New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-02
Mss COOKS CAREER
Cornell Cold" Who Columbia
Bous Smubbed Nag Become Banker.

--y-hv. there. nothing unusual in my doing this
said Miss Elisabeth Ellsworth Cook as she tufneu
around from her big desk in the brokerage mouse
of " w Harris & Co. where she has charge OF
eeas-t-nert for the collecting and fling OF oonos'
women are going into this work all us uiiie'
snd it's only because OF circumstances that ans
thing Is said about my doing IL
Miss Cook is known SIS the Cornell coed "Hoil,
Columbia orators objected to meeting-necanse OF
her sex-when Cornell chose her as its repFeseiita-
i've IN the intercollegiate debates last winter !"
srs-e Of Col1,rcbis's protest she debated anu az
uvered vivid speech on the affirmative soe u ~"
question: Resolved. aside from al quesuoHs "a
constitutionality involved Congress should require
corporations engaged IN interstate
take out federal licenses. .
PHYSICALLY Miss Cook appears rather SINH 0AiN
rather ro;ng 10 have tackled such Dig pIoOie.ii9
She IS very slight. with face that Is so''e IN
serious and pale, but that often breaHs 1n'O - -
.r5ens,,est CT smiles the end o k01ne1ilhg se
80 b.en saving She was dressed IN s plain white
.hi-4z-sist and dark skirt, and the planest oI '
.ns Jackets hung or the wall next to her oesh
- ren+ into this work because at college stud
sd along financial lines she explained - 1'''
Tribune reporter. -, 49,, ,,,-s
OF position?
.-oh. no: I Go not think SC
..,Tnst she have a mathematical mind!
~ 70, that. either. I didn't specialize IN
mathematics But this IS dealing win oohos' you
IN banking IL Is dnereEl - : W. $50
TO the banking business would STUDY ooohAeep-
.7x and so forth .
art its been said that you are arnbldous "
,-soo-,s q hank president. That isn't 50. them
Miss Cook smiled whimsically and dechhed ~
-.,-e- YES o- no Would it be- unusual II
-. p, sre o-,arie5 There are about a thousaho
-,-or7e- in banking IN the United states ana q
-houssr7 IN the law The United States census
T7r,rea,l's Statistics Of Women at WORK VIII Ken
cr, inst how many Why one Of the best speeches
bes-s ~ the convention Of bankers couple Oh
1-aers ago was given by woman who IS CASHIER
:. she hank in which her husband is president Ia
ronl,n No / know other women who ere o1'i'A
o45eisls. and it wouldn't be strange II had thAt
ambition
Then you ambitious
OF course" said Miss Cook. with another smile.
She IS also-not cuite-a su1ragette, for that
rarae she 5isciai12e6. hut a thorough sufrasist-
I was the first secretary Of the League OF sen
s-.-,ortirE Women, OF which Mrs Stanton Biatch
* president she remarked. But 1 don't can
-7vself 2 suffrageJte. though I approve OF much
Of .heir work Shall l speak for them? NO;
don't mean 70 DO any speaking for a long time
BESIDES representing Cornell against Coluinola
,est winter. Miss Cook later won the highest
speaking hon3rs in the gift Cf her coilege-the
Eyoodford prize Of 500 in gold Five men were
AGAINST her il this competition. In her present
,,osition she will collect bonds and material on
the worth Of securities. and file them SO that,
she said "anv one who wants a bond VIII know
srssr here 10 go for it