The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-26
DOING MEMS WORK.
Some Women Who Are Meeting with
Phenomenal Success.

| From the Kansas City star.
There are few trades and busines:
| enterprises nowadays that do nu
number some dauntless woman among
their workers, managers or employers
Widows, thrown upon their own re.
sources, frequently assume charge OF
their husbands business-perhaps al
occupation they never voluntarily
would have chosen--or ambitious girls
follow their fancy in some strange, be.
cause novel, occupation.
The only woman manager Of great
biscuit concern is Miss Jennie Hitch
ner, of Pittston, Pa, who succeeded
her father in full control of a great
plant.
One Of the finest hotels in the south
is the new one in Jacksonville, Fla,
whose senior proprietor is Mrs. A. Il.
Dodge. Women are beginning to adopt
the hotel business as larger form
of housekeeping for which the training
of the centuries has fitted them.
Mrs. Emma Shafter Howard. "A veal
thy widow of California. is secretary of
the Women'S State Agricultural and
Horticultural union.
One of the pioneer wood and steel en-
gravers of this country, Miss Sarah
Fuller, recently died in New Jersey at
the age of 73 She worked many years
at her delicate craft for Harpers and
all the great New York publishing
houses.
Miss Vincent once of Marblehead,
Mass, is earning a good living as a
pilot, in San Pedro harbor, California.
A sawmill is successfully run by a
woman near Plainfield, n. ]. Mrs.
David Blackford carries on this indus
try, performing the part of engineer,
and hiring a man and boy for rough
work, Her husband spends six months
of each year in South America, search
ing for lumber and thus the profits
of the lucrative business are kept in
the Blackford family. Mrs. Blackford
is comely young women, who super
Vises all the financial and mechanical
parts of the sawmill, turning out eX-
ira fine work
A Wisconsin woman is a successful
poultry raiser and is employed by the
state board of agriculture as a lectur-
er. She has studied the language of
poultry, and believes that hens vo-
cabulary consists of seventeen words,
ROSTERS of seven.
Among beekeeper3 of the northwest
Mrs. Stow, of Evanston, Ill.,, is re-
garded as an authority. She is vice.
president of the State Beekeepers' as
ISOLATION, and has we'll equipped
apiary of 100 colonies of bees, which
she handles without fear.
Two women of san Jose, Cal, Joseph
inc Graham and Louisa Held, own and
carry on a barber shop. They have
been BARRIERS for eight years. Their
shop is clean, neat and attractive con-
tanning good pictures, flowers and mag
azines, and is patronlzed by many of
the leading citizens.
boss" contractor in Philadelphia
of some prominence is Mrs. Hugh
Brady. Her husband was a we'll
known contractor for hauling and cart
ing. At his death, the young widow,
familiar with the business carried 1t
ON, remaining in the same little office
used for so many years. Very few
people know that the firm of Brady
& Son" is a woman, both former mem
bers being dead. She personally super
Ylses all important jobs, quietly going
about in short skirt and sensible shoes.
She works twelve hours day, and
finds that out-of-d door work conduces
to robust health.
Miss Julia Mack, of st. Louis, is "A
city weigher, the only one that the
mayor indorses. During the past year
she has turned in 1913 profit from her
scales to the city treasury, while all
the other weighers reported that they
could barely meet expenses. Miss
Mack works ten hours a day, and has
held the position through three admin
istrations, in spite OF many COMPETE
fOrS