New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-08
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE,
WORK FOR THE POOR.

WORk FOH THE POOh
TIE REV. DIR. KRAMER DECLARES THAT TIE POOH
CAN SECURE EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE THE CITY
LAB0RERs NEEDED IN THE SOUTHERN STATES
AND DoMEsrICS IN NORTHERN COUNTRY HOMES.
70 the Editor Of me Tribune.
SIR: The undersigned has made an effort to
discover where the industrious poor OF city who are
out OF work may get employment and where those or
them who desire TO buy land may lind II offered at low
prices and on favorable terms The following results or
the effort may be presented perhaps to the advantage
OF some OF the unemployed.
The demand OF the country for girls and women as
house servants Is convince the writer that
he could reap rch harvest IL he to leave his pro-
fessi0n and open intelligence office, provided he
could only find willing women-vorkcrs in this depart
men OF labor. Every letter that has come, whatever
other Information has been given In IT, repeats the cry
Tor house help or thing be sure, that there
Is no reason why good and moderately healthful
woman or girl who is unncumbered with tho nursing or
training OF infrm relatives or CT children should beg OF
Others any necessity comfort, or assistance. women
VINO nave one and even two chd-on with them are
sought for This Is only such Intelligence Mr. Brace
gave IN recent communication, saving tn AZ his Society
bad situations for 1900 women. II working girls Will
spurn this Kind OF Labor and seek rather the trades or
stores they must expect suffer in hard times. Only
let this be remembered when their suffering IL 80 ex
IRENE as TO drive them to seek assistance that they are
decllnng such work many OF tue gyers' wives ana
daughters do themselves. and ghicn these workers
would pay wen TO have done for them cheeruY and to
the pest ability OF the labJrcr.
In the general depression OF trade and almost utter
prostaton Of every branch OF industry 1t Is relief to
know that there il labor offered in agricultural
districts the harvest has been gathered
nome give an extract from q letter received from
Fduquier county, Va:
There demand labor males and fem,le. for ag
per anaa% a@i s wages O' sTS. pI,9 s,g
yea arrange Tor Ans there are many changes Al Tue end Of
Here is an extract from wadesboro, N. c., letter:
Men can and employment only agricultural l.bOrs As
lhi' price An dn saOJO's could &c! A lev
price. say sls 662a per moa h."
We now reach matter of greater interest pertaining
"a IHor W 'du W wa a an.io, n .ta an
1t Is one OF the best letters have received WOmlns
common sense and attention TO the details OF what yOd
neel e1arlctrr1i the whole writing Tao woman VINO
writes Is tho wife of the President OF Agricultural
College In southern border State.
Labor needed in this country both farms and 10 houses
.ui ,hHvn' abundant coun r. no one would do II to come
owing to the esiaJsim' Of acoe1e this snail village
wage, wlch considered g,oi il hi, cosnr,
place Isell IS not By any lonesome colntr' place.
Now mere l. al opportunity tor Tdmy OF man. wife,
and one dtughters VITA other children TO get
housed also for two or the girls or mother and diuE,
ter to lnd bouSewo with wages and for The husband
10 look Tor outdoor work with good chlnce OF getting
II. me husband OF my woman correspondent ADDS "
want person srpee3'ei in the matter to GaIae me in 6qps
ar1eqhptg an after y in mi1AEn; small lnlr 10 wh en-
men,"
From Gambler Knox County. Ohio:
Not mn demand for bOrers during the Winter se1sOn
May OF them now living here rpTk eating orTio AMI maze f
AMI tor gtrle ng
al farm hn!s Comfortable can be had at from eJ0 10
800 year"
It's certain from the low prices that are now asked Tor
good farming land aud the easy terms OF sale On'red
thdt many uncm )Oyed persons who have saved money
in busy aud who eating up mad ter
get themselves and their families out or tIlS over
crowded city, where they high rents for mean hab
tItOns and take their where they can b'cO NJ
landowners aud Ian WORKERS and at the sans time fJ
trade tncy have been brought up to- q JUd
land, ruc OF 10 wooded offered In virginia al 80 per
acre. Onethri cash. tha balance in one, two, ana
three years. with interest. In Thomas Ca SIuth-wes-
Georgia. 800 offered for 5000, " making
payment easy"
lawyer Of high standing who speaks not from any
seltincrcst writes Holly Springs, Nj i~isilpp, an
Interesting Extracts from 10 may lhtercst niu
has Oly little money, or one who. indeed, has 40
money.
Plfn borers neiel b1, planters little able to
sapDly aborrr uIul can make oar farms
be- "A 1, sarh a, ca provide
landlord furnish aud supplies
crop hIdons have little din ut' 10 ge
TIM cleared whcl fences All Improve
been detroye 10 lelse favorable terms, H
paid which the tenant make uns
entirely sooG Improved lanis nt Tor from tte 10 ne
Comftlbe In OgI can be hil AZ tlOtO rl1
r uob brt there not toe
frm, our gool te IN d. aad tnT really
acaus a b11ght
m heT get
range from $40 TO s6 month and board AG
generally BAL employment a. good wages
Another extract from the WaIesD1rO. y. e. letter may
be gwen here. IL II from merchant.
poesioual baker colh DO well here we nave
about |, 900 Inhabitants AMI NJ blk r shop"
Tne spJndcnce sOWs thdG tne proposen relo'dl
of adult, AMI families the Cnlrcus Ali oJclty ~
recently offered public through ITS OH cr, "a trle'
L. Brace - one of IN mbst promising schemes hOnI
the many thIt offered Tor 1ilng me unenpioyed
city. JOHN '" hhAhhh,
,,ip- York Nuy, 81. 1874, Pastor OF Grace Chapel