The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-20

Nine. Soule OF West Twenty eighth
street pays Miss Plant, her filter. SOS a
week, but makes her responsible for the
style and 1t Of every waist that leaves the
house. The designer of skirts gets S25: the
sleevemaker SD, and fifteen fnishers OF
waists are paid $40 week.
Mime. Hartley, the Broadway and Fifth
avenue modesto, pays q little French girl
sS5 week for getting mp special designs
in mourning millinery This quick witted
bOnnsrmaker goes to the house where death
is with box full Of frames, paper Of pins
and pair Of scissors.
Each of the ladies are fitted with a frame.
and her name chalked on it. The next day
the bonnets are brought back with the wells
pinned in place, and it is the exception
when alterations sre needed.
Two stately young ladies In White &
Towards who receive customers command
salaries OF $l6 week. They are on duty
eight hours a day, but all that they are re-
quired TO do 10 to walk about the rooms aud
corridors and carry themselves superbly. "
And they do it too.
Miss Olga Newman the Madison avenue
dentist, would not fill the smallest cavity in
your tooth for less than $40.
Fifteen years ago Miss Cornell went into
Macy's shoe department as a stock girl.
Now she is the manager, has an army of
girls under her. designs costume slippers
and fancy shoes for stage favorites and So
ciety women, aud is worth $4,000 year to
the firm.
She is a most unassuming little creature
not any taller than l4-year-old girl. and
goes about the store like the rest of her as
sistants in black pilgrim dress and black
muslin apron.
Stern Bros. employ seventy-hve clerks
in the suit, millinery and dressmaking de-
partments, at salaries varying from sis to
$40 a week, and Best & Co. are very glad
to pay $40 a week to the young woman who
can sell goods and make suggestions for
catchy liliputian suits.
Richards, the glover. pays his girls Sls a
week, but aside from selling goods be looks
to them for ideas in selecting salable stock
and getting up novelties.
The young woman employed as stenog-
raphsr by the general freight agent Of the
Grand Central depot gets SIS a month. and
Is as gay as a lark
Mrs. Hamilton NICK. Twombly has a
nursery goVerness that she pays $40 a
month, and her housekeeper, a gentle
woman who met with reVerses that COM
PEELED her TO give up her position in one of
the most exclusive circles Of New York
society, draws salary of $3.50 month.
Mrs. John Rockefeller has private school
in West FIfty-fifth street. The young
woman who is preparing the daughters for
college Is engaged from October till June
at salary Of $1,000 year for four hours
instruction five days in the week. This is q
much larger salary than any woman
teacher in the public school servics re-
ceives.
In the New York custom house the cal
lector employs sixteen women--nine as in-
spectresseS aud seven for charwork. The
inspectresses receive $2l week.
Mrs. Bremen. the factory Inspector, draws
a salary of SsS 3S1s per month, but there
are days when she works fifteen hours at a
stretch.
At rough guess there are 1900 women
employed as cashiers among the New York
merchants, who receive not less than SIS a
week, and stenograpber who writes
ninety words minute has no difficulty in
getting 81 day. A dressmaker who goes
out to work commands SO day, and IL she
brings her assistant she gets So, and very
often board and lodging.
Girls who have charge Of the ladies' toilet
room in drst-class theaters got $40 a month
for attendance during the evening and after
noon performances, and about the same
wages are paid in banks and restaurants for
similar service.
Taking Altman g. Co. as an example. It
will be seen that the life Of a dry goods
clerk ia far from oppressive. In this firm
there are 1880 employees, perhaps, half Of
whom belong to the gentle sex. Little girls
in their teens who sell goods are paid from
So TO 81 a week. Those of few years ex-
psrieuce get $40, aud more reliable sales
women are paid 50 day.
Head saleswomen, who have charge OF
their respective departments, get between
md
ments receive $50, and five young women
between the ages of rs aud 80, who buy
goods, earn between $50 and $50 week
The foreign buyers 80 abroad twios year
for suits, cloaks, millinery, underwear and
infants and childreD's clothing, aud are
absent two or three months.
They travel first class, live at the bes
hotels and charge all expenses to the firm.
There is not one case on record of these
women buyers falling among thieves, nor
are there any mysterious sundries on their
expense accounts to bother the auditor and
cashier.
The woman In the dressmaking dspart-
ment who gets up special designs draws $50
q week, reliable filters get $40, expert
diapers $25 and $50, and good ail-rouud
operators on skirts and basques $50 and S22.
There Is demand at all times for trained
nurse girls at wages varying from $50 to
$50 a month, which, In consideration of the
excellent homes they enjoy, Is equivalent to
$50. Ladies' maids who can sew, dress hair.
read, shop aud do fine needlework IL re-
quired, can get all the employment they
want in New York at S35 month, and Sc
lect their employers.
Any expert typewriter who knows how
to spell correctly and then can take dicta-
ton on the instrument Is able to command a
salary OF $75 month. In the Casino The
ater Company dozen girls earn all the way
from $12 TO $50 week sewing on costumes
and forty costume members, who repair
gloves. lace, silk hosiery and ernbroider
patch dresses and closks, put fresh Sweep.
ers" in trains and fresh rnffies in coats aud
basques, get between $40 and SlS q week
for few hours day.
Mime. Loe, who has charge of the Casino
wardrobe. draws 81 800 year, but she il an
artistic and worth every penny of n,
Miss Isabel PARCEL, principal OF the Nor
NAL College Training School, gets 81, 75o a
which is the Highest salary paid any woman
in the public school system. se7
Nine. Cootrelly, as stage directress in
Palmers thsater, drew $500 week, or
$40, 400 q year. by all odds the best pay for
a working woman In the city, IL mos In
America. 1Qf ~
Good proof readers Ia Newspaper com
posing rooms make s2l a week, But pub
fishers pay considerable less. Miss Qriggs,
who ia employed by Fifth avenue publish
ing house, sells books on commission an
clears 81, 200 year.
Miss Abrahsms, in the employ OF Bren-
tano; Miss Lynch, in Dsnning's, and Miss
Kinnear, In Macy's, hold responsible posi-
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