The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16
CITY AGENTS HELP LIS.
Snow May Provide Employment for
ren Days More.

Snow May Provide Employment for
Ten Days More.
The city's new municipal employment
agency found work for $50 moro men
yesterday. although II was Sunday. max
Ing a total Of 1.12s men put into Jobs in
the two days Of the agencys existence
The Jobs are at snow shovelling at 20
cents al hour. one contractor te.ephoned
TO the agency that he figured II would
take ten days more to clean up the city's
streets. When this has been done. the
agency will attempt to put the applicants
In touch with permanent positions.
The work OF the agency was accom-
pllshed largely by telephone. although I'M
employed men applied At the agency at 20
Lafayette street BY ones and twos and
half dozens from the time It opened at
s O'Clock until IL ciosed at 8.
Adolphus Raglan. chief examiner OF the
Commissioner Of Accounts Office, In
charge OF the agency during Its period Of
organization, received a call for men the
first thing when he opened up the office
yesterday morning. II was from the
National Employment Exchange. which
asked for 500 men for snow shovell!ng
Jobs.
The exchange 10 the employment bureau
established in 1908. OF which Otto 7.
Barnard 10 president. II includes among
Its directors Jacob II. Schin, Robert w.
de Forest. Paul NJ Warburg and other
men OF prominence. It's exchange had
had calls for 500 men from snow removal
contractors and the Jobs were waiting.
A few minutes later two other contractors
telephoned to the municipal agency and
each asked for nifty men.
Every applicant at the municipal agency
on Saturday had been disposed OF when
the agency closed Saturday night. no II
started of the day yesterday morning
with 500 Jobs for the newcomers
The applicants who visited the agency
In person were sent on to the National
Employment Exchange as fast as they
presented themselves, each carrying
little slip OF paper rubber stamped by
the agency. Then the Seamen's Church
Institute called up about 10 o'clock yes
terday morning and said that II had 1855
men who wanted work. Mr.. Raglan told
the institute over the telephone Just what
TO do. He gave the names OF the two
contractors who had called up and told
the institute people to send hfty to each
contractor. The remaining sixty-hve men
he told them to send To the National
Employment Exchange
The Holy Name Mission, At 3ls How
cry. Of which the Rev. Father William J.
Rafter is in charge. telephoned next with
100 men then came the Bowery Mission
with nifty men and late In the afternoon
the Municipal Lodging House with another
hfty. The joint application bureau OF the
Charity Organization Society and the New
York Association for Improving the Con-
dillon OF the Poor called UP late in the
afternoon to say that IL had just four APP
plications for Jobs on the streets The
four men We're sent to Le National En- |
ployment Exchange.
The agency received lI6 application |
direct from the men themselves and all
were sent to the exchange.
with plenty of work st.il to be done in |
clearing the streets of snow. George II |
Bell. Commissioner Of Licenses. under |
whose department the new municipal |
agency II organized, asked acting Mayor |
Esterbrook on Saturday about opening the |
agency yesterday. lie received a letter !
In reply directing him to keep the agency |
open on Sunday and TO devote the work \
OF the agency entirely to the placing ~ |
men on snow removal work. So Mr. |
Raglan and his assistants made no effort |
yesterday to handle applications other |
than for snow shovelling jobs.
The applicants at the agency were OF \
every age with the average between IS |
and 40 years. There were only n few
men over so. Many boys Of l6 or II were
among the applicants.
Day laborers predomlnated. but, as on
Saturday, there were many men who knew
trades but could not get work at them
and now and then an intelligent looking
clerical man entered the agency and re-
celved his ticket with as much gratitude
as anybody else.
One OF these last named was young
man of about 80 years. His clothes
gloves and general makeup made him look
almost prosperous as ne walked up 10 the
agency desk and the men In charge ex-
pected him to say he had work for some
or the unfortunates. Instead he asked for
a job, Told that only snow shoyellng
Jobs were available. he said tina. he would
take that and be glad TO get H.
The only expense of the city's expert
ment 81 far has been for a 90 cent rubber
stamp 10 get out the tickets and the in
stallat!on of n telephone. The agency has
It's offices in the hig store at 20 LAFAYETTE
street. in building owned by the city.
which Ind condemned IL for the civic |