The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-28
CLIPPING BUREAU.
Women Who Pay Round Sums for News
paper Notices of Themselves.

Women Who Pay Round Sums for News
paper Notices of Themselves
ON the top floor OF the Judge
Building in Fifth avenue, New York.
there are two girls who are more
thoroughly up 10 date" than even
"l4S2.' They sit at long table
under the skylight and paste news.
paper clippings on 10 slips OF paper.
In an adjoining room, at another
long table more girls and = number
or men sit and read news apers all
day long They getJhrough 800 pa
pers a day, and except saturdays,
when they draw their salaries. they
curse the day that print NJ was in.
vented, says the New Work sun.
IL is a clipping bureau You would
on cSly discover that IL you should
90 into the third room. where seve al
men, armed W Tn the longest shears
on record. cut and slash wherever the
blue pencil has left its mark. There
are over 5000 subscribers names
down on the books. Three thousand
people have enough curiosity or In
terest aboot what the papers say OF
them 10 pay So hundred for the
clippings or this number quite one
half are women. They are mostly
writer's or authoresses, as the liter
airy girl In the tirst room calls them.
That girl Is marvel o Information.
You can 20 through the whole 3, 900
names and catechise her on them all
and she wont miss a question. She
is said To be an oracle in her family
and among her friends Her par
ticulal work Is sitting out the notices
OF literary people, and she hasn't
much OF an opinion OF the craft She
doesn't aspire 10 write book. She
thinks it's too common.
But authOresses are not the only
women who want To know what the
world says abont them. Soc ETY.
queens are quite rs curious rs To the
expression in the eye OF the public as
IL looks at them. And there are
actresses on the list, ani artists-a
few OF them only, because they are
generally too impecunious-and wives
OF prominent men, AM In fact, all
sorts and conditions OF women.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has been the
most popular woman, journalistically
speaking, in this country during the
last year In May alone Mrs. Pal
mer received 1871 notices OF herself
through this bureau. This was a
comparatively small proportion OF
those that were printed, for she cy-
cluded all Chicago rapers which, OF
tn
her, and received only important ones
Il lom other papers
Miss Clara Barton is another wo-
man who enjoys a steady newspaper
popularity. Miss Barton had TO put
stop TO the large shipments OF clip
pings sent her on account OF a cer-
tain experience not long ago A
story was started 10 the effect that
when she went into the atent Once
some years ago she was penniless. and
IL was intimated that she was on the
verge Of starvation when she took
the place, This made Miss Barton,
who IS very jealous OF the memory OF
her father, very indignant But the
worst was yet TO come The flo
seemed to catch the fancy OF the ex-
change editors throughout the coun-
try, and inside OF a week the clip
ping bureaus began TO fire notices at
her at cents a clip from papers
from every State in the Union. When
Miss Barton had paid s. or $40 for
the pleasure OF eadlng repetitions OF
an untrue story about herself she had
had enough, and notified the bureaus
that she didn't want reprints and
wouldn't have them. A certain Con-
gressman's wife received in thirteen
months II clippings OF one para
graph about her.