The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-29
MORE GIRLS WANTED
EMPLOYMENT FOR THOSE WHO
FIND TIME on THEIR HANDS.
PAY IS GOOD AND WORK EASY.
CIGAR co. OFFERS
INDUCEMENTS FOR MORE LABOR.

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INDUCEMENTS FOR MORE LABOR.
Pleasant Work Where Girls Can
Make from $I2 to $40 Per Week,
and More When They Have Thor
OughIy Learned the business.
There Is No "Bnnd to Play While
They Eat But There Is IA Piano
to Play While They WorIx-Em-
pIOyment OGered to -Four Hundred
Girls Resides Those Now in the
Factory.
Savannah is either shy on girls in
moderate circumstances or they have
aims higher than sitting in comforta-
BILE chairs while they work, and earn
salaries that are better than the aver
ages paid to sales girls. The Ameri-
can Cigar Company has a standing Of
fer of employment to 800 or 400 girls,
agreeing to pay them a salary of SO
while they learn a trade at which
they can make from $40 to $12 a week
In the factory of the company at the
corner of Bay and Montgomery streets
there are now employed about 800
girls, ranging in ages from IA to 25
years, engaged in making cigars, and
a visit through the factory will dissi-
pate all objections that a girl, who is
willing to work in store, but has
objections to going into factory,
might have.
Easy Place TO Work.
There IS, perhaps, no concern in Sa-
vannah where more care is taken for
the comfort of the employees. The
building where they work daily is as
clean as the most scrupu1ous housewife
could desire in her own home. The
work itself is not only easy, but is in
teresting, and after some experience
! highly remunerative. Not only does the
management of the factory see that the
| employees are provided with comfort
able seats, the latest devices known to
| the trade of manufacturing cigars,
| cloak rooms. lunch rooms and other
conveniences, but concerts are given
| all through the day by an expert pian-
| ist. The piano is carried from floor to
| floor every hour and each department
Il
! If the employees so desire they can have
| the pianist play anything they like, and
| all join in singing.
This is a new departure in the fac
| tories of the American Cigar Company,
and was first introduced in Savannah.
1t has been found highly satisfactory
and the employees have shown their APP
probation of the efforts of the manage
ment of the factory in more ways than
one.
Work Is Healthy.
According to expert opinion tobacco
! is an antidote to nearly all contagious
| diseases. 1t is a noticeable fact that
! there is less sickness among the en-
| ployes of cigar and tobacco factories
! than almost any other pursuit. Accord
| ing to statistics now in the possession
of the American. Cigar Company of all
the pursuits followed by girls and
women cigar making is less menacing
to health. Every precaution is taken
! to see that the rooms where the girls
work are large, we'll ventilated and
well lighted. There is ample room for
| them to exercise in. In fact they are
required to get up from their work
| benches every half hour or less and go
| for their supplies, which relieves the
monotony of sitting all day at their
work.
Southern Manager G. H. Hummel of
| the American Cigar Company is in Sa
vannah at present and when seen by
| Morning News reporter at the COM
| pany's factory he said that every eff
! fort was being exerted to get more
help.
1--WE have done remarkably well with
what force we have" said Mr.. Hum
mel, 'Sbut with the large building that
we have, and the large territory that
| we supply we are anxious to double
| our force. but find that there is
scarcity of girls. We offer every in
ducement possible.
when a girl first comes into our
employ we start her in what Is known
| as the kindergarten department.
where she is supposed to learn the
rudiments of cigar making. Ordinar-
lily this work does not pay anything,
for it really costs about as much for
the company to furnish material which
is ruined, as the work of the begin
ners is worth. We pay in this depart
ment a salary of So per week for five
or six weeks when the beginner is
promoted and put on piece work, where
her ability enters largely into how
much she earns.
The Advance in Wages.
For the first few months of her
work she is put to making cheap cigars,
at which she is able to earn from $1.25
to $1.50 per day. AS she improves
she is put into the all Havana depart
ment where she works a better class
of material and gets better pay. So
on up a girl may go until she reaches
the stage where she can make the
finest brands of goods that we turn
out and there her earning capacity is
all the way from SIS to $50 per week.
We do not make any of the higher
grades of cigars here, but when we
have an employee who shows ability
to do the better class of work we
gladly transfer them to faccSries where
we make the better grades. About
the best girls can do in our factory
here is SIS per week.
1--WE have found the greatest diff
Guilty in getting girls to come to work,
but when they once start they real
ly like it. We have brought at least
hundred from the surrounding
country. The fact is that there
are not enough unemployed girls
in Savannah to fill our needs,
or If there are they do not care
for good paying, clean work.
After finding that it is practically !
impossible to get as many girls as
we want we have done something here !
that we have never done anywhere |
else, opened a boys department, where !
we offer the same inducements as we
do to the girls. A separate floor has