The New York herald., 1922-10-03
MANY WOMEN HOLD
BIG POSTS IN BANKS
Trust Company Officer Tells
Of How She Runs Home at
Same Time.

MIS-. Marua =. Palrateer. treasurer
Of tho Union Trust Company OF Roches-
ter y. Y. arrived in the van &C in
coming bankers last night, and Is al
thc Hotel Biltmorc. Mrs. Palmateer Is
tho only woman treasurer Of trust
company. and though u business woman
Of responsibility, still is thoroughly
feminine.
She rocour;ed the circumstances Of
her going into business because she
didn't have anything else to do.
81 didn't know thi-g about bank
ing. hut after had been with the
Union Trust Company for while
began to get interested in loans and
collateral. I think It IS best for women
to start with a small bank and get
That's what | did. And then grow with
the bank
"Of coirse when I married" and she
smiled. as though the interviewer didn't
suspect she was married Il told them
I was going to leave The president
asked me to stay on until he could
find some one to take my place and
| don't know why. but I just STAYED
and found myself treasurer one day"
Mrs. Palmatecr has worked out n
unique and successful scheme for The
management or her household. which
is Just as necessary to her as to any
other woman You soc, my husband
Frank is in the insurance business
My friends all said that I could not
give him a proper home and be at the
Office all day. I suppose 7 am for
tunate in having splendid house
Keeper. VINO not only takes all OF the
household management upon her
Il Il. IL
moro than have time 20 do and keeps
me Informed every day OF what is hap
pening in the papers. Unlike most
women my home means tho same thing
TO me as it does to my husband, a
refuge from working hours
Not Active sunrnGIst.
1t might be supposed that Mrs. Palm
ateer, having so prominent a place
in the business world, would be inter-
csted actively in suffrage Again in
her effort 10 keep fine balance be-
tween work and private lifc she has
accepted tho vote without having felt
in the past its great necessity for
woman. II see no need Of women 60
ing into politics. 1t only coarsens
them" she said.
She laughed as she pictured herself
"a modern Portia, and said she really H.
"awfully Interested" in clothes and the
fashion show and al the things tho
women are going to do while their
banker husbands are attending meetings.
Asked IL she knew of any other woman
holding a like position Mrs Palmateer
said: "Tye never heard of any other
woman who Is treasurer OF trust com
pany I'm told | am the only one. OF
course there are many women In bank
ing"
woman Is Vice-Prcsidcnt.
Among these many women is Mrs
Lulu H. Cuscnbary, vice-president OF
the Bank Of Hydro Her husband, j. ID.
Cusenbary. ig the banks president. but
he always lets his wife attend these big
GATHERINGS. They go together. however
10 the group meetings held in their own
state. Hydro. : three bank town sixty
nine miles west of Oklahoma City. Is
1gi'e used to Mrs. CuscnbaTy's financial
r,sc. for shc has been in the banking
business with her husband for twenty
years The only other woman bank
vice-prcsldent attending the convention
Is Mrs G.. T.. Hearan OF the Farmers
National Bank Clay. Ky.
Among other women delegates here
arc Miss Mary j. Winfree, secretary OF
The Continental Trust Company. Wash
irrton. n. c.. Miss Maud Bolch. man
agtr OF the womens department OF the
Springfield (MassD National Bank
Miss Grace Wood. assistant cashier OF
tnc state National Bank. Hutchinson.
Kan. Miss Adele Kirby assistant Soc
rttary Of the plainheld (N. J.) Trust
onpany: Miss Marjorie Allison. as
i.tant secretary OF the Lehigh Valley
Trust Company, Allentown. Pa.