Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-07-02
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
THEY ARE TAKING UP MANY MAscu-
LINE AvocATIoNs.

Large Commercial Enterprises Successfully
Managed by the Gentler sex-They Are
Also Engaged at Callings which Require
Skill and Physical Endurance.
Women are found today in many an
employment which until very recently
was regarded as the exclusive privilege
bf man. For instance, one Of the most
successful ranch owners in Kansas is not
robust and ablebodied man, but
woman fair of face, petite in form and
not more than 30 years old. Advertising
is another business in which women are
beginning to figure prominently. There
are two very large advertising agencies
in Boston, the members of both firms
being women and all their employees
women. They make their contracts and
attend to the most intricate business
problems themselves and have large con-
tracts for entire railroads and street cars
in the largest cities in the United States
One woman in this city who had an
excellent musical education in her youth
took thorough and systematic course
in the theoretical study and practice of
piano tuning and soon proved her ca
pacity in excelling the male competitors
in the establishment. She has now q
very large number of patrons and COM
fortably supports herself and two chill
dren. The first woman railroad presi-
dent in this country succeeded her hus-
band ON his death. He was the presi-
dent of the Pennsboro and Harrisville
railroad.
The First National bank of Lexing-
ton, Neb., has for its president Mrs. II,
R. Temple and for vice president Miss
Temple The recent election of the wife
of a senior member of a large New York
firm Of short line railway builders as
president of the Hains Medina Valley
Railroad company in Texas makes the
second instance in this country of wo-
man appointed to fill this position.
There is only one woman railroad engi-
neer There is little stretch Of road
known as the Cairo Short Line, and on
this the daughter Of one of its chief
owners rode to school daily, and at
very early age seemed deeply interested
in machinery and always had the work
ings of the engine explained. Finally
she manifested greater interest in me-
chanical and railroad engineering, and
as all things come to him Tor herr who
waits chance arrived. The engineer
of this narrow gauge road became i'll,
and during this illness the young wom-
an in question took his place and made
the runs without any mishap. Upon the
death Of the engineer she assumed charge
of the train, which she is still running,
to the entire satisfaction of all parties
concerned.
In the employ Of the United States gov
ernment. Her contract is for carrying
the mail from Keith to White Hall,
Georgia has woman mail carrier who
not only delivers the mail ON her little
black pony over a 40 mile route triweek-
ly in bleak and sparsely settled region,
but manages large farm as well, do
ing much of the manual labor and sup
porting her aged parents and crippled
sister by her indefatigable industry and
energy. She is but 90 years old.
In Cincinnati an excellent restaurant
is in the Chamber of Commerce building
and is patronized exclusively by the fore
most business men In that city. 1t is
run by three Scotchwomen and upon
strictly temperance principles. Every
one predicted their failure when it was
announced that positively no liquor was
procurable in their restaurant, and peo-
pie scoffed to think they could not even
get q glass of beer with their meals, but
their predictions proved erroneous, for
besides paying an annual rental of $5,-
900 for their magnificent premises they
clear annually from $40, 900 to $15, 900.
The lady guide is an institution in
London and an innovation now being
introduced in American cities. InLon-
don these guides are for the express pur-
pose of supplying women tourists with |
members of their own sex to pilot them |
safely over the well known tours of Eng |
land and the British islands in general
and in fact anywhere they wish TO go
ON the continent These guides are re-
fined and cultivated, speak French and
German fluently, else their application
for this rather agreeable position will
not be considered, and have excellent
credentials as to character and sobriety.
They are supposed to work eight hours
a day, and their charge is but 10 shil-
lings-equivalent TO So. 90 of American
money. When one considers the aggra-
vations one is spared by having guide,
and the surety one feels of not having
spent too much for anything purchased,
it will be- found that this amiable cou-
rier has saved her employer fully the
amount of her salary.
In New Orleans one of the finest or
chestras is composed entirely of women,
and the leader and her corps of we'll
trained musicians are seen at every en-
Of note in that gay city. In
Astoria, N. y, many of the largest hot
houses are controlled and managed by
In Gotham is a blacksmith's
shop managed entirely by the three
daughters of the blacksmith, who are
Intelligent young women, The father