Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-09
ARE IN EVERYTHING
FAST CROWDING OUT THE POOR
MEN.
WOMAN CARRYING OFF THE
PLUMS IN THE TRADES.

PLUAIS IN THE TRADES.
Strange Results from the Employment
Of femme clerks in offices-They
Work for Such Low Wages that They
| Kitchen Work.
The letter printed recently in the
! New York Sun by the bookkeeper who
left his desk for a few days on account
| of illness, and returned to find his
place occupied by a woman at one
third his salary, opens up a new phase
Of economics sometimes quite over
looked in the excitement and hallabal-
loo over the great things women are
doing in all lines Of work A still
more startling story, the Sun remarks,
might be told of how three brothers,
employed respectively as cashier, book
keeper and stenographer, and earning
fair salaries, were discharged and their
work given to their own sisters at one
third the price. While the great cry
has been going UP for the protection
Of the American laborer against cheap
foreign workmen, the army of women
invaders have quitely gone in from
every side and possessed themselves
Of mans dominion. Competition be-
tween the sexes begins almost in the
| cradle, and is indeed lively between
knickerbockers 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 a multi
tude of tatters that the cash of the
day answers the call of the sales
woman.
The detaulting cashier is going out
of fashion, for the cashier is now girl
in the restaurants, the drug stores,
some Of the large retail stores and ho-
oelS, and she doesn't default. The fem
mime bookkeeper does not bring con-
fused and after the BALI head to
business in the morning, because she
doesn't drink; and the men say, who
know whereof they speak, that she is
accurate, is more neat and cOnscien-
tious, and is satisfied with much less
wages than her brother. Since her day
Of triumph the male tOll-takers at the
Thirty-ninth street ferry have been dis
charged and their places filled by
women. The Staten Island Rapid Trans
it company have manned their sta
tons with ticket sellers Of the gentler
sex, the Brooklyn elevated roads have
placed women at the ticket sellers
windows to the infinite disgust of men.
For the reward for faithful service in
the performance of the ticket choppers
cold, dreary duty has been promotion
to the warm snuggery behind the tick
ct window. But the women obtain
their inecures over the heads of the
men without doing their novitiate at
the choppers box, and go Oh duty at
6 in the evening to serve until 3 in the
morning 10y the fire, while the ticket
chopper blows his fingers and stamps
his feet outside.
In some Of the downtown stores and
Offices, where men are the only custom
erS, the whole clerical staff is composed
of women. In short, with the office
girls and women entry clerks, book
keepers, cashiers, StenographerS, type
writer's, floor walkers, the male clerk of
the average caliber finds himself hard
pressed .and forced into lower Occupa-
lions at smaller remuneration. Wom-
en- commercial travellers are said to be
great success, and in a number of
tea and coffee houses, dry goods and
canned goods, as well as silk firms, the
bright attractive woman drummer is
excelling her masculine prototypes in
ingratiating herself and her samples
in the eyes of the merchants and is
booking more orders than her discom-
flied male competitor.
New Hampshire has three women
bank treasurers, including Miss Clark,
who has been elected to her responsible
place for the tenth consecutive time.
The business of the bank has increased
largely under her administration, and
her good judgment in the placing of
loans has resulted in her being made a
member of the investment company.
At Mount Pleasant Tex, there is ma
tional bank with woman for presi-
dent, who enjoys the added distinction
of being the youngest bank president
in the country. South Paris has
woman cashier in its bank, and the
Florence Savings Bank has a woman
treasurer. The money order depart
ment Of Pittsburg, where the receipts
are more than two millions annually,
is exclusively in the hands of a woman.
| Buffalo has a woman undertaken
among its interesting features. Chica-
go had one, but she has grown wealthy
in the business and retired. And these
women attend to every detail, from
embalming the body to ordering the
mourning and deciding on the border
in the widows bonnet. There is a
W oman in Maine conducting an extern
sive foundry and Notwithstanding
establishment which turns out loco
motive a week. In Holland, at every
railroad crossing, stands woman way
ing the signal flag of danger as your
| train passes. The reason why-because
of the prevailing intemperance among
the men in Holland. And railroad Of
ficia1s are answerable. for the state
ment that no accident has ever been
caused by a watchwoman's careless
ness. The conductors ON all the street
cars in Warsaw, Russia, are women.
One of the best mining experts in
Arizona is Il weman-a tall dark-eyed
beauty less than 80 years of age, and
Known all over the state for her rei-
able work Chicago has regularly