The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-25
WOMAN's WORLD.
SERVANT GIRLS ARE SAID TO DE
SCARCE IN NEW YORK.

and Diet-Person,.l Paragraphs About
We'll Known Women.
The servant girl problem, which has
been agitated from time immemorial,
mas now become more serious than ever.
The scarcity of available girls is alarm
Sng, and what makes the situation more
unpleasant is the fact that the many en-
ployment agencies throughout tho city
hold out very little hope of improvement
until fall. The main reason for the pres
ient condition of affairs is the enormous
number of girls who have gone to Chi
scago, where they hope to combine bust
mess with pleasure and see the Worlds
fair
One of the largest employment agen-
ecies in the city is on Forty-second street.
To q reporter this morning the propri-
retor said: Never in my 80 years expe-
:rience at this business have seen girls
Il mean good, general housework girls
so scarce. My reason for it? Well,
Sbere are two. One is the Chicago fair,
and the other the many summer board
Ing houses and hotels that have begun to
get ready. Why, there was one concern
On this city that has sent over 800 girls
may imagine what a hole that makes in
Che supply. But from what hear most
of the girls wish themselves back in New
York city. They are finding out that
Chicago is not the Eldorado they expect
sd, and l guess a great many of them
will return in month or SO sadder, but
wiser, and, I might add, poorer women.
Several of my best girls who went on
&here have written me that if can place
them they will return Immediately. I
couldn't get to the telegraph Office
quickly enough to tell them to come on
4 expect them Monday, and they can
have their choice from 60 applications
for girls. Talk about your prima donna
selecting her part, she amt in it with
she servant girl of the present day Come
around about October. I'll have plenty
of girls then"
ii. L. Alderman, the manager of the
Cosmopolitan Employment agency, in
answer to the reporters question said
Arc servant girls scarce? Well, /
should say they are, and what makes it
more annoying is the fact that when a
good girl comes along she invariably
wants to go to Chicago, where she can
worse and worse. What the large no.
fels and private families will do this
1nmlner for good houseworl1ers l cannot
conjecture. Already their salaries have
bumped from Sl4 to $50, and they are
hard TO get at that. am thinking that
the thousands Of girls who went to Chi
cago will wish that they had remained
here. That city, understand, is over
crowded with girls not from New
York alone, but from all over tho coun-
try. The result is, think, that the
girls VIII come home sooner than they ex-
t;pocted. The servant girl today is an auto
scrat-she must he obeyed.' | really
;Geel sorry for my best patrons, who
blame me for not supplying them with
girls, but what am to do if the girl is
mot 10 be had? But things will be diff
fercnt in tho fall and the usual supply
will be on hand for all who want them :"
Probably one of the Oldest employment
agencies is the See e. Schaefer's. This
firm supplies help to the -Four Hundred
and are in Il position to know whereof
alley speak Regarding the scarcity of
girls. one Of the firm said: Eyes, there is
absolutely dearth of good housework-
as the supply. The Worlds fair is not
alone responsible for the scarcity of
girls. Yon see, the immigration has been
very slim of late and rs we get most of
our girls from that source it has greatly
Tnconvenienced us and annoyed our Gus
3omers. New York Commercial Advcr-
User.
a Woman Lawyer on Women In IA Jury.
Mrs. Theodore Sutro, the valedictorian
FOR the first grade graduating class of
The University Of New York Law school,
en- commenting On The Recorders special
Borden jury, which includes in its panel
Mrs. Lucy Stone, said:
81 do not know much about this one
particular case, for am not interested
in criminal cases at all beyond seeing by
&he headlines in the papers what is going
on in that line. But really do not
ahink women jurors would be Just the
1hing. The selection must be made of
women with very strong characters
great confidence III themselves and able
no detach themselves from their sur
ronndings in greater or less degree, and
THAT cannot always be done. 1t must he
u wonderful woman who could stand out
against / men"
Don't you think it {. good plan to
l,aye women jurors on cases when the
prisoner is a woman"
mo, do not. Women are nearly al
ways womans most severe critic, and
.She would fare very much better at the
bands of l2 men jurors than from the
sather sex. The only time really thinl;
n woman WOnll be of any rroat lIsa ON