The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-26
HIGH-SALARIED WOMEN.

At least half dozen women in the
business and professional life of Chi
cago, says the Tribune of that city, are
the recipients of $4,000 per year from
their vacations. 1t is estimated that
there are over a score of others who
enjoy the privilege of spending or saw
ing at least $4,000 annually which they
make in legitimate professional prac-
tice 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 year as the average clerk
does of 500 a week. And if you feel in
clined to argue the question of their
right to receive such large salaries they
will tell you 1t is automatic they would
not receive them year after year unless
they earned them Compared in num-
Der with the men who receive salaries
of this size, one well-known woman
said that among her acquaintance
there is about one $4,000 a year woman
to five men who share a similar lux
ury.
1t is reported on seemingly good au-
thority that two women members of the
legal profession of Chicago have real
lied an amount approXimating $4,000
annually from their practice, but late
years have seen a reduction in the in
come of all lawyers since the formation
of large title and trust companies has
taken over large portion of the busi-
ness which formerly swelled their an
nual incomes.
Several years ago, at the death of her
father, Miss Ada c. Sweet took up that
portion of her fathers business relat-
ing to pension claims, and has contin-
ued 1t since. She says she has realized
as much as $4,000 per year from her
work.
Nearly score of years ago two
young women entered the employ of a
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. They were known
then as the Misses Reardon, and now
as Mesdames J. r. Hull and Margaret
Mccarthy. Mrs. Mccarthy, before her
marriage, Is said to have been the first
woman in Chicago to receive a salary
of $4,000 per year, and it is stated on
authority that both she and her sister
each receive this stipend as joint SUI
perintendents of the dressmaking de-
partment of this big store. Mrs. Nc
Paris, representing her firm as buyer
for her department.
Occupying a similar position with
another store, Mrs. Catherine Dodd it
Is authoritatively asserted, receives a
salary similar in amount
Mrs. Kate Knox conceived the idea
of starting a monday club for women,
an idea that has since become popular
here. She is now proprietor of two such
inst ti1fi I'D
intimately estimate that her profits for
the year just ended would require
five figures to express them. There is
philanthropic side to her work, and
in this Mrs. Knox takes especial de-
light. Since the Inauguration of this
idea in Chicago eight similar clubs have
sprung up, and the managers in each
case are reported to be realizing well
from their ventures, though none of
them is conducted on so large scale
as those operated by Mrs. Knox
Fifteen years ago, when one of the
department stores began to expand its
restaurant service they employed Mrs.
l.. w. Harring to superintend this de-
partment of their business So sue
cessful has she been in the conduct
that, it is asserted. the owners see a
value represented by $4,000 year in
her services. When she entered their
employ, she says, the only qualification
she had for the place was a good
knowledge of cooking and demonstra-
ted ability to manage in a neat and
careful way her own home
Among the medical fraternity Of Chi
cago there is at least one woman
whose income reaches, If not exceeds
$4,000. Nearly every woman who has
lived in Chicago for any length of time
will acknowledge that DR.. Leila G. Be
dell receives a large income, and those
who claim to have inside information
place it at $4,000 as a minimum figure.
while others say that it yields her over
$4,000 annually.