The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-07
ARE THEr CRoWD1ve OUT 1Hr MEx,
what Results WIN Core Fror IN. General
Employment OF Women IN the Tradest

The letter printed recently in The Bun By
the bookkseper who left his desk for Few
days on account Of Illness. and returned to ind
his place occupied by q woman at one-third
his salary. opens up q new phase OF economies
sometimes quite overlooked In the general
excitement and hullaballoo over the great
things women are doing In all lines OF work.
A still more startling story might be told OF
how three brothers. EN- ployed respectively as
cashier. bookkeeper. and stenographer. and
earning fair salaries. were discharged
and their work given to their own
sisters at one-third the price. While the great
CRY has been going up for the protection OF the
American laborer against cheap foreign work
men, the army OF women invaders have quiet
~ gone In from every side and possessed them
selves OF mans dominion. Competition be-
tween the sexes begins almost In the cradle.
and is indeed lively between knickerbockers
and short frocks. The cssh boy" OF the retail
stores has for the most part changed his sex.
and 1t is In a Bingham apron covering a multi
tude Of tatters that the cash" OF the day an
swers the call OF the saleswoman.
The deiaultinR cashier lie going out OF fashion.
for the cashier Is now girl IN the restaurants,
the drug stores. some OF the large retail stores
and hotels. and she doesn't default The
feminine bookkeeper does not bring q con-
fused and Alter-the- Ball" head to business
in the morning. because she doesn't drink;
and men say. who know whereof they speak.
that she lie accurate. is more neat and con-
scientious. and is satisfied with much less
wages than her brother Since her day
OF triumph the male toll takers at the
Thirty ninth Street Ferry have been dis
charged, and their places filed by wo-
mon. The Staten Island Rapid Transit
Company have manned their stations with
ticket sellers OF the gentler sex. the Brooklyn
elevated roads have placed women at the
ticket sellers windows to the infinite disgust
OF men, For tho reward for faithful service in
the performance OF the ticket choppers cold
dreary duty has been promotion to the warm
snuggerJ behind the ticket window. But the
women obtain their sinecures over the heads
OF the men without doing their novitiate at the
choppers box. and 60 on duty at q In the
evening to serve until 3 In tho morning by the
fire. while tho ticket chopper blows his Nm
gers and stamps his feet outside. In
some OF tho downtown stores and offices.
whore men are the only customers. the
whole clerical stat Is composed Of women. In
short. with the office girls and women entry
clerks. bookkeepers. cashiers. stenographers.
| typewriters, floor walkers. the male clerk OF
average caiibre finds himself hard pressed
enumeration. Women comm ercial travellers
are said to be great success. and in number
goods. as we'll es1 as the silk rRs the brsht at
tractive woman drummer IL excellinG her
maseuiine prototypes in ingra Al, herself ell
and Is booking more orders than her discom-
fted male competitor.
Treasurers. Including a Miss Clark. who has
been elected to her responsibIs place for tn
bank has largely Increased under her admin
istrati2n. and her good judgment In the plac.
member Of the investm ent coinp any At Mount
Pleasant, Tex. there is a national bank with
Gr Sns tb who S' shs
Cashier in its bank. and the Florence Savings
der department OF Pittsburgh. where the re-
ceints are more than two millions annually. 10
buffalo has a woman undertaken. and st
Paul also boasts the woman undertak eramonG
she has grown wealthy In the business and re-
tired: And these women attend to every de-
tail, from emba! ming the body to ordering tho
widows bonnet. There Is woman IN Maine
tiVs buiIdins ests bIish4eUt which t,Ens ont
a locomotive week. In Holland. at every rail-
road crossing. stands woman waving the
signal flag OF danger as your train passes.
The reason why-hecanse OF the prevailing
intemperance among the men in Holland.
statement that no accident has ever been
caused by a watchwoman's carelessness. The
Conductors on all the street cars In Warsaw.
One OF the best mining EXPERTS IN Arzonais
thirty years OF age, aud known all over the
State for her reliable work. Chicago has q
TegIiarY licensed woman steam engnseTTii
qualified that she was chosen TO represent the
English women at the Congress OF Hygiene;
Cincinnati has a woman customs broker. and
a woman in New Orleans is one 81 the hest
veterinary surgeons In the city At East Green
Cd iSs School, Of Ca ie
there Is a girl in the, blacksmthing depart
ment, who has has taken up the vocation Sc;
riously for the purpose OF making ornamental
A typewriter employed In the office OF
prominent real estate firm in ST. Paul has
such accurate knowledge OF the realty OF tho
city that i Inc, IS GShs9eS IN prefer
she were man he would be the office boy.
Zen sg9 and nan %s esTsSd
be chose. Now the Woman ,ha. learned hook,
y year. when zen crowds " the market with
cheap workers and compsls the men 10
81 the Of two icing oG es than %hSS
the man worked alone. Another plea the man
that men had families depending on them, and
therefore could not afford TO work for the
thority than Helen Campbell is responsb Q for
the report that 10000 women in the city OF
New York alone are " ssgp9nTting thsr has.
pending on them as well. and II is safe TO pre-
mise that quite as many more have old par
port. The women have been So excited over
their success, the mon SO incredulous
concerning II, that tho serious aspects
OF the question have not made tho
impression they must make as the leavsn
lsAyens the whole body OF women kind, and
thOy crowd yet more eagerly into the market
p aces and from very force OF numbers crowd
themselves into tho different employments.
OF course now men are greatly alarmed lest
the old and honorable Institution OF marriage
fail into innoeuOus desustude because menwill
not be able to marry and support wives on tho
wages they can earn. II men had had more
raspect for this old and hOnOTed institution.
more eagerness 10 avail themselves OF its or
portunities. and had lived more fully up Ia its
principles there would not be so many women
fearful OF entering into its bonds or eager for
release from its inuignitiss.
one thing promises to readIust itsel through
the great influx Of women into clerical work,
aud that is the raising Of the standard and
dignity Of domestic smpl0Ements. When YOU
can read in the same paper genuine adver-
tissments like the following: An excellent
cook wanted no washing; wages $50 Gall
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