Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-07
NELLIE BLY Is RICH.
Her Globe -Trotting Brought $4,000
and a $4,000 Contract.
MISS BISLAND FARED WELL, TOO.
The Largest aud Most Wonderful Piece Of
yewelry in America.
ENGAGEMENT RINGS OUT OF STYLE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE prsrAroH.

NEW YORK, September 6.-The field of
woman's work steadily grows in New YORK,
and there are now 20 women working on
the daily papers where one worked ten
years ago. Some of the girls are having
phenomenal success, and I hear that Nellie
BLY, has made her fortune from her tour
round the world. In the first place she got
good salary from the paper, and her lect-
ure tour brought her in just $500. A
Brooklyn real estate man gave her lot In
that city, and she was presented with an
other lot in Iron City, Tenn. These lots are
worth at least 81, 500, and so her net profits
up to date have been at least $13, 900.
In addition to this, 10000 copies of her
book have been issued, and second edition
will soon be published. Her reputation
has gone up like shot, and she has, am
told, decided to leave newspaper work, and
has contracted with N. L. Munroe to write
serial stories of weekly lnstallments for his
story paper. She is to get S10,0 900 for the
first wear and SIS, 900 a year for the next two
years to come, and she has at the same time
tine right to do some outside work. This is
big pay for girl Of the age of Nellie BLY,,
| and she will be the highest salaried young
woman in the United States.
THE OTHER GLOBE TRoTTER.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, the other little
girl who went around the world, has also
done we'll. Her articles, beautifully illus
trated. have been published right along in
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and they will
| be issued in book form when completed.
| Miss Bisland has made contract with the
magazine to 60 abroad for them and she is
now in England writing an article month.
She made some very valuable friends DUR
ing her tour, and one of these was a noble
lady, who has q beautiful country estate not
far from London. It is at this lady's house
that Miss Bisland is stopping, and she has
had through her the entree to the best En-
glish 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 % years old,
is a very pretty girl, and is one of the most
facile writers OF her sex.
met Mrs. Frank Leslie at Mt McGregor
the other day. She looks as bright as a
dollar and as fresh as flower. Her health
has evidently not suffered through her abb
sence from the Marquis de Louville. and
she is all ready to go in the lecture field,
her season for which commences on the 18th
of October. She gets 5000 night clear, and
I don't know but what she gets a percentage
OF the receipts over this amount.
A GREAT BUSINESS HEAD.
There is no brighter business woman In
the United States than she is, and she can
make bargain with the ordinary Yankee
and beat him. She took Frank Eeslie's
publications when they were worth nothing,
and the result is an old story: She bought
her own paper, hired all her own employees.
passed upon editorial matters, and wrote
both stories and leading articles. She is
| now writing a syndicate letter. When she
contracted for the letter. she said: ''The
| people seem to think that 1 am merely a
business woman, but want to show them
that have some literary traits as WELL"
| 1 asked Mrs. Leslie one day how she man.
aged to keep SO fresh and bright, notwith-
standing the work and worries that were en-
tailed upon her by her position. She re-
piled: 81 do everything by system, and
take good care of myself. As soon as I get
up in the morning jump into cold bath,
then give myself good rubbing, and in
light dress go through a-set OF gymnastic ex-
ercises, which keeps my system in thorough
trim. live we'll, get as much of the good
out of life as can, and keep myself as far
as possible at peace with humanity" Mrs.
Frank Leslie is good dresser. Her clothes
become her, and she has some of the finest
diamonds in the United States.
A WONDERFUL JEWEL.
Speaking of diamonds, saw at the Grand
| Union garden party at Saratoga, what is
said to be the largest single piece of jewelry
ever made in this country. 1t is ~ to 4
inches wide, and at least 8 inches long 1t
was worn by the wife of the rich sporting
man, Hankins, of Chicago, and one of the
most noted jewellers OF the country tells me
that it is worth more than $4,000.
1t consists of a great butterfly with out
stretched wings, made of diamonds, eme-
raids, rubies and sapphires. It is the largest
butterfly ever made and it contains 200 dia-
monds. The butterfly has body made of a
| great Hungarian opal, and the tail of the
butterfly is of emeralds. This is fastened to
diamond necklace and it rests just at the
edge of the collar bone, with the tail extend
ing down on the bosom of the wearer's de-
collete dress. Fasten ed to the body of the
butterfly, and nging down below it is
great oval mass of gold and diamonds as
big around as door plate, which rests upon
| the chest. The exact dimensions of this
ornament are 81 inches long and 21f inches
wide. The base is of solid gold and there is
a blazing ring of 76 large diamonds around
the edge. Upon the face of the gold door,
| plate is Mrs. Hankin's monogram in dia-
monds, and the whole ornament weighs over
pound.
! A MATTER OF TASTE.
| Every time Mrs. H. breathes she lifts
this SIS, 900 worth of gold and diamonds, and
every time she sighs this fortune goes down,
and then rises spasmodically upward. 1
will not say that the ornament is in the best
of taste. 1t is certainly gaudy enough, and
| it is only one, of what constitutes perhaps
the most costly collection of Jewels at any
watering place this season. Mrs. Hankins
has hoop earrings of diamonds, each of
which is as big around as trade dollars, and
in the center OF these are great solitaire dia-
monds, each weighing 10 carats, which are
worth from So, 600 to 81, 900 piece. These
are detachable and she can take them off
and wear them by themselves.
She has a set of bracelets, each about an
| inch wide and made OF four rows of precious
stones. First there is row OF rubies, then
a row of great white diamonds, then row
of emeralds and lastly one of, turquoises.
She has her fingers covered with diamond
| rings, and at one of the balls at Saratoga
she wore S1O0, 900 worth of diamonds at one
time. Scandal whispers that these dia-
monds have all come from horse races and
the other profitable amusements of the first
class sporting men.
| THE ENGAGEMENT GIFT.
The display in the jewelry windows this
fall is finer than has ever beeL before, and
New York would take the prize at national
exposition, for its number OF fine jewels. The
STYLES in jewelry are changing, and it is
now the fashion 10 buy diamond ornament
or an engagement present rather than a
diamond ring. The reason why is largely