Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-24
Some Well-Paid Workers.

Boston Globe.
New York has a population of working
women reaching in round figures to about
500. 600
Many of these women find il hard enough to
keep body and soul together. But there are
women in New York who work for living and
are not complaining of hard times.
A saleswoman whose lot is associated with
poor wages. long hours. constsnt standing and
frequent fatigue. 10 say nothing of the fines and
the injustice of hoorwalkers and heads of stock
has constant opportunities for advancing into
the ranks of tine well paid and the prosperous.
One of the plums within the reach of the
ambitious saleswoman who has tact. energy and
taste. and has possessed herself of the available
knowledge OF the varie,v, quality. salableIess
and value of the goods in her special line, IS
that of becoming a buyer"
For instance. there is a Young woman en-
ployee by a dry goods house in 2Sa street
whose ". ekl salary is SC5 ana expenses the
year round. She is foreign buyer. Twice
year she goes TO Europe. stops only at first
class hotels and spends her time in the aaiutv
selection OF beautiful laces and tapestries and
embroideries. buying Thousands II dollars
worth of the love.iU,, stGf,s tOG the Aoase
Every large dry goods establishment has a
number OF women ccnl loyea Meals as
/ stock ard assistant Sgye-A They are re.poa-
tlole for the department over Ehlca ihey pre-
! sIde. They can enIpiov such clerks AZ y ev
need. and discharge trem as their Ow- jggx-
ment dictates. Their buying is pn:sly local
Their pay averages about S25 week.
! Within the past year or two several sales
floor walker, a position hitherto occupied by
only men. Their pay is from sl6 to $40 a
week. according to the house in which they are
employed.
The labor market is never glutted with ex-
pert design ers OF gowns and bonnets. There
I cal
way which pay $50 week TO the special de-
signers in their dressmaking departments
A 9TH avenue modIste EMPLOYS O Young
woman as manager of the work rooms and paws
her S65 week. The position is an arduous
one. as she is responsible for the design and it
and finish OF every garment that leaves the
establishment: but then most women would
expect to do considerable hard work for that
salary.
There is a small army of ladies' maids in New
York city who receive SIS a month. Consid-
ering the sort Of board and lodging that is
thrown in this sum is really equivalent to go
month.
These working women are REQUIRED to he
persons Of taste and agreeable manners, and to
know all about hair dressing, shopping, trim
ming up an evening bodice and mending every
thing from stockings and gloves to fine laces.
also to be able to pronounce infallibly upon the
completeness and tout ensemble of q dinner or
= dancing toilet.
There are three or four women foremen in
printing Offices in New York who get from SIS
to S25 q week. A few women compositors
make similar wages Good proof readers on
the daily papers are paid s21 a week. There
are six women factory inspectors in New York
whose pay averages e23.40 q week. Three
women are in the employ of the custom house
at this port as inspectors. They receive S21
week.
& good operator on custom tailors' work can
easily get employment at from 80 to GA week
for eight or nine hours work daily.
There are 1000 or 200 trained nurses in New
York whose services are constantly in demand
at from S25 to SIS week, with board and
lodging.
Miss Louise Darche, superintendent CT the
New York City Training School for Nurses on
Backwell's Island, receives 81 900 q year, be-
sides her board and the use Of q very COW.
home-like apartment in the nurses home in the
gray-stone building at the lower end of the
island. Some factory pay rolls have names
on them opposite which are written $l2 and
els
Feather workers say they don't earn az good
wages as they did hve or six years ago, but there
are some OF them who manage to get up to the
$12 or SIS mark.
There is a story current about little woman
who entered the publishing Office of a fashion
Journal several years ago as assistant cores
pondent, and who is now head bookkeeper with
a salary of $50 a week.
These are not average women, of course.
but that Just the reason why they have found
the paying places, says old worker '.They
made up their minds not to be satisfied with
doing things in the average way, but to do their
level best, whether they were well paid or not,
and invariably the good paw came, too."'