New-York tribune., 1904-09-12
OCCUPATIONS OF WOMEN.
What Girls with Grit and Enterprise Have
Done for Themselves.

There are s number OF running flower
stores IN New-York supplied from their own green
houseS The nrst OF them TO enter the field got her
experience IN retail flower store as clerk Now.
with her partner, also woman, she has an elegant
flower room In one Of the most fashionable parts
Of the city. Another started a few years ago with
Two greenhouses at Scarborough. n Y. She
now has eight from which she supplies her own
store IN New-York. She specializes in roses and
carnations A flower store IN New-York is a dis
tinct feature by itself Flowers ere luxury OF
the rich end the flower store must be in a locality
which demands high rent. and all the fittings are
expensive
The Br1arclIn School. during fits brief but use
ful existence inspired number Of young women
to take up different forms OF agriculture The
Misses WyIs. two young Nebraska girls. fitted
themselves there take charge OF their own great
estates IN the future Their father. Omaha
banker, owns 5000 acres OF Land IN the Nebraska
corn country. and their finishing their course
ne turned over 70 them several thousand calves
from which they have al the money they
could mako His idea was 80 TO train them that
when his vast ranches descended TO them they
would be capable OF managing them instead OF
being 1T the mercy OF subordin2tes-
Miss Shaw. OF Philadelphia q niece OF the Rev.
Anna Shaw, took a two years agricultural course
in order 60 take small place near Philadelphia
and raise fruit. vegetables end poultry for the
city markets. Another young woman student set
lied near q New-England manufacturing town.
where she went into hotbed market gardening and
small fruits. Two three young women left Briar-
clif with Al eye the unpoetc pig. The common
or garden variety OF pig has long been the standby
OF the old fashioned farmer. and nowadays high
prices are paid fer fine stock. both for food and
breeding purposes and the woman VINO can. work
her second grade product UP into high grade home
cured hams and bacon double her income.
Fifteen or twenty acres OF the "abandoned' farm
land Of New-EnglaDd. in location where IT was
very cheap. would be the chief outlay in starting
this industry.
In Milford. Mas, some years ago there was a
bookkeeper named Miss Evelyn r. Taylor. She
was bookkeeper for ten years and all that time
cherished an inextinguishable determination 10
have greenhouse some day. just because she was
50 fond OF flowers. At the end of ten wears she
put up little bit OF a greenhouse. onIv 10 feet
"'oe' and started raising carnations and a few
neooins plants still retaining her Office position
bne now has several greenhouses one Is bv & feet
She does q general florists business. and makes
more money than she coUie have made in a hundred
years IN the Office
Miss Mary Cutters place called WIntbron Car
Gems, near Hollston. Mass. has been well known
ior the last twenty years. Tt is a place Of six+v
eght acres. an old fashioned New England fsrr,
Nhen she inherited H. She has Transformed n into
combination Of specialties each one a money
maker She ships carnations 10 NeV-York. and
- lis vegetables from her own carts IN Worcester
mas nine thousand square feet of glass six
eIo ot tfteen hundred trees
Narr1e j. Nelson. ~ Ryegate VI vas tef+
U NV years ago Hirh n mortgsged farm and
'"'ioFeh under eight. She has paid the rnor,
ialsed and educated her children and ~,
t+o properly worth $1,000 an bv a fancy
10 bNtfer Her butter pats we're eoIse,
r,ifiiasltilV ana smelt Of the clover and h,,,,--
Fo- 80 - n Boston and Kew York maid gSseii
rnsSs - Bs5lEllegs ~ eating them Last vosr she
s,-lais pounds n butte S"e
$780, pins IS thing that has sppea ed ~ rsp,-
80 =, ma ths journals n heekeenire re6ortnd
go. go accounts ~ their achievement one EN-
e., Pllse can better herself ny entering 5n6eren5
fb-.. "oIh Miss Cook , Young vo-na W.
rle,,..oot VI lous years ago stenogrspher tn .
go - otnce A friend OF the family kent bees
49, IN ayolfng into the business she made IN ht,
49, undt fne could make more money AT bees
s,,,.. n ~ typeNriting. She bought an anisrv ~
- sts eeltes, very risky thing for greenbory
49, ehe says herself thai no fnerperienced
soi,sI sat.i start with than tUyo or t,raa
.lonles SIC lost many the first ,sear frora H
re,,e.E,a El.oa ana other unknown destroyers Puf
eIttntiess she cleared $3.50 the 6rs, s,,,or1er
,us3 she hao never before touched q hive Tte
= ~ summer she cleared $50 and the third nesri,,
- s5aeKlng N six months nearly double w,b.+
- i.@N earned N twelve IN the Office Tho o,har
o5s months IN the year she works al sonnefbi,,s,
uee5 -. LslIes vacation The first two wears She
an6 sen - cart once week. drive into Denver
- - =, neF money 10 the grocers a gaad t,t-e
.t.rss trst ~ always salable at any time or = 7-t,c
- gT sne placed IL with a co-operati,a saiii,,e,
to-. ,i, oI money producers 20 be placed 10 bef
h., ta1taee, She states thai one ,vo,1an oor
"'f ~ OF 20 colonies without helm 80