The Red Cloud chief., 1894-05-04
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
THEY ARE TAKING UP MANY MASCu
LINE AvOcATlONS.


Lnrge Commercial Enterprises Successfully
Managed ,y the t.entler ses They Arc
Also Engaged Mt Cal,,ngs which Require
sim and Physical Endurance.
Women are found today i'm many an
employment which until very recently
was regarded rs tho exclusive privilege
of man. For instance, one of the most
successful ranch owners in Kansas is not
q robust and ablcbodicd man, but q
woman fair Of face, petite la form and
not more than 80 years old. Advertising
Is another business in which women are
beginning to figure prominently. There
arr 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 aud systematic course
in the theoretical study and practice OF
piano tuning and soon proved her ca
pacity in excclling the male competitors
in the establishment. She has now q
worry 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. Ho was the presi-
| dent Of tho Pennsboro and Harrisville
railroad.
The First National bank Of Licking.
| ton, Neb., has for its president Mrs. H.
H. Temple and for vice president Miss
| Temple. Tho recent election Of the wife
| Of a senior member Of q large New York
firm Of short line railway builders a.
president of the Hains Medina Valley
Railroad company in Texas makes the
second instance in this country Of a wo.
man appointed to fill this position.
There is only one woman railroad engi.
neer. There is O little stretch Of road
known "a tho Cairo Short Line, and on
this the daughter Of one Of its chief
owners rode to school daily. and at q
very early ago seemed deeply interested
in machinery and always had the work
ings Of tho engine explained. Finally
she manifested q greater interest In me
chanical and railroad engineering, and
a. all things come to him Tor herr who
waits q chance arrived. The engineer
Of this narrow gauge road became Ill,
and during this illness the young WON
an in question took his place and made
the runs without any mishap. Upon tn
death Of the engineer she assumed charg'
Of the train, which she is still running
to the entire satisfaction Of all partie
concerned.
In Texas there Is o female contracto
in the employ Of tho United States gov
eminent. Her contract is for carrying
the mail from Keith to White Hall
Georgia has q woman mail carrier VIII
not only delivers tho mail on her littl
black pony over q 40 mile route triwee&
ly in q bleak and sparsely settled region
but manages q large farm as we'll, dc
ing much Of the manual labor and SUP
porting her aged parents and cripple
sister by her indefatigable industry an
energy. She il but go years old.
In Cincinnati an excellent restauran
Ia in the Chamber Of Commerce buildin
and is ~patronized exclusively by the fore
! most business men In that city. 1t
run by three Scotchwomcn and upo
y strictly temperance principles. Ever
one predicted their failure when it we
J announced that positively no liquor wa
p%rocurablo in their restaurant, and PEI
pie scoffed to think they could not eve
got q glass Of beer with their meals, b,
4 their predictions proved erroneous, II
besides paying an annual rental Of IS
900 FOR their magnificent premises the
clear annually from $40, 600 to $l5, GOT
Tho lady guide Is an institution
London and an innovation now bein
introduced in American cities in Lol
don these guides are for the express pu
pose Of supplying women tourists wit
" members of their own sex to pilot the
& safely over the we'll known tours Of En-
81 land and the British islands in gener
and in fact anywhere they wish to
Or ON the continent. These guides are =
!, fined and cultivated, speak French AZ
IL German fiuently, else their applicable
~ for this rather agreeable position wi
id not be considered, and have excelle
credentials as to character and sobriet
They are supposed to work eight hou
q day, and their charge is but 10 shi
lings-equivalcnt TO $9. 90 of Americi
Of money. When one considers the aggr
y~ations n is spared by having u guild
EN- and tho surety one feels of not havil
al. spent too much for anything purchase
IS, it will be found that this miablo CO
st rier has saved her employer fully I
amount OF her salary.
In New Orleans one OF the finest {
: chestras is composed entirely Of wome
and tho leader and her corps Of W,
trained musicians arc seen at every c
tertainment Of note in that gay city.
Astoria, n. Y, many Of the largest h
houses arc controlled and managed
women. In Gotham is y blacksmith
shop managed entirely by tho TIN
daughters Of the blacksmith, who
intelligent young women. The fail