The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-18
CROWDING OUT MEN.
General Employment Of Women
in the Trades
FEMALE LABOR IS CHAN
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The letter printed recently In The Nss BY
the bookkseper who lefs his dssk tor Q few
days on account Of iilnsss. and returned 10
md bis place fljed by . woman 6 one
third his salary. opens mp . new phase OF
economics sometimes quite overlooked In
tho general excitement and huliahallo over
the great things vomsn are doing In ell
lines Of work. A stnl more startling story
might b. told Of how three brothers, am
picysd respectively a cashier. hockksepsr
and stenographsr. and earning fair SAL
aries. were discharged and their work
given 20 their own aisssrs as ons-third the
price. While the great cry has been going
rp for the protection Of the Amarican La
borsr against cheap foreign workmen the
army Of women invaders have quietly gone
In from every aide and possessed them-
selves Of mans dominion. Compositions
between the sexes begins slmost in the cra-
die. and IL indeed lively between knicksr-
boekers and short frocks. The .eash beyss
OF the retail stores has for the most part
changed his sex. and IL IL IN Q Tingham
apron covering multitude of tattsrs that
the leash" OF the day answers the call OF
the saleswoman.
The defaulting cashier 10 going ont OF
fashion, for the cashier is now girl In the
restaurants. the drug stores. some of the
largo retail stores and hotels. and abe
doesn't default The feminine bookkssper
does not bring confused and sAfter-the-
Ball. head to business in the morning. be-
cause she doesn't drink; and men say.
who know whereof they speak. that abe
Is accurate, Is more neat and conscien tiouA,
and IL satisGed with much less wages than
her brother. Since her day of triumph the
male toll takers at the Thirty-ninth street
ferry have been discharged. and thsir
places filled by women. The Staten Island
Rapid Transit Company have manned
their stations with ticket SELLERS Of tho
gentler ser and the Brooklyn elevated roads
have placed women at the ticket ssllers'
windows. to the infinite disgust Of mon.
For the reward for faithful service in the
performance of the ticket chopper cold
dreary duty has been promotion 20 the
warm snaggcry behind tho ticket window.
But the women Obtain their sineeures
over the heads OF the men without
doing their novitiate At the chopper DOE,
and so on duty 1t Q in The evening 90
serve until 8 In the morning by the
IRE, while the ticket chopper blows hts
fingers and stamps his feet outside. In
some OF the downtown stores and oi1lcep.
where men are the only customers, the
whole clerical stan 10 composed OF women.
In short with the office girls and women
entry clerks. bcokkeepsrs, cashiers. stsno-
graphers. typewriters, door walkers, the
male clerk OF average caliber 6nds himsaif
hard pressed and forced into lower oecu-
pations a. smaiisr remuneration Women
commercial travellers ara said TO be great
success, and in number Of tea and coffee
houses, dry goods and canned goods. g
well - the siik firms, the bright. aftrac-
tive woman drummer Il excelling her mas
cuiine prototypes In the eyes OF the msr.
chants and 10 booking more orders than
her discounted male competition
New Hampshire has three women bank
trsasurers. including Mas Clark, who
has been elected 20 her Responsible place
for the tsnth consecutive time. The busi.
ness Of the bank has largely increased
under her administration. and her good
Judgment In the placing Of loans has re-
suited In her being made member OF the
Investment company. AZ Nouns Pleas
ant, Tex. there 10 o national bank With q
woman for prssident, who enjoys the
added distinction Of being the youngest
bank president in the country. South
Paris has woman cashier In it, bank and
the Florence Savings bank has woman
treasurer. The money order departments
OF PittsburR. where the receipts are more
Oh an two millions annually, In exclusively
In tho hands Of . woman.
Dehnao ~ - WON ~ uuuertakef, ana OF
Paul also boasts the woman undertaken
among its interesting features. Chicago
had one. but she has grown wealthy In the
business and retired. And these women
attend 10 every detail. from embalming
the body to ordering the mourning and de-
Gliding on the border In the Widows bon.
net. There 10 woman in Maine con-
Quoting an extensive foundry and loco
motive building establishment. which
turns out locomotive . week. In Hol-
land. NJ every railroad crossing. stands .
woman waving the signal flag Of danger
because Of tho prevailing intsmpsrancs
among the men In Holland. And railroad
officials are anawerabie for the stntameut
that no accident has ever besn caused BY
= watchwoman's carelsasness. The COM
ductors on ell the street cars In Warsaw,
Russia, are women.
One Of the best mining experts In Arisona
10 woman--a tall, dArk-syed beauty. isss
than 30 years OF age, and known all over
the state for her reliable work. Chicago
has . regularly licensed woman steam en-
gineer: England a woman sanitary en-
ginesr 10 we'll qualified that she was
chosen 20 represent the English vomsn Ct
the congress Of hygiene; Cincinnati has 8
woman customs broker, and woman In
New Orleans 10 one OF the best veterinary
surgeons In the city. At East Greenwich
there 10 woman jail keeper, and In the
Cogswsii Polytechnic School Of caiiicrnis
there L. a girl In the discriminating depart
ment. who has taken up the vocation
seriously for the purpose OF making orns-
mental forged work.
A typewriter employed In the Office of
prominent real estate firm in st. Paul has
such accurate knowledge OF tho realty OF
the city that she In frequently consulted In
preferences 20 her employers, one OF whom
says If she were . man he would b the
ONCE boy.
Ten years ago . man bookkesper earned
u. 200 or 81, 500 and supported wife or sis
tiers more or less grudgingiy or generously
as he chose. Nov the woman has learned
bookkeeping and viii work for $500 year.
which crowds the market With Cheap
workers and compels the men to work for
500 or 81 600 year. the aggregate saxu-
ings Of the two being $500 less than when
the man worked alone Another pisa the
man who wrote the letter TO the San made
Was that men had families depending on
them, and therefore could not afford 10
work for the wages paid TO women. No
less reliable an authority than Helen
Campbell Ia responsible for the report that
1900 women in the city Of New York
alone are supporting their husbands. while
many OF them have children depending on
them ss we'll. and it II safe 70 premise thas
quite ~ many more have old parents %
sisters or brothers 20 assist or support.
Ths women have been 90 excited over
their success. the men 30 incrcduious
concerning IL, that the serious aspects
Of the question have not made the Inn
preston they must MAKE a. the ieaysn
eayens the whoss body OF womankind.
and they crowd yet more eagerly into the
market places, and from very force OF
numbers crowd themselves into the differ.
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