The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-09
Some Well Paid Workers.

New York has population Of work
ing women reaching in round figures tt
about 300, 900.
Many of these women fud it hare
enough to keep body and soul togeth
er. But there are many women il
New York who work for a livint
and are not complaining of the hare
times.
A saleswoman whose lot is associated
with poor wages, long hours, constant
standing and frequently fatigued to sa.
nothing Of the fines and injustice Of
foorwalkers and heads of stock has con
slant opportunities for advancing into
the ranks Of the well paid and the pros
porous.
One Of the plums within the reach
of the ambitious saleswoman who hal
tact, energy and taste, and has pos
sessed herself of the available knowl'
edge of the variety, quality, sala
bleness and value of the goods in hel
special line, is that Of becoming {
"buyer."
For instance, there is a young woman
employed in a dry goods house in
Twenty-third street whose salary il
| $65 per week and expenses the yeal
| round. She is foreign buyer. Twice
year she goes to Europe, stops only
| at frst-class hotels, and spends hel
time in the dainty selection Of beau.
tiful laces and tapestries and embroi.
deries, buying thousands of dollars
| worth of the loveliest stuffs for the
house.
Every large dry goods estab blishment
has humber Of women employed as
"heads Of stock" and assistant buyers,
They are responsible for the depart.
ment over which they preside. They
can employ such clerks as they need,
and discharge them as their judgmen,
dictates. Their buying is purely To-
cal. Their pay averages about $25
week
Within the past year or two several
saleswomen have been promoted to
the post of Aoor-walker, a position
hitherto occupied only by men. Their
pay is from SIG to $50 a week, accord
ing to the house in which they are en-
ployed.
The labor market is never glut-
ted with expert designers Of gowns
and bonnets. There are several firms
on Sixth Avenue and broadway,
which pay $50 week to the special
designers in their dressmaking depart
ment.
A 9Th avenue modiste employs a
young woman as manager of the work
rooms and pays her $65 week. The
position is an arduous one, as
she is responsible for the design and
fit and finish of every garment
that leaves the establishment; but
then most of the 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
s35 d month. Considering the sort of
board and lodging that is thrown in,
this sum is really equivalent to $50 a
month.
These working women are required to
be persons Of taste and agreeable man
ners, and to know all about hair dress
ing, shopping, trimming up an eve
ming bodice and mending everything
from stockings and gloves to fine laces,
also to be able to pronounce infalhbly
upon the completeness and tout
ensemble Of dinner or dancing toi-
let.
There are three or four women fore
men in printing Offices in New York
who get from $18 to $25 week. A
few women compositors make similar
wages. Good proof readers on the
daily papers are paid $21 week. There
are six women factory inspectors in
New York whose pay averages $23. 40
a week. Three women are in the en-
ploy Of the custom house at this port
as inspectors. They receive $2l a
week.
A good operator on custom tailor s
work can easily get employment at from
SO to $14 a week for eight or nine hours
work daily.
ses in New York whose services
are continually in demand at from
$26 to $35 a week with board and lodg-
ing.
Miss Louise Darche, superintendent
Of the New York City Training School
for Nurses, on Blackwelps Island, ,
receives $1,000 a year, besides hel
board and the use Of very cozy,
home-like apartment in the nurses
home in the gray-stone building at the
lower end of the Island. Some fac
tory pay rolls have names on them op-
posite which are written $12 and $15 a
week.
Feather workers say they don't earn
as good wages as they did FIVE or Six
years ago, but there are some of them
who manage to get up to the $l2 or $l5
mark.
There lisa story current about little
woman who entered the publishing
Office of fashion journal several years
ago as assistant correspondent, and who
is now head bookkeeper with salary OF
$50 week.
"These are not average women, OF
course, but that's just the reason Why
they have found the paying places, ;"
says an old worker. "They made up
their minds not to be satfised with
doing things in the average way, but
to do their level best, whether they
wera we'll Maid or not. and invariably