The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-02-02
What Will Become Of Men as a
Result Of Employing
Women.
So Far Such Action Has Resulted
In Great Reduction in
Wages.
same New Fields Now Occupied b
Womsn-womea Are Honest sad
Don't Get Drunk.

Book keeper who lett MS desk Tor n lew uaN =
On account OF illness and returned 60 find
his place occupied 10y a woman at onethird
his salary opens up q new phase OF econom-
les sometimes quite overlooked Ia the gen
eral excitement and hullahalo0 over the
great things women arc doing In all lines OF
work A still more startling story might
be told Of how three brothers, employed re
spectirely as cashier, bookkeeper and ste
uographer and earning fair salaries, were
discharged aud their work given TO their
own sisters 40 one-third the price. Compe-
tition between the sexes begins almost IN
the cradle and IS indeed lively between
kuickerbockers and short frocks The
"cash boy OF the retail stores has for the
most part changed his sex, and it is in a
Bingham apron covering n multitude ot
tatters that the cash of the day answers
the call OF the saleswoman.
The defaulting cashier is going out Of
fashion. for the cashier l. now a 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 a confused and After the
Balln head 70 business in the morning be
cause she doesn't drink. and men say who
know whereof they speak that she is accu-
rate, il more neat and conscientious and Is
satisfied with much less wages than her
brother. Since her day Of triumph the male
tolltakers NJ the Thirty-ninth street ferry
have been discharged, and their places filled
by women.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit compa-
nv have manned their stations with ticket
sellers OF the geutler sex, and the Brooklyn
elevated roads have placed women al the
ticket sellers windows, TO the infinite dis
gust of men. for the reward for faithful
service in the performance OF the ticket
choppers dresry duty has been promotion
70 the warm snuegery behind the ticket
window. But the women obtain their sine
cures over the heads Of the men without
doing their novitiate at the choppers box
and 70 ON duty at 6 in the evening 70 serve
until in the morning By the fire, while the
ticket chopper blows his fingers and stamps
his feet outside.
In some Of the down town stores and Of
fees where men are the only customers the
whole clerical staff is composed Of women.
In short, with the office girls and women
entry clerks. bookkeepers, cashiers, stenog-
raphers, typewriters, floor walkers, the
male clerk of average caliber finds himself
hard pressed and forced into lower occupa-
lions at smaller remuneration. Women
commercial travellers are said 20 be a great
success, and in "a number OF ten and coffee
houses, dry goods and canned goods, as
well as the silk firms, the bright, attractive
woman drummer is excelling her mascu-
line prototype In ingratiating herself aud
her samples in the eyes Of the merchants
and is booking more orders than her dis
comdted male competitor.
New Hampshire has three women bank
treasUrers, including a Miss Clark, who has
been elected TO her responsible place for the
tenth consecutive time. The business of the
bank has largely increased under her adj
ministation, and her good Judgment i'm the
placing Of loans has resulted in her being
made member of the Investment company.
AT Mount Pleasant Tex. there isa national
bank with a woman for president, who en-
Joys the added distinction of being the
youngest bank president ia the country.
South Paris has a woman cashier in its
bank, and the Florence Savings bank has q
woman treasurer. The money order de
partment Of pittsburg where the receipts
are more than S2,UJ0O10 annually, is exclu-
sively in the hands of % woman.
In Holland at every railroad crossing.
stands woman waving the signal flag Of
danger as your train passes. The reason
Why-because Of the prevailing intemper-
road officials are answerable for the state
ment that no accident has ever been caused
by watchwoman's carelessness. The con
ductors on all the street cars In Warsaw.
Russia, are women.
Ten years ago "a man bookkeeper earned
O. 100 or $500 year and supported a wife
or sisters more or less grudingly or geuer-
ously. as he chose. Now, the woman has
learned bookkeeping and viii work for 900
a year, which crowds the market with cheap
workers and compels the men 10 work for
500 or 81 900 q year, the aggregate earnings
If the two being 800 less than when the
man worked alone. Another plea the man
who wrote the letter 90 The sun made was
that men had iamilie. depending on them,
and therefore could not afford 20 work for
the wages paid 10 women so less reliable
an authority than Helen Campbell d. re
sponsible for the report that % 900 women
in the city Of New York alone are support
ing their husbands. while many Of then
have children depending on them as we'll
and il is safe TO premise that quite as many
more have old plreLts OF sisters or brothers
- asst lr support.
The women have bcc1 30 excited 0vo
their success the men so iucredulous con
oeruigg %. tlat the serious aspects of th,
question have 100 made .4c impression
they must make as the lcarel lenvens th,
whole body Of womalkiud, and they cr9ut
yet more eagerly into the market place,
and from very force Of numbers cr1wt
themselves into the different employment
OF course now mon arr greatly alarmc,
lest the old and honorable Institution d
lnarriage fall into iun9cuous dcu-tulc Le
tIu7e men viii Ilt b. able t1 marry aa,