The New York herald., 1863-11-14
THE WORKING WOMEN.
boys CLOTHING.

In this very important item OF trade the prices OF
making have been 90 deprecated that Is scarcely pos
sibe to realize how any could 1.-Two from tho proceeds
Of such work. The average price paid poor
working woman for making whole suit Of boys cloth
ing sixty eight cents and for this miserable pAnce
she has spend her vgor OF life the rate OF fourteen
hours day. This Is really too eIaeting.
rAssEL MAKING.
Ten yelrs ago the tassemakers OF New York could
without any extraordinary excrton six dollars
per week, and live comfortably at that. Now they re
oeve only four dollars, aud from halfpast six A.
to ten p. NJ
Formerly small tassels we're made at one dollar
per gross; now siItytwo cents Ia oil they bring
Large centre assels used be eighteen pair they
now receive ten cents pair whio the employers obtain
higher for the goods. Al this work the operative
from forty 10 sixty cents per day and pays
dollars and nfy cents per week for board which for
mcrly only dollar and twenty cents some OF the
young women who work In tho shops have widowed
mothers 10 support They mako their dresses do
their washing after the day . work Is done
UMBRELLAS AND PARAsoLs.
Umbrella sewers and parsso mskers are . class who
particularly affected by the high Of provisions
they scarcely receive enough wsscs TO buy thread
one comfortable meal during the twenty four hours.
HOOP SKIRTS
In this expansive branch of business the wages are
uemsly poor. Last summer three cents per gross
paid but at the present time only aud half
the ultimatum Of the market. How many Of our nne
fA,honable ladies spread themselves Broadway aud
Fth avenue without casting thought on the sweat
and misery which gave (ss they think 10 their
The gay belle, whose "nounc~s shake per
fume from every fold," little dreams OF she has
wrung tho poor human heart for her display " gsudy
and epbcmerai rotundty.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CARD noUrTyHs
This 10 another class Of persons (prDepay femAies)
who have 10 stand their feet from morning until, nsht
and reoevs from three 70 four dollars per Good
hands thousand cards pcr day. Apprso.
tics are paid nearly - much - older haoda
rBK srRSIsHERs.
Fcr tablespoons the burnishsrs formerly paid one
each and they could buruish from thirty thirty
nvs per day bot any were badly dono thsy must be
done the day. fsspooas, tn shors, were
paid ne of cents q dorsn. Two dDrso could
b. done day and the plate started ~ had W bs
Eone sgain the day FORKS that they former
y received ssveuiy ave osDu dozen for are nov paid
The rate u forty cents
SACK COAT HIKsRs.
Pour dolars paid for a dozen ssck coats and
su bs finished In oos day, for which they receive
t~o dollars. out q which they psy the bAstefa forty
eight cents q sewing mach ns eighteen cents 6yo
spoos o oottnn each hfty osuts Io,vinya
balance of eighty cent. fer each hAf eoron nnhea
and then, with tbs house rent sis dollars per month,
and the fos used pressing very B,ls y left ior 40
average days psy n thh kind of work
cAvALRy PAsrALooSp.
his work 10 pot nov plenty. pete,, receive eight
cen's piece. and earn ct that rate thryso e,n,s
pc day<encey sDo8gh 10 buy cosi ari breakfast for
osc iAdiridasl hrng ths mnst soonoa, eu nauusr.
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