The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-10

Eofa the volcano, and the hole flied with
water. There is no known inlet or outlet
for the water, which, nevertheless, is of
most wonderful freshness and transparent
cy. Crater lake is the center Of what is
now Crater Lake National Park which.
contains 242 square miles, and was set
apart for that purpose by congress last
winter ..f-
Servant Girl Problem.
AS it is natural to rejoice in other peo-
pies troubles, It may please many people
to hear that the people Of Washington
have, at last, been overtaken by that
servant girl problem Until the last
few months dwellers in this city have
listened with compla isance to the walls
from Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and
other northern cities where cooks were
forming unions and scrub ladies were
going IN for clubs and societies. They
felt quite superior when they heard that
people were fiocking to hotels and board
lighthouses, because they could no longer
keep their homes. For, in Washington
there We're the unfailing >colored people,
trained In the south, competent, cheerful
and civil. In Washington there are so, 900
colored population. Many of them have
been going out to service, accepting mod
crate wages, and going home nights. They
We're the comfort and mainstay Of the
housekeeper.
But something has happened The
same kind Of something which licked UP
the good, old fashioned girls, in other
places. has caused them to evaporate
from here. The complaint is universal,
competent servants are scarcer than hens
teeth. a newspaper man took the trouble
to canvass the intelligence offices and was
told the same thing by all-the demand is
greatly In excess of the supply. The
newspapers show the same thing daily in
their want ad" commissioners of adj
wages, telling of the smalIness of the
FAMILY specifying that there is no wash
ing to be done, and setting forth the at
tract1veness and ease Of the situation in
glowing terms. In the same paper will be
short quarter of a column Of "situa-
! lions wanted-female." ., !,
AT one Intelligence office it was learned
mat white servants are being brought to
washington from New York and othtr
places In considerable numbers The small
| towns Of Virginia and North Carolina are
pelng canVassed for white as well as col
ored girls who are willing to come north
1t is also declared that the colored serv-
ants are being rapidly displaced by the
white people. The colored servant Is rap.
| idly declining in favor and MANY good
housekeepers declare that they will not
have that kind in the house. They OBJ
ject to them because; they frequently are
not clean, because they live nights ir
questionable places, because they stea
food and carry it home to families OF
their own, and because they are not the
| courteous race they once were whethe,
or not this is a true bill against the col
| ored servants in Washington as a class
the fact remains that they are rapidly
| falling into disrepute and being replaced
by the white race. -,
People who are interested in looking fol
reasons for such changes are disposed tt
attribute it to the education of the race
The new generation which has been reared
since the war has had the same educa
tional advantages in this city as the
whites. They have their grammar schools
and high schools, maintained at public
\expense. and they all go, and most Of
them go with an ambition to become
teachers themselves, or to enter some