The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-12-16
WOMEN As DTNS.
Some of Them Remarkably Successful in
Collecting Overdue Bills.


And this man. said the young woman.
referring to the last name on the list, will
give me n check tomorrow without fail"
The manager shook his head doubtfully.
Il don't take any stock In his promises" he
said. lie Is tight as the bark on a tree and
slippery as an eel. lie never pays anything
Till he has to. He's been giving US that same
old gag about paying tomorrow for the last
six months"
And he will keep his word this time,' said
the young woman confidently.
And he did. The next evening when she
reported at the office the young woman turned
In a check for the full amount owed by the
light Individual. The situation was so ex-
traordlnary that the manager scratched his
head In perplexity. WELL" he said. you
certainly are a remarkably hne collector"
And after the young woman had eaten her
dinner and had taken time TO digest both the
meal and the compliment she came to the
conclusion that she was indeed pretty good
at the business. 1T took me a long tlme to
fnd out what / was good for. she said. \
tried my hand at teaching. stenography.
amateur gardening. d~ressmaking and pho
Biography SUCCESSFULLY. and was a failure In
each. ThenIturned my mind to collecting.
MY first employment was with a small
AAoN'' ~
everybody and everybody owed them. They
paid nobody and nobody paid them. 1t
took me just about two days to demonstrate
to my own satisfaction that I had at last
struck the level OF my abilities. I began
straight of I o take In money and when, at
the end of the first week, the manager footed
up his receipts and found that l had collected
amount of 81 900, which, considering the
size of individual accounts was a sum as
called me blessed. The firm was too deep
In the mire. however. to be pulled out even
by the hand OF a heaven-born collector.
Their liabilities SO far Exceeded their assets
that their only salvation lay in bankruptcy
and this asst refuge they finally sought when
| had collected 90 cents on every dollar COM
OF vanity but simply to reiute the statement
that n woman couldn't earn her salt at col
who are so emOloyed and each is considered
a gem Of great rice by her employers"
A Vest Side furniture dealer who has en-
ployed a woman collector for several years
said that II there was amy one thing he could
take time to talk about even IN his busiest
moments it was the merits Of the, woman
collector. There was a time" he said,
when ! vowed that | wouldn't have n petit
coat around my store in any capacity My
by the quick way one woman collector made
me pay a bill. Physically. the work for this
s se dene Is and mfr many Thar 'rair. t. to b mu clim Bsdat'n More TO
over, many Cf the rcorle who buy our goods
on tho installment plan are disacrceable 10
that is where / find the woman collector
Invaluable Her fund OF patience is inex-
haustible. and She /: inventive and resource;
a creditor one way she will another. and.
what is best Of all. she never gives up,
field Of distinctly feminine labor. such as
dressmaking. millinery. and the like. that the
woman collector SEEKS TO win her %laurels,
when asked why this was 30 one successful
collector rpnlipI that IL was "A case OF the
refutation of the theory that like cures like.
1T may take a thief to catch a thief. but 1t
doesn'ttake n woman TO make another woman
pay her debts" she said Il nm tho man
sger OF a large collecting agency. l have
when have a bill against a woman ! in
v1riahly send n man to collect it, Women
who owe money know well enough that an
other woman sent to collect n bill can SEQ
right through their suhterfuces,. no matter
how nimsy or how plausible They do not
care 2 straw for her opinion. however. hu.
A Nassau street lawyer employs n woman
collector whom, he regards ns an honor to her
ssS m "ma the s ss, "ti, to 81 e cont she Rtw saia. '2 Vixen
c"omplim"nted on her achievements nd con-
sequent reputation A. year ago l set out
Go up 10 his office every day. were my EN-.
rloyer's instructions Don't give him a
minutes peace Hound the very life OUT Of
TIL he rays. just walk right in. no mt
ter who Is there, and demand that 81, $50 lie
emit turn y"m ont 9cGaGsE J did i3r him What
and II behoovos him to be humble'
For three months ! ob"yed those %instruc-
tionS literally travelled up ana down the
elevator So often that everybody In the build
ing came to know mo a. '--'~ dun and
the man hated the very sight Of me one day
! was, sick and couldn't 40 down down 4
second day stayed Hway, and stll "A third.
About ? O'Clock on the afternoon of the third
day, as my employer sat IN his private ,oNiCo
taking e.. a client, the door was opened sud
denly and a tuwh"adcd little boy stepped
audaciously into the room.
say he said, I'm IS boy. an my
boss wants to know why that woman amt
been over for that ~ $50 he owes YOU
Il post vcly refused to call after that and
We never did get the money But you don't
come across many people like that