Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-21
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college professors so long that these occupa-
lions have grown to seem legitimate ana
normal fields of activity for intelligent, am
bilious young women: but 1t is only within
the past few years that the woman dentist
has appeared, strong in her integrity, biceps
and diploma, to smilingly assure tortured
patients that she pulls teeth without pain
and will chat volubly with a man whose
mouth is damned up with rubber and uneX-
pressed adjeCtives.
One of the most successful dentists Oh
New York is DR.. Josephine Maude RANKIN.
Miss Rankin graduated with a class OF sew
enty men. from the Philadelphia Dental Co!
lcge three years ago. She at once started IN
business for herself. and now occupies an
entire building on Sixth avenue near Twen-
ty. third street. Her patronage has increased
to such an extent that she employs ten men
as assistants. all college graduates, and has
actually established a company called the
Worlds Dental association of which she
is the manager. When asked why she did
not employ women as assistants ana so ald
the sisterhood, Miss Rankin replied:
why, l would like nothing better, but
do you know that since l began business
not a single woman has applied to me for a
position. | think women are too ambitious
to start that way. All the women dentists
| know are in business for themselves; l
began that way. however. | was in a den
lists office three years before going to col
lege, and during vacation l used to go as
lady assistant to help pay my way in the
winter. | have had, altogether, nine years
experience, and am very proud of the eX-
hibit OF dental work l was able to send to
the Atlanta exposition
Miss Rankin is a Brooklyn girl, young,
vivacious. thoroughly in earnest. a gradu-
ate of the Brooklyn High school, and proba-
bly, the most successful of the 200 women
dentists in the United States.
The women photographers, insurance
agents and lecturers of Boston share their
progressive honors with Mrs. Alice E. Cram,
one of the most prosperous contractors OF
the busy Hub. Mrs. Cram was originally
in business with her husband, but soon
determined to manage her own business
affairs. She is now established in offices
next door to her husband, and has met with
UNQUALIFIED success. Although an unusually
pretty woman, Mrs. Cram possesses a keen
business sense, is brisk and decisive in all
dealings with men and women. and, as she
says, believes in leaving all preiudices,
sentiments and personalities at home;' and,
being a womanly woman, she has a very
lovely home at which to leave them.
The woman real estate agent is, strange
to say, not a new development. The first
real estate Office superintendent by a woman
was opened in New York on West Thirty
fifth street the day of Lincoln's assassina-
tion. Miss Elizabeth A. Daley was the
agent. and is still doing a lucrative bust
ness in the same house.
Miss DALEY has had charge at different
times of the property owned by Mrs. Marie
Taylor. widow of Bayard Taylor; Miss Whit
tier. niece of the Quaker poet; and of Mrs.
Charlotte Wilborn, one of the charter mem
bers of Sorosis.
1t is a remarkable thing that Cincinnati's
only customs broker is a woman, and that
she is the only one of her sex in the United
States. Her name is Helena Regina eraser
and she does business in the Pickering
building. Main street, in the p~rettiest kind
of a little office. She is a fine looking
woman. tall and dignifed, and is a lively
and entertaining talker. Her work is of a
nature that demands a vast knowledge of
detail. In assessing duties on imports she
has need of an accurate knowledge of tables
of weights and measures, and for all lines of
her work must be abreast of the times, even
to a perfect understanding of tariff and
the money question.
Miss eraser was born in Montreal. Her
parents were Swiss. She came to Cincin-
natl when quite a little child and has lived
in a brokerage atmosphere all her life. Her
father was a broker, and at his death, when
Miss Helena eraser was only l6 years of
age. his work was taken up by an older
daughter. She taught Miss eraser the prin-
ciples of the business. After a year and a
half the sister sold her interest and married
DR.. Roethe, a well known Cincinnati ply
stefan.
Two years later Miss eraser started out
for herself as a customs broker and many
of the old patrons of her father and sister
returned to her. After an experience of
seven years she has a thriving business and
is the only licensed broker in the city.
Women lecturers who are their own bust
! ness managers and inpressarios form an
ever increasing list. There is Miss Kingsley,
who talks about Africa; Mrs. Custer. who
knows all about buffaloes and camping in
the west; Mrs. J. Wells Champney, who
is in touch with the latest developments in
literature. art and politics.; Miss Clarkson,
who tells you what Emerson and Browning
meant or what she thinks they meant;
Mrs. Olive ThOrne Miller, the feminine
Audubon-women who are trying to reform
politics, and women who can talk with airy
nippancy of the latest fads in china or
b%onnets, or who can fix you with an eagle
eye while they convince you that the
Mahatmas have at last domesticated them
selves in the tenderloin district of New
York.
Miss Mary Proctor is the woman astron-
omer who has arranged TO give a series
of lectures on the heavens during the sum-
mer on shipboard, for especial benefit of the
pretty college maidens who sail with her in
June to witness the eclipse Of the sun in
Norway.
For the women who like to lecture, but
not to manage their own tours, there is
the female impressario, Miss Anna Millar.
Miss Millar has been business manager for
Theodore Thomas for three years. During
the first year of Miss Millar's manage
ment the subscription lists jumped up some
$l2, 600. Miss Millar wears pretty gowns
and has a quiet, gentle manner that would
suggest a familiarity with fancy work
1850 @&ts
careers of prominent men and women.
The business woman has also invaded
Wall street. Miss Daisy Weber is at pres
ent manager OF the Western Agency, Linn
tied" in place Of her father, whose recent
strange disappearance would have left his
wife and family totally unprovided for
had not this plucky maiden stepped into
the breach and decided TO conduct his bus
mess, in spite OF the fact that a feminine
broker was as yet an unknown quantity
in New York. Miss Weber is not a member
Of any OF the exchanges, but simply acts
as middleman between seller and buyer,
and is making a comfortable living for her
family.
Mrs. Frank Walton, the chief engineer
OF the recent New York Electrical exhibit
ton. is one OF the two women engineers in
this country. She has been In love with
steam engines since she first strolled in an
engine room when a tiny miss in pinafores
and long braids. At the recent electric
show she managed the two great boilers of
250-horse power that ran the fifteen engines
In the building.
Miss Curran is probably the best known
woman undertaken in New York. And
what could be more appropriate than that
hard by in the old Ebenezer Baptist church
Mrs. Maria Garrison should ~oficiate as
sexton.
AIRS. Dow Of Vermont is The president