Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

form the scribe that they had not yet
succeeded in getting the force they are
in need Of and that in their line there
are no idle men in the town. He said
first class men could readily command
So a day, while even a passable man
would draw not less than 81. SO.
There is no surplus. even of common
day laborers in the city simply from
the fact that there is such
an enormous quantity Of improve
ment in progress hat all can find work,
The blackboards of all the employment
agencies in the city are INCREASINGLY
covered with their calls for teamsters.
The former are paid anywhere from
$l.75 to $3.50 and even as high as 80 per
day for particular work, while a team
ster can procure steady employment at
S25 a month and found.
A good mechanic can ALWAYS find
plenty to keep his hands full, and there
Is no good reason why the majority of
them should not be we'll off in this
worlds goods, and many of them are.
There are innumerable contracts
being let wen as late as this, and hun
dreds of foundations being put in.
There is plenty OF work for brick
layers right now and will be for three
months to come. And then a good
bricklayer commands 55 cents an hour,
and they ought surely be able to exc
out a pretty fair s~ustenance upon such
wages. Carpenters, too, are in precisely
the same boat, there is plenty of work
for them at 80 cents an hour.
In conversation with one leading con-
tractor the reporter learned hat dagos
were pretty generally considered the
best everyday laborer. They can be
had from % to so cent cheaper, and are
better workmen, in fact they know moth
ing but work and you see no ''soldiering'
among them, 1T is m steady. incessant
grind with them throughout the live
long day. You see no idle dagos, if he
isn't selling de banan," he's in the
ditch, the mortar-bed, on the road, with
pick, shovel and w~heelbarrow. plodding
away for his pittance of the stuff that
makes the female equine accelerate her
speed.
Brick masons' tenders are well paid,
receiving from 81 to $3.50 a day, with
plenty OF employment. A first class
tailor nee not remain idle one moment
here in the city OF Omaha. There is
any quantity of work for them at from
S25 to $50 a week, while ''bushelmenn
can earn from SIS to SlS. Good timers,
too, are in demand, at 1915 and So
a day. An advertisement for a good
inner would evoke but few responses,
simply because there is a poverty OF
good timers who want work anywhere.
They almost always find ready work.
Good cobblers make from so to Sl4 a
week. There is not much of a demand
for this class OF labor, for the day of
custon-made boots and shoes has gone
by, and this work is concentrated with
in the large cities. Small establish
ments are almost unknown these days,
and shoe stores instead of doing a Gus
tom work. simply keep a repair shop in
connection with their business.
There seems to be more young women
anxious for positions, clerkships, book
keepers, assistants, typewriters, stenog-
raphcrs, and SO on and so forth, than
there does men, in fact at a ratio Of ten
TO one. And an advertisement for a
young to fill any one of the posi-
tions enumerated, would bring out a
flood OF applications. The majority of
these applicants, too, will be young
ladies of culture and refinement, neat
and tidy in appearance, and lily sugges-
tive of want or the necessity Of earning
her livelihood. But still il is so, and
to-day there is in the city of Omaha
thousands OF young women and girls,
willing, eager to take an active part in
the toll OF the great hive Of life, some
from necessity, others from a desire for
occupation, and "a laudable ambition to
do for themselves.