The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
DoMEsTICs SENT BY THE STATE.

Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
If you want a housemaid New York State
Will get one for you promptly, obligingly
and without charge All you need to do is
to sit down and Write a brief note or, bet
ter yet, step to the nearest telephone and
call up 740 Madison square. If you are
have only TO call upon the State. Not a
cent will be charged, and yet situations are
as thick as blackberries. Over three hum
dred places are being found a month. From
Jan. / to April ! of this year, nearly LOCO
applicants were given employment.
Better still, If a woman or man employer,
OF private family or of hotel. or any
servant or help is pettily swindled by
one OF the employment agencies with which
Manhattan and Brooklyn are dotted, a fee
being taken, nothing coming of il, and the
money not being returned, all that is need
ed is to visit or communicate with this
special branch of the State government,
and presto, some inside pressure is brought
to bear. The employment agency comes
very quickly off its high horse, and the APP
plicant has little trouble getting his or her
money back.
Such is the niche of value the State
government has made for itself in the af-
fairs of its citizens. Unfortunately this
new field of State work is not nearly so well
known as II might be. Comparatively few
people have heard if il, and fewer yet
awaited themselves of it's services.
Officially ii is the Free Employment
Bureau of New York States department of
labor. 1t is located very centrally, in the
of old brownstone house at LOT East
Thirty-first street, just a door or SO to the
east of Fourth avenue. Since its beginning
John J. Bealin has been it's superintendent.
In a few paragraphs in a brief circular
he has recently issued, Mr.. Bealn has sum-
med up the purposes, scope and accom-
the present writer could do by changing the
wording. Here, therefore, follow some ex-
tracts:
Just word or two about the State of
New EmnlOvmQnt Rnrnqn
urally you will ask. What is the bureau?
The bureau is labor exchange conducted
by the State OF New York and is free to
employer and employe,. the State paying
the running expense of the same.
1.-The people who use this bureau to find
employment file an application, giving the
A confidential inquiry asking as TO the
character, ability, etc, of the applicant Is
then sent the last employer. which upon it's
People living out of town add sending
orders by mail should in all cases state
the kind of help required, just what they
would have to do, and the wages to be paid,
etc; .
party whom you intend to employ. 1t may
cost you little more, but 1t pays in the
when mail orders are filled and trans
p0rtation is advanced, a postal order for
the amount must be sent payable to the
undersigned at station Il, New York city.
Checks will not be accepted
IF at any time ii becomes necessary for
you to advertise for help you can arrange
to have such people meet you at this Office
at any time suitable TO your purpose be-
tween the hours of a. m and 5 p M, ex-
ceptng Saturday, on which day We are
obliged TO close at noon.'
On such firm basis is this bureau now
that for the first three months of the year
it placed in positions 81 per cent. of those
applying for work. a remarkable record:
all in ALL when consider that many of
those who want domestic situations come
to the Free Employment Bureau as a last
resort, having gone the rounds of the
agencies and failed in them because Of old
age or incompetency.
these old or Incompetent people are the
bureaus main stock in help. or that it takes
the "leavings'' of the pay agencies 1t is
very much otherwise, as matter of fact.
The best class of domestic help is coming
to go to this labor exchange first of all
finding in it capital chances of securing
employment without delay, and free. The
bureau is working well, indeed, in more
ways than one since ii keeps in good be-
havior and on a fair and just basis the pay
agencies, many Of whom need only the
feeling that they are not being watched to
commit all sorts OF impositions on the poor
and destitute.
From 9 until o'clock each day domestics
are I'm waiting in a back room, where they
can be personally picked out by household
ers and hotel people. All kinds OF labor
upon application, clerks, unskiled workers.
house people. But it is the latter class
that practically concerns this institution al
most entirely. 1t has become great
clearing house" for help, along the most
model and the most efficient of lines.