New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-19
LABOR NETWORK;
II, crnorxsrAxors. CONDITIONS AND nEwAhDl
No. Observation-Disclosures, Arfinciai'riower
Mixers, &c. &c.

with no iniermission save to swallow hasty morsel
They earn when in full employment - an4 - %
per week. Out Of this they must pay Their board
washing, for they have no time 10 wash their own
clothes, medical and other Incidental expenses and
purchase their oloihes-io say nothing OF Tue 'o'N
absence Of all healthy recreation and OF al mental
and moral culture, which such condition necessa'
rily implies. They have, many OF them no rooms
Of their own. but board with some poor family
sleeping any how and anywhere. For these ac-
commodltions they pay Al 50 per week-some OF
the worst and flihiesi boarding houses however
charging as low a. 81 per week. The living here
must be imagined
The Artifciafower Makers present greater va
riety. The trade as will readily be perceived, i
one requiring great skill and deicacy in the finish
ing part Of the work Girls who have served i've
years apprenticeship at the business and are very
expert II they work constantly can make $3.50
per week. The flowers and wreaihs which under
tie name Of French Flower-work' sell 80 dear and
are so highly valued by our fashionable ladies', are
mostly made here, although many OF the materials
are imported from France The principal part OF the
work is done by young girls from eleven TO thirteen
receive seventy-fvc cents and few one dollar per
week. They Of course live at home with their pa
rents. for the mos, part, and have time TO go TO
school, TO grow or TO think These apprentices
soon a. they out OF their time told that there
is no more work for them. and their places sup
Piled by fresh recruits who are taken and paid Of
course as apprentices. Every few days you may
notice in the papers advertisement something like
this" Wanted-Fifty young girls as apprentices
to the Artiiicialhower Making business These
portend that number Of girls have become Journey
women, and are consequently TO be pushed out Of
work TO make room for apprentices who will r.
ceivc but IS cents or - per week. Many Five
Dollar wreath and expensive flower purchased of
the Misses Lawsons. Madame Deuel., or Madame
Godefroy, has been wrought into beauty by these
little iingersfor perhaps shngs or half dollar
The Artificial flow er business is extensively car
RED on here, and the product is deemed quite
equal in finish and grace the best Partisan Ger
man flowers. We believe from the most reliable
data in our possession that there fifteen hundred
two thousand girls engaged in this department OF
labor ia New-York.
4 great many women who make Maichboxes
receive but FIRE cents per gr0ssor thirty boxes for
a single cent We knew of a mother of a family
who supported her little children by this kind of
work. who used to walk two miles to a starch fac.
tory obtain the refuse for pasting the boxes-for
which she paid penny pail. When she could
succeed in procuring this she said she could make
lite proft, but when she had 10 buy flour to make
paste with-then she said it was losing business
Her little children thought so too.
We have already mentioned the Cap Makers of
which suppose there are between one and two
iousand. They earn on the average about two
slillings per day, although there many who do
not make more than eighteen pence. They are
irGsi into dark back room on second third
fourth fifth story chamber thirty or forty together
and work from sunrise to shutdown. There is too
often not human being in the world who has the
slightest responsibility over the morals, man
ners or comforts Of these unfortunate girls II many
of them become degraded and brutalized in taste,
manners, habits and conversation, who can won.
der
These facts and remarks apply with equal force TO
the hundreds and thousands OF Shoe binders Type
rbbcrs and other girls employed on labor of this
kind. In addition to the constant supply to the
ranks of these classes furnished by the poor popu-
alion Of City poor girls continually flock to the
City from every part of the country, either because
heir friends dead and they have no home, or be-
causc they have certain vague dreams of the charms
Of City life. Arriving here they soon find how bit
terry they have deceived themselves. and how rash
IS they have entered condition where it is almos'
impossible for them to subss,, and where want and
starvation their only companions They have
been educated and reared in such manner as TO
render the idea OF servitude quite uncomfortable and
their only resort is the needle or some similar
ployment Here they find the demand for work
greatly ver-supplied and competition so keen that
they at the mercy of employers, and are obliged
To snatch at the privilege of working any terms.
They find that by working from fifteen TO eighteen
hours a day they cannot possibly earn more than
from one 10 three dollars a week, and this, deduct
ing the time they out of employment every year
will barely TO furnish them the scantest and
poorest food, whca from lis monotony and its I'M
healthy quality induces to disgust, oaihing and dis
case. They have thus absolutely nothing left for
clothes recreation, sickness books or intellectual I'M
provemcnt, and the buoyancy and exquisite ANIMAL
l. OF youth become slow torturing fever from
which death is a too-welcome relief Their frames
bent by ncessant and STOPPING toll their health
destroyed by want OF rest and proper exercise and
their minds eflectually stunlcd, brualized and
destroyed their monoonous tasks as If they
were doomed TO count the bricks in prison wall -
for what is life TO them but fearful and endless i'm
prisonmont, with all its horrors and Privations
" A Letter from J. II, GREEN, the Reformed
Gambler in relation the confessions Of Wyatt, is on
the First Page.
On the Fourth Page will be found Sales at the Stock
Exchange, List Of Letters. Marine Journal, &c.
10 The TEXAN CoSyESIIoN, al the last advices.
were occupied in discussing the veto power Of the
Governor. The seat of government will probably
be- fixed for the present at Austin.
\ RUNAWAY PREAcHER.-A late Kentucky pa
pr contains advertisement offering reward OF 800
for the recovery OF negro named Richard, who
Is 30 years old reads and writes very well Is preacher
and has license to exhort endorsed by the Elder OF
stone River Circuit or MurfrecsboroUgh station The