Cold Meat Is Rarely Seen, And To
Live A Day Without Meat Would Be As Great A Privation As To Pass A
Night Without Bed.
The rules for the guidance of these boarding-houses are very rigid.
The houses themselves belong to the corporations, or different
manufacturing establishments, and the tenants are altogether in the
power of the managers.
None but operatives are to be taken in.
The tenants are answerable for improper conduct. The doors are to
be closed at ten o'clock. Any boarders who do not attend divine
worship are to be reported to the managers. The yards and walks
are to be kept clean, and snow removed at once; and the inmates
must be vaccinated, etc. etc. etc. It is expressly stated by the
Hamilton Company - and I believe by all the companies - that no one
shall be employed who is habitually absent from public worship on
Sunday, or who is known to be guilty of immorality, it is stated
that the average wages of the women are two dollars, or eight
shillings, a week, besides their board. I found when I was there
that from three dollars to three and a half a week were paid to the
women, of which they paid one dollar and twenty-five cents for
their board. As this would not fully cover the expense of their
keep, twenty-five cents a week for each was also paid to the
boarding-house keepers by the mill agents. This substantially came
to the same thing, as it left the two dollars a week, or eight
shillings, with the girls over and above their cost of living.
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