Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-09-22
woMANs woRLp IN PARAaRApHs.
Women Succeed in business When They
Set Their Heals tn IL

1udt Is SOOu story winch Is told OF
four women pioneers in the mining town
Of Creede. They are Mrs. Miller, Mrs.
Love, Mrs. Beebe and Miss Anna Man.
Mrs. Miller and Mrs. 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 to 30 in debt to a
freighter to take her and her camp kit
to Creede. 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 off several lots,
opened a primitive sort of restaurant,
and began to give the miners meals at
fifty cents apiece. Her cash and her
credit grew together. After it was seen
that she had hit it in her estimate Of the
spot where the real estate boom would
be, a lawyer, one Of those who protect
widows tried to scare her out Of her
claim, even attempting to erecta house
on the land. Mrs. Miller drew a re-
volver and informed him that she would
blow the brains out of the first man that
interfered with her property. The rough
had given many a man meal when he
was broke, and the man who tried to
defraud her got out Of that in hurry.
April, 1881, Mrs. Miller went in debt for
money to take her to Creede. In April.
1892, she had an income Of $500 a month
from rents in the real estate she had 50
pluckily defended. Mrs. Love was sup
porting herself anl child as bookkeeper
in Pueblo, Colo, when the Creede boom
began. She went there and opened
stationery store, which has been emi-
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 Of 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 DIR. Chester Hartranft
and Rev. H. q. Meyer historians. Are
there no women in the Hartranft fam
lily?
1t is a comfort to know chat at least
one girl has done some thinking. Miss
Victorine Jeans, Of the Victoria uni
versity, who won the Golden prize of
5000 Con the best essay on an economic
subject il . pretty young lady, a. l0v-
ablesa and Einsome as you would wish TO
see. Her prize essay bore the for1nid-
able title OF s.The Industrial and Com
mercial Effects, Actual aud Prospective,
of English Factory Act Legislation.
Just at the time when the labor trou-
bles werc at their height during the
summer went mp 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 my thoughts turned to the girls of
the same age, thirteen to fifteen. Where
ard when in my life did | ever hear two
Of them discussing the great questions
of the time, in car on anywhere elses
A huge wave Of encouragement rolled
over my soul. Ny head came out above
it, though. Iwonder if before | die |
shall ever find among average young
girls any who know or care for anything
but trash?
New York has law requiring that
women physicians shall be employed in
all state institutions to which women
are sent DR.. Eveline IT. Balantine has
been appointed resident physician at the
state hospital at Rochester. She got her
appointment by passing the best com
petitive examination. She receives 81, 200
a year and her living, which is not bad
for a young lady just starting in the
world. Dr. Balantine is graduate of
the medical school connected with the
University of Michigan.
Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Buckley, who has made
himself notorious by opposing the recog-
milton Of women as sane human beings,
holds that the adoption Of woman suf-
frage would be the greatest blow that
religion and morals have received in
mOu6fn times. VI course we can UNI
derstand from this that Rev. Dr. Buck
ley's own wife and mother have not
good sense and good moral character,
and therefore are not fit to vote, but he
should not fall into the mistake Of judg-
ing other mems wives and mothers by his
own.
A little while ago was talking to a
beautiful girl Of eighteen about matter
that was just then agitating the church
to which she belonged. | remember l
said to her, speaking Of certain point,
"If you think Of 1t q moment you will
see that this is So" She answered: ssBut
/ don't want to think just jog along"
said to her then, say to all like her:
.'God help you and forgive you'll There
will come time in your life when you
can no longer shirk thinking"
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER
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