The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-27
WOMEN BILL
COLLECTORS.
Sons Are Very Successful In
Making Debtors Pay.
One TELLS HER EXPERIENCE.
Field Of LshM In Which Maay Women Seem
10 Meet With veT Favorable
Results
ONE TELLS HER EXPERIENCE.

"And this man." said the young woman.
twill give me check tomorrow without
fail"
The manager shook his head doubtfuily.
81 don't take any stock Ia his promises
he said. HE Is tight as the bark on a
tree. and slippery as an eel He 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 wo-
man turned IN a check for the fun amount
owed by the tight individual. The situa-
tion was so extraordinary that the man
ager scratched his head in perplcxity.
"weI" he said. "you certainly are
remarkably fine collector"
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
lit took me long tine TO find out
what was good for" she said, IL tried
my hand at teaching, stenography, anna
teur gardening. dressmaking. and photog-
raphy successfully, and was a failure I'm
each. Then 1 turned my. mind to collect
Ing
my frst employment was with a small
publishing house up-town, The owners
owed everybody and everybody owed
them. They paid nobody and nobody paid
them.
MANAGER WAS DELIGHTED.
at took me Just about two days to dem
onstrate TO my own satisfaction that
had at last struck the level OF my abili-
ties.
II began straight or to take In money.
and when. at the end OF the first week,
the manager footed up his receipts and
found that had collected subscriptions
and advertising bills to the amount OF
$1,000, which, considering the size of In
dividual accounts. was 4 sum as high
as Pixies Peak. he fell on my neck and
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 bankrupt
cy. and this last refuge they finally
sought when had collected 90 cents on
every dollar coming 10 them.
II do not tell this I'm spirit OF vanity,
but simply to refutc the statement that a
woman couldn't earn her salt at collect
ing. / know a dozen women In this town
who are so employed. and each is consid-
cred gem OF great price by her en-
ployers'' 'r f-~
well known furniture dealer who has
employed a woman collector for several
years said that II there Was any one thing
he could take time, TO talk about even
I'm his busiest moments II was the merits
OF the woman collector.
There was a time" he said, when /
vowed that wouldn't have a pettiooat
around my store I'm any capacity. My at
tention was first attracted to the subject
by the quick way one woman collector
made me pay bill. Physically, the work
for this store Is hard.
PATIENCE IS INExHAUsTIBLE
There is much walking to be done and
many stairs to be climbed Moreover,
many OF the people who buy our goods
on the instalment plan are disagreeable
TO deal with when IL comes TO collecting.
But that n where find the woman col
lector invaluable.
Her fund Of patience Is inexhaustibie,
and she Is inventive and resourceful to
a degree. IL she cannot get around
creditor one way she will another. and,
what is best OF all, she never gives up"
IL is a curious thing that IL IL not the
field for distinctly feminine labor, such
as dressmaking, millinery, and the like,
that the woman collector seeks 10 win
her llaurels.
when asked why this was so one sue
cessful collector replied that II was a
case OF the refutation OF the theory that
like cures like.
ct may take n thief to catch n thief.
but IL doesn't take n woman to make
another woman pay her'debts," she sad.
IL am the manager OF large collecting
agency. I have both men and women i'm
my employ. and when have bill
against woman invariably send a man
90 collect Il.
Women who owe money know well
enough that another women sent to COL
iect bill can see right through their sub
terfuses. no matter how nimsy or how
plausible.
''They do not care straw for her opin-
ion. however. but they don't want to be
found out by the men"