Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WOMAN PUBLISHER MADE A FORTUNE
sted Boston Boasts About a Lady Who Has Eerhe"
$4,000 During the Past Year She is Sweet ana
Attractive but Every Inch a Business woman
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lent partner with his bluff cordially
said. Yes. wen give YOU credit Ihen
he sent her 20 the financial manager
l|lt the financial man had different
Ideas.
"Why, we don't do business ON that
plan" he said. Miss Clarkg blue eyes
llledswlth tears as she felt that her
last hope might become a straw the
SIGHT of the tears was too much for the
financial man. I'm tell you what TIL
do" he said finally You buy bill
Of goods here and pay half the amount
ana we win give you thirty days on the
remainder"
ut was hard work for the first three
years" she says, 'and II meant work
morning noon and night Sometimes
had Blk outstanding credits which
frightened me n ! stopped TO think Of
them; but after | was once fairly start
ed Il was plain sailing and when ]
came 10 soil out my business last spring
In order to devote myself to my book
publishing business II netted me
handsome amount
When Charles FELTON, Pldgln had nm
lshed "Quincy Adams Sawyer he In
vlted "Mlss Clark and several other
friends to hear II read,
ut reminds me" she said 'of my
Maine home, | should like to publish
It,"
Later she said ~ win publish It u I
can make arrangements with Mr. Pid
Gin"
She made terms with the author ana
began her arrangcmnts for launching
the book she bought her paper en-.
l.. Lao nd
the book plate designed and attended
TO the many details that demanded her
attention.
Nov" she said. 81 am going to ad.
yertlse this book as no American novel
was ever advertised And she Kept
her word.
In the first place she had large Dill.
hoord glrns made Then she inserted
page notices in several Of the le1diN
mngazncs placing them on credit hv
referring to the firms with which she
had been doing business In her store
Keeping
Then she began selling the books,
taking trips to all big cities for TINS
purpose She has faculty for COW
erlng ground In quite unprecedented
manner As travelling agent she
would have made an unparalleled sue
cess
Here is an itinerary Of eleven days
she made on one Of her trips starting
from Boston. Buffalo, Detroit. Chicago,
~. Paul Minneapolis Milwaukee, Chi
cago. (for over sunday 81. Louis,
Plttsburg, Philadelphia New York, Bos'
ton.
She spent three or four hours In each
city ana attended 20 no end Of business.
The enterprise and hustle she show
ed might have put to blush an eNper-
fenced travelling man
Nowadays the fair publisher Is over.
Whelmed with manuscripts submitted
to her "for approval The little
girl from Maine" has become power
But she Is just as sweet-tempered as
ever, her eyes are lust as blue ana her
smile Just as cordial
Miss Clark is a daughter OF the
Revolution many times over Her line
Of descent Is the bluest -blooded IN New
England. She has the DISTINGUISHED
honor Of having had five grandfathors,
great or great, In the famous
colonial struggle for INDEPENDENCE, one
Of these Phineas Warren who fought
at Lexington. was a near relative of
Or. Joseph Warren, Of Bunker Hill
fame She Is also closely related TO
the William cullen Bryant family, the
poet being cousin OF her father,
In her home life she Is most fortunate
and happy She has handsome and
elegant home IN Beacon street, and
among her friends she numbers some
of the best known men and women In
Boston. New York Journal