Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-20
WOMAN IN THE CASE
MRS. READER, Who 70 NOW BE-
FORE PUBLIC EYES.
santo Domingo Affair and the Part
She is Charged With Having
Taken Il It.

The woman in the CASE. as Mrs Ella
Rawls Reader has become to be known in
connection with the Saato Domingo treaty,
has, according to all reports. had
markable career
According to one who has known her from
youth, Z" she learned st4hography and type
writing early III life. She was tall, well
formed and pretty. In general appearance
she was magnificent, and early in life she
learned to dress the part and not overdress
1t. In spite of beauty and soft voice. de-
termination is written in every line of her
face, and emphasized in her thin, straight
lips.
birmingham was a growing town when
Miss Rawls lived there, but she outgrew
it. She went to New York and opened a
modest little office in q building in Cort-
landt street. Fortune smiled on her from
the beginning. She sought large contracts
in her line of work, and when she went
after contract or big job of work she got
1t. In the lexicon of her beautiful youth
there was no such word as fail. Men
could not say no to her smiles. Bank pres
idents, big politicians, and prominent law
yers found her work so satisfactory that
they gave her more and larger contracts.
Got Typewriting Contracts.
During the Strong administration Miss
Rawls went after the typewriting contracts
IOT CITY COluInlSSIOIS instrumentation pro-
ceedngs She got .henl--all she asked for
and sublet them She took suite of Of
fees in the Mills building and hired two or
three assistants Miss Rawls then lived in
fashionable uptown hotel She brought
her mother and brother, on from Birming
ham to live with her, established her
brother in business and started him on a
political career Her gowns were dreams
and her friends said that she was the best
dressed woman in New York When she
walked Broadway women glared after her
in startled envy and men stared.
Between times of getting big contracts
for stenography and typewriting Miss
Rawls promoted railroads, gold mines, coal
mines, and large industrial enterprises. On
flying visit to Alabama she got charter
for railroad. The railroad was built and
it is now part of the Southern railway
system
1.-The wonan's powers of persuasion when
talking business are the envy and admira-
ton of men. One of her typewriting bills
against the city-a bill for more than $500
was held up by Controller Fitch. He
said that the work should not have cost
more than one-tenth of that sum. Miss
Rawls wasted no time in argument or ex-
PLANTATION. She walked into Mayor Strong's
office. sat down<by the mayor. and talked
to him gently for five minutes. Her bill
was paid on the following day and paid in
full
Tall, Slender and Pretty.
Mrs Reader is tall, slender and pretty.
She has skin of softest white, voice
with all the melody of the south in it,
smile which reveals even, white teeth. eyes
that inspire confidence. These valuable
assets for business wo1aan are reinforced
by head that is just about as level as they
make them, a mind that sees far ahead
ana an energy that does things right OF
the reel"
If there is any other woman of twice her
years in the whole world today who has
10 things half the things that
Ella Rawls Reader has accomplished
chroniclers of current history have failed
to mention her. Here are some of them,
continued the speaker:
Thee years after reaching New York she
had forty girls working for her. She at
tended to the private correspondence of re-
publican leaders during the first Mckinley
campaign, then she reported the work of
the Venezuelan boundary commission.
Gave Up Typewriting.
"Then she gave up typewriting and went
to London. That was in 1899. She joined
the firm of ]. G. White & Co. The Sultan
of lahore blew into London with the S.
100000 contract for the lahore railroad up
his sleeve. He met Miss Rawls socially.
]. G. White & Co. got that contract.
Miss Rawls Joined the Sprague Multiple
Control Company. The London underground
tube had a case of shivers that lot of
people thought they could cure. The
Sprague company was trying to get the
job when Miss Rawls joined it. 1t got 1t
very soon afterward.
Then Mr.. Reader who had had consid-
cradle experience himself in business and
diplomatic work. came along and married
Miss Rawls. 1t was hard combination to
beat. The combination lit on Peru. Mrs.
Reader was appointed agent in the United
States for Peru. Then the revolutionists
got busy and the government couldn't ham
die them.
Promptly to Peru went Mrs. Reader.
She took the combatants by the ears, fgu-
ratively speaking, and when she got
through humping their heads together they
dropped their guns and Rugged one another.
Then Mrs. Reader took a bunch of mining
concessions for reward and came back here
to get busy with Santo Domingo.
Mrs. Reader now hasa office at No. As
Wall street. 1t is on the ninth floor, and
on the door it says:
/" 'Cerro del Pascos Tunnel and Mining
Company"
E. Rawls Reader, President ="