The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07
FEMALE FINANCIERS.
The Lucky Turns of the Bly,, the
Bisland and Mrs. Leslie.
NELLIE BLY'S BIG CONTRACT.
Mrs. Leslie at Two Hundred Dollars a
Night Something About Her Hab-
Its Of Life.

NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 1S90.-[Speclal cor
of The HERALD. The field of
work steadily grows in New York
and there are now twenty women working
on the daily papers where one worked ten
years ago. Some of the girls are having
success, and l hear that Nellie
round the world. In the first place she got
q good salary from the paper and her lee
ture tour brought her in just So, 800 A
real estate man gave her a lot in
that city, and she was presented with
another lot in Iron city. Tennessee. These
lots are worth at least 81, 500, and so her
net profits up to date have been at least
$4,000. In addition to this 10000 copies of
her book have been issued and second
edition will be published. Her reputation
has gone up lilea shot, and she has, l am
told, decided to leave newspaper work, and
has contracted with N. l.. Munro, to write
serial stories, of weekly instalme nts, for
his story paper. She is to get $4,000 for
the first year and $4,000 q year for the
next two years to come, and she has at the
same time the right to do some outside
of Nellie BLY,, and she will be the highest
salaried young woman in the United States.
MISS ELIZABETH BIsLAND,
the other little girl who went around the
world, has also dene we'll Her articles,
beautifully illustrated, have been puo-
lished right along in the Cosmopolitan mag
azine, and they will be issued in book form
when completed. Miss Risland has made a
contract with the magazine to go abroad
for them, and she is now in England writ
ing an article a month. She made some
very valuable friends during her tour, and
one of these was noble lady, who has a
beautiful estate not far from London. 1t
is at this lady's house that Miss Bisland is
stopping, and she f"s had, through her,
the entree to the best e lglisn society. she
was present at the Prince of Wales garden
party not long ago, and she is in the very
cream of the swim. She is, | judge, not
more than twenty two years olo, is a very
pretty girl, and Is one OF the most facile
writers of her sex.
| met
MRS. FRANK LESLIE
at Mount McGregor the other day. She
looks as bright as a dollar and as fresh as a
daisy. Her health has evidently not suf-
fered through her absence from the Mar
quis de Leuville, and she is all ready to 60
in the lecture field, her season for which
commences on the 18th of October. She
gets $500 night clear, and | don't know
but what she gets a percentage of the re-
ceipts over this amount. There is no
brighter business woman in the United
States than she is, and she can make bar
gain with the ordinary Yankee and beat
him. She took Frank Leslie's publications
when they were worth nothing and had to
borrow big pot Of money 10 carry them
on. A few years ago they were bringing
her III 500, 600 u year, and she sold Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper to Mr..
Arkell for something between
three and four hundred thous-
and dollars. The paper was bringing in
about thirty thousand dollars year under
hor management, and she attended 10 every
part of the business herself. She bought
her own paper, hired ell her own en-
ployees, passed upon editorial matters, and
wrote both stories and leading articles. She
is now writing syndicate letter, for which
she is very well paid, but which she writes
more to show that she can write than Jc
get the money for it. When she contracted
for the letter she said: "The people seem
to think that | am merely a bust
ness woman, but ] want to show
them that | have some literary traits
as wel.n She has shown this and she
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the lecture platform. l predict for her a
success. l asked Mrs. Leslie one day, h,w
she managed to keep so fresh and brigk
notwithstanding the work and worries tina
were entailed upon her by her position
She replied, II do everything by system
and l Take good care of myself. AS soor
as get up in the morning, I jump into
cold bath, then give myself q good rubbing
and in light dress go through set o
| crvn Jx-bi oh 70
tenn in thorough trim. | live well, get a.
much of the good out of life as / can ant
keep myself as far as possible at peace will
humanity" Mrs Frank Leslie is goot
dresser. Her clothes become her, and sh
| has some of the finest diamonds in tn,
| United States.
SPEAKING OF DIAMONDS,
I saw at the Grand Union garden party a
Saratoga, what is SAID to be the large
single piece of jewelry ever made in thi
country. 1t is two and half inches t
four inches wide, and at least eight niche
long. IL was worn by the wife OF the ricl
sporting man, Hankins, of Chicago, AM
one of the most noted jewelers. Of the coun
try tells me that it is worth more thai
fifteen thousand dollars. 1t consists OF
great butterfly with outstretched wings
made Of diamonds, emeralds, rubes an
made and it contains 200 diamonds. Tn
butterfly has body made of great Hun
garian opal, and the tail of the butterfly
of emeralds. This is fastened to damon
necklace and it rests just at the edge of III
collar bone, with the tail extending dow
on the bosom of the Wearer's decollett
dress. Fastened to the body of the bu,
terfy, and hanging down below it is grea
oval mass of gold and diamonds, as BIZ
a nd a q OF y,yhi, n
chest, and which extends pretty well belo,
Plimsolps line. The exact dimensions G
this ornament are five and one-haf inche
long by two and one-half inches wide. Tn
base is of solid gold and there is d bazin
ring CT seyenty-six large diamonds aroun
the edge. Upon the face of the gold door
plate is Mrs. Hankins' monogram in di;
monds, and the whole ornament we t
over pound. Every time Mrs. T.
breathes she lifts this 900 worth OF gol
and diamonds, and every time she sigLs thi
fortune goes down, and then rises spas
medically upword. | will not say that th
ornament is in the best of taste 1t is ce,
tainly gaudy enough, and 1t is only one
what constitutes perhaps the most cost
collection of jewels ut any watering plat
this season. Mrs. Hankins has hoop eal
rings Of diamonds, each of which is as bi
around as trade dollars, and in the centre {
hheSc are Sfedt Solitalfe utaiiiouus, eac
weighing ten carats, which are worth frol
three to four Thousand dollars apiece
These are detachable and she can take thel
Off and wear them by themselves She ha
a set of bracelets. each aboa. all inch wild
and made of four rows of precious stone
First there is q row OF rubies. then a ro
of great white diamonds. then row
emeralds and lastly one of turquoses. ST
has her fingers covered with diamond rims
and at one of the balls at Saratoga ST
wore 100000 worth of diamonds at or
time, Scandal whispers that these di
monds have all come from horse races an
the other profitable amusements of tt
first class sporting men.