New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-22
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.

TlON-IHE SISTERS OF THE oThANSf'n'
In reply to the scores of letters addressed to
THs TRIBUNE respecting the opportunities for obtaining
employment In Newly there have already Deen VIII
ten azores OF articles in which the best advice has
been offered 10 shxOhs nqnes. and the most accurate
information atainahle freely given het other scoos
letters oomeand 10 these THE more MAKES
general reply advisory and statistical which, as peiore'
embOdles the result Of careful investigation
Tha Civ OF New York H. and has been, for many years
over,ooked with people out OF employment There are
ON an average applicants for every saarfed position
m the gift OF employers from politicians up to publishers
Tho druggists supplied with all the clerks they want
thn awyers have serbes than they need to mudoe
thar chants with intermInable legal documents the
buobers the bakers the candestck makers have ell the
hep they need the mkmen require no addition 10 thr
force except for common hydrant duty ana neumoeh~
Of such positions az they have 20 offer are Fven only 70
Orange County and westchester men Of known ssgscy
and unidentified: not dry goods merchant
hut ia at his wits end 20 what 10 do with his
pumerary clerks the market for editors poets, actors
asons reporters carpenters. drivers, conductors com
mon oouncmen, groOIns. wsiters, and barkeepers, 10
drugged. There demand for moro cooks than are
already engaged the slow and sure destruction
OF Manhattan's stomachs; nurses abound; housemads
are plentiful and teachers shoeDakers founderymen'
baoksmiths BARRIERS jewelers.. brcksyers bOoKKeepefs'
and even akers and sections are no more needed
than physicians and Utopia the foot stove
at the Cape Of Good Hope or revolutionary stimulus IN
the suppy land Of the These remarks have
bean made sforetme vet the heed paid TO them is 10
slight that repetition not only warranted, but Is also
almost absolutely TO editorial peace and comfort
II people with little or money WiH come from the
pleasant country to seek their fortunes in NowYork lot
niDe OF prepare for disappointment The tenth
may hnd IL advisable take note OF what Is hereinafter
set forth and recorded for his or her especial benefit
Beware Of such advertisements the following:
suo IS bOOhkeeper or salesman IN srstsss commission hsne
procured applicant Gail at No. lOs No Mas
IL. la
ole .aj lucrative situation salary sssO Apply at No Br0ad"iI
rOoa No 10. up stairs
For the advertisers are swindlers
shun the socalled Intelligence Offices" They will
your patience by treating you doses
OF hope deferred in dinGy and dirty back rooms and will
also deplete your treasury. They will send you on wild
goose until your soes out and spirit
crushed They will twt you with ungracous words IN
cIerky couched and will. when your money is all gone,
your patience exhausted send you ncontnently out
upon the island look for yourself and TO take up
against OF troubles you have never Gu
eOuntered In your rural home
SO great had grown the evils resulting from the over
orowdng the metropolis with the unemployed OF both
sexes that pursuant suggestion offered in the col
vmns of THE TRIBUNE long time ago. the Commission
OF Charities and Correction established what they
call their Bureau OF Labor and Intelligence designed
TO procure employment for those need OF it, and to
serve purposes equally useful to the community az
large II was thoroughly organized in June. and on the
OF that month opened for business in the Pmp
ton Building OF Ninth and 5tuyvesantsts near
Thrdave with Mr. G NJ. Losee superintendent Major
Newberg Chief Clerk and corps Of efficient assistants
Although under the immediate supervision Of the Com
misOners this Bureau s not IN any connected with
any of the psuper institutions OF the city, but managed
as entirely distinct affair At the last session OF the
Legislature appropriation Of $4,000 made for its
support for the year. and IL is safe TO that our
legislators have made more sensible appropria'
zion public moneys since the days Of Clinton. During
Of pfnfh WAS
which will surprise all who read the statement OF aP
pcatons from males there iO5S received and re-
corded 654 provided with situations, and 1872 appr
from employers were entered 1888 employers
applied for female help and 1884 women and girls, OF the
Its whose registered were supplied with
good places. This gives grand total OF applications
from employers oO applications for employment 2sl
number supplied with work. 2,348; and all this, be IL
known without the cost OF penny 20 employer or en-
humber Of Applications received from employers was
1884, and from employees 6922 for 4S32 OF whom work
I me on I boy ana cT eVery day
kept of the of employers who apply for
help with the date of application the kind OF labor tor
which help wanted and the price 70 be paid Another
register the of the applicants for employ
ent with date, residence birth place Of each app
can't and the nature Of the work for which he desires TO
be hired In the record kept in the male department
note taken to whether the applicant has been nau
book by which, after ARRANGEMENT entered into
@ SsT may be readily sess Am feature Of
the office 10 the index book In which are recorded the
OF the little histories herein written friends
have been brought together again mothers have found
afew days old Irish lady in quest Of daughter
bureau at the suggestion Of friend and preferred
trembling request Has Mary Monaghan been here the
index book and found Mary MOnagans name and Oppo
site to II the words Page &c. line e. Down came
number. page 36i" found and on line IL
sGs naa me- had oS s GSfR Of
July contracted do the homework Of gentleman liv
handed to the mother and unless the erratic Mary las
continued her wanderings without notifying the bureau
Each applicant, ON making known to the entry clerk
his wants furnished with numbered card containing
his name. This entities him the privileges OF the
Bureau. He takes seat numbered TO correspond with
the card and when call made for person TO do the
labor which the applicant proposes do he sent for in
his proper turn. introduced to the employer and all
entered then and there duly recorded
ia the engagement book On the first floor of the building
10 pleasant reception room. well supplied with com
spending TO that held by the applicant Up stairs are
two other similarly furnished. These Ia the
female department The men are dealt with in another
The offices OF the Bureau are now being greatly im.
number OF occupied owing to the rapid increase of
business.
1t well say here that the officers Of the Bureau
ceiye applications from persons fitted for any department
OF labor Not only house servants cooks gardeners
masons, nurses crOous and eTrand boys provided with
situations but teachers WELL and hOusekeepers clerks
and statesmen, boOkkeepers, and engravers-all. IN
deed who may be In need Of employment Of whatever
kind.
The Bureau OF Labor was established the principle
OF the WOrkngwOlnen's Protective Union. institution
which has Effected incacuable good in its way. The
office OF the Union is at No IS Beecker-st.,
Thrd-ave., and Is under the direction of Mrs. NJ. W.
Ferrer and Miss Yates both ladies OF large experience
and both In sympathy with the tOiDg women Of New
York The officers Of the Union receive applications only
from women and since the organization OF the assOca
ton. have supplied 1895 women ard girls with places
During the last month they received $50 applications and
furnished 125 applicants with employment, beside col
iectng 800 for girls whom INSCRIPTIONS employers
attempted defraud They receive complaints from all
who have been wronged by the vaons tricks and devices
Of such heartless wretches sometimes find
OF New York. and