Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-15
THEY ARR WE'LL PAID.
NEW YORK WOVEN WHO DRAW FAT SALARIES
KVRRY WEEK.
You Don't Fear Them Complaining Of Hard TINES
BOokksspsrs and Cos;1msrs who Could Start a
Bank Aeco1n,-Sixtesn Dollars Week
to Look Supsrb-krs. Twonblys
$4,000 Hsusskscpsr.
Yt,c York World.

rest. But il would De very sad II there
were no sunny spots In the great field
OF labor, il no lines were cast in pleas
ant places and no smooth roads could
be found that led TO happy proSperl-
".
In Huyler's candy factory severa
hundred girls are employed at the
sweetest and lighteSt kind Of work, av
eraging six hours a day, for which they
are paid 81 and $40 a week. The firm
provides a free lunch of crackers and
oatmeal or soup and bread and butter
with a cup OF tea, and there is sick
room back of the lockers with q kindly
disposed and very intelligent matron IN
charge to look after the girls. This
provision is necessitated by the sweet
tooth of the sex.
The editor of the Metropolitan en-
ploys pretty little blonde woman as
head bookkeeper and pays her thirty
dollars week. She went into the Office
several weeks ago as an assistant cor
respondent and worked her way 10 her
present position. Her dealings are al
most wholly with men, but she has pre-
served her :emininity through it all
and her manners are gracious and
charming.
Miss Cynthia WeStoyer, Commissioner
Beattie's secretary, draws salary OF
SEQ, and does all the work that is done
in that gentleman's Office. She speaks
German and italian, pays off all the
men In the service, has fair knOwl-
edge OF stenOgraphy, and can write
capital business letter, brief and cOurte-
Gus, that may mean nothing or great
deal, according TO the requirements Of
the case.
Nine. Soule, OF West Twenty-eighth
street, pays Miss Plant, her filter, sos a
week, but makes her responsible for
the style and fit Of every waist that
leaves the house. The designer Of
skirts gets SOS, the sleeve-maker 500 and
fifteen fnishers Of waists are paid $50
week.
Nine. Hartley, the Broadway and
Fifth avenue modiSte, pays a little
French girl S35 a week for getting up
special designs in mourning millinery.
This Quick-witted bonnet-maker goes to
the house where death is with box
full of frames, q paper OF pins and a
pair Of scissors. Each Of the ladies is
fitted with a frame and her name
chalked in it. The next day the bon
nets are brought back with the wells
pinned in place, and it is the exception
when alterations are needed.
Two stately young ladies in White &
HOwards who receive customers COM
mand salaries Of SIC week. They are
on duty eight hours a day, but ali they
are required to do Is to walk about the
rooms and corridors and carry them
selves Superbly." And they do 10, too.
Miss OlgO Newman, the Madison ave-
nue. dentist, would not ill the SMALLEST
cavity in your tooth for less than $40.
Fifteen years ago Miss Carroll went
into MacY's shoe department as stock
girl Now she Is the manager, has an
army Of girls under her, designs cos
tume slippers and fancy shoes for stage
favorites and society women and Is
worth S., 900 year to the firm. She Is
q most unassuming little creature, not
anytaller than a fOUrteen-year-old girl,
and goes about the store like the rest
of her assistants In black Pilgrim
dress and black muslin apron.
Stern Bros. employ seventy-five clerks
in the suit, millinery and dreSsmaking
departments, at salaries varying from
Sl6 to $40 q week, and Best IL Co. are
very glad 10 pay $50 a week TO the
young women who can sell goods and
make suggestions for catchy Liliputlan
suits.
Richards, the gloyier, pays his girls
SIS a week, but aside from selling goods
he looks 10 them for ideas in selecting
salable stock and getting up novelties.
The young woman employed as stem
ographer by the General Freight Agent
of the Grand Central Depot gets SIS a
month and is as gay rs lark.
Mrs. hamilton Mex. TwOmbly has a
nursery gOverness that she pays $40
month, and her housekeeper, gentle
woman who met with reverSes that COM
PEELED her to relinquish her position in
one OF the most exclusive circles OF New
York society, draws 4 salary OF $3.50 a
month.
Mrs. John Rockefeller has private
school for her children in one Of the
Aston houses in West Fifty-frst street.
The young woman who is preparing the
daughters for college is engaged from
October till June 50 salary OF So, 900 a
wear for four hours instruction five
DAYS In the week. This Is much
larger salary than any woman teacher
in the public school service receives. Q
In the New York Custom House Col
lector Fassett employs sixteen women,
nine as inSpectresSeS ane seven for char
work. The inspectresses receive SCI a
week.
Mrs. Bremen, the factory inspector,
draws a salary of SS3.33ls per month,
but there are days when she works tif-
teen hours st stretch.
At rough guess there are two 5000
women employed as cashiers among the
New York merchants who receive not
less than SIS week, and stenogra-
pher who writes ninety words minute
has no difficulty in getting % day. A
dressmaker who goes out 10 work COM
mands 90 a day, and II she brings her
assistant she gets s. and very often
board and lodging.
Girls who have charge Of the ladies'
toilet room in tlrSt-claSS theatres get
$40 month for attendance during the
evening and afternoon performances
and about the same wages are paid
In banks and restaurants for similar
service.
Taking Altman & Co. as an example
Il will be seen that the life Of dry
goods clerk is Far from oppressive. In
this firm there are l,5O0 employees, per
hans half OF whom belong 70 the gentle
sex. Little girls In their teens who sci
goods are paid from IS TO s. week
Those of a few years experience ge'
SO. and more reliable saleswomen arr
paid - a day. Head Saleswomen, who
have charge Of their respective depart
ments, get between SIS and SEQ week
Managers Of departments receive $50
ood fvo vollnr women between The