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Show ServntGlri jVoWcnj in Sdt Li2. One of the most serious problems that remains unsolved in Sajt Lake is the servant girl proposition, proposi-tion, As matters now stand competent servants are not to be had at any price. Girls who know as much about copking and serving meals as a Piute gopher command wages of from f4 to $6 per week. An all-around capable girl may find scores of $8 per wek positions open to her. The shortage In the servant-girl market is indeed appalling to the ! housekeeper. This is one of the problems Fait Lake must tackle and solve in order that there may be no cpnditions which will prove unattractive to the honieseeker. Just. now. many Irish girls are arriving arriv-ing in Xew York. Why not start a movement by which some of these husky daughters of old Erin may be brought to Bait Lake. . All recprds for Irish immigration have been broken during the past four months, the number pf arrivals at Ellis island during dur-ing that period "being nearly 50 per cent greater than, in the corresponding period of last year. About 75 per cent of the total consisted of women, and 60 per cenj of them are between the ages of 17 and 25 years. Another odd thing is that the immigration immi-gration authorities'hare been unable to find any one of the colleens who has not. come here, under prearrangement with relatives or friends to take a i position as domestic; and the like. The arrival of so many Irish girls was responsible for the opinion that it would be possible tp get any number of desirable de-sirable servants, but those who hare gone, to Ellis island, or to the Mission of Our Lady of the Bosary, bare been told that all the girls had positions uar anteed them before they left the old country. The great demand for the girls has resulted in many r'ecord-breaking offers of high wages in the East, the arerage for general housework being abore $16 a month. The averageof the ages of the men among the immigrants is 19, and, like the girls, they, too, were all bespoken before they reached this side. Only a few registered as laborers other than gardeners and coachmen. An immigration clerk said; "Not one of them had aspirations to get on. the police force. I do not know what is coming over the latter-day Irishman." The official figures of Irish arrivals for the four months as compared with the corresponding period last year, are: . IK. 190?. January 292 22i February 457 fttg March , v MIS g April 6.046 1,680 Totals ; 7.20S 6.008 |