Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-10

barn floor. In spite OF everything that
could be done. and without one interval of
consciousness, the poor child died in little
over twenty-four hours.
The Rich MsN cF FfIsco. The proper
ton of vast individual brtunes is greater in
the Pacific coast metropolis than in any
other American city The Bulletin gives
the names of some two dozen men with
capitals of over S4 ,OO0, 900 each, and say
that many more plural millionaires exist.
besides those omitted from the list as worth
only between one and three millions each.
Flood, O'Brien, Mackey and Fair. the
bonanza firm, are reckoned as worth $780,
100000: Stanford. Huntington. Croker
and Hopkins, the principal owners of the
Central Pacific railroad and its branches,
are credited with So, 1000. 900, or twelve
and a half millions apiece, and are expected
to be the richest men in America in five or
six years. None of the rich men of Cali
fornia are beyond middle age, AMI none of
them began wealthy. They have made
riches by shrewd investments, by daring
ventures and by luck, all three and
other causes have contributed, but not one
is like our few eastern men of great wealth.
an inheritor OF money; each man has worked
his own way. and made his own pile"
WoMEN's WAGES IN BosToN.-Miss Jennie
Collins. the founder and manager of the
charitable institution for sheitcring and
finding employment for homeless and IN
employed girls and women, in Boston,
known by tho fanciful name of "Boffin's
Bower" says in her last annual report
During the last year JOG persons applied
for employment, ages ranging from ten to
sixty-fve years, including wives of reduced
merchants. clergymen, and members of
other professions. The applications for
women have been $50. Before the civil war
girls wages ranged from five dollars to
ten dollars per week; two dollars the cost
of board. At present her wages range
from six dollars TO twenty dollars, and NJ
wards; but she is obliged to pay five dollars
for board and all tina, she consumes Is III
directly taxed to make up tho five million
dollars this State annually pays to keep
breath in the vast ermy of non producers.
Woman in coarser grades of work are paid
from three to five dollars per week on an
average four dollars. One OF them, when
asked how she could live on that amount.
answered, Like mouse in tho wall"
One other active agent to multiply the help
less classes under consideration Is the fact
that
WOMEN HAVE CROWDED MEN OFT
OF their original domain, not only in the
professions, but in the industrial branches.
In this city alone, soyentv-fve distinct
crafts are open to women linen are only
needed as assistants), while not more than
nine or ten are exclusively controlled by the
sterner sex. This Commonwealth. with
60 900 more women than men, doubles the
number of the latter in hospitals, aims
houses and prisons. Ii comes back on the
women again, by breaking up their homes.
Mothers drag their little children from place
t, place, begging piteously for a chance to
do the hardest drudgery in order to con
tinue their care over the little ones. The
doors are closed against them. They have
opportunities to give away their children,
but no chance to take care of them under
another persons roo. Where are their
fathers dead" deserted" Grim
inal." "Dissipated." "GOod, indIstr-
Gus. sober men. but out OF employment.
Nor is it much easier for single women.
The answer comes, Il cannot work for
small pay, because my father and mother
depend on me. | have brothers, but they
are no help" This community wonld be
astOnished If they knew the vast multitude
OF men who arc wholly supported by the
hard labor of women. But youth and
health can surmount almost any obstacle,
and they 1.-THE wOmen) seem to delight in II