Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-17
44OLD FIRST" GOES
INTO EMPLO LOYMENT
AGENCY BUSINESS
Ready to Furnish Any
Sort. Of Help You
May Want.
SCRUBBWHooMEN BUTLERS,
STENOGRAPHERS ON HAND
Women of Church See Solution
of Servant Girl Prob
lem Now.

The Old First Presbyterian Church
has gone into the employment agency
business.
II you want good cook. warranted
to know soup from fish, you can get
one right on the premises.
II is the "Old First Church that
lis running a successful lunch-room
for girls who earn s6 or less week.
The regular church offices are being
used for this new philanthropy of the
aristocratic congregation of the Old
First, which was founded by the
same men who founded Newark.
Up-to-date fire-proof filing cases
have been installed. The two-line
telephone switchboard sounds its
business-like buzz from to every
day.
For all its associations the office
just can't help looking like any other
first-class employment agency, where
pretty stenographers and strong arm
domestics are partitioned among en-
pIoyers.
In its announcement the aOld First
promises to bring together, without
lcost. employers and employees in
every line of endeavor.
1t doesn't matter whether it's a
scrubwoman or a biuesblooded butler
who wants salary like a bank presi-
dent and has the manner of duke.
*Equal service to air is the motto
| of the bureau.
Designd mrly as a philanthro-
phic institution. tn burau viii prob
ably be seized upon by the women
members of the church as bene-
faction designed especially for them.
With its help they can consider the
seryapt-girl question as solved.
| They VIII merely telephone for a
parlor maid OF q second man or a
laundress and tie bureau viii do the
| rest.
In view OF all the possibilities, J.
D. Orton, the secretary OF the EN-
ploynent department. will be bound
| to have an interesting time.
Here is the card that the "Old
First sent out to several hundred
Newark business houses:
"The *Old First Church has opened
an employment department. When
you are in want of help kindly keeT
us in mind Drop a line or phone
us and representative from this de-
partment will call. The department
is operated WITH no cost to employer
or employee, its object being to help
worthy persons to find positions. This
| being the case, we would ask your
| cooperation to encourage us in our
| efforts in this department"
In speaking of the employment
bureau maintained by the church the
Rev. DIR. William J. DAWSON, pastor,
said:
1--WE organized the employment
bureau because there were SO many
applicants. Mr. ]. d. Orton, who has
retired from business, is in charge OF
the bureau and is giving his entire
time to the work.
Each week we have printed in
the church program the applications
made to us and the kind Of people
required for the various employ
.ments. The bureau was organized
about nine months ago, and it has
grown so that it was necessary to
have some one take charge of it"
DR.. Dawson also declared that a
trained nurse would probably be en-
ployed by the church to assist in the
work of visiting sick parishioners.
There are four deaconesses who visit
the sick, hut it Is expected the addi-
ton of a trained nurse will facilitate
the work.