Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-27

spike chain and can earn sh;Iiurs a
week, hut 0nly comes into the shop when
she can snare time. Sometimes, how
ever. she works on till 10 at night In an
other shop is girl Of g. who has been four
years 40 the trade making chains She il "a
good hand and can earn . shil.iuEs TO To
shillings "A week.
Tar LIVELIHOOD or An ENpERr
Mrs Davis Is the wife al "a vase maker and
has family of ten children Her husband is
much out of work She Is making the best
small chains. AMI is one Of the best al tie
trade One OF her daughters blows for her
Mrs Davis says she might earn . suilhues
per week II hestuck an her time Ia the Wort L.
shop. Two 90 the family were at work as
cham maker and wise mHker. and earned Is
shIIlmgs aud 3 shillluEs peuce respectively.
Their rent was shilipEs pence and there
was pence @ pay Tor schooling. How tile
family lived from one week to another she
really could not tell Several children We're
without shoes, aud how TO get them for the
winter she dti not know. They had TO he
content with bread and butter. or bread and
lard, and tea % most meals. hut sometimes
they would have bacon or fish and bread TO
dinner That day they had only Cruel iney
used three pecks of flour "a week at shiilin4s
peck They bad to make q pound OF tea
serve the week and about pounds 81 butter
at 10 pence q pound They occasionally got
Nt tfHiitsstf tAlttti % hit Oh HAl rtiti as ~
was y win be noticed in this ease. as in
many others, that very large families are the
rule rather than the exception among these
workers
RAcoN AMI cHFRsE rHElR SfFAL
Another woman On small rliain says she
car clear shlugs l0i2 pence week hut
has TO attend homework On her sinithy
hearth she has box rugged up for the accom-
modHtion 81 therc children. which are half
her family Her husband. SHE said, was "a
day laboror and earned 3 shiiliu0s 20 3
fhillings md pencea day, She was general
Is at work from ia the morning 10 80
in the evening Their rent was shilings and
9 pence hup even with her husbands wages
and her earnings she did not thVik she could
live well. She had not tasted meat for three
days. and bacon aud cheese was what they
mostly had with their bread. This is a strik-
ing case as showing that even where the hua
band earns a wage as "a laborcr much above
the average OF the chain makers in this 10 'al
ity the wife spends nearly al her time ia the
shop for , shillugs 10i4 pence week. with
the evident result that at least. all she may
earn IS lost by detective housewiiery and neg
lect OF family
There are some children here asleep in
box, where their mothers have placed them.
OF these workers. two divide 1 shillings he
tween then. weekly. and the other takes
Ehiilngs 3 pence. They work nll day and
e. en- have their meals taken to them at the
shop. The inspector, they said, had been
there the day before and prevented them
working long hours, so that they would earn
less wages now
question as to how much il cost them for
butchers meat WINS received with scorninl
laughter. Meat and potatoes, u appeared,
was a treat reserved for Sundays ouly, ana
very often they did not have any then, II
may be taken as a general rule here that the
standard of living reaches always its highest
point on Sunday, aud falls Oft day by day
until the Saturday. Even IN the case Of this
man, who with his wife aud family seemed
above the average OF hts fellows, this was So
and on the day Of my visit hc had break
ias'ed on oatmeal prue not wholesome oat
meal purridge. but thin. Watcry Cruel. For
dinner there had been the familiar bread ana
bacon, Of which latter, y pound had TO serve
the whole iamily few other items OF his
weekly budget were coal, | shilling G pence;
"a pound tea At pence; pounds butter NJ
q pence; aud potatoes, occasionally, came
to pence
SAMPLE AVERAGE WEEKLY wAGEs.
Mr. Green has further furnished me with
written statement as To theayernge earnings
OF his work people, from which the following
particulars are extracted:
Appro1inate Average
Number " Weekly
Wurkpcoplc. " lxee
no men or 3
200 women ,s.t......E or ltS
30 youths ...3,..... .-...-ss-.s. ,..,- ~ or w
30 girls ..... ...,......-...-.-...s s or le1
so Youus women .....5.........-........ as or IS
Particulars taken from the books Of tine
firm Tor "a week give Averages az follows
Matters. Chain Makers.
d. d.
Men ...,.............a... 10 or $40 - Dor $40
Women ................ 9or ~ 4or 10
Youths ...a.t-..-.... or Is3 Il / or 2A9
Girls ........... or 81 ..-- ..-s-.
Dung Women - 6 Tor i.5s or 20s
such il the report Of the government inyes-
tgatorl
THE MlsERlEs or CHApLFY HTArH.
Cfadiey lIeath il at the other end OF tho
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