Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-06-21
Little Miss BARTLETT"
DEATH OF A WOMAN WHO BUILT UP

DEATH OF WOMAN WHO BUILT UP A
FLoURIsHING BUSINESS.
Miss Emma Bartlett, the we'll known
who died in New York Oh Thursday, was
remarkable woman. and her life, achieve
ments, and capacity for taking care OF her
self offer practical suggestion of great
value to the New York theoretical women
rights people. She was d dimiuutive per-
son, and, when in what she considered
flourishing condition; weighed only eighty
four pounds, but she faced the army of
males who bought saddlery with pluck
that was colossal, and forced fortune out
of them with ease.
Miss Bartlett was born in London fifty
seven years ago. She lived there two and
twenty years, becoming shop girl as soon
as she was old enough, and worked at the
manufacture OF men and boys caps; and
then she came to this country, thinking
to push her fortunes with rapidity in
community that was less crowded.
When Miss Bartlett started in business
for herself she had a capital of precisely
$1.75. She began to make and sell blidles
securing "a little loft in Pearl street. Al
first her operations were confined to thu
city, but her commercial abilities Wert
| marked. and it was not long before she be-
gan to travel. She visited every State in
The Union. In six Years from the time of
her starting she had, in place of loft, a
whole building in Pearl street.
Her great success was in horse bands, or
fronts, the small section of harness which
trayerSes the head of horse between his
ears. She originated the idea of the
creasing machine, which rolls up longi-
tudinal ridge along this bit Of leather, and
therein triumphed profitaply over the slow
workers by hand. She was also the first to
use Singers machine for sewing leather;
and she also, later, bought up all the pa
tents on horse bonnets, thereby securing
monopoly.
Miss Bartlett didn't prevail over the
trade by means of her beauty. She had
none of that. A description once given of
her face, to which she never made any OBJ
lection, and which is here quoted from one
of her friends, was that it Was precisely
like copper half-quart measure that had
been battered and misshapen by long use
in a grocer shop. 1t was her manner that
carried authority. She was not only like
male, but like very emphatic one. She
would swagger up to almost any man and
browbeat him terribly. Woe unto anybody
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strong point. She would carry dismay in
to the soul of an aggressive chatter, and
make him buy hund eds of dollars worth
of brides. A loose joke went bounding
back from the we'll -panoplied little person
like Il boomerang. She always dlned at
midday at the French restaurant on the
corner of College place and Murray street,
and drank bottle of good wine.
Miss Bartlett shaved. Being unwilling
to perform this operation at home, she
kept a pair of small, pearl-handled razors,
of exquisite manufacture, in trunk in an
upper room at her warehouse, and used
them three times a week. Her people
could always tell when she shaved, for she
evidently performed the operation with the
same vigor which characterized all her
movements, and came down with her face
fiery red and Oftentimes rather savagely
cut.
Miss Bartlett's warehouse in Warren
street took in five stories, and in good
times she employed one hundred hands.
Her rent for the last seven years mas been
$40. 00O year. She failed once, two years
ago, and settled for fifty cents ON the
dollar.-N Y. San.