Evening star., 1901-11-09
Odd CaIlings fofsMomen.

ceed1ngly well IN New York as an extermi-
nator of rats and mice from hotels, stables
and other infested buildings She has
dozen or so ferrets Trained to the work. and
| they do 1t SO thoroughly that the woman's
| services are in big demand and her books
are filled weeks ahead sall the time She
| came here from WISCONSIN, where she
| learned how to train feFrets and bethought
| her of the profit she could make out of her
ability to teach the rodent-hating little
beasts. She does her work by contract. ac-
cording to the size of the plant she Is en-
gagged to clear of the rats and mice and
| she frankly owns that she is making fine
| thing of it.
| For number of years past at least three
| women have been making money here in
the business of cleaning roaehes ants and
other household vermin out of flats and
dwellings, They guarantee to do this work
| or to accept no compensation, and their
usual charge is from 80 to $50 They carry
with them regular kits of chemicals and
powders, and they take entire possession of
| the apartment or dwelling for a day and
| they wait for couple of weeks before
doing their collecting, in order to give Their
clients an opportunity to become satisfitd d
that their work has been thoroughly and
effectual.y performed.
A number of clever girls over here make
uenses." They attend, that is to saw. TO
| the social and other correspondence of
| from half dozen to ten women of So
ciety every day. A great many of the
lcduiuS WOlliSu VI NEW YORK society NJ
ploy female secretaries, and not a few of
them have young men for secretaries A
| great many of them, however have not
enough correspondence of a social charac-
ter to require the exclusive services of a
secretary, and these engage the younp
women who make a business of doing the
house-to-house secretary work The young
women engaged in this work are as q r1,le
members of reduced families, and. conse-
| quently, thoroughly familiar with social
forms and usages They begin their
rounds at pretty early hour in the fore
noon, and their labors are often extended
until far into the night but they MAKE
three or four times as much money as
female stenographers in permanent employ
preserve their independence, enjoy a va
rlety of experience, are CONSIDERABLY treat
ed. and altogether have a pleasant enough
existence for young women compelled bv
circumstances to fare forth for their own
livelihoods.
Buffalo ExpositiOn's Deficit.
That S3,000,O00 deficit on the books of the
Pan-American exposition is a sore point
with the Buffalonians, and some of them
who ought to be well informed attribute it
to the lack of support given to the exposi-
tion by the people of New York city.
Bufalonian connected with the defunct ex-
position IN an official capacity told the
writer the other day that four or five as
many Chicagoans as New Workers attended
II,
had the New York city people patronized
the exposition even in half the ratio that
was expected of them when the gates were
opened there would have been no deficit
whatever at the wind-up. New Workers
sneered at the Buffalo affair from the be-
ginning to the end thereof They laughed
at the pretensions of Buffalo in giving an
exposition designed to represent all of the
Americas, and they remained away from
the fine little city by the lake with vast
unanimity. The Buffalo projectors of the
enterprise had calculated, it is said that
at least 100000 or 100000 New York people
would take the nights ride to see the PAN
American. whereas it has been stated upon
excellent authority that not more than
30, 900 all told from the great selfish metrop,
oils did the exposition New York doesn't
ADMIT that there is any other place worthy
the name of city within the confines of
New York state; they grudgingly admit, in
truth, that there is any other actual city
on the continent of America. Yet the lack
OF civic pride on the part of New York is
easily discernble in the fact that New
York has never yet come to the front with
sincerely meant proposition for a great
"orld falr, such as. that held in Chicago,
nor mas New YORK ever made an honest
and truly bid for such an enterprise When
any other American city gets an exposition
to going, however, New Workers seem to
take a sort of sardonic delight in pounding
ana Houtlng 1t. For example, several New
4ork newspapers have been coyertly sneer-
ing at the idea of holding a big fair in st.
Louis ever since that enterprise was fnau-
gurated. 1t is doubtful if any great CITY
on earth ever adopted the dog-in- the-man-
ger policy SO persistently and consistently
as New York in these matters.
Tipster Was a Convict.
A queer expose was made in New York
newspaper the other day. Early this year,
When the metropolitan racing season be-
gan, firm of professional tipsters on
morse races began to advertise on a very
heavy scale in the New York newspapers
The firm name was known to be a manu-
factured affair, but the actual name of the
protector of this tipstering enterprise was
thought by all interested in that sort of
thing to be his own. The firm of tipsters
advertised that they employed a large staff
of railbirdS'' to watch the trials of the
race horses at the various tracks around
New York, and that it was therefore in a
position TO name more winners than any
other outfit of the kind in existence. Oddly
enough-for the professional advertising
tlpsters have long been known as frauds
ana crooks OF the most brazen sort-these
tlpsters did name the winners of the races
with extraordinary accuracy. A heavy
charge was exacted for the information
given out to race-payers, but the men who
pet Oh morse races soon ascertained that it
was worth the money to deal with this
hrm OF tlpsters. The firm prospered .tmaz-
lnsly, and its advertisements were sean all
over New York. Huge box-kites were flown
70 the breeze all over the town bearing the
firm advertising flags. the elevated Trains
carried the tipsters lads" all over the
city, and every known advertising scheme
was employed by this institution which
progressed Its ability to predict the result of
morse races in advance, and made good it's
predictions in at least four cases out of
nve. The man behind the enterprise-he
was the whole firm-is stated on the best
authority to have cleaned up 81, 100000 with
his scheme, and the 1900 4, 600 investors
In the tipstering firms tips unquestionabiy
TOOK enormous sums of money away from
the bookmakers.
"A newspaper, devoted chiefly to racing
and the stage, which from the Inauguration
OF this scheme was one of the heaviest car
rlers OF the tipstering firms ADVERTISE
ments, came out boldly last week and an
nounced that it had discontinued using the
aus. Tor the reason that the man behind
the scheme had proven to be an ex-convict
VINO did two terms in New York state
prisons Other newspapers then followed
suit In declining to receive the tipstering
nrm,s ads. andsitt tisl said that the business
OF the outfit has NOW been virtually broken
up Among the thousands of clients of the
nrm who hayeadactuailys made a lot of
money out of thenrauing tips distributed