doing nicely.”
100.	Totally deaf.	No report.	Private tutor and school to learn lip reading.	Bookkeeping.	None except that teachers enunciated clearly.	Average.	In the same position he took on leaving school.	“I think any man as mentally alert as this one would succeed. I would not recommend such a course for theordinary deaf person.”
101.	Artificial leg.	No report.	High school.	Commercial.	None.	Average; he had an excellent record.	Head bookkeeper, very successful.
102.	Withered arm.	do.	do.	Stenographic.	do.	Average.	“Is doing well as stenographer and bookkeeper.”
103.	Hunchback.	do.	No report.	Commercial.	No report.	No report.	No report.
104.	Stutters.	do.	do.	Secretarial.	do.	do.	do.
105.	Spells of queerness.	do.	do.	Special.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
106.	Legs affected.	Spinal meningitis.	do.	Teachers.	do.	do.	No report.
107.	Weak mentally, bad eyes.	No report.	do.	Special.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
108.	Wrists badly deformed.	Result of vaccination.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	No report.
109.	Wooden leg.	No report.	do.	Secretarial.	do.	do.	do.
110.	Artificial foot, very lame.	do.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	Has not graduated.
111.	One short leg.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.
112.	Badly burned face.	do.	do.	Secretarial.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
113.	Lame, diseased knee.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.
114.	Speech.	do.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	No report.
115.	Paralysis.	Infantile paralysis.	do.	Teachers.	do.	do.	do.
116.	One short leg.	No report.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	do.
117.	Short leg.	Hip disease.	do.	Secretarial.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
118.	Hunchback.	No report.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	No report.
119.	Short leg.	do.	do.	Bookkeeping.	do.	do.	do.
120.	Left handed.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
121.	Bad hip, used crutch.	do.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	No report.
122.	Spinal trouble.	do.	do.	Bookkeeping.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
123.	Hunchback, badly deformed.	do.	do.	Commercial.	do.	do.	No report.
124.	Paralysis.	Infantile paralysis.	do.	do.	do.	do.	Did not graduate.
125.	Paralysis.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.	do.
PIERCE SCHOOL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
126.	Right hand off.	Circular cutter on milling machine.	Eighth grade.	Special penmanship, English, and arithmetic.	Had an artificial arm; special desk, individual attention.	A month or more longer than average.	Has succeeded very well in her position.	“The good results obtained by training, and the excellent opportunity afforded, would assure us that anyone oflike affliction could be readily trained.”
ROCHESTER BUSINESS INSTITUTE, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
127.	Paralysis.	Spinal meningitis and infantile paralysis.	High school graduate.	Shorthand and typewriting.	Individual attention.	Can not be absolutely regular in attendance; he will require twice the regular time.	No report.
128.	Paralysis of right leg and arm.	Injury in football game.	31⁄2 years in Rochester School.	Regular commercial.	None to speak of.	Average.	Earning about $25 per week.	Is constantly gaining in experience and acquaintance and expects to better himself. He is full of courage and hope forthe future.
129.	Anchylosis of hip joints.	Rheumatism.	High school graduate.	Commercial and stenographic.	None.	do.	Earning $18 a week; is worth more.
130.	Paralysis, withered arm, impeded speech.	Cerebral spinalmeningitis.	Was graduated from Grammar school.	Commercial.	None, except individual attention.	About the average time.	With Western Electric Co., Chicago; most successful.
THE MARTIN SHORTHAND SCHOOL.
131.	Both hands amputated 4 to 6 inches below elbow.	Was pushed into a bonfire when a child of 7 years.	Seventh grade.	Stenographic.	An aluminum cup was fitted to the stumps.	About 6 months longer than average, largely due to lack of early schooling and health.	Her vocational training a complete success.	Student’s home environment was so bad that it was difficult to counteract it. She received a good deal of newspapernotoriety and it went to her head. Her family seemed to try to exploit her misfortune.
132.	Both limbs amputated.	Run over by street car.	Eighth grade and 2 years at East Liberty Academy.	do.	None.	Average.	Very successful.
133.	Right leg amputated.	Crushed by mine car (helper in coal mine).	Eighth grade.	Bookkeeping, then stenographic.	do.	A little longer than average, lacking general education.	“I expect him to be very successful; earning $100 per month.”