The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
,-rv WORKS. POOR AND HER
osTENTATIOUS MILLIONS.
EXTREMES OF A BIG CITY
rro Bank Vaults Teen With Mil
lions. and the Tenement Houses
TEEN With Women Workers,
Where Sewing and Sor-
row Go Hand in Hand.
row Go Hand in Hand.


In no city in the world, perhaps,
a. the extremes of wealth and pov-
or+v meet in more striking contrast
than in the metropolis. The bank
ranIts TEEN with millions and the
tenement houses TEEN with women
workers, where sewing and sorrow
ing 90 hand in hand. No Song of
the Shirt" is needed to tell the tale
of the sad and toil-worn lives of
New York's woman breadwinners,
SAYS a writer.
Is is estimated that a quarter of
q million of women and girls earn
their own living in Greater New
York. Cash girls in many stores
receive So a week for work that at
certain seasons engthens their days
TO u hours. A little girl who re-
ceived $3.50 a week made cash sales
amounting to $173 in a single day,
while the receipts of a SIS male
clerk in the same department footed
I'D only $132. And for some trivial
mistake the girl was fined so cents
out of her $3.50.
Seventy cents is put as the aver
age days earnings of the one-fourth
million, but into this computation
enters the stylish cashiers" 50 a
day, as well as the So cents of the
poor little girl who pulls thread in
the East Side factory, and, if any
thing the average may be too high.
Mems wages in New York rarely fall
below a certain limit, but there is
no rule for the scant salaries of the
shop girls On account of the OPP
pressive heat and rush of the crowd
Of shoppers in the big stores, girls
often faint and come out looking as
pale as corpses.
Many a mother at the bedside Of
her dying babe has been heard to
say, Il cannot afford to lose my
child; | have not the cost to bury
it." And when the little one dies
there is no time for grief, as the
husband, who strives to pay his way,
who starves that his children may
be clothed, who denies himself that
his wife may have medicine, packs
the little corpse in an orange box
partly filled with straw and takes it
to the morgue for pauper burial
Police have arrested paupers try
ing to bury their dead babies in up
town lots. Each year hundreds OF
foundings are picked up on the
streets of Greater New York. In
hard times the number of dead and
live infants always increase notably,
and many of the dead are, doubtless,
put out by very poor parents to save
funeral expenses.
On the other hand millionaire
lady of the smart set appeared
at the horse show in November gor-
geously attired in $4,000 worth OF
gIittering jewels and whose gowns
alone cost 100000 Still worse, a
lady Of the 400 passed me on Fifth
avenue a few evenings since IN
superb touring car, accompanied by
her maid, holding by their massive
golden collars a pair of genuine
great Danes nearly as big as a pair
OF mules. One of these was sick tor
time last summer, and the doctors
Dill for medical attention rendered
the canine pet was $1,000.
There is a craze among fashiona-
DIE women for pet dogs, from the
dlminutive size of the black and tan
terrier to the huge St. Bernard
and Danish bloodhound. They take
as much delight in telling you the
cost and pedigree of an ugly, sore
eyed pug as the turfman does OF MS
thoroughbred winner |