The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-26
WOMEN AS EARNEST WORKERS
INTERESTING STATISTICS FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
They Do All Kinds of Work-some
Are Bankers, Some Chimney
sweeps, Some Conductors.

Women in Great Britain are. well rep
resented in the professos and trades,
and about 100000 earn their own liv-
ing. There are $4,000 who teach; 10000
are bookbinders, over 5000 are print
ers, nearly 500 act as editors and COM
pliers, 1900 are engaged in photog-
raphy, civil service clerks number $500,
nearly $4,000 are engaged in medical
work and nursing and 347 women are
blacksmiths.
The Oldest banker in the world is a
woman, aged SO, she is Deborah Pow
ers, the senior partner in the bank of
d. Powers & Sons, LanSingberg, Eng
land.
Miss Cons is an alderman of the Lon
don county council.
A successful firm Of tea merchants
in London is composed entirely Of wo-
men. The blenders. tasters and pack
erS are also women.
There are twenty three English Wo-
men practicing medicine in India.
Miss Constance Taylor of London is
a dog fancier; some of her orders come
from Central Africa.
Miss Sprdles of Surrey, England, is
a lavender diStiller.
Miss T. r. Wilkinson of London is a
landscape gardner.
Miss Amy E. Bell is an English wo-
man who has taken up stock broking.
Miss Constance Blaydes, an English
girl, finds goat raising a profitable in
dustry.
Miss Leigh Spencer of British Column
bia is a mining broker.
Mrs Emma E. Forsythe is engaged
in the sale of mother-o f-pearl at New
Britain, an island in the southern
Pacific
In Germany three women are en-
ployed as chimney sweeps, seven as
gunsmiths, nineteen as brass and bell
founders, 147 as coppersmiths, 379 as
farriers and nailers, 800 as masons,
eight as stonecutters, 1000 in marble,
stone and slate quarries. In all $780,
600 women earn their living in trades
and professions.
In Berlin, women guides are en-
ployed by the city.
Every animal slaughtered for food
purposes in Berlin is subjected to
microscopic examination by a corps of
women microscopiSts especially trained
to the work.
In Holland, women, instead of men,
signal railway crossings.
In Austro-Hungary, about 100000
women are engaged in industrial pur-
suits.
Austria has many women BARRIERS
Madame Rosa Kerschbaum conducts
a hospital for eye diseases at Vienna.
France employs over 5000 women
in her civil service, telephone and tele-
graph office The Bank of France
pays salary to 400 women, and 200 wo-
men have positions in the Credit Fon-
.cier. Altogether, S,750,000 French
women support themselves by their
own exertions.
One railway company in Russia has
thirty women in its employ.
In Central Russia, the township of
Observation-Disclosures territory of ten
square miles, divided into seven VII
lages-is run entirely by eight women
who administer all public affairs.
The town Of Knaizeff Russia, is run
by woman starosta or mayor, Alex
andra Lyme, by name.
A Mohammedan woman is a practic-
ing physician and surgeon at Odessa
DR. Razie Koutloiaroff- Hanum is her
name, and hers is the first case on rec
ord of Mohammedan woman practic-
ing medicine by western methods.
Women are employed as Geographic
clerks and ticket agents on the Trans
Caspian railroad.
In Turkey. native woman, who
studied in this country, is now practic-
ing medicine.
In Rurmah, all women of the lower
classes have a trade; nearly all the
retail trade of the island is in their
care
In Chilli, all car conductors, hotel and
postoffice clerks are women
Onchunga, New Zealand, has elected
Mrs. Yates mayor.
Miss Cree Stanley is the first woman
member of the sydney (Australia)
trade and labor council-being the
delegate of the Female Employees
union.