Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — Pay Raised at Insane Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Pay Raised at Insane Asylum.

The directors of the Eastern Insane Hospital at Kankakee, 111., have adopted a scale that will increase the wages of 500 employes. Male attendants beginning work will get $25 monthly instead of $lB. The female attendants will receive $lB instead of sl4. Attendants in charge of wards will receive as high as $42 monthly, the highest pay heretofore having been $35. Other departments are Increased to correspond. There has been difficulty in securing good employes at the old wages.