Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1917 — ‘MODEL MAID’ WINS BACK PAY [ARTICLE]

‘MODEL MAID’ WINS BACK PAY

Euphrosina Weigert of Brooklyn Worked and Waited Twelve Years for $2,068.71. New York.—Trial of an action before Justice Cropsey in the supreme court in Brooklyn, through which Miss Euphrosina Weigert won a verdict of $2,066.71, revealed her as the “model servant” so much talked of and so conspicuous by continued absence. The testimony showed that Miss Weigert was content to wait 12 years for her wages and was delighted with ; the. Interest dispiayed“by- her employer," who took lwr “occasionally” pn excursions to the cemetery and on \these trips bought lunch for her. In 1902 she. entered -Che employ of 'Mrs. Josephine Prentice of 14. r > Ean- ■ cock street, -who died October 22. 1915. A year after she had entered this employ' her wages were increased from $lB a month to $22. She §aid that in 12 years she-received hut $171.1X1.