The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18

chilla colored. They bring anywhere
from SIS to 500 apiece.
In the United States thousands of
our princesses engage in commercial
enterprises and have their social posi-
ton actually enhanced thereby, for
they show themselves possessed of that
quality which the American adores-
clear grit. Portland, Ore. has-to
use slang=a bunch" of most sue
cessfu1 business women. There is the
Steers Conan agency. Miss Lois
Steers and Miss Wynn Conan are con
Quoting a booking Office for touring
concert stars in the west. They let the
east alone, but occupy the territory
from Utah northward and westward.
Before forming the partnership with
Miss Steers, Miss Conan was attached
to the editorial staff of a magazine
Miss Steers on her own account had
toured several prominent musicians.
among them the singers Nordica. Sem
brich, Schumann- Heinck. Gadski and
Lillian Blauvelt and the pianist Josef
Holman.
The present season the Steers Conan
firm are managing Nine. Calve over
not only their own territory but for all
the Pacific coast district. When they
have in charge a star so brilliant as
Calve both young ladies travel with her
throughout her journey in order to
have her entirely comfortable. Miss
Conan is sure that, other things being
equal, a woman has a better chance
than a man in conducting the profess
sional tours of musical celebrities.
Mrs. Edith Tozier Weathered lives in
Portland. She began her career as a
writer on one of the Portland newspa-
pers. Appointed in 1884 as delegate
from her city to the annual meeting Of
the International League of Press
Clubs, she bore an invitation to the
league to meet in Portland for the next
convention. She delivered the invita-
ton in q speech that pleased and i'm
pressed all who heard it. Its keynote
was loyalty toward and exploitation of
the great northwestern Pacific slope.
She showed herself to be familiar with
the magnificent resources, agricultural,
mineral and commercial, of all the re-
gion west Of the Rockies from north
ern California to British Columbia.
It was no surprise at all to anybody
who had ever heard this charming
young woman speak when she began
to be appointed one of the commission
ers from Oregon to various large ex-
positions, beginning with the Pan
American in 1901. There she was so
active and useful that it was quite
ployed to help prepare the Oregon ex-
hibit for st. Louis in 1904 Before the
St. Louis exposition closed Mrs. Wealth
cred was busy with preparation for the
Lewis and Clark celebration in her own
city. We may well believe Edith
Tozier Weathered did her full share
toward the brilliant success Of the big
northwestern show.
Remarkable as an illustration of the
American woman's clear grit is the
story Of Frances E. Fftz. a Medford
(Mass.) girl Young, refined well edu-
Gated, thoroughly UP in stenography
and typewriting, likewise bookkeeping
she went to Colorado about the time
the Klondike fever was at its height
Everybody talked gold and the fabu-
lous fortunes of the frozen north. Miss
Fitz went to Cape Nome.
She could do many things wen. and
her pleasant. womanly manner made a
way for her. Stenographers were
scarce as angels-alnost, that is-at