Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-08-25
MISS LAURA HAYES.

MISS LAURA HAYES.
Hunt is considered exceptionally clever
and even brilliant, and as private secre-
tary Mrs. Morton thought her jewel.
Mrs. Cleveland has a happy faculty of
avoiding literary responsibilities, and
during her husbands first term she en-
ployed one Of his secretaries when neces-
sary, but there has lately been vague
rumor that a young southern lady was
to be her special secretary for this term.
Miss A. B. Sanger is typewriter at the
White House.
Mrs. Eliza Boardman Burnz of New
York is the veteran Of her sex in Ste
biography and is the author of "Burnz'
Fonic Shorthand" She was born Oct.
81, 1898, has long been retired, of course,
from active work, but is so much in
love with common sense in spelling that
she will not even allow an to be used
In her name where the sound is that of
z. Miss Preston ranks as an official
court reporter at Denver, and so do
Misses Flora B, Haddox and Ozella
Peman In Iowa, Miss Mamie A. Stockett
in Louisiana, Miss Annie White and
Sadie NJ. Swift in Massachusetts,, Miss
Jennie Gage in Michigan and few 9TH
ers in other states.
Perhaps the best position in this line,
at any rate very good one indeed, is
that held by Miss Laura Hayes as pri-
vate secretary of the renowned Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer Of Chicago generally and Of
the Worlds fair particularly. If any
one who has written to Mrs. Palmer and
received prompt reply, though the pa
pers may have just reported her as in
New York or Europe, said writer may
hereby learn that said prompt answer
came from Miss Hayes, who is in very
truth Mrs. Palmer's alter ego. She is
the ideal private secretary and has a
stenographer to do the actual work. To
Miss Hayes go all the newspaper men
who want information Of Mrs. Palmer's
doings, and from her come promptly all
decisions on matters which do not abso-
lutely require Mrs. Palmer's personal at
| tention.
Miss Hayes is native of Chicago
Her father was one of its pioneer bust,
ness men and at the time of the great
fire was quite wealthy. He died when
she was but an infant, and she has de-
veloped her talents under the stimulus
of necessity. Her family is of old Massa-
chusetts Revolutionary stock, the same
from which President Hayes was de-
scended, and her relatives on the moth
er's side were warriors in other and some:
what later days. Miss Hayes is herself
lady Of many accomplishments and
| has won distinction in other lines than
her present one.
It Is, however, as a private secretary
that she has no superior. Mrs. Palmer
usually goes through her mail very rapid
ly In the morning, debating as she reads.
Miss Hayes adds the literary finish, and
It Is very rarely indeed that there is a
word a1hiss OF inapplicahle.
| J. B. PARKE.
There is one point that ought to weigh
very seriously in all considerations Of
annexing or not annexing Hawaii. That
lis, that if these islands should pass into
the hands of any other nation, as they
certainly will do if the provisional gov.
eminent NOW established there loosens
its grip, then the United States would
have no naval or coaling station at all
in that part of the Pacific over which
the great lines of traffic pass. Another
nation would certainly take away from
us Pearl river harbor on the island OF
| Oahu which la now Ol1rs under treaty