The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-24
WOMEN In BUSINESS.
Apparently No Truth That Men
Boycott Them.

has been made by Mrs. Sewell in 1ht
Woman's Magazine is receiving q
wide circulation by reason OF the
statements therein made. Mrs. Sewell
says that, 'having lately heard that
certain large business firms, divers
great loan companies and numerous
brokers declined to have any business
dealings with women" she has taken
pains to ascertain the facts, and mas
that no false rumor has been spread,
but that in very truth ''many OF the
wealthiest~ corporations issue orders to
every Office and every agent in Their
employ under no circumstances TO
loan money to a woman This rule
is said to be final, to apply TO all
women, to spinsters and widows as
we'll as to wives, and TO be enforced
without regard to the security that
may be offered.
Business men are said to justify this
discrimination on twogrounds:-First,
Because a woman is neyer satisfied
that she is being treated fairly. can
not count a roll of bills accurately,
will avail herself OF the slightest tech
| nicality TO cheat a creditor, will rush
into lawsuits and perjure herself on
! the witness stand, and, second, be-
| cause in a suit instituted to recover
money from a woman any jury will
| take the woman's part. without con-
sidering either the law or the Y
dence.
Such a condition OF things seemed
to call for investigation, and investi-
cation shows that while invidual firms
or corporations may have been dis
covered which have put, as they have
a right TO put, certain limitations on
their transactions, yet men in general
will certainly adopt and maintain only
| such business rules as are profitable.
Miss Agnes X. Murphy, New York's
woman real estate agent, who is the
| pioneer member. girl that she is, OF
| her sex in the Real Estate Exchange,
| and whose sign is one of the forty
four that the 1871 members have
voted to allow to adorn the walls. has
never heard of a business man who
boycotted At the Emigrants'
Saving Bank, and in other business
| houses, she mas met men who assured
her they would rather deal with her
than with most men. AS q business
woman she has been treated with
such general courtesy by the other
sex that she says, with a modest little
| smile, they may some time make her
vain. !,
She acknowledges, however. that
the infantile ignorance OF many
women of business affairs is frequently
a cause of serious annoyance, and tina
when q broker has sent an appraiser
to value "a piece of property prior to
taking a mortgage he does not always
receive the news with entire equan-
unity when the woman, after subject
ing him to expense and trouble, dis
covers that she didn't know her w
mind and doesn't want to mortgage
her land after all.
d IDEAS OF BUSINESS.
"As an illustration of the business
ways of some women, continued the
brown haired and bright eyed broker,
take the ease of two who were here
this morning. They were educated
and refined ladies and had inherited q
niece Of property worth about 6 1900
in conjunction with their brother.
This they entered into q ninety days
contract to sell, and before the ex-
piration of the period the tax for 1889,
100 was confirmed. The share of each
woman was $3.50, but this they abso-
- wss some confrivance Of theil
hro %b and thar he was irving
~ SafranJ them and heinz
vi nnahla to understand hat
agan +ba contract The tax nayment
snii On the s[eIlars thew actually threw
tvn AZ baraa;n One sawyer Jeff
~ rinr that he wonld sna for narfi'
sion If tba nronarty. the purcbase,
laft tbreatenine 10 bring snit for dam.
ages, he having raised money ON q
building and loan association to cor
clude the transaction, and everybody
turned round on me and said, That's
what comes OF dealing with women.
But, went on Miss Murphy IN 9
consolatory tone, women Go moi
monopolize Ignorance by any means
1t is no long time since | bought
piece OF property as agent Tor a mar
who is highly successful IN his WI
business line. When purchase was o.
concluded he objected to paying over
his money unless he could walk away
with the deed then and there. but:
| said, this deed must be recorded
it will be six weeks before you receive
it, Then said he, for all that time