Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-09
LIVING ON g A DA
Woman Who Figured Up Cost
 It Cannot Be Done.

4 ehO dSO SUlOu6l BUTT#7S S counsel for the trolley company sd
 Ie uldnt care what the edito'
 oa ..e newspapers said about his sid%
 ui ,u sne case provided the reporters give
 IL favorable mention thereby conyey, ing the impression that few take anyv s.och Ill editorials while everybody is .unuenced nal more or less by what the 1epvl.ers ',, tell about. This gave all the seIioes sWeiied heads and since that tlme most of them didn't know wheth- er they were standing on their heads VI VI, oh thelr heels. Of course the astute ..inp oL the law knew what he was get q. when ne made that remark and
 "niie it may have had the desired ehec. III some instances it is not likely
 snal lt worked all around, no doubt the soio.ei uldnt expect 1t would. The gnu sl, Ill view was to induce the reporters ~ U, boom hls side of the case and natur.
 s.l tne ealtors would take their cues rom what their scribes brought in and shape their conduct accordingly and i'm this way pretty soon the reporters. the ealtors and the public would be po,Ir- ing not shot into the strikers camp. bul tnat another matter. What we saal'eu out 10 say was that people do saAe some stock in what editors write taoW una then, and this fact was made very plain during the past few days
 nen all editorial ill the Democrat re- saruihg the cost of living set almost sNery man and woman in town to talk ins anu TOT time housekeepers forgot aii apout The strike and started in to do .a, soe ngurlng. Several who wrestIed
 Y. ni'n the subject told representative tne paper that the cost of living sf was put before them in such . pla,i way Defore and that it was a
 'eiy ioglcaI argument in favor of high. q wages. n fact, they felt that it elupnasized the knowledge pr Dayen- port showed of the cost of living in Wa lerDury at the present time when. ha ea,,. ma. III order to maintain their a,,a..,ls = Fl proper way the trolleymen siiouiu ol nave at least $15 week.
 one woman said her husband works ,n q Iactory and earns $2 day. They ,i nase SIX children and although her nusoanu IS very steady man she lounu herself handicapped in her ef- ~ ls v meet expenses without doing sollethlng herself and in order to make ehus meet she was obliged to take in ,No men Doarders and attend to them pesiues attending to all her other nousenolu duties. The lady said she thought the editor overlooked rev things and while she Wouidnt for the world have anyone tinnK she was finding fault with what ne had said, she wished to remind hin, that most people in Waterbury arc church-goers and that the churches cannot maintain themselves and there lore l. IL LOOKS to those who belong to them to build and maintain them. If you nave nothing she said, you are not Kept out, but somebody has to pay. and as q rule most people give some thlng. The editor don't allow for a penny at all for them. I suppose, she continued, the reason he believed that man who gets g day earns $600 a year IS because newspapers never ''cut', their help. Besides, she added, the editor made no allowance for day off in time of sickness or to attend the fu- neral of a member of his family or one of his neighbors. She also wanted to be informed as to how the S2 a day man was going to build home for himself, pay taxes and meet water rents. Tn conclusion, she declared that a man with family who earns but $2 a day and has family to sup port could not give tramp cup of coffee if his wife did not help out by keeping boarders, renting furnished rooms, doing little sewing or wash ing and going without many things which herself and children ought to have. The woman mentioned various other expenses that enter into the cost of living, but it would take too much space to mention them here. Asked how people managed to get along who do not earn over $1.5O a day she re- piled that such thing was out of the question in Waterbury and provide a suitable place to live in and secure food fit for human beings to eat.