Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-09-17
LABOR IN NEW YORK.
,-. CIRCUMSTANCES, CONDITIONS AND REWARD.
No. Lathe semstresses.

Tbere arc in this City, according 10 Tue Closes.
..;r,,es tina, can be made ten thousand women
- 49,, an what they earn by tho needle.
-. callowipg arc tho prices for which MAORI
I '.nr ,be,, EemaIes are compelled 10 work-they
4 nag such as are paid by tho largo Depo.s for
4 a;rs and clothing in Chatham streot aud else
4 where:
For mixing Common White and Checked
Ac.,oo Shirts six cents cnch Common Flannel
roiers,irts, the samo. These ara cut in such
o,aner as to m1ko ton scans IN two pairs Of
.aeyes. A common fast scamstress can make
40 Of those shirts per day. Sometimes very
,sift hands, by working from sunrise to Md
sigb., can make throo. This j. equal to seventy
| dse cents per week (aowing nothing for holl-
.y. sickness, accidents, being on, Of work, &c. }
1 n the first class and 8 .l2a for the others.
1 Cod Cotton Shirts with Linen Bosoms, neat
4 stitched, are m1de for twenty-five cents. A
4 goI semytress viii make ono IN day, thus oar
png $3.50 per weok, by constant labor.
Fine Linen Shirts, with Plated Bosoms, which
annot be made by the very best hand in less than
iasen to eighteen hours stoadv work, arc paid
iiy cents each. Ordinary hands mako one shr.
4 Of The kind IN two days.
a Duck Trowsors, Overalls, &c. eight ard ten
cents each. Drawers and Undershirts, both
Flannel and Cotton, from six To eight cents, n {
tho ordinary shops, and ~ at the best. One
rrncn. is a days work for some-others can
mako two
Sa.inot, Cashmere and Bro1dco.h Pants, some
ines with galter bottoms and lined, from Is to
% cents per pair. Onc pair is u good days
u work.
Vests. % TO 80 ccn,s-.hc latter price paid
only FIR work of the very best quality. Good
\ lands make one day.
Thin Coats arc made for - 20 81 conts
piece.
Heavy Pilot Coats, with three pockets, 81 oach.
1 4 Coat Of this kind cannot DO made uudor three
1 DAYS.
| Cloth Roundabo and Pea jackets, p 70 80
cents. Three can DO made in two days.
4 great number Of fcmlles are employed in
making Mems and BOYS Caps. BY constant Ia
/ m fifteen or eighteen hours day they make
from | 10 % cents. We aro told by an Old IA
| y who has livod by this kind of work long
| tine, that when she she begins at sunrise and
4 works till mi lnght sio can earn / conts a day.
largo ljority of these women arc .Amcri-
I an born. from tho great Middle Class Of life,
| many Of whom have once been in comfortable
l iDd avon aifluoDt circumstances, and have boon
| rlaccd by tho death bankruptcy Of husbands
lad relatives, and other causes, 10 such straits.
! aany of thom tho wives Of ship-rnastcrs and
| ther officers of vessels. Others tho widows
mechanics and poor men. and have children,
ged mothers and fathers, &c. - support, bv
heir noodle. Many have drunken husbands II
i'd to their burdens and Affections aud to d1r-
cn every faint CLEAN Of SUNSHINE that domestic
Election throws into tho humblost abo lc.
Ghcrs havo sick and bcd-ridlcn husbands or
;hidrcn, perhaps have 10 endure the agony of
recoiying home fallen daughter or an out,a wed
son suddenly checked in bis career of vico.
Tho manner IN which these women livc--tho
squalIdness and unhealthy location and nature of
their habita ,ions--,hc undergraduates of their
'ood and clothing-tho impossblity of providing
for any the slightest recreation norai or intel
lectual culture, Of educating their children
can DO easily magnod; but We assure tn. public
that it would require an extremely active imagi-
lion TO conceive tho reality.
Tho women generally keep housc"--tIiat is.
hey rent single room, or perhaps two small
rooms, III tho upper story of some poor. ill-con-
sucIed. unyentiia.od house in n flthy street.
constantly kept 50 BY the absence Of back wards
| and the neglect of tho Street Inspector--wh q
scsening and deadly miasm porvados tho atmos-
mere. and III summer renders It totally unfit TO be
nhaed by human lungs. doposi,ing the seeds of
i'ai'ty and disease with every inspiration. In
nese rooms all tho processes Of cooking. eating
'cep,ng, washing. working and living are indi,-
alminatoly pc rformcd
For these rooms tho tenants mover pay less than
'a'ee to four aud a half dollars per month--and
yhey must and do. Some of the verv worst
sngle garro;s, destitute of closet convenience
any kind. and perhaps lighted only By q hole
clI IN the roof. rent as low two dollars month.
course every cent of tho inmates earnings is
einaused every week, and in many cases is not
sancien to buy any other food than a scantv
sslpply of potatoes and Indian meal and moasses
Nf the family. When winter comes. therefore.
hsy are destitute of the means not only of ad-
ang comfortable clothing to thoir wrctched
1rdrobes. but of procuring an ounce of fuel.
their work. too, at this season is frequently cut
en- and they are loft no resource but tho Aims
oasc or pauper ticket for bread and coal.
Here, too, they too often banked. The
AIMS house is full and ovcrrunning--thc Public
Clarifies of all kinds are choking with the fierce
assaults of shiyering and furnished Besgary-
wat can these poor women do! We are truly
ndshaI when sometimes hunted out BY the hands
apnyate charity. they have been found SO Civ
aover to hunger and despair at thor repeated
aaufs from the Ams-hou or the overdrivon
uanmissioners. that they had resolved 10 starve
Without further effort. Understand IL. no, as CEN