The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-22
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
They Now Take Positions once Held Only
by Men.

lncy NOW Iake IOsNtiolis INV h'iU N'iV
by Men.
1t is coming to be more the case
that women are undertaking work
f rmerly done by Hen. In New
York women are nCW employed as
ticket takers on the ferries and as
ticket sellers at many elevated road
stations. Women commercial trav-
elerS are said to be a great success,
and in a number of tea and coffee
houses. dry goods and canned goods.
as we'll us silk firms, tie bright, at
tractiye woman drummer is ~eXcelling
her masculine prototypes in ingrati-
ating herself and her samples in the
eyes OF the merchants and is hooking
more orders than her discomtitted
male competitor. New Hampshire
has three women bank treasurers, in-
Guiding a Miss Clark. who has been
elected to her responsible place for
the tenth consecutive time. At
Mount Pleasant, Texas, there is a
national bank with a woman for
president, who enjoys the added dis
tinctio Of being the youngest bank
president in the country. South
Paris has II woman cashier in its bank,
and the Florence Savings Bank has II
woman treasurer. The money order
department of Pittsburgh, where the
receipts are more than two millions
annually. is exclusively in the hands
Of a woman.
Buffalo has a woman undertaken,
and st. Paul also boasts the woman
undertaken among its interesting
features. Chicago had one, but she
has grown wealthy ia the business
and retired. There is a woman in
Maine conducting an extensive
foundry and locomotive building es-
tablishment, which turns out a loco
motive a week. In Holland, at every
railroad crossing, stands a woman
waving the signal flag Of danger as
your train passes. The conductors
on all the street cars in Warsaw,
Russia, are women.
One Of the best mining experts in
Arizona is a wOman--a tall, dark.
eyed beauty less than thirty years Of
age, and known all oyer the State for
her reliable work. Chicago has a
regularly licensed woman steam en-
gineer: England a woman sanitary
engineer SO we'll qualified that she
was chosen to represent the English
womcn at the Congress of Hygiene:
Cincinnati has a woman customs
broker, and a woman in New Orleans
is INC of the best veterinary surgeons
in the city. y typewriter employed
in the o..ce Of a prominent real es-
tate firm in St. Paul has such ac.
curate knowledge of the realty of the
city that she is frequently consulted
in preference to her employers, one
Of whom says if she were a man he
would be the Oflic4 boy.
Men complain that women are will
ing to work for 50 much less pay than
they themselves can that these femi-
nine employees are fast crowding o It
the males. Women, they say, will
do work at $500 for which Il man de-
mands ST.. POO Of 81, 800. The reason
for this is al eyed to be that men
have many dependent on their labor.
On the other hand, no less reliable
an authority than Helen Campbell is
responsible for the report that %, 00O
wOmen in tie city of New York alone
are supporting their husbands, while
many Of them have children depend
ing on them as we'll, and it is safe to
premise that quite as many ore
have Old parents or sisters or broth
erS to assist or support.