The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-25
TEN THOUSAND A YEAR.
A Few Chicago Women Who Make
Large Salaries.
From the Chicago Tribune.

At least a half-dozen women in the
business and professional life of Chi
cago are the recipients of $4,000 per
year from their vocations. 1t is esti-
mated that there are over a score of
others who enjoy the privilege of spend
ing or saving at least $4,000 annually
which they make in legitimate profess
sional practice. at lines of business
which they operate Independently or
as heads of departments in the larger
places of business.
Women in some of the largest State
street stores talk as freely of salaries
of $4,000 a year as the average clerk
does of $40 a week. And if you feel in
clined to argue the question of their
right to receive such large salaries they
will tell you it is automatic they would
not receive them year after year unless
they earned them.
Compared in number with the men
who receive salaries of this size, one
well known woman said that among her
acquaintance there is about one So
900 year woman to five men who share
a similar luxury. Discussing the ques-
ton further, she seemed to think that
the women who receive this amount
under similar conditions of life. She
argued that a woman who can conf
mand so large a salary must devote
more of her time to the earning OF 1t
than does the average man, therefore
she finds less time to squander it. THE
average salaried man who receives a
$4,000 stipend" she added us usually
in debt. Such men are, as a rule, con-
vivial in their habits and find that their
IN,
handsomely requires that they be gond
fellows with those in higher authority
as we'll as with those among their
clients The women who draw large
salaries draw them because OF their
actual fitness for the places they occu-
py and not because they are cornwall
and good mixers
ut is not long ago." said the same
woman, that Chicago could boast OF
but one woman who received for her
services $4,000 annually. l have known
two women physicians who have re-
ceived in excess of $4,000 per year
from their practice, and have main
tanned this level year in and year out
for nearly q score of years, but salaries
of this size have been paid to women
in. Chicago. for less than a decade
It is reported on seemingly good au-
thority that two women members or
the legal profession of Chicago have
realized an amount approximating
$4,000 annually from their practice,
but late years have seen reduction
in the income of all lawyers since the
formation of large title and trust
companies has taken over large por-
ton of business which formerly swell
ed the annual income of many law
yers.
Several years ago, at the death of
her father, Miss Ada c. Sweet took up
that portion of her fathers business
relating to pension claims, and has
continued it ever since. She says she
has realized as much as $4,000 per
year from this work. Though not
practicing attorney, she has familiar
lied herself thoroughly with pension
matters, and her clientele in this de-
partment of practice is large. Just
prior to the Spanish-American War,
her business suffered a gradual de-
crease, but several new claims arising
from the recent war have augmented
it considerably.
Miss Ellen G. Martin is well known
among the legal profession of Chicago.
For years she has enjoyed lucrative
practice, and even now, at time
when all lawyers will agree that bus
mess is dull, she is busy.
Nearly a score of years ago two
State street store as employees of the
dressmaking department. They soon
showed a mastery of the details of the
work required of them and were ad-
vanced steadily. There were known
then as the Misses Reardon, and now
as Mesdames ]. p. Hull and Mar
garet Mccarthy Mrs. MCCARTHY be-
the first woman in Chicago to receive
salary of $4,000 per year, and it
is stated on authority that both she !
and her sister each receive. this stipend
as joint superintendent of the dress
making department of this big store.
They are known in all parts of the
world as authorities in their line, and
number among their patrons many
of the wealthiest and most fastidious
women of Chicago. There is a strik-
ing resemblance between the sisters.
One cannot talk with them without be-
ing impressed that they are fully
equal to the situations they occupy.
They are among the busiest women
in Chicago, and are deeply absorbed
in their work. Mrs. Mccarthy spends
much of her time in Paris, repre-
senting her firm, as buyer for her de-
partment-.
Occupying a similar position with an
other store, Mrs. Catherine Dodd, it
is authoritatively asserted, receives a
salary similar in amount. Mrs. Dodd
is by many considered the best au-
thority on. dressmaking matters in
America. She is always busy and
supervises with great tact and discre-
ton this important department of a
great store. She, too, is abroad much
of her time.
Perhaps one of the best-known man
ayers of millinery departments in the
large stores of this city is Mrs Mary
hac ",
ness for twenty years. She showed
rare judgment and discrimination at
an early age as a buyer of millinery
goods. and at nineteen was buyer for
the firm of Partridge & Co., of this
city. Mrs. McCarty never worries
about her salary. When this matter
was limited at, she jokingly remarked: