Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-08
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 The State agent for the Connecticut hu- mane society has found aged couple in Danbury the parents of 13 children, who are nearly all living, and who have deserted the old people, now sadly in need of their aid. Both are over 80 years old; the father is to- tally blind and the mother is paralyzed.
 OLD PEOPLE DEAD.
 Several deaths among the old people of Danielsonville have occurred within the last few days Miss Esther Danielson, a lifelong resident of the town, and an estimable. gem erous and devoted Christian woman, died at her home last Saturday, aged about eighty,
 Mrs. Hannah P. Dimmick of Danielson- vile, widow of the late Daniel Dimmick, died after brief illness early yesterday morning, being upwards of seventy years of age.
 Mrs. David Hutchins of Brooklyn, but formerly of Danielsonville, died on Monday. aged seventy-three.
 Mir Moses Waldo, of Brooklyn, died Sun day morning after long and painful illness, aged eig hty-seven.
 HARTFORD SHOP GIRLS DEFENDED
 The published report of Dr. Kate Bush nelTs address at the Fourth church Sunday evening.created considerable comment about town yesterday, and some indignation was felt at the implied reflection it cast upon the shop girls of the city. A reporter of the Courant called at three of the largest retail dry goods stores here yesterday and inter- viewed the proprietors on the subject. One of these gentlemen said that the speakers remarks had nothing whatever to do with Hartford. The girls in his store, he said, received on an average $6 a week. They lived for the most part at home and were abundantly able to support themselves. Another proprietor said that the wages of the girls in his establishment averaged from n a " AnnnOh tn Ia them to live well, considering the fact that almost without exception they had homes of their own. "In big cities," he said, Git is of course hard for girls from the country to board themselves on slender wages. What Dr. Kate Bushnell said, !" he concluded, "does not apply to Hartford"
 The third proprietor took decided exoep- tions to portion of what she had said. q believe" he began, ''that the average amount of wages paid to working women in New York clty-eXcepting house servants, and they obtain their board-is nearer $2 day than $2 week. One hears pretty strong statements to the contrary, as, for instance, in the present case. have heard a story re- gently in New York paper to the effect that the poor women in that city who make heavy plush sacques are terribly ground down, but the facts do not substantiate it. The truth of the matter is that these garments are made entirely by Polish Jews, who get $2.63 apiece for them and four are about days work. Women don't touch them as the work is too heavy. Now I merely mention this to show how unreliable people are who make careless statements of this nature. The girls in my store earn on an average $6 week and don't suppose there is a store in town where the wages as low as $2. Another matter: The shop girls who work in the stores up and down Main street are as respectful and as discreet as the average of the young ladies to be found on any of our city avenues. ."-Hart ford Courant.