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engaging to serve in a Florida home will be well and kindly 

 cared for, but must be content to occupy the same status 

 that he or she would occupy under the same conditions in 

 the Korth, and not claim the privileges of a family guest. 

 This is a trouble that will gradually remedy itself as the 

 number of white servants in the State increases, and, until 

 that desirable period shall have arrived, the method we 

 have outlined above must be applied. 



For those who may prefer foreign servants, or desire to 

 settle families or colonies near them, to serve as such on 

 occasion, the Commissioners of Emigration of New York 

 hold the door open. 



The emigrants land at Castle Garden, New York, and 

 here is established a Labor Bureau which finds employment 

 for the thousands of emigrants who arrive in the United 

 States without definite plans or destination, who desire em- 

 ployment, yet do not know how to obtain it. 



Every year this Bureau settles thousands of house ser- 

 vants and farm hands in good comfortable homes. In 1885, 

 for instance, it found employment for over fifteen thou- 

 sand, over six thousand of whom were women, and here too 

 Florida may find a partial solution of this labor problem. 



Few Catholics, however, can be induced to make their 

 homes in this State at present, because there are very few 

 Catholic churches. 



The wages usually contracted for range from eight to 

 ten dollars a month for house servants, and from eleven to 

 fourteen dollars for the farm hands during "the busy sea- 

 son," and this is always in Florida. The employer usually 

 pays the transportation charges. 



An application addressed to the "Labor Bureau, Castle 

 Garden, New York," stating exactly w^hat is wanted, and 

 the terms offered, will seldom fail to find satisfactory reply. 



