The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-23
SUCCESS OF
WOMAN IN BUSINESS
lChicagn Tribune !

As an instance of what woman car
do in business the success of Miss Ella
J, Jones is remarkable Miss Jones
is but a years old, and only the last
four years of her life have been spent
In business, yet she is now the head
and active manager of a machinery
manufacturing establishment employ
ing eighty-dve men and is about to
erect and operate a, new plant with
almost double the capacity of the old,
Besides being the sole manager of her
business, Miss Jones fills the position
of secretary and treasurer of the COM
pany,
Her success and ability in directing
the fortunes of the enterprise are the
more remarkable because of the fact
that the business she is engaged in is
that of machinery manufacturing. a
line Of work which would seem out of
the natural scope of a woman. But
the fact that she is one of the first
women to become engaged in an enter
| prise of this nature is no obstacle to
this remarkable young woman. She
| seems perfectly at home amid the sur
! roundings of a machinery shop and
from her Office in the plant mananges
! the affairs of the business with the
! Judgment and care of mature man of
business.
! The fact that the new plant is to have
! double the capacity of the old would
seem to indicate that her MANAGEMENT
/ has been productive of permanent and
/ encouraging results.
Succeeds Her Father
Miss Jones came into the position she
now occupies two years ago through
the death of her father. At that time
she was employed in the office Of the
hrm, and her father held the position
of manager and treasurer So com
pleteiy had she mastered the details of
the business that upon the demise of
her father, there being no one else
available for the position held bv him.
she took up the reins of management.
Since that time Miss Jones has been
the head of the firm and has acquired
and retained the respect of business
men. She attends to all the details of
the business. If a man wishes to sell
anything he must see Miss Jones: if
there is question in the wages to be
decided the same authority is the final
arbitrator. All of the many questions
that arise in the course of business are
decided by her. AS one of the men en-
ployed IN the plant put it: "She is the
boss
Apparently there is nothing about the
plant with which she is not familiar
The construction of machine. the cost
OF the raw material, and the labor that
are used in it are all known to her to
the smallest item. She knows the ma
chimes in the shop and their method of
operation as well as any of the men
and, what is more important. she
knows the men also. She is to all prac-
teal purposes a competent machinist.
If one of the machines should get out
of order and there was no one else
about to repair il there is little douht
that Miss Jones could come out of the
office and remedy the matter with the
skill and expedition of an old machin-
list.
In appearance Miss Jones is anything
but masculine. She is a small dark.
refined in manner. There is about her
no suggestion of the cares and trou-
bles that are an inevitable part of bust
ness life. Rather she recalls the happy.
smiling teacher of a kindergarten. with
a group of rolliCking little ones playing
around her than the business woman
with the responsibilities incident to her
position upon her mind. Modesty is
perhaps her most striking character
istic. She shrinks from publicity She i
maintains that there is nothing note !
worthy in what she has done.
Women Capable in Business.
There are plenty of young women,
who could have done as well as l had |
they had the opportunity" she says
Women have just as much ability for
business as men if it is only developed;
the reason why so few women are en-
gagged in a business to this extent is
because they have had neither the. OPP
portunity nor the training necessary to
such a career. Still mine is by no
means an isolated case. There are
over 900 women in this country who