The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-04-05

the work required as We'll as man.
In this Santo Domingo affair / could
not see why l shouldn't have the con-
ceSsion if / could manage the affairs
of the island as we'll as any one else.
OF course, however, when l was
young girl these ideas were not gen
orally current in the south. When l
wanted to go into business for myself
I had to come up north to do it,
Il had plenty of friends here, but l
did not want to go to them. l was
proud, and l wanted to carve my own
way | made up my mind that there
was no sort of honest work that ]
would not accept in order to get my
start.
1T wasn't particularly easy to get
that start. You see, l really was not
fitted for anything. My mother had
made it a rule never to be strict with
us about going TO school, and I'm
afraid that I spent as much of my
time out on the river with my fish line
or in the woods with my gun as in the
schoolroom with my books. Therefore
even my education was not all that
could be desired in strictly technical
matters.
However, one day 1 went into the
business office of certain newspaper
here in New York and asked for work.
The business manager asked Inc what
| could do. | told him ! would do any
thing from sweeping out the office TO
writing editorials. He sent me to see
his wife, and, as she approved of me-
he set me to addressing envelopes
The visit to that business managers
. wife was the cornerstone to one or the
great and beautiful friendships Of my
life
She opened her heart TO me and
treated me as she would have done heA
own daughter. She talked to me about
stenography and typewriting and Sc
cured for me the use of machine.
bought Il book on shorthand with the
proceeds of my first weeks salary for
envelope addressing and started in to
learn my trade For awhile | address
ed envelopes with all my heart and
soul, studying stenOgraphy and type
the idea of stenography office came to
me.
1.-THE actual work of typewriting and
shorthand was not attractive to me,
but l did like the idea of going out and
hunting for business. | thought that
if could get girl who liked the me-
chanical work of stenOgraphy | could
hnp TO In
between us we could make more than
either one of us could alone. | took a
little room in an office building and
| paid for it in advance for one month.
| was looking over my first little ac-
count book only yesterday, and found
the entries for that first months work.
Our proceeds did not amount to much
more than $50 but we were able TO
nav our rent for another month. The
second month the business increased,
and after that it came with rush.
This was the beginning of my big
stenography office. | have sometimes
employed as many as sixty or seventy
girls there at a time. Even so, it was
all could do to keep up with my or
ders.
ut has been intimated in this Santo
Domingo matter that President Roose-
Welt was not entirely friendly to me.
do not believe that this is true, for Mr..
Roosevelt has always been my good
friend. It Is true that when he was
police commissioner he opposed the
proposal to give me the stenograph!c
work of his department, but when II
was given to me despite his OPPOSE
ton he congratulated me. When ne
was governor of the state ne appoihIeu
me to two positions. He also gave me
his rough rider story to get out, anu
I have now in my possession a letter
from Scribners saying that the manu-
script was the most perfect piece ol
work which had ever come under their
observation,
During the time conducted the OF
fee | handled the confidential CORE.
snondence of the eastern managers o.
the Republican campaign and the pro
ceedings Of the American commlssioH