Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-21
How Women are Paid in Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati Commercial gives
long account of the employments
of women in that city and the wages
paid to them. 1t is stated that Gin
cinnati numbers within her limits
more working women than any other
Western city. The women employ :
ed in shoe stores are paid from $50
to $3.50 per week for beginners, up
to IS week for experienced hands,
in rare cases so to Sl2 being paid.
The hours of labor are from seven in
the morning to seven in the evening,
and T. nine in the evening on on Sat
urday. Women in confectionery
stores are paid SO a week for begin
ners, and 81 for experienced hands.
In card and engraving establishments
the women are paid 81 dollars week
for beginners, and Sc for experienced
hands, the wages sometimes for ex-
pert work-women going as high as
SO per week.
In the wholesale clothing houses
of Cincinnati, the outdoor work, wo-
men are paid for making wooden pam
falcons from $1.25 10 So q dozen for
vests % to 40 cents'a piece for linen
coats, 20 to 80 cents each for wooden
coats Clined, wadded, and Quilted,
from 40 to rs cents each. Miliners
and trimmers, after from three to
six months apprenticeship, are paid
from 81 TO IS week, and trimmers
exhibiting unusual taste are occas-
ionally paid SO a week. Saleswo-
men in these establishments, after
spending from six weeks to six
months in learning the business with
out salary, are paid So a week, and
in three years time an experienced
saleswoman is paid from IS to $l2 q
week.
Dressmakirg is now almost entire
ly conducted on the piece system, the
population of the working-rooms
varying from twenty-five to two hun
dred hands, according to the demands
of business Machine workers who
do not own sewing machines are
charged fifty cents week rent, and
furnish their own needles. Machine
worker on dresses are paid from So
to 81 week. Expert hand work
momen usually earn from 81 to So a
week, and occasionally $13 week.
In picture frame and mirror estab-
lishments women are paid by the
week S. for fitting pictures, So to SIS
for gliding and ornamenting, 50 to S12
for staining and vanishing, Sc to $12
for polishing, and S. toss for wrap
ping. In cotton mills the wages of
woman range from 81 to So week
and extra good Wrappers can earn 81
q week. In the libraries of Cincin-
natl the female attendants are paid
from $3.50 to 500 year, and work
from s A. NJ. to 6 P. NJ, with an hour
recess at noon. Hospital nurses arc
paid from $50 to S25 a week. Wo
men employed in putting up patent
medicines and perfumery are paid S.
a week, and some especially expert
make as much as SO week on piece
work. In wholesale candy factories
the women who are employed by the
piece to put up plain candies earn
from Sc to 50 a week.
Female artists employed in color
ing and touching up photographs can
earn from $40 to SIS for six hours
work. Female telegraph operators
are paid from $50 to $55 a month.
Female book-keepers are paid from
SO to SIS a week, and cashiers from
81 to So q week. Women employed
in tobacco factories work by the piece,
and earn from $3.50 to So a week
according to skill and the kind of
work. The females employed In
paper-mills are paid 81 day and the
rag sorters earn from SO to So.