New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-09

A PEW HUNDREDS IN TIN BASK"-One OF our
New Hampshire girls at work in the mills who
assures US that she has a few hundreds in the
bank has given us list Of the prices which she
WINS accustomed To receive for her labor in other
zines before Factories were thought Of IL ia curl
Gus and worth contrasting with the present order
pt things, N this respect. la l-o6 she received tho
usual price then paid for female help, employed in
the old fashioned mode OF spinning with crooked
spndles" viz one yard Of cloth for reeks rork
Az to receiving money, the thing was out OF the
question VIVA, articles OF dress she needed. she
obtained By exchanging her cloth at the stores pay
ipg AZ cents II yard for gOuH. Uhich may nor
H. had fer nineDeHoe--0 dOiiOr jor cam6ric rh,ch
n0s commands covpie Of sh,H'agsi She then
hired Qua t0 do house work aud sevlng-r,csir,ag
~ c,nfs n ceek IN gdr and living on potatoes,
bread and pea coffee" Determined Ia have each.
If could BE- had, she engaged AT another place
and was to receive one shilling day in money.
But soon, her employer being unable 10 carry out
his engagement, she was compelled To take eggs
hread, oats rye, ciofh. arc-rts.hg before hgh and
rorking tH near midnight Unable 10 stand this
she went To Massachusetts ia 1912, where she
ceived nine shlDgs and presents besides. ~ good
AZ TWO dollars week" Ii was Ia the midst OF the
war and times were hard Her employs err bad run
out ol money and los, every thing but Hook Of
l. 500 sheep II occurred To him that he might turn
an. wool Ia account. aud be accordingly set our spe
ratge To spinning many spindles, as she calls
l. Haying acquired some skill Ia the business she
heu hired out To gcItlcman--now an extensive
manufacturer IN kermOnt-wbO had Introduced
some ltile machinery. She soon learned to work
on thi- and To manage the Jenny and looms, and
shortly after become the Oyerseer OF the establish
menl receiving her dollar day. She had charge
of MS whole business was his banker hired his
girls and taught them to work They soon had
cloth 10 sell and THIs WAS THE SMALL By1I>NiSo
Or oSY Or OUR LARGE MASCFACTUKIS1 yiLLAGEsi
After the war over she returned 10 her parents
and aiterw ards, through the influence Of some VI
the friends OF her last employer-AsD WHO ARE
SOW CONCERNED N THy MANCHESTER CORPORA
TfoNs-she came to Amoskesg, and has been EN-
pl0,ed as an operative by them ever since. Instead
of Sleeping ia n garrett, and living from hand TO
mouth as people were obliged 10 do In old times
She saws she has fine, clean and well ventilated
rooms the best OF food, and HON wAGEsKEGuLARLr
rs CASH.
Now, there is volume in this simple history OF .
factory girl. Her story Is that Of others. who hav-
ing known what II was TO work from fifteen to six
teen hours day in years back for mere pi,tance--
and that payable in any thing and every thing. but
that which commands all else--can feel the differ
ence in their situation now that the enterprise OF
our citizens has given employment to their bands
in our manufacturing villages. And yet there those
among a, who seek 10 uDderrste the position OF the
operafyes to make them di-contenled with their
places and who actually stigma.ze them ss sLAyIs,
lor laborng Ia earn honest aud respectable live
lihood The answer OF the operatives themselves
almost inyarable is" You may talk but alter all
We GIRLS HAVE AFEw HUNDREDS IN rHE BANK
Manchester IN. HI American