The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-17
WOMEN IN BUSINESS,
THEY ARE TAKING UP MANY MAscu.
LINE AvocATioNs.

mm"M&rN ny Em@ 1enIAeF Sex-EhGy Are
Also Engaged 1t CaIlings which Require
skill and Physical Endurance.
Women are found today In many Am
employment which until very recently
was regarded as the exclusive privilege
OF mar. For instance, one Of the most
successful ranch owners In Kansas IA 10
q robust and ablebodied man. but a
woman fair Of face, petite In form and
not more than 80 yearsnld 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 Ind an
excellent musical education i'm her youth
took o thorough and systematic course
in the theoretical study and practice of
piano tuning and soon proved her ca
pacity In exceling the male competitors
in the establishment. She has now a
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 Harrisyille
railroad.
The First National bank OF Licking
ton, Neb., has for its president Mrs. Fl.
r. Temple and for vice president Miss
Temple. The recent election of the wife
OF q senior member of O large New York
firm OF short line railway builders as
president of the Hams Medina Valley
Railroad company in Texas makes the
second instance in this country OF d wo-
man appointed to I'LL this position.
There is only one woman railroad engi-
neer. There is a 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 d
very early age seemed deeply interested
In machinery and always had the work
ings of the engine explained. Finally
she manifested o greater interest i'm me-
chanical and railroad engineering, and
as all things come to him Tor herr who
waits q chance arrived. The engineer
OF this narrow gauge road became i'll, |
and during this illness the young WON
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 Texas there is a female contractor |
in the employ of the United States gov
eminent. Her contract is for carrying
the mail from Keith to White Hall. |
Georgia has o woman mail carrier who
only delivers the mail ON her little
black pony over 40 mile route triweek-
~ In a bleak and sparsely settled region
but manages a large farm as well, do
ing much of the manual labor and sup
her aged parents and crippled
sister by her interchangeable industry and
energy. She is but % 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 Scotchwomcn and upon
temperance principles. Every
predicted their failure when it was
announced that positively no liquor was
p~rocurable in their restaurant, and PEG
pie scoffed to think they could not even
get a glass of beer with their meals, but
their predictions proved erroneous, for
besides paying an annual rental of S.
BOO for their magnificent premises they
clear annually from $40, 600 to$15, 900.
The lady guide is an institution lii
London and an innovation now being
in American cities. In Lon
lon 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
and 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 ~fuently, else their application
Tor this rather agreeable position win
not be considered, and have excellent
as to character and sobriety.
They are supposed to work eight hours
] day, and their charge is but 10 shil-
Iings-equivalent TO pa. so of American
money. When one considers the aggra-
one is spared by having a guide,
and the surety n feels of not having
spent too much for anything purchased,
Il will be found that this amiable con-
rier has saved her employer fully the
amount OF her salary.
In New Orleans one of the finest or
,hestras is composed entirely Of women,
and the leader and her corps of we'll
musicians are seen at every en-
tertainment OF note in that gay city. In
N. Y, many of the largest hot
houses J controlled and managed by
women. In Gotham is blacksmith,s
shop managed entirely by the three
daughters OF the blacksmith, who are
Intelligent young women The father I
lied some 10 years ago, and the mother
took charge of the establishment, and
to the future she had her girls
instructed not only in the art of horse.
shooting, but in everything pertaining
to the trade. Since the mothers death