Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-02
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Women Succeed ia Business When They
Set Their Heads u H.

four women pioneers In the mining town
Of Creole. They are Mrs. Miller. Mrs
Love, Mrs. Beebe and Miss Anna Man.
Mrs. Miller and ATs. Love are widows.
with one child each. At the first rush
TO the Creede gold field Mrs. Miller
went. She had been earning a living
for herself and son by cooking and
housework. She had heard marvellous
tales OF the wealth suddenly acquired in
the new mining camps, and being a
German woman believed them. An
American would have known better, but
fortunately for Mrs. Miller's success she
did not. She had 10 go In debt TO a
freishter 10 take her and her camp kit
10 Creole. Once there she looked over
the field carefully and decided where the
future growth Of the town would be. This
correct judgment was what made her
fortune. she staked of several lots,
opened primitive sort of restaurant,
and began 10 give the miners meal at
fifty cents apiece. Her cash and erY
credit grew together. After it was
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spot where the real estate boom w
be, a lawyer, one of those who pre- ct
widows, tried TO scare her out OF her
claim, even attempting to erect q house
Oh the land. Mrs. Miller drew . re-
volver and informed him that she would
blow the brains out of the first man that
interfered with her property. The rough
,s1 20 fav- hanarca "a
had given many a man meal when he
was broke" and the man who tried to
defraud her got out Of that in a hurry.
April, 1851. Mrs. Miller went in debt for
money 70 take her TO Creole. In April,
1892, she had an income of $500 month
from rents in the real estate she had so
pluckily defended. Mrs. Love was sup
porting herself and child as bookkeeper
in Pueblo, Colo, when the Creede boom
began. She went there and opened a
stationery store, which has been emf
nently successful, besides getting posses
sion also Of valuable mining claims.
Miss Anna Man has done the actual
labor of digging tunnel 200 feet long,
and getting patents for two mines which
are all her own. She can work lode
like an expert. Mrs. Beebe started
the first large hotel in Creede-like Mrs
Miller, judging for herself where the
business part or the town would be, and
judging correctly. She has made a
marked success of the hotel, and has in
addition large mining properties. 1t is
not recorded anywhere that Mrs. Miller
and Mrs. Love are any the less capable
and loving mothers because they are
successful business women.
The Hartranft family have had a
great reunion at Mountain Grove, Pa.
For the coming year they elected Frank
Hartranft president, Judson Hartranft
secretary and DR.. Chester Hartranft
and Rev. H. G. Meyer historians. Are
there no women in the Hartrsnft fam
lily?
It is a comfort to know that ct least
one girl has done some thinking. Miss
Victorine Jeans, Of the Victoria uni
versity, who won the Golden prize of
$500 for the best essay on an economic
subject, is pretty young lady, as low
able and winsome as you would wish to
see. Her prize essay bore the formid-
able title Of The Industrial and Com
mercial Effects. Actual and Prospective,
Of English Factory Act Legislation"
Just at the time when the labor trou-
bles were at their height during the
summer / went up town in an elevated
train in New York one day and sat next
to two bright eyed, clean boys from thir-
teen to fifteen years old. They were
evidently little fellows who did errands
in down town Offices. They were talk
ing earnestly, and soon discovered that
they were discussing the strikes and
their political bearings. They had read
the story, had listened to the pros and
cons and made up their minds decidedly
about which side they were on. They
knew more about the subject than half
the grown men of average intelligence
did. 1t gave me the greatest pleasure
10 listen to these bright, pretty lads.
Then ny thoughts turned to the girls OF
the same age. thirteen to fifteen. Where
and when in my life did ever hear two
of them discussing the great questions
of the time. In a car or anywhere else?
A huge wave of encouragement rolled
over my soul. My head came out above
it. though. / wonder II before l die |
shall ever find among average young
girls any who know OF care for anything
bnt trash?
New York has law requiring that
women physicians shall be employed in
all state institutions to which women
are sent. DR.. Eveline t. Bslantine has
been appointed resident physician at the
state hospital at Rochester. She got her
appointment by passing the best com
pe1itive examination. She receives 81 200
year and her living. which IL not bad
for young lady inst starting in the
world. Dr. Balsntine is graduate of
the medical school connected with the
University Of Michigan.
Rev. DR.. J. VI. Buckley. who has made
himself notorious b. opposing the recog-
milton Of women As sane human beings,
holds that the adoption Of woman sui
frags would be the greatest blow that
r. Sion ard morals have received ia
modern times OF course we can IN
6erstand from this that Rev. Or. Buck
ley's own wife and mother have not
good sense and good moral character.
aud therefore are not IT 10 vote. but he
shosl3 not fsu into the mistake II judg-
ing esher mems wives snd mothers BY his
own
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