The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-01

MISS MARY SE1 MOUR, OF NEW 1Okh.
On recent visit to New York L paid my
respects to a woman of business in her place of
business Mary F. Seymour l found her at
her desk up many flights of an elevator at 3S
Park Row. Two rooms were packed with
clerical or typewriter DESKS with bookcases
and documents filling up every available space
from floor to ceiling, all as neat wax. A
half dozen young women occupied these desks.
Gentlemen came in, dictated letters or other
work, which was taken down stenographically,
then type-written, corrected, and in a few
moments passed over to them. This was Miss
Seymours business office. Here she takes in
work and finishes the practical education of
her pupils.
1t is privilege to visit such perfectly ap-
pointed and beautiful business building as the
Equitable. The insurance business is con-
Quoted in the court on the main floor, and gal
)eries extend around the covered court for
several stories. In one of these galleries Miss
Seymour's school of stenography and type
writing is situated. To inaugurate such a
business and build it up in great commercial
city like New York; to house the school in the
very centre of the business world, where rents
are exorbitant, and to send out constant
supply of good workers is surely test of busi-
ness tact and capacity of which man might be
proud, much more woman.
Mary 4. Seymour is the head of the Mary Il
Seymour Publishing Company, and the Business
lVOmGn'S Journal, though only in its second
year has almost paid for its publication by the
advertising. This magazine covers wide field.
Although it is not the organ of any special re-
form, it lends hand to every effort to ad-
vance the financial, political, intellectual, and
moral interests of woman. 1t champions wo-
man, not as an antagonist to man, but as an
individual. In its educational department it
treats of the occupations of women-gives hints
to young women as to what course TO pursue to
fit themselves for business. Mrs. May Wright
SeWall, of indianapolis, conducts this depart
ment, while it deyotes a department to in
struction OF women in law in regard to their
persons and property. Mrs. Cornelia X. Wood
and Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker control this
speciality Francis e. Willard treats of philan-
thropy and reform, while that accomplished
and graceful writer Mrs. Estelle NJ. III. Merrill
(Jean Kincald, of the Boston Globe edits the
department devoted to women journalists.
Mrs. M. F. De Hart, M. d., treats of physical
culture and Miss Seymour herself gives careful
attention TO all that goes into the department
devoted to stenography and type-writing. DR..
De Hart is secretary OF the company and Miss
j. Y. Horsley is director.
81 was born in New York; said she, 'but
left when child, going to the East, where was
educated and encouraged by my mother to be
self-reliant and self-supporting. taught in the
public schools on my return to New York, haV-
ing completed my education in the public
schools of New England. l taught several
years. but finally broke down, and While suffer
ing from nervous prostTation | tried to amuse
myself by picking up little stenography. l
never stopped until had mastered it. was
first employed TO assist in taking down lee
ture. gave my first three months services to
an experienced lady law reporter that l might
learn business methods soon after made my
ten dollars a Week, and went Gu advancing,
slowly but surely, until finally went into busl-
ness for myself, with feeling that New York