Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-05-12
CLIPPING BUREAU.
Womea WIN Fay Round Sums FOR News.
| Oauer Notices Of T,NmscIves.

womea WIN Ray Round Sums for News.
paper Notices Of Themselves.
On the top floor " the Judge
Building in Fifth avenue, New York,
there are two girls who are more
thoroughly up to date" than even
"l492." 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 q 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 q clipping bureau. You would
ouicxly discover that II you should
20 into the third room, where sever al
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 abo0t what the papers say Of
them to pay S5 q hundred for the
clippings Of this number quite one.
half are women. They are mostly
writer's, or auth0ress es, as the litor.
AIRY girl In the f1rst room calls them.
That girl IL a marvel OF information.
You can 70 through the whole 1000
names and catechise her on them all
and she wont miss q question. She
IL 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 about them. Society
queens are quite as curious as to the
expression In the eye Of the public as
II looks at them. And there are
actresses on tho lisS, AMI artists--.a
few OF them only, because they are
generally too I'M ecunious-and wives
OF prominent men, and, In fact, all
wi 70 ouu CUtlulVlOuo VI WVuCts
Mira 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 OK.
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 w0.
man who enjoys q steady newspaper
popularity. Miss Barton had to put
q stop to tho large shipments of clip.
pings sent her on account OF q 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
II 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 como. Tho iii
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 III
her ut 8 cents q clip from papers
from every State In the Union. When
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 bureau.
that she didn't want reprints and
wouldn't have them. A certain [ on
gressMan'S wife received In thirteen
months ia clippings Of one para
graph about her.