New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
Is WOMAN DIsPLACING MANI
One Of Latter Says His Sex viii Have to
Emigrate TO Keep from Starving.

girls OF eighteen young women old maids, middle
aged women with gray hair and hollow cheeks
Under all their variations OF age. dress and SEEM
Ing prosperity. however they had this in
they were wage earners''
Il remember the time went on the business
man, following the seemingly inexhaustibe stream
o. femininty with his keen eyes. when the best
retail drygoods establishments employed only sales
men. Twenty-Five thirty years ago there
nct man to be behind counter. and the
woI 5Okkeeper or cashier unknown. To-
day zen bookkeepers and cashiers are seen
everywhere and the 'saleslady' has busted the
salesman from ali but few departments in many
OF the big stores.
III women continue for the next quarter of
century TO pre-empt sections OF the business field
swiftly they have been dons. there will be
for in the modern retail drygoods
concern, except night watchmen and drivers of
delivery wagons. and I should not be surprised,
seeing that young boys being taken on as
drivers by express companies II women eventually
ousted from this position also
"It is very serious prospect, | assure you, that
confronts the of average education and aver
age abilities in this city"
do you know what is at the bottom Of the dis
elimination against their which the women
principals assert exists in the public schoos?
asked a principal
1T is the instinct Of representation Wherever
women go-industrially-they tend to monopoize
and depreciate. Look at the career OF women in
the public schools They have driven mon out OF
the place OF men successfully as principals. and in
the high schools they doing three-fourths Of
the teaching. few years more and women wouiu
practically have driven men out Of the New-York
public school system whole craft would have
been closed TO men. Ever such closing Of line
OF business by women takes the positions away
from men, makes the struggle for existence sharper
here and the possibility Of earning decent living
harder II time to call halt
That the domestic and social status IN this coun-
ia FaI1r tO change
the next thirty or Atty years II women continue TO
compete with men in the professions and indus
tries is clear. Many good people have lain awake
O nights trying to discover what the effect OF all
this would be the women. But few, except
those Immediately touched have been much con-
cerned over what changes might be working in the
condition of the man whose place in many IN
stances, the wage earning woman has usurped
Place danes! Whoever said that first was
probably thinking OF nothing more momentous
than cotilon argument. But the Ameri-
is a sincere respecter OF his womankind. and
he has translated 81 into terms OF business.
Every year the procession OF wage earners
growing greater. Every June sees hundreds OF
young women graduated from schools. academies
and colleges take their places as teachers. libra
rians architects. farmers. bookkeepers, and so on.
Not few OF these obliged 10 support them
selves a father mother or family or
younger brothers and sisters dependent them.
But great many work because they want TO be
financially independent. Since women began 10 turn
the cold shoulder matrlmon- and the bachtlor
girl emerged into type. the ranks or the woman
wage Garner have been still further augmented
Add all these the wives who, for some period OF
their married life, are compelled 10 work 70 exc
out their husbands earnings. and all the widows
who arc left without OF support, and IL IS
seen how tremendous is the volume OF feminine
competition against which man has TO combat
According TO the last census, 551 per cent Of the
p, 162 women over fifteen years old IN the United
States unmarried. In New-York State the per
cen ~ fu3le * nd gen
orally, 1t is the North Atlantic division. including
the New England States. NewYork. New-Jersey
OF spinsters
How many OF these are gain-earnng workers
Young Women s Christian Association in this city.
says mat fourteen years ago when she looked into
service there were S5O0ou working women IN New
York City. Confronted by these tremendous figures,
the New-YoFk man may well ask himself: W nat *
going to become Of me2' Unless he is banker,
government oncal' professionals man captain OF m
dustry or mechanic, he probably would DO best 10
rhhch4IB continue 10 occupy +dI Re PIoPot ~
the male population and where consequently, the
sma arising from Inc competition Oh "'''s"
II is where large populations are massed together.
where trade ana manufactures flourish and com
pick and more or less artificial civilization exists
that oman becomes d menace ndustrialIy.
AS yet the man minister, LAWYER and physician
ian and Universalist denominations ordain women
preachers and the Christian Scientists are firm be-
study divinity or enter the ministry. for the
law although women are now ADMITTED on eqai
hundred and hfty have taken advantage OF their
rights.
In medicine the competition has been keener.
Every large town has women physicians who have
built up good practices. A great many women Will
have only physicians of their to attend
themselves and their children Few women, how
ever. have made success or surgery as aurists or
5 oCulists.
One effect of womans successful industrial COM
petition is shown the decrease OF marriages and
the increase OF divorces woman who has a
fairly remunerative position. with her evenings,
Saturday afternoons and Sundays of, thinks twice
before reinquishing her income and her lndepen-
Quite likely after deciding to trust herself to the
choice may have 20 wait until each is past their
youth before they afford TO marry. The girl
may be filing the position which thirty years ago,
her fance would have filed. at a higher wage
Displaced and underod. Il may be wears before he
can adjust himself salts. actortly, and meanwhile
the Young woman who should be At the head OF his
wage and enduring the hardshps and snubs which
often fall 10 the lot of the working woman.
Industrial independence Of women. see how CON
tact with the world Is developing the American
She is now a part or the Auman race,
and longer, Grant Allen expressed II, not
even half the race but sub-species. told Off for
reproduction merely Women setting up as
proprietors OF laundries, bakeries, photograph
boocbinders, designers Of jewelry furniture and
arts crafts articles woOdcarvers. violet farm
mushroom farmers, Gamers ana preserVers'
they do lessen the earning capacity or
man him out. There Is always
room a with brains ana initiative
She is bound to succeed and her success enrches |
not only herself but the country. There is no sex
now where business is concerned. Nor ought there
wall IT only serves him right He would be crowd /
ed down and out in any II he is veal: as /
that. When that thing happens a man usually de |
serves his fate