Show I WOMEN STRANDED IN EXPOSITION CITY A A A most serious question which winch this Iris city eity will soon be called ailed upon to answer and to dispose of is the sex se- se eral fal thousand unemployed women who ha have flocked to Seattle from every very quarter quarter quarter ter of the tire country expecting to find remunerative re- re employment The Tire result Is that the tire city Is Js overflowing with wom worn en Young Toung school teachers from the tire middle mIddle middie mid mId- dle die states came camo west during the exposition exposition exposition expo expo- when the railroad rates were low So many applied for schools in WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington that scarcely third one-third could be employed Women experienced in clerical work worl others versed In sewing tailoring and altering women stenographers saleswomen saleswomen saleswomen sales sales- women and dozens of other vocations came west Vest on every train and expected to find Ond positions in In the rapidly expanding expand l- l ing lag cities of oC the tite northwest Many were we're were lucky and are employed erl at better belter salaries salaries salaries sal sal- aries than they received in lit the east but where whore one is employed there are three out ou of work and depending upon small remittances from home for foi nance So serious has become the tire situation that the tire chamber of commerce has iras undertaken undertaken un un- un- un to open a free employment of office of- of fice flee in addition to that maintained by bythe bythe the eit city cit to aid the young women In either securing positions or being being- aided to reach their homes in the east ast With th young men the tire la ease case e is different the they being better equipped quipped to take tolie up upI ma manual labor in preference to Idleness There are hundreds of eastern young melt mert who are arc educated for office work I now laboring in tire the lumbering mills and logging camps of this state and Oregon 01 |