The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-14
TRUE STORIES@
WOMEN
EDITH MoRIARTy


her business career Mt the age of 16
with a salary Of So a week.
Cecil was quick to realize her short
comings and she had scarcely worked a
month before she started to improve in
every way. She studied spelling and she
went to work early and stayed late in
order to practice up on her tipping. Her
own appearance improved wonderfully
and she claims that was the hardest
part Of her work. To dress neatly and
becomtngly upon her small salary was
the biggest problem she met, but she
mastered that as she did others and
today she modestly admits that she
dresses better and an less money than
do many women who have twice her in
come, and all who meet her would sure
" agree with her, especially upon the
first part.
When Cecil started working for the
Bryan company II was a young and
struggling concern Mr.. Bryan was just
starting out for himself in the bust
ness which he had learned from work.
ing IN q large and well established firm
dealing with the same kind Of thing. II
was FAR from what : one considers a
woman's business, being all about gears
aud stopoocks and gauges and the like.
When Cecil had been there a year,
Mr., Bryan decided that II he wanted
any business he would have to go out
NNiN htt ~ ilIiiHFlit anu 30 Ht Hdu II
conference with her and then left for a
short trip. Then and there c, Marshall
entered the business world in earnest.
She became office manager In Mr..
Bryan's absence and since he merely
came Into the office on Saturday noon
when everybody else had left and re-
NAMED in the city until Sunday NIGHT,
when he left on another trip, c. MIR
shall was office manager for two whole
years except on Saturday afternoons
n Sundays, During that time she
took the place Of four people, She was
office manager. stenographer, purehas-
ing agent, city salesman and complaint
department all in one, The business
grew to such proportions that II be-
came a physical impossibility for one
19-year-old miss TO handle the office
end by herself, and one salesman could
scarcely cover one state.
Within eight months after Mr.. Bryan
left the road he had hired 20 statesmen
and the force In the shop had been in
creased to three times It's aIze, Cecil,
who had learned bookkeeping by her
self, was relieved Of her duties az
stenographer, city salesman and COM
plaint department, but was made head
hookkeeper and purchasing agent for
the enlarged concern. Her salary had
risen to six times It's original size,
Then the Bryan Machine company
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ting his end of the business slide and
everything looked pretty bad, II was
c, MARSHALL who put the company on
It's feet, She got credit for~them which
tidcd them over and she put all OF
her own savings into the concern. II
was then that she was made secretary
and treasurer OF the concern and II was
not long before her money which ahe
had invested Tn the company had
doubled. She reinvested and became
one Of the leading stockholders, To-
day she is but 23, She earns a salary
which would satisfy a great many men
twice her nRe and she In secretary
treasurer and general manager 81 a
growing business which nets her an In
come 81 considerable Rige aside from
her salary.
Mr., Bryan rarely makes q move with
out consulting her, and although she
mas many aselHtanta and has little NJ
the routine work 10 do which she had
IN her first few years. she IN Htiil ready
20 write a letter, take a dictHtion, an
swer q phone, add up a column Of fig-
ures, or sell one 81 her old customers
q gauge when the occasion demands II
G, Marshall however, n aoon to re
tire as general manager Of the Bryan
Machine company only 10 accept fht
J position nH general household r4AneEni
J OF n little bungalow for two, but that
IN another story Ahn will, however
continue her duties "a secretary of the
J machine company.
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