New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-25

The bond company has paid hundred OF them
end will pay the others
MAKING THEM TOE THE MARK
mot all the employment Offices by any means,
worthy Of oensure. At our headquarters. 1T
No. III East Twenty-third-st-. furnish no en-
ployes. but keep a list Of the intelligence offices
that we indorse. We say nothing about the bad
ones, but give the good ones ell the advertising
we can. To be placed on our list an office must
up TO standard in six things. The agent
must be person Of good moral character. The
office must have separate waiting rooms for
and women 1t must have connection with
saloon. The Office must exercise precaution to see
that the place to which they send girl is
spectacle one. There must be supervision in the
waiting rooms to prevent gossip. There must be
courteous treatment the part of the agent to
employers and employees.
'As to the reasons for requirements. have
found that large number Of agents prefer TO send
girls TO dlsreputable houses. A good many people
think the girls prefer to go 10 these places. It Is
not so. On the contrary, it is difficult to get
servants for these places that fee Of SO S15
can be charged. while the ordinary housewife
pays only from 50 to 81 That explains the anxiety
TO get girls to 90 there. The girl sent is usually
an ignorant immigrant girl. She is at the
COCK by the agent, taken Immediately to the en-
e6yyea 5 9GFeap and sent 70 this place If she
the agent, she is without money or the lanp11ag e
and frequently the agent holds her trunk and
CLAIMS she ID IN debt to him
49,, american girls cannot be treated in this way,
DuL 70 h anHIe them some othces have an even
take Position in some distant city through an
it is and wants to leave she finds herself stranded
IN strange city. a difficult position for even
The provision for supervision to prevent gossip
Who doesn't know The inside OF integ52cs o3iSe so
But those girls sit there from a. N. to p.
for days sometimes Young girls are taught BY
older ones how 10 get ahead of the employer, how
TO shirk their work. deceive, break contracts. ex-
tract higher wages and unreasonable concessions.
service are devejoped in Hose jti bo15rs 90 nv
In any other way.
EMPLOYERS MANNERS.
Still. better class OF women win be in
duced 10 go into the business Of conducting en-
plOyment bureaus until employers adopt a different
manner of treatment. Employers seem to regard
the office a servant factory where they can de-
mand anything they wish saw man walk into
an office one day in a towering rage. Ny next
place %hle I've been trying TO get one said he
me woman at the desk SAID politely. Wait
minute TN look up your record and Wen see
tIat tba1 ara seve cSjlren nf tbt t @
81 seF A. his ntiebbor's tbe u coditian Hy pr
very much better. and OF course girlU were more
fee are very nice waiting rooms for the girls and
en1pII9gyers have been known to say that they
the waiting rooms good that they put tho
e mod f Se Gf E oS
and Industrial Union in Boston. no one, either en-
an employer engaged a girl there at 81 a week As
stepped and offered the girl s.. The girl i'm
But you've signed a contract with the other
Would you prevent poor girl getting another
dollar week| said the girl.
piled the agent. but don't think its enough for
contract you can this office again. Event
na4ly the girl went with the first woman and has
S Ted proved her value that she IS no" getting "
t @0oe If ts oo sm Be yer T hs t6
next morning. AT considerable trouble and expense
where she neither returned nor sent any word She
can get another employe out of that office.
NO HONOR ABOUT REFERENCES.
Employers complain that there is reliance TO
be placed on the references sent out from employ
rnent bureaus. Last year We sent out seven hun
drod blanks 10 members Of the Woman's Municipal
League. who among the best and most repre-
housewives in the city. We got three hum
dred replies. and found that they had no
standards at all as 10 references. Some OF them
said they wrote what they could that was good Of
the girl, and let the rest go. Others said they
I always reported intemperance or dishonesty. but
nothing else. Some said II woman came 10 them
otherwise they let II If there are no accepted
standards as 10 references among the most repre-
/ pect reliable references from the agencies?
"As 10 training schools for servants 1t is per
fectly evident that pupils cannot be obtained for
such institutions unless they can be paid while
learning girl goes into household service because
she has no money ana cannot saf n II IN any ohrr
preparation A school OF domestic instruction ST
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~ II sends girls for portion OF each day, for
work by the day hour. and allows them TO keep
what they get for IT, When not employed they are
under Instruction. and when they are competent
good positions are always waiting for them. The
school is full and there is waiting list Of both
applicants and employers.
The intermunicipal committee has several lines
of investigation on land in which there Is absol
IS no material Nothing has oeen written from
which either employer or employe could gain any
Information II is trying 70 bring order out OF
chaos by ascertaining the exact status OF domes-
tic service in America through trained and paid
inyestiga tors