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...those things on the Herald, hearing it was to be changed into a retreat for escaped convicts, or those whose offence deserved a more severe sentence than six months in Parker's, interviewed Warmsoup, the janitor at large, who said he had seen it stated in the Tin Pop Gun that Boylston was to be removed to St. Petersburg, and to be fitted up and used as the Czar's palace, as it was considered the only bomb-proof building in the world...
...Janitor will be discharged at any time if he or his work prove unsatisfactory, and will receive payment of such part of his salary only as may be due at the date of his discharge...
...janitor will spend his whole time from 7.15 A.M. until 6.30 P.M., except an hour for dinner, in or about the building. - He will keep the building free from beggars, pedlers, traders, and all other objectionable persons, and will admit no one to a tenant's room without an order from the tenant. He will take from the tenants orders for repairs and give them promptly to the Superintendent, and notify the Superintendent of any thing about the building which needs his attention. He will keep the steps free from snow and ice. He will light...
...sorry that they are not enforced. The rents are so exorbitantly high that the greatest care should be taken of the rooms, and of every thing in them. It is, of course, impossible that the Bursar should himself superintend these matters; but the fact that some of the janitors do not perform these duties at all, and others only in a most unsatisfactory manner, shows them to be very inefficient men for their places. A part of this inefficiency is doubtless due to the fact that each janitor wishes to make as much money as possible, and therefore hires...
...janitor of Matthews is said to receive a salary of $1,200; his entire income as "scout" from forty rooms is at least $1,200; he employs four "goodies," paying them all four $360, and an assistant at $135, and a "scout," to black boots, &c., at $75; for the cost of utensils, allow $40. The coal for heating the building is furnished by the College. His running expenses, then, are $600, leaving, from his total receipts, $2,400, an income of $1,800. The janitor of Weld receives from the College $1,000, and, as nearly...