Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-10-14
BUSINESS WOMEN.
SOME STRANGE OCCUPATIONS
FOR WOMEN.

They Fill the Place of Section Boss on thu
Railroad. Run Hunting Camps, Manage Tug
Boats. Saw Mills. Banks. Railroads. Oil
Wells, Race Horses and Chase Butterfle!
Well as Men--One Woman Made $l7 the
First Day She Developed the Occupation of
Trunk Packer.
,Ciucinnati Commercial Tribune
Mrs. Mary Shannon is a section
boss of the Erie railroad-took hel
husbands position when he died, and
has filled it we'll.
Mrs. Mary E. Cutler is a rich farmer
at Holliston, Mass. Her fortune
sprang from the purchase of sixty
acres OF land for $3.50, and the place
now has a wide reputation as "Win.
throp's Gardens."
Mrs. Esther Goldsmith writes FIRE
insurance policies in st. Louis.
Miss Henrietta N. Rowe runs q
hunting camp at Moosehead Lake, Me.
in season, and sometimes teaches cook
ing at Mount Holyoke the rest of the
year.
Mrs. Ida Freligh, a normal school
graduate, is tug boat owner and man
ager. She is doing we'll.
Mrs. Emily Beach teaches horseback
riding to young women of Cincinnati
During the summer she gives similar
instructions at Saratoga.
A Hester street woman, known as
cold SAL" has saved about $1,000 in
the strange business of matching but
tons. Over the door of her place is the
sign: "Any Button Matched Inside,
1c to &C." She gets her buttons from
dressmakers.
Miss Amelia Judson, graduate of
Cornell, who wanted to 60 to Paris to
study art, had her plans changed by
illness in the family. She is success S
in running a sawmill in st. Louis.
Miss Mary E. Adams is Assistant
State Microscopist of Iowa, located
near Cedar Rapids.
Miss Yeomans is known all over
California as a butterfly catcher. She
runs regular international butterfly
exchange and finds it very profitable.
Miss Mary E. Bartelme, OF Chicago,
is professor of medical Jurisprudence
in the women's medical school of
Northwestern University. She is a
lawyer and was appointed a public
guardian by Gov. Tanner. In this ca.
pacity she has the interest OF hundreds
Ui children under her cnarge.
Mrs. Eugenia A. Golf became known
by drafting maps in Washington, ID. e.
Her income, however, probably does
not equal the $500 year drawn by
Miss Marie Macnaughton, French
translator for the Bureau of American
republics. who went to Paris with the
peace commission.
Miss Tony Segall is dentist prac-
ticing in New York city.
Mrs. w. NJ. Marsh is President of
the First National bank of Croton, N.
Y.
Out in California, Mrs. Annie Kline
Rickert is President OF the Stockton &
Tuolumne Railroad Company.
Miss Daisy Stevenson, of Rochester,
is one Of tho two women butchers in
the United States.
Mrs. Emma Van Dusen, recommend.
ed as Assistant Deputy City Marshal
OF Dallas, Tex, carries q gun like a
man, and knows how to use the weap-
on, too.
Miss Christian Ross, of New York
city, is the only woman who is a GER
titled public accountant under the re-
gents OF the State University.
Miss Anita Martin is accumulating
a competence raising turkeys in II
Texas country town.
Miss Jane Stone is an oil speculator
owning properties of considerable value
in Mexico, as we'll as in this country.
Miss Asch, of Aiken, S. c., breeds
the best hunting dogs i'll the State
and another Aiken woman, Miss Lou.
ise Cheatham. breeds mocking birds,
teaches them to sing and sells them to
the Northern people, who throng this
winter resort during the season.
Miss Ida Norrell, of Augusta, Ca,
has made field for herself as a per-
fumery maker.
Miss Loretta Elliott, of Orient, Me-,
has had years of success as raiser OF
race horses.
Mr.. NJ. +. B. Culbertson, of Rich.
Inond, Ind, models hands and makes
death masks.
Mrs. Kate Collins, OF New York
city, makes dainty cotillion favors at
fancy prices.
Miss Blanche Minton, of New York,
packs trunks for guests at hotels. The
first day she tried it she made $l7.
Miss Sadie Webb is a mail contrac-
or in Porter township, Ohio. She has
a route thirty-five miles long, which
covers five towns. She drives her own
wagon and carries passengers as we'll
as mail.