The morning times., 1895-07-09
NO PITY WAS SHOWN HER
Laundry Girls Wrongs Submitted
to Legal Advice Bureau,
SW00NED AT HER WORK
Couldn't Afford 10 Quit Even for
Day During the Sweltering June
Month-Her Pay Only So. so "a w eek.
Her Employers Charged the Doe
tors Bill Against Her Wages.

One of the most outrageous cases OF
imposition on the poor girl in service is
now in the hands of the Times Bureau of
Legal Advice. The attorneys for The Times
do not care, out of consideration for the
gin and her family, TO give names, but
as with everything from that source, the
stories and the sufferers are current events.
The young lady'S story as related to the
attorneys is this: She was an employe in
one OF the laHndries of the city and was
in that department in which she received
the full benefit of the heat of the boilers
and mangling machines
When the weather became intolerably
hot in June she began to suffer terri
bly,, but no attention was paid to the in
roads of her hard work on her constitu-
tlon. She had, OF course, either to resign
or submit
SUBMITTED TO HER TASK.
She submitted TO the very hard work
and the effects of the murderous heat
until one day during the red-hot days of
the first week in June she succumbed to
the outward and inward heat and swooned
away over her work.
This Internal work, by the way, this
poor girl was doing at $40 week; and
there are so many girls in tie city whose
condition is SO hard that they would work
for less that the poor unfortunate knew
that her place could be easily filled il
she declined her task.
The brutality OF the story is that the
company charged the physicians expenses
to the girls salary, which, as stated, was
$3.50 a week.
The grossness. the coaEs eness, the alb
Solute inhumanity OF his proceeding aroused
the friends OF the girl, and the consequence
is the investigation now in tie hands OF
The Times Bureau.
MAY SETTLE OUT OF COURT.
The mere relation OF this case VIII be
shock to the whole community. II is the
plaintiffs case and. of course, the defendant
viii be entitled 10 a hearing in the court
or in The Times. The attorneys OF the
bureau are in hopes that the matter VIII
be settled out Of court, and such VIII un-
doubtedly be the issue of the case after
this publication. a demand has been made
on the laundry people in the matter and
a reply is awaited with some interest.
The Bureau OF Advice secured yesterday
the settlement Of a case 20 the benefit
Of some mall Children who otherwise
mi Eht have been kept ont Of their rights for
years Their mother died aud the property
was sold under deed of trust The trus
tees declined 10 pay over the money on the
ground that guardian should be appointed
for the children
The Times attorneys succeeded in con-
vinciug the trustees that the father had
an estate of courtesy which entitled him
10 the use OF the estate for his life and that
il was their duty 10 pay it over TO him.
HARDSHIP AVERTED.
They agreed to the proposition and the
small but welcome pittauce VIII now go
10 the infant children failure to
settle this case would have entailed
untold hardships on the poor family The
point in this case, as in all others under
taken 10y the bureau, was that the plain
tiffS needed free advice They got it
through The Times, and the result has
been to them a Godsend.
The proceedings in the recovery Of a
child now in the custody of a mother. where
divorce had been granted, were begun by
The Times attorneys yesterday before Judge
Bingham. In this case it appears the
mother. who has the present charge Of the
child, is not so entitled by decree OF
court. which has been disobeyed, and the
father now intervenes to inforce the order
Of the court emitting him to the custody
OF the child. The return day is the 18th
instant.