Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-07
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
They Count For More Than ls Gen
orally Known.

They Count For More Than L. Gen.
| orally Known.
Much is heard concerning the work
of women in the business and indus
trial world to day. and the impression
is given that only the modern" wo-
men have accomplished anything of
note outside the household. The fact
is that woman has been a leading spir-
1t in the progress Of the race for CEN
turtles and has done wonders outside
the home.
Do you know that
Margaret Draper conducted the first
newspaper In America?
Mary Katharine Goddard printed the
Declaration Of Independence?
Nine. Ducondray invented the man
nikin?
Mrs. Vandernplasse came from
Flanders and introduced the use al
manufacture Of starch in England?
Mrs. Wilson managed the principal
line of omnibuses in London?
Jonna Alfred founded the Oldest
scholarship at Harvard, established 1t
in 1885?
A woman manufactured the famous
Erard piano?
A woman owned the largest fax mill
in Europee
A child was the means or inspira-
tion Of the spinning jenny.
Mrs. Thrale, Of London, conducted
a brewery.
On the Island Of Nantucket at the
close Of the war men went to whale
fishing and women went into trade as
storekeepers.
A woman founded the first savings
bank.
A woman planted the first potatoes
in New England.
A woman conducted crockery and
dry goods store in 1884.
A woman was an official Of the Bos-
ton custom house and a real estate
dealer hundred years ago.
A woman in Minnesota cuts grave
stones in the rough as do men.
Women have had over a hundred
years experience in trade and horti-
culture.
A woman ran ferry from Slifton,
Iowa, to Garden Plain, Ill.
Susan King and Nine. Demorest
promoted a "woman's tea company
in New York.
A woman invented the nailed band
box
Mrs. Green invented the cotton gin,
but it was patented by Eli Whitney
A woman established the manufac-
ture of buttons, although the business
was run by a man?
The lf-fastening button was a
woman's invention?
Two girls combing their hair inspir-
ed the machine which combined cheap
cotton into moderately fine yarn?
The seamless bag was invented by a
woman in 1894?
The machine for making satchel
buttoned paper bags was an impor-
tant one. and invented by woman!
The largest maker of champagne
was woman?
Two silk dresses were spun. woven
and colored by the skilful fingers Of q
woman who raised the silk from the
worm?
Mrs. Sheldon introduced two hives
Of bees in California in 1858?
A woman tapped her sugar orchard,
cut her wood, gathered sap and made
400 pounds of sugar?>
The first strike or turnout occurred
in 1886 by women on account Of re-
duction of wages? It was not sue
cess.
Woman suggested the sewing ma
chine.
The knitting machine was based on
observations Of a woman handling her
needles.
| A woman's sign reads: MRS. GILL
Boot and Shoe Maker Repairing Neat
ly Done"
Women are engaged in shoe, cotton
goods, sewing and dress silk factories
hat and cap manufactures, broadcloth
hoopskirts, corset and large clothing
establishments. They are burnishers
Of gold and silver, electrotypers
bronze workers, printers, linotype
workers, watch case and watch works
makers. painters Of china, makers OF
mirrors, sconces, table tops. taxider-
mists and are employed in many 9TH
er pursuits, but the finished products
are listed under a masculine firm
name.
In very early days in America two
women kept a billiard saloon, fifty
conducted beer saloons, one woman
blacksmith shop. twenty women kept
butcher shops, one had wood en-
craving business. one was a druggist
one a stationer and bookseller, fifty
two were doctors, two undertakers
while three were pawnbrokers and five
livery stable keepers.
Woman Is still the homemaker, sym
pathizer and helpmeet to man, albeit
she is a part Of the great world OF
commerce and finance.-Giselle Dun
ger