The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-13

forty times as many women lawyers, six
times as many women musicians and
teachers of music, twenty-five times as
many artists and teachers of art, while
the number of women occupying the pulpit
has increased from siXty-seven to l,ll3
twenty years later. Summed up we find
an army of over 100000, or about one third
OF all persons engaged in professional ser
vices in the United States to be women
lhls is not only q large actual increase,
but relatively to the men the number
of women is greater than in 1870 Turn
ing from this brilliant advent into pro-
fessional life, let us follow woman's prog
TESS in what the dry tables of the census
office generally term domestic and pro-
fessional service" Besides the old stand
by occupations, clearinghouse keepers,
laundresses, nurses, midwiVes, and SER
wants, we find the new woman pushing,
into heretofore unheard-of professions. AS
barber, her deXtrous fingers lightly re-
move mans grizzly beard. Nineteen Wo-
men brave the wilds of forest and noun
tain as hunters, trappers, guides and
scouts, While, more singular still, twenty
eight evince no fear of ghosts and spirits
in the somewhat mournful occupation of
sections; and seven times as many women
commune with other kind of spirits as sa-
loon-keepers and bartenders as in 1870.
There are three times as many women
hotel-keepers as in 1870; nearly twenty
times as many janitors, while entirely new
occupations for the gentle sex have been
discovered as engineers and 1remen mot
locomotive), and as watchmen, policemen,
and detectives, under which last head 279
are returned.
1t is in trade and transportation that wo-
man has made her tremendous record be-
tween 1870 and 1890 From l9,S2S to Dos l2l
means that over 100000 intelligent, indus
ha
and honest way of making a living. AS
bookkeepers, clerks, typewriters, steno-
SrapherS, cashiers, telegraph and tele-
phone operators, women have found pro-
iitable field of labor and occupation. for
which they are as well qualified as men,
If not better. In the largest class, book
keepers, clerks, and statesmen, the in
crease has been phenomenal, especially in
the ten years ended in 1890, from 1000 i'm
1870 to more than l7l,0OO in 1880, and prob
ably 100000 today. AS agents and collec-
tors the number of women increased from
only ninety-seven in 1870 to 4,S75 in 1880.
There We're five times as many women re-
turned as merchants and dealers in 1890 as
there were in 1870, and over thirty times as
many under the head of "packers and
shippers '-aggregating in 1890 6,520 women.
From 355 operators in 1870 women tele-
graph and telephone operators increased
to S,4H in 1890, and probably number a
to tiuorsh and increase ana multiply trade
and transportation as bankers and brolS-
ers, commercial travellers, dairymen,
hackmen and teamsters, as hostlers, huck-
sters and peddlers, weighers and gauge:s
as bank officials, as sailors, and in the
mellow atmosphere of, funerals as UNDER
takers, as auctioneers, boatmen, and pilots
women have met with no success. There
are fewer women auctiOneers now than
in 1870, fewer boatmen, while the solitary
woman pilot who occupied a whole line in
the ponderous census volume of 1870 turns
up missing in 1880 ana reappears like
lone star on the statistical armament of
1890.
In manufacturing and mechanical pur-
suits women have found some new ana
important industries between 1870 and 1890
ana have not been slow in availing them
selves of the opportunity thus afforded for
breadwinning. There were five times as