New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-09
NEWMAN GIRL IN NETWORK
MISS PETHERBRIDGE's UNIQUE BUREAU
IN LONDON STRAND.
THE VISITOR TELLS OF HER WORK UNDER
GOVERNMENT coNTRACT-sHE TRAINS
SECRETARIES AND INpEXERs

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SECRETARIES AND INDEXERs.
Whatever may be said Of self-culture and the
.elf-taught woman. there are a great many who
sturdily defend the college graduate and point 10
living examples Of what classical course Of
study has done Mr.. Moody The evangelist. says
that he rejoices that there will be "selfmade"
men in heaven, because II there were they would
drive people mad telling how their natural good
got them in they bore people on earth
with the stories OF their inherited clcverness.
Perhaps there Is nothing better than a college
to remove the concei that accompanies
"a little learning" But this does not solve the
problem OF what the college graduate ought 70 DO.
One English girl seems to have met the Sphinx
and successfully answered her perplexlng question.
She IS Miss Petherbridge. OF London. and she is
in this city in the business interest Of an encyco-
psedia Of India about TO he published In England.
She lie Disguised with Americans Indifference to
3 Indian matters. There is no market here for an
Indian encyclopedia. Miss Pethcrbrdge is Newn-
ham College graduate. where che captured mt
ural science tripos After leaving college, she
for some time amanuenss to the famous English
throat specialist who succeeded DR. Mackenzie In
the Strand she conducts secretarial bureau. and
the business. which has been established only
three years, is In a hourshing condition and is
known throughout England and the colonies
Miss Petherbridge Is monopost in her unique
business; she has no rivals no competitors. and
she controls large government contracts She ex-
poets to sail on Saturday for England. and at
the Netherland Hotel when by Tribune
reporter yesterday
Il read The Tribune article advocating typewrit-
ing as means OF livelihood for n college girl"
said Miss Petherbridge II Is certainly the last
thing I would recommend to a college girl. To he
sure, the expert typewriter must DC educated and
know languages well enough to correct wrongly
quoted foreign words sentences but Il Is such
a monotonous mechanical work, But things ars
here In IA. .taF rfrg1s
OF London typewriting pays. but not we'll az
hero am told In my bureau separately consd-
cred have never been able TO make typewrtlng
pay.
Then the colleges Of this country
different from those OF England Four years ago
l visited the American colleges. and was
prtscd to find that your so-callcd postgraduate
course corresponds to regular collegiate course
You cover many things I'm tour years whilo we
the English girl comes ont Of college a specialist
she IS thorough IN the line she has pursued. and
| bettcr equipped 90 follow II qs q means Of lvei-
/ hood Ny specially was science am also I'm
gust. speak four languages. and travelled
! largely before ] opened IN" bureau. Tor believe
/ IN women having good time.
had nothing else 10 do"
Here IS something OF he work covered by a husi-
/ has regularly employed stan ~ twenty. when Tho
/ pressure ~ great an additional twenty are kept
yisers tyrcwrftrr. and s,gr,,rranie,ra -,.~ c,,.
ss aTnrSr,,rcs ana r ,ey hcs fed ,,r 49,, nr,,
I lego The course covers eighteen months The
bureau Sits out the best. and keeps D. f1r s sola-
red service. Tho rest seek employment elsewhere.
Most OF the apprentices are women. some lollcxe
I bred. and they all under MI.e P'thtr.rllg.' =
personal instruction. The Government work keeps
/ tho BUREAU busy the year round The ind"xer 20
the India Once translates rs Dutch ana Portu-
suese documents During thc international i'on-
gress Of tao Royal Geographical society OF 80, q
furnished verbatim reports ln four Language. L
the first time that this feat was ftrr accom-
pished. Thc reports were Tor The sr.ic,ys pnoli.
cations. Little Or no WORK rs done hy the bureau
/ for IN" newspapers
''rhc most skilled reporters IN London come 70
me" said Miss Psthcrorid,c 81 have my pick
tho Cologne Gazette WAS paid u gu.ncns "a wock
D Tor IFS German reports ~ inc FfYErtI fIcAl 500
furnished French and German wrlfcrs 90 Tho nh
biographical Congress al me itcral Society 90; 1896
and verbatim reporter fo fh~ .rrn1fiprn. Library
I Congress ~ itsl Al bureau "fnIs 9ut expert s'r-
scientific men. authors and publishers ma 70 spc.e-
/ lies and congresses
al the bureau dictetlon on tho typewriter may
be had I'm English. French and German. white FOR
eign ,ochricai rnanuecrir'e are accurn'efv COPIED
For some time the bureau has teen .rl king no
Portuguese and Dutch archives - Tho Indian Colo
/ MES dating from if1
the work lnferuiran." secure tho contract
through Governments agents. nud 90" money ~ A-
ways surc Tho United states has nl work - thRt
It would 30 ooiigeI Co. Io England doc. No
! telling what the present war may develop.
! u I'm purely business woman. and belong 70
four London cluhs. bur this IS mere lorna tY.
/ never attend he meetings. and have no sym
pathy with ne so-cnll'd advanced women 'hey
/ fatigue me"
! No one would suspect Miss Petherbrldgo TO be
/ nm English T. 4 ur.i her pretty l0s part. and the
soft acccn' hctrays Nictoria's subject She i the
/ personal embodiment Of what she advocates a
woman who has and continues % have a good tiin-