The evening world., 1893-09-15
4 SOCIETY WOMAN IN TRADE.
The Reported Business Venture
Of Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, Jr.
Great Stir In Bonnet Lane and Lit
tic Brass Thimble.

1t IL rumorcd thet another society
won an is going into trade to build bon
nets for her daily toast and chops, to
pav off her husbands debts educate her
children, &C., sc, Sc. Now rumors fly
with feathers OF truth, and Mrs. Cyrus
W Field. jr.. Is the topic of conversa-
ton in Bonnet lane. Millncrs' row,
Scrap alley, and Little Brass rhimh'p.
n Nineteenth street dinine-room pat
ronlzcd exclusively by bastcrs, buyers
ana trimmers.
Just how many quilts there may be
in the wings OF the report. or whether
1t has any wings at all, 1t Is difficult
to say. But this IL the way the story
goes: Mr.. cyrus w. Field, ir.. was swal-
lowed up In the Field, Lindey, Wicch-
ers a co. crash. when the market
broke and the firm went down there was
nothing left.
the young stock broker had to sell
his seat in the Exchange to get carfare
to reach his dome in East Fifty-sixth
street.
With the slg.9a995 change the IT,
| ticket seller gave him he paid some
OF tho family debts.
Now cones the rumor that has caused
so much talk in thimble and scissors
circles. Mrs. Cyrus w. Field, jr, one
OF the most accomplished and gracious
hosttsses In New York. is going, 1t is
reported, to be a milliner. Her friends
are not 81 prised, so 1t seems, but the
| establishment OF the tradespeople is
| inimeB surlble
When the smash came Mrs. Field IT,,
Wiz IN Germany experimenting. the edu-
n fashion OF Miss Letter, Miss Julia
| Grant and Miss Whitney, is studying
| music language and enough art to
make original designs for her dresses
Mrs. Field was a Berkshire Hill beauty
a MISS susie Moore Andrews. daughter
Zionist in North Adams" he was called
From her father she had an allowance
OF $50 month for gloves and foreign
missions. and, according to the gos.
s Sn ,s she Say saved the $1,000 that has been
millinery iirnkon Fifth avenue.
The little shop is not great deal big.
G Ea,, man bahd-boX. It Is next door tc
and dVided w Eeaferns the basement
OF gloves and fine lingerie. For ali thai
~, Is a very attractive place to shop
me STYLES are exquisite and exclusive.
has the comfortable assuran nceS that St" sb,
WI not meet IA duplicate sailing acros.
| Houston street or hopping into a greer
Tar bound for the Grand street ferry
| Vlated. interior talk cockney wear crys
aallized inger nails. mahogany hair anC
WOOD violet scent in their eyebrows.
When men folks go IN to deliver ex
press packages they doff their hats &c
these imperious beauties and say yes
ma am" and No, ma'am." in the course
OF conversation. Home made" womer
who chance into the shop to ask the
| price OF smart little chip hat that ha,
an apparent value OF $500 or so dom
remain long.
The Icy .politeness and frigid eleganc,
with which they are treated would max,
marble copy OF Venus Milo SILVER
uf course. the clerks are not to blame
Ing hats quoted at SIS, who wants t
be bothered with equivocal bookkeepers
for plunder?
At o'clock this morning 30 Fifth ave
nue. was as quiet as a seashore hotel
The butter-color curtains were down
The sun dancing on cube of ice-cov
| cred II with matchless diamonds am
opals A pair of buXom maids in Red
FERNS back stairs were raising n blind
ing dust.
In the ladies' tailor shop absolutel,
nothing was known about 1.-THE business
enterprise OF young Mrs Field" As tn
Redferns build bonnets and toques t,
go with their costumes, It is not in tn
nature. of things that they should b.
enthusiastic.
Mrs. Field is still abroad No societ,
woman ever made II success as a bust
ness woman. and II. az 1t Is rumored
the new partner intends to keep he
firm it is not at all likely that 18th
other women In trade will not min
the benefits that the free advertisin
will give the Curtis Company.