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WORKING WOMEN OS’ NEW YORK. Some of the Many Ways in Which They Earn o Living. [Copyrighted 183?. | New York, Oct. 23. (“Does it grow grow harder or easier for a woman to earn her living ?’ I have put this question in various quar ters within a few days past and business men and women, employers of women and women employed, have given me curious and valuable information as regards the situa tion in New York. October sees an influx of young women into the city. The business, as one might call it without exaggeration, the business revolution —that, has made something more than 50 per cent, of the army of people at work in the dry goods stores women, that has made a quarter part of all the telegraph operators in the country women, that has made from a fifth to a sixth of the New York typesetters women, that has made more than half the typewriters women, that has made feminine faces familiar as clerks, bookkeep ers, secretaries and even errand girls in the larger counting rooms, in the general offices and in the lawyers’ chambers keeps up the migration the year round, but the move ment cityward is most decided in the fall. Women come from all parts of the country to earn their living, to seek their fortunes in New York. How much of a fortune they are likely to find is the point I have tried to investigate. , The Western Union Telegraph Company is one of the large employers of women in New York, and Mr. Brennan, the assistant manager of the main operating room, very kindly answered tile questions which 1 put to him. Mr. Brennan is a man of long ex perience in telegraphy, and probably no more catholic judge of the work or * the prospects of the women operators could be found. High up above the roofs and many of the towers of the city, so high that the hustle of Broadway is dwarfed into the evolutions of industrious pigmies, some 500 men and women sit side by side, each at an electrical machine connected with a wire that feeds the pulse of the world outside. Messenger girls are skipping this way and that up and down the long aisles, and the electric car riers overhead are laden with messages to be sent out, messages received and messages to be placed on file. ‘‘We have hereabout 150 women opera tors,” said Mr. Brennan in answer to an in quiry about the proportion of women to the number of men employed. “There are fifty other women, perhaps, engaged as clerks or accountants, making 200 in all attached to this room. In any of the smaller telegraph offices about the city you are more likely to find a woman in charge than a man. Throughout the country, in the railroad service the case is different, because the railroad telegraph offices are often owned jointly by the telegraph and railroad com panies and a man is employed as operator nnd ticket seller or freight agent at once But even taking the disqualification in this class of offices into account the proportion of women in the United States is nearly one to four. As this company has 14,000 offices and not far from 10,000 operators it follows that we have more than 3,000 women in our era ploy. ” “How about their efficiency and the pros pects for their future, and do you find women easy to deal with from a business point of view?’ “As to their industry and regularity of work there is little to choose between them and the men,” was the reply. “I should say that the women had the better will, the men the better ability to perform. A man mav be at the very door ready for his day’s work ■when he meets a friend and goes off without notice for a day’s spree. A woman will never do that, but if she is detained at home sick the results to us are the same. For their efficiency some women make excellent operators, hut women do not average as ■well as men. We cannot often put them on the heavier lines.” “Women as a role show less ability than men?’ “Probably, though that does not follow necessarily. Women have not been in the business as long, and many of them are younger than the men. Women have not shown any aptitude yet for the best paying parts of the business. There are first-class operators on telegraphic machines among women, but for testing for faults, trying circuits or delicate experimentation of any sort they have no liking.” “And their pay ?’ “From S4O to S6O a month. It takes a woman extraordinarily expert to earn SBO. It amounts to about two-thirds the wages received bv a man of substantially the same ability. The difference is made partly, no doubt, because we cannot call on them for night work.” “Do the telegraphic schools amount to anything?’ “A great many of them amount to noth ing. They guarantee positions, but they can’t fit a girl for one. The Cooper Union school is a good one. ” “Where do your operators come from, then?’ “We make them right here. Those little messenger girls—‘pickups’ we call them— practice every day at the dinner hour. They all aspire to be ojierators and before one knows it they get the business down fine.” The Western Union does not separate its women from its men in any way. They work side by side, each woman in the ope rating room having probably at one time or another been neighbor to every man. No evil consequences from the joint employ ment of the sexes are reported, hut, on the contrary, it proves an excellent practical education for the women. Wages have no apparent upward tendency, and while some of the best operators arc making a good living, the general opening for women is not as good, probably, as in some other fields. MORE WOMEN ARE EMPLOYED by the dry goods houses than in any single Occupation, excluding domestic service and factory labor, in the citv. Mr. Moore, the Superintendent of Ridleys’, the largest shopping house on the east side, when ap pealed to for information told me that of the 2,400 employes of the firm rather more than 00 per cent, are women, and the pro portion is increasing. A majority of the departments of the store are in charge of women, with other women as their assist ants. Women are employed as huyers in a few departments and some perform the du ties of floor walkers, though this ordinarily involves too much fatigue. Iu reply to my questions as to the satis faction given by the work of women and the possibility of employing them in respon sible iiositions, I was informed that the amount of business seuse nnd practical ability displayed by many saleswomen was something surprising. They were quite as bright as men and not infrequently did I let ter work. They could not handle dross goods which were too heavy for them, ami there were some departments in which women customers seemed to have insupera ble objections to being waited on by their own sex, hut in most fines m which femi nine taste was called into requisition they were decidedly letter hands to employ. Their health was generally good ami they were regular in their work. Sometimes they had little notion of business ways or business ideas on entering the establishment, hut it was interesting to see how the best of them developed mentally, growing and broadening every year that they remained in active employ. Standing behind the counter did not lies troy tneir feminine aspi rations, and when they married, ns many of them did, there had been scores of instances in which the wife’s previous training had served her in good stead. She would go into business as her husband’s active part ner, open a fancy store and flourish might ily. ft was not a rare thing for a shop girl to have a good head. There might lie limits to their usefulness and to the positions in which they could lie placed, but those limits had not been reached yet. One of the largest of New York shopping houses employs a woman ns responsible cashier. Taking it all in all the cnance of promotion and of good pay offered a capa ble woman inn dry goods store is far greater than the. customary tales of the hardships of shop girls would lead a person to suppose. The ordinary saleswoman's wages are low enough, but genuine business ability will tell as quickly as anywhere else. There are many women, so 1 find by actual inquiry in the larger houses who are paid S2O a week, some who are jiaid $25, some S3O, mid some who can buy for an important department or who arc employed as dressmaking or millinery designers who get considerably more. The shop girl, if she is a bright girl, has a chance. “women make better typewriters than men and quite as good stenographers,” said Miss Mary L. Seymour, Miss Seymour has six offices and employs great numbers of women. She was her elf outs of the first women in the country to enter the business, is a fine sample of a successful business woman and speaks with authority. “What is the prospect fora young woman in the profession?’ she was asked. “How many in the city pui sne it and are the wages increasing or the reverse?’ “Tiie pay for really competent women is, if anything, increasing. The best stenog raphers and typewriters are in great de mand and many more could easily find em ployment. Probably 1,000 women are regu larly employed in this city alone and many more throughout the country. I should say sls a week might be fair average pay, though many competent operators get less, chiefly from lack of business training and a proper appreciation of their real value, and others got more. Twenty dollars, $25 and S3O a week ore not out of the reach of really in telligent women. But there is a large num ber of young girls who have not perfected themselves in the art who are willing to work for almost nothing, and these girls cut down the price for poor work to absurd figures. But, as I said, good operators can command good pay. As an almost univer sal rule, too, they are courteously treated by their employers.” “Would it pay a finely educated woman, a college graduate, for instance, to learn typewriting and stenography instead of teaching?’ “I should think so, decidedly. General intelligence, common sense, good education and a pleasant bearing commend a woman for employment quite as much as manual skill. Only well-educated, intelligent women reach the more highly paid places. Let nte give you an instance. I had a very apt pupil whom I placed with a publishing house at $8 or $lO a week. Some months after I sent her to another place for sl2. Not long after that her wages were raised to sls rather than let her go, and she is now employed by one of the foremost law firms in the city and making, I should say, nearly $2,500 a year. That is an exceptional case, of course, but a woman who attends to business and is quick and intelligent can always do well. If she doesn’t it is because of lack of business training. “About the time. Some jieople think the typewriter is a simple thing to learn, but they are mistaken. It needs study and practice. In six months an intelligent girl can learn to take a place as amanuensis. A reporting stenographer—one who can take long addresses verbatim —is a very different matter. It takes years of practice to be come equal to that.” “In general, then, there is plenty of work for competent women?’ “Precisely.” THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION found employment last year for more than 1,200 women, and, fairly settled in its fine new substantial building on East Fifteenth street, is helping a far larger number to self support this year. At its employment bu reau I was told that the prospects for an intelligent woman to earn a comfortable livelihood were never so encouraging as now. “We have incapables to deal with often,” it was said, “and as competition in every line grows brisker every day the lot of incapables becomes more and more hard. The greatest obstacle in the path of women is their own lack of business habits and ways. But a practical business woman is appreciated and has a good field of work.” “You send out a great many stenogra- Chers and typewriters, do you not! Is that usiness overdone*” “Badly, for the kind of girl whose lack of general knowledge is a trial to the man she works for. It is an excellent business for the girl who knows something. Many business men prefer to employ women be cause business secrets are safer with them. They don’t care to take advantage of a pointer by a deal on the Stock Exchange.” “How about dressmakers and seam stresses?’ “There is more work for them than women to do it A woman who can do plain sewing nicely can earn $1 50 every working day in the year. If she can do fine sewing tor children she can make $2 or even $2 50. A family dressmaker who can cut and fit has her $2 50, $3 or $3 50 a day.” “What becomes of the starvation rates of the sewing women, then?’ “The women who do the slop work for the jobbers are not usually skilled laborers. Some of them can do good work and are kept on short commons because of their lack of practical education. They don’t know that they might as well have better wages, and don’t know how to put them selves into communication with people who are suffering tor lack of seamstresses and are ready to pay tor them. But most of the tenement house workers can do nothing but take a set of garments all prepared for them and run up a seam on each exactly alike from No. 1 to No. 50. You can do nothing for them but put them into shops where there may be sewing under direction of a sort that they can do. Skilled seam stresses command good pay.” “THERE ARE ABOUT 600 WOMEN who set type in New York.” This was the reckoning of a proofreader of long experience. “Is it, as things go, a good trade tor a woman, and how are the wages?’ The prosperity of the typographical union has been a go' id thing for women, so I was informed. Typesetters are men of sufficient intelligence to know that the principal dan ger to be feared from the competition of women comes from their lower rates of wages, and so it comes about that, whereas in non-union offices a difference of several cents per 1,000 cnis is frequently made be tween the pay of the sexes, in union offices they stand on the same footing and a de cided gain thus accrues to the feminine members of the force. Intelligent women make good typesetters, hut their reputation as workmen, in news paper cilices at least, does not, I find, equal the average of the men. The proportion of women employed is, however, small and an accurate judgment not easily reached. Women are not employed on morning pa pers, which are set at night, and not exten sively on afternoon papers. Newspaper men say they cannot hurry. Their work is mostly for the weeklies, for magazines and on hooks, departments much less well paid than newspaper work. It takes nimble fin gers to make sl3 a week on the Century , the same diligence being worth to a woman jierhaps $lB on an afternoon paper. The plums of the business are out of women’s reach, good men on n morning daily not in frequently making S3O a week. One of the objective points of the woman who aims to be self-supporting when she finds herself in New York is the Woman's Art School of Cooper Union of which Mrs. Susan N. Carter is in charge. Graduates of this school, so I was informed upon inquiry, have no difficulty in finding paying posi tions. Since May, 1886, seventeen places have been taken as teachers in schools and seminaries, including such institutions as Wellesley College, Mount Holyoke Semi nary, Norfolk College, Va.: Normal Col lege, Omaha; Superintendent of Schools, Lmg Branch, etc. One recent graduate is earning $2,500 a year, two others have con stant employment in decorative work from a leading New York firm' 1 and have taken SI,OOO orders. One hundred and twenty-six graduates report tboir earnings tor the past year as $22,683, which Mrs. Carter t hinks is probably not over hulf the actual amount. The great difficulty with the school is the lack of money to enlarge the scope of its work. The free school cannot accommo date more than 250 and turns uwav almost double that, number evory year. Would-be pupils apply years ahead. Four women made application in 1885 tor admission in 188;*. Peter Cooper’s idea was a grand one but more money is wanted to carry it out. I THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1887. I have made few inquiries as to factory labor, but what I have leiumctj gives me the impression that wherever men predominate in number the condition of women employes is improving. Wherever women predomi nate there is little change. This means simply that trades unions may reduce the hours of labor, benefitting women incident ally. Women's unions, when tney exist, arc not commonly strong enough to accom plish much, “THE APPEALS TO US FOR HELP are increasing; not falling off.” This was the reply at the office of the Working Women's Protective Union when I put my question as to the present condi tion of the workingWhifnen of the city. The Protective Union, now in its twenty fourth year, is an organization whose object is the legal protection of workingwomen from imposition. It is unique in its work ings and has done an incalculable amount of good. It has, so its records show, inves titrated nearly 11,000 complaints on the part of working girls of fraud regarding’ their wages. It has furnished employment to 50,Ut)0 applicants, has collected sums rang ing from 50c. to S3OO for otherwise helpless women tor worn done and not paid tor, and lias answered over 300,000 applications, all without charge. “The calls upon us last year were more in number than ever before. No, that does not mean any increase of distress among workingwomen. The average amount col lecte 1 for each applicant was a trifle larger than usual, which might mean a trifle better wages promised. The greater number of applications probably means nothing more than that with every yearour work becomes better known, and women who before felt themselves defenseless now come to us for help. The condition of workingwomen is probably itupro\ ing, but it will he long be fore there cease to be hundreds in need of the help we give.” The general outlook for self-dependent women in all lines is probably better than it ever was before. Business habits and at tention to health are t,hetwo great needs. Asa very bright girl who is earning good wages puts it, “As fast as we learn to do something that somebody wants done, and stop trying to carry the drawing room into the office, we get on very well.” Eliza Putnam Heaton. VENUS POINT LIGHT. What Lightkeeper Campbell has to Say About It. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 22.— Editor Morn ing News: In the issue of your paper of Oct. 17, there was an article headed “Lights Still Neglected.” It appears therein that Inspector Lamberton investigated the man ner in which the Savannah river lights were attended to, and his report to the Light House Board is also published. In reference to the Venus Point light he said, “Mr. Campbell who has charge of Venus Point range, does not live on Tybee Island, and does not employ negroes about the sta tion.” Your paper made the following comment thereon: “Campbell’s family lives at Tybee, and he spends a good deal of his time there; if be does not employ the negroes then he gets work out of them for nothing.” Mr. Lamberton is a careful, con scientious and respectable inspector, and his report, founded on facts, should remove the impression endeavored to be created by your paper. In addition to his report I desire to say that I have been a resident of Savannah for thirty-five years, and in all my public and private relations have been honest and faithful. Since I took charge of Venus Point light I have performed all the duties connected there with, and have never neglected the same. While my family does live on Tybee Island I assert, without the fear of contradiction, that Ido not live there. I have not visited my family in three months. I have never employed negroes to assist me, nor have I gotten work out of them for nothing. Wm. Campbell, Keeper of Venus Point Light. The Splendor of Dress and the artificial effects of cosmetics, no matter how deftly applied, can never make beautiful or attractive one who is subject to emaciation, nervous debility or any form of female weakness. These must be reached by inward application, and not by outward attempts at concealment, and the ladies may take hope from the fact that thousands of their sisters have made themselves more radiant and beautiful by the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” than they could ever hope to do by the aid of the ap pliances of the toilet. ““DRUGS AND medicines! Don't. Do It! Don't Do What? TT7HY don’t walk our tony streets with that T T nice dress or suit of clothes on with Stains or Grease Spots in, to which the Savannah dust sticks "closer than a brother,” when Japanese Cleansing Cream will take them out clean as anew pin. 25c. a bottle. Made only by J. R. HALTIW ANGER, At his Drue: Stores, Broughton and Drayton, Whitaker and Wayne streets. STEAM LAUNDRY. Lace Curtains, Collars, Cuffs and Shirts TO DO UP LIKE NEW, SAVANNAH STEAM LAUNDRY, 131 Congress Street. |y All goods are insured against loss by fire. STOVEs.. TO THE PUBLIC. Y Sis always our aim every winter, we have tried to get the best variety in HEATING STOVER, and think that when our assortment is examined this will i>e conceded us. All winter goods connected with the Stove trade can be had from us in abundance. LOVELL & LATTIMQRE. PAINTS AND OILS. JOHN G. BUTLER, IT7HITK LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS, VARNISH ETC.; READY MIX ED PAINTS: RAILROAD. STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES, SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS AND BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Agent for GEORGIA LIME. CALCINED PLASTER, CE MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER 6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia. " 1865. CHRIB. MURPHY, 1865 House, Sign and Ornamental Painting r EXECUTED NEATLY and with dispatah. j Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Brushes, Window Glosses, etc., etc. Estimates furnished on ap plication. CORNER CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS., Rear of Christ Church. NA I > I ONE CARLOAD SALMON FOR SALE BY C. M- GILBERT & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS. DRY GOODS. After the Fire! The undersigned respectfully begs to announce to his many friends and the public at large that we will RE-OPEN 01 BUSINESS AT THE OLD STAND 153 Broughton Street, -ON- Wednesday, October sth. WE PROPOSE TO SURPRISE THE PUBLIC IN SHOWING THEM The Handsomest, The Most Elegant, The Newest, The Most Stylish GOODS EVER SHOWN IN SAVANNAH OR ELSEWHERE, AND AT PRICES SO LOW As to enable every one almost to wear the BEST GOODS IN THE MARKET. PLEASE REMEMBER We Have No Old Stock to Work Off. We respectfully ask the public to pay us a visit, whether they wish to purchase or not, and we will take pleasure in proving to them that avc have not exaggerated. David Weisbein. FURNITURE AVI) CARPETsi. KOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! This is an opportunity which a good many people would like to take advantage of. We think there is one or two in our store who would. We cannot offer this kind of an opportunity, but we can offer you the opportunity to save money by purchasing from our varied stock. AVe desire to call your special attention to our lino of ornamental goods, consisting of Ladies’ Desks, Flush Rockers, Katlan Rockers, Easy Chairs, Easels, Cabinets, Mantel Lambrequins, Table Covers, Piano Covers and Scarfs, and the finest line of FRINGES in the city. We invite you to come and see us often, as we are getting in something new all the time in Furniture ana Carpets. LINDSAY & MORGAN. MILLINKRY. “KROtJ S K OFF S~ Opening i lliis Fall ten 1881. However attractive and immense our previous season’s stock in Millinery has been, this season we excel all our previous selections. Every manufacturer and importer of note in the markets of the world is represented in the array, and display of Millinery goods. We are showing Hats in the finest Hatter’s Plush, Heaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy Combinations. Ribbons in Glacee, of all the novel shades. Fancy Birds and Wings, Velvets and Plushes of our own im portation, and avc now offer you the advantages of our im mense stock. We continue the retail sale on our first floor at wholesale prices. We also continue to sell our Celebrated XXX Ribbons at previous prices. TO-DAY, 500 dozen Felt Hats, in all the new shapes and colors, at 35 cents. S. KROUSKOFFS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE, BROUGHTON STRffiRT, FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC. EMIL A. SCHWARZ," • lal Furniture & Carpets, New Designs, Elegant Assortment, Low Prices and No Misrepresentations. Relying upon our hitherto successful method of offering all grades of goods at low figures, we now offer our fall stock of FURNITURE and CARPETS with this end in view, having devoted much thought and labor to the selection of same to meet the varied requirements of our trade. The improvement in our selection of goods is marked and will be apparent to you upon a careful inspection of our goods. EMIL A. SCHWARZ, 125 cand 127 BROUGHTON STREET. BOOTS AND SHOES. We Would Like !o Find a Man (And We Doubt That We Can) Who has ever bought a pair of SHOES from BYOK BROS. Who never received satisfac tion lrom them, or if there is a man who has seen our Shoes and does not know a good Shoe when he sees it, to him we say that he will hear of SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE if lie will call on us. Every body finds our stock of Boots and Shoes just the thing— Fashionable, Durable, Season able, Reasonable, Perfect Fitting, Wear-Resisting Foot wear for Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses, Youths, Boys, Girls, Babies, Children, Old People, Professional Men, Merchants, Mechanics, Workmen; in fact, to everybody we come with our INVINCIBLE ARGUMENT in tile way of STERLING GOODS of proven merit, at the keenest close cur prices in the mar ket. We have been tried in the balance and not found wanting, as testified by our steadily increasing business, which can be accounted for only by solid merit in our goods. BYCK BROS. ICE. ICE I Now Is the time when every body wants ICE, and we want to sell it. PRICES REASONABLE! 20 Tickets, good for 100 Pounds, 75c. 140 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5. 200 Tickets, good for 1,000 Pounds, $7 50 Pounds at one delivery 30c. Lower prices to large buyers I C E Packed for shipment at reduced rates. Careful and polite service. Full and liberal weight. KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO, 144 BA\ ST. PORTRAIT s. The Great Southern Portrait Company, SAVANNAH. GEORGIA. JL. 13. DAVIS, Secretary and Manager of the Great .South ern Portrait Company. \N inspection of samples of our Portraits at our office, with Davis Bi os., 42 and 41 Bull street, will g.eatly interest those wli< contem plate having small pictures of themselves, their friends, living and deceased, copied and enlarged in OIL, WATER COLOR, INDIA INK, PAS TELLE and CRAYON we guarantee a per fect likeness and excellence of work. We have about TWENTY DIFFERENT STYLES AND GRADES IN SIZES OF ENLARGED POR TRAITS from Bxlo to MtacOO, and our prices are from to S3OO each. 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Price subject to change unless notified of ac ceptance for certain quantity to Is* shipped by a future date. Address nearest mill as above. BELT GREASE. To Mill Men TURNER'S TRACTION BELT GREASE -AND Belting* Preservative Softens Leather and Makes Rubber Belting More Durable. This Grease effectually prevents slipping, ren der* the belts adhesive, heavy and pliable and will add on** i hird to the power of the belt. Its use enables tho belt to be ruu loosj and have same power. —FOR BALE BY— PALMER BROTHERS, SAVANNAH. Recommended bv DALE, DIXON & CO.. J. W. TYNAN and m inv others, GRAIN AND HAY. Rust Prooi Seed Oats COW PEAS, Keystone Mixed Feed, HAY and GRAIN, BY G.S.McALPIN 17:3 HAY STREET. FOR SALF„ Fo n "sale; A Good Newspaper in a Live and Prosperous Georgia Town. A NYONE desiring to purchase a daily an 1 IX weekly paper in one of the most prosper ous towns in Georgia can do so now if applica tion is mode at once. Reason for selling pro prietor has been in ill health and hue too much other business to engage Ins uttention. Outfit Is nearly new and paper doing a good business, and now, in the height of the business season, ia tho time to purchuse. Address for particulars U. 3., cure Savaunab News, Savaunuh, Oa. 5