The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-30
HOW 1000, 900 WOMEN
EARN THEIR BREAD

Four million women in the United
/ States earn their own bread. They
/ have invaded all occupations, and one
third of all persons engaged in profess
sional services are women.
Feminine teachers and professors
number over one-quarter of million,
| exclusive of teachers of music, who are
1919 strong, and 10000 artists and
! teachers of art.
There are ,143 women clergymen.
| Journalists number SS8, with 2,725 au-
thors and literary persons.
| OF chemists, assayers and metallur-
gists there are two score, lacking one.
! Lawyers who are not men are POS.
Feminine detectives are 2T9 in num-
Der.
Nineteen women brave the dangers of
wilds and forests as trappers and
guides.
only two women have been discov-
cred who are veterinary surgeons.
In Texas a. woman has the contract
] for carrying the mail from Kiffe to
| Seirnal Hall.
/ Georgia has a woman mail-carrier.
/ She travels a forty-mile route tri-
| weekly. This young woman also man
ages a farm.
| The chamber of commerce of Cincin-
natl has the best restaurant in town.
1t is run by three Scotch women, and
they clear about $4,000 yearly, al
| though their annual rental is $4,000.
| In New Orleans one of the finest or
chestras is composed entirely of women.
! In Astoria, L. l., many of the largest
lighthouses are managed by women.
In New York a blacksmith's shop is
managed by three young women
All the salted almonds sold by one
of New York's largest groceries are
prepared by a woman, who is conduct
ing a profitable business thereby.
/ A fact foundry--or an agency for
supplying facts upon any subject at a
short NOTICES the Industry of two
Chicago damsels.
Packing trunks is a st. Louis Wo
mans industry.
The most f1ourishing conservatory
and rose garden in Elmira, n. Y, is
owned and managed by a woman.
At the Young WOmens Christian as
sociation, Philadelphia, two young wo-
men are in charge of the elevators.
Women writ-servers are employed
with great success
Buffalo boasts d woman contractor
who is also a quarry owner. She is the
only feminine member of the building
exchange.
A Jersey City woman makes her liv-
ing by painting signs.
A Louisiana woman supports herself
by raising mint.
The woman manager of a California
insurance company is credited with the
largest salary paid to any woman-Sl0,
900 d year.
AS agents for selling lawbooks, wo-
men occupy almost the entire field.
A pretty Reconsideration girl is
making her bread by cObbling shoes
at Lewiston, Me.
The most successful ranch owner in
Kansas is a woman, not over 50 years
of age. There is a proverb to the eff
feet that in Kansas there is no interest,
no profession, no trade and no deal
without a woman in it.
In Boston are two large advertising
agencies, the members of both firms
being women, and all their employees
women.
In a New England factory, women
are employed as pianomakers.
As SWitchmen. women are employed
by several western railroads.
Upholstering is a trade women are
learning.
Writing love letters at so much per
letter is one way of earning a liveli-
hood.
Consulting fashion expert is a st.
Louis woman's occupation.
One OF the largest flower importing
establishments in New York is man
aged by a woman.
The largest typewriting business in
the world is in New York, and con-
Quoted by two sisters.
An entire block of houses in New
York was papered by a young woman,
who takes the contract for such orders
from large builders.
One young woman in Gotham is en-
ployed as prescription clerk in a
drug store.
About 300 girls are employed in the
harness trade in New York.