The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-11
WoNAN'S BUSINESS WAYS.
ABILITIES THAT ARE CHARMING,
BUT CAUSE TROUBLE.
-, woman Real Estate Broker and = woman
merchant Discuss Their Ser = Experiences
rbnt wake Them Prefer to Deal with Men
urrr.ponsibiiity and lack OF Fair DcaiinE.

urrcsponslbiiity ana Lack OF Fair DcniinK.
:, was between . and 8 o'clock In the after
,oop. and the sun streaming In the front win
Sovs OF tho office had driven tho clerks and
,hc prcsiding genius to the shady corners Of tho
h,cS room. Real estate broker and appraiser
bloycd in gilt on tho window pane and entrance
Soor and real estate ranked ut that hour in tho
mind of the manager and threatened TO curdle
,bc milk Of human kindness in her breast.
"Bccn outl' she repeated, adjusting her eye
,,asses irritably. II should think 1 had been
out. Down 10 the Forty'secord street station
nj 1 o'clock on such q day ms this, only TO tell a |
man that | had nothing to tell him.
"Womcn,'' she went on. Don't talk to me
sbou, dealing with womenl They are tho
vel, can't say what they ore; you can fn in tho
blank to suit yourself, only you can't mako it
too provoking. For eight months I have had
two women on a string, an old one and u young
one, and now, just when l thought tho whole
deal was settled beyond all manner Of doubt, 1
get a note saying that they can't sign the papers
to-day: haven't time TO sign them. I've no doubt
they have gone after a hat or something equally
important. l saw them only last night and
,hcy we're all in for taking tho house. / spent
the entire day yesterday and the day before
looking into references and having the papers
prepared for n final settlement with MIR. Is. to-
day. All Tor nothing!'
"But dom tney appoint announcer Clnc 10 at
tend to the mattcrl" asks the listener, who il
acting on this occasion rs n safety valve.
Appoint another timoi No. indeed. know
the game too well. This note simply means
that they have changed their minds about leas.
ing the place. They want to lease a town house
for FIVE years, so they say. My client on tho
other sido wants TO lease his house to RESPONSE.
bic parties. These women are irresponsibly re-
sponsible parties. My commission will be $l75,
hut l will have earned n thousand II l over get
them pinned down. Three times they have
given me the slip this way, and then, in a month
or six weeks after, have written to say that they
could not find any other house that suited them
as well and wouldn't I reopen negotiationsl
Then ! reopen negotiations. and get matters all
ready for the final clinch, and within an hour OF
settlement l get a note putting me off with
some silly excuse. To-day they write that IL
Mr.. b., my client, will sign the lease and send 1t
TO them they will sign 1t at their leisure. AS il
any man in his senses would send out a signed
lease on a wild goose chase like that!
But I ought to be used to it" she continued
In q calmer tone. Everybody who does bust,
ness with women will tell you the same thing
that women don't appreciate the value of time,
either for themselves or other people; that they
have no understanding of punctuality, and never
think for a moment that they must stick to any
agreement they have made, whether 1t Is fol
good or Ill. We real estate people, perhaps, Sc.
more of it than others, because even II our deal,
are with men, in the matter of buying or leas
ing or renting q house. the ultimate decision
rests with the wife. A man can't go and install
his wife In q house or a neighborhood that sh,
is Astonishing for what mere tribes the wive
will condemn houses that their husbands hav'
taken ys gGe g .s trouble Eot 70 se Sandisome woman VIII,
had entered now asked for n conference wit
the manager, and the two talked together d
marked. as She came back to her chair. cha
Hunting Inanla. The mania generally comes o
July it gets. to be epidemic. Women who hay
shore want some sort Of excitement, and the
come in town to find out what's on the marke
Society girl is great at this means Of Getting e.
citement and making an excuse for coming t
and She makes the rounds Of ali the real estat
offices and inquiries about locations and rent
that she is not in earnest, or that il she is. sh
knows little about values or what the famil
ffa Expect 10 SsI gel tbo toT E certain so mue cum as i ihe a senu IN
Founders, because we can see through he,
up and titles looked into, and a lot of wor
gone through. There is a certain actress !
New York whose craze for house hunting Is
any reputable Office. She. wants to buy @ HON
che says. and she has looked at and Is lookin
out Of the city. She ei Is really an infection" "'
rs it true that women are. difficult to dea
You can't be asking that In earnest, br
merely to, spur me on. l have made a gref
cess at that branch Of the business, but hay
never adjusted an exchange between two W
notes with the men brokers and appraisers, m
II is a notorious fact You can make an O.
tween wn men hlt lpf NyHen two women. neyp
Even with a marf at one end and a woman at u
o ON Zen end Of u the line; you s Sd into into nc, hot xW,ds
got imposed upon in the matter because s.
was q woman. There is a woman up on Il
house is worth $40, 900 less than she thinks it
am going to EXCHANGE il for an eqniyale'
the stress and turmoil that awaits that recko
Ing; ! think hin ! have got her round liIs III lust s to n n
So, and he gives her his amateur views ar
she Is of her base again. and all at sea. ....
any one finds life o. uneSentlul. just let him set
for an appraiser and undertake to appraise
or "Sld. i Tha result '' Viii give 1R h dnas oce Gu Z i
siR9SSEa; T I is rd AZ alteration ahnrt onr over io eye
three entire days out Of a week and went rour
sRa . personally anGy = Inspected p g i;ein sighsyyh, s wa iat . s sfro
ehO would miss something. she said. She W
In hIrG sd dgbPtnE the The fiat MnnI huR RaTs b siE5e sn,t ,i%f
street that she had almost decided on W
y tAppcd up a quarter OF an hour after she h
left the Office, and i think that scared her.
Young actor came in, asked II / had any flats
my list for such q sum with such and such co
NGnicncos, took tho one | suggested, threw a y
bill down as "A guarantee, and the thing W
done, whereas this very fiat, which was a &C
ulno bargain, might have been the womai
three or four days before II she had not want
To look at the entire eighty six; This Is no exa
RcratIon; il is n fact, and there are plenty
women just rs remarkably unreasonable"
Talking about women being 30 slippery
business m%atters," said a woman mercha
Who was out house hunting, Il echo the sen
mcnt. an always n little uneasy when /
any business on II large scale with a woman.t II
J., with the general run OF women. ! have col
70 the conclusion that II Is lack OF training mi
,lan lack Of principle that makes them so ,
Trustworthy. They have not learned tho fun'
Dental rules and principles of business.
dying wholesale they display very poor ~
htent; they buy things either unsuitable 10th
me " trade or In greater. quantity than u
snn eel. Then they are unable to pay for me
Alter hey have been in business a number