The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-15
NOMINATING WOMEN.
EFFICIENCY or The FAIR SsxrNTHE
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT.
women Make the Hest Clerks In the
Service Salaries Of Clerks - Women
Who Work BY the Day-out.ide of GOV.
ernuIeht Employ.


Who Work By the bay Outside Of Gov
srnu.snt Employ.
Washington is noted for its brainy men.
III Ought Ia be more noted for its brainy
Woftieh cur national capital has more
sharp, business, money making females in
FrotH'f.tpn 10 It's size than PERHAPS any
city IN The. w,rid. Its women get better
salarLt> tio higher classes of work, and ara
iurtiet advanced in all the attributes OF
nlo'terh civilization than those OF any other
CITY III the government departments
aIoIe httween lou and ) 900 WOMEN are
employed, and these DO the work which
t"o decades ts,o waS considered only pos
sibte Tor nlen. Some OF these women are
translatnrS in the state departments
Some are examiners in the patent office,
aud A large number hold other positions
where the work requires a good education,
IA brsEht intellect, ami a careful Judgment.
Many OF them have Ia answer letters, in
which they m't't Judge as To the legality
oil pension eases brought before them, and
othefs have responsible positions in the
treasury ami l'oStotfice departments
Women make the best clerks In many
departments III the government service
They are more prompt in their attendance
than hen, and are, rs rule. more con.
sClehtiati> III doing their work As COPY
lists ami ainanuens,s they are usually neat
ana exact and ~ type writer's they surpass
the other sex. As counters Of money and
counterfeit detectors they are far superior
Ia hnI f.l bap
ahd The most expert among them can tell
u bad hill hy feeling II with her eyes shut
Quite number Ot women In the treasury
nhd thrr are about | ,iUU employed here
have berry responsible Positions One Is
Law rlerN In the internal revenue dc.
partment, and She can prepare brief
equal 10 that OF almost amy lawyer of the
capital In the navy department there
are women who do drafting in the draw
Ing OF the plants Of ships, and the major
part OF the dead letter office business Is
done hy wunlen's fingers
SALARIES OF WOMEN CLERKS.
The highest salary received by women
clerk in Washington Is 81 500 a year, and
one of these /, the law clerk of whom |
have Just spoken. Less than a score re-
teiNe sl,60 Per annum, but larger mum
Der get >l,A0, and hundreds are paid
Sl,Vo year. Mere cOpyists receive often
rs low ;s $50, and there is large class Of
women who work by piecework, and who
do the class of labor that would be re-.
qnired in factory The salaried clerks
work from porloek until L. with short
recess ut noon tor lunch They have all
vi their evenings to themselves. and never
take any work home with them. They get
their pay regularly at the 18th and Goth
III every month and each Of them
AAS months vacation every year
with iu.l pay during the time. They are
treated politely, are free from worry and
the positions may be considered very
desirable ones
The women Of the government printing
office are paid M n rule by tho piece or
by the day. Those on piece work make
SIX day and there are over lUO women
no employed They stitch pamphlets, run
numbering machines, fold and paste for
the bindery, and they do in fact nearly
every class of work done In the govern
ment printing Office, Some OF them set
type. aud these receive 81 cents an hour,
AMI their average salaries are $40 a month
a llf4e numher Of guides are employed AT
the bllreau of engraving and printing.
and these are nearly all women An army
of swpepets and scrubbers il employed to
clean ont the treasury department every
day, and the woman who presides over
them gets about $50 a year. These sweep
or, and scrubbers of the various depart.
ments form another class of the working
women of Washington, and connected
with them is class who sew carpets In
the Treasury for the government build
inLs all over the country Then there IL
the colony Of washcrwomen, who wash
the thou ,,tnds of towels used In each de
paltmrnt ana the numerous women who
supply the clerks with food in the rtstau
rants of these great buildings.
Inol SANDS Of BRIGHT wOMEN
Outside of the government employ there
are thousands Of bright women who make
good litlng4 at the national capital The
pension aud patent lawyers employ hun
dreis as tvpe-Nriers, stenograi hers, AMI
clerks and going into the bureaus Of some
these offices i like going into one OF the
largest rooms Of "a great government de
paitment The majority OF the clerks OF
the dry goods and notion stores OF Wash
ington are women and the cashiers in
many cases ara Of the same sex. mum
Der Of women own stores in washington,
ami The finest Ire creams and CONNECTIONS
for the White House dinners for years
past have been supplied by little old
French woman, who ain told has made
a fortune ut the business
You can count the women lawyers and
physicians Of Washington upon your
fingers. hut there Is a number OF noted
persons among the few Belva lockwood,
the well known presidential candidate,
is the most noted Of the lawyers, anu Mrs
DR. Wlnsluw, who attended Chief Justice
White during his late sickness, and who
vas called ia now and then to see Presi
dent Arthur. is the most noted OF the doc
tors
Wa,hington il a great educational cen
ter AMI it abounds in private teachers
female s,minarics, and little schools
These ar, manipulated almost wholly by
women and the teachers Of the charitable
and public schools of the city, are made
up of some c1lored girls as well as some
White ones
There j. a class Of women here engaged
in literary work. and this embraces book
writer's. magazine writers.
The women correspondents OF Washing
ton are a. bright, brany, and busy set OF
nuntN making ladies as you will ma on
al, hn ypa