Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-21
Rambler's Notes on Last Weeks Happen
ings-Dramatic BOOM Leonard'~ Pic
ture-A Musical NiILmRn-John u.
Gough-GcneraI Notes ON MuSi-
cal. Social, and General
Topics.

Nd~A amy w NN'tli- i'.A''N 'ai'
willing Ia earn their daily bread. there Is il
Springfield. The number Of places within
the reach of ladies is very small The dry
goods stores. millinery establishments. fancy
stores. candy stores. and few other cStab
liShments employ female clerks: quite q
number are employed in the Farm and Fire
side publishing house; some Of the clerk,
and Sten0grapherS in the offices of the man
ufactOTicS are ladies in short, there Is en-
pl0yment in Springfield for considerably
| less than 200 females. and several Thousand
Ia fill the places. Ynu ought TO see the
crowds of ladies and young girls who apply
for clerkshipS and positions at Christmas
| time, when they know there is some chance
of employment: they come by the hun
dreds. Not day passes without number
of Young ladies applying at our store for a
position. and when a vacancy does occur il
could be- filled a hundred times. As take
! it, the most desperate and pressing need of
| Springfield at present is some employment
for its immense population of temaleSwho are
forced TO sit with their hand in enforced
IdleneS> because there is nothing for them
tO do.
The above gives the opinion of one of
the shrewde>t business men of this city.
and he has certainly hit on the one great
need of Springfield at present The sub
ject has been time and again brought to the
notice of our capitalists, and men who pre-
tend 10 have the prosperity OF Springfield
at heart. In vain Nothing has been
dOne-there i not single manufactOry
within the borders of Springfield TO give
employment to women.
The importance of the subject was well
illustrated when corset manufactory was
talked of, which was to employ female la
br only. Women who saw accounts of
the enterprise in the Cincinnati papers wrote
from Xena. Urbana and neighbOring cities
asking particulars of the scheme and pro-
posing to move to Springfield provided they
could obtain situations in the factory. In
| Springfield hundreds of women inquired at
the headquarters of the enterprise. express
ing an earnest desire to 60 To work immedi-
ately The scheme fell through, however.
\ certain DIR. Guy La Fonte or some such
lofty sounding name was to be the head and
front of the concern. He was imported at
great expense as a man who was thorough
ly initiated in all the secrets of duplex,
wire-woven automatic cutoff and all other
species Of cOrsetS. He arrived in the city.
remained a few months and the corset man
ufactory quietly and beautifully petered
out.
Feeling that the subject is one of vital
importance to the welfare of Springfield,
requested lady friend 10 make number
of inquiries of Springfield working girls or
girls who would be working girls if they
could get anything to do. Mary C.
about sixteen years of age, said
Pa works in the shops He averages
about eight dollars per week. have two
sisters and two little brothers. You may
well believe it is sometimes very hard to
make both ends meet with that sum. Pa
and ma both came of respectable families.
and il comes mighty hard for them Ia live
! in such wretched way, besides they want
to bring up their children respectfully. |
| haven't had a new dress for year. and
! have worn my hat for over two years.
could sometimes cry with veXation. Other
! girls $an 90 into society. but how can |,
with these shabby old clothes; don't even
feel like going to Sunday school. II
could get any kind of place at - OF So
a week. would jump for JOY for a whole
day. could dress respectfully and help a
! little in the house. besides buving all sort
Of little extras that | can't get now. BuI
there is nothing for me to do in Spring
field. All the stores are full aud there i,
no factory. When we used 10 live in ElgiI
! had steady work in the watch factory.
feel 81 SOrry for pa, he works 80 hard. an'
can earn 80 little: cant bear To ask hin
for a cent. Well, maybe after while som,
kind of shop will start and give u> poo
girls chance.
Jennie S. aged -, said:
There are five in our family. have
one Younger sister and a small sister an'
brother. Pa works in machine shop, an'
a. ba pavar learned the marbinist trade
his work is rouph and his WAGES are yer,
small Rv the time our rent and IN,
grocery bill are paid. there is little left fo
cIotbfng etc NV LITTLE brother earns 81 ;
vaaL CARRYING naners and that * all ",
ye, besides mas wages EVERYTHING il
our bo,,se is so ,rucb Matched and darpa,
,,,o, ,,.har ,,,a ,,et ,bror,,h with II tb.ra :,
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.ist.r and I oftap CRY. for nm bour in th,
s,.sri,, haoausa W.. cant mako = cont +,
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