The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-03-07

fst.Class blacksmits are making - 20
10 So so per day.
Tuilors can earn az high as SIS per
week. Good cutters average about $50
per week; q higher salary being paid TO a
few excellent hands in fashionable cloth
ing houses. Women tailOrs sometimes
earn from S. TO s. per week; but an inn
mense amount Of clothing is manufacture
ed for wholesale houses by poor sewing
women, who will make coat for 40
cents and pair Of pants for 10 cents.
Shoemakcrs say that the coming season
will be the best that the trade has known
for many years. The death OF the Crisp
ina, trade. union, some two years ago, has
mn, materially affected wages in this
branch OF industry; indeed, frst.class
hands arc able to earn more than they did
three wears since. Cutters are making
from SIS to $50 per week; trimmers, $40
10 $50; fnishcrs, SIT to $40; burnishers,
Sl5 to SIT. Women in the shoe factories
can earn from 81 80 to SID weekly, pas.
tiers and operators making about the for.
lner rates Of wages, and stiChers the lat
ter. Boys employed at lasting are earn.
ing from 81 so to 50 as apprentices.
Foremen can command 81 500 per year.
Candy-makers, working by the piece,
can earn $40 per week. Good workers
in confectionery average between SIS and
$50.
Laundry girls are earning in the best
laundries from 81 so to $40 per week.
There is brisk demand for tirst-class
ironers and polishers to work by the
piece.
Vault.clcaners arc earning from 81 70
to So per day, according TO class Of work
done. "Pitters" are making So per night,
carriers 81 IS, bumpers (who receive the
buckets from the carriers and dump the
contents into the night-carts) 81, and
niyht.cart drivers 81 IS. Vault.diggers
are charging from 81 80 to So per linear
foot, according to the size Of the vault.
Printers apprentices aro being paid
from So 80 to 50 q week, according 10
time OF service. The Society, which is
now very weak, requires apprentices TO
serve for four years. During the first six
months the apprentices generally spoil
more work than their wages could pay
for, and they seldom receive more than
SO per week during the whole term Of
their apprenticeship. Good book print
ers will not average more than Sis or SIG
per week the year round. First-class job
printers can obtain work at Union rates
sci per week. One or two number one
"clickers," or stonemcn, are receiving
500 per month in book offices. Book
proof:readers are generally receiving
journeymen's wages; one book office pay
ing its "rcviser" extra rates. Copyhold-
ers in book offices are receiving from s.
to s. per week, girls or boys being usual
ly employed in this capacity.
Telegraph operators average from S75
TO $50 per month; few first-claEs hands
commanding us high as sos a month. In
ferior hands, not fully experienced, some
times earn $40 per month after mastering
the rudipents OF the profession. On the
lst Of January tho company made re-
duction OF five per cent from the opera
tors wages in consequence Of, the falling
off OF business. The operators at one
time had trade union in this city, but it
was annihilated several years ago.
Experienced drug clerks are earning
salaries OF $1,000, and even as high rs
$500 per annum. Few, however, can
command more than $1,000 q year.
Clerks who take charge Of drug store,
and superintend its entire business, have
been paid at the rate Of $4,000 year in
this city. The lowest average OF wages
for fair prescription clerks is about 5000
per year.
A iirst-class clerk in tho retail cigar
trade will receive from fifteen dollars to
twenty dollars per week; and il he be
competent to attend to tho whole bust
ness, purchasing stock, &C., he may re-
ccive much higher wages. There are,
however, not at most more than half
dozen iirst-caSs Cigar-store clerks in the
city.
Clerks in the wholesale millinery bust
ness are making from S. to SIS per week
on an average, according to their knowl-
edge Of the business. Some statesmen can
command $4,000 per year and upward.
Common labor is still lOw-priced; with
prospects Of brisk demand. Transfers
average only about $l2 per week. In
rag factories, sortcrs are earning from So
TO s. per week, according to experience.
Paper hangers can earn from Sl2 to
SIS per week. The prospects this sum
mer for the trade are favorable.
Saddlcrs and harness.makers, working
by the piece, now average from SIS to $50
per week.
Machine moldcrs now make but So per
day, on fair average. The wages Of
good journeyman molder previous to the
panic was about $40 per week, but the
great decline in the iron trade within the
past two years has effected wages in all
departments of the business. Stove
molders now, working by the piece, sell
dom earn more than $50 per week, SIS
being the average. The Iron Molders'
Union, although still strong society,
has been greatly weakened since the pan
ic, several large foundries having been
lost to the organization, which found it.
self finally compelled to succumb. In
fact, every trade union in the city is in
sickly condition and betrays signs Of APP
nrnnrhinv dissolutiOn.