Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-02-13
SUFFRAGISTS IN BUSINESS.
Some Who Have Won Success ir
Open Competition With Men.

Open Composition With Men.
There are hundreds of suffrasists
who have proved. and are proving
daily. that they are just as success
ful in business as the average man.
says Nautilus. Among the real es-
tate dealers is Miss Laura E. Skin
ner, a western woman, who began
life as teacher in Baltimore. Com
ing TO New York TO teach in academ-
lc classes for girls, she went into the
publishing business. bringing out the
English version of Quo Vadis" She
IS now interested in large develop
ments in the communal districts Of
New Jersey. is president of the Wom-
ans Taxpayers association of New
York and a member of several clubs.
among the lawyers is Mrs Ga
brielle Mulliner. who was prominent
in securing the passage of the bill
providing for the Domestic Relations
Court Among the architects is Miss
Katherine Budd. the walls of whose
office in Fifth avenue show an i'm
posing array of buildings and hand
some residences. the work of her
pencil and brain.
Prebble Tucker, who, as she saws.
started in life without even an
education. because she was a deli
cate child and was never sent To
shcool.'' but who nevertheless
achieved success with her little flow
er shop. long since given up for
roomier quarters and her tea rooms.
Among those who have gone into
other occupations and are making
their presence felt not only as bust
ness women, but as ardent advocates
and workers in the cause of suf-
frage. are: Mrs 3. B. Buffum,
probably the only woman in the
country who holds the office of game
warden; Miss Ellis Meredith, presi-
dent of the new city election COM
mission of Denver; Mrs. Charles
Nechter. who is sole trustee. abso-
lutte owner and acting manager of
one of the largest department stores
in the world-the Boston Store of
Chicago: Miss Jennie Murrin. who
has just been chosen borough treas
urer Of borough council, Freeland.
Pa, and Mrs. NJ. II. Read. who for
twenty-five years has performed the
duties Of passenger agent at Ardmore
station, on the Pennsylvania road.
A ward superintendent in the street
cleaning department of Chicago, Mrs
A. Emmagene Paul is a woman who
really cleans streets. All over the
city she has struggled with refrac-
tory gangs of street sweepers and
has performed strenuous labor i'm
dealing with the graft drivers of the
garbage wagons.
To make New York more beautiful.
as we'll as to help open the polls to
women. is the aim of Miss Fay KEEL
logg, a New York girl, whose skill
as an architect is seen i'm a number !
of buildings Very few persons who
admire the Hall of Records i'm New
York know that Miss Kellogg de- !
signed and saw carried out i'm every |
detail the scheme of the grand stair !
case.
Miss Ida Blanchard Lewis of New /
York is said to be the only woman |
broker i'm this country, and |
to maintain the only Insurance or /
ganization in the world which en-
ploys women exclusively. Miss Lewis !
was once one of the great army of /
school teachers, but becoming tired |
of the routine, decided, as she puts !
il, Ito dare"
She became an agent for one of |
the big insurance companies. going |
from door TO door like pedler. Butt
though her days were full, her nights
were her own. and in them she
studied the working methods of all
insurance lines. Then suddenly the
insurance business got dull.
Il decided to dare further" said i
Miss Lewis. and finding that there
was no woman broker in New York.
no insurance department controlled
exclusively by women. and being
suffragist and seeing a fair amount
Of business waiting for me. ! began
my career as a broker. ] love never
ii. though my working day
has anything but an eight-hour limit.
Il feel rewarded for my entrance
into this business, not merely through |
my monetary success, but because
women for the first time are learn
ing 10 understand such terms as an
nuity and endowment. and to under
stand them so clearly that when a 1
man dies his widow will know ex-