Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-05-12
CLIPPING eUREAU.
womea who Fay Round sums for News
paper Notices Of themselves.

womea who Fay Round sums for News.
paper Notices Of Themselves.
On the top floor IF the Judge
Building in Fifth avenue, New York,
there are two girls who are more
thoroughly up to date" than even
w492." They sit at a long table
under the skylight and paste news.
paper clippings on to slips Of paper.
In an adjoining room, at another
long table, more girls and q number
OF men sit and read newspapers all
day long. They get through 500 pa.
pers a day, and except Saturdays,
when they draw their salaries, they
curse the day that printing was in.
vented. says the New York Sun.
1t Is a clipping bureau. You would
QUICKLY discover that II you should
20 into the third room, where several
men, armed with 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 ABBOTT what the papers say Of
them to pay o. q hundred for the
clippings Of this number quite one.
half are women. They are mostly
writer's, or authoress es, as the liter
airy girl 10 the first room calls them.
That girl IL q marvel OF information.
You can 70 through the whole 3, 900
names and catechise her on them oil
and she wont miss q question. She
is said to be an oracle in her family
and among her friends Her par.
ticulai work Is Sitting out the notices
Of literary people, and she hasn't
much Of an opinion Of the craft She
doesn't aspire to write q book. She
thinks It's too common.
But authOresscs are not the only
women who want to know what the
world says abont them. Society
queens arc quite as curious as to the
expression In the eye of the public as
Il looks at them. And there are
actresses on the lisS, AMI artists-a
few Of them only, because they are
generally too impecunious-and wives
Of prominent men, and, 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.
mcr received 1871 notices of herself
through this bureau. This was a
comparatively small proportion Of
those that were printed, for abe ex.
cluded ell Chicago papers, which, Of
course, tcemed with references to
her, and received only important ones
from other papers
Miss Clara Barton Is another wo.
man who enjoys steady newspaper
popularity. Miss Barton had to put
Q stop to the large shipments of eli ..
pings sent her on account OF Ger.
tain experience not long ago. A
story was started to the effect that
when she went into the Patent Once
some years ago she was pennilcss, and
It 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 tit
seemed to catch the fancy OF the ex'
change editors throughout the coun'
try, and inside OF q week the clip
ping bureaus began to fire notices al
her at 8 cents q clip from paper.
from every State In the Union. Whel
Miss Barton had paid o. or $40 fol
the pleasure Of reading repetiti0ns oil
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 on
Rressman's wife received In thirteen
months ia clippings Of one para
graph about her.