Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-15

Death OF a Woman Who 8Hiit Up a
El0urishimg Business.

BUSY LIFE.
Miss Emma Bartlett, the well-known War
rem street dealer In saddles aud brides, wlo
died In this city on Thursday, was a renarkl-
Ole woman, and her life, achievements, and
capacity Tor taking care OF herself offeca prac
Teal Suggestion of great value To the New York
theoretlcal women'S rights people. Sac was
dlminutiye person, and when IN what she con
Sldered 1out fishing condition, weighed only
males who bought saddlery with a pluck tn it
was colossal, aud forced a fortune out OF then
win ease. The story OF her life is tod oy one
who has known her for many years
Miss Bartlett was born in London fifty-Seven
years ago. She lived there two ami Iwel.y
years, becoming shop girl as soon as she was
Old enough, and working 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. She had brother law, Nc. Moore.
then an actor of tragedy in the Brwery, AMI at
present stage managef OF the Fifth Ayelue
Iheater, aid as soon as She descended upJl
the Battery, she set forth in search OF diuuer
and of him, Oh foot, with precisely three Eng
| ii,h sGilliugS in her pocket. DInuer she got
without any difficulty, driving god bargain
In The transaction whereby il was Procured :
put she had great difficulty in reaching her
brother, lndSmuch as she could not iud Ghe
rear entraItce to the Bowery Theater, an WAS
front However, she found him at LAST, and
after a little. through his agency probably. got
a position a. needle woman, her work being to
sew horse sheets.
When Miss Bartlett first started in bu ;iae =
or herself she had a capital of precisely SO.
sac began to make and sell brides, securing
IL Tie lott IN Pearl street Al first he olarI-
tons We're confined to the city, but her com
mercial abilities were marked, and il was not
long before she began to travel. The great
epoch i'll her fortunes was when she got her
| first stock of raw material. Walton Bros,
then at the corner of Cedar and Church streets,
tqa IN he r where to buy it at auction "raats
quently to say. When she came into posses
sion OF this stock she put her nephew in charge
OF It's nanufacture, and went herSeli travelling
around the country, with an assortment oi
sample halterS on her arm. She visited every
late in the Union. In six years from the time
OF her starting. she had in place of loft,
whole building in Pearl street.
Her great success was in horse bands or
Fronts the small sec ion of harness with
traver.e the head of horse between mis- ears.
She originated the idea of the creaSing m l.
chine, which rolls up longitu linrl ridge
along this bit of leather. and therein Cri-
umphed profitaby over the SLOW workers by
! hand. She was also the first to use Singers
mae Inc Tor sewing leather; and she also, lat, r
bought up all the patents on horse bJnnetS
| thereby securing a monopoly.
! Miss Bartlett didn't prevail over the trade by
means of her beau'y. She hal none Of thai
| A des crlptl0n once given of her face, 70 which
she ever made any objection, and which Is
meIe quOeed from one OF ner friends, was that
IL was precisely like copper hal quart me Us
| urt That had been baI tered and miSShapen by
! long use In grocer's shop L. was her IN tu
I ner hat carried au hority. She was not On'y
IKE male, but Ike a very emphatic one. Sle
would SWagger up to almost any man and
| Dr0Wbeat him terribly. Woe unto auybp NY
WLo attempted TO chaff her; that was her
str ng point; she would carry diSmay into t e
SOU OF an aggressive chatter, and make him
buy hundreds of dollars worth of brides. A
loose Joke went bounding back from the well
! panopied little person like boomerang Five
/ men came up to her room in a Chicago hotel,
/ Where she had her brides spread out OH a
table, Just for the purpose Of provoking her.
grayely if she would join them in a drink
WHAT'S your llpple? she inquired of the
! qulntetle, as quick as a flash.
-Four OF them answered whisky and one
| brandy. She rOared at the waiter like Sa.a-
| cen, and ordered up Ave bottles. Then She
drank with The foolish males glass after glass.
and got them So tipsv that they bought 5000
! worth of brides.
| 1t was rule with her never to show fgnor-
ance In any matter, and never to be frightened
| out OF undertaking anything. When her bust
| ness was still confined to brides, a customer
sad S;nd MISS nS Bnttet! will you make Inc mar
"Of course will" said she. Thereupon she
went on to harnesSmaker. On the way she
| 1orgot the name. Accordingly she popped i'll
| Oh the tradeSman with:
VIII you make me a hummingalen
~ Gu must mean martingale."
On, Wen, c0nfound you, II you can't make
! me one GU may 60 to grass.
WIN that she Went 10 another shop, bought
! a mar!lngale, made another like il, lad pre-
! sented the same to her customer.
After awhile Miss Bartlett turned out her
III =.
and sent uut f1uckS Of men TO sell her brides
She changed her quarters over to the corner
vi warren street and College place ten years
| ago, Where her wei! stocked ST ,re, with gi.r
horses head sticking out of the Warren stree
wall over the sidewalk, has grown to be A
1amillar OBJECT. 1t was her habit 10 CON, do n
al o'clock III the morning, and to IL I'VE at d
at night. She had two sets of KEYS 10 the store
and always locked up herself. For a time Sh !,
liek III a cosy cottage at 60 west 5ith stree. :;
but Tor several years, having rented her no lsr
H.
| always dined at midday at the French restau-
rant Oh the corner of College place and Mur-
ray street, and always drank bottle Of good
wine.
Miss Bartlett shaved. Being unwilling to
perform THIS operation at home, she KEEP
pair OF small peari-handled razorS, of exquisite
manufacture, III trunk in an upper r0 ,m at
her warehouse, and used them three times a
week. Her people could always tell when she
shaved, 1or she evidently performed the opera
ZION with the same vigor that characterized all
her movements, and came down with her face
hfery red and oftentimes rather Savagely cut
n HaIu ns oo3kkeeper, who had been in the
employ OF the house for long time, had for a
number OF years exercised his ingenuity aud
Increased his wages by putting the sign OF tens
before the sign OF units in the account books,
ana by changing cyphers into mines through
Inc addition of little curly cues at the bottom
Once Miss Bartlett, in looking over the &C
counts, saw ;r entry OF s3 as having been paid
that?' she demanded. On" said he, trying
to scrape the figure away with his thum bnaii
tnat nttle ny dirt, L guess" H. weuL
nome that night, and nobody in that store ever
heard of him again
She was fond of going to the races and fish,
Ing She was also an ardent theater-go GA
one occasion she went to see Maggie Mitchell.
with whom She was acquainted through hef
brother ln-laW. She had given tickets to the
play to all her people, and they were scattered
appeared In magnificent black silk dress in
fuil view OF the audience. At an abSorbing
point in the play she leaped to her feet and
cried, with clap OF her hands and a wave of
her two arms in the air: Three cheers for
Maggie MITCHELL Three cheers, 1 saw: w6y
don't you shout, my dears?" Maggie MitcheII,s
husband came into her box and beSought her
TO pc quiet, else, he said, they would really be
Obliged to put her out. I'm ID if Won
Will, said She, putting her teeth together and
shaking her chin at him as he backed, fright
ened out of the box -s'
She once took out one of her sboys' to get a
new pair of trousers, to his extreme terror. he
Delng young man ~ years old She insisted
on MS trying them on, and drove a keen blr
gam as ne stood blushing, encased in the arti-
Miss Bartletts warehouse in Warren street
LOOK IN I'VE stores, and in good times she EN-
plOyed lO0 hands. Her rent for the last seven
years mas been SIC, 900 year. She failed once
Two years ago, and settled for so cents on the
d0llar.-tN Y Sun. WAN
SINKING FUND.-At the last meeting of the
Lime Kiln Club the Rev. PenStOck rosa In a